Stop the Idiocracy: RT (Russia Today)

Thursday, April 28, 2022

‘We’re all going to die someday.’ Russian media prepares their citizens for nuclear holocaust, as their military wages a holocaust on the ground in Ukraine

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Two of Russia’s leading propagandists - talk show host Vladimir Solovyov, and the head of state outlet RT, Margarita Simonyan, make a hard sell for nuclear warfare to the orcs - Yours truly will not lie or sugarcoat, I’m seriously concerned humanity’s days on this planet are exceedingly short. The two great powers of the 20th Century are coming undone in the 21st Century, and are going to take the rest of the world down with them. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe in three or four years, but the prognosis for the future is that there is no future. And there is no reasoning with this level of extreme venom and hatred. A chilling excerpt from Newsweek, April 27 -

On Tuesday night's show, The Evening With Vladimir Solovyov, host Vladimir Solovyov, accompanied by Simonyan, said that in order to stop other countries from intervening in Russia's war with Ukraine, a nuclear war would have to be a possibility.
"Personally, I think that the most realistic way is the way of World War III, based on knowing us and our leader, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin," Simonyan said according to The Daily Beast, "knowing how everything works around here, it's impossible — there is no chance — that we will give up."
Simonyan continued, saying, "Everything will end with a nuclear strike is more probable than the other outcome. This is to my horror, on one hand, but on the other hand, with the understanding that it is what it is."
Vladimir Solovyov added, "But we will go to heaven, while they will simply croak."
"We're all going to die someday," Simonyan said to the audience. (Read more)

Russia launches missile strikes on Kyiv as the UN Secretary General visits the city; President Biden calls for $33 billion more in Ukrainian aid - Another strong indication that Putin considers himself and Russia to be at war with the entire Western world, and is going for broke. President Biden and his administration are doing what they can, but are doing so in the face of a hostile American public who wants nothing to do with Ukraine’s plight, and an opposition party more loyal to Putin than to the United States. The way things are going - and barring nuclear holocaust before then - #Murica is going to devolve into a complete Fascist dictatorship by 2025, and American forces wlll be helping Putin drop bombs on innocent Ukrainians instead of trying to help them; assuming this war is still raging then, and that is not outside the realm of possibility. (Reuters 4/28)

[VIDEO] Russian dissidents fleeing in considerable numbers to the country of Georgia - Georgia, the homeland of Stalin, and apparently now a beacon of liberty. At least for these (mostly young) folks. (France 24 4/28)

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Stehen Sie mit der Deutschen Welle: Putin’s war on the freedom of the legitimate news outlets takes an ominous turn, as Germany’s largest news outlet is thrown out of Moscow

Unlike the loud, sensationalistic propaganda organs that comprise nearly the entirety of the news media in basketcase countries like Russia and our own United States, certain European countries still have real news organizations that inform without bells and whistles, and without corporate slant or partisan bias. In my opinion, there is no finer example than Deutsche Welle. I watch their English-language service via YouTube, along with France24 and BBC World News, and the difference between these outlets and the likes of Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and Russia’s RT is night and day. One informs and enlightens; the others kill brain cells. By and large, Americans today possess little ability to differentiate propaganda from actual journalism; or, if they do, they prefer the noise and confirmation bias. And have Russians – being only thirty years removed from the fall of the Soviet Union – ever known a time when they were fed anything but propaganda and gaslighting from their state-controlled media outlets? Germans learned a very hard lesson in the 1940s and really took it to heart, and therefore one finds they are a more intelligent, moral, and productive people who possess critical thinking skills and humanity. Russians remain the brutes they always were, and the action the Putin regime is taking toward Deutsche Welle is an age-old tactic of tyrants. Free thinking people who value truth and knowledge must stand with DW, and against the likes of Putin, Trump, and all those who would have us live as unquestioning lemmings as they rape their land and people for their own aggrandizement. Chancellor Scholz will be visiting Moscow soon, and how he handles Putin is going to be a major test of his new leadership. He must demand Moscow reverses this decision. Via Deutsche Welle themselves, and thank you to them for their wonderful service -

Russia on Thursday said it was closing the Moscow bureau of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and revoking its employees' accreditations in the country.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also said in a statement that it would "terminate the satellite and other broadcasting (output) of Deutsche Welle" on Russian territory.
Russia had earlier criticized a German regulator's ban on German-language programming by Russia's state broadcaster RT as an attack on freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
The Russian government said it was planning to initiate a procedure to label DW a foreign media outlet performing the functions of a "foreign agent," a designation that carries additional government scrutiny.
Moscow said it would also ban officials involved in restricting the broadcasting of RT in Germany from entering the Russian Federation. (Read more)