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Nice one sputnik, exposes the true relationship between mandela and his admirers = "In House" symbolgy in the white stick maybes
But to be fair, RT were showing today the first televised footage of mandela talking from the early 60s, and watching his choice of words and demeanour , he did come across as a predominantly passive peacable seeking unique speaker back then
What is really interesting about the uks response to mandelas death and his apartheid solving existence is that as all the uk politicians and royals paw him with their right paw, their left paws are still supporting and feeding the zionic apartheid state of israel
But to be fair, RT were showing today the first televised footage of mandela talking from the early 60s, and watching his choice of words and demeanour , he did come across as a predominantly passive peacable seeking unique speaker back then
What is really interesting about the uks response to mandelas death and his apartheid solving existence is that as all the uk politicians and royals paw him with their right paw, their left paws are still supporting and feeding the zionic apartheid state of israel
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In the 80's Cameron campaigned to have Nelson Mandela executed for Terrorism!
Today Mandela is Camerons' Hero.
Yeah right
Just a few days ago Croatia voted against "gay marriage" .. by explicitly writing it into the croatian constitution
It is amazing what kind of hateful responses are comming from jewish led EU media propaganda, like the Wiesenthal centre has accused the Croats of.
This is a cultural war. I guess Croatia rather exits the EU then to put up with those non-elected imbeciles like Baroness Ashton.
Today Mandela is Camerons' Hero.
Yeah right
Just a few days ago Croatia voted against "gay marriage" .. by explicitly writing it into the croatian constitution
It is amazing what kind of hateful responses are comming from jewish led EU media propaganda, like the Wiesenthal centre has accused the Croats of.
This is a cultural war. I guess Croatia rather exits the EU then to put up with those non-elected imbeciles like Baroness Ashton.
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Its good to see there is some resistance against the gay rights mania, why do they need to get married anyways ? for tax reasons i suppose , otherwise i cant see the reason
and the iranians are aware of this (:
This baroness Ashton has never participated in an election and has no diplomatic experience whatsoever and yet she is appointed to represent the western world in negotiations with Iran. The demon blair was after that job before he got his peace envoy holiday, so this ashton has been appointed purely as a mouthpiece for hidden eurocrat aristo-knucklesThis is a cultural war. I guess Croatia rather exits the EU then to put up with those non-elected imbeciles like Baroness Ashton.
and the iranians are aware of this (:
The Iranians are divided in their opinion of Ashton. “We respect her greatly and she knows how to create a pleasant and practical atmosphere in the talks. The fact is that we prefer to sit with her rather than with each delegation separately,” says a source close to the delegation. “The problem is it’s quite clear that there is no genuine political power behind her. She has to go to consult with the representatives of the world powers on every minor detail. Nobody is under the illusion that she has any authority to decide on her own. She is no more than a liaison, and at that she is very effective.”
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That's why they are called the "House of Lords."
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So, Nelson Mandela wins politic rights for the plebeian classes but
central banking remains firmly in place?
central banking remains firmly in place?
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David Cameron in his younger days fronted a movement to demand mandella should be hanged as a terrorist , and now he's talking up this mandella like some kind of folk hero , one could not turn your back to any of these political lizards that inhabit westminster
Tony blair was at the funeral too , so demonic forces at the scene
According to a member of an,c i saw talking , she says although an,c have been in political power for many years now, they have no real power , there was supposed to be a re-designation of land ownership completed around now, but thats been put back another 10 years according to her , so who decides that ongoing delay ? thats the real power
the demon didn't attend his good friend the colonels funeral , must have been the sense of betrayal
Tony blair was at the funeral too , so demonic forces at the scene
According to a member of an,c i saw talking , she says although an,c have been in political power for many years now, they have no real power , there was supposed to be a re-designation of land ownership completed around now, but thats been put back another 10 years according to her , so who decides that ongoing delay ? thats the real power
the demon didn't attend his good friend the colonels funeral , must have been the sense of betrayal
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LOL!
