TURKISH OPPOSITION ON THE MOVE and NAZI IRAN'S PRIVATIZATION

Turkey's wonderful, militant, PRINCIPLED labor opposition, resistance, which, of course, receives NO recognition, attention or support whatsoever here from our bogus, manufactured NAZI Citigroup/Exxon/Morgan Left Dictatorship once more is on the move:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=civil-servants-protests-on-three-fronts-2009-12-16

And

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkish-police-disperse-protest-by-tekel-workers-2009-12-16

And, the world's great freedom fighters, NAZI Iran's Chilean General Pinochet goose stepping Revolutionary Guards, championed by the globe's other bogus Left, see my post just below this one, also on the move:

"Iran Guards march on oil sector
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have replaced foreign companies at a growing number of projects in the Islamic republic - including the massive South Pars development - in a move some analysts see as evidence of the elite force's growing economic clout..."

FROM:

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article201709.ece

But, showdown and confrontation at High Noon in the Middle East O.K. Corral playing soon at a theatre near you, introductory episode, prologue, ALREADY occurring anyway between competing, rival economic factions, commercial interests, investments, corporations of Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia/Yemen/US/EU/UAE/Russia/Israel/Egypt/Lebanon/PA/China, etc., as all PRIVATIZED interests jostle for their share of the economic pie, empire, dominance, market and the spoils of war.
Iranian controlled Baghdad's recent so-called oil auction already "challenged" in court while the KRG/Baghdad/Iran intractable conundrum over Baghdad's central government oil revenue allocations and contracts CONTINUES UNABATED.
No resolution in sight, except, of course, the inevitable, upcoming, military Big Bang explosion.

And, back in the insecure Homeland of our NAZI Obooma Dictatorship, the latest chapter in our NASCENT, uphill challenge to our deplorable, abysmal, collaborative Fascist led AFL-CIA and Andy Stern Gang SEIU labor leadership is represented below by NUHW (Sal Rosselli's National Union of Healthcare Workers).
NUHW, along with NNU, National Nurses Union, and California Nurses Association represent HOPE for the future, IF any exists:

http://www.labornotes.org/2009/12/finally-nuhw-squares-against-seiu-two-hospital-elections

And, finally, an anecdotal postscript, personal indulgence.
I previously have mentioned my 85 year old acquaintance, A.
A. has a severe vision disability and can no longer see/read the internet on a computer easily. So, I narrate to him highlights, as much as possible.
His sight may be debilitated, but, not his intellect. Nor his experience.
I told him about the above, Iran's NAZI Revolutionary Guards seize oil fields, etc. I also explained to him WHO is Iran's Oil Minister in Baghdad.
His immediate, one sentence reply to me, for what it's worth,
"They have declared war!"
I know.

THE SQUEEZE IS ON and LEFT IS RIGHT

Russia's Lukoil, amongst others, SUPPOSEDLY, wins a concession ON PAPER in NAZI occupied Iranian Baghdad Oil Minister Sistani's son-in-law, Shahristani's, most recent "auction."

The word auction, alone, should pique one's attention and incredulity.

PAPER is the word that represents the extent of their "win/contract" in this "auction."
When was the last time you heard of an "auction" for valuable natural assets, resources, such as these/those above?

And, of course, it has been noted by a few pundits, US firms were mysteriously and conspicuously absent, missing from action.
Wonder why??
Maybe they know something??

SIMULTANEOUS to Iran's Baghdad Oil Ministry bogus PR "auction," here's what else is happening regarding Lukoil, with some additional questions floating about as to whether or not ConocoPhillips will sell some of their shares in Lukoil.
Maybe they will "auction," instead of sell:
 http://johnhelmer.net/?p=2315
 

Then, MOST IMPORTANT regarding LEFT IS RIGHT

The following is an EXCERPT from my OWN post of February 20, 2008, to which I will link below.

Although I quote myself, below, THE NUMBERED POLITICAL RESOLUTIONS I mention are MUST reading, not optional.

Because links and text on the internet have a tendency to disappear, this time around, in this entry, for reference, I actually posted the full text of the numbered items just below the link, which I did NOT do in my previous entry of February 20, 2008, just in case the entire link or text changes or disappears somehow. A sort of insurance policy.

Of course, if you wish, as an exercise, you can go backwards, afterwards and read through all the usual knee jerk rhetoric and jargon, not only the resolutions I itemized.

Aside from being illustrative, there is a particular REASON for my reference NOW back to this earlier entry.
This SAME group and Ramsey Clark, apparently, NOW are courting Syria's Baath Party!!

So, this fits precisely, directly into the Iraq/Iran regime change scenario I have been following all along.

The above/below will turn on a dime and suddenly, PRESTO, their "official" rhetoric and line will change and you will now have a newly minted Baath Arab government of some sort in Iraq, most likely, those I have named in previous posts, MINUS, of course, socialized, nationalized industries and resources.

They will help whitewash EVERYTHING and rewrite history, including their own role, of course, and advance the cause of reactionary, counter-revolutionary PRIVATIZATION, but, it will be called nationalist, instead, UNDER GUISE OF LEFT/OPPOSITION rubric, empty, meaningless rhetoric, jargon, sloganeering, jingo, devoid of SUBSTANCE.
 
So, excerpt from my previous post, February 20, 2008 :

"...Ramsey Clark, as noted, is/was attached to the "Left" International Action Center, here, in the US, and, they, in turn, to the ANSWER coalition in the US, which sponsors lots of demonstrations.
 
Just this past year, only a few months ago, in November 27-29, 2007, the same Ramsey Clark was THE US representative and, apparently, from what I read, President, at an international "Anti-Imperialist Forum" in India.

