[nukkad] The New U.S. -British Oil Imperialism - (2/3)

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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the 
temper of the sufferer. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
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Unfortunately, Big Oil's greed has not abated a
whit.The American and British rulers have a new
imperialistic strategy by which they hope to gain
total control of the world's energy supplies and the
strategic Eurasian land mass. First, they sell
armaments to a regime (for example, Panama, Iraq,
Yugoslavia/Kosovo, Afghan/Pakistan/Taliban Mujaheddin,
Saudi Arabia). Then, they demonize the regime to which
they sold the armaments and declare war on it (e.g.
Panama Invasion, Gulf War, UN Kosovo war, current
Afghanistan war). After the war, they station
permanent military bases in the country and use the
military bases to control the energy resources in the
surrounding countries. Current U.S. foreign policy is
governed by the doctrine of "full-spectrum dominance":
the U.S. must control military, economic and political
developments everywhere.
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"If you want to rule the world, you need to control
oil. All the oil. Anywhere."

Monopoly, by Michel Collon 
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This new strategy began with the Panama invasion, next
created the so-called Gulf War, continued with the
UN-sanctioned war in the Balkans, and now expands with
the new wars against terrorism (Afghanistan, the
Philippines, and beyond). On January 20, 2001, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that he was willing to
deploy U.S. military forces in "another 15 countries"
if that is what it takes to combat terrorism. The
reason the so-called "war against terrorism" began in
Afghanistan is because it is critical to the
U.S.-British rulers' plans to control the Caspian Sea
area oil and gas. 
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The UN-sanctioned war in the Balkans was all about oil
and the pipeline easement for Caspian Sea oil to
Western European markets through Kosovo to the
Mediterranean Sea. When Yugoslavia refused to play
ball with the International Monetary Fund, the U.S.
and Germany began a systematic campaign of
destabilization, even using some of the veterans of
Afghanistan in that "war." Yugoslavia was broken up
into compliant statelets, and the former Soviet Union
was contained. The outcome: the de facto U.S.
occupation of Kosovo--where America built its largest
military base since the Vietnam War
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The Caspian Sea area has proven oil reserves of
fifteen to twenty-eight billion barrels plus estimated
reserves of 40-178 billion, a total of 206 billion
barrels--16 percent of the earth's potential oil
reserves (compared to Saudi's 261 billion barrels of
oil and America's own 22 billion barrels). Even at
today's low prices, that could add up to $3 trillion
in oil. With the Saudi regime tottering--an aging king
about to die, widespread internal corruption creating
calls for revolutionary overthrow--and a new source of
oil and gas in the Caucasus, the Standard Oil
suzerainty is looking to create a new regime in Saudi
Arabia and develop a new center of operations in
Southern Asia.
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The huge oil and gas reserves in the Caspian Sea must
either be moved west to European markets or south to
Asian markets. The western route is to move oil from
Chechnya, across the Black Sea and through the
Bosporus to the Mediterranean, but the narrow Bosporus
channel is already clogged with oil tankers from the
Black Sea oil fields. An alternate route would be to
move the tankers from the Black Sea, bypassing the
Bosporus, up the Danube River and then through a very
short pipeline across Kosovo to the Mediterranean at
Tirana, Albania. However, that process was stopped by
the Chinese who have supplied and armed the Albanians,
as a client state, since 1949. 
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The other difficulty with the western route is that
Western Europe is a tough market, characterized by
high prices for oil products, an aging population, and
increasing competition from natural gas. Furthermore,
the region is fiercely competitive, now being serviced
by oil from the Middle East, the North Sea,
Scandinavia, and Russia. Western Europe is not a very
attractive market, because substantial infrastructure
would have to be developed to bring that oil from the
Caspian to an already overly-competitive European
market.
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The only other ways to get Caspian Sea oil and gas to
Asian markets is through China, which is too long a
route, or through Iran, which is politically and
economically inimical to U.S.-Standard Oil objectives.
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As soon as the Soviets discovered the vast Caspian Sea
oil fields in the late 1970's, they attempted to take
control of Afghanistan to build a massive north-south
pipeline system to allow the Soviets to send their oil
directly through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the
Indian Ocean seaport. The result was the decades long
Soviet-Afghan war. The Standard Oil-influenced U.S.
government saw the danger of a Russian north-south
pipeline and the CIA trained and funded armed
terrorist groups, including Osama bin Laden, who
defeated the Soviets in the late 1980's. 
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Russians then tried to control the flow of oil and gas
through its monopoly on pipelines. The Southern Asian
Republics of the former Soviet Union--Turkmenistan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan--saw
through this Russian monopolistic ploy and began to
consult with Western companies.
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The Standard Oil-influenced U.S. government now plans
to thrust further along the 40th parallel from the
Balkans through these Southern Asian Republics of the
former Soviet Union. The U.S. military has already set
up a permanent operations base in Uzbekistan. The
so-called anti-terrorist strategy is clearly designed
to simultaneously consolidate control over Middle
Eastern and South Asian oil, and contain and
neutralize the former Soviet Union. With that
strategy, Afghanistan is exactly where they need to
be.
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Russia, realizing its weaker position vis-a-vis the
United States, has been making noises as if it fully
agreed with the U.S. incursions in Afghanistan. But
Russia has joined the Shangahi Cooperation
