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RT down the middle. Russia news used to be owned by the chosen people like everything else in Russia after US chosen people gave Russian Chosen people means to buy everything.up. But Putin reigned them in a bit. US MSM, 5-6 companies are totally owned by chosen ones. Control information Control the minds control the people. Russians, and rest of world who wishes to tune in to RT, minds can't be controlled anymore and that drives the chosen ones mad.

This chosen people battle for Russia control goes father back than 90s or today though...Elizabeth of Russia in 17th century had to take Russia minds back.

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I remember the “good old days” when the scales were still on my eyes and fixated on the drudge report, the wsj and, to feed my inner female, vanity fair.

More time, Less to read.

Now, thanks to all the goons trying to “manage” the masses by capture and silence, I can hardly keep up with all the quality reporting/writing.

Speaking of RT, shout out to Dennis Miller. Miss you!

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I confess to listening to Hugh Hewitt, the deep state wanna-be! Although I did enjoy his conversations w Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College, about history. But I turned him off whenever he had Mike Allen on, of Axios fame, the most arrogant smooth-talking operator, water-carrier (probably Badoit sparkling) for the Dems…those were Before Mark days, or daze…!

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I forget when I stopped listening to Hewitt. It was before I stopped my subscription to WSJ.

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Ha! Everything in good time!

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I remember those days, too. Well, except for Vanity Fair.

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Golly-gee wiz-willikers, did anyone see this? Hey Zhou, you’ve really lost the plot now, and you thought RT was to blame!

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/politico-paints-zelensky-autocrat-very-day-us-says-negative-coverage-all-rts-fault

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Hmmm... very interesting! I can't believe the editorial staff at Politico would publish this without direction and approval from a "higher authority" - and it wasn't RT. :) Are we maybe looking at a Zelenskyy scapegoating coming up? Sort of a Deep State Ukraine: Episode 2025 - A New Hope?

Either that or there is dissension in the DS ranks or different factions got their wires crossed or just general incompetence, which does not exclude the DS network of propaganda organs.

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So we’ve been shoveling billions of $ and killing untold numbers of men, all in support of a dictator?

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Who'd have guessed? The Biden admin wants to know.

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DIGITAL Paradigm is a DIY environment! There are no more secrets.

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Synonyms for “disingenuity:” trickery, contrivance, craftiness…in other word willfully distorting, or omitting, the truth. Mercouris mentioned yesterday in his broadcast that the MSM had, according to his review of the usual suspects (US and UK) publications, gone so far as to exclude from Putin’s recent warnings regarding Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike Russia, the essential nugget of truth in Putin’s thinking: that to program, target and launch such missiles requires Nato personnel from Nato countries - US and Europe - NOT Ukrainian servicemen, who “cannot do it.” So the public is left without the key point, that Nato itself would be at war with Russia, and would therefore pay the consequences. Instead, the public is left with an image of Ukraine deprived (as Zelensky in his growing wrath and desperation is also expressing) of being allowed to defend itself. Pernicious disinfo, “disingenious,” and about on the level of Kirby, Blinken et al.

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Yes, I heard that, too. That was the key to Putin's argument, so the omission was deliberate.

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Yup

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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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Translation: déjà vu all over again. Sounds like Mark is right and we’re going to drop Zel - and the insufferably pompous Mike Allen (Axios) is helping!

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