Dear friends,
Several of you have asked my opinion about the article by U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission by Glenn Ford. I don’t have the time for a detailed reply, but I will say this: the entire notion of US shale fracking sent to Europe to undermine Russia is a canard. Not only does the entire infrastructure for this project need to be built – at huge costs – but it would take several years. Several absolutely critical years as the crisis in Crimea has forced Putin and his “Eurasian Sovereignists” (for an explanation of these terms see here, here and here) to “come out of the closet” and openly confront the AngloZionist empire and now this is a race against time: will the Empire have the time and means to disengage Russia from the West before Russia realigns itself with China and the rest of Asia or will the West be dependent on Russia long enough to allow Russia to realign? I am quite confident that Russia will win this race, which makes the entire issue of us gas irrelevant.
Speaking of China and the West: consider that China’s energy needs are immense, as they are in most of Asia and add to this that under Obama (did this guy ever ever do something not stupid?!) the US has openly adopted a new anti-Chinese policy which aims at “containing” China, i.e. preventing it form acquiring the type of influence which it would naturally have in the Asian-Pacific region. The Chinese are not stupid, they know that they are next in line for “democracy” and “freedom” and they understand that without Russian help (energy, weapons, political) they cannot resist the Empire. Bottom line, both China and Russia must enter into a deep symbiosis (if not a formal “alliance”) and help each other. And there is no doubt in my mind at all the both Putin and Xi Jinping are both doing exactly that.
As for Europe – it is a depressed economy, a socially bankrupt continent, and a US protectorate. The Kremlin understands all that, and while they will be more than happy to sell energy (or anything else) to the EU, they know that they cannot make any long-term plans with such partners: the AngloZionist Empire is an existential threat to Russia and Europe is just a US protectorate with no personal opinion, identity or policy other than “yes, Mr. President, whatever you say Mr. President”.
China, India, Asia, Latin America and, especially, the Russian North – that is the future of Russia, not the West. So all these sanctions can achieve is to accelerate this process.
Those who think that they can put Russian into submission are just as delusional as Hitler in 1945 with his talks about a “strategic counteroffensive”: just ignore them.
Cheers,
The Saker
PS: two interesting reads about energy:
Shale Gas: The View from Russia
Ukraine, Russia and the nonexistent U.S. oil and natural gas “weapon”
Far as I can tell, the US shale gas canard is mostly intended as an excuse to expand hydraulic fracturing here.
Shale Gas?
This is a very expensive joke, especially to groundwater.
Here in Brazil there is a large reservoir of fresh water, the aquifer Gurarani which also includes Argentina and Paraguay
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqu% C3% ADfero_Guarani
Well, they’re talking about trying to make something with fraqueamento in the State of Santa Catarina, the population is already speaking out against, you know the shit is giving the U.S. this type of exploitation.
Alexandre.
:-)
the Arctic is going to become very important both for shipping and oil and gas. this is why the USA needs to weaken Russia
RE. Shale gas + Ukraine
On november 5 2013 Chevron did sign a 50 years lease to develop Ukraine’s shale gas reserves.
See:
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-business-of-america-is-giving-countries-like-ukraine-the-business
a lot of people are saying that the Ukrainian gold is going to be shipped to Germany rather than to the USA for safekeeping for the Ukrainians, as the Germans have asked for their gold back from the Americans, and the Americans have only given them 5 tonnes of the 1500 the Germans deposited for safekeeping.
There’s one problem the naïve Ukrainians haven’t yet found out about: The US “shale revolution” is a Wall Street hype.
William Engdahl :
http://journal-neo.org/2014/03/19/ukraine-s-delusional-energy-calculus-full-of-shale/
so, unless the ukrainians can take matters in their own hands, the United States is on verge of destroying both their social tissue and their fertile soil.
Because, as Alexandre indicated above, the fracking poisons the underground aquifers, and also causes earthquakes.
All in the name of their god: MONEY, DOLLAR.
If you consult any website dedicated to energy matters and energy resource depletion run by ex-industry experts, you will find near unanimity that fracking in the USA is a gigantic scam. Depletion rates are astronomical, the best ‘sweet spots’ are exploited first, and the financing of the scam is a typical case of finding a patsy, a rube, a mark, with enough money and foolish enough to buy the hype. It is phenomenally environmentally destructive, wastes precious water in drought afflicted states and even destroys rural roads with the huge traffic it engenders.
Fracking is one of those nostrums that Imperial loyalists must believe in, if only to signal their ideological reliability and the appropriate level of rank idiocy. The Empire does not do dissent, or even intelligent discourse anymore. This is become a quasi-religious Crusade of ‘Chosen People’ from the cream of Judeo-Christian Civilization, the Anglosphere, the ‘Five Eyes’ that do ‘God’s Work’, because of their ‘Manifest Destiny’, plus the mandatory Zionist controllers. Just chant ‘fracking, fracking, fracking’, and, soon enough, the evil Putin, who is, according to the more than a little deranged Yulia Timoshenko (channeling Samantha Powers?)the new Hitler, will simply disappear and ‘Freedom will Reign’. And what a ‘Hard Reign’ that’ll be. Hard times a-coming, all-round. The riots in Taiwan by the usual suspects, ‘students’, no doubt coached by CANVAS or some other US accomplice, demanding reduced relations with China, show that the Empire is launching a two-front war. Something must have them very, very, worried, to be acting with such recklessness.
