My Bulgarian colleagues have always told me that whatever happens, they would certainly implement South Stream, because this corresponds to their national interests. But here, unfortunately, this did not come to pass. If Bulgaria is deprived of the opportunity to act as a sovereign nation, then they should at least demand money from the European Commission to compensate for their lost profits, because direct revenues to Bulgaria’s budget alone would have been no less than 400 million Euros a year. But ultimately, this is also the choice of our Bulgarian partners; it seems they have certain obligations. Still, that’s not our business – it’s our partners’ business.
Vladimir Putin
A good one indeed! I am sure the Bulgarian politicians didn’t sleep after that speech!
Let me tell you what is happening in BG today: the NGO funded stooges are celebrating their “win”, the “socialists” whose former government took McCain’s order to freeze South Stream pretend that it is someone else’s fault, and so-called “experts” either pretend that Putin overstated the €400 million annual loss to BG by orders of magnitude (Western stooges), or else urge the government to talk with the Russians and get them to reconsider, as though Putin and Miller didn’t make it abundantly clear that this ship has sailed. Yet others are realizing, finally, that the West might not have Bulgaria’s best interests at heart (what a shocker!!!), and bemoaning the fact that BG will now have to pay the Turks to get its gas delivered rather than being paid to transit it onward. The most ignorant are urging the government to force Putin to “explain” himself for insulting Bulgaria by calling it a colony. It’s a complete farce. Most of these idiots are yet to realize that they were slapped in front of the entire world, and called out for being unreliable business partners and fully colonized western stooges. Meanwhile the regular Bulgarians will be the ones who will pay the costs and continue to live in ever more desperate misery. I am so damn humiliated and ashamed I can hardly stand still.
Just saw your comment on Orlov’s blog.
While I support all countries that defy the empire, do you guys actually believe that the sanctions, crashed oil prices, collapse ruble, etc. don’t have an impact on Russia and its economy.
Please provide objective analyses.
Vladimir is to politics as what Messi is to football. A master.
Nothing new from Bulgaria. Since WWI and WWII they knew how to follow the wind.
In the WWI, they attacked from the back Serbian army during retreat in 1916. Then they held the southern front, between Greece and then Serbia (today Former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia – Skopje), known as “The Salonika Front”, which Serbs broke in 1918.
In WWII Bulgarians were fascists and Nazi allies, occupied part of Serbia in 1941. Thy bestially murdered lots of people, and at the end of the war, they switched sides and together with the Red Army entered Serbia as liberators. My grandfather personally knew a Bulgarian, who in 1941 came as member of occupying force, then in 1945 came again as liberator. Oh, yes, I forgot, my grandfather’s brother was killed by Bulgarians in a very creative way – whipped with cowhide whip, then, while still alive, skinned (his skin was peeled off, like off a sheep or a snake). I cannot say he was skinned alive, halfway through the process he died.
And after the WWII, they became communists and were fed by SSSR. Then they switched again to NATO.
Interesting story about the very first Bulgarian parliamentary elections, after the Berlin Wall fell: once elections were over, the list of elected candidates was sent to USA embassy in Sofia, where many were crossed out, .cause uncle Sam did not like them. How do I know this? Well, from TV and newspapers, it was not a secret back then in early nineties.Long live liberal democracy :-(
So much about Bulgaria.
It remains unclear if this deal with Turkey signals the end of the South Stream through Serbia and Bulgaria. The Bulgarian PM (as reported by RT today) said that they have not received any formal message from the Russians cancelling the project. This fact and the way Russia has officially downplayed the Turkish deal can be seen as evidence that Russia might be willing to engage in both projects.
Obviously the value of South Stream for both Bulgaria and Serbia will be less if they have to compete with gas from Turkey but this might be an opportunity for those two countries to understand what the price they are paying for joining the EU and being controlled by Washington.
