She’s not just an immensely successful daughter of a Chinese immigrant (her mother worked as a maid), but also an active figure within the Democratic Party and a significant contributor. With powerful political ties that could greatly benefit RFK Jr., she’s poised to resonate strongly with young voters, and crucially, she possesses a deep understanding of the workings of Big Tech.

The more I reflect on RFK Jr.’s decision to choose her as his running mate, the more I’m convinced of its brilliance. Securing a former Democrat who is female, a person of color, exceptionally accomplished, affluent, and ready to fiercely advocate for his core principles and agenda is a political masterstroke that will unsettle both Republicans and Democrats, particularly the entrenched interests of corporate America, including Big Pharma, Big Food, the military-industrial complex, and K Street lobbyists.

Shanahan embodies a flawless and inspirational American success narrative, defying the odds and emerging from poverty—a true embodiment of the American dream.

In these times, Americans yearn for bold dreams about what America could and should become for all its citizens.

“Zhoghovurd” daily writes: “National Assembly President Alen Simonyan arranged for his son’s godfather, who is a big businessman, to take him to Paris for a job in the lowest echelon of the National Assembly. “Zhoghovurd” daily made another sensational revelation.

Before going into the details, let’s note that corruption haunts Alen Simonyan. In many episodes of his activity, there are glaring examples of corruption, which Alen Simonyan himself previously criticized as unacceptable.

And so, “Zhoghovurd” daily newspaper learned that in 2021, when Alen Simonyan was in a sour period of his career, he was newly appointed as the Speaker of the National Assembly, using his official position, accepted the millionaire Kavori to work under him in the National Assembly, included him in the work delegation, which were sent to Paris.

Examining the order of the Speaker of the National Assembly, at first glance, everything is in order, it seems that all of them are employees of the National Assembly, some of whom are covered by the RA state budget, some of them traveled with their own funds, but after studying the list, we noticed that Edgar Avagyan is mentioned in the last places of the list. the name, which is presented by the junior specialist of the passport service department of the protocol department of the staff of the National Assembly, and the junior specialists almost never go to any country with the speaker of the National Assembly.

“Zhoghovurd” daily found out that the above-mentioned person is the godfather of Alen Simonyan’s son. Yes, it is the same Edgar Avagyan, who is one of the owners of the “Pallada Tsaghkadzor” residential complex in Tsaghkadzor, the owner of “Freenews” television company, where the director is Alen Simonyan’s wife.

“Zhoghovurd” daily turned to the Public Relations and Communication Department of the RA National Assembly, where they officially confirmed the information we had.

It turned out that the godfather of Alen Simonyan’s son, Edgar Avagyan, really started working at the National Assembly on November 5, 2021 and worked there for almost 3 months, until January 17, 2022.

It turns out that Alen Simonyan has found an easy way to travel with the sponsor under his authority. The strange thing is, of course, that Edgar Avagyan, posing as an oligarch, agreed to go to France or other countries as part of the NA delegation, to be met “under” the plane by special cars, and taken to a high-class hotel.”

Details in today’s issue of “Zhoghovurd” daily.

From March 30, cards of the Russian payment system “Mir” will stop working in ATMs of most Armenian banks.

`This was reported by RBC, referring to the representative of “VTB Armenia” and its source in the Russian payments market. It should be noted that “Mir” cards now work in Armenia and are accepted by local banks. “The source of the Russian payments market also informed about the upcoming cessation of the operation of “Mir” cards in most of the country’s banks,” the newspaper reports. According to media reports, basic operations at “VTB Armenia” will be available to “Mir” card holders. Among them are cash withdrawals from VTB ATMs (Armenia), payments for online banking and online purchases.

What is remarkable is the synchronicity with which all commercial banks of RA, except VTB, suddenly decided to stop serving “Mir” cards, and we learn about this not from the banks of RA or the Central Bank, but by representatives of VTB. Such synchronicity indicates that the decision is political and taken at the top. It is no coincidence that in the latest resolution adopted by the Council of Europe, Armenia was called upon to avoid helping the Russian Federation, so that Armenian organizations would not be subject to Western sanctions. In fact, the government of Nikol Pashinyan decided to follow the advice of Western conservatives, without of course calculating the damage that such a decision could cause to Armenia and the economy of our country; It will not be superfluous to recall that the double-digit economic growth of the previous year, of which Pashinyan is so proud, was mainly ensured by the resettlement of Russians. At the same time, it must be understood that such hostile measures against the main trading partner will not go unanswered, and the response could be extremely painful for the Armenian economy. For example, the Russian side can prohibit transfers to Armenia. In this case, who will suffer the most when tens of thousands

of our compatriots working in Russia will not be able to help their families financially?

