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"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow
Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," as we noted here. Today, RT reports the dreadful news that he was killed in a business jet crash at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow after the aircraft hit a snow-plough on take-off. The airport issued a statement confirming "a criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations," adding that along with 3 crewmembers on the plane, the snow-plough driver was also killed.
CEO of France's Total dies in jet crash at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport – report http://t.co/AWNpuaAuCq pic.twitter.com/oA8aWLRCOZ
— RT (@RT_com) October 20, 2014
De Margerie, 63, joined Total in 1974 after graduating from the École Supérieure de Commerce in Paris. He served in several positions in the Finance Department and Exploration & Production division. In 1995, he became President of Total Middle East before joining the Total's Executive Committee as the President of the Exploration & Production division in May 1999. In May 2006, he was appointed a member of the Board of Directors. He was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Total on May 21, 2010.
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According to preliminary data, the light aircraft collided with a snow-cleaning machine on takeoff, a source at the capital’s airport told RIA.
The aircraft was sending distress signals while still in the air and reporting an engine fire and fuselage damage, LifeNews reports. Upon crashing on the runway, the aircraft was engulfed in flames, reportedly killing everyone on board.
While initials reports suggested four people died in the tragedy, officials report that five bodies were found at the crash site, one allegedly being the driver of the snow-cleaning vehicle.
Vnukovo Airport has temporarily suspended all flights following the incident.
“A criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations after a light aircraft crash in the capital's Vnukovo airport,” transport official Tatyana Morozova told RIA.
An investigative group is working at the crash site, Morozova added. In addition to people who were on board the plane, she said, the driver snowplow was killed.
Debris from the aircraft was scattered up to 200 meters from the crash site, according to the rescue services. The engine was found some 50 meters from the crash site, while one of the landing gears was ripped off and discovered nearly 200 meters from the main mass of debris.
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The plane he was aboard...
DEVELOPING: Passenger of crashed plane was head of French oil company - reports http://t.co/AWNpuaAuCq pic.twitter.com/pq5Y4SDXEW
— RT (@RT_com) October 20, 2014
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Of course this could merely be a desparately sad accident... aside from the coincidence of this so recently...
Christophe de Margerie, the CEO of Total (the world's 13th biggest oil producer and Europe's 2nd largest), believes "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars." Clearly, based onhis comments, that we have passed peak Petrodollar.
Oil major Total's chief executive said on Saturday the euro should have a bigger role in international trade although it was not possible to do without the U.S. dollar.
Christophe de Margerie was responding to questions about calls by French policymakers to find ways at EU level to bolster the use of the euro in international business following a record U.S. fine for BNP.
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"There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," he said. He said the fact that oil prices are quoted in dollars per barrel did not mean that payments actually had to be made in that currency.
So even a major beneficiary of the status quo appears to see the end in sight for the Petrodollar.
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Furthermore, despite Western-imposed sanctions on Russia that prohibit western financing and technology transfer to some Russian energy projects, Total is continuing to pursue a natural gas project in Yamal, a joint venture with Russia's Novatek and China's CNPC.
“Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think – and I'm not defending the interests of Total in Russia – it is a no,” the Total boss told Reuters back in summer.
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And of course, it had to happen in Russia!
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Uwe Barschel, Juergen Moellemann, Joerg Haider, Wim Duisenberg (ECB), Slobodan Milosevic, Rudolf Hess, Jassir Arafat, Hugo Chavez,...
And it's also not only about the liquidated problem. It's also a message: Hollande, now you know, which path you should not follow.
The globalist terror regime does on the political level what it does with countries and nations.
Why do you think was Total's CEO alone in Moscow?
To discuss a deal that pleased the global terrorist in the White House?
I'm pretty sure I've seen the same thing in more than one old gangster movie. He stepped out on the gang.
That's it, exactly my line.
But then, can the gangs be large groups? What's the sroty on Rus-Chin (or BRICS stepping out on Control)?
1. The gang killing has a function: to show everyone IN THE GANG what happens to traitors.
The Total CEO was part of which gang? The powerful anti-petro-$ gang? :P
France has left NATO and is alliied with Russia? Did I miss something?
2. You don't kill your few important alliies if you do not come to an agreement. You kill your enemies, not your friends.
Shame it happened, but it's... Ballsy. Fucking BALLSY.
Guess the message went out. Makes Russia and its FSB/security look bad, because the next guy won't be so keen to work with Russia. If they want to regain some respect, they'll have to counter with "accidents" of their own. BTW, as this one has shown, the simpler the better. And making it look like a freak accident tops it all, of course.
