{"id":20013,"date":"2014-03-09T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20013"},"modified":"2014-03-09T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:50:07","slug":"the-looting-of-ukraine-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=20013","title":{"rendered":"The Looting of Ukraine Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington\u2019s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine\u2019s poor. It is Greece all over again.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Looting of Ukraine Has Begun<\/strong>
\nby Paul Craig Roberts – 7 March, 2014 – voltaire.net<\/p>\n

Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.<\/p>\n

The corrupt Western media describes loans as \u201caid.\u201d However, the 11 billion euros that the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan. Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev\u2019s acceptance of an IMF austerity plan.<\/p>\n

Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan.<\/p>\n

The austerity plan will cut social services, funds for education, layoff government workers, devalue the currency, thus raising the prices of imports which include Russian gas, thus electricity, and open Ukrainian assets to takeover by Western corporations.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s agriculture lands will pass into the hands of American agribusiness.<\/p>\n

One part of the Washington\/EU plan for Ukraine, or that part of Ukraine that doesn\u2019t defect to Russia, has succeeded. What remains of the country will be thoroughly looted by the West.<\/p>\n

The other part hasn\u2019t worked as well. Washington\u2019s Ukrainian stooges lost control of the protests to organized and armed ultra-nationalists. These groups, whose roots go back to those who fought for Hitler during World War 2, engaged in words and deeds that sent southern and eastern Ukraine clamoring to be returned to Russia where they resided prior to the 1950s when the Soviet communist party stuck them into Ukraine. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington\u2019s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine\u2019s poor. It more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[4280],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20014,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/revisions\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}