@Eastern Serbian: Serbs of all people should be the last to complain about attacking one’s back. You did it to Bulgaria in 1885 while we were fighting the Turks to free and re-unify with our Bulgarian brothers in Eastern Rumelia who were still under Ottoman rule, and we had to come all the way to Belgrade before you decided to sue for peace. You did the same thing in the First Balkan War, again while we werd busy driving the turks out of Europe. Moral of the story is, if Bulgaria and Turkey are fighting the Serbs never fail to stab the Bulgarians in the back. Old history by now, and I prefer to live in the present rather than wallow in old hatreds. These are good for nothing except to divide us and conquer us. I suggest that you give that a try, you might be surprised how much better the real enemy comes into focus.
Yes,
I would add that Hungary was extremely eager for South Stream project. They even changed their laws just a week ago in order to build the South Stream.
Bulgaria, Bulgaria, what have you done ????
Anonymous 19.50 is right.
If MSM doesn’t say it, it doesn’t happen.
American lackeys will be rewarded in some way, were it only by leaving them in their place.
Some environmental freak will rejoice. The Bulgarian man in the street will hardly notice, and if he does, he will be told it’s all Putin’s fault. And he will believe it.
A sad day for all except for the all powerful masters in Washington, who have shown once again how nobody can afford to say a single no to them.
Another great move by Vlad!
He’s definatelly a chess player :)
Let’s review…
1) Turkey buys more Russian gas, Russia saves money (~$3billion) on a shorter route
2)In 2 years Russia is off the hook with the Ukrainian government that blackmails with gas transit every year
3)Europe will have to line up to buy Russian gas anyway, so it is the same market. The capacity of the line to Turkey is the same as South Stream
4)Another big wrench is thrown into the EU machine. Turkey will have their leverage, East Europeans will think twice about their national interests
5) Business allignment with Turkey, I am sure will help in Syria, Iran discussions.
6) I hope US is getting pissed off by Turkish actions as well (sanctions, what sanctions???)
My long time girlfriend is Bulgarian, although we live in another part of the E(U)sSA. She is very upset at this recent news, but not surprised. The Bulgarian people have become passive, and it is a puppet state, she realizes that they got nothing out of joining the E(ss)U. Only able to travel and work in the EssU, but they are still treated as third class citizens.
I can only wish the E(ss)U and The United Terrorists of izraHell burn soon. I know what side I will be fighting on.
I always thought Bulgaria was less of an Anglozionist empire puppet than western Europe. Not that I’m surprised given just how corrupt world politics are today.
I must notice – the Slavic people are DYING OUT !
Bulgaria lost 2 milion people since the collapse of Soviet Union.
Serbia is dying, losing 30000 people every year.
Ukraine lost 6 milion people since the collapse of USSR.
Poles are emigrating massively from Poland. I talk about millions.
Bosnia is a dissaster.
Croatia, Czech Republic similar…
And on top of that, Russia does not care anymore about pan-Slavism…I do not blame them, knowing their history with treacherous Polish people.
And now this… Ukraine turned into anti-Russian state, Bulgaria and Serbia out of South Stream…
Conspiracy theory, anybody ???
The Wend.
@ Anonymous
do you guys actually believe that the sanctions, crashed oil prices, collapse ruble, etc. don’t have an impact on Russia and its economy.
Of course not. Sanctions, and the oil price obviously impact the Russian economy.
But so what?
Russia didn’t impose the sanctions on herself. Russia doesn’t control the price of oil. And the decline in the ruble, is a natural consequence of the sanctions and reduced oil revenue.
The interesting question, which you do not ask, is how these changes affect the Russian economy.
Well, they make it possible for Russian companies to compete more aggressively for sales abroad: weapons, pipelines, nuclear power plants, rocket engines, etc. They will stimulate the Russian tourism industry, while encouraging Russians to vacation in Sochi and Crimea instead of abroad.
At the same time, they will kill the Russian market for many European products.
For Russians, it means no more BMWs, Mercs and Audis, and higher prices for food, Hollywood movies, and iPhones.
In fact, the depreciation of the ruble may soon prompt voices to be raised in the US charging that Russia is a currency manipulator.
And it will convince Obama that the Russian economy is even punier than he thought. But it won’t negate the effectiveness of Russian nukes, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, Sukhoi jets, or a million-man army.
@ Anonymous said…
I must notice – the Slavic people are DYING OUT !
Same is true of the Western nations. In Greece fertility is 1.3, Germany and Italy it is little better at 1.4.