Santa Putin is feeling merry this week. First he grants those Pussies and Greencheese
amnesty before the holidays, then he shows the EU how a real DEAL looks like
Vitali Klitschko had a date with his new buddy McCain and will properbly regret that he
gave his worldchampionship title back in exchange for a lead role as a crisis actor for
the western MSM drama show *ACHTUNG EASTERN EXPANSION*
Ukraine scores $15 bln from Russia and 33% gas discount
http://rt.com/business/ukraine-15-billion-gas-381/
This actually stops the bancrupty of the Ukrainian state. The EU hoped they could
pimp out the Ukraine...but it looks like there is a happy end for the Ukrainians.
Meanwhile Putin stops NATO's Missile "defense" systems ambitions in the Ukraine....
and deploys Iskanders to Kaliningrad with a operating range that can be interpreted
as a warning to Merkel, not to mention Poland and Latvia
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you!
Santa Putin is feeling merry this week. First he grants those Pussies and Greencheese
amnesty before the holidays, then he shows the EU how a real DEAL looks like
Vitali Klitschko had a date with his new buddy McCain and will properbly regret that he
gave his worldchampionship title back in exchange for a lead role as a crisis actor for
the western MSM drama show *ACHTUNG EASTERN EXPANSION*
Ukraine scores $15 bln from Russia and 33% gas discount
http://rt.com/business/ukraine-15-billion-gas-381/
This actually stops the bancrupty of the Ukrainian state. The EU hoped they could
pimp out the Ukraine...but it looks like there is a happy end for the Ukrainians.
Meanwhile Putin stops NATO's Missile "defense" systems ambitions in the Ukraine....
and deploys Iskanders to Kaliningrad with a operating range that can be interpreted
as a warning to Merkel, not to mention Poland and Latvia
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you!
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one motivated smart individual in a position of influence is always going to have a faster draw than a bunch of cackling turkeys … 33% discount ,,,so russia still making massive profits then , hehe, these new lower energy prices in ukraine are still beyond obscene then , i wonder if cameron will do same in the uk, no chance , his aristocratic masters like their infidels kept near the poverty line
May the winds of change blow well for one and all
May the winds of change blow well for one and all
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Ive never seen any conversation from gaddafo aired in uk news, so here is one i found on a random search , he seems to be rationally pointing out some contradictions in arab-israel relations , eerily predicts the possibility of his own demise as well from his "friends"
What i wasnt aware of was that gadaffi didnt hold any official title in libya , he was an honorary leader ...apparently
What i wasnt aware of was that gadaffi didnt hold any official title in libya , he was an honorary leader ...apparently
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re: Libya
Libya's gold was heisted. Some was probably used to pay off his
military leadership.
Where is Libya's gold?
Libya's gold was heisted. Some was probably used to pay off his
military leadership.
Where is Libya's gold?
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Excellent journalism...and the death of Suzuki by a thousand cuts...
Bono next?
Bono next?
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Bono , the creature formerly admired as a 1/4 part of a creative musical team , (Circa New Years Day Period till appropriately Lemon Period) long since sold his soul to aristocratic cunning and dominance under the guise of charitable good guy , like so many others in the celeb merry go round
I recommend watching todays episode of sputnik on RT 2nd half, with galloway highlighting the Ed Snowden being put up for election of Rector of Glasgow university which is a unique position that if he were to be voted in by present and former students, carries with its appointment an ancient law which overrides scottish law which is a separate entity from english law, in short if snow den were elected , he could freely come to scotland without fear of arrest and have a public world platform to speak his mind
I recommend watching todays episode of sputnik on RT 2nd half, with galloway highlighting the Ed Snowden being put up for election of Rector of Glasgow university which is a unique position that if he were to be voted in by present and former students, carries with its appointment an ancient law which overrides scottish law which is a separate entity from english law, in short if snow den were elected , he could freely come to scotland without fear of arrest and have a public world platform to speak his mind
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But could scotland provide savety for him? a lot of murdercalls were echoed thru US Media last week.
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haha LOL always loyal to the highest bider, huh..?!
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The usa may be claiming to be publically broke , but that doesn't stop them building a new 1 billion pound + embassy in london, a super fortress , high tech …………..cheese grater
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Snowden Gets voted in as Rector at Glasgow
Will he now use his free public protected platform to speak out against sinister surveillance or is he just a deep double-sided implant for subliminal reasons to be unveiled soon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26243567
Will he now use his free public protected platform to speak out against sinister surveillance or is he just a deep double-sided implant for subliminal reasons to be unveiled soon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-26243567
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Germany to Help Israelis in Countries Where There's No Embassy. Germany to offer Israeli citizens consular assistance in states where Israel has no official diplomatic representation.
