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Libya Impounds North Korea Oil Tanker From Rebel-Held Port
Two months ago we noted the clashes between the Libyan government and the rebels over selling oil. It appears the rising threats are reaching a crescendo as AABAA reports the Libyan Navy has impounded a North Korean oil tanker trying to export oil from a rebel-held port of Es-Sider, and is on its way to Western Libya. Interestingly this comes just a day after the US issued a statement strongly condemning "illicitly obtained oil from Libya." We suspect Kim will not be a happy tyrant this evening and also note that the rebels deny the vessel is under government control.
North Korea is trying...
- *UN ENVOY TO LIBYA TAREK MITRI SPEAKS TO SECURITY COUNCIL IN NY
- *LIBYA OIL LOADING ON N. KOREA TANKER IS 'ILLEGAL,' MITRI SAYS
- *OIL LOAD ON N. KOREA TANKER VIOLATES LIBYA SOVEREIGNTY: MITRI
The US is concerned its losing its grip on USD-priced oil...
Illicitly Obtained Oil from Libya
The United States is deeply concerned by reports that a vessel sailing under the name Morning Glory is loading a cargo of illicitly obtained oil at the Libyan port of As-Sidra. This action is counter to law and amounts to theft from the Libyan people. The oil belongs to the Libyan National Oil Company and its joint venture partners. These partners include U.S. companies in the Waha consortium.
Any oil sales without authorization from these parties places purchasers at risk of exposure to civil liability, penalties and other possible sanctions in multiple jurisdictions.
And the Libyan Navy is clamping down...
- *LIBYA NAVY IMPOUNDS TANKER TRYING TO EXPORT IN ES SIDER: AABAA
- *TANKER WAS SEEKING TO EXPORT OIL FROM REBEL-HELD LIBYAN PORT
Via Reuters,
Libyan government forces on Monday seized a tanker that had loaded crude at a port under the control of rebels who plan to sell oil independently of the Tripoli government, state-owned National Oil Corp (NOC) said.
The North Korea-flagged shipped was being escorted to western Libya, NOC spokesman Mohammed El-Harari told Reuters, confirming Libyan media reports.
Lawmaker Abdelwahab al-Qaim told Reuters: "The ship has been seized by government forces. There are no damages to the ship."
A rebel spokesman had earlier denied they had lost control of the ship.
Yet another red line for Obama to draw...
Via Bloomberg,
“The government should now actively seek a solution” with rebels in the self-proclaimed eastern region of Barqa, Asma Sraibah, a member of parliament, said yesterday in a telephone interview in the capital city. “It would be a disaster if the government loses its main source of revenue.”
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The head of Libya’s General National Congress ordered the creation of a military force to “liberate the oil ports,” congress spokesman Omar Homaidan was cited by state-run LANA news agency as saying today. The mission will begin within a week from March 8, the day the order was issued, according to LANA.
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Crude loading from Es Sider “would be significant for the oil market if it becomes regular,” Theodore Karasik, director of research at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis in Dubai, said yesterday in a phone interview. The eastern government’s goal “is to make this regular, but it will be very difficult as Tripoli will try to interrupt the flow.”
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Seems the US-backed coup has some resistance from... the Libyan people.
So... rebel activity is undermining the Empire?
I think I've seen this movie before.
Nevertheless, with a "vessel sailing under the name Morning Glory."
They must've thought of Obambi upon naming her.
Morning Glory? I’d bet there isn’t a sanitary or un-rusted spot on the scow.
Oh well, game of H.O.R.S.E. with Rodman and he will forget all about it.
But Rodman needs to be a patriot and throw the game.
"This action is counter to law and amounts to theft from the Libyan people. The oil belongs to the Libyan National Oil Company and its joint venture partners. These partners include U.S. companies in the Waha consortium. "
The Waha consortium is owned 16% ConocoPhillips, 16% Marathon, 8% Hess and the balance belongs to the citizens of Libya (through the 'national' oil company) who will likely never see a dime of the revenues...
