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IS THE WAR A HOAX ???
MAYBE THE INFO BELOW WILL AT THE VERY LEAST MAKE YOU WONDER.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, AND OUR WORLD.
ABOUT THE WEBMASTER AND ABOUT THIS PAGE BELOW.
THE OIL.
'War is big business, and Dick Cheney is right in the middle of it.'
Chris Floyd,Chicago Tribune noted in Aug. 2000
- According to a Department of Energy report that was posted on the web in December, 2000: "Afghanistan's significance from an energy standpoint stems from its geographical position as a potential transit route for oil and natural gas exports from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea." But Afghanistan's potential as a pipeline country lies unfulfilled. As the DOE report explains, "Unocal had previously stressed that the Centgas pipeline project would not proceed until an internationally recognized government was in place in Afghanistan."
Unocal Corporation FEBRUARY 12 1998 HEARING AND
From The Congressional Record. READ PAGE 37 AND ON FOR SURE !!!
Among the global assets counted in the ChevronTexaco merger is a 45 percent interest in 9 billion barrels of reserves in the Tengiz oil field of Kazakhstan, not very far from Afghanistan. Exxon 76Mobil owns a 25 percent interest in the Tengiz field, bringing total US shares to 70 percent of the recoverable reserves.
-this war was declared within a week of the announcement that Chevron and Texaco had been cleared for merger by the Federal Trade Commission. "ChevronTexaco will have a combined enterprise market value of more than \\$100 billion, assets of \\$83 billion, net prove dreserves of 11.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), daily production of 2.7 million BOE and operations throughout the world," boasts the press release of Sept. 7.
-When the Taliban took Kabul in 1996, Washington said nothing. Why? Because Taliban leaders were soon on their way to Houston, Texas, to be entertained by executives of the oil company, Unocal. --John Pilger (London Mirror 10/31/2001).
FROM :http://911.gregmoses.net
-Vice President Dick Cheney, former CEO of Halliburton/Brown & Root , once served on the Kazakhstan Oil Advisory Board, along with executives from Chevron and Texaco. see aw44.htm
" words do speak for themselves"
WHY IRAN MIGHT BE NEXT.
An example that comes immediately to mind has to do with efforts to develop the resources of the former Soviet Union in the Caspian Sea area. It is a region rich in oil and gas. Unfortunately, Iran is sitting right in the middle of the area and the United States has declared unilateral economic sanctions against that country. As a result, American firms are prohibited from dealing with Iran and find themselves cut out of the action, both in terms of opportunities that develop with respect to Iran itself, and also with respect to our ability to gain access to Caspian resources. Iran is not punished by this decision. There are numerous oil and gas development companies from other countries that are now aggressively pursuing opportunities to develop those resources. That development will proceed, but it will happen without American participation. The most striking result of the government’s use of unilateral sanctions in the region is that only American companies are prohibited from operating there. Dick Cheney, head of Haliburton, June 23, 1998
Halliburton And KMNF [Azerbaijan] Ink 12 Year Caspian Contract
"Halliburton International Inc. and KASPMORNEFTELOT (KMNF), the marine division of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), have entered into a 12-year contract for a marine base and associated services to support Halliburton Subsea offshore construction activity in the Caspian region. Halliburton Subsea is a business unit of Halliburton Company’s Energy Services Group. "The base, with a 6,000-square metre lay down area, is located at KMNF’s Southern Basin adjacent to Caspian Shipyard. It will be primarily utilised to support Halliburton Subsea’s catamaran crane vessel Qurban Abbasov (previously known as the Titan 4) during the restoration and upgrade of the vessel and during the forthcoming offshore construction, pipelay and subsea activities. The site will also be developed to provide warehouse, office and training facilities that will include advanced diver and life support technician training, utilising the company’s 16-man modular saturation system. "The Qurban Abbasov is operated by Halliburton Subsea in an alliance agreement with SOCAR for a period of 12 years. It will provide an advanced, stable, dynamically positioned construction platform for saturation and remote vehicle diving; flexible and bundle pipeline installation with trenching; emergency pipeline repair, subsurface well intervention with wire line; and coiled tubing. It also will be used in flotel configuration for hook-up and commissioning work. "'The acquisition of the marine base is a further indication of our commitment to the Caspian region and to the success of the partnership arrangements with SOCAR,' says Edgar Ortiz, President and Chief Executive Officer, Halliburton’s Energy Services Group." --Aylward, Marine Publishers and Haliburton Press Release, May 15, 2001.