Even the US of A maintains near replacement fertility only by bringing in millions of young fertile immigrants — same is true of Britain and other EU states. In France, at the beach, single French women parade in the nude. In the interior towns and villages, Muslim women in tents parade with half a dozen kids in tow.
The West is committing suicide. The Soviet Union committed suicide. Putins Russia at least knows that, long-term, national self genocide is a problem.
‘Anonymous said…
Another great move by Vlad!
anon his name is not Vlad….his nick name is Volodya…somethng like that, and to be honorable I think you’re supposed to say his whole first and second names…Vladimir Vladamirovich…that’s more respectable than Vlad….
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Theodore Svedberg said…
It remains unclear if this deal with Turkey signals the end of the South Stream through Serbia and Bulgaria. The Bulgarian PM (as reported by RT today) said that they have not received any formal message from the Russians cancelling the project. This fact and the way Russia has officially downplayed the Turkish deal can be seen as evidence that Russia might be willing to engage in both projects
It is not well reported in western MSM that Mr. Putin IS a lawyer. Mr. Putin adheres to a philosophy that International Laws and principles of laws are to be observed.
At the heart of the South Stream is the fact that the EU is seeking to impose a law retroactively. This will not be allowed.
The Turks “are a true example of the saying: Watch what I do, not what I say”
== = = =
OT
An enterprising Ukraine lawyer has taken legal action against Ukie’ Central Bank”
With Its Gold “Vaporized”, A Furious Ukraine Turns On Its Central Bankers
a Kyiv-based court has instructed Kyiv prosecutors to bring an action against National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Valeriya Gontareva on charges of abuse of power or misuse of office to obtain illegal profit, the Vesti newspaper reported on Tuesday.”,
= = = = = =
And this makes 3
Against the warnings of Netanyahu
French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state
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UN resolution: Israel must renounce nuclear arms
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight.
. . . . . .
And along with all U.N. resolutions, this too will be ignored
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/7653-golpe-a-la-europa-sumisa-a-eeuu-putin-retira-el-proyecto-south-stream-y-cierra-un-acuerdo-estrategico-con-turquia
Dear The Saker,
And on queue the Bulgarian FM blames Russia for “unilaterally ending S.S. because wouldn’t accept EU laws” – yes Bulgarians – that is why – not because your leadership didn’t have the balls to put your needs first. As usual the USA wades in blaming Russia and saying sanctions have had the desired effect – I kid you not!
USA again asking EU to do sanctions – I kid you not :(.
Rgds,
Veritas
Socialists in Bulgaria with no juevos.
I’m curious to why independent sovereign governments ME and in Europe (where at least in some countries at one point in time socialism and atheism were common) that toe their own line against the Empire associate themselves with right wing ideology including ethnic nationalism and religion (Putin, Erdogan, ORban, LE PEN, UKIP, IRAN). Is it just to contrast western LGBT rights by capitalizing on religious homophobia?
Why are there no atheist socialists with any balls leading European governments. It happens elsewhere (Daniel Ortega although he is leftist he is officially catholic). I just think that one does not need to forsake secularism and separation of church and state to be a strong leader and not a puppet of the west. I mean USSR did it, Cuba does it, China does it, Venezuela does it.
I know Religion (and nationalism) is a great tool for social control but I think there are other means of government control other than seeding religion and the negative problems that come when rational thought and scientific process looses to blind faith (that process is really bad for an electorate). Speaking as a liberal minded, USSR born atheist living in America since I was 7, one of the many great achievements of the USSR that lasted after its collapse was a large literate, secular/atheist population.
So despite loving Putin for punishing oligarchs, strengthening his country, installing reforms for mixed economy and social nets (in reality he is moving more towards leftist economic relative to 90s), standing up for his peoples interests, and overall being a smart prudent leader, it saddens me to see him actively endorsing and promoting orthodoxy and erasing some of the last great things inherited by Russia from the USSR. In spite of this I would take orthodoxy over drunken Yeltsin anyday. At least with Putin in charge I can raise my head and say proudly that I am Russian. I know Putin at least, unlike not so curious George W BUSH doesn’t talk about talking to god at press conferences. It makes me think Putin is somewhat for separation of church and state and as a result of Islam and Judaism being significant minorities in Russia that makes sense. What bothers me is the tenancy that is happening in both America and Russia of a revival of reactionary religious conservatives. I feel Separation of church and state is important and is different from freedom of religion. In one your free to practice or not practice any religion in another you are free to practice any religion (for me there is a great difference there).
