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"Ukrainians Have Been Dispossessed" Paul Craig Roberts Warns "Americans Are Next"
Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts,
Over the last 15 months Ukrainians have paid for Washington’s overthrow of their elected government in deaths, dismemberment of their country, and broken economic and political relationships with Russia that cost Ukraine its subsidized energy. Now Ukrainians are losing their pensions and traditional support payments. The Ukrainian population is headed for the graveyard.
On June 1 the TASS news agency reported that Ukraine has stopped payments to pensioners, World War II veterans, people with disabilities, and victims of Chernobyl. According to the report, Kiev has also “eliminated transport, healthcare, utilities and financial benefits for former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and recipients of some Soviet-era orders and titles. Compensations to families with children living in the areas contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl accident will be no longer paid either. Ukraine’s parliamentary opposition believes that the Prosecutor General’s Office should launch an investigation against Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk who actively promoted the law on the abolition of privileges.”
Notice that this is a yank of the blanket from under the elderly in Ukraine. “Useless eaters,” they are assigned to the trash can. How do the deceived Maiden student protesters feel now that they are culpable in the destruction of their grandparents’ support systems? Do these gullible fools still believe in the Washington-orchestrated Maiden Revolution? The crimes in which these stupid students are complicit are horrific.
Yatsenyuk, or Yats as Victoria Nuland calls him, is the Washington stooge that the US State Department selected to run the puppet government established by Washington. Yats sounds like a right-wing Republican when he refers to pensions, compensations, and social services as “privileges.” This is the Republican view of Social Security and Medicare, programs paid for by the payroll tax over the working lives of Americans. The Republicans stole the payroll revenues and spent them on their wars that enrich Wall Street and the military/security complex, and now blame “welfare handouts” for America’s fiscal plight.
Is Monsanto’s right to turn Ukraine into GMO food production a privilege? ls VP Biden’s son’s right to destroy Ukraine’s surface and underground water in fracking operations a privilege? Are the external costs imposed on Ukrainians by these looting activities a privilege? Of course not! These are not privileges. This is the operation of free market economics creating the greatest good for the greatest number. (As many Americans will not realize that I am engaging in satire, I would like to affirm that I am.)
The news report does not say whether the abolished “privileges” are one part of a reform that will replace the terminated “privileges” with a new social support system. Possibly this is the case, but as the termination of pensions and payments was triggered by the coming into effect of Yat’s law to “stabilize the financial condition of Ukraine,” the purpose of the termination of Ukraine’s social welfare system might be to free up money to hand over to the IMF and Western banks. In Ukraine, as in Greece, the gullible and naive population that saw salvation in unity with the West will be driven into the ground.
Russia, of course, will be blamed. I can already write the New York Times and Washington Post editorials and the words that will come from Obama, CNN, and Fox “News.” In fact, so can my intelligent readers.
The same looting is underway in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. In Great Britain everything achieved by the Labour Party over many decades has been taken away, and not only by the Conservatives but by Labour leader Tony Blair himself.
Tony Blair sold out his constituents for money and is now among the One Percent. Bill Clinton did the same thing. Bill and Hillary were able to spend $3 million on their daughter’s wedding, almost a world record, dwarfing many Hollywood weddings. Obama is not even out of office and is already rich. America’s faithful vassals–Merkel, Hollande, and Cameron–can look forward to equal riches.
Karl Marx was correct when he said that money corrupts all. Everything becomes a commodity that is bought and sold for money.
When money becomes the measure of a person, people have become corrupted. And that is the plight of the Western world.
Where in the West is your wealth, small or large, safe? Nowhere. Washington has destroyed financial privacy everywhere in the West. Washington even forced Switzerland to violate its own laws in order to comply with Washington’s insistence on the absence of any financial privacy.
For decades Americans with foreign bank accounts have been required to report them on their income tax returns. Now if an American owns a gold coin in a vault overseas, this must be reported to Washington.
Once Washington knows the location of your assets, the assets can be confiscated at will. Washington only has to make some declaration or accusation or the other, and your wealth is gone.
