Silicon Curtain Jonathan Fink

Edition No45 | 20-05-2024
Episode dedicated to that infamous vatnik, Roger Waters, and to the
other members of Pink Floyd who actually know right from wrong, and back
Ukraine.
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KYIV INDEPENDENT
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-drones-hit-military-facilities-in-russia-crimea-amid-russian-claims-of-over-100-drones-downed/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russian-double-tap-strike-north-of-kharkiv-kills-6-including-pregnant-woman/
https://kyivindependent.com/uk-defense-sec-says-wests-stance-on-ukraine-war-completely-nonsensical/
https://kyivindependent.com/uk-defense-secretary-calls-germany-to-provide-ukraine-with-long-range-missiles/
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-media-novorossiysk-port-oil-depot-hit-in-overnight-attack/
https://kyivindependent.com/massive-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-novorossiysk-port-and-oil-depots-russia-claims-over-100-downed/
https://kyivindependent.com/partisans-artillery-depot-hit-at-belbek-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/
https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-ukraine-downs-all-20-russian-drones-overnight/
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-progress-made-on-artillery-shortage/
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-new-defense-minister-belousov-to-put-russias-economy-on-war-footing/
https://kyivindependent.com/what-are-glide-bombs-and-how-do-they-help-russia-gain-land-in-ukraine/
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-our-partners-fear-that-russia-will-lose-this-war/
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-zelensky-says-situation-in-kharkiv-difficult-but-under-control-russia-suffering-significant-losses/
https://kyivindependent.com/minister-russia-takes-civilians-captive-in-northern-vovchansk-executions-reported/
https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-whats-behind-ongoing-protests-in-georgia/
https://kyivindependent.com/reuters-g7-will-support-using-frozen-russian-assets-revenue-to-fund-ukraine/
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-foreign-ministry-declares-british-defense-attache-persona-non-grata/
https://kyivindependent.com/vyshyvanka-ukrainian-tradition-preserved-through-centuries/

THE MOSCOW TIMES
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/16/putin-xi-hail-ties-as-stabilizing-force-in-chaotic-world-a85133

NAVAYA GAZETA
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/16/snakes-and-adders-en

KYIV POS
Thttps://www.kyivpost.com/post/32786
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32796
https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/32454
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USEFUL LINKS:
Vatnik Soup
https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi
http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/

Real World News
https://kyivindependent.com/
https://www.kyivpost.com/
https://english.nv.ua/
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/
https://meduza.io/en
https://meduza.io/
https://novayagazeta.eu/
https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...

Analysis
https://www.ft.com/russia
https://www.economist.com/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
https://cepa.org/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...

YouTube Channels
/ @timesradio1
/ @khodorkovskyru
/ @popularpolitics
/ @macknack
/ @plushev
/ @tvrain
/ @fake_news
/ @feyginlive
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemysl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Ukrainian CrisisCare Telehealth Service
"It's infinitely easier to take a life, than save a life”
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ABOUT GPNOW UKRAINE
GPNow Ukrainian CrisisCare is helping Ukrainian families in 5 continents
- Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East, South America and Europe.

Today, we hear from Robert Hicken – President of the PII Foundation who
will provide an update on their GPNow Ukrainian CrisisCare “hospital in
the cloud” Telehealth Service which provides free medical advice,
comfort and care for thousands of Ukrainian citizens to provide FREE
medical advice, comfort care for thousands of Ukrainian families in
Ukraine (including occupied territory), across Europe & around the
world.

Together with John Spiteri & Kirsty Macaulay who are about to
release a song “Party-Z” to raise awareness and funding to support the
service on: https://bandcamp.com/
PII Foundation - (a 501 9 (c)(3) non-profit organisation EIN:
92-1201579)
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LEARN MORE:
https://www.gpnow.net/ukrainian-crisiscare/
Fund GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpn_web
Join GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_teaming - join our Ukrainian
CrisisCare Support Team
Follow GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_twitter_ua on X (Formerly
Twitter)
GPNow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gpnowtelehealthchannel
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CONTACT
Email Us: info@pii-foundation.org
https://www.pii-foundation.org/

