Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
On January 22nd, Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sky News (Murdoch founded it, his son James headed it for a while, and their 21st Century Fox owns \u201ca controlling stake\u201d<\/a> in it) telecast a puff-piece for Ukraine\u2019s right-wing extremists, several times calling them \u201cheroes\u201d to \u201cpatriotic\u201d Ukrainians. This segment of their documentary series \u201cRoss Kemp: Extreme World,\u201d was titled \u201cUkraine: The Rise of The Right.\u201d In it, Ukraine\u2019s \u201cfar right\u201d are described as being patriots who are protecting all of Ukraine from a Russian invasion, and who are therefore being increasingly admired by Ukrainians. It\u00a0says<\/a>: \u201cThe ultras [ultra-rightists] are actually patriotic young people who are ready to fight \u2013 not only on the Maidan, but also at the war for our land. \u2026 These men \u2013 seen now by many as heroes \u2013 are fighting for the Azov Battalion in Mariupol, Maryinka and Iliovaisk.\u201d<\/p>\n The message is that whereas these far-rightists were previously despised, they now are widely respected: “Just a few years ago they were\u00a0on the fringes of society \u2013 shunned for their violent behaviour and xenophobic beliefs, but since\u00a0the 2014 Maidan revolution \u2013 and the subsequent fighting against pro-Russian groups \u2013 their\u00a0popularity has grown.\u201d<\/p>\n In the\u00a0segment\u00a0here<\/a>, the presenter, Ross Kemp, says, at 15:25<\/strong>, that, Ukraine “faces the threat of a full-scale Russian invasion. NATO has called the crisis in Ukraine, the biggest threat to European security since World War Two. Amidst this chaos, volunteer far-right battalions have put up some of the strongest resistance.\u201d<\/em> He then notes that the city of Mariupol in Ukraine\u2019s southeast “is currently being defended by a right-wing militia called the Azov Battalion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n At 17:55<\/strong>, Kemp refers to \u201coccupied Crimea,\u201d<\/em> as if Crimea (which had been part of Russia from 1783 to 1954, and where far more of the residents still considered themselves to be \u201cRussian\u201d than \u201cUkrainian\u201d<\/a>) had been seized by Russian troops, instead of Crimea having been protected against invasion of troops from the new Ukrainian Government immediately after\u00a0the February 22nd coup in which Obama had seized control over Ukraine\u2019s Government<\/a>, by the use of paid mercenaries (\u2018volunteers\u2019) from the nazi Right Sector, who were headed by\u00a0Dmitriy Yarosh<\/a>, and by other racist mercenaries, some from outside Ukraine.<\/p>\n Ross Kemp is then in Mariupol, where he says: “Just to give you an idea of how vulnerable this city is, in the distance is Russia, all the way along there<\/em> [and he points at the supposedly feared Russia]. \u2026 In May of 2014, Mariupol was one of several cities seized by pro-Russia separatists. \u2026 How did a predominantly far-right militia<\/em> [Azov] end up defending one of Ukraine\u2019s most important cities? \u2026 The fight to defend Mariupol has made the<\/em> [Azov] Battalion specialists in urban warfare. The majority are ordinary Ukrainians united by a sense of patriotism<\/em> [he doesn\u2019t say \u2018nationalism,\u2019 but \u2018patriotism,\u2019 so as to give it an attractive odor].\u201d<\/p>\n He also doesn\u2019t deny that \u201csome\u201d of the Azov fighters are White-supremacists (they make it too obvious). At 20:25<\/strong>, he says: “But there\u2019s an altogether darker ideology that unites some Azov members.\u201d<\/em> A swastika is shown; then an Azov fighter is interviewed saying, \u2018\u2019’It\u2019s a war with Russia.