-CHENEY HAS MADE \\$4 MILLION IN STOCK OPTION PROFITS THIS MONTH. 8/30/00
-REUTERS: BUSH-CHENEY'S A DREAM TEAM FOR OIL INDUSTRY. 7/26/00
Published on Thursday, August 10, 2000 in the Chicago
Tribune
Cheney's Black Gold:
Oil Interests May Drive US Foreign Policy
by Marjorie Cohn
What do the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea and the Balkans have in common? U.S. domination in these areas serves the interests of corporate multimillionaires such as Dick Cheney. As George Bush's secretary of defense, Cheney was chief prosecutor of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Humanitarian rhetoric notwithstanding, the bombing of Iraq--which continues to this day--was primarily aimed at keeping the Persian Gulf safe for U.S. oil interests. Shortly after Desert Storm, the Associated Press reported Cheney's desire to broaden the United States' military role in the region to hedge future threats to gulf oil resources. Cheney is CEO of Dallas-based Halliburton Co., the biggest oil-services company in the world. Because of the instability in the Persian Gulf, Cheney and his fellow oilmen have zeroed in on the world's other major source of oil--the Caspian Sea. Its rich oil and gas resources are estimated at \\$4 trillion by U.S. News and World Report. The Washington-based American Petroleum Institute, voice of the major U.S. oil companies, called the Caspian region, "the area of greatest resource potential outside of the Middle East." Cheney told a gaggle of oil industry executives in 1998, "I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian."
But Caspian oil presents formidable obstacles. Landlocked between Russia, Iran and a group of former Soviet republics, the Caspian's "black gold" raises a transportation dilemma. Russia wants Caspian oil to run through its territory to the Black Sea. The United States, however, favors pipelines through its ally, Turkey.
Although the cheapest route would traverse Iran to the Persian Gulf, U.S. sanctions against Iran block this alternative. Cheney has lobbied long and hard, as recently as June, for the lifting of those sanctions, to lubricate the Iran-Caspian connection. This is consistent with his position, described in a 1997 article in The Oil and Gas Journal, that oil and gas companies must do business in countries with policies unpalatable to the U.S.
Cheney also favors the repeal of section 907 of the 1992 Freedom Support Act, which severely restricts U.S. aid to Azerbaijan because of its ethnic cleansing of the Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh, a mountainous enclave in Azerbaijan. Why would Cheney choose to ignore Azerbaijan's human-rights violations? Because Azerbaijan, key to the richest Caspian oil deposits, is, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "in fact, the focal point of the next round in the Great Game of Nations, a dangerous, hot-headed place with a Klondike of wealth beneath it. It is Bosnia with oil."
Cheney's oily fingerprints are all over the Balkans as well. Last year, Halliburton's Brown & Root Division was awarded a \\$180 million a year contract to supply U.S. forces in the Balkans. Cheney also sits on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor. Replacing munitions used in the Balkans could result in \\$1 billion in new contracts.
War is big business and Dick Cheney is right in the middle of it.
Meanwhile, our energy and gasoline prices continue to soar in many parts of the United States. OPEC controls the oil production in the Persian Gulf. Cheney, worried about a falloff in investment, spoke in favor of OPEC cutting oil production so oil and gasoline prices could rise.
Cheney is ineluctably invested in keeping the world safe for his investments.
