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Syria: Another Pipeline War
A Pipeline War
by Robert Kennedy Jr.
In their view, our war against Bashar Assad did not begin with the peaceful civil protests of the Arab Spring in 2011. Instead it began in 2000 when Qatar proposed to construct a $10 billion, 1,500km pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey.
Note the purple line which traces the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline and note that all of the countries highlighted in red are part of a new coalition hastily put together after Turkey finally (in exchange for NATO's acquiescence on Erdogan's politically-motivated war with the PKK) agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions against ISIS targets from Incirlik. Now note which country along the purple line is not highlighted in red. That's because Bashar al-Assad didn't support the pipeline and now we're seeing what happens when you're a Mid-East strongman and you decide not to support something the US and Saudi Arabia want to get done. (Map: ZeroHedge.com via MintPress News)
Qatar shares with Iran, the South Pars/North Dome gas field, the world's richest natural gas repository. The international trade embargo, until recently, prohibited Iran from selling gas abroad and ensured that Qatar's gas could only reach European markets if it is liquefied and shipped by sea, a route that restricts volume and dramatically raises costs.
The proposed pipeline would have linked Qatar directly to European energy markets via distribution terminals in Turkey which would pocket rich transit fees. The Qatar/Turkey pipeline would have given the Sunni Kingdoms of the Persian Gulf decisive domination of world natural gas markets and strengthen Qatar, America's closest ally in the Arab world. Qatar hosts two massive American military bases and the U.S. Central Command's Mid-East headquarters.
The EU, which gets 30 percent of its gas from Russia, was equally hungry for the pipeline which would have given its members cheap energy and relief from Vladimir Putin's stifling economic and political leverage. Turkey, Russia's second largest gas customer, was particularly anxious to end its reliance on its ancient rival and to position itself as the lucrative transect hub for Asian fuels to EU markets. The Qatari pipeline would have benefited Saudi Arabia's conservative Sunni Monarchy by giving them a foothold in Shia dominated Syria.
The Saudi's geopolitical goal is to contain the economic and political power of the Kingdom's principal rival, Iran, a Shiite state, and close ally of Bashar Assad. The Saudi monarchy viewed the U.S. sponsored Shia takeover in Iraq as a demotion to its regional power and was already engaged in a proxy war against Tehran in Yemen, highlighted by the Saudi genocide against the Iranian backed Houthi tribe.
Of course, the Russians, who sell 70 percent of their gas exports to Europe, viewed the Qatar/Turkey pipeline as an existential threat. In Putin's view, the Qatar pipeline is a NATO plot to change the status quo, deprive Russia of its only foothold in the Middle East, strangle the Russian economy and end Russian leverage in the European energy market. In 2009, Assad announced that he would refuse to sign the agreement to allow the pipeline to run through Syria to protect the interests of our Russian ally."
http://www.ecowatch.com/syria-another-pipeline-war-1882180532.html?page=4
Report: Warplanes Mount Fresh Airstrikes In Syria
The Syrian army could not immediately be reached for comment on the reported air strikes in town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on Wednesday. An Observatory report did not identify the warplanes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/syria-airstrikes_us_58e49524e4b0d0b7e1661089?
This video of the chemical attack in Syria is horrific -
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/chemical-attack-syria-170404195457304.htmlWhile Hillary spent $140 million on tv spots, Trump campaign pumped its money into Facebook
The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
While Hillary Clinton spent more than $140 million on television spots, old-media experts scoffed at Trumps lack of old-media ad buys. Instead, his campaign pumped its money into digital, especially Facebook. One day in August, it flooded the social network with 100,000 ad variations, so-called A/B testing on a biblical scale, surely more ads than could easily be vetted by human eyes for compliance with Facebooks community standards.
Perhaps out of necessity, the Trump team was embracing a new-media lesson: It didnt have to build everything from scratch. Mark Zuckerberg and others had already built the infrastructure the campaign needed to reach voters directly. When Trump TV went live on Facebook before and after the second debate it raked in $9 million in donations in 120 minutes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-quiz.html?_r=1
EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto Kill Cancer Study
A less expensive/more palatable approach is to rely on experts only for some areas of contention, while we ghost-write the Exposure Tox & Genetox sections, Heydens wrote to a colleague.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/monsanto-accused-of-ghost-writing-papers-on-roundup-cancer-risk
Trump-STOPPING studies on Roundup. Robert Kennedy Jr. has 1 mil Monsanto docs
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Makes You Hate Monsanto More Than You Already Do Thom Hartmann Program
EPA has been lying to us for 20 yrs on dangers of glyphosate - adjuvants worst than glyphosate and adjuvants make glyphosate way more toxic than glyphosate alone. Kennedy has one million documents from Monsanto that need to be unsealed for the public to see the corruption between Monsanto and the EPA. "The judge is making a decision whether to unseal the documents".
Robert Kennedy Jr. representing 3000 home gardeners, farmers and farm workers. Huge history of corruption between Monsanto and the EPA; documents show the truth. Texas attorney general brought a case because of tremendous amount of Roundup in breakfast cereal given to childen - our wheat and oats are mega contaminated. This week TRUMP CANCELLED all Roundup studies.
https://trofire.com/2017/03/31/robert-f-kennedy-jr-makes-hate-monsanto-already-thom-hartmann-program/
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