Source – masterjules.net – “…This is the story of the role of oil in the Vietnam war….how American oil suppliers also ended up fuelling the communist armies—under the blind eye of Shell—with shipments flowing through indirect channels. The action takes place mostly in Saigon among ambassadors, generals, politicians, bankers, businessmen, CIA agents, spies and hustlers,…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…In a world no longer restrained by fossil fuels, there will be no more reason for Wall Street and London to stay on top. The resource market they have cornered would be rendered obsolete. China’s “sheer force of will” may give it the ability to do more than jump-start New Energy…
Source – yvesengler.com – “…The private automobile has risen to dominance in large part because of its ability to draw together a wide array of powerful corporate interests from steel makers to real estate developers, rubber companies to big box retailers” Big oil, auto industries conspire to destroy liveability of planet – By Yves Engler Is…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…Regarding the Pax Americana which is the reality of the contemporary global political and economic order…In this reciprocal relationship, the US provides security to the ruling families of the Gulf Arab states by providing weapons and troops; and in return, the Gulf’s petro-sheikhs contribute substantial investments to the tune of hundreds…
Source – telesurenglish.net – “…Oil and mineral resources….is the reason behind backing the coup….because we have the largest oil reserves, we confirm that we have the largest reserves of gold in the world, we have the world’s fourth-largest gas (reserves), have large reserves of coltan, diamonds, aluminum, iron, we have drinking water reserves throughout the…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…As with virtually every war and destabilization since the British first discovered abundant oil in the Persian Gulf over a century ago, the Yemen war is about oil, more precisely about control of oil, lots of oil” Yemen Genocide About Oil Control – By F. William Engdahl The ongoing de facto…
Source – themillenniumreport.com – The following two exposés provide essential material regarding the true origin of the House of Saud, as well as vital background about the current monarchy ruling Saudi Arabia. It is virtually impossible to understand the true nature of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the USA, and between Saudi Arabia and…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – Not long ago, Chocolate Oligarchs and their fascist gendarmes seized Ukraine’s fertile wheat and barley fields, whilst bankster-funded Islamist rebels took Mosul & the adjacent Kirkuk oilfield – one of the world’s largest – for Exxon Mobil. BRIC nations saw imperial over-reach and, led by Putin, busied themselves preparing for the…
Source – zerohedge.com – “..Venezuela’s decision comes at a time when other countries (namely Russia and China) are already finding ways to avoid using the U.S. dollar…History shows us that currency domination does not last forever. Are we seeing the cracks in the latest global currency reserve system?”: Oil Rich Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars President Maduro…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Lukoil epitomizes the corruption so rampant in Russia since the Soviet collapse. Bribery is the norm. Lukoil has given luxury jets to the mayor of Moscow, the head of Gazprom (the state-owned natural gas monopoly) and Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev. In the mid-1990’s Lukoil announced that it would sell another 15 % stake…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…The US needs to also restructure its economy to one that is based on production. It can no longer continue to run a debt-serviced economy that imports all goods it doesn’t produce. It’s unsustainable, and the continuous mistake of many. The wealth of the world is shifting eastwards”: Petrodollar Faces Growing…
Source – zerohedge.com – “… It appears that behind the scenes the tensions inside the world’s largest oil producer are rising. Meanwhile, we remind readers of another potential geopolitical shock: as Petromatrix’ Olivier Jakob wrote shortly after the Saudi shakeup, “with MBS now having greater control of Saudi Arabia… it is not really a question…
Source – tomdispatch.com – “…Much of the world now seems to find it easier to fill up the car with the usual tankful of gasoline or flip the switch and receive electricity from coal or natural gas than to begin to shake our addiction to fossil fuels. As in everyday life, so at a global…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Obama also had come into office in 2009 hoping to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, because, ever since at least 1949, the U.S.-Saudi oil company Aramco was trying to be allowed to build through Syria pipelines for Saudi oil and Qatari gas into the EU so as to grab that energy-market away from…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…Qatar and Iran share the world’s largest natural gas field…Qatar has clearly not been playing ball with the US-approved, Saudi-led ‘isolate Iran’ program. This is partly because, ever since the current Emir toppled his pro-Saudi father in 1995, the country has made independence from Saudi Arabia a hallmark of its foreign…
Source – thesaker.is – “…Venezuela today has the largest known oil reserves in the world and the fourth largest deposits of gas; that the US is importing 60% of its lush energy use mostly from the Middle East, where it is subject to long and costly transport (40-45 days), and to many risk factors…By contrast,…
