Saving Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky
by Kurt Nimmo
kurtnimmo.com
Colin Powell was "unusually blunt" in his criticism of Russia and Vladimir
Putin today, according to Reuters. Powell "challenged Russia's policy in
Chechnya, where Moscow is waging a brutal campaign against separatists... he
questioned recently assertive dealings with nations like Moldova, Ukraine
and particularly Georgia, where Moscow has yet to close two military
bases... he was worried about Russia's democracy..."
Powell ought to worry about America's democracy. It's under attack by his
boss. As for Chechnya... the Bushites can get on Russia's case all it
wants -- that is after they put an end to their own "brutal campaign against
separatists" in Iraq.
All of this, of course, is a smokescreen. Bush doesn't care about Chechnya
or democracy. But he does care -- or rather the neocons care -- about
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky, the richest man in Russia.
"On October 25, 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested at gunpoint on a Siberian
airport runway by the Russian prosecutor general's office, on charges of tax
evasion," writes Wikipedia. "Shortly thereafter, on October 31, the
government further took the unprecedented step of freezing shares of [the
Russian oil corporation] Yukos. The action against Khodorkovsky and Yukos
appears to be a dramatic move on the part of the Kremlin to wrestle power
back from the oligarchs, who made huge fortunes from the 1990s
privatizations and now control an estimated 60% of the Russian economy. It
may also show emergence of new business groups aimed at re-distributing
Russian property again, this time strictly following the law and using
law-enforcement agencies as a tool."
"Now that Russia is slowly but surely being given back to the Russians, the
foreign financial marauders are seeing the danger lights flashing," writes
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey. "The Kremlin has every right to protect the
interests of Russia and preserve its resources for the Russian people."
So pissed was the neocon Richard Perle over the arrest of Khodorkovsky, he
wanted Russia tossed out of the Group of Eight industrialized countries.
Is it possible the Zionist neocons are furious with the Russians because
Khodorkovsky is a Jew? "That Jews control a disproportionately large share
of the Russian economy and Russian media certainly has some basis in fact.
Between 50 and 80 percent of the Russian economy is said to be in Jewish
hands, with the influence of the five Jews among the eight individuals
commonly referred to as 'oligarchs' particularly conspicuous," writes Betsy
Gidwitz for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "The five oligarchs of
Jewish descent are Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Friedman, Vladimir Gusinsky,
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Alexander Smolensky. The other oligarchs are Vagit
Alekperov, Vladimir Potanin, and Rem Vyakhirev."
Another Russian millionaire, Mikhail Miralashvili, the deputy head of the
Russian Jewish Congress, "holds joint Israeli and Russian citizenship,"
writes London's Independent. The Russian Jewish Congress is tight with the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. According
to Wolf Blitzer, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations "has come to be viewed as the authoritative voice of the
mainstream Jewish leadership ... Because the Presidents' Conference, like
AIPAC [the leading American Jewish Israel lobbying organization], can almost
always be found in support of the official Israeli position, U.S. officials
in all recent administrations have to view it as a de facto arm of the
Israeli government."
So enamored is the Zionist state with the Russian oligarchs, it granted
citizenship to Leonid Nevzlin, one of Khodorkovsky's top aides. Khodorkovsky
"assigned to Nevzlin 'beneficiary rights' to 50 percent of shares in Yukos
holding company Group Menatep, making him a key figure in protecting the
company's multibillion-dollar assets from the authorities who might try to
seize them," writes the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli newspaper directed by
Richard Perle.
Powell's visit to Russia is all about the corrupt oligarchs. Perle and the
neocons want to send a message -- the Jewish oligarchs and neoliberalism are
beyond reproach.
It has nothing to do with Chechnya or democracy. |
