Gwadar goes to China
The port will remain property of Pakistan and the Chinese company will share the profit.
Pakistan Monday inked agreement to hand over Gwadar Port to Chinese company. Under the agreement the Chinese company will assume the
responsibility of Gwadar Port from immediately. The port will remain
property of Pakistan and the Chinese company will share the profit.
Chairman Gwadar Port Authority Dr Syed Pervez Abbas‚ Major General
Asghar Nawaz of National Logistics Cell‚ Chairman AKD Security Aqeel
Karim Dhedi and Leo Fong of China Overseas Port Holdings Limited and
Singapore Authority representative Faisal Javed signed on the agreement
on behalf of their respective organizations.
According to the agreement China besides establishing a Free Economic Zone will construct a road from Gwadar to Ratho Dhero.
China will use the port for trade with Middle East. Israel is now in desperation, her TAPI pipeline is dead, Syria is still not under her full control, and France-Israel networks are sinking in North Africa-Sahel... Netanyahu must launch his 'nuclear-chemical-virological 9/11', otherwise he is a dead walking man
The Gulf Cooperation Council: Rockefeller/Rothschild Puppet Monarchy
(Excerpted from Chapter 5: Persian Gulf Rent-a-Sheik: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
By Dean HENDERSON, LEFT HOOK
It shouldn’t have surprised anyone when the six nations which make up
the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called on their Western protectors
to enforce a no-fly zone in the skies over Libya last year. Why would
these Arab nations- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Oman and Qatar-
clamor for an act of war against another Arab oil-producer? A brief
history of the GCC is in order.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a watershed event. With the Shah
deposed and the Iranian Consortium nationalized, the Four Horsemen- Exxon
Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco and Royal Dutch/Shell- and their
Rockefeller/Rothschild owners sought to create a more comprehensive
security system for the safeguarding of Persian Gulf crude oil. The House of Saud was fast becoming a lightning rod for Arab nationalists, who saw the monarchy as a Western surrogate.
The State Department sought to take pressure off the Saudis by
finding other regional leaders willing to embrace the same oil for arms
quid pro quo that had been in force in the Kingdom since the early
1950’s. That arrangement involves the US arming the House of Saud to
protect it from enemies both foreign and domestic. In return the Saudis
serve as “swing producer”, ensuring the West a steady and relatively
cheap supply of oil. While US spook outfits like SAIC, Booz Hamilton,
TRW and Vinnell Corp. trained the Saudi National Guard, Pakistani and
Egyptian pilots (Saudi nationals were not to be trusted) were trained to
fly US F-15 fighters in protection of the Kingdom. The Saudis
in turn became the primary funder of CIA/MI6/Mossad covert operations
worldwide, including those aimed at Libya from bases in Exxon
Mobil-controlled Chad.
While the Middle East region contains 66.5% of known global crude oil
reserves, the shoreline which surrounds the southwest side of the
Persian Gulf and which is the property of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar,
Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), contains 42% of the
world’s crude reserves. The Saudis have 261 billion barrels, more than
double any other nation and 26% of the world’s known reserves. The
Kingdom encompasses no less than 60 major oil and gas fields which
produce 10 million barrels per day. The massive Ghawar field is by far
the largest on earth. Iraq has the world’s second largest proven
reserves at 112 billion barrels The UAE is third with 97.8 b/b.
Kuwaiti is fourth with 96.5 billion barrels.
In 1981 the US and Saudi governments spearheaded an effort to
create the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), consisting of Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and UAE. All except Oman are
members of OPEC. All are what are known as banker nations within OPEC.
Iran, Indonesia, Venezuela, Iraq, Algeria and Nigeria are considered
the industrializing nations of OPEC. The formation of the GCC
drew immediate criticism from Libya, Syria, Iraq and the PLO who said
the agreement divided the Arab League into haves and have-nots.
The banker nations are prone to sell oil to the Four Horsemen
cheaply, since their countries are already developed and any oil
revenues can be recycled into global investments which benefit those
countries’ elites. The industrializing nations need a higher oil price,
both to develop their countries’ infrastructure and to service their
enormous debts to Western bankers. The banker nations of OPEC are the
price doves, while the industrializing nations are price hawks.
