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2014-03-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 To keep it brief they should instead say what the US press does know about Russia, the Ukraine and Crimea. That should take maybe a sentence or two at most.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-07 00:40|| 2014-03-07 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 MSM coverage of Ukraine has been and continues to be pathetic, almost deliberately misinforming the US.
FTA:

On one CNN segment, Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham opined. The exchange of ideas could be described as dueling idiots ultimately arriving at the same conclusion. Senator Graham was calling for sanctions and boycotts to punish the Russians. Neither statesman seemed to be aware that Russia produces and exports about the same amount of crude oil as Saudi Arabia and withdrawing that amount of oil from the world markets would surely boost gasoline prices to an untenable level.

I disagree with the author here: petro prices are NOW at an untenable level, have been there for several years, and are strangling the US economy. But that's just me.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-03-07 08:11|| 2014-03-07 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Except for my daily horoscope, Rantburg is the only news source worth reading on a daily basis.

Posted by Lonzo Smith3585 2014-03-07 09:26|| 2014-03-07 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Western Media knows you just need a brave calvary charge through canon to win against the Russians at Crimea. Thus Obama in his wisdom is reducing our military to pre-ww1 level if he'd only be left alone long enough.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-03-07 09:52|| 2014-03-07 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Deliberately misinforming the public? Yeah the dominant leftist media in the US has been doing that for years, first in their crusade against Bush, and now as a propaganda organ for Obama.

I call it map-informing, the delivery of bad information in place of accurate information in order to ensure a political objective. You know, its the same thing Isvetiya, Tass and Pravda used to do for the Soviet Union. The US no longer has a free press - it has one that has willingly blindered itself and locked itself into slaves chains.

Until we somehow hold the press accountable for this fundamental dishonesty at thiercore, and rip apart the current establishments and people that promote such things, we will be in danger of becoming a dictatorship. That is why one of or first duties agains enemies foreign and domestic should be to go after editors and reporters who are doing such immense damage. Go after them hard, make the consequences of their decisions an up-close and personal thing. Bring it into their homes, put the consequences into their lives and their families. Rip them open and force them into the public.

Its too important to ignore anymore. And it will lead to violence if not addressed strongly now.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-07 10:26|| 2014-03-07 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
attributed to John F. Kennedy

Posted by Glenmore 2014-03-07 12:45|| 2014-03-07 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I suggest that most of the 'untenable' price of gasoline is the expression of currency devaluation. Gov't claims inflation is negligible, despite the creation of roughly a trillion dollars a year in new debt (equivalent to roughly 8% inflation)- the system is rigged to ignore fuel prices in the calculation and thus motivate the concentration of actual inflation into just that category, where it can be blamed on the evil oil companies everyone hates anyway instead of the government.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-03-07 12:52|| 2014-03-07 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - unless you dump your excess population on the United States and employ the useful idiots to allow it for over two decades.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-07 17:19|| 2014-03-07 17:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Until we somehow hold the press accountable for this fundamental dishonesty at thiercore, and rip apart the current establishments and people that promote such things, we will be in danger of becoming a dictatorship.

It seems to me that the fact that the mainstream press -- both newspapers and television news -- has been hemorrhaging both readers/viewers and red ink pretty much the entire 21st century thus far suggests that the press is being held to account. That the ultra-liberal reporters have been steadily forced to find other employment while volunteer bloggers and the new professional press of Breitbart, PJ Media, etc are gaining eyeballs and profits suggests that at least the high information types have found honesty.

All the liberal press can do is become ever more liverish in the hope of holding on to their remaining, equally liberal customers. Let us look forward to the day -- in the not too distant future -- when the New York Times is sold for the value of real estate owned... or a dollar,

Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-07 21:05|| 2014-03-07 21:05|| Front Page Top

#10 ...both newspapers and television news -- has been hemorrhaging both readers/viewers and red ink pretty much the entire 21st century thus far suggests that the press is being held to account

However, they're shielded by corporate structures that shift profits in one division to cover the losses in the newsprint/broadcast enterprises (ably assisted in the latter with forced cable/satellite bundling). The 'freedom of the press' is much more about the technology relative of the time (ie printing press) of distributing information rather than the social institution that controls/suppresses/manipulates/fabricates information.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-07 21:25|| 2014-03-07 21:25|| Front Page Top

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