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oh, hello, i'm manila chan you are tuned into modus operandi. now their faces are inescapable . plastered across all platforms, their names uttered more frequently than common necessities like bread or water. volota mere zalinski, read a tune, berg, alexi, nevada,

only one guido and others. names and faces who rocketed to international fame for a cause. this week we'll discuss how seemingly random people are heralded as global idols for a specific cause. is this chance or calculated creation? all right, let's get into the ammo. ah . in 2019, he was elected president of an eastern european country. most people could not find on a map, a comedic actor turned politician volunteer. zalinski went from only regional fame to household name across the globe in the span of just over 2 years. or the year before and 2018 alone schoolgirl in sweden, protesting climate change in solitude. gothenburg then, just 15 years old,

at the time, was suddenly splashed across magazines around the world. invited to meet with heads of state and speak at huge events like you and meetings. and there are others like alexi, now volley championed as the main opposition to vladimir putin or juan guido arbitrarily claiming his role as president of venezuela. there is a laundry list of people who the western mainstream media have foisted across their headlines as some symbol of some cause or another. these so called independent individuals with a noble heart and victims of this or that actually in reality have throngs of p. r companies and government insiders and benefactors in the us, pushing them to the forefront to play the leading role on the world stage. to discuss these so called global idols and their role in the political theater. we

are being joined by game at hong. he is a former swiss and p journalist and author, his newest book titled lucy occident. originally in french, translated to english, is russia, west. d. thank you so much for joining the program. thank you for inviting me for this interview. are very, very paula. very happy to, to be read. you again. volota mears. the landscape has never waited into politics before his ascension to president of ukraine. how did an actor with only regional fame become president of a country and a household name in the span of like 2 years? this, i think a zelinski case is not unique increase to you, but it is because you have other act also becoming president for says for now we got was one you would act out before becoming president. and you're also for an

sassy, nicolai summer committee jim, or you, maurice like big pic reluw who also felt created to political party, very successful in italy. all other guys like your bill was going in italy or even done a chance to was it to be star before becoming president. so zelinski scarce is not unique, but the specific yes. in the sense it is a unique act dol. oh, who is directly who can directly focus comedy to the politics in very short time, few months we can see and that's unique because we're not we got, he was governor of california. he was involved in politics before he became the president of the united states. so since his case is also so,

so badly, very specific. how can we explain in my view that it's a huge advantage when you are in, you want to be elected to become a president to use your faith in your personal thing. so if you are, your name is known from the public, which was the case offers lensky in quinn. you was very famous as a comedian, as are you still at the t v. event in russia, but also in your claim. so it's a big advantage. if your name is already known, and it was also a president, that's a fake president, but he was playing, he's all before becoming the 2 president of the country. so maybe it has some influence about elections. but what also is important

in the case of for, for the lensky, is that you're so yes, a special look, you know, and you made a campaign. yeah, you made a campaign electoral campaign. 192019 saying, oh, i am new on the scene. i am not corrupted as on our past president and i will bring you the piece so you made promises to. ready queen and our citizens saying, i will bring peace. i will set the conflict under crisis redress, shut the door. so the maid promises with which he betrayed as soon as he was elected. but to be pulled to election use this,

let's say she's new with a to so i pass talk none to be elect elected and after you betrayed but between on after the election. that's why your was in my, you successful and sure. i know how to talk argument. we can see you had to support what domain, early galks of good country. so he had plenty of money to support in his electoral campaign, which is very important in politics without money. now in the democracy, we can, you cannot be elected. now the one is just one example of someone who seems kind of plucked from obscurity to become the face of a car or a symbol of sorts. when i turn birds, the young swedish climate activist is another. you think of others who sort of fit

this description and sat in global idol and why are these people used as you know, like a singular symbol? yes. for me, zelinski didn't came from nothing to do everything. you know, as i tried to explain, because it was pretty noun in the russian speaking countries such as ukraine bills and russia before his election as a, as a president. but the case of for grant arkenberg is a little bit different because she was not now and, and she suddenly appeal on the scene in the not. ready less than one year. we can explain that because she's also,

she was also going to posture, offer victim. if you look at look, person precisely read that book. she, she looks a little bit like do you remember me? b t b r a t v movie for the movie or made by stephen speak about this is very friendly, sympathetic n e t. and if you look at the face of dark space, she has something in common with short, sharp tracks, the sympathy of the people because of her special face. and i think to it as like, as she is slightly, has been said, what to stick, but it gives to her some attraction to the people. because like, you know, she's attracting attention to just capacity and zealand ski. exactly.