UKRAINE HOSPITAL IN THE CLOUD DONATIONS
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=SM4AEW8BB3U8L
Corporate program sponsorship welcomed

BANDCAMP - 7.62 Flowers - "No War In Ukraine"
https://762flowers.bandcamp.com/track/no-war-in-ukraine

With thanks to:
Robert Hicken: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-hicken-1a627136/
John Spiteri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-spiteri-a7047a90
Kirsty Macaulay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-macaulay-667905b5
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INTRO
Currently there are more than 7 million refugees who have fled the
conflict in Ukraine. There is a dire need to ensure these citizens can
access timely and free telehealth consultations. Robert Hicken is
working closely with business leaders across every industry in asking
them to commit corporate donations to Ukrainian CrisisCare, and its
high-impact and life-changing program. Transparency in the charitable
sector in Ukraine is important and GPNow’s Ukrainian CrisisCare, ensures
each corporate sponsor gets valuable recognition for supporting the
Ukrainian telehealth program, as well as transparency on how the funds
or allocated and used.
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Robert Hicken is President of the PII Foundation as well as being
Founder and CEO of GPNow. He is focused on ensuring the world’s most
vulnerable people can access secure high-definition low-bandwidth
multi-lingual telehealth and virtual care services that they desperately
need.
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LINKS
https://www.gpnow.net/home
https://www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation/
https://twitter.com/rhicken
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CONTACT
Robert Hicken (President - PII Foundation)
Mobile: +1 720 738 0774
Mobile: +65 8351 2580 (Whatsapp)
Email: president@pii-foundation.org
Website: www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation

"VirtualCare for the most Vulnerable"
PII FOUNDATION is a 501 9(c)(3) non profit organisation EIN: 92-1201579
Donations are tax-deductible in the US.
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Details of songs mentioned in the episode:
Links to purchase them will be provided, as soon as they are available.

'Party Z'
Writer / producer / lead vocals / guitarist - John Spitteri
Co- producer / media / 2nd Female vocalist - Kirsty Macaulay
Lead female vocalist - Margaret Ryder
Lead Guitarists - Andrew Dockerty
Drums / bass guitar - Andrew Rankin
Produced and recorded by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio

'No War in Ukraine'
Written and sung by John Spiteri
Violinist - Sheila Sapkota
Engineered and mixed by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio
Artwork / Media - Kirsty Macaulay
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Deborah Fairlamb is a Founding Partner at Green Flag Ventures, a
business fund investing in the future of Ukraine. Since 2015, she has
specialized in investments and business development in Ukraine, with a
particular focus on the tech sector and startups.
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahfairlamb/
https://www.greenflag.vc/team
https://www.ukrainer.net/deborah-fairlamb/
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ARTICLES:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/24/7430183/
https://ubn.news/an-american-founded-investment-fund-plans-to-invest-in-eight-ukrainian-startups-this-year/
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/01/shark-tank-kyiv-investors-hunt-war-winning-tech-ukraine/393427/
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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Jahara "FRANKY" Matisek teaches in the Department of National Security
Affairs (NSA) as a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the MSS Department, Senior
Fellow at HDI, Fellowship Director for IWI, and T-53 Instructor Pilot.
He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University with a
Graduate Certificate in African Studies. He has been published over 90
articles in peer-reviewed journals and other outlets and
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahara-franky-matisek-phd-9294a9a/
https://usnwc.edu/Faculty-and-Departments/Directory/Jahara-Franky-Matisek
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/staff/jahara-matisek/
https://www.rusi.org/people/matisek
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/author/jahara-matisek/
https://irregularwarfare.org/team/jahara-matisek/
https://cepa.org/author/jahara-franky-matisek/
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BOOKS:
My book, Old and New Battlespaces, discusses the growing prominence of
sociopolitical-information warfare (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
https://www.rienner.com/title/Old_and_New_Battlespaces_Society_Military_Power_and_War
My long-term book project, "Weak States, Strong Armies: Military
Effectiveness in Africa?" (under revision) focuses on how
bureaucratically weak African states become militarily effective through
the creation of military enclaves.
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

