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[news printer]

@WB7

Remember ? But it wasn't about Putin :)

"Mr. Putin - tear down this wall - the wall of more intimidation and military aggression," Yatseniuk told reporters in remarks aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin and a reference to then-President Ronald Reagan's challenge to the Soviet Union in a 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/uk-ukraine-idUKBREA1H0EM20140313

[caustixoid]

wait!  when did kissinger stop screwing the world?

[fleur de lis]

Luv ya Banzai!

My cut/paste is not working, but google 

NWO map

or

Gomberg Map

and have some fun slicing and dicing that one!

[williambanzai7]

I did a few with that map. Indiana Snowden and Where's Hitler.

[fleur de lis]

Really? How did I miss that one!  Oh, well. Anyway, thanks for all your great work!

[ebworthen]

He's choking the world with that beard.

[whatthecurtains]

I am sure the Globe is on top because these fuckers can only screw up.

[WillyGroper]

WB7, you got me laughing so hard tears are running down my face.

What are the chances you produce iron on's? You have too many that I want. 

The Kiss is worthy of silk to be showcased at a hi brow public event.

[williambanzai7]

My printer is looking into buying the necessary equipment.

Which will be a very good development, because Zazzle is really a content filter. And I have suggested to him that that creates a niche business model. I am not talking about the copyright enforcement either. They won't do anything they find offensive. They have this fucked up notion of community standards. Another example of Rainbow Fascism.

[the grateful un...]

bernanke strikes me more as a backdoor man

[Osmium]

Kissinger is going to show the world his O Face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIN3EgBIHg

[Lumberjack]

June 28, 2012

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/kissinger-meets-yanukovych-30892...

[Lumberjack]

This is a call out to all ZH'ers to compose a list of notable Kissinger employees. I will start with Tim Geithner.

http://www.biography.com/people/timothy-geithner-391494

Work in Washington

After graduation from Dartmouth, Geithner attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he earned a master's degree in International Economics and East Asian Studies in 1985. Geithner married his college girlfriend, Carole Marie Sonnenfeld, that same year at his parents' summer home in East Orleans, Massachusetts. She was working as a research associate for Common Cause, a public-affairs lobbying group in Washington, D.C., at the time. Geithner began work as a consultant for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., soon after.

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Here is a little something else I feel is VERY interesting.

http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/the-international-oil-drug...

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Lets get this list going!

[fleur de lis]

Here's mine--

Tim Geithner's dad Peter Geithner was BHO's mom's boss. Whew!

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/11/nyt-comes-pretty-damn-close...

[monad]

Look at that. Viktor knows the secret handshake.

[yt75]

To me there is a major "common image" in the western psyche, that although in a very indirect way in this case, still plays a major part in what kind of propaganda can be pushed regarding current and recent conflicts.

It could be summarized as :
"first oil shock = Yom Kippur/Arab embargo= geopolitical story= nothing to do with geologic constraints"

When the real story was :

- end 1970 : US production peak, the energy crisis starts from there, with some heating fuel shortages for instance (some articles can be found on NYT archive on that)
- Nixon name James Akins to go check what is going on.
- Akins goes around all US producers, saying this won't be communicated to the media, but needs to be known, national security question
- The results are bad : no additional capacity at all, production will only go down, the results are also presentede to the OECD
- The reserves of Alaska, North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, are known at that time, but to be developed the barrel price needs to be higher
- In parallel this is also the period of "rebalance" between oil majors and countries on each barrel revenus (Ghadaffi being the first to push 55/50 for instance), and creation of national oil companies.
- dropping of B Woods in 71 (move to petro $) and associated $ devaluation also put pressure on raising the barrel price for producing countries.
- So to be able to start Alaska, GOM, North Sea, and have some "outside OPEC" market share, the barrel price needs to go up (always good for oil majors anyway) and this is also US diplomacy strategy
- For instance Akins, then US ambassador in Saudi Arabia, is the one talking about $4 or $5 a barrel in an OAPEC meeting in Algiers in 1972 (when it still was around $1)
- Yom Kippur starts during an OPEC meeting in Vienna, which was about barrel revenus percentages, and barrel price rise.
- The declaration of the embargo pushes the barrel up on the spots markets (that just have been set up)
- But the embargo remains quite limited (not from Iran, not from Iraq, only towards a few countries)
- It remains fictive from Saudi Arabia towards the US : tankers kept on going from KSA, through Barhain to make it more discrete, towards the US Army in Vietnam in particular.
- Akins is very clear about that in below documentary interviews (which unfortunately only exists in French and German to my knowledge, and interviews are voiced over) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fQJ-0jAr3LQ
For instance after 24:10, where he says that two senators were starting having rather "strong voices" about "doing something", he asked the permission to tell them what was going on, got it, told them, they shat up and there was never any leak. The first oil schock "episode" starts at 18:00
(the "embargo story" was in fact very "pratical", both for the US to "cover up" US peak towards US public opinion or western one in general, but also for major Arab producers to show "the arab street" that they were doing something for the Palestinians).

Note : About Akins, see for instance :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/26/AR201007...

And then the second oil shock (79) result of Iranian revolution, and leading to the "Carter doctrine", with then the Reagan corollary and creation of CENTCOM.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Seal_of_United_...

Followed by the counter oil shock (for a big part the result of Reagan administration pushing the Saudis to produce more in order to bring the USSR down), about this for instance :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02F-3l1EKsA

The global ignorance about all this allows to keep the messages around "old time geopolitics, this is about values, pushing democracy, bad and good guys, etc".

By the way about Akins, his report to Nixon in 1971 should be a key document, but it is still classified to my knowledge, anybody knows whether it could now be declassified ?

[caustixoid]

yt75 puts a ton of info in the post, and there's just a cryptic down arrow.   huh.

[yt75]

Thanks to you, the above documentary "la face cachée du pétrole" is really a great synthesis of the "oil story", and quite amazing regarding the number of key guys interviewed : Akins, Yamani, Gorbatchov, the guy that proposed the strategy to bring the USSR down to Reagan (forgot his name), plenty of others.

A shame it doesn't exist in English

(I tried to contact the authors about it, never got any answer ..)

[Setarcos]

Thanks for that.  Very informative,

[Billy Sol Estes]

Jesus Christ! I'm at work, NSFW that shit. You trying to get me fired from the SEC or something?

[Henry Chinaski]

The globe is an easy bitch.

Bitchez!

[Spanky]

One of your finest WB7.

[Buck Johnson]

Very nice pictures.

[Ariadne]

Look away from TPP, you Murkans.

[kurt]

Look AT TPP!