IS IT, IS IT, WWWIII ????

The Chessboard

"In life it is always so much easier to understand the game, if you know the rules, " the British will inform people of a lesser flag, and, as usual they are quite correct in their advice.

There seems to be a great deal of excitement over what is going on in the nation state of Georgia, with break away provinces and now Russians getting into the fight. What people do not understand in their zeal of not liking what is occurring is it doesn't matter who started this as it is started.

What matters are the relevant facts.

Fact 1: The world just witnessed a "tell". Vladamir Putin is quite adept at the chess game when he has time to sort out moves. He can use Polonium 210 to nuke a British subject and can counter George W. Bush feinting about putting missile shields in Poland and the Czech Republic by talking about landing nuclear bombers in Cuba, but when the big punch comes, Vladamir Putin does not think. He reacts and does so very badly which bring us to Fact 2.

Fact 2: This is not George Bush, neocons or Zionists. This is George Bush and Dick Cheney being allowed to set up a strategy for the guys peaking from behind Jacob Rothschild and David Rockefeller, namely a President Barack Obama of this week and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, so they can initiate Bishop Brzezinski's opus rectus.

As the British say, "It is so much easier if you know the players."

Fact 3: In one day, little children in the Warsaw Pact who had Russian Soviets raping their mothers and sisters for 50 years were reminded what life with Russia is like. In one day, every Muslim is remembering the difference between war with America and war with Russia in Afghanistan and Chechnya. In one day, every little child from England to the Ukraine is remembering Putin's tantrum one cold winter's night in cutting off oil and gas.

No one is remembering America being aggressive. Everyone is looking at those Russian tanks rolling into Georgian lands.

Fact 4: Georgia and the Ukraine got exactly the reaction they desired in exposing Russian aggression. Jacob Rothschild and David Rockefeller got exactly what they wanted in exposing Russian aggression herding the rest of the world to be afraid of them, and, Zbigniew Brzezinski got exactly what he wanted in positioning Russia for the Caspian Gambit and now in this Georgian Feint, Russia if it acts out again in a few months will be deemed by the world the evil empire again.
Check.

As noted in this blog a week ago when everyone was claiming that America had screwed up and lost the Caspian Basin oil and gas fields, it was pointed out that the west had no intention of those fields for now or for the reason of building a pipeline from them.

Russia can develop them now like bio fuels are being allowed to be developed for the purpose of the cartel taking over them later, but the Caspian is a gambit which now has Russia and China lured into a region it will be forced to defend as front in a war.

Different groups have different reasons. George Bush's sect which is Sec. Robert Gates line with John McCain want a Eurasian war fought in the Caspian as it is less populated for civilian deaths.
Zbigniew Brzezinski personally as it was exposed here wants the Caspian line as it will draw off one of Russia's spears meant for Europe in war which will leave his native Poland untouched in that war.

The Rothschilds desire the Caspian as they had it, Putin took it from them and booted them out and they want it developed for free before they take it back and rub probably his corpse's nose in it.

Georgia is a brilliant feint and the profile of Vladamir Putin showed he would react and did as he was expected to do when called out of bed by his generals telling him in hysteria that Georgia was blowing the berussian out of Russians.

Vladamir Putin of course is going to be furious over this, not because of what Georgia or the cartel did, but because he got suckered by his worst enemy in himself. Of course, the profile also will on Mr. Putin relate what this son of Japeth will do when the next gambit occurs.

This is what Georgia is immediately about. China is having terrorists problems from Islamic Chinese and Turkmenistan separatists. They seeing Russia now being embarrassed and remembering not so fondly Tibet's press in their murderous overture will not be so keen on acting out for the Persian communists.

China after all as it beats Christians and imprisons citizens has that glow of the Olympics and it likes looking like pretty Peking girl in the window again and does not want to loose the Peking tart.

Russia, of course, will now look at an allied battle group steaming into the Persian Gulf to stop shipments of refinery chemicals to Iran as something if it reacts on will have the entire world knowing the 2000 pound Siberian bear is chewing up the world again, and, see it's military option gone.

It is accepted that Vladamir Putin will not react this time, but sit on his hands fuming as leverage against the Islamocommunists of Iran brings the Iranian people out against the Persian communists.

