The woman running for PM of the Ukraine is a crook.

[Joanne98]

And she's using GAWD to get votes.......

YULIA TYMOSHENKO: The current prime minister was nicknamed Ukraine's "gas princess" in the late 1990s for being the head of a leading natural gas importer. She served as deputy prime minister for fuel and energy under President Kuchma, but the two fell out. In 2001 she was jailed briefly on suspicion of smuggling gas but the case never went to trial. She then forged an opposition alliance with Yushchenko. Her peasant hair style, a blond braid, became an icon of the 2004 Orange protests.

Tymoshenko became Yushchenko's prime minister in January 2005, but the Orange alliance fractured after only a few months. Tymoshenko was ousted by Yanukovych's party following the 2006 parliamentary vote but regained power after the December 2007 elections, returning to take the blame for Ukraine's near-financial collapse in 2008.

Once a foe of Russia's ambitions in the region, Tymoshenko last year mended fences with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. She is a hypnotic orator who has sometimes been compared to Argentina's Eva Peron and has strong support in rural areas. She is 49.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/06/AR2010020600657.html

I find this interesting because of the CIA's involment in the phony Orange revolution. I wonder if the CIA is using Jesus to spread capitalism.

[snagglepuss]

1. Her 'folk' hairdo has always given me the creeps. Its hard to believe that

people don't get immediately turned off by "I'm-just-one-of-the-folk" bs. As for CIA involvement re Jesus, I don't think it takes CIA for any politicial low life to understand the advantage of combining religion with politics.

[FarCenter]

2. Ukraine is the theater for conflict between the Uniate and Orthodox churches

European Catholic forces would be supporting the Uniate churches in the west and Orthodox interests in Greece and Russia would be suporting the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches.

The religious split is somewhat akin to the linguistic and political east-west splits within Ukraine.

[malaise]

3. I wonder if the CIA is using Jesus to spread capitalism.

Didn't that start with Rome like eons ago?? :evilgrin: