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A Primer On the REAL Global Geopolitical Battle

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Are the Wars in the Middle East and North Africa Really About Oil?

The Iraq war was really about oil, according to Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others.

Dick Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11.

The Sunday Herald reported:

Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.

The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this).   According to French intelligence officers, the U.S. wanted to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan to transport Central Asian oil more easily and cheaply. And so the U.S. told the Taliban shortly before 9/11 that they would either get “a carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs”, the former if they greenlighted the pipeline, the second if they didn’t. See this, this and this.

Congressman Ed Markey said:

Well, we’re in Libya because of oil.

Senator Graham agreed.

And the U.S. and UK overthrew the democratically-elected leader of Iran because he announced that he would nationalize the oil industry in that country.

It's a War for GAS

But it's about gas as much as oil ...

As key war architect John Bolton said last year:

The critical oil and natural gas producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices.

For example, the pipeline which the U.S. wanted to run through Afghanistan prior to 9/11 was to transport gas as much as oil.

John C.K. Daly notes:

The proposed $7.6 billion, 1,040 mile-long TAPI [Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India ... admittedly a mouthful, but you'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming months] natural gas pipeline has a long regional history, having first been proposed even before the Taliban captured Kabul, as in 1995 Turkmenistan and Pakistan initialed a memorandum of understanding.

 

TAPI, with a carrying capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of Turkmen natural gas a year, was projected to run from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad gas field across Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate at the northwestern Indian town of Fazilka.

TAPI would have required the assent of the Taliban, and two years after the MoU was signed the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Ltd. consortium, led by U.S. company Unocal, flew a Taliban delegation to Unocal headquarters in Houston, where the Taliban signed off on the project.

The Taliban visit to the U.S. has been confirmed by the mainstream media.  Indeed, here is a picture of the Taliban delegation visiting Unocal's Houston headquarters in 2007:

Taliban representatives in Texas, 1997.

U.S. companies such as Unocal (lead on the proposed pipeline) and Enron (and see this), with full U.S. government support, continued to woo the Taliban right up until 2001 in an attempt to sweet-talk them into green-lighting the pipeline.

For example, two French authors with extensive experience in intelligence analysis (one of them a former French secret service agent) - claim:

Until August [2001], the US government saw the Taliban regime "as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central Asia" from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. Until now, says the book, "the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that."

Pepe Escobar notes:

Under newly elected president George W Bush... Unocal snuck back into the game and, as early as January 2001, was cozying up to the Taliban yet again, this time supported by a star-studded governmental cast of characters, including undersecretary of state Richard Armitage, himself a former Unocal lobbyist.

 

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Negotiations eventually broke down because of those pesky transit fees the Taliban demanded. Beware the Empire's fury. At a Group of Eight summit meeting in Genoa in July 2001, Western diplomats indicated that the Bush administration had decided to take the Taliban down before year's end. (Pakistani diplomats in Islamabad would later confirm this to me.) The attacks of September 11, 2001 just slightly accelerated the schedule.

Soon after the start of the Afghan war, Karzai became president (while Le Monde reported that Karzai was a Unocal consultant, it is possible that it was a mix-up with the Unocal consultant and neocon who got Karzai  elected, Zalmay Khalilzad).  In any event, a mere year later, a U.S.-friendly Afghani regime signed onto TAPI.

India just formally signed on to Tapi. This ended the long-proposed competitor: an Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline.

Competing Pipe Dreams

Virtually all of the current global geopolitical tension is based upon whose vision of the "New Silk Road" will control.

But before we can understand the competing visions, we have to actually see the maps:

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And here are the competing pipelines backed by the U.S. and by Iran, before India sided with the U.S.:

With maps in hand, we can now discuss the great geopolitical battle raging between the U.S. and its allies, on the one hand, and Russia, China and Iran, on the other hand.

Iran and Pakistan are still discussing a pipeline without India, and Russia backs the proposal as well.

