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Censored By Sanction? Barclays Freezes Accounts Of Russia's News Agency
The UK has frozen the bank account of Russia's Rossiya Segodnya news agency without any explanation. "To close the account of one of the world’s leading news agencies is censorship, the direct obstruction of journalists’ work," Dmitry Kiselyov, head of the news agency, exclaimed, asking "what kind of press freedom and democracy can Britain claim to have if it prevents one of the world's largest news agencies from working in the country?" As RT reports, while no official justification for the move has been offered, a source in the banking sector told the agency the Exchequer has put Dmitry Kiselyov on an anti-Russian sanctions list. With David Cameron in full tyrannical 1984-mode, this latest move is perhaps not entirely surprising (though we await the boomerang from Putin).
Last month, the EU drafted a plan to counter what it sees as “Russian disinformation activities” calling for “promotion of EU policies” in the post-Soviet space and the implementation of measures against Russian media.
The nine-page paper drafted by the EU Foreign Service specifically mentions RT, which according to the report broadcasts “fabrications and hate speech from their bureaus in EU cities.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry lashed out at the EU over the report, saying that the proposed plan is violating the right to freedom of expression and creating conditions of total discrimination against Russian media.

Barclay's bank froze a Rossiya Segodnya news agency account without explaining its reasons. The agency’s head Dmitry Kiselyov has called it “censorship.”
“To close the account of one of the world’s leading news agencies is censorship, the direct obstruction of journalists’ work,” Dmitry Kiselyov said. “What kind of press freedom and democracy can Britain claim to have if it prevents one of the world's largest news agencies from working in the country?”
No formal notification of the move or justification for it was immediately provided. A source in the banking sector told the agency the Exchequer has put Dmitry Kiselyov on an anti-Russian sanctions list, which could have led to the news agency’s account being frozen.
“This is illegal,” Rossiya Segodnya’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted. “The sanctions imply that Kiselyov cannot travel to Europe and have personal bank accounts there. No sanctions were imposed on Rossiya Segodnya news agency.”
The sanctions list, which includes the head of Rossiya Segodnya news agency, was published on March 21. It characterizes Kiselyov as “central figure of the government propaganda supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.”
Russia’s ambassador in the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, tweeted that the move is an example of using censorship against media that provides an alternative point of view.
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Closure of @Rianru account by @Barclays without explanations an example of censorship against alternative media. pic.twitter.com/Ycyhmxgeue
— Alexander Yakovenko (@Amb_Yakovenko) July 13, 2015
One wonders when CNBC will have its account frozen for spewing constant propaganda?
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“Russian disinformation activities”
I'll see your liar and raise you one.
It's not censorship when we do it.
If the US really believed in censorship for the good of its nation and people, it would be banning the Kardashians, Miley Cyrus and a whole host of other intellectual and moral crap that graces their screens.
This attempt to shut down Russian coverage of news in the West is nothing less than confirmation that the New World Order is preparing for a Third World War. During wartime, all reporters are considered spies. So Obama has signed off on going to a wartime footing, probably while he is playing golf at Martha's Vineyard. Obama released from prison a few dozen black crack dealers now to make himself look more benevolent, before a Code Red, on orders of the NWO. That must have been hard for Obozo to do but, after a few lines of coke, he went along with the plan. Cameron, like his cross-dressing chum Osborne [activate the gaydar], also goes along with any orders he receives from the NWO.
Special Report: The Truth about Srebrenica 20 years later
http://thesaker.is/special-report-the-truth-about-srebrenica-20-years-later/
Is Keiser Report also banned?
This move is probably a direct retaliation aimed at Russia for banning foreign NGOs. It´s classic tit for tat.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/19/russia-bans-undesirable-int...
"Russia’s parliament has passed a law banning “undesirable” international organisations, raising fears of a further crackdown on voices critical of the Kremlin.
According to the legislation, the prosecutor general and foreign ministry can register as undesirable any “foreign or international organisation that presents a threat to the defensive capabilities or security of the state, to the public order, or to the health of the population”.
Blacklisted groups will be forbidden from operating branches or distributing information in Russia and banks will have to notify the prosecutor general and justice ministry of any financial transfers involving them. Although the language of the threat posed was vague, the bill’s authors suggested that international NGOs often work in the interests of foreign intelligence agencies."
but Russia banned Western NGOs not media, because NGOs are nothing else then spies and foreign agents. However, there are Western media broadcasting in Russia, even CNN is broadcasting in Russia! Should Russia ban CNN in Russia then? Well, I doubt they will, unlike Britain, they do have a freedom of speech!
Russia should freeze the assets of the propagandist BBC that had Building Seven collapse 20 minutes before it did on 9/11 and then lost all tapes relating to 9/11
BBC Foreknowledge of 9/11 Collapse of WTC Building Seven: British Man Won Law Suit against BBC for 9/11 Cover UpTony Rooke, in an act of civil disobedience, refused to pay the mandatory £130 TV license fee claiming it violates Section 15 of the Terrorism Act. Rooke’s accusation was aimed at the BBC who reported the collapse of WTC 7 over 20 minutes before it actually fell, and the judge accepted Rooke’s argument. While it was not a public inquiry into 9/11, the recognition of the BBC’s actions on September 11th are considered a small victory, one that was never reported in the US.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bbc-foreknowledge-of-911-collapse-of-wtc-bu...
