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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , banana  writes   
      
   >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'.   
      
   ..for some information about what has been asserted and denied, I   
   mean...   
      
   >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.   
      
   And the way that so much attention was paid in the propaganda film to   
   the fact that there was a short unexpected adjournment in the court   
   case!   
      
   Little attention was paid to the CHARGES against Khodorkovsky, of   
   course.   
      
   Or to how come Gusinsky has not been extradited from Israel.   
      
   'He must be innocent - there was an adjournment in the court case, and   
   20 CIA paid young people held banners saying how much they liked him'.   
      
   >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)