Really? Clearly this is the work of ISIS.
Could be. Could be Chechens. Could be Germans. Could be Japanese. Could be a drunk pilot. Could be an oligarch that makes money off VIX.
Could be that a deal wasn't reached with certain Russian oligarchs, and this is what happens to people that don't make a deal.
Could be? Is that a peer reviewed statement? Do you have some stats to back that up? or is conjecture your game?
Chochochosenites
That is the game of EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON HERE that supposes to know who the backer of some geo-political world event is.
Are you fucking kidding me with this? Of course it's conjecture....How the fuck would I know who did it or if it was an accident? And how the fuck would you know?
Sorry, I forgot to read your name. I lulz at yur trulz 2. So 1337 br0.
This one sounds like an accident. Hard to get a snow plow guy to plow into a jet taking off for a few bucks.
I think we're looking at this from the wrong angle. I reckon the snow plow guy was rubbed out. What he do, close his account at a major bank? Let that be a warning to any and all serfs, there will be no run on the bank,s will there?
We've had a clipboard guy, now a snow plow guy. I swear to god the dots are starting to connect. If we get a car wash guy in the next couple of days it'll be time to bug out.
:)
Man...your sarcasm gets up arrows....how do you do it?
I'm gonna man up and just admit that I've given you at least 20 junks in this thread alone. I can't say I'm sorry, but I WILL say I appreciate your fortitude to carry on despite the onslaught. Were you placed on Death's Ground, I have no doubt you would survive. ::salutes:: ::junks post::
I love you too.
death-wish by asteroid. Better than humoroids tho.
True.
But tens of trillions are at stake.
And how many trillions were spent getting Saddam?
I was hoping someone would remember this little story from 2000 about the last person who did not want to trade oil in US dollars.
From Time Magazine. Foreign Exchange: Saddam Turns his Back on Greenbacks
That little snippet should be required reading for anyone involved in the energy industry. Or any industry for that matter.
Dont forget Ghaddafi, he was running a pretty good show in North Africa, perfect? No. But fucking great for Africa. Dude got iced in the street. brutal, baseless, barbarian and carried out by the most exceptional of .oooo1%.
Lots of threads leading back to the world's apex predator.
Cui bono?
Anymore, it could be damn near anybody. With the principal of keeping it simple, it was probably someone who shorted the company in some way or another - or someone who was long a competing company. Picking someone that made a heavily political statement to kill simply reduces the risk of being caught/suspected of wrongdoing.
Sorry, you've run out of straws to grasp.
Uhg. So you get to assume your first impulse is correct? While me asking what if is somehow grasping at straws? If that's not juvenile, I don't know what is.
I am open to it being an accident, but if there is an agency of cause, I would bet on the US or one of its hirelings.
Doesn't the company for which this man worked have quite a representation in the US?
cull
verb
1. select, collect, gather, amass, choose, pick, pick up, pluck, glean, cherry-pick All this information had been culled from radio reports.
> > > 2. slaughter, kill, destroy, butcher, slay, exterminate, thin out The wildlife park is planning to cull 2,000 elephants.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cull
Your analysis sucks. It's obvious it were Russians. ISIS doesn't have flying snowplows.
YET. There are those pesky unknown unknowns, ISIS may actually have flying snowplows, we just dont know yet. If true, thats a game changer.
Nailgun in russian is pronounced snowplow
Suicide. He shot himself 3 times in the back of the head. S/
Then there is the story of the blind tattoo artist....
Pre-ebola housekeeper... cos she was black?
Made in China too.
"And of course, it had to happen in Russia!"
Yeah, the CIA making a public statement- we can get you anywhere, even in Russia. So shut the hell up about paying for oil in anything but dollars.
Hey, ND
If you want to stay currnent, maybe you should change your avatar to a snowplow.
I'll take that under advisement. Still, it's hard to beat the sheer determination and will-to-die that slamming almost a dozen 10-penny nails into your body takes as a method of "suicide". You gotta REALLY want to die to send yourself out that way.
If it were easy, I guess everyone would want to do it... That nail gun is a cool avatar BTW.
Is being snow plowed like the winter version of being hot tubbed?
While you can be hot tubbed in the winter I'm not sure you can be snow plowed in the summer.
Wait, of course you can....in the Southern Hemisphere. :-)
The determination factor is key, and most striking. I have, in fact slammed a 10-penny nail through my hand and into a 2x4. Once. I did not then proceed to do it eleven more times. That's where the determination comes into play. I was just being clumsy at the time though, and had no intention of suicide.
