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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Follow The Money: Ukraine's Puppet Yatsenyuk speaks austerity as IMF pulls his strings

By Bill Cisowski


I think if we look deeper today we see that Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, while wearing the mask of change and improvement for Ukraine, has shows his true colors.
In his recent BBC HARD talk interview Yatsenyuk said that if Russia "wages war" on Ukraine, it will "resist and retaliate." 
Now if we follow the money, we can gain insight into the dark objective of an operative of the European Central Bank and the war material mobsters who rule him. 
The goal, of course, is the age-old dialectic of steering Ukraine into conflict with Russia. This would achieve Four objectives.  First weaken Russia and Putin.  Second provide profits from war material. Third, increase Ukraine's debt that would now be owned by the European Central Bank.  Forth, use war to increase debt in a bid to eventually  lay claim to Ukraine's rich resources.
When debt is owned, then war is always the banker's rich harvest drawn from the blood of the ignorant.
A war crisis would also provide propaganda cover for the global financial mess the oligarch's own greed had created.
It is no surprise that even at this early stage Yatsenyuk's masters at the IMF have simultaneously thrown their net of austerity over the people of Ukraine. Yatsenyuk made it clear in his recent speech that his government will continue the IMF policy of austerity measures “as the price of independence”. 
But a few bloggers around the world recognize this fraud and are familiar with this age-old dialectic scheme.  Let's all begin to follow the money.  It becomes clear this coup d'etat fiasco was engineered precisely to assign EU debt on to Ukraine for the four purposes outlined above.  But most of all, debt assigned and created through war is for the purpose of controlling a nation's true wealth in its resources. I guess Yatsenyuk cannot hide his oligarch stripes.

According to the Guardian newspaper, in the past,  Mr. Yatsenyuk has held several high-profile positions including head of the nation's central bank, the National Bank of Ukraine, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker but he has played down his banker-connected origins.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Ukraine Moves Quickly To Stop Counter Protests

The U.S. State Department and western banking interests which helped finance the overthrow of Ukraine's government are now digging their claws in to keep the illusion of order aglow before the rest of the watching world.  Newly installed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk may not be able to keep the unpopular coupe afloat without the brute force of hired mercenaries who will police the people and keep a firm hand on future street protests.
VOICE OF RUSSIA SAYS:
Media reports claiming that the Ukrainian leadership wants to recruit personnel from private foreign military companies "in order to maintain law and order" may suggest that the Kiev regime wants to suppress civil protest and discontent, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "Anyway, one can state that in the absence of support from the Ukrainian population, the Maidan government has only one option if it wants to remain in power - to mobilize any support possible from foreign sponsors, including foreign mercenaries," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Former President Gorbachev Speaks On Crimea Takeover

The will of the citizens always seems to prevail. 
Is this a good thing?  Perhaps not for the Western interests and NATO who were caught stirring up protests earlier last month in the eastern part of the country. 
In last Sunday's internationally monitored elections Crimea has chosen to side with Russia.  The country as a whole, despite criticism from the Western internationalists has now consolidated their people in a common national pride. 
In this article from The Moscow Times, former Soviet President Gorbachev seems to agree:
From The Moscow Times
Mar. 18 2014 11:01

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has defended Russia's takeover of Crimea, saying that the referendum among the peninsula's voters corrected a historical "mistake."
"While Crimea had previously been joined to Ukraine based on the Soviet laws, which means [Communist] party laws, without asking the people, now the people themselves have decided to correct that mistake," Gorbachev said on Monday, Interfax reported.
"This should be celebrated, not sanctioned," he said.
Gorbachev, the recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, added that international sanctions — such as those the U.S. and European nations have brought against Russia — would be justified only on "very serious grounds," which he said the takeover of Crimea had failed to provide.
Crimea was part of Russia until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev handed it over to Ukraine in 1954, in a symbolic gesture that had little significance at the time since both countries were part of the Soviet Union.
In 1991, the leader of the Russian Soviet Republic, Boris Yeltsin, and his counterparts from Ukraine and Belarus signed a deal breaking up the Soviet Union and establishing new independent states. Gorbachev did not participate in the 1991 meeting.
Many Russians have used Crimea's history as a reason to legitimate Russian military intervention in the peninsula, which harbors a 60 percent Russian-speaking population and voted in favor of joining Russia in Sunday's referendum.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and Protesters

By Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
February 18, 2014


A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to subvert Ukraine.


