GURKHAS (On the wrong side)...During the Battle of Monte Cassino in March 1944, soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles (1/9 GR), part of the 4th Indian Division, undertook a daring ascent of the treacherous terrain leading to a position known as Hangman's Hill (Point 444), located southwest of the destroyed monastery

 Hangman’s Hill (Point 444): The high point secured by the Gurkhas, located less than 250 yards from the monastery walls. The Terrain: The 1/9th Gurkha Rifles climbed steep, rocky slopes and ravines—some in the vicinity of Snakeshead Ridge—often fighting in hand-to-hand combat at night to reach their objectives. The Action: On March 20, 1944, Naik Dilbahadur Khattri and two other Gurkhas managed to reach the monastery walls themselves, becoming the first Allied soldiers in four battles to do so. The Hold: The battalion held Hangman's Hill for nine days, relying on supplies dropped by air and defending against constant German counterattacks before being forced to withdraw

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Gurkhas on the wrong side of History. WWII was an effortful undertaking by the Organized Crime Syndicate (The Deep State) .

Gurkhas - The World's Most Feared Soldiers

Origin: They originate from the hilly regions of Nepal, with their fighting tradition tracing back to 8th-century Hindu warrior Guru Gorakhnath. British Association: First fought the British East India Company in the 1814–1816 Anglo-Nepalese War. Their ferocity prompted the British to recruit them in 1815. Service Record: Served in nearly every major British conflict, including India, WWI, WWII, and recent engagements in Afghanistan. Victoria Crosses: Gurkhas have earned 13 Victoria Crosses—Britain's highest bravery award—for exceptional courage. Brigade of Gurkhas: Today, they form a specialized brigade in the British Army, incorporating infantry, signals, engineers, and logistics.  The Gurkha Welfare Trust  +4 Capabilities and Traits

HAS THE MIGHTY NUCLEAR POWERED ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE PEAKED! DOES IRAN HAVE THE GUTS TO SAVE THIS PLANET, ALONE!

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1. The "Siege" of the Last 300 Years by an evil force masquerading as 'democracy', 'republics', elections, turned innocent citizens into evil voters in a coup 'd etat against the rightful rulers of kingdoms endorsed hy the creators but overpowered by the current and invincible 'NUCLEAR POWERED ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE' of over 200-Republics. (Industrialization) Environmental Degradation: The Industrial Revolution (beginning roughly in the mid-18th century) marked the start of intensive fossil fuel use, driving massive carbon emissions. Over 2.3 trillion tonnes of have been released since industrialization began. Deforestation and Land Use: Forests were cleared at unprecedented rates for fuel, building materials, and to make space for new agricultural land. Atmospheric Change: Before 1750, levels were around 275-280 ppm; they have now soared to over 415 ppm. Pollution and Waste: The rise of coal-powered factories, and later oil and natural gas, introduced unprecedented levels of air and water pollution, causing issues like the 1952 London smog which killed 12,000 people. ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
2. HOWEVER, ON 19th December, 2025 (full moon) a 3-second blackout of over 4,900 animal human satellites saw a replacement of all energy by another energy with a cryptographic undecodable archive,  And on March 9th, 2026, another  13-second blackout over every GPS platform of planet earth saw another change in the current GPS archive that can track down every persons movement to a 947-point decimal frequency  and that places the Nasa-Einsteins into the stone age. 

Greenly  +3 2. The Impact of Nuclear Power Radioactive Risks: Nuclear power, developed in the 20th century, brings risks of radioactive waste, which can remain dangerous for thousands of years. Accidents: Disasters like Chernobyl (1986) released significant radioactive material, contaminating 150,000 square kilometers, while the Fukushima disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984 highlighted the severe consequences of industrial accidents. Nuclear Weapons: The Cold War and modern nuclear weapon modernization initiatives present ongoing risks of global catastrophic destruction. 

TheGreenShot  +4 3. "Truth Blacked Out" (Information Control and Environmental Silence) Suppressed Knowledge: While the environmental consequences of industrialization were visible early on, it took decades for them to be recognized, with the "hole" in the ozone layer not identified until the 1980s. Delayed Recognition: The link between human activity and climate change was not widely accepted until the 1990s, despite evidence appearing as early as the 1830s. Corporate/Political Interests: Studies indicate that environmental damage has often been overlooked in favor of rapid economic growth, with colonial exploitation and industrial lobbying sometimes masking the true cost of industrial expansion. 

EBSCO  +2 4. The "Paper Printing" Aspect This likely refers to the rapid spread of industrial, financial, and governmental, and mass-media documentation that accompanied the rise of PONZI capitalism and industrialization, enabling the, at times, unchecked exploitation of natural resources and the propagation of economic growth as the primary societal goal, often masking the environmental "costs" enforced by the nuclear powered Bretton Woods conference of 1945-1971

Greenly  +1 Conclusion The last 300 years have fundamentally altered Earth's atmosphere, landscapes, and biodiversity, creating a legacy of climate instability, resource depletion, and pollution, with nuclear power presenting unique, long-term safety and security risks.

