Putin - Khodorkovsky - Israel - U.S. - Iraq - Oil

You know darn well they all fit together.

A couple weeks ago a reader asked about the promise to show DNA evidence that Oday and Usay Hussein were really dead. While I never did find any more information on that, I did find an article by Joe Vialls describing why they most assuredly were not the particular dead bodies that were presented as the brothers. At the time, I thought I would check further into Joe's website and see if I could get a feel for who he might be and whether he were rabid or reasonable - and I guess you can be both at the same time.

I followed one disturbing article and then forgot all about Joe until yesterday when I received a forwarded e-mail story about the mutually assured destruction (MAD) scenario which this October 28 Vialls article purports exists now between Israel and Russia.

The article will be certain to raise cries of anti-semitism, and Joe doesn't do anything to try to avoid that. I guess I'm back to needing to find out who Joe Vialls is. He calls himself a private investigator exposing media disinformation and seems to be a conspiracy theorist's goldmine. Which doesn't mean he hasn't got information, some of which at least, is accurate and important. It does, however, make it easy to dismiss.

At any rate, this particular article is full of weapons descriptions and who has what and how they got it, plus lots of pictures of missiles and such. And his analysis here, as it was in the Oday/Usay article, while not culturally refined, may be critically accurate for all I know, and in both cases, he admits to missing pieces in his information where they exist and offers his opinions as his opinions. Not having researched his facts, I can't say anything about them, other than they are very interesting.

There are times when I don't know what is fact and what is opinion.

Ever since the illegal invasion of Iraq by America earlier this year, Russia has deliberately sent a number of unmistakably harsh diplomatic signals that the days of the Zionist crusaders are numbered, especially in the mid and far east, but predictably all of these signals have been deliberately suppressed by the western media. Russia's bottom line is completely neutralizing America and Israeli in the Eastern Hemisphere, thereby preventing the U.S. from stealing Eurasia's strategic oil reserves.

But, if what Joe presents as fact of Russia's intent in this instance is actually conjecture, it certainly is neither unreasonable or unfounded. Also, I'm not so sure the "harsh diplomatic signals" have been suppressed as much as ignored by the western media.

We essentially wrote Russia off as a power to be reckoned with and ended the cold war because she no longer threatened our number one position. She was played off as a has-been. And so suddenly she became our good friend (again - we change friendships like a schoolgirl) - our poor and ineffectual friend.

That Russia was weak and ineffectual may never have been true. I don't know. Yeltsin sure gave it a good run at being so. But I don't think Putin is the drinking blowhard that Yeltsin seemed to be. And I am in grave danger of getting so far in over my head here that I will be swept out to sea.

So. Back to Joe.

In late May while the illegal invasion of Iraq was in full swing, a small Russian fleet deployed to the Indian Ocean, uncomfortably close to American carrier battle groups transiting in an out of the Persian Gulf. This exercise, the first held by Russia in the Indian Ocean for more than ten years, was extremely uncomfortable for the American commanders, who knew that five of the Russian vessels, including three submarines, were fully equipped with nuclear-capable Sunburn missiles.

The diplomatic signal in the Indian Ocean was blatantly obvious. Though numerically inferior to the American fleet, the Russians had more than enough unstoppable firepower to win any sea battle outright. Billion-dollar American aircraft carriers became obsolete monoliths that day, as did America's arrogant ability to roam the oceans of the world attacking smaller sovereign nations on Zionist orders. If America pushed too hard in Russian or Chinese spheres of influence, a 93,000-ton American aircraft carrier might "spontaneously" fireball in mid-ocean; in reality removed from the face of the earth by an unheard and unseen Sunburn missile, launched by a submerged Russian submarine more than fifty miles away.

In August and September 2003, the Russian and Chinese navies held large independent exercises in the Pacific, both coincidentally designed to, "Simulate sinking aggressive American carrier battle groups".

...These exercises took place while the Zionist media was hyping up public opinion against that nasty "Rogue State" North Korea, allegedly brimming with fictional "Weapons of Mass Destruction" being manufactured specifically for sale to Iran, or so you were led to believe by CNN, NBC, Fox News and many others. In turn, Iran was allegedly itching to mount the fictional weapons on multiple launchers, then fire the lot at poor little Israel, all alone and unarmed at the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Plans were made to intercept Korean ships on the high seas for inspection, and Australia obsequiously offered to send a gunboat. But then Australia always offers to send a gunboat when a lowly clerk in the White House snaps his or her fingers.

