Speculators circle oil and gold like buzzards sniffing financial pestilence.

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We've added enough new oil and gas pipeline to circle the Earth and then some.

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Thanks to the Vertu partnership, Silent Circle can now add Russian oligarchs, Persian Gulf oil sheiks, and Hollywood celebrities to that list.

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The U.S. Geological Survey estimated in 2008 that some 22% of the world's undiscovered oil and natural-gas deposits are located above the Arctic Circle.

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There are some systems that actually will take a circle and drop it just below the surface of the water and have the oil kind of flow into it, almost like a drain, recover it and pump it out.

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