658 George Soros says the Foundation he set up in Ukraine in 1990 will play a role in Opening its Markets

George Soros says the Foundation he set up in Ukraine in 1990 will play
a role in Opening its Markets

Newsletter published on 29-04-2014

(1) George Soros says the Foundation he set up in Ukraine in 1990 will
play a role in Opening its Markets
(2) "Wall of shame" in Crimea depicts Pussy Riot & other dissidents as
tools of the West
(3) Pussy Riot feted by NYT, but local anti-nuclear protestor only gets
a tiny mention
(4) UK Trots say "Defend Ukraine sovereignty!", back Pussy Riot protest
over Crimea
(5) Neo-Nazis march in Lvov 'in honor' of Ukrainian Waffen SS division
(6) Russia to Decouple Trade from Dollar; BRICS Payment system to bypass
Bank for International Settlements
(7) Russian oil firm says Asian buyers willing to use euros
(8) US Threatens Russia over Petrodollar-Busting Deal
(9) George Kennan warning: NATO expansion into former Soviet territory a
“strategic blunder"
(10) Brzezinski envisaged Ukraine joining EU and NATO sometime between
2005 and 2015
(11) Project Syndicate "the George Soros house organ" - Wayne Madsen
(12) CIA presence in Ukraine gives the wrong impression, senator warns

(1) George Soros says the Foundation he set up in Ukraine in 1990 will
play a role in Opening its Markets

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/george-soros-calls-on-the-eu--and-germany-in-particular--to-take-the-lead

Sustaining Ukraine’s Breakthrough

George Soros

FEB 26, 2014

NEW YORK – Following a crescendo of terrifying violence, the Ukrainian
uprising has had a surprisingly positive outcome. Contrary to all
rational expectations, a group of citizens armed with not much more than
sticks and shields made of cardboard boxes and metal garbage-can lids
overwhelmed a police force firing live ammunition. There were many
casualties, but the citizens prevailed. This was one of those historic
moments that leave a lasting imprint on a society’s collective memory.

How could such a thing happen? Quantum mechanics offers a fitting
metaphor. Physicists know that subatomic phenomena can manifest
themselves as both particles and waves; similarly, human beings may
behave both as individual particles and as components of a larger wave.
In other words, the unpredictability of historical events like those in
Ukraine has to do with an element of uncertainty in human identity.

People’s identity is made up of individual elements and elements of
larger units to which they belong, and peoples’ impact on reality
depends on which elements dominate their behavior. When civilians
launched a suicidal attack on an armed force in Kyiv on February 20,
their sense of representing “the nation” far outweighed their concern
with their individual mortality. The result was to swing a deeply
divided society from the verge of civil war to an unprecedented sense of
unity.

Whether that unity endures will depend on how Europe responds.
Ukrainians have demonstrated their allegiance to a European Union that
is itself hopelessly divided, with the euro crisis pitting creditor and
debtor countries against one another. That is why the EU was hopelessly
outmaneuvered by Russia in the negotiations with Ukraine over an
Association Agreement.

True to form, the EU under German leadership offered far too little and
demanded far too much from Ukraine. Now, after the Ukrainian people’s
commitment to closer ties with Europe fueled a successful popular
insurrection, the EU, along with the International Monetary Fund, is
putting together a multibillion-dollar rescue package to save the
country from financial collapse. But that will not be sufficient to
sustain the national unity that Ukraine will need in the coming years.

I established the Renaissance Foundation in Ukraine in 1990 – before the
country achieved independence. The foundation did not participate in the
recent uprising, but it did serve as a defender of those targeted by
official repression. The foundation is now ready to support Ukrainians’
strongly felt desire to establish resilient democratic institutions
(above all, an independent and professional judiciary). But Ukraine will
need outside assistance that only the EU can provide: management
expertise and access to markets.

In the remarkable transformation of Central Europe’s economies in the
1990’s, management expertise and market access resulted from massive
investments by German and other EU-based companies, which integrated
local producers into their global value chains. Ukraine, with its
high-quality human capital and diversified economy, is a potentially
attractive investment destination. But realizing this potential requires
improving the business climate across the economy as a whole and within
individual sectors – particularly by addressing the endemic corruption
and weak rule of law that are deterring foreign and domestic investors
alike.

In addition to encouraging foreign direct investment, the EU could
provide support to train local companies’ managers and help them develop
their business strategies, with service providers remunerated by equity
stakes or profit-sharing. An effective way to roll out such support to a
large number of companies would be to combine it with credit lines
provided by commercial banks. To encourage participation, the European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) could invest in companies
alongside foreign and local investors, as it did in Central Europe.

Ukraine would thus open its domestic market to goods manufactured or
assembled by European companies’ wholly- or partly-owned subsidiaries,
while the EU would increase market access for Ukrainian companies and
help them integrate into global markets.

I hope and trust that Europe under German leadership will rise to the
occasion. I have been arguing for several years that Germany should
accept the responsibilities and liabilities of its dominant position in
Europe. Today, Ukraine needs a modern-day equivalent of the Marshall
Plan, by which the United States helped to reconstruct Europe after
World War II. Germany ought to play the same role today as the US did then.

I must, however, end with a word of caution. The Marshall Plan did not
include the Soviet bloc, thereby reinforcing the Cold War division of
Europe. A replay of the Cold War would cause immense damage to both
Russia and Europe, and most of all to Ukraine, which is situated between
them. Ukraine depends on Russian gas, and it needs access to European
markets for its products; it must have good relations with both sides.

Here, too, Germany should take the lead. Chancellor Angela Merkel must
reach out to President Vladimir Putin to ensure that Russia is a
partner, not an opponent, in the Ukrainian renaissance.

(2) "Wall of shame" in Crimea depicts Pussy Riot & other dissidents as
tools of the West

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2607099/President-Putins-critics-denounced-Soviet-style-wall-shame-erected-Crimea-slams-opposition-figures-like-Pussy-Riot-singers-tools-West.html

President Putin's critics are denounced in a Soviet-style 'wall of
shame' erected in Crimea which slams opposition figures like Pussy Riot
singers as tools of the West

Posters recall Soviet-era propaganda and those behind them are unknown
Foes of Vladimir Putin are among those featured at Crimean airport
Members of punk band Pussy Riot are among those targeted

By WILL STEWART

PUBLISHED: 18:43 GMT, 17 April 2014 | UPDATED: 19:02 GMT, 17 April 2014

An extraordinary display of 'agents of foreign influence' has been
erected in Crimea, denouncing Russian opposition figures such as the
Pussy Riot singers, implying they are tools of the West.