I want to draw EVERYONE'S attention to the "political resolutions" adopted at this presumed Left international forum, approximately half or two thirds down the text, note especially, those "political resolutions" #3, #4 and #5, (supporting Hizbullah, Nassrallah and Kurdistan, opposing Turkey):
   www.inteldaily.com/?c=117&a=4646

[And, then, text of the resolutions to which I referred in the above link, NOT explicitly stated in my initial post:

"...3.The International Anti-imperialist Conference expresses its deep concern over the US bullying of people of Lebanon and the US-backed Israeli threat to Lebanon’s sovereignty and extends its full support to the Lebanese resistance led by Hizbullah and others against US-Zionist interference regarding Lebanese sovereignty, independence and security.

This Conference conveys it deep admiration and respect to the courageous and militant Lebanese resistance led by Hizbullah and its leader Mr. Hassan Nassrallah, for achieving this tremendous victory facing the US-Israeli brutal and devastating aggression against Lebanon.

Such victory is to teach the free people of the world a historic lesson in defending their countries and their rights against imperialist policies and aggressions.

4.The International Anti-imperialist Conference condemns the attacks of the fascist dictatorship of Turkey to oppress and liquidate the revolutionary and nationalist movements in Turkey, as exemplified by the attacks on the Marxist Leninist Communist Party of Turkey and North Kurdistan, the revolutionary forces and the Kurdish national movement.

This Conference demands the release of all political prisoners, in particular the 10 September prisoners, and withdrawal of conviction of communists.

This Conference condemns the fascist dictatorship’s policy of denial and annihilation of Kurdish nation and its policy of occupation of South Kurdistan.

5.The International Anti-imperialist Conference demands that the USA immediately cease its diplomatic and military moves to attack Iran and impose sanctions.

This Conference expresses its solidarity with the Iranian people’s struggle to protect their sovereignty from imperialist attack.

We condemn India’s siding with USA in voting against Iran in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)... ]

FROM MY FEBRUARY 20, 2008 POST:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/02/gulf-house-to-form-first-energy-bank.html

And, here is their website, link:

www.anti-imperialist.in

And, then, I return to the latest update as reported, HERE, about the Mexican Electrical Workers struggle to save their NATIONALIZED electrical company from privatization.
Remember THAT?

Well, look who just arrived on the scene in Mexico under auspices of labor Solidarity.
Our United Suckers and Assholes FASCIST FRONT, COVERT labor organization, our AFL-CIA International Dept and ILO affiliate, as part of a broader labor delegation.

Whenever one sees them, you must run in the opposite direction.
They are the kiss of death.
They are there ONLY to compromise, co-opt, ameliorate, pacify, assuage, mollify, negotiate whatever existing struggle exists against private capital and help them "adjust" to the realities of privatization.

I excerpted from the link below the following, because, as you will note, a PRINCIPLED demand and opposition to privatization has completely disappeared.
Missing in action.
Replaced, instead...

"...As a delegation, we expressed our concern about the rule of law and the application of the NAFTA side agreements and the ILO standards.”.... ....Dinkelaker believes that the delegation’s demonstration of solidarity in Mexico was needed. “I hope that this latest development with the SME will act as an international wake-up call for solidarity. If we allow these kinds of actions to take place, then not only will Mexico’s independent unionism be set back many years, but we will all end up at the bottom of the barrel with them.

“Fighting for universal standards and for human rights will provide a foundation for building a world where no matter where capital goes, it must respect labor rights and human rights.”..."

FROM:
 

http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/12/us-canadian-delegation-supports-embattled-mexican-electrical-workers-0

 

Of course, the role of a competing, privatized electrical company and collaborative union in Mexico, aggressively undermining the struggle above, as reported elsewhere, BELOW, is amongst the disappeared from OUR reports.

You can rest assured, OUR delegation is there to make sure THOSE private interests, and, probably, most likely, their own pension fund investments, are NOT threatened, challenged by ANY alternative, militant, Mexican labor strike, organization, opposition and resistance to privatization.

They function as State Dept, CIA, covert liaisons, operatives for compromise and cooperation, just as those above in the misnomer Anti-Imperialist coalition AND following along the pattern of IRAQ's newly minted, AFL-CIA cloned, ILO affiliated Oil Union and USLAW (US Labor Against War):

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/817/42001

 

The preceding link, above, came from my November 14, 2009 post:
 

 

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/11/mexico-followup.html

 

And, of course, our institutional, organized, AFL-CIA, SEIU class representatives and labor leadership operate similarly here.

It is and was they who MOST sabotaged possibilities for a BROAD, PRINCIPLED, UNIFIED, NATIONAL SINGLE PAYER medical insurance movement, here, by utilizing their many resources to ACTIVELY lobby and organize AGAINST Single Payer with divide and conquer techniques and a bogus, red herring, public option and/or any other plan.
THEY torpedoed Single Payer.

THEY BETRAYED US and, of course, in the long run, their own class constituents, as well.

They act AGAINST their and our own PRINCIPLED class self-interests while HYPOCRITICALLY, cynically, simultaneously, purporting to represent it/us/those interests.

And, THAT IS THE/MY POINT.

And, that point is made very well below, in the very last paragraph, but, NOT about our labor union leadership, to which it applies MOST, but, instead, the Democrats, with whom, however, our collaborative unions are aligned.

And, these are the POLICIES, PATTERN OF BEHAVIOUR, which nobody wishes to expose and confront, because, after all, then our labor organizations will lose their efficacy, viability, function, cover, legitimacy, clout as both domestic and foreign covert agents, operatives for PRIVATE CAPITAL.

And, here's the quote to which I am referring above about Single Payer in Congress at the end from the link below.

