LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.  
November 21, 2009
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Most Read

Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won't)

Lipstick on a Rogue

Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports
Enough G-2 Talk Already
Despite Subsidies, Class Sizes Rise in California Schools

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture
 * NEW! * Freedom’s Fight: Part II

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101
Vetting Sarah Palin

Truthdig Bazaar more items

 
Ear to the Ground

Russia-Ukraine Spat Leaves Europe in the Cold

Email this item Email    Print this item Print   
Posted on Jan 11, 2009
Flickr / ppz

Snow blankets Moscow’s Red Square.

Hundreds of thousands of freezing Europeans are waiting for Russia and Ukraine to resolve a pricing dispute, while EU officials engage in scramblepants diplomacy to get the natural gas flowing again. Russia has accused Ukraine of siphoning off gas, which runs from Mother Russia through Ukraine and into Europe, where some areas are very, very cold.


BBC:

Ukraine and the EU are trying to iron out glitches that have stalled a deal with Russia to resolve a gas dispute.

Russia has said it cannot implement an agreement with Ukraine to resume gas flows to Europe, accusing Ukraine of adding “unacceptable” conditions.

Several European countries have been left without gas in severe winter weather as the dispute rumbles on.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement


Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By PSmith, January 12 at 6:04 pm #

UKRAINE ATTACKS RUSSIA - NEOCON PLOT? - Part 2

Peter Dale Scott - the best single source of information on US ‘Deep Politics.’

Peter Dale Scott in The Road to 9/11 defines U.S. ‘deep politics’ as the ferocious battling for control of government by groups within the elite. He documents ‘deep politics’ events from JFK to the present day.

Google (Broken link) D.330 “The 9/11 Report and Ali Mohamed, Al Qaeda’s Chief Terrorism Trainer.” OR http://www.broeckers.com/PDScott.pdf


Excellent PDS info via Google Video and Youtube. Or via his web site - http://www.peterdalescott.net/rec.html

Peter Dale Scott on COG - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7tVb5rskE

The latest - “GTV: Empire, Republic & The Neocons - Part 1”, http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UC021XGo5pg


Barack Obama appears to have good reason to worry more about his US political opponents and their (White) House warming gifts, than about any foreign so-called enemy.

BIDEN’S “CRAZY TALK”
As usual the comedy programs provide the real news ... and the MSM fiddles while Rome burns.

“Mark well my words” - Joe Biden. More Crazy Talk, done right by SNL http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/road-to-the-white-house/787141/

(“And don’t call me Shirley?” Ed.)

Report this

By PSmith, January 12 at 5:53 pm #

UKRAINE ATTACKS RUSSIA - NEOCON PLOT?

Folktruther suggests that is the economic equivalent of the Georgia war, ... a tiny nation attacking Russia.

So that would mean ... That it is a Neocon Plot designed to boost McCain’s sagging poll numbers and make him look presidential? Or was that just Bonkers Mikheil Saakashvili, Neocon president of Georgia and his unilateral war on Russia, inspired by Neocon Nutcase adviser Randy Scheunemann who thought that he would make his man look more presidential, by restarting the Cold War.

Or perhaps it is another (White) House warming gift for Barack Obama?

Like this (White) House warming gift -


A POISONED CHALICE - BONKERS ‘PUMPHEAD’ CHENEY’S (WHITE) HOUSE WARMING GIFT

Israel, the US’s Middle East Rottweiler slaughters the children of Gaza, with 900 hundred dead Palestinians; half of the Sabra-Chatila genocide from 1982, but it is early days yet.

While Reichsminister Bonkers ‘Pumphead’ Cheney has, amazingly enough, succeeded in lowering the US’s already trashed, tortured(Ha!), blood-soaked reputation, by having his soldiers ensure that there is no exit by Palestinians while Israel’s ‘Final Solution for the Palestinians of Gaza’ is implemented.

