Powerful stuff – Art by Jon McNaughton
The Forgotten Man
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Do you ever wonder why friends and family just won’t listen to the truth that seems so plain and clear to you? As though they don’t want to know? Here are their thought processes explained from a truly brilliant site – The Greatest Truth Never Told.
Normalcy Bias
The normalcy bias, or normality bias, refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur.
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment.[1]
Doublethink
Doublethink, a word coined by George Orwell in the novel 1984, describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct social contexts.[1] It is related to, but distinct from,hypocrisy and neutrality. Its opposite is cognitive dissonance, where the two beliefs cause conflict in one’s mind. Doublethink is an integral concept of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The word doublethink is part of Newspeak.
and this needs no definition..
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If you like Conspiracy Theories, you’ll love this one, along the lines of the Conspiracy “M” theory from last year, it seems like a valiant attempt to bind every single name and event from the last 300 years into one huge super-evil master plan.
It is based upon some slightly wierd factual occurrences (remember the $135 billion of “Federal Reserve bonds” siezed at the Italian border story ?) and now a lawsuit has apparently been filed, as detailed in the PDF here and full details here, and well let’s just say that we think the most likely scenario is that the bonds are fake, and the whole thing is a very elaborate hoax, along the lines of the the famous 419 scammers
Of course, this is not to say that within so many allegations, there are not certain aspects with some elements of truth to them, indeed that’s almost a statistical certainty, that with this much (alleged) smoke, there’s bound to be a few smouldering flames somewhere, but as with all conspiracy theories, we would suggest digging very deep, looking for EVIDENCE (and a lawsuit in itself is not evidence, nor does there appear to be any actual evidence in it) before going round telling all your friends the “truth” 
Of course no decent conspiracy theory can really be taken seriously without the obligatory “Youtube evidence” so here are two of the main players.
frankly however these guys don’t seem focused on maintaining credibility here and look to us as though they may be snorting lines of some illegal substance prior to filming
..and here’s the full story told by a crying blogger on a radio show..
“..lets all surround him with white light and protection..”
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A lawsuit (’11 CIV 8500 – Judge Holwell) was filed in New York on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 which could end the secret government that has ruled Western civilization for the last 300 years. The court papers can be accessed through PACER: Case 1:11-cv-08500-JFK Document 1 Filed 11/23/11. PACER is a US government restricted-access website. The acronym stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records.
The lawsuit claims that a sum in excess of $1 trillion was stolen by, among others, Ray C. Dam, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Italian government, Giancarlo Bruno and the Davos World Economic Forum syndicate and others believed to include many of the owners of the US Federal Reserve Board.
The summons was filed in New York by Neil Keenan, acting as representative of “The Dragon Family”, a reclusive group of wealthy Asian dynasties. The legal filing is the result of extensive evidence gathering by international police and law-enforcement agencies including Interpol, the CIA, the Japanese Security Police and several Eastern European secret services. The action has the backing of the Pentagon and the armed forces of Russia and China.
The ultimate defendants in this legal action are understood to be the cabal behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, 911, and many other major international crimes and terrorist atrocities.
The lawsuit was triggered by the illegal detainment of two Japanese citizens, Akihiko Yamaguchi and Mitsuyoshi Watanabe, and the seizure of $134.5 billion in bonds they were holding in Chiasso, Italy, on Wednesday 3rd June 2009. After the bonds were stolen, self-described 33rd degree Freemason Leo Zagami contacted this writer (Benjamin Fulford, in Japan) and said that the Monte Carlo P2 masonic lodge could cash the bonds with the help of Vatican banker Daniel Dal Bosco. This writer forwarded the information, via a member of the UK Royal family, to The Dragon Family who entrusted a further $1 trillion worth of similar bonds to the plaintiff Neil Keenan. Keenan then, after much negotiation, entrusted the bonds to Dal Bosco.
Dal Bosco subsequently absconded with the bonds and was followed 24-hours-a-day by various intelligence service agents to see what he would do with them. The Dal Bosco trail led to the Davos World forum, the UN, the Italian government and the Vatican, among other places. Following this, Keenan was approached by a Who’s Who of powerful figures including top Vatican officials, Wall Street bankers, European nobles and former US presidents, most offering him astronomical bribes to go away. He was also poisoned with ricin and nearly killed.
According to Keenan: “The roots of this case go back to between 1927 and 1938, when, under arrangements made between T.V. Soong (Finance Minister of China) and Henry Morgethau, Secretary of the Treasury, The United States Government purchased some 50 million ounces of silver and leased vast amounts of gold from the Nationalist Chinese Government, known as Kuomintang. For all the treasure handed in, certificates were given to those who surrendered their precious metals.”
