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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   What's the reason for the UK government propaganda (broadcast by BBC   
   today) in favour of jailed mafia boss (sorry, 'oligarch') Mikhail   
   Khodorkovsky?   
      
   Google on 'Khodorkovsky' and 'Prince Michael'.   
      
   I did note in the BBC film today that the SIS medic didn't help out in   
   the court case. Maybe would have been too much of a hostage to fortune?   
      
   The bit where the pro-Khodorkovsky 'demo' outside of the Russian   
   courtroom was portrayed as 'genuine', whereas the pro-Putin 'demo' the   
   next day was portrayed as being - shock! - 'fake', was hilarious. As was   
   the sneer by the US lawyer that some of the 'protestors' on the second   
   day were old and had had all of their banners printed by the FSB. No   
   editorial comment, of course, on the banners held by the   
   pro-Khodorkovsky 'demonstrators' the previous day. The fucking CIA, of   
   course, like to get their demonstrators nice and young for the cameras,   
   as in Tbilisi, Belgrade, Minsk, Kiev and a number of other places.   
      
   Imagine keeping a straight face and saying that taking Yukos from   
   'Khordorkovsky' is 'stealing' it!   
      
   No mention of 'Lord' Rothschild, I note...to whom Khodorkovsky has   
   signed over his 'rights' in case of his being incapacitated.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)