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The White House has blocked several major news outlets from covering its press briefing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7598641.html
The most powerful nation in the world lets Breitbart in, the world is absolutely ****ed.
Last edited by Croesy Blue; 25-02-17 at 08:14.
It's strange how quickly the western world has descended into authoritarian totalitarianism, it's like we learned nothing from history at all.
The Russians must be rubbing their hands at this, this is exactly what they've always wanted.
Have you ever heard of the book The Foundations of Geopolitics? Scary how accurate that is at the moment.
It's very highly thought of within the Russian military. Some highlights:
The book declares that "the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution." The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us."
Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services.
And the aims:
In Europe:
Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow-Berlin axis".[1]
France should be encouraged to form a "Franco-German bloc" with Germany. Both countries have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition".[1]
The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.[1]
In the United States:
Russia should use its special forces within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."[1]
The most ironic thing about the current states are the people who scream fake news eat up every single thing reported by Breitbart and Infowars and other such sites.
It's scary to see the change in a majority of the population who would usually have socially liberal views descend into this very scary alt right mindset.
I know a few people in real life who it's happened too, intelligent and caring people who've spent too long on certain websites now are on the border or being Intolerant and racist.
That wasn't the point of that post at all.
Definitely avoiding Breitbart I would advise unless you like your propaganda hate filled and racist.
With regards to the main stream media I always think it's a good starting point to get a brief summary of what's going on. I would always advise using trusted sources on top of that as all print journalism will have a slight bias or agenda at the very least.
I would be careful what "trusted sources" I use though as there is definitely a lot of "alt right" and other outright racist content out there posing as being the "Real news" it's actually not too difficult to spot but a lot of very intelligent people are being suckered in by it.
What I wouldn't do is call every bit of output the BBC, the times, the independent, the guardian etc "fake news with an obvious" then start using obvious made up rubbish by Fox News, Breitbart, info wars, Alex jones etc as a trusted sources without a hint of self awareness or irony.
Doing that would be up there with dismissing the majority of scientific research based on an obviously biased article with great authority without doing some cursory and simple research to educate oneself on what is an actually not very interesting topic as well as being hugely important.
It's actually the liberals who started the fake news and Russian hacking stories, it was around the time when Wikileaks were exposing Podesta and the DNC, and now the liberal owned media have taken it a step further, with the help of Google/Apple/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Wilipedia, etc. So it's quite interesting what Croesy Blue is saying.
Do you mean like this?
http://www.ccmb.co.uk/showthread.php...our-money-back
the then Labour Govt decides to settle his 1 million pound compensation claim - as long as he stays silent.
But, where will it all end?
Answers in 140 characters or less...
My poster boy?
Trump has already addressed this. He said he doesn't mind what the media write or say, as long as it's factually based, and not blatently made up with the intent of damaging his presidency.
There is a coordinated press group whose sole purpuse is to undermind him at every step of the way. Unfortunately they are coming across as bumbling idiots. Just like at the weekend rally when that Huffington Post reporter was handing out Russian flags to Trump's supporters with his name on them. Unfortunately he didn't he didn't get his story or the photos, as the security intervened and obtained video evidence of his skullduggary.
Furthermore, there is speculation that Soros and his friends will be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to organise an upcoming American Spring, bringing violence and chaos to the streets of all major US cities.
I bet you are awaiting developments like these with glee?
Meanwhile in the real world, this pulitzer prize winning branch of what you'll no doubt say is part of the BBC, CNN, Clinton, Obama, Soros mafia is rating their Lier of the Year winner in 2015 as having made political pronouncements that are graded "mostly false", "false" or "pants on fire" in 70 per cent of cases.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
I daresay other dictators/wannabee dictators have justified their bans on "critical" sections of the media in much the same way as Trump does.