Last month, the EU drafted a plan to counter what it sees as “Russian disinformation activities” calling for “promotion of EU policies”
But CIA propaganda is fine and dandy:
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html
Looks like the UK is about 6 months ahead of the US in the race to the bottom of the Fascist barrel
You can sense that 2015 was the year to implement "the agenda". You can feel the evil reek in the air. Its palpable.
the nazis must be stopped.
The governments of the West make an absolute joke over the supposed liberties and human rights that they claim to champion.
By relative comparison, they are making nations like Russia and China appear as the champions of human rights and liberties. Given that I mentioned China in that example, THAT is pretty sad.
As far as the US and other western governments, I don't care about that which you proclaim.
What you do shouts so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying!
All governments make an absolute joke over the supposed liberties and human rights they claim to protect, not just the western ones. I'm sure the govt controlled media in China and North Korea paints the picture that their governments protect the people and keep them free from the boogie man.
That's how governments get their 'power'. People wouldn't hand these people their power if they knew that they didnt care one bit about human rights or civil liberties.
"They do it too"?
Not my point, nor do I care, nor do I think it relative. Look at the keyword "relative". I don't have to answer to the Chinese government. I am however, the property of the US government and therefore when my master lies to me and talks out of both corners of his mouth, I am less likely to serve his chicken and biscuits to him on demand. Abusive masters must always be leary of slave revolts, be they peaceful or otherwise.
Yes they do it to. Haha. Just look at the last couple weeks when Chinese press were not permitted to say anything negativa about their market.
If you want an extreme western version of this, just look what they did to michael hastings. That'll make anyone want to stop licking our masters' boot.
By the way, how often does our press really say anything negative about our markets, and if they do, how many seconds before the "happy rainbow is just around the corner" bullshit spills from their collective cakeholes? Be it by coercion or by design, if the net effect is the same then the mechanism matters not.
Say what you will about Noam Chomsky's full philosophy, but as far as control of the press is concerned, he and Edward Herman fucking nailed it in Manufacturing Consent. It's an absolute must-read on the topic of editorial control in the US media.
The sad part is, the information has been out for over 25 years and it's not found a home amongst any significant voting bloc here in the states :/
Not sure why I am getting the down votes. Must be from Mercedes employees who dont like that their cars just blow up.
If you dont know what I am talking about, 'startpagesearch': Michael Hastings. '
Oh oh - I feel Putin is going to cut Cameron's dick off. OUCH!
Soon the US will move to shut down RT . . . Zero Hedge is on the list, too.
Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies
The govt didn't have to cut my RT, Time Warner did it for them, the bastids
PRICE OF NICKEL STILL DOWN TWENTY PERCENT!
OH, SHIT!
THANK GOD THE AMERICANS DONT HAVE ANY.....
(Long pause)....
OH SHIT!
No, that's just business ;-)
Fuck that pasty Limie Vlad.
ya gotta be quick to see the f
Why do people still associate freedom with democracy?!
Because they are taught to repeat buzzwords in school. I say democracy you say freedom, kids repeat after me.
Democracy is the most insidous form of repression as it has an aire of legitimacy to it, in the populist sentiment of the masses. A horrendous form of government. Democracy should be abolished around the world.
I myself am an advocate of a two-tiered system, where the top 20 percent of people - the Citizens - rule benevolently over the bottom 80% - the Consumers.
By its very nature, mankind is intellectually lazy and self-serving. Per the Paretto Principle, about 20% or so of any group usually influences the other 80%. This is just a human dynamic. So, we test the population in key areas of behavior and intelligence, such as work history and accomplishments (to rule out the FSA), civic knowledge, literacy, knowledge of governmental structures and civil processes, mathematical numeracy, knowledge of the basic sciences, ability to use formal logic and reason, and the top 20% are bestowed the title of Citizens.
The other 80% are the Consumer Class and they basically do what they are told. To give them the illusion of participation we do two things: First, we create a new two-party system, controlling both sides, to give them the comforting illusion of choice. Secondly, the citizens retain the Senate, and the House as we know it is abolished and replaced by The House of Morons, perhaps we rename it "The House of Representin'". It is here where we empower them with decision making processes related to silly, irrelevant sidebar issues, granting them only: 1. The power to elect a fellow consumer to the House, 2. the power to make suggestions to our senate, which of course we summarily dismiss. 3.) Autonomy over issues that are of critical importance to them, such as the National Football League, NBA, reality television, fast-food chain and box store locations, iDevice ergonomics and cool apps, and federally mandated multiple Black Friday events.
For this to work though, we need to subsidize key aspects of Consumer Society, such as professional sports, television entertainment, fast food, cable, and various electronic devices and video games. These aspects of course will need the advice and consent of the newly formed Senatorial Commitee on Bread and Circuses.
The system must be designed so that intelligent thoughtful consumers have upward political mobility, such that, upon improving their work ethic and intellectual capacity, are able to attain the status of citizen. Conversely, citizens that slack can be bumped down into the consumer class. There must be a mechanism though to ban long-term consumers from ever entering the citizen class as this is suggestive that they have become completely fucked in the head and are permanently broken.
I think this is the most moral approach for those that actually give a shit, and, because of the subsidies for materialistic possessions, entertainment, and other generally mindless and vapid amusements, will be enthusiastically embraced by the consumers.
