LogicaL Chaos said:

Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Sounds like RT's making fun of American idiocy. 

If you want to submit it as fake news, let us know.

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Maybe. The issue is could we find information to confirm Dr. Steven Greer's info?

For example, was the Ex-CIA Director actually killed? Not sure anyone can prove that.

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RT wasn't necessarily agreeing with Dr Greer's claims though.  In fact, Sophie Shevardnadze was often challenging them.  You can see by her facial expressions that she wasn't terribly convinced:





But the beginning of the clip stated that over half of all Americans believe in aliens, so it's probably not wrong to give this guy some airtime to express his personal point of view.

You may recall a few years ago when a crazy poster in the Shroomery started saying that Trump never colluded with Russia, and everyone here called him a conspiracy theorist.  Well it turns out that guy was right.

So though I currently don't believe Dr Greer, there's nothing wrong with allowing him to share his point of view.  I don't think RT saying the Center for the Study of ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) believes in aliens is fake news, but if you disagree you can play the game.

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Executive Summary

This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017. It finds that most of the impact of these sanctions has not been on the government but on the civilian population.

The sanctions reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the worsening economic depression and hyperinflation. They exacerbated Venezuela’s economic crisis and made it nearly impossible to stabilize the economy, contributing further to excess deaths. All of these impacts disproportionately harmed the poorest and most vulnerable Venezuelans.

We find that the sanctions have inflicted, and increasingly inflict, very serious harm to human life and health, including an estimated more than 40,000 deaths from 2017–2018; and that these sanctions would fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population as described in both the Geneva and Hague international conventions, to which the US is a signatory. They are also illegal under international law and treaties which the US has signed, and would appear to violate US law as well.

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Koods - are you planning to step up, or are do you plan to stop bashing RT?

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Starting at around 0:45, John Oliver says "...it's also worth noting this (MH17 shoot down) wouldn't have happened if you, Vladimir Putin, hadn't given the rebels those fucking missiles."

There is, in fact, no convincing evidence that Putin gave missiles to the rebels.  The serial number of the missile in question showed it was one transported to Ukraine in 1986.  Even if the missile did fall into the hands of East Ukrainian Defense Forces (which is another debate), that's still not Putin giving the rebels those fucking missiles.

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Enlil, do you want to defend this, or should we hand it off to someone else you designate?

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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

Enlil, do you want to defend this, or should we hand it off to someone else you designate?

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Since Enlil is understandably distracted, are there any volunteers?  I nominate koods since he still believes RT is not a good source.

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MagicMush123 said:

Not here to debate you. Just sharing what Google thinks is fake or misleading stories by rt.


https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer/search/rt;hl=en;gl=?authuser=1&pageId=none

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rt-news/
Do you trust this site for its other news ratings?

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