Russia Stops Delivery of S-300 Missile System

Well, once again we see that Russia is partially interested in keeping Iran from developing a nastier militaristic regime. Nuclear capable Islam are hard to figure out. After all, we do support Pakistan, but their foe tends to waffle between Afghanistan, the taliban and China.

The greatest thought from me is Iran would try to wipe out Israel. That will never happen as if there ever is a nuclear confrontation, I am pretty sure the U.S.A. will respond with punishment that will be biblical. The Iranian people aren't the real culprits, but the fundamentalist attitudes of the mullahs are a danger to their own people. .... lakotahope

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Medvedev bans weapon sales to Iran

Reuters

Thursday, 23 September 2010

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Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a decree prohibiting the delivery of S-300 air defence missile systems and other weapons to Iran, the Kremlin said yesterday.

The decree will please the Western nations concerned about Iran's military capability. Israel and the United States in particular have long lobbied Moscow to scrap plans to sell Tehran the high-precision missile systems, and Russian officials had promised not to deliver them after supporting a fresh round of UN sanctions against Iran in June.

The move bars the delivery to Iran of "any battle tanks, combat armoured vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat helicopters, military ships" and missiles covered by a UN register, as well as spare parts. It specifically prohibits the delivery of the S-300 – of particular concern because of fears that Iran could use them to protect facilities crucial to its nuclear programme, which Western governments suspect is aimed at developing a bomb.

The decree was announced hours after Russia's armed forces chief of staff said the military was fulfilling government orders not to deliver S-300s to Iran. The timing of the decree could have been intended to appease the West after the start-up of a Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran last month and the recent announcement of Russia's plans to sell missiles to Syria, which alarmed Israel and the White House. Reuters

North Korea warns that military forces will respond if UN condemns it for ship sinking

It appears to me that North Korea is doing everything possible to threaten war with South Korea and the United States. They must be under the assumption that the closer they can get us to an "act of war" declaration, then the American people will cry uncle and submit to whatever demands the little weasel Kim Jung il thinks up for the moment. Maybe, but I don't think that the USA will walk away from the North's declarations and I am pretty sure that this country and Iran need to be met head on in the coming months or years. ... lakotahope

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AP

June 15: South Korean Marines work along the fence on Baengnyeong Island, South Korea, near the border with North Korea.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea is warning that its military forces will respond if the U.N. Security Council questions or condemns the country over the sinking of a South Korean navy ship — an act it vehemently denies.

North Korea's U.N. Ambassador Sin Son Ho told a news conference Tuesday there is "a touch-and-go situation that war may break out at any time" because of South Korean accusations that the North torpedoed the ship and killed 46 sailors.

Sin accused South Korea and the United States of cooking up the accusation against the North and demanded that a military investigation team from Pyongyang be permitted to go to the site of the sinking, which the South has refused to allow.

Oil Shale in Abundance, BUT!

800 Billion Barrels of Oil? Awesome, but the techniques to recover oil from this shale need to be examined as it would really destroy much of this land and leave it looking like the moon. If the companies that get their hands on this acreage would rehabilitate the land after they destroy the top layers, then I would be more than willing to consider such a proposal as shale oil recovery.

We need to do something such as developing hydrogen technology as a major supplier of our countries fuel use. 30% to 55% of our total usage should be alternative fuels, which will double in cost, but eventually, it would enable the U.S. to have unlimited fuel that is already in production for the time that will certainly come, when oil is finished as a power source for the world....lakotahope

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From Consumerenergyreport.com posting

Posted by JAguilar on Thursday, April 29, 2010

Oil locked in shales situated on Federal lands in the Rocky Mountains are not likely to be tapped any time soon.

“I don’t know when we’ll see commercial development on public lands,” Steve Black, counsel for Interior Secretary announced at the Unconventional Fuels Conference. “It’s an industry that is not ready for prime time.”

The Green River Formation in the Rockies reportedly holds the largest bed of shale oil in the world.

A 2005 study by the Rand Corporation estimated that sedimentary rock in the corner where Utah borders Colorado and Wyoming called the Green River Formation contains an untapped 800 billion barrels. That’s three times the size of Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves.

World-renowned geologist Walter Youngquist called the oil beneath the Green River Formation, “a national treasure.”

Nevertheless, in February 2009, Salazar scrapped land leases designed to enable oil developers to tap oil from 1.9 million acres of the range, saying “I am withdrawing that Jan. 14 solicitation because in my view it was a midnight decision, and it was flawed.”

Fuel developers allege that the Obama administration has blocked progress of drilling in the potentially kerogen-rich shale. They believe that the White House is reluctant to endorse drilling for oil generally, and that the Green River Formation shales in particular have been blacklisted.

Yesterday, Black denied that Salazar and President Obama are red-lighting all oil projects. “This administration supports responsible development of all energy resources in the right place and at the right time,” said Black.

“He has never said privately or publicly that his intention is to kill oil shale,” Black added. “We’re not trying to pick winners or losers.”