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john webster's avatar

Scott: RT CANNOT be accessed in the UK. rt.com flags up a sign 'the site cannot be reached'. It was one of the first things the Government did.

We are now heading for war. Trump will see the conflict as Cuba No.2.

He will see if he can out-do Kennedy as an American 'hero'. If Putin doesn't stand up to him, Putin will crash. If he does stand up to him there will be war. Trump suffers from a messiah complex. The so-called 'peace' in the Middle East is no such thing.

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Tim Webb's avatar

Trump is a Potemkin President, if you understand the reference.

He has nothing that Putin need concern himself about, other than nuclear weapons which probably don't even work at this stage.

But at least he has his Shoeshine Boy Hegseth to do everything he is told to do, irrespective of morality or international law.

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Ranger1221regnaR's avatar

I have been able to get RT in the UK online regardless of bans since the first attempts to shut them down, and still am able to watch them whenever I want (every day). VPN's are very useful for this, and if you value honest news with minimal bias - RT is absolutely the way to go - I use NordVPN, there are many others,so if you want to watch RT, you can watch RT on Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/RTNews?date=today , on Gab - https://tv.gab.com/channel/rt, on the web @ https://www.rt.com/ (with VPN), and from there, multitudes of award-winning Documentaries and shows.

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Serbia on the crossroads's avatar

Why don't you use VPN?

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Tilly's avatar

You can use Psiphon3 as your VPN. This was recommended by RT as soon as the censorship in Europe started and effectively stopped people accessing RT.

This VPN is free and it works perfectly. Here is a link to download the programme: https://psiphon3.com/en/index.html

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Great report Scott, THANK YOU! I am trying to imagine a North for Peace initiative, wherein everything north of USA - Canada, Europe and Russia work together for world peace, cooperation and advancement of civilization. This is the OPPOSITE of Russophobia!

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brian gray's avatar

In that Canadians haven't even figured out that Canada is purely a British colony, organizing a true anti-war Peace movement in Canada is a challenge.

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Cheyenne's avatar

Their cops have donned the authoritarian mantle in a ridiculous effort to emulate the US' police, because they've also adopted a worthless election system. The "people" in charge are vicious fascists and nobody's going to change my mind on that.

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Canada is an appendage to the US, quasi-independent, a second Yes vote alongside the US for every UN resolution. First, the blind hate of Russia must cease!

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brian gray's avatar

The sixth and seventh planks of an independent campaign I ran in the 2015 federal election...

**Withdraw Canadian Military from NATO and Join the BRICS**

NATO was originally founded to provide a strategic counterbalance to the Soviet Union. Its founding purpose no longer exists, but NATO continues to circumvent the authority of the United Nations and to provoke other nations. In spite of Stephen Harper’s Goebbles-­like lies of Russian military expansion and aggression it is in fact the British/US/NATO alliance that has been constantly escalating a confrontation strategy towards Russia. NATO has long abandoned its role as a defensive alliance for the North Atlantic and has now called for military presence in the Pacific, thus joining Barack Obama’s policy of the “Asia pivot” in the encirclement strategy toward China. If this un­provoked and unwarranted aggression is not stopped, the irrevocable consequence will be a thermonuclear world war and the extinction of humankind. NATO is an anachronism. Instead of trying to bolster this organization, we should begin serious discussions to dismantle it.

**Eliminate Budgets of British Monarchy**

The National Capital Commission is the government agency responsible for determining and allocating multi­millions of tax dollars to maintain and represent Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II position in Canada. The millions disbursed are for all things related to the Governor General and that person’s two official residences and all things related to the provincial Lieutenant Governors and their official residences. A cursory investigation for the 2013 – 2014 budget reveals this sum as $116,457,134.00. More importantly the office of Her Royal Majesty’s Privy Council, our country’s government within the government, has a budget of $123,409,904.00. These are considerable amounts of monies we as taxpayers foolishly pay to maintain our country’s status as a British colony. These budgets must be eliminated. If the Monarch wishes to continue these traditions and if any member of the Royals wish to travel to Canada, it should be at their own expense.

