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ANTARCTICA - WHAT’S GOING ON?
PART TWELVE

And so we have all these people with great interest in Antarctica - except for possibly No Name. But don’t forget there are also the activities of the Pew Trusts involved in environmental things in Antarctica. Pew Trusts are dipping their hands into all kinds of things environmental and NOT environmental. Recall their stated mission:

“improving public policy, informing the public, and stimulating civic life.”

Is it a good thing they are involved, or are they Derponized enough for us to be nervous about it? It did not fall under the scope of the above dig, but I would point out that there are other truly derpezoid organizations possibly deeply involved in the goings on at the South Pole of the world. National Geographic? Smithsonian? NGO’s of all flavors and nations?

BUT WHY????

Reference has already been made to the abundance of minerals there. And the abundant sea life found there.

Here is a possible explanation from 2009:

IS THIS WHY EVERYONE IS GOING TO ANTARCTICA?

“NATO OF THE SOUTH - CHILI, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, ANTARCTICA”

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalmilitarism02.htm

“…A battle royal is in progress for securing control over the vast Antarctic region and its hitherto untapped oil, gas, mineral, fresh water and fishing resources and potential. The Antarctic’s strategic military value is increasing in importance commensurately, as is that of the Arctic Circle on the opposite end of the earth.

The subject has been explored in an earlier article in this series, Scramble For World Resources: Battle For Antarctica. The four countries directly north of the Antarctic Ocean are,
Chile
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand,
...and all four are to varying degrees being integrated into Western military alliances; all four have bilateral military ties to the United States and with other NATO states, three directly with NATO itself. With Britain filing a claim with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on May 11th of this year for one million square kilometers of the South Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans and Australia being granted 2.5 million more square kilometers in the Antarctic Ocean by the same UN Commission last year (the Australian Antarctic Territory takes in 42% of Antarctica) the region is now arguably one of the most closely contested territorial - and resource and strategic - disputes in the world.

Seven countries have formal claims to Antarctica
three NATO states in Europe - Britain, France and Norway
two British Commonwealth nations in the South Pacific - Australia and New Zealand
two South American countries - Argentina and Chile
The Argentine, British and Chilean claims all overlap at places.
Peru, Russia, South Africa and the United States have reserved the right to future claims on Antarctic territory and Brazil has designated what it refers to as a zone of interest in the region. Of the seven official claimants, five are members of what is generally considered the Western world, geography aside, leaving only Chile and Argentina as rivals to them….”

AND
“…Last October the Secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, visited the Argentine capital and met with the nation’s foreign and defense ministers and its secretary of intelligence.

“Patrushev indicated that the two countries have identical viewpoints on all issues and especially ones pertaining to international policies, and this has a good effect on bilateral relations. “Patrushev named a host of areas where Russia and Argentina have mutual interests - the nuclear power industry, power engineering, nanotechnologies, oil and gas exploration and production, and the use of the Russian icebreaker fleet.“ He also mentioned plans to develop relations between the two countries’ Defense Ministries. “More specifically, Patrushev said that his Argentine hosts and he had discussed a possibility of joint military exercises and joint training of defense cadres.”

“This diversification by major Latin American states of ties in all areas, but particularly in the defense realm and especially with Russia, a European nation, has been heralded as the effective demise of the 186-year-old Monroe Doctrine…”

So there you have it. The Mad Scramble for Resources seems to be on, even though there are long-standing treaties/agreements for that continent not to be dominated by any one nation.

There is definitely Something going on at our South Pole. Maybe it is the above explanation, of the battle over the richness of the mineral and sea life content on and around the Frozen Continent. And no doubt, that is very likely to be part of the equation, if not all of it….

But FReeQs, if they do a cursory search on

“Why did Patriarch Kirill (or John F’n Kerry (WSIVN), or Buzz Aldrin, or Prince Harry, etc. - fill in the blank) go to Antarctica?”

will be deluged with many theories which JimRob has requested that we refrain from discussing on open forum.

We may not know the whole story now, but “The Truth is Out There,” to quote the X-Files heroes, Mulder and Scully.

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