\u2019\u201d<\/em> The idea Rupert Murdoch\u2019s man Kemp wants to convey here is that these fighters are \u201cpatriots,<\/em>\u201d who are \u201cvolunteering\u201d<\/em> to \u201cdefend\u201d<\/em> Ukraine against \u201cpro-Russians\u201d<\/em> and against \u201cRussian troops\u201d<\/em> (he uses that phrase though there\u2019s actually no sign of any of those). He ignores that Obama\u2019s team had taken over Ukraine during a coup which was long in the planning and which used the public \u201cMaidan\u201d anti-corruption demonstrations as merely a \u2018democratic\u2019 PR backdrop<\/a>. In fact,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0is the U.S. State Department\u2019s Victoria Nuland, telling the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, on 4 February 2014, whom he is to place at the top of the post-coup Government; and, when the coup occurred, this \u201cYats\u201d was indeed the person who became appointed 22 days later<\/a>. No hint of such background is given in Rupert Murdoch\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 (propaganda) report.<\/p>\n At 30:20<\/strong>, Ross Kemp says: “Since February of 2014, Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have been locked in a bloody battle for control of towns in the east.<\/em> [Actually, the civil war had started not in February 2014, such as he says, but on 9 May 2014. The Obama coup<\/a> had occurred in February 2014, overthrowing the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, for whom more than 70% of the residents in southeastern Ukraine<\/a> had voted; and the civil war didn\u2019t start till May because it wasn\u2019t clear till May that the newly installed Government wanted the residents in the southeast to die or else to flee to Russia \u2013 to be gone from Ukraine. Obama didn\u2019t want them voting in any future Ukrainian national elections, because that would jeopardize the lasting-power of his coup-Government.] This is the town hall of Mariupol. Five months ago, Russian separatists stormed this building. … The Russian supporters were made to leave, but when they did, they torched it.\u201d<\/em> [He\u2019s there trying to convey the idea that \u201cRussian supporters\u201d had torched the town hall in Mariupol. But, actually, it wasn\u2019t the \u201ctown hall\u201d; it was the police station; and there\u2019s no indication that the locals had torched it. Instead: On 9 May 2014, which is the very day that Ukraine\u2019s civil war started throughout southeastern Ukraine (in response to the May 2nd massacre in Odessa<\/a>), the local police force refused to take commands from the invading Ukrainian Government troops of western Ukraine, who were then entering Mariupol to take the city over. Anti-coup people entered the building in order to occupy it, and a battle ensued between the Kiev troops and the Mariupol locals. The locals were driven out by Ukraine\u2019s military; and the police station was torched, but no one knows by whom.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is video of the police station on fire, on 9 May 2014. Here<\/a> is a detailed description and another actual video of the burning; and the description that\u2019s given, which comes from a resident there, makes clear that the invading troops burned the building down because the local police refused to accept the authority of the newly imposed Government. But the \u201ctown hall\u201d also had been involved in Ukraine\u2019s invasion.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is a Reuters article on 7 May 2014, reporting that \u201cUkrainian forces seized the rebel-held city hall in the eastern\u00a0port\u00a0city of Mariupol overnight, driving out pro-Russian activists, then withdrew, making no attempt to hold onto the building,\u00a0witnesses said. …. Witnesses said the soldiers left after smashing furniture and\u00a0office equipment.\u201d Maybe they burned it later. The vandals were the haters \u2013 the very people whom Ross Kemp so obviously admires. In any case, what Kemp is saying about the event is almost certainly false. He pretends to be a videographer, but his video presents no evidence \u2013 merely assertions by Ukrainian Government officials and soldiers.]<\/p>\n Here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0are how what Kemp fearsomely calls the \u201cpro-Russian separatists\u201d (or, as Reuters had referred to them, \u2018activists\u2019) in Mariupol first encountered the Obama-coup-regime\u2019s troops, as those troops invaded Mariupol slaughtering residents on 9 May 2014.