sweartome123 wrote:Here's something that annoys the shit out of me. Sorry if it has been previously discussed.
Whenever I talk to people (not on the internet) about Putin, many of them try to sell the "Putin bad-guy" myth by mentioning the murders of journalists. When I ask them to elaborate, they start spewing this crap that somehow Putin is directly responsible for the deaths of journalists. Some of these folks are very intelligent people, which troubles me. All they do is recite the garbage dished out by the media without giving a second thought. Even better, they try to make the case that Putin has eliminated free speech/press in Russia through these "assassinations" and media control. It's hard not to laugh, especially when they mention media control and propaganda, given that is what the United States exceeds at doing. I know this doesn't come as a surprise to anyone here, but I thought I'd add my two cents regarding this idiocy.
This is the power of the mass media. They can shape public opinion merely by insinuation. On this particular subject every NATO media outlet
piece that I read or heard kept citing some obscure reports by NGOs. I checked one of these cited reports and they included statistics for all
journalist deaths from any cause. So Russian journalists killed by jihadis in Chechnya were being counted against Putin. Also all the journalist
deaths perpetrated by local mafias were being attributed to Putin as well. As if Putin was running these mafias. The deaths from accidents
were being counted as "murders" as well. And the cherry on top of this turd cake was the fact that they were counting journalist deaths going
back before Putin even took office as Prime Minister in 1999.
But the central pieces of this blood libel is the death of Politkovskaya. She was murdered on Putin's birthday so that automatically proved
it was on Putin's orders and not a pathetic frame-smear attempt. It seems the NATO mass media does not do any investigative journalism
anymore and the fact that Politkovskaya was free to repeat NATO propaganda about Chechnya inside Russia for over 8 years on Putin's watch
without even being harassed somehow does figure into the motive part. For some reason Putin supposedly decided to off this 5th columnist
just when she was fading into obscurity along with the war in Chechnya. Also, she was offed but none of the dozens of other "dissident"
journalists who love to repeat the NATO line 24/7 on Chechnya were offed or even fired/intimidated from their jobs. So the murder of Politkovskaya
achieves nothing other than to smear Putin. So the question of motive is key and Putin is not the prime suspect, but his virulent enemies are indeed
the prime suspects.
The NATO media news "coverage" of Russian issues included the casting of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, author of the book "Godfather of
the Kremlin" about Boris Berezovsky, as one of Putin's victims. I bought this book and it is a damning indictment of Berezovsky. Berezovsky
was a gangster oligarch who had connections to the Chechen mafia which he used in the mafia wars of the 1990s to seize businesses and
murder opponents. The west (i.e. NATO) treated him as some sort of dissident hero and not a major criminal up there with Al Capone. He
had the biggest motive to murder Khlebnikov and not Putin. In fact, Khlebnikov was not even engaged in spewing anti-Russian crap like
Politkovskaya. It is interesting that Chechens were involved in the murder of both Khlebnikov and Politkovskaya. This is not an accident
and they are more than likely associates of the Chechen mafia that was allied with Berezovsky during the 1990s. Berezovsky funneled money
and weapons to the Chechen "rebels" as well. I can see him being able to find hitmen to perpetrate acts that would undermine Russia and
the Putin "regime" quite easily.
A final note about the NATO media coverage of various intrigues in Russia is the apartment block bombings in 1999 that were supposedly
the pretext for the invasion of Chechnya in 1999. This is tied to Litvinenko, another "victim of Putin". All coverage of this subject
systematically omits the sequence of events in 1999 that led to the second Chechen war. Chechen Wahabbi warlords decided to invade
Dagestan (a constituent republic of the Russian Federation and which did not experience the secession wars of the 1990s) in late
spring of 1999. This invasion led to the death of 700 civilians and was beaten back by the Russian army in August of 1999. The apartment
bombings happened in September of 1999 which is clearly long after the Wahabbi warlord invasion of Russia. So why the f*ck would Russia
need them as a pretext to attack the Wahabbi nest in Chechnya?
We are led to believe by the NATO media that the FSB flashed ID cards at apartment residents who saw them in the basement area. This
claim is just retarded. The FSB are not cops with badges. How would any citizen even recognize and FSB badge/card? Clearly these were
not FSB but people who were planting the bombs both inside the basements and inside people's brains by creating a cover story. The
ultimate objective is to smear Russia and give the western media enough BS content to run with. And did they ever run with it.
Too bad most people just aren't interested enough or don't have enough time to research these things. They give their media the benefit
of the doubt.