While it is easy to see the obvious which was being warned here of people not to be building companies and investing in that region, unless of course it was a Rockefeller, Rothschild or Soros project, the future in this Biblical proportions board do take some God given insight.

Vladamir Putin now has himself to blame for reacting into this which he was profiled to do, and, why it was done now. He will now have this inside of him simmering to a boil.

If he reacts again, then the central Europeans will get exactly what they want in a reformed empire led by Germany, Italy and Greece.

If he does not react, the Persian communist regime will be toppled and the Russians and Chinese will have another front on the Caspian to contend with as this projects north into the "stans" which in the Caspian Gambit will have this turmoil fomenting within their borders.

Of course, the Russian GRU and Chinese PLA will crush internal opposition and it will crush them as the civilians revolt.

So the Russians and Chinese both understand time is short. They will in due time as they recover have to react and march their troops out and start the third World War.

There are Chicoms now sitting in Peking having the dawn of understanding come upon them. They went to bed drunk with euphoria over wedding Russia in their gambit to force America out of the region and in time spoil her of Alaska and make the west vassal states.
Now though in the faint light of what Vladamir Putin just did, they are seeing they married the 300 pound ugly girl in the sack dress and they are stuck as she has the oil and the munitions which China either keeps cuddling or they will be turned upon her.

Granted, it is much easier if one knows the rules of the game, but before people start thinking a lost Caspian is a loss, they should remember this is world chess and a game played by the elite.

I will repeat, this is a game of the elite they amuse themselves with it for centuries while they wait for the real prize this has been all about all along.

It is not the gold of David Rockefeller, but they worship it for the alchemy it brings for the sign on Jacob Rothschild's piece.

This is a game, so there is no need to be excited about it, but to only enjoy the tacticians moves as they play as that is what they really desire.

The real prize is what the Rothschilds hold in that simple drawing and it is why they hold it.


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Naftohaz, Gazprom holding talks Moscow

The FINANCIAL -- A delegation of Naftohaz Ukrayiny, headed by the company`s CEO Oleh Dubyna, is holding talks in MOSCOW with Gazprom leadership on possible scheme of the long-term partnership in the gas sphere.

According to the Naftohaz press-service, the Ukrainian delegation includes Naftohaz top deputy chairman of board Ihor Didenko and deputy chairman of board Volodymyr Trykolych.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , with its decree #268 of March 19, commissioned the Fuel-Energy Ministry of Ukraine and Naftohaz Ukrayiny to begin talks with Russia on preparing long-term agreements on gas supplies.

Russia likely to dominate NATO agenda

By BOGDAN KIPLING
Thu. Mar 27 - 6:39 AM

CANADA has made some pretty harsh-sounding demands on NATO recently and a summit meeting the alliance is about to hold in Bucharest, Romania, is the perfect stage for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to restate them.

Mr. Harper wants NATO to find at least 1,000 soldiers to help Canadian troops as they fight the resurging Taliban in Afghanistan.

Of the few NATO allies actually slugging it out with the Taliban, Canadian forces are taking, proportionally, the highest casualties. This has gone on for years and it doesn’t surprise even the coolest conflict intellectuals in Washington that a bitter "enough is enough" sentiment is spreading in Canada.

In fact, if you look and listen carefully, you will discover a measure of understanding for Canada. But I think it would be foolish to read too much into this glimmer of sympathy. Canadians may be justifiably ticked off, but it doesn’t look as if Washington could or would do much to find the reinforcements Ottawa is demanding.

The question of additional troops from somewhere to help the Canadians was raised at a high-calibre briefing on Tuesday by experts on NATO offered by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a leading Washington think tank.

A journalist wanted to know whether Canadians would get the help they are asking for. The answer he got was revealing. "I don’t know," replied Stephen Flanagan, CSIS vice-president and Henry J. Kissinger professor in national security policy.

France is sending paratroopers to Afghanistan and the United States is sending in more Marines, he added, but he was "not sure" any of them would end up in the Canadian sector.

When they spoke on the phone on Jan. 30, President George W. Bush told Mr. Harper that an additional 3,200 U.S. Marines would be deployed to Afghanistan. The prime minister informed Mr. Bush that he would extend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, but only if NATO comes up with the additional 1,000 combat soldiers.