Those readers with long memories will recall that the Korean War of the fifties was all about spheres of influence. In other words the Korean War was a surrogate war, with America and Britain backing the south while Russia and China backed the north. Though sixty years have passed since the end of the Korean War, this proxy position has not changed, and North Korea is still viewed by Russia and China as firmly within their spheres of influence. Thus the diplomatic signal generated by the large Russian and Chinese naval exercises was clear and unambiguous: "Hands off North Korea, or else!" Within days of the Chinese Sunburn launch, which was observed and logged by two American spy planes, Washington went uncharacteristically quiet about the Korean peninsula, and remains so today.

Hmmm. That whole deal with North Korea having nuclear weapons and us ignoring the fact is strange. Just what is up with that?

Perhaps for the first time in contemporary American history, Washington was being forced to come to grips with a new and very harsh reality. Though the United States was allowed [in fact discreetly encouraged] to become horribly bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was no longer allowed to interfere anywhere else in the world. Massive American aircraft carriers were no longer free to roam around looking for helpless prey, and Russia or China, sometimes both in tandem, started riding shotgun on all American adventures in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Effectively denied sea [and most land] access to the Eastern Hemisphere, it was not long before the Zionists decided to play what they thought was their trump card, declaring that their absolute right of self-defence allowed them to launch Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBMs] of sixties vintage, against "terrorist targets" on the other side of the world. Though such weapons might appear to have the advantage of not needing direct sea or land access in the Eastern Hemisphere, this twisted Zionist thinking was quickly proved to be panicky and entirely delusional.

On 17 October 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to this crude threat, pointing out that although Russia had scrapped hundreds of its ICBMs under various disarmament treaties, it still has a "significant amount" of SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missiles that had never been previously deployed, and thus were not part of disarmament negotiations, which remain mothballed for emergency use. "These are the most powerful rockets in the world", Putin said, adding they would be the perfect weapons for breaking through any potential American missile defense shield. Unconfirmed rumor suggests that Russia has a minimum of two hundred unused SS-19s in storage. Within 48-hours of this stern Russian warning, frantic Zionist talk of firing ICBMs at "terrorist targets" in the Eastern Hemisphere became muted, then stopped completely.

Just one week later on 24 October, President Putin redefined the limits of American access in the Eastern Hemisphere when he opened a new Russian air base at Kant in Kyrgyzstan, just twenty miles to the east of a rented American base at Manas, used for supporting "counter terrorist" operations in Afghanistan. And while a squadron of cutting-edge Russian Sukhoi 27 multi-role aircraft screamed overhead performing complex aerobatics at the opening ceremony, the Chinese quietly moved a squadron of their own Sukhoi 27s up to Kashi air base, which is the closest airfield to their own border with Kyrgyzstan. Completely coincidental timing of course, and anyone who suggests otherwise will be labeled a "conspiracy theorist" by CNN, NBC, Fox News and many others.

Complex world, what? I don't think the players themselves know who's doing what in the game any more. But what I do know is that George Dumbya Bush is not qualified to play.

The gloves were off, and with American and Israel still unable to steal any oil from Iraq because someone keeps blowing the pipelines, this Russian and Chinese firepower buildup suddenly slammed the door firmly shut on Caspian oil reserves in the old Soviet republics. For more than a decade American oil multinationals have been conducting "joint ventures" in the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea, with the stated intent of pumping this stolen crude oil out through Turkey, then on to western markets. Now this route has been blocked permanently, and America is in no position to do anything about it, because a large part of the U.S. conventional army is currently bogged down in Iraq, being shot at and killed on a daily basis.

And again, in tandem with Putin yanking Yukos out from under Khodorkovsky, who purportedly was about to deal in Exxon-Mobil, Joe's analysis makes a great deal of sense: The U.S. estopped from taking over the world's oil supply, perhaps by underestimating the big Russian bear. And on the other hand, perhaps simply by being arrogant and imperial, wanting to rule the world.

Perhaps the bear herself would like that position. Perhaps she was just hibernating.

I may be forced to brush the dust off my old Russian language text books from college and try to read some Russian newspapers.

Games, games, games. Who are the players? Who are the game pieces? Who are merely elements of the set?

In the end, for me personally, it all comes down to "wait and see", so I can understand Joe's assessment:

...If I was an Israeli general facing this doomsday response on my wife, my family and my synagogue, I would not launch any Harpoons at all, but then I am not a religious fanatic obsessed with killing Muslims and stealing their land. Unfortunately, reading the minds of certifiable lunatics is all but impossible, so the best I can suggest is that perhaps the Israelis will launch, and perhaps they will not.

Anyway, read the rest of Joe's article. It's interesting. Of course, he has a great cliff-hanging lead-in to selling further information, which tells me one thing about Joe: he's a player.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.