Substitute the word PRINCIPLED for FUNDAMENTAL, if you wish.

They are interchangeable words, concepts, meaning within the following context AND apply TO ALL ABOVE, AS WELL.
 MY emphasis in BOLD:

"...But at least Burris had it right when he took to the Senate floor tonight and quoted Gandhi on compromise.
 
“All compromise is based on give and take,” Gandhi said. “But there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”

FROM:

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=1905

WALKING DEAD

Below is a war survivor, but, not really.
He and millions like him are the walking, traumatized dead and/or the deceased and and/or disappeared victims of the continuing architects of WWII's NAZI, FASCIST onslaught, modern day barbarism, death and destruction unleashed on Europe, Asia and the USSR and those who dared defy them in most places around the globe after WWII, except those falling directly under a protective, military aegis, rubric, umbrella of the Soviet Union.

When Cuba's Castro brought in Soviet missiles to DEFEND their revolution, a nuclear holocaust nearly ensued.
VERY, VERY CLOSE. A HAIRS BREATH, A SLIVER AWAY.
I personally believe the PRIMARY reason, others existed, Kennedy was assassinated, the ultimate coup de grace, so to speak, was his acceptance of USSR detente after the Cuban Soviet Missile Crisis.
He became somewhat chastened.

Then, when Allende's Chilean revolution ensued, they and he did not have the protective umbrella of the Soviet Union.
And, we know what happened to Allende and Chile. Likewise, what occurred in most South and Central America countries, Cuba being the one and only exception, early on.

Of course, in Asia, at that time, post WWII, Red China came into existence as well, affecting power relationships, there.
And, North Korea fought an absolutely valiant, stoic, heroic war against the US, WITH Red China's assistance.
Vietnam was another post colonial matter, inherited from the French.
Still, in places like Indochina and the Philippines and elsewhere where independence, revolutionary movements and Resistance and Communist fighters existed after WWII, thousands, millions were executed and bodies could be seen floating down rivers.
Recall Indonesia's Suharto massacres.
They were MASSACRES.
That is the appropriate characterization.
And, India's intentional subdivision upon independence, where further massacres ensued.

And, now, the SAME PRIVATE NAMES, INDIVIDUALS, INTERESTS, CORPORATIONS WHO SPONSORED, BOUGHT, FINANCED, PROFITED FROM NAZI AND FASCIST BARBARISM IN WWII ARE PROFITING ONCE AGAIN, EXPORTING RECOGNIZABLE, SIMILAR, TRANSPOSED, TECHNIQUES, BUT, THIS TIME AROUND, WITH OBSCENE, SICKENING, REPULSIVE LABOR SUPPORT AND PENSION FUND INVESTMENT, and, of course, possible now ONLY after the demise of what was once the USSR.
Nazism?? What Nazism?
Past is prologue.
Anyway, here is a sample of what your money buys you:

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/12/reunion-1.html

And, something alittle extra, a reminder of the above:

http://libcom.org/news/day-after-riots-reforms-crisis-greece-13122009

Here's a standard, typical little snapshot of the usual, customary developments behind above reports from Greece, for those completely in the dark:

http://www.athensnews.gr/articles/13368/13/12/2009/24268

And:

http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/

And the beat goes on and on and on...

HERE

...As we all sink deeper and deeper, inexorably intertwined, enmeshed, both literally and figuratively, in the tortured logic and exigencies of an economic system dedicated to generate ever and ever greater personal profit, dividends and greed at ANY AND ALL COSTS WHATSOEVER.
The ONLY variable that counts is the BOTTOM LINE.
All else is collatoral damage.
Extricating from this NAZI abyss, however, requires SELF-CONSCIOUS awareness of the OBJECTIVE, underlying, fundamental power relations, contradictions, expressed above and DIRECTED, PRINCIPLED comitment to alter, change the course, upside down and inside out.
Nothing else will do.
Otherwise, we are ALL hurtling headlong into an ugly extinction.

IRAN PRIVATIZATION

I excerpt the following, below, from an OCTOBER, 2008 article, almost one year ago now.

I chose this particular report because it kills two birds with one stone.

First, it names Mohammed Jaberian, a person with whom I am NOT familiar, and Khouzestan Steel.

Sale of Iran's Khouzestan Steel to Jaberian JUST NOW revoked, related to recent threats, challenges to  present NAZI Iran Mullah regime, militias, Revolutionary Guards and, thus, by extension, Iraq/Baghdad Oil Minister, Sistani son-in-law, Shahristani, of course.

I will link to a report about Jaberian reversal of fortune, subsequently.

Second, it names some obvious suspects, characters, I mention throughout my posts, AND, something I PROMISED in a post I did earlier, April 16, 2008, regarding JP Morgan and their First Persia Fund connections and a post I did, June 2, 2009, about Iranian VP Parviz Davoodi and his connections with Morgan Stanley.

I pulled a link from my April 16, 2008 post regarding the First Persia Fund, just as a reminder:

http://www.firstpersiafund.com/main/page.asp?pageId=5

So, as I said in my April 16, 2008 post and thereafter, NO UPSTART, PIPSQUEAK IRANIAN MULLAH/S is/are going to challenge the impeccable international lineage and historical pedigree of NAZI JP MORGAN and their historical NAZI ALLIANCES, FRIENDS, CARTEL, CLIENTS and associations.

It is a slam dunk contest.

But, of course, it takes a world of complicity, appeasement, collaboration, self-destructive ignorance, stupidity, short sightedness, opportunism, denial and both historical and theoretical amnesia to help in ALL their counter-revolutionary, reactionary global projects.

