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It is clear that Putin intends to rest control of the Russian economy from the Illumnist Zionists. This has been a long game running ever since Yukos was indicted on fraud and massive tax evasion in 02' the Rothschilds were always the masters behind the Russian jewish oligarchs who bought vast swaths of the russian economy for GREATLY reduced prices in exchanged for loyalty after the fall of communism i.e. privatization. Ever since Putins election it has been his goal reverse the consolidation of Russia's economy (mainly oil and gas sectors) into the hands of a few Russian Jews under the command of Rothchilds i.e central banks. Naturaly the media will spin it as a slip back towards "communism" and dictatorship etc, etc.. to exert pressure on Russia and threaten it economically and through other means both clandestine and overt. Russia will counteract by solidyfying all aspects of relations with China and Iran and other Arab nations.

The Ukraine did not fall their way so look for more open and covert Russian action in the caspian region and further increase in ties with nations such as India, Pakistan and Brazil, Venezuala and Cuba.

The EU is likely to lean on Russia as well since it is greatly under Rothchilds economic control through the central banks. The Rothchilds obviously intended to have control of these resources? Russian oil and gas supplied through Yukos was a key source of energy for Israel.

The success of Putins recapturing of these assets and prosecution of some individuals will likely lead to increased focus on other sources by the Yukos forces in places like Venezuela, Columbia, Nigeria and other smaller producers that are vulnerable, with the help of the US.

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THE REAL STORY ON THE YUKOS OIL SNATCH:
Fri Dec 17, 2004 09:46
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THE REAL STORY ON THE YUKOS OIL SNATCH:

PRESIDENT PUTIN, ROTHSCHILD AND THE 'BIG GAME'.

"This $40 billion giant was bought for about $300 million, thus looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia."

by Henk Ruyssenaars - the Netherlands

Update Dec. 17 - 2004 - Whether Russia's President Putin is 'doing the right thing', is up to everybody to decide for her- or himself. But this is where, and why Putin and his cronies (like in Ukraine) are drawing ''the line in the sand''. Today Russia said it will proceed with the sale of the main oil unit of OAO Yukos Oil Co., after a U.S. judge temporarily barred bankers and bidders, including OAO Gazprom, from participating in the auction.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Letitia Clark in Houston issued a temporary restraining order late yesterday that blocks lenders, including units of Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co., from conducting the sale for 10 business days. Clark's ruling doesn't apply to the government of Russia, which was seeking to auction Yukos's largest oil producing unit.*

Prelude by Soros's ''Open Society Institute'' in Russia.

The Open Society Institute has been working in Moscow since 1987 and has spent nearly $1bn in Russia. Fifteen years since it started work in Russia, US billionaire financier George Soros's Foundation has been "paralysed", after camouflage-clad men seized its Moscow offices and confiscated its computer records and archives. [BBC*] The head of Soros's Open Society Institute in Russia told journalists Tuesday] that the raid, ordered by the building's owner ostensibly because of a long-standing dispute over rent, appeared to have political motives. The action by some 50 paramilitary men around midnight Thursday came just days after Soros publicly criticized the jailing of Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky as "persecution" that would force business to submit to the state. (URL.-AFP*)

Soros - Khodorosky & Lebedev:

"Since the end of the Gorbachev era, the Russian oligarchs, nearly all Jewish by ethnicity (with the noticeable exception of Vladimir Potanin), have controlled nearly all key sectors of the Russian economy. This, of course, includes Russia’s major ace-in-the-hole, oil and gas. The giant YUKOS conglomerate is presently one of the largest oil companies in the world, valued at about $40 billion. YUKOS is the result of a “loans for shares” deal, brokered through the semi-coherent Boris Yeltsin in 1995. Here, the liberal Russian government swapped loyalty from the oligarchs in exchange for privatization at prices far below that of the market.

YUKOS:

This $40 billion giant was bought for about $300 million, thus looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia. When YUKOS’s chair, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested [at the end of last month], the American capitalist establishment went orbital. Forgetting the 1999 New York Times’s expose on massive money laundering and fraud from YUKOS, the conservative establishment began to lionize oligarchy and, specifically, Khodorkovsky." [endquote-Url.: tinyurl.com/u5h4]

Voting rights to the shares passed to Lord Jacob Rothschild

To complicate issues further a London newspaper claimed Sunday that control of Khodorkovsky's shares in Yukos had passed to a member of the Rothschild banking family under a deal which they hammered out prior to the Russian oil baron's arrest.

