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Ukraine's Orange Revolution 2.0 Don't count Yulia Tymoshenko out of the presidential election race just yet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(see more pictures at the end  of the post)

Don't count Yulia Tymoshenko, the incumbant Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Tymoshenko Block (BYuT) out of the Ukrainian Presidential election race just yet.  Most of the media around the world seems to have written her off along with the Orange Revolution, that occurred in Ukraine in 2004.  It may be premature for Viktor Yanukovych to be popping Russian champaign corks.

She's too smart and cunning not a have a trump card up her sleeve.  This time, she’s in government and has more control over the election process and the SBU than during the Orange Revolution in 2004. The SBU-Ukraine's secret police, like the CIA –  won’t  be complicit in Party of Regions  fraud, and they  will be there to detect vote-rigging and pre-vote and votor list rigging  should it occur .

In fact  she is more then likely  to use to her  benefit,  the fact that the Party of Regions would probably  try to pull off another repeat election fraud in certain regions again, (like in 2004) She can shape circumstances to her advantage, and she’s smart enough to do just that.. 

Imagine the following ficticious scenario, which I just made up--- The Tymoshenko government, fully expecting election fraud from Yanukovych , prints election ballots with a special invisible water marks, serial codes or other invisible identifying marks, that distinguish between real and illegal ballots, which no one outside of a small group in government is aware of .

 
(Election Results above-Hat tip Roman Z)

 Tymoshenko is only out by 880,000 votes officially and claims that she should be winning by 0.8 % according to her count. 

Nullifying the 1 million ballots that she says were rigged (due to added phantom voters by Party of Regions (PoR) would put her ahead by a few hundred thousand votes.

Watch her pull an election rabbit out of the hat and force a new run off or  have key Pro Yanukovych districts where fraud occurred –such as Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk  challenged in court and the results declared  null and void. 

Tymoshenko may turn out to be the real come back Queen & Ukraine's first female President and Yanukovych -a two time looser.

(see rferlorg story below)

UPDATE: Feb 17, 2010

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/02/17/Ukraine-court-suspends-election-results/UPI-79291266414532/

UPI

17Feb2010

Ukraine court suspends election results

 

 

KIEV, Ukraine -- A Ukraine court in Kiev suspended last week's presidential election results Wednesday to allow for investigation into the prime minister's allegations of fraud.

 

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko filed a lawsuit Tuesday with the Higher Administrative Court to demand a repeat vote of the second round of the presidential elections, which she lost to incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych by a 48.95 percent to 45.47 percent margin.

 

The court said it would examine evidence Tymoshenko submitted that alleges more than 1 million votes were stolen from her, the Ukraine News Agency reported.

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Walter Derzko,Smart Economy, Toronto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Subject: Lawmakers Say Tymoshenko To Challenge Ukraine Vote Results

http://www.rferl.org/content/Tymoshenko_Bloc_Will_Act_To_Defend_Fair_Elections/1952698.html

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N.B. on a personal note.....Tea witha future Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko,  circa 2002 before the Orange Revolution, or maybe it was just the beginnings... (Hhmmm...I just noticed the colour of  the tea cups & the flowers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Millennium development goals: radically reducing extreme poverty and hunger. Are we on track? 07-200

One year ago in my presentaion at the World Futures Society on Smart Technologies I was reflecting on how smart technologies, namely nanotech and biotech converging technologies could be used to address the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In April 2007, the General Assembly of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations convened to discuss progress made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Professor Patrick Webb,  dean for academic affairs at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at  Tufts University, presented on the status of the Millennium Development Goal One (MDG1): radically reducing extreme poverty and hunger.

The MDGs were developed at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 to set measurable goals and targets for a range of pressing global problems, including poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.

MDG1 has a twofold objective: reduce the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day, and reduce the proportion of people suffering hunger by half. In order to meet these goals, Webb highlighted recent successes that can guide future efforts.

There are three priority issues to be tackled in seeking to address the second objective (on hunger)

• removing the ‘invisibility’ of hunger by better measuring and highlighting areas making limited progress,
• promoting innovations in programming, and
• integrating mainstream lessons from successful action in humanitarian settings (saving lives and reducing acute malnutrition) into development interventions.

Development efforts can address these issues by improving protocols and products for treating malnutrition, and preventing malnutrition by enhancing behaviors and choices that lead to improved nutrition throughout the lifecycle.

Poverty and hunger are multidimensional problems requiring multidimensional solutions. (see related post on Sensmaking Redux 2006)

To address the multidimensional nature of these problems, the first MDG addresses five distinct goals: reducing poverty, narrowing the poverty gap (between richest and poorest), increasing the share of income enjoyed by the poorest families, reducing the share of preschool children who are underweight, and lowering the share of each country’s population that has too little to eat.

“Progress in one target area does not guarantee progress in the other areas,” says Webb. “Focusing on just one aspect of the problem, or just one of the target risks, is missing the point…and risks compromising the success of the entire agenda.”

Speaking on behalf of the three Rome-based agencies of the United Nations (the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)), Webb argued that governments should engage more seriously in measuring their own progress towards agreed goals. Solutions to hunger are known, and novel approaches to the treatment and prevention of malnutrition in emergencies have shown that quick gains are possible. Making such gains sustainable means scaling up innovations across developing country settings, and targeting resources towards such key priorities.

This meeting of Member States, UN System Organizations, other major institutional stakeholders, as well as non-governmental organizations, academics and foundations concentrated on the theme “Eradicating poverty and hunger – Joining forces to make it happen.” The conference explored the issues and set the groundwork for the ECOSOC’s first Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) this summer in Switzerland.

Webb concluded by stating that “…in order to successfully impact malnutrition it takes complementary inputs delivered through complementary partnerships. It is not only about food, and it is not only about cash in the pocket. Many different elements are needed to achieve the five goals, and many institutions have to bring their resources to bear. In order to tackle the problem it is not possible to focus on just agriculture or just health; in order to be successful the many facets of the problem must all be addressed.”

Webb will continue to work with the many stakeholders involved in assessing progress and further advancing the important human goals that are the MDGs.

Source: Tufts Univ press release

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