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177724#.Uwuzl4USrY4
The Zionazi's are going to use German Embassies to funnel IDF trained Israeli militants from ethnic groups such as Israeli Circassians who are under tight control of Israel for ops in Ukraine and Caucasus.
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re: Germany sends diplomatic staff including Merkel to Israel
What is going on that Germany's Merkel and a contingent of her government
make a visit to Israel?
Why is the entire world collectively held with a gun to their head over Israel? Why
is Israel operating in so many countries through its Mossad. Why must the world be
on its knees to Israel?
Every other news article on most news sites is about Israel? Why? Israel awards
Merkel with its highest civilian distention award? Why?
Is is actively involved in the entire region through one of the largest construction
conglomerates in the region the Merhav Group of companies involved in natural
gas pipeline construction projects and agriculture. Israel has more companies
registered on the NASDAQ than any other country.
The U.S. it is alleged has sent more than US$10 billion a year to Israel consistently
for the past ten years.
AIPAC outside of the banking lobby is the most powerful political action group in
Washington DC holding many senators and congressmen practically hostage to Israel's
interests re: Lindsey Graham and John McCain are the to most prominent.
Practically all of the most influential think tanks in the U.S. including the Heritage
Foundation, the Brookings Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the
RAND Corporation, The Hudson Institute (revenue of US$10 million a year) and many
more all prepare special policy papers outlining continued Israel and American strategy
in the region of Israel.
Is Israel and those responsible for positioning Israel where it is strategically located
attempting to create a world government with Israel at the pinnacle?
What is going on that Germany's Merkel and a contingent of her government
make a visit to Israel?
Why is the entire world collectively held with a gun to their head over Israel? Why
is Israel operating in so many countries through its Mossad. Why must the world be
on its knees to Israel?
Every other news article on most news sites is about Israel? Why? Israel awards
Merkel with its highest civilian distention award? Why?
Is is actively involved in the entire region through one of the largest construction
conglomerates in the region the Merhav Group of companies involved in natural
gas pipeline construction projects and agriculture. Israel has more companies
registered on the NASDAQ than any other country.
The U.S. it is alleged has sent more than US$10 billion a year to Israel consistently
for the past ten years.
AIPAC outside of the banking lobby is the most powerful political action group in
Washington DC holding many senators and congressmen practically hostage to Israel's
interests re: Lindsey Graham and John McCain are the to most prominent.
Practically all of the most influential think tanks in the U.S. including the Heritage
Foundation, the Brookings Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the
RAND Corporation, The Hudson Institute (revenue of US$10 million a year) and many
more all prepare special policy papers outlining continued Israel and American strategy
in the region of Israel.
Is Israel and those responsible for positioning Israel where it is strategically located
attempting to create a world government with Israel at the pinnacle?
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Why is the entire world collectively held with a gun to their head over Israel? Why
is Israel operating in so many countries through its Mossad. Why must the world be
on its knees to Israel?
I surely don't fully understand this state of world affairs to such a minority creed with the worlds fourth largest military, nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, years of public terrorist activity on near neighbours etc etc , this israel state seem to be run by virtual lunatic psychos with a zionist tint , there must be a majority of decent minded israelis that oppose their creeds reputation being promoted like this … mustn't there
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Israel is currently the worlds largest GULAG
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The Jew World Order...
Victoria Nuland (real family name is Nudelman) and her role in the Zionist taking over of Ukraine...
The bullshit public relations version...
The later leaked embarrassing version of reality...
Damage control, double talk and spin...
The actual conversation...illustrating how the cabal gets things done...
Victoria "Nudelman's" husband is...(interestingly his wiki page does not mention that he is a Jew)...
Robert Kagan.
Robert Kagan's father is Donald Kagan...
The Institute for the Study of War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_War
Victoria Nuland gets her man...A Jew central banker...
