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"The Rape of Russia explained by Anne Williamson"

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Blogger Luke Lea said...

Extraordinary. Her testimony sheds so much light on matters otherwise inexplicable to we in the West. Are there links to her unpublished manuscript on the web. At the very least she should publish it on kindle. Thanks to Steve for unearthing this woman's work. What a find!

2/28/14, 3:46 AM

Anonymous Hunsdon said...

Why am I reminded of Tom Regan taking Bernie out to Miller's Crossing?

We're not muscle, Tom. I... I... I... never killed anybody. I used a little information for a chisel, that's all. It's my nature, Tom! I... I... I... can't help it, somebody gives me an angle, I play it. I don't deserve to die for that. Do you think I do?

2/28/14, 3:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

More on the Harvard connection:

Apparently there was more to Summers' resignation than politically correct backlash and rejection of his arrogant management style. One of the issues behind the new FAS vote of no confidence was the so-called Shleifer affair. Summers has been protecting Andrei Shleifer, a star economist (John Bates Clark medal winner) and protege, despite a scandal involving Shleifer that cost Harvard over $40M (including legal fees) to settle with the US government. Shleifer remains on the Harvard faculty, despite the well-documented malfeasance.

Strangely, the story was little covered by big media (WSJ, NYTimes), and it took a 25,000 word investigative piece by Institutional Investor (based on court documents including 60 depositions and over 1000 exhibits) to reveal the sordid details of Shleifer's involvement with Russian privatization and misuse of US funds through the Harvard Institute for International Development. I am sure copies of this article have been circulating widely among Harvard faculty. (See here for an amusing account of how a Boston jury was completely unimpressed by Harvard lawyers' narrow technical defense that Shleifer was not bound by conflict of interest rules. The jury took only two hours to decide unanimously against Harvard and Shleifer.)

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2006/02/summers-and-shleifer.html

2/28/14, 4:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hard to take it all in. Any relation to Clinton's pardon of Frank Rich? That's always seemed to be the most corrupt note in Clinton's career.
Robert Hume

2/28/14, 5:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeltsin never came across to me as malicious or sinister, but rather as someone who was easily taken advantage of because he was usually too drunk to know what was going on. I think that ultimately his intentions were good. After all, he did pick the best successor to undo the damage he had caused.

2/28/14, 6:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great find.

1) Biggest thing Anglos ever did right was the 99 year leasehold on family farms.

2) Ukraine is so much more ****ed than Russia because they are still fully ruled by the oligarchs who took over after the collapse of communism whereas in Russia the oligarchs were pushed back a bit by Putin.

3) The general point about property rights in the east and how that may have effected their politics and history is very interesting also.

2/28/14, 6:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well worth reading the whole thing to see who rules us.

2/28/14, 6:44 AM

Anonymous Half Man Half Amazing said...

Of course Judy Shelton had already published The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Search for Credit in Western Financial Markets in 1989.

Still for my money one of the most prescient pundit books ever.

2/28/14, 6:50 AM

Anonymous peterike said...

No wonder this all went down the memory hole. This bit really hit me:

Worse yet, this new [Russian] elite thrives in the conditions of chaos and eschews the very stability for which the United States so fervently hopes knowing full well, as they do, that stability will severely hamper their ability to obtain outrageous profits.

How is that different than the current American elites?

Truly, the criminal Clinton administration was the final knife in the back of America. The rest has just been bleeding out and staggering to our demise. And look look look who's being set up to be our next President!

the Clintons succeeded in constructing an international patronage machine in which the American executive stands supreme

There's your money shot. And yet the arch villain Slick Willy is feted and fawned over everywhere he goes, somehow made into a "great" President, the one that "ended the deficit" or whatever other lies we tell ourselves. Obama, stooge that he is, keeps the patronage machine whirling at full tilt. God knows what next steps Hillary will take.

The real question is how do I get in line to become an oligarch when the inevitable collapse hits America?

