Apparently, it *really* did happen

A maidan color revolution is starting in Hungary:
http://redpilltimes.com/copy-paste-regime-change-us-eu-aggressively-funding-maidan-style-revolution-hungary/

I think people got confused with “will stop” and “stopped.”
 
Will stop – implies future, meaning gas will stop.
 
Stopped – implies now. Gas has stopped.
 
Putin is basically telling them the discussion is over, and as far as Russia is concerned this is a European problem.

The NY Times has this, if you search for ‘Gazprom’.

From what Engdahl was saying, European gas needs will rise quite a bit in the future. At the same time, the Ukraine is not likely to last much longer. Should the country continue splitting, with more regions abandoning ship, the hostile part could end up being just some the nazi western regions. The rest either rejoining Russia, or becoming a country something like Belarus. This would mean the existing pipelines (outside the nazi regions) could be put back into use. With North Stream, the lines going through Belarus and Turkey, and the reuse of the old Ukrainian lines, Russia could keep up with European demand for the next 10-20 years, at least.
 
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Question: the Zero Hedge article on this yesterday reported that gas had already been cut off to 6 European nations (article link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-14/russia-cuts-ukraine-gas-supply-6-european-countries ). Is this correct? If so, why would these nations (Quote from article: “Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia and Turkey all reported a halt in gas shipments from Russia through Ukraine”)be the first to have their gas supplies stopped? Are these the only nations receiving gas through/via Ukraine?
I would think the Russians would prefer to shut the gas off to say, Poland, who seems to be eager to encourage armed conflict in Donbass.

Russia is not only the biggest gas supplier in the world, it is the top pipeline constructor in the world.
 
This project to and through Turkey can happen fairly quickly.
 
If it needs bankrolling, China is always available for a piece of the action.
 
This is geopolitics at its finest art form. Putin isn’t wielding a oil and gas weapon. He is using a geopolitical stratagem.
 
This repositions several countries away from EU to Eurasia/Russia. It pulls Turkey and Greece into a new alignment. It will estrange the southern and southeastern EU nations from Brussels.
 
The northern EU nations and some Eastern EU nations (all vassals) have started the war in Ukraine and perpetuate the sanctions.
 
Putin just hit them with a subterranean vortex.
 
And as we all know: Putin never alters course once he moves.
 
EU will be paying double for gas from other sources. Their economies will be crippled by higher production costs for all their internally produced goods and services. All this while they live in cold buildings and learn to wash their clothes, their dogs and themselves in cold water.
 
Don’t poke the bear. They should print that on their funny money euros.

In other news, probably related, as this might be the opening shot of a ZPC/NWO “color revolution”, 4 Turkish magazines publicly “announce” their subservience to, or control by, the worldwide zionist media network:
 
Turkish PM Slams National Magazine for Prophet Muhammad Cartoons
 
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150115/1016931451.html
 
“…On Wednesday, the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet reprinted from Charlie Hebdo several cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad “with the aim of criticizing the attack on a media corporation and showing solidarity,” the news agency reports.
 
Three more Turkish satirical magazines, Leman, Uykusuz and Penguen, also republished the cartoons as a “tribute to fallen colleagues in France,” according to Anadolu…”
 
And in the USA, the genocidal ziofascists are on steroids now:
 
Ads Equating Islam With Nazism Appear On Public Buses in San Francisco
 
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150115/1016933410.html
 
“As many as 50 San Francisco buses now feature controversial ads equating Islam with Nazism and showing an image of Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, a 20th Century Palestinian Muslim leader who opposed Zionism, with the words, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s In The Quran.”…
 
And the thoroughly hypocritical, zio-occupied, German regime attempts to cover up the murder of an Eritrean refugee:
 
Refugee Murder in German Anti-Islam Hotbed Sparks Tension
 
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150115/1016925789.html
 
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Thinking and knowing are not the same.
 
Thinking an event is not what it is does not make it what one thinks it is.
 
Two killers killed 12 people. One killer killed 4 +1.
 
17 people were killed by 3 killers.
 
All killings were done by Islamic terrorists. They may be tools of others, others beyond the ISIS and AQ, but they acted according to their indoctrination and beliefs in Islamic terror.
 
Islamic terror has been a major feature of Islamic spread throughout the centuries of its existence.
 
It is not the only religion spread by the sword.
 
But it is the current one.
 
And it does pose itself as a civilization. It came to Russia to challenge the Russian civilization recently. It was crushed by Muslims who chose Russian civilization over Islamic terror’s civilization. (Chechnya).
 
There are growing signs in Xinjiang that the Muslims there are beginning the same resistance and are cooperating more with the counter-terror program of the Chinese government.
 
Muslims must defeat Islamic terror. In Nigeria, in Somalia, in Egypt, we see some signs of this nascent trend.
 
Obviously, the West is bankrolling, using, maybe even instigating Islamic terrorism. But what it is not doing is fighting Islamic terror. It is putting on the biggest sham war because the West is a war-loving machine of chaos and the sham serves their geopolitical and MIC goals of wealth-building and societal control.
 
The clash of civilization exists. The false flag exists. But it is not what you might think.
The clash is within Islam between the death-worshipping liver-eaters and the devout.
 
The false flag is that there is a war against terror. We know that war is an exhibition at most. It has no intention of every being fought to victory.
 
Only Russia and China are serious about extinguishing the terror threat.
 
