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Den som måtte undre over hvorfor vi roter omkring i Afghanistan og andre steder, og ser det som viktig å forsøke å nøytralisere Iran, kan ha utbytte av Pipelineistan, som beskriver hva som foregår rundt leveransesystemer for viktige hydrokarboner.
Escobar har vært verden rundt for å studere hva som gjøres i ulike land.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175121/pepe_escobar_pipelineistan_s_ultimate_opera
Og det har en relevans til HiFi, om enn søkt. Rørledningen som "vi" ønsker å legge, for å prøve å omgå russernes monopol, er oppkalt etter en av Verdis operaer.
Just under the surface of an edgy entente cordiale between the European Union (EU) and Russia lurks the possibility of a no-holds-barred energy war -- Liquid War, as I call it. The EU and the U.S. are pinning their hopes on a prospective 3,300-kilometer-long, $10.7 billion pipeline dubbed Nabucco. Planning for it began way back in 2004 and construction is finally expected to start, if all goes well (and it may not), in 2010. So if you're a NATO optimist, you hope that natural gas from the Caspian Sea, maybe even from Iran (barring the usual American blockade), will begin flowing through it by 2015. The gas will be delivered to Erzurum in Turkey and then transported to Austria via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.
Why, you might ask, is the pipeline meant to save Europe named for a Verdi opera? Well, Austrian and Turkish energy executives happened to see the opera together in Vienna in 2002 while discussing their energy dilemmas, and the biblical plight of the Jews exiled by King Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), a love story set amid a ferocious struggle for freedom and power, swept them away. Still, it's a stretch to turn aluminum tubes into dramatic characters.
Escobar har vært verden rundt for å studere hva som gjøres i ulike land.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175121/pepe_escobar_pipelineistan_s_ultimate_opera
Og det har en relevans til HiFi, om enn søkt. Rørledningen som "vi" ønsker å legge, for å prøve å omgå russernes monopol, er oppkalt etter en av Verdis operaer.
Just under the surface of an edgy entente cordiale between the European Union (EU) and Russia lurks the possibility of a no-holds-barred energy war -- Liquid War, as I call it. The EU and the U.S. are pinning their hopes on a prospective 3,300-kilometer-long, $10.7 billion pipeline dubbed Nabucco. Planning for it began way back in 2004 and construction is finally expected to start, if all goes well (and it may not), in 2010. So if you're a NATO optimist, you hope that natural gas from the Caspian Sea, maybe even from Iran (barring the usual American blockade), will begin flowing through it by 2015. The gas will be delivered to Erzurum in Turkey and then transported to Austria via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.
Why, you might ask, is the pipeline meant to save Europe named for a Verdi opera? Well, Austrian and Turkish energy executives happened to see the opera together in Vienna in 2002 while discussing their energy dilemmas, and the biblical plight of the Jews exiled by King Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), a love story set amid a ferocious struggle for freedom and power, swept them away. Still, it's a stretch to turn aluminum tubes into dramatic characters.



