Hey, anybody want to know what the Russians and Georgians are fighting about?

dave123williams

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:36 PM
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Hey, anybody want to know what the Russians and Georgians are fighting about?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050526/news_1b26pipeline.html

This sums it up pretty neatly, folks. From 2005.

The U.S.-backed pipeline realizes several crucial goals for Washington, including reducing dependence on Russian pipelines and avoiding Iran. While the pipeline crosses areas plagued by separatist conflicts, raising security concerns, the countries hope it will be a catalyst for calm and prosperity as well.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, or BTC, pipeline aims to boost access by the energy-hungry West to the rich Caspian fields, estimated to hold the world's third-largest reserves. Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan all claim shares of the undersea wealth.

Standing in front of a transparent section of pipe with Bodman and BP PLC Chief Executive John Brown, whose company leads the consortium that built the pipeline, the presidents pulled the levers that allowed the oil to flow through.

The pipeline "can be called the Silk Road of the 21st century," Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said during the ceremony at the Sangachal oil terminal, 25 miles south of Baku.

But the plan to circumvent Russian pipelines has angered the Kremlin. Most Caspian oil exports go through Russian pipelines to the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, where the oil is loaded onto tankers that squeeze through the busy Bosporus strait. Russian officials tried to persuade Azerbaijan not to sign on to the project.

Instead, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey look to earn substantial revenue from the pipeline, through transit fees and royalties.

Azerbaijan is banking on the pipeline to swing international support behind Baku in its dispute with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, which ethnic Armenian separatists took control of more than a decade ago. The conflict continues to simmer, undermining the region's security.

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MadrasT

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:49 PM
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1. More here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3777492

One word: OIL.

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Median Democrat

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:50 PM
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2. You Would Think This Would Underscore The Need To Come Up With Energy Alternatives

Instead of writing a blank check to the oil companies.

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spanone

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:53 PM
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3. O I L - it even brought cheney out of his bunker...

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bdamomma

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:54 PM
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4. isn't all about the oil.

again isn't all about the oil.

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dave123williams

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Mon Aug-11-08 06:35 PM
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7. Right, It's also about consolidating power.

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Aliens_UFOs_Facts

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:57 PM
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5. Corporations Money Mafia War Facts Horror Minds.

Where there is money to be made there is advanced Mafia.
(Bribe, Fear, Murder)
Since before World War 1, it's the same old mafia mindset.

The old mafia mindset don't want the water car ...

"Stanley Meyer's Water Powered Car - Part 1 of 2"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP9DooV_mDk

The old mafia mindset don't want Extraterrestrials to show up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZoJZOaKCwk

The old mafia mindset does like war!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOxAXhEiFcY

The old mafia mindset does like to mind control you ...

QUOTE: "Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way."

QUOTE: "Human behaviours, formed from past habits and trainings, have such an inertia that this perspective leads you to a dead end. You entrust these problems to representatives, whose conscience of common well-being slowly fades away in front of corporatist interests"

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elehhhhna

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Mon Aug-11-08 05:58 PM
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6. Thanks !I just posted a q about this. Need the cliffs notes.

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