Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

The article states that analysts believe untapped Russian oil reserves may be much larger than current estimates. This leads one to believe a consensus of opinion but you are correct it does not go into details like are most reserves behind pipe, etc.

The text continues that if Russia can figure out its export problems, the world should look out for a gusher of Russian oil.

Russia has figured out its export problems the United States is trying to control the transit of all oil.

The school seige postponed Ptin’s trip to Turkey and discussion of the Trans-Thracian pipeline which it did much to the delight of the United States. #msg- 4014279

The Turkish government cynically announced that they had "discovered" major environmental problems with letting huge oil tankers pass through the Bosphorus straits--the mouth of the Black Sea which they control. In other words, Turkey is threatening to stop oil-tankers from Novorossisk, which quickly made investors wary of building a pipeline that ended in Novorossisk. The Bosporus is a huge trans-shipment point for oil. In 2003, Russia complained bitterly that passage through Turkey was far too slow for Urals crude. Turkey in slowing Russian transit through the Bosporus is guaranteeing the success of the U.S. backed Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline.
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The U.S.--and specifically the Clinton White House--was determined to oppose any "north/south" pipelines. The White House adopted a plan, cooked up by long-time ruling class strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, to create an "east-west" pipe which would bypass both Russia and Iran.

The Clinton White House operated like world class gangsters, pulling strings and making threats--to make all the other pipelines "disappear" and make the Ceyhan pipeline profitable for the western oil capitalists.
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I will post an article found this morning that touches upon some of this.

-Am