MY emphasis below in BOLD:

"...Only two other deals have broken the $1bn mark this year, with Mohammed Jaberian paying $1.5bn for a 30.5% holding in Iran's Khouzestan Steel, and UK fund manager Fidelity International taking a 5.2% interest in Israel Chemicals for $1.3bn.

Credit Suisse leads the advisory rankings for announced M&A deals in the region, working on a total of 12 deals so far with a combined value of $14.8bn. Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Nomura make up the top five.

In completed deals, Goldman Sachs tops the table, with $14.4bn worth of deals, followed by JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, HSBC and SEB..."

FROM:

http://www.wealth-bulletin.com/home/content/2452237812/

And, then, for the latest about Jaberian's reversal of fortune regarding Iranian Steel:

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/12/12/2009-12-12T072036Z_01_DAH222353_RTRIDST_0_IRAN-PRIVATISATION-STEEL.html

Finally, as a footnote, a link to my previous post from June 2, 2009 regarding Iran VP Davoodi and a further embedded link from April 2, 2009, to his/their German, Morgan, First Persia Fund connections:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/06/persianazi-iran-vp-davoodi.html

IRAQ ORDER OF BATTLE

Two entries today. This and the one below it.
I featured the following information/link first, but, I came upon it at a news item just below this one concerning additional US military hardware sales to Iraq's so-called government, which, really, means selling it to ourselves, in addition to all I have been reporting about Iraq/Gulf arms buildup. The map featured below can be enlarged AND I highly urge, suggest you ALSO click onto "BLOG" in the heading at the top after reading the following and peruse the BLOG for ALOT more of the same. I cannot vouch for accuracy, but, I think one should first read and consider the quantity of detailed, specific information provided in the BLOG and then investigate or judge its assertions and veracity. So, first:

http://home.comcast.net/~djyae/site/?/page/Iraq_Order_of_Battle/

And, then, here's the source from which I pulled the above information.
The link above is found at the BOTTOM/END of the article just below:

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Swiftships-Shipbuilders-Gets-181M-for-Iraqi-Navy-Patrol-Boats-05812/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+did%2Frss+%28Defense+Industry+Daily%29

And, then, see today's earlier post below...

185% RETURN ON INVESTMENT

It has been a while since I updated anything more on the subject WHO OWNS ISRAEL after doing a previous post regarding Israel's Nochi Dankner and their BG/PA/EMG/ISRAEL Gaza Gas Wars.
I will link to this post again, at the end, for a refresher, reminder.
But, I did find the following news report irresistible.
After all, how many places can one earn 185% on investment in only 3 years?
PSAGOT, apparently, according to the following report, is Israel's largest investment fund conglomerate, encompassing mutual funds, meaning, thus, institutional investors, pensions, individuals, et. al., and, is interconnected with Banks Leumi and Hapoalim, intrinsic to my post at the end about Nochi Dankner.
Banks Leumi and Hapoalim, in turn, helped APAX finance their acquisition of PSAGOT from York, as you will see in the SECOND LINK following this one:

"185% Return for York Capital on Psagot":

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000521631

And, alittle more about PSAGOT and Israel Banks Leumi and Hapoalim:

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000521212

In answer to my own question, above, how many places can one earn 185% on investment in only a couple/few years, here are two samples from previous posts on the subject.

The first one, below, from 2006, about Pakistan's stock market which rose a whopping 800% AND its interconnections with the Pakistan Opportunity Fund AND, they, in turn, with Abraaj, Jafar, Dana Gas, et.al!:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/11/from-may-2006-abraaj-jafar-dana-gas.html

And, from a slightly more recent one, early 2008, about a Gulf Finance House 95% dividend:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2008/02/gulf-finance-house-declares-95-dividend.html

While mentioning the above, I will take a slight, but, related detour, tangent to an article by Helmer about a Russian company, FESCO, Far Eastern Shipping Company, to demonstrate the UBIQUITOUS, OVERLAPPING, RELATED, INTERTWINED, INTERCONNECTED OWNERSHIP patterns, names, above and most everywhere else.
Excerpt below, link follows:

"...Other industry sources in Moscow claim the underlying problem is lack of unpledged assets, compounded by the recent financial difficulties of one of Fesco’s international backers, Dubai Port World, and its parent, Dubai World...

....ING, Raffeisen, Citi, and Calyon are the group’s main foreign lenders..."
FROM:

www.johnhelmer.net/?p=2306

Lastly, my footnote, as promised above, regarding Who Owns Israel:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/04/israel-dankner-hapoalim-and-iran-swiss.html

So, in conclusion, and, in view of both the holiday season and time of year my slightly paraphrased, amended answer to a now infamous, immortalized question, with link below:

"Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus conspiracy and he/it/they are well represented above!"

Merry Xmas, yawl!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus

THE LITTLE OIL AUCTION THAT COULD NOT AND WHAT ERDOGAN DISCUSSED

Although the following is great humor, as everybody knows, good satire represents truth and this one definitely contains kernels, nuggets of what I suspect was on the agenda in my previous post, below, about Turkey's US Ambassador's sudden, unexpected resignation, his exclusion from high level talks (forget slave boy and vacuous idiot Obooma, I mean President Hillary Clinton) AND following my previous report about Turkey's military PROMISE, garauntee to invade Kurdistan should an independent, contested Kurdistan/Kirkuk battle loom and Iraq's fragmentation, AND, occurring almost simultaneously with all the above, the Little Iraq Oil Auction, a la The Little Engine That Thought It COULD...
"I think I can, I think I can..."
Here's a slightly MODIFIED, updated, revised and VERY APROPOS version in this instance of The Little Engine That Could children's nursery rhyme, ditty, in case you are unfamiliar with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQ9w9vYBJ4&feature=related

So, much hoopla and ado about nothing.
For many/most of the areas auctioned in Iraq there were NO BIDDERS.
And, for those few like China and Shell, for example, I would suggest you or they NOT take your or their money to the bank yet.

NOTHING permanent, resolved UNTIL IRAQ'S SO-CALLED ELECTIONS AND/OR CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT BOTH IN IRAQ AND IRAN.
All remains contested STILL and Defense Secy Gates ALSO made a hurried appearance in Iraq, assuring everyone the US Air Force will stay INDEFINITELY.

But, all parties concerned go through the empty motions, gestures, procedures, pretense, as if nothing changed.
That is merely a PR hat trick, diversion, propaganda, the magician's sleight of hand, especially since United Suckers and Assholes do not even know where, who, how and why they are fighting.
They have NOT A CLUE.
But, they are not the only ones in this world, apparently.
As a reminder, my 85 year old friend utters the slogan to me repeated ad nauseum here to lull and reassure the peasants, "Peace In Our Time," as WWII raged overseas and then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=what-did-they-discuss-2009-12-10

AMBASSADOR RESIGNS, RUSSIA PRIVATIZES, NEW UNION

Turkey's Ambassador to the US suddenly resigned.
No explanation given beyond the following:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=surprise-resignation-after-washington-summit-sends-shockwaves-2009-12-10

It definitely represents a significant indicator, but, the preceding says nothing about why.
I could, of course, speculate. But, I won't.
I will let others do it, instead.
I have my own thoughts.

Meanwhile, as promised, expected, anticipated, Russia's present Fascist Administration, "Putin, Medvedev and Company," plan to privatize more Russian state enterprises, available to foreign investment, of course, or, as I indicated in previous posts, re-privatizing, rearranging, shuffling the deckchairs on the boat.
It has been reported in numerous sources, but, I chose one link below arbitrarily.
This development was in the works for some time now, as I had on previous posts, so, it is NOT news really:

http://rt.com/Business/2009-11-24/privatisation-step-budget-deficit.html

And, Helmer's website covers alot, but, not all, related matters.
( www.johnhelmer.net )
I assume Exxon will be included this time around.
And, a quid pro quo for Gazprom in the future in the US market or somewhere else.
But, never mind.
Who cares ANYWHERE about such things on the anti-Soviet, anti-Communist Left?
After all, these are the ripe fruits to be plucked for the taking off of the vine of liberation.
It's too bad Iraq has to suffer so much to achieve similar results.
But, then, Russians did go through their extraordinary sacrifices of WWII to save their revolution only to have their assets plundered, privatized now by Western sponsored oligarchs and a continued Fascist cabal represented above.
So, they were not spared either.
Of course, it is not necessary to have such extreme events here, because, there has been NO revolution of such consequence and sweeping magnitude as the Russian one to overturn.
Nothing here even remotely approaches the dimensions of the Russian Revolution and greater USSR, for sure.
Nor, subsequent events in Iraq, Egypt, the Middle East, Allende's Chile, Castro's Cuba, China, Africa, etc., predicated upon the outcome and events of WWII and the existence of the USSR.
There has been some progress, here, for sure, but, nothing on the scale above.
Even that tiny bit of progress, though, required restraint and, most, more important, NO support, collaboration or recognition of/by/for the USSR, since the US, by historical default and accident upon post WWII European collapse, inherited the globe's post war mantle of NAZI/Fascist counter-revolutionary leadership, i.e, so-called Cold War, quite active and hot in most places.
And, so, now, here we all are, enjoying the fruits of liberation, collaboration, cooperation.
It is THOSE, above, along with Unser NAZI Fuhrer Obooma, who should be given the Nobel Peace Prize. After all, it is/was a collaborative effort.

Finally, IF there is to be ANY positive, progressive future for our present day United Suckers and Assholes NAZI Dictatorship, then, the people following are the ONLY ones who can POSSIBLY make or help it happen. They and others like Sal Rosselli and his NUHW.
( www.nuhw.org )
They represent the future.

Note their unequivocal position below regarding UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE.

But, first, they must challenge and break the Fascist bonds of their parent, national AFL-CIA leadership umbrella organization and its reactionary, counter-revolutionary, class collaborative policies, which they do by establishing this new union to contest power.
Additionally, our AFL-CIA FRONT grouping known as USLAW, US Labor Against War is really a collaboration, continuum with War objectives, i.e, privatization.
Disassociation with them, discreditation and exposure is imperative.
Only one action is needed to stop ALL OR ANY of our military adventures abroad, namely, END taxpayer SUBSIDIZED Congressional military FUNDING.
AND, NO ADDITIONAL taxpayer subsidies, gifts, giveaways, boondoggles for ANY AND ALL private corporations.
PERIOD.
Instead, their liquidation, prosecution and asset nationalization.

So, those below and above are going to need ALL the help, cooperation and support they can get in achieving any or all of these goals.
If they remain focused on narrow economic issues ONLY to the exclusion of the above, then, forget them and it.
They, and, we, will be destroyed and self-destruct and nothing will change SINCE THEY, THEMSELVES, partner in their own demise, enabling and SUBSIDIZING PRIVATE capital flight and its industrial investment, expansion and resource development, along with its generally concomitant, exploited, cheap, depressed, COMPETITIVE, as opposed to cooperative, labor source ABROAD.
Thus, they/we ALLOW and actively permit ourselves to lose their/our own industry, power, resources and leverage at home.
They/we become a totally irrelevant, meaningless labor redundancy, a global economic backwater, useless eaters, which, already they/we are:

http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/12/nurses-10-states-embrace-national-union

PROXY WARS and ELECTION BOYCOTTS

Apparently, in YEMEN'S Iran/Iraq/Arab/Saudi/US/Gulf/Middle East unfolding, escalating, expanding, spiraling proxy WARS, as previously reported, in addition to Jordan, Moroccan commandos as well, apparently: http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2009/12/05/moroccan-and-jordanian-forces-participate-in-the-war-against-houthis/

And, in liberated Iraq, a siege, prison, fortress mentality grows daily commensurate to realities of assassinations, threats, violence, murder, intimidation, bombs, terror, torture, killings, extortion, theft, robbery, general mayhem and Iraq's UPCOMING on and off again ELECTIONS, sealing off or in, a la Israel and their occupied territories, Iraq's borders with neighboring states Syria and Iran in anticipation, I suppose, of even greater, imagine that, violence forthcoming...

