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In the triangulation-theory that dominates the ZENcentral thought-process, it was amazing to see the mass invasion of a pristine territory this late-summer month of August... the Arctic.

As Denmark, Norway, Canada, Russia, the United States and ... (who's left? The EU?) are staking claims, or 'defending claims' or reacting to others claims (Bless Norway for acting to reduce the tension...)

We know what it's all about, no doubt about it: a world in denial, world at risk of upside-down economics as the soaring price of oil forces ALL industries to beseech their governments to 'Take a stand!' on this fiasco...

And ZENcentral wonders: are the complacent and conspiratorial OIL companies, those who have denied global warming, who have sponsored the anti-global-warming propoganda movements, well...

Is the opening Artic Ocean NOW available for oil exploration, extraction, exploitation and exhaustion, due to the lack of substantive global action?

Can YOU read between the lines? Can any oil company profit from the potential vast reserves, cut-off from exploitation as long as sea-ice ruled the winter waters?

Observe a NASA photo, and imagine the impossibility of putting deep-water oil platforms on ice-shields that shifted, cracked, and were impossible to work with.

Yet with a globally-warmed world, petrolists armed with the newest in technological breakthroughs, and with the assurance that we certainly have affected the northern oceans' stability for at least the next twenty to eighty years, may have 'cooked' a financial formula that allows high-priced exploration to become both financially, and meteorologically feasable.

You can tell ZENmud, if this is a good or bad thing...

I advocated 30 years ago, that we should stay out of North Slope oilfields until ALL other oil, mostly in other countries, were fully exhausted.

The fact that this new Arctic zone of exploration has become an INSTANT hot topic (pun intended), makes one wonder if the 'forces that be' (economic), had produced this oily quid-pro-quo...?

Stand by for more yet another OIL war...

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