For the past thirty years Alaska has been a primary source of domestic oil. Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and miles of coastline are marked by evidence of oil exploration and production, including oil derricks, gravel roads, and 850 miles of pipe that makes up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. ... The state of Alaska earns 80% of its unrestricted general revenue from oil production. ... Although the proposal to drill was led by the Bush Administration and other high-ranking government officials, public opinion was probably one of the most powerful weapons. ... Attempts to reduce this dependency on fo...

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Details of Plausible Routes: The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), which is owned by a consortium of oil companies, has proposed two pipeline routes that will deliver oil to the Western market. These pipelines would transport oil and natural gases to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. ... The Russian government does not like the idea of the oil running just outside of their boarders. ... (http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/library/images/olcottable.gif) Europe consumes 22.4 % of all oil produced in the world and building an oil pipeline to service this region efficien...

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Bush's administration lauched this war for two altrustic reasons: Iraq has extremely vialated the human rights, and Iraq threatened the international security with weapons of mass destruction. However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the weapons of mass destruction ever been found. However the key issue is the oil. ... (nightmare) The Iraqis' misery is getting worse because the country's agriculture is on the blinks of collapse: already 60% of Iraqi's 24.5 million people are dependent upon UN's oil-f...

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Iraq was allowed to sell $2bn of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. ... Aid agencies argued Iraq should be allowed to sell more oil in order to be able to buy more humanitarian supplies. The UN Secretary Kofi Annan supported the call and Iraq was given permission to sell $5.2bn of oil every six months. Officials, opposed the Oil-For-Food Programme and claimed that it was an obstacle for international oil business. ... On the one side there were the UK and the US who firmly insisted that there should be an effective weapons inspection process. ...

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Oil. Iraq is a member of the oil cartel OPEC, and has the second largest oil reserves in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. The world's complete dependence on oil partially explains why the West was so worried at the prospect of Saddam Hussein having the weapons of mass destruction. ... Oil prices would consequentially rise uncontrollably, and the world would grind to a literal halt, sending many economies straight into a recession. As a result the West, with countries such as Britain and the USA so dependent on oil, must ensure that Iraq doesn't harness the potential to cau...

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President Bill Clinton expanded US sanctioning of Iran, banning all US participation in the Iranian oil and gas industry, preventing a $1 billion deal between a U.S oil company and Iran. The Clinton administration also passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act 1996, aiming to press foreign companies to join the US in boycotting Iran's oil and gas industry. ... This prompted a tightening of Nuclear restrictions by the UN and accusations from the US that Iran was attempting to construct Weapons of Mass Destruction. ... Though these restrictions proved difficult to enforce due to fringe dealin...

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The United States provided support in the form of weapons, bombs, money, etc to French military. ... (intro)"The Roosevelt administration viewed Southeast Asia as a strategically important area with vast resources of tin, rubber, and oil" (Lessons 20). Vietnam could provide cheap raw materials and oil that would help the economic growth in the United States....

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Subsequently a decision was made to go after Iraq as one country that could use its vast oil wealth to finance terrorist activities. ... Bush also claimed that Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a clear violation of UN Security Council resolution 1441. Bush was threatening to impose a war on Hussein unless he surrendered these weapons. ... Many people suspected that Iraq's oil was one of the main motives of going to war and did not think it was worth the consequences. ... As of yet there have been no Weapons of Mass Destruction uncovered, confirming that there...

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They argue that America needs a national energy strategy which could ultimately increase domestic supplies of coal, oil, and natural gas. The party also promotes environmentally responsible exploration and development of oil and gas reserves on federally owned land, including the Coastal Plain of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR). 2The north coast region of the Arctic National Wildlife Refugee lies along the same geologic structures that produced the fabulous oil strikes of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. For the last few years, the Republicans in Congress have been voting to open the wild...

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The main resources that the Europeans sought after were gold, ivory, diamonds, rubber and palm oil. Palm oil was used for European textiles, guns and manufactured goods. ... Colonial rule was enforced by armies that were equipped with machines guns and cannons, which succeeded in overpowering native rebellions because the men were only outfitted with muskets, spears, and other outdated weapons. ...

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Tentatively we can see results that can benefit us in the way of biological weapon defense. Alternately we would be able to create new and terrible biological weapons. We may be able to create organisms that could clean up oil spills, or even organisms that would digest nuclear waste, even organisms that could be predators of viruses or diseases. ...