As Washington has run the printing presses hard in order to serve a handful of banks that control the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, unless China and Russia acquiesce to becoming Washington’s vassals, at some point the dollar’s value is going to slide downward. When that happens, the Federal Reserve cannot continue to create new money to meet Washington’s needs.
Where will the money come from? It will come from Americans’ pensions.
Pensions accumulate tax free, and this accumulation will be confiscated in whole or part to make up for the failure to tax, another “privilege.”
That confiscation works that year. But what happens the next year when the dollar is reeling on foreign exchange markets from over-supply?
The answer is that another chunk of American pensions, and I am speaking of private pensions, will be confiscated “in order to stabilize the financial system.” Social Security will be long gone by this time.
Alicia Munnel, who was my replacement as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Clinton regime, advocated many years ago a confiscation of private pensions, including your IRAs and 401Ks, in order to compensate the US government for their non-taxed status.
Alicia has a sinecure at an Eastern university where she continues to advocate against your pension. The joint attack by Clinton Democrats on private pensions and by Conservative Republicans on public pensions means that no American can look forward to having a pension. Americans are only one presidential election away from the loss of their pensions, and it doesn’t matter who they vote for.
Economic security is a thing of the past. Security was a product of the US being the only extant economy following World War II. In those days corporations believed, as did Washington, that companies had obligations not only to shareholders but to employees, customers, and the communities in which they were located.
This meant prosperity for all, not merely, as is the case today, for corporate management and shareholders.
Apologists for exploitation claim that the rich are richer because they are smarter. But the stupidity of the rich is everywhere visible. The greedy fools have destroyed their domestic US market. Really, how stupid can you be? How do Americans buy when they are forced by offshoring out of well paid manufacturing and software engineering jobs into being waitresses, bartenders, retail clerks and part-time Walmart workers in order that corporate bottom lines improve? Who buys the stuff that sustains the profits? Not Americans who no longer have the incomes to do so.
The belief spread by Wall Street and “shareholder advocates” that corporations only have responsibility to their owners and managers has destroyed the American economy.
By locating production offshore, corporations have destroyed the incomes that supported the American consumer market. For example, the incomes associated with the production of Apple computers, I-Pads, and I-Phones are in China. Apple’s American customers do not have the incomes associated with the production of the products that Apple markets to them.
Americans are already dispossessed of their livelihoods and careers and their pensions are next. Wherever we look, the fate of populations under Western influence are the same. The Ukrainians are exploited, the Greeks, the British, the Americans.
Wherever the West has an imprint, the populations are exploited. Exploitation of the many for the few is the Hallmark of the West, a decrepit, corrupt, and collapsing entity.
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So why would you not buy pm's and have a boating accident?
An added comment from Paul Crag Roberts :
“People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.”
"People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future."
Americans are not the only ones being uninformed.
no~~~nono they will be turned into something new
if he is talking about white people, they are truely dying
if you separate the head from the body muscle-tissue stay alive for over 2 hours
Since when does ZH publish Marxist asshole bullshit?
Since when did they let assholes like you on here?
JEWHAD IS ON
Fcuk The EW (Entire World)
An AIG executive has finally spilled the beans and exposed the details of the 2008 bailout!!!
See the video here
Cashed out my 401k and IRA this year.
Better to get 50% (net of taxes and fees) out now and spend it than nothing later. Even if it isn't confiscated or suffer a precipitous decline in value, the dollar will be toilet paper by the time I'm 60 (37yo now).
Cash out and turn into real assets while you still can (land, house, greenhouse, well, solar, seeds, bullets, gold)...
"Washington" doesn't "force Switzerland" to do anything. The Cabal (OCTOGON, FORTRESS ALPS - the place where war fears to tread) tells the groundskeepers in D.C. which account holders weren't invited to the party.
The same looting is underway in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the United States
If the billionaires don't go after the banking families they are next in line.
Impressed that P. Roberts included the nations under one rule and not the US Empire like NumbSkull Chomsky.
The problem is and will always be those who are benefitting from the government's largesse at the expense of those who produce something of value and that number is shrinking.