The volume of remittances from the Russian Federation began to increase sharply from March 2022, when the mass influx of Russians to Armenia began. Over the whole of 2022, it has multiplied by more than 4, exceeding 3 billion dollars. As a result, remittances have once again started to play an important role in the RA economy, as they did 10 to 15 years ago. In 2023, remittances sent from the Russian Federation increased 7 times compared to 2022 and amounted to $882 million. It is clear that by allowing themselves to be guided by the dictates of the West, the ordinary Armenian citizen will suffer again, but Nikol Pashinyan and his teammates do not seem to worry about this circumstance, the important thing is that the dictators remain satisfied …

Source: https://www.armenews.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=113885&fbclid=IwAR11MTQ4ONUlXlsyFltn6ofgsP_lnBTPc8z7riUeVUj12cdrIE2g0nkw6gA

Armenian Public Television, commonly known as H1, has taken a noteworthy step this week by inaugurating an office in Los Angeles,

marking its expansion into one of the largest Armenian communities beyond the country’s borders. Its Los Angeles operation will be called First Channel America. Operated and financially supported by the present Armenian government, Armenian Public Television’s expansion into Los Angeles can be interpreted as a deliberate effort to enhance its influence within the diaspora. Armenian Public Television’s undeniably close ties with the current government have further fueled skepticism and distrust among the citizens of Armenia, many of whom label the station as a mouthpiece for government propaganda.

Following the 2020 War in Artsakh, in 2021 the Armenian government decided to allocate significant funds to the Public Broadcaster’s Council, amounting to nearly a million US dollars (427.7 million drams). This raised concerns about the station’s independence and impartiality. Moreover, even before the 2020 War in Artsakh, in February 2020, the government approved the legislative initiative of the government regarding the draft of the RA law “On Amendments and Additions to the RA Law On Television and Radio,” giving the right to broadcast advertisements to the Public Television Company. Government funding and entering the advertising market with government backing gave Armenian Public Television substantial competitive advantages, pushing competitors like opposition media out of the market. Meanwhile, the Armenian government continues to periodically crack down on media outlets that are critical of the government’s recent decisions to warm relations with neighboring Turkey and Azerbaijan. Just yesterday, Armenian Public Television published a news segment based on a survey stating that Nikol Pashinyan is the most trustworthy politician in the country.

On New Year’s Eve, as the country and Armenians worldwide prepared to welcome the new year, Armenian Public Television omitted the yearly address of the Catholicos, the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, from its programming. This tradition was instated and had continued since Armenia’s independence in 1991. This omission was seen as a deliberate snub towards the religious leader and further strained the already tense relationship between the current government and the Armenian Apostolic Church. The leadership of the Armenian Public Television includes Hovhanes Movsisyan, who currently serves as Executive Director.

Movsisyan, who studied documentary filmmaking in Turkey and was a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, strongly voiced his support for the “Velvet Revolution.” Following the revolution, he quickly rose in influence within Armenia’s media landscape and was assigned by the then newly appointed Prime Minister Pashinyan to the Prime Minister’s Public Affair and Information Center. Following the 2020 War in Artsakh, which ended in a capitulation on November 9, 2020, Movsisyan was again promoted. On November 11, 2020, only two days after the Government’s capitulation of the vast majority of Artsakh, Movsisyan was again promoted, this time to his current role as Executive Director of Armenia’s state-owned public television.

By Harut Sassounian

A team of investigative journalists from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed that a Hollywood producer planned to make propaganda films that would glorify several authoritarian leaders for a payment of millions of dollars.

Igor Lopatonok, a native of Ukraine who is now a US citizen, in collaboration with Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, initially produced two documentaries on Ukraine, which were described as “pro-Kremlin propaganda” and a highly flattering eight-part mini-series on Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

In addition, Lopatonok planned to make several propaganda documentaries casting a positive light on the autocratic leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey, among others. However, it is not clear if Stone would have been involved in any of these proposed projects. None of these documentaries were made.

OCCRP stated that Aliyev, Putin and Lukashenko “have all been accused of horrific crimes against the citizens of the countries they rule…. But where the world sees brutal dictators, Igor Lopatonok sees opportunity [to make money].” Since these authoritarian leaders were to pay for their propaganda documentaries, no mention would have been made of their brutal rule.

“One of Lopatonok’s glossy pitches, ‘Untitled Oliver Stone Documentary’ or ‘About Ilham Aliyev and Azerbaijan’, promises that Stone would ‘sit face to face’ with the Azerbaijani strongman [Aliyev] and cover not only ‘emerging of leader to the head of state rank, but all questions of colorful and fascinating history of Azerbaijan,’” OCCRP reported.

“Lopatonok seemed to have hit upon a promising formula. He had assembled a small team of screenwriters and producers who churned out film ideas to pitch to dictators, making an enticing offer: copious screen time with a world-famous director [Oliver Stone]. The key to ‘monetizing’ the process was simple, said an insider who worked on the team, and agreed to speak with reporters on condition of anonymity. Lopatonok had figured out how to offer powerful people something they couldn’t resist: Legitimacy on the world stage,” OCCRP wrote.

“In his pitch to Aliyev for the ‘Oliver Stone documentary,’ Lopatonok underscores that the planned film would ‘have a unique positive impact on publicity of the president and Azerbaijan.’ Although it’s unclear if Aliyev ever engaged with the pitch, an expert on Eurasia said it would be in line with the strongman’s previous efforts to present his regime as a dynamic, modernizing influence in the region. ‘I do see it as in line with all of these potential vectors of image washing — culture, sports, those are the big ones, and global events, global conferences,’ said Alexander Cooley, a political science professor at New York’s Barnard College and an expert on Eurasian transnational networks.”