The President will be directly elected by the Consumers, but he is beholden to the senate in all policy decisions. His job is to sell policy to the consumers and brand it as "cool" and in fashion so that they all mindlessly jump on the bandwagon.
Citizens, via the Senate, self-govern via a representative republic and a restored, original intent Constitution. Both citizens and consumers are bound by law to respect the codification of the Constitution, but it applies to Citizens Only.
No Constitutional guarantees are bestowed upon the Consumer Class, and the beauty of this approach is that they wouldn't give a shit anyways. Even if they did, we will just present to them a conjured up, perceived existential threat to them, and toss them a free iPhone. That will take care of that issue.
Consumers, via direct democracy and the House of Representin', get to vote to allow the majority to do whatever the hell it wants to the minority. For added insanity and emotional kneejerking, this body should be disproportionately women feminists and balless, emasculated men. Citizens are to have immunity from all laws passed by the mindless, emotionally charged mob of the House of Representin'.
I think it is a win-win.
Thoughts?
"So, we test the population in key areas of behavior and intelligence, such as work history and accomplishments (to rule out the FSA), civic knowledge, literacy, knowledge of governmental structures and civil processes, mathematical numeracy, knowledge of the basic sciences, ability to use formal logic and reason, and the top 20% are bestowed the title of Citizens."
You missed testing for psychopathic and sociopathic traits of the citizens. In my opinion, psychopaths and sociopaths should be permanently banned from any public related service.
Don't we already have that? Doesn't seem to work very well.
The present flaw with this system is that it is not 80/20, but 0.001/99.999. I do believe that there are at least 15-20% of the populace that are also deserving of the blessings of liberty and a free society, but well less than a million people coast-to-coast have set the boundary for their exclusive club and excluded all others. Plus their litmus test is predicated on psycopathy and the willingness to maliciously exploit, and not on civic virtue, self-improvement, work ethic, and standards of conduct, like my system would be based on.
What still shocks me to this day - but it shouldn't - is when you go to a mainstream site that allows commenting, you read the thoughts of the consumers that are posting, and one's jaw still drops at how incredibly stupid they are. It is truly shocking that so many could allow themselves to progress through life with such a profound degree of intellectual undevelopment.
It makes one sit in awe, in complete bewilderment.
Cameron is a joke and a dangerous one.
Seems like NATOs members are all fixin for a brawl with Russia or China, they are trying to figure out which one they want to do the false flag shit on.
Is it jealousy? Does the West hate them that much because of their freedoms or maybe because they have more money in the bank?
I am trying to figure this out.
Most Americans hate Russia but have no clue why.
My first mother in law hated Jews and Native Americans who we called Indians at that time.
I looked at her, "So do you know any Indians?". If looks could kill I would have been a goner.
Funny thing is she liked my partner and he was an Indian, she didn't know it.
the nazis should be afraid of the russians. they will lose again. when the time comes, everyone will cheer the holocaust of the nazis.
Nothing new. Press censorship.
Prior to the US entry into the Second World War, a very powerful media mogul by the name of William Randolph Hearst owned an agglomeration of some of the largest and most widely distributed newspapers and powerful (as in broadcast strength) radio stations in the US. At that time, Hearst was something of an isolationist at most and against US participation at a minimum. Hearst, also having served in DC and knowing the ilk of FDR was of the opinion that FDR wanted the US to engage fully in the war.
So his newspapers and radios (This was back in the day when a powerful station such as KRNT in Des Moines would power up at night and be heard over a huge swath of the US. And is a reason the transmitter powers were afterwards limited ... by the Government) preached holy non-involvement, broadsiding FDR and his policies. At the time, Hearst owned an enormous swath of land along the Pacific coast of California amongst the Los Padres National Forest from just south of the Monterey Peninsula down past San Simeon where today, the famous Hearst Castle remains open to the public. So after repeated entreaties to Hearst to reverse or at a minimum silence his editorial opposition to the manifest destiny of the Peace Loving Libertarian Roosevelt (sarc) in punishment, FDR expropriated an enormous swath of Hearst's personal property, in the name of the defense of the United States, much of which was to be renamed as the Hunter -Liggett Military Reservation.
Later, laws were suitably passed to limit the power of media moguls which set limits upon the number of broadcast and print outlets within stipulated geographic areas in order to ensure that there could again be no Hearst to offend Governmental Proscriptions. Which later on were dismantled and mergers encouraged so as to saturate entire regions with but a few media providers. Who in turn, in an unholy alliance for access to TPTB, serve well in the role of their Perceptions Management and Propaganda Mechanisms for the legal overlords and permit givers we know and love so well, today.
Nothing new to see here, move along.
It does tip the hand of those who will be involved later. Most of these "news" outlets are nothing but low level spies.
England is the US bitch once again. Following the script.
Apparently our exalted 'leader' is signing a deal with the Ukinazis tomorrow.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arseniy-yatsenyuk-stephen-harper-to-sign...
I'm sure it will turn out well.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/07/ishchenko-on-right-sektor-vs-junta.html
The USA is Built on Lies . The News in the USA is not held to the Truth......There will be truths leaked and the internet will be next.
All those in power want is CONTROL however there are those who seek the truth,
Are not the russians doing a two year test on GMO's......That report is what I am waiting for, cause you will never get it out of American News. It is a State Secret and after all the testing on the general population information that the food that can harm people would never become pubic.....If TPTB can help it.
