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Originally Posted by freebeard
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It's not my quote.A few things worth mentioning:
*acute wood shortage,England,late 1500s.
*timber famine,England,1700.England burning America down to produce glass,cutting prime timber for naval stores.
*England digging 11-million ton of coal by 1800.
*England extracting 66-million tons,coal,by 1850.
*Attempted US Marine Corps landing,Korea,repulsed,1872.
*US military takeover of Cuba,1898.
*US military takeover of Puerto Rico,1898
*US military takeover of Phillipines,1898
*US military takeover of Hawaii,1898.
*US taking of Panama,1903,under US Navy threat of bombardment of Colombia,should she contest the action.
*England,'Peak Coal',1910,@ 275-million tons.
*1st oil crisis,as oil-fired German warship 'Panther' sails into Port of Agaziz,1911.
*WW-I,war for Turkish Ottoman Empire and division of Middle East oil,Berlin-to-Bagdad Railway.
*1941-1945,WW-II,battle for N.Africa oil,Middle East oil,Ploisti,Rumania oil,Baku,oil,Caspian Sea,IG Farben synthetic oil production,Dutch East Indies oil,Mexican oil,Venezuelan oil,top-secret oilfields,Sherwood Forest,England.
*1st post-war oil crisis,as Iran nationalizes Anglo-American oil,1951.
*CIA assassination of Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh,1953.
*Suez Canal Crisis,Egyptian,Israeli,French,British war for oil tanker access,1956
*Second Suez Canal Crisis,1967.
*Arab Oil Embargo,October 23,1973,US Oil Crisis.
*2nd Arab Oil Embargo,1979,U.S.hostages taken,Iran.
*UN-imposed embargo on Iran,1990.
*Gulf War,1991.
*World Trade Center attack #1,1993.
*World Trade Center attack #2,9-11-2001.
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