It is obvious that a documentary made by Hollywood filmmakers touting the greatness of Aliyev would have much more credibility than the cheap propaganda produced in Azerbaijan.

“When authoritarian leaders get a Hollywood glow-up, it often comes at the expense of the people they rule over, said Casey Michel, head of the Human Rights Foundation’s Combating Kleptocracy Program. The foundation has spent years campaigning for Hollywood stars to stop working with dictatorial regimes. ‘I can’t imagine how dispiriting it must be for citizens in places like Kazakhstan … to watch this American director come and turn into a propaganda mouthpiece for their dictators,’ Michel said. These people know how horrific these regimes truly are — and then they watch this American parachute in, and gobble up all of the dictators’ talking points, without even bothering to push back,” OCCRP stated.

The funding to produce these documentaries is to be provided by the dictators “or people close to them.” In 2019, when Stone and Lopatonok produced the documentary “Qazaq: History of the Golden Man,” about Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan, a charitable foundation controlled by him paid the duo at least $5 million,” OCCRP reported.

Documents obtained by OCCRP reporters revealed that Lopatonok’s “team prepared synopses of potential films about at least six other authoritarian governments, including China, the United Arab Emirates, and the Russian republic of Tatarstan, alongside the pitches to Aliyev and Lukashenko, promising that Stone would interview their leaders and help tell their ‘true story.’”

Lopatonok’s team proposed that during his interview with Aliyev, Stone discuss “the country’s ‘success’ under the ‘dynastic rule’ of the Aliyev family, and its ongoing conflict with ‘an Armenia that is losing its stability and teetering on the edge of an abyss.’ A summary of the proposed film makes clear the tenor of Lopatonok’s approach: It describes Aliyev as a ‘true successor’ to his father, the previous president, who had taught him to be a ‘wise leader.’” The pitch asked: “Can you really call the existing state system in Azerbaijan a ‘Cult of Personality’? Or is it just a tribute of people’s respect to a leader who was able to turn the country from poverty into one of the developed, prosperous countries?” The film about Aliyev would cost $15 million, according to OCCRP.

Lopatonok told the Azeri media during his visit to Baku in 2021: “This country [Azerbaijan] has a very rich and colorful culture. When I was here in 2012-2013, I learned to distinguish the Karabakh carpets from all others, identifying [them] by their ornament. I would make a good film about Azerbaijan.”

There was another synopsis for a film on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “offering him a chance to tout his defense of Turkish interests.” Here is what the synopsis said: “Erdogan is a Turk and hardly needs to be basing his actions on the interests of other countries. But what interests does he have? Can he restore the Great Silk Road? And does he really have expansionist plans? What is Erdogan trying to achieve? He should answer these questions himself. And only himself. We should not try to divine [Erdogan’s plans] from coffee grounds, even if it is magnificent Turkish coffee that they know how to make only in Istanbul.”

“In a 2018 interview, Ibrahim Kalin, then the spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed that they had received a pitch for a documentary about Erdogan around the same time Stone was in Turkey. ‘We are looking at it, we are evaluating it,’ he said,” OCCRP reported.

RFK Jr: The CIA is a sock puppet for the military-industrial complex, the Fed is a sock puppet for Wall Street, and the health agencies keep us sick to profit Big Pharma “The CIA’s function is to provide a steady pipeline of forever wars for Raytheon,

General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed. My uncle understood that in 1961 when he came into power. During the Bay of Pigs, he realized he’d been lied to by his agency and by the military brass. Publicly he took blame for it, but privately he said to his aides, ‘I want to take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.’

But also, the Fed is a captive agency by the banking industry. Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink run the Fed. It’s not working for you and me. It’s working to flood the canyons of Wall Street with money, and that’s much more concerning to me than the agencies.

The agencies have too much power because they’re owned by the industry. The agencies didn’t have too much power when they were working for the American public. The health agencies are not working for public health. They’re working to keep us sick, because the group that controls them, the pharmaceutical industry, profits from chronic disease. It’s now $4.3 trillion we’re spending a year on chronic disease, and nobody’s even doing research on it at NIH. All of these agencies are controlled by an industry, and I think that is the biggest threat to American democracy.” From ETHDenver 2024

Edmond Marukyan has appealed to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to be dismissed from the post of Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large. He announced this on his Facebook page.

“I would like to inform you that I have applied to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to be dismissed from the post of Ambassador-at-Large of the Republic of Armenia.

In a difficult period for our state and region, I undertook this mission with great responsibility and dedication.

However, recently, the differences in our views on several fundamental foreign policy issues have made my further participation in the foreign policy front impossible.

I assure you that I will continue to serve the state and the people and invest my knowledge and experience, as well as my international relations, in the defense of the national and state interests of the Republic of Armenia.

God save the Republic of Armenia,” Marukyan wrote.