I wonder if a Class Action Lawsuit has ever been served on the American Government? Agent Orange, Depleated Uranium or any other "tests" they have placed on People World Wide?
It's time the revolt about TRUTHS was started......Those in Power have been Elected......right.....Right?
After all .....it's for our children.
Copper SLAMMED!
UNPLUG THE WOPR NOW!!
... and if you think the banksters cannot see your password ... >>> "British Bank Bans Man's Password" >>> http://www.wired.com/2008/08/british-bank-ba/ ... ... this tidbit happened in 2008; around the time of the last financial collapse ... if the Brit banksters could do something this weird, I'm sure they could set a bigger boneheaded example of censorship without explaining its reasons ...
Difficult to describe how personally embarrassing it is to me to see my country's government behaving no better, actually worse, than a tinpot dictatorship. Horrified to see how deep the bankster/govt corporatism runs to gag contrarian views. Utterly disgusted by this bloody Zionist Israel supporting, MIC cocksucking Cameron openly defiling the principles of a free nation.
"... then they fight you..."
Well news rigging doesn't stop does it:) Not only Russian news but all news agencies need money and God forbid they say one thing against the few advertisers they have left! I'm tired of it. Yes, there are good journalists left and do search them out as they have real value. I feel bad for the journalists as they have to listen to rules to keep their jobs and I know they can't be happy with all of this BS going on.
It's those cash rich companies that are too cheap to advertise and keep the news going, and too stupid to realize the SIP news feeds trades their stocks..duh!! News rigging is here.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/04/news-rigging-has-arrived-astroturf-and.html
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The beatings shall continue until morale improves.
Every Day these Fascist Parasites are becoming more and more desperate.They are bringing the fascism to the homeland after decades of abuses overseas.
RT your next .
World war in offing
They already believe that WW3 is going on.
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Bad boys, bad boys
What'cha gonna do?
What'cha gonna do when they come for you?
Why did you have to act so mean?
Don't you know you're human being?
Born from a mother with the love from a father
Reflections come and reflections go
I know sometimes you want to let go
Hehehe
I know sometimes you want to let go
Bad boys, bad boys
What'cha gonna do?
What'cha gonna do when they come for you?
Bad boys, bad boys
What'cha gonna do?
What'cha gonna do when they come for you?
Russia Today, Sputnik, Rossija24, Rossija1, LifeNews (RUS version), etc. are directly funded by putin regime to spread it's lies propaganda domestically and abroad. It has nothing to do with free speech as in Russia it's oppressed in so many ways that all main stream media are under putin regime control. Commercial media is attacked because they can bring truth about putin regime criminal actions.
These are elements of war that is brought by putin regime. putin regime attacks both russian minds and westerners - to manipulate with them, to make them not to defend their countries against putin regime aggression, not to defend their allies. So that it's easier for putin regime to fulfill it's aggression plans in the world - starting with it's neighboring countries.
You won't find such information in RT and other putin regime propaganda machine channels:
Russian Soldiers Increasingly Deserting Their Units to Avoid Being Sent to Fight in UkraineStaunton, July 11 - Several dozen contract soldiers in a Russian motorized rifle brigade based in Maikop have deserted in order to avoid being sent to fight in Ukraine. They now face up to ten years in prison, are being kept in “inhuman” conditions, and are constantly urged to agree to go to Ukraine as “volunteers,” according to a Moscow newspaper.
In Gazeta.ru on July 11, Vladimir Dergachev and Elizaveta Mayetnaya suggest that this is a growing problem, noting that between 2010 and 2014, there were only 35 cases in which soldiers were charged with being absent without leave of desertion while in the first half of 2015 alone, 62 were found guilty of such offenses.
The actual numbers may be much higher. A lawyer who is involved with the defense of five of the soldiers who have been charged told the two Moscow journalists that commanders had told her that the number of soldiers facing these charges is so large that it has overwhelmed the military justice system there.
One of the soldiers facing charges has filed a brief with the court, the two journalists say. It specifies that he “did not fulfill a criminal order since he did not want to go against the oath which [he] took and did not want to participate in military actions on the territory of Ukraine.”
Other soldiers involved say they were under intense pressure to volunteer to fight in Ukraine, with senior officers from other units coming and offering them as much as 8,000 rubles (US $160) a day. But according to the lawyer, Tatyana Chernetskaya, “no one wants to fight in the Donbass for 8,000 a day as the recruiters promised or even for 28,000.”
These recruiters, the soldiers say, wore camouflage uniforms without any indication that they were in the Russian army but with signs of rank clearly visible – an indication that this whole operation was part of Moscow’s efforts to maintain deniability about Russian involvement and possibly of Moscow’s fears that regular commanders won’t be effective in such recruiting.
The two journalists say the Russian defense ministry was unable to provide any comment. “However,” they point out, that institution “has frequently given Gazeta.ru the official position: reports about the presence of Russian soldiers on the territory of Ukraine are a lie, and rumors about agitation in Russian units to go as volunteers to the Donbass are unreliable.”
And russians won't see this at home at putin regime propaganda channels:
https://youtu.be/m5HSlotPPUw
https://youtu.be/ByEya9KxjJA
https://youtu.be/OhktrWVO4V0
Another troll! Russians know very well what the West says and thinks. Once again: there are Western media in Russia, for example CNN. But people like you keep spitting out Western propaganda and preparing us for war. I hope you will be one of those, who will pay dearly in that war. Karma is waiting for you, dear.