I take it as a given that Afghanistan and the reluctance of many NATO members to do their share – or even to lift a finger – got plenty of caustic attention from American diplomats as they haggled over the communique that would be released when the NATO summit ends April 4.

But I’m not holding my breath that any country will march up its troops to help their Canadians allies.

The NATO summit will be dominated by a non-member of the club. Russia, I think, will push other concerns aside, including Canada’s demands.

Vladimir Putin, in his last hours as Russia’s president, is fuming at NATO’s attempt to enfold Ukraine and Georgia, former Soviet republics, in the Western alliance.

He will also use Germany, Spain and, possibly, Paris to block the United States from setting up missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Mr. Putin could not seek a third term as head of state, but nobody in Washington believes he will become merely head of government. His successor, Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev, was elected president March 2, and the two are merely flipping jobs – but not power.

For Vladimir Putin, much is riding on what happens in Kiev and in Bucharest, NATO’s capital for the duration of the summit. Mr. Bush will give a speech in Ukraine’s capital just before the NATO summit. He knows what he wants. He knows what Ukraine and Georgia expect and that the intensity of political expectation in both capitals cannot be overstated.

Both have been led to believe they will be given their internal political road maps to NATO membership. That’s why what Mr. Bush says will be either a go-ahead or a promise of a go-ahead signal, as the CSIS’s Mr. Flanagan speculated.

Any American compromise on Ukraine and Georgia, the CSIS expert said, would tell Russia "we are not serious."

Anti-missile bases in Poland and Czech Republic are the second bomb ticking in NATO. Janusz Bugajski, director of CSIS’s new democracies project, pointed out that "within the last 24 hours" – as of last Tuesday noon – Russia threatened to split up Ukraine when it raised claims to the Crimea.

On anti-missile bases, Russia threatens Poland with nuclear weapons "every two weeks."

Russia’s threats would be sound and fury if NATO were united on both, the Polish and Czech bases and Ukraine and Georgia. But NATO is not united, with Berlin and Paris, to name just two allies, at odds with Mr. Bush’s plans.

George W. Bush told Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, when they met at the White House on March 10, the anti-missile bases would be affirmed "on my watch."

He assured Ukraine and Georgia in the past that the United States is determined to see them in NATO. That’s why what Mr. Bush presents in Kiev when he speaks next Tuesday will be either an American marker or, at least for Moscow, an April Fool’s Day card.

( bkipling@herald.ca)

Bogdan Kipling is a Canadian journalist in Washington

update: Kerch Strait oil spill

Too bad I have no regular readers! Cuz this is a followup of a story I covered.

Why did I cover it?

Becuz the Russians are just MORE and BIGGER earth polluters than many.

Look at this mess! Very very scary stuff. Money will NOT bring back those dead birds.

It rivals the mess made in Korea .. the one the NYT's doesn't bring up anymore that will take 12 YEARS minimum to fix ..

And do you REALLY think that Russia will play fair and protect marine life at Sakhalin-2 as pressure for oil and gas crank up? Probably not, unless people MAKE them.

Support your local environmentalist organizations on these issues.

Time is running short to keep any water clean, anywhere ..

Have no fear that they don't have the money to pay!! The Russian mob just ripped off $8 bn from SocGen and that's just one of the plots to keep that ole Treasury over in Moskva propped up. Just the "cost of doing business" ..

Hey! I give a monthly donation to Greenpeace? How about YOU? I am PROUD to do so, too. They don't just hunt whales, you know.

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		Ukraine to charge Russia $1bln for Kerch Strait oil spill
		12:25 | 19/ 03/ 2008

SIMFEROPOL, March 19 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine plans to charge Russian ship-owners over $1 billion in damages for a November fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait, the press office of the Ukrainian government said on Wednesday.

A storm in the Kerch Strait, which joins the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, sank four ships and an oil tanker on November 11. The incident resulted in about 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil spilling into the sea.

Experts said petrochemical concentrations in the Kerch Strait following the storm were 50 times higher than maximum permissible levels. Some 50,000 birds have so far died as a result of the oil slick. The fuel penetrates birds' plumage causing hypothermia, and is ingested, usually with fatal results.

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov claimed late in December that all traces of November's disaster in the Kerch Strait had been eliminated, but Greenpeace said the consequences of fuel spill in the Kerch Strait could take up to a decade to be eliminated.