Although he stepped down as CEO of Halliburton, he still owns shares of stock in the conglomerate and his financial interests in the Persian Gulf, the Caspian region and the Balkans will invariably continue. Chosen by George W. Bush to bring foreign-policy expertise to the GOP presidential ticket, we can expect a Republic administration to increase U.S. intervention in regions when it suits Dick Cheney's oil and other corporate concerns
DICK POKES IN OTHER PLACES TOO !!!
Cheney's privatization of the Department of Defense
- As Secretary of Defense, Cheney worked to privatize the system, awarding a particularly large contract worth millions to Brown and Root, a division of Halliburton. Then, when Cheney became a private citizen, he was hired as CEO of Halliburton and earned around \\$50 million in five short years to continue to contribute to the growth of that oil company. (An Op-Ed piece in the New York Times this morning reports how Cheney's privatization of the Department of Defense plus his Pentagon connections have paid off. In five short years the feds have awarded his company \\$3.2 billion.)
Tengiz oil field: Kazakhstan
The Central Asian republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are sitting on what is thought to be one of the world's largest reserves of oil and gas. The total worth of the reserves is estimated to be somewhere between \\$2.5-$5.5 trillion at today's market prices.
Tengiz oil field, which is considered the world's largest oil find in the past two decades, is located in Kazakhstan. In 1992 Kazakhstan signed an agreement with Chevron to develop the field. Through a consortium led by Chevron, Mobil and Russia's Lukoil, a pipeline is proposed to be built from this field to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk passing through northern Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan has also signed an agreement with the China to transport oil to that country.
KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA: The 932 mile (1,500 kilometer) Caspian
Pipeline would link the massive Tengiz oil field in western
Kazakhstan to the Black Sea and potential exports to the West
from the Yuzhnaya Ozereika settlement in Russia. The final three
miles (five kilometers) of the pipeline extend offshore to a
floating terminal in the Black Sea. The area is earthquake prone,
and has been the scene of major oil spills in the past, including
an 800-ton spill in 1997. While the Russian environmental
assessment law requires investigation of public opinion, the
consortium -- led by the Russian and Kazakh governments and
Chevron
-- has refused to fund a referendum, admitting that "it is
just the same as if we would pay for our own assassination."
It has also attracted environmental criticism from Turkey, which
is hesitant to allow increased oil tanker traffic through the
Bosporus Straits at the mouth of the Black Sea. The pipeline has
been cited as the central strategic reason for last August's
mobilization by the Russian military to maintain control over
Dagestan, which re-ignited Russia's war with rebels in
neighboring Chechnya. This pipeline is only one of several
planned for the region. Oil companies have established close ties
with Central Asian dictators, such as Azerbaijan's Heydar Aliyev,
a former KGB regional director, and Saparamurat Niyazov, who has
constructed a personality cult around his rule in Turkmenistan.
Russia, Iran and the United States acting through Turkey, are
each trying to establish themselves as regional powers in Central
Asia by constructing their own pipelines, leading to the
Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf,
respectively.
27-01-99 Energy officials from the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan will meet near the Caspian Sea from March 13-20, 1999 to advance their oil and gas industries' prospects for increased foreign investment. The seventeen energy officials will participate in a U. S. government-sponsored program designed to help their countries further develop the laws and regulations necessary to strengthen their oil and gas sectors
- the Republic of Kazakhstan and Chevron established Joint Venture "Tengizchevroil" (TCO) in 1993 to develop Tengiz oil field. Tengiz field was discovered in 1979 and is one of the largest in the world. The shares in JV are as follows: Chevron 50%, Kazakhoil - 20%, Mobil - 25% and Lukarco 5%.
- Interview with Richard Matzke, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Chevron Corp. aw71.htm
The Chevron.com News Room site, http://www.ChevronTexaco.com/news
-On September 10, an industry publication, Oil and Gas Journal, reported that Central Asia represents one of the world's last great frontiers for geological survey and analysis, "offering opportunities for investment in the discovery, production, transportation, and refining of enormous quantities of oil and gas resources."
