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Let's be honest. When you are the dictator, you want government as big as possible.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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How come RT has no problem bashing the US but they never bash Russia? Gee. They sell no advertising so where is their money coming from? Hmmmmmmm. Gee. It might be from the Russian government. Hey Putin. Be fair and balanced for once.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Most Americans have never heard of Russia Today (RT) television, a propaganda arm of the Putin-Medvedev-KGB-run Russian thugocracy, but thanks to a former KGB officer, Konstantin Preobrazhensky, more about its origins and purposes have been revealed.
In a "Statement by Konstantin Preobrazhensky, former Soviet KGB officer, on the impact and purpose of Russia Today (RT) television", given to America's Survival, Inc. organization, led by noted journalist Cliff Kincaid, released April 1, 2011, the former KGB officer wrote the following about it (Full Text).
"Russia Today" was founded in 2005 especially for propaganda abroad. It has been aimed at 'explaining Russia's position on the main international issues and inform foreigners about Russian life'. According to Gzt.ru, it has been financed totally by the Russian government. In 2005-2006, the government has delivered $30 million annually. In 2011-2013, "Russia Today" will get $216 million (6,483 billion rubles).
The methods of propaganda are managed by Directorate "A" of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. The specialty of Directorate "A" is deceiving world public opinion and manipulating it. It has got a lot of experence over decades of the Cold War.
"Russia Today" is only a part of the Russian industry misinformation and manipulation created recently in the USA by Putin's KGB. It is including the utilization of some American think-tanks and political scientists, their direct work up by Putin at annual meetings in Russia, putting Russian Americans under Kremlin's control, etc. This industry aims at creating an inadequate, adorned image of Russia, provoking American to make wrong steps in their Russian politics.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Noted journalist Cliff Kincaid? Yeah... right.....
Cliff Kincaid
Date of Birth: 1954
Location: Owings, MD.
Ideology: "Patriot" Movement (wackjob militia white supremacist)
For more than 30 years, Cliff Kincaid has been pushing out conspiracy theories, demonizing propaganda and a series of falsehoods about LGBT people, Muslims, Democrats and others — all as the editor of Accuracy in Media (AIM). But if there’s one thing Kincaid cannot be trusted on, it’s accuracy.
The notably humorless Kincaid embraces just about any theory that makes the “liberal” media and those it supposedly supports look bad. He says that President Obama has “well-documented socialist connections,” is the product of a “mysterious upbringing as a Muslim,” and may not have been born in this country. He claims that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian and that Clinton deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was murdered. He calls global warming a “fraudulent scheme.” The Roman Catholic Church, he asserts, has been hijacked by “Marxist elements” and is “facilitating the foreign invasion of the U.S.” by northbound Latinos. He insists that the governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico have a secret pact to merge into a single entity — the much-feared North American Union.
At the same time, he also has appeared regularly on Fox News programs, on other television networks, and on hate radio jock Michael Savage’s show.
Before joining AIM in 1978, Kincaid worked at the conservative Human Events magazine and, later, as a newsletter editor for Iran-Contra figure Oliver North at North’s Freedom Alliance. But his influence has risen since joining AIM, which is supported heavily by right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
Much of Kincaid’s relentless polemicizing in recent years has been aimed at gay people. He blames gay men for corrupting the military and angrily complains that “establishment journalists are aligned with academia” (“sexual perverts masquerading as scholars”) in supporting transgender people. He has staunchly supported the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” law — a proposal Kincaid says is merely “designed to send a message to … the foreign homosexual lobby to keep their hands off Uganda’s families and kids.”
Most recently, Kincaid has jumped on the increasingly crowded anti-Muslim bandwagon. Last year, he was on a panel at a conference held by ACT! for America, an Islamophobic group, and also joined the board of directors of Stop the Islamization of Nations, run by hatemonger Pamela Geller.
Despite his self-appointed role as media monitor, Kincaid often writes on the basis of pure speculation (were poems Obama wrote about his father really about a “Communist” mentor who was also a “sex pervert and a pothead”?) or fact-challenged “experts” who parrot his own preordained points of view.Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerI've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.Comment
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Why so inconsistent with your answers, Mr. Presley?
You apparently think some of these things should be regulated, and others not, but if all of them are currently being controlled by the manipulations of a handful of huge, "untouchable" corporations, then how can you deny the reality that the problem is the same across the board (i.e the handful of huge, untouchable corporations).
Some things simply should not BE for profit industries at all. That would be education, health care, energy, infrastructure, defense, and news media, to name a few. And the rest should be reasonably regulated, for both safety reasons (to prevent disasters like what recently happened in Texas) and to keep a handful of corporations from having too much power, while at the same time promoting competition and innovation among the private sector.
That's how we run things in Hell. We're stuck here for eternity, so we had to make a system that worked.Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerI've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.Comment
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A fertilizer plant, that's state level business. No big government needed...Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
Originally posted by SockfuckerI've been in several mental institutions but not in Bakersfield.Comment
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Quality education - or the lack thereof - IS a national issue. So there should be national standards for it.
It's a state issue...
The "national standard" should be a collective effort from the states...
And when the state government is run by imbeciles like Chimpy and pRick Perry..... well the results speak for themselves, don't they?
Elect someone else...
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Quality education - or the lack thereof - IS a national issue. So there should be national standards for it. And for the love of all that's unholy, the decisions for what goes in textbooks, should NEVER be left up to a state where religious fanaticism has any power.
And when the state government is run by imbeciles like Chimpy and pRick Perry..... well the results speak for themselves, don't they?
It's been the state more than anything fucking things up.Last edited by Unchainme; 05-03-2013, 06:32 PM.Still waiting for a relevant Browns TeamComment
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