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**UcDat**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xTL-bLo8...ure=colike

there's hypocrisy in the way US media treat Assange."
chuckle

**UcDat**

**JBG** lop guest User ID: 12288 04-19-2012 06:07 PM

RT is a wholesale KGB mouthpiece site. Putin has murdered 52 journalists since taking office, and eliminated all Russian free media outlets and silenced political opposition - as well of course as making himself the weathiest man in Europe.

The only question is: whether (Sorros funded) Assage was a KGB asset all along.

**UcDat**

JBG Wrote:

RT is a wholesale KGB mouthpiece site. Putin has murdered 52 journalists since taking office, and eliminated all Russian free media outlets and silenced political opposition - as well of course as making himself the weathiest man in Europe.

The only question is: whether (Sorros funded) Assage was a KGB asset all along.

linkage to back that up?

not that Im saying Russia doesn't have issues but its gotten better since the collapse
as for assage no proof he's anyones agent and he's put out more truth than all the MSM combine in the past ten years.

btw did you watch the vid?

**Gibbie** · **Gibbie** ^D ^D ^D whoa User ID: 49076 04-20-2012 01:39 AM **Posts: 7,187**

UcDat Wrote:

JBG Wrote:
RT is a wholesale KGB mouthpiece site. Putin has murdered 52 journalists since taking office, and eliminated all Russian free media outlets and silenced political opposition - as well of course as making himself the weathiest man in Europe.

The only question is: whether (Sorros funded) Assage was a KGB asset all along.

linkage to back that up?

not that Im saying Russia doesn't have issues but its gotten better since the collapse
as for assage no proof he's anyones agent and he's put out more truth than all the MSM combine in the past ten years.

btw did you watch the vid?

A lot of journalists have been murdered in Russia I too have read this.

You should always keep in mind that RT is a state owned news source. The only difference to our msn is how the info is spun.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91185 04-20-2012 02:33 AM

State owned or not, RT is rocking Jhikpghf

**UcDat**

Gibbie Wrote:

UcDat Wrote:
JBG Wrote:
RT is a wholesale KGB mouthpiece site. Putin has murdered 52 journalists since taking office, and eliminated all Russian free media outlets and silenced political opposition - as well of course as making himself the weathiest man in Europe.

The only question is: whether (Sorros funded) Assage was a KGB asset all along.

linkage to back that up?

not that Im saying Russia doesn't have issues but its gotten better since the collapse
as for assage no proof he's anyones agent and he's put out more truth than all the MSM combine in the past ten years.

btw did you watch the vid?

A lot of journalists have been murdered in Russia I too have read this.

You should always keep in mind that RT is a state owned news source. The only difference to our msn is how the info is spun.

ya for sure a lot of repression in the old russia still some today but not a lot of straight up murder. Most of them got thrown in jail fined roughed up and the likes. At least under Putin Stalin was a mass killer tho no doubt.
and ya almost every country has its own flavor of propaganda RT's mission seems to be to take the USA down a notch in response to America's funding of the same in russia. Still glad to get the truth somewhere even if its out of spite lol

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 12288 04-20-2012 03:01 AM

Assange has never leaked anything detremental to Russia - and how can someone who is supposed to be all about 'journalistic freedom' work for the most repressive regime of any modern nation - one who flagrantly murders anyone who steps out of line - it just doesn't fly!

53 Journalists Killed in Russia since 1992/Motive Confirmed
http://cpj.org/killed/europe/russia/

Is Russia's Press Freedom Dead?

By Matthias Schepp, Christian Neef and Uwe Klussmann

Journalism is a dangerous profession in Russia: No less than 261 journalists have been killed there since the fall of the Soviet Union. The killers are hardly ever found. The recent murder of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya may now become a major political issue.

......................."The state has taken control of the media," Vladimir Ryzhkov, one of the last opposition politicians in the Russian Duma, explains. "And so no information gets through to the majority of Russians."

This conclusion, drawn after 15 years of putative freedom of the press in Russia, could hardly be more bitter.

The slow stranglehold on Russian media

During the first years after the fall of the Soviet Union, under President Boris Yeltsin, Russian journalism was exciting, tough and impudent. Then the oligarchs who had secured entire industrial sectors for themselves during the process of privatization bought up parts of the media landscape, from TV channels to the most important newspapers. They managed to supplement their new economic power with political power.

Putin came to office with the declared goal of restoring the Kremlin's political authority. Vladimir Gusinsky, the country's most important media entrepreneur, was arrested about five months later. His media holding company -- including the TV channel NTW -- was taken over by Gazprom, the state-controlled natural gas monopoly.

The Kremlin proceeded to let companies closely associated with the government purchase one publishing house after the other. In September, one such company acquired the Kommersant publishing group, distinguished by its high print runs and -- until then -- its critical stance towards the government.

The new owner Alisher Usmanov, formerly a leading functionary of the Communist Party's youth federation, is in charge of a Gazprom subsidiary. A billionaire and longtime acquaintance of Putin's spokesman Alexei Gromov, he promised "not to meddle with editorial policy." But then he immediately installed a Putin supporter as editor-in-chief and declared himself "entirely loyal to the state."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spie...43,00.html

**UcDat**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Assange has never leaked anything detremental to Russia - and how can someone who is supposed to be all about 'journalistic freedom' work for the most repressive regime of any modern nation - one who flagrantly murders anyone who steps out of line - it just doesn't fly!

53 Journalists Killed in Russia since 1992/Motive Confirmed
http://cpj.org/killed/europe/russia/

that's brutal 53 with motive and another 24 without

I knew Putin was gangster KGB thug but really didn't think it was that bad still.

thx for the linkage and the reply make an account and Ill be happy to +rep ya.