-"Massive untapped gas reserves are believed to be lying beneath Pakistan's remotest deserts, but they are being held hostage by armed tribal groups demanding a better deal from the central government," reported Agence France Presse just days before September 11.
- U.S. Secretary Richardson Highlights, Aug 2000 - Strong U.S.-KazakhstanEconomic Relationship. aw.htm ???
- Gas-plant update moves Tengiz field toward 2004 producing target aw73.htm
"Former President George Bush met with King Fahd, in Saudi Arabia last year as part of his work for the Carlyle Group." (NYT, 3/5/01)
- Father Bush. The former president and ex-CIA director is not unemployed these days. He's been globetrotting as a member of Washington's Carlyle Group, a \\$12 billion private equity firm which employs a motorcade of former ranking Republicans, including Frank Carlucci, Jim Baker and Richard Darman. George Bush senior and colleagues open doors overseas for Carlyle Groups "access capitalists."
Bush specializes in Asia and has been in and out of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (countries that revere him thanks to the Gulf War) often on business since his presidency. Baker, the pin-striped midwife of 'Election 2000' was working his network in the 'stans' before the ink was dry on Clinton's first inaugural address. The Bin Laden family (presumably the friendly wing) is also invested in Carlyle. Carlyle's portfolio is heavy in defense and telecommunications firms, although it has other holdings including food and bottling companies.
The Carlyle connection means that George Bush Senior is on the payroll from private interests that have defense business before the government, while his son is president. Hmmm. As Charles Lewis of the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity, has put it, "in a really peculiar way, George W. Bush could, some day, benefit financially from his own administration's decisions, through his father's investments. And that to me is a jaw-dropper."
- 1990 George W. Bush is asked by Carlyle Group to serve on the board of directors of Caterair, one of the nation's largest airline catering services which it had acquired in 1989. The offer is arranged by Fred Malek, long time Bush associate who is then an advisor to Carlyle.
"Hike in US defence spending to benefit Osama's family": Bin Laden-Bush business connection seen through Carlyle Group
"If the United States boosts defence spending in its quest to stop Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden's alleged terrorist activities, his family may be the unexpected beneficiary of that, media reports said. "Among its far-flung business interests, the well-heeled Saudi Arabian clan, which says it is estranged from Laden, is an investor in a fund established by Carlyle Group, a well-connected Washington merchant bank specialising in buyouts of defence and aerospace companies," The Wall Street Journal said in an investigative dispatch. It said "through this investment and its ties to Saudi royalty, the bin Laden family has become acquainted with some of the biggest names in the Republican Party." "In recent years, former president George H W Bush, ex-secretary of state James Baker and ex-secretary of defence Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). "Ex-president Bush makes speeches on behalf of Carlyle Group and is senior adviser to its Asian Partners Fund, while Baker is its senior counsellor and Carlucci is the group's chairman," the journal said." --Hindustani Times, 9/28/01
- With former US Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci as its chairman, it's no surprise that The Carlyle Group is drawn to defense. Defense and aerospace firms such as United Defense Industries make up a significant share of the world's largest private equity firm's portfolio. Also represented are information technology (Federal Data), health care, real estate, and bottling companies. Since Carlucci joined in 1989, a host of staffers from the Reagan and first Bush administrations have stinted at the company, including ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-budget chief Richard Darman. Former President Bush and former UK Prime Minister John Major have also made appearances. --Hoovers Online