has, he's a good actor. he knows perfectly how to use all the tricks order order. ready yesterday, capacities of to show his it was perfectly done for the job because i didn't need a lot of politicians to learn how to use t, v to use the show to show up to price, you know, artifacts and so on. because you already master everything, you know, you know, for, for the shoe. so you could directly play the role of his existence, which was a big advantage at the beginning of this war in order to appear on a monday, well seen as

a seen. you and i live in countries that are considered the west. does the use of such symbols, such idols have the same impact across the globe? say, i don't know across the global south, or is this a media invention for western consumption? for me, this kind of media publication is mainly for the western public. because what is the goal of this publication is to get to confess us to get the consent of the people to do arms expenses, to the publication of armaments, to the military budget, as we have seen it, the u. s. military budget has been increased in december to 858, billions of go out. so for 100 billions,

how you can to previous one. so as a need to convince your public to accept such expenses for weaponry. well for getting money and sounds great and so on. you need to fabricate these kind of, i goes this kind of concept, but mainly in the west, not, not in the global. so maybe if it is, if it is known in the global, so that's the 2nd advantage, but it's a site advantage, not the main, the main goal. and in the global south, i think the public opinion does on a shell you, if you look go, boss. so now it's not accepted to take. ready sanctions against russia. that's not accepted to come see girls. lensky has the unique so cost are and the unique

global. i don't know if the good, you know, on the planet why, because in the south, they're not sensitive to the scandal. it book. we see both of these kind of double stand up. why? because they're accustomed. they used to get the bombs on the heads. you know where i dropped the up with this plan that got bombs dropped in year. man. there were dropping afghanistan in iraq then sir. yeah, lead, yeah. you know, and to stupid people of a freak out of the muslim country, they can not show up is kind of publication because that know they had experience how the west is using to scan of media appropriate creation to

justify it until then, sons is bumping. it's killings in the global south mainly which is delaying the victim of to scandal by you probation. so i think good, thanks to god. thanks to to wait on this good populations of your budget. so more crunch shows up. these propaganda tend to, we are us. we in the restaurant one than we are aware of off game aton is gonna stay with us coming up next. the human need to worship. are these political idols comparable to deities in religion or might some call their worship coltish. we'll discuss it when we return, said type them out. we'll be right back. ah,

with a sometimes the law of unintended consequences kicks in with a vengeance take, for example, washington's addiction of sanctioning countries around the world for short term political gain. the unintended consequence is a weakening of the american greenback. american power. ah, yes. now you need yes. if it's deploy smear to melting, you know them. kim's,

the new book is up probably. the next we shall see, radiates. young showcase in a ways w ah ah, what would be the most number of your home in my chair, the water doesn't want that extra mom a little bit whole now. welcome back to the m o. i'm manila chan, former swiss m, p journalist and author game anton has decided to stay with us to talk some more.

so gee, when choosing or carefully curating people to be idols like zalinski to unburden of bali and others in this day and age of social media where the internet never forgets. how do these idols managed to escape the darker parts of their past? it's very easy for them, it's, it's, it's not a problem for them. because as they have the support of the, all the western mass media from cnn to learn more in france from the phone book on your mind. it's i to, in germany, to washington post order way to western wade. your media, read you was academic circles. i mean, corporate, all the corporate, major of the weights of the west is mobilized to support them. so it's very easy

to put aside the bad elements of biography and to keep it under under cover, you know, and to exit, to try to, to, to, to make the focus only on the positive elements of the biography. look, for instance, lensky. how do the western place, the corporate media insisting about his big team award is. ready it is commitment for the good against the bad russian and so on and forgetting completely and hold his skull loose. investment is a real estate properties in florida. in london, you can reach where with it by the palm drop

