- January 2, 2009
- Ukraine’s Gas and Bizarre Physics
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, Bizarre, Cycle, Cyclist, Europe, Fossil Fuel, Gazprom, Nature, physics, pipeline, price, Russia, Russian, state, Times, tyre, Ukraine, Weird, Western, Wikipedia, winter, World
Following on from Ukraine getting it’s gas shut off (which I mentioned in passing as BBC and Weird Pravda Report on Gas), I thought I’d pedantically point out a small error in a statement from Ukraine. It’s meaningless as a point, but does emphasise the tit-for-tat nature of the current impasse with Russia (GazProm). Specifically, [...]
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- December 30, 2008
- BBC and Weird Pravda Report on Gas
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: apologise, Asia, bank, BBC, birth, Bizarre, business, capitalism, Cheney, conflict, country, Destroyer, Dog, Economic, energy, English, Europe, explosion, Fart, financial, Fossil Fuel, Gazprom, George Bush, Georgia, good, Google, Head, hell, History, house, Human, International, logic, market, monster, nation, night, Obama, Paulson, Photo, pipeline, power, president, Rumsfeld, Russia, Russian, sleep, society, state, The West, translation, Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin, weapon, weaponry, Weird, Western, World
In the news today, although you’d hardly think so because of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, is the story that the Ukraine can’t pay their gas bills. I apologise for it being a bit buried amongst the profits’ statements etc, but hey!, I didn’t write it. BBC – Gazprom sees profits jump by 85% GazProm [...]
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- October 22, 2008
- We Now Have A Fantastic Opportunity to be Free from Foreign Energy Ties!
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom, Technology
- Tagged with: Alternative, Arse, bank, BBC, bonus, business, comment, crash, creation, dodgy, energy, Europe, Fantastic, Farm, finance, financial, Fossil Fuel, friend, fuck, future, gambling, Gazprom, Government, graph, History, Iran, logic, Machine, machinery, market, ocean, OPEC, petition, physics, power, price, record, Resource, Russia, school, speed, state, Telegraph, Times, Travel, truth, Vladimir Putin, walk, water, weapon, Welsh, Wikipedia, winter, World
It’s True! Record profits at Gazprom as it forms Opec-style gas cartel The news that yesterday,… (new bad guy?) Russia (aka Putin Inc), Iran (axis of evil?) and (our friend?) Qatar have decided to collude together like OPEC to drive up gas prices (sorry, control the market in a uniform way beneficial to suppliers and [...]
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- September 9, 2008
- Georgia, USA Trade & the Gas Bills, Repeating History & The Destroyer of Worlds.
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: America, bank, battle, BBC, boat, business, citizen, country, courage, Czech, Death, depression, Destroyer, Dialog, Dialogue, Echo, Economic, election, energy, Europe, family, financial, Fossil Fuel, Freddie Mac, friend, Gazprom, Georgia, Germany, good, greed, Hack, History, industry, institution, legal, Mac, March, Medvedev, military, mind, Minister, moral, nation, nazi, Nuclear, parliament, PEACE, pipeline, power, problem, Protect, recession, Resource, Russia, Russian, state, Success, technology, threat, Ukraine, USA, USSR, Vladimir Putin, war, weapon, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, World, WW1
As a follow up to my earlier post us-nationalises-banks-while-russia-devalues-the-rouble-total-irony pointing out the sharp reversal in political and economic fortunes of the (former) two world superpowers, I remembered something from last month. An American friend decided to post a present for my family here in the UK. I (and then we) ended up having to pay [...]
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