Source – ellenbrown.com “…Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton’s recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty…In other words: It’s the banksters, stupid!” SM:… Needless to say, Gaddafi was the “Gold Standard”…
Source – journal-neo.org “…Few understand is how today’s Green energy markets are rigged to benefit speculators like hedge funds or investors like BlackRock or Deutsche Bank and penalize energy consumers…Banks or others can speculate for pennies on the dollar, and when news broke on how low EU gas storage for the coming winter were, financial…
Source – iceagefarmer.com “…It is time for us to all participate in a distributed food system — not one of centralized control — and there are many parts to play: from aquaponics, to rabbits, to chickens, ducks, and quail, to soil husbandry, to spirulina, to crickets and mealworms, to dry farming, to urban coops, to…
Source- morningporridge.com ‘…ESG has evolved into a religion, a high church of environmental orthodoxy. Its heretical to suggest ESG can’t work unless we evolve towards a cleaner energy ecosystem by continuing to burn hydrocarbons…it will all count for nothing this winter. This winter – people are going to die of cold“ SM:…What’s a few cold, stiff,…
Source – journal-neo.org “…The fact that the European Union depends on Russian gas is undeniable. According to Eurostat, the block consumed 394 billion cubic meters of gas in 2020. Of this, 43% was imported from Russia, and only 13% was produced in the EU. And this situation cannot be changed by any US attempts to…
Source – scheerpost.com -“…Human rights attorney Steven Donziger has now been under house arrest in his New York City apartment for two years. The reason for his detainment,…is that Donziger made it his business to hold Chevron accountable for how the Big Oil megacorp “harmed, sickened and killed tens of thousands in Ecuador” and tried…
Source – journal-neo.org –“…The ignominious US withdrawal from Afghanistan has blown a global hole in the post-1945 American Century system of elaborate world domination, a power vacuum that likely will lead to irreversible consequences. The immediate case in point is whether Biden’s Washington strategists—as he clearly makes no policy—have already managed to lose the support…
Source – tomluongo.me –“…For more than fifty years the Saudis have helped prop up U.S. foreign policy by exporting their oil to the world and taking only dollars in return….The U.S. closely defended the petrodollar famously going to war with any country that dared to offer oil on international markets in any currency other than the dollar,…
Source – zerohedge.com “…Many other conflict zones, which incidentally are also key coca-growing regions within Colombia are also rich in hydrocarbons….Colombia’s cocaine production during 2020 surged to a record high of 1,228 metric tons …That volume is also significantly greater than all the cocaine produced in Colombia when the Medellin Cartel was at the peak of its…
Source – voltairenet.org –“..The war was decided in mid-July 2001, when the Berlin negotiations between the United States and the United Kingdom on the one hand and the Taliban, not the Afghan government, on the other failed. Pakistan and Russia were observers at these secret talks. The Taliban delegation entered Germany in violation of the…
Source – aljazeera.com –“…Yukos was in conflict with the Russian government, allegedly over unpaid taxes. But it was more than that: it was about the political threat posed by Yukos’ chief, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, to spymaster-turned-President Vladimir Putin. Powerful adversaries locked in a battle of wills…Who would run the beleaguered Yukos oil empire? Khodorkovsky had…
Source – unz.com “…Rockefellers have also supported groups like Greenpeace and 350.org that have investigated and criticized the company. A conference on oil and climate was held at the offices shared by two Rockefeller family funds with intent to “establish in public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all…
Source – unz.com “…Al-Qaida was based in Pakistan. 9/11 was planned in Pakistan. Osama bin Laden, the man held most responsible, lived in Pakistan. Much of the money came from Saudi Arabia, by far the largest international funding source of radical Islamic fundamentalism. The hijackers were Saudi and Egyptian. Not a single hijacker was Afghan.…
Source – ellenbrown.com “…The petroleum monopoly was first broken in Brazil, where most cars are adapted to run on bioethanol made from sugar cane. Existing combustion engines can be converted to use this “flex fuel” with simple, inexpensive kits….With the conversion to biofuels, Pres. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved national energy independence, giving a major…
Source – journal-neo.org “…This region is more than a crossroads, it is a pitch for geopolitical intrigues, and these have far-reaching consequences: events in Turkey, the Syrian civil war, refugee flows, the rise and funding of ISIS (banned in Russia), all these events swirl around and around to provide the force for political conflict with…
Source – asiatimes.com “…The Shell case may also set off a global avalanche of copycat litigation. In Australia, legal experts have noted the turning tide and warned is it’s only a matter of time before directors who fail to act on climate change face litigation. Clearly, a seismic shift is looming, in which corporations will be forced to take…
