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Malgeria Crisis Update
The situation in MalgeriaTM continues to remain uncertain but the following updates should provide some color as to where they stand currently (and a primer on the initial French intervention). Critically, Stratfor warns that the escalation in Algeria will possibly lead to further militants crossing the Mali border, further endangering Westerners and energy infrastructure (which is important as Algeria is one of the largest exports of light, sweet crude oil in the world and a significant natural gas exporter to Europe).
Stratfor 3-minute Primer:
Update:
1) In general there is chaos as FranceTV put it "it is very confusing, with no official confirmation of any of the actions being reported on"
2) Up to 35 (of the 44) Hostages have apparently been killed in the Algerian rescue (retake) operation, with hostages freed (one Irishman);
2a) All 8 of the hostage-takers have apparently been killed
Who is Mokhtar Belmokhtar?
3) A US Drone is now on site to take a look for the first time;
4) The UK's Cameron was not informed before the Algerian operation (and wanted to be consulted);
5) Stratfor's concern is that Algeria's action will bring more militants across the border and threaten more Westerners and energy production
There are hundreds of smaller oil and gas fields in between, to the west of In Amenas and around the central desert region surrounding In Salah. Algeria lacks the capacity to provide a robust security presence for all of these sites, nor can it afford to suspend operations given the aggressive oil and gas production expansions planned for 2013. Algeria cannot maintain a permanent security presence at every production site across its territory, but as evidenced by the Jan.16 attack, they are capable of quickly organizing regional security forces at sites of unrest.
6) BP is pulling all non-essential staff out
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The battle for control of Africa's resources continues. A non-event.
(and a primer on the initial French intervention)
asses and elbows?
Oh shit, are we following the French into another conflict? Time to burn the draft cards.
Go long white flags...
Algeria, the next 33rd paralle country in NA to go.
As predicted in March 2011....
Clear plan the globalist bastards are working towards...
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/axis-of-evil-doing/
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Supposedly the ring leader of this Al Qaeda sect is named Lennay Kekua
Nice call on trade marking Malergia, Tyler .... ROFL
Supposedly the ring leader of this Al Qaeda sect is named Lennay Kekua
Can't be! She died last year of a Brain Cloud after inspiring Obama to score 7 goals in the Supper Bowl.
I have no idea what crew you are working with, but certain people will remember a pamphlet with a bullseye drawn on it.
In the event anyone would like to know some other shit at stake here:
http://www.spyghana.com/the-war-on-mali-what-you-should-know-an-eldorado...
I have read a couple of other posters (esp. CPL) comment on the uranium mining/processing, but let's also not forget, there's a lot of gold to be had here too.
white flags?...sorry, all my money is tied up in Japanese diapers.
Well honestly, the Westerners were never invited and shouldnt have been there in the first place so...yeah everyone is fair game if he's standing in the middle of the room in a full blown bar fight.
oh so the west invaded to put all that infrastructure there?
Youre right Trav but its all qpq, and dont forget the chinkos too.
wtf are you talking about?!!?
ZOMG we're oppressing the africans with running water and electricity
Until the Story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
- African Proverb
And then my Jug-Eared God gave me a magic rock that speaks and allows me to speak with those from another tribe many day's walk away; until said day when my magic rock is taken from me, I'll worship at the voting booth, forever.
-African Proverb
those people arn't as stupid as you think; they just niggas trapped by the gun, like us, but no benefits of the dollar hegemony; they on the other-side of the stick.
your attitude is american arrogance and the reason the niggas will succeed in freeing themselves from our bondage.
long live da nigga, may he prosper and live in peace.
We're all niggas now...
that's why i use the word so much. seems fitting.
Irish, do you mean long false flags?
Can anyone say "pretext"?
There are still a small number of countries where the US Military does not yet have a base, isn't invading, and isn't yet bombing. We're trying for a .1000 batting average here folks.
I heard there are some people in Greenland saying anti-American shit...and there are some dodgy emails coming from Easter Island. Invade.
French Army has longest losing streak in the history of human institutions. Will they break it here? So exciting.
In French, they'd say; 'Deja vu'.
Whenever Europe starts a war,
they call on the US to help.
Cue Gorgon Stare deployment, now,now,...now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
Oh shit, are we following the French into another conflict? Time to burn the draft cards.
For sale: used French military rifles, never fired, only dropped once.
"For sale: used French military rifles, never fired, only dropped once."
Well WE've never done this... :
http://www.google.fr/search?num=10&hl=fr&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&b...
never?
The French never slaughtered innocent people?
hmmm...
The benevolant empire of France... Right.
I too sometimes get tired of the jeuvenile "France always surrenders or runs away" meme because it displays a lack of intellectual fortitude that plagues our society. But to suggest that France has never committed a similar atrocity demonstrates the same close-mindedness.
Benevolantly obtained!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:French_Empire_17th_century-20th_centur...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038453/The-French-Fuhrer-Genoci...
Haiti around 1800 was the world's richest colony, a slave-powered export factory which produced almost two-thirds of the world's coffee and almost half its sugar.
The black slaves were lashed and beaten to work and forced to wear tin muzzles to prevent them from eating the sugar cane.
If the slaves were fractious, they were roasted over slow fires, or filled with gunpowder and blown to pieces.
When the slaves began to fight for their freedom, under the leadership of a charismatic African military genius called Toussaint L'Ouverture, Napoleon sent 10,000 crack troops under the command of his brother-inlaw, General Leclerc, to crush Toussaint and restore slavery.
In 1802, a vast programme of ethnic cleansing was put in place. Napoleon banned inter-racial marriages and ordered that all white women who'd had any sort of relationship with a black or mulatto (person of mixed race) be shipped to France.
He further commanded the killing of as many blacks in Haiti as possible, to be replaced by new, more docile slaves from Africa.
The French troops were under orders to kill all blacks over the age of 12. However, younger children were also killed - stabbed to death, put in sandbags and dropped into the sea.
The Haitians fought to the death for independence, which they finally declared in 1804.
Prisoners on both sides were regularly tortured and killed, and their heads were mounted on the walls of stockades or on spikes beside the roads.
Non-combatants, too, were raped and slaughtered. According to contemporary accounts, the French used dogs to rip black prisoners to pieces before a crowd at an amphitheatre.
Allegdly on Napoleon's orders, sulphur was extracted from Haitian volcanoes and burned to produce poisonous sulphur dioxide, which was then used to gas black Haitians in the holds of ships - more than 100,000 of them, according to records.
The use of these primitive gas chambers was confirmed by contemporaries. Antoine Metral, who in 1825 published his history of the French expedition to Haiti, writes of piles of dead bodies everywhere, stacked in charnel-houses.
'We varied the methods of execution,' wrote Metral. 'At times, we pulled heads off; sometimes a ball and chain was put at the feet to allow drowning; sometimes they were gassed in the ships by sulphur.
'When the cover of night was used to hide these outrages, those walking along the river could hear the noisy monotone of dead bodies being dropped into the sea.'
A contemporary historian, who sailed with the punitive expedition, wrote that: 'We invented another type of ship where victims of both sexes were piled up, one against the other, suffocated by sulphur.'
These were prison ships with gas chambers called etouffiers, or 'chokers', which asphyxiated the blacks, causing them terrible suffering
Somehow, I feel compelled to point out that there are NO volcanoes in Haiti, either active or extinct.
Funny that you fail to mention the reason WHY THE FUCK FRANCE WAS IN VIETNAM TO BEGIN WITH.
Dear French guy,
Where did Michelin get all the rubber for it's tires?
Hint: Not from the fucking French countryside.
I like you SWRichmond, I admire your honesty! Hell, you can come over to my house and **** my sister!
Don't be ungrateful to the nation that made the US possible. You don't believe in the fairytale of George Washigton's army beating the British. Do you?
Nope this is definitely escalation bigtime. The Algerian event indicates they are going for the big targets; oil/gas fields.
Its like the Tet offensive in Nam. I'm surprised, as since the 90s the Algerian army has protected its oil/gas sites very well during their civil war with the GIA/Salafists.
According to french sources a whole regiment is supposed to guard this EN AMenas site; and they didn't.
This guy Ben Mokhtar is supposed to be an Algerian secret service agent reinflitrated into the Salafist movement by the Algerian secret police; as posted in this article :
How Washington helped foster the Islamist uprising in Mali -- New Internationalist
This attack knocks a big hole into that thesis. We don't know who is fifth column and who is true Salafist. Every man for himself or a concerted cross continent nebulous with a coordinated Al Qaeda type organisation in Sahel?
Just wait for the Call of Duty version to come out and clear things up... No later than next Christmas....
I like how you always 'appear' to be an expert on random foreign geo-political entanglements. That sort of makes me wonder what it is that you do, and who pays you.
Lord knows, nobody would be stupid enough to consider paying you to pose as an expert in anything...
excellent playground banter
Yeah, it's a slow day... And based on his comment below re: oil wells, it is entirely appropriate...
Speaking of "experts" and "oil" and so on and so forth .. Der Spiegel ran a story today on a supposedly "secret" study conducted by BND about how the US will be a net oil and gas exporter by 2020 due to the massive exploration in shale oil and gas. BND (the German equivalent to CIA) is making the case that China would be the biggest loser in this scenario and how the US would eventually stop all imports from the ME. What's your take on this?
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/bnd-studie-zu-oelvorkommen-der-usa...
Speaking of "experts" and "oil" and so on and so forth...What's your take on this?
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-12-17/fracking-responsible-big-boost-us-crude-production
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that there is big shale in Malgeria.
Is fracking any better than extracting oil from bitumen (tar sands)? Neither is sustainable very long because of the high cost of production and the relative quick depletion of the resource. How many acres of shale fields can be liquified ongoing without causing massive damage to the environment is what I'm thinking. Nevermind the question on how to purify the polluted water from the extraction process. How long are we talking here? Maybe 20 years tops. Then what? By then the convential oil fields are also nearly depleted.
possible with gas.
Oil? We'd have to be consuming WAY less. Our import gap is 10mbpd+.
If someone is trying to convince you that shale is a 10mbpd resource, short them with both fists.
Perhaps they assume massive substitution of oil btus for gas across our economy.
...and do not look at this Crude Oil Production chart chart:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-12-17/fracking-responsible-big-boost-us-crude-production
Covering "Malgeria" and the Sahara Desert with solar panels should be our primary goal. Instead of wasting our collective time and productivity to extract oil and gas from rocks, we could have infrastructure and technology in place to either store the photovoltaic energy or transport without incurring the losses we have with conventional landlines for example.
The sun shines in the desert. It's hotter than hell and our only obstacles are distance, wind and sand. It's fucked up that we're stuck in this unsustainable paradigm where all bets are on fossil fuels.
Far too reasonable an idea, but FWIW Spain works just as well...
Covering "Malgeria" and the Sahara Desert with solar panels should be our primary goal. Instead of wasting our collective time and productivity to extract oil and gas from rocks, we could have infrastructure and technology in place to either store the photovoltaic energy or transport without incurring the losses we have with conventional landlines for example.
The sun shines in the desert. It's hotter than hell and our only obstacles are distance, wind and sand. It's fucked up that we're stuck in this unsustainable paradigm where all bets are on fossil fuels.
I won't comment on any geopolitical implications but the claim of the US being net oil and gas exporter by 2020 is hardly secret... CITIbank recently put out a horribly flawed study with much the same conclusions a while ago....
As it currently stands US NG producers are losing money at a prodigious rate because shale gas needs ~$7-8 to break even (ignoring possble NGL production)... A little realized fact is that wells producing at a loss are rarely shut in because the cashflow is critical to pay for the next round of drilling... And you do realize that despite this massive boom, the US is still a net importer of NG. It may well be that the US does become a net exporter of NG in 2020, but I seriously doubt it...
As for oil, the following presentation at the recent AGU meeting sums up the shales very nicely..
http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/12/future_producti.html
The salient point is that once the locations are saturated, it is game over... I don;t care to quibble over when that happens... And you do realize that the shales are not new, they have mapped out and poked extensively for years and I can assure you that they ain't drilling the marginal prospects first....
Finally to give you an idea of the games played with the statistics, the US currently counts ~700,000 bpd arising from refinery gains stemming from *imported* oil as *domestic production*. Refinery gains refer to the volumetric gains, not real energy....
To sum it up, the guys putting out these analysis are like the brokers who used a ruler to extrapolate the internet stock boom and we know how that ended...
he works for Al Jazeerah ;-)
...so he's a terrist, yah?
...so he's a terrist, yah?
this is a blogsite where we debate on all issues on the world stage. Having opinions and expressing them in words is an inalienable right. Unless you happen to be illiterate.
Nobody PAYS you to express your free willl unless you be a worm masquerading as a human.
So look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself what being free means. Do you work for the Inquistion, do you deny freedom of expression?
Or are you just a wiggly thing that slides on the floor.? Sorry if i've stepped on your ego.
Having opinions and expressing them in words is an inalienable right.
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All part of the 'american' natural rights theory?
Oh yes, so it is all about being denied.
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Another non sequiturd from the dog roasting, curb crapping, failed academic propagandationist.
Entertain me, but don't forget to finish the laundry.
And I am STILL waiting for that eggroll!
Chop chop Chang!
So much flowery BS from a statist pretending to be for Liberty.
Geopolitics is not the focus of this site, but you often bring up obscure information involved. As if you were somehow connected with an agency that deals with information.
We all know you haven't a clue about Economics, so it must be true you work for Al-J then?
open your mouth n put your foot in it; you just rant about negatives never about reality.
Another believer that freedom is not based on balance of power; thats history, finding the balance for each age and each paradigm change, fed on the tree of knowledge
But you wouldn't know that you just knee jerk.
How Washington helped foster the Islamist uprising in Mali -- New Internationalist
This attack knocks a big hole into that thesis. We don't know who is fifth column and who is true Salafist.
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The only relevant question is to know whether he is an 'American'.
Fifth column, muslim, it does not matter.
All that matters is to know whether he is an 'american' or not.
Anyone notice that the terrorist in the right hand side of the screen is computer generated?
Yes, and I noticed the he looks like the guy that played Dr. House as well.
belmokhtar mokhtar Serious. Google image it.
That clip has been around since Dec 5th 2012.
Appearently can't be bothered with making new media now.
http://www.liberte-algerie.com/images/resized/images/images_editions/609...
Check him out there.
The medium is the message. Who's the guy they are broadcasting then?
I am not sure, maybe France's OBL?
Umm, wrong guy? That's clearly labelled as Nabil Makhloufi:
An al-Qaeda-linked commander known as the Emir of the Sahara, Nabil Makhloufi, has died in a car crash in Mali, an Islamist spokesman has said.[10th Sept 2012]
Not to be confused with this Nabil Makhloufi either. Although, yes, I tend to agree that the stiff in the BBC clip looks about as Arabian as M Jackson.
That is an image that came up when I searched for the guy, there's about 6 different guys pictured as the same guy in there.
http://www.liberte-algerie.com ... 2-nabil-makhloufi-dr_200_150.jpg Implies: [2nd picture] Nabil Makhloufi [image size]
In fact, this picture is pulled from this piece, which is clearly labelled: "Nabil Makhloufi meurt dans un accident à GAO", dated 11 Sept 2012 (which coincides with the BBC piece) and which has only a single picture. You reached the conclusion you did because the piece goes on "Encore un coup dur pour Aqmi. Cette organisation terroriste vient de perdre deux de ses éléments. Il s’agit notamment, de Nabil Abou Alqama, adjoint de l’émir d’Aqmi, (Mokhtar Belmokhtar dit Laouar), nommé chef de la région du Sahara."
Please learn how search engines work a little before jumping to the wrong conclusion.
You'll note that the fishy thing you've almost hit is right in front of you: I'll let you spot it. You hit pay-dirt entirely by accident.
when I do that, does it redirect me to pages with explicit images involving goats?
Only if you add goat fucking to the search. There's all sorts of crap online.
...and watch out if you add "goatse" to the search.
blue waffle as well.
Anyone notice that the terrorist in the right hand side of the screen is computer generated?
is not true godamit.
he looks almost 3d to me
der bbc and fox say he reel see so he reel.
bbc is der truht sea
he looks like a scary mushlim to me.
we need ar marines on der ground wid der brits cos dem frenchys are always to busy makin love wid each others.
we need men in the marine corpse not french faggots.
der guvmint say der bin lardin crew are behind dese outrageus things eye say it true.
if ya cant beliefs yur guv mint are we ment to beliefs der brown folks wid beards and guns.
i say killum all if brits and frogs gets in der way hay colateral damage dats all
freedomes dont cum cheap but it smells good wants the smell of burnin flesh as gone
The number is 1.5ish million barrels/day of light sweet, down from the peak of about 1.8ish mbpd in 2007.
Looks like a geology peak; not a political one.
Yeah, that chart ain't pretty...
http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/output_en/Exports_BP_2012_oil_bbl_DZ_MZM_NONE_auto_M.pdf
2 words: Drone Strikes
2 things:
Too far inland to safely pilot from a boat off shore
And no point of presence on the ground. Remember, they were run out and left their dead behind?
Oh noes! This won't end well! Ruh-Ro!
Speaking of drones, why are the French still fighting like it's the 20th century? Haven't they been paying attention? Or can they just not afford drones of their own?
France is about 20 years behind in first person shooter training programs, I mean video games.
The horror of games!
I've heard they also don't play with stick-guns when they are kids and they only play cops and cops - no one is the robber.
