In no uncertain terms, the $160 million earmarked by the Obama decree could be used to fund characters like Bellingcat, Weisburd, Soros NGOs, or even companies set up with the explicit purpose of defeating “guess who?” Yes, those of us labeled Kremlin or Putin trolls by the real trolls in this information war. The powers that control the monstrosity that has become western business-government have not learned a lesson by being beaten to pieces by unpaid amateurs and truth seekers, they’ve decided to throw still more money at their problemjust like they did in funding the Russia-focused, English-language Interpreter magazine, which allegedly funded not only by the US State Department but by the family of ousted Russian oligarch and mafioso, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The magazine is led by the aforementioned Daily Beast editor, Michael Weiss is a prime example of the new western oligarchy propaganda. Weiss, who is another prototypical “agent” of the neocon narrative, headed up a neocon PR project known as “Just Journalism,” which policed (trolled) the English-language press for any journalism critical of Israel in the wake of its brutal war on Gaza of 2008 and 2009.[55] Weiss has provoked much criticism from journalists and experts who live outside the corporate or governmental budgetary matrix. Another scathing report[56] by James Carden entitled “Neo-McCarthyism and the US Media,” betrays the clear mission against any semblance of moderate thought about Russia. Here is Carden on the relationship of Weiss and other western journalists to the anti-Russia narrative:
“Weiss and Pomerantsev (Peter) have joined the long line of Western journalists who have played to the public’s darkest suspicions about the power, intentions and reach of those governments that are perceived as threats to the United States. In his seminal essay on McCarthyism, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote that in the worldview of these opportunists, “very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing).” There exists no better précis of Weiss and Pomerantsev’s view of Putin and the Russian government’s media apparatus.”
The list of western journalists, analysts, professors, bureaucrats, military figures, bankers, and politicians who’ve thrown in on the bashing of Putin and Russia is longer than both my arms and legs. I cannot begin to even list them, and especially not their roles here. The sheer numerical superiority these globalist pundits maintain dwarfs and muster of alleged Kremlin trolls.
This brings me to the final confessional of the book — my own. But first let me say that I really admired how Pepe Escobar handled the introduction to this book. Though we’ve never been close friends, he answered my request to contribute to the book like a true comrade and caring pal. The “piss off” ending was as close to perfect as I can imagine. Somehow though, just telling the denizens of Russophobic darkness to “stick it,” it just does not say it all for me. So, let me be clear on my message in writing this book.
First and foremost, I decided that someone should chronicle the real people that stood up to one of the most powerful propaganda narratives ever leveled onto humanity. The idea that Putin and Russia have been in anything but defense mode these last years, it is preposterous. The only reason anybody on the globe even considers Putin or Russia as aggressors is due solely to the humongous investments and resources that power the anti-Russia message. Many decent people, and especially those mentioned herein, could not stand by and see this lie accepted. I believe I have helped to show this in the book you just read. In my way, I hope I have added a footnote to history, a footnote that acknowledges the extraordinary people who defeated an omnipotent and stoic, ultimately evil media empire. If the 300 Spartans are looking down observing what unbelievable odds are these days, then “Kremlin Trolls” are modern heroes. This facet paves the path for my final confession — my utter and ghastly hatred for the purveyors of humanity’s suffering.
These purveyors of humankind’s suffering are tyrannical on a global scale. My utter contempt for them comes from my father and his father, and from the decent human beings I’ve known all my life. America and Americans were supposed to stand up for righteousness and truth, at least according to my father and his peers. But the same people setting fire to the world today, and their institutions, are the same ones that murdered the millions since before the modern age. My personal contempt for each of them and my deep desire that they fail in every endeavor, lies in the hope and the prayer that justice might prevail. So here is my message to them.
If I were a George Soros, or a Rothschild banker, a Rockefeller clone, or some German industrialist son of an escaped Nazi war criminal, I’d be appalled at the utter inefficiency and uselessness my money had wrought. If a trillion dollars or more could not buy me absolute media control, if thousands of paid journalists, professors, activists, CEOs, bureaucrats, judges, and movie stars could not secure my omnipotence against RT television and the walking wounded of the world, I’d fire every single, solitary henchman I’d employed. You failed my dear sirs, and you failed miserably. All your machinations, money, and mind-boggling skullduggery against one man supported only by a relative few. Why, Vladimir Putin, with one ten thousandths of your media, corporate, and organizational resources, he bashed you to smithereens these last few years. You are pitiful.
Absolutely horrid were your efforts. Not only have your economics, and your pseudo-democracies failed, but you cannot even hire decent rats to row your ships of fools. Your names really do not matter. Whether you are Jeff Bezos types, technocrats who think buying the news puts you above the law of man, or even if you are super cool billionaires like Sir Richard Branson, hanging with former presidents, the stain of mediocrity and failure is upon you, just the same. Like every other group of two-bit tyrants that ever lived, you’ve underestimated the little people, but there’s more.
It is so difficult to describe the basal and personal level at which I and others have taken all these machinations for ruling the world we live in. I guess I am like most of the others if they’d have just played a bit fairly at Sochi. Or if only we never knew about the new Ukraine Nazis controlling Odessa with an iron fist. Maybe if at least some of the bombs and artillery shells had fallen outside the Donbass or Gaza, or Yemen, if the NSA and the president had never lied, then just maybe me and others like me could have stomached their Orwellian rule over us all. But we did watch and see an American president shame us before the world, only to call it “exceptionalism.” So, this is why I hope the opposition takes my book and my message deeply personally, just like I’ve taken all their evil bullshit the last four years. And you wonder why so many admire Vladimir Putin?
The obviousness of excellence amid mediocrity is the reason. Watching Vladimir Putin operate among today’s amoral misfit leaders is like seeing Usain Bolt running against a mannequin, or an eagle flying above a penguin. The most powerful leader in the last half century, Putin never hesitates to walk alongside his people, as in his participation with the Immortal Regiment at Moscow’s May 9th ceremonies in memory of the Great Patriotic War. He’s also widely admired for being dignified when other world leaders act up in a juvenile manner at solemn occasions. When American or French leaders have their aids hold umbrellas over their heads, Putin lays wreaths before slain heroes standing stoically alone beneath the storm like a real man — solemn in his respectfulness and correctness.[57] While his detractors proclaim such “Putin moments” are contrived photo ops, the man is seen as genuine by the people. It took me quite a bit of time to find the idea that might crystalize the essence of all the people mentioned in this book, but I finally did find it in a passage from the Japanese culture. The idea also conveys how many people feel about Vladimir Putin.
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