Organization (SCO) which includes China, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Takijistan and Uzbekistan.
China is using the SCO to try to align Russia
economically and politically towards China and
northeast Asia. Russia's membership in the SCO is an
attempt to maintain its traditional hegemony in
Central Asia. The underlying rationale of the SCO is
the control of its members' enormous reserves of oil
and gas. 
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Despite the misgivings of Russia, China, India, or any
other nation, Afghanistan will now become the base of
operations in destabilizing, isolating, and
establishing control over the South Asian Republics
and the Middle-East. After the conquest of this area
is complete and the permanent military posts are set
up, they will begin construction of a pipeline through
Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to deliver
petroleum to the Asian market. 
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UNOCAL, the spearhead for Standard Oil interests, has
been trying to build the north-south pipeline through
Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean for
several decades. In 1998, the California-based UNOCAL,
which held 46.5 percent stakes in Central Asia Gas
(CentGas), a consortium that planned an ambitious gas
pipeline across Afghanistan, withdrew in frustration
after several fruitless years. The pipeline was to
stretch 1,271 km from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad fields
to Multan in Pakistan at an estimated cost of $1.9
billion. An additional $600 million would have brought
the pipeline to energy-hungry India. 
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In the spring of 2001, Halliburton, Vice President
Dick Cheney's company, signed a major contract with
the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan to develop a
6000-square-meter marine base to support offshore oil
construction in the Caspian Sea. The base will be used
to assist Halliburton's catamaran crane vessel, the
Qurban Abbasov, in upcoming offshore pipe-laying and
subsea activities, according to a statement the
company released May 15, 2001.
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UNOCAL cut off its earlier agreement with the Taliban
in 1998 when it became clear that the Taliban could
not control all of Afghanistan and provide a stable
political environment for a north-south pipeline
construction project. It was likely at this juncture
that a new "war against terrorism" ploy was conceived
by the Standard Oil-influenced U.S. government. The
"war against terrorism" in Afghanistan has come to a
hiatus, with war-lords once again ruling the country,
and the Bush administration has put their own man,
Karzai, in power to control Afghanistan. 
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Karzai was a top adviser to UNOCAL during the
negotiations with the Taliban to construct a Central
Asia Gas (CentGas) pipeline from Turkmenistan through
western Afghanistan to Pakistan. Karzai is the leader
of the southern Afghan Pashtun Durrani tribe. A member
of the mujaheddin that fought the Soviets during the
1980s, Karzai was a top contact for the CIA,
maintaining close relations with CIA Director William
Casey, Vice President George Bush, and their Pakistani
Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Service go-between.
After the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, the CIA
sponsored the relocation of Karzai and a number of his
brothers to the U.S.
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The real motives for the Bush administration's war in
Afghanistan are clear for all to see. The U.S.
Ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlain, met with
Pakistan's oil minister, Usman Aminuddin, in January,
2002 to continue plans for the north-south pipeline,
encouraging the construction of Pakistan's Arabian Sea
oil terminus for the pipeline.
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President Bush says our military will continue its
presence in Afghanistan, which means that while the
U.N. forces serve as a paramilitary police force, U.S.
soldiers will be guarding the construction of the
north-south pipeline. 
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To assure that the pipeline project will proceed
apace, the Afghani-American Zalmay Khalilzad, a
previous member of the CentGas project, became
President Bush's Special National Security Assistant.
Khalilzad has recently been named presidential Special
Envoy for Afghanistan. Khalilzad is a Pashtun and the
son of a former government official under King
Mohammed Zahir Shah. Along with being a consultant to
the RAND Corporation, he was a special liaison between
UNOCAL and the Taliban government. Khalilzad also
worked on various risk analyses for the project under
the direction of National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice, a former member of the board of Chevron.
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Now that the Afghanistan portion of the "war on
terrorism" is concluded--with permanent U.S. military
bases in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan in place--where
next will the Standard Oil-influenced U.S. government
look to gain further control over oil in the world?
Coincidentally, most of those places are in countries
which have been branded as harborers of terrorists:
Iraq, Syria, Iran, and South America, among others. 
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Bush Sr.'s Gulf War in 1991 resulted in securing
access to the huge Rumaila oil field of southern Iraq
by expanding the boundaries of Kuwait after the war.
This allows Kuwait, controlled by Standard Oil, to
double its prewar oil output. 
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Iraq, which recently discovered an oil field in its
western desert, is widely regarded as having more oil
than Saudi Arabia once its deposits are developed.
Iraq is producing 3 million barrels a day, funneling
most of it to world markets through a United
Nations-monitored program that directs the proceeds to
food and medicine for the Iraqi people. But Saddam
Hussein is still exporting his oil to Syria, which is
glad to resell Iraqi oil as if it were Syrian. The
United States is one of Syria's biggest customers,
because it likes the low sulfur content of Iraqi oil,
says Nimrod Raphaeli, publisher of the Middle East
Economic News, a Washington-based newsletter. Iraq
earns $1.5 billion a year from oil smuggling and oil
sales outside UN controls, through Syria, Turkey, and
Jordan, as well as by ship down the Gulf.
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You shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free. 

John 8:32

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