Yep, everyone goes full bore on fracking while the Russians set it out. Then when the fracking over Russian natural gas price go up and their new export called H2O is ready to ship also.
I find these news very disturbing. It should be terrific if those neonazi banderistas could have access to the nuclear bomb. Cannot think of it even.
Needless to say, this must have had the the greenlight from Vic f-the-EU Nuland, otherwise the useful idiots currently “running” Ukraine would not dare proposing it.
I only hope Mr Lavrob is working on this issue.
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Draft law denouncing NPT submitted to Ukrainian parliament
World March 21, 2:00 UTC+4
KIEV, March 20. /ITAR-TASS/. The draft law denouncing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of July 1, 1968 was submitted to the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, March 20.
The draft, submitted by two MPs from the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party and one MP from the UDAR (Punch) party, will go to the relevant committees for a review.
Radical MP Oleg Lyashko demanded at the parliament plenary session on Thursday that Ukraine should regain the status of nuclear power.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/724681
Some might find of anecdotal interest the role of Russia in the so-called Fatima message.
In 1917, the Blessed Virgin is said to have appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal and have conveyed to them prophecies, also known as the secrets of Fatima.
The second secret was about Russia.
It said that in order to prevent another war, that one worse than the current WWI, Russia must be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. And if this occurs, Russia will be converted and there will be peace.
This has raised the argument, on one side, that the conversion of Russia is from Orthodoxy to Catholicism and on the other side, that it is the abandonment of Communism for a return to spiritual faith (we were in 1917). I just want to point out here the irony of the present situation, at the light of the third secret.
The 3d secret was to be released after Pope Pius XII and was about the apostasy of the Church, involving the threat of physical destruction of St Peter Cathedral in Rome.
It is interesting to note that today Pius XII is considered by some as the last Catholic pope, all the ones who followed being impostors of satanic nature. See Sedevacantism.
We can say that after Pius XII, the corruption process within the Church became visible with the Second Vatican Council, initiated by Roncalli (John XXII) then completed by Montini (Paul VI The Gay), already confirming the Masonic subversion of the Church. See Luigi Villa.
The current Pope Francis has been officially congratulated by the B’nai B’rith on his election. Never in history have such friendly relations between Catholic Church and Judaism existed. It tells you who is in control.
Interestingly, the substance of those two secrets still bear some kind of relevance almost one century later.
Today Russia seems to have been “converted”: true faith and spiritual values are back in Russia. This was not done by any consecration by the Catholic Church, but seemingly Putin contributed greatly to it. This raises a few questions: Is Putin more than Vladimir Putin? Or has the Orthodox Church taken over and fulfilled the mission assigned by the Holy Virgin?
The West, including the Church, is today morally and spiritually bankrupt. However a petition to consecrate Russia is still running in the US: Consecration of Russia
OT
Saker, what about this strange new iranian “aircraft carrier” ?? :
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/world/middleeast/a-ship-being-built-in-iran-looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html?_r=0
Russia is the world’s largest exported of gas and oil.
It currently accepts US dollars as payment and accumlates that currency as foreign reserves.
Many other countries (China) also do this. The US dollars is used as a medium of exchange purchase goods and services in global trade.
The US now however produces very little of value to the rest of the world (unless worthless banking services, genetically modified foods and movie copyright – this is a post of itself for another day – count as being of intrinsic value). There is little, if any, need for any country to hold US dollars.
If, incredibly, the US does become a net energy exporter, it will just then be competing with others like Russia in a global market. Prices should go down. It will be of benefit to US elite and corporate interests but the economy will unlikely benefit because approriate taxes will not be levied.
China has been using its US dollar reserves (fiat paper of no real value) to exchange for gold (an asset of real value as has been proven for more than 5000 years).
Russia has also been accumulating gold.
Gold will be the basis of the rapidly approching new standard for global exchange after the worthless dollar is consigned to the dustbin where it properly belongs.
Russia and China are well aware of this and its why they exchange their US dollars for gold.
The balancing act has been to do it in a subtle way to avoid driving the gold price higher.
The US gold reserves are gone. The bullion available globally is approaching zero.
Russia would be exchanging as may dollars as it can for gold.
Once the gold is held then an anouncement will be made that US dollars are “no good around here”.
There is one act that will need to be timed perfectly. It will bring the US to its knees – a global military cannot be funded with worthless pper.
Saker, it’s not just infrastructure building time that prevents the U.S. from replacing Russia as Europe’s gas supplier.
It’s that the U.S. may not even have enough gas to export in a few years. According to Business Week, the average frack well is 60 to 70 percent depleted after the FIRST year. It won’t be long before the whole fracking bubble pops, and the U.S. will have to start importing energy again, not exporting it.
http://tinyurl.com/nd7atf3
(I’m the 20,000 tonne tanker guy)
Thanks Saker, I find it incredible how much credence is lent to the “Saudi America” non-sense.
Imo, this is an elaborate (all Western media seem to be either totally on board on it – or remain silent) scheme to find investors to rip off. And they found a lot. Your second link after P.S. puts in perspective.