It is unknown who is behind the controversial 'wall of shame' which
appeared at Simferopol Airport and railway station, but it evokes
memories of the vilification of supposed traitors from Stalin times.

An image of Uncle Sam with a no entry sign suggests that the pictured
opposition figures are accused as aiding the U.S. and the West.

Among those denounced on the display on the Black Sea peninsula,
recently annexed by Russia, are opposition blogger and anti-corruption
campaigner Alexey Navalny, seen as a prominent foe of Vladimir Putin.

The message under his jail-style picture reads: 'Lawyer. Got five years
suspended sentence for Kirov timber stealing.

'He carries out all his "investigations" in the interests of certain
financial groups. He took part in nationalist marches, but then betrayed
fellow nationalists for the sake of creating a liberal party.'

In bold letters, it adds: 'He called for sanctions against Russia after
the Crimean referendum.'

The Pussy Riot singers Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alyokhina,
25, both jailed for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral, are
pictured among a dozen 'agents of foreign influence'.

Another is Mikhail Kasyanov, once Putin's prime minister but now an
opposition politician, along with ex-deputy premier Boris Nemtsov who is
also a critic of the Kremlin.

On Andrey Makarevich, founder of Russia's oldest rock band, Time
Machine, the citation condemns him for supporting protesters arrested at
an anti-Putin rally.

'Musician who lost his popularity and hosted TV cooking show. He played
at concerts to support "Bolotnaya prisoners". He supported Yeltsin, then
Putin, and then turned to opposition.'

In bold letters it continues: 'He believes that Russia's participation
in the Ukrainian question is a profanation and rude interference with
the people's fight for independence.'

The anonymous photographer who took the pictures wrote: 'This is all I
managed to snap with my phone. Then people in military uniforms came to
say that it was prohibited to take pictures there and that I should show
my identity documents.'

The display resembles a recent poster that appeared briefly on the
building housing a major bookshop in Moscow which complained of a 'fifth
column' in Russia.

The display was across the street from the offices of Ekho Moscow, an
independently edited radio station, along with a Dunkin' Donuts, a
Baskin-Robbins and a Citibank branch.

A giant banner showed images of opposition figures along side aliens,
one holding a briefcase with a white ribbon symbol of anti-Putin
campaigners.

The sign read: 'Fifth Column. Aliens among us.' A statement said: 'Books
were written about aliens capturing earth under disguise. They look like
us, and until the moment comes no-one suspects them.

'We haven't met true aliens yet. But sadly the 'fifth column' of
national traitors became an indisputable reality in Russia.

'They are in fact just the same aliens. They pretend to act in the
interests of Russia and our people, but in fact they serve interests of
completely different "civilisations".' ...

(3) Pussy Riot feted by NYT, but local anti-nuclear protestor only gets
a tiny mention

From: "Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics Earth Sciences)"
<sadanand@mail.ccsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:26:25 -0400

The Fool,  the Demagogue and the Former KGB Colonel

Edward S. Herman

Z Magazine, May 2014

https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-fool-the-demagogue-and-the-former-kgb-colonel/

The fool is John Kerry, who has looked bad in his rushing around between
Washington and Tel Aviv trying to get in place a “framework” agreement
between Israel and the Palestinians that would show progress in the
efforts of the honest broker, assailing  Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela
for his “terror campaign against his own people,” and of course
denouncing the Russians for their “aggression”  against the coup-regime
of Ukraine. [...]

Comparing Vladimir Putin’s address to the Russian Federation on March
18, 2014 dealing with the Crimean referendum and associated crisis with
Obama’s March 23rd address in Brussels is no contest—Putin wins hands
down. This, I believe, is a result of the fact that Russia is under
serious attack and threat by the United States, which is a still
expanding empire that cannot tolerate serious rivals and actually turns
them into enemies that must resist. This is mainly Russia and China, and
U.S.-NATO actions have succeeded in transforming Russia from a virtual
client in the Yeltsin era to the enemy and ”aggressor” today. It is
amazing to see how the mainstream media and intellectuals can fail to
see the security threat to Russia posed by the Western-underwritten
change in government in Kiev, and the continuity in the extension of
this threat in NATO’s steady expansion on Russia’s borders. And the
double standard on aggression and international law  is breath-taking.
Putin sardonically notes, “Firstly, it’s a good thing that they at least
remember that there exists such a thing as international law—better late
than never.”  He makes his point in low key and with wit. Obama is never
funny in Brussels and his stream of clichés and misrepresentations is
painful. He is defending the indefensible, and his target looks good by
comparison, both intellectually and morally.

But Putin is the loser in mainstream America. He is a victim of the
standard demonization process that is applied to any challenger or
target of the imperial state. It is amusing to see him so often referred
to as the “former KGB colonel”—can you imagine the U.S. media regularly
referring to George Bush-1 as the “former head of the CIA”?   And of
course every blemish in his career, and they are real—Chechnya, his
position on gay rights, the weakness of Russian democracy and power of
the oligarchs  (which he inherited from the U.S.-supported Yeltsin)—is
featured regularly. But underneath this all is the fact that he
represents Russian national interests, which conflict with the outward
drive and interests of  the U.S. imperial elite.

For just a tiny illustration of the bias. We may consider the media
treatment of the Pussy Riot band, jailed after an action in a major
Moscow church, and made into virtual saints in the U.S. media. They
feature the badness of Putin and his Russia. The New York Times had 23
articles featuring the Pussy Riot band from January 1, 2014 through
March 31, a number of them with pictures of  the band visiting various
places in New York. They met with the Times editorial board and were
honored by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among others.
They are not good musicians and often do things that would land them in
jail in the United States, but they denounce Putin.

One of them, Maria  Alyokhina, was even given op ed space in the paper
(“Sochi Under Siege,” February 21). Two interesting contrasts: John
Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political scientist and author of
several important books on foreign affairs, wrote an op ed column
“Getting Ukraine Wrong,” published on March 14 in the International New
York Times, but not in the U.S. print edition. His message was too
strong for the main NYT vehicle  as he argued that “The taproot of the
current crisis is NATO’s expansion… and is motivated by the same
geopolitical  considerations that influence all great powers, including
the United States.”  This is not opinion and analysis fit to print.

Another interesting comparison is this: in February 2014, while the
trials and opinions of Pussy Riot were hot news, the 84 year old nun,
Sister Megan Rice,  was sentenced to four years in prison for having
entered a nuclear weapons site in July 2012 and carried out a symbolic
action there. The New York Times gave this news a tiny mention  in its
National Briefing items under  the title “Tennessee. Nun is Sentenced
for Peace Protest,” on February 19, 2014 on page A12. Megan Rice was not
invited to visit the Times editorial board or write an opinion column.
  Her sentencing was news barely fit to even marginalize.

