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I sometimes struggle to put these videos from Russia Today on my site. They are essentially a propaganda machine for Russia. So, as long as you understand that, I think it can be okay to watch. Take it for what it is.

“As an attempted coup d’etat takes place in Ecuador, the US mainstream media prefers to cover the Naked Cowboy and Justin Beiber’s haircut. Why is real news ignored? RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports”

In the Thai capital Bangkok, anti-government protesters have surrendered after an armed assault on their fortified encampment. Troops say the situations under control after 7 key ‘Red Shirt’ leaders gave themselves up to prevent further bloodshed. It comes after two protesters and an Italian news photographer were killed when the camp was stormed. 42 people have died and more than 300 injured in clashes during the last week. Demonstrators had been calling for resignation of the Primer and fresh elections.

Syria has accused Israel of dropping uranium particles on its soil during a 2007 bombing raid, in an attempt to make it look like a nuclear weapons plant was the target. The UN’s atomic watchdog wants to to re-examine the site in question. But Syria strongly denies any allegations it’s been attemting to aquire a nuclear bomb. Let’s get more with political analyst Thabet Salem.

From Russia Today: With most of the votes counted in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich has over 48% of the vote. Less than 3% behind is Yulia Timoshenko, with just under 46%.

While doing my daily romp through video and articles on the internet I found this whopper. According to a person who goes by the name of “Europe,” Obama has already ordered his “Air Force General Gene Renuart” to build our military forces up in order to prepare for a Civil War.

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