Why, anybody would think that he was deliberately (further) damaging his country’s reputation in order to destroy any positive course of action for his successor, President Elect Barack Obama.

Has such a thing ever happened before? Surely not?


PREVIOUS (WHITE) HOUSE WARMING GIFTS

1. Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States on January 20, 1981.
The release of the fifty-two remaining American Teheran embassy hostages was announced twenty minutes after the swearing in of the new president. It is suggested that their release, negotiated and agreed with the departing Carter administration, was delayed by a secret agreement made by a faction within the incoming Reagan team. George H. W. Bush was his vice-president.

2. Sixty nine days later, on March 30, 1981, Reagan was shot by would-be assassin, John Hinckley. George H. W. Bush would have succeeded him if the plot, oops - lone gunman, had succeeded. By coincidence, John Hinckley had been due to have dinner with Bush’s son Neal that night. He was found not to be carrying a copy of Catcher in the Rye. Mel Gibson version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PUybiuyOvg

3. Bill Clinton was elected President on November 4, 1992, defeating George H. W. Bush George, who then became a one-term President. George H. W. Bush ordered 25,000 troops into Somalia on December 5 1992. He assured the public that he planned for the troops to be home by Clinton’s inauguration. He left office on January 20, 1993 with the troops still stationed in Somalia. On October 3 and 4, 1993, 18 American soldiers died and 73 were wounded after the shooting down of an American helicopter. President Clinton’s presidency was badly damaged by the loss of life.

4. Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993. George H. W. Bush left the White House. Thirty seven days later, on February 26, 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing occurred.  Peter Dale Scott in The Road to 9/11 is very informative about Ali Mohamed, trainer of the the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, Al Qaeda trainer, Egyptian major and FBI, CIA and U.S Army employee. Peter Dale Scott - http://www.peterdalescott.net/


Reports that Barack Obama met the Oracle and that she told him to “Beware of Bushs bearing gifts,” have been denied by the President-elects transition team.


... contd.

Report this

By KDelphi, January 12 at 5:51 pm #

Folk—I had thought of that.

I do not understand why so many still want to keep Russai on the US s*it list. It is not as though we have totally democratically elected representatives , either!

Fortunately for them , Russia probably does not give a rat’s a** if we do anymore.

We’re the ones who have to keep buying all this oil and propping up criminal regimes in the Middle East.

(doesnt help with the Gaza situation, either, I suspect!)

Sorry—I forgot. They “hate us for our fridom”

Report this

By Folktruther, January 12 at 3:49 am #

No, Old Geezer, it’s the Ukraine that has shot itself in the foot. It is the economic equivlent of the Georgia war.  The Ukraine premier added a priviso to the aggreement AFTER RUSSIA HAD SIGNED IT.  This is absurd, like a tiny nation attacking Russia.

Both Ukraine and Georgia are culturally similar to Russia, and the US want to detach them from Russia influence, get them in NATO, and threaten Russia militarily.  Zbig, Obama’s mentor, is especially anti-Russian, being a Pole. 

The US encourages these small countries to act crazy, and then have to back down when there is no alternative.  Ukraine MUST get its gas now from Russia, there isn’t any alternative.  Ukraine is just making gestures before it caves.

Report this

By KDelphi, January 12 at 1:57 am #

Another place tha needs to “get off of the petrol”...

Report this

By Old Geezer Pilot, January 11 at 10:24 pm #
(Unregistered commenter)

Russia has really shot herself in the foot. Europe, having been fooled once, will never rely on Russia again for winter heating.

Doh.

Report this

Add Your Comment

Posts by unregistered readers are moderated. Posts by members
are published immediately. Why wait? Register today!







Number of characters remaining: 4000

Notify you when others comment on this article?


Are you a human?
Retype the word you see here.


Please read and abide by our comment policy.
By submitting this comment, you agree to this site's terms and conditions.

 
 

 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2009 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.