A reshuffled Ukrainian Parliament installed following a coup last week has voted to appoint Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister of the country. Yats, as Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. State Department, called him, is a natural choice. He is a millionaire former banker who served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010. He is a member of Yulie Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party. Prior to the revolution cooked up by the State Department and executed by ultra-nationalist street thugs, Tymoshenko was incarcerated for embezzlement and other crimes against the people of Ukraine. Now she will be part of the installed government, same as she was after the last orchestrated coup, the Orange Revolution.
Yats will deliver Ukraine to the international bankers. “Ukraine is on the brink of bankruptcy and needs to be saved from collapse — Yatsenyuk has a strong economic background,” Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, told Bloomberg on Wednesday. “Ukraine faces difficult reforms but without them there won’t be a successful future.”
Discussion with the IMF is crucial, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said earlier this week. In order to cinch the deal, the U.S. government will sweeten the pot. Lew talked with the IMF boss, Christine Lagarde, about Ukraine as he headed back from a globalist confab, the G-20 meeting in Sydney, Australia.
“Secretary Lew informed Managing Director Lagarde that he had spoken earlier in the day with Ukrainian leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and advised him of the broad support for an international assistance package centered on the IMF, as soon as the transitional Ukrainian government is fully established by the Parliament,” MNI News reported on Monday. “Secretary Lew also noted that he had communicated to Mr. Yatsenyuk the need to quickly begin implementing economic reforms and enter discussions with the IMF following the establishment of the transitional government.”
Ukraine’s story is right out of the IMF playbook. The nation’s corrupt leaders past and present – most notably Tymoshenko, who went to prison for corruption and wholesale thievery – have enriched themselves at the expense of ordinary Ukrainians.
“Ukraine at the dawn of independence was among the ten most developed countries, and now it drags out a miserable existence,” Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko said last year. The nation’s leaders “signed a memorandum with the International Monetary Fund to meet the requirements of the oligarchs, but on the other hand — to timely pay the interest on the IMF loans and to raise the prices for gas and electricity,” Symonenko said.
The Orange Revolution – initiated by NED, IRI, Soros and the CIA – installed a rogue’s gallery of self-seeking sociopaths who further bankrupted a country already seriously debilitated by corruption.
For the IMF and the financial elite, Ukraine is nothing less than a tantalizing bounty. “Its fertile black soil generated more than one-fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain, and vegetables to other republics,” notes ABO, a website covering energy resources. “Likewise, its diversified heavy industry supplied the unique equipment (for example, large diameter pipes) and raw materials to industrial and mining sites (vertical drilling apparatus) in other regions of the former USSR.”
After breaking away from the Soviet Union and declaring independence, it was thought the country would “liberalize” its industry and resources, in other words open them up for privatization by transnational corporations and international banks, but this did not happen quickly enough for the financiers and the corporatists.
“The drop in steel prices and Ukraine’s exposure to the global financial crisis due to aggressive foreign borrowing lowered growth in 2008 and the economy contracted more than 15 percent in 2009, among the worst economic performances in the world,” ABO explains. “In August 2010, Ukraine, under the Yanukovych Administration, reached a new agreement with the IMF for a $15.1 billion Stand-By Agreement. Economic growth resumed in 2010 and 2011, buoyed by exports. After initial disbursements, the IMF program stalled in early 2011 due to the Ukrainian Government’s lack of progress in implementing key gas sector reforms, namely gas tariff increases. Economic growth slowed in the second half of 2012 with Ukraine finishing the year in technical recession following two consecutive quarters of negative growth.”
Now that Yanukovych is out of the picture, the banker minion Yats is lording over the Parliament, and thuggish fascists control the streets and guard against a counter revolution that might threaten Wall Street’s coup, the coast is clear for the IMF to pick up where it left off. Ukraine, now one of the poorest countries in Europe thanks to a kleptocracy supported by Washington and Wall Street, is wide open for further looting.
Victoria Nuland (real family name is Nudelman) and her role in the Zionist taking over of Ukraine...
The bullshit public relations version...
The later leaked embarrassing version of reality...
Damage control, double talk and spin...
The actual conversation...illustrating how the cabal gets things done...