(4) UK Trots say "Defend Ukraine sovereignty!", back Pussy Riot protest
over Crimea

http://www.themilitant.com/2014/7811/781101.html

Vol. 78/No. 11   March 24, 2014

Russian troops out!

Defend Ukraine sovereignty! Invasion of Crimea raises threat of war

BY JOHN STUDER

Russian soldiers, including special forces, are being deployed across
Crimea to solidify Moscow's brutal occupation of that southern Ukrainian
peninsula by the Black Sea. They have surrounded Ukraine military posts,
taken over the parliament building and "disappeared" opponents of the
Russian occupation. They are aided by gangs recruited among ethnic
Russians who emigrated there in previous decades as part of Moscow's
efforts to Russify Crimea.

Thousands of troops from the Russian naval base at Sevastopol have been
reinforced by 16,000 troops brought over the Russian border. On March 10
Russian troops were "moving methodically down roads in convoys that
included BTR armored personnel carriers, mobile electronic warfare
vehicles and transport trucks with beds packed with troops in helmets,"
the New York Times reported.

The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened
further war moves in Ukraine and beyond. Putin claims that the new
Ukraine government is a mob of fascists and anti-Semites who are
attacking Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Moscow asserts it has the right
to intervene in Crimea, in eastern and southern Ukraine, and, in the
Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Putin also ordered military drills in the Baltic Sea. On March 4 the
Russian president accused Lithuania and Poland of training "extremists"
who overthrew Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The Russian
parliament voted to approve the use of force to defend Russian speakers
outside Russia.

"Had Putin failed to request permission to use force," Sergey Markov, a
pro-Putin commentator, told Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian tabloid,
U.S. and European NATO troops would "have been in Moscow."

The invasion comes in response to months of mass mobilizations against
the pro-Russian Ukraine government of Yanukovych. After a failed attempt
to outlaw public protests and his riot police killed more than 80
protesters, Yanukovych lost all political support and fled to Russia.
Millions of workers and farmers celebrated their victory in overthrowing
Russian domination of Ukraine.

A new government was formed, which called for elections on May 25.
Thousands remain in the Maidan -- Independence Square -- in Kiev, the
nation's capital, determined to place their stamp on politics. In the
political space that has opened, working people are debating what course
they should take to defend and extend their victory.

"Right now we are thinking what steps should we make to change the
system," said Olga Bogomolets, a doctor who helped organize the network
of medical clinics in the Maidan.

She turned down two positions she was offered in the new government,
saying all she sees is "a few new faces, but our goal was not to change
the faces."

Russian propaganda

Bogomolets has been the victim of Russian propaganda that slandered the
protests and branded participants as murderous thugs. Russia Today and
other Putin-backed media have claimed that Bogomolets said protesters
and police were killed with the same bullets during the riot police
attacks that provoked outrage and hastened the fall of the Yanukovych
government. "Russia Today feasted on the story, presenting it as
evidence to back President Vladimir Putin's allegation that the deaths
in Kyiv came at the hands of opposition provocateurs," the March 8
Toronto Star reported.

But the story is made out of whole cloth. Bogomolets said the only
people she saw who were killed were protesters shot by snipers.

There is also no evidence to support Putin's accusation that the
protesters are carrying out anti-Semitic pogroms. The Jerusalem Post
reported Feb. 25, that Hillel Cohen, a representative of Hatzalah
Ukraine, dressed in what he called a "visibly Jewish" fashion and walked
from one end of the Maidan to the other. He didn't meet any hostility,
he said. In fact, Jewish activists have been among the combatants in the
fight to bring down the Russian-dominated government, including at least
one of those killed by cop snipers.

Putin and the Russian capitalist interests he represents are acting from
a position of weakness. The country's economy, based overwhelmingly on
natural gas and oil, is weak and vulnerable in a world where prices of
these commodities are under pressure as new and cheaper supplies are
coming on the market. The propertied rulers in Russia see no other road
but expansion of economic and political control in the "near abroad," as
they call the former Soviet republics on Russia's border.

Putin feels encouraged by successfully backing off the administration of
President Barack Obama in Syria and elsewhere. Soon after taking office
Obama promoted the notion of a "reset" with Russia and the idea that
U.S. foreign policy should be based more on diplomacy and dialogue and
less on military action.

Russian forces orchestrated the proclamation of Sergei Aksyonov as new
Crimean prime minister Feb. 27. Aksyonov is leader of the Russian Unity
party, which won a tiny percent of the votes in the last parliamentary
election and elected only three of the parliament's 100 deputies.

On the day of the "vote" the legislature building was surrounded by
masked Russian soldiers. Inside, according to Russian Unity, 61 of 100
deputies were present and voted to elect Aksyonov and set a referendum
for Crimea to break with Ukraine and join Russia.

However, Reuters, Norwegian Aftenposten and other media have reported
that numerous parliament members recorded in the official minutes as
voting for the bill, did not even attend the meeting, and there was no
quorum.

While the press is full of reports of Crimean connections with Russia to
justify Moscow's intervention, the fact is that the region is dependent
on its integration with Ukraine. It receives more than 80 percent of its
water, 82 percent of its electricity and 35 percent of its gas from
Ukraine, as well as almost all its coal and steel.

Tatars a special target of Moscow

A special target of the Russian forces -- who travel in military
uniforms without identification in vehicles with Russian license plates
-- are the 270,000 native Crimean Tatars, who make up more than 12
percent of the province's population. The Tatars have waged a
centuries-long struggle against Russian national oppression -- broken
only by a flowering of national culture under the rule of Crimean
workers and farmers allied with the Russian Revolution under the
leadership of the Bolshevik Party and V.I. Lenin in the 1920s. After the
death of Lenin, a privileged social layer growing in the government
apparatus carried through a counterrevolution led by Joseph Stalin. The
Stalinist regime arrested and murdered Tatar revolutionary leaders,
reimposed Russification policies of the czarist era and trampled on the
national rights of non-Russian people in Crimea and Ukraine.

Tatars have spearheaded mobilizations of tens of thousands -- attended
by significant numbers of Ukrainians and ethnic Russians -- against the
Russian invasion and secession ploy. These actions have been larger than
counterdemonstrations by Russian Unity.