If you watch putin regime domestic propaganda than it's 95% about war in Ukraine, hate against Ukrainians, Americans, Europeans and their elected government. If you watch west media than it's not even 5% about Russia, it's less than that.
Also CNN is doesn't receive funding from US government - it lives from advertisement. But RT, sputinik, Rossija24, LifeNews, etc. lives from putin regime budget. See difference!
Now who is preparing for war?
https://youtu.be/3vm0jgv525I?t=1m4s
https://youtu.be/1G4z4BF1zQE
https://youtu.be/g5E_qMHTO0U
https://youtu.be/AKABlOs6DWY
Enough to wank a keyboard, young follower of Goebbels. Wrap yourself in the flag and get out to Poland, lavatories await your cleaning.
Ou look who came to visit me again. :D
Why it’s that little pathetic putin regime paid puppy who wants to be a real troll but lacks… well just about everything to be it. But boy, did you took all your courage and make a stand here. Made it all this way from your piss and just bark it anyway. Well little feller? Can you bark again when I ask you! Have you been trained to do that?
Now BARK! BARK!
Or at least call your other friend to do that for yourself!
:D
Ha ha ha you know you are pathetic one little feller.
The patient calm down. Soon will come the white coat guys, nurses you put on a drip, and all will be well.
Ha ha ha! Yes you are a good puppy – you do what I tell you! :D
I told you to bark and you made a bark. A silent and pathetic one, but still – a bark it was! :D Now roll over your piss!
Ha ha ha – it’s good that you submitted to my commands!
But I am not sure your master will like it, because your making a fool of him by barking when I command you!
Well, will you roll over those piss you just made there?
You misunderstand, I'm not arguing with you - I'm giving you a chance to publicly crap and entertain your audience.
Always funny when it's the goat show...
Ha ha ha - you really did that! You barked when I told you and you even rolled over your own piss when I command you! You just proved you are a pathetic putin regime puppy.
Now go clean your self up! You really stink! :D
Screwed, complete fusion of bark and wood brain of the patient...
Well, on the salary potato and all the rest of it, obviously, microcephaly.
Ou no little feller. This is not how you clean your self up by eating your own poo.
That's disgusting even for you.
The expected response. No more than 5 comments the argument goes anal and fecal accenting.
Yes, it stinks from you for a long time, that's for sure.
He just keeps eating own shit. Even called his buddy maxi to join.
Well, I guess they are used to that stuff - that's what they fed by putin regime. Own shit.
Bon Appetit you little fellers!
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Amazing to me this Latvian guy paid even a daily potato for his 'newoutlet' copypaste drivels.
How can someone pay for these dismal groans? No originality, no creativity, no ideas...
How much is the pay from Nulland today?
The Anglo American empire wants to take control of all governments and central banks
democracy and freedoms are for ubermenschen only, untermenschen do not deserve it
What is truly amazing in all of this is that Russia has a SINGLE channel out there providing an alternative view and they are trying to silence it... what does it really tell us? They have HUNDREDS of channels and sites constantly dissiminating their BS... some freedom of speech...
If lies is alternative to truth than yes, RT is "alternative" media:
The American website Examiner.com published Russia’s top lies about Ukraine.
Russia’s propaganda machine shows no signs of slowing down. To the contrary, it seems to have reached a new hysterical level of blatant disinformation, since Russian and pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine are rapidly losing ground.
To attract reluctant “volunteers” into the trap of a misguided war machine, Russia wages twisted information war through its mainstream media, useful fools in the West and a legion of paid trolls. Russian disinformation locomotive twists the facts and invents entirely false stories, accompanied by deceptive imagery. When exposed, it attacks the debunkers, questioning their motives.
Russia’s mainstream media doesn’t operate according to the journalistic standards of the civilized world. It often uses social media as their sole sources for breaking news stories. Most of the time, Russian publications fail to retract falsified or entirely made up stories, even after they have been thoroughly debunked. Kremlin trolls operate the same way, intentionally spreading falsehoods to infect public opinion, propagate war-mongering and hatred. It’s important to recognize the information war in all of its ugly manifestations.
You can review previous installments of the series of articles exposing these falsehoods by visiting the following links:
“Russia’s top lies about Ukraine. Part 4”
“Russia’s top lies about Ukraine. Part 3”
“Russia’s top lies about Ukraine. Part 2”
”Russia’s top lies about Ukraine. Part 1”
Here is a collection of 20 additional fabrications and intentional misrepresentations:
Russia’s top 100 lies about UkraineEverything you've written there can be said about CNN, FOX and most of the rest... so you're saying there needs to be one "truth" then? Do you think people who read/watch RT are idiots who cannot see some of the propaganda? Are you saying the West is not employing trolls? FFS, even the Army is involved on Facebook... Of course you will never find anything critical of Putin on RT... YET they do publish a LOT of other stories that you never see appear on the Western media... why is that? And why is the West so afraid of a single Russian outlet?
CNN is not state sponsored like sputink, RT, Rossija24, LifeNews (RUS), etc.
Are those who believe in RT, Rossija24, sputinik, LifeNews (RUS) idiots? No, they are victims of putin regime propaganda!
