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Neolib Rulers Hail Dead Pathocrat
Yeltsin
Kurt
Nimmo
Tuesday April 23, 2007
It’s enough to induce uncontrollable vomiting. “It
is with sadness that I learned of the death of former president
Yeltsin. He was a remarkable man who saw the need for democratic
and economic reform and in defending it played a vital role at a
crucial time in Russia’s history,” declared the neocon
poodle, Tony Blair. “He is best remembered when standing up
to the coup d’etat aimed at restoring a dictatorial regime
in Russia. With great personal courage he had merit in defending
freedom,” said one-worlder and president of the European Commission,
Jose Manuel Barroso. “Boris Yeltsin was a great personality
in both Russian and international politics, a brave fighter for
democracy and freedom and a true friend of Germany. His contribution
to the development of our relations between our two nations will
never be forgotten. We will honor him in our thoughts,” added
Angela Merkel, German chancellor.
On and on the sickening plaudits ensue, and quite predictably,
considering the source. Not one word of truth from our mendacious
rulers concerning the former construction boss from Butka, who assumed
room temperature the other day. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, the
first president of the Russian Federation, was a quite useful, if
often drunk, tool for the international bankers and “free
trade” looters who greedily carved up the former Soviet Union
with the help of Mikhail Gorbachev, who “won” the Nobel
Peace Prize for his efforts. In fact, due largely to his simian
character, Yeltsin was a near perfect choice for the likes for the
IMF, World Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department as they went about
carrying out the “Washington Consensus” or “shock
therapy.” It hardly mattered Yeltsin’s cronies and toadies
made off with most of the money, while other bureaucrats, mostly
former communist party members gone neolib, engaged in record rates
of bribery and corruption.
“Victor Ilyukhin, national security committee chair of the
Duma (the lower chamber of the RF parliament), said that the last
IMF loan to the RF government was stolen by ‘The Family.’
He meant the family of RF President Yeltsin, who a couple of years
ago described his country as a ‘criminal state.’ Of
course, Yeltsin distances himself from the criminal society of the
country that he has led since late 1991,” Stanislav Lunev
wrote in 1999. “In other words, all money coming into the
RF from Western countries and international financial institutions
has disappeared and reappeared a little later in the private bank
accounts of the ‘new Russians,’ a corrupt government
and political elite with close connections to Mafia-type criminal
organizations. Only a small amount of these credits and loans is
being used for the development of new types of mass-destruction
weapons systems and for the fulfillment of “projects”
like the restoration of the president’s residences in the
Kremlin and elsewhere.”
And what did the Russian people, the “Great Proletariat,”
get out of this fire sale? Vouchers, said to be worth the cost of
a bottle of vodka. According to the history books, written naturally
by the scriveners of the global elite, the Russian people so approved
of this massive thievery and criminal behavior at the behest of
the bankers they “re-elected” Yeltsin in 1996. In fact,
thanks to the strong-arm tactics of the emerging “business
oligarchs,” i.e., accomplished pilferers, Yeltsin successfully
defeated his communist rival Gennady Zyuganov. Of course, Zyuganov
never had a chance, as the deck was stacked in favor of the “business
oligarchs,” who were in cahoots with the communist apparatchiks,
all of them on the take to the bankers and loan sharks. A few years
later, Putin would arrest a few of these oligarchs, if only on principle,
most notably the former Komsomol activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
much to the displeasure of the neocon and “Prince of Darkness,”
Richard Perle. Others, including Leonid Nevzlin and Michael Brudno,
escaped to Israel, where there is a flat chance in hell of them
being brought to justice.
“Russia in the 1990s has witnessed a peacetime economic contraction
of unprecedented scale. Many believe much of the blame for the social
and economic catastrophe rests with the IMF, which has had a central
role in designing and supervising Russia’s economic policy
since 1992,” notes Double Standards. “The number of
Russians in poverty has risen from 2 million to 60 million since
the IMF came to post-Communist Russia. Male life expectancy has
dropped sharply from 65 years to 57. Economic output is down by
at least 40 percent.”
“Russia kept its economy functioning with an influx of foreign
funds, lent at astronomically high interest rates because of the
strong possibility of default. In 1998, with the Asian crisis still
unfolding and with Russian default seemingly near, the IMF agreed
to a $23 billion loan package to Russia, seeking to maintain the
rubles overvalued exchange rate. An initial $4.8 billion portion
of the loan left the country immediately […] some used to
pay off foreign lenders, much of it stolen by Russian politicians,”
explains Vladimir Shestakov (IMF versus Russia).
But never mind.
“On the day of his death it’s not worth concentrating
on his mistakes,” Vladimir Ryzhkov, a dedicated Yeltsin bootlicker,
told the Financial Times. “He himself spoke of his greatest
mistake which he said was starting the war in Chechnya. I think
the second great mistake was setting the precedent for a handover
of power without free elections. He created the mechanism to appoint
a successor.”
“I think history will judge Boris Yeltsin very positively.
He was instrumental in the most important and positive transformation
of our lifetime, which consists of the end of the Cold War, the
end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of Russia’s integration
into the west,” said the CFRite and former Clinton deputy
secretary of state Strobe Talbott.
“He put all his energy, all his generosity, all his will
into undertaking the transformation of Russia to create a modern
democratic state, re-establish human rights and liberty, and rebuild
the economy,” mused French president Jacques Chirac.
Ack. I do believe that is quite possibly enough.
Now please excuse me while I reach for a Dramamine.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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