Many of the bonds seized by Dal Bosco are backed with the Chinese gold taken by the Federal Reserve Board during those years and never returned to its legal owners
Other bonds seized were Kennedy bonds. These bonds were backed by gold held in trust for the people of the planet and were supposed to be used to finance the economic development of the world. Instead they have mostly been stolen and misused by members of the cabal that has seized control of the Western financial system on behalf of private interests.
The original signatory to the Kennedy bonds was former Indonesian President, Achmad Soekarno (1901-1970). Soekarno’s heir, Dr. Seno Edy Soekanto, has given Neil Keenan power of attorney to return to their rightful owners the Kennedy bonds and other property allocated to the people of the world via something known as The Global Collateral Accounts.
The lawsuit is only the first salvo in a legal battle to restore control of the global financial system to the people and governments of the world as well as the rightful owners of historical assets that have been seized by members of the banking cartel.
The lawsuit (full text here) was filed as 2011 Civil Action 8500 at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge Holwell) on November 23, 2011.
Background information on the problems with the global financial system summarised by Neil Keenan and Keith Scott:
The United States is a private corporation owned by the British Crown (Rothschilds), the Bank of England (Rothschilds) and the Vatican (Rothschilds again). It was previously called the Virginia Company until 3/9/33 when it was dissolved by Roosevelt under the Emergency Banking Act. On 5/5/33 Congress elected to dissolve the Gold Standard and Sovereign Authority of the U.S. and all of its official capacities including government offices, departments and officers. The U.S. is a corporation, not a nation. The Federal Reserve is neither Federal, nor a Reserve. It is a private counterfeiting organization run by bankers who lend the money they print out of thin air at interest while we keep on paying these criminals to fleece the People.
That technology of theft and deception that has been exported from the United States through their promotion of this fraud as the paradigm of global finance is an obscenity that has set the seeds of its own destruction.
Background history:
1. Between 1927 and 1938, under arrangements made between T.V.Soong (Finance Minister of China) and Henry Morgethau, Secretary of the Treasury, The United States Government purchased some 50 million ounces of silver and leased vast amounts of gold from the Nationalist Chinese Government, known as Kuomintang. During this period China was partly occupied by Japanese troops and there was the fear of China being overrun by the Japanese.
2. For all the treasure handed in, certificates were given to those who surrendered their precious metals. The surrendered precious metals and gemstones were sent to the United States under a lease agreement made between T.V. Soong and Henry Morgenthau. The Certificates became the underlying funds of the Kuomintang and were good and accepted securities.
3. In 1934 a new Securities Act was promulgated in the United States, together with the Gold Act, which required all bullion gold and gold coin to be surrendered to the Federal Reserve, a private corporation chartered to operate as the Central Bank of the United States and to be the issuer of the currency known as the United States Dollar.
4. Domestically owned gold was purchased. Foreign Gold held by the Treasury was also surrendered to the Federal Reserve, so, was leased to the Federal Reserve. This began the series 1934 Notes issued by the Federal Reserve. These have never been redeemed and the interest cost was met by further issuances of the 1934 series FRN’s.
5. These 1934 FRN’s guarantee the lease payments and to allow the Chinese Government to continue financially. These came under the control of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist Government in China from whom the Gold had been received. Many were left in China when the Kuomintang had to flee to Taiwan. The Gold had been nationalized by the Kuomintang who moved much of the FRN’s (but not all) to Taiwan which was built on these notes. These Notes were the underlying wealth of Taiwan and they were good for value as they were backed by gold.
6. During the war in China, most owners of the depository notes issued by Chinese Banks were killed by the Japanese, others later being killed by both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists, thus the Gold became property of the Nation, especially so, the Kuomintang. In Europe, Jews who had owned wealth were stripped of that wealth through various means and were then eliminated. The gold was taken either by stealth or by force, that is a reality of history.
7. The Kuomintang appointed guardians of this Gold and the securities issued by the United States; they are euphemistically known as the Dragon Family. The Dragon Family is in fact an organization that operates between old families within China and Taiwan, and as such is above the political divide of the two independent Chinese Governments. Chinese are remarkable in this regard, that old family ties and functions supercede political arrangements which, though they might last for generations, are regarded as inconsequential over the passage of time to most Chinese. Attached to this is the wealth of several nations. The United States in support of the Kuomintang and resistance groups actually printed more of these FRN notes inside China itself. These operations were run by the CIA to buy loyalty of various factions in the fight against the communists, eventually being driven out into Burma around 1960. Largely due to the additional printing of these notes, the additional Notes were given in lieu of interest, but directed to specific persons and parties.
8. At the end of the World War II, with Communist and Kuomintang factions at war in China, the International Community and the Chinese assented to the Gold being placed under the overt control of