NO HOOLIGAN KING'S MARCH.

 

The French revolution was a period of radical political and social change in France from 1789 to 1799

The American ambassador to France before the fall of the Bastille was .Thomas Jefferson.  He was appointed in 1785 and was in Paris to witness the events of the French Revolution, including the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. 

• Role and appointment: 

  Thomas Jefferson was appointed Minister to France by the Confederation Congress in 1785, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. 
• Witnessing the Revolution: 

  As the American diplomat, Jefferson was present in Paris as the French Revolution began and directly observed the events surrounding the storming of the Bastille. 
• Documentation: 

  He recorded his observations of the unfolding events in a letter to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, John Jay. 

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The Gruesome History of the Guillotine: France’s Most Infamous Execution Method

NOBEL PEACE PRICE OF 2025, THIS TIME, BOTH NATO AND THE US JOINTLY EYE VENEZUELAN OIL. AFTER IRAQ, LIBIA, MAIDAN, A DEEP STATE ASSET IS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE. WILL TRUMP SANCTION NORWAY FOR NOT MEETING HIS DEMAND FOR HIS OWN NOMINATION?

 NOBEL FALSE FLAG!.TRUMP CRIES FOUL, AND MAY SANCTION NORWAY FOR NOT MEETING HIS OWN DEMANDS.

HOOLIGANISM! THE WHOLE WORLD IS ESCALATING INTO ALMOST HOOLIGANISM. 

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado. The activist received the prize “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the Committee explained in a statement. Machado was born in Caracas in 1967. In 2010, she was elected to Venezuela’s National Assembly, and two years later she led the Vente Venezuela opposition movement. In 2014, she took an active part in anti-government protests and was put on trial on charges of leading plots to topple President Nicolas Maduro and even kill him. Following court trials, she was temporarily banned from government positions. Last year, Venezuela held a presidential election which Maduro won with 51.95% of the vote. Even as Machado did not run for presidency, she supported Edmundo Gonsalez, who garnered 43.18% of the vote. Machado said on the day of the election that the Gonsalez camp would not recognize Maduro’s claim to victory. While the United States, among other countries, did not recognize the re-election of Maduro, Russia, China, Bolivia, Cuba, Iran and other nations congratulated the Venezuelan leader on his election win. The Queen of Guarimbas becomes Nobel Peace Prize Maduro finds himself confronted with Chavez’s main enemy: the United States of America, which in 2002 had already orchestrated a coup (with a shooting on the crowd in Caracas by snipers suspected of being CIA-linked, as happened in 2014 in Kiev) thwarted by a popular uprising and the return to power of the legitimate president thanks to the intervention of the Archbishop of Caracas. NATO’s COUP IN UKRAINE: THE GENESIS – 1. Snipers’ Massacre in Kiev Maidan Square 2014 like that on CIA’s Shade in Caracas 2002 CLICK TO READ MORE As we have explained several times, Maduro’s authoritarian regime, in a country heavily undermined by the infiltration of the Colombian Narcos Cartels, too often used by American intelligence for sordid military purposes of geopolitical control of South America, is inspired by the Bolivarian socialist movement but places Christianity at the center of its ethics. It therefore represents the first example of a government of Christian-based socialism.

October 10, 2025

Trump Readies War Against “The Crown” For Control Of World’s Largest Oil Reserves

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A forewarning new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Spanish Monarchy descendant María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the socialist European colonial powers for her failed efforts to destabilize the government of Venezuela, says in a slam against President Donald Trump designed to fuel rage among the leftist forces arrayed against him, the Nobel Committee declared in their award announcement: “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist...Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination”.

Constitutionally referred to as “The Crown”, this report notes, the Spanish Monarchy activated María Corina Machado, a direct line descendant of the 3rd Marquis of Toro; Sebastián José Antonio Rodríguez del Toro y Ascanio, to destabilize the presidential election in Venezuela last year—Machado didn't run for office, but she was the driving force behind the main opposition candidate, a little-known diplomat named Edmundo González—Venezuela warned the Spanish Monarchy not to interfere in its election—on 30 July 2024 it was revealed: “Venezuela’s presidential election concluded with the victory of incumbent Nicolas Maduro, who defeated opposition figure Edmundo González, quite convincingly and unsurprisingly...Maduro defeated Gonzàlez by bagging 51 percent of the vote to Gonzàlez’s 44 percent, with three other candidates totaling the remaining 4 percent of the votes cast”—and was an election followed by the news: “Venezuelan opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Edmundo González, has gone into exile in Spain...A Spanish air force plane carrying González and his wife landed at the Torrejón de Ardoz military base outside Madrid”.