...Traveling with the fanfare of dignitaries, Mr. Bush and Mr. Baker [use] their extensive government contacts to further their business interests as representatives of the Carlyle Group, a \\$12 billion private equity firm based in Washington that has parlayed a roster of former top-level government officials, largely from the Bush and Reagan administrations, into a moneymaking machine. In a new spin on Washington's revolving door between business and government, where lobbying by former officials is restricted but soliciting investments is not, Carlyle has upped the ante and taken the practice global. Mr. Bush and Mr. Baker were accompanied on their trips by former Prime Minister John Major of Britain, another of Carlyle's political stars. With door-openers of this caliber, along with shrewd investment skills, Carlyle has gone from an unknown in the world of private equity to one of its biggest players. Private equity, which involves buying up companies in private deals and reselling them, is a high-end business open only to the very rich. Over the last decade, the Carlyle empire has grown to span three continents and include investments in most corners of the world. It owns so many companies that it is now in effect one of the nation's biggest defense contractors and a force in global telecommunications. Its blue-chip investors include major banks and insurance companies, billion-dollar pension funds and wealthy investors from Abu Dhabi to Singapore. In getting business for Carlyle, Mr. Bush has been impressive. His meeting with the crown prince was followed by a yacht cruise and private dinners with Saudi businessmen. And Mr. Bush led Carlyle's successful entry into South Korea, the fastest-growing economy in Asia. After his meetings with the prime minister and other government and business leaders, Carlyle won a tough competition for control of KorAm, one of Korea's few healthy banks. The steady flow of politicians to lucrative private-sector jobs based on their government contacts is a familiar Washington tale. But in this case, it is being played out for more dollars, on a global stage, and in the world of private finance, where the minimal government rules prohibiting lobbying by former officials for a given period are not a factor. These rules say nothing about potential conflicts when former government officials use their connections and insights for financial gain, and they may attract more notice now that George W. Bush is president. Many of those involved with Carlyle, which invests largely in companies that do business with the government or are affected by government regulations, have ties to the Oval Office.
For instance, Frank C. Carlucci, a Reagan secretary of defense who as much as anyone is responsible for Carlyle's success, said he met in February with his old college classmate Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, and Vice President Dick Cheney, himself a defense secretary under former President Bush, to talk about military matters — at a time when Carlyle has several billion-dollar defense projects under consideration.... "Carlyle is as deeply wired into the current administration as they can possibly be," said Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit public interest group based in Washington. "George Bush is getting money from private interests that have business before the government, while his son is president. And, in a really peculiar way, George W. Bush could, some day, benefit financially from his own administration's decisions, through his father's investments. The average American doesn't know that and, to me, that's a jaw-dropper."
It is difficult to determine exactly how much money the senior Mr. Bush and Mr. Baker have made. Mr. Baker is a Carlyle partner, and Mr. Bush has the title senior adviser to its Asian activities. With a current market value of about \\$3.5 billion on Carlyle's equity and with the firm owned by 18 partners and one outside investor, Mr. Baker's Carlyle stake would be worth about \\$180 million if each partner held an equal stake. It is not known whether he has more or less than the other partners. Unlike Mr. Baker, Mr. Bush has no ownership stake in Carlyle; he is an adviser and an investor and is compensated by obtaining stakes in Carlyle investments. Carlyle executives cited, for example, Mr. Bush's being allowed to put money he earns giving speeches for Carlyle into its investment funds. Mr. Bush generally receives \\$80,000 to $100,000 for a speech. He sits on no corporate boards other than Carlyle's. Carlyle also gave the Bush family a hand in 1990 by putting George W. Bush, who was then struggling to find a career, on the board of a Carlyle subsidiary, Caterair, an airline-catering company....