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Exactly, thank you! https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/nato-at-the-heart-of-a-new-cold-war-says-former-ambassador

“During the bombing on NATO’s 50th birthday, US President Bill Clinton announced a new role for NATO – from now he declared, in effect, that NATO could intervene wherever and whenever it decided to do so. Article I of the treaty presumably had been nullified by Presidential decree. The NATO treaty had been turned upside down. In the same month NATO admitted Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into NATO thus breaking the promise made to Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev that if Russia allowed a united Germany into NATO the organization would never expand eastward.”

“As the respected former United States Ambassador to Moscow, George F. Kennan wrote in 1987… ”Were the Soviet Union, to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military industrial complex would have to remain substantially unchanged until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.” Until his death Kennan continued to deplore NATO’s hostile encirclement of Russia.”

Imagine if US was surrounded by Russian and Chinese bases!

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frankly's avatar

For such a decent, strong, US military hero to endorse not only RT, but Russia generally, is not something easily dismissed.

To refuse to confront unambiguous reality may rescue some egos, but the cost to our reputation is already overwhelming.

We seem to be hell bent to fight a war we cannot win. Our obsession with Hollywood fantasy has turned us into a pack of delusional day dreamers.

Russia has shown restraint in Ukraine. What is their reward for demanding respect and fair treatment? Escalation. With each new chapter we prove we are neither safe nor effective. Yeah not a coincidence!

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Kathy M.'s avatar

And, if bad things happen Putin will have set the best example for dealing country-to-country. As opposed to Hegseth who is looking to use force. Even if you take one person and ask them "where shear force against them has ever gotten the other person" the answer is clear. Putin has a powerful weapon in communication (and the language and vocabulary that goes along with good communication). And Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is another secret weapon!

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Bobby's Worm's avatar

Ватники обожают позу 69

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Putin's Pussy's avatar

This is genuinely funny.

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Bobby's Worm's avatar

Totally not straight out of a russian factory

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Vánnyadt bácsi's avatar

Great job, I wish I was there too.

spread the truth and fight the good fight!

and safe voyage back home!

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Another WorldView Is Possible's avatar

RT is one of-, perhaps even- my top source for daily news coverage on International Affairs.

I've been a news editor, and seen first hand the pernicious influence of US/UK/NATO/Zionist Empire PSYOPS, upon the public perceptions of reality, as relayed deliberately by western 'legacy media' outlets. I'm very familiar with the history of OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD and its successors. Even Reuters has been shown to have worked directly for the PSYOPS factories of the allied western governments, during the Cold War. And I've seen that nothing has changed, to this day - save perhaps for the increases in the sophistication of the OPs.

Whether we're talking about the war against Iran, the Genocide in Palestine, the Hoaxed "Chemical Attack!!!" in Syria, and the fraud of 'the White Helmets', or the fraudulent and Russophobic "RussiaGate" narrative - RT is/was one of the very few places where one can go, to get the truth in America - certainly it's the largest and most prominent news organization that's consistently exposed these stories.

They do hard news, and they host great discussions with otherwise censored and marginalized, experts and truth tellers - Scott Ritter an obvious example. Hosts fired from American Networks, for telling uncomfortable truths and holding heterodox, counter-narrative opinions, always seem to find new homes at RT. There's been so many over the years - but Ed Schultz, Jesse Ventura, even Rick Sanchez recently, all stand out, for having found in RT, a free speech sanctuary.

Congratulations to RT on a great 20 years - and many happy returns. I hope that one day soon, this great network, unrivaled in American media for accuracy and cogent insights, will be allowed to return to the "free market" of ideas on American Cable systems and Satellite services, like DirecTV. Until that happens, American claims towards having a "Free Press", will always ring-hollow. Like tariffs and other trade barriers, the restrictions on access to RT seem designed to protect not just fraudulent narratives, but an uncompetitive and incompetent Corporatist American Media sector.

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Cheyenne's avatar

Great comment! It's very telling when governments want to quash free speech, they go for the best news outlets, leaving the dregs of MSM untouched for their crimes of stenography for the state.

