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Silicon Curtain

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/subscribe A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias. 1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media,

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00:10:03

BREAKING: Ukraine's MASSIVE Atomic Energy Corruption...

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2025/11/12

2025-11-12 | Silicon Wafers 053 | Ukraine’s $100M Energy Graft Scandal. Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies say they’ve cracked a $100 million kickback ring in the energy sector, centred on state nuclear operator Energoatom. Seven suspects, five in custody, two on the run — and the blast radius of this scandal now reaches cabinet level. President Volodymyr Zelensky has pushed for the ousting of two ministers as searches, arrests, and wiretaps spill into public view. All this while Ukraine gears up for EU

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01:01:10

873. Trump Hates Your Free Speech & Freedom - Guard...

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2025/11/12

David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked

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00:50:49

872. America is Down - But is it Out? Authoritarian...

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2025/11/12

Down, but not out. American democracy in the 21st century.----------Marci Shore is an American professor at the Monk School Munk School of Global Affairs and previously professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and

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00:11:50

How did Ukrainian Sea Drones Take Out Russia's Oil...

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2025/11/11

Silicon Bites Ep269 | News Update - Day 1,357 - 2025-11-11 | Robots at the Pier: Ukraine’s Sea War Moves Ashore. Tonight: Ukrainian robot boats slam into Russia’s Black Sea energy lifeline. We’ll break down what got hit, why Tuapse matters, and how Sea Baby and Magura drones, plus the Flamingo long-range missile program, fit into a winter of attrition against the Kremlin’s oil cashflow and logistics.What happened last night in the Black Sea? Overnight, multiple Ukrainian unmanned surface

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01:06:07

865. Ideologues of the Russian Horde - Dugin, Surkov...

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2025/11/11

Adam P. Dixon has extensive experience in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union as a consultant, businessman and entrepreneur, working mostly in aviation and telecommunications. He is currently working on a range of innovative military technologies, including a platform for the removal of landmines. Mr. Dixon studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Leningrad State

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00:15:31

Ukraine Without Power - Why is the Attritional Winter...

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2025/11/10

2025-11-10 | Silicon Wafers 052 | DAILY UPDATES | Russia hurls one of the biggest mixed salvos of the war at Ukraine’s power system; Kyiv is hit by emergency blackouts; Ukraine says Russia hit substations that feed nuclear plants; and Moscow pushes a fresh Zaporizhzhia “nuclear plot” narrative. We’ll separate facts from threats, fearmongering from the terrifying reality.The strike: one of the largest against Ukraine’s energy grid. Overnight into Nov 8, Russia launched 45 missiles and 450 drones at

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00:21:00

Does Latest Data Show the Russian Economic CRISIS is...

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2025/11/10

Silicon Bites Ep268 | News Update - Day 1,356 - 2025-11-10 | ----------SOURCES: Monetary policy & macro* Bank of Russia key rate cut to 16.5% (Oct 24, 2025), official release. (Central Bank of Russia)* Reuters explainer on the cut and inflation backdrop. (Reuters)* Manufacturing PMI contraction (Aug 1, 2025). (Reuters)Budget, debt, NWF* Debt-service share and 2026 increase. (Reuters)* Siluanov on liquid NWF ~3.3–4 trln rubles. (Reuters)* VAT to 22% in 2026; tax package and SME pushback; phased

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00:20:22

871. Will Russian Drones Destroy Costly NATO...

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2025/11/09

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for

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00:22:34

Ukraine's DOOMSDAY Option - Attrition of Energy...

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2025/11/09

2025-11-09 | Silicon Wafers 051 | DAILY UPDATES | Despite the profusion of stories we’ve covered, the battle for Pokrovsk, energy sanctions, and so on, the most important strategic angle on the war this winter is the attritional energy war. And it’s unlike the Western attitude to the war throughout all these four years – to cede the escalation dominance to Russia, always pulling punches, in support for Ukraine, and never allowing its ally to land a decisive blow on Russia. Now Ukraine is takin off

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00:53:04

867. Loss of Pokrovsk Would be a Strategic Disaster...

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2025/11/09

Dr. Douglas J. Davis, MD, PhD is MCW Office of Global Health Liaison, Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin----------Ukraine’s Winter War Is the World’s Test — and America Can’t Afford to BlinkOPINION — Two weeks ago, my colleagues and I stood in Dnipro while warning sirens cut across the city and Shahed drones screamed overhead. We had come as a medical-humanitarian delegation to inspect [...] More----------LINKS: https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/dr-douglas-j-davis-md-phd

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00:19:43

BREAKING: The Army of FAKES - Is Russia WEAPONIZING...