After all, why sacrifice to get ahead when .gov gives people housing, food, medical care, education and cell phones. These people love Obama and will tolerate anything including secret prisons, torture, wars, lying, breaking laws.
However these people who allow this to go on because of freebies do not realize when the shit hits the fan they will be the first imprisoned, cut off, sent to camps and more, just like the Nazis did.
.gov won't do this to producers as they need them more than the people who think the government is protecting them.
If you don't think it will happen, ask a few old codgers, those with accents, who lived through it and saw it in Europe 65 years ago.
We are all fucked.
Q: How can I become a Joo?
A. put your dick and the table and don't look.
Assert your superiority over goys as a divine right. Consider them cattle and abandon your silly european notions of fair play and good faith. Oh, and invert reality whenever possible - take over the organizations that define standards so that they are oriented toward your group. Encourage socially destructive values for others, but stick to strict rules within your own group. Be socially and emotionally aggressive such that you bend goy cattle to your will - leverage their inherent sense of guilt (i.e. the ability to feel bad without any social pressure) to convince them that they have done wrong and owe you, a superior being, what they have. Did I miss anything important?
let's see
Yes, try to pick their pockets whenever you can.
Fed and state pensions are relatively safe from outright theft.
Why you ask?
The vasy majority of government types vote for Democrats/Socialists.
Party comrades will protect fellow commies.
after reading PCR's article and most of the comments, you understand why another world war is inevitable.
And if people have any brains at all they'll leave the politicians to do the fighting in between them. Maybe along the way they exterminate eachother so we other can live in peace.
Civil war will happen before the power structure give up the dive to destruction just to keep thier power and money. in this slow collapse we do not know when the riots will go around all the coastal areas. Once law and order has been knock down enough and all the blind basement dwelling Zeros here have spread enough hatred of our leos, the wars between the colours, the entitled and the workers, and the gangs for urban control will escalate.
Its time to choose the side of morals and ethics, commit suicide, or become a victim of terror as you see in the middle east.
When you said to choose the side of morals and ethics, did yoou mean the same side as the leo's are on?
If so, thanks for the best laugh I've had in weeks!
As Warren Buffett noted, his class has gone to war and they are winning.
But when you realize that 0.1% of the population are going to war against 99.9% of the population the odds aren't really in their favour.
I would call it an act of gross stupidity.
Warren do you remember what happened to Louis XVI and Czar Nicholas II?
We know Putin can control oligarchs, we need you.
If you want to be safe from government malice, become a proxy for the 1%'ers. The only certainty is that they will survive, even flourish.
I recognize that you cannot amass as much as them, but you can allocate like them..
When I worked in IT Banking I saw those who tried to be proxies to the 1%’ers. At any sign of trouble they were the first to be flung on the dung heap…
We know Putin can control oligarchs, we need you.
You don't get it, Putin is an Oligarch. Clinton, Bush presidential empires are Oligarchs, WS banksters are part of the Oligarchs....
The West introduced market reforms to Russia that bought chaos, created the Oligarchs and left the majority with next to nothing.
The majority had the Western freedom to do what they wanted but no money to do anything at all (even eat in a lot of cases).
Putin restored order to the chaos and the majority had now seen how hollow the Western freedoms are if you have no money.
The grass is no longer greener on the other side of the fence and Putin has popularity ratings at over 80%, something other Western
leaders can only dream of.
The West creates oligarchs, Putin brings them to heel.
Everything the U.S government touches turns to shit (intentionally). As long as they and their puppet masters have all the wealth they could care less if you starve to death while sleeping in a cardboard box, in any country.
"Wherever the West has an imprint, the populations are exploited."
Wherever unconscious procreation has an imprint, the populations are exploited. (FIFY)
I believe that all European governments know exactly what happened and is happening in the Ukraine, and who was and is behind it and its longer term purpose.
So far the important European countries have decided that there is greater advantage to themsleves to support (or not oppose) the events so far, though with some missgivings.
Many a forrest burned down by those who thought they had control of their flame.