In 1522, this report continues, “The Crown” began its colonization of Venezuela to enslave its peoples and rape its natural resources for the sole benefit of the socialist European colonial powers—the peoples of Venezuela threw off the yoke of Spanish Monarchy tyranny when they declared their independence on 5 July 1811—Venezuela today possesses the world’s largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States—and as to why “The Crown” is desperately seeking to re-colonize Venezuela, it was recently revealed: “The year 2025 has plunged the European Union into an unprecedented energy crisis, driven by a confluence of geopolitical and economic challenges...From threats by Qatar to halt liquefied natural gas exports, to the cessation of Russian natural gas flows via Ukraine, to trade pressures from the U.S., the EU's energy market has been thrown into disarray”.

Standing against “The Crown” and its plot to re-colonize Venezuela so it can rape its massive oil reserves for the sole benefit of its energy starved socialist European colonial power allies, this report details, is President Trump, who yesterday declared that Spain should be “thrown out of NATO”—President Trump already had broken off all negotiations with Venezuela and issued a declaration of war against them—and it was also revealed: “Last month, the administration formally notified Congress that the U.S. was engaged in an armed conflict”.

To ensure that President Trump seizes control of Venezuela’s massive oil reserves before “The Crown” does, this report concludes, last evening it saw the United States Senate passing a $952 billion bill to fund the War Department—and in assessing this great power game taking place between the United States and the socialist European colonial powers, it caused Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to warn: “Europe has never been so close to the outbreak of World War III in modern history”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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FROM LOCKERBEE, TO IRAQ AND LIBIA, MAIDAN AND NOW IN 2025, VENEZUELA IS THE KHAZARIAN DEEP STATE NOBEL TARGET 

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THE US AS A SUPERPOWER LACKS A SUPER POPULATION. BEING AN UNDERPOPULATED SUPERPOWER IS A MISMATCH.WITH A SMALL POPULATION OF 540-MILLION, AND A BUBBLED ECONOMY OF OVER US$30-TRILLION, THE US LACKS ENOUGH SKILLED ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS AND HANDICAPPED WITH TOO COSTLY MANUFACTURING.

Today's superpower would require over 2-million engineers/scientists yearly to cope with current military updates. Plus, the US'S production costs are overpriced and lethargic.. The US'S economy is leveraged to a single currency for both GDP and GNP performance. The US$ Dollar is just too strong and an enemy for low cost production and speed. Countries like N. Korea have a low cost and more reliable and disciplined workforce, free from drugs and obesity.

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AT THIS POINT, IT WOULD BE WISER FOR THE RUSSIANS TO BY-PASS BAKHMUT, WITH THE USE OF PARATROOPERS. EASIER SAID THAN DONE, UKRAIN IS VERY SIMILAR TO VIETNAMESE RIVERS, MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS.

HEART OF THE NARCO DEEP STATE: THERE ARE OVER 12,000-NUCLEAR WARHEADS AROUND THIS PLANET AND MOST OF THEM ARE CHINESE, RUSSIAN, IRANIANS AND N. KOREANS.

AND GUESS AT WHAT THEY ARE AIMED? THEIR TARGETS ARE THE UNSAFEST PLACE TO LIVE.

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• THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD.
• POPULATION OF RUSSIA: 142-MILLION.
• AREA OF RUSSIA: 6-MILLION SQ. MILES.
• PERCENTAGE OF RESERVES OF URANIUM: 43%
• US IMPORTS OF RUSSIAN URANIUM: +80%
• OTHER RESOURCES OF RUSSIA: NEON, PALADIUM, TITANIUM, OIL, GAS, FOOD, TITANIUM, NIQUEL......]
• HENCE, RUSSIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WITH A CAPACITY TO ISSUE A WORLD RESERVE CURRENCE PEGGED TO IT'S NATURAL RESOURCES IN "WEIGHTS & MEASURES" (HARD CURRENCY) AND HAS FAILED TO DO SO, ALLOWING THE PAPER PONZI US8 WORTHLESS DOLLAR TO FORCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR IN 1995, WITH THE HELP OF EMIL WANTA/SOROS MANIPULATION. MAKES SENSE??
• STILL IN 2022, THE NARCO WEST DARED SANCTION RUSSIA!!!!