Saddly some effects that did not last after the USSR were the policies adopted by west of mostly leftist economic values (social nets, unions, pensions), As the USSR died the west no longer had to move left to counter possible revolution on the home front (something that played a large role in the civil rights movement and women’s suffrage and social security etc…). As a result we have the wealth gap at an all time high, while students can’t get jobs they went to school for, unions are dead, Corporations(oil, media, defense) own the lobbyists and therefore the government, Pensions are no longer offered and Social security/health care funding is going out the window to make room for more neocon sponsored unilateral wars around the world.
Why are there no atheist socialists with any balls leading European governments. It happens elsewhere Daniel Ortega although he is leftist he is officially catholic. I just think that one does not need to forsake secularism and separation of church and state to be a strong leader and not a pupet of the west. I mean USSR did it, Cuba does it, China sorta does it.
Keep an eye on Soros´ machinations in Kyrgyzstan:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/7637-ibusca-soros-una-revolucion-de-color-en-kirguistan
Financial Times, UK (FT.com – headlined top of page at 7:09 pm) (regis required)
Anger as Russia scraps $50bn gas plan
Eastern European nations dismayed by decision to abandon pipeline
. . . . . . .
If ever there was disinfo. This header is a poster
Reuters:
Putin drops South Stream gas pipeline to EU, courts Turkey
but read on to:
[.]
The proposed undersea pipeline to Turkey, with an annual capacity of 63 billion cubic metres (bcm), more than four times Turkey’s annual purchases from Russia, would face no such problems. Russia offered to combine it with a gas hub at the EU’s southeastern edge, the Turkish-Greek border, to supply southern Europe.[.]
Russia is already Turkey’s main energy supplier, and Turkey Russia’s second biggest trade partner after Germany. Those economic interests have outweighed deep differences over Ukraine and especially Syria’s nearly four-year-old civil war.
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Hmmm, 2nd biggest trade partner after Germany so there is a long standing relationship – the courting was long over
Financial Times, UK (FT.com – headlined top of page at 7:09 pm) (regis required)
Anger as Russia scraps $50bn gas plan
Eastern European nations dismayed by decision to abandon pipeline
. . . . . . .
If ever there was disinfo. This header is a poster
Reuters:
Putin drops South Stream gas pipeline to EU, courts Turkey
but read on to:
[.]
The proposed undersea pipeline to Turkey, with an annual capacity of 63 billion cubic metres (bcm), more than four times Turkey’s annual purchases from Russia, would face no such problems. Russia offered to combine it with a gas hub at the EU’s southeastern edge, the Turkish-Greek border, to supply southern Europe.[.]
Russia is already Turkey’s main energy supplier, and Turkey Russia’s second biggest trade partner after Germany. Those economic interests have outweighed deep differences over Ukraine and especially Syria’s nearly four-year-old civil war.
= = = = = =
Hmmm, 2nd biggest trade partner after Germany so there is a long standing relationship – the courting was long over
Mikhail Gorbounov said.
02 December, 2014 23:55:
“I feel separation of church and state is important and is different from freedom of religion. In one your free to practice or not practice any religion in another you are free to practice any religion (for me there is a great difference there)”.
I agree with you in this point. Very important that state is secular, providing freedom of religion to all the citizens.
Dear Saker
I found this link on the Solari Report, which had linked it from ZeroHedge. I would VERY much like to hear your thoughts on this, either here or, even better, in the podcast.
Is Russia part of a “great game”? For me, Russia is opposing the great game. But again, I’d love to hear what you believe.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-07/guest-post-false-eastwest-paradigm-hides-rise-global-currency
@Daphne:
Is Russia part of a “great game”? For me, Russia is opposing the great game. But again, I’d love to hear what you believe.