I think that Bush's 'you are either with us or against us' was the ultimate arrogance of the USA that began the rapid decline in its credibility on its geopolitics and its so called global 'leadership'. All down hill since then, populations beginning to see the USA for its perpetual war mongering and killing ways as a method to shore up its positions.
interesting point of view, but I have a few issues with the bundling of "all European governments"
the current Kiev II Accord/Ceasefire was brokered by France and Germany, and directly with Russia and Ukraine, while sponsored by Belarus
note the glaring absence of the UK at this agreement's table
Poland, together with the Balts, has been following a completely different, way more Russia-critic path then notoriously Russia-friendly countries like Italy, for example
this is also very visible in the fact that the newly appointed EU Prez and EU "Foreign Minister" are respectively a Pole and an Italian
further, note the NATO "Fast Intervention Group" that has recently been assembled, and is exercising in... Poland, while look at the Russian maneuvers that go extremely on the nerves of:
Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, the Balts and Poland, in this order
on the other side, note the EU Commission's Prez' counterproposal, which is a glaring shot before the bow of the US and the UK's handling of NATO:
the set-up of "Juncker's Phantom Army", i.e. a European Union Fast Intervention Group. Something that is the very last thing that Washington or London would like to see
"Bush's 'you are either with us or against us' was the ultimate arrogance ..." perhaps, yes, but Victoria Nuland's "Fuck the EU" is also noteworthy
on the other side, don't forget Afghanistan, or note that there, even Russia was an active partner of a greater coalition comprising all Western governments
You can describe the bark on every tree,
But you've never climbed a mountain.
please translate your point to something I might manage to comprehend
I'm doing so, over here:
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 07:10 | 6181740
He's trying to say .... you are a .... Lounge Lizard Linebacker .... don't kill the translator ? LOL
"I believe that all European governments know exactly what happened and is happening in the Ukraine, and who was and is behind it and its longer term purpose."
I believe this too except that some European countries along with Brussels were also involved in creating the shambles that is the Ukraine. Whether it was for the same reason as Washington, it's hard to say but they had common aims.
what "common aims"? have you forgotten the Russian leak of Nuland's phone call? "Brussel's aims", whatever they were, were moot
you simply can't face reality, eh? not when "dreaded Brussels" is involved. you are such a propaganda victim, at times
Who got Ukraine’s gold?
It's all so mysterious. Why would Soros and Nuland and the rest conspire to have the richest man in Ukraine become president? Quite the brain teaser. I'll get our best scientists to work on this problem for the ages. Maybe they all have something in common...
See, they were looking out for the best interests of the people. After all, he's the richest man in Ukraine. A man with a lot of money is less likely to be corrupt because he's already rich!
as much as I loathe the puppet yatz, one can see that he has no choice but to throw in the economic towel. this place is poorer than greece yet is being courted into the euro club. they are given euro bailouts which most certainly go to construction of new wings on elite's dachas but certainly not to veterans or old toohless useless eaters.
fuck yatz, nuland and their soros billions. we have your names and we're out of chewing gum.
They want the lebensraum for African and Middle Eastern refugees (and certain "other" folks).
DUH!
Praise the Talmud!
Wherever the West has an imprint, the populations are exploited. Exploitation of the many for the few is the Hallmark of the West, a decrepit, corrupt, and collapsing entity.
North Korea must be a great place then!
Hi Jinx, so we peeps have to live in either something like the West or in a setting like North Korea. You cannot imagine other lifestyles you mental midget?
Paul, just say bad things about the "West" dude, don't ever talk about the Zionist shits have taken over most of the institutions.
Blame the Jews .... for all the bad news .... what demagogic piss pottery !
Zionists are not necessarily "jews" whatever that broad term really encompasses. Last time I checked Tony Blair, Cameron, Bush etc are not Jewish. Zionists are the happy fun money-making murder club that hides behind judaism and the "holocaust" narrative; plenty of jews have joined the Zionist club for personal gain though.
Blame the West .... for the Socialist mess .... what demagogic pop crockery !
Over the last 15 months Ukrainians have paid for Washington’s overthrow of their elected government
Ten reasons why Ukraine is dead!
http://thetruthspeaker.co/2015/04/19/10-reasons-ukraine-is-dead/
"Karl Marx was correct when he said that money corrupts all."