NATURAL RESOURCES IN RUSSIA Russia is probably richer in natural resources than any other country in the world. It has abundant supplies of oil, natural gas, timber and valuable minerals, such as copper, diamonds, lead, zinc, bauxite, nickel, tin, mercury, gold and silver— most of which are located in Siberia and the Far East. The value of Russia's resources is huge. Russia is the largest country in the world; it covers a vast amount of topographically varied territory, including much that is inaccessible by conventional modes of transportation. The traditional centers of economic activity are almost exclusively located in the more hospitable European part of Russia, which once offered considerable coal and natural gas to drive heavy industry. But the European fuel base was largely depleted by the 1980s, forcing Russia to rely on Siberian deposits much farther from the industrial heartland. [Source: Library of Congress, July 1996 *] Russia’s raw materials provide significant inputs for an industrial economy. The abundance of oil and natural gas has made Russia virtually self-sufficient in energy and a large-scale exporter of fuels. Oil and gas were primary hard-currency earners for the Soviet Union, and they remain so for the Russian Federation. Russia also is self-sufficient in nearly all major industrial raw materials and has at least some reserves of every industrially valuable nonfuel mineral — even after the productive mines of Ukraine, Kazakstan, and Uzbekistan no longer were directly accessible. Tin, tungsten, bauxite, and mercury were among the few natural materials imported in the Soviet period. The forests of Siberia contain an estimated one-fifth of the world's timber, mainly conifers. * Many of Russia’s natural resources are located far from industrial processing centers. The fuel resources that supported development of industrial centers in European Russia have been depleted, necessitating reliance on coal, natural gas, and petroleum from Siberian deposits. However, Russia still has an estimated 6 percent of the world’s oil deposits and one-third of the world’s natural gas deposits, making it a major exporter of both commodities. In 2005 oil extraction reached a new post-Soviet high, placing Russia close to Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer. Rich deposits of most industrially valuable metals, diamonds, and phosphates also are found in Russia. [Source: Library of Congress, October 2006] Website: “The Mineral Industry of Russia” on the Mineral Resources Program portion of the USGS website. Metals and Minerals in Russia Russia possesses rich reserves of iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, platinum, titanium, copper, tin, lead, tungsten, diamonds, phosphates and gold. The iron ore deposits of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, close to the Ukrainian border in the southwest, are believed to contain one-sixth of the world's total reserves. Intensive exploitation began there in the 1950s. Other large iron ore deposits are located in the Kola Peninsula, Karelia, south-central Siberia, and the Far East. The largest copper deposits are located in the Kola Peninsula and the Urals, and lead and zinc are found in North Ossetia. Russia’s diverse mineral resources have given many of its products a strong position in world markets. Of particular economic importance are diamonds, of which in 2006 Russia accounted for one-quarter of world production; nickel (one-third); cobalt (20 percent); platinum (40 percent); and aluminum (12 percent). The economic slump of the early 1990s caused overall production to decrease and the proportion of exports to increase. [Source: Library of Congress, October 2006 **] Most metals are found in the Urals and Siberia. At one time it was estimated that Siberia contained almost 20 percent of the world's gold and silver, and about a third of its iron. Many of Russia's mineral resources are located in the remote, freezing north, where isolated industrial cities have grown up around mines and deposits. Miners and workers in particularly remote areas work in shifts in which they spend two weeks living in barracks at the mining site and then are flown in helicopters back to cities. Oligarchs and Resource Development in Russia The metal and resource industries in Russian are controlled by oligarchs. The term oligarchs refers to a small group of industrialists and bankers who became fabulously rich during the Yeltsin era in the 1990s. In some ways resembling robber barons like Rockefellers and Carnigies, they are men who carved out empires while in their thirties, forties and fifties in the chaotic period that occurred while Communism declined and capitalism rose to take its place. In the 1990s, organized crime, Soviet-era managers and former security officers were also major players in the Russian resource scramble. In some cases they gained control by seizing the processing facilities and metal stockpiles. Most of the oligarchs got their start in the late 1980s, when the Soviet economy was liberalizing. The details of how some of them got their assets is still mysterious but many of them had key positions within the Soviet bureaucracy that allowed them to grab property. A few were Communist party leaders that acted quickly to cement control over profitable businesses such as oil, natural gas, precious metals and banking. Others were young upstarts who had more business sense than their Communist Party bosses and were able to take advantage of their boss’s ignorance or disinterest to develop schemes to gain property. Many Western firms came to Russia hoping to reap huge profits. Few did. They had a hard time navigating through the bureaucracy and dealing with corruption. In the end they were hustled and outflanked by Russians who were more