Just take a look at this WSJ chart on capital expenditures vs. production of oil and gas, and add to that the fact that these new production areas are already peaking, and you wonder:
Those guys still hoping in public that if only the US changed its laws, the West wouldn’t need Russia’s gas, are they
* believing their elite’s own propaganda?
* trying to buy time?
I tend to think it’s the former.
If it was the latter, they might be able to postpone the realization maybe a couple more years. But at some point in the future, those investors want some return on their investment. They won’t be pouring in money forever, especially when the Fed continues to taper.
Honk
if we’re going to get all occult about this, then Nostradamus’ WW3 which was supposed to start in 1999 or 2000 with a grand cross in the sky, could start next month with a grand cross appearing and an eclipse to boot. The war is supposed to oppose the Russians against the West, and start with the Arabs whose side the Russians will be on, against someone else. Now, Turkey has been shooting at Syria, Russia’s ally….
There is another issue with gas that is largely ignored. We had a very cold winter in North America this year and set a record for the gas used. Gas reserves are at a 15 year low. Another winter like this could seriously deplete the reserves. Consider what happened to the supply (cost) of propane..
Just listened to the BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondents’. I sat, well stood, mesmerised at the master-class of lying propaganda concerning Ukraine, Syria and Egypt. The Syrian episode, in my opinion, stank of complete fraudulence, of being entirely concocted, but an awful lot of that has occurred regarding that unhappy country. The Western MSM hate machine is certainly going into full ‘Ministry of Truth’ overdrive, another sign that this crisis will not ‘blow over’. The moves towards re-nuclearising Banderastan are raving mad, but not a word reaches Western publics through our propaganda apparatus. I’m just wondering what the next provocation will be, but various mutterings by fascisti in the Empire’s propaganda sewers makes me think that a move by Taiwan to declare ‘independence’ might be on the cards. If not soon, certainly after the next Taiwanese Presidential election. And Brazil is in the gun-sights for attention during the World Cup. Whether the Yankee Reich simply wants a slave regime of Rightists, ‘democratically’ elected, or the full ‘colour revolution’ process, or indeed the traditional fascist military junta, is a question that will soon be answered.
anonymous
22 MARCH 2014 18:06
What you said is not child’s play, the Secret of Fatima is serious.
At that time, everyone thought the atheistic USSR (in large part because of propaganda during the Cold War, so did China and any communist country).
With the fall of communism, the Russian Orthodox Church rose again, no need to “baptize” those people again, atheism was a politician and lasted 70 years.
If you look at the bottom of the professed beliefs in the U.S., with little left over rise in Christ.
Better stop here, those Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses must have good aim Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Alexandre.
:-)
Well this looks potentially nasty; not sure how much is hype though.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10715577/Europe-scrambles-to-break-gas-dependence-on-Russia-offers-Ukraine-military-tie.html
Saker, you and your followers are deluded. Not by instinct but by race. Your perfectly healthy human instincts lead you to support Russia in this, but your religious instincts lead you to accept the false description of this putsch as “Nazi”, when it can’t be more than the opposite, in fact entirely Jewish. How else could it be, directed from the USA?
Another Jewish putsch from Washington described as “Nazi”, when Uncle Adolf himself would have sided entirely with Vlad, and you know it.
IOW, you are a hypocrite. Which is why I ask if you are Jewish. What people in history have been more hypocritical and bigger liars, i.e. the phony “holocaust”?
“Any people who claim to have been persecuted for 2000 years is doing something wrong.” ~ Henry Kissinger
@Nora
Some, if not most of it, is pure hype, like using the pipelines in reverse to send gas to Ukraine. Technically impossible, without modifications, which are extremely expensive. Plus – where is the gas gonna come from? Russia’s NorthStream?
These claims looks similar to the shale gas scam.
The question is: What is this scam good for? If it’s a scam, it won’t fool Putin, and the relevant politicians in charge.
All this does is buying the West time, in which their populations think the West is still in control. But Russia, and Iran, and Venezuela, have stuff that everyone, and especially the West, desperately needs.
So the only thing that I can see that would save the West is regime change, by whatever means necessary, in those countries. Currently ongoing in Venezuela, not sure how that one will end. But unlikely in Russia and Iran.
The only means to achieve regime change in these countries would be war. Which in the case of Russia is insanity, and probably in the case of Iran, too.
Except a war on both countries would sufficiently raise the price of gas to make US shale gas profitable ;)
Honk
@has the Orthodox Church taken over and fulfilled the mission assigned by the Holy Virgin?
In order to cut through all the nonsense about Fatima and the “consecration of Russia”, it must firmly be pointed out that Russia has been from the beggining of its existence under the Protection of the Mother of God.
“The Protection of the Mother of God is one of the most beloved feast days on the Orthodox calendar among the Slavic peoples, commemorated on October 1.
