acheson brief:
pink
thanx to my old comrade
yigor federenkyo
i've got some light to cast
thru this latest east slav
mud wrestle
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here's
reproduced
--- as best i can-----
the flower
of yegor's call to me
this morning at 3:00 am
tuck my friend ....
this up link has too many down links
get me ????
cryptic is good
but cryptic i'am not
so ....
simply pu-tski
don't follow the gas
direction of gas flow
is
not
direction of cash flow
thiz energy beeeezness
is done
with italian keeping
two sets of books
plus
two sets of pipes
catch me here ???
one pipe sends gas
the other.... slush
distinct destination
distinct customers
distinct interests
hey my friend
is like porn channel
no one wants to get caught
but everyone iz
watching
so
of course
they hush hush
the flush flow
now say
u get diagram
of slush flow
well...
u might find out
some nice surprises
like finding
porn channel
hooked up to arch bishop's dacha eh ??
best way to remain wizard
never act surprised
right?
to get among the specifics ....
as in
who's really making out like bandit here
my hunch....
check under bed of most "out raged"patriots
then again i oughta just
shut my trap eh ??
old pudlovic adage:
tell alls know nothing
tell nothings know all
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news item lat
KIEV, Ukraine —
After last week's signing
of a five-year natural gas agreement with Russia
President Viktor Yushchenko
was basking in self-congratulation.
"I would call it a brilliant achievement,"
But former ally
Yulia Tymoshenko
"Only a person with a huge New Year's hangover
can call this a success,"
"It's clear that the government
has systematically and consciously
betrayed the national interests of Ukraine."
In an alarming sign for Ukrainian liberals
Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party
got just 13.7%
in a poll taken before the gas deal
putting it in third place
trailing Tymoshenko's bloc.
Leading the pack
is the party of former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich
the Russian-backed candidate
His party now commands 26.6% in the polls.
Yushchenko called on a broad range
of Ukrainians
to rally against the Russian enemy
and emerged with a pact
that he said guaranteed the nation
"true independence"
"We have guaranteed ourselves
a stable gas supply
in the next five years
Tymoshenko
" Russia has shrewdly outmaneuvered Ukraine
and taken home a deal
that give her almost everything she wants"
Last week, cellphone text messages
spread through Ukraine,
recalling the history
of famine, secret police arrests,
and other low points
in Ukraine's history with Russia:
"Remember gasoline?
Tuzla?
Famine? NKVD terror?
… Don't buy Russian gas.
If you are a Ukrainian,
send this to your friends."
the split with Tymoshenko
is fragmenting the pro-Western camp
amid growing disillusion
with events of the last year.
Although tax revenue has skyrocketed
with a clampdown on corruption,
overall economic growth is down
and prices are up.
Foreign investment is a fraction
of what the new government
hoped it would be.
Yushchenko's supporters
blame
much of the difficulty
on the populist economic policies
of Tymoshenko,
who threw investors into retreat
when she threatened to nationalize
about 3,500 businesses
and imposed controls
to check skyrocketing gasoline prices.
Opponents say
Yushchenko's rich supporters
who helped the president come to power
used the opportunity to transfer
wealth from the old guard
to themselves.
"The fact that Yushchenko
is now stating that he's eager
to ally with Yanukovich
in the parliament after the election
can mean only one of two things,"
"Either Yushchenko has become so weak
that he's eager to cooperate with 'bandits,'
or that he lied a year ago
when he called Yanukovich
and his team 'bandits.'
The way he lied about everything else."
Under new political reforms,
the parliament has the power
to hire and fire the prime minister
and his Cabinet.
It seems unlikely that even together
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko
would win a majority big enough
to form a government,
"The policy will be less anti-Russian and less pro-Western,"
said Mikhail Pogrebinsky,
director of the Center
for Political and Conflict Studies in Kiev.
"It will be a multi-vectored one
and a pragmatic one.
It means that if there's something
the U.S. wants and can offer
something in exchange,
then OK, we have a deal.
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