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Something Stinks in Syria’s Oil Fields


Author: Gordon Duff-27.10.2019 Something Stinks in Syria’s Oil Fields
When the US “withdrew” from Syria, Donald Trump announced that he had secured Syria’s oil from ISIS and was protecting it. Further announcements indicated the US was leaving 500 troops there and would be moving in heavy armor, this being done well outside the purview of agreements with Russia and certainly in violation of Syria’s sovereignty. It was also announced that up to 400 private military contractors would be stationed there as well. When Trump announced that, at no time, though this region was, we were all told, cleared of ISIS by the US and its Kurdish allies, had the US ever operated in or near that region. That was a barefaced lie, one of thousands Trump has made but unique in ways. You see, the US had been accused, over and over, of protecting ISIS bases in the region. Not just that, the US repeatedly used its “coalition” air power to attack not just Syrian but Russian forces that attempted to attack ISIS units in and around the region. Intelligence commanders, both Russian and Syrian, that I have spoken to confirmed that US bases in and around Syria’s oil fields coexisted with nearby ISIS formations, and that there was a wealth of evidence that the US and ISIS had cooperated closely. Then of course, we have the stories, mostly from Iraq, that that US had regularly ferried and resupplied ISIS units but those stories came without video and could be discounted. Behind it all, we have the very long history of oil theft in the region but first we are going to touch on recent statements made by President Assad who asserted that Turkey, under Erdogan, had stolen billions in Syrian assets, entire factories, oil, wheat, antiquities, and more. I had gone over existing lists with Dr. Najm, then Minister of Justice, now a law professor in Damascus and columnist for Veterans Today. We had discovered a network of fake NGO’s in Turkey and Lebanon, some run by the US, some by Britain, that moved freely in and out of Damascus under protection, and then into wider areas, and across lines into al Qaeda and ISIS territory. From there, they gathered information on assets and arranged for their transit to Europe, Israel and the US for auction, for art and antiquities, or for the enrichment of the politically powerful. Then of course we have the issue of oil. When Russian aerospace forces discovered that the US had been not just ignoring but protecting up to 20,000 oil trucks that had been looting the oil fields of Northern Iraq and Eastern Syria, we saw a continuation of US policy dating back to 2004. At that time, VT editor Alex Powers was overseeing Iraq’s oil production on behalf of occupation commander Paul Bremmer. I had known Alex for some time as we had worked on “projects” at the Pentagon. When I talked to him last week, going over this history and recent events, he reminded me that there was a private deal with Bush officials, many loyal to Israel, to share in the profits of oil stolen from Iraq and shipped out by pipeline. The Iraqi oil was identified and shipped as though it were from Azerbaijan. The methodology for this is to use what is called a “pig,” a moving electronic float that separates different oil shipments inside the same pipeline. I also talked to VT bureau chief Jeffrey Silverman who tells me the same thing is still going on, covering billions in stolen oil from Iraq, while that was still possible until Russia stopped it, but it continues from Syria to this day, using “pigs” and done under cover of Azerbaijani companies working with British Petroleum and Exxon. Then Trump’s statement came to mind, about “securing the oil.” Our sources tell us that US companies have been operating inside Syria all along, partnered with ISIS, transiting oil into Turkey, into the pipelines, and “pigged out” of Turkey identified as Caspian oil from the Baku oil fields. That would mean that since 2004, with a short break, the US has been stealing oil from Iraq, then Iraq and Syria, first under military occupation and then later, well, under military occupation as well. One might well construe from this that the al Qaeda and ISIS operations inside both Iraq and Syria were an American military occupation, driven by criminality. The proof is overwhelming. Worse still, Trump just openly admitted it, and, thus far, nothing can easily be done about it unless Syria chooses to militarily confront the US. Trump has two reasons to do what he did. One accusation is that he is personally profiting from the theft of oil and other commodities, such as wheat, while the people of Syria are sanctioned into starvation. It is obvious he is “securing” the oil fields from Syrian forces that were only miles away, securing them for the ISIS-Washington partnership that has enriched a select group of criminals for years. This, of course, has put Russia in a difficult position. This criminally insane violation of Syrian sovereignty based on absurd lies and virtual admissions that America has been operating since 2001 as a “criminal state” in Iraq and Afghanistan but just there? How much oil has been stolen from Libya? When looking for a pattern, turning to Afghanistan is required. When the US entered Afghanistan, opium production there was nearly eradicated. Within 5 years, Afghanistan, under the US, in efforts funded by USAID, was now producing 95% of the world’s opium. Three years later, Afghanistan was producing processed opium with reports of processing centers being built in Helmand Province, equipment and needed chemicals brought into Afghanistan through Karachi, Pakistan. I looked at reports of this during interviews with General Pasha, then Director General of Pakistan’s ISI when I met with him in 2011. Their sources in Afghanistan, and they are considerable of course, not only traced exports by air, and only the US had air capability in Afghanistan, to Western Europe and, assumedly, to the United States but also, by truck into Tajikistan and north, as part of a CIA program to move as much heroin as possible into Russia. Conclusion We have identified the perpetrators. We can prove the crimes. What we don’t have is adequate authority to enforce international law against a criminal conspiracy that controls the most powerful military in the world. Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.” source: NEO

