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[Lumberjack]

US media agency BBG chief says more taxpayer money needed ‘to counter RT’

https://www.rt.com/usa/327972-bbg-complains-budget-rt/

BBG, the US government agency overseeing state-funded media directed at foreign audiences, needs more money to be on a par with countries such as Russia and China, its head says as radical reform looms in Congress.

“There’s no question we’re badly underfunded and don’t have enough money to compete with our adversaries,” Jeff Shell, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BGG), told the Washington Times.

BGG oversees outlets such as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, which try to appeal to foreign citizens with pro-American programming. According to Shell, the US is“spending a small fraction of what our adversaries are spending” - those being Russia's RT, China's CCTV and Qatar's Al Jazeera.

"We have three great challenges right now," Shell told the Washington Times. "The challenge of this newly nationalistic Russian media, the challenge of China presented increasingly through cybertechnology and, finally, the challenge of violent Islamic extremists spreading their propaganda online.”

American taxpayers fund BBG's operations to the tune of roughly $730 million a year. The Times says this is higher than Moscow spends on RT, estimated at roughly $307 million annually. Indeed, the Russian government allocated just over $300 million to the channel in the 2016 federal budget....

(this gets funnier)...

The Washington Times says the BBG is concerned about its engagement model, while RT is taking the lead in the “new media” with three billion views across its YouTube channels, which made it the world's top TV news network on the platform.

"The reality is, if you're trying to reach a 12-year-old or other younger people, they're not listening to radio in their cars. They have an iPhone or other device, and that's what they're listening to," Shell told the newspaper.

[Max Steel]

Meanwhile Propaganda at people's cost: US State Department leads world PR expenses

The US government has been accused of enormous expenses to self-aggrandizement. A corresponding report has been prepared by a nonpartisan, non-profit organization Open the Books. The document, titled, The Department of self-promotion: How Federal Agency PR spending advances their interests rather than the public interest, reveals main directions of the US State Department budget spendings, that advance its own propaganda interests.

Authors of the report note that they used data of the US tax statistics, as well as information on the US government procurement since 2007 to 2015.
During this time $4.5 billion were spent by the State Department to 'monitor media, broadcast, video, and website' and 'news clipping services', that ranked the US self-promotion expenditures second largest in the world.

$37 million were spent on polling foreigners' opinions, including those in England, Poland, Italy, Germany, Spain, and France. $1 million was spent on 'speech writing and editing'. 

[besnook]

it seems it would be easy to get youtube to censor rt since youtuibe already censors any usa originated anti.gov videos.

[Dre4dwolf]

Excuse me sir, but what number in China is considered lucky or fortunate ?

You know so I can buy the unlucky days and sell the lucky days.

[williambanzai7]

8

[blindman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oejXg2dsVWg
G.B.T.V. CultureShare ARCHIVES 1996: MIGHTY SPARROW "Saltfish" (HD)

[Victory_Garden]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dac_1451948901

[Zero-risk bias]

Maybe, in English speaking countries we could avoid the word debt' as it also sounds similar to death. Well, sorta

[steveo77]

literally, lol

[steveo77]

The kanji symbol for 4 and death are the same.

hence you never put your chop stick sticking into the rice, straight up....death symbol.    Rice/Gohan is life

Got it now?

[MontgomeryScott]

I went to Home Depot recently, because the circuit breaker that runs the living room had failed. Wifey was bitching because the rugrats NEED, well, 'The Rugrats' on the Tee Vee. Bought a new wide-screen internet-ready 60-inch Chinese-made one at Walmart for the 'family Xmas', and the damned thing overloaded the plug (had the Chinese-made lights running the fake tree plugged in to it as well).

All I could find were circuit breakers that were made in China.

It was strange; when I went to check out they wanted my phone number, identification, and home address. It was almost like they wanted to build a dossier or something. The girl at the counter almost choked on her Big Mac when I pulled out cash and said, 'No Thanks'.

Thing cost FOUR USFEDS, by the way.

The facial recognition cameras at Home Depot no doubt got a good pic of me, though (baseball cap and fake beard and sunglasses notwithstanding). I had a stick tied to my right leg, so as to impart a 'limp', and was slightly hunched over as I walked out. Parked two blocks away, and all.

I threw everything in the trash, and ditched the car.