The Russian Primary Chronicle noted that the intercession of the Theotokos was needed for the protection of the people of Constantinople when a large fleet of the pagan Rus, led by Askold and Dir, was threatening Constantinople. The invading fleet was defeated and the event remembered. Strangely, the feast came to be considered a very important feast by the Slavic Orthodox Churches but not by the Greeks… A twelfth century Russian chronicle describes the establishment of the intercession as a special feast day honoring the event. Within a few centuries churches began being named in honor of the Protection of the Mother of God… Among these churches two that are world famous are: in Moscow, the Cathedral of Intercession upon a Moat (Russian: Храм Покрова “на рву,” Cathedral of the Pokrov upon a moat), which is popularly known as the St. Basil’s Cathedral and in Bogolyubovo near Vladimir, the Church of Intercession upon the Nerl River (Russian: Церковь Покрова на Нерли, Tserkov Pokrova na Nerli)”. (Orthodox Wiki – Protection of the Mother of God). St. Basil’s Cathedral became the most known symbol of Russia.
The Protection was manifest in crucial moments through some of the famous miracle working icons of the Mother of God.
The icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir was brought to Moscow in 1395 and is credited with saving the city from Tamerlane. This was repeated in Tartar invasions of 1451 and 1480 and the Poles in 1612. Unique among sacred icons, it reportedly took an airplane flight around Moscow at the behest of Joseph Stalin during World War II. Within days, the German army unexpectedly started retreating.
The icon of The Mother of God of Smolensk is said to be attributed to the Apostle Luke and is said to have come from the Byzantium to Chernigov when in 1046, the Greek princess Anna wed Vsevolod of Chernigov. The icon was given to the Smolensk Cathedral in 1101. During the battle of Borodino in 1812, the original was prayed to for success. The original has since been returned to Smolensk.
And the icon of The Mother of God of Kazan, a copy of which was kept at Fatima, but returned to Russia in 2005 and enshrined in the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, part of the Monastery of the Mother of God where it initially appeared.
Invocation of the Virgin Mary through the icon was credited by the Russian commanders, Dmitry Pozharsky and Mikhail Kutuzov, with helping the country to repel the Polish invasion of 1612, the Swedish invasion of 1709, and Napoleon’s invasion of 1812.
There is another miraculous icon: The Mother of God of Pochaev in Ukraine.
WizOz
About the shale gas and the fracking procedure: It is from the beginning doom to fail. It is very expensive and causes a lot of damage to the environment which are in the long run impossible to repair. Any country with self esteem and concern about environment should keep away of this!
Let’s refresh our memory:
(Wikipedia)
Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod pipeline
Disagreement among the allies
The Soviet plans to build the pipeline were considered a threat to the balance of energy trade in Europe, and were strongly opposed by the Reagan administration. The United States prevented U.S. companies from selling supplies to the Soviets for the pipeline, as part of what was also retribution against the Soviets for their policies towards Poland.
America’s Western European allies, however, refused to bow to U.S. pressure to boycott the pipeline, insisting that contracts already signed between the Soviets and European companies needed to be honored. This led to several European companies being sanctioned by the U.S. Government. Reagan reportedly said “Well, they can have their damned pipeline. But not with American equipment and not with American technology.” The efforts by the U.S. pressure to prevent the construction of the pipeline, and its export embargo of supplies for the pipeline (1980–1984) constituted one of the most severe transatlantic crises of the Cold War”.
What it’s not said is that Reagan promised to inundate Europe with American LNG! I don’t like Marx but how can you not agree with him: “history repeats itself; first as a tragedy, second as farce”
WizOz
You know the empire is crumbling when you see people jumping ship.
Yuan Starts Direct Trading With Kiwi Dollar in Shanghai
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-18/yuan-to-start-direct-trading-with-kiwi-from-tomorrow-pboc-says.html
China started direct trading between the yuan and New Zealand’s dollar today as the world’s second-largest economy promotes usage of its currency in global trade and finance.
The move will help reduce foreign-exchange transaction costs between the two nations, the People’s Bank of China said on its website yesterday. The central bank set a reference rate for the currency pair of 5.2899 per New Zealand dollar today and yuan moves in Shanghai are limited to 3 percent on either side of the fixing. The onset of direct trading coincides with a visit to Beijing by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
The kiwi became the fourth currency to trade directly against the yuan in Shanghai, joining the Australian dollar, the Japanese yen and the U.S. dollar. The U.K. and Singapore announced deals with China in October to make their currencies convertible for yuan, which has overtaken the euro to rank second in terms of use for global trade finance.
“Direct trading with New Zealand will help boost the global usage of yuan through trade settlement and invoicing,” said Tommy Ong, executive director of treasury and markets at DBS Bank Hong Kong Ltd. “It will also contribute to lower transaction costs for companies since there’s no need to go through two currency pairs but one.”
Russian planes deployed in Belarus at Minsk request – President Lukashenko
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_23/Russian-planes-deployed-in-Belarus-at-Minsk-request-President-Lukashenko-0563/
http://rt.com/news/syrian-jet-down-turkey-681/
A Syrian military jet has been intercepted near the Syrian-Turkish border after it violated the Turkish airspace, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Conflicting reports said the jet was shot down from the ground and crashed on the Syrian side.
The Syrian Air Force jet was shot down near the Kasab crossing in Latakia province, where fierce fighting between Syrian forces and armed insurgents has been going on for three days, Reuters reported.
Does anyone here have a clue as to what the best-case scenario of the US was, or still is, in this Ukraine crisis?