Refat Chubarov, leader of the Tatar Mejlis council, appealed March 6 on
ATR TV for "all residents of Crimea, regardless of their ethnicity, to
completely boycott" the referendum, saying there can be no free choice
"at a time when there are troops on the streets."

The referendum only allows two choices, both of which lead to separation
from Ukraine. It includes no option for those who want to leave things
as they are.

Tatars have also been organizing self-defense units to protect their
communities from attack.

Many ethnic Russians also oppose the Russian occupation and referendum.
"This is a farce," Crimea resident Oleg Ilushkin, a railroad engineer
born in Donbas, Russia, told the Wall Street Journal. "Who are these
people to decide the course of my life and my children's lives."

Pussy Riot protests in Russia

Maria Alyokhina, one of the two members of Pussy Riot sentenced to two
years in prison in 2012 for protesting Putin's election as president,
published an article March 2 against the Russian occupation of Crimea
entitled "Russia is repeating 1968." The reference is to the Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia.

"Troops are marching through the streets of Crimea today," Alyokhina
said, at the same time police in Russia are "ready to grab and arrest
those who have declared no to war." Calling for action against the war
and the Putin government, Alyokhina said, "We should decide how long we
will live like this."

Four days later, she and fellow Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
were in Nizhny Novgorod where prisoners in the penal colony where
Alyokhina had been jailed asked for their help. They were attacked by a
gang of police-organized goons, who sprayed them with acidic green dye,
threw garbage at them and pushed them around.

They have no plans to stop protesting.

(5) Neo-Nazis march in Lvov 'in honor' of Ukrainian Waffen SS division

http://rt.com/news/155364-ukraine-nazi-division-march/

Published time: April 28, 2014 15:06
Edited time: April 28, 2014 16:16 Get short URL

{photos}
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists carry emblems of 14th SS-Volunteer Division
"Galician" as they march in the center of the western city of Lviv on
April 27, 2014 to mark the 71st anniversary of 14th SS-Volunteer
Division "Galician" foundation. (RIA Novosti) {end photos}

Hundreds took part in a march to mark the anniversary of the formation
of the Ukrainian SS division, which fought for the Nazi's against the
Soviet Union during World War II, in the city of Lvov in the western
Ukraine.

Around five hundred neo-Nazi supporters took to the streets in the
center of the city on Sunday to celebrate the creation of the 14th
SS-Volunteer Division 'Galician' on April 28, 1943.

Many of the participants wore embroidered national Ukrainian shirts and
held SS Galician divisional insignias (a yellow lion and three crowns on
a blue background) in their hands.

The demonstrators made their way from the monument to the Ukrainian
nationalist icon of Stepan Bandera, and to the local cemetery where a
memorial to the Galician soldiers is erected.

AFP Photo/Yuriy Dyachyshyn

Bandera was the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
(OUN), which collaborated with Nazi Germany, and was involved in the
ethnic cleansing of Poles, Jews and Russians.

The action went on despite calls from the local administration to
abstain from public gatherings on the day as it "may harm the unity of
the country."

The march was staged by 'Native Land' and 'Student Brotherhood of Stepan
Bandera' - radical organizations, supported by local motorcycle enthusiasts.

Despite the organizers promising that the rally would be a silent one,
there were a lot of nationalist chants heard in Lvov.

However, slogans like - "SS Galician Division!" "People of Lvov are the
strongest!" "Glory to the nation - death to enemies!" and "Bandera and
Shukhevich are heroes of Ukraine!" - weren't welcomed by many of the
city's residents, the UNIAN news agency reports.

It resulted in the route of the march being shortened and the organizers
apologizing to those who were offended by the chants.

Around two hundred policemen provided security during the march, which
proceeded without serious violations of public order.

None of the actual participants of the SS Galician Division were noticed
taking part in the action, RIA-Novosti reports.

The Nazi occupational forces picked the SS Galician Division from
volunteers in western Ukraine in order to tackle Soviet and Polish
partisans.

The military formation, which became well-known for its ferocity,
existed for over a year before being crushed by the Red Army in July 1944.

During the Nuremberg trials, all those who were officially acknowledged
as SS members were labeled war criminals, and the Nazi organization
itself was banned.

(6) Russia to Decouple Trade from Dollar; BRICS Payment system to bypass
Bank for International Settlements

http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/04/09/russia-announces-decoupling-trade-from-dollar/

Russia Will Decouple Trade From Dollar

Peter Koenig | Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 22:36 Beijing

Russia has just dropped another bombshell, announcing not only the
de-coupling of its trade from the dollar, but also that its hydrocarbon
trade will in the future be carried out in rubles and local currencies
of its trading partners - no longer in dollars - see Voice of Russia

Russia's trade in hydrocarbons amounts to about a trillion dollars per
year. Other countries, especially the BRICS and BRCIS-associates
(BRICSA) may soon follow suit and join forces with Russia, abandoning
the 'petro-dollar' as trading unit for oil and gas.

This could amount to tens of trillions in loss for demand of
petro-dollars per year (US GDP about 17 trillion dollars - December
2013) - leaving an important dent in the US economy would be an
understatement.

Added to this is the declaration today by Russia's Press TV - China will
re-open the old Silk Road as a new trading route linking Germany, Russia
and China, allowing to connect and develop new markets along the road,
especially in Central Asia, where this new project will bring economic
and political stability, and in Western China provinces,where "New
Areas" of development will be created.

The first one will be the Lanzhou New Area in China's Northwestern Gansu
Province, one of China's poorest regions.

"During his visit to Duisburg, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a
master stroke of economic diplomacy that runs directly counter to the
Washington neo-conservative faction's effort to bring a new
confrontation between NATO and Russia." (press TV, April 6, 2014)

"Using the role of Duisburg as the world's largest inland harbor, an
historic transportation hub of Europe and of Germany's Ruhr steel
industry center, he proposed that Germany and China cooperate on
building a new "economic Silk Road" linking China and Europe.

The implications for economic growth across Eurasia are staggering."

Curiously, western media have so far been oblivious to both events. It
seems like a desire to extending the falsehood of our western illusion
and arrogance - as long as the silence will bear.

Germany, the economic driver of Europe - the world's fourth largest
economy (US$ 3.6 trillion GDP) - on the western end of the new trading
axis, will be like a giant magnet, attracting other European trading
partners of Germany's to the New Silk Road.

What looks like a future gain for Russia and China, also bringing about
security and stability, would be a lethal loss for Washington.

In addition, the BRICS are preparing to launch a new currency - composed
by a basket of their local currencies - to be used for international
trading, as well as for a new reserve currency, replacing the rather
worthless debt ridden dollar - a welcome feat for the world.

