How Are We Going to Find Each Other If Everyone Is Whispering
The importance of standing out, staying loud, and not obeying in advance
This land is our land.
It’s not Vladimir Putin’s or Elon Musk’s, who to Moldovans is just another Ilan Shor, a convicted fraudster hiding out in Russia. Just like Trump to Ukrainians is just another Viktor Yanukovych, a convicted traitor, hiding out in Russia.
I documented 22 countries that Russia deployed its dark wave trickery on and the patterns are unmistakable.
As I meet with allies in real life, brave Americans forming community Resistance groups, bracing themselves for the onslaught of Black Swan Ugly designed to distract from the organized crime ring’s decapitation strike of democracy, I am reminded how important it is to stand out, stay loud, and not obey in advance.
How are we going to find each other if everyone is whispering…
At our Happy Hour tomorrow, we will be joined by street fighters, those with the conviction of public protest. I am proud to know them.
Thanks to your subscriptions and Christmas donations, I am able to spend the time I need to read vital books that will help us in our journey.
I haven’t had a television since 2006, and I don’t know how you guys watch cable news. Such villainy by so-called journalists.
I prefer to be deep in half a dozen books at a time, researching as I go, plowing onward.
I am currently revisiting Karen Dawisha’s Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? — an important book and a reminder that we must preserve our archives before the Unloved Money Worshippers try to mass delete reality from the web archives.
Dawisha managed to benefit from salvaged work of Russian journalists before their words were scrubbed from the internet and even from Russian libraries.
I am not obeying in advance.
Imagine if the journalists, scholars, historians, philosophers of a century ago had decided, ‘Nah.’
Where would we be? We only know what we know, because people pushed past fear.
Allow me to give you a preview of my report on Putin’s Kleptocracy.
Dawisha, who was the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Director of Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, dedicated her book to:
‘Free Russia journalism and the memory of Boris Nemtsov (1959 - 2015) whose struggle against Kremlin corruption will not be forgotten.’
From the intro:
In the course of less than two years, Putin rose from being an out-of-work deputy mayor, whose boss had just lost his bid for reelection in 1996, to the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the modern-day KGB. One year later, Putin was prime minister; six months after that he was president. Jobless to president in three and a half years.
Karen Dawisha’s Putin’s Kleptocracy brilliantly describes Putin’s rapid rise to power, the cabal he brought with him, the oligarchs they have created, the billions they have looted… She reveals a deeply corrupt country ruled by a thieving regime.
Putin’s Kleptocracy is based on years of research into Russian politics, the KGB, and various thriving Russian crime syndicates. Dawisha’s sources include Stasi archives; the observation of Russian insiders; investigative journalists in the US, Britain, Germany, Finland, France, and Italy; and Western officials who served in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Russian journalists wrote part of this story when the Russian media was still free.
“Many of them died for this story, and their work has largely been scrubbed from the internet, and even from Russian libraries. But some of that work remains.”—Karen Dawisha, 2014
Her sources were investigative journalists.
Long live those willing to speak truth to power, who refuse to whisper because greed has poisoned men’s souls.
I am dancing as fast as I can.
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Protesting on November 12, 2016 holding a sign that read: ‘In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America.’