familiar and adept and maneuvering through the Soviet-Russian system. Russian President Vladimir Putin received a Ph.D. from St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1996. He did extensive research on Russia’s natural resources. One conclusion he came to was that for Russia to really develop its resources it needed foreign investment. In his first years in office he helped passed legislation that changed the laws for the rewarding of licenses for natural resources and offered incentives to those who developed resources. Metal Theft in Russia The theft of copper wire, aluminum cables and other metals from power lines, communication cables, telephone poles, railroad power systems, military complexes and factories was a serious problem in Russia. The metal in some cases was taken by desperately poor people who hadfew other means to make money and sold as scarp through dealers with connections to organized crime. An estimated 15,000 miles of power lines were pulled down in the 1990s with the rate 10 to 20 times higher in the late 90s than in the early 90s. Millions of people lost their electricity. Towers used for nuclear submarine communications, entire aluminum phone booths, manhole covers, rocket motors and fuel tanks, torpedo parts, and copper shell casings, have all been taken. A nuclear power plant’s aluminum sensors disappeared. In the Kuril Islands, people stole metal slabs from airport runways. The problem of metal theft was particularly bad in coal mining regions, where thousands of people lost their jobs, and military facilities full of underpaid soldiers. Some stolen metal was melted down into ingots and exported overseas. Between 1995 and 1998 the export of copper scrap increased from 28,600 tons to 356,000 tons and the export of aluminum scrap increased from 11,900 tons to 367,000 tons. Some of it found its way back to the power companies that were ripped off. In the late 1990s around 700 electrocutions and 500 deaths a year were attributed to metal thefts. Many people were hurt or killed stealing copper wire. In one case five sailors suffocated while trying to take copper cables and metal from inside of decommissioned submarine. The problem of metal theft became so bad that the government placed tight restriction on scrap metal dealers. One -12-year-old boy who tried to take some copper wire from a coal mine told the New York Times, "The first one was dead, and we cut it and hid it, and we came to take another one, but it turned out to be live." The boy said a "bright explosion" occurred. He managed to pull his hand away and was overcome by the sight and smell of burned flesh. His thumb and forefinger were so badly burned they had to be amputated. Gold in Russia At one time Russia was the world's second largest producer of gold after South Africa. By some estimates it contains 6 percent of the world’s gold reserves, including the 1,100-ton Sukhoi log, one of the world’s largest untapped deposits. The Russian production figures are secret but its estimated that about 250 tons are produced each year, about a third of what comes out of South Africa. During the Soviet era, gold and diamonds were tightly controlled by the state. Even today the state is actively involved in both sectors. The world’s leading gold producers by country in 2007 (in kilograms): 1) South Africa 272,128; 2) United States 252,000; 3) China 245,000; 4) Australia 244,000; 5) Peru 203,26; 6) Indonesia 164,400; 7) Russian Federation 159,340; 8) Canada 103,890; 9) Uzbekistan 85,000; 10) Ghana 66,205; 11) Mali 55,484; 12) Papua New Guinea 50,000; 13) Tanzania, United Republic Of 46,000; 14) Argentina 45,000; 15) Chile 42,100; 16) Brazil 41,154; 17) Colombia 40,000; 18) Mexico 40,000; 19) Philippines 37,500; 20) Mongolia 22,561; 21) Kazakhstan 18,000; 22) Guinea 15,230; 23) Bolivia 14,500; 24) Venezuela 12,000; 25) Zimbabwe 11,354 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Major gold producers (1992): 1) South Africa (19,737,341 troy ounces); 2) the U.S. (10,581,581 troy ounces); 3) former U.S.S.R. (8,101,987) ; 4) Australia (7,716,178); 5) Canada (5,081,393); 6) China (4,501,104); 7) Columbia (1,189,578); 8) Ghana (997,670); 9) the Philippines (771,618); 10) Mexico (321,507); 11) Zaire (257,206). The oligarch Hazret Sovmen controlled the Olympiad gold deposit and mine near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A graduate of Magadan’s Polytechnical Institute and the St. Petersburg Mining institute, Sovmen was head of the Adyghea Republic and obtained the Olympiad mine through connections and schemes linked to when he was chairman of Polyus, the Soviet gold-mining cartel. Russia’s leading gold producer, Polyus is now a private company that he founded and for many years was under his control. Most of Russia’s gold comes from Siberia. There are large deposits in Buryatia around Lake Baikal. In the early 2000s, workers earned $1,500 for six months work, bulldozing stream beds in search of gold in private mines near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. About 80 percent of Siberia's gold comes from river beds and ancient gravel banks which means that the vines that supply them haven't even been discovered yet. Cyrus Minerals in Colorado pledged $100 million to develop a gold mine in Siberia. Gold makes up 5 percent of national reserves. Planned to increase to 10 percent. Platinum and Silver in Russia According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest piece of platinum was a 340-ounce nugget found in Ural Mountains of Russia on 1843. The platinum group of metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium) are among the rarest, expensive and useful of all metals. The are commonly found in the same regions, and are used in the automobile industry, mostly catalytic converters (38 percent), electrical and electronic industry (29 percent), dentistry (9 percent) and other (24 percent). Nearly all the world reserves of these metals are in South Africa and the former U.S.S.R. Siberia contains large deposits of silver. World’s largest silver producers: by country in 2006 (thousands of metric tons): 1) Peru 3,471; 2) Mexico 2,700; 3) China 2,600; 4) Australia 1,727; 5) Chile 1,607; 6) Poland 1,325; 7) Russian Federation 1,300; 8) United States 1,140; 9) Canada 983; 10) Kazakhstan 830; 11) Bolivia 500; 12) Indonesia 377; 13) Sweden 268; 14) Argentina 200; 15) Morocco 195; 16) South Africa 87; 17) Turkey 85; 18) Uzbekistan 83; 19) Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 68; 20) Honduras 55 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Nickel and Norlisk Nikel Russia is the world’s largest nickel producer. Nickel is a metal that is essential in the making of stainless steel and other alloys. It is important in the chemical and aerospace industries. Leading producer include the former U.S.S.R., Canada, Australia and New Caledonia. Most of Russia’s nickel comes from a huge mine in Norisk, above the Arctic Circle in Siberia,. Norlisk Nikel is one of the of he world's largest producers of nickel, cobalt and platinum. Owned by the oligarch Vladamir Potanin, and located in Norilsk, it owns a huge nickel production complex and possesses about 20 percent of the world's nickel reserves. Norilsk Nickely produces 20 percent of the world's nickel and 20 percent of its palladium as well as significant amounts of copper, cobalt. platinum and rhodium. It has annual sales of around $2.5 billion. In the late 1990s it also had $2 billion in wage, energy and tax debts and created huge environmental problems. Norilsk Nickely was created by combining six metallurgical facilities. The oligarchs fought for control of the company with Potanin acquiring a 38 percent share for only $170 million in a loans for shares deal in1995 Norilsk has courted investors from Asia and America. Titanium, Manganese and Potash in Russia Titanium is an expensive metal prized for its strength and lightness. It is used mostly in jet engines. air frames, and space and missile applications. It is produced in the Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Japan, the U.S., the United Kingdom and China. Potash is an important ingredient in fertilizer. The main producers are Canada, Israel, the former U.S.S.R. and Germany. Vanadium is an alloying with steal and aerospace titanium alloys. It is also used as a catalyst in the production sulfuric acid. The world's major producers and the former U.S.S.R. and South Africa. The major sources of manganese (a metal essential to in steel and iron production) is not found in mineral quantities in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. South Africa and the former Soviet Union have over 80 percent of the worlds reserves. The world’s leading manganese producers by country in 2007: (metric tons): 1) China 627,000; 2) Russian Federation 37,000; 3) Israel 25,000; 4) Kazakhstan 21,000; 5) Brazil 18,000; 6) Canada 16,300; 7) Ukraine 2,500; 8) Serbia 1,500 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Uranium and Rare Earths in Russia There is a large uranium mine near Krasnokamensk, in the Altai region about 25 miles from where the Russian, Mongolian and Chinese borders all come together. It is a gigantic hole, nearly mile long, three quarters of a mile wide and 330 yards deep. On the surround steppe are huge hills of tailings and ponds full sulfuric acid (used to separate the uranium from the ore), heavy metals and radioactive uranium. The uranium mine near Krasnokamensk was once the largest in the world. It now ranks around fifth. It was built around 1980 and is largely depleted. The uranium is expected to give out completely around 2025. The Krasnokamensk mine was the subject of a 1994 Greenpeace documentary and the environment dangers of uranium mining and processing. Water from the pond is leaking into the groundwater, people lived in area with high radiation levels, and workers were exposed unnecessarily high levels of radiation. Rhenium is a very rare, durable metal used in high-stress environments such as jet turbines, satellite and gas-fired turbines. In the Kuril Islands there is a volcano that emits steam and gas with rhenium sulfate. Geologist have set up filters around gas-emitting events that capture rhenium sulfate. Rare-earth producing countries include Russia, Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. As of the mid 2000s, ninety-five percent of the world’s rare earths came from China. Cobalt, Molybdenum and Tungsten in Russia Cobalt is rare and essential metal used in super alloys for jet engines, chemicals (paint driers, catalysts, magnetic coatings); permanent magnets; cemented carbines for cutting tools; and car batteries, laptop computers and mobile phones. Among the cobalt alloys are carboloy, one the hardest substance known to man; alnico, used to make magnets in loudspeakers; satellites, used to make high-speed metal-cutting tools. Cobalt is also utilized as a catalysts in the synthesis of gasoline and as an ingredient for cobalt blue pigments. Cobalt-60 is a radioactive isotope made by bombarding cobalt with slow neutrons in a nuclear reactor. It is used in cancer treatments and to cause mutations in plants. World’s largest cobalt producers: by country in 2006 (thousands of metric tons): 1) Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 28,000; 2) Zambia 8,000; 3) Australia 7,400; 4) Canada 6,976; 5) Russian Federation 5,100; 6) Cuba 3,800; 7) China 2,300; 8) New Caledonia 1,900; 9) Morocco 1,500; 10) Brazil 1,200; 11) South Africa 400; 12) Botswana 303; 13) Kazakhstan 300; 14) Zimbabwe 290 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Molybdenum