Khodorkovsky conviction exposes links with Soros and Rothschild.
Soros is no Robin Hood, but a fellow Oligarch
(1) Khodorkovsky conviction exposes links with Soros & Rothschild. Soros is no Robin Hood, but a fellow Oligarch
(2) Khodorkovsky paid $309 m. for Yukos; in 2003 it was worth $45 b.
(3) US 'deeply concerned' by conviction of Khodorkovsky; Obama has spoken frequently with Medvedev about it
(4) White House rebuts Russia over tycoon's conviction
(5) Hillary issues Press Statement protesting conviction of Khodorkovsky
(6) George Soros Advocates Rule of Law in Khodorkovsky Trial
(7) Soros denounced arrest of Khodorkovsky as "persecution". Soros Foundation evicted from Russia - at gunpoint
(8) Khodorkovsky a friend of Soros; Russia shut Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI) a few days after detaining Khodorkovsky
(9) Khodorkovsky: Moscow Targets another Russian Jewish Oligarch. Richard Perle & US Ambassador Alexander Vershbow (both Jewish) protest
(10) Khodorkovsky's shares in Yukos pass to Lord Jacob Rothschild
(11) Khodorkovksy had known Rothschild for years through his Open Russia Foundation
(12) Lord Rothschild defends Khodorkovsky; he & Kissinger founded Khodorkovsky's Open Russia Foundation
(13) Rothschild, Kissinger & former U.S. ambassador Arthur Hartman were directors of Khodorkovsky's Open Russia Foundation
(14) Former US Amasssador Arthur A. Hartman and Senator Jacob Javits were Jewish too
(15) Rothschild links with Abramovich & Khodorkovsky, and ex-MI5 & ex-CIA agents
(16) Jews change the world around them. Russians work to preserve it - Pavel Lounguine
(17) Dead spy Alexander Litvinenko linked to Yukos break-up
(18) Yukos oligarchs promise "A Lifetime of Litigation" against Russia
(1) Khodorkovsky conviction exposes links with Soros & Rothschild. Soros is no Robin Hood, but a fellow Oligarch - Peter Myers, December 30, 2010
Around 1990, George Soros brought his Open Society Foundation - and its offspring - to Poland, Russia and other East European Communist countries. He and Jeffrey Sachs (both Jewish) introduced "Shock Therapy" - Free Trade (ie Open Borders, ie imports), Privatization and Deregulation.
In more recent years, both Soros and Sachs have turned against the "Washington Consensus". Soros comes across as a chivalrous knight with a Robin Hood agenda; to the extent that even I have been in two minds about him.
As I researched this article, I came across plenty of muckraking material about Soros. It's produced in several distinct camps:
- for years, Larouche and ex-Larouche writers have homed in on Soros as the Mr Big of Speculation, who undid the Communist regimes via his "philanthropic" foundations which organized a "civil society" army of idealistic Lilliputian volunters; and who, in the West, ploughs his profits into New Left causes such as Radical Feminism, Gay Rights and Open-Border Immigration. A lot of Larouche literature indulges in name-calling, and is thereby unusable in serious research, but ex-Larouche writers such as F. William Engdahl maintain higher standards.
- the Zionist Lobby has also come out against Soros. David Horowitz's book The Shadow Party spurred a renewed bout of investigation on my part, but in the wake of Horowotz' campaign against the Seattle bus ads featuring destroyed Palestianisn homes, I decided that I would not use Horowitz as a source.
- the "Libertarian" Right in the US is the pro-Republican camp which prentends to defend the Little Guy from Big Government, but which in fact would leave Wealth and Power concentrated in the Big End of Town. They oppose Soros because he aims to bring them down and, with them, the American Empire (like Chomsky, with whom Soros has much in common).
- American "patriotic" cicles, whose webpages clogg Google's hits on Soros. Their ideoligical line and their resort to vulgar, vitriolic, abusive language renders their material unusable. It takes a skilled internet rasearcher to find ways to "weed out" their material when doing Google searches.
Through such a "weeding" process, I have accumulated some solid material on Soros and his ties with Khodorkovsky, Rothschild et al., which I present below.