Voting rights to the shares passed to Lord Jacob Rothschild, 67, under a "previously unknown arrangement" designed to take effect in the event that Khodorkovsky could not longer "act as a beneficiary" of the shares, the Sunday Times said. Khodorkovsky was said by the paper to have made the arrangement with Rothschild when he realised he was facing arrest. Rothschild now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos worth almost eight billion pounds (11.6 billion euros, 13.5 billion dollars), the newspaper said in a dispatch from Moscow." (end quote). U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Letitia Clark in 'oil-capital' Houston must have very strong backers, if she believes that her orders are taken serious extra-territorially...But the Rothschild c.s. plan to hijack the biggest part of the russian energy industry: "looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia" did not work.

The line in the sand of 'the Big Game' is quite clear...

Henk Ruyssenaars

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Murder added to Yukos charges
By Julius Strauss in Moscow
July 28, 2004

A Moscow court yesterday charged Yukos' second largest shareholder with complicity in murder and attempted murder, in the latest attack on the men at the helm of the beleaguered Russian oil giant.

The court issued an arrest warrant against Leonid Nevzlin, a close associate of the company's former chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is being tried on multiple counts of tax evasion and fraud.

Egged on by hardliners in the Kremlin, the courts have for months been battering Yukos, once Russia's richest company, but this is the first time a leading shareholder has been charged with non-financial crimes.

Genry Reznik, one of Nevzlin's lawyers, told Russian media: "I believe that this is an artificial case. Its main purpose is to compromise and soil the reputation of Nevzlin." The warrant for Nevzlin's arrest was issued by the Basmanny court which has ordered all the major Yukos arrests and has repeatedly refused requests for bail. The court alleges that the murders and attempted murders were arranged by Alexei Pichugin, the former security chief at Yukos, on Nevzlin's orders. Pichugin was arrested in June 2003 and is awaiting trial.

According to the warrant, Nevzlin ordered Pichugin to kill a man named Sergei Gorin who had allegedly tried to blackmail him. Mr Gorin and his wife disappeared from the central Russian town of Tambov in 2002.
Nevzlin was already wanted for economic crimes and, although he has been granted Israeli citizenship, it is unclear whether that will shield him from extradition. Since President Putin came to power, ties between Russia and Israel, cold-war enemies, have improved auspiciously and the Israeli Government may not want to risk the Kremlin's ire.

Nevzlin is also charged with ordering several more murders, including that of the head of the communications office at the Moscow mayoralty, that were never carried out.

Until Yukos fell out of favour, Nevzlin was one of Russia's most prominent businessmen, heading the Russian Jewish Congress. Last autumn he fled to Israel as pressure on Yukos intensified. He is still worth an estimated 64 billion roubles ($3.1 billion). Despite several warnings, Khodorkovsky, who has always denied any knowledge of violence being employed at Yukos, chose to stay while Nevzlin fled to Israel.

Khodorkovsky was seized by heavily armed tax police in a dawn raid on a Siberian airport and if his trial turns against him could face up to 10 years' hard labour in a Russian prison. Many analysts say Khodorkovsky is paying the price for defying President Putin and the Kremlin, openly funding opposition parties and lobbying to block government legislation.

They were nevertheless taken aback last week when the Russian authorities, rather than grant Yukos a last minute reprieve and a chance to pay fines of about $4.5 billion, ordered bailiffs into the company's main production facilities.Yukos chiefs say that unless a deal can be sealed, the company, Russia's most advanced and once worth up to $41 billion, may go bust within three weeks.

www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/1090693964078.html?from=storylhs&oneclick=true

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US & Russia: A New Cold War?

Yushchenko claims victory in Ukraine presidential election

In all probability, Viktor Yushchenko will be the new president of Ukraine. In the repeat election held December 26, the opposition candidate, who ran with the vocal political support and financial backing of the US and other Western powers, obtained 52 percent of the vote. His opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who was backed by Russia, gained 44 percent. The election turnout was approximately 75 percent, somewhat less than in the original ballot held November 21. [World Socialist]

US Versus Russia Via The Ukraine

Are we on the brink of a new cold war? On both sides of the Atlantic, media commentators see the crisis in Ukraine as comparable to the Berlin crises, involving the US and the Soviet Union, which kept the world on tenterhooks for decades. In this supposed drama, a resurgent Kremlin under an ex-KGB colonel is suppressing freedom at home and encroaching on ex-Soviet republics around his country's vast rim. This terror of shadows has a track record of success. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the ailing world of Leonid Brezhnev was portrayed as a sinister superpower with its tentacles almost around Uncle Sam's throat.