"...The new border surveillance system, which will become operational in June, will include towers with cameras, infra-red sensors and systems to relay information and communications to a regional command centre.
According to the US military, it has a modular design that allows its coverage area to be increased..."
FROM:

http://www.france24.com/en/node/4940720

Speaking of NAZI Israel, our cooperative, collaborative now NAZI RUSSIAN state purchases arms from ISRAEL, as well.
Now, it is understood, I ASSUME, this would/could NOT happen without tacit or active US approval, as Israel, our CLIENT, VASSAL NAZI state, acts as a surrogate, intermediary for US military sales and policies abroad, a quid pro quo for which they get rewards and are permitted to exist.
For those of you who confine your politics to the morality play of big, bad Goliath, Israel, versus poor, suffering David, Palestinians, perhaps, you should also now go picket outside the Russian embassy, as well, which certainly would not be a bad idea:

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-44533120091207

Speaking of NAZI Iran, their protests, of course, fueled BOTH by homegrown, internal class conflict sprinkled liberally with covert external support and intervention, including former NAZI Shah Pahlavi interests, in order to destabilize, purge and overthrow, Mullah Sistani, Khomeni, Ahmadimoron's regime, installed IN THE FIRST PLACE, like Islamists everywhere, to counteract the USSR and its allies, such as Iraq.
Eliminating Iran's present NAZI Islamic Mullah regime, as I have explained, by extension, eliminates the spoils of war problem surrounding the divisive and now entrenched interests of NAZI Iran's controlled Baghdad government, Revolutionary Guards and paramilitaries, parties and especially OIL MINISTER Mullah Sistani's son-in-law, Shahristani, in IRAQ.
Contrary to false assumptions, the US does NOT desire Iraq's partition, nor Iran's absolute control over all, part or any of Iraq, nor KRG's Talabani, Barzani and the KRG.
The reasons are totally obvious and transparent.
The Islamists, the KRG Peshmerga, like Israel, or, former NAZI Germany Brownshirts, are manufactured puppets, clients of their external and domestically allied NAZI financial and industrial interests.
NAZI Germany's Brownshirts were summarily liquidated, executed AFTER they served their purposes.
This SHOULD be an object lesson for COLLABORATORS, APPEASERS, WHORES, PIMPS, PROSTITUTES with Fascism/Nazism everywhere.
One cannot be alittle pregnant regarding NAZISM and collaboration, cooperation.
It is a recipe for ultimate self-destruction, suicide, defeat.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.

The preferred circle now clearly, instead, is represented by former Iraq PM Allawi, (well connected to Wall St.), General Garner, former Iraq Parliamentary Speaker Mashhadani, allied with MECATAC, PRESIDENT Hillary Clinton, et.al, about whom I've written in previous posts.

And, of course, Harvard's wealthy expatriate circle continues unabated and unchallenged, Merchantbridge, Rend Rahim Francke, Hamid Jafar, Dana Gas, (in Yemen), Crescent Oil, Abraaj, Morgan Cazenove (Heritage Oil), UAE, Egypt's EFG-Hermes, etc.

So, it is not really a repeat of Iraq-Iran's former war, since NO LONGER DOES A BAATH ARAB SOCIALIST, I emphasize SOCIALIST, PARTY GOVERN IRAQ NOR A SUPPORTING USSR STATE ALLIANCE EXIST.
Instead, it is now a regional, imperialist, FASCIST proxy war, mopping up, in addition to the remnants of a true, national, socialist military and political resistance, opposition struggle, all mixed together in a competing, conflicting, explosive recipe and outcome indefinite and UNCERTAIN.

And, speaking of explosive, Greece is back in flames again while Romanian and Moldovan elections are either boycotted, protested and/or contested in a different ensuing power struggle.
Here's an article about another one of those formerly "liberated," USSR, Communist States, Moldova, which, of course, has IMF loans pending and a basket case economy, thanks to their/"OUR" liberation.
Where are the SUPPORTERS of Moldova's opposition?
A rhetorical question, obviously.
Same place, I guess, as those who cannot find Turkey, Iraq, USSR opposition or any other PRINCIPLED, substantial one, including right here in the home of the Greatest United Suckers and Assholes nation on the planet:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1517515.php/Moldovan-parliament-fails-to-elect-president-crisis-deepens

And, here's something from 1999 regarding IMF, World Bank AND EU backed loans in relation to Moldova's privatization:

http://lists.essential.org/stop-imf/msg00270.html

As for HERE, the planet's greatest United Suckers and Assholes nation, I offer a piece of strategic advice for ALL future elections.
Boycott elections by staging a sit down, sit in, strike, protest.
What I mean by that/this tactic is the following.
IF no Independent candidate HERE can EASILY get on the ballot, which eliminates most everybody, then, do not bother with lengthy, time and energy consuming procedures, uphill, legal battles, fights simply to get one's candidate or party name printed on an election ballot form.
FORGET IT. Hold a WRITE IN CAMPAIGN, instead.
Flood the election booths with your candidates name.
Boycott the election.
STUFF the ballot machines with write in names.
And, then, the only thing YOU, YOUR CANDIDATE, PARTY, ORGANIZATION MUST DO is be present AT THE END of the voting day when paper tabulation is removed from the back of the electronic voting machines and numbers from it are entered into official forms.
COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR CANDIDATE'S NAME IS WRITTEN ON THE PIECE OF PAPER coming off of the electronic voting machine and entered onto the official forms.