Indeed, the "Great Game" being played right now by the world powers largely boils down to the United States and Russia fighting for control over Eurasian oil and gas resources:

Russia and the USA have been in a state of competition in this region, ever since the former Soviet Union split up, and Russia is adamant on keeping the Americans out of its Central Asian backyard. Russia aims to increase European gas dominance on its resources whereas the US wants the European Union (EU) to diversify its energy supply, primarily away from Russian dominance. There are already around three major Russian pipelines that are supplying energy to Europe and Russia has planned two new pipelines.

The rising power China is also getting into this Great Game:

The third “big player” in this New Great Game is China, soon to be the world’s biggest energy consumer, which is already importing gas from Turkmenistan via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to its Xinjiang province — known as the Central Asia-China Pipeline — which may tilt the balance towards Asia. Pepe Escobar calls it the opening of the 21st century Silk Road in 2009 when this pipeline became operational.  China’s need for energy is projected to increase by 150 per cent which explains why it has signed probably the largest number of deals not just with the Central Asian republics but also with the heavily sanctioned Iran and even Afghanistan. China has planned around five west-east gas pipelines, within China, of which one is operational (domestically from Xinjiang to Shanghai) and others are under construction and will be connected to Central Asian gas reserves.

China is also pushing for an alternative to TAPI: an Turkmenistan-Afghan-China pipeline.

Iran is also a player in its own right:

Another important country is Iran. Iran sits on the second largest gas reserves in the world and has over 93 billion barrels of proven oil reserves with a total of 4.17 million barrels per day in 2009. To the dislike of the United States, Iran is a very active player. The Turkmenistan-Iran gas pipeline, constructed in 1997, was the first new pipeline going out from Central Asia. Furthermore, Iran signed a $120 billion gas exploration deal, often termed the “deal of the century” with China. This gas deal signed in 2004 entails the annual export of approximately 10 million tons of Iranian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China for 25 years. It also gives China’s state oil company the right to participate in such projects as exploration and drilling for petrochemical and gas industries in Iran. Iran also plans to sell its gas to Europe through its Persian Gas pipeline which can become a rival to the US Nabucco pipeline. More importantly, it is also the key party in the proposed Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline, also formerly known as the “peace pipeline.” Under this pipeline plan, first proposed in 1995, Iran will sell gas from its mega South Pars fields to Pakistan and India.

China's support for Iran is largely explained by oil and gas:

Referring to China, Escobar states “most important of all, ‘isolated’ Iran happens to be a supreme matter of national security for China, which has already rejected the latest Washington sanctions without a blink” and that “China may be the true winner from Washington's new sanctions, because it is likely to get its oil and gas at a lower price, as the Iranians grow ever more dependent on the China market.”

 

China has also shown interest in the construction of IP on the Pakistani side and further expanding it to China. This means that starting at Gwadar, Beijing plans to build another pipeline, crossing Balochistan and then following the Karakoram Highway northwards all the way to Xinjiang, China's Far West. China is also most likely to get the construction contract for this pipeline. As stated above, Chinese firms are part of the consortium awarded the contract for the financial consultancy for the project. Closer participation in the Asian energy projects would also help China increase its influence in the region for its objective of creating the “string of pearls” across the region — which has often scared India as an encirclement strategy by the Chinese government.

Why Syria?

You might ask why there is so much focus on Syria right now.

Well, Syria is an integral part of the proposed 1,200km Arab Gas Pipeline:

Here are some additional graphics courtesy of Adam Curry:

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So yes, regime change was planned against Syria (as well as Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Iran) 20 years ago.

And yes, attacking Syria weakens its close allies Iran and Russia ... and indirectly China.

But Syria's central role in the Arab gas pipeline is also a key to why it is now being targeted.

Just as the Taliban was scheduled for removal after they demanded too much in return for the Unocal pipeline, Syria's Assad is being targeted because he is not a reliable "player".