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2025/11/08

Silicon Bites Ep267 | News Update - Day 1,354 - 2025-11-08 | AI fakes try to poison Ukraine’s mobilization debate; Washington grants Budapest a carve-out on Russian energy; Kyiv’s defence industry talks up its potential with $30–35 billion in long-range output for 2026; the EU tightens visa screws on Russian nationals; Pokrovsk hangs in the balance; mysterious drones snarl Belgian airspace; and Germany’s AfD faces “sleeper cell” accusations on the Bundestag floor. Let’s try to anchor ourselves

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00:13:58

Lavrov is in TROUBLE - After Budapest Failure and...

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2025/11/07

2025-11-07 | Silicon Wafers 050 | Is Sergei Lavrov on the way out? After that embarrassment of the non-summit in Budapest, and the cold treatment of Kirill Dmitriev in Washington, it looks like Lavrov is falling out of favour with the Kremlin. But will he also be falling out with those square shaped and glazed objects, designed to let light into tall buildings? Budapest blows up, G20 gets awkward – it looks like Lavrov’s star is waning. How we will miss his disingenuous horse-face. Not. Plans for

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00:28:56

BREAKING: Putin's #1 Threat is "Civil War" Claims...

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2025/11/07

Silicon Bites Ep266 - Day 1,353 - 2025-11-07 | Civil War is Kremlin’s #1 Fear, according to the Kremlin’s own chief sociologist. If I was asked this question, I’d have said it’s a low probability, as is the fragmentation of Russia into myriad smaller states. Not impossible, but very unlikely, even after the conclusion of Putin’s disastrous war in Ukraine. On this channel, we have speculated extensively that a palace coup is more likely, or a kind of oligarch civil war, for a limited period and with

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01:02:27

870. Russia is on Fire - Livestream with Yuri Rashkin...

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2025/11/06

Livestream with Yuri Rashkin----------Partner on this video: KYIV OF MINE Watch the trailer now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJUcE1rxY0'Kyiv of Mine' is a documentary series about Ukraine’s beautiful capital, Kyiv. The film production began in 2018, and much has changed since then. It is now 2025, and this story is far from over.https://www.youtube.com/@UCz6UbVKfqutH-N7WXnC5Ykg https://www.kyivofmine.com/#theprojectKyiv of Mine is fast paced, beautifully filmed, humorous, fun,

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00:50:48

866. SHOCKING - Is MAGA Aligning with Ukraine and...

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2025/11/06

Steven Moore is a political strategist, who spent seven years as a chief of staff and senior leadership aide in the United States Congress, developing relationships with senior policymakers across the United States and around the world. He worked on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives mostly as chief of staff for former Rep. Pete Roskam (R-Ill.), the former chief deputy GOP whip. In that role, Moore was one of the most influential staff members on the Republican side of the aisle

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00:09:19

The Winter War - Russia Hits Out at Snacks and Pills...

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2025/11/05

2025-11-05 | Silicon Wafers 049 | DAILY UPDATES | Pokrovsk, the contested Donetsk rail-and-road hub has become the most consequential urban fight since Avdiivka, and the outcome of that fight may turn out to be instrumental for the outcome of the war, not only against Ukraine, but Russia’s war against Western democracy. In today’s episode, we are zooming in on the battle for Pokrovsk. We’ll explain why Russia is so desperate to take it, what Ukraine is doing to hold it, the claims and counterclaims

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01:03:11

869. Lights Go Out Around Russia as Ukrainian...

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2025/11/05

David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked

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00:22:12

Pokrovsk on the Brink - Its Defenders Face the Fight...

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2025/11/05

Silicon Bites Ep265 - Day 1,351 - 2025-11-05 | Donetsk, the contested Donetsk rail-and-road hub has become the most consequential urban fight since Avdiivka, and the outcome of that fight may turn out to be instrumental for the outcome of the war, not only against Ukraine, but Russia’s war against Western democracy. In today’s episode, we are zooming in on the battle for Pokrovsk. We’ll explain why Russia is so desperate to take it, what Ukraine is doing to hold it, the claims and counterclaims on

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00:50:13

864. First, Defeat the Invader - Then Ukraine Can...

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2025/11/05

Noel Tock has been in Ukraine since 2023, part-time running frontline evacuations. He has founded and participated in several charities to support Ukraine, and to pioneer work on the ground that is transparent in funding sources and effective in action. He is Director of Strategy at KLYN Drones and Dog Help Kharkiv and Co-Founder - Volara Foundation. ----------Director of Strategy – KLYN DronesNon-profit assembling FPV drones sent to AFU Special Operations Forces and other units / brigades. 95% of

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00:11:52

BREAKING: Major Naval Drone Strike on Russian Oil...

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2025/11/04

2025-11-04 | Silicon Wafers 048 | DAILY UPDATES | We’re zeroing in on the Black Sea in today’s episode, much like Ukrainian drones. Ukraine’s sea-drone campaign has lit up Russia’s oil hub at Tuapse, with a tanker fire, damaged loading gear, and — as per independent analysis — apparently creating an oil slick stretching several kilometres into open water. We’ll unpack the strike, the satellite evidence, the logistics pain for Moscow, and why this energy war matters for Ukraine’s survival through a

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