And there is HUGE kremlin troll army - everyone know about that. There is even a court case in Russia where ex-troll is not paid for it's job at this kremlin troll factory and she sue them.
Of course we won't see made up hate stories in west media as this in putin regime propaganda channels (because in west there are journalist standards - you have to check facts):
Ridiculous lie on Russian TV: a child was crucified in Ukraine.
Ukrainian “punishers” are fighting to get slaves, - new portion of bullshit from Russian TV.As you can see - above - putin regime propaganda invents lies materials in most bizzard way. No facts, no proof - nothing - simply to generate hatred against Ukranians and to manipulate with viewers. These are only some examples. But such are common everyday in Russia.
But if you understand russian you would understand this:
https://youtu.be/iOdZLc-ulHs
https://youtu.be/p4-__Sb4DIc
You are spewing your idiotic propaganda here non-stop even though everyone thinks you are an idiot. You are either masochist, idiot or just paid to to this. I think it is bit of all...
Do you think this is profesional journalism?
Ridiculous lie on Russian TV: a child was crucified in Ukraine.
Ukrainian “punishers” are fighting to get slaves, - new portion of bullshit from Russian TV.
Or made up stories without any evidence - a material just to generate russian hate to Ukranians and to gain more russian domestic support for aggresion in Ukraine?
How is your countryman Zbgniew Brzezinski, Galician? Working hard to spread lies and propaganda, just like you, hm? Serving the oligach rulers of the West faithfully and industriously? Scum like yourself should be flayed living, Galician!
Well, are you able to answer to this question I asked?
Is this professional journalism or made up stories without any evidence - a material just to generate russian hate to Ukranians and to gain more russian domestic support for aggresion in Ukraine?
Ridiculous lie on Russian TV: a child was crucified in Ukraine.
Ukrainian “punishers” are fighting to get slaves, - new portion of bullshit from Russian TV.
Its not a hard question.
Biased hogwash and greasy assumptions in your comments clearly and this is not a new phenomenum.
Facts not at all, but only uncontrolled salivation distraught "Napoleon"...
Nobody is going to embark on pointless bickering with childish, stupid Galician imbecile! And this is certainly not a place or soap opera stories, Galician retard! Nobody is intrested in soaps, Galician! You should try on Western corporate media channels, imbecile!
Certainly those who invests time to my comments by "replies" and are trained by putin regime propganda to eat his own shit - won't reply to a question. That is true.
And when you at this point, you comes the tantrum.
The idiot medicine to take forgot?
Retard never gives up
You have to read multiple sources to get at he root of the truth.
All these outlets have an agenda.
However, to shut down an agency tells you the government which shut it down is very, very nervous.
Well, maybe you can reply to my question:
Is this professional journalism?
Ridiculous lie on Russian TV: a child was crucified in Ukraine.
Ukrainian “punishers” are fighting to get slaves, - new portion of bullshit from Russian TV.
And what other sources you would read / watch to get to the root of the truth. If this story is made up from beginning and presented without any evidence? Can you tell me that such materials won't leave an effect of anger to Ukraine for average viewer? Do you think babushka in Russia will start to investigate these cases?
Credibility hunting and somehow you return every time hands empty.
Isn't that lying propagandist Galician scum called Reek who is living in the West like his known countryman Zbzgniew Brzezinski! Who are you trying to deceive with that pathetic propaganda, Reek? You keep spewing Western propaganda like you are paid to do so, scum, which you probably are! Is it USA or Canada where slimy worm Reek lives, hm?
Stopfake got financial support from International Renaissaince Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy. - that's all we need to know, LMAO.
I wanted to share something with you. I found an article of late Oles Buzina whose work perfectly describes history of Western stronghold in Galicia, and from there you will understand the psychological and mental make-up of that Galician scum which this worm Reek belongs to, for I am sure he's Galician!
http://orientalreview.org/2015/05/06/stories-from-oles-buzina-ss-galicia...
The revealing part:
"Prior to the beginning of the 20th century, no one referred to Galicia as “Western Ukraine.” Officially, it was known as the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austrians continued to customarily refer to its local rural population (cities were dominated by Poles and Jews), as Ruthenians (or Rusyns—ed.), but did not fully understand what to do with them. Vienna either supported the Poles against the Galicians, or the Galicians against the Poles, using their tribal contradictions to its benefit. But since Galicia had no other defender than the Viennese court, thus the legend about the “kind Kaiser” was born. In 1914, yet another one of these “kind men,” Franz Joseph, incited Austria-Hungary to participate in World War I, after which his empire collapsed, and Galicia became part of the newly independent Poland.
Prior to the start of the Second World War, this region remained a tangled ball of ethnic contradictions. Many Galicians, like before, saw themselves as Ruthenians, others—as Ukrainians, based on the fact that their dialect was close to the language of the so-called Great Ukraine— the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR. Galicia remained one of the most backward regions of Europe. Characteristically, the majority of the population in Lvov, a local capital (!) were still Poles, whereas the largest industrial enterprise was … a brewery.
Then came the Germans that had beaten Poland in a month. The Red Army replaced the Germans. In 1941, the same Germans and many Galicians—that were not of Jewish or Polish descent—already kicked it out of Lvov, deciding that the new “kind Kaiser” is Adolf Hitler. Banderite and Melnykite factions—from the broken Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a small, but extremely malevolent terrorist organization that lived before the war thanks to German intelligence—both raced to serve him.