What upsets me about Khodorkovsky, the other Oligarchs, and their western backers, is the betrayal of the long-suffering Russian people. We encouraged them to throw off totalitarianism but, when they did, instead of befriending them we sold them into slavery. Unconscionable Oligarchs - nearly all Jewish - had no qualms about seizing the assets of the people and leaving them destitute.
Gorbachev, in his rule from 1985 to 1991, removed the tyrannical aspects of Soviet life, leaving the good aspects such as equality and full employment. There was no need to further destroy it.
Valdas Anelauskas was a Lithuanian dissident who fled the USSR for the US, but was then shocked to discover that he had been deceived about America being a paradise America - as presented by Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. In his book “Discovering America As It Is”, he favourably compares Soviet life to the American Way:
"When I lived in the Soviet Union I thought that the Soviet Communist system was the worst possible social order. Evidently, I was wrong. The more I scrutinize the American reality, the deeper I am shocked by all the evil that I see here. ... In America, the rich are truly rich and the poor are hopelessly poor. In my opinion, the United States today has the most advanced system of private tyranny. Private corporations have enormous power in this country and they take advantage of an apparently legal slave labor, terribly exploiting the working class people. Corporate bosses earn millions while workers struggle to survive without living wages. From my point of view, the majority of jobs here today are still extremely exploitative. The U.S. minimum wage is ridiculous. Working for $5 an hour is slavery and nothing else. ... The U.S. government currently spends around $281 billion a year on its military while millions of citizens are forced to live on the streets."
"Now, after six years of living here in this country, this society, I understand very well that all those bad things which Soviet propaganda told us about America, in most cases weren't lies at all."
"One can see now how disillusioned the majority of people in the former Soviet countries are today, after they have tried out the reality of "free markets" on their own backs. Most people that I personally know, my close friends, relatives, and acquaintances who live in post-Soviet countries, including my native Lithuania, acknowledge today that even the Soviet system wasn't so terrible when compared to American-style laissez-faire capitalism."
More at http://www.efn.org/~rolanda/discovering/intro.html
One wonders then, why Soros and Sachs wanted to dismantle the Soviet economy. Could it be because it was seen as being "bad for the Jews?"
A Zionist account of that is Gal Beckerman's book When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry: http://www.amazon.com/When-They-Come-Well-Gone/dp/0618573097
Since 1991, Soros and Sachs seem to have changed tack - attacking the extremes of capitalism - but I have never seen them acknowledge their sins for having wrought disaster on the peoples of the former Soviet Union.
Soros denounced the conviction of Khodorkovsky, showing where his true loyalties lie. He is no Robin Hood, but a fellow Oligarch, bold and shameless like the rest - who are using Western courts to try to recover the ill-gotten assets they picked up for a song under Yeltsin, and which were later impounded by Putin.
Even Condoleezza Rice wrote of "looting of the country's assets by powerful people" (see item 7).
The changes Jews brought to post-Soviet Russia also illustrate how they mould the West. Pavel Lounguine, a Russian Jew, writes (in item 16),
"The Jewish intelligentsia always sought to democratize and liberalize Russia, bring it closer to the West. The ethnic Russian intelligentsia always wanted a Russian Orthodox power, an imperium. The Jews always wanted to turn Russia into Europe, or America. To draw it closer to civilization, and thereby away from anti-Semitism."
He seems to think that Jews are idealists. Even Soros thinks the same way (about himself). This notion that they are idealistic is a major motivator of Jewish political action.
Glenn Beck and David Horowitz seem to use Larouche material about Soros without acknowledgment: Larouche writers pioneered the way, but are unmentionable in respectable circles. For example, Larouche material routinely depicts Soros as a Nazi collaborator; Beck and others tread the same path, but conceal that they first came across this idea in Larouche material.
What passes for debate in the United States might be better termed the perpetuation of various "war psychoses". During a war, the populace is inculcated with blind hatred of and fear of the enemy; it denies any middle ground, any common humanity.
One form has a "Better Dead than Red" mentality, depicting any elevation of the Common Good above individual liberties as creeping Communism. For example, were McDonalds to be targeted for causing obesity, this would be an infringement of their liberties.
These people are followers of Joseph McCarthy. He was not wrong about pro-Stalinist collaborators; but his great sin was his support for Douglas McArthur's advocacy of nuclear weapons in the Korean War.