Along with the new BRICS(A) currency will come a new international
payment settlement system, replacing the SWIFT and IBAN exchanges,
thereby breaking the hegemony of the infamous privately owned currency
and gold manipulator, the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) in
Basle, Switzerland - also called the central bank of all central banks.

To be sure - the BIS is a privately owned for profit institution, was
created in the early 1930's, in the midst of the big economic melt-down
of the 20th Century.

The BIS was formed precisely for that purpose - to control the world's
monetary system, along with the also privately owned FED and the Wall
Street Banksters - the epitome of private unregulated ownership.

The BIS is known to hold at least half a dozen secret meetings per year,
attended by the world's elite, deciding the fate of countries and entire
populations.

Their demise would be another welcome new development.

As the new trading road and monetary system will take hold, other
countries and nations, so far in the claws of US dependence, will flock
to the 'new system', gradually isolating Washington's military
industrial economy (sic) and its NATO killing machine.

This Economic Sea Change may bring the empire to its knees, without
spilling a drop of blood. An area of new hope for justice and more
equality, a rebirth of sovereign states, may dawn and turn the spiral of
darkness into a spiral of light.

Peter Koenig is an economist and former World Bank staff. He worked
extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water
resources.

(7) Russian oil firm says Asian buyers willing to use euros

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/10/russia-gazpromneft-euros-idUSL6N0N22EH20140410

Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:20am EDT

* Russia mulls counter measures against Western sanctions

* Moscow expects harsher sanctions over Ukraine (Adds detail, analyst,
traders comment)

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Florence Tan

MOSCOW/SINGAPORE, April 10 (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled oil
producer Gazprom Neft said it had received positive responses from Asian
clients about the possibility of using euros as a settlement currency
instead of the dollar.

Company head Alexander Dyukov said this week Gazprom Neft had broached
the idea of dropping the dollar, traditionally the currency of choice
for the global energy sector, in response to a possible new round of
Western sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea.

He said the company had discussed with buyers the possibility of
switching contracts to euros and that 95 percent had said they were
ready to do it. Gazprom Neft ships around 30,000 barrels per day of oil
eastward.

"Gazprom Neft has held discussions with its eastern partners about the
possibility of completing settlements in the European currency. They, in
turn, expressed their potential readiness for this," the oil arm of top
Russian top natural gas producer Gazprom said in emailed comments on
Thursday.

Three buyers in Japan and China said they had been approached by Gazprom
to settle oil payments in currencies other than the dollar. Two of the
buyers said they were still considering the proposal, while the third
said his company had bought crude using euros before and did not see it
as a problem.

"Switching to euros is not a big deal. The problem is who will bear the
exchange cost," a trader with a Japanese buyer of Russian Asia-bound
ESPO crude oil blend said.

The United States and the European Union have already imposed some
sanctions, mainly on individuals, over the Crimea crisis and have
threatened more sanctions if Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine.

Moscow has reserved the right to send in troops if it deems them
necessary to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine from what it says are
nationalist and neo-fascist groups.

REAL MEASURES?

President Vladimir Putin has urged Russian companies to forge closer
ties with Asian energy powerhouses as relations with Europe and the
United States have become frosty.

Earlier on Thursday, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said
Russia had potential partners to turn to for oil and gas trade other
than in the West.

Analysts said the proposal to use euros instead of dollars was rhetoric
rather than an immediate possibility.

"It's obvious that the shift from the existing system of settlements is
fraught with costs and does not promise benefits" for Russia, Valery
Nesterov, an analyst with Sberbank CIB in Moscow, said.

"It is more likely about future contracts, not current deals, as the
settlement currency had been already agreed."

Some traders have been sceptical about the prospect that Russian
companies could drop the use of dollars for settlements, because
countries with close political ties to the United States, such as Japan,
could find such a switch too politically sensitive to agree.

One ESPO buyer in Japan said his company did not have direct dealings
with Gazprom Neft but that he was aware of some requests being made.

If Russia was serious about such a shift, the big sellers such as
Gazprom and state oil company Rosneft would be looking at similar moves,
but so far there have been no signs of that, he said.

"I think they are just testing the market," he said.

Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin, a long-standing ally of
President Vladimir Putin, said on Thursday the company would use
settlement currencies that have already been agreed in contracts,
according to local media reports. (Additional reporting by Katya
Golubkova in Moscow, James Topham and Osamu Tsukimori in Tokyo, Jacob
Gronholt-Pedersen in Singapore; editing by Timothy Heritage and Jane Baird)

(8) US Threatens Russia over Petrodollar-Busting Deal

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-04/us-threatens-russia-sanctions-over-petrodollar-busting-deal

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2014 14:27 -0400

On the heels of Russia's potential "holy grail" gas deal with China, the
news of a Russia-Iran oil "barter" deal, it appears the US is starting
to get very concerned about its almighty Petrodollar

We suspect these sanctions would have more teeth than some travel bans,
but, as we noted previously, it is just as likely to be another epic
geopolitical debacle resulting from what was originally intended to be a
demonstration of strength and instead is rapidly turning out into a
terminal confirmation of weakness.

As we explained earlier in the week,

Russia seems perfectly happy to telegraph that it is just as willing to
use barter (and "heaven forbid" gold) and shortly other "regional"
currencies, as it is to use the US Dollar, hardly the intended outcome
of the western blocakde, which appears to have just backfired and
further impacted the untouchable status of the Petrodollar. ...

"If Washington can't stop this deal, it could serve as a signal to other
countries that the United States won't risk major diplomatic disputes at
the expense of the sanctions regime,"

And here is Voice of Russia, "Russia prepares to attack the Petrodollar":

The US dollar's position as the base currency for global energy trading
gives the US a number of unfair advantages. It seems that Moscow is
ready to take those advantages away.

The existence of "petrodollars" is one of the pillars of America's
economic might because it creates a significant external demand for
American currency, allowing the US to accumulate enormous debts without
defaulting. If a Japanese buyer want to buy a barrel of Saudi oil, he
has to pay in dollars even if no American oil company ever touches the
said barrel. Dollar has held a dominant position in global trading for
such a long time that even Gazprom's natural gas contracts for Europe
are priced and paid for in US dollars. Until recently, a significant
part of EU-China trade had been priced in dollars.

Lately, China has led the BRICS efforts to dislodge the dollar from its
position as the main global currency, but the "sanctions war" between
Washington and Moscow gave an impetus to the long-awaited scheme to
launch the petroruble and switch all Russian energy exports away from
the US currency.