Source – futurism.com – “…The new model is a flow battery, which does not require an electric charging station to be recharged. Instead, all the users have to do is replace the battery’s fluid electrolytes — rather like filling up a tank…Electric cars using this technology would arrive at the refueling station, deposit spent fluids for…
Source – dailyreckoning.com – “…If Saudi begins accepting yuan for oil, all bets are off on the petrodollar. Yuan-for-oil will entirely change the monetary dynamics of global energy flows. I expect the U.S. dollar to weaken severely when that news breaks…Ignore away. But we could wake up one morning in the midst of a massive…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…These two camps are of course defending diametrically opposite positions in terms of foreign policy. This is why the fight between the Rockefellers and Tillerson certainly had an impact on international politics. Thus, in 2005, the Rockefellers advised Qatar – whose wealth is derived from ExxonMobil – to support the Muslim…
Source – business.financialpost.com – “…The cost per mile for EVs will be 6.8 cents, rendering petrol cars obsolete. Insurance costs will fall by 90 per cent. The average American household will save $5,600 per year by making the switch. The US government will lose $50 billion a year in fuel taxes.“Our research and modelling indicate…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…A 1982 corporate primer produced by the company’s environmental affairs office recognized that “major reductions in fossil fuel combustion” would be required; otherwise, “there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered. Once the effects are measurable, they might not be reversible – Exxon marked this disturbing document “not to…
Source – whowhatwhy.org – “…Appointing the former CEO of Exxon as Secretary of State was about as appropriate as putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the treasury. Tillerson is too close to Russia, and he’s too close to the oil business. He was with Exxon for 41 years. Since 2011, his company has been entering…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…The codename ISIL is predominately used by the US and Israeli governments to coordinate and describe CIA, Israeli, Saudi GCC paramilitary operations in the Levant, the region where in 2010 US oil and gas exploration company Noble Energy discovered very large deposits of oil and gas”: {Noble Energy’s Natural Gas Discovery…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – ARAMCO: With 261 billion barrels of crude oil lying beneath its soil, Saudi Arabia remains the lynchpin in the international oil grab presided over by the Four Horsemen. As Joseph Story, Middle East analyst and former ARAMCO executive once said, “Only one factor is involved in where the price of oil is…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…Given that you are not in control, and given that the car-centric lifestyle is an evolutionary dead end for your subspecies, what can you do? The answer is obvious: you can plan your escape, then join the other 82% of the world’s population, which is able to live car-free. Some of…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Egypt is set to receive one million barrels of petroleum per day from Iraq. Saudi Arabia had informed Egypt that shipments of oil products expected under a $23 billion aid deal were been halted indefinitely, suggesting a deepening rift between the countries. From now on, Egypt will enjoy as much oil as it needs…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…One of the leading Russian abiotic scientists, Vladimir Kutcherov, then a professor at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden’s ETH or MIT…tutored me in the confirmed deep earth origins of all hydrocarbons. Not from dead dinosauer detritis and biological remains. Rather oil is being constantly generated from deep in the…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…If Trump doesn’t crack open the chocolate egg that is Saudi Arabia and run off with the toy inside, then somebody else will. Saudi Arabia’s days are numbered. For now, it is still rich in money, oil, sand and imbeciles, but it is burning through the first two faster and faster.…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…The Obama Administration was arguing that it’s necessary to hold the royal Sauds and their vassals harmless for whatever they did to finance and organize the 9/11 attacks, because otherwise there would be jeopardy “to America’s own officials working overseas who enjoy the same immunity.” In other words, the Administration’s argument…
Source – eiaonline.com – “…The war was decided by engines and octane.” – Joseph Stalin…”Above all, petrol governed every movement.” – Winston Churchill….With 50 years and a million pages of analysis between us and the events of World War II, it is easy to forget the lessons learned at that time. Today, with armed forces…
Source – original.antiwar.com – (ED: Justin, I beg to differ – show me oil, & I’ll show you a geo-strategic ‘play’ or soon to be theater of war. Japan’s strategic WWII move to seize Indochina’s oil reserves & yes, Big Oil & Syria/ Iraq/Libya – they weren’t just there for the sun & fun) “…Contrary…
Source – oilprice.com – “…Russia’s 2017 draft budget had US$40 per barrel as a base scenario for oil prices, according to economist Natalia Orlova from Alfa banking group. Every US$1 above this level translates into around US$2 billion in budget revenues”: (How Russia Outsmarted OPEC – By Irina Slav) OPEC’s historical deal to cut production…
Source – oilprice.com – “…the world inches closer to making a carbon-neutral world possible, but careful consideration of the geopolitical ramifications should also be made. The domestically fragile oil producers – which more closely resemble an oil-soaked house of cards than stable nations – will need major economic attention as renewables and natural gas become the…
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