Source – rielpolitik.com – “…What we really need to take away from the black refinery smoke that clogs our sky’s and fogs our mind, is that we are subsidizing this dog to the tune of 10 million dollars each and every minute of every day. Just think about that for a brief lucid moment and…
Source – occupy.com – “… Asymmetrical economic systems require asymmetrical power relationships – hierarchies in which vastly different sets of rules govern. These systems place cops and soldiers into personified states of exception, even while dehumanizing, and ultimately abandoning, the bodies that occupy the uniforms and titles”: (People Vs Big Oil, Part II: A Mosaic…
Source – journal-neo.org – ‘…Russian involvement in the stalled Israeli gas development would reduce financial risk for Israeli offshore gas operations and increase the gas fields’ security, as Russian allies like Hezbollah in Lebanon or Iran wouldn’t dare target Russian joint ventures…This seems to be what’s unfolding now. If true, it is one of the…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…An example of this utilization of local elites as surrogates can be seen through …Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei, a tiny oil enclave on the island of Borneo, where Royal Dutch/Shell holds a virtual monopoly over the oil industry…The Sultan of Brunei is reported to be worth over $60 billion…
Source – cluborlov.blogspot.ca – “…And so the reason half of the US population now lives in suburbia and drives has nothing to do with their needs, and everything to do with the need to sell them gasoline. Some people may react negatively to the idea that their suburban castle and their magic chariot are all…
Source – epcc.libguides.com – “…On April 30, 1977, a Times reporter, the young inventor and his assistant drove the experimental car equipped with the vaporized fuel system to Deming, N.M. The goal: to prove that with his system, a car could travel 200 miles on just two gallons of gas. On that Saturday, the 24-year-old did just that”: (The Mysterious…
Source – worldwatch.org – “…”The energy sector is a billion dollar global industry, and so the threat of renewable energy completely replacing the likes of say gas and oil would certainly be opposed in some way,” he said. “But saying that, it is very much the responsibility of national governments to create the policy and…
Source – zerohedge.com – “…Saudi’s entire economy is suddenly collapsing. To boost state finances, Saudi Arabia cut fuel, electricity and water subsidies in December, after posting a record budget deficit last year. It also plans to cut the amount of money it spends on public wages and raise more non-oil revenue by introducing taxes”: (Saudi…
Source – themindunleashed.org – “…The problem here is that oil and gas companies are able to use the power of the government to grant themselves special privileges and land rights not afforded to others. Some of these special privileges include acquiescing large swaths of land through federal land grabs like this one to provide a…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…The rupture of ties between Erdogan and Russia’s Putin following the shooting in Syrian airspace of a Russian jet on November 24, 2015 appeared to leave Washington in the Catbird Seat in relation to control of EU natural gas flows. The only step remaining would be to be certain Washington and…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Having accumulated huge amounts of petro-dollars, the Saudi decided that they have a right to interfere into the affairs of other countries…The Saudis decided to alter the secular regime and President Bashar al-Assad personally, and put their henchman, fully focused on the Riyadh and preaching the ideas of Wahhabism. It is…
Source – americanempireproject.com – “…We all know that smoking tobacco, snorting cocaine, or consuming too much alcohol is bad for us, but many of us persist in doing so anyway, finding the resulting thrill, the relief, or the dulling of the pain of everyday life simply too great to resist. In the same way, much…
Source – stuartjeannebramhall.com – “…Peter Stone first reported in the Huffington Post that a $10 million-a-year effort was proposed by a Koch Industries board member, James Mahoney, and Mr. Drevna, aiming “to boost petroleum-based transportation fuels and attack government subsidies for electric vehicles”: (Koch Funded Group Seeks to Kill EVs – again) A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling…
Source – thecanary.co – “…France wanted control over Gaddafi’s billions in gold and silver bullion as revealed in Hillary Clinton’s 27 March 2011 confidential intelligence brief – According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion….This was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to…
Source – geopolitics.co – “…Seeing how the West blew out its chance of creating a world of prosperity and abundance for all, and instead misused its knowledge of science for plunging the world in a constant state of war, the higly marginalized Eastern economies decided to form an alliance that would neutralize the growing forces…