Then, demand a recount, if necessary, since A PAPER TRAIL exists!!
In the meantime, for those here, enjoy your luxurious existent, or, non-existent private health care insurance, pensions, industry, natural resources, transportation, housing, energy, education, tax gifts, giveaways, subsidies, stimulus, jobs AND WAR.
Do not forget, however.
DEBT has been SOCIALIZED.
Just nothing else.
AND MORE OF THE ABOVE COMING.
Sit back, be happy, savor the fruits of victory and your hard earned labor, especially that of our AFL-CIA, whose debased, shameful efforts and collaboration in the above counter-revolutionary relationship continues unabated and unchallenged!!

CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK

So, where are we now??
Waiting for Godot, the other shoe to fall, that is, our escalating, upcoming, spiraling Baghdad/Kirkuk/Iran Middle East explosion and Iraq's electoral exercise in futility, when the shit openly hits the fan, now postponed until February.
And, then, United Suckers and Assholes will discover, finally, they are in WWIII or WWIV.
Meanwhile, back in the insecure Homeland of United Suckers and Assholes, a new union, National Nurses United, is in process of being formed which definitely represents a giant leap forward, since the California Nurses Association, mentioned below, is one of the best and was the ONLY union in the country previously endorsing INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE Ralph Nader's FIRST Presidential campaign.
Of course, at that time, the Calif Nurses Association was NOT affiliated to our national, AFL-CIA umbrella organization.
They, like Ralph, were Independent.
Now, however, the CNA is affiliated with our anti-Communist, anti-Soviet, umbrella, AFL-CIA mafia scumbags.
The ANA, a so-called "professional union," mentioned below, is also shit.
So, this is a nice first step. A start.
But, it is only good, significant IF it changes, challenges current national organized union POLICY in a meaningful way, such as MILITANT, ACTIVE, UNIFIED, INDEPENDENT politics and a divorce away from NAZI Democratic Party policies and their present partnership and expansion of the PRIVATE, corporate, warfare state abroad, their pension fund investments, healthcare, education, industry, transportation, housing, natural resources, etc.
But, organized labor is married to the private corporate state.
To question, challenge, change, invert this basic, fundamental relationship is tantamount to revolution, since it requires a complete, total reformation of national priorities, financial control, emphasis on public as opposed to private economic systems, ownership, divestment, etc.
It demands ISOLATIONISM and a WITHDRAWAL of ALL global forces and military engagements around the world.
I do not foresee such a radical policy CONFRONTATION forthcoming anytime soon.
No, instead, they will all go down first with the NAZI toilet bowl and Ship of State before any meaningful change of the above sort can/will happen.
So, as promised, I will cheerfully sing Hip, Hip Hooray as "our troops" go a marching, a marching off to war to expand private capital and the wealth of the filthy rich, or, high net worth individuals, abroad:

http://www.labornotes.org/2009/12/nurses-move-toward-superunion

And, then, in honor of Russia's Medvedev/Putin most recent their/his sudden, but, NOT to me, unexpected reversal and collaboration on Iran AND related subject matter, above, I thought I would republish from a previous post I did in
November, 2009, "THEN AND NOW," the following section:

"...I wish to begin with a very, very BRIEF video link, a reminder, juxtaposition of THEN...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGbjPqFFvA&feature=related

...And NOW:

http://johnhelmer.net/?p=2196#more-2196

Of course, more exquisitely tortured sellouts and selloffs featured on the above website.

Meanwhile, as for the Middle East, Iran/Baghdad/KRG imperialist mopping up, conundrum, showdown, regime change, congruency scenario, the following events will impact forthcoming regional explosive developments. Note, the appointment and posts, mentioned below, come into effect as of December 1, altho the new EU President is effective January 1, while imperialist jockeying and rivalry for place, advantage, strategic positioning, leverage, continues unabated and unashamed.
Indeed, escalating:

http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=42210&t=1&c=61&cg=4&mset=1011

YUKOS LAWSUIT, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN

I have reiterated, many times, multiple, competing imperial interests, wars, surrogate battles, proxies are raging simultaneously, another one over Russia's Yukos, in the news with a $100 Billion Lawsuit and threatened seizure of private Russian assets abroad.

No doubt, the above, including Helmer's reporting, influenced Russia's decision vis-a-vis Iran, and, it/their potential, such as Lukoil, to invest in Iraq, since the Russian State, LIKE OURS, NOW, represents and subsidizes PRIVATE CORPORATE INTERESTS, first and foremost, i.e, the Fascist/NAZI Corporate State.
It's called The Leverage, Squeeze, Threat and Let's Make A Deal, Bargain Show.
I excerpted from the link below about Yukos ONLY the following sentence because it pertains to one of MY main theses regarding the FUNDAMENTAL, UNDERLYING, SCHIZOPHRENIC CONTRADICTION represented by our organized labor pension fund investments and their PARTNERSHIP with the rise and/or fall of the interests of our Fascist Private Corporate State abroad as opposed to their nominally, purported role as our institutional class representatives.

