Monday, October 30, 2017

Trump campaign chair Manafort indicted to cover CIA’s overthrow of Ukraine


Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager, has been indicted for colluding with Russia during the 2016 election.  To understand the charges against Paul Manafort, that incidentally have nothing to do with the Donald Trump campaign, you must look at the CIA’s overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine. 

According to Wikipedia “Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who was elected as the fourth President of Ukraine on February 7, 2010 in an election that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe called transparent and honest.”

Well there’s nothing America’s “elected” government hates more than transparent and honest elections.  We haven’t had one since 1996.  So, Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014 in a CIA and State Department color revolution after he rejected a loan from the IMF for a more favorable deal from Russia. 


The Obama Administration was furious and Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham as well as Vice President Joe Biden and State Department’s Victoria Nuland all played prominent roles to overthrow of the democratically elected Yanukovych and the installation the billionaire chocolate magnate, Petro Poroshenko as President.    From Press TV:

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US ‘involved in criminal activities’ in Ukraine

The Obama administration is “involved in criminal activities” in Ukraine and facilitated last year’s “coup d'état” in Kiev, a former US Senate candidate says.  “They did so in conjunction with neo-Nazi elements in Kiev, they did so at the behest of Israel and the European central banks and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),” said Mark Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas. 

“And of course this whole situation in Ukraine permitted the United States to continue the encirclement policy of Russia that has been going on since the end of the Cold War ,” he told Press TV on Monday...  Dankof cited Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland who revealed last year that Washington had invested about $5 billion to promote “democracy” in Ukraine.

“The worst aspect of this whole situation is that this [US] government continues to be involved in criminal activities in the eastern part of Ukraine, specifically targeting ethnically Russian people in the major urban areas of the eastern part of that country for genocidal activity,” he said. 

Ties between Washington and Moscow deteriorated last year after pro-Western forces ousted Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014…  The United States and the European Union have imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russia, including visa bans and asset freezes.  According to US officials, Washington is considering providing Ukrainian forces with lethal weapons.

Why did the U.S. Government provide lethal weapons to the Neo-Nazi’s to be for genocide against Russian speaking Ukrainians?  How is that promoting democracy? Oh, and that $5 billion Washington spent “promoting democracy in Ukraine”, was recovered when Ukraine’s gold was stolen and shipped in the dead of night to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.  From 21stCentury Wire:

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The Latest Heist: US Quietly Snatches the Ukraine’s Gold Reserves

According to reports out of Kiev (see links below), the US has quietly transfers 33 tons of Ukrainian gold out of the country and back to vaults in the US. Presumably, this sovereign wealth transfer would be counted as partial “collateral” for a fresh round of IMF, US FED, and ECB paper debt that is currently being organised for dumping into the Ukraine’s economic black hole.

Multiple inquiries to US Federal Reserve administrators into the location of the Ukraine’s gold have been met with the proverbial ‘pass the buck’, making tracking and tracking the final resting place of these 33 tonnes very difficult indeed – but one can expect that the NY Fed is probably the institution who has masterminded this financial heist…

It’s worth pointing out here that when NATO sacked Libya in 2011, one of the first items that came into question was the gold in Libya’s state-run central bank. Prior to the NATO takeover of that country, Libya had one of the highest per capita gold reserves in the world, alongside Lebanon, giving Libya a distinct advantage should it carry out former Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi’s long-term financial transition to a gold-backed Libyan Dinar. As you can imagine, this is no longer the case in Tripoli.

Additionally, like Libya, both Syria and Iran are two of the world’s last remaining nation states who both have state-run central banks and gold reserves which fall outside of the world’s private central banking syndicate.

The price of a Washington brutally forced “democracy” is paid in gold.  But I digress, so let’s get back to the indictments against Paul Manafort.  Mueller’s indictments which can be read here, seem to be some thin gruel.  According to Fortune, Paul Manafort offered private briefings about the Trump campaign to a Russian Billionaire close to Putin. Hmmm, here’s the official story:

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Paul Manafort Offered 'Private Briefings' About Trump Campaign to Russian Billionaire

In the middle of Donald Trump’s presidential run, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he was willing to provide “private briefings” about the campaign to a Russian billionaire the U.S. government considers close to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni confirmed to The Associated Press that the email exchanges were legitimate but said no briefings ever occurred. The email involved an offer for Oleg Deripaska, a wealthy Russian who made his money in the aluminum business.  The July 7, 2016, email came a little over a week before the Republican National Convention, while Manafort was leading the Trump campaign’s day-to-day operations.

The Manafort email exchange regarding Deripaska is one of thousands of pages of material turned over to congressional committees by the Trump campaign…   The email is the first to indicate that Manafort was attempting to reach Deripaska while he was working on the Trump campaign… 

The Associated Press reported in March that before signing with Trump’s campaign, Manafort secretly worked for Deripaska and proposed plans… that he said could “greatly benefit the Putin Government…”   Deripaska sued the AP for defamation over the story in May in U.S. District Court in Washington, alleging the story was inaccurate and hurt his career by falsely accusing him of criminal activity.

Hmmm, seems like a lot of bullshit and suppositions regarding the relationship between Paul Manafort and this Deripaska guy.  This part seems really goofy “before signing with Trump’s campaign, Manafort secretly worked for Deripaska and proposed plans”… that he said could “greatly benefit the Putin Government…”   Really??  That just seems so crazy, so what is the story behind the Deripaska guy?  From The Telegraph:

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Vladimir Putin takes Oleg Deripaska to task

Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, publicly criticised his most faithful oligarch on Thursday in an attempt to deflect growing social discontent on to the country’s unpopular super-rich. 