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However, as our world changes and new alternate energy is being developed, the risks of relying on nuclear energy and nuclear technology – the world development of nuclear weapons, which would surely threaten security in the world. ... However, coal and oil are non-renewable resources which take millions of years to be replenished .Moreover, with the ever increasing population in the world today (our population grows at an astonishing rate of 10000 an hour), the demand for energy is large and will only increase in the future. ... All in all, the pursuit of nuclear technology is no longer...

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It bombed civil and military targets all over the Yugoslavia, which included military installations, oil refineries, ammunition stores, airfields, Radio and T.V. ... Ultimately, the control of KLA on the weapons depots would be transferred to KFOR within a period of four months in phases. ...

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It is the countries with advance weapons technology that are feared and powerful, whether they have "good soldiers" or not. ... The wealth of the Iraqi nation seen through a Westerners eyes isn't based on credit, but on oil and we are trying to seize it. Although we aren't dependent on Iraq for bartering currently, but once we overthrow their government and create a democratic country, then we will export their oil. ...

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A scene in which Batman must choose whether to save Harvey Dent, or Rachel Dawes who are both tied to explosives and oil drums is just one example of this realism as Batman can only choose one person to save. ... Batman's gear is ultimately what makes him Batman and while both director's used similar weapons, vehicles, and most importantly, the bat-suit, Nolan again stayed true to the realism of today. ...

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In the morning of September 21, a massive explosion destroyed a fertiliser plant in Toulouse, killing 29 people and injuring more than 2000. Where the plant had once stood, a 50-meter wide crater had been carved in the ground by the blast. But the blast swept far beyond the factory. Windows were blo...

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Microsoft Case Part I: The government has been looking into Microsoft since 1990, when the Federal Trade Commission first started examining charges of monopolistic behavior. In 1995, Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a settlement that required the company to change a variety of business practices, including key aspects of its licensing agreements with personal computer makers (2). Microsoft has grown into an enormous and powerful corporation by a combination of aggressive business practices and having written operating systems (DOS and Windows) for personal computers. From oper...

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Water pollution happens because of the industrial waste, sewage waste and water waste, mining activities, marine dumping, accidental oil leakage, burning of fossil fuels, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, leakage from sewer lines, global warming, radioactive waste, urban development, leakage from the landfills, animal waste and underground storage leakage. ... "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" (Nelson Mandela). ...

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Your life is literally worth less than that of a Jew; the Israeli military likes to fire indiscriminate heavy weapons such as rockets or shells at Arab neighborhoods if they think a terrorist might live there, and they casually dismiss dozens of innocent casualties or even deaths as unfortunate but necessary. ... However, if you're killed, whether it be at a checkpoint by a trigger-happy soldier or as "collateral damage" due to the indiscriminate use of powerful area-effect weapons, you can take comfort in knowing that somebody in Israel will promise an investigation ... that quietly goes...

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PEOPLE: FDR - President during WWII Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan Churchill - British Prime Minister Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy Tojo - Dictator of Japan Stalin - Dictator of USSR F...

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And why have economic sanctions become the weapon of choice in diplomatic confrontations in the wake of the Cold War? ... To force an end to apartheid the United Nations implemented a voluntary arms and oil embargo in 1963 against South Africa, which became mandatory in 1977. ...

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The U.S. placed an arms embargo against both countries, so both began to hoard WWII era fighter planes and other weapons in preparation for military conflict.15 On the morning of July 14, the air force of El Salvador began bombing and firing on targets in Honduras marking the beginning of the brief war.16 The Salvadorian army moved in on the ground and pushed through the smaller Honduran army to capture the departmental capital of Nueva Octepeque, but the Honduran air force quickly wiped away the Salvadorian air force. Honduran pilots were able to destroy Salvadorian oil facilities and badl...

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"The Nationalists begin the war of 1936-39 with a clear advantage that explains their ultimate victory" How far do you agree with this statement? It cannot be said that the advantages of the Nationalists at the start of the war was the main explanation for their victory. Although the command stru...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started ame...

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As striking became frequent, corporations were aided by federal injunctions and troops in suppressing action by union-affiliated workers, and this once powerful weapon of labor unions became ineffective. ... The largest companies in the United States at the time were US Steel (Andrew Carnegie), Standard Oil (John Rockefeller), and various railroad corporations. ...

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