Reddit mentions of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

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Appeared? What a horrible nightmare we are living through. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia.

Reading Nothing is True and Everything is Possible Modern Russia is a hall of mirrors, seriously fucked up.

There is an excellent book that goes into great detail about this Russian style disinformation that the Trump administration has adopted: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia.

Second the recommendation, as well as Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev, which was written in 2014 and gives the most comprehensive and in-depth view that I've seen of what's happened with the Russian media environment since Putin came to power.

It's very obvious that they're now deploying the same tactics that have been so successful domestically on an international level.

This is a great book on the Russian media complex:

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

Perhaps the title is a reference to The Origins of Totalitarianism

OP, if this article interests you, I might suggest Peter Pomerantsev's Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

It discusses the marriage between authoritarianism and reality television. Peter Pomerantsev is a television producer who worked for a number of different Russian television stations.

And a great book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L4FSVZ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

There have been books written and documentaries made on Donnie's mob ties.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/02/ted-cruz/yes-donald-trump-has-been-linked-mob/

"The problem for the brash New Yorker was that part of the land he wanted for his casino was owned by Salvie Testa and Frank Nar­ducci Jr, mafia hitmen known as the Young Executioners.

They worked for Atlantic City mob boss Nicodemo “Little Nicky” Scarfo. Even so, Trump did the deal, eventually buying the land for $US1.1 million, about twice the market price for the 465sq m block that had sold five years earlier for $US195,000.

It is deals such as this that have long fuelled rumours of Trump’s associations and connections with the mafia.

As The Australian reveals today, the NSW Police Board was so concerned about Trump’s suspected mafia connections in ­Atlantic City that, in 1987, it recom­mended that Trump’s bid to build the Darling Harbour casino be rejected."

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/donald-trump-the-deals-and-the-mafia-dons/news-story/40c61d98c72c3ba10064357c047ee8ce?nk=b5cc34a9b0f804cf73cafad3696671a8-1541655652

Here's the WSJ, who tries very hard to paint it in the most innocuous light, but even they don't deny he was involved with the mob.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-dealt-with-a-series-of-people-who-had-mob-ties-1472736922

Here's another one:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppx7b9/a-brief-history-of-donald-trump-and-the-mafia

This is an extremely cursory glance at a much more complex story, and there is extensive evidence that Trump has been involved with the Russian mob ever since American banks stopped lending him money.

You really think all that can get unraveled in a year and a half? All the money trails to follow, all the lower level goons to roll up, and the evidence to collect, all the threads to unravel.

No, it would take a team of top investigators and prosecutors years to unravel such a tangled web, and by all appearances that is exactly what they are doing.

The Russian government and the Russian mob are one and the same. The collusion investigation is inherently related to Trumps extensive ties to Russian and former Soviet bloc oligarchs who are all involved in organized crime in one way or another.

See "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible" for further reading about the state of modern Russia.

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-True-Everything-Possible-Surreal-ebook/dp/B00L4FSVZ6

These two pretending to fight is a sideshow to distract. Romney lied yesterday when he tweeted that the Mueller report indicated that there was "insufficient evidence to charge the President" with obstruction of justice. Romney is purposely trying to provide cover for the rest of the GOP while still placating Trump. The GOP operative "arguments" are theater, employing the most effective tactics of Russian propaganda to make it seems as though some GOP leaders actually take Trump's illegal actions and election seriously.

I suggest reading Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible.

I've barely dipped my toes into the huge, complicated history of the USSR, it's fall, or the privatization myself... but here's some good stuff to start with:


-A super quick rundown of the Voucher Privatization program from the NYT, the year it started. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/02/world/russians-getting-share-vouchers-but-ruble-falls.html


-An interview with Paul Klebnikov of the London School of Economics. Talking about the ways the voucher program failed, first through honest mistakes, particularly a misplaced urgency to privatize quickly, and then a few years later through cynical/corrupt policy. https://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2002/02jan-feb/jan-feb02interviewklebniko.html


-Rundown of how the Clinton administration and Harvard economists guided the Russian Federation's process of Privatization and an accounting of some of the foreign money flooding into the country. https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia/


You can also check out Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia. The author is a Russian expat who came back to the country in the early 2000's to help them produce Western style television programming. It's written a bit romantically, feels a bit exaggerated at times, but it describes the modern Russia in all its corrupt glory. Every new quarter of the Trump Presidency the "exaggerations" feel a little less far-fetched. And excerpt:


>The Night Wolves are just one of the many stars of the new Ostankino cast. There are the Cherubims, who dress in all black emblazoned with skulls and crosses, calling to cleanse Russia of moral darkness; the neo-Nazis with MTV dancer bodies who film themselves beating up gay teenagers in the name of patriotism; the whip-wielding Cossacks attacking performance artists on the streets. And all of them are pushed to the center of the screen to appear on trashy talk shows and star in factual entertainment formats, keeping the TV spinning with oohs and aahs about gays and God, Satan and the CIA. Their emergence is not some bottom-up swell; only a tiny number of Russians go to church. Rather, the Kremlin has finally mastered the art of fusing reality TV and authoritarianism to keep the great, 140-million-strong population entertained, distracted, constantly exposed to geopolitical nightmares, which if repeated enough times can become infectious. For when I talk to many of my old colleagues who are still working in the ranks of Russian media or in state corporations, they might laugh off all the Holy Russia stuff as so much PR (because everything is PR!), but their triumphant cynicism in turn means they can be made to feel there are conspiracies everywhere: because if nothing is true and all motives are corrupt and no one is to be trusted, doesn’t it mean that some dark hand must be behind everything?

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L4FSVZ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

>Except you don't remotely act that belief out, much less live it, or you'd be in an insane asylum.

Or Russia.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L4FSVZ6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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