The price-dove banker GCC states are all ruled by monarchs, whom Big
Oil finds easy to manage. OPEC’s price hawk industrializing nations
tend to be more democratic and thus more difficult for the Four Horsemen
to manipulate via bribery schemes and other forms of corruption. These
democracies tend to have nationalized oil sectors, so the sale of oil
benefits the whole of society, whereas the GCC oil sector is
increasingly privatized, with revenues enriching the Four Horsemen and
their puppet monarchs.
Culturally in the Arab world the foundation of the GCC dramatically
diffused the power of the more traditional and nationalistic
geopolitical power centers in the Middle East such as Damascus and
Beirut, while enhancing the power of the relatively short-lived Gucci
Gulf State monarchies.
This new banker nation block quickly signed the GCC Economic
Agreement, liberalizing their economies to allow for more direct
investment by Western banks and corporations, creating a free trade zone
within the entire membership and launching a duty-free port at Dubai in
the UAE. Bahrain became a major offshore banking center. Foreign
workers from poor Asian countries like the Philippines and Bangladesh
were encouraged to enter GCC countries, providing cheap labor for the
oil elite. A common market was established. Oil policies were
harmonized.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the most valuable currencies in
the world are not the British pound, the US dollar or the Swiss franc.
Far more valuable are the Kuwaiti dinar (D$.30=1 US dollar), the
Bahraini dinar (D$.37=1 US dollar) and the Maltese lira (L$.46=1 US
dollar). Malta was founded by Catholic Crusader Knights of Malta with
help from the Vatican. It is a nexus of CIA/organized crime activity in
the Mediterranean.
A 1966 al-Ba’ath newspaper column in Damascus enunciates the Arab
nationalist price hawk position which was the raison d’etre for OPEC in
the first place. “There remains no other course for national and
progressive forces except that of struggle in all its forms”, the paper
implored, adding, “even if this leads to cutting off oil supply…and
closing down oil wells in order to deprive the monopolist, the
embezzler, the despot of this oil”.
Tea-Sipping Embezzlers
In order to fully understand the significance of the
formation of the GCC, one must appreciate the history of feudal elite
rule and British colonization which resulted in the very existence of
the sheikdoms which make up the GCC. A history of
single-family rule in these Persian Gulf States made these emirates ripe
for the imposition of an oil-for-arms security pact like the one formed
in 1981. As Qatar’s Oil Minister stated bluntly in a recently, “The
industrial world will protect the oil. We believe this is a proper
exchange of interests and benefits”.
In 1776 the British East India Company set up a headquarters at what
is now Kuwait. When Kuwaiti members of the Hashemite al-Sabah clan, who
share their surname with Assassin founder Hasan bin Sabah, helped the
Ottoman Turks quell uprisings in southern Iraq, the Shiek of the
Muntafiq tribe gave the al-Sabahs date groves near Fao and Sufiyeh in
southern Iraq.
Kuwait was seen as highly strategic by the British in its role as
protector of Indian Ocean sea lanes. By 1900 the British cut a deal
with Mubarak al-Sabah which carved Kuwait out of Iraq and made it a
British protectorate. The vast majority of people who lived in what was
now declared Kuwait opposed the British plan and wanted to remain part
of Iraq.
In 1914, in the midst of WWI, the British resident in the Gulf
promised Sheik Mubarak al-Sabah Crown recognition of his new country in
exchange for al-Sabah’s turning on and attacking Ottoman Empire troops
at Safwan, Mesopotamia in what is now Iraq. The al-Sabah clan earned
their Union Jack stripes. The Hashemite monarchy single-handedly rules
Kuwait to this day.
In 1917 the British made a client out of Ibn Saud, who was also told
to encourage Arab tribesman to repel the Ottoman Turks from the Gulf
Region at the onset of WWI. That same year the British House of
Rothschild pushed through the Balfour Declaration, lending Crown
support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Rothschild was less
concerned about the Jewish people than he was about establishing a
Middle East outpost from where he and his lackeys could keep watch over
the center of their global oil monopoly. A year later the Ottomans were defeated.
Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia were carved out of the Ottoman Empire
and fell under British rule, with Ibn Saud taking control of his
namesake Saudi Arabia. His progeny form the modern-day House of Saud.
