[CTRL] Yeltsin Says He'll Resign Early, Puts Putin in Power
-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Yeltsin Says He'll Resign Early, Puts Putin in Power MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin said in a shock television announcement on Friday that he intended to resign before the end of his term next year. He also named Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting president until an election is held in three months. ``I am going. I am going earlier than my established time,'' Yeltsin said in a broadcast on state-owned ORT television. He said Russia needed to go into the new century with new political leaders. Yeltsin spoke slowly and calmly as he announced his resignation on the last day of the 20th century. Yeltsin, 68, has dominated Russian politics since he became president in 1991, leading Russia from the wreck of the former Soviet Union into a new era of democracy. ``Today on the last day of the old century I am going to resign,'' he said. Putin, a man he has already named as his preferred successor, would be acting president for three months ahead of elections, he said. Yeltsin's term was due to end in six months but he said he did not want to hold on to power. He said he was sorry he had not fulfilled all the hopes of Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A HREF="http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/head lines/991231/world/afp/Putin_rocked_Russians_with_ruthlessness.html"Putin rocked Russians with ruthlessness/A http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/ 991231/world/afp/Putin_rocked_Russians_with_ruthlessness.html Friday, December 31 6:28 PM SGT Putin rocked Russians with ruthlessness MOSCOW, Dec 31 (AFP) - Vladimir Putin, the poker-faced ex-KGB spy, once tried to westernize a crumbling Soviet Union but has since galvanized a new Russia and is vowing to annihilate the rebels of Chechnya. "We'll get them anywhere -- if we find terrorists sitting in the outhouse, then we will piss on them there. That's it. The matter is settled," barked Putin shortly after Russia launched its Chechen war in September. Such talk could have cost his predecessors their job. But it boosted Putin's career. He became acting president Friday when Boris Yeltsin suddenly announced he was stepping down, and is likely to retain the Kremlin hot seat for years to come. Yeltsin, ailing and being edged out of power by his closest advisers, named the then virtually unknown security chief as prime minister last August. He had been running the secretive but omnipotent Security Council. He has since turned into one of the most admired figures Russia has seen this decade, even his opponents singing his praises. "Putin has enchanted Russia," wrote Vyacheslav Kostikov, a former Kremlin spokesman and current board member of a Media-MOST empire that has campaigned heavily against the government. "I honestly believe that Putin is capable of heroic deeds in the name of our humiliated Russia," Kostikov said. Yet the 47-year-old prime minister and acting president remains a political enigma. He helped found a new party, Unity, which rode into the State Duma (the lower house of parliament) on the back of his popularity in December 19 elections. The party is described as "centrist." But the respected Moscow Times said in an editorial: "There is no particular reason to believe that Unity is 'centrist,' unless 'centrist' is another word for 'unknown.'" The English-language newspaper added: "But what seems clear is that the Kremlin has been dealt a winning hand -- or the Kremlin has dealt itself a winning hand, depending on one's point of view." What can be gleamed from Putin's bare biography suggests that he is intelligent and cunning, trusted enough by peers to be handed some of the most sensitive assignments. Putin "was shaped by the single greatest mission in the history of the KGB," wrote the US-based private global intelligence firm Stratfor. That mission was the "systematic restructuring of the Soviet economy, Soviet society and Soviet relations with the West in the hope of preserving the state and the regime." Putin spent the 1980s in Berlin, where intelligence observers believe he slipped into West Germany to learn trade secrets of such companies as US computer giant IBM. Observers believe KGB officers knew the Soviet Union was in ruins and could be preserved only by revolutionising its lagging technology and attracting investors from the West. It remains unclear how successful Putin was. But he became the chief liaison for foreign investors after joining the pro-reform team of Saint Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sabchak in 1994. Local journalists report that it was impossible to make foreign investments in Russia's second city without first contacting Putin. He then also became a trusted ally of economics chief Anatoly Chubais, who brought Putin to Moscow in 1996 and made him responsible for monitoring regional leaders who were