And your avatar appears to be a Bostitch nail gun. I was using an old Senco with a dodgy safety guard mechanism. Charcoal gray in color, not mustardy orange.
Not exactly my proudest moment with a nail gun 24 years ago. Don't remember the brand, but I do remember the incident....quite clearly in fact. I nail my upper thigh muscle right to, and thru, the bone preventing me from straightening out my leg. It complicated getting me off the second floor when no stairs had yet been installed.
They called me "The Nailman" at the hospital. :-)
Chapter four of "Welcome to the Insane Asylum" tells the story. Look for the sub title "Fear the Nailman".
Wow. I feel such shame I won't even bother showing my scars...did it hurt worse coming out? On second thought I don't want to know... :::holding hands to ears and whistling:::
You should read the story linked above. It is about fear and pain and how they are connected and can be disconnected. I learned a lot about myself and life from that incident.
I am the proud possessor of a SNP for high pain tolerance.
At a young age, a truck crushed the lower part of my leg.
I got up, tried walking home, and promptly fell down. I got up a second time and hopped on one leg to our mailbox, about 60 feet, leaving a nice trail of blood. A good gene variant to have, except for ignoring the blood loss.
Damn Cogs, I saw that xray and the first thing I said was not even the bible could be this graphic
I will read that story, Cog. I haven't visited your site in a while, and I realize I've been missing it. I enjoy your long-form explorations of...stuff that makes us tick and we often don't give the consideration it deserves.
And I can imagine how a situation that led to that x-ray image would teach a fella quite a bit, were he of a contemplative nature. I didn't recognize my nailgun mishap as being revelatory at the time, but it sort of was, in hindsight. Yikes, that's a cringe-inducing x-ray. "Ouch" doesn't quite cut it.
That skill willcome in handy if you ever break your leg !!!
Yeah, especially after the first couple take out your ability to use your hand, so you have to switch to the other side...THAT is deadication.
They'll probably try to blame Putin for this, too. Which won't make the slightest bit of sense, of course, but that's never really mattered for most people who swallow MSM propaganda.
I'm shocked it wasn't included in this article already.
the U.S. State Dept. and the White House are currently creating a youtoobs video proving Putin was behind this.
That video has been done for some time, its still uploading. Takes FOREVER to upload in HD.
@NoDebt : "And of course, it had to happen in Russia!"
Next time it will be a remote controlled Snow Plow with a driver shooting a nail gun while driving off the 25th floor of the squids bank in Paris. Oh the squeal is gonnga be a killer I tell ya!
Precisely NoDebt. Just ask Libya.
i'm still amazed how little coverage this plane wreck gets.....
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/slideshow/memoriam-dr-...
Really!!!
i dont think they like airplanes..
"He hates these cans!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRM3lFRwRI
I sure hope Putin flies only in Russian made planes and not remote controllable crap from the Euros or Yanks
Looks like he got jackled
Screw the nail gun pansy, now we are using snow plows.
Dude, getting rid of someone with a snow plow? Awww... This is so Selena-Gomes-kills-Bruce-Kardashian! ;-)
Looney
'Mercedes' Snowplow made by Daimler AG .
We all know its a leopard tank without the turret
Wake me up when the wood chippers make an appearance.
Remote control?
"The aircraft was sending distress signals while still in the air and reporting an engine fire and fuselage damage. . . "
That sounds more like an uncontained engine disintigration to me.
Do we know if it hit the snow plow first, or if the engine problems came first? The only engine you could actually hit would be #2 - and it should be able to fly on the other two engines. . .
Do we know is he hit the snow plow or it's lie
Yes! ;-)
Looney
What, were you some kind of airplane mechanic!?!
oh, wait.. =]
Was the driver's body actually confused with passengers? How close to 'THE SITE' was he? Does that plane have lift at 5mph so the wreckage got entangled with the snowplow driving alongside?
Right now is the time to watch for mistakes. Once the 'experts' get their hands on this thing and they feed the data THROUGH WATSON you get THIS SHIT:
It will be found that the jet flew near the snow-plow which knocked loose a fuel line causing the plow to blow as if it had 2lbs of C4 in an inverted shape charge below the engine block creating a plume of fire in the air, upon which the heat entered the storage area at the rear of the plane causing the loosely stored contracts and paperwork from the weeks' meetings to spontaneously combust. It was at this time the distress signal was sent but soon thereafter, the plane pancaked seat by seat which blew out the windows causing great friction and heat, which is why it is not surprising that the wreckage has become a molten pool of 2500o aluminum with all evidence destroyed... and never mind any market puts placed just before this freak accident - those damn things are untraceable.
