Russian Television, Kremlin Lapdogs. Kleptocracies, Comparing Japan, Russia, U.S

                                          An article in the news today reported on countries where a small number of people own most of the country's wealth. Russia scored high on the list, a place where there is a high level of poverty and an incredible concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few. Strong middle classes, the foundation of a strong democracy, do not do well in oligarchies or anywhere where wealth, power and opportunity are limited to a small number of people.
                                          Japan scored well, a place where there is a strong middle class and where the rich do not own a disproportionate and unhealthy level of the country's wealth. In Japan, executives are reasonably compensated (unlike in the United states, where executive compensation has reached the stratosphere, as it is a grab whatever you can mentality, and to hell with everyone else). Executive compensation in Japan remains within reasonable proportion to what Japanese workers earn.
                                             Everywhere in the world where wealth and power, political and economic, are concentrated in the hands of a few, there is nothing but misery that results. Japan is doing something right. The United States, while it still has a strong middle class, which has been shrinking, needs to do everything it can to ensure the long term health of its middle class.
                                             Do not expect any of this news to be broadcast on a certain Russian television station, the mouthpiece of the Russian government. Interesting how the commentators and hosts on that station like to present themselves as progressives, seekers of truth and justice, as they provide endless spin always favorable towards Russian interests. Let us not forget their parade of fringe characters to whom they grant legitimacy regardless of how destructive and hate filled are their distorted lie filled messages and propaganda.
                                               One particular host, a fawning poor excuse for a man, will tell you Russian bombs are only flowers if the Kremlin tells him so. He and the other measly lot tow the Kremlin party line. What an ingratiating group of rear end kissing lemmings. What a shame that a free, independent press (unbeholden to special interests, unbeholden to corporate interests, unbeholden to governments, unbeholden to anyone) anywhere continues to be harder to find than the end of a rainbow.
                                                Meanwhile, regardless of whether it is in Russia, or in another country, wherever wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few, the outcome is always dismal.