Re: [CTRL] Yeltsin Says He'll Resign Early, Puts Putin in Power
-Caveat Lector- 1/1/2000 LETS START THE MILLENNIUM RIGHT. UNDERSTANDING ELITISM. The Military / Intelligence factions have replaced the NWO puppets in control of Russia. Rampant Capitalism has destroyed that country and it fell to national patriots to try to salvage and rebuild. I want to point out that Yeltsin a crook of American proportions, will get off for his massive theft for his backers and himself with a pardon. This is the CONSPIRACY OF THE ELITES. It matters not what kind of monster you are, if you were NOT against capitalist exploitation, you get to leave with the marbles you stole. Even monsters like the Duvaliers formerly of Haiti, and Idi Amin the butcher of Uganda, are living comfortably in the West. It's hardly about political systems, or even about economic systems. THE CONSPIRACY that we ordinary folks MUST overcome is not a paranoid illusion, or a figment of imagination, it is the historical and ongoing problem of RULE BY ELITES. Democracy was supposed to change that but it too has been co-opted by Elites and their wannabe flunkies. DON'T BE DISTRACTED. THE SOURCE OF ALL THAT'S UNJUST AND WRONG IS ELITISM. Joshua2 -- Bill Richer wrote: -Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Yeltsin Says He'll Resign Early, Puts Putin in Power MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin said in a shock television announcement on Friday that he intended to resign before the end of his term next year. He also named Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting president until an election is held in three months. ``I am going. I am going earlier than my established time,'' Yeltsin said in a broadcast on state-owned ORT television. He said Russia needed to go into the new century with new political leaders. Yeltsin spoke slowly and calmly as he announced his resignation on the last day of the 20th century. Yeltsin, 68, has dominated Russian politics since he became president in 1991, leading Russia from the wreck of the former Soviet Union into a new era of democracy. ``Today on the last day of the old century I am going to resign,'' he said. Putin, a man he has already named as his preferred successor, would be acting president for three months ahead of elections, he said. Yeltsin's term was due to end in six months but he said he did not want to hold on to power. He said he was sorry he had not fulfilled all the hopes of Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A HREF="http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/head lines/991231/world/afp/Putin_rocked_Russians_with_ruthlessness.html"Putin rocked Russians with ruthlessness/A http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/ 991231/world/afp/Putin_rocked_Russians_with_ruthlessness.html Friday, December 31 6:28 PM SGT Putin rocked Russians with ruthlessness MOSCOW, Dec 31 (AFP) - Vladimir Putin, the poker-faced ex-KGB spy, once tried to westernize a crumbling Soviet Union but has since galvanized a new Russia and is vowing to annihilate the rebels of Chechnya. "We'll get them anywhere -- if we find terrorists sitting in the outhouse, then we will piss on them there. That's it. The matter is settled," barked Putin shortly after Russia launched its Chechen war in September. Such talk could have cost his predecessors their job. But it boosted Putin's career. He became acting president Friday when Boris Yeltsin suddenly announced he was stepping down, and is likely to retain the Kremlin hot seat for years to come. Yeltsin, ailing and being edged out of power by his closest advisers, named the then virtually unknown security chief as prime minister last August. He had been running the secretive but omnipotent Security Council. He has since turned into one of the most admired figures Russia has seen this decade, even his opponents singing his praises. "Putin has enchanted Russia," wrote Vyacheslav Kostikov, a former Kremlin spokesman and current board member of a Media-MOST empire that has campaigned heavily against the government. "I honestly believe that Putin is capable of heroic deeds in the name of our humiliated Russia," Kostikov said. Yet the 47-year-old prime minister and acting president remains a political enigma. He helped found a new party, Unity, which rode into the State Duma (the lower house of parliament) on the back of his popularity in December 19 elections. The party is described as "centrist." But the respected Moscow Times said in an editorial: "There is no particular reason to believe that Unity is 'centrist,' unless 'centrist' is another word for 'unknown.'" The English-language newspaper added: "But what seems clear is that the Kremlin has been dealt a winning hand -- or the Kremlin has dealt itself a winning hand, depending on one's point of view." What can be gleamed from Putin's bare