Specifically, Turkey, Israel and their ally the U.S. want an assured flow of gas through Syria, and don't want a Syrian regime which is not unquestionably loyal to those 3 countries to stand in the way of the pipeline ... or which demands too big a cut of the profits.

A deal has also been inked to run a natural gas pipeline from Iran's giant South Pars field through Iraq and Syria (with a possible extension to Lebanon). 

And a deal to run petroleum from Iraq's Kirkuk oil field to the Syrian port of Banias has also been approved:

Turkey and Israel would be cut out of these competing pipelines.

Pepe Escobar sums up what is driving current global geopolitics and war:

What you're really talking about is what's happening on the immense energy battlefield that extends from Iran to the Pacific Ocean. It's there that the liquid war for the control of Eurasia takes place.

 

Yep, it all comes down to black gold and "blue gold" (natural gas), hydrocarbon wealth beyond compare, and so it's time to trek back to that ever-flowing wonderland - Pipelineistan.

Notes: It's not just the Neocons who have planned this strategy. Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser helped to map out the battle plan for Eurasian petroleum resources over a decade ago, and Obama is clearly continuing the same agenda.

Some would say that the wars are also about forcing the world into dollars and private central banking, but that's a separate story.

And some allege that even portions of the Greek melodrama are explained by gas and oil.

 

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Mon, 10/08/2012 - 21:26 | 2869607 Pants McPants
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Yup, although I don't think TPTB can keep a lid on human creativity forever.

Still, I'm reminded of that anecdote - and I'm not sure whether or not it's true - involving Nikola Tesla and JP Morgan.  Morgan underwrote the majority of the loans funding Wardenclyffe, Tesla's major tower on Long Island.  Tesla pioneered many things, among them wireless communication.  It was rumored Tesla had figured out a way to guarantee cheap, if not free, energy for all residents.

Upon hearing of this, Morgan (apparently) said, "Where do I put the meter?"

When Morgan learned meters were unnecessary, he pulled the funding.

Or so the story goes.  Again, not sure if it's true, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to me.

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 02:08 | 2869933 Joe A
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I heard that story too. Tesla was a genius and ahead of his and our times. He was financially ruined because he wanted to put his inventions to work for the common good, not the good of the likes of the JP Morgans of this world. There is another story about him developing a deadly weapon. He then sent parts of that plan to the powers at the time: US, Germnay, Japan and Russia and then asked them to sit down together to make sure that that weapon would never be developed. There are many stories like that. Kind of like the idea that there was someone around who had good ideas and good intentions. But he was too naieve to trust the wrong people.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 19:59 | 2869472 Reformed Sheep
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Somebody earlier mentioned thorium. While there's some current uptick in interest in the technology, it's not new. There have been functional reactors using thorium and molten salt/fluoride, and they are a lot more efficient, compact, and safe than their 'traditional' counterparts, and at a fraction of the cost. The 'downside' is that while they can satisfy our energy needs, they don't produce anything useful for waging war.

 

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 05:33 | 2870032 Urban Redneck
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And how much development could have been financed with the wasted $700B in stimulus?  There were several manufacturers looking to field models (and fund R&D) back when the crooks were diving up the loot that they saddled the taxpayers with the bill for.

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 02:17 | 2869937 Joe A
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Good comment and I arrowed you up for it and for your nickname

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:53 | 2869104 George Washington
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+1,000,000

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:53 | 2868991 blindman
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Friday October 5 9:00am
Guns and Butter
noam chomski
http://archive.wbai.org/#ankor56
.
empire has a delusional perspective regarding
ownership and property rights and things like
that, the ideals they hold close to their hearts
are not really ideals or held close, they are
something else entirely. so we get the psychopaths
we deserve and slowly go mad. probably why empires
rot from the inside out, because of the kind of
insanity so well displayed in the bolton interview
above. the guy interviewing him is so slimy i
expected to see him slip off his seat.
bolton has been publicly promoting fascism for
a long time, no? fox too.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:02 | 2868856 falak pema
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the fate that awaits US pax Americana surrogates :

Afghan Government May Collapse In 2014 - Business Insider

And its not just this ex-pizza making oligarch hoisted on Afghan by the Bush regime; its all over the Pak/afgh/Irak/Egypt/Libya chain of command....