All the micro-analysis of Paris is a waste of time if you don’t comprehend the big picture and see how the puzzle is constructed. Paris is a blip on the screen, a distraction.
 
Watch Syria. Syria has been for decades and is now more than ever, the lynchpin strategic goal.
 
Follow Erdogan. Turkey might move as Egypt has moved. Erdogan has cast his fate and the US will be working with his military for a coup. Erdogan must move to get FSB help to counter the American moves. He can no longer play both sides. His usefulness to the West is over.
 
These are the topics of study, not the debilitating minutia of Paris video and getaway screwups.

Dear Saker: Slightly OT perhaps, but interesting headline today on my MSN browser: “A Desperate Putin Makes a Private Sector Power Grab”, from Bloomberg at
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-desperate-putin-makes-a-private-sector-power-grab/ar-AA8cnL5?ocid=U146FDHP . Thought it pertained to the present/future gas curtailment. But instead it quotes Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukayev saying that cabinet ministers and vice premiers would rejoin the boards of directors former state-owned companies like Gazprom and Rosneft. Not self-evident to me why in itself this justifies the headline. (Dates way back in NEP times, where there were in effect industrial commissars.)
 
The article also quotes Mr. Ulyukayev saying Standard & Poor would likely downgrade Russian sovereign debt offerings to “junk” status in coming days. It also quotes Russian Finance minister Anton Siluanov warning that, with the country facing a loss of as much as $45 billion in revenue this year due to declining oil prices, the government is planning 10 percent across-the-board cuts in spending, targeting virtually everything except the military and some infrastructure projects, a doubling of the cuts that Putin warned Russians, just last month, they should expect in the coming year. The article notes Russia apparently plans to start withdrawing money from its $88 billion sovereign wealth fund as part of its continued effort to prop up the ruble.
 
All this is likely wishful thinking from the imperial MSM. But it’s interesting to note how Russia is being distorted by Bloomberg, a generally factual financial service. (Businessmen normally need to know what is really happening in order to plan accordingly, not what some editors would like to happen.)

Zerohedge picked up an old Daily Mail article from 2009-01-07 that, for some reason, was reposted, but the rest of the sources seem to be accurate.

Putin: float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

“quemadoinstitute.wordpress.com” it’s up, I doubt wordpress would shut you down, you can also always register an independent domain and put your blog up there (spam can be a big issue though, it was the reason why I stopped blogging).

So, nobody is about to “freeze in the dark”, or even get cold. Russia will continue to sell subsidize gas to Ukraine all winter at below market value, and continue to use Ukraine to supple south-east Europe for the foreseeable future.
 
This is not a *did* happen, but a *will* happen sometime in the future, years away, when a thousand mile long underwater pipeline has been built. Even then Russian will continue to supply Ukraine; it just won’t be dependent on them as a transit to south-east Europe.
 
In the meantime, announcements notwithstanding, it is business as usual.

Regarding the gas transit policy announcement from Gazprom …
 
Yes, the actual differences in gas flows will only happen in the future (2-4 years); but what needs to be kept in mind is that the political effects will happen NOW (2 – 9 months). And there lies the dazzling brilliance of Putin’s strategy. A big victory now, and an even bigger victory in the future. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!

@23:07 — “…will only happen in the future (2-4 years); but what needs to be kept in mind is that the political effects will happen NOW (2 – 9 months)…”
 
Yes, very astute timing and use of psyops. Swiss central bank dropping cap on Euro 1-2 weeks b4 the ‘big print out’ QE starts has also upset the markets. Seat belt signs on and flashing.
 
War in SE Ukraine again (did it stop?); oil and copper down; fake employment stats (more jobs @ less hours and permanency etc).
 
Japan still QE printing madness and now ramping up military expenditure.
 
It is hard not to conclude that the little economic “Masters of the Universe” for their 1% over-lords are now at wits end.
 
Their ideology is failing (well, it always was) but now, more importantly, it is being seen to be failing.
 
The immediate present day psychological discount value of a future anticipated structural even is money in the bank!

It’s possible that the following means a serious realignment on Turkey’s part, but I doubt it:
 
“Tayyip Erdogan, of NATO-member Turkey did the unthinkable: accused the west, and French citizens in particular, of staging the Charlie Hebdo murder in order to blame Muslims, even as the mayor of Ankara said “Mossad is definitely behind such incidents . . . it is boosting enmity towards Islam.” –Zero Hedge on 1/14
 
We have no way of knowing whether this is just a performance for the home audience. Erdogan always pretends to be an enemy to Israel, but isn’t. Eg: The Achille Lauro killings aboard ship: 2 people were allowed aboard the relief ship at the request of the Turkish govt. It was they who fingered those to be killed. Erdogan pretended to be outraged at the Israeli killings, but had no difficulty “making up” in order to coordinate attacks on Syria with them. –Penelope

It’s still not clear if the gas flow through Ukraine was stopped or not. It looks like it was just an warning that it will happen once the pipeline through Turkey is finalized (2-4 years from now).
Meanwhile, it’s interesting why Russia is not shifting some of the gas flow now from Ukraine pipeline to the nordstream pipeline (which is used at 50%).
Looks like people on this blog are cheering up for a non-event (or a messed-up article combining news from 2009 and now).
Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Russia has to sell dollars in order to buy rubles, while the FED can just print new dollars if needed. This again enforces the suspicion that CBR is under the control of international banking cartel and the BIS from Basel.