is used in heat resistant stainless steel and automobile steel. It is often added to steel or other metal alloys to help them withstands heat. It is useful in making machines parts that run at high speeds and build up large amounts of heat from friction. It also has other chemical and industrial application. Molybdenum is used to make cardiograms World’s largest molybdenum producers: by country in 2007 (Metric tons of contained molybdenum): 1) China 59,800; 2) United States 57,000; 3) Chile 44,912; 4) Peru 16,737; 5) Canada 12,000; 6) Mexico 6,15; 7) Armenia 4,080; 8) Russian Federation 3,300; 9) Iran, Islamic Republic Of 2,600; 10) Mongolia 1,300; 11) Uzbekistan 600; 12) Kazakhstan 400; 13) Kyrgyzstan 250 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Tungsten is used in lamp filaments, steels alloys for high-speed tools, auto parts, drills, cutters, cemented carbide (a supper hard material), superhard tools for manufacturing and processing tools for semiconductors. Twice as heavy as lead, it is resistant to heat, which is why it ideal for lamp filaments, and is resistant to abrasion, oxidization and corrosion, which makes it ideal for high-speed tool steels alloys. Alloys of tungsten carbide with cobalts are among the hardest metals known. Tungsten's name is derived from the Swedish word tung ("heavy") and sten ("stone"). World’s largest tungsten producers: by country in 2006 (thousands of metric tons) World Concentrate Production, By Country (Metric tons, tungsten content, 2007): 1) China 41,000; 2) Russian Federation 3,200; 3) Canada 2,700; 4) Rwanda 1,534; 5) Austria 1,200; 6) Bolivia 1,107; 7) Portugal 846; 8) Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of 600; 9) Brazil 537; 10) Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 500; 11) Peru 348; 12) Thailand 300; 13) Mongolia 250; 14) Myanmar 183; 15) Burundi 144; 16) Uganda 75 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Zinc, Lead and Copper in Russia Zinc is used as a protective coating on steel, as die castings, as alloying agent with copper to make brass, and as a component of chemical compounds in rubber and paints. It is mined in over 50 countries. The leading world producers are 1) Canada, 2) Australia, 3) the former U.S.S.R., 4) Peru, 5) China and 6) the U.S. World’s largest zinc producers: by country in 2006: (metric tons, zinc content of concentrate and direct shipping ore: 1) China 2,600,000; 2) Australia 1,380,000; 3) Peru 1,201,794; 4) United States 727,000; 5) Canada 710,000; 6) Mexico 480,000; 7) Ireland 425,700; 8) India 420,800; 9) Kazakhstan 400,000; 10) Sweden 192,400; 11) Russian Federation 190,000; 12) Brazil 176,000; 13) Bolivia 175,000; 14) Poland 135,600; 15) Iran, Islamic Republic Of 130,000; 16) Morocco 73,000; 17) Namibia 68,000; 18) Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of 67,000; 19) Mongolia 50,450; 20) Turkey 50,000 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] In the U.S. about 75 of the lead consumed is used in transportation (batteries, gasoline additives, and another uses). It is also used in batteries, emergency power supply, construction sheeting, sporting ammunition, and TV tubes. The U.S. consumes and uses more than 20 percent of the world production of lead. Other major producers include Australia, China, and the former U.S.S.R. World’s largest lead producers: by country in 2006 (metric tons): 1) China 1,500,000; 2) Australia 641,000; 3) United States 444,000; 4) Peru 329,154; 5) Mexico 120,000; 6) Poland 85,000; 7) Canada 82,000; 8) India 77,600; 9) Sweden 62,100; 10) Ireland 54,100; 11) Russian Federation 50,000; 12) Morocco 44,800; 13) South Africa 41,857; 14) Kazakhstan 40,200; 15) Iran, Islamic Republic Of 25,000; 16) Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of 20,000; 17) Turkey 20,000; 18) Bulgaria 20,000; 19) Brazil 18,000; 20) Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of 17,000; 21) Greece 15,000; 22) Argentina 12,800; 23) Bolivia 12,000; 24) Honduras 10,215; 25) Namibia 10,000 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Russia possesses 10 percent of the world’s copper reserves. The main uses for copper in the U.S. are in building and construction (41 percent), electrical and electronic products (24 percent), industrial machinery and products (13 percent), transportation (12 percent) and consumer and general goods. World’s largest copper producers: by country in 2006 (metric tons): 1) Chile 3,669,000; 2) Peru 875,026; 3) China 873,000; 4) Indonesia 816,000; 5) Australia 806,400; 6) Russian Federation 725,000); 7) Canada 606,958; 8) United States 594,000; 9) Poland 512,000; 10) Kazakhstan 457,000; 11) Zambia 350,000; 12) Mexico 250,000; 13) Iran, Islamic Republic Of 208,000; 14) Papua New Guinea 194,355; 15) Argentina 180,100; 16) Brazil 143,000; 17) Mongolia 129,693; 18) Uzbekistan 115,000; 19) South Africa 97,000; 20) Sweden 97,000; 21) Bulgaria 84,000; 22) Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 81,000; 23) Portugal 78600; 24) Lao People's Democratic Republic 60803; 25) Turkey 46000 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] World’s largest tin producers: by country in 2006 (metric tons): 1) China 125,000; 2) Indonesia 90,000; 3) Peru 38,470; 4) Bolivia 18,000; 5) Brazil 12,000; 6) Viet Nam 3,500; 7) Niger 3,100; 8) Russian Federation 3,000; 9) Malaysia 3,000; 10) Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The 2,800; 11) Australia 2,000; 12) Nigeria 1,500; 13) Myanmar 700; 14) Rwanda 300; 15) Portugal 230; 16) Thailand 165; 17) Lao People's Democratic Republic 70; 18) Mexico 25; 19) Burundi 4 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Aluminum in Russia Russia was once the world’s second largest aluminum producer. The aluminum industry in Russia was notorious