Now that I'm a million miles away from China (or so), I am wondering if Wifey finally got the brats to bed (or just shot them, or drugged them up with Prozac, or something). I bet she's rooting for Obama right now (FOAR, MOAR, YEARS!). I WOULD call her and tell her to try unplugging the Chinese Xmas tree lights and flip the breaker so that the Chinese TV could work, but I'd be giving my position away (and, besides, I threw away my Chinese-made 'smahrtphone' thing as well).

The girl pictured looks like she has just had her fifth (or FOURTH) orgasm of the night, William. TRUST ME ON THIS: After 15 or 20, she'll finally calm down and accept what her (ahem) lover has for her.

[bamawatson]

her lover shoots dice; she gets a hard four

[KashNCarry]

I'm glad that a$$hole always down voting everyone disappeared in the 4tex...

[tritumi]

japanese follows the chinese regarding 4, and for the same reasons.  the fellow who said his japanese contact was telling him 7 is unlucky is either misremembering or misheard.

[Flying Wombat]

Beats the F out of those dumb a$$ "remain calm" memes :-)

[ALANBEEKMAN]

Thanks for the enlightenment, WB.

Hard to find a 4th floor button in most Asian elevators.....

[uncle_vito]

Unfortunately I live in an area where the Chinese are overpaying for houses like crazy.   I have a 4 in my street address.   Otherwise my fung shue is great.

[Bear]

My brother sold a house in Arcadia, Ca for 545,000 in 2006 .... now on Zillow for 1,650,000 ... same house do upgrades 

[the grateful un...]

i have noticed some brewers sell beer in four packs, but they charge me like it was a six pack

[MontgomeryScott]

In the early 1960's, Dad swore off of Coors because they started selling 11-ounce cans/bottles for the same price of 12-ounce ones. Something about 'fuck the union bullshit', or something. God Bless Him! He became a lifetime Olympia drinker from that time on.

Lifetime beer drinkers don't have 'six-packs' (or even 'four-packs' by the way). It's hard for them to see their penises, in fact (they have 'beer bellies' and all).

Sounds like you have a champagne taste (but a beer budget).

The heirarchy in China knows BETTER, though (you should try 'HOPIUM', like THEY do). It's so good that it's ADDICTIVE!

Sincerely,

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cartel (Nanking Offices)

[the grateful un...]

you couldnt buy Coors outside of CO. people would drive to CO, by people i mean BEER people just to score a case of Coors or two and sell the beers when they got home to make gas money. that was real beer, and a six pack was sufficent, nowadays you need a 30pk of Coors Light in order to achieve the same beer nirvana. i hope the businessmen dont get into the pot game or well be back to the lame weed they had in the 60s. 

[silverer]

Interesting, William.  I heard from a Japanese national once that in Japan, 7 was death, their lucky number: 13.

Someone should create a table, so we know where to flee to.

[techpriest]

Also, 666 is a lucky number in China. As is 888. I'm sure there will be a lot of marriages on June 6 this year.

[Muse minus Time]

My Chinese RE clients would not look at homes with 4 in the address nor a door opening to the north or a stairway right by the doorway...home has to have the right chi. 

US airline superstition...no row 13.

Thanks William, looks like you hit the opening stock market number on par;

-400

[stiler]

Labor pains? She's pregnant-- see the star settled into the crescent moons of her eyes?

[nmewn]

For the love of Lord Keynes...buy STAWKS!!!...lmao!

[the grateful un...]

Why You No Four?

[stiler]

Bbilically, no. IV means

the four corners of the earth, or the four winds, or directions, north,east, south and west. What the harlot sits on-- the sea, people.

Symbolizing globalism.

[MontgomeryScott]

Medically, 'No IV' means:

This person isn't worthy of his handlers giving him an infusion of anything that would sustain or resusitate any form of life (see 'Nobamacare' for further definitions).

Still trying to figure out what "Roman numerals" have to do with a series of 66 books (?) originally written in Hebrew, Greek, and Chaldean.

NEWS (or, rather, 'NESW' as you state) isn't what the stuff's about.

SOME people attribute great importance to NUMEROLOGY (ancient Sumerian texts and the like). The '666' thingie, and 'lucky 13', and 'the rule of sevens', and all that shit. It's absolutely 'astrological', to those who look to the skies of the ancient past in order to try to predict the future.

ACTUALLY, 'globalism' is symbolized by the TRIVIUM or the TRIUMVARATE of replacement theologies which falsely acclaim that they take the place of the Creator. GAIA worship is ONE of these (the religiosity encompassing the continuous durability of the magnetic Compass points and the mystisism of the 'Lodestone').