The US and the majority of western European nations combined behind a programme of arms build-up and covert sponsorship of anti-communist dissidents.The coincidence of dates is not often noted, but the Pentagon was inaugurated on 11 September 1941, exactly 60 years before it took its first direct hit. In my view, its role was positive for many years: few would regret the fall of Hitler or the deterrence of Stalin. But America's bloodless victory in the cold war did not lead her to rest on her laurels.

As early as 1992, Pentagon insiders led by Paul Wolfowitz and sponsored by the then defence secretary, Dick Cheney (under President Bush I), had drawn up a doctrine designed to prevent any power getting the "capacity" to challenge the US in the future. Not only potential foes but friends were to be kept subordinate. There was no peace dividend. Instead, US defence spending rose. Now the Pentagon spends more than the European Union, Russia, China and India combined. As one Pentagon friend said to me recently: "The new arms race is between the US army today and the US army which might fight it tomorrow!"

Yet, according to Washington's friends, Russia is on the prowl, even though its military technology is ageing and Nato expansion (and with it, US bases) reaches deep inside the old Soviet Union. In reality, the Kremlin's writ is fraying at the edges of the smaller, post-1991 Russia. Already Chechnya is in chaos and much of the north Caucasus is simmering. If Russia poses no military threat even to its neighbours, the divide of the first cold war era is dead.

And yet the culture of the new cold war is very different from that of the old. For 40 years, the west's intellectuals and media were bitterly divided over policy towards Moscow. Each side - particularly the west - had its allies on the other side. The west's victory in 1989 was good for the market economy but bad for intellectual pluralism. Sky News came online in 1989 but the explosion of 24-hour news has been matched by an implosion of alternative views.

With the collapse of one-party states, any justification for western covert intervention in elections died. Yet the methods of the old cold war have continued and even grown in scale. Washington's power elite see the whole world as former president Reagan saw Latin America - indeed, many Reagan administration figures are involved in current events.

Cold war methods are still in use - even more so - but now against opponents who do not merit the description "totalitarian", whatever their faults. In the run-up to the velvet revolutions of 1989, I was a bagman carrying tens of thousands of dollars to eastern European dissidents. I have a good idea of how much money and foreign input are required to get a spontaneous "people power" revolution going. Then, however, it was the Communist Party that blocked dissent. Today, western intelligence agencies, the media and "the people" crush any dissent from the Washington consensus. At the time of the Falklands war, Henry Kissinger said: "No great power retreats for ever." Maybe Russia is about to disprove his thesis, because so far Russia has retreated steadily under Vladimir Putin's rule.

If Ukraine falls into the Nato orbit, Russia will lose her access to Black Sea naval bases and Russian oil and gas export routes will have to pass an American stranglehold. Yet Russia is a bit player in this new global competition. The Pentagon is really aiming at Beijing in its grab for the old Soviet strategic space around Russia. China is booming, but energy is her Achilles heel.

Economically and technologically, China's 1.3 billion people seem poised to assume superpower status, but China cannot risk falling out with America. Only access to Russian and central Asian oil can liberate China from dependence on vulnerable sea-borne oil supplies, so the real "Great Game" is between Beijing and Washington. America's real strategic fear is the rise of China and India. Unlike Russia, they are not beset by demographic decline.

Worse still for US planners, the Chinese and Indians may want the benefits of western consumerism but they do not share the cultural cringe of peoples of the former Soviet bloc: like Gandhi, they believe that western civilisation would be a very good idea.
In Latin America, too, Washington does not have everything its own way. It is not just that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez saw off a Ukrainian-style "people power" push, having already trounced an old-style putsch in 2002; Brazil and Argentina are also failing to toe the Washington line. The region's big players show signs of looking to China and south Asia for markets and investment.

If South America, south Asia and China begin to coalesce, then Washington could find itself confronted by an alternative axis not seen since before the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s. But, whereas Mao and Brezhnev represented economic dead ends, the new China and her potential partners have dynamism on their side. Maybe India and China are business rivals, but their old frontier disputes in the Himalayas are frozen.

Latin America has nothing to fear from either superpower of the future, nor do Latin Americans nurse visceral resentments of Beijing or Delhi that are in any way comparable to their deep-dyed anti-Yankee feelings. America's drive to dominate the old Soviet Union represents a gamble by today's only superpower to seize the highest-value chips on the table before China and India join the game.

If China can add access to post-Soviet energy to the Chinese hand, it will be game on for a real new cold war. Many of the predictions among Washington neoconservatives about China's growing power recall the fear among German militarists that the window of opportunity for a global role was closing by 1914.

Washington's drive to seize maximum advantage before the inevitable waning of US power recalls the Kaiser's cry 80 years ago: "Now or never!"

Mark Almond @ ZNet

posted Wednesday, 29 December 2004
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