Hail to the Thieves: Bush and Yushchenko are sworn in
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What do George W. Bush and Viktor Yushchenko, the new president of Ukraine, have in common? For one thing, they were both just sworn in. Bush was re-coronated on January 23rd and Yushchenko had his inauguration on the 24th.
What do George W. Bush and Viktor Yushchenko, the new president of Ukraine, have in common? For one thing, they were both just sworn in. Bush was re-coronated on January 23rd and Yushchenko had his inauguration on the 24th.
What else? They are both intimately connected to the Republican Party, Bush by the fact that he is its reigning 'führer' and Yushchenko by the fact that his US-born wife descended of Ukrainian Nazi émigrés is a GOP blackshirt harpy: a Reagan administration official and founder of the Republican-financed Ukrainian-American Foundation, to be exact.
There's also their shared addiction to alcohol. Bush is a former alcoholic and Yushchenko is suffering from cirrhosis, pancretitis, and the skin condition called rosacea (he calls it "dioxin poisoning"), all provoked by his inveterate alcoholism (he calls it "http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4156the KGB").
Yushchenko and Bush have also a common quality: mediocrity. They were both hand-held through life by a powerful parent, Bush by his father and Yushchenko by his mother. Bush drove all his crony-funded attempts at entrepreneurship into the ground and is now doing the same with the U.S.A. whereas Yushchenko, during his stint as director of the Central Bank of Ukraine, managed to shave off 60% of Ukraine's GDP and leave millions of people jobless and hungry.
Bush and Yushchenko have also chosen remarkably similar political cronies to help their rise to power. Bush had Ken Lay, who robbed his shareholders and the state of California with his energy scams, filling his pockets as well as Republican Party coffers in the process, and allowing his Austrian-Nazi-sex-molesting-action-movie-steroid-hunk co-conspirator to lay the blame of the California energy crisis of the incumbent Democratic governor, and to take his place. Who is Yushchenko's Ken Lay? None other than the "gas princess" Yulya Tymoshenko. She is considerably better-looking than Ken Lay and unlike "Kenny Boy," has actually been tried and done a whole month of jail-time. But while Kenny Boy was cut loose by his cronies in the White House, the robber baroness Tymoshenko is expecting any day to claim her coveted prize from her main crony Yuschenko: the post of prime minister. The similarities, however, outweigh the differences: Ken Lay and Enron swindled California out of $9 billion and Yulya Tymoshenko and Unified Energy Systems swindled Ukraine out of more than $2 billion and gained control over 20% of Ukraine's GDP, part of the loot that brought her personal fortune to over $11 billion in less than 10 years.
The Gas Princess has trouble keeping the old flame alive after her political boy toy ruined his pretty face with too much vodka. Elected "GOP Babe of the week," Yulya bribed former prime minister Lazarenko $1 billion for the gas import monopoly with which she overcharged Ukraine for billions of dollars. She even robbed the Russian Defense Ministry $450 million. Lazarenko lost his nerve and fled the country, later to be convicted of money laundering and fraud in California. Yulya had brass balls in comparison: She only only hung right in there but went straight from ex-con fraudster to the "Jeanne d'Arc" of the "Orange Revolution!"
Yushi and Yulya in happier days, when she didn't have to put a pillow over his face.
Likudniks behind the scenes
Bush and Yushchenko's strings are pulled not only by gangster capitalists but also by the Likud party of Ariel Sharon. While Bush is promoting the ultrazionist neocons to even higher positions in his new administration, Yuschenko's campaign has been bankrolled by the Likud-backed Russian Jewish oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was supported by the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities in Ukraine, as well as by Ithaca mayor Alan Cohen and now Ariel Cohen of the neocon Heritage Foundation (which also bankrolls "Kathy" Yushscheko's UAF) is calling for across-the-board support for Yushchenko.
Another great supporter of Yushchenko is a group of Russian Jewish oligarchs kicked out of Russia by Putin. Extremely wealthy, dreaming of revenge, hating Putin’s Russia, this offshore gang of Berezovsky, Gusinsky and other ex-Yukos oilmen provide a big share of financial support for the Orange revolution. They also pay for the services of Russian Israeli PR experts who organise the show in Kiev. They are supported by the network of the powerful Ukrainian Jewish community; while behind them stands George Soros, the Jewish international magnate actively pumping money and organisational capacities into the Orange forces of Yushchenko. These external forces rely upon local young men who received training and advice from the experts who already organised similar putsches in Georgia, Serbia, Romania.
Israel Shamir, "Ukraine on the Brink"
Crisis over Israeli Yushchenko funding: report
From correspondents in Jerusalem
January 12, 2005
A CRISIS has erupted between Israel and Russia over alleged Israeli funding of the newly elected Ukrainian leader Viktor Yushchenko, Israel private television reported today. The crisis erupted after Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly claimed sources in Israel poured huge sums of money into Yushchenko's election campaign, according to the Channel 2 report.
