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<H1 class=ecxarticletitle>US and EU Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters and
Protesters</H1><SPAN class=ecxwwscontent><I>By <A class=ecxwwscontent
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<TD width="40%"><SPAN class=ecxwwsranking>Headlined to H2
2/17/14</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>
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<P class=ecxwwscontent align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><A
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<DIV id=ecxgoogle_ads_div_Google_Block_ad_wrapper>Source: <A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/17/us-eu-paying-ukrainian-rioters-protesters-paul-craig-roberts/"
target=_blank>Paul Craig Roberts</A><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; WIDTH: 460px; FONT-SIZE: 80%"><IMG
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em"
src="http://www.opednews.com/populum/uploadnic/1-1-jpg_12495_20140217-766.jpg"
width=460><BR><CITE class=ecxwwscontentsmaller
title="Kiev's Independence Square filled with Ukrainian pro-EU integration supporters. Their protest eclipsed a rival pro-government protest by workers bussed in from the south and east.">Kiev's
Independence Square filled with Ukrainian pro-EU integration supporters. Their
protest eclipsed a rival pro-government protest by workers bussed in from the
south and east.<BR>(image by <A
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/ukraine-protesters-return-central-kiev-eu-campaign"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>Photograph: Krasilnikov Stanislav/ITAR-TASS
Photo/Corbis</A>)</CITE><BR></DIV><BR><FONT size=4><STRONG>A number of
confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent
protests in Ukraine with our taxpayer dollars. Washington has no money for food
stamps or to prevent home foreclosures, but it has plenty of money with which to
subvert Ukraine. <BR></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>One reader wrote:<BR></STRONG></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=4><STRONG>"My wife, who is of Ukrainian nationality,
has weekly contact to her parents and friends in Zhytomyr [NW Ukraine].
According to them, most protesters get an average payment of 200-300 grivna,
corresponding to about 15-25 euro. As I additionally heard, one of the most
active agencies and 'payment outlets' on EU side is the German 'Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung,' being closely connected to the CDU, i.e., Mrs. Merkel's
party."</STRONG></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=4><STRONG>Johannes Loew of the
Internet site elynitthria.net/ writes: "I am just back from Ukraine (I live in
Munich/Germany) and I was a lot at the Maidan. Most of those people get only 100
grivna. 300 is for Students."<BR>As </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/12/washington-orchestrated-protests-destabilizing-ukraine/"
target=_blank><FONT size=4><STRONG>I reported</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT
size=4><STRONG> on February 12, "Washington Orchestrated Protests Are
Destabilizing Ukraine." Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a rabid
Russophobe and neoconservative warmonger, </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm"
target=_blank><FONT size=4><STRONG>told the National Press
Club</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG> last December that the US has
"invested" $5 billion in organizing a network to achieve US goals in Ukraine in
order to give "Ukraine the future it deserves." Nuland is the Obama regime
official who was caught red-handed naming the members of the Ukrainian
government Washington intends to impose on the Ukrainian people once the paid
protesters have unseated the current elected and independent government.<BR>What
Nuland means by Ukraine's future under EU overlordship is for Ukraine to be
looted like Latvia and Greece and to be used by Washington as a staging ground
for US missile bases against Russia.<BR>From the responses I received to my
</STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/02/14/russia-attack-paul-craig-roberts/"
target=_blank><FONT size=4><STRONG>request for
confirmations</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG> of the information sent
to me from Moldova, there is enough evidence that Washington fomented the
violent riots for western newspapers and TV channels to investigate. But they
haven't. As we know, the presstitutes are enablers of Washington's crimes and
duplicities. However, the US media reported that the Ukrainian government is
paying </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/16/ukraine-government-protests/5435315/"
target=_blank><FONT size=4><STRONG>Ukrainians to rally</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT
size=4><STRONG> in favor of the government. The Ukrainian government will have a
hard time matching Washington's $5 billion.<BR></STRONG></FONT>
<DIV class=ecxadsplat></DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>As Karl Marx wrote, money turns
everything into a commodity that is bought and sold. I wouldn't be surprised if
some protesters are working both sides of the street.<BR>Of course, not all of
the protesters are paid. There are plenty of gullible dupes in the streets who
think they are protesting Ukraine government corruption. I have heard from
several. There is little doubt that the Ukraine government is corrupt. What
government isn't? Government corruption is universal, but it is easy to go from
the frying pan into the fire. Ukrainian protesters seem to think that they can
escape corruption by joining the EU. Obviously, these gullible dupes are
unfamiliar with </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/02/eu-report-corruption-widespread-bloc-20142313322401478.html"
target=_blank><FONT size=4><STRONG>the report on EU
corruption</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG> issued February 3 by the EU
Commissioner for Home Affairs. The report says that a business-political nexus
of corruption affects all 28 EU member countries and costs the EU economies
$162.2 billion per annum. According to the </STRONG></FONT><A
href="http://data.worldbank.org/country/ukraine" target=_blank><FONT
size=4><STRONG>World Bank</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT size=4><STRONG>, the economic
cost of EU corruption is almost as large as the size of Ukrainian GDP. Clearly,
Ukrainians will not escape corruption by joining the EU. Indeed, Ukrainians will
suffer worse corruption.<BR>I have no objection to Ukrainians protesting
government corruption. Indeed, such gullible people could benefit from the
lesson they would learn once their country is in the hands of corrupt Brussels
and Washington. What I object to is the lack of awareness on the part of the
protesters that, by permitting themselves to be manipulated by Washington, they
are pushing the world toward a dangerous war. I would be surprised if Russia is
content to have US military and missile bases in Ukraine.<BR>It was fools like
Nuland playing the great game that gave us World War I. World War III would be
the last war. Washington's drive to exploit every opportunity to establish its
hegemony over the world is driving us all to nuclear war. Like Nuland, a
significant percentage of the population of western Ukraine are Russophobes. I
know the case for Ukrainian dislike of Russia, but Ukrainian emotions fueled
with Washington's money should not direct the course of history. No historians
will be left to document how gullible and witless Ukrainians set the world up
for destruction.<BR></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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