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Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
: If Indonesia were to announce tomorrow that they had made a discovery of the largest oil deposits in history the price wold fall dramatically because oil brokers would figure that there would be an oil glut in a little while. In 1978-79, I lived in Tehran, Iran. I worked for an American contractor in the Iranian Air Force SIGINT/ELINT business. We monitored Saddam and Afghanistan and along the Gulf, while the CIA kept an eye on the Russians along the northern border from atop the Alborz Mountains. I got to fly in the mission's C-130's across Iran many times, even though it wasn't really my job description because I'm a good technician they lacked. I'd fly every chance I got. When a Richter 7 earthquake hit the little city of Tabbas, I flew 24/7 for over a week, sleeping on the airplanes and eating MREs from a can delivering stuff to the refugees to live on. It was awful. The whole city collapsed just as they were eating dinner. 25,000 died in seconds. I'll tell you where new oil is. It's in the Iranian mountains that have never been walked on in the history of man. Most people have no idea now VAST this country is. The population is centered around a scattering of cities with an amazingly wide unspoiled wilderness in between. Iran's mountains are some of the most beautiful places on the planet, totally inaccessible on the ground. I sat for hours in the open aft hatch of the C-130s taking it all in. Too bad cameras were forbidden. If we had crashed, we'd still be there decades later. As an example of what's in those mountains, two Americans who worked for National Iranian Oil flew out to an area with no history looking for more oil in a helicopter. They didn't find any. But, alas, they stumbled upon the second largest deposit of virgin COPPER on the planet! Some of it even laid on the ground! Noone knew of it, before, because in 5000 years noone had ever been there. There's only a shortage of ROADS and PIPELINES in Iran.....it's why the bankers want America to attack them next in their conquest for the "New World Order" Orwell described. Larry -- Xterm IS the ultimate video game...(c; |
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