Author: Noel Robertson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466957867
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Noel Robertson was born during WWII. He worked hard to gain qualifications in school, banking and then general construction. All the time Noel had a nagging question - "Why are we so poor and who are these people controlling everything?" A Jewish friend told him that 'only fools work'! This made him think, so he embarked on various self-employed activities. Becoming ill at age 51, he has not worked since. He started his research into the history of mankind which took place way before all those Biblical stories - he needed to know the origins of our species and set out to find the 'missing' link according to Charles Darwin. Time allowed Noel to read numerous books allied to this subject, including those written by Zecharia Sitchin setting out his translations of the Sumerian Tablets. Noel basically found out where we, as a human race, came from. It was these findings that led to Black Blood = 21st Century Oil Rush. This brings right up to date the reasons for wars, both historical and current, which mankind has had to endure. Man has simply given his mind away! If you think you are free, then think again. It is a journey from pre-history, through Biblical times, the renaissance period to the present. Imperialist administrations are still fighting wars over the 'control' of modern energy - oil and gas - and indeed human minds. Man is being drawn in with most of the world not realising and understanding the covert powers at work here. Black Blood = 21st Century Oil Rush provides some very interesting answers - true understanding is highly controversial. Just substitute the word 'God' for 'space-ship' and 'global' for New World Order and enter Noel's world.
Author: Noel Robertson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1425105416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Noel Robertson was born during WWII. He worked hard to gain qualifications in school, banking and then general construction. All the time Noel had a nagging question - "Why are we so poor and who are these people controlling everything?" A Jewish friend told him that 'only fools work'! This made him think, so he embarked on various self-employed activities. Becoming ill at age 51, he has not worked since. He started his research into the history of mankind which took place way before all those Biblical stories - he needed to know the origins of our species and set out to find the 'missing' link according to Charles Darwin. Time allowed Noel to read numerous books allied to this subject, including those written by Zecharia Sitchin setting out his translations of the Sumerian Tablets. Noel basically found out where we, as a human race, came from. It was these findings that led to Black Blood = 21st Century Oil Rush. This brings right up to date the reasons for wars, both historical and current, which mankind has had to endure. Man has simply given his mind away! If you think you are free, then think again. It is a journey from pre-history, through Biblical times, the renaissance period to the present. Imperialist administrations are still fighting wars over the 'control' of modern energy - oil and gas - and indeed human minds. Man is being drawn in with most of the world not realising and understanding the covert powers at work here. Black Blood = 21st Century Oil Rush provides some very interesting answers - true understanding is highly controversial. Just substitute the word 'God' for 'space-ship' and 'global' for New World Order and enter Noel's world.
Author: Brian Black
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801874653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This award-winning history provides a fascinating look at the Civil War era oil boom in western Pennsylvania and its devastating impact on the region. In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America’s first oil boom but was also the world’s largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley’s descent into environmental hell. Known as “Petrolia,” the region of northwestern Pennsylvania charged the popular imagination with its nearly overnight transition from agriculture to industry. But so unrestrained were these early efforts at oil drilling, Black writes, that “the landscape came to be viewed only as an instrument out of which one could extract crude.” In a very short time, Petrolia was a ruined place—environmentally, economically, and to some extent even culturally. Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation. Winner of the Paul H. Giddens Prize in Oil History from Oil Heritage Region, Inc.
Author: Brian C. Black
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538142481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum has shaped human life since it was first discovered oozing inconspicuously from the soil. For a century, human dependence on petroleum caused little discomfort as we enjoyed the heyday of cheap crude—a glorious episode of energy gluttony that was destined to end. Today, we see the disastrous results in environmental degradation, political instability, and world economic disparity in the waning years of a petroleum-powered civilization—lessons rooted in the finite nature of oil. Considering the nature of oil itself as well as humans’ remarkable relationship with it, Brian C. Black spotlights our modern conundrum and then explores the challenges of our future without oil. It is this essential context, he argues, that will prepare us for our energy transition. Bringing his global perspective and wide-ranging technical knowledge, Black has written an essential contribution to environmental history and the rapidly emerging field of energy history in this sweeping, forward-looking survey.
Author: Dilip Hiro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780143104018
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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&Lsquo;The Battle For Hydrocarbon Reserves Is Comparable With The European Nations&Rsquo; Violent Scramble For Colonies In The 19Th Century. The Crucial Difference This Time Is That The Impending Struggle Will Go Beyond A Handful Of European Powers And Will Include China And India.&Rsquo; When The Great Powers Switched From Coal To Oil To Run Their Navies Just Before World War I, It Heralded A Change In Global Politics Comparable To The Introduction Of Gunpowder In 1040. Oil Became The Chief Strategic Weapon Of War. The Victors&Rsquo; Conclusion That Oil&Mdash;The &Lsquo;Blood Of The Earth&Rsquo;&Mdash;Proved To Be The &Lsquo;Blood Of Victory&Rsquo; Has Since Applied To All Major Conflicts. With Petroleum Becoming An Indispensable Part Of Modern Life&Mdash;From Fertilizers And Fuel To Plastics And Pharmaceuticals&Mdash;It Has Emerged As The Prized Commodity For Which Wars Are Fought. As Oil Output Peaks And Competition For It Grows Fierce, The Number Of Countries Able To Export Will Shrink To A Handful By 2020. They Will All Be Muslim States In The Persian Gulf, Except Venezuela, Which Is Currently Poised Against The Us. Blood Of The Earth, By The Acclaimed Historian And Journalist Dilip Hiro, Is A Gripping History Of Oil And How It Has Revolutionized Civilian Life As Well As War And Global Politics Over The Last Century. Written In Hiro&Rsquo;S Customary Lucid And Colourful Style, It Sets The Stage For The Coming Oil Wars Of The 21St Century, As Well As Considering The Alternatives To Hydrocarbons. &Lsquo;A Comprehensive Guide To All You Wanted To Know About Oil And Its Alternatives But Were Terrified Of Asking Till Global Warming Came About&Rsquo;&Mdash;Mani Shankar Aiyar, Petroleum Minister, 2004&Ndash;2006 Press Reviews &Lsquo;Hiro Adeptly Synthesizes Copious Amounts Of Complex Information Into Insightful Narratives . . . Highly Accessible For General Audiences&Rsquo;&Mdash;Booklist (Chicago) Strong
Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984881523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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“A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers—the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand." The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.
Author: Alex Prud'homme
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416535462
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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"Alex Prud'homme's remarkable work of investigative journalism shows how fresh water is the pressing global issue of the twenty-first century"--
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.
Author: Nnimmo Bassey
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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