2/28/14, 7:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Three points: (i) unsaid in all Williamson's testimony(except in comments above) is that (mostly) Jews from the US and elsewhere choreographed the transfer of Russia's wealth for peanuts to (mostly) Jews with tenuous connections to Russia. If nothing else, the Rape of Russia provides a breathtaking example of how (mostly) Jews are not interested in fairness or market forces or anything but what's good for (mostly) other Jews. Let's always remember that when we hear about how much meritorious and worthy Jews are for all their material and other successes. That this Rape resulted in a collapse of standard of living and demographic death spiral of native Russians was (is) absolutely irrelevant to these (mostly) Jews. It appears that the same thing happened in Ukraine and I'd like to study what happened to the other Eastern Bloc countries.

(ii) the hatred of Putin (who seems to be interested in (mostly) Russians) in American MSM stems from his attempts to rein in the orgy of the 1990s and nothing else. Whatever is said or done about Russia or Putin now has to be judged in this context or it makes little sense.

(iii) is it any wonder that the communist party in China was (is) desperate to avoid "Western" "shock therapy", that no matter how corrupt and greedy and self-interested the Chinese elite are, they're mere simpletons and amateurs compared to the wolfs that would devour their nation if they ever got a chance.

2/28/14, 8:45 AM

Anonymous Peter the Shark said...

In 1991, there was no hope whatsoever that wheezebag Soviet industries could compete with Western products.

That's one of the keys to the whole affair. American and European business had no interest in well capitalized restructured Russian companies competing with them on the world market. Look at how effectively Russia's aeronautics and automobile industries were quickly destroyed rather than restructured. This, for me, is where the Paleo argument falls down. An American President who supported builing up Russian industries that were directly competing with American owned businesses would have been pilloried. American tax payers did come out ahead. Just as West Germans gladly paid to make sure that potential East German competitors were dismantled and sold piecemeal and cheaply to West Germans.

2/28/14, 8:50 AM

Anonymous Miguel S. said...

I read her intro. Nothing new there (it's basically Richard Pipes). What the tl:dr for the rest?

2/28/14, 9:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The minute I hear of loan or investment "guarantees" in a tale of economic woe, I know exactly where it's going.

2/28/14, 9:21 AM

Anonymous Chicago said...

I like the part where the Fed printed more dollars to help sex predator Bill Clinton get reelected. In retrospect he seems sleazier with each passing day. He and his wife still have fans out there though.

2/28/14, 9:32 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

No Austrian economics in that testimony.

2/28/14, 10:34 AM

Blogger Unknown said...

The Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto has much to say about the relation of property rights to prosperity and individual freedom. His book on the subject, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
is available here and is well worth reading.

http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Everywhere/dp/0465016154/ref=la_B001HMNIIG_1_1/176-8467970-4264657?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393620654&sr=1-1

2/28/14, 12:59 PM

Anonymous eah said...

What percentage of those involved in the 'rape of Russia' were Jews? Just asking.

2/28/14, 1:15 PM

Anonymous Glossary said...

"American" (read lady)

Yippee, finally, a lady journalist that even the anti-volk-vise can appreciate.

2/28/14, 2:34 PM

Anonymous AS said...

Olearius vindicated?

“With regard to intelligence, the Russians are indeed distinguished by cleverness and shrewdness. However, they use these qualities not to strive for virtue and glory, but to seek advantage and profit and to indulge their appetites. Therefore, as Jakob [Ulfeldt] says : ‘They are crafty and clever, stubborn, unbridled, hostile and perverse, not to say shameless, inclined to every sort of wickedness, disposed to place might above right, and divorced-believe me-from all virtue.

Their cleverness and shrewdness are manifested, in their commerce, among other activities; when buying and selling for profit, they resort to any expedient they can think of to cheat a neighbor. And anyone who wants to deceive them has to have a good head. For they shun truth and are so given to lying that they themselves rarely believe anyone else. Anyone who succeeds in deceiving them, they praise and consider a master. To cite an instance, some Moscow merchants invited a certain Dutchman who, in a transaction, had mulcted them of a large sum, to join their company and become their partner in trade; since he was such a master of deception, they hoped through him to have advantageous trade. “

From the Travels of Olearius in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Not to insult the great Russian people or anything, but I think that’s a stereotype you rarely hear about, unlike the soulful/lazy/backward peasant and violent Cossack. Might help explain why privatization turned into looting.

2/28/14, 6:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"In Ukraine, under communism, government own all the farm land, farmer has nothing. Under capitalism, government sell all the farm land, farmer has nothing!"

2/28/14, 8:24 PM

Blogger Son of Brock Landers said...