Palestine became part of Transjordania and was run by an emir
hand-picked by the British. The Trucial States of Oman (now United Arab
Emirates) and the Oman Coast (now Oman) were also given British
protectorate status. As Winston Churchill commented three decades
later, “The emir is in Transjordania, where I put him one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem”.
In 1922 the Treaty of Jeddah gave Saudi Arabia independence from
Britain, though the Crown still exerted considerable influence. [173]
During the 1920’s, with help from British troops, Ibn Saud grabbed more
territory from the Ottomans when he annexed Riyadh. He also seized the
holy cities of Mecca and Medina from the Hashemites.
Britain and France signed the San Remo Agreement which split Middle
East oil concessions between the two countries. Within two weeks the US
responded with the Open Door Policy, which cut the US Horsemen into the
Middle East oil game. Small US independent producers like Sinclair
opposed the policy, complaining that it favored the Rockefeller oil
interests. US oil majors Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco and
Gulf- the first three progeny of the John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil
Trust- joined with British Petroleum, Royal Dutch/Shell- owned largely
by Holland’s royal House of Orange and the Rothschild family- and the
French Compaignie de Petroles in dividing up the Middle East oil patch.
The Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC) and the Iranian Consortium would be
dominated by the European companies, while Saudi ARAMCO would be owned
by the American Horsemen. The British protectorates would be exploited
through various combinations of the Four Horsemen.
An IPC subsidiary, Petroleum Development Trucial Coast, began drilling in what is now the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1935. Today
in the UAE oil industry ADCO is 24%-owned by BP Amoco, 9.5% by Royal
Dutch/Shell and 9.5% by Exxon Mobil. ADMA is owned 14.67% by BP Amoco
and 13.33% by the old French Compaignie de Petroles, which has now
consolidated into Total. Esso Trading Company/Abu Dhabi is 100% owned
by Exxon Mobil. Dubai Petroleum is 55% owned by Conoco, which also owns
35% of Dubai Marine Areas, of which BP Amoco holds a 33.33% share. The
majority of the UAE’s oil goes to Japan. BP and Total hold long-term
shipping contracts with the UAE.
Chevron and Texaco, already joined through ARAMCO and their
Caltex marketing arm, formed the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BPC) in that
protectorate. The new Chevron Texaco now runs BPC. In Qatar, Exxon
Mobil dominates the rich natural gas sector. It owns a large chunk of
Qatargas, which currently provides Japan with 6 million tons of natural
gas per year. It is also a 30% partner in the giant Ras Luffan gas
field which produces 10 million tons of natural gas per year.
BP joined with Gulf in starting the Kuwait Oil Company, which today
sells discount crude to ex-proprietors BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco
(Chevron bought Gulf in 1981).
By 1949 the US Horsemen controlled 42% of Middle Eastern oil
reserves, while the Anglo-Dutch Horsemen had 52%. The remaining 8% was
owned by Elf Total Fina and other smaller companies.
The British began granting independence to its Gulf State
protectorates beginning in 1961 with Kuwait and ending in 1971 when the
United Arab Emirates were formed out of seven sheikdoms, the most
important of which are Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. British influence
did not wane. Oman remains particularly close to the Crown.
These emirates are ruled by single family monarchies selected by
British colonialists to carry out their plan for dominating Middle East
oil and shipping lanes in the late 18th century. The six GCC ruling families are inter-related with one another, just as are the royal families of Europe.
The GCC monarchies are fabrications of the Rockefeller/Rothschild oil monopoly.
Their interest, as with Mubarak in Egypt and King Hussein in Jordan,
is to enrich themselves by serving the embezzlers of Arab oil.
Ghaddafi, on the other hand, has spent his life battling
those embezzlers. The corporate media keeps Western progressives
off-balance by portraying Arabs as a monolithic bunch of corrupt
despots. But just as Castro, Ortega, Chavez, Morales and Correa have
made great strides in liberating Central and South America; Ghaddafi,
Ahmedinejad, Nasser, Boumedienne and Nasrallah have battled the global
banking cartel to the benefit of their people. That is why you are
brainwashed to hate them.
What happened in Libya was a classic covert operation
conjured by Western intelligence and funded by the GCC which attempts to
seize oilfields belonging to the people of Libya and hand them over to
the Rothschild/Rockefeller trillionaires. Don’t be fooled. This is the
same old colonial bullshit. Viva Ghaddafi!
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