Saturday, November 21, 2015

RT — Don’t agree with Legatum? You must be a ‘KGB’ agent!


Busting one of the "think tanks" that seeds Western media with propaganda. Tracing the thinking back to the NZ version of the Koch Bros, Christopher and Richard Chandler.
In his thorough Pando exposé [Mark Ames] wrote: “Legatum turns out to be a project of the most secretive billionaire vulture capital investor you’ve (and I’d) never heard of: Christopher Chandler, a New Zealander who, along with his billionaire brother Richard Chandler, ran one of the world’s most successful vulture capital funds—Sovereign Global/Sovereign Asset Management. That family of funds, based in the offshore haven of Monaco, operated until 2004, when the Chandler brothers, Richard and Chris, divided their billions into two separate funds. Brother Christopher Chandler took his billions to Dubai, where he launched Legatum Capital, and, in 2007, the Legatum Institute, where Peter Pomerantsev serves as a Senior Fellow.”
“The Chandler brothers were the largest foreign portfolio investors in Russia throughout the 1990s into the first half of the 2000s, including the largest foreign investors in natural gas behemoth Gazprom. The Chandler brothers reportedly were the single biggest foreign beneficiaries of one of the greatest privatization scams in history: Russia’s voucher program in the early 1990s, when each Russian citizen was given a voucher that represented a share in a state concern to be privatized … and most naive Russians were fooled or coerced into dumping their vouchers for next to nothing, snapped up by clever vulture capitalists and factory directors from the inside. Institutional Investor magazine described how the Chandlers benefited by snapping up Russians' vouchers and converting them into stakes in some of the largest and most lucrative companies in the world,” he explained.
The neoliberal "mafia" hellbent on bringing back the Yeltsin years of cowboy capitalism in Russia through regime change that installs a Western puppet.

Of course, for Legatum, Pando's Mark Ames is a Russian agent, along with Seumas Milne, now Jeremy Corbyn's press-secretary.

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