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:04 | 2868854 Element
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One other thing about gas pipelines, Iran, Turkey and Greece are all subject to regular largish earthquakes (Izmit was a cracker!).

They could see hundreds of kilometers of pipes damaged, stressed and weakened by such a quake. 

As Seer says, Mother Nature bats last.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:46 | 2868797 theprofromdover
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All I can say is, whoever worked out these routes must have been using useless software.

Completely clueless layouts.

Designed to fail.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:12 | 2868892 Uncle Remus
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Likely inspired by the clueless wankers that the did the geopolitical boundries in the ME to begin with...

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:40 | 2869082 knukles
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I say, the Foreign Office, old boy, aided by the chaps at Anglo-Persian, eh what?  Right, see you at the Club for dinner with the PM tonight, eight sharp old boy.  Chaps from the City there as well.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:48 | 2869096 Uncle Remus
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Too right. And the Lord Mayer as well - perhaps we can put it on his tab? Oil money you know. Then there's that whole Welsh coal vs. fuel oil-that-doesn't-grow-on-the-Isle-business. I believe dear Winston had a hand in that.

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 09:53 | 2870496 mess nonster
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Isn't that "Lord Meyer" ?

Fri, 10/12/2012 - 17:08 | 2883049 Uncle Remus
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Now, now.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:37 | 2869075 Winston Churchill
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Only if your assuming they were not meant to create dysfunctional

contry's and inter necine bloodshed.They weren't and it was intentional.

Divide and conquer.The 7 p's:

Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:40 | 2869081 Uncle Remus
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"Only if your assuming they were not meant to create dysfunctional"

Or if you assumed the sun would never set on the Empire.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:55 | 2868831 Element
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Agreed, it does not look like a plan to me.

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 05:27 | 2870026 Urban Redneck
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Because the oilmen don't come in until after the governments get done playing king of the sandbox, and they have to play with the hand their dealt.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:45 | 2868778 Element
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Iran gas flow on pipeline to Turkey halted after blast: officials

By Reuters

ANKARA (Reuters) – The gas flow on a pipeline carrying Iranian natural gas to Turkey was halted due to an explosion in eastern Turkey in the early hours of Monday, Turkish energy officials told Reuters.

The blast occurred in the area of Dogubayazit, a town in Agri province near the Iranian border, the officials said, on condition of anonymity.

They said damage assessment work had begun and it was not immediately clear when the gas flow will resume or what caused the blast, which occurred around 9 p.m. EDT on Sunday.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for repeated attacks on pipelines in Turkey in its 28-year-old armed campaign against the Turkish state which has claimed more than 40,000 lives.

Flows have also been halted several times on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline carrying crude oil from Iraq to Turkey in recent months due to suspected sabotage blamed on the PKK.

http://theiranproject.com/blog/2012/10/08/iran-gas-flow-on-pipeline-to-t...

 

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Iran ready to help Turkey with natural gas

By UPI

TEHRAN, Oct. 8 (UPI) – An Iranian official said his country was ready to make up for any natural gas shortages in Turkey following a pipeline explosion near the border.

Turkish officials last week blamed militants for an attack on the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum natural gas pipeline. BP Azerbaijan, a subsidiary operating in the Shah Deniz natural gas field offshore Azerbaijan, suspended deliveries to Turkey as a result.

Majid Boujarzadeh, a spokesman for the National Iranian Gas Co., said Iran was on standby should Turkey require additional supplies.

“Whenever the flow of gas exports into Turkey faces a problem, Iran will be ready to make up for the reduced imports,” he was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr News Agency as saying.

