WAR HAS JUST BEGUN

Following along from my previous blog, below, June 29, 2008, "A Small Matter of Addition," and others, a few updates on the many, intensified contradictions which few, if any outside of the "think tanks," myself, a few others, are following, here, in the US. There is no question, the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal has opened Pandora's Box for the next century, more or less. And, a small caveat. The reason I do this blog. If one lives in the US, there is virtually no way to understand world or domestic events without doing the research, oneself. Since I would do this anyway, I figure I might as well put some of it into a blog for anyone else interested. So, here goes. Regarding Turkeys' escalating domestic crisis. Turkey's military is under attack regarding the AKP closure case and here is their response, www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=238908 Likewise, as I had previously highlighted, the psuedo Left, from the Socialist International to the openly Fascist JBANC, is supporting Turkey's reactionary, privatizing, pseudo-Islamic AKP. So, a WELL DESERVED response on the part of Turkey's opposition, including their military, above, "Baykal Will Not Attend Socialist International Meeting," www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=108579 Meanwhile, Turkey's military continues pounding the PKK. Then, regarding Kurdistan. The other criminal gang, the KRG, continues to oppose the equally criminal gang in Baghdad regarding the distribution of oil contracts and the allocation of Iraq's oil revenues as well as who will pay the Peshmerga militias, www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/refid/E2F-30-06-2008/article/33098 Some of you may recall, if you had been reading my earlier entries from my initial, now blocked, blogspot, I had been following something called the Eagle Group of Iraq which signed a 50-50 partnership with Canada's Heritage Oil for exploration and development in the Kurdistan region. That was in September, 2005. As a reminder, here's a link to their Press Release, at the time, www.heritageoilltd.com/resource/KPC%20Press%20Release%20FINAL.pdf But, I have never, since, been able to find out just WHO is the Eagle Group of Iraq? So, I speculated, it is either Barzani, himself and/or Talabani and, I dared someone to contradict me by providing factual evidence of WHO it is, if not one or both of them. Meanwhile, in my blog of February 12, 2008, I noted that some changes had been made as to who owned Canada's Heritage Oil, from Mr. 5% Gulbenkian to Tony Buckingham. For that, www.karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/02/that-which-nobody-wants-to-see.html In that blog, above, I made reference to another excellent link regarding Tony Buckingham, Obama, etc. by writer Keith Harmon Snow. I will provide the link to Snow's piece, once again, www.uruknet.info/?p=m41015 BUT, Baghdad's competing mafia government gang continues to contest KRG's authority. www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/refid/E2F-30-06-2008/article/33112 Clearly, this puts the KRG and Baghdad and their militias in a potential collision course with one another. And, in a further odd note, I noticed something which rang alarm bells in my mind. The foreign companies who signed contracts with Baghdad will be paid IN CASH instead of oil. Oil may be a fungible commodity, but, cash is certainly more oily, slipperly and fungible than oil, itself. This is an open invitation to extraordinary unaccountability, I believe. Does not anybody else see this as an unusual arrangement? www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/refid/E2F-30-06-2008/article/33105 Now, the financial machinations in the GCC, UAE, etc, which I've been following, continue unabated. I will provide a few links and highlights, below, at the end of this blog, as footnotes, rather than here, for purposes of continuity and more easy reading. At this very moment, another very significant development is being reported in both English and Arabic on a video from Al-Arabiya. On the left hand side bar are more related videos in Arabic on the same subject. Once again, I remind everyone I do NOT have the slightest idea what is being said in Arabic but assume it's the same as the English, regarding "Alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz," www.zawya.com/video/default.cfm/sidVID20080630095234 This is a big deal. (Anyone wishing to help me out and add some English commentary from Arabic sources, please, feel free and it would be much appreciated). On the Russian front. First, "Communists Prepare for Class Conflict," www.kommersant.com/p907650/The_Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation Before I put too much emphasis on this, I'm well aware the CP and Zyuganov, in particular, have been coopted in Russia. And, I had some comments on my previous blog to which I linked, above, about Oleg Shenin. Nonetheless, the preceeding has significance, as a response to internal power struggles, just as in Turkey. In addition to all the many volatile conflicts and regional factors, Russia is considering moving it's Black Sea fleet to Syria after 2017, where Russia still maintains a base in the Mediterranean. www.kommersant.com/p-12741/Russian_Black_Sea_Fleet As part of this, clearly, the Russian Parliament recently wrote off most of Syria's Soviet era debt. And, of course, the escalating conflict and provocations surrounding Georgia, Abkhazia, Russia, the Caucasus, about which virtually nobody here in the US is even aware exists. Lastly, as promissed, above, a few footnoted links highlighting just some of the GCC developments: "Bank of NY Mellon to Operate from Dubai International Financial Center," www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080630053621/lok053600080630 and "Foreign Oil Firms Set to Play Bigger Role in Gulf," www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080630045552/lok045500080630 and, "Schroder's Strengthens North Africa and Middle East Investment Team," www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080630055722/lok055700080630