for its ties with gangsters and violence. In the 1990s, turf battles between gangsters for control of the aluminum industry left more than 30 people dead. The company Russian Aluminum accounts for 70 percent of Russia’s aluminum output. Owned by the oligarch Oleg Deripaska, it was created from the Trans World Metals, a trading company with reputed ties to organized crime. The company became more transparent and brought Western accountants in the early 2000s, in part so it could attract foreign investors. Its biggest obstacle has been securing a steady, cheap supply of energy, which it desperately need as aluminum production requires a lot of energy to produce. Krasnoyarsk-based Kraz own the world's largest aluminum plant. In the late 1990s it employed 14,000 people and was hugely profitable. More then 90 percent of its production was shipped overseas in exchange for hard currency. World’s largest aluminum producers: by country in 2007 (thousands of metric tons): 1) China 19,500; 2) Australia 18,844; 3) Brazil 6,890; 4) Jamaica 3,941; 5) United States 3,900; 6) Russian Federation 3,300; 7) India 2,900; 8) Suriname 2,200; 9) Venezuela 1,900; 10) Ukraine 1,700; 11) Kazakhstan 1,556; 12) Spain 1,400; 13) Italy 1,327; 14) Canada 1,220; 15) Ireland 1,100; 16) Germany 850; 17) Greece 750; 18) Guinea 610; 19) Bosnia and Herzegovina 350 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] World’s largest bauxite producers: by country in 2007 (thousands of metric tons): 1) Australia 62,428; 2) China 30,000; 3) Brazil 22,100; 4) India 19,221; 5) Guinea 18,000; 6) Jamaica 14,568; 7) Russian Federation Russian Federation 6,400; 8) Venezuela 5,900; 9) Suriname 4,900; 10) Kazakhstan 4,800; 11) Greece 2,220; 12) Guyana 1,600; 13) Indonesia 1,251; 14) Sierra Leone 1,168; 15) Ghana 840; 16) Bosnia and Herzegovina 800; 17) Turkey 780; 18) Montenegro 650; 19) Hungary 546.4; 20) Dominican Republic 500 [Source: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Minerals Resources Program] Aluminum Oligarchs As of 2002, the oligarchs Roman Abramovich and fellow oligarch Oleg Deripaska controlled 75 percent of Russia’s aluminum industry. Abramovich main source of income is the Sibneft oil company. As of 2003, he wanted to sell his share in Russian Aluminum to Deripaska. Anatoly Bykov is a gangster and businessman with toes to the aluminum industry. A former boxer from the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, he coerned the aluminum British in the 1990s, is known as the “the godfather of Krasnoyarsk” and has been tied to many criminal activities. In the 2000s, Bykov was charged with the murder of a rival gangster in a Moscow neighborhood. After being sought for years by authorities he was finally brought to court only to be set free. A couple of weeks after the alleged murder the man he was accused of murdering showed up alive even his “dead body” had been shown television as proof that he was murder. Bykov claims the who thing was staged to push him out of the aluminum business. Bykov owns a huge aluminum plant in Krasnoyarsh. Regarded as Robin Hood figure, he runs an orphanage and pays for worker’s vacation but skimps on paying taxes. His legal problems did not prevent him from keeping his sear in parliament. He is a rival of Deripaska. Bykov reportedly wants Deripaska dead. Some speculate that Deripaska may have been behind the bogus murder. Oleg Deripaska Oleg Deripaska is a tough, lanky aluminum baron known for his aggressive and unscrupulous methods of obtaining assets. As of 2002 he had an estimated worth of $1.5 billion and controlled the world’s second largest aluminum company. In the mid 1990s at the tender age of 26 he became the director of a large aluminum plant in Siberia at a time when different groups hired contract killers in their fight to grabs assets. His past has so many black marks the United States will not give him a visa. Born in Nizny Novgorod, Deripaska has a physics degree from Moscow State University and a degree in economic from the Plekhanov Institute. His wife is Yeltsin’s step-granddaughter. He has been charged in a U.S. district court in connections with allegations made by a former colleague on bribery, racketeering and ordering murders. Deripaska is good example of how shady banking and predatory instincts were used by the oligarchs in obtain assets. In 2002 he made a “loans for shares” deal in which he made a $10 million loan to a consortium building the 3,000-megawatt, $2 billion Bogichansk power plant in Siberia that was only half finished because it was short of cash. According to agreement if the loan was not paid back the oligarch would acquire 25 percent of the power plant—and that situation occurred. Deripaska was part of the oligarch group that hired a private army in 2002 to take over a large pulp and paper mill, whose owner at the time had barricaded himself inside with buses and train cars and possessed his own army. The takeover had began halfway across Russia when an unknown person with just 20 shares in the company, Ilim Pulp, filed a suit against it, charging that the company had not complied with all the conditions of its 1994 privatization. Before Ilim even knew about the court case, a Siberian court ordered that two third of the company’s stock to be seized and turned over to a state property committee, which sold it to Deripaska. Image Sources: Text Sources: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, Lonely Planet Guides, Library of Congress, U.S. government, Compton’s Encyclopedia, The Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, AFP, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Foreign Policy, Wikipedia, BBC, CNN, and various books, websites and other publications. Last updated May 2016

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