Anatoly chubais is the main russian figure who was a yeltsins econ brain. He and harvard figures had assigned each other rights so they could authorize deals while also being the advisor for the other side. The whole reason the us was so buddy buddy with yeltsin was because he allowed the looting.

"Collision and collusion" is a good book on what the west did to the eastern bloc and stillnit is nothjng compared to what williamson was going to go into detail about with russia. Her manuscrpt hit a stone wall despite having an advanced chapter release.

Forget Summers. It is about Robett Rubin. Thanks for reminding me i have to get back to researching on that bastard.

2/28/14, 8:51 PM

Anonymous CJ said...

Any relation to Clinton's pardon of Frank Rich?
Frank Rich has done a lot ofwrong, but Clinton pardoned Marc Rich.

3/1/14, 12:12 AM

Anonymous ogunsiron said...

hopefully not too O.T :

What "russia expert" Masha Gessen thinks of the 1990s in Russia:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/05/24/the-intelligence-squared-debate-masha-gessen-has-some-really-strange-ideas-about-the-1990s/

By the way, Masha gessen is a "russian" lesbian who freely admits that she supports gay marriage precisely because gay marriage is a means to utterly destroy traditional marriage. Her statements can be found on youtube. She's the kind of person that Putin aims his homo propaganda laws at.

3/1/14, 3:08 AM

Blogger neil craig said...

So, according to free market libertarians, Trotsky and his followers were right. You can't build "socialism in one country" when the country has not yet passed beyond the feudal/clan system of ownership into the capitalist form of individual ownership.

Historic questions, even when they seem to have been solved, usually re-emerge from under the debris, with a new label.

3/1/14, 3:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow! Anne Williamson really delivers a good kicking here. Of course history will forget about it, she's on the wrong side.

Small correction: "... inspired as it was by the policies of Ludwig Erhard and his adviser, the renowned Austrian economist Wilhem Ropke ..."

Röpke was no Austrian Economist (nor an Austrian economist). He was an Ordoliberal. The Ordoliberal, even.

3/1/14, 3:49 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"In Ukraine, under communism, government own all the farm land, farmer has nothing. Under capitalism, government sell all the farm land, farmer has nothing!"

Everything was exactly the same, save for the forceful starvation of tens of millions....

3/2/14, 3:54 AM

Anonymous IAC said...

She should publish it via Kindle/Amazon/Youtube, it is must have book.
Any of possible US Presidents in close future according what we know will be even more warmongrel.
Next will be Iran, now it is quietly happening in Mali (google protest of Belgian protest in EU), what's going on in Mongolia - another rape.
You don't have any idea how misarable live we're in Russia in 90s. We stupidly listen Gorbachev, supported Yeltcin. Every person in Russia been given State Bond to buy shares of company.
Best off we're people who sold in for peanuts but cash.
Work who took it to hedge funds. Those funds suppose to place shares to different company and pay you regular devidents, as in UK Pension funds works with annuity.
Those funds were most popular investments, but with catch. As soon they collected all bonds, they collapsed with no trace.as executive director in one of them was mentally ill person who was nothing to do with business, scape goat.
God save us all, thank god someone as Putin come along and hope US break tooth and lose a bit appetite for wars.

4/27/14, 2:42 PM

Anonymous IAC said...

Something else from youtube "what they don't want us to know" http://youtu.be/fWkfpGCAAuw

I't is give a little comfort that still thinking people around who want to know thruth and not be used. With situation in Ukraine I've start looking for alternative source of information and found a lots of interesting in youtube, don't laugth. I'm am talking about unedited videos from us congers where was hearing about Vicky Nuland phone conversation, speech of Hungarian president, situation in Bulgaria. somebody here wanted to know what happened in ex-Warsaw block counties.
I have to check one comment that in Lybia before changing regime were free health care and free high education because gov ( b.. Kaddafi) had share some oil money with population. Sound untrue but those days nothing can be taken face value, everything checked twice. Being russian never trusted gov and learned to read between the lines, but life in west turn me to carbbage. Thing nothing , TV with do it for you. Only now came to unpleasant feeling all the time lied. Have no one to talk to, sound as nutcase. Who on earth will believe this US conspiracy thing?

4/27/14, 3:10 PM

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