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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: philv who wrote (22330)	2/5/2005 9:04:22 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81023

Phil > How did these guys do it? Coming from a communist state, where private ownership was not allowed to the point where these guys managed to pick up State assets worth many billions of dollars. Yes, it is amazing. And even more so after 70 years of an anti-religious, totally secular state like the USSR, that most are Jewish or are alleged to be. It's my opinion that "sponsorship" for their takeover of ex-USSR state assets, particularly the oil, must have come from Western capital. Otherwise it doesn't seem possible that a handful of apparently ordinary guys could have done what they did. We do know, for example, that Khodorkovsky was/is involved with Rothschild. quickstart.clari.net But then look what a handful of neocons did in the US -- they performed a bloodless coup d'etat and took over the state -- and most Americans don't even know it. Interesting how the situation in the former USSR has paralleled that in the US but it seems Putin woke up in time. > Judging by this week's political and economic events, the United States is still on top and firmly in charge. How would anyone know if they were not? Certainly not from the US media. > Democracy is established in Iraq and promised everywhere especially in Syria and Iran. Iraqi military campaign was such a success they are now openly debating repeating it because it went so good. Now all that remains is for Allawi to beat Sistani. In fact, it's easier done than said. After Florida, Ohio and Ukraine Iraq will be a cinch. > it was actually fun, according to General Mattis. >>"I have counseled him concerning his remarks and he agrees he should have chosen his words more carefully," Hagee added.<< The guy says he was having fun killing people but his superior tells him that he shouldn't say things like that, even if he was. God forbid anyone should think the US generals are a bunch of psychopaths, just like those who do the torturing in Gitmo or Abu Ghraib.