Your supposed talk about any Biblical reference to the FOUR (in numerology) isn't factual or true (exept for the 'four horsemen of the apocolypse', which is a whole DIFFERENT discussion; which has NOTHING to do with the four points of the magnetic compass).

People are generally easily-led and manipulated.

When you were FOUR YEARS OLD, or FOUR DAYS OLD, did you feel 'unlucky', perhaps?

1.3 BILLION CHINESE can't be wrong (can they?).

[stiler]

I was thinking of,

"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,…"

God does this so the 144,000 Jews can be preserved so that these can witness to the whole world, saving many out of the great tribulation.

[the grateful un...]

before the Christian Trinity there was the Quaternity. I guess they dropped the 4th entity because they were superstitious

[MontgomeryScott]

NAY, UNBELIEVER!

The Holy Counting Shall be THREE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk

YES, OF COURSE!

The HOLY HAND GRENADE of ANTIOCH!

YEAH, thou art UNWORTHY to partake in the TRINITY of the QUATERNITY!

Shit. Tomorrow's the FIFTH (is that like the FIFTH FIRTH OF FOURTH [or FORTH] or something?).

I should revert to the old Hebrew calendar (360 days, and no number 4). I understand doing 'number 1' and 'number 2' (and when I have to do both at the same time, it's a 'number 3'), but what does it mean, 'doing number 4'? If 'paternity' means being a couple of human beings (a male and a female) involved in the raising and creation of a child, does a 'quaternity' mean a couple of COUPLES all doing it at the same time? Does it REALLY take a 'villiage' to raise an IDIOT?

These people STILL eat with wooden sticks, because it's 'tradition' stretching back 'thousands of years'. My mother taught me to use a fork and a knife when I was two fracking years old (and it didn't take too much encouragement on her part; believe you ME).

AAAHH!

The WONDERS of 'multiculturalism'!

[lasvegaspersona]

si

[Reaper]

Was Obozo yelling fore in his dreams last night?

[eishund]

5 stars for the 4. u die i die everybody dies!!!!!

[New_Meat]

followed by cinqo de ocho phobia

[Son of Captain Nemo]

Boy!

Andy Warhol would have been both proud of the "art" along with the message!!!

[Casey Stengel]

As I prepared to attend a wedding ceremony in China I asked how much money is appropriate to put in the red envelope. Two, three, or five, 100 yuan bills would be ok but whatever you do DON'T put 4 100's in the envelope!

[Who was that ma...]

Stay calm and buy gold.

[ebworthen]

Trading halted limit down; why no "trading halted limit up"?

"Do Not Panic!" it's just a Pyramid scheme, and the "law" is in on it.

[Kagemusho]

And tetraphobia is also present in Japan. Betcha the BoJ has been sweating bullets over what is happening in China since 1300 local time there. Pumping so much Yen into the economy, and now China going (deflating whoopie cushion sound)  and then pulling the plug will have shock waves in the Nikkei. Waiting for the NYSE to open to see the ripples flow from that.

How many millions of Chinese lost their shirts in August? Whoever was left will now lose their shorts...physical and figurative, as they can't drop their now-radioactive stocks.

[tc06rtw]

    …  What ???    NO LUBRICANT ??!!!

[DuneCreature]

Funny shit!

You would think that there wouldn't be much left to lube by now. Or many nerve endings left to chafe.

~ DC

[toadold]

Well people will put up with a sore ass but when they miss three days of meals on the fourth day it is really dangerous 'cause that's when the mobs roll out and the revolting starts.   Hunger has always been the biggest monster, but more so in East Asia. OK I'll stop hobby horseing now

[robnume]

Clearly, WB VII is a night owl like me. Yeah, dude, I'm still up, too. Excellent,"Tetraphobia". Quite.

[philipat]

Jan04 Obutboy got home. Open up Reggie?

[McCormick No. 9]

I might be wrong, but isn'd "quad" four, and "tetra" five?

And, shouldn't the most unlucky day of the year be 4-4-16 (that's four fours)?

[Citxmech]

"Penta" would be five using the Greek numerical signafiers used in chemistry and biology:  https://chem.colorado.edu/tangroup/images/Prefix.pdf

"Quad" is also four, but using the Latin root.

[williambanzai7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

[847328_3527]

No wonder Asians seldom have four children.

On th eother hand, NINE [and up] seems to be the lucky number(s) for some cultures.