BTW By voting for an entilment a person is actively supporting violent robbery in actual society, in real life. By playing a game the same person is playing a game. Which of these actions contributes more to accepting forceful "solutions" to real life problems?
France has drones ... just not a lot and not working much ;-) Europe is currently developing drones so as not having to by it from uncle sam
krauts are working on sharks with laser beams to shoot down US drones
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/wicked-lasers-shark/
I bet l'armee has a union. Can't have drones stealing all the jobs.
This is cue for the US to once again stick their noses into other people's business and in the process, get their foot further into Africa.
PLEASE - DO NOT HELP THOSE INSUFFERABLE PEOPLE - NO AMERICAN BLOOD FOR FROGS. LET THEM GET THEIR OWN JUST DESSERTS, JUST THIS ONCE.
so your worst enemy is the frog?
who needs friends with enemies like that!
I thought your worst enemy was the Keynesian. So now the bogeyman becomes : Keynesian frog!
Lol, paranoid, ideologically inspired head in the oil sands logic is something that no amount of history can disprove.
'Our american life style is non negotiable.'
Amen to that!
Having said that the Françafrique construction is behind this flare up in the Touareg enclave of Mali, now a continental fire. the USA is not the only country with greedy economic interests that blinds its sense of resposibility over forty long years.
America's worst enemy is Vichy DC.
Having said that the Françafrique construction is behind this flare up in the Touareg enclave of Mali, now a continental fire.
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The current crisis is a direct consequence of the invasion of Libya. This is where they got the weapons.
But hey, 'americanism' is as 'american' does.
But hey, trolling Chinese shitizenism is as roadcrapping shitmongery does.
What else does an Kenyan Muslim NWO CIA Mockingbird marxist puppet do? This is his home continent.
What the frak?!
My political geography is weak. Does Stratfor say how far south before the arabs (brown people) become negros (black people), and thus we must call off the bombing and drone stikes, and begin the foreign aid drops? I think this is referred to as the Clinton/Netanyahu line.
Hope the drone operators don't see this map or the Aussies are fucked...
Diplomacy by the numbers is indeed a bitch, but I am sure Hillary has been using the most up-to-date data, so Australia is probably safe.
It is Texas I am worried about, now. We have got to be in that same 18-26 range as the MENA. To paraphrase what Taleb says about Gaussian averages, "We're screwed." I hear tell that Iceland isn't so bad this time of year.
prior to 1940?... Slick Wille was born in 1946... You mean to tell me he was scheming with Bibi 6 years before he was born?... Why not show those drones the "pre-10,000 BC" chart where North America was pinned down by the glaciers & full of Clovis Indian people... That would give them an excuse to fly the drones over US cities...
Re: the Aussies, don't get fooled by the tanline...
Days of such barbarism are well over.
Now it's the president that approves who's going to be killed, not some chromatic scale calculation.
Anyway, it would be counterproductive to dehumanize them anymore. It's time for domestic enemies and they won't have darker skin, but maybe different accent or just different ideals.
somehow, Hedgelss, Detroit and LA don't show up on your map....
uh...the former are caucasians...they are a different evolutionary lineage. Skin color is but one superficial difference between races and many indians are dark as well.
Chad is near, too. Approximately one billion barrels of crude deposits demonstrated by Exxon.
The fact that 1 billion barrels even makes the news nowadays should be a clue...
The problem with Peak Oil is that they only measured specific wells without understanding that world supply has never came from just one single well.
Yes... that would explain Texas, the North Sea and Indonesia very well...
/Face palm....
...and that single well up in Alaska.
Yeah and that one too.... ;-)
I would have mentioned the Ploesti but he probabaly never heard of it....
There was a single well down in Mexico, too, Cantarell maybe?
I have, doesn't change that Peak Oil has holes.
wow...just...wow....world production is the sum of a bunch of individual wells, isn't it?
Interests shift often, and likewise so do production values. There's more going on than just wells running out. Oil is cheaper now than in any point of history, but Peak Oil says that this should not be happening. Explain it...
If the oil markets were true markets, and the petrol dollar was not totally manipulated, then it would not be be happening.
As for it being cheaper now than ever before, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and alas, I think you might be hard pressed to provide it...
You never used to simply make shit up, something happen recently that we should be aware of?
I heard one report about bombing going on at the facility... here's a newsflash for you dumb fuckers on the hostage rescue team over there. Don't fucking bomb the place until AFTER you get the hostages out you stupid shits... doh!
Motherfucker those hostages were better off without your help!