Nuland is a career Senior Officer of the United States Foreign Service and has worked for both Democratic and Republican administrations. During the Bill Clinton administration, Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs. During the George W. Bush administration, she served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.S. ambassador to NATO. During the Barack Obama administration, she was special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe before assuming the position of State Department spokesperson in summer 2011, which she held until February 2013.
Assistant Secretary
She was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in May 2013 and sworn in to fill that role in September 2013.
Misconduct and controversy
2012 Benghazi attack
Nuland has emerged as one of the key figures who have been accused by various sources of initiating a cover up of the 2012 Benghazi attack. After reading the first draft of the State Department talking points that stated that the incident was a coordinated terrorist attack, she sent a message writing that they "could be abused by members of Congress to beat the State Department for not paying attention to agency warnings so why would we want to seed the Hill." After this memo former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice was given talking points that formed the basis of her statements on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Meet the Press, State of the Union with Candy Crowley, and Fox News Sunday. Critics had argued that Nuland's nomination as Assistant Secretary of State would come up against firm opposition from Republicans, based on her role in the Benghazi controversy.
2014 Nuland's obscene reference to the European Union
On February 6, 2014, Nuland made an obscene reference to the European Union which caused a diplomatic scandal when her January 28, 2014 telephone conversation with the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, was broadcast on YouTube. Nuland was discussing with Pyatt the role of the Ukrainian opposition leaders in the country’s government and the crises in Ukraine. Nuland insulted Vitali Klitschko and said he should not be allowed into the government because he was too inexperienced. Subsequently, Nuland stated that she preferred the United Nations as mediator, instead of the European Union, adding "Fuck the E.U." and Pyatt responded, "Oh, exactly ...". "She has been in contact with her EU counterparts, and of course has apologized", State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton stated on the same day that the EU would not comment on a "leaked alleged" conversation. The next day a spokeswoman, Christiane Wirtz, stated that German Chancellor Angela Merkel termed Nuland's remark "absolutely unacceptable". Furthermore, the president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has also condemned the remark as "unacceptable". Le Monde newspaper has labeled the familiarity with which she referred to the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition ("Yats" for Arseniy Yatsenyuk, "Klitsch" for Vitali Klitschko) as clumsiness and even arrogance.
Victoria "Nudelman's" husband is...(interestingly his wiki page does not mention that he is a Jew)...
Robert Kagan.
an American historian, author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. He was a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. More recently, his book The World America Made has been publicly endorsed by US President Barack Obama, and its theme was referenced in his 2012 State of the Union Address.
Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980, having studied history and having founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a PhD in US history from American University in Washington, D.C. He is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Kagan has been described as a neoconservative foreign-policy theorist, although Kagan has adamantly rejected being labeled as a "neoconservative". Kagan describes his foreign-policy views as deeply rooted in American history and widely shared by Americans.
Kagan spent 13 years as a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before joining the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe in September 2010. He was a foreign policy advisor to John McCain, the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.
He also serves on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He serves on the board of directors for The Foreign Policy Initiative and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Kagan is a columnist for the Washington Post. He is a contributing editor at both The New Republic and the Weekly Standard, and has also written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, World Affairs, and Policy Review.
His books...
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990. (1996)
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. (2003) ISBN 1-4000-4093-0
Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. (2006) ISBN 0-375-41105-4
The Return of History and the End of Dreams. (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-26923-2
The World America Made. (2012) ISBN 978-0-307-96131-0
Robert Kagan's father is Donald Kagan...
is an American historian at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University.
He was one of the original signers of the 1997 Statement of Principles by the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century. On the eve of the 2000 presidential elections, Kagan and his son, Frederick Kagan, published While America Sleeps, a call to increase defense spending.
Kagan lives in New Haven, Connecticut. He is married to Myrna Kagan, a teacher and historian in her own right, and the author of "Vision in the Sky: New Haven's Early Years, 1638-1784." He is the father of Robert Kagan and Frederick Kagan, both well-known writers. Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland, spokesperson for the United States Department of State. Frederick Kagan's wife is Kimberly Kagan, a well-known military historian and founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War.
The Institute for the Study of War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_the_Study_of_War
Victoria Nuland gets her man...A Jew central banker...
