01-01-2011, 11:28 AM
The background to the Yukos story seems to me to be a classic case of a battle between certain western nations oil interests (notably ConocoPhillips) and Russia interests to control Russian oil assets.
There were all sorts of background spook machinations (American and German to my personal knowledge) involved in this game prior to Putin taking effective control and putting Khodorkovsky in the slammer.
Thereafter the message went out:
"Houston, we have a problem".
There were all sorts of background spook machinations (American and German to my personal knowledge) involved in this game prior to Putin taking effective control and putting Khodorkovsky in the slammer.
Thereafter the message went out:
"Houston, we have a problem".
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14