\u00a0And\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0is what had happened at the largest southeastern city, Donetsk, just three days earlier, on May 6th. That Donetsk video refers to the Ukrainian oligarch or aristocrat Kolomoysky. He was the man who had financed\u00a0the massacre on May 2nd of entirely peaceful anti-coup demonstrators in Odessa \u2013 the massacre that had actually caused the people in the other<\/em> rejectionist cities to become<\/em> separatists<\/a>. It caused some southeastern areas to go all the way to refusing to accept the Obama-installed coup-government at Kiev, and to establish instead their own independent nation, in order to protect themselves from the (it had by then become blatantly clear) rabidly anti-Russian racist-fascists, or nazis, whom Obama had placed into power in Kiev<\/a>. Obama needed the May 2nd massacre<\/a> in order to terrorize the people in the southeast so as to cause them to form their own government to protect themselves from it, thus enabling the \u2018legitimate\u2019 Government (the one that Obama had just installed in his actually illegal<\/a> coup) to call them \u2018Terrorists\u2019 and so to have an excuse to bomb and drive them out, so as to eliminate the residents in\u00a0the pro-Yanukovych area<\/a>, so that no similar Ukrainian President would ever again be able to be elected by voters in Ukraine. This was essential in order to get Obama\u2019s imposed illegal<\/a> nazi Government to stick, to last. Kolomoysky was an ally, and an employer of the family and friends, of key people in the Obama Administration<\/a>, and all of them could benefit enormously from killing and driving out lots of residents in the heavily-pro-Yanukovych southeastern portion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n At 31:30<\/strong>, Ross Kemp says: “After months of attacks,\u00a0Kalinovka<\/a><\/em>\u00a0[he pronounced it \u2018Kalikovka\u2019] is a ghost town. All of the houses have been abandoned here.\u201d<\/em> He doesn\u2019t even care to mention why the surviving residents had left: Ukraine\u2019s troops had been shelling, bombing, and shooting at them, so survivors fled into the separatist-controlled area, or else into Russia.<\/p>\n At 33.00<\/strong>, he\u2019s at the border heading into Donbass (the separatist-controlled region), and is told by the nazi troops to go back from whence he came, because press presence might draw fire from pro-Russian snipers just beyond that demarcation-line \u2013 which is just a lie, but the sucker or propagandist apparently took everything that these fascists told him as being the gospel truth, and he was basically a mere video stenographer for these nazis anyway, not a real journalist (who questions everything<\/em>).<\/p>\n So: Ross Kemp went back to Mariupol. He didn\u2019t even care to get the opponents\u2019 side of this war. The nazis told him to go back to Mariupol, so he did. This is Rupert Murdoch\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 operation: one-sided \u2018news\u2019 only. (Any intelligent person who watched the \u2018documentary\u2019 up to that point, had to recognize by now that this was really no \u2018news report\u2019 at all, but pure war-propaganda. Even if that fact hadn\u2019t become blatant before, it now became blatant.)<\/p>\n At 39.00<\/strong>, Kemp says: “The city<\/em> [Mariupol] formed its own militia because of the threat posed by Russian separatists and, the Russian Federation.<\/em>\u201d An interviewed Ukrainian official, a woman, tells him that \u201cRussian troops \u2026 systematically destroyed\u201d<\/em> the city. She calls herself a \u201cnationalist.\u201d<\/em> No evidence is presented \u2013 and none is asked for \u2013 to support her \u201cRussian troops\u201d<\/em> allegation. He just accepts everything she tells him.<\/p>\n At 41.30<\/strong>, he says: “You can see why regiments like the Azov Battalion and other far-right battalions are gaining support here. Because they\u2019re volunteers who are making the ultimate sacrifice to defend the city. And so people here are rallying to their cause.\u201d<\/em> Actually, most of the \u201cpeople here\u201d<\/em> must both hate and fear the nazis. The residents know that they\u2019ll be killed if they express any support whatsoever for the anti-coup, or anti-\u2018Maidan,\u2019 side. To a \u2018reporter\u2019 like Kemp, it makes no difference what the reality of or for the residents there is.