One reader wrote: “My wife, who is of Ukrainian nationality, has weekly contact to her parents and friends in Zhytomyr [NW Ukraine]. According to them, most protesters get an average payment of 200-300 grivna, corresponding to about 15-25 euro. As I additionally heard, one of the most active agencies and ‘payment outlets’ on EU side is the German ‘Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’, being closely connected to the CDU, i.e. Mrs. Merkel’s party.”


Johannes Loew of the Internet site elynitthria.net/ writes: “I am just back from Ukraine (I live in Munich/Germany) and I was a lot at the Maidan. Most of those people get only 100 grivna. 300 is for Students.”


As I reported on February 12, “Washington Orchestrated Protests Are Destabilizing Ukraine,”http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/12/washington-orchestrated-protests-destabilizing-ukraine/Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a rabid Russophobe and neoconservative warmonger, told the National Press Club last December that the US has “invested” $5 billion in organizing a network to achieve US goals in Ukraine in order to give “Ukraine the future it deserves.”http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm Nuland is the Obama regime official who was caught red-handed naming the members of the Ukrainian government Washington intends to impose on the Ukrainian people once the paid protesters have unseated the current elected and independent government.


What Nuland means by Ukraine’s future under EU overlordship is for Ukraine to be looted like Latvia and Greece and to be used by Washington as a staging ground for US missile bases against Russia.


From the responses I received to my request for confirmations of the information sent to me from Moldova, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/14/russia-attack-paul-craig-roberts/ there is enough evidence that Washington fomented the violent riots for western newspapers and TV channels to investigate. But they haven’t. As we know, the presstitutes are enablers of Washington’s crimes and duplicities. However, the US media has reported that the Ukrainian government is paying Ukrainians to rally in favor of the government. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/16/ukraine-government-protests/5435315/ The Ukrainian government will have a hard time matching Washington’s $5 billion.
As Karl Marx wrote, money turns everything into a commodity that is bought and sold. I wouldn’t be surprised if some protesters are working both sides of the street.


Of course, not all of the protesters are paid. There are plenty of gullible dupes in the streets who think they are protesting Ukraine government corruption. I have heard from several. There is little doubt that the Ukraine government is corrupt. What government isn’t?


Government corruption is universal, but it is easy to go from the frying pan into the fire. Ukrainian protesters seem to think that they can escape corruption by joining the EU. Obviously, these gullible dupes are unfamiliar with the report on EU corruption issued February 3 by the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs. The report says that a business-political nexus of corruption affects all 28 EU member countries and costs the EU economies $162.2 billion per annum.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/02/eu-report-corruption-widespread-bloc-20142313322401478.html According to the World Bank, the economic cost of EU corruption is almost as large as the size of Ukrainian GDP. http://data.worldbank.org/country/ukraine Clearly, Ukrainians will not escape corruption by joining the EU. Indeed, Ukrainians will suffer worse corruption.


I have no objection to Ukrainians protesting government corruption. Indeed, such gullible people could benefit from the lesson they would learn once their country is in the hands of corrupt Brussels and Washington. What I object to is the lack of awareness on the part of the protesters that by permitting themselves to be manipulated by Washington, they are pushing the world toward a dangerous war. I would be surprised if Russia is content to have US military and missile bases in Ukraine.


It was fools like Nuland playing the great game that gave us World War I. World War III would be the last war. Washington’s drive to exploit every opportunity to establish its hegemony over the world is driving us all to nuclear war.


Like Nuland, a significant percentage of the population of western Ukraine are Russophobes. I know the case for Ukrainian dislike of Russia, but Ukrainian emotions fueled with Washington’s money should not direct the course of history. No historians will be left to document how gullible and witless Ukrainians set the world up for destruction.


Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

This article was posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 6:23 am