Many of my posts are about connecting dots in the subtle worlds. But those who can do this are not obliged to switch off any such ability when the mundane world is concerned. And anybody can do it. Here is a very recent news item, which is probably still news to many Americans. Any dot connector could have picked up on it in 2002, or before as I shall demonstrate.
Thirty years ago Saddam Hussein threw the Western oil companies out of the country when he nationalized Iraq’s oil industry. In the last few days it has come to light that British Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Shell and Total, in alphabetical order, are going to sign no-bid contracts set up by the U.S. to exploit Iraq’s oil fields and reserves. These are the companies that exploited Iraq when it was a British colony. You may recall that Exxon recently posted obscenely record profits.
Even Alan Greenspan admitted that all the suspicions were true. The media has kept quiet about it because of advertising revenues. But the Iraq conflict was and is due to oil. Over 4000 American dead and a million or more Iraqi dead are due to the fact that our administration has oil men in charge of it.
Afghanistan, also a US puppet regime has just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1,680-km pipeline project (TAPI) to export gas now, and later oil, from the Caspian basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the West. This enables it to avoid Iran, the other alternative route. The cost will be about $8 billion. Chump change to Exxon.
The Caspian basin is underneath the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakkstan, mainly under the first one.
Latest estimates are that it contains about 300 trillion cubic feet of gas and 100-200 billion barrels of oil. Russia tried for years to get its hands on this oil. That’s why they were in Afghanistan for years, and the West has always had their eye on it and used the CIA and Special Forces to sabotage the Russian plan.
In 1998, the Afghan anti-Communist movement Taliban, which was backed by the CIA, and an oil consortium led by Unocal, an American company signed a pipeline deal.
Unocal poured money into the Taliban, flew a Taliban delegation to Texas, and hired a minor Afghan official, Hamid Karzai, as a consultant. Remember that the Taliban, like Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were all helped financially and in other ways by the US.
Enter Osama bin Laden, ex ally of the US. He advised the Taliban to reject the U.S. deal and accept a better offer from an Argentine consortium. They did. Washington was furious. Everyone bribed by Washington is expected to toe the Washington line, and, Washington, according to some accounts, threatened the Taliban with war, its usual response to a situation that requires diplomacy.
The convenient 9/11 attacks, about which the Taliban knew nothing, gave the US the pretext to invade Afghanistan. The initial U.S. operation had the apparently legitimate objective of wiping out Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida. But after al-Qaida fled to Pakistan, the U.S. stayed on, built bases — which just ‘happened’ to be adjacent on the pipeline route — and installed former Unocal “consultant” Hamid Karzai as leader of Afghanistan.
Washington disguised its machinations by saying as a cover story that the Afghan occupation was to fight “Islamic terrorism,” liberate women, build schools and promote democracy. Funnily enough these were exactly the same reasons given by the Soviets when they occupied Afghanistan from 1979-1989. The Iraq cover story, as we all know was a tissue of lies about weapons of mass destruction and democracy.
As soon as the Taliban forces are cleared from the pipeline route by U.S., Canadian and NATO forces work will begin on the pipeline. As American analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, the U.S. military and its allies have become an “energy protection force. He didn’t mention that it comes free of charge to the oil companies.
That’s a quick précis of the current situation which anyone can get from current news items. But much of this will still be new to people embedded in Fox News and right wing newspaper sources.
Here is an article I wrote in mid April 2002. Anyone who reads sources other than the totally government subservient press could have found this out. I have no political agenda, affiliations or skill. But I can read.
Look at this. It is quite clear now that the Afghanistan and Iraq adventures were about oil. But it was also clear in 2002 to a long lived alien without special sources of information. Some 4000 of our troops and a million Iraqis and many Afghans have died because of the machinations of our administration in order to get the oil companies into those countries, or back into those countries.
April 2002
A lot of my work with people is connecting dots that it takes an outsider to see. Often the person would be perfectly capable of connecting the dots, but they can’t see them because of the mass of information and misinformation coming from their friends, relatives, in-built programs, and of course the great mind-rotting diversion from what is really going on…TV.
I have not watched any TV since the 1950’s, so I often see dots that aren’t even in the universe of people who do.
Now we have all paid our taxes, or are about to, I thought just once to go really mundane and mention some dots that most people have not noticed or heard about because the media in America is paid to avoid some topics. Or it doesn’t get paid if it does not avoid them. Same result.
In the end, the taxpayers are the ones who foot the bills that the government and the corporations hide under smoke screens of celebrity court cases, flag waving opportunities and much else.
I, as a taxpayer living mainly on Social Security, pay more taxes than many of the corporations who stick me with the bill via government subsidies.
This is obviously also true of most of you as a tax-payer, financing the swindles of those who can do it. Here is my immediate post tax time set of dots. You connect them.
There are several ‘stans’ around Afghanistan. One of them is Turkmenistan. It’s an inaccessible little republic BUT it holds most of the Caspian Sea oil reserves, current figures suggest about 270 billion barrels of oil and 576 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This is one of the largest reserves of fossil fuel in the world.
In 1995 the California oil company UNOCAL made a $2 billion deal with Turkmenistan to build a twin pipeline for gas and oil that would take in 890 miles of Afghanistan and end up at the Arabian Sea, opening billions of dollars of sales to Pakistan, China and India, without going through Iran or Russia. Since 1999 the deal was on hold because the Taliban wouldn’t allow a US company to build the pipelines in its territory.
Since September 11th things have changed, and the US Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain told the Pakistani oil minister that “ in view of recent geopolitical events the UNOCAL deal is back on the table.”
Former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik told the BBC that US officials informed him in July last year that America would launch military action against Afghanistan by mid-October.
Note that date in case you read past it. In the July before 9/11 he was told of military action being planned against Afghanistan.
Naik attended a UN meeting on Afghanistan in Berlin, where the US delegation told him that unless Osama BL was handed over, the USA would kill or capture both him and the Taliban leader Mullah Omar and install a new government. Did that get on TV or in the US daily press?
US delegate and former State Department official Lee Coldren confirmed this to the British paper Guardian. Naik was told then that American advisers were already in Tajikistan planning an operation. He was told that Uzbekistan would participate and that Russia had 17,000 troops on standby.
The only missing ingredient was US public approval for the operation, about which the majority knew nothing at all from the US media.
Then by a strange coincidence came 9/11, three large buildings collapsed neatly into their own footprint by what just about anyone with knowledge of chemistry would call controlled explosions.
An airplane crashed into the Pentagon without leaving any wreckage, according to photographs taken immediately after the event. Wreckage arrived later.
Public approval was obtained by the continuous creation of fear through the compliant media. The apparent perpetrators were from Saudi Arabia, a US ally and several miracles occurred. For example, computers, office furniture and telephones were blown into tiny dust fragments, but a paper passport of a suspect was found totally unharmed amidst the dust of the buildings.
We know that there is a precedent for rallying the American people to the cause of fighting for oil under the guise of fighting for freedom.
While our soldiers were fighting for the oil reserves of Kuwait against Saddam Hussein, our ex ally, during the presidency of another oil man, also called Bush, the Russians were being bled dry while fighting in Afghanistan for control of the Caspian Sea oil reserves.
They lost that war and it broke the bank of the communists. The men who were opposing them were superbly trained as anti-Russian terrorists as a short-term goal, by the CIA, and our Special Forces, and included Osama and his multi-ethnic, Arabic speaking Muslims.
The net result of the Russian retreat was that the Taliban came to power in Kabul, and the immense Caspian Sea region oil reserves were now up for grabs, and Osama had a US trained group of terrorists spread throughout the Muslim world to further his aims.
Back to UNOCAL for just a moment. Remember they started their effort to get a pipeline in 1995. The US appointed, current president of Afghanistan, Hamid Kharzai used to work as a consultant for UNOCAL. So did Zalmay Khalilzad the Washington emissary to the newly appointed government in Kabul. Now the UNOCAL plan to tap the oil that everyone wanted is beginning to take shape. What an astounding coincidence!
There’s lots of ways of connecting these dots, all of which are known and verifiable facts that were NOT headline news in this country. I read them in the foreign press. I’m not going to connect them here since I am not allowed to vote, but I can say this; these dots are more important than the diversions in the papers about the private lives of celebrities and trifles on TV. And anyone who switched off the media anesthetic could have found them out.
War is just politics by violent ways. Politics is business in any country, and oil is very big business. And the energy business doesn’t give a fig for people, only for profits and influence. If you doubt me check with anyone who had a 401K with Enron, the company with 3,500 phony corporate entities.
Maybe the enemies of the American people are not the terrorists, but the corporations that control the decision making functions that should belong to the people.
Do you think that an advertising revenue controlled institution like TV is going to suggest that, even if it is true?
Look elsewhere for the unreported news. But look, otherwise you may as well be blind and deaf to what is going on. And a democracy needs an informed electorate, not a brain washed electorate.
Check out: CommonDreams.org, Countercurrents.org, Truthout.org, Alternet.org, Antiwar.com, AfterDowningSt.org, Huffington Post and Politico - and the best for many years, wsws.org, and don't forgot Yahoo news unless Microsoft buys it.