The region’s Trend news service reported that Ankara said it wouldn’t take on more gas from other suppliers because there was no shortage. The news service added that Tehran, however, was eager to work with Ankara on delivering natural gas to European markets.

Europe is examining gas supplies from Azerbaijan piped through Turkey. Iran had said it could play a role in potential European transit networks, though Western governments have said Tehran was limited by economic sanction.

Iranian Oil Minister spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar was quoted by Mehr as saying any threat to ban gas deliveries to the eurozone was a “propaganda campaign.”

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 19:03 | 2869360 The Alarmist
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Update of an old joke:  If Syria attacks Turkey from the rear, do you think Greece will help?

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 04:53 | 2870003 falak pema
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greece? or grease? 

whose greasing the syrians with imported grease?

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:30 | 2868740 DoChenRollingBearing
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EXXONMOBIL may have been right all along.  What matters MORE than controling supplies (China, Russia) is increeasing production.  More production will find its way to where it's needed most.

The more pipelines, the merrier!

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:20 | 2868713 morpheus000
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They'd love to have a little Panama in the Med.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:18 | 2868701 morpheus000
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I would add the area is also a transit route for the drug and organised crime trade, not just energy and raw material. So its a lucrative complex for the oligarchy that they would obviously want to control.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 17:01 | 2869111 DaveyJones
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absolutely. I love the symmetry. The "legit" systems support the "illegit" and vice versa. A "socialist" is a "necon," a president is a drug dealer and your commander in chief is the world's biggest biggest drone terrorist. They're not human beings. It's just a board game. The money is fake, the houses are plastic toys and only the banker holds the get out of jail free card.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:14 | 2868684 ItsDanger
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Its always the US?  Europe has way more to gain from this theory than the US.  And many others have way more to lose.  Yet its Bush & US again.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 23:08 | 2869805 morpheus000
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I dont think its any country but the cartels and their puppets

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:04 | 2869012 groundedkiwi
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All must be traded in dollars. 

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:29 | 2868925 pashley1411
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I'm not going to argue "why the US".   But relying on the Europeans to fight for their corner is a crock.   Realize the Europeans have a history of bungled and incompetent foreign policy ventures, going back over 50 years to Suez, Vietnam, bumbled decolonizations (India, Africa), sucking up to the Soviet bloc, Serbia and B-H, massacres in Africa on their watch, most recently Libya which the French started and the US stepped in to clean-up the mess.

The Europeans ability to project power and fear overseas now compares unfavorably to the Palestinian statests and the Somali pirates.    You would think the EU would be in the middle of assuring that the Cyprus CF and Syria would stay in the western European orbit; not.   

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 09:50 | 2870489 mess nonster
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Have to give you an up-tick. Europe- the same squabbling collection of reservations that gave us:

Napoleon, fascism, communism, two world wars, and a sovereign debt meltdown. The only thing left from their last botched attemp at unity is a dictatorship of their central bank.  Europe. Whatevah.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:33 | 2868748 Winston Churchill
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Repeat after me :PETRODOLLAR.

Iraq,Libya, and Iran.All were,or about to,sell oil without the Petrodollar.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 23:29 | 2869825 CompassionateFascist
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Exactly. Isramerica has been occupying Afghanistan for a decade now. And will shortly be leaving. Where's the fabled pipeline?

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:20 | 2868715 kaiserhoff
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George is the all purpose expert on everything, but I must defend him.

From his time in and around Washington, he knows plenty about GAS;)

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:02 | 2868641 AnAnonymous
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Pepe Escobar? This guy is drug lord?

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:19 | 2868711 TheFourthStooge-ing
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AnAnonymous asked:

Pepe Escobar? This guy is drug lord?

