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Billionaire will dig tunnel linking Russia & US
Russia today ^ | 3-28-08 | staff

Posted on 03/28/2008 5:13:26 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: dynachrome
President Vladimir Putin is said to back the latest idea, as it would open up lucrative freight routes from Europe and allow Russian gas to be easily exported.

Then once we get dependent on your gas, you will blackmail us whenever you are unhappy... what a great idea!

41 posted on 03/28/2008 5:54:07 PM PDT by John123 (Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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To: John123
Why not? Opec blackmails us when they ARE happy!
42 posted on 03/28/2008 5:56:08 PM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: dynachrome

Please do not think me crazy but in our lifetimes, we are likely to see suspension bridges cross both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. New technologies will make it possible to “float” supports making it possible to span these gigantic oceans whereby bridges from New York to England and from Los Angeles to Asia will be made possible. Hell of a long drive but worth it.


43 posted on 03/28/2008 5:56:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 32 days away from outliving Dan Quisenberry)
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To: elcid1970

No, but I’d say that flying two planes into two big towers going 400-500 mph was harder than bombing and underground tunnel.


44 posted on 03/28/2008 5:57:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: 2111USMC
Why not? Opec blackmails us when they ARE happy!

I'm not talking to you anymore... you are making sense and it's FRIDAY! :)

45 posted on 03/28/2008 5:58:33 PM PDT by John123 (Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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To: Blackyce

Ten percent of the Russian federated state is Muslim. Couched among them are the wild, murdering Chechens.

I repeat, “Beslan” is all you need to know.

OBTW, I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2004. Uzbeks spoke Russian to me and harbored little hatred as far as I could tell.


46 posted on 03/28/2008 6:00:24 PM PDT by elcid1970 (io)
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To: Age of Reason
Have, um, you ever been to Russia?

The non-males look like this:

This is not from a "brides" site. Just a guy who wants to show the world.

Having been there quite a bit myself, I can vouch for his comment: they damn near all look like this.

Surf his photos.

Wouldn't hurt to have a few million of these instead of 10 million illiterate, violent jerks like we got from South of us.

47 posted on 03/28/2008 6:07:27 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Nachoman; JLS

They could connect it to “The Bridge to Nowhere”


48 posted on 03/28/2008 6:10:57 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: SamAdams76

any preliminary designs?


49 posted on 03/28/2008 6:12:14 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: dynachrome

Dig the tunnel to Minneapolis. It will take longer, but they are more into bolsheviks and such.


50 posted on 03/28/2008 6:14:47 PM PDT by mathurine
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To: dynachrome

Freight by TRAIN rather than by air or ship would easily make the business case for a tunnel.


51 posted on 03/28/2008 6:16:12 PM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: Sun
Is this an April fool story? :)

No, I'm sure it is true.

Abramovich is a multi billionaire Robber-Baron Oligarch that has managed to keep in Putin's good books.

He lives in England and is owner of Chelsea Football Club which he has poured nearly a Billion dollars into in the last five years to make it one of the World's top teams.

However, part of his deal with Putin was that he be Governor of the Chukotha Region of Russia, which is the area adjacent to Alaska. He has poured more of his own wealth into the region to re-vitalize it. A tunnel to the US would provide HUGE economic stimulus to the region.

52 posted on 03/28/2008 6:20:27 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Age of Reason
Next thing you know we’ll be getting illegal immigrants from Russia sneaking in.

The way our respective economies are heading, the illegal immigration problem may well be theirs.

53 posted on 03/28/2008 6:20:57 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Blackyce

Is rail more efficient than shipping via the ocean? I don’t know, but for this tunnel to work it must be.


54 posted on 03/28/2008 6:21:08 PM PDT by JLS
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To: dynachrome

Gas from Russia.?.. WoW... Alaska has at least a 1000 year supply it would be like importing snow to Alaska..


55 posted on 03/28/2008 6:34:47 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: dynachrome
President Vladimir Putin is said to back the latest idea, as it would open up lucrative freight routes from Europe and allow Russian gas to be easily exported.

I have strong doubts Pooty Poot wants a tunnel between russia and North America for "Trade".
56 posted on 03/28/2008 6:34:49 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: hosepipe

However America could import a massive load of balls from Russia.. America seems to need those/them.. Russia has such huge balls.. very big brass ones..


57 posted on 03/28/2008 6:37:59 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: krb
Russian illegal immigrants would bring a helluva lot more skill

yazz, gives me zee 20 dollars and I do da sexy dances for ude.

I haven't been in a strip club in at least decade but the Russian broads were ANNOYING! Gives me da monies, if youze want sexy dances?

58 posted on 03/28/2008 6:38:25 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: krb
Have you ever worked with Russians?
Yes I have.

I would bet big money that Russian illegal immigrants would bring a helluva lot more skill than the Latins currently do.
It's a good thing you don't have big money

Most Russians are simply amazing.
There's obviously a lot of Russians you haven't worked with.

59 posted on 03/28/2008 6:38:47 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: krb
Have you ever worked with Russians?
Yes I have.

I would bet big money that Russian illegal immigrants would bring a helluva lot more skill than the Latins currently do.
It's a good thing you don't have big money

Most Russians are simply amazing.
There's obviously a lot of Russians you haven't worked with.

60 posted on 03/28/2008 6:38:55 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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