The government of Ukraine's Black Sea autonomy of Crimea has allocated 2 million hryvna ($400,000) for disposal of spilled fuel collected in the Kerch Strait.

Update:

UKRAINE, RUSSIA FACE OFF OVER CLEANING UP OIL SPILL IN SEA OF AZOV

By John C.k. Daly

Monday, November 19, 2007

On November 11 a powerful storm arose in the northeastern Black Sea. By the end of it, Russia and Ukraine faced serious environmental damage from an oil spill and a potentially acrimonious diplomatic situation.

According to Ukraine's Emergency Situations Ministry, after the storm four ships had foundered, another six had run aground, and two tankers were damaged in the narrow Kerch Strait, at the entrance to the Sea of Azov between Russia and Ukraine. One of the damaged ships was the Volgoneft-139, which was carrying more than 4,000 tons of fuel oil. Smashed by 67 mph winds and 16-foot waves, the ship split in two, spilling more than half its cargo (Ukrains'ke Radio, November 13).

The only good news from the storm was that the ecological catastrophe could have been much worse. The majority of the nautical damage took place in the Kerch Strait, where, despite the storm alert, there were nearly 150 ships. Besides the Volgoneft-139, the dry cargo bulk carrier Volnogorsk sank with its cargo of about 2,600 tons of sulfur near Kerch port, while the Kovel freighter, also carrying sulfur, crashed into the sunken Volnogorsk and slid beneath the waves. The Georgian vessel Khach-izmail also sank. Another sulfur carrier, the Nakhichevan, wrecked. Groundings included the Ukrainian dry cargo vessel Vira Voloshyna, beached near Kapsel Bay, and the Turkish Ziya Kos and a Georgian ship carrying about 800 tons of metal, both of which ran aground close to the port of Novorossiysk. Completing the scene, the Dika barge, loaded with 4,149 tons of fuel oil, was beached on a sandbar at Tuzla, along with the Demetra barge, which was carrying 3,757 tons of fuel (Kommersant, November 12). In all, about 10 ships sank or ran aground and 20 sailors remain missing.

Black Sea neighbors were quick to assist, with the Romanian Navy's Constanta Maritime Rescue Center director, Adrian Alexe, responding to a request from Russian naval authorities for the 100-ton capacity Gigant floating crane to assist commercial vessels sunk in the storm (Rompres, November 13).

The finger pointing has already started. Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev, said,

"Some 30,000 birds have died and it's not possible to count how many fish. The damage is so great that it's hard to assess. It can be equated with an ecological catastrophe" (Interfax, November 13).

The damages caused by the wrecked ships have been estimated at up to $163 million. Russian and Ukrainian tugs have hauled the stern of the Volgoneft-139 into Kavkaz, where an additional 933 tons of fuel oil were pumped out (Interfax-Ukraine, November 15). While clean-up crews are already attacking the oil drifting onto beaches, the authorities are nervously awaiting possible additional pollution from sulfur granules (Itar-Tass, November 15).

A Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental committee began meeting on November 15 in Kerch to discuss the progress of search-and-rescue and cleanup operations. Deputy Transport Minister Boris Korol heads the Russian delegation, while participating Ukrainians include officials from the Emergencies Ministry, Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Foreign Ministry. Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Vladimir Korniyenko heads the Ukrainian team (Itar-Tass, November 15).

The catastrophe has already wreaked havoc on the Sea of Azov's commercial fish stocks, including gobies and Azov anchovies, while World Wildlife Fund officials remain concerned about the fate of dolphins located around the Kerch Strait; two dead dolphins have already washed ashore.

The incident has caused additional friction between Russia and Ukraine, as the Kerch strait passage remains poorly delineated 16 years after the collapse of the USSR. Ukraine insists on dividing the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait along the conventional Soviet Union border that passed through two midpoints of the coast of the Kerch Strait and the Taganrog Bay, while Russia insists on an equal delimitation of the sea area.