“A toxic flood of dark money has given billionaires and special
interests a powerful way to rig the system secretly in their favour…”
These are the words of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, ahead of a debate in
the US Congress around the Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act. But
this phrase could equally be applied to the UK, where Russian Oligarchs
and dark money interests have been able to cleanse their ill-gotten
gains for decades through the London financial laundromat. Londongrad is
the phrase coined to describe the high presence of Russians in the
United Kingdom, especially in reference to Russian money in London,
permeating its service sector and securing political influence.
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Casey Michel is head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human
Rights Foundation, focusing on how dictators and autocrats use illicit
finance and dirty money to remain in power. He’s the author of AMERICAN
KLEPTOCRACY, on America's transformation into an offshore haven. His new
book, FOREIGN AGENTS, will examine the explosion of the foreign
lobbying industry in Washington, and how that industry has helped
entrench dictatorships and upend American foreign policy. FOREIGN AGENTS
will be published in 2024.
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LINKS:
http://www.caseymichel.com/
https://x.com/cjcmichel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseymichel/
https://www.rusi.org/people/michel
https://www.hudson.org/experts/1381-casey-michel
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BOOKS:
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/american-kleptocracy/
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money
Laundering Scheme in History (2021)
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy
Around the World (2024)
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ARTICLES:
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/casey-michel/
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/casey-michel/

FOREIGN POLICY
How Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Became Putin’s Spiritual Guru
April 7, 2024

Russia’s Opposition Needs More Than One Savior
March 1, 2024

Russia’s Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased
October 4, 2023

How to Stop Former Western Leaders From Becoming Paid Shills for
Autocrats
February 15, 2022

Kazakhstan’s Border With Russia Is Suddenly an Open Question Again
January 6, 2022

How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore Haven
November 19, 2021

The Fatal Flaw in the West’s Fight Against Autocracy
October 6, 2021

America’s Money Lost the Afghan War
September 13, 2021

Biden Might Stop a Sanctions Revolution
August 24, 2021

Oligarchs’ Favorite U.S. Visa Might Not Last
July 16, 2021

THE ATLANTIC
We’ve Never Seen Anything Like the Menendez Indictment - The case
against the New Jersey senator has the potential to reshape how America
deals with foreign agents.
Casey Michel - October 26, 2023

Make Russia Pay - The West has already frozen some $300 billion in
Russian assets. Here’s the case for seizing them.
Casey Michel - May 28, 2023

Decolonize Russia - To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must
lose what empire it still retains.
Casey Michel - May 27, 2022

How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions - The Western sanctions in
response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far broader than many
experts anticipated. But there’s a catch.
Casey Michel - March 9, 2022

The United States of Dirty Money - How landlocked South Dakota became
one of the world’s hottest destinations for offshore funds.
Casey Michel - October 5, 2021
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Taras Byk's special mission is the breakup of the Russian Federation, a
project that doesn't seem so far-fetched after the Prigozhin mutiny, and
Putin’s endless aggression that is exhausting Russia’s military and
economic reserves. Taras is a civil society activist and political
strategist, who believes that Ukraine's Maidan Revolution, in which he
participated, saved not only Ukraine but also Europe. Today we will be
discussing the threat from a resurgent Russia, and the history of
imperial expansion that sits behind it. Can Ukraine's stand for freedom
and struggle against renewed Russification of its peoples hold the line
in Europe between freedom and authoritarianism, between the rule of law
and unimaginable barbarism. Can Ukraine's experience even help
revitalise the idea of democracy and help us to become more resilience
in the face of creeping nepotism, corruption, oligarchy, and aggressive
autocrats?
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Taras Byk is a manager at Wooden Horse Strategies, LLC, a
governmental-relations, and strategic communications firm based in Kyiv.
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-byk-09bb305/
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ARTICLES:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/is-putins-russia-heading-for-collapse-like-its-czarist-and-soviet-predecessors/

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts/6527f6aaefe26/2023/10/26/7425908/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QScdSVMz83A&t=2s
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain
https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------

Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
Spotify and Apple Podcasts.