OT Gus > Ten years from now, the US might be "controlling" nothing more than the few oil patches discovered by Colonel Drake 145 years ago
Maybe sooner?
rense.com
>>China says its Bohai Bay Basin in the north may contain 20.5 billion tons of offshore oil reserves.
The official China Daily newspaper said Thursday some 9 billion tons of oil have already been confirmed in the basin. The remaining 11.5 billion tons need to be further explored to be confirmed, it said.
The find indicates that total oil resources in place in the basin -- one of China's major oil-producing centers -- could potentially sustain the country's energy needs for a long time, Jin Zhijun with the China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., told China Daily.<<
axcessnews.com
>>The Russian government has signed an order for the construction of an oil pipeline from Taichet, eastern Siberia to the Pacific Ocean to serve Japan, said a source close to the government, cited by financial news agency Prime-Tass.
The pipeline will have capacity for 80 million tons, Prime-Tass said. The government press service was not immediately available to comment.
Chinese authorities said the Russian government had assured them a branch of the pipeline would be built towards China.<<
Meanwhile things seem worse and worse for the Americans who have trapped themselves in Iraq, just like the monkey who trapped himself with his paw in the jar of nuts.
turkishpress.com
>>Iraq's insurgency counts more than 200,000 active fighters and sympathisers, the country's national intelligence chief told AFP, in the bleakest assessment to date of the armed revolt waged by Sunni Muslims.
"I think the resistance is bigger than the US military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000 people," Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani said in an interview ahead of the January 30 elections.
Shahwani said the number includes at least 40,000 hardcore fighters but rises to more than 200,000 members counting part-time fighters and volunteers who provide rebels everything from intelligence and logistics to shelter.
The numbers far exceed any figure presented by the US military in Iraq, which has struggled to get a handle on the size of the resistance since toppling Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003.<< |