The main supporters of this plan are Sergey Glaziev, the economic aide
of the Russian President and Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, the
biggest Russian oil company and a close ally of Vladimir Putin. Both
have been very vocal in their quest to replace the dollar with the
Russian ruble. Now, several top Russian officials are pushing the plan
forward.

First, it was the Minister of Economy, Alexei Ulyukaev who told Russia
24 news channel that the Russian energy companies must should ditch the
dollar. " They must be braver in signing contracts in rubles and the
currencies of partner-countries, " he said.

Then, on March 2, Andrei Kostin, the CEO of state-owned VTB bank, told
the press that Gazprom, Rosneft and Rosoboronexport, state company
specialized in weapon exports, can start trading in rubles. " I've
spoken to Gazprom, to Rosneft and Rosoboronexport management and they
don't mind switching their exports to rubles. They only need a mechanism
to do that ", Kostin told the attendees of the annual Russian Bank
Association meeting.

Judging by the statement made at the same meeting by Valentina
Matviyenko, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament, it is
safe to assume that no resources will be spared to create such a
mechanism. " Some 'hot headed' decision-makers have already forgotten
that the global economic crisis of 2008 - which is still taking its toll
on the world - started with a collapse of certain credit institutions in
the US, Great Britain and other countries. This is why we believe that
any hostile financial actions are a double-edged sword and even the
slightest error will send the boomerang back to the aborigines," she said.

It seems that Moscow has decided who will be in charge of the
"boomerang". Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, has been nominated to
chair the board of directors of Saint-Petersburg Commodity Exchange, a
specialized commodity exchange. In October 2013, speaking at the World
Energy Congress in Korea, Sechin called for a "global mechanism to trade
natural gas" and went on suggesting that " it was advisable to create an
international exchange for the participating countries, where
transactions could be registered with the use of regional currencies ".
Now, one of the most influential leaders of the global energy trading
community has the perfect instrument to make this plan a reality. A
Russian commodity exchange where reference prices for Russian oil and
natural gas will be set in rubles instead of dollars will be a strong
blow to the petrodollar.

Rosneft has recently signed a series of big contracts for oil exports to
China and is close to signing a "jumbo deal" with Indian companies. In
both deals, there are no US dollars involved. Reuters reports, that
Russia is close to entering a goods-for-oil swap transaction with Iran
that will give Rosneft around 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil per day to
sell in the global market. The White House and the russophobes in the
Senate are livid and are trying to block the transaction because it
opens up some very serious and nasty scenarios for the petrodollar. If
Sechin decides to sell this Iranian oil for rubles, through a Russian
exchange, such move will boost the chances of the "petroruble" and will
hurt the petrodollar.

It can be said that the US sanctions have opened a Pandora's box of
troubles for the American currency. The Russian retaliation will surely
be unpleasant for Washington, but what happens if other oil producers
and consumers decide to follow the example set by Russia? During the
last month, China opened two centers to process yuan-denominated trade
flows, one in London and one in Frankfurt. Are the Chinese preparing a
similar move against the greenback? We'll soon find out.

Finally, those curious what may happen next, only not to Iran but to
Russia, are encouraged to read "From Petrodollar To Petrogold: The US Is
Now Trying To Cut Off Iran's Access To Gold."

(9) George Kennan warning: NATO expansion into former Soviet territory a
“strategic blunder"

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/robert-skidelsky-uses-the-ukraine-crisis-to-revisit-the-west-s-cold-war-era--containment--doctrine

Kennan’s Revenge

by Robert Skidelsky

APR 22, 2014

LONDON – Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced
that gas giant Gazprom would start demanding payment a month in advance
for the supplies that it sells to Ukraine. The British newspaper The
Observer published, in response, a striking cartoon showing Putin
sitting on a throne of outward-pointing daggers, turning off the Ukraine
gas tap while saying, “Winter is coming.” The background was bright red,
and a hammer and sickle and a skull were planted on Putin’s breast. For
some, at least, the Cold War is back.

But, before we drift into Cold War II, we would do well to recall why we
had the first one. The end of Communism removed one important reason:
the Soviet Union’s expansionist thrust and the Western democracies’
determination to resist it. But other reasons remain.

American diplomat George F. Kennan identified them as neurotic
insecurity and Oriental secretiveness on the Russian side, and legalism
and moralism on the Western side. The middle ground of cool calculation
of interests, possibilities, and risks remains elusive to this day.

Kennan is reckoned to have laid the Cold War’s intellectual foundation –
at least in the West – with his “long telegram” from Moscow in February
1946, which he followed with his famous Foreign Affairs article, signed
“X,” in July 1947. Kennan argued that long-term peace between the
capitalist West and communist Russia was impossible, owing to the
mixture of traditional Russian insecurity, Stalin’s need for an external
enemy, and communist messianism.

Russia, Kennan argued, would seek to bring about the collapse of
capitalism not by an armed attack, but by a mixture of bullying and
subversion. The correct response, said Kennan, should be “containment”
of Soviet aggression through the “adroit and vigilant application of
counterforce.”

During President Harry Truman’s administration, United States officials
interpreted Kennan’s view as requiring a military build-up against a
potential Communist invasion of Western Europe. This gave rise to the
Truman Doctrine, from which sprang the logic of military confrontation,
NATO, and the arms race.

These developments dismayed Kennan, who claimed that containment was
meant to be economic and political, not military. He was one of the main
architects of the post-WWII Marshall Plan. He opposed the formation of NATO.

After Stalin’s death, Kennan looked forward to fruitful negotiations
with a “mellowing” Soviet system under Nikita Khrushchev. He came to
regret the uses to which the ambiguous language of the “long telegram”
and his “X” article had been put, lamenting that democracies could
pursue a foreign policy only on the “primitive level of slogans and
jingoistic ideological inspiration.”

In retrospect, one might ask whether it was NATO or US economic and
political support that prevented Western Europe from embracing
communism. At any rate, both sides convinced themselves that the other
represented an existential threat, and they both built up colossal
arsenals to guarantee their security.

Until the Soviet Union collapsed, each brief period of “détente” was
followed by a new arms build-up. There was something insane about the
whole business, and one is left with the disquieting thought that NATO
prolonged the Soviet Union’s life by handing it a ready-made enemy to
replace Nazi Germany.

To understand how Russians regard Ukraine today, one needs to view
events there through this lens. Following its “victory” in the Cold War,
the West made a serious mistake by refusing to concede any form of
regional hegemony to Russia, even in countries like Ukraine and Georgia
that had once formed part of the historic Russian state.