<\/p>\n In other words: This documentary by Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sky \u2018News\u2019 is just pro-nazi<\/a> propaganda, which conflates \u201cnationalism\u201d with patriotism, and which presents nazis as being heroes, instead of as being the rabid anti-democratic bigots that they actually are.<\/p>\n The Obama-installed coup-government was assigned by Obama,\u00a0and by the IMF<\/a>, to exterminate as many of the residents in the Donbass region of southeast Ukraine as possible, because 90% of these residents had voted for the very man, Viktor Yanukovych<\/a>, whom Obama\u2019s nazis overthrew on 22 February 2014<\/a>. (The dark purple region on that map, in the far east of Ukraine, is the area that had voted at least 90% for Yanukovych; and it\u2019s the area that broke away from Ukraine in May 2014 and is being bombed by Obama\u2019s Ukrainian forces. That area was traditionally called \u201cDonbass,\u201d but many of its inhabitants now call themselves \u201cNovorossiyans,\u201d or new Russians, because they want to be part of Russia, which their region used to be part of.) So, this Government sent these nazis in, to finish the job, for Obama and for their own oligarchs.<\/p>\n Do the viewers of Sky \u2018News\u2019 want to know any of that background? Apparently not \u2013 after all, they are viewers of Sky \u2018News.\u2019 They are fascists, and many of them are like Obama\u2019s team: they are nazis \u2013 racist fascists. (Most of those viewers probably just call themselves \u201cconservative.\u201d Of course, they won\u2019t acknowledge that Obama too is \u201cconservative.\u201d)<\/p>\n That video was called \u201cPart 2\u201d of Kemp\u2019s propaganda-film about how heroic Ukraine\u2019s nazis are.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is \u201cEpisode 1\u201d (or \u201cPart 1,\u201d as alternatively tagged). Most of it is actually the same video and text, except organized differently (placing the emphasis upon the failure of the post-coup Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be sufficiently nazi to satisfy these \u2018patriots\u2019).<\/p>\n Here is a bit of the relevant historical background that Murdoch\u2019s operation decided to hide from both versions: \u201cThe Nazis Even Hitler Was Afraid Of.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n And here<\/a> is the current geopolitical context of Obama\u2019s February 2014 take-over<\/a> of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ironically, the view that the rightist oligarch Murdoch is spreading \u2013 that Putin is the aggressor in this war and that Obama is not \u2013 is exactly the same view that the leftist oligarch George Soros is spreading about it<\/a>. In fact (as can be seen from Soros\u2019s many statements and actions there), both of those Western oligarchs are remarkably similar, and Soros could as well have hired the people who hired Ross Kemp as Murdoch did. Kemp\u2019s \u2018documentary\u2019 is 100% in line with Soros\u2019s many essays about the situation in Ukraine<\/a>. The biggest difference between these two aristocrats is that they\u2019re in different lines of business \u2013 different rackets. (Here is a partial list<\/a> of the companies that Murdoch controls. Soros is instead an investor and a \u2018philanthropist.\u2019<\/a>)<\/p>\n DISCUSSION<\/strong><\/p>\n When \u2018right\u2019 and \u2018left\u2019 merge and become one, at nazi (i.e., racist-fascist), such as does occur in the top aristocratic circle (especially regarding Ukraine)<\/a>, then what authentic meaning remains to standard political debate? What does the public then know of \u2018democracy\u2019? How is democracy then even possible? It\u2019s not<\/a>. (And that linked-to scientific study, specifically of the U.S., proves that the U.S. is not a democracy. But this problem is far broader than merely<\/em> the U.S.)