Armenia and the information war

[Armanen]

Re: Armenia and the information war

I agree and I'm a big fan of his.

Please help spread his blog around to people who are interested in Armenian and Eurasian affairs. He does his work for free, and unlike john hughes or others of that ilk, he has our best interests at heart.

[Tigranakert]

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Another good example of how Western funded media, especially ArmeniaNow, is the one of the first to quickly write an article about something negative (because in the end, ArmeniaNow's goal is never to write something positive about OUR home country, an ArmeniaNow reader must get depressed, must hate his country, must think everything is bad and must only focus on the negative aspects of society), is the following;

Car drivers protest

http://armenianow.com/social/27754/car_drivers_gyumri_protest

In every civilized country in the world, there are import taxes on cars, it's something natural. In the Netherlands, it's about 50%. In Armenia, a new law stipulates people to pay taxes for importing cars (32%). We want Armenia to be a law-abiding country, we want Armenia to develop, we want Armenia to improve it's state efficiency, we want.... a lot of things.

But... these (few) drivers want all of that, but they don't want to participate in it, because they don't want to pay "tax". This brutality amazes me, why should they be exempted from tax and other Armenians not?

Anyway, this is not my point, my point is, like Arevordi mentioned, Armenians zoom in too much in the negatives, and even put POSITIVE things in a NEGATIVE daylight (like this law slowly trying to prohibit people bypassing the law by using Georgian number plates), with the ACTIVE support of Western (I don't see any Russian media outlets) funded media.

[KarotheGreat]

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Another good example of how Western funded media, especially ArmeniaNow, is the one of the first to quickly write an article about something negative (because in the end, ArmeniaNow's goal is never to write something positive about OUR home country, an ArmeniaNow reader must get depressed, must hate his country, must think everything is bad and must only focus on the negative aspects of society), is the following;

Car drivers protest

http://armenianow.com/social/27754/car_drivers_gyumri_protest

In every civilized country in the world, there are import taxes on cars, it's something natural. In the Netherlands, it's about 50%. In Armenia, a new law stipulates people to pay taxes for importing cars (32%). We want Armenia to be a law-abiding country, we want Armenia to develop, we want Armenia to improve it's state efficiency, we want.... a lot of things.

But... these (few) drivers want all of that, but they don't want to participate in it, because they don't want to pay "tax". This brutality amazes me, why should they be exempted from tax and other Armenians not?

Anyway, this is not my point, my point is, like Arevordi mentioned, Armenians zoom in too much in the negatives, and even put POSITIVE things in a NEGATIVE daylight (like this law slowly trying to prohibit people bypassing the law by using Georgian number plates), with the ACTIVE support of Western (I don't see any Russian media outlets) funded media.

That is also something I've been saying that Armenians don't want laws in the country but they want to do as they please get as much money as possible.

[Armanen]

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Then they bi*ch about the country is lawless.

[UrMistake]

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Laws are laws and we need them,so if we get corrupt politicians laws will punish them.laws are for people and the general good not only for one person but as a nation for the hole.

[gegev]

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Right!

Nowadays American and Azeri press are portraying Armenia in the same dark/evil colors to bring about internal instability and promote the devil; Levon Ter-Petrosyan. US leaders like Azeri sultan-Ilham; because of the 30 silver/oil coins. They supported the Pharaoh/Mubarak in Egypt, before the upraising.

But now, as “true” democtrats, they are criticizing/blaming Mubarak and “supporting” Egyptian opposition to be able to replace him with a FBI secret, Egyptian origin, agent. The same “secret” game they are playing with us.

Don’t forget that the American Ambassador in Armenia met with Levon Ter-Petrosyan, in his home, recently.

Today's American leadership is pro-Azeri!

[Mos]

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Americans want Armenia to be sold to Turkey, so that they can run their precious energy projects through our land from Azerbaijan, and of course further isolate Iran.

[arakeretzig]

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Americans want Armenia to be sold to Turkey, so that they can run their precious energy projects through our land from Azerbaijan, and of course further isolate Iran.

They can keep dreaming.

[Tigranakert]

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Expert: “Positive attitude to the enemy’s culture can make us weaker”
BY TIMES.AM AT 18 FEBRUARY, 2011, 4:59 PM

The positive attitude to the enemy’s culture can be really dangerous. The political expert Vahram Miraqyan told about this during the press conference in Yerevan.

According to the expert, it can make us weaker against the Azerbaijani aggressive attitude.

The politician Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said the praising words about Azerbaijani culture became frequent for the last time. There is a video-clip in a social net, where Spitakci Hayko (Hayko from Spitak) sinds Azerbaijani mugham with his friends, when the actor Armen Jigarkhanyan said during the interview with an Azerbaijani web-site, there is no Armenian, who doesn’t listen to the Azerbaijani mugham. And then Vahram Petrosyan’s announcements followed this.

The politician noted we are tolerant and let them propagate their values to our children. “This damages the security of our state and society”, Mr. Melik-Shahnazaryan noted.

According to Vahram Miraqyan, Armenian national culture must be propagated and protected in order to prevent the enemy’s impression.
He added there are some groups of people, who make Azerbaijani propaganda in Armenia. Some people get money for it, such as George Vanyan, and the others do it just because of being illiterate.

Vahram Petrosyan’s (who said Sayat Nova was Azeri and that he loves Azerbaijani music) case was the latter, the speaker considers.

On one hand, an Azerbaijani television host was fired because he sung a song in Armenian, and the Azerbaijani government claims traditional Armenian music (duduk etc) is Azerbaijani. On the other hand we have self-destructing Armenians, who, act ALSO in support of the Azerbaijani's by saying that they love Azerbaijani music, that we have to "listen" to Azerbaijani music and even claim that some parts of ancient Armenian music is Azerbaijani.

Disgusting... we need to change our attitude! Arevordi's article, which I posted above, is thereby really relevant and summarizes our problems well.

[Mos]

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nice job saakashvili - even your Western "allies" are spitting on you.

Famous American Forbes magazine issued annual ratings of the most dangerous states for work and traveling. Georgia is included in the list of 14 dangerous states, Georgian Journalist agency writes.

The authors of the report note Georgia offers tourists only picturesque scenes but not service conforming to European standards.

One of the French newspapers also included Georgia in a list of countries dangerous for tourists along with Afghanistan, Iraq, Somali, Honduras, Libya, Malaysia, South Korea and others.

According to the experts, Georgia’s tourism is in decline and will not recover until the country has regional problems.