Rather, under the banner of democracy and human rights, the West
actively sought to pry the ex-Soviet countries from Russia’s orbit. Many
of them were eager to escape the Kremlin’s gravity, and NATO expanded
eastward into the former Soviet bloc in Central Europe, and even into
the former Soviet Union, with the admission of Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania. In 1996, the 92-year-old Kennan warned that NATO’s expansion
into former Soviet territory was a “strategic blunder of potentially
epic proportions.”

These Western thrusts undoubtedly inspired Russian paranoia, reflected
today in Kremlin-fueled conspiracy theories about Ukraine. And, just as
Kennan warned against a foreign policy that was “utopian in its
expectation, legalistic in its concept…moralistic…and self-righteous,”
the goal of Western policy today should be to find the means to work
with Russia to stop Ukraine from being torn apart.

This means talking and listening to the Russians. The Russians have
presented their ideas for resolving the crisis. Broadly, they propose a
“neutral” Ukraine on the model of Finland and a federal state on the
model of Switzerland. The first would exclude NATO membership, but not
admission to the European Union. The second would aim to secure
semi-autonomous regions.

Such proposals may be cynical; they may also be unworkable. But the West
should be urgently testing, exploring, and seeking to refine them
instead of recoiling in moralistic horror at Russia’s actions.

Suspended between paranoia and moralism, sensible diplomacy has a hard
job. But it should not need the upcoming hundredth anniversary of the
second bloodiest war in history to remind our statesmen that low-level
events may spin irretrievably out of control.

(10) Brzezinski envisaged Ukraine joining EU and NATO sometime between
2005 and 2015

http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/04/26/the-long-game-ukraine-as-a-geopolitical-pivot/

The Long Game: Ukraine as a Geopolitical Pivot

Lionel Reynolds | Saturday, April 26, 2014, 12:58 Beijing

Writing in 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski predicted that the Ukraine would
become a serious candidate for EU and NATO membership sometime between
2005 and 2015. He further predicted that, beyond 2010, the Ukraine could
link up with France, Germany and Poland to establish a ‘critical core’
for Europe’s future security and provide an ‘Eastern anchor’ for
‘Atlanticist Europe’. (See Brzezinski The Grand Chessboard and Foreign
Affairs Sept-Oct 1997).

Later that year he wrote that Ukraine had no realistic chance of
pursuing a ‘multi-vector’ policy, of facing both East and West. It would
either be reintegrated into the CIS, or it would become a de facto
Central European State. The latter would enable the Ukraine to become an
‘integral part of the Euro-Atlantic community’ (See Brzezinski
‘Ukraine’s Critical Role in the Post-Soviet Space’ Politics and the
Times 1997).

Brzezinski wrote with canny foresight at a time when Eurasian sympathies
were still strong in the Ukraine. Through the late 90s the Communist
Party, re-founded in 1993 after being banned in 1991, was actually more
popular in the Ukraine than in Russia. The Communists were the strongest
party in the Rada, and in 1999 the Communist leader, Symonenko, received
37.8 % of the vote in the second round presidential faceoff against Kuchma.

Another clear indication of Eurasian sympathies was the Rada’s response
to NATO action in Kosovo in March 1999, when it condemned the action by
a vote of 231-46. Now that Nationalism/Atlanticism is much stronger in
Ukraine – with Nationalist/Atlanticist parties achieving 50% of the vote
at the 2012 Rada elections – Brzezinski’s prediction is becoming a reality.

Brzezinski, a former National Security Advisor to President Carter and
an influential thinker in US Foreign Policy circles, has always had an
audience in the Ukraine.

The Kiev based National Institute for Strategic Studies, an Atlanticist,
state-sponsored institute with close ties to western think tanks,
published a study in 1997 that argued that ‘as long as Ukraine adopts a
pendulum politics of symmetrical manoeuvre between the Russian and
Western poles, it will experience pressure from the West, in so far as
the latter is not interested in a strong Ukraine as a potential
component part of Russia in the case of Ukrainian drift towards the
Russian Federation.’

Consequently, the study argued that Ukraine should pursue a process of
‘European and Euro-Atlantic integration, deepening relations with
European countries and beginning a progressive departure from the
Eurasian zone of Russian influence’, at the same time seeking ‘relations
with the USA on the level of a strategic partnership on the basis of a
strengthening of the contradictions between Washington and Moscow’(O.F
Belov et al., Natsional’na bezpeka Ukrainy 1994-1996 – Kiev: National
Institute of Strategic Studies, 1997).

The implications are clear. Ukraine can’t expect strategic support from
the USA unless it turns away from Russia because the USA and Russia are
inevitable geopolitical opponents. Ukraine has to take sides.

With the eastward expansion of NATO during the last 20 years, we are now
seeing the Atlanticist project reach its Ukrainian pivot point, one of
the five key ‘geopolitical pivots’ that Brzezinski had identified in
1997 (the others were Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey and Iran). [...]

(11) Project Syndicate "the George Soros house organ" - Wayne Madsen

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/04/27/wealthy-u.s.-apparatchiks-rally-to-the-new-world-order.html

Wealthy U.S. Apparatchiks Rally to the New World Order

Wayne MADSEN | 27.04.2014 | 00:39

In the oligarchy known as the United States of America, it is now
commonplace for second-generation retired Foreign Service officers like
Christopher R. Hill to rally behind the cause of the “New World Order.”
Writing in the George Soros house organ, Project Syndicate, billed as
the “world’s smartest op-ed page by The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein,
Hill bemoaned the end of the post-Cold War “New World Order” brought
about by the “annexation” of Crimea to the Russian Federation. In fact,
the so-called “annexation” was a retrocession of the territory back to
Russia, correcting a diktat made in 1954 by Soviet Communist Party
General Secretary Nikita Khrushschev…

Hill lamented Russia’s abandonment of “Euro-Atlantic goals and
traditions.” In fact, “Euro-Atlantic” is a euphemism for NATO and the
European Union whose goals and traditions are militarization and
economic domination by a select group of oligarchs and draining national
treasuries dry by global bankers.

Hill, whose father was a career Foreign Service officer, has, like many
of his ilk, enriched himself through government service. Hill’s resume
states that his father was one of a number of U.S. diplomats expelled
from Haiti in 1963 by the country’s dictator Francois “Papa Doc”
Duvalier. However, the history books record that in 1963, Duvalier
expelled members of the U.S. Marine Corps Mission in the country. In
Christopher Hill, the defender of the “New World Order,” we have a
retired diplomat who cannot figure out whether his father was a diplomat
or a Marine. Such dilemmas confront the progeny of many Central
Intelligence Agency officers.

