Made me laugh. Thank You. I am sorry about the spellings. I know you are right about it being bothersome. I will try to do better.

Hello Jayte,

I agree with your analysis. Particularly what you have to say about the US need to keep energy transactions in dollars. I made some of the same points when writing about what is going on in Syria. But I think you shouldn’t lump all the europeans together. In my opinion Germany, teh UK and France have quite different agendas. Again I wrote about this in the Syria pieces. I see what is happening in Syria and Ukraine as two fronts in the same war.

I agree Ukraine is being torn apart and I think it is a crime. It seems to me in many ways a replay of what was done to Yugoslavia.

Thanks for your thoughts. I hope you’ll comment again in future.

As for Ukraine, you miss the fact that Ukraine is utterly dependent on Russia who provides most of its manufacturing orders and was using it for transiting gas to Europe. That is gone for the most part. If you consider that what the EU is attempting with its association agreement is to integrate a country twice the size of East Germany into the west. It would require at minimum $20 billion per year over at least 20 years to do that. Given the state of ALL of the western countries (Germany included because although on the surface it looks alright, when you consider that already 50 municipalities have declared bankruptcy and that it’s unfunded liabilities i.e. public pensions are 400% of GDP and growing, it’s clear it’s not in a good state) are incapable of providing the funds necessary to modernise Ukraine.

So all they will try to do is exploit it. Since it’s eastern Ukraine that has the manufacturing, the coal industry and alot of the rich farmland, you see why the west forced the Kiev government to launch an “anti terror” offensive against the primarily Russian speaking eastern Ukrainians. But as anybody with half a brain knows, those fighting for their home will fight twice as hard as those who 1. don’t want to be there killing their fellow Ukrainians and to whom they have no gripe 2. Are being forced to fight at the point of a gun by neo-nazi paramilitary groups. Ukraine is now another basket case like Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq thanks the the US and UK. It will be very clear when the winter is colder than hoped for and there is not enough gas or coal (since Ukraine if forced to important it since the Kiev forces destroyed the mining equipment in east Ukraine) to keep homes warm during the winter. Another brilliant operation by the Anglo Saxons!

http://harryshutt.com/2014/03/09/the-ukraine-crisis-a-measure-of-global-bankruptcy/http://harryshutt.com/2014/03/09/the-ukraine-crisis-a-measure-of-global-bankruptcy/

I hope you write more on this Golem.

We should try to get you two and Rowan Bosworth-Davies together.

I don’t know if All Copped Out has seen Rowan’s blog:

http://rowans-blog.blogspot.co.uk/

I’ve sent this piece to him, David.

I wouldn’t doubt the ugly machinations of all those elite a*holes in that article, but the Patent looks absolutely boring and routine. About squeezing a few more chips out of a silicon wafer slice by rearranging their positions & orientation. For big companies even the smallest potential improvement will often raise a patent. Cheap enough to do.