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| Beware Russia, energy superpower |
| 2007-10-19 |
| Extracts: "Russia has now overtaken Saudi Arabia as the worldÂ’s largest producer of oil. It already dominates natural gas" ... In 1991, with oil prices at record lows, the Soviet empire disintegrated. Now as prices boom, Russia is once more showing its claws" |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 LOL Joe, I'm bankin on Russia now, to hell with recycling! ie Pooper Power! ~:) |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-10-19 22:07 |
| #10 Don't remember his name right now, but didn't somebody famous [NOT below]write a book about Russia's gas fields andor oil running out in 2042??? PRAVDA > IRAN AND JAPAN MOVE TO MAKE DOLLAR DOMINANCE A THING OF THE PAST. And by extens induce decline in US power; + TOPIX/OP-ED NEWS/DESERET > THE FINANCIAL VULNERABILITY AND LOOMING COLLAPSE OF CAPITALISM. USA and espec WALL ST. ABOUT TO $$$ EXPLODE. Euros and Western World to go down afterwards. ROLLING STONE MAGZ > THE PROPHET OF CLIMATE CHANGE JAMES LOVELOCK - by 2040, Drought, Desertification, Food and water shoratges, + XTREME weather will be commonplace in the world. EUROPE will be SAHARA-LIKE, wid formerly cold regions becoming like torrid ME-AFrica, Southern USA like a KUDZU JUNGLE, London [Scotland-Ireland?] and Miami suffering from rising seas or routine floodings. CHINESE WAR WID RUSSIA INEVITABLE AS CHINA TAKES OVER SIBERIA [RUSS FE]. YEAR 2100 - Earth's population down to circa 500Milyuhn only, wid most moving close to remaining Cold or Coll Areas in Earth's higher Northern Latitudes to escape the heat. ONLY TOTALITARIANISM + COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM CAN SAVE WORLD + ALL HUMANITY NOW, CAN EVEN SAVE AMERIKA = USSA/United SOcialist Repubs of Amerika from itself. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-19 21:50 |
| #9 newc #1 They have a cash only balance sheet, but that can be eroded quite quickly in knowing what I know. Ditch Iran Russia. Trust me. pray tell '0 tease please, and in a while.. plz pass along the pertinent SUPER LOTTO info.. <:) |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2007-10-19 21:31 |
| #8 Ditch Iran Russia Why should they? The more trouble in ME, the higher Russia's oil income. Plus, Russia is rebuilding its weapons industry. Plus, sending a message "Respect our sphere of influence, or ...". |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-10-19 08:04 |
| #7 Our leaders like Saudi "freedom" better than the Russian version. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-10-19 05:17 |
| #6 Seemed to have lost my cookies... I do think I like the new handle: USOF3257 Fred is betraying his techie roots. 3257 is the RFC for SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol). This suggests to me that Fred is looking for telco grade reliability in getting Rantburg delivered over the inherently unreliable medium of the Internet. |
| Posted by: Ulailing Scourge of the Faith3257 2007-10-19 04:12 |
| #5 I'm reasonably ok with a long term scenario that sees the Chinese fighting with Islamists over the carcass of Russia. |
| Posted by: Ulailing Scourge of the Faith3257 2007-10-19 04:01 |
| #4 Russia has already demonstrated how extremely **cough** vulnerable **cough** their pipelines are. We could bring them to their knees in short order. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-19 03:20 |
| #3 Ethnic Russia is dying out. The few who survive will at least have some cash in the bank, assuming they are able to get out before the Chinese & the Muslims take over the premises. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-10-19 00:34 |
| #2 Russian investor/company reportedly wants to setup a multi-million dollar steel or auto plant in OHIO - THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-19 00:29 |
| #1 They have a cash only balance sheet, but that can be eroded quite quickly in knowing what I know. Ditch Iran Russia. Trust me. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-10-19 00:22 |