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732456470457862779225...
Rodman's not playing horse with Kim anymore -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577101/I-just-wanted-great-things-Tearful-Dennis-Rodman-says-hes-sorry-went-North-Korea-vows-never-return.html
gee.. I missed that important news.
Kim Jong-un was elected by 100% of the voters. I doubt this news will rain on his parade (attendance mandatory). In other news, the elections in the US are just as real!
Almost like in Philadelphia for O'Bummer.
But the truly impressive thing here is how Pot Belly III got a 100% voter turnout over there.
If you bring this to the attention of a libtard, you are either a racist or a crazy conspiricy theorist. A very small percentage will also claim that the ends justify the means or they will claim that Bush rigged the election as well...so no big deal. Perhaps Bush did rig the election in Florida, but does that give the almighty Obama and the liberals the right to do the same? Liberals are a morally screwed up bunch. It is nauseating to listen to their "rational".
Why would anyone want to rig an election?
Its not like anything else is rigge...
Oh, wait...
Geb did rig the election in Florida!
He simply sent the voting machine with poor Cpk to the areas of his choice. Cpk is the repeatability and reproducibility effects of poor equipment and various users.
A low Cpk and the equipment fails often.
It was so easy.
"Oh well, game of H.O.R.S.E. with Rodman and he will forget all about it".
You mean a game of HANGMAN with the pudgy little tyrant, don't you?
VICE had a decent docu on the Libyan uprising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7heWIuEJcS4
It was purely on the ground level, avoiding any real discussion of NATO's fuckery, or the motives re the petrodollar/Bretton Woods and Libya's still missing billions in gold. But essentially, the Eastern rebels seem to have been legit, and they are still fighting against the NATO-imposed government. Which, like the one in Kiev, really doesn't have any inherent legitimacy {might, of course, makes right, is and has been the unwritten law of international relations since cavemen times}.
I wonder who/what owns Libya's shiny new privately owned central bank.
I thought Libya was fixed. If we brought them regime change and democracy how come there are rebels, I'm confused.
Why should we give a "Flying Fuck" what Damn boat has Who's Damn oil in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God it's hard bing the Worlds Policeman/Woman/Whatever.
So can you name the U.S. stooges that are running Libya?
Seems the locals in the east, the ones tha orginally showed Khadafi was ready to toppled with a tiniest hint of a push, are simply continuing their call for more power, aka, oil revenues...
Some funny quotes in this article.
"The oil belongs to the Libyan ..." LOL. It belongs to the oil companies of the West.
""It would be a disaster if the government loses the main source of it's revenue..." LOL It's a disaster if the West loses control of it's oil.
"create a military force to liberate the oil ports..." LOL Queue NATO bombing campaign under the guise of "protecting the oil wells...".
Epic fail of Barry and Hitlery.
send ms. nudelman and her cookies to Libya for some re-convincing... her work in Ukraine is complete, but surely her diplomatic skills are needed elsewhere?
Is that a Dennis Rodman ear piercing I see?
The lead singer of Motorhead.
LLKJU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJS51d1Fzg
Must ... stop ... giggling ... at Cartoon-faced Korean...... must .... read.... article....
Who here knows more about actual situation in Libya?
The petro-dollar is finished. If not this year, then next. Is your prepping done?
All joking aside, I hope America fully realises what the consequences of losing the privilege of the reserve currency will be. Because it will be nothing less than outright devastating. Prepare accordingly indeed.
And even better, as the Petrodollar goes gone, trillions of Petrodollars will at the same time come flowing back to the DC US. The DC US will be the first nation to impose capital-controls on INFLOWING currency.
The American people will then see:
1) Astronomical price inflation.
2) Little to buy at Walmart, including essentials, as foreigners won't sell and we no longer produce.
3) Foreigners own everything.
"Prepare accordingly indeed" and it's never too early to start work on that guillotine.
It all sound very impressive but it has little do with reality...