<\/p>\n Perhaps wealth-inequality is getting to be so extreme as to close out even the possibility of democracy. Let\u2019s not fool ourselves about how big the challenge is; it\u2019s enormous:<\/p>\n On 9 October 2013, Credit Suisse issued their Global Wealth Report 2013<\/a>, authored by Anthony Shorrocks, Jim Davies, and Rodrigo Lluberasis. It reported that the world\u2019s richest 0.7% owned 13.67 times as much as did the world\u2019s poorest 68.7%. That super-rich 0.7% (each with net-worths above $50,000,000) owned 41% of this planet\u2019s private assets. The world\u2019s richest 8.4% owned 83.3%. The world\u2019s richest 31.3% owned 97%. So: the bottom 68.7% owned just 3%. (All of these findings are calculated from the data shown on page 22.) Overall, the share of global wealth was \u201cbarely 1% for the bottom half of all adults\u201d worldwide (see page 4). Furthermore, economic mobility into and out of the billionaire class, during the latest ten-year period (2000-2010), was low: only 24% entered or left the class during the decade (see page 28).<\/p>\n According to Vilfredo Pareto<\/a>, who was the father of today\u2019s \u2018welfare\u2019 economics and also the \u201cKarl Marx of fascism\u201d (and also Benito Mussolini\u2019s personal teacher), there is no rational basis for economists to consider any of this extreme wealth-inequality to be sub-\u201coptimal.\u201d<\/p>\n No wonder aristocrats favor such a \u2018free market\u2019 (and such an economic theory).<\/p>\n But it won\u2019t do Ukrainians any good, and it\u2019s slaughtering the people in Donbass. However, any of that richest 0.7% who care enough, one way or the other, about what\u2019s happening there, are promoting the nazis, who are doing those aristocrats\u2019 dirty-work, regardless of whether nazi bigots are aware of the fact, or even care whom they\u2019re actually serving, or why. Any of those nazis who are in the bottom 68.7% of the world\u2019s wealth-pyramid \u2013 the people who collectively own just 3% of the world\u2019s private wealth \u2013 are probably driven more by their hatred than by their greed, anyway. They\u2019re like sleepwalkers, or robots. Push their psychological buttons, and they\u2019re on, \u201cfor the cause.\u201d True-believers, in some Big Lie or other. And, so, they \u2018volunteer\u2019 their services far cheaper than do people who actually care. (Most of their payment comes to them in the form of the personal pride they get, for their race and nation. It doesn\u2019t come out of any aristocrat\u2019s hide.) In that sense, they value themselves appropriately: dirt-cheap. (Of course, they don\u2019t understand this.) 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![more than 70% of the residents in southeastern Ukraine<\/a> had voted; and the civil war didn\u2019t start till May because it wasn\u2019t clear till May that the newly installed Government wanted the residents in the southeast to die or else to flee to Russia \u2013 to be gone from Ukraine. Obama didn\u2019t want them voting in any future Ukrainian national elections, because that would jeopardize the lasting-power of his coup-Government.] This is the town hall of Mariupol. Five months ago, Russian separatists stormed this building. … The Russian supporters were made to leave, but when they did, they torched it.\u201d<\/em> [He\u2019s there trying to convey the idea that \u201cRussian supporters\u201d had torched the town hall in Mariupol. But, actually, it wasn\u2019t the \u201ctown hall\u201d; it was the police station; and there\u2019s no indication that the locals had torched it. Instead: On 9 May 2014, which is the very day that Ukraine\u2019s civil war started throughout southeastern Ukraine (in response to the May 2nd massacre in Odessa<\/a>), the local police force refused to take commands from the invading Ukrainian Government troops of western Ukraine, who were then entering Mariupol to take the city over. Anti-coup people entered the building in order to occupy it, and a battle ensued between the Kiev troops and the Mariupol locals. The locals were driven out by Ukraine\u2019s military; and the police station was torched, but no one knows by whom.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is video of the police station on fire, on 9 May 2014. Here<\/a> is a detailed description and another actual video of the burning; and the description that\u2019s given, which comes from a resident there, makes clear that the invading troops burned the building down because the local police refused to accept the authority of the newly imposed Government. But the \u201ctown hall\u201d also had been involved in Ukraine\u2019s invasion.