Hill, after helping Madeleine Albright and Richard Holbrooke dismember
Yugoslavia in the 1990s, has now ensconced himself as the dean of the
Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of
Denver, a school named after Albright’s father, a former Czechoslovak
ambassador to Belgrade. Korbel was accused by the post-World War II
Czechoslovak government of stealing artwork, silverware, chandeliers,
and even the gold wallpaper brads from the home of Karl Nebrich, an
Austrian businessman. Korbel, a Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry official,
was permitted to live in the house, then trust property held by the
Prague government, but with the provision that nothing be removed from
the estate. After Korbel was appointed ambassador to Yugoslavia, he
packed up all of Nebrich’s belongings and moved them to Belgrade. After
the new Communist government in Prague issued a warrant for Korbel’s
arrest for theft of the Nebrich family assets, Korbel fled to the United
States, where he ultimately began teaching at the University of Denver.
Among his cadre of students is Condoleezza Rice, the former Secretary of
State.

There is little wonder that a New World Order brigand like Hill would
now find himself the dean of a school named after an international art
thief. Nor is it surprising that he serves as an adviser to the Albright
Stonebridge Group, an international lobbying firm run by Albright and
former Bill Clinton national security adviser Samuel “Sandy” Berger.
Berger is no stranger to theft, as shown by his 2005 indictment and
guilty plea for removing classified documents from the U.S. National
Archives.

Hill also serves on the board of International Relief and Development,
Inc. (IRD), one of a number of “non-profit” cash sinkholes for the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), a well-known and infamous
conduit for covert CIA funding of projects around the world sans CIA
“fingerprints.” One of the countries where IRD is active in providing
“stabilization” services is Ukraine. In this case where Orwellian
“Newspeak” has become the lingua franca for the Obama administration,
“stabilization” means “destabilization.”

In his column in the Soros house organ publication, Project Syndicate,
aptly named because Soros’s operations around the world represent, in
fact, a criminal syndicate, Hill writes “sanctions [on Russia] are
unlikely to bring about the internal changes that Russia needs, because
those changes need to be accomplished by the Russian people.” It is
clear that Hill sees the same solution for Russia as he and his ilk have
provided for Ukraine and Yugoslavia: destabilization and fragmentation.
Hill is an expert on divided countries, having served as ambassador to
South Korea, the “former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,” and hopelessly
fragmented Iraq, as well as the special envoy to Kosovo. Hill was a key
member of the U.S. delegation to the 1995 Dayton “Peace Summit,” a
conference that resulted in the total fragmentation of what remained of
Yugoslavia. The dissolution of Yugoslavia was the ultimate goal of
Hill’s present business partners and friends: Albright, Berger, and
then-Defense Secretary William Cohen.

As with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and current
Secretary of State John Kerry, Hill’s op-ed also drew parallels between
Russia today and Nazi Germany 75 years ago. For any U.S. “diplomat” to
liken the successor state of the Soviet Union, Russia, to Nazi Germany
shows the ineptness of the neo-conservative interventionist argument
that pervades the Obama administration. The Soviet Union, which included
many loyal Ukrainians, suffered a body count of 25 million people in
their war against the Nazis. For Hill, Clinton, Kerry, or anyone else to
liken Russia to Nazi Germany is historical revisionism at its worst.

It’s not “democracy” that concerns money grubbers like Hill, Albright,
and Berger but making obscene profits. That is why Soros provides a
platform for people like Hill to promote his precious New World Order.
Hill’s partner-in-crime, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell, were only interested in
promoting democracy in Myanmar (Burma) so Albright Stonebridge could, on
behalf of their corporate client Coca Cola, open the first Coca Cola
bottling plant in Myanmar. Last June, Albright flew to Yangon to guzzle
a bottle of Coke in front of adoring clients, including Soros
agent-of-influence and so-called “democracy leader” Aung San Suu Kyi,
who gathered in the Burmese capital. Of course, Albright, Hill and
Campbell are also interested in other “democracy” projects, such as U.S.
firms nailing the lucrative contract to improve Yangon International
Airport. The gambit of Albright minions like Hill is not democracy but
corporate profits. There should be no surprise that Ukraine’s coup
leaders decided to transfer Ukrainian gold and other assets, including
priceless artwork, to U.S. custody as “collateral” for American loans.
Dr. Josef Korbel would be proud of the kleptomania practices of those
who carry on his traditions of art theft.

Hill is in good company as a well-paid contributor to Soros’s Project
Syndicate. His colleagues represent a virtual “Who’s Who” of the New
World Order: the Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass,
Bush 41 Economics Advisers Chairman Michael Boskin, former Israeli
Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, former NATO Secretary General Javier
Solana, former Spanish Foreign Minister and Vice President of the World
Bank Ana Palacio, and former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda.
All are members of the glee club of the New World Order.

Hill and his colleagues are upset that Russia has put the brakes on the
goals of the New World Order. In a fit of rage that their own profits
will suffer, oligarchs like Hill are pressing for further sanctions on
Russian leaders. In the world of the New World Order advocates, the
theft of state property and withholding of personal property is only
allowable on their own terms and with their own personal enrichment as
the key motivation for their actions.

(12) CIA presence in Ukraine gives the wrong impression, senator warns

http://www.msnbc.com/all/why-was-cia-chief-kiev

04/16/14 11:04 PM--UPDATED 04/16/14 11:04 PM

By Collier Meyerson

CIA Director John Brennan visited Kiev this weekend as pro-Russian
militants seized control of a police station in eastern Ukraine. The
reason for Brennan's visit is still unknown.

On Wednesday's All In, Chris Hayes asked Connecticut Democratic Senator
Chris Murphy: "What message does it send to have John Brennan, the head
of the CIA in Kiev, meeting with the interim government? Does that not
confirm the worst paranoia on the part of the Russians and those who see
the Kiev government as essentially a puppet of the West?"

"I don't know the wisdom of having Brennan there," Murphy replied. "We
ultimately don't want this to be viewed as a proxy fight between the
United States and Russia."

"The reality is, is that there's a real danger to Ukrainian military and
to Ukrainian civilians by having this kind of Russian presence on the
border of Ukraine," Murphy cautioned. "And so it is in our interest as a
friend of Ukraine to try to give them intelligence or assistance to try
to avoid bloodshed."

While the senator emphasized that the goal of any cooperation between
the U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence agencies has been to try to avoid
conflict, he reiterated that "It may not be super smart to have Brennan
in Kiev, giving the impression that the United States is somehow there
to fight a proxy war with Russia."