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Russia Bets Big On The World’s Least Explored Oil Frontier
Russia Bets Big On The World’s Least Explored Oil Frontier When the inaugural Russia-Africa summit was held in October 2019, most industry observers believed that the majority of projects under discussion would not get past the FID stage – in no small part because of their varied economic prospects. As well as wheat exports, nuclear technologies, […]
Russia Conducts War Drill With Hypersonic Missiles Amid Threat Of War In Middle East
Russia Conducts War Drill With Hypersonic Missiles Amid Threat Of War In Middle East Russian President Vladimir Putin observed a war drill off the coast of Crimea on Thursday that included the launching of hypersonic missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry’s Zvezda broadcasting service said Russia’s Black Sea and Northern Fleets participated in the military […]
Past Point of No Return –John Rubino
Past Point of No Return –John Rubino Financial writer and book author John Rubino sees the world careening toward a debt reset at an increasing pace. Rubino explains, “The coming monetary reset and what that means for gold and what that means for the rest of the global financial system, you don’t need a war […]
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, construction of which is intended to transport 55 billion cubic metres of Russian gas to Germany per year under the Baltic Sea, is a ragbag of options and promises. The fruit of a deal between Berlin and Moscow, it has troubled […]
Russia’s “Sovereign Internet” Test Will Cut Off Entire Country From Web On Monday
Russia’s “Sovereign Internet” Test Will Cut Off Entire Country From Web On Monday On Monday a key initiative undertaken by the Russian government for over the past year to establish a ‘sovereign internet’ will face a major test. That’s when the country and its information systems will be intentionally disconnected from the worldwide web, according to Russia’s communications […]
Germany Slams Trump’s ‘Meddling’ In Europe’s Energy After Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Passed
Germany Slams Trump’s ‘Meddling’ In Europe’s Energy After Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Passed Included in Wednesday’s just passed mammoth 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — which increases the Pentagon budget by $22 billion (to a whopping $738 billion) — were long-threatened sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 underwater natural gas pipeline. In the House bill, expected to be approved […]
As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up
As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up For all of 2019 December has been a magnet. A number of major geopolitical issues come to head this month and many of them have everything to do with energy. This is the month that Russian gas giant Gazprom was due to finish production on three major pipeline […]
Russian Gas Mega-Pipeline To China Goes Online As Putin & Xi Hail Closer Ties
Russian Gas Mega-Pipeline To China Goes Online As Putin & Xi Hail Closer Ties Late Monday Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin jointly launched the major unprecedented cooperative project that had been years in the making called the ‘Power of Siberia’ gas pipeline. The China-Russia east-route pipeline is now providing China with Russian natural gas, which according to […]
Russia Air Launches Hypersonic Missile In Arctic As Tensions Surge
Russia Air Launches Hypersonic Missile In Arctic As Tensions Surge Reuters is reporting that Russian state-owned TASS is making big claims this weekend that a Russian military jet has air-launched a hypersonic missile in the Arctic. TASS cites several Russian military sources, who said a Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor jet air-launched a Kinjal (Dagger) hypersonic missile over […]
Eastern Europe Is Turning Into An Energy Battleground
Eastern Europe Is Turning Into An Energy Battleground Bulgaria has agreed to allow NATO to use its Black Sea port for naval coordination efforts as tensions rise between the Western military alliance and Russia. The agreement was reached following a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at the White […]
BRICS Nations Discuss Shared Crypto to Break Away From USD and SWIFT
BRICS Nations Discuss Shared Crypto to Break Away From USD and SWIFT ANALYSIS Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, or the BRICS economic bloc, are engaging in discussions to issue cross-national digital money in order to reduce the dependence of their economies on the United States, as reported by Cointelegraph on Nov. 14. What will the […]
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry SPECIAL REPORT: Alberta’s ‘anti-energy’ probe makes a debunked US report its must-read. Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media was produced by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which at the time was led […]
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning
Personal Politics, Public Impeachment, Persuasion and Post-Apocalyptic Planning One of my primary concerns regarding the forthcoming economic chaos and societal breakdown is that there will be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. As normalcy bias evaporates like tears on dehydrated sunken cheeks, hungry neighbors and pre-collapse friends and acquaintances will soon assimilate into zombie […]
How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’
How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’ A Bloomberg report of October 22 was concise and uncompromising in declaring Russia to be a surveillance state. Harking back to the good old days of the Cold War, as is increasingly the practice in much of the Western media, Bloomberg recounted that “The fourth of 10 basic […]