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is a Reuters article on 7 May 2014, reporting that \u201cUkrainian forces seized the rebel-held city hall in the eastern\u00a0port\u00a0city of Mariupol overnight, driving out pro-Russian activists, then withdrew, making no attempt to hold onto the building,\u00a0witnesses said. …. Witnesses said the soldiers left after smashing furniture and\u00a0office equipment.\u201d Maybe they burned it later. The vandals were the haters \u2013 the very people whom Ross Kemp so obviously admires. In any case, what Kemp is saying about the event is almost certainly false. He pretends to be a videographer, but his video presents no evidence \u2013 merely assertions by Ukrainian Government officials and soldiers.]<\/p>\nHere<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0are how what Kemp fearsomely calls the \u201cpro-Russian separatists\u201d (or, as Reuters had referred to them, \u2018activists\u2019) in Mariupol first encountered the Obama-coup-regime\u2019s troops, as those troops invaded Mariupol slaughtering residents on 9 May 2014.\u00a0And\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0is what had happened at the largest southeastern city, Donetsk, just three days earlier, on May 6th. That Donetsk video refers to the Ukrainian oligarch or aristocrat Kolomoysky. He was the man who had financed\u00a0the massacre on May 2nd of entirely peaceful anti-coup demonstrators in Odessa \u2013 the massacre that had actually caused the people in the other<\/em> rejectionist cities to become<\/em> separatists<\/a>. It caused some southeastern areas to go all the way to refusing to accept the Obama-installed coup-government at Kiev, and to establish instead their own independent nation, in order to protect themselves from the (it had by then become blatantly clear) rabidly anti-Russian racist-fascists, or nazis, whom Obama had placed into power in Kiev<\/a>. Obama needed the May 2nd massacre<\/a> in order to terrorize the people in the southeast so as to cause them to form their own government to protect themselves from it, thus enabling the \u2018legitimate\u2019 Government (the one that Obama had just installed in his actually illegal<\/a> coup) to call them \u2018Terrorists\u2019 and so to have an excuse to bomb and drive them out, so as to eliminate the residents in\u00a0the pro-Yanukovych area<\/a>, so that no similar Ukrainian President would ever again be able to be elected by voters in Ukraine. This was essential in order to get Obama\u2019s imposed illegal<\/a> nazi Government to stick, to last. Kolomoysky was an ally, and an employer of the family and friends, of key people in the Obama Administration<\/a>, and all of them could benefit enormously from killing and driving out lots of residents in the heavily-pro-Yanukovych southeastern portion of Ukraine.<\/p>\nAt 31:30<\/strong>, Ross Kemp says: “After months of attacks,\u00a0Kalinovka<\/a><\/em>\u00a0[he pronounced it \u2018Kalikovka\u2019] is a ghost town. All of the houses have been abandoned here.\u201d<\/em> He doesn\u2019t even care to mention why the surviving residents had left: Ukraine\u2019s troops had been shelling, bombing, and shooting at them, so survivors fled into the separatist-controlled area, or else into Russia.<\/p>\nAt 33.00<\/strong>, he\u2019s at the border heading into Donbass (the separatist-controlled region), and is told by the nazi troops to go back from whence he came, because press presence might draw fire from pro-Russian snipers just beyond that demarcation-line \u2013 which is just a lie, but the sucker or propagandist apparently took everything that these fascists told him as being the gospel truth, and he was basically a mere video stenographer for these nazis anyway, not a real journalist (who questions everything<\/em>).<\/p>\nSo: Ross Kemp went back to Mariupol. He didn\u2019t even care to get the opponents\u2019 side of this war. The nazis told him to go back to Mariupol, so he did. This is Rupert Murdoch\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 operation: one-sided \u2018news\u2019 only. (Any intelligent person who watched the \u2018documentary\u2019 up to that point, had to recognize by now that this was really no \u2018news report\u2019 at all, but pure war-propaganda. Even if that fact hadn\u2019t become blatant before, it now became blatant.)