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A general view shows the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia January 20, 2017.
A general view shows the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in Moscow, Russia January 20, 2017.
The investigation, which will be conducted by the Duma's information policy, technologies and communications committee, will check whether CNN, the Voice of America, Radio Liberty and "other American media" are complying with Russian law.
The statement said the Duma backed the move on Friday evening after Konstantin Zatulin, an MP from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, proposed an investigation to retaliate for what he called a "repressive" U.S. move against Russian state-funded broadcaster RT.
He said he was referring to an initiative by U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who has introduced a bill to empower the Justice Department to investigate possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by RT.
Shaheen, a Democrat, cited a U.S. intelligence agency assessment that suggested RT was part of a Russian influence campaign to help Donald Trump win the White House last year. The Kremlin and RT have strongly rejected that allegation.
Foreign media in Russia are overseen by the Russian Foreign Ministry, whose spokeswoman Maria Zakharova this week singled out Shaheen's demarche for criticism, quipping ironically that the senator should have included a clause drawing up a list of books for burning.
The U.S. move also solicited the ire of Margarita Simonyan, RT's editor-in-chief, who on Wednesday told the daily Izvestia it had echoes of the activities of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who oversaw a campaign to expose people he regarded as communists in the 1950s.
Via Reuters
It always starts with some propagandised topic that usually isn't interesting, constructive, useful to know or relevant. Then the push is followed by stuff that assumes the bullshit was really interesting.
It builds a circular reality that has so few ties to everything around it that we must see it as entirely artificial. Some could argue about acceptable amounts of poison while poison free food is so obviously desired. The media and political discourse is a pile of poop with a cherry on top. One could only attempt to describe it as food for thought if one eats the shit regularly and is unaware of other spices.
I don't pretend to know what is going on in that ocean, I look out of the bubble and see all kinds of large things float by wondering what it is. It's like those who put in the work and effort get to see Jupiter roll around in our solar system. Or at least, so I'm told it is.
Lets keep it simple, lets say the media is filling peoples heads with stuff. If it is valuable information then one could read enough of it and learn a practical skill.
In fact, if it covered the entire spectrum of note worthy human activity we should be able to learn everything there is to know about everything simply by reading the news and following the sources provided.
If the sources are of academic nature one would provide a rough introduction into the field and guide the reader step by step from not knowing a fuck to fully understanding the topic.
In almost every academic field there are people, works, discoveries and accomplishments that we admire. The bigger accomplishments and the sum of works progress humanity in small and giant leaps.
Politicians and their media do an equally great job accomplishing the exact opposite. I don't claim to know what it should be (tho, I just described some of it) but if it sticks to its current standards WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
~lol ~