Oh, but meanwhile while the plane was falling apart, the plow driver was so far unharmed going down the tarmac carried by momentum - he didn't actually get killed until the plane fell back down on top of him and that's why he was at the 'crash site'. IBM is da BOMB!
Mechanical sabotage is so yesterday.
Fly by wire systems do what the software tells them to do.
Hey you said something that's true. Congrats.
Two words: Barnaby Jack
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mcafee-hires-famous-computer-hacker-to...
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/blog/barnaby-jack-hacker-autopsy
...ground control to Major Tom....?
Yep, they got us on our computers on our vehicles.
Do car sales lots work for CIA, NSA or some other entity??
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/iowa-candidate-us-senate-dies-p...
Just another Isolated Incident. Nothing to see here, move along.
Wouldn't phase me if the plow driver was on the radio talking about a bunch of "phonies" and being a "catcher in the rye".
Likely the snow plough driver was so drunk he thought he could make a take off in his plough , but naa much better to tin foil hat the story,
Snow plow was to clear the grassy knoll.
There may have been a second snowplow.
Or a magic snowplow.
the plane was hit by an RPG
signed,"the clipboard guy"
The deal was comenced, the snowplow was for moving the Gold into the airplane.
Don't you guys know anything about Russia?
CIA is back in play... Or do you think it was one of the ZH Putin man crush team?
Have you ever heard of a plane hitting a snow plow on the runway during takeoff!? Me either. I've lived in Chicago for 40 years. Two major airports (O'Hare and Midway) millions of flights and a hellava lot of snow over the years. Never heard of a plane hitting a snow plow on a runway. Then again, none of those flights carried a CEO who said 'fuck you' to the petro$. You're probably right. Just a coincidence.
The snow plow driver was dead before the crash, check for footprints in the snow leading away from the plow.
Either that, or it got 'positioned' by remote control, or the plane was given an 'OK' to take off before it should have been by a controller who knew better...and was paid well. No way this was an accident. Just. No. Way.
You failed to read the article.
Iy was RAINING. There was NO snow. This is OCTOBER. (Yes it snows in Moscow in October at times. This was NOT one of those times.)
READ.
Heads Up:
The guy has a book to sell but fuck....
George Nory is interviewing Craig Smith about Operation Choke Point Right now on the Radio.
Coast to Coast AM http://www.craigrsmith.com/ http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
Pretty good layout. Fascism to close down coin dealers and those gun shops.
Reminds me to keep a low profile.
Just don't even whisper anything about being against the petrodollar and you'll be OK.
looks like the powers that be put him on ice... ICE... well, you get the idea
my neighbor's half-sister makes $63 /hour on the internet . She has been out of work for 10 months but last month her pay was $16551 just working on the internet for a few hours. More Info... www.job-reports.com
"my neighbor's half-sister..."
Top half, or bottom half? (it makes a difference)
fuück petrodollar !
Dissention in the ranks will not be tolerated. Bet the next GS appoited CEO will be a big dollar fan.
Dissention in the ranks will not be tolerated. Bet the next GS appoited CEO will be a big dollar fan.
Cohen-cidence, Shirley.
LOL brilliant comment
It's safer to be on a plane full of Ebola carriers, then on a plane with one anti-petro-dollar speaker.
But he was so much more than just "one anti-petro dollar speaker". He was a CEO of Total SA... a job position that often entails a willingness to have the words "trial" or "criminal charges" auto-fill in Google along with your name if you want that job.
The list of those of those with motive is very long.
The list of those of those with means is long.
The list of those of those with opportunity would be short.
Dont bring logic into this.
Some coincidences are too convenient to be coincidences.
yeah but suicide assassins?
That was the accident.
they are good!
'We might have to kill some folks' ~ B
Fairly straight FORWARD, Holmes.
Nothing to see here, move along..
Very sad news. Traded out of my TOT this pm. BTFD
Obviously a terrorist
Situation just moved up from level C assassinations to level A assassinations. Level B bypassed.
That is how ultra elite even up their internal issues when the excrement hits the fan
Nothing has changed for 4000 years of documented world history and nothing will change for the next 4000.
I feel bad for the guy, but, it's just part the game, unfortunately. The weakest links simply get smashed.
Putin, Saudis, iranians are quite capable of such stuff.
Ekm, after 4 years ignoring you, I'm buying what you are selling...u called this to a fucking T.
hes good!