After all, the unprofessional behavior of the “spirits the US called”, youtube-d and rt.com-ed for everyone to see, doesn’t suggest the installation of a normal Western-style “democracy” elite – they at least know how to behave when cameras are rolling – was the plan. Yats seems to be the only public figure who cares what the West thinks of him. And that’s gonna be a huge problem for that current government, that is not even recognized by it’s most important economic partner country, Russia, without it can do NOTHING, and must fail.
US actors seem to have had their hands in the Gladio style buildup of the armed thugs, in the selection of members of government and before that members of the “security forces” of the Maidan. So they must have had a plan, or at least “hope and change”.
What was that plan or hope?
* F*ck up the EU economy even more (Iran sanctions have certainly been “helpful”)
* strengthening NATO close to Russian borders (not necessarily Ukraine, but the other countries in the area who are now inviting NATO in left and right)
At least these goals seem achievable.
I just don’t see what a plan for installing a pro-US/EU government without the support of Russia would look like – unless we are talking about a tyranny.
Honk
Its not about shale gas really – its about the whole financial system:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ukraine-crisis-and-vladimir-putin-a-new-financial-system-free-from-wall-street-and-the-city-of-london/5374785
Very good interview.
Rgds,
Veritas
On another note about humanity. Very interesting chap called Jamie Dunmore on RT (Abbey Martin programme) the other day. He performed his poem:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jd0781
https://twitter.com/JamieDunmore
The Ukranians and everyone elase in Europe need to remember- “We are the many – they are the few” & “United we stand – divided we fall”…….wake up!
I agree with Saker that the idea of the USA selling shale gas to Europe is ludicrous and pure propaganda for the braindead audiences of the zionist western media freak circus. Also agree with the first comment writer that the scam is to sell fracking to Americans, who are finally waking up in numbers enough to put serious roadblocks in the way of way of these “fracking” crooks.
The article linked below offers a sound analysis of the shale gas “ponzi” scheme. A bit “technical”, but worth looking over.
Shale Gas—Abundance or Mirage? Why The Marcellus Shale Will Disappoint Expectations http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7075
“Shale gas plays in the United States are commercial failures and shareholders in public exploration and production (E&P) companies are the losers. This conclusion falls out of a detailed evaluation of shale-dominated company financial statements and individual well decline curve analyses. Operators have maintained the illusion of success through production and reserve growth subsidized by debt with a corresponding destruction of shareholder equity. Many believe that the high initial rates and cumulative production of shale plays prove their success. What they miss is that production decline rates are so high that, without continuous drilling, overall production would plummet. There is no doubt that the shale gas resource is very large. The concern is that much of it is non-commercial even at price levels that are considerably higher than they are today….”
вот так
NATO = North Atlantic Terrorist Organization
Ukraine wants to be there: violent protests in Spain against austerity policies
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/22/us-spain-protests-idUSBREA2L0LP20140322
The U.S. “shale gas revolution” fraud exposed by a world expert: http://journal-neo.org/2014/03/19/ukraine-s-delusional-energy-calculus-full-of-shale/ . F William Engdahl also details how Ukrainians have been suckered into the shale hype by the west.
I read many blogs in English, Russian, Spanish (all google translate) and I am aware in the comments.
Many think like us, are against wars.
I think a lot about what I read about “gold”, “fall of the dollar standard”, “petrodollars” etc.. .
Until today I have not read anything about the return of the good old barter (barter is the exchange of one good for another, simple thing occurred before inventing the “coins”).
If for example Brazil produces beef, soy, and needs new fighter jets, we do an exchange without using money.
Quantifying the cost of products without parameters in currency is not an easy thing but could get a pattern in man / hours of work used for eg 1,000 tons of soybeans and man / hours of work to make a plane.
Well, I digress, it’s just an idea, other parameters could be obtained in each country so that the barter would work between nations.
Alexandre.
:-)
вот так, interesting that you linked The Oil Drum here. I was following this site for years before it was made archive couple of years ago. It still has tremendous amount of information on all things Peak Oil.
As for the shale gas bonanza I can refer you to The Post Carbon Institute’s (http://www.postcarbon.org/) senior fellow Richard Heinberg. Richard has a number of excellent books on Peak Oil. His recent book “Snake Oil” presents the most comprehensive analysis of the current oil-industry hype in America.
“This is the first book to look at fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by the most thorough analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data ever undertaken. Is fracking the miracle cure-all to our energy ills, or a costly distraction from the necessary work of reducing our fossil fuel dependence?”
http://richardheinberg.com/bookshelf/snake-oil
Richard is an excellent speaker. I had an opportunity to attend his speaking events and was never disappointed.
There are more thoughtful people trying to bring the message of energy and resource depletion into the public arena. Nicolle Foss and her co-editor from http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ are among the most intellectually honest analysts I’ve ever met.
For those of you more technically inclined there is Tom Whipple who runs Peal Oil Notes at http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-03-20/peak-oil-notes-mar-20.
For those preferring visual documentaries I recommend Gasland by Josh Fox that won Academy Award for best documentary in 2011. The film exposes the impact of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) on communities and more.
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Good Real News Economic analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc0wjU1gShE#t=171
Finally some criticism of Downing street from the New Statesmen, I almost took them off my bookmarks
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/our-most-powerful-and-hypocritical-leaders-crimes-are-those-others-commit
I deplore the insulting language used by ‘His Majesty‘ but have to say that the issue he is alleged by TS to be obsessed with really IS central to the whole Ukrainian imbroglio, as it is to the entire US-NATO globalisation push.