There’s a site that specializes in speculating about this (among many other things): http://philosophyofmetrics.com. This blogger believes that all the multi-polar global maneuvering is just for show, and that a global currency has already been decided on by all the major players. (Altho to be fair, he predicted that Congress would pass legislation supporting IMF reforms before the end of the year – something which is being demanded by the global players – which, to my knowledge, hasn’t happened and doesn’t look to be happening within that timeframe.)
*Not* a conspiracy site – it’s well-written, erudite and mind-expanding. Well worth a look through.
The problem with eastern Europeans, like Poles and Ukies, etc., is that they hold historical grudges forever and are blinded by them. That’s why people all over the world admire the Russians, British, Germans, French, and Americans, because they always subordinate their grudges and animosities in favor of national and business interests. They might hate you, but they always but business first.
Although the German Government says that Germany must be independent of Russia in the energy sector the Russians are doing business. “RT Deutsch” writes “Strategically: Rosneft buys shares in most productive oil refinery in Germany”.
Despite an increasingly anti-Russian sentiment in the German Government, Russian oil giant Rosneft invests extensively in the German energy sector. The Russian company buys 16.7 percent of their shares in the PCK Raffinerie GmbH Schwedt by the French energy company Total. After the deal was signed, Rosneft and Total will have around 55 percent of the refinery’s share capital.
Thus, Rosneft strengthens its position in one of the most productive refineries in Europe. Every tenth car in Germany drives with fuel from Schwedt. The refinery is also very important for Berlin. It provides the federal capital to 95 percent with fuels such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and heating oil.
Report on RT: http://rt.com/business/209767-rosneft-share-total-refinery/
The “taming” of Europe or Putin’s new compromise
Fort Russ
2 December
Putin’s model of handling the internal and external partners, competitors and even enemies have long been known to all who are willing to look at things rationally. At the first stage…At the second stage…
…It is obvious that the Kremlin is very angry at the sanctions and will gladly arrange for Europe something worse than the remake of the past “gas wars”…
Ritual slaughter of South Stream, made before the eyes of the entire European press is a stark and clear message…
…Putin seems to say to the Europeans: “Be afraid of your desires, they can be fulfilled.”…Europeans are in panic and shock that Putin painted a very unpleasant future for them…Putin promised Europe not a “Groundhog Day” but a “Groundhog Winter” – endless nightmare which will not be solved by supplies of expensive American LNG…
…Putin calls Europeans “friends” not for nothing, and a friend is revealed in trouble. Europe has a problem – it is sick with “Americanism”…A good friend and doctor Putin had prescribed the best medicine…
Our friend Kristin Rus has translated a set of news comments from a Bulgarian site
:”We turned out to be the same stupid prostitutes as the poles” :
http://fortruss.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/we-turned-out-to-be-same-stupid.html?spref=fb
Hope they do organise a protest. And the Serbs and Hungarians too.
Gayle at 2:52 – on the off chance you read this: haven’t seen you here that much lately, but I recall you always seem to come with good links :)
Thanks for the link to http://philosophyofmetrics.com/
That Collins is a good writer. This looks interesting…I’m going to read his multi-part essay on Bretton Woods and SDRs for sure.
Bulgaria is a colony of US-NATO-EU. But the same also applies for Greece and all the small european countries that are part of EU-NATO. They have abolished their sovereignty and they are merely colonies that obey orders from Washington and Brussels. The local politicians are just puppets of the transnational elites of the “west”.
Its understandable that small economically depressed countries are an easy prey for USA and the global elites.
The point is that even big important countries have become subservient with “powerful” countries like France being stripped of their sovereignty.
French economy is collapsing because of its participation in the failed project of eurozone and EU. And France was forced to refuse the delivery of the Mistral ships to Russia because USA put pressure to French government.
I never expected anything else from Bulgarians. Bulgarians
were on the German side in both WW1 and WW2. They commited
horrible crimes against Serbian people in both World wars.
(In WW1 even more horrible than Austro-Hungarians and
Germans) If Russians expect loyalty from Bulgarians they
are very naive. Bulgarians are always ready to betray
anybody. Nobody can count on their loyalty. Some may say
that I am prejudiced about Bulgarians but my prejudice
helped me to prognose on the future of South Stream with
100% precision.
Thank you Gayle. I will look at that site you suggested.