Mr Yushchenko was declared president-elect yesterday after beating his pro-Russia rival, former prime minister Viktor Yanukovich, in an historic election re-run on December 26. Citing senior Israeli sources, Channel 2 said the Russian leader believed the Israeli Government was aware of the funds being poured into the campaign. Sources close to Mr Putin also claimed Israel was also backing elements in Russia's opposition movement, the report said. The information in the report was leaked from a series of top-level meetings among senior figures in the Israeli political establishment to try and defuse the crisis, Channel 2 said.
Agence France-Presse
Grass root fascism
Bush and Yushchenko's popular support is also remarkably similar, in a mirror-image way. The typical Republican voter is a Muslim-hating, gay-hating, commie-hating, racist gun nut. The typical Yushchenko voter is a Muslim AND Jew-hating, gay-hating, commie-hating racist gun nut. The heady mix of Christian Zionists, white supremacists, NRA gun nuts, and anticommunist "émigré" groups that fill the GOP ranks find their reflection in Yushchenko's "Orange revolution:"
Or again, we are told that a 96% turnout in Donetsk, the home town of Viktor Yanukovich, is proof of electoral fraud. But apparently turnouts of over 80% in areas which support Viktor Yushchenko are not. Nor are actual scores for Yushchenko of well over 90% in three regions, which Yanukovich achieved only in two. And whereas Yanukovich's final official score was 54%, the western-backed president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, officially polled 96.24% of the vote in his country in January. The observers who now denounce the Ukrainian election welcomed that result in Georgia, saying that it "brought the country closer to meeting international standards".
The blindness extends even to the posters which the "pro-democracy" group, Pora, has plastered all over Ukraine, depicting a jackboot crushing a beetle, an allegory of what Pora wants to do to its opponents.
Such dehumanisation of enemies has well-known antecedents - not least in Nazi-occupied Ukraine itself, when pre-emptive war was waged against the Red Plague emanating from Moscow - yet these posters have passed without comment. Pora continues to be presented as an innocent band of students having fun in spite of the fact that - like its sister organisations in Serbia and Georgia, Otpor and Kmara - Pora is an organisation created and financed by Washington.
It gets worse. Plunging into the crowd of Yushchenko supporters in Independence Square after the first round of the election, I met two members of Una-Unso, a neo-Nazi party whose emblem is a swastika.
John Laughland, "The revolution televised:The western media's view of Ukraine's election is hopelessly biased"
Ukrainian opposition poster shows a PORA jackboot stomping on an insect representing the current government and its supporters. Such racist dehumanization of opponents is a critical precursor to conflicts and is a hallmark of fascist movements. - Kole, "The Ukrainian elections: A dangerous fairy tale"
Emblem of UNA-UNSO, a fascist paramilitary group supporting Yushchenko. This is from the press release of their 10th congress: " After the finish of the Congress flowers were put near Shevchenko monument and graves of the members of UNSO, that perished in Abkhazia. At the Congress were present honorable guests – representatives of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) Holger Apfel and Gerd Finkenwirth. . . . The most acclaimed were his words that Ukrainian city in Poland Peremyshl has to belong to Ukraine. In response leader of UNA-UNSO Andriy Shkil presented for the guest flag of UNSO and affirmed, that Konigsberg (now Russian Kaliningrad) has to belong to Germany.
I first became acquainted with UNA and its sister organization, the Ukrainian Nationalist Self-Defense Organization (UNSO), a few days before the Ukrainian parliamentary elections in March. I was having a leisurely vodka with some friends in Kiev when a strange campaign ad came on TV It was for UNA-UNSO, and it showed a lot of war scenes, shooting, tanks, burning houses, people brandishing crucifixes, Nazi- style salutes. The ad was so simplistic and brutal that I thought it must be propaganda against something. But against what? War? Fascism? Before I could make up my mind, a vaguely military song welled up: "Let the beastly fights rage, because it is better to die as a wolf than to live as a dog. I won't be let into paradise, but I know that in hell there is UNA-UNSO." Suddenly, I understood the spot. It wasn't against anything. It was for this stuff. This is what the group's supporters liked. Three UNA-UNSO candidates were elected to the Ukrainian parliament in March. The group, which claims to have 10, 000 members, rallied votes by marching through Lviv and other towns in western Ukraine wearing military fatigues and black berets. - "Big Guns" The New Republic
UNO-UNSO blackshirt Andry Kosenko with Yulya Tymoshenko after his release from jail. Source: Western-funded Public Radio (Hromadske Radio)
A black day for democracy
Whatever the extent of electoral fraud by right-wing forces in Ukraine and the US may be, the election results are nevertheless indicative of a rising tide of chauvinism and fascism. Hitler never got anything near an electoral majority but the methods of propaganda, media manipulation, and opinion-formation perfected by modern capitalism have now corrected this minor "flaw" of fascism. Henceforth, majorities can be manufactured on demand and the more "orange" and "pink" revolutions we endure, the more the word democracy will become as dead and hollow as the phrase "world peace." |
