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10 years 2nd Iraq war, 23 years 1. Iraq war - eerie parallels to the 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

These days "commit" we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2nd Iraq war in 2003. And the first Iraq war? This raises disturbing parallels to the current tense "pre-war situation" on.

1990 a dispute erupted between Iraq and Kuwait. Saddam Hussein accused the neighboring country to have drilled into its oil fields, a statement which proved later to be correct in principle. Saddam invaded Kuwait.

President Bush (father) would not tolerate this, the American public was not enthusiastic about a war for the unknown Kuwait.

So it was a testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti in the US Congress, which was historically: The following video shows after a few moments, the key scene. (more ...)

Iran: Construction of gas pipeline to Syria and the Mediterranean

Friday, November 23, 2012

According to media reports , Iran has begun construction of its gas pipeline to Syria - a 10-billion-dollar project. The first phase extends over 225 miles and cost 3 billion dollars. The entire project is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2013. The gas pipeline deal was agreed in July last year between Iran, Iraq and Syria.

The company speaks a language other than the Western arms deliveries to rebels and fanatical than the supported also by Germany Strangulationspolitik against Syria, which still maintains the last country in the region religious tolerance and coexistence of cultures.

The Iranian announcement raises concerns that an energy strategic dimension in the western approach to the participating countries could increase as the project is in direct competition with Nabucco and also Iran on Syria would provide direct sales market in Europe. (See also my of previous post) . (more ...)

Natural Gas: Energy of the 21st century and the new energy space and the Eastern Mediterranean

Friday, November 09, 2012

At this point I already had an article about the huge new gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean adjusted. As a reminder, in 2009 and 2010, the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields were discovered off the coast of Israel, which immediately raised questions as to any claims of Lebanon and the Palestinians (in Gaza are assumed greater occurrence). However, Israel has not signed the international Seerechtsstatuten so that the staking of gas "claim" is not without problems.

In the United States there is a geological report, which is always updated. This "US Geological Survey" (USGS) for 2010 noted on April 8 for the gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean:

2010: Marking the Levante gas field, Eastern Mediterranean; Source USGS

"The region of the Levant Basin is comparable to some of the largest natural gas fields in the world and its gas resources are bigger than anything we have in the United States reviewed so far." At that time, the USGS estimated the speech of 122 trillion cubic feet (tcf), ie trillion cubic feet.

In May 2010, the USGS gave an estimate of the entire eastern Mediterranean arch including the Nile Delta and Turkey the coast and came up with a number of 345 tcf of gas and 3.4 billion barrels of oil. In order to appreciate the immense deposits better, here are the comparative figures from other natural gas regions of the world: (more ...)

Against the Grain: The real gunman

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

If the media roller rolls again, I take always happy to brush.

A common direction for me has something threatening, and I imagine it figuratively a bison herd before, the drums on the prairie diversity of opinion; in the distance, perhaps lurks an abyss, which the excited herd animals no longer perceive the drums, snorting and stomping of conspecifics is simply overpowering and drowned out any warning signals. The clouds of steam, smoke from the nostrils and ears of snorting media armada make, deaf and block the receptors of the olfactory bulb in order to perceive the stench of actual scandals.

When I feel that something should be scandalized and someone will trigger certain emotions in me like a Pavlovian dog saliva, then I block, something goes against the grain, and then I brush up against the grain. I would hardly have believed that I would have to write something about guns and gun laws, I am surprised to themselves.

My childhood was marked by strict pacifism my parents, who are u .a. in a comprehensive ban on weapons in our children practically expressed. The reason for the ban was acting under painted and staged and so understood by us children: because our parents had both lived through the war. Both knew shoot what and bomb was, and I can only do write because my mother was on that day that her house was wiped out by a direct hit in the basement of the house next door to assist with her mother and her siblings a neighbor, whether the permanent air strikes threatened to lose his mind. (more ...)