Ukraine: Oil politics and a mockery of democracy

[bluedonkey]

I didn't see any posts on this,so I thought I'd give it a shot.
This is a different take on what happenend to the Ukrain Elections.
From the oil to exit polls conducted by "Freedom House" and ties to BushCO and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Food for thought an disturbing,too!


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GA20Ag01.html

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Both sides in Ukraine have evidently engaged in widespread vote fraud. The Western media chose to report only one side, however. Case in point: a non-governmental organization, the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, reported it found more vote irregularities on the side of the opposition Yushchenko in the contested November vote, than from the pro-Moscow Viktor Yanukovych. Yet the media reported as if fraud only took place on the side of the pro-Moscow candidate.
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A look at the geostrategic background makes things clearer. Ukraine is historically tied to Russia, geographically and culturally. It is Slavic, and home of the first Russian state, Kiev Rus. Its 52 million people are the second largest population in eastern Europe, and it is regarded as the strategic buffer between Russia and a string of new US North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bases from Poland to Bulgaria to Kosovo, all of which have carefully been built up since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most important, Ukraine is the transit land for most major Russian Siberian gas pipelines to Germany and the rest of Europe.
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What is not said is that the people doing these "exit polls" as voters left voting places were US-trained and paid by an entity known as Freedom House, a neo-conservative operation in Washington. Freedom House trained some 1,000 poll observers, who loudly declared an 11-point lead for Yushchenko. Those claims triggered the mass marches claiming fraud. The current head of Freedom House is former CIA director and outspoken neo-conservative, Admiral James Woolsey, who calls the Bush administration's "war on terror" "World War IV". On the Freedom House board sits none other than Brzezinski. This would hardly seem to be an impartial human-rights organization.
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[rogerashton]

1. This is just one instance of a

consistently anti-Russian policy by (regret to say) both parties -- which has contributed to the growth of fascism in Russia and is not in any long-term American interest, in my opinion.

[RafterMan]

2. I don't really buy the everything-is-a-pipeline theories

but you're right about the anti-Russian thing.

Putin showed up at our door with flowers on 9/11, and we slammed the door in his face. It doesn't make any sense. Russia could have been a very valuable partner in dealing with North Korea, China, Iraq, Iran and even Europe -- instead both parties have chosen to try to humiliate them at every turn.

[podnoi]

3. Excellent site to learn what was *not* covered by the media

Including a report by the British Helinski organization of voter fraud and intimidation by Yushenko supporters.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG412A.html

[bluedonkey]

4. thanks

for the link,podnoi.

I was sure Yushchenko was one of the good guys.Bush' involvement should've been a tip-off!
Well,one learns something new everyday.