It is the hidden and devilish complexity of Jewish (not just Zionist but JUDAIC) influence in the deep politics of pretty much every western country throughout A.D. history that is the key to understanding why the Ukraine has been so easily manipulated. That influence has always been more-or-less hidden – being mostly connected with financing the aspirations of this that or the other pompous Christian ruler – and the motives of those wielding it have been single-mindedly antithetical to the professed interests of those accepting it (ie virulently anti-Christian – orthodox or Catholic). On the face of it, Ukrainian neo-fascist hatred of Russia follows the Christian Latin/Orthodox fault line, but in its present fascist manifestation, it is rooted in bitter experience of historical, Judaic dominated Bolshevism and its Soviet Cheka/NKVD which pre-dated WWII but motivated much of the German-Soviet viciousness of that war. Their (the Ukrainian fascists) hatred was ruthlessly exploited and stirred up by those same Judaic interests which were present in both the USSR and the West. The Ukraine fascists’ problem is that, like Hitler himself, they are effectively dupes but are too dumb to figure it out; they are being herded by forces they are totally ignorant of. As Putin so eloquently mentioned in his address, it was Russians themselves who suffered the most from those same Judaic dominated organisations – that ought to provide a clue to anyone paying serious attention.
The big problem today for those who can see behind the facade of ‘The International Community’ is that, post WWII, it has become verboden – with a BIG ‘V’ – to present the Jews as anything other than history’s eternal victims, and that BECAUSE OF the official western narrative of WWII as ‘The Good War’ and the Germans as the archetypal bad guys responsible for ‘The Holocaust’. Until we can get past that simplistic and UTTERLY FALSE narrative and its categories, I’m afraid that opposition to the US-NATO-ZIONIST project will continue to have rings run around it.
IOW PLEASE stop using the terms ‘NAZI’ and ‘neo-NAZI’ because they play right into the hands of the forces you so genuinely oppose.
Attack on pro-Russian activists in Melitopol(today):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrijPO5xRPw#t=150
Ukraine’s National Bank may get rid of hryvna to stuff regime coffers
It seems like the National Bank of Ukraine, guided by Arseniy Yatseniuk’s self-styled government to the radiant future, has come to a decision to do away with the country’s national currency hryvna. This is according to a private letter from an employee with Giesecke & Devrient, a Munich-based banknote printing firm, that has recently been leaked to the Web.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_23/Ukraines-National-Bank-may-get-rid-of-hryvna-to-stuff-regime-coffers-6169/
From Global Research:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/turmoil-in-turkey-washingtons-short-leash-and-the-crimea-connection/5374845
While the US policy and adventures in Ukraine may be stupid over reach I am not so sure. There are quite a few in the neocon camp who desire conflict with Russia. Additionally, part of the gambit in Syria is a pipeline route to Europe (problematic for Russia/Gazprom) from the Gulf. It is possible there will be a military move against Syria by the West – based partly on the notion that Russian diplomatic moves should not be trusted so the chemical weapons deal should be viewed with suspicion. Assad’s recent gains are probably troubling some in Washington. Turkey’s downing of the Syrian Jet today may portend something. JMO
@The efforts by the U.S. pressure to prevent the construction of the pipeline, and its export embargo of supplies for the pipeline (1980–1984) constituted one of the most severe transatlantic crises of the Cold War”.
It should also be remembered that this crisis coincided with the crisis of the deployment of cruise missiles in Europe.
A good summary in http://nuclearinfo.org/
“Thirty years ago: the nuclear crisis which frightened Thatcher and Reagan into ending the Cold War
By Peter Burt
Date: 3 November 2013″
WizOz
What Wikispooks said!! Very well put.
“It is the hidden and devilish complexity of Jewish (not just Zionist but JUDAIC) influence in the deep politics of pretty much every western country throughout A.D. history that is the key to understanding why the Ukraine has been so easily manipulated. “
Exactly! At base of jewish influence is the control of the IMF and World Bank and the central banks of the west as well as Ukraine. Yats is jewish and was head of the Ukraine’s National Bank (Ukraine’s govt owned but international banker controlled central bank) before unconstitutionally appointing himself acting Prime Minister.
” The Ukraine fascists’ problem is that, like Hitler himself, they are effectively dupes but are too dumb to figure it out; they are being herded by forces they are totally ignorant of. As Putin so eloquently mentioned in his address, it was Russians themselves who suffered the most from those same Judaic dominated organisations – that ought to provide a clue to anyone paying serious attention.”
Yes, indeed! The right wing thugs use the word Russian when they really mean Bolsheviks which were mostly jewish and they were intent on revenge against the Russians and Ukrainians.
Now i don’t believe for a minute that the leaders of Svoboda and Right Sector are ignorant of that fact. Neither would they be ignorant of the fact that the US money they are lapping up comes to them courtesy of the jewish neocons. These neocons are equally aware of the facts of history and of today.
The thing is that both these parties to this orgy of destruction are violent supremacists. And this supremacism springs ultimately from psychopathy. Supremicismm IS psychopathy.
Psychopaths will willingly join forces to devour a common victim for so long as the feast lasts, each party believing that they will get the lions share of the deal.