But those foreign petro dollars exist primarily in the form of debt and when the petodollar fails, a lot of that the debt is going to money heaven...
how come US impose capital-control of inflowing US dollars? Will it not regonised his own currency?
Because billions of dollars reside overseas in one form or fashion. When foreigners realize that they are nearly worthless, there will be a mad scramble to get out of the dollar and into hard assets. However, overseas holders of hard assets are not going to want dollars either, so by hook and crook those dollars will come "home" to purchase any and everything in the DC US that can be had.
So if you are treasonous pols, crats and banksters trying to keep the ponzi going, you will institute capital-controls on INFLOWING dollars.
Or put another way: The inflation that the DC US has exported over all these years will come home to roost like a swarm hungry of black swans.
as long as democracy prevail, no problema.
Greenbacks (old foreign held dollars) and Bluebacks (new domestic bills) .... Damn ... Escape from LA was right.
Decouple the SWIFT system for two days and redenominate the acocunts.
POOF ... we just got solvent again, but the bankers would lose trillions.
Kim Jong Un doesn't look too happy. Perhaps not enough votes in these past elections?
This meanz WAL you Ribyan Plicks!
They are trying to provoke a war no matter what to cover up the clusterfuck banker economy
Someone's liberty is being violated! Quick! Start killing women and children!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The United States is deeply concerned by reports that a vessel sailing under the name Morning Glory is loading a cargo of illicitly obtained oil at the Libyan port of As-Sidra.
Morning Glory, are you shitting me? I can just see reading the following headline in the future.
Morning Glory spews load after hand combat ensues.
Oops
How long before the mental midget starts screaming "this outrage can only lead to thermo nuclear war!" followed by feeding a filthy uncle to the dogs?
Send the brave Jesuit infiltrators into North Korea. They will promise the little shit the title, King of Korea!
He just may go for it!
Sorry South Korea, but it's for the greater good.
LOL, no doubt. We should send Michael Vic as our next goodwill ambassador to N.K.
I am curios as to how the Libyan government took control of this vessel, presumably at sea since the rebels still control the port. I thought Libya's navy was destroyed after it was an effective force for Quadaffi in the war. What did they have left to intercept this tanker with?
To be sure, the new, pro-Western Libya got something for all of the pillaged gold and oil. Besides, someone has to protect the interests of the West now, right?
Bows and arrows and a lot of chiefs.
What exactly going to replace the petro $$? The world is proving that they are always 1 step ahead of us in the dumbfuk movement. I used to be worried but the incompetence is staggering and we still have the USMC.
next tanker will come fore more oil with a nuke attached (just in case)
Release the KRAKEN!
I am surprised he did'nt feed his barber to the dogs.....fucking bad helmet...
Independent oil sales via an independently controlled port?!
The nerve of some people!
Next they will want boxes of barbaric relics as payment.!
This is clearly unacceptable to the cartel...
SON OF BLITCH
SHIT
Libya needs to be warned that America will not tolerate this...maybe even given a stern warning.
Bad day to be the NK Minister of Energy. The dogs will go to bed tonight with full bellies (unlike the everage NK citizen).
Amusing.
So how long before Russian troops show up and say, "All your port belong to us!"
That oil is owned by the EU, bought and paid for with US treasure and "Arab Spring" blood.
Silly Libyans, that "revolution" was for European bankers, not poor Libyan peasants.
This just in:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/94-470f.htm
JK, 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO!
North Korea economic policy - threaten the world with tin can weapons - get paid hush money by the US to keep things rolling for another quarter
honestly Barry, isn't it cheaper just to kill this little fucker and put someone else in there who gets up in the morning and works?
I have not been keeping up on this Libya shitstorm Obama started. Who are the Rebels again? Ghadaffi is dead. Not sure who is fighting over what, or who Obama is giving my tax dollars to.
you are not supposed to know.
so sleep well
what is important though is that both sides keep buying our arms...
with your taxpayer money ...
Didn't they something about Japan goin aggressive once a long while ago when their supplies were getting cut off?