NOV 28 15 SIT EC y POL
ZERO HEDGE
ISIS
Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG
Crude, And The Israel Connection. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/28/2015
[ US-Turkey & Israel involved in big mafias trafficking of oil..
these are the profiteers of Syria’s war ]
Here extracts of this long
art.
No one knows why it took the US 14 months to strike the
convoys. The official line is that The Pentagon was concerned about “collateral
damage”, but we doubt that’s the reason (for a detailed discussion of
this, see here).
Well now that the mainstream media have been forced to take a closer look at
Islamic State’s main source of revenue (the group makes nearly a half billion a
year in the illicit oil trade), we decided to take a closer look at exactly
who is facilitating the transport of the stolen crude and where it ultimately
ends up because you can be sure that the story you get from the major wires
will be colored by a slavish tendency to avoid any and all “inconvenient”
revelations. This is the fourth in a series of articles on the subject and
we encourage you to review the first three:
- The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
- Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President
- How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence
Here's where things get interesting. A few weeks ago,
Reuters released
an exclusive report detailing how Erbil hides its crude shipments from
Baghdad. Here are some of the details:
Most customers were scared of
touching it with Baghdad threatening to sue any buyer. Large oil companies -
including Exxon Mobil and BP - have billions of dollars worth of joint projects
with Baghdad.
Some buyers took tankers to
Ashkelon, Israel, where it was loaded into storage facilities to be resold
later to buyers in Europe. Kurdish oil was also sold offshore Malta via
ship-to-ship transfers helping disguise the final buyers and thus protect them
from threats from Iraqi state firm SOMO.
It was a high stakes game. A
ship would dock off Malta waiting for another to arrive to take a cargo to a
final destination. Sometimes two ships would be sent - one sailing off empty
and another full - to complicate cargo tracking.
Once inside Turkey, IS
oil is indistinguishable from oil sold by the Kurdistan Regional Government, as
both are sold as "illegal", "source unknown" or
"unlicensed" oil.
The companies that buy the
KRG oil also buy IS-smuggled oil, according to the colonel.
Now obviously that's a remarkable degree of detail, but
regardless of whether you believe in "Uncle Farid" and his black Jeep
Cherokee, the main point is that there are smuggling routes into Turkey and
once the oil is across the border, it might as well be Kurdish crude because
after all, it's all "illegal", "unlicensed" product anyway,
just as we said above.
Next, Al-Araby al-Jadeed says a handful of oil
companies (which they decline to identify) ship the oil from the Turkish ports
of Mersin, Dortyol and Ceyhan to Israel.
Here's the alleged route:
One person who definitely thinks the Erdogans are
trafficking in ISIS oil is Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi who
said the following on Friday:
“All of the oil was delivered to a company that
belongs to the son of Recep [Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey
became anxious when Russia began delivering airstrikes against the IS
infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really
got on Erdogan and his company’s nerves. They’re importing not only oil, but
wheat and historic artefacts as well."
And then there's Iraq's former National Security
Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie who posted the following to his Facebook page on
Saturday:
“First and foremost, the Turks help the militants sell
stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil for $20 a barrel, which is half the
market price."
Meanwhile, the US is preparing for an all-out ISIS oil
propaganda war. As WSJ
reported on Wednesday, "the Treasury [has] accused a Syrian-born
businessman, George Haswani, who his a dual Syrian-Russian citizen, of using
his firm, HESCO Engineering and Construction Co., for facilitating oil trades
between the Assad regime and Islamic State." Why Assad would buy oil from
a group that uses the cash at its disposal to wage war against Damascus is an
open question especially when one considers that Assad's closest allies (Russia
and Iran) are major oil producers. Of course between all the shady middlemen
and double dealing, there's really no telling.
Ultimately we'll probably never know the whole story, but
what we do know (and again, most of the evidence is either circumstantial,
anecdotal, of largely qualitative) seems to suggest that in addition to
providing guns and money to the FSA and al-Nusra, Turkey may well be
responsible for facilitating Islamic State's $400+ million per year oil
enterprise.
The oil is sold within a day or two to a number of
private companies, while the majority goes to an Italian refinery owned by one
of the largest shareholders in an Italian football club [name removed] where
the oil is refined and used locally," added the European oil official.
"Israel has in one way or another become the main
marketer of IS oil. Without them, most IS-produced oil would have remained
going between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Even the three companies would not receive
the oil if they did not have a buyer in Israel," said the
industry official.
Finally, you'll note that this is all an effort to answer
what we called "the most important question about ISIS that no one is
asking" - namely, "who are the middlemen?" As we noted more than
a week ago, "we do know who they may be: the same names that were quite
prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly
not last, near death experience: the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the
Nobels, the Mercurias of the world." Consider that, and consider what
Reuters says about the trade in illicit KRG oil: "Market sources have
said several trading houses including Trafigura and Vitol have dealt with
Kurdish oil. Both Trafigura and Vitol declined to comment on their role in oil
sales."