Source – independent.co.uk – “… BP insisted before the war it had “no strategic interest” in Iraq, but in documents disclosed in this newspaper yesterday, it can be seen telling the Foreign Office at that meeting it regarded Iraq as “vitally important” and it would be prepared to take “big risks” in pursuit of business…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Kermit Roosevelt, the Mossadegh coup-master turned Northrop salesman, admitted in his memoirs that SAVAK was 100% created by the CIA and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency that acts as appendage of the CIA. For the next 20 years the CIA and SAVAK were joined at the hip when it came to…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…The drop in oil prices has given the lie to the Hubbert peak theory. There will probably not be a penury of energy in the coming century. The price decrease is also probably the first step in dismantling the «human origin of global warming» theory. It has deprived the alternative sources…
Source – bloomberg.com – “…Simon, better than anyone else, understood the appeal of U.S. government debt and how to sell the Saudis on the idea that America was the safest place to park their petrodollars. With that knowledge, the administration hatched an unprecedented do-or-die plan that would come to influence just about every aspect of…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…The think-tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), was financed by the US military-industrial complex, supported by a gaggle of other Washington neo-conservative think tanks such as RAND. The PNAC board also included neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz, later to be Rumsfeld’s Deputy Secretary of Defense; ‘Scooter Libby,’ later Vice President Cheney’s…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Western-controlled big-oil corporations are attempting to kill off smaller competitors and geopolitical rivals including Russia and Venezuela. It can be likened to chemotherapy where the entire body is poisoned in hopes that the body is strong enough to survive, while the smaller tumor within perishes. Likewise, big-oil hopes by dropping oil…
Source – geopolitics.co – “..However, this developing shift from fossil fuel to renewables is being complicated by the still to be neutralized crime syndicate that lives and breathe partly through the bloodsoaked petrodollar. Hillary Clinton’s palpable participation on the murder of Muammar Gadhafi, and her successful hijacking of the primaries for this year’s US presidential…
Source – russia-insider.com – “…Moscow and Beijing have made their interchanges of petroleum a channel of transition towards a multipolar monetary system, that is to say, a system that is no longer based on the dollar alone, but takes into account various currencies and above all, that reflects the correlation of forces in the current…
Source – zerohedge.com – “….As a result of the budget imbalance driven by low oil prices, largely a Saudi doing, the kingdom is forced to give workers an implicit pay cut. It also means that since the government has to “pay” through the issuance of debt, that the liquidity crisis in the kingdom is far…
Source – journal-neo.org – “For most of the post-1945 period the world economy has been under the control of the large Anglo-American oil majors, their banks and their friends in OPEC, most especially Saudi Arabia. Today that control in the world oil market is irreparably broken. The world is entering a new phase in the…
Source – trueactivist.com – “…When asked about the challenges an individual can face in adopting this kind of change, Andy Baker stressed that while the investment is expensive, the motivator is control – the notion that people would no longer be dependent on heating oil companies”: (Arctic Research Center Switches To Seawater for Heating, Dumps…
Source – opednews.com – Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a huge insult and violation of traditional desert hospitality. Obama should have refused to deplane and flown…
Source – geopolitics.co – When Russia published its nuclear fusion-fission hybrid technology last October 2014 [here], it was meant to tell the world that they, together with China, are ready to move away from fossil fuel based energy source. Hybrid nuclear plants eliminate the risks of radioactive meltdown and may even be used to recycle…
Source – veteranstoday.com -” It’s becoming pretty obvious that the days of Federal Reserve System hegemony are now limited, in that much of the world is dumping the US Petro Dollar and plans to shift to direct trade and use of Gold, Silver and commodity-backed real currencies”: Everyday more and more Americans that didn’t already…
Source – geopolitics.co – When Russia published its nuclear fusion-fission hybrid technology last October 2014 [here], it was meant to tell the world that they, together with China, are ready to move away from fossil fuel based energy source. Hybrid nuclear plants eliminate the risks of radioactive meltdown and may even be used to recycle…
Source – salon.com – “Merchants have no country,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1814. “The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” The former president was ruing the way New England traders and shipowners, fearing the loss of lucrative transatlantic commerce, failed to…
Source – journal-neo.org – In their determination to bypass their dependency on Russian natural gas, the bureaucrats of Brussels have approved construction of a trans-Adriatic gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Greece. It looks workable on paper. There’s only one problem. It isn’t. It’s the latest move in the self-defeating EU pipeline war with Russia. The…
Source – zerohedge.com – (Editors Note: ..I guess when you’ve milked something for everything it’s worth for the better part of two centuries – there comes a time when the ‘ol girl just ain’t producing like she used to. Either way, we’ll label this one accordingly & put another notch in our belt) Peak Hypocrisy:…
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