West Undermines Putins Return to Power in RussiaHow the manipulated Western media attempts to rewrite reality. Under Google News it is not uncommon to see a large number of sources filed under news stories covering particular events. It is to be expected to find multiple news sources from around the world covering unfolding events. However, what is unexpected is to find a similarly large number of sources under news items that are clearly opinion or editorials. Just how is it that journalists across the Western world simultaneously come to the same conclusions at the same time on the same topics? In the case of Russias Vladimir Putin returning to the presidency and the apparent complications it holds for Western corporate-financiers and their campaign of global expansion, a myriad of media sources are peddling talking points revolving around contested elections, voter fraud, political prisoners, and large numbers of protesters opposed to Putin. The US State Departments Radio Free Europe led the way with an Inauguration in Numbers attempting to portray Putins return to power as an exercise in both fraud and wasteful lavish spending, while framing the opposition as victimized by a corrupt dictatorship.AFP in turn, parrots talking-points about a glitzy inauguration as well as accusations of fraud. The Associated Press comes in next, featuring what is in reality an op-ed, but promoted as a news item. Titled, Putin Returns to Presidency in a Changed Russia, it reiterates the US State Departments propaganda by claiming the limited protests funded and organized by the US State Department through its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) front and its various subsidiaries, constitutes a growing portion of society, that is no longer willing to silently tolerate a government that denies its citizens a political voice. The many who believe Putins accusations against his opponents, need not turn to Kremlin-controlled media, but simply open the annual reports, rosters, and funding information of the US State Departments National Endowment for Democracy and see not only the truth for themselves, but how supposedly reputable news agencies like AP distort reality with their manipulative, intentionally misleading reports. Russias Opposition IS in the Pay of the Americans. Despite APs attempt to portray claims of US-backing behind Putins opposition and claims of election fraud as Kremlin-controlled propaganda, the truth is rather well documented. Not only were the election monitors of GOLOS calling Putins victory at the polls rigged,fully funded by the US State Department through an organization openly voicing a desire to depose Putin from power, but Russias main opposition movements are led by an array of documented operatives working for Western interests. These include Vladimir Ryzhokov, a US NED-funded Wold Democracy Movement steering committee member, his partner Boris Nemtsov whose political adviser, Vladimir Kara-Murza, is also a member of activist Ilya Yahsins Solidarnost group, and an attendee of a pre-election NED-funded seminar titled, Elections in Russia: Polling and Perspectives. Ilya Yahsin, another opposition leader, heads the Solidarnost group and the US-NED funded Strategy 31 campaign in tandem with the Moscow Helsinki Group, a NED, Ford Foundation, USAID, and Soros Open Society-funded NGO. Also noteworthy is opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alex Navalny and his ties to the National Endowment for Democracy, as he is one of the co-founders of the NED-funded DA! (Democratic Alternative) activist movements, as stated in his Yale World Fellows biography. Clearly, accusations of Western involvement in Russias opposition, where every prominent leader has documented ties to the US State Department and its various subsidiaries, are more than just Kremlin-controlled propaganda. It is the demonstrative truth and it is indeed the Western media spreading unsubstantiated lies regarding Russian politics, spun from compromised NGOs like GOLOS, and viewed through the prism of US-funded and backed opposition leaders like Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, and Alex Navalny. And while many may try to respond by claiming the NEDs intentions are noble, its board of directors is a collection of some of the most compromised, nefarious individuals in Western politics as are NEDs various subsidiaries including Freedom House, IRI and NDI. Everything you Read in the Corporate Media is a Paid-For Lie. It is increasingly more apparent that the news we read and the reports we watch from the corporate media, regardless of what channel or publication we turn to, are tapping the same talking points provided by a handful of corporate-funded think-tanks. It was recently exposedthat the Podesta Group, founded by Tony and John Podesta, openly admit and even showcase on their website their extensive manipulation of op-eds and news articles in well known newspapers across the United States including the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post. Journalists people foolishly trust are regularly approached by lobbyists to write editorials and include talking points in their news reports regarding everything from human rights and healthcare, to regulatory legislation and even promoting war. The Podesta Group on its own website admits that it, works both sides of the aisle to deliver results for our clients, and that it builds reputable brands for client organizations through the prominent placement of op-eds in national publications like The Huffington Post and The Christian Science Monitor. Under services, the Podesta Group features categories ranging from agriculture to education, from energy and environment, to government reform and regulation to healthcare each replete with examples under PG at Work of where op-eds and even news stories have been planted across prominent newspapers and networks to pose their lobbying work as news. Unfortunately Podesta is not the only lobbying firm doing this in fact this is the modus operandi of all large lobbying firms. It was reported in Meet a Propagandist: A Profile in Duplicity that another prominent lobbying firm, Amsterdam Peroff, a corporate member of the Chatham House think-tank, approached, amongst many other journalists, fellow Chatham House corporate member Thompson Reuters via Reuters journalist Andrew Marshall. Together they promptly began a two-year propaganda campaign attempting to undermine the national institutions of Thailand on behalf of Wall Street proxy Thaksin Shinawatra. Amsterdam and Reuters Marshalls efforts also involved Western-backed street protests organized and led by their client Shinawatra and provide us with a transparent, well documented case by which to compare the Wests similar operations now directed at Russia. What we are then reading and watching on a daily basis is nothing more than manipulative talking-points peddled by disingenuous, entirely compromised journalists delivering propaganda in the service of lobbying firms, instead of the accurate, responsible journalism people expect them to in the service of a well informed citizenry. A misdirected and confused public is one of the main factors as to why many of todays problems cannot be solved. A problem cannot be solved if it cannot even be properly understood. It is important to understand that everything we are presented with in the corporate-media is manipulated in this fashion, and that everything from the conflict in Syria, to street protests in Thailand, and Putins return to power in Russia is presented to us in such a way as to bend our will and predisposition to supporting the agenda of Wall Street and London not to help us understand the reality of world events as they unfold. 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