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David Sanders's avatar

I'm a news junkie and RT is my first read every morning, they cut thru the B.S. and report the news

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Keith's avatar

In UK, really miss RT. A real news outlet.

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belladonna's avatar

Use a VPN it works for me!

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Keith's avatar

Am on it.

Have one.😽

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Tilly's avatar

You can use Psiphon3 as your VPN. This was recommended by RT as soon as the censorship in Europe started and effectively stopped people accessing RT.

This VPN is free and it works perfectly. Here is a link to download the programme:

https://psiphon3.com/en/index.html

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David Buchanan's avatar

Conduit ⚡, Norton said that they found a virus

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Tilly's avatar

Please, David, ignore such a warning. It is baseless. I have been using Psiphone3 absolutely without a problem. I think Norton is overly cautious. I really see no reason why one would be afraid to use this great app since it is harmless . Often these antivirus programmes come up with false positives.

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RafaelGarcia's avatar

Wow! What an enlightening report!

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JDK's avatar

Excellent, Mr Ritter; thank you. All, if you haven't already done so, listen to/ read President Putin's speech at the recent Valdai conference. At this point, he is the definition of a mature statesman. I pray that he and President Trump can get the world back on track. We need to leave the "Russia Bad!" narrative behind. It has been a fabrication of Globalists in their effort for control.

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Cheyenne's avatar

Super unhappy they took my RT away. Thrilled I can still watch Lee Camp. Scott, you are the best, wish I had taken up my teacher's clues that I would have been a good journalist. I'd have loved to work for RT.

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Tilly's avatar

You can use Psiphon3 as your VPN. This was recommended by RT as soon as the censorship in Europe started and effectively stopped people accessing RT.

This VPN is free and it works perfectly. Here is a link to download the programme:

https://psiphon3.com/en/index.html

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Peter Nathaniel Erickson's avatar

Scott is fearless.

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Людм_Влакс's avatar

Спасибо Вам!

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Ranger1221regnaR's avatar

Translated by DeepL for all, Спасибо Вам! = Thank you!

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Людм_Влакс's avatar

And thank you. In Russian, it is an abbreviation of two words: 'Spasi Бог,' which means 'God save you.' So 'spasibo' is a wish for God's blessing upon you and Scott Ritter. Scott Ritter is a favorite of the Russian people. He came to us with his daughter to Lake Baikal, visited the taiga, and was in my hometown of Irkutsk. He was at Red Square for the rehearsal of the Victory Parade. He is, in general, a person with a capital 'P.' Bravo, Scott Ritter! Guardian angels to him and his loved ones, and to his comrades in the fight for peace!

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Serbia on the crossroads's avatar

Happy birthday, RT 🥂

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nancy sosman's avatar

When I was a kid I was jabbed for measles mumps and I think rubella. All were spread out, some. I came down with measles and mumps pretty quickly. I’m 78 now and have never been jabbed for anything, no flu, nothing. I lived in Manhattan for 55 years rush hour trains, musical concerts all around town, dance performances, small clubs, talkin’ heads in forest hills, packed in solid at Knicks and Mets games, and voila never got sick.

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Cheyenne's avatar

I had rubella during the '65 NY World's Fair, because we weren't getting the rubella vaccine yet. My next-door neighbor was born deaf the next year because of the epidemic.

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nancy sosman's avatar

So sorry about your neighbor.

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Kathy M.'s avatar

Thank you Scott for turning our “inside out” thoughts “right side out.” 🌿

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Ranger1221regnaR's avatar

Happy 20th Birthday to the best and most honest news agency there is - so grateful RT came to the UK to counter BBC and MSM lies and manipulations, and since their much-needed news reporting, they have been my #1 go-to for news, despite the UK banning them, I have been able to watch RT news wherever, and whenever I want, which is each day since broadcasting in the UK.

I love RT and all those who work there, and contribute - there is no other news and documentary service as good, as professional, as comprehensive, or as honest as RT. Margarita Simonyan is a Global hero, and is one area of proof that the World without Russia, is not a world worth living in. RT gives and gives, others take and take.

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