<\/p>\nAt 39.00<\/strong>, Kemp says: “The city<\/em> [Mariupol] formed its own militia because of the threat posed by Russian separatists and, the Russian Federation.<\/em>\u201d An interviewed Ukrainian official, a woman, tells him that \u201cRussian troops \u2026 systematically destroyed\u201d<\/em> the city. She calls herself a \u201cnationalist.\u201d<\/em> No evidence is presented \u2013 and none is asked for \u2013 to support her \u201cRussian troops\u201d<\/em> allegation. He just accepts everything she tells him.<\/p>\nAt 41.30<\/strong>, he says: “You can see why regiments like the Azov Battalion and other far-right battalions are gaining support here. Because they\u2019re volunteers who are making the ultimate sacrifice to defend the city. And so people here are rallying to their cause.\u201d<\/em> Actually, most of the \u201cpeople here\u201d<\/em> must both hate and fear the nazis. The residents know that they\u2019ll be killed if they express any support whatsoever for the anti-coup, or anti-\u2018Maidan,\u2019 side. To a \u2018reporter\u2019 like Kemp, it makes no difference what the reality of or for the residents there is.<\/p>\nIn other words: This documentary by Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sky \u2018News\u2019 is just pro-nazi<\/a> propaganda, which conflates \u201cnationalism\u201d with patriotism, and which presents nazis as being heroes, instead of as being the rabid anti-democratic bigots that they actually are.<\/p>\nThe Obama-installed coup-government was assigned by Obama,\u00a0and by the IMF<\/a>, to exterminate as many of the residents in the Donbass region of southeast Ukraine as possible, because 90% of these residents had voted for the very man, Viktor Yanukovych<\/a>, whom Obama\u2019s nazis overthrew on 22 February 2014<\/a>. (The dark purple region on that map, in the far east of Ukraine, is the area that had voted at least 90% for Yanukovych; and it\u2019s the area that broke away from Ukraine in May 2014 and is being bombed by Obama\u2019s Ukrainian forces. That area was traditionally called \u201cDonbass,\u201d but many of its inhabitants now call themselves \u201cNovorossiyans,\u201d or new Russians, because they want to be part of Russia, which their region used to be part of.) So, this Government sent these nazis in, to finish the job, for Obama and for their own oligarchs.<\/p>\nDo the viewers of Sky \u2018News\u2019 want to know any of that background? Apparently not \u2013 after all, they are viewers of Sky \u2018News.\u2019 They are fascists, and many of them are like Obama\u2019s team: they are nazis \u2013 racist fascists. (Most of those viewers probably just call themselves \u201cconservative.\u201d Of course, they won\u2019t acknowledge that Obama too is \u201cconservative.\u201d)<\/p>\nThat video was called \u201cPart 2\u201d of Kemp\u2019s propaganda-film about how heroic Ukraine\u2019s nazis are.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0is \u201cEpisode 1\u201d (or \u201cPart 1,\u201d as alternatively tagged). Most of it is actually the same video and text, except organized differently (placing the emphasis upon the failure of the post-coup Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to be sufficiently nazi to satisfy these \u2018patriots\u2019).<\/p>\nHere is a bit of the relevant historical background that Murdoch\u2019s operation decided to hide from both versions: \u201cThe Nazis Even Hitler Was Afraid Of.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here<\/a> is the current geopolitical context of Obama\u2019s February 2014 take-over<\/a> of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\nIronically, the view that the rightist oligarch Murdoch is spreading \u2013 that Putin is the aggressor in this war and that Obama is not \u2013 is exactly the same view that the leftist oligarch George Soros is spreading about it<\/a>. In fact (as can be seen from Soros\u2019s many statements and actions there), both of those Western oligarchs are remarkably similar, and Soros could as well have hired the people who hired Ross Kemp as Murdoch did. Kemp\u2019s \u2018documentary\u2019 is 100% in line with Soros\u2019s many essays about the situation in Ukraine<\/a>. The biggest difference between these two aristocrats is that they\u2019re in different lines of business \u2013 different rackets. (Here is a partial list<\/a> of the companies that Murdoch controls. Soros is instead an investor and a \u2018philanthropist.