RT.COM Really cranking up the propaganda

[suityou01]

I was watching TV last night and stumbled upon RT. The channel is based in Moscow, but has American anchors and experts on there all the time. I spend a lot of time on tin foil hat sites as you well know so just imagine my surprise when I flicked over and their 8-9 talking shop was entitled

"Is World War 3 on?"

Hard hitting and to the point basically :

Russia is not isolated, the UN is.
America's ISIL attacks are a thinly veiled attempt to invade Syria and Iran.
Israel and Netanyahu unstable and can light up the middle east any minute by picking a fight with Iran, which America would then go wading in.
America cannot win in the middle east.
America and Britain are in the final death throes and lashing about wildly, currencies and economies finished.
Russia, China and Brazil are the new super powers and luckily also the only sane ones.

It was really spelt out that NATO are a group of thugs, and that the eurozone has never wanted to go along with sanctions against Russia and was basically bullied into it by NATO.

It wasn't exactly subtle. And the fact that they had British accented representation in the form of Rodney Shakespeare from the Global Justice Movement made it even more eerie.

I'm not sure I like the idea of being with the bad guys. Or perhaps they're all bad guys really and we're all going to hell in a handcart.

[MarillionFan]

I was watching TV last night and stumbled upon RT. The channel is based in Moscow, but has American anchors and experts on there all the time. I spend a lot of time on tin foil hat sites as you well know so just imagine my surprise when I flicked over and their 8-9 talking shop was entitled

"Is World War 3 on?"

Hard hitting and to the point basically :

Russia is not isolated, the UN is.
America's ISIL attacks are a thinly veiled attempt to invade Syria and Iran.
Israel and Netanyahu unstable and can light up the middle east any minute by picking a fight with Iran, which America would then go wading in.
America cannot win in the middle east.
America and Britain are in the final death throes and lashing about wildly, currencies and economies finished.
Russia, China and Brazil are the new super powers and luckily also the only sane ones.

It was really spelt out that NATO are a group of thugs, and that the eurozone has never wanted to go along with sanctions against Russia and was basically bullied into it by NATO.

It wasn't exactly subtle. And the fact that they had British accented representation in the form of Rodney Shakespeare from the Global Justice Movement made it even more eerie.

I'm not sure I like the idea of being with the bad guys. Or perhaps they're all bad guys really and we're all going to hell in a handcart.

Easy to check. If you have a skull or bones on your army uniform somewhere you're normally one of the bad guys or your countries leader has a tash.

[suityou01]

Easy to check. If you have a skull or bones on your uniform somewhere you're normally one of the bad guys.

And do you? I never saw passed the pink crushed velvet to look.

[barrydidit]

Russia is not isolated, the UN is.

Reminds me of

Fog in channel: Continent cut off.

[GreyWolf]

Easy to check. If you have a skull or bones on your army uniform somewhere you're normally one of the bad guys or your countries leader has a tash.

The Queen's Royal Lancers may disagree.

[MarillionFan]

The Queen's Royal Lancers may disagree.

She's German.

[barrydidit]

The Queen's Royal Lancers may disagree.

Some of those are really tasteless.

The Royal Lancers one does have 'or glory' under the skull and crossbones, that's less threatening as it's saying to their enemies 'hey look, you've got a chance against us here'.

[darmstadt]

I was watching TV last night and stumbled upon RT. The channel is based in Moscow, but has American anchors and experts on there all the time. I spend a lot of time on tin foil hat sites as you well know so just imagine my surprise when I flicked over and their 8-9 talking shop was entitled

"Is World War 3 on?"

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What language was this broadcast in? English, wasn't it? This means it is primarily aimed at the English speaking world which has a predominantly free press and the majority of people are able to form their own opinions and speak freely so why do RT show this as I don't think most people in the West would believe it, nor do they watch it (I also have it in my hotel room.) What would be more interesting, and more frightening, would be to see what propaganda they're saying on their own channels in Russia.

Anyway, can you blame this one the West: Warships of two Koreas exchange fire | World news | theguardian.com

Its all kicking off now....

[suityou01]

What language was this broadcast in? English, wasn't it? This means it is primarily aimed at the English speaking world which has a predominantly free press and the majority of people are able to form their own opinions and speak freely so why do RT show this as I don't think most people in the West would believe it, nor do they watch it (I also have it in my hotel room.) What would be more interesting, and more frightening, would be to see what propaganda they're saying on their own channels in Russia.

Anyway, can you blame this one the West: Warships of two Koreas exchange fire | World news | theguardian.com

Its all kicking off now....

Hey Darmy

Absolutely correct, it was English. I don't speak Russian yet

I take your point, seriously I do, and it sits well. The only thing I would add is that this was practically verbatim what the tinfoil hat community has been saying for months all wrapped up in one program. So the question in my mind is, are RT just broadcasting this as some sort of propaganda exercise, or is it that the things are so bad in the west that the tinfoil hat brigade have chucked so much tut at the wall that finally some of it stuck?

I note the North Korean situation, but they are trying to have high level talks so I think this was just a local skirmish between a couple of naval boats. I have faith they will smooth this over.

[Zero Liability]

I like RT to the extent that it covers content media in the West is reluctant to cover, if at all. They also have some good guests on occasion, like Marc Faber. However, it's no different to any of the western propaganda outfits, except it is from the russki political vantage point. Which isn't to say everything they put out is suspect, no more so than with the western media.