We haven't heard much from Our Woman in Kiev, Victoria Nuland (wife and in-law of the numerous Kagans), since her tapped phone call regarding her opinion of the EU's tepid enthusiasm for regime change in Ukraine was leaked in early February. But, her pick for new boss of Ukraine, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk rather than right nationalist Oleg Tyagnybok or heavyweight champ Vitali Klitschko, appears to have won out. From the NYT:
KIEV, Ukraine — Standing before a crowd of tens of thousands in Independence Square, the epicenter of the three-month civic uprising that ousted President Viktor F. Yanukovych, the lawmakers temporarily controlling Ukraine announced an interim government on Wednesday night to be led by Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, a veteran public official who has served as speaker of Parliament, foreign minister, economics minister and acting head of the central bank.
The public presentation of Mr. Yatsenyuk, who will serve as acting prime minister, and more than 20 other proposed cabinet members, was a frenetic effort by establishment politicians to win the backing of the street protesters, whose persistence in the face of the deaths of more than 80 people last week in clashes with the police, ultimately dislodged Mr. Yanukovych from power.
As the names of the proposed ministers were read from the stage — with flowers and candles blanketing the square in memory of the dead — it became clear just how completely the ordinary people on the street had seized control of the direction of Ukraine. Desperate for the crowd’s legitimacy, officials felt compelled to present the slate on stage in the square before putting it up for a vote by Parliament.
I know this sounds crazy, but I'm reminded of how in 532 AD the Emperor Justinian got into a long argument with the crowd at the chariot races in Constantinople. That was the main way public opinion was factored into Roman and Byzantine politics: by custom, the emperor had to appear at the games, where he was presented with petitions and the crowd's reactions to his responses were used as proto-opinion polls. In this case, Justinian was less than politically deft, and his arrogance led to the hooligan fans of the Blue chariot racing team and the Green chariot racing team uniting in a massive riot against him.
But perhaps there are elements of cultural continuity in Orthodox civilization?
The reaction from the crowd was decidedly mixed.
Jeers and whistles greeted some established politicians, and cheers for some figures with no government experience chosen because of their role in the uprising. But with Ukraine hurtling toward an economic catastrophe, and no time for protracted negotiations, the gesture of deference to the crowd seemed sufficient to move the process forward.
“We need to change these faces,” said Alyona Murashko, a 28-year-old marketing specialist who stopped in the square to watch the announcement, carrying groceries on her way home from work. Ms. Murashko said that she approved of the choice of Olga Bogomolets, a physician, singer and activist as deputy prime minister for humanitarian affairs, and of Tatyana Chornovil, a crusading activist and journalist to lead Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau.
Ms. Murashko, however, said she opposed Mr. Yatsenyuk and many of the other choices. “I wouldn’t like to see him even temporarily,” she said. “No one from current political parties.” Ms. Murashko said that she was glad that presidential elections would be held in May, but wanted parliamentary elections “as soon as possible.”
Among those eliciting loud boos was Oleksandr V. Turchynov, who was elected by colleagues on Saturday as the new speaker of Parliament, and who has been authorized to carry out the duties of president, effectively putting him in charge of the country. Mr. Turchynov was not part of the slate announced on Wednesday night and will continue in his position even after the interim government is approved.
On the whole, the makeup of the interim government suggested that Ukraine would now move more swiftly to improve ties with the West, potentially reviving the sweeping political and trade agreements with the European Union that Mr. Yanukovych scuttled in November, setting off protests in Kiev and other cities.
Mr. Yatsenyuk is an ally of Mr. Yanukovych’s archrival, the former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko. ...
Mr. Yatsenyuk, by contrast, is largely viewed as an able technician with a firm grasp of economic policy and foreign affairs. Ukraine’s economy is in tatters and it is in desperate need of a rescue package from the International Monetary Fund, which has said it will demand painful austerity measures and long-delayed economic changes in return for any assistance. ...
Mr. Yatsenyuk was one of three opposition leaders in Parliament who were among the chief organizers of the street demonstrations. Another, the ex-champion boxer Vitali Klitschko, who heads a party called the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform, has already announced his candidacy for president. The third, Oleg Tyagnybok, is the leader of the nationalist Svoboda party, which is popular in Western Ukraine but has limited support elsewhere.