Says the economist.
Any Rumors of a Secret Smart Pill for the Elite?
There is obviously a Coup or Conspiracy but which and who is behind it.
"The same looting is underway in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the United States. In Great Britain everything achieved by the Labour Party over many decades has been taken away, and not only by the Conservatives but by Labour leader Tony Blair himself."
What Happened to Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama.
I can understand Government Leaders that come up through the System or leave a military career and work up through the government.
But they ones that are new to National Government are a different story. McCain is easy to figure.
Suppose Pharmaceuticals are to blame.
Suppose Wealth & Elites have several kinds of Smart Pills and Nutritional Break-Throughs... like Transfusions of children's blood maybe.
But say a Young Lawyer is Recruited, told he is joining an Elite Group, and told to take a smart pill... which just makes him uninhibited to evil suggestions and gives him a feeling of invincibility or well being.
Recruit you next government leader, provide a staff to isolate him and fill him with confidence (or BS), and have him on Drugs to numb his brain. He is part of the Exclusive Club. And he knows a secret about the Smart Pill.
Or it could be
- Blackmail
- Videos of Gay Sex or immoral behavior
- Proof of extreme drug abuse
- Membership in Secret Society
- Debt Enslavement, promises of Riches
- Human Resource Management Techniques, Control Systems
All of the above.
TPTB covers all the bases.
And then some Ideas actually corrupt also.
Like Successful management techniques, warfare practices, Propaganda Technology, herding of animals, governing of Serfs and Peons, and the Beneficence of the Patron of the Hacienda.
Take Ideas from
- Nazis
- Chinese
- Church of Rome, Roman Empire
- Stalin
- Communism
But just take the ones that increase power of the State or maginfy Plato's Lie.
Kiev is raining black oily rain as a result of the fire at nearby fuel depot
news.yahoo.com/gigantic-fire-erupts-fuel-depot-near-kiev-several-073358348.html
If Ukraine wants to be the next France or Germany
.
there's the road
When you have noyhing left to loose, those who took it from you have everything to loose.
In the U.S. this has been the way since day one. Ask the Revolutionary War veterans what happened to their pensions when Alexander Hamilton spread the seed of rumors up and down the East Coast that the government was going to default on their promises to them, for their sacrifices. Lo and behold, the benevolent debt buyers appear, buying up pension obligations from veterans everywhere, for pennies on the dollar. Might as well sell them if the gov't is going to default anyway. Somehow these buyers all know the great and wise Alexander Hamilton. Wait, what? GOOD NEWS! THE GOV'T IS NOT GOING TO DEFAULT! HEY, WHY NOT HONOR THOSE NOTES??? GREAT IDEA! WHO'S HOLDING THE NOTES?
Or how about the one where they burned a great chunk of the Army service records in St. Louis in 1973? I wonder how many pension obligations old Uncle Sam got out of from a lack of paperwork, destroyed in the fire, of course. Many of those records were for men who were nearing retirement age. It's all about the TIMING, gentlemen.
I notice US Culture is not aware of what is happening in Europe and many in the US don't care what is going on in Europe.
This helps the Greedy. They like us Divided. They like to use the same techniques from Sumeria, Akkad, and Babylon in all countries and pretend history is only 50 years old and that we all have the same information.
Just wonder who the Watchdog is on all of the Pension Destruction. My guess is it is happening in many places. Many governments feel they have too many people, over-population.
Maybe we have lots of Websites and Watchdogs.
Federal Government will never say this is a world wide trend that is for sure. Monsanto can do anything it wants.
Hey I bet Germany doesn't have a problem with Pensions being under funded and cut by governments & Corporations.
Germans at least seem to look out for their people's work benefits. Of course if you are a cashier or a tattoo artist you probably don't get much.
They didn't want the people, they wanted the land. That area of the world is disgustingly lacking in diversity. Under the management of the European Union millions of African and Middle Eastern people will be relocated to bring multi-culturalism and vibrant displays of diversity like gang raping any white girl they can get their hands on.
The sooner they can clear out the natives the sooner they can get to work repopulating Ukraine with African and Arab Muslims.