But Hitler quickly dispelled Bandera’s illusions that he would conquer Kiev for him and give him power over all of Ukraine. He imprisoned foolish Bandera, and made Galicia into the fifth District (oblast) of the General Government—an occupation zone that was put together mainly from the former Poland. German was declared the official language, the head of the region was now the governor, whereas the raions were named in a true European fashion—“Kreishauptmannschaft.”
Hitler would hear nothing of independent Ukraine. He considered the Ukrainians, in general, and Galicians, specifically, to be Untermensch—subhuman. In the future, Galicia was subject to Aryanization, i.e., complete Germanization. In the meantime, Galicians were taken only into the police force and used in the dirtiest line of work, up to burning villages and executing prisoners of war, as was the case with the so-called Bukovinian Battalion (Bukovina Kuren—ed.) that burned down the entire Khatyn village with all its residents.
However, a crushing defeat at Stalingrad and Kursk at the hands of the Red Army, in which one in four soldiers was Ukrainian, forced the Führer to make certain amendments to his racial theory. Since those that the Nazis called “subhumans” with contempt ended up largely beating the true Aryans, then it was decided to use the other “subhumans” in the occupied territories to form individual units to fight the Red Army.
Thus, one by one, the Germans got 36 SS divisions formed mainly not out of native Germans, but out of those that were “sympathetic” to them—Wiking (out of Norway and Denmark natives), Charlemagne (out of the French), Wallonien (out of the Belgians), Nederland (this one is obvious), 15th (Latvian), 20th (Estonian), Handschar (Croatian), etc. Galizien was the 14th of these based on numeric chronology and the time of establishment.
The motivation for its creation came from below. Lvov professor of geography Vladimir Kubiiovich (or Wolodomyr Kubiyowich—ed.), member of OUN (M), was particularly interested in this idea. He approached Dr. Wächter, the Governor of Galicia and an Austrian by descent, who was well acquainted with local specifics. As Kubiiovich later recalled in emigration, “capable and ambitious” Wächter, who had some influence on Reichsführer-SS Himmler, believed that “Galicia was a country that must renew the German (Austrian) influence that was happening since the second half of the 18th century.”
Rather quickly, he convinced Himmler to establish this unit. The latter agreed, but pointed out that it should consist only of Galician residents, since this region was part of the Austrian Reich in 1772-1918 and was thus more credible than the other parts of Ukraine. On April 28, 1943 Lvov newspapers officially publicized this decision.
However, as the Reichsführer-SS insisted, the Division was not to be Ukrainian, but rather Galician. The Germans still did not recognize the existence of any Ukraine and, in the future, were going to return to their plan of Aryanizing the East. The newly formed unit was officially called the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician). (The word “Waffen” meant “weapon” and was added to those units of the SS that were formed from foreigners, not true Aryans.) This was one of the traits of its inferiority. Even the trident that the Germans allowed Ukrainian Polizei to wear was prohibited as the emblem of SS Galicia Division. According to contemporary Lvov historian Andrei Bolianovskii, in the book Ukrainian Military Units in the Armed Forces of Germany (1939-1945) (Ukraiinski viiskovi formuvannia v zbroinykh silakh Nimechchiny), Himmler allowed
Why Lvov nationalists hoped for a change in Hitler’s political course with this turn of events—we should ask them. Perhaps, for the same reason that their spiritual heirs are currently naively hoping to join the European Union.
“Treasure of the German Nation”
One of the neo-Nazi parties that currently preaches the tradition of SS Galicia Division in Ukraine calls it the “treasure of the nation.” Which nation, I wonder. Like the Austrians during the Habsburg days, Germans did not place much value in the Galicians as war material. If in the Russian army, the natives of Ukraine became generals and field marshals, then in the Austrian one, they became junior officers, at best. An Austrian, Hungarian, or a Croatian native could have a brilliant military career in the Habsburg Empire, but not Galicians. Certain reasons for this did exist.
For instance, during the famous 1916 Brusilov offensive, Russian troops broke through the Austrian front specifically in those areas, where they faced units with a high percentage of Galicians. It was they that ran off first. Hitler’s military men noted that experience.
Not only the commanders of Galicia Division were German, but also the entire headquarters and the vast majority of officers all the way to the company members. Brigadeführer Fritz Freitag led the Division. Major Wolf-Dietrich Heike ran the operations department. Intelligence was under Hauptsturmführer Fritz Niermann. Supply department—under Hauptsturmführer Herbert Schaaf. Sturmbannführer Erich Finder was the Commander’s aide. Friedrich Lenhardt and Herbert Hähnel were assignments officers. Karl Wildner, Hans Otto Forstreuter, Paul Herms, Karl Bristot, and Friedrich Beyersdorff commanded the regiments. Even the pharmacist was German—Hauptsturmführer Werner Benecke (not to be confused with any Beniuk [a Ukrainian name—ed.] by any means!). According to Andrei Bolianovskii, the Division “got a German command spine.”
Then what was left for the Galicians—those that wore their golden lion granted by Maria Theresa, giving it more attention than it deserved? The honorable mission of serving as cannon fodder for the Third Reich! Pedantic Germans took special care of this product. According to various sources, there were between 70 and 80 thousand volunteers that ran to sign up for this SS Division. They rushed to do so the same way they do toward ‘guest work’ in Europe today!
