SneekyNinja
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I was obviously being sarcastic...
Vacationing with Vladimir Putin
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Gquebed
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I was going to object a bit to that then i remembered the World Bank and the IMF are indeed top mafia dogs controlled by American banks. Lol
Gquebed
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Oh. Wasnt obvious to me. Sarcasm doesnt transfer well on the interweb...
Gquebed
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Ya... but there are twice as many people in the US than in Russia...
dagwood45431
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So, in your (cough) mind the terms "Supreme Leader" and "defacto leader" have the same meaning and carry the same weight?
Let me express my feelings thusly:
You've been a real sport, sport!
ttystikk
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This is a lot like quibbling about whether there were 5 or 6 million Jews killed in the holocaust; it's beside the point that there is a problem!
dagwood45431
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ttystikk
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USA ERS: "In 2015: 42.2 million people lived in food-insecure households. 10.9 million adults lived in households with very low food security. 6.4 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure."
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx
I wasn't able to find a direct comparative statistic for Russia, but it seems they have a rather poorer diet than the average American. How that translates into malnutrition is unclear without more study.
Malnutrition death rates are slightly higher in the United States than Russia;
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/malnutrition/by-country/
Again, looking at the wrong number; both are far too high, especially that of 'the richest country in the world'.
Gquebed
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Fair enough. But i get a point for technical merit. Lol
Gquebed
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Yes. This is the point.
Thanks for the news flash. I was around for that. He just needs some 10k gold chains and a Sergio Tachini tracksuit.
Gquebed
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Nope be 41 in a couple of months. Was a big history and language student and always kept up with current affairs.
The morning I left to visit prospective Boarding schools I turned on CNN and watched the Berlin Wall fall.
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Gquebed
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Isnt it stunning how CNN has fallen too? Lol
But seriously... cant even watch a minute of it anymore...
Unclebaldrick
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Lol. Nice segue.
UncleBuck
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they are low on material now.
soon the murder/pedophilia/human trafficking/money laundering investigation will swallow the entire news cycle every day.
ttystikk
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Oh, it's definitely a trend. The Internet killed the small town newspaper and many of the majors, leading to the current situation where we have far fewer reporters on the beat than we once did.
This has led to news homogenization and a lot of stories, especially the time consuming investigative stuff, just not getting reported and therefore not heard.
There is more schlock and less substance on every major news channel and on the radio (thanks to Republicans relaxing the rules on how many stations a given entity could own, we now have Clearchannel and little else), and even newspapers (Gannet/USA Today has been rolling up papers across the country for years). The newspapers that are left have had to cut their editorial staff to the bone to survive, leading to less and less thorough coverage.
The Internet is a vibrant place to get news but now there is less editorial accountability to the facts and more propaganda- even outright fake stories- casting doubt on the entire second tier of Internet news media outlets.
Yahoo, Google, Facebook, etc are not news gatherers in the traditional sense of a string of reporters, they're just aggregators. More of the same isn't more and it isn't better.
We have more access to news than ever before and yet less news to access. It's a propagandist's dream!
See former CBS Senior Correspondent Tom Fenton's 'Bad News' for a more in depth analysis of trends he saw coming some 15 years ago. It's worse now.
Bill Moyers also has some interesting insights into the topic.
Frankly, it's no damn wonder we're all at each other's throats over details and distractions. It's all we have left.
In terms of respectability it isn't even a shadow of what it used to be. I used to travel a lot and CNN was my best friend at the airport.
Gquebed
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Spot on. 100%.
I was a foriegn correspondent in Lithuania back in the 90s when Russia was coming apart and watched journalism fall apart too. I could not have summed it up better than you.
I would just add that part of the problem is that the vast majority of people dont pay any attention to actual news or current affairs so the the news outlets started catering to the lowest common denominator with celebrity gossip...and replaced true journalists with pretty talking heads...that would rather talk about the superficial things like fashion and back biting between celebs. It sells...
Gquebed
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Me too and mine too.
It was sad to watch that friend degrade... like a meth head who just couldnt stop the spiral.....