Pipeline-Istan: Everything You Need to Know

[annabanana]

Pipeline-Istan: Everything You Need to Know About Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama

http://www.alternet.org/audits/139983/pipeline-istan%3A_everything_you_need_to_know_about_oil%2C_gas%2C_russia%2C_china%2C_iran%2C_afghanistan_and_obama/?page=4

This is the story that is NEVER told to Americans. You will recognize the players (Zbig Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger) and be introduced to new and exotic acronyms (IPI, TAPI, BTC).

Who gets the oil? Who gets the Natural Gas? Who's REALLY in charge and what are the stakes?

This article gets into the weeds in a matter-of-fact way and sets the stage for EVERYTHING that has been happening over there. No matter what reasons they push through the CorpoMedia pipelines... THESE pipelines are the only ones that really count.

Dear DU... Nobody cares about the freedoms of Women. Nobody cares about 9/11 (just a little blip in an ongoing story). The players aren't Countries.. They're COMPANIES (BP, AMOCO, Unocal,) The tools are NATO and SCO (Shanghai Cooperative Organization)

There's NATO vs. the SCO. With either IPI or TAPI, Turkmenistan wins. With either IPI or TAPI, Russia loses. With either IPI or TAPI, Pakistan wins. With TAPI, Iran loses. With IPI, Afghanistan loses. In the end, however, as in any game of high stakes Pipelineistan poker, it all comes down to the top two global players. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets: will the winner be Washington or Beijing?

This article needs to be copied into your files. If you are a curious person, you will refer to it often.

[pleah]

1. K&R

[annabanana]

2. Thanks for the kick!

I see by the recs that people understand it's import.

[pleah]

3. I think people are just exhausted from all

that is going on right now.

I haven't even been posted much, just kicking and recommending, because I just feel kind of numb/stunned.

So many years of being pissed has taken a toll on me.

[rndmprsn]

4. K+R

thanks for this...

[benld74]

5. 007 Movie with Pierce Bronson started it all

[Baby Snooks]

6. Old, old news....

If you look at the map you can see why the pipeline system Enron was planning to build in Afghanistan to deliver natural gas to a port in India was so important. So important that someone didn't want Enron to control it. Connect the dots. Enron was not insolvent. It was merely an obstacle. And so it was merely "disposed of." More than likely Halliburton will eventually build the pipeline. And control it.

Add Iraq and Iran and you not only control most of the oil and gas but you can build a pipeline system that completely bypasses the Persian Gulf. One port in India. One port in Israel.

War on terror? Just a war for oil. And reality was and is that 9/11 became a convenient part of a plan that had already been planned. A part that fit in very nicely. After we were attacked, who of us would possibly protest declaring war on terror? Or protest attacking and invading and occupying Afghanistan and then Iraq? And then possibly Iran and Syria as well? Halliburton, by the way, has been in Iran all these years. Through a subsidiary company. Trading with the enemy only applies to some. Mainly those who might get in Halliburton's way.

Some of us did. Some of us were talking about this war for oil years ago. We were told we didn't know what we were talking about. But we did.

And Obama will continue the war. The war for oil. Not the war on terror.

[ShortnFiery]

7. What the fat, bloated ruling elites will be laughing at us about is that NOW we will have EVEN

more troops deployed in these occupations this summer because we upped the numbers in Afghanistan to 21,000 before we are drawing down Iraq.

Hey! How 'bout PULL ALL OUR TROOPS out of BOTH NATIONS NOW?!? :thumbsup:

[Baby Snooks]

8. And of course now there's Pakistan...

We must remain in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect poor Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. Protect it from the Taliban. No doubt at some point the Taliban will be linked to Iranian terrorists. So we can then attack and invade and occupy Iran finally. To liberate their oil as well.

It is going to be interesting to see what happens when we don't withdraw our troops from Iraq. If we're not at war with Iran by that point, we will probably create another war between Iraq and Iran and of course we will have to remain in Iraq in order to protect the Iraq. And of course we will have to remain in Afghanistan to protect Pakistan as well. It goes on and on and on and on....

Sooner or later the world is going to decare war on us. To be rid of us.

[annabanana]

9. Old news, perhaps... but news to many nonetheless...n/t

[Baby Snooks]

13. True...

I just wish Kay Graham were around. It would probably be the final edition of the Washington Post but what a final edition it would be.

She would run the story. All of it. She would connect the dots no one dares to connect. Especially the dots of Enron. Not that others haven't connected the dots. Others simply aren't willing to publish it.

We no longer really have a free press in this country. No one knows when exactly we lost it. But that really was the point at which we ceased to be a democracy.

Kay Graham never wavered from that one moment years ago. Risking it all for truth. She was the last of the real publishers who were journalists at heart and she valued truth, and the right of the people to know the truth, above all else. It's a shame it didn't rub off on her children.

[katty]

10. just posted awhile ago...but glad it's racking up views

[cosmicdot]

11. 10+ years ago

the Council on Foreign Relations was 'think tanking' the Caspian Sea to direct 'policy'

from the wayback machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040629202826/www.treemedia.com/cfr/library/library.html

[Wednesdays]

12. K&R

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