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Ferguson riots play big in Russia
The Washington Post's World Views ^ | August 15, 2014 | Karoun Demirjian

Posted on 08/15/2014 4:54:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Edited on 08/15/2014 5:34:22 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Scenes from Ferguson, Mo., shown during a prime-time news broadcast on Russia's state television.

MOSCOW

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; obama; russia
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1 posted on 08/15/2014 4:54:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can this assessment from Russia have any merit? After all, we do have the Great Uniter of all that is racial in the WH.
2 posted on 08/15/2014 5:00:36 PM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Church Fire Prevention Act 1996 under Clinton, in response to rash of Black church burnings, all a KGB hoax, as documented in Ion Pacepa’s landmark book “Disinformation.” Who knows how Putin is spinning this?


3 posted on 08/15/2014 5:04:54 PM PDT by jobim (.)
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To: Paulie
One death is a tragedy

Millions of deaths are a statistic.

America does tragedies

Russia does statistics.

I'm not willing to concede moral equivalency of a perp killed by police millions of innocents murdered for no just reason regardless

4 posted on 08/15/2014 5:11:03 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The comparisons on Twitter were of how in Kiev, the protestors attacked the EVIL police with nailed clubs, bricks, and the cops didn’t react for days.

In America, someone throws an empty plastic water bottle, and the cops go into battle mode.

It isn’t quite an honest portrayal, but that isn’t the point.


5 posted on 08/15/2014 5:11:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Russia isn't well known for it's bias news reporting./s

Of course we aren't either. NO SARCASM.
6 posted on 08/15/2014 5:18:39 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: rdcbn
I'm not willing to concede moral equivalency of a perp killed by police millions of innocents murdered for no just reason regardless

By the "millions of innocents murdered" I assume you're referring to all those innocents that we've aborted?

7 posted on 08/15/2014 5:27:55 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: tcrlaf

You mean, the police that was shooting at them with REAL bullets?


8 posted on 08/15/2014 5:33:46 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bull. I’m in Russia and only learnt about incident from English Yahoo and Freerepublic.


9 posted on 08/15/2014 5:37:56 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: 1rudeboy

“You mean, the police that was shooting at them with REAL bullets?”

AFTER several days of being beaten with clubs, bricks, and having Molotov’s thrown at them, if you will recall.

IF the “police” did it at all, which has never been determined.


10 posted on 08/15/2014 5:40:46 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: 1rudeboy

~You mean, the police that was shooting at them with REAL bullets?~

How many weeks of firebombing and police fatalities it took for Kiev police to start shooting back with live ammo? Be objective at least a little bit.


11 posted on 08/15/2014 5:42:42 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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To: tcrlaf

Thank you for the latest from the Kremlin. What would we possibly do without you as a source of “news?”


12 posted on 08/15/2014 5:43:30 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

“What would we possibly do without you as a source of “news?””

Listen to your propagandic hypocrisy, perhaps?


13 posted on 08/15/2014 5:44:56 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: wetphoenix

Don’t forget the Blackwater mercenaries. I learned it all on Russian TV.


14 posted on 08/15/2014 5:45:40 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: tcrlaf

RT tweeted that I’m an enemy of your state.


15 posted on 08/15/2014 5:46:22 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

~Don’t forget the Blackwater mercenaries. I learned it all on Russian TV.~

You disagree with one load of bullcrap and falls into the opposite one which stinks as bad or worse.
You are still brainwashed at the end of the day.ii


16 posted on 08/15/2014 5:56:03 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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“RT tweeted that I’m an enemy of your state.”

You’re an enemy of Indiana??
Why do you hate corn?? What do you have against CORN?
What has CORN ever done to you?


17 posted on 08/15/2014 6:02:47 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: 1rudeboy; 2ndDivisionVet; no-to-illegals; All

I wonder how the propaganda will change if it is verified that the video showing the guy snatching a box of $49 cigars and shoving the store owner is true. So he and his friend were strolling confidently down the road until the police said they were interfering with traffic. Were they afraid they were being arrested for petty larceny and assault? Were they high on adrenaline or drugs? On the other hand, why 8 or 9 bullets. More facts and verification needed. Meanwhile the far left is using this to stir up people in a number of cities. However not quite so open and shut as the Treyvon Martin case.


18 posted on 08/15/2014 6:02:54 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: tcrlaf

RT tweeted that corn is a Monsanto plot to take over Ukraine on the behalf of Right Sector and George Soros.


19 posted on 08/15/2014 6:07:53 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: gleeaikin

There is certainly more detail to be released. May take two or three weeks for full story to come out. Prayers for calm.


20 posted on 08/15/2014 6:10:15 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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