UK bank to close RT accounts, 'long live freedom of speech!' – editor-in-chief

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  1. Jeannette

    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Poor Brits! Soon they'll have only their British Bullsh*tting Corp., and the few corporate owned media. Kind of reminds one of Pravda doesn't it?

    It's our new world order folks. Trotsky anyone?


    UK’s bank accounts have been blocked, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan reported. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova reacted, saying it seems that in leaving the EU, London also left any freedom of speech obligations behind there.

    https://www.rt.com/news/363013-rt-uk-accounts-blocked/
     
  2. Gilos

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    Good for the Brits, they had the balls to mess with freedom of speech laws who would have thought :), I guess its part of the perks being indipendant from the EU,


    Im sure RT will get its funds back if they stop presenting themselves as a "news station" in the UK and be like all the rest of the propganda/opinion blogs.
     
  3. unbiased institute

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    On the contrary the BBC is quite good when it comes to impartiality and accuracy.
    RT on the other hand cannot claim that mantle
     
  4. Balancer

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    It seems so to you because your opinion coincides with opinion of BBC. If you had more critical perception, then would uvdet that BBC has very one-sided and prejudiced relation. Moreover, more than once came across to BBC on a direct lie.
     
  5. unbiased institute

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    Well that's an assumption and considering I haven't given an opinion on this story then I would have to say that that is sterile conjecture
    Which I do and have proven mulitiple times.
    ?
    Example?
     
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    No more leverage towards the EU by making the channel through the Brits,
    I suppose.
     
  8. see you next tuesday

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    What?

    It's not affected my freedom of speech in any way.

    Why do Americans worry so much about our freedom of speech?

    Shouldn't you be concentrating on shooting black people instead?
     
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    NatWest, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and the RBS is essentially owned by . . . guess who - yes, you've guessed it - The British Government. Say no more, squire!!
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    [​IMG] :roflol: :roflol:You obviously don't listen to the BBC.
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    :roll: Ever heard the expression 'The thin end of the wedge'? Think about it!
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've just been told I can't give you another positive rep yet so - well done for spotting and raising this scandalous development.
     
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    Democracies end. Not for long British have tasted freedom of speech. Time to come back to historical traditions - in Britain throughout centuries different public executions were considered as an interesting show and attracted the numerous number of the viewers. Perhaps we will see such executions again soon - for freedom of speech.

    ps: Royal family has to be delighted
     
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    No, no, no. "Democracy is the power of the Democrats" ©. I.e. in the case of the West — the power of the Pro-American government. From this point of view in England all right. Democracy continues to rule
     
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    'democracy', how meaningless that word has become.
     
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    If anyone repeats any word for a long time, it loses its meaning. The more the leaders of the country use a word in the appeals, speeches and slogans, the less there remains of the original meaning.

    In Russia know this very well as remember the slogans of the Soviet period. The words on the slogans were written a good ("For peace in the whole world!" "Sobriety — norm of life!", "No to the arms race!", "Knowledge is power!" "Learn, learn and more learn!", "Save the nature!" and so on). But there were so many and used them so freely that they completely lost sense of the Soviet people
     
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    That doesn't prove anything and even then it doesn't actually relate to BBC news except for the wordpress links which can't be seen as credible to begin with.

    If this is the best that you can come up with then you should really find something else to do

    - - - Updated - - -

    Yes I do. Every day in fact or rather I read it.
     
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    Since when does closing a bank account have anything to do with freedom of expression?
     
  19. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's very easy to brainwash children, and the West sure has been infantilised. It's all a part of the NWO agenda - make the masses stupid (dumb down the proles with wall-to-wall sport and other bread-and-circuses trivia) and it'll be easier to manipulate them, and it's happening right now.
     
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    Same thing! And you still believe it's impartial and accurate? How easily some people are fooled. .
     
  21. unbiased institute

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    Yes.
    Why is it not impartial and accurate?
     
  22. cerberus

    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Because it has become dysfunctional, and that's because it is now run by dimwits and liberals.
     
  23. unbiased institute

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    So what leads you to say that?
     
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    cerberus Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Er, the reportage of the BBC???
     
  25. unbiased institute

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    God almighty. Actually explain your point of view.
    I cannot read your mind.
     

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