Thank you Gayle. I will look at that site you suggested.
BBC is a total JOKE.
Headline
South Stream gas debacle seen as blow to Putin
5th paragraph tells half the real story:
“Bulgaria – an EU member since 2007 – stopped building the pipeline in June after pressure from the European Commission. South Stream was designed to pump gas all the way to Central Europe.”
SEVENTEEN paragraphs down is first line that MIGHT perhaps backup the headline:
“In Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the decision to drop South Stream “a personal defeat for Putin”. The reason for it is the fact “the EU did not like the idea that Gazprom was to be the supplier and operator of the pipeline system,” the paper argued.”
Phew! the LAST paragraph finally gets at the truth:
“”The latest jolt sweeps away South Stream. The maxi-pipeline – dear to Vladimir Putin, supported by the former Berlusconi government, opposed by the United States – will not be built,” La Repubblica said.”
Lovely piece of doublethink from an analyzst:
“However, speaking on the same programme, political analyst Ognian Mintchev quipped that the only thing Bulgaria had lost during the last couple of years was “political stability” because of “pressure from projects such as South Stream”. “The good news is that EU laws have been respected,” he added.”
What? Bulgaria had been politically unstable when faced with the prospect of $400 million a year for no work? Bulgaria is suddenly stable because EU laws were respected? EU laws that robbed her people of $400 million?
You wanna see unstable, have a look at this week’s protests.
Oh WAIT… the REAL real explanation:
“Influential Bulgarian blogger Ivo Indzhev was critical of both Russia and the government in Bulgaria. “What Putin told us is something our cowardly rulers do not dare say: South Stream failed following the tacit refusal of Bulgaria, a country that has no confidence to grab the historic chance and declare aloud its solidarity with pro-European and brotherly Ukraine”.”
Ahh, finally I see it. Putin canceled South Stream because Bulgaria was too cowardly to show open solidarity with Ukraine … which happens to be genociding Russians and trying to blame Putin for it. Yep, that must be it, how did I not see that for myself?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30292135 for the other gems.
Absolutely true :(
For Hungary it would be a good business. Now it’s over
@ Alexander
great article thanks! can’t crit5icise a single line of it ;)
Back in Nivirossiya
High level (Generals) of Russia have been working as observers for some weeks now, in part5nership with similarly placed Ukrainians. As nobody would give them radios and cars they oould not patrol. So they were forced to sit around and talk.
Result is
* ceasefire agreed at Donetsk airport
* ceasefire nearly agreed, also at Debaltseve
these are the main 2 pain points.
Ex-President Kuchma is now saying they’ll most likely have another MINSK meeting within a week.
Coming on top of an existing agreement for truce, made on the ground by the actual fighters, this has a chance to hold.
It will also be a chance to discuss all the other points Kiev has been breaching. ie, what about this total blockade business?
Novorossiya will be doing all they can to get that into official writing, on a document that gets published for the entire world. In English.
So perhaps there will be truce in Novorossiya for Christmas.
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Maybe they’ll ask for more but that will make trouble…
Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky have said a number of times thy want their republics to include the WHOLE original oblast (province) they’re based on. There’s a chance they’ll be demanding to get them. Certainly at least Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Mariupol.
And there’s a chance Poroshenko may GIVE them, just to save spending a few bucks heating them.
Nah, I’m dreaming there. He does that, Right Sector or one of those will march onto Kiev. Oh they don’t have to march,they have tanks to ride on now. IDK>
Anyway there will be a proper truce for a few weeks, at least. Maybe with proper real peacekeepers.
Maybe they should wait until the snow is gone (it only started this week).
They’ve put up a big civic Christmas Tree in Luhansk, though Orthodox Christmas isn’t until January 7… they’re aiming at having TWO. hey deserve them.
@ Grieved:
Hey Grieved! *waving* I’ll be around here more – been busy with other things. I probably follow you on Twitter already, who knows? :-)
Kat Kan said, “Anyway there will be a proper truce for a few weeks, at least. Maybe with proper real peacekeepers.”
