North West Oil Group, Inc. (NWOL)

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To: Monty Guild
Subject: More Crude

There is a really good piece out this morning by Jan Stewart on the oil and futures markets. The key points are:

* The non-commercial futures players are heavily short
* UBS is expecting higher prices soon
* More OPEC members are touting their production cuts
* Iran is complaining about the lack of participation of non OPEC nations Norway and Russia
* Putin's Russia is moving as fast as possible to expand their international scope in energy
* Rosneft is to borrow $24.5 billion
* Russian banks plan to issue shares and loan the money to them
* Environmental regulators continue to press foreign companies on Sakhalin and XOM talks about access
Putin and his perhaps successor Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin worked in the State Committee responsible for foreign trade
* KGB now runs the Russian Railway Company, Russia's second largest enterprise after Gazprom
* Orthodox Christians lead the board of trustees of the St. Andrews Foundation, which sounds harmless but this is a powerful patriotic organization created in 1992 with the goal of advancing the ideology of national revanchism. I had to look that up - from the French revanche or revenge. It is a political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country. Strength comes from patriotic and retributionist thought, often motivated by economic or geopolitical factors.

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