Of course, none of this would happen without the unwitting participation of various enablers, inactive bystanders and the victims themselves. The widespread understanding the nature and prevalence (5% of the population) of psychopathy is the most effective remedy to this appalling world-wide situation.
@Anonymous 23 March, 2014 16:07
> Ukraine’s National Bank may get rid of hryvna to stuff regime coffers
The author of that email, one Albert Zimmermann, will run into problems. I’m sure he has violated NDAs with his company, and I wonder if his letter does not amount to insider trading, legally speaking. Which of course happens all the time, but behind closed doors. Luckily (for us), Emma wouldn’t respond to Skype call attempts, hence the email…
Honk
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Its not about shale gas really – its about the whole financial system:
Good point. Could someone tell me whether the Russian Central Bank, i.e. that body which issues the Russian Ruble, is part of the “international” banking system?
Regarding the Syrian war, an amazing piece of information has managed to evade my attention until today: The Qatar-Turkey pipeline
It would nicely explain the concerns of Russia, and the actions of Turkey, which made a one-eighty and started going against her former ally.
And the other day Turkey shot down a Syrian plane. I wonder if Israel, with its recent bombardments, and Turkey now want to go towards all-out war. Washington’s expulsion of Syrian diplomats is another piece of the puzzle.
I betcha Syria is gonna get real ugly faster than the Ukraine. Let’s see how Russia reacts. It will have to decide how much support to give to Assad.
Back to the pipeline article. Here some highlights:
> One route to Turkey is via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria [..] Syria’s rationale for rejecting the Qatar proposal was said to be “to protect the interests of [its] Russian ally, which is Europe’s top supplier of natural gas.”
And:
> “The discovery in 2009 of a new gas field near Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Syria opened new possibilities to bypass the Saudi Barrier and to secure a new source of income. Pipelines are in place already in Turkey to receive the gas. Only Al-Assad is in the way. Qatar along with the Turks would like to remove Al-Assad and install the Syrian chapter of the Moslim Brotherhood. It is the best organized political movement in the chaotic society and can block Saudi Arabia’s efforts to install a more fanatical Wahhabi based regime.”
Honk
another american engineered “regime change” in the making, to encircle Russia: Turkey at the crossroads.
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(…) “In addition to the squandering of Turkey’s political capital and global reputation during its involvement in the Syrian conflict, the West now appears to be positioning Turkey as a potential battering ram against Russia regarding the Crimea standoff.” (…)
Read more:
From Turkey’s Covert War on Syria to the “Crimea Connection”
Washington’s “Short Leash”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/turmoil-in-turkey-washingtons-short-leash-and-the-crimea-connection/5374845
This is interesting:
Afghan President supports reunification of Crimea with Russia http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_23/Afghan-President-supports-reunification-of-Crimea-with-Russia-2631/
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has supported the decision of the Crimea on reunification with Russia. The head of the republic made this statement in the course of the March 22 meeting with a delegation of the US congressmen, the Pazhvok newspaper reports.
Hamid Karzai stressed that he “respects the free will of the people of the Crimea.”
“The Crimea became part of the Russian Federation after the referendum, with its people having determined their own future. We respect this decision,” Karzai ‘s press service quotes.”
I’m sure that sat well with the Americans. :D
The Russians have had some recent dealings with the Afghan regime (helicopters, law enforcement related to the heroin, probably other things), and the USA/NATO are supposed to be leaving soon (but they keep stalling), could Karzai be opting for closer ties with Russia? That would be ironic, to say the least.
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Did not know where to post this. Zakarpatska (i.e. the Rusyns)–though in the far west of UA, have always been always pro-Rus’ and pro-RU–raises its voice regarding the latest events:
http://ruskline.ru/opp/2014/3/17/zakarpatskie_rusiny_obratilis_k_putinu/
You can read a translation here:
http://02varvara.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/rusins-in-the-republic-of-podkarpatskaya-rus-dont-want-to-be-part-of-a-neo-nazi-ukraine/
Правительство может объявить Крым особой экономической зоной (Government may declare a special economic zone of Crimea)
http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/24361701/nalogovyj-raj-krym#ixzz2wrIjCStb
One way to “share the costs” of bringing the neglected infrastructure in Crimea up to Russian levels quickly.
Я 23 March, 2014 14:26
Thanks for the info and links.
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The Syria situation is worrying. The Syrians are winning against the jihadist cannibals, which does not fit in with Oded Yinon’s ‘Zionist Plan for the Middle East’, where Syria is to be split into four mutually antagonistic statelets. The resulting bloodshed of thousands of goyish ‘two-legged animals’ is a mitzvah, as defined by the Yesha Council of Rabbis and Torah Sages in 2006, to justify the killing of civilians in Lebanon. So Israel is bombing Syria, and to hell with international law, which, after all, is mere ‘Christian morality’. Erdogan’s motivation is utterly mysterious to me, but he is marked for destruction, having annoyed his Judeofascist betters for some years. I’d expect the US and NATO to simply start bombing the jihadist butchers to power, as in Libya, and any excuse will do. The revenge for Crimea will be vicious, but that’s the only way that rabid dogs know how to act. The hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians will be, naturally, ‘collateral damage’.
