18 DAYS TO CAPITULATION IN VIENNA

18 DAYS TO CAPITULATION IN VIENNA

FRAZER CHRONICLE

(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

I woke this morning, and did my usual duties…I’m sure I don’t need to draw you a picture, anyways after my lightly butter toast, jelly and a cup of coffee (decaffeinated), I returned to my bed for a 30 minute power nap.

 

Refreshed, I casually snapped on my computer to get the overnight and early morning breaking news. First thing I saw was a picture of 8 old looking men and one lady, Federica Mogherini from Italy who wasn’t bad looking, actually a fox, standing in a full length photo op with the headline “18-day negotiation yields landmark Iran Nuclear accord.”

 

I read the accompanying article by the AP’s George Jahn and Matthew Lee, and as I read, there was a little corner of my mind that begin a low pitched question…“Why would a country…any country give up, and give in to something that really isn’t anybody’s business…but Iran’s.”  As I read on the “low pitched question” gained momentum in volume, and spread to the rest of me…I discovered that I needed more answers then the article was giving.

 

And like the fool that I am, I begin a little research, I wanted to know who has nuclear capabilities, has nuclear weapons, and what they use their nuclear technology for? The United States is one of just eight countries that has nuclear capabilities, and one of only three other countries who possess nuclear weapons…or as the information states, “warheads.” 

 

China, India, Pakistan and North Korea all have nuclear capabilities, but nobody knows who many warheads that they have. Another country, Israel is suspected of having warheads, but nobody knows for sure.

 

I’m reading this information, and I begin to get another research headache, it’s the same players all over again, and their paper thin rhetoric about all of the dangers associated with the nuclear question. It’s a tired refrain that pops up every so often…kind of like saber rattling. And I can’t figure out why the rest of the world allows the United States to be so vocal on the issue when the U.S. is the only country in the history of mankind that has actually used the contraption.

 

Well over 100,000 civilians were vaporized in an instant in August of 1945…and the world knows of the carnage that those two devises caused. It’s well documented; everybody who is anybody knows what nuclear weaponry can do not only to humans, but to the atmosphere as well as the countryside. And possibly the very worst part of the entire issue that was the bombing of Japan has been, that the United States is unapologetic.

 

And yet, the world seems to allow the US to be at the head of the table…possibly because hundred dollar bills keep dropping out of Secretary of State’s John Kerry’s brief case. I do suspect this, the Iranian nuclear deal is most probably about fossil fuel as opposed the nuclear threats.

LET ME LAY A FEW DROPLETS ON YOU

I never write a blog unless I know at least a little about the subject matter, and I think that blog is all about power and money. Sadly little in the world today isn’t moved by the chance to make not millions, nor billions…but trillions. The figures that these jokers are playing around with, makes the average citizen…in any country…dizzy. I looked up the oil fields of the world, and although I am sure that the reserves of oil are depleting…there’s still a whole bunch of barrels in the ground, or under the sea.

 

Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar Field produces 5 million barrels a day, and although the reserve totals (oil left in the ground) is disputed, there’s still 75-85 billion barrels, and the rate of decline is about 8% per year, or Saudi Arabia will be pumping oil for the next 12 years. However it’s in the Saudi’s best interest to keep the world on fossil fuels because they have a total of around 150 billion barrels at each of their 6 sites and another that they share with Iran.

 

Russia has a whole bunch of little oil fields, distributed throughout their property of at least 25 different places, with a reserve of about 60 billion barrels…and none of these properties are being developed at the present time, or at least as of May 15, 2015.

 

Now let’s switch to Iran and her oil fields…there are 10 locations, and one that is shared with Saudi Arabia which contains 10 billion barrels. Iran is only producing oil on three sites and that production is just 2.2 million barrels a day. Wars and sanctions have effectively shut off the spigot on the countries oil production, leaving the country’s 90 some billion barrels of crude untapped.

 

Let’s take my hypotheses a step further, and count up the oil that lies under the sand in Iraq, like 83 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia and her 150 billion barrels, and finally Iran, and the 90 billion barrels, and if you tally these three countries total number of tapped and untapped oil you are looking at a whopping 323 billion barrels of oil…and gazillions upon gazillions of dollars.  

 

WE NOW COME FULL CIRCLE

I don’t trust, or not trust Arabs, they simply have different cloths, different customs, and eat different food that Americans do. I think that they are people just like any other on the face of the planet, and have their own way of doing things and settling differences of opinion.

 

I think that there is a justification for some of the hard and harsh feelings that people in the Middle East have against the United States. The reason…the last time I checked, the Middle Eastern part of the world was thousands of miles from the United States, and with little exception Middle Eastern people stay in their own back yards.

 

However the United States has poked her nose into all sorts of trouble in the Middle East, has instituted leadership change a time or two during the 20^th century, and backed some questionable people in leadership roles.

 

So when somebody talks about denying another country half way around the world from possessing a power source that has little to do petroleum products, I kind of get an itchy feeling that backroom deals are being made.

 

I guess I don’t mind the United States having a footprint in a foreign country…let’s just not be wearing combat boots to make the imprint. We’ve waged wars in the Middle East for well over a decade now, and haven’t won a single one, and really have made a bad situation worse.

 

I feel that the United States continues to be digging a hole that will eventually be impossible to get out of. Fossil fuel, nuclear power…both are destructive…which one is worse…depends on who you are talking with, you know what they say, “everybody has an opinion” “and you know what everybody also has…”

HAVE A NICE DAY!