I certainly hope you’re right. But already there has been a lot of shelling in Donetsk, even since this new “peace agreement”. Some say the Ukies are having to fight their way into the Donetsk airport pocket to bring food and firewood to their men. At any rate, I can’t figure what motivates these goons, unless they’re not taking orders from Kiev. And apparently a lot of them aren’t. You can find a brief update at:
http://quemadoinstitute.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/donbass-update-december-3/
Thank you for the link to The Philosophy Of Metrics. It seems most political and economic motion is orchestrated.
You may be interested in FOFOA which sees a New World Order emerging as structural support for the USD System is removed. If you didn’t like the Old World Order you are probably not going to like the new one. It is noted that central banks are distributing and stockpiling gold as the unit of account and store of value in the new system. Individual semi-sovereigns will continue to use fiat as the local money of transaction.
Now…“Global Stagnation”
“”This brilliant, modern free trade system and all of its benefits cannot be implemented using the US dollar as a reserve currency. It shuts off commerce that in turn limits the use of commodities such as oil, metals, food and the like. Many hail the low price inflation in the US as a victory and ignore the intent other nations had in following “free trade”. That being to promote a world economy, not just a US economy.
Understand that the increased use of commodities is a good thing. It’s not just for the purpose of making rising chart pattern so speculators can sell their calls! Commodity usage creates real things and helps the lives of real people. When citizens gain real productive mechanisms, they hold real wealth. Some would have you believe that third world people are enriched by saving US treasury bonds, not true! The only way to increase world trade, with an eye on building new consumers in all countries, is to remove the overhang of “dollar settlement”.”
FOA (3/14/99)
IKHAIL GORBOUNOv SAID, ” As a result we have the wealth gap at an all time high, while students can’t get jobs they went to school for, unions are dead, Corporations(oil, media, defense) own the lobbyists and therefore the government, Pensions are no longer offered and Social security/health care funding is going out the window to make room for more neocon sponsored unilateral wars around the world.”
Perhaps, Mikhail, part of the reason for the ills you mention is that secular rationality alone is not sufficient to prevent wrongdoing. Moral questions may be most effectively dealt with by a religious culture which leaves more people abl to resist temptation– and may also confer enough outraged morality to oppose the ills that threaten to consume the good.
OT. RUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS MAY HAVE FOUND THE PLANE & PILOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MH17.
I think you can dope it out even in Spanish:
atacado por un Su-25, con número 08 pintado en su fuselaje, que fue pilotado por el teniente coronel de la Fuerza Aérea ucraniana Dmytro Yakatsuts, que a partir del 18 de julio y hasta el día de hoy se encuentra refugiado en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. Igualmente, la directora del centro de control aéreo de Kiev, Anna Petrenko, se fue “inesperadamente de vacaciones” en la mañana del 18 de julio, de las que no ha regresado. http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/7658-investigadores-rusos-identifican-el-avion-ucraniano-que-pudo-derribar-el-vuelo-mh17-sobre-ucrania-nuevos-datos
DAPHNE & GAYLE: Thank you for bringing up this issue (re the Zerohedge article & philosophyofmetrics.com)
It’s been awhile since I considered this possibility. I kinow that whenever I need in-depth info on a topic Globlresearch.ca has enormous archives. I’ve started researching just a few minutes ago. My idea is that looking at the IMF articles and the sdr articles from as far back as 2008 to the present shd cast some light. Doubtless other search terms wd be good too.
Here’s what I have so far that seems to bear on the issue of the purpose of IMF into the future. Also on why China likes SDRs:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/reform-of-the-bretton-woods-institutions-the-imf-might-not-live-to-see-its-anniversary/5378544
http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-china-s-push-for-an-alternative-world-reserve-currency-means/14139
Regards
well I am looking forward to Saker analysis of what appears to be Obama’s most insane dumb stupid speech made tonight to Russia , that forments EU chaos, de-stabilises the world,that clearly says there is not to be a ceasefire in Ukraine,that sends chills through my very being, hopefully it will crystallise VP’s response and subsequent actions at OSCE tomorrow.
Why are the Americans so determined to cause chaos and strife throughout the world and start another Cold War with Russia? Is it because of the demands of their military industrial complex that General(later President) Eisenhower warned about? Whatever the reason it is sad for an old man like myself to see them pushing the world towards WW3