What Wikispooks, James and before His Majesty (disapproving his language) said seems to make sense.
This, it seems to me, strongly confirms it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_K71FRJgmE
LOOOOL
The Maidan “freedom fighters” have not been paid for their “work”, and are angry.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSpPoH3Aac#t=71
Poor Glen Ford. I have read him more inspired and better informed.
Anyway, the Ukraine crisis might backfire against the Empire.
It is speculated that the meeting between Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping next May has the potential to spell the end of the dollar hegemony and consequently the fall of Wall Street, as they may sign the “Holy Grail Energy Deal”.
More about it : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-21/petrodollar-alert-isolated-west-putin-prepares-announce-holy-grail-gas-deal-china
Ukraine fiasco marks end of the EU’s imperial dream
(…)”On Friday, when their acting prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, came to Brussels to sign that Association Agreement, the EU was so embarrassed that the ceremony had to take place behind closed doors, away from the eyes of the media. The poor man was not even allowed a microphone, but had to shout out his wish still to see Ukraine as an EU member.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10715805/Ukraine-fiasco-marks-end-of-the-EUs-imperial-dream.html
Honk
regarding the Qatar pipeline?
Your missing the Israeli piece of that puzzle- that has much to do also with why Syria has to be crushed
Assad had the 4 seas plan- which was directly competitive with Israel
Connecting Syria all the way through to China
making Syria a vital transit point
and more..
If Saker doesn’t mind I can leave the links to those posts here for you & maybe I will relink that at my blog too
might be a good time to refresh my own memory
Because, as you pointed out Syria… appears to be heating up yet again.. I have tried to keep on top of that along with the Ukraine situation. Crimea was important to Russia to aid Syria- if Russia would have lost that Syria would have been in dire straits, immediately
Turkey is interesting- I actually think Turkey is set to be balkanized. Erdogan may not like it.
But bigger forces are at play then him alone
And he was Gulen’s boy. Meaning he could be discarded when he was no longer useful
Suspect Erdogan may just be trying to cling to power
check back later and will update at my blog later also
PS : By the way, it should be noted what is important for a state is not necessarily in the interest of a company and “vice versa”, as they may have different priorities and agendas.
Remember the reply from the ExxonMobil ex boss, when he was asked if his company would build more U.S. refineries to fend off gasoline shortages?
Raymond’s reply: “I’m not a U.S. company and I don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the U.S.”.
More… http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2012/05/whats_good_for_exxon_is_not_go037099.php#
About Polite Armed Men in Green:
NATO’s Top Commander Reflects on Crimea (WSJ).
U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander:
“We saw several snap exercises executed in which large formation of forces were brought to readiness and exercised and then they stood down,” he said. “And then…boom—into Crimea…with a highly ready, highly prepared force,” he said. “What does that mean for NATO in the future. How do we change our deployment? How do we change our readiness? How do we change our force structure such that we can be ready in the future?”
“The incursion of Russia into Georgia…was probably not the smoothest,” he said. “By way of comparison, the incursion into Crimea went very much like clockwork, starting with almost a complete disconnection of the Crimean forces from their command and control via jamming and cyberattacks and then a complete envelopment by the Russian forces inside of Crimea.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2014/03/23/natos-top-commander-reflects-on-crimea/tab/print/
re: Crimea’s “illegal referendum”
This interview deserves to go viral. Ewald Stadler, Austrian politician as independent observer on the ground, tells it how he saw it, end more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HeuYwEiDlg
Cheers, A
Hi Saker,
Do you see coming an increasing military pressure on Syria (Turkey, Israel being more involved) in order to punish Russia ? The downing of the Syrian plane being a sign. What is your take at the possibility of a Tartous encerclement in the future to force the Russian to leave their naval facilities outhere ? Many Thanks
I believe this answer to Glen Ford’s article put an end to the “debate”:
US Prepares to Gas Russia into Submission
Peter Appio – 03/21/2014 – 12:13
Dear Mr. Ford,
I read your article at the global research website entitled “US Prepares to Gas Russia into Submission” with some incredulity.
The idea that Western Europe could rapidly alter its existing energy infrastructure to reduce its dependency on Russian gas supplies and replace its requirements on LNG supplies from the US is complete nonsense.
Read more
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/us-prepares-gas-russia-submission#comment-53736
Anonymous 9:22
The downing of a Syrian airplane has the hallmarks of a PR ploy to deflect critics about Erdogan’s corruption practices as Turkish local elections are around the corner.
However, it is likely the leaked wiretapped conversations of the prime minister exposing a graft scandal, might be part of a conspiracy for regime change to prevent Turkey from having an independent foreign policy that will allow Ankara to shift towards Iran and Russia. Those tapes surfaced, less than a month after Putin-Erdogan meeting in StPeterburg late November after both countries reinforced their cooperation.
For a more comprehensive analysis
http://www.voltairenet.org/article181112.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Under-the-Radar/2014/0307/Why-President-Obama-stopped-calling-Turkish-leader-Erdogan
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fear-and-loathing-in-turkey-erdogan-versus-the-gulenists/5368824
http://www.globalresearch.ca/after-ukraine-turkey-might-be-next-target-of-regime-change/5373372
dear saker,
china and russia should form alliance but the question is that will they form alliance?