Similarly, FT notes that "both Vitol and Trafigura had
paid the KRG in advance for the oil, under so-called 'pre-pay' deals, helping
Erbil to bridge its budget gaps."
Indeed, when Kurdistan went looking for an advisor to assist
in the effort to circumvent Baghdad, the KRG chose "Murtaza Lakhani, who
worked for Glencore in Iraq in the 2000s, to assist finding ships."
"He knew exactly who would and who wouldn't deal with
us. He opened the doors to us and identified willing shipping companies to
work with us," Ashti Hawrami (quoted above) said.
Indeed. And given everything said above about the
commingling of illegal KRG crude and illicit ISIS oil shipments, it's probably
a foregone conclusion that these same firms are assisting in transport
arrangements for Islamic State.
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ONE MORE ART. MUST READ: How
Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/how-turkey-exports-isis-oil-world-scientific-evidence
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How
A Secretive Elite Created The EU To Build A World Government. S- by Tyler
Durden on 11/28/2015
[ How to explain the terrorism-fear control of CIA on European
Govts? .. here the answer ]
"As part of an intellectual tradition that saw
the salvation of the world in some form of world government... and with the
financial backing of the CIA and the US State Department, the
Anglo-American establishment was now committed to the creation of a federal
United States of Europe." Today, this is still the case. Powerful
international lobbies are already at work attempting to prove that any
return to democratic self-government will spell doom. www.Zerohedge
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The
Bitcoin Universe Explained. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/28/2015
As evidenced by the Greek, Chinese, and now Argentine
'jumps', the world remains increasingly aware of the inevitable worth of fiat
currencies (and is looking for alternatives). From miners to merchants, the
Bitcoin universe continues to expand dramatically as we
noted previously, "There are more people in the world who need
a currency they can trust, than there are people in the world who can trust
their currency."
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Guest
Post: A Hybrid War To Break The Balkans?. Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/28/2015
The successful
completion of the Balkan Silk Road would lead to a significant sum of European
trade being profitably redirected towards China and other booming non-Western
locations like India and Ethiopia. The US fears losing its position as the
EU’s top trading partner, knowing that the slippery strategic
slope that could soon follow might lead to the rapid unraveling of its
hegemonic control. The inevitable New Cold War clash that this
represents and the extraordinarily high stakes that are involved mean that the Balkans
will remain one of the main flashpoints in this dangerous proxy struggle,
despite the hierarchical switch of its multipolar protagonists.
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Russia
Retaliates: Putin Reveals Sanctions Against Turkey. Submitted by Tyler
Durden on 11/28/15
[ False flag ?? I found this art really unreliable ]
The wide-ranging
sanctions unleashed on Turkey (by its 2nd largest trade partner) include a ban
on Turkish workers (with estimates that 90,000 will be fired by Jan 1 2016),
restrictions on imported goods and services provided by Turkey, and scraps
visa-free travel and bans charter flights (implicitly hurting a major part
of Turkey's domestic industry). Finally, Putin calls for "strengthening
of port control and monitoring to ensure transport safety," hinting
at the fears many have voiced over whether Turkey shutting the Bosphorous in an
escalation would be seen as an act of war.
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Stumbling to War With Russia?. By
Patrick J. Buchanan
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Putin and Hollande Go After Erdogan’s Racket.
By Pepe Escobar
The ‘Sultan’ has been warned. From now on Russia has three
major priorities
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Almost a Century Ago. Another Democratic
Socialist Ran for President of the United States—From His Prison Cell.
By Lawrence S. Wittner
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WASHINGTON BLOG
4-minute
video: Real global terrorism HAS ALWAYS BEEN empire/colonialism, always with
criminal rhetoric for ‘freedom,’ ‘civilization,’ ‘love of Jesus’ as millions
killed, trillions looted. Posted on November 29, 2015 by Carl
Herman URL:
https://youtu.be/Pis5f085P3M
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FOURTH
TURNING – SOCIAL & CULTURAL DISTRESS DIVIDING THE NATION. . Posted on November 28, 2015 by JimQ
In Part 1 of this article I discussed
the catalyst spark which ignited this Fourth Turning and the seemingly
delayed regeneracy. In Part 2 I pondered possible Grey
Champion prophet generation leaders who could arise during the regeneracy. In Part 3 I focused on the economic
channel of distress which is likely to be the primary driving force in the next
phase of this Crisis. In Part 4 I will assess the social and cultural channels
of distress dividing the nation, Part 5 the technological, ecological,
political, military channels of distress likely to burst forth with molten
ingredients.
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N OTICIAS IN SPANISH
Siria. La diplomacia de Hollande ha nacido
muerta. Rafael Poch
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PRESS TV
Iran:
Syria left its mark in history.. [Syria is not yet
history.. is Iran the one running out of history. ]
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Iran new oil contract comes under
criticism [ Iran la dama egocentrica,
narcisista y con miopia grave.]
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