Europe looks to open up Greenland for natural resources extraction.
Melting of icy surface opens up possibility of extracting rare earth metals and gemstones. Now the jackals are rushing in. bertb news feed
View ArticleWest Using Terror To Plunder Nigeriaâs Oil Resources
Nigerian Islamist radicals Boko Haram are doing serious damage. They have also been remarkably well armed and organized in recent years. Many Nigerians think outside forces are supporting them. bertb...
View ArticlePressure on dwindling resources “threatens global chaos”
The Chatham House think tank isn’t optimistic. The prizes for commodities have risen fast in the last decade, partly because of scarcity and partly because of greater demand. Pouring billions of cheap...
View ArticleChina Maps Out Venezuela’s Valuable Mining Resources.
An agreement signed by the government of Venezuela and the Chinese state-owned company Citic Group for prospecting and mapping the country’s mining reserves is being challenged by both the opposition...
View ArticleTroika bailout agreement: looting Cyprus natural resources.
Details of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) that Cyprus has to sign with the troika as part of its 10-billion-euro bailout were leaked to the media. WT news feed
View ArticleChina biggest rival as Japan seeks to tap African resources.
The importance of Africa’s resources to Japan’s energy and industrial policies has been recognized by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government. It announced a new initiative earlier this month to provide...
View ArticleRosneft, Socar to jointly develop oil and gas resources
Rosneft, Socar to jointly develop oil and gas resources: ‘via Blog this’ Interesting News Items
View ArticleCOLLATERALIZING SPACE: PLANETARY RESOURCES COMPANY AND ASTEROID MINING
Ever since the bizarre Japanese Bearer Bonds scandals, with its alleged one billion dollar Kennedy bearer bond, I have been intrigued with two notions: (1) a hidden system of finance, put into place...
View ArticleAfrica scrambles to build export network for mineral resources
These days, Africa’s buzzing with plans to build railways, highways, pipelines and ports to get the mineral wealth from the states at the heart of the continent, like the Democratic Republic of Congo...
View ArticleThe grab for Greenland-The world’s great powers have the Arctic’s natural...
Greenland is once again catching the imagination of outsiders. International business executives and diplomats are retracing Egede’s journey. The rapid melting of the northern polar ice has set off...
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