People, if you are not watching Rachel's history lesson RIGHT EFFING NOW, you are missing out

[Hekate]

My gods. If you missed it from the beginning, it is absolutely worth watching 3 hours from now, and if that is too late for you, record it.

[chowder66]

1. Obama's move with troops in Norway is brilliant. nt

[KittyWampus]

15. I had no idea that was done until tonight watching her show.

[Hekate]

16. Neither did I. I think our CiC didn't really want to broadcast this. You know: not a secret...

...but also a bit of a surprise for our 5th Columnists here at home.

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Some pretty fascinating stuff.

We watched it.

[renate]

3. I'll watch it--thanks!

Should I be terrified in advance, or is it hopeful?

[Hekate]

6. Fascinating and creepy both. How Putin became president the KGB way. How Intourist was founded....

...by Stalin specifically to control tourists at every moment; all the specially made hotel rooms for prominent, wealthy, or politically connected visitors, furnished with every convenience in the way of recording devices, and all staff including janitors on the KGB payroll.

Etcetera. Hmmmmmm.

[renate]

8. thank you! nt

[Amaryllis]

4. which one is it? title? i am not finding it.

[Hekate]

9. It's just Rachel Maddow's MSNBC news show tonight. She tends to spend the first 15 or 20 minutes....

....going into deep background on some topic of interest. Sometimes she drives me crazy by repeating herself a lot before getting to the point, but tonight she was right on point the whole time and it really was fascinating; hopefully especially for those who did not attain adulthood during the Cold War.

[TeamPooka]

5. you could give a few details of the report to interest people in a stronger way that would make this

a better post
Think the 5 W's of Journalism.
Who
What
Where
When
Why
and sometimes How

My TV time and willing attention to media is limited right now because I don't want to see Trump and hear bullshit.
So give us real details please.

[Hekate]

7. See my post #6 for further details. I was trying to get the word out, albeit in an excitable way....

...as is sometimes the case at DU. Hence the "effing"-- and I could not both write about it and post it in a timely manner.

[mopinko]

10. or catch it online in the morning.

which is what i will do.

[Hekate]

11. Good plan, mopinko

[mopinko]

12. yeah, cut the cable, but miss the rachel

kinda dont mind waiting and watching on line. no ads to speak of, just 20 sec spots, mostly for msnbc.

[moondust]

13. Very, very interesting, comrade.

I wasn't aware of the previous sex tape incident that Rachel covered:

Before becoming president, Mr. Putin played a prominent role in a particularly successful kompromat operation. As head of the F.S.B. in 1997, he won the trust of President Boris Yeltsin by helping destroy the career of Russia’s prosecutor general, Yury Skuratov. After starting an investigation into Kremlin corruption, the prosecutor was disgraced on national television by the broadcast of a video that showed a man who looked like him in bed with two young women.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/world/europe/donald-trump-russia.html?_r=0

Makes me wonder if 3 years later Putin may have had a kompromat tape on Yeltsin himself leading to this:

Boris N. Yeltsin shocked his nation and the world today, announcing his resignation as president six months before the end of his term and handing over power to his favored successor, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/01/world/yeltsin-resigns-overview-yeltsin-resigns-naming-putin-acting-president-run-march.html

[JI7]

14. hopefully CNN and others are watching since they don't seem to be aware of much of this

based on their lack of reporting on it

[Cha]

17. KICK Mahalo, Hekate