Pablo Escobar was a drug lord. Pepe Escobar writes for the Asia Times.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 20:46 | 2869558 nmewn
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Chinese citizen citizensim access to metered internet is eternal.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 21:16 | 2869594 TheFourthStooge-ing
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The eternal nature of AnAnonymousitizenistic internet activity parallels the eternal nature of Chinese citizenism citizen roadside activity: the emphasis is on quantity, not accuracy.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:00 | 2868630 Winston Churchill
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Oil/petrodollar  for the US.

Water for the Zionists.They need the Iranian backing of Hezbollah wiped out to re invade

Lebanon for its water.

Games within games.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 13:56 | 2868619 s0lspot
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We have a keeper!

Cheerz!

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 13:52 | 2868598 bank guy in Brussels
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Pepe Escobar quoted above is one of the great journalists on this whole situation - His articles on Asia Times Online make that site indispensable

To add to the above excellent points, the hidden factor in EU - Troika domination of Greece, which many Greeks don't know about - the US $600 billion in gas and oil reserves off the coast of Greece -

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/greek-aegean-bonanza-new-study-co...

These topics were the theme of famous instrumental musical hits long ago

Mason Williams, 'Classical Gas' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHgNqbdBKs

Chantays 'Pipeline' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 15:14 | 2868882 Uncle Remus
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++ on Pepe @ AToL.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:54 | 2868821 MikeMcGspot
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+1 Brussles Guy.

Thanks for the excellent links and comment.

Multi task lunch lunch break today from the home office, reading a little Zero Hedge, snacking on oranges and practicing guitar.

For Synchronicities's sake! Would give you another point if I could as I was wrapping my fingers around Classical Gas by Mason whilst perusing through comments on Georges great post.

All the best!

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 16:57 | 2869112 max2205
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GW, you give these people too much credit.

I give the credit to you.

No one in Govt could EVER plan and keep a plan together like the above.

If there were we'd all be rich with the DOW at 50,000 oil at $2.00 and bread at $.05 a loaf. And we'd take vacation to Mars by now.

Nope don't buy the plan. The facts maybe but not the plan

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 22:14 | 2869701 joe90
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See this http://www.ldsfreedomnetwork.com/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy.pdf found it it here worth re-linking. 

A Conversation a while ago:

"You know that what's going on in Syria and the middle east is all about resources, oil"

"No it's not, do you know what the biggest threat to world peace is?"

"No"

"It's the Muslims, they want to take over the world"

"So you would send your children over there to fight them?"

"Yep"

"So what information leads you to that conclusion?"

"Saw it on the history channel"

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 14:14 | 2868685 morpheus000
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This is what its really all about, the natural wealth of the area and foreign policy, geopolitics.  There was even an attempt on PM Karamanlis life when he was in office for his energy policy. Unfortunately this may downgrade into guerilla war.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 18:43 | 2869319 GAAPpreNixon
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And when it is finally established 50 years or so from now that DEAD FOSSIL FUELS were never "wealth" but a source of planet killing biosphere DEATH, this sad period will be heralded as the stupidest epoch in human history.

A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables

Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. Here's how

http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/2012/07/17/hope-for-a-viable-biospher...

The "Green Revolution' fossil fuel LIE
http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/forum/index.php?topic=478.msg4313#msg4313

My latest is "High Energy Love; Shortcut to Entropy Hell

http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/2012/09/06/high-energy-love-the-short...

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 09:42 | 2870458 mess nonster
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Sorry, wind, water (?) and solar are too diffuse. Capture technologies are really concentration technologies. Input exceeds output. The energy used to concentrate the energy exceeds the power obtained from the energy.

Try running your chainsaw or lawn mower on solar power. There is currently no replacement for liquid fuel when size, lightness and portability of the engine is taken into acccount.

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 21:18 | 2869596 Pants McPants
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LOL at your first paragraph.

Tue, 10/09/2012 - 00:50 | 2869908 MeBizarro
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If global temperatures increase another 4 or 5 degrees and you see most major current regions of grain production fail completely or greatly diminish in production output, his opinion won't be that far of

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