Source – revolution-green.com – “… It boasts an 80kW electric motor (108 horsepower) which can send the car from 0 to 100 km/h in just five seconds. It is not a racing car, but by utilizing the built-in batteries the car can increase its acceleration. The electric engine is capable of topping 200km/h while still…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…The Roosevelt administration had been eager for some time to wage war against Japan and sought to unleash such a war by means of the institution of an oil embargo and other provocations. Having deciphered Japanese codes, Washington knew a Japanese fleet was on its way to Pearl Harbor, but welcomed the…
Source – globalresearch.ca “…The 2011 US-NATO led war on Libya was a multi-trillion dollar trophy for the United States…The US-NATO intervention was also intent upon excluding China from the region and edging out China’s National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), which was a major player in Libya. Libya is the gateway to the Sahel and Central Africa. More…
Source – thetyee.ca “…The global-mortality study deals with problems long known and long ignored. But the authors of this report force us to a new understanding of ourselves. We may well reject such an understanding, because it will demand a social transformation beyond mere reforms, and we have invested a great deal in a status…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Dick Cheney was now Halliburton Chairman and CEO. Cheney now struck a more business-like tone, cutting oil deals with Saddam Hussein. According to the Financial Times, from 1998-2000 Halliburton did nearly $24 million in business selling oil drilling equipment and services to Iraq. Cheney & Company circumvented the US embargo by…
Source – theamericanconservative.com “…This is not a depression, but a permanent contraction of the scale and complexity of things. And it might help us cultivate gratitude….The harsh truth may be that the disorders that attend contracting economies and discontinued resource supply lines will reduce populations shockingly fast” De-Growth Will Define How We Live In The…
Source – unz.com “…It was legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh who first reported that bin Laden and thousands of other Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were suspiciously allowed to escape to Pakistan in an evacuation dubbed the ‘airlift of evil.’ This was corroborated in a leaked 2009 Hillary Clinton State Department email published by WikiLeaks regarding a Senate report…
Source – consciousnessofsheep.co.uk “…Only if they are prepared to forego all of the fossil-fuel powered goods they import can they truly claim to be embarking upon a new industrial revolution. Until then, the “green new deal” is just another name for the same old imperialism that they have always practiced” The Narrative Problem After Peak…
Source – therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com “…To those who care to look behind the curtain of American duplicity, which casts a veneer of benevolence over our actions, it becomes readily apparent that “Islamic militants” tend to show-up wherever American oil companies have expressed an interest. America’s historical usage of the same militant groups in the past casts suspicion…
Source – journal-neo.org “…Although they inherited huge financial reserves…became dependent on the various militias that brought them to power. Along with that, these “brothers-in-arms” soon turned into implacable enemies. The country fell into an abyss of civil strife and, since the summer of 2014” The Anniversary of Gaddafi’s Death and the Current Reality in Libya…
Source – scheerpost.com “…The epic battle by Steve Donziger to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes in Ecuador has left him under house arrest for 13 months, disbarred, with, frozen bank accounts, $32 million in legal fees, a lien on…
Source – thesaker.is – “…To put it mildly, Moscow is walking on a geopolitical razor’s edge. Russia needs to exercise restraint and invest in a carefully calibrated balancing act between Armenia and Azerbaijan; must preserve the Russia-Turkey strategic partnership; and must be alert to all, possible US Divide and Rule tactics” What’s at Stake in…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Now, as MBS orders yet new desperation cuts in Saudi oil prices, his economy is imploding from all sides—from the stupid Vision 2030 plan to even the traditional oil sector, the source for 87% of the Kingdom budget. The economic decline of Saudi Arabia will have huge geopolitical consequences beyond the…
Source – dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.com – “…Lebanon is now imploding, Egypt is piling up massive debts, and Iraq can’t pay its bills because oil is stuck at around $46 a barrel. Saudi Arabia needs a price of at least $95 a barrel to meet its budgetary needs—and to feed the appetites of its royals…. The Pandemic and…
Source – haitianalysis.com – “…Kaplan’s ruling relies very heavily on the testimony of a defrocked Ecuadorian judge named Alberto Guerra. Chevron paid Guerra well over a million dollars worth of benefits for his testimony, but he later admitted to lying to Kaplan about being offered a bribe by Donziger, the substance of the “corruption” Kaplan used to overturn…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Here, in this cell in a dank old warehouse in Bani Walid, there are no smugglers, no rapists, no thieves or murderers. There are simply Africans captured by traffickers as they made their way from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, or other disparate parts of the continent seeking a life free of…
Source – ammo.com – “…From 1982 to 2005, during the reign of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, over $75 billion is estimated to have been spent in efforts to spread Wahhabi Islam to various, much poorer Muslim nations worldwide. By comparison, the Soviets spent about $7 billion spreading communism worldwide in the 70 years from 1921 and 1991″ The…