\u2019<\/a>)<\/p>\nDISCUSSION<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen \u2018right\u2019 and \u2018left\u2019 merge and become one, at nazi (i.e., racist-fascist), such as does occur in the top aristocratic circle (especially regarding Ukraine)<\/a>, then what authentic meaning remains to standard political debate? What does the public then know of \u2018democracy\u2019? How is democracy then even possible? It\u2019s not<\/a>. (And that linked-to scientific study, specifically of the U.S., proves that the U.S. is not a democracy. But this problem is far broader than merely<\/em> the U.S.)<\/p>\nPerhaps wealth-inequality is getting to be so extreme as to close out even the possibility of democracy. Let\u2019s not fool ourselves about how big the challenge is; it\u2019s enormous:<\/p>\nOn 9 October 2013, Credit Suisse issued their Global Wealth Report 2013<\/a>, authored by Anthony Shorrocks, Jim Davies, and Rodrigo Lluberasis. It reported that the world\u2019s richest 0.7% owned 13.67 times as much as did the world\u2019s poorest 68.7%. That super-rich 0.7% (each with net-worths above $50,000,000) owned 41% of this planet\u2019s private assets. The world\u2019s richest 8.4% owned 83.3%. The world\u2019s richest 31.3% owned 97%. So: the bottom 68.7% owned just 3%. (All of these findings are calculated from the data shown on page 22.) Overall, the share of global wealth was \u201cbarely 1% for the bottom half of all adults\u201d worldwide (see page 4). Furthermore, economic mobility into and out of the billionaire class, during the latest ten-year period (2000-2010), was low: only 24% entered or left the class during the decade (see page 28).<\/p>\nAccording to Vilfredo Pareto<\/a>, who was the father of today\u2019s \u2018welfare\u2019 economics and also the \u201cKarl Marx of fascism\u201d (and also Benito Mussolini\u2019s personal teacher), there is no rational basis for economists to consider any of this extreme wealth-inequality to be sub-\u201coptimal.\u201d<\/p>\nNo wonder aristocrats favor such a \u2018free market\u2019 (and such an economic theory).<\/p>\nBut it won\u2019t do Ukrainians any good, and it\u2019s slaughtering the people in Donbass. However, any of that richest 0.7% who care enough, one way or the other, about what\u2019s happening there, are promoting the nazis, who are doing those aristocrats\u2019 dirty-work, regardless of whether nazi bigots are aware of the fact, or even care whom they\u2019re actually serving, or why. Any of those nazis who are in the bottom 68.7% of the world\u2019s wealth-pyramid \u2013 the people who collectively own just 3% of the world\u2019s private wealth \u2013 are probably driven more by their hatred than by their greed, anyway. They\u2019re like sleepwalkers, or robots. Push their psychological buttons, and they\u2019re on, \u201cfor the cause.\u201d True-believers, in some Big Lie or other. And, so, they \u2018volunteer\u2019 their services far cheaper than do people who actually care. (Most of their payment comes to them in the form of the personal pride they get, for their race and nation. It doesn\u2019t come out of any aristocrat\u2019s hide.) In that sense, they value themselves appropriately: dirt-cheap. (Of course, they don\u2019t understand this.) They\u2019re a bargain for their unrecognized masters, who push true-believers\u2019 buttons by hiring propagandists such as Ross Kemp.<\/p>\nBut, as for the residents in Donbass: these people<\/a> are total victims in all of this.<\/p>\n\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\nInvestigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and of \u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Zuesse On January 22nd, Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Sky News (Murdoch founded it, his son James headed it for a while, and their 21st Century Fox owns \u201ca controlling stake\u201d in it) telecast a puff-piece for Ukraine\u2019s right-wing extremists, several times calling them \u201cheroes\u201d to \u201cpatriotic\u201d Ukrainians. 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