The ultimate diplomatic wrangle may occur further to the south, however, as Turkey has insisted for years that unrestricted tanker traffic through the Turkish Straits is an environmental hazard. In 2006 more than 36,000 vessels transited the Turkish Straits, with tankers carrying over 140 million tons of oil under treaty rights guaranteed by the 1936 Montreaux Convention, despite constant Turkish warnings that such constant passages, working out to a tanker every 15 minutes, were a prelude to disaster.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said that the government is now studying the possibility of limiting tanker passages through the Kerch Strait and is consulting with maritime specialists. They are particularly interested in Turkey's experience with the Bosporus and Dardanelles channels. If there is any good news for Moscow, its prime oil export facility at Novorossiysk is south of the straits and Kyiv currently does not plan to claim compensation from Russia for ecological damage (Rosbalt, November 12). The damage from last week's storm, however, seems destined shortly to move from the environmental to the diplomatic sphere.

Russian oil tanker sinks in Black Sea, spilling 1,000 tons of fuel
www.chinaview.cn

A map locating the Kerch Strait -- between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A Russian oil tanker split in half in a fierce storm in the Kerch Strait leading to the Black Sea on Sunday, spilling at least 2,000 tons of fuel oil. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>> MOSCOW. Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- A Russian oil tanker split in half in a fierce storm in the Kerch Strait leading to the Black Sea on Sunday, spilling at least 2,000 tons of fuel oil, Interfax reported. "It is a large-scale environmental disaster which will take a long time to deal with. But in a year, and even in a more distant future the impact of the damage will be felt," Interfax quoted Vladimir Slivyak, head of the ECO-Zashchita, a public environmental protection watchdog, as saying. A vessel is seen in choppy waters near Russia's southern port of Kavkaz November 11, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>> The storm, with wind blowing at over 18 meters per second, has torn a barge, the Demetra, loaded with 3,000 tons of fuel oil, from its anchor and is carrying it away, Interfax reported on Sunday afternoon, citing an emergency headquarters spokesman from Port Kavkaz. The storm has also sunk two Turkish freighters and another cargo ship which was carrying over 2,000 tons of sulfur, local emergency department sources said. Fuel oil is seen on the shore near Russia's southern port of Kavkaz November 11, 2007. A Russian oil tanker split in half in a fierce storm in the Kerch Strait leading to the Black Sea on Sunday, spilling at least 2,000 tons of fuel oil. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Editor: Mu Xuequan
Warning of Ecological Disaster As Oil Tanker Sinks in Storm Reuters
A severe storm broke a small Russian oil tanker off the Ukrainian port of Kerch on Sunday, spilling up to 2,000 tons of fuel oil in what environmental official Oleg Mitvol described as a disaster.

The same storm in the Black Sea and Azov Sea also sank four freighters, three carrying sulphur and one with a cargo of scrap metal. The heavy seas also cracked the hull of another oil tanker, but the ship was afloat and not leaking.

The sunken tanker, Volganeft-139, had traveled from the Russian port of Azov and was anchored outside Kerch in Ukraine's eastern Crimea to ride out the weather when high waves broke its back early Sunday.

The 1978-built tanker, designed primarily for inland and coastal service, was carrying 4,000 tons of fuel oil in total when it was hit by the storm.

"This problem may take a few years to solve. Fuel oil is a heavy substance and it is now sinking to the seabed," said Mitvol, deputy head of the Natural Resources Ministry's environmental watchdog, said on Vesti-24. "This is a very serious environmental disaster."

His agency said some 2,000 tons of fuel oil had spilled. A spill of more than 700 tons is considered large, but the biggest ones run into the tens or even hundreds of thousands.

The tanker's 13 crew members drifted for hours in waves up to 6 meters high aboard the ship's stern before beaching safely.

Almost at the same time as the ship broke up, a freighter carrying 2,000 tons of sulphur sank off the port of Kavkaz in the Kerch Strait. Its crew of nine was rescued. "We hope that in the water sulphur will not form any substances dangerous to humans," Mitvol said.

Several hours later, another freighter carrying sulphur sank off Kavkaz, Interfax reported, adding three of its crew had been rescued by a Ukrainian ship. The fate of the other eight sailors was unclear. The same storm, which is expected to rage for up to three days, also sank a freighter with scrap metal off Sevastopol. Two of its crew were rescued, but the fate of the other 15 was unknown. The hull of the oil tanker Volganeft-123 cracked after being hit by high waves, but it was afloat and its oil products were not leaking.