South America doesn’t want to be Europe
excerpted from: petroleumworld
Plans for a vast natural-gas pipeline stretching from Venezuela to Argentina are frozen due to lack of political will among South America’s leaders, President Hugo Chavez said Friday.
The project is meant to carry gas from Venezuela’s offshore reserves through Brazil to Argentina, with branches extending to Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay — a 9,000-kilometer (5,600-mile) stretch that would be one of the longest gas pipelines ever built.
South America, not so oddly, isn’t in a hurry to be another Europe or recognize a mimic of Stalin / Putin / Castro as somene to be allowed as a neighbor.
The Russians have been seeking exactly the same thing in Europe: a system of energy distribution that once in place, can be used as a political tool of blackmail.
Gas giant Gazprom has hired the Russian navy to clear the Baltic Sea bed of dangerous, even explosive, ship wreckage for a major underwater gas pipeline to Germany.
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Gazprom, known in Russia as ‘a state within a state’, is Russia’s biggest company by market capitalisation and is viewed by the Kremlin as a key instrument of geopolitical influence. It is majority owned by the state.
Russia’s parliament this month handed Gazprom the right to form its own armed units instead of contracting outside security firms.
Daniel 8:24,25 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy marvellously, and shall prosper, and shall practise, and shall destroy the mighty ones, and the people of the saints. And through his cunning shall he cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he will magnify himself in his heart, and by prosperity will corrupt many; and he will stand up against the Prince of princes: but he shall be broken without hand.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27