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Fox News and Russian Pro-Putin TV Have Melded into One
When I speak with Russians who believe the Kremlin lies, it feels like I am talking to Americans who watch Fox — and vice versa.
My wife took a bus the other day to another city. It was a five-hour ride. Two hours in, all passengers exited except for one fellow Russian. He sat a quarter of the bus behind her, listening to Vladimir Solovyev, the popular Russian version of Tucker Carlson. I so wished that I had been present, but alas, I wasn’t — my wrath would have been Khan-like.
I have long been vocal about the obesity epidemic in our nation. Most likely, I am wrong in my more accusatory diatribes that all people have to do is eat less, eat better, and move (walk, run, exercise, etc.) their bodies regularly. I am observant enough to appreciate that it is in the vile interests of Big Food to hook people on over-salted, sugary, fake food. This stuff is so precisely engineered in New Jersey laboratories (exit 8) that it hooks people in the ways opioids do, especially when administered from birth, as many parents so irresponsibly do.
Indeed, obesity is a man-made problem that then casts many humans into a life-long battle with poor health, uncontrollable cravings, and, in many cases, soaks their days with deep-seated…