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The official version of the elimination of al-Baghdadi confirms that he lived in Idleb in circles Syrian White Helmets adored by Hollywood and close to the Turkish border ... or how Washington compromises with the "complotistes"


If we are to believe the official version on the elimination of the named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the alleged head of the terrorist organization known as the Arab acronym for "Daech," it would have been located and neutralized Berisha in the northwest of the rebel province of Idleb, the last rebel province in Syria, two stone-throwing from the Turkish border. Let us pause a moment on this data. The official US narrative betrays this time a series of anomalies and confirms the multiple charges Labeled "complotistes" considering that Daech has been created by the US secret services. Washington just shoot themselves in the navel. Why ? The alleged leader of Daech, the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world so lived among the rebellious province of Idleb, which is under the protection of NATO and Western countries. He lived in East nor Syria, let alone in Syrian government-controlled areas. Al-Baghdadi was among whites Helmets Hollywood and all the Western media praised to the skies. In addition, the most wanted man in Iraq lived virtually under the noses of the Turkish military. This is enough to dismantle the jackhammer the triumphalism version a bit childish Washington. The communication experts at the Pentagon are not too fond of innovation: It takes the fantasy of the explosive jacket constantly dressed and activated at will. Trump spoke Russian assistance, including overflight while the area covered by the US raid is not covered by the Russian Aerospace Defense bubble in Syria but is covered by the systems of the Turkish air defense and therefore that Nato. A big blunder. Thanks to Iraq? Surely for providing a birth certificate fake al-Baghdadi as Berisha is located far from the Iraqi border. We learn something. Al-Baghdadi, aka Simon Elliott have lived among the White Helmets of the province of Idleb and would have neighbors agents MiT (Turkish intelligence) and the CIA. Daech is not spontaneous generation and the cost a fortune to build. His goal to accelerate a change of regime in Syria failed, neutralized some symbolic witnesses and stimulus replacement....more ...... https://strategika51.org/2019/10/28/

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By Michael Snyder Global Research, August 23, 2019 End of the American Dream 21 August 2019 Region: Latin America & Caribbean, USA Theme: Environment In-depth Report: Climate Change We have never seen anything quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country. But the wildfires aren’t actually happening anywhere near São Paulo. In fact, the smoke that turned the skies black actually came from fires that were happening more than 1,000 miles away. Can you imagine how powerful the fires have to be in order to do that? And it isn’t just Brazil – right now horrific fires are scorching vast stretches of our planet from South America all the way up to the Arctic. Some of the fires are producing so much smoke that you can actually see it from space. And in the process, irreversible damage is being done to our ecosystems. I know that this number is hard to believe, but there have been more than 72,000 wildfires in Brazil so far in 2019, and most of those fires are happening in the Amazon rainforest. I understand that many of you may not care what happens in Brazil, but you should. Approximately 60 percent of the entire Amazon rainforest is in Brazilian territory, and that rainforest produces approximately 20 percent of all the oxygen in our atmosphere. So essentially the “lungs of the Earth” are being burned away right in front of our eyes… The fires are burning at the highest rate since the country’s space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (known by the abbreviation INPE), began tracking them in 2013, the center said Tuesday. There have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said. That’s more than an 80% increase compared with the same period last year. The Amazon is often referred to as the planet’s lungs, producing 20% of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere. Every minute of every single day, an average of 1½ soccer fields of Amazon rainforest are being wiped out. This is an ongoing crisis that hasn’t been getting nearly the attention that it deserves in the United States. But when the skies above Sao Paulo suddenly turned completely black at three in the afternoon on Monday, that set off a social media frenzy… São Paulo’s skies were blackened for roughly an hour at around 3 p.m. Monday due to raging fires throughout the region and weather conditions that pushed particulate matter over the city, setting off intense speculation on social networks about the reason why the day was seemingly transformed into night. 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To me, it is very strange to be talking about “wildfires in the Arctic”, but we have entered a period of time when our entire definition of “normal” is going to change. Last winter we experienced one of the coldest winters in ages, during the first half of this year the middle of the U.S. experienced unprecedented rainfall and flooding, and now we are being told that last month was the hottest July ever recorded… The average global temperature in July was 1.71 degrees F above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees, making it the hottest July in the 140-year record, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. The previous hottest month on record was July 2016. Nine of the 10 hottest recorded Julys have occurred since 2005; the last five years have ranked as the five hottest. Last month was also the 43rd consecutive July and 415th consecutive month with above-average global temperatures. Unfortunately, many believe that this is just the beginning. Global weather patterns are going haywire, and so the extremes that we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg. The environment that we depend upon for life every moment of every day is being shaken, and many are deeply alarmed about what is happening to the Earth. Each day it is being destroyed a little bit more, and the clock is ticking… * Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters. His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News. Featured image is from End of the American Dream

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