it, but you have no mention of pandora papers and zalinski forts and how is using money laundering money and putting is money in florida. you are never that kind of mentioned because it's, it has been put aside. and by the you can, i said the drawing of course, the positive message message about them. forgetting all the bad sides. the darker sides of this kind of what people in the case of jan and ski, it's obvious for people who are knowing his biography. but if you are just a regular he called reading from time to time a newspaper. ready listening to radio, you cannot know anything about his dark past because it says been completely

concealed, completely heathen. and it's easy to do when you called to court boy. now it would be one thing if these people were merely cultural idols like a pop star, take madonna or the beatles. but these people have an impact on foreign policy. don't i mean, how consequential are such idols on the world stage? yeah, we live in a world of stories ation of styles. you know, the movie styles are celebrated all the time in good newspaper, i to tv and so on. so there is, there is a big need for, for styles. and so there is a temptation to use the staff to, to use that to defend the cause, any kind of cause it can be good cause your money can cause dog dog,

no problem with that. but also for more or less less. let's see. log done through a case on and so that's, that's the system off of mass media since one century ago. it's not yet beginning of the 20th century with jumped up last mid. yeah. did this kind of star is ation us, so it can be used. ready or to sense you have movie star or bob starz who so of course, like boy know, read a ways to say in jans of the far west you have, i'm just, i'm really naturally for your money tell you cause use for both the, for instance, during the 19 ninety's,

they can have that can be, they can, they can be used for totally a wellness of what they're doing thing, but also without being conscious of all we ask them to play. and we can also, i wonder, we can also raise the question. if the staff at the end, at the end of the day, if they are promoting a good course or if they are not using the good cause for promoting themselves to, to wait their biography. and to give, you know, a name edge of to good. good, good to the public, you know and in may do it so. so question because they tend to use for good cause, but a good cause can also be used to promote the so called spell in several of your

articles. you have argued that the media is complicit in wars and conflict around the world, either by paying them too much attention such as ukraine or none at all, like yemen and the worst part. the media now picking aside noam chomsky and edward as hermine wrote the book, manufacturing consent back in the 19 eighties and by chance get herman's definition of manufactured consent. are these global idols manufactured and what sort of consent are they trying to serve? yes, but i would the answer to this question because you know, for me, the manufacturer of consent needs or needs to be constant. you cannot see as you cannot in corrupt the fabrication of the concept

manufacturing of so you need to do it every day. every week, every month, every year. because if you interrupt it uses it. you know, the attention of the public is collapsing is my mission. so you have to renew constantly your narrative. and that's why you need the old style are coming from to movies or music or any kind, you know, all political styles. why not? but you need also to create new stuff. for instance, as is now mr. the landscape. these are new star since peace europe, because before february 20 to 20022, you was only a new quinn president. not, not better,

not worse than exactly the corrupted or the pass code. the ukrainian president, exactly undemocratic because the, the cancer or the last major rep or post to him before, not only after the february, but before you also present jane. it was also before, so you want to exactly like a president. so it became a star because we did west, especially united states that need new styles in order to promote the weakening of russia to promote the war against russia to promote the so called grain against the bad russians. and so the

next key will last as long as this war will be supported by, by the west. because yes, as, as explained, the manufacturing consent needs all the time to be, to be supported to, to consume scott, it's consuming or so starts or start new styles and property, new stars events key one do. ready become a bus stop because you will pick it will be and like all the consumer products or consumption, you know, society, it will be consumed in so to game it, talk author of ruthie occident. thank you so much for joining us on this very controversial topic. ok, thank you to you for, for following ursa. i'm happy to see you again soon back. oh, now there is

a saying about social media like instagram or tick tock. never believe what you see, because as we know, these images are carefully and meticulously crafted. filtered to present whatever image the poster wishes to convey, the same rule can be applied to these so called global idols. that's gonna do it for this week's episode. modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy . i'm your host. mila chan. thank you for tuning in with you again. next week to figure out the emma. ah ah,

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