Re: [CTRL] Yeltsin Says He'll Resign Early, Puts Putin in Power
-Caveat Lector- Nurev Ind Research wrote: It's hardly about political systems, or even about economic systems. THE CONSPIRACY that we ordinary folks MUST overcome is not a paranoid illusion, or a figment of imagination, it is the historical and ongoing problem of RULE BY ELITES. Democracy was supposed to change that but it too has been co-opted by Elites and their wannabe flunkies. An interesting theory on the 'historical and ongoing problem' and how it's been 'co-opted': 'Heads or Tails We Win, Inc.' -- Bucky Fuller Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ployslegally enacted game-playingagreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members. How can little humans successfully cope with this greatest of all history's invisible Grunch of nonhuman Giants? First of all, we humans must comprehend the giants' games and game-playing equipment, rules and scoring systems. But before we can comprehend their game-playing, we must study the history and development of giants themselves. One of my many-years-ago friends, long since deceased, was a giant, a member of the Morgan family. He said to me: "Bucky, I am very fond of you, so I am sorry to have to tell you that you will never be a success. You go around explaining in simple terms that which people have not been comprehending, when the first law of success is, 'Never make things simple when you can make them complicated.'" So, despite his well-meaning advice, here I go explaining giants. ...In ancient North China a new kind of giant had developed long, long before Roland's time a three-component-parts giant, i.e., the little man, with a club, mounted on a horsewho could and did overwhelm the big, onfoot, tribe-leading shepherd. This new composite giant, the horse-mounted bully, could divert to his sole advantage as much as he wanted of the life-support productivity of the on-foot peasantry.(Pa ys = land; ped = foot = ped ant = pa ys antry = peasantry = combination of on the land and on foot = pa y of lands = pa of patriot = pa of pagans = patois = po-gan, pa-gan peasantry.) The horse-mounted, clubwielding bully assertedas do the twentieth-century racketeersthat he owned the land on which the shepherds were grazing their sheep or the farmers were growing their crops. There was no way in which the shepherd could realistically contradict the bully. Each night, many of the shepherd's sheep disappeared until the shepherd agreed to "accept" the horse-mounted bully's "protection." This was the origin of "property." The most powerful amongst the leaders of gangs of horsemen became the emperor. The emperor rewarded his henchmen with deeds to the land in proportion to the deeds at arms they performed for him. There is no historical record of religion founders who have been so bold as to assert that God had deeded land to anyone. History shows that religious leaders have, however, frequently complied with their king's instructions to plant a cross or other symbol of God's approval of their king's sword-accomplished vast lands-seizure and ownership-claiming. [...] As a consequence of all the foregoing, a half-millennium after Roland a new and overwhelmingly greater form of invisible seagoing and land-strutting giants appeared on planet Earth. This was a legally contrived, abstract giant "legal" because the physically uncontradictable "topsword" king decreed it was legal. Having the most favored privileges accorded real humans, the giant, abstract, corporate "man" is inventively created in 1390 in England. (The corporate "human" may have been invented in ancient Babylon to cover the potentates' voyaging venture, but we have as yet no written record of such.) "His" abstract name is the "Merchant Venturers Society." This composite man was formed by the king of England with a small group of his very powerful friends, who lorded over their king-deeded vastlands. By royal prerogative, the venture-financing riskers could not be held liable for any losses of the venture. With limited liability, individuals might sue the company but not the human individuals who underwrote the venture If the enterprise failed and went bankrupt, its shareholders lost their ventured stake but were not to be held responsible in any way for its debts. The creditors of the company were the losers, and not the shareholders. Bankruptcy could reflect no credit stigma upon the companies' shareholders. The shareholders were held absolutely blameless for any misfortunes of their ships' crew or for damage caused by collision of their ship with another ship. If the ship and its cargo were lost, the shareholders lost their original shares, but no more. As long as the ship operated successfully, the shareholders shared its trading profits. Whether the ship was lost or not, the banker who loaned the gold for the merchant