Just reading world history, Seasmoke. I used to be a history buff.
One common line all over world history anywhere in the world:
Elite A wars against Elite B to gain control of real assets.
King kills son, Son kills king, heir 2 kills heir 1, Duke kills Count, Oligarch kills Oligarch.
Humans never change.
Were you honestly reading industry you would admit that the players known for using terrorism, assassinations and indimidation to achieve their goals in the 20th century are not the ones you point your fingers at.
Of course I do not expect you to honestly identify those players.
What you are doing smells of US State Department's and general Western PR's techniques of ascribing to your enemies of thing you yourself are guilty of.
:-) I am a nobody. This is a hobby.
I do systemic analysis and see whether it comes out correct or incorrect
OMGosh. An anti-zionist accused you of being a shill for the evil western zion powers. SHAME ON YOU. You should change your thoughts and opinions to make sure they arent in any way aligned with zionism. After all, as long as you arent zionist, there is no way you are doing/supporting something bad.
He could building or designing junk and then juggling parts to see what works best in his world. That would be doing something bad.
Like Jews do to Germans?
Or to anyone else who gets on their way
ekm nail it sum more my rabbinickal : ) honey bunny.
was this mossad subcontract operation aman or cia ?
I like that you use a different writing style to differentiate yourself from your other accounts. The lack of capitalization, punctuation and random misspellings - the use of random unnecessary spacing - while in other posts you clearly demonstrate high gramatical ability...weird.
yes sir iams real clever
and you are a freak called minge
a dryed up cunt
that even a pussy hound like me would not touch.
to many rabbis been up your hole bitch : )
Your selective spelling ability gives away your attempt to decieve quite quickly. Just thought I'd let you know. You don't have to be a dick about it.
He wrote the Pentagon will win eventually. Or, words to that effect. $20 dollar oil? I think the equity market will need to crash to get us there.
Whenever sacrificial lambs will be ready for slaughter, central command will pull the trigger.
Same when they prepared Bear Stearns, Lehman and later MF Global for slaughter.
ultra elite controls both dollar and euro through central banking. petrodollar (or not) is nonissue for them. cia et al national trifling is midlevel.
Corp types are Level B. Sovereigns and PMs - that is Level A
I wonder if that gets anyones attention inside the Eccles building.
Russians, Saudis, Iranians.
They have no mercy
Well....this could get real nasty then, huh? All is fair in love and war. Let the games, begin!
Russians, Saudis, Iranians.
They have no mercy
typical no mention of the aman military israeli intel service you cunt.
no mention of the pentagram private hit tealms cia or mi6 queens you fucking tel aviv fuck wit.
Or just someone from a differnet bias than you.... While you both speak the same truths - Essentially, can't we all agree that every nation and monied organizaiton has power, influence, corruption, and does bad things either for continuity of power or for the perceived good of the end purposed to justify the means???
Russians, Saudis, Iranians.
They have no mercy
Dude, your colours are kinda showing, careful there ;)
I'd be interesting to know the 'business status' of the other 4 killed
'Ultra' as in 'MK Ultra'? THAT, I would buy. Mind Kontrol is as old as humanity, fer sure.
Putin, Saudis, iranians are quite capable of such stuff.
Putin, Iranians would kill an oil CEO for being Anti Petrodollar?
Your analysis is like mixing shit with the cookie dough.
When is Lloyd's plane going to hit a snow plow?
Is that a tape-on mustacio in the photo...? Weird camera angle...? It looks like a Groucho Marx Halloween gag.
Have you no respect for the dead? That was his French tickler.
US/NATO/UK/EU/Israel/Saudi Arabia -- the whole dollar gang -- will tarnish, discredit, invade and destroy any individual, group or country which dares to go against the petrodollar.
Iraq, Libya, Syria... Now add Russia and China to that black list of enemies of the petrodollar. Russia and China are going all in because it's there only option. This means WOAR.
Ron Brown, paging Ron Brown to the front desk.....
Yeah well Ron Brown did not die in a plane crash. The Air Force surgeons doing the autopsie said he was shot in the back of the head before the crash.
Really? Damn Hillary, no wonder the airport manager killed himself. What about the vortac? Was it really recalibrated 40 degrees off?
Ya know, nobody follows up on anything, that's the problem. MEMORY, dude, you got it! Thanks.
And the 'surviving' flight attendent who bled to death after walking to the ambulance.
It was an altitude bomb, but they did a different landing approach...
Real Story, with Pictures
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.php
Someone wanted their message to be delivered loud and clear.
Nailguns are so last year dahling. /s