Mr Putin, who is a master at dispensing ritual humiliation, likened Oleg Deripaska to a cockroach and forced him to accompany him on a tour of Pikalevo, a factory town that has witnessed the most serious social unrest Russia has seen since the start of the global economic crisis.

Last week Pikalevo’s residents vented their anger over job losses and unpaid wages at one of the oligarch’s local factories by blocking a major road and causing a 250-mile traffic jam…  The prime minister rounded on the hapless tycoon as they toured a cement plant…

He then ordered the tycoon to pay all outstanding wages – £830,000 – before the day was out. Mr Deripaska was Russia’s richest man until last year. He has suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune as mounting debt has seen his assets shrink from £17?billion to about £2?billion today.

Analysts believe the Kremlin has saved him from bankruptcy — partly as a reward for his unquestioning loyalty and also to prevent his assets falling into the hands of Western banks… 

Mr Deripaska’s factory is among three upon which the town depends for survival. Mr Putin has floated the idea of renationalising the factories, which were privatised after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Mr Deripaska is an unloved figure in Russia. He was among a number of men who built their fortunes during the chaos of the 1990s. He faces a June 11 deadline to restructure billions of dollars in debt owed to international banks.

Hmmm, Deripaska was billions of dollars in debt to international banks in 2009 when Putin made him pay his workers their back wages and then bailed him out.  Putin did so because it was in Russia’s best interests not to have foreign banks owning a Russian factory.  Now in 2017 Deripaska is suddenly worth 6 billion and he is key to proving Russia collusion charges against Trump? 

Through marriage Deripaska was related to the Deep State’s Russian puppet Yeltsin, maybe there’s a correlation.  From Global Research:

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US Meddling in 1996 Russian Elections in Support of Boris Yeltsin

Americans are outraged by allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an intelligence service to hack email accounts of the Democratic National Committee… But does the USA meddle in the presidential elections of other countries?  The answer to the first question, of course, is a resounding Yes…

Let us limit our discussion to one single case.  Readers will recall that in the run-up to the 1996 presidential election in Russia, opinion polls put the pro-western incumbent, Boris Yeltsin, in fifth place among the presidential candidates, with only 8% support.  The same polls showed that the most popular candidate in Russia by a wide margin was the Communist Party’s Gennady Zyuganov.

Moved to desperation by the numbers, well-connected Russian oligarchs suggested just cancelling the election and supporting a military takeover, rather than facing a defeat at the polls.  Neocons in the West embraced the idea–all in the name of Democracy, of course.  In the end, though, Yeltsin and the oligarchs decided to retain power by staging the election.

In keeping with Russian laws at the time, Zyuganov spent less than three million dollars on his campaign.  Estimates of Yeltsin’s spending, by contrast, range from $700 million to $2.5 billion…   In February 1996, at the urging of the United States, the International Monetary Fund… supplied a $10.2 billion “emergency infusion” to Russia.  The money disappeared as Yeltsin used it to shore up his reputation and to buy votes.  He forced the Central Bank of Russia to provide an additional $1 billion for his campaign, too.  Meanwhile, a handful of Russian oligarchs, notably several big contributors residing in Israel, provided more billions for the Yeltsin campaign. 

In the spring of 1996, Yeltsin and his campaign manager, billionaire privatizer Anatoly Chubais, recruited a team of financial and media oligarchs to bankroll the Yeltsin campaign and guarantee favorable media coverage on national television and in leading newspapers.  In return, Chubais allowed well-connected Russian business leaders to acquire majority stakes in some of Russia’s most valuable state-owned assets.

Campaign strategists for the former Republican governor of California Pete Wilson covertly made their way to the President Hotel in Moscow where, behind a guard and locked doors, they served as Yeltsin’s “secret campaign weapon” to save Russia for Democracy...  

It is now public record that the Yeltsin campaign conducted extensive “black operations,” including disrupting opposition rallies and press conferences, spreading disinformation among Yeltsin supporters, and denying media access to the opposition.  Finally, widespread bribery, voter fraud, intimidation, and ballot stuffing assured Yeltsin’s victory in the runoff election…

During Yeltsin’s second term, the “non-ideological” IMF provided another infusion of money, this time $40 billion.  Once again, more billions disappeared without a trace, much of it stolen by the President’s chronies, who placed it in foreign banks… 

Under Yeltsin’s tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels.  Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides—they all played a role…  “Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of ‘surplus deaths’ in Russia–deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends–was between five and six million persons…”

By the time he left office, the American-approved President of the Russian Federation had an approval rating of 2%.  But by that time it didn’t matter:  the kleptocrats were safely installed in power, and American-imposed Democracy had achieved its aims in Russia’s “transition.”

That’s right, by the time Yeltsin left office “it didn’t matter because the kleptocrats like Oleg Deripaska were safely installed in power.”  And now Deripaska is the main link between Putin and the Trump Campaign.  Paul Manafort is just a scapegoat.  Manafort has been indicted for interfering with the CIA’s overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine. 

This kangaroo court that will hear the charges against Paul Manafort will be chosen very selectively.  If the Manafort case breaks wide open it will be the CIA, MI6 and the neocons and their minions in Washington who have the most to lose.  I don’t know about you, but I’m making popcorn and pulling up a chair.  This should be interesting.


By Patricia Baeten

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