Another "war psychosis" is inculcated by the Zionist lobby - which includes much of the media. It depicts all who expose, and oppose, Jewish power as Nazis. Thus Larouche, who wants to target Soros, the Rothschilds and the Jewish Lobby, covers his own back by depicting THEM as Nazis too. Similarly, in Israeli politics, all sides depict each other as Nazis.
I refuse to indulge in such name-calling, and I try to avoid material that does stoop to it.
(2) Khodorkovsky paid $309 m. for Yukos; in 2003 it was worth $45 b.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_165315.html
Soros and Khodorkovsky
Sunday, November 16, 2003
... In an auction run by his own bank, Khodorkovsky paid only $309 million for Yukos -- early this year the company was worth $45 billion. ...==
Leonid Nevzlin, biggest Yukos shareholder not yet in jail, has been granted Israeli citizenship, raising eyebrows even in Jerusalem over the haste in which it was done. [source] Fact: Nevzlin resigned from Yukos to head the Russian Jewish Congress.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/11/Oligarchs071103.html ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos
Yukos
Yukos Oil Company was a petroleum company in Russia which, until 2003, was controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a number of other prominent Russian businessmen. ...
In 2003, following a tax reassessment, the Russian government presented Yukos with a series of tax claims that amounted to $27 billion. As Yukos's assets were frozen by the government at the same time, the company was not able to pay these tax demands. [1] On August 1, 2006, a Russian court declared Yukos bankrupt.[2] Most of Yukos's assets were sold at low prices to oil companies owned by the Russian government. [3] The Parliamentary Council of Europe has condemned Russia's campaign against Yukos and its owners as manufactured for political reasons and a violation of human rights. [4]
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(3) US 'deeply concerned' by conviction of Khodorkovsky; Obama has spoken frequently with Medvedev about it
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/27/AR2010122702877.html
US 'deeply concerned' by conviction of Putin foe
The Associated Press
Monday, December 27, 2010; 3:47 PM
HONOLULU -- The White House says the U.S. is deeply concerned about the conviction of a Russian oil tycoon who once challenged the power of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
In a statement, the White House says it is troubled by allegations of due process violations and what appears to be "an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends." The White House says the ruling undermines Russia's commitment to deepening the rule of law and hurts its ability to strengthen ties with the U.S.
Putin is seen as the driving force behind the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was convicted Monday of stealing from his own company.
The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken frequently about the case with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and will closely monitor developments. ==
(4) White House rebuts Russia over tycoon's conviction
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/12/white-house-rebuts-russia-over-tycoons-conviction/1
Dec 27, 2010
In harsh tones, the White House has accused Russia of abusing its legal system in order to keep its former wealthiest citizen behind bars.
A statement issued by press secretary Robert Gibbs this afternoon criticized the second conviction of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his associate, Platon Lebedev, for embezzlement and money laundering. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her own critique earlier in the day.
Khodorkovsky, 47, was due to be released next year after completing an eight-year sentence for fraud that also was questioned by Western authorities. But a judge convicted the former head of the now-defunct oil giant Yukos on new charges after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin compared Khodorkovsky to Bernard Madoff, who defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars.
The Russian pair were charged with embezzling 218 million tons of oil from Khodorkovsky's company between 1998 and 2003 and laundering about $23.5 billion.
Here is the White House statement:
We are deeply concerned that a Russian judge today has indicated that for a second time Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will be convicted. We are troubled by the allegations of serious due process violations, and what appears to be an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends. The apparent selective application of the law to these individuals undermines Russia's reputation as a country committed to deepening the rule of law. The Russian government cannot nurture a modern economy without also developing an independent judiciary that serves as an instrument for furthering economic growth, ensuring equal treatment under the law, and advancing justice in a predictable and fair way.
The Obama administration stands in solidarity with the many people in the Russian government, in the legal system, and in civil society who are committed to strengthening the rule of law and deepening the commitment to universal values enshrined in the Russian constitution. Russia's failure to keep this commitment to universal values, including the rule of law, impedes its own modernization and ability to deepen its ties with the United States.
President Obama has spoken frequently with President Medvedev about this case and others as part of their ongoing conversation about President Medvedev's important campaign to strengthen the rule of law and modernize Russia's political and economic system. We will continue to monitor closely the next stages in this case, including the fairness of the sentences and the review by higher courts during the appeals process.