In reality, their main function is to be junior business partners, handmaidens, cheerleaders for Fascism, first and foremost, by cumulatively, collectively amassing, controlling, corralling pension monies and channeling, funneling them into PRIVATE Fascist corporations instead of expanding, guaranteeing a VIABLE, national, pubic pension system, such as Social Security, or, of course, Single Payer Health Insurance or ANY other nationalized industry, natural resource, whatsoever.
Thus, the entire working class is indebted, shackled, chained, PARTNERED to the "success" of these corporations abroad, as well as here, and their policies.
If private corporations fail, so do their pensions.
The necessities and exigencies of subjective self-interest flows henceforth from that point.

This is not by accident, but, by design, which is why any power struggle for CONTROL over our union leadership, and, thus, its financial allocation, dues, political expenditures and support, investment, ALL policy, is SO strategically, critically, life threatening, urgent, immediate, important.

This contested arena may fall under rubric of democracy, but, the above is contextually, substantially what the power relationship expresses, its extraordinary significance and why the battle is so intense and heated.
It is NOT a minor, secondary, inconsequential issue. It is at the heart, nub of the matter, over which numerous past union mafia assassinations have occurred.

Anyway, here's the one sentence I selected for my own illustrative purposes:

"....International investors, including US pensions funds, were spooked by the fall of the country's largest private company, which had a market value of over $40 billion before the state began its tax case...."

FROM:

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article200447.ece

As President Mommy, i.e, Hillary Clinton literally "stands by her man," this time, impotent, empty-headed scumbag and CIA whore, Unser Fuhrer Obooma, Clinton goes about quietly lining up her international ducks and coalition.

Afghanistan AND Pakistan, of course, another significant investment, strategic energy corridor, (think pipeline), transit area, port, natural resources, and Abraaj, UAE, GCC investments, happens ALSO to flank Iran's Eastern front.

So, a military buildup, along with ally Pakistan is in the cards.

And, NO EXIT whatsoever in sight.
On the contrary.

Precisely where and how those troops will be utilized within upcoming months is an open question, because, on Iran's Western front exists the spiraling, raging inferno of Baghdad/KRG/Iran escalating, contested, Iraq so-called election battleground, Yemeni war and greater regional context.

But, no connections made HERE with ANY of the above.
Instead, seemingly, we ALL are just marching into Afghanistan for no particular reason, except some, vague, amorphous, trumped up, empty threat and propaganda.

FROM THOSE WHO SPONSORED WWII...and SEIU

I have changed my normally scheduled broadcast to bring you this commercial advertisement, an announcement of WWIII, or, depending on how one counts, WWIV, since many count the Cold War as WWIII, a calculation with which I would not disagree.
Anyway, a direct continuum and continuation of THOSE WHO SPONSORED WWII, economically, financially and THEIR NAZI/FASCIST international ALLIANCE, corporate cartels, cohorts, profiteers, appeasers, collaborators.
Just about everybody has abdicated, colluded, denied their class and historical responsibilities to reach the point of no return, no exit, the next 100 years war, assuming our species survives, which is a large assumption, given natural disaster, disease, catastrophe, a dynamic, explosive planet and universe and societal, civil ills, evil, decay, rot and disintegration.
Let's do a few basic terms, first.
Clarity of thought is important.
The proper description of our present day phenomena is NOT globalization.
One can NOT be AGAINST GLOBALIZATION!
Globalization and continental economic integration began with Christopher Columbus, for better or worse, although prior intercontinental trade, contact existed.
What is occuring now is a giant leap backwards for mankind, reactionary, counter-revolutionary, barbaric, primitive, PRIVATIZATION, private capital and wealth accumulation and its corresponding, concomitant, inevitable imperialist contradictions, competition, rivalries, warfare, personal GREED and selfish, self-centered, short sighted, short term personal aggrandizement.
IT IS NOT A NEW PHENOMENA.
It is as old and violent as tribal warfare, plunder, coercion, threat, intimidation, appropriation, extortion, theft, raiding, rape, barbarism and human slave labor in one form or another, necessary to create and maintain empires, WHEREVER they are/were found.
Since most everybody cannot manage to find ANY historical antecedents, precedents, let alone the most current WWII NAZI organized and perfected mass murder, atrocities, nightmares, horrors, killing machine and our current situation, from Dubai's Bubble to NAZI Iran's occupation of Iraq to the destruction, dissolution and dismantling of the former USSR and Yugoslavia and Iraq's Baath Arab Socialist STATES to events in Iceland to Single Payer Medical Insurance in the greatest United Suckers and Assholes NAZI Dictatorship on the planet, so, now, we have a repeat Iran-Iraq war performance, only this time around, greatly expanded to encompass everyone on the globe.
Oh, yes, almost forgot.
United Suckers and Assholes greatest nation on the planet will be in for more, the most shocking and awful surprises before they are flattened like a pancake like the rest of the world at the end of the last rapacious WWII.

And, lastly, for good measure, I will toss in a reminder of the repercussions of institutional class collaboration and an organized labor movement purged of all its initial progressive founders, organizers, replaced, instead, by a vitriolic anti-Communist, anti-Soviet, mafia, AFL-CIA installed national and local leadership complicit in ALL THE ABOVE crimes and WHY total capitulation and NO PRINCIPLED OPPOSITION EXISTS here or elsewhere where such is the case.
A POWER VACUUM.
Below is the ultimate, final culmination, the coup de grace, in a long, winding, torturous, downward history, approximately a 60 year post WWII period.
And, at the same website, more on the insidious shenanigans of our anti-Communist led ILO, (International Labor Organization), to which our US umbrella AFL-CIA international labor front organization and Iraq's newly minted, cloned, thus, NEUTERED, unions, are now affiliated, upon occupation, having immediately dissolved Iraq's former national, umbrella organization and thus their affiliation, also, with the Communist led, international WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions):

http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/12/leaving-seiu-and-joining-nuhw-0