Oil/gas/money, relevant; hostages, irrelevant.
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Off topic but I have to get this off my chest:
I'M MAD AS HELL! IMPEACH OBAMA!
Sorry, but an illegal office holder cannot be impeached.
Just drag his ass outta there in handcufs.
You want Biden to be President?
What changes after the big O gets impeached?
CIA's Al-Qaeda, funded by cuts to my mother's social security persciption drug medicine, up against the black folk.
Where's Tarzan?
MalgeriaTM
you heard it here first... and maybe last
DIVERSIONARY TACTICS from maybe the DEBT CEILING, GUN CONTROL, GERMANY'S RE-POSSESSION OF IT'S GOLD, ETC., ETC., ?
Do you say that local Al-Kaida commander got an order from CIA to get on with this attack?
This is some reverse delusion of grandeur, where USA is directly responsible for every single thing that goes on in the World.
Conspiracy theories are more comforting to the psyche than having to face the utter chaos that is humanity and existence.
And ramp stocks with huge injection...
Yes diversionary tactics but not in favor and masking America's rotten political and financial situation.
The French have made their beds with the Rothschilds and the Rothschilds are financing the French invasion in Africa - again. The Rothschilds and their ilk have probably financed the insurgents as well.
War - has always been good for the Rothschild's balance sheets. The French are in a bind. Their economy is crashing, their finances are dire and their wealthy are leaving. Where do you turn for help in such dire times? Well, the moneychangers and their warlords of course.
The Rothschilds - they got your back.
DIVERSIONARY TACTICS
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Nope. To phrase it like the 'american' general Powell, famous for his works at the UN, 'americans' had some miscalculations in their way.
'Americans' used to name Gaddafi mad dog as they felt he was unpredictable.
The man most 'americans' welcomed the progression in Mali as it served their best interests, is for sure a mad dog and provided a move 'americans' did not expect, pushing a lot of 'american' nations that would have welcomed the creation of a new state in a delicate situation.
I wonder what fraction of French uranium is sourced from the area...
60-80 % comes from Niger, neighbour to Mali.
Grazie....
better get started on those LFRs...the once-through cycle of enriched stuff should have been abandoned in the 60s
Oil, and gold... Yesssss, my preciousssss, they export..
Hmmm in Der Spiegel: Germany is eager to prove it is a reliable ally, particularly after it snubbed France and stayed out of Libya. Wary of getting pulled into the violence in Mali, it has instead offered two planes to transport troops.
What?... and the flight home to bring back gold to Germany?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/french-mission-in-mali-puts-ge...
The West uses bullets backed by printing presses, China uses RMB backed by the sweat of their brow for Africa's resources. Who is Africa going to open up to?
<--- guy with bullets
<--- sweaty chink
i paid for sh!t in zimbabwe last week with USD.
I bet they will take anything. Only a fool would think they would only take one foreign currency. Don't believe me, go to a US bank with Yuan, Yen, or any foreign currncy. They will take it all.
You're a moron, are you aware of that? You running around with your dick out thinking you are the shit, without realizing how short sighted and ignorant of your surrounding's you really are.
The spice must flow.
How can widespread war/revolutions between Islamists and everyeone else in the middle east be avoided? And if they begin to focus on oil and gas wells, things could "explode" quickly.
Bad news for spice prices.
The fog of propaganda
The FED has made it impossible for the markets to go down, so this won't affect things.
Why can't the 'Religion of Peace' use bicycles like the Mormons?
They need pickup trucks with machine guns and AK-47's to convert you to their peaceful religion.
When you have Toyota Hiluxes to use as technicals?
(BTW, ever driven a Hilux? They're fantastic.)
The French have drawn a Maginot line in the sand
I'm heading over, been practicing on Call of Duty for weeks now.
According to Reuters Italy currently receives 35% of all its Nat gas imports from Algeria.
Spain has built the Medgaz pipeline to reduce its LNG imports in 2011 but if no flow comes from Medgaz ………………….
It cannot buy LNG on the market as Japan & to a now much lesser extent sov UK is eating all the Qatar LNG pies….
http://www.medgaz.com/medgaz/pages/datos_significativos-eng.htm
The second older Algerian – Spanish gas pipeline.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghreb–Europe_Gas_Pipeline
Looking at point number 6 above... glad to hear that BP is making such a bold decision. My ass would have been flyin' outta that shit after the first shots were fired. I don't need permission from my boss when it comes to saving my skin, but thanks anyway.
Did they borrow that setting from The Road Warrior?