But the vast majority of them was turned away. Only 14 thousand were accepted into Galicia Division. The rest did not pass the medical examination, largely because of height that had to be no less than 165 cm (5 feet 4 inches—ed.). Vain Himmler could not allow shorties to serve in the SS troops. The man of the SS must have a frightening appearance!
Let us not overestimate these volunteers’ enthusiasm. On the website for SS Galicia, you can find a humorous book that was published by its former soldier, Yurii Tis-Krokhmaliuk, during emigration to Argentina, where he fled after his “feats.” It is called The Diary of a National Hero Selepko Lavochka (Shchodennik natsionalnogo geroia Selepka Lavochki). A certain emulation of The Good Soldier Švejk:
In this text, if anything is untrue, then it is the name of the Division. In 1954, when it was published, it was uncomfortable to admit that you served in an SS division even in Buenos Aires. Thus, the author timidly renamed it to “Ukrainian.”
Even the order on establishing the Division clearly states: “Command language—Galician; order language—German.”
Crushing Defeat at Brody
Recruits underwent a standard training course, and, in the summer of 1944, they ended up near the town of Brody outside of Lvov. In an eloquent coincidence, they resisted the troops of the First Ukrainian Front. On July 13, the latter made a brilliant breakthrough, and SS Galicia immediately found itself surrounded. A week later, Galicia Division took off running, trying to escape in small groups. Two thousand soldiers ended up as Soviet POWs. The rest were either killed or fled.
According to military historians, this Division had virtually ceased to exist by July 22. Only three thousand people escaped from being surrounded. Incidentally, one of the first members to flee was the Commander of this Division, Brigadeführer Freitag.
The Germans filled Galicia with new soldiers from among those volunteers that they initially rejected, no longer embarrassed of their height, but ones who were almost never used in open battles against the regular units of the Red Army. The main task for these “divisioners” was fighting Slovak and Yugoslav guerrillas. Once Galicians even had a skirmish with Ukrainian partisans under Kovpak, who carried out a sabotage raid into Slovakia.
German command valued the military qualities of SS Galicia very little. For example, only one of its members was awarded the Iron Cross—Commander Freitag himself—whereas these awards were not uncommon in other Waffen-SS divisions.
Saved Their Own Skin…Pretending to be Poles
The following question arises: why was the majority of those survivors, who fought for SS Galicia, able to avoid being handed over to the USSR, as per agreement between Stalin and Western Allies? The “Polish card” saved them! Since Galicia was part of Poland before 1939, and only former Soviet citizens were subject to being extradited, Western lawyers decided that their Polish citizenship had precedence over the short-lived Soviet period of 1939-1941. This is what the author of The SS: Hitler’s Instrument of Terror, Gordon Williamson, wrote on this subject:
You see how that Galicians, whose this worm Reek is part of, fought for their fuhrer?
"Like the Austrians during the Habsburg days, Germans did not place much value in the Galicians as war material. If in the Russian army, the natives of Ukraine (which is Russian province created by Russian Czars) became generals and field marshals, then in the Austrian one, they became junior officers, at best. An Austrian, Hungarian, or a Croatian native could have a brilliant military career in the Habsburg Empire, but not Galicians. Certain reasons for this did exist.
For instance, during the famous 1916 Brusilov offensive, Russian troops broke through the Austrian front specifically in those areas, where they faced units with a high percentage of Galicians. IT WAS THEY THAT RUN OFF FIRST!" EHEHEHEHEHE
"Recruits underwent a standard training course, and, in the summer of 1944, they ended up near the town of Brody outside of Lvov. In an eloquent coincidence, they resisted the troops of the First Ukrainian Front. On July 13, the latter made a brilliant breakthrough, and SS Galicia immediately found itself surrounded. A week later, Galicia Division took off running, trying to escape in small groups. Two thousand soldiers ended up as Soviet POWs. The rest were either killed or fled."
So Galicians are "Ukranians?" I think not! ehehehehehe
"The Germans filled Galicia with new soldiers from among those volunteers that they initially rejected, no longer embarrassed of their height, but ones who were almost never used in open battles against the regular units of the Red Army. The main task for these “divisioners” was fighting Slovak and Yugoslav guerrillas. Once Galicians even had a skirmish with Ukrainian partisans under Kovpak, who carried out a sabotage raid into Slovakia. German command valued the military qualities of SS Galicia very little"
Galicians are Ukranians like they are Poles! ehehehehe
Bitcoin FTW.
CNN is very pissed RT channel on YT has 2 times more subscribers than they do, LOL.
Do people really want to know what propaganda is. Then try the US recruitement centres which are full of computer war games that are used to enlist unsuspecting youngsters.
Or how about the funding of war movies by US agencies so that the director can portray the US as the goodies and everyone else as evil gutter trash.
We should not be shocked by such tactics but let's at least be aware of what is happening. Both sides engage in such behaviour in their own way.
This is journalism:
Girl killed in Ukraine 'never existed'Oh FFS can the millenarian conspiracy dweebs please take a breather.
Oppressing free speech is obviously wrong....except Segodnya isn't expressing free speech. It is an instrument of the state and spews propaganda.
If I were Chief Exec of Barclays I'd have binned them as a client as well.