With \\$12 billion from investors, Carlyle claims to be the nation's largest private equity fund and makes money by investing in undervalued companies and reselling at a profit.... The California state pension fund invested \\$305 million with Carlyle, and the Texas teachers pension fund — whose board was appointed when George W. Bush was governor — gave Carlyle Group \\$100 million to invest in November. Carlyle Group also works as a financial adviser to the Saudi government....Carlyle Group has done well for its investors, returning an average of 34 percent a year over the last decade, in line with other private equity funds. It has done this by buying what it knows best — companies that are regulated by the government. Nearly two-thirds of its investments are in defense and telecommunications companies, which are affected by shifts in government spending and policy. ...Carlyle Group has become the nation's 11th largest defense contractor, owning companies that make tanks, aircraft wings and a broad array of other military equipment. It also owns health care companies, real estate, Internet companies, a bottling company and even Le Figaro, the French newspaper.... And its access extends well beyond American shores. In Europe, Carlyle Group has assembled an advisory board that besides Mr. Major includes Karl Otto Pöhl, former president of German's Bundesbank, and the past or present chairmen of B.M.W., Hoffman-LaRoche, Nestlé, LVMH-Moët Hennessy, Louis Vuitton and Aerospatiale, the French Airbus partner. Carlyle's Asia advisory board, which helps raise money and finds and reviews deals, includes former President Fidel V. Ramos of the Philippines, the former prime minister of Thailand and the executive director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. The former South Korean prime minister Park Tae Joon was also an adviser to Carlyle.... In an office adorned with photographs of Mr. Carlucci and the politically mighty — he sits beneath an Oval Office picture of himself and Mr. Reagan — Mr. Carlucci makes it clear that his extensive government and global ties are as fresh as ever. "I know Rumsfeld extremely well," Mr. Carlucci said in an interview. "We've been close friends throughout the years. We were college classmates."...NYT, 3/5/01
The Political Economy of War and Peace in Afghanistan By Barnett R. Rubin, June 1999 AW??.htm
Petrodollars Behind the Chechen Tragedy? see aw75.htm
On September 10, 2001
The Washington Times
The Army's School of Advanced Military Studies
(SAMS ) " thinks Israel is capable..."
"Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say:
' Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning.
Has capability to target US forces
and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.'
Just 24 hours after this story appeared, the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed.
THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED BEFORE
June 8, 1967, Israeli attack on the USS Liberty :
When four US fighter jets from a nearby aircraft carrier came to protect the Liberty,
US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered the jets NOT to come to the Liberty's aid,
and allowed the Israeli attack to continue. Thirty-four Americans were killed and 171 wounded.
During the Six Day War, the Liberty, an American intelligence gathering ship, was sailing in international waters.
Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked it for 75 minutes. CHECK THIS OUT !!!
AND
"BY WAY OF DECEPTION THOU SHALT DO WAR."
-THE MOTTO OF THE MOSSAD (Israeli Intelligence)
In 1956, as reported by the Times Of London, during one of Israel's perpetual wars with its neighbors, the Mossad tried to trick the United States into siding with Israel against the Arabs by blowing up a US facility in Cairo and blaming the Arabs for it. The plot was wrecked when the operatives were caught and confessed, creating a huge scandal. And according to Victor Ostrovski, a defector from the Mossad, the USA was tricked into bombing Libya when the Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Tripoli which sent out fake orders to terrorists which the USA could intercept.
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THESE REPORTS ARE ABOUT CORRUPT INDIVIDUALS/ORGANIZATIONS,
PROFITERS AND RADICAL FUNDEMENTALIST FROM ALL CULTURAL BACKROUNDS AND ETHNICITY.
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY, AND SUPPORT THE
CONSTITUTIONAL SPIRIT OUR FOREFATHERS DESIRED.
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SOME ODD FACTS! Supposedly, only one of the four cockpit voice recorders from the 9/11 planes has been found in working condition. The recordings made of FAA flight controllers talking to aircraft are also missing. With the exception of one still frame taken at an airport in Seattle of an Arab-looking man at a gate, no video from any of the departure gates of any of the four hijacked flights has been released to show Arabs getting on board those flights. The flight attendant who telephoned the ground gave the seat numbers of the men who hijacked her plane and those seats were assigned to names which do not appear on the FBI's list of Arab suspects; a list the FBI persists in waving about even though it has admitted that the hijackers were using skillfully forged IDs with stolen identities. And even more telling, the names of the alleged hijackers released by the FBI do not even appear on the published passenger lists of the four hijacked flights. Indeed the passenger lists are notable for the scarcity of any Arabic sounding names.
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