Among the crowd-pleasing choices in this regard were Dmitry Bulatov, the leader of a group called AutoMaidan, who was designated as minister of youth and sport, and Eugene Nyschuk, an actor who has served as M.C. from the stage in Independence Square throughout the protests and who was selected as culture minister.
A reshuffled Ukrainian Parliament installed following a coup last week has voted to appoint Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister of the country. Yats, as Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. State Department, called him, is a natural choice. He is a millionaire former banker who served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010. He is a member of Yulie Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party. Prior to the revolution cooked up by the State Department and executed by ultra-nationalist street thugs, Tymoshenko was incarcerated for embezzlement and other crimes against the people of Ukraine. Now she will be part of the installed government, same as she was after the last orchestrated coup, the Orange Revolution.
Yats will deliver Ukraine to the international bankers. “Ukraine is on the brink of bankruptcy and needs to be saved from collapse — Yatsenyuk has a strong economic background,” Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, told Bloomberg on Wednesday. “Ukraine faces difficult reforms but without them there won’t be a successful future.”
Discussion with the IMF is crucial, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said earlier this week. In order to cinch the deal, the U.S. government will sweeten the pot. Lew talked with the IMF boss, Christine Lagarde, about Ukraine as he headed back from a globalist confab, the G-20 meeting in Sydney, Australia.
“Secretary Lew informed Managing Director Lagarde that he had spoken earlier in the day with Ukrainian leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk and advised him of the broad support for an international assistance package centered on the IMF, as soon as the transitional Ukrainian government is fully established by the Parliament,” MNI News reported on Monday. “Secretary Lew also noted that he had communicated to Mr. Yatsenyuk the need to quickly begin implementing economic reforms and enter discussions with the IMF following the establishment of the transitional government.”
Ukraine’s story is right out of the IMF playbook. The nation’s corrupt leaders past and present – most notably Tymoshenko, who went to prison for corruption and wholesale thievery – have enriched themselves at the expense of ordinary Ukrainians.
“Ukraine at the dawn of independence was among the ten most developed countries, and now it drags out a miserable existence,” Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko said last year. The nation’s leaders “signed a memorandum with the International Monetary Fund to meet the requirements of the oligarchs, but on the other hand — to timely pay the interest on the IMF loans and to raise the prices for gas and electricity,” Symonenko said.
The Orange Revolution – initiated by NED, IRI, Soros and the CIA – installed a rogue’s gallery of self-seeking sociopaths who further bankrupted a country already seriously debilitated by corruption.
For the IMF and the financial elite, Ukraine is nothing less than a tantalizing bounty. “Its fertile black soil generated more than one-fourth of Soviet agricultural output, and its farms provided substantial quantities of meat, milk, grain, and vegetables to other republics,” notes ABO, a website covering energy resources. “Likewise, its diversified heavy industry supplied the unique equipment (for example, large diameter pipes) and raw materials to industrial and mining sites (vertical drilling apparatus) in other regions of the former USSR.”
After breaking away from the Soviet Union and declaring independence, it was thought the country would “liberalize” its industry and resources, in other words open them up for privatization by transnational corporations and international banks, but this did not happen quickly enough for the financiers and the corporatists.
“The drop in steel prices and Ukraine’s exposure to the global financial crisis due to aggressive foreign borrowing lowered growth in 2008 and the economy contracted more than 15 percent in 2009, among the worst economic performances in the world,” ABO explains. “In August 2010, Ukraine, under the Yanukovych Administration, reached a new agreement with the IMF for a $15.1 billion Stand-By Agreement. Economic growth resumed in 2010 and 2011, buoyed by exports. After initial disbursements, the IMF program stalled in early 2011 due to the Ukrainian Government’s lack of progress in implementing key gas sector reforms, namely gas tariff increases. Economic growth slowed in the second half of 2012 with Ukraine finishing the year in technical recession following two consecutive quarters of negative growth.”
Now that Yanukovych is out of the picture, the banker minion Yats is lording over the Parliament, and thuggish fascists control the streets and guard against a counter revolution that might threaten Wall Street’s coup, the coast is clear for the IMF to pick up where it left off. Ukraine, now one of the poorest countries in Europe thanks to a kleptocracy supported by Washington and Wall Street, is wide open for further looting.
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