Looting Russia's Free Market (Clinton/Gore, Harvard - rampant greed and white collar crime)

Insight on the News (Insightmag.com) ^ | Aug. 12, 2002 | Kelly Patricia O'Meara

[Black Agnes]

'toon corrupt finance ping!

[Leisler]

Doing well by doing "good". Skip the social service-gubament job and go right to looting.

[stalin]

The Russian elite decided to go the "American" way because the US gov bribed them too and they could see how they could loot the country. Now instead of them fallowing in our footsteps we are fallowing in thiers.

[Red Jones]

you are correct Joseph Stalin; and who better to asses the situation in Russia than you!

Don't we all wish the american media would do in depth documentary type reporting on this stuff. Maybe Bill Moyers will and a few magazines, but that's it. The rest are so concerned about politics that they can't bring themselves to report information that will make democrats look bad. Their obsession with this party loyalty is very harmful to our country.

Everyone should always look down on Harvard also over these events.

[palo verde]

what an extraordinary article ragtime cowgirl
thank you very much for posting it
I learned a lot
Love, Palo

[palo verde]

The issue isn't political or cultural, it's an issue of corruption. It addresses the fact that our government, and representatives chosen by the government, are corrupt. There are large groups feeding from the public treasury under the camouflage of foreign aid, humanitarian work, building a better world, exporting democracy - all phrases under which the theft is organized. The answer is to end all foreign aid - absolutely, tomorrow, shut it down

[historian1944]

My fiancee would kill Anatoly Chubais herself with her bare hands, if she happened to see him around Moscow. I don't think the average Russian that I have met blames the "American System," only the bastards that they feel robbed the country.

If my memory serves me correctly, Berezovsky ended up with nearly total ownership of Aeroflot on a $100,000 loan. The guy who last year got Norilsk taken away from him got a 5 Billion dollar mining concern for about 5 million dollars. The above paragraph is from memory, from my reading of "Godfather of the Kremlin." Any numerical errors are mine.

Anyone know what happened to the book about this Anne Williamson was writing? I know no one has wanted to touch it with a long pole, but I was hoping by now someone would have. She also wrote a very good article called " The Rape of Russia."

http://zolatimes.com/V4.31/williamson_russia.html

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You are very welcome, palo.

The "party of the people" is a fraud...they also misrepresented "capitalism" and gave tyrants and terrorists around the world one more big reason to criticize America. "Why do they hate us?" the left kept asking post 9-11. There's a serious disconnect between their actions and the "unforeseen" consequences. Robbing the law-abiding citizens to feed the thieves does not win the people over.

We need a government twice as big as the current government - to investigate the government. Or, we could deep-six the ACLU and bring Bibles back into schools? (^:

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

. I don't think the average Russian that I have met blames the "American System," only the bastards that they feel robbed the country.

I'm glad to hear this.

Anne Williamson is a Soviet and Russian specialist and author of the forthcoming book, Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty, Russia and the United States in the 1990s..

Sounds like a done deal. You can probably contact her, or someone who'd know the details at the Insightmag.com link above.

[Stultis]

Bump to read later.

[palo verde]

Hi Cowgirl
this article is eye-opener for me
I appreciate you posting it

now I see why Russia let clinton bomb Yugoslavia (its neighbor and cousin)
the russian government was on the take from clinton
no wonder the Duma tried to Impeach Yeltsin
(while we were in middle of bombing Yugoslavia)
cause Yeltsin uttered a protest gainst the bombing
(''you better not let any stray bombs hit Russia'')
one of the charges in the Duma's Impeachment gainst Yeltsin, was ''alienating friendship of USA''
they wanted to be sure they stayed on the take from USA

The billion dollars we recently gave Colombia to ''fight drugs'' went into hands of gangsters there
altho clinton's corrupt DOJ administered the money, so prolly helped themselves to half of it first

I think only solution is to stop the income tax
if 70% of our money goes into corrupt hands
the only way to stop the corruption is to stop the flow of money in
I can't see any other way to get value for our money, unless they are on strict budget
I want people to keep their money and spend it on things which bring them joy
Love, Palo

[LarryLied]

The question is why Shleifer and Hay selected Anatoly Chubais as the one reformer (out of many) to support.

[FranklinsTower]

Bump to one of the most egregious crimes of the clinton administration. IMHO one of the best foriegn policy moves Pres. Bush can make is to bring to justice those who stole the money. It tells the world that our system is one that is capable of cleaning up our own messes.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I want people to keep their money and spend it on things which bring them joy.

If you run and make that your campaign platform....I'll vote for you. Most of us will probably need to learn about what truly brings joy. Then we'll have something substantive to unite us. The rest we can send to the N. Pole (^:.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good idea. The well-publicized "corporate clean-up" and serious, but focused response to 9-11 hopefully helped the Russian people see that this President is not putting himself and a lust for power ahead of the nation, and the powerless.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

For Chief Negotiator.

[okie01]

Anne Williamson is a Soviet and Russian specialist and author of the forthcoming book, Contagion: The Betrayal of Liberty, Russia and the United States in the 1990s.

The FReeper Anochka, if I'm not mistaken...

[Mudboy Slim]

"They could funnel large amounts of money to people who were nothing less than quislings - Russians who were willing to sell out for money. What we did beyond the economic abuse was we built up a very small group of people and labeled them as reformers and great democrats. The perverse result of this was that every other Russian reformer was pushed aside. It was the opposite of open debate and democracy. Our money - taxpayer money - actually smothered other actors who weren't all communists, but rather were decent people who were trying to have input into the process in the creation of a new country, a new government and a new way of life."

The RATS HATE American Capitalism and are poisoning the Hearts and Minds of the Russian Sheeple by pretending that this is the way America became the Economic SuperPower we have become!! Truth is, this is a microcosm of the Corruption that the ClintonRAT Party committed with the Department of Commerce, allowing a few hand-picked Effete Elitists monopolistic access to up-and-coming, heretofore closed markets in exchange for substantial campaign donations and, no doubt, cleverly-disguised cash--and exclusive opportunity--kickbacks to folks like Der SchleekMeister, Terry McAuliffe and Robert Rubin!!

This turns my stomach, although it's not the least bit surprising...the International Monetary Fund runs an almost identical scam!!

Ya gotta LOATHE the DemonRATS...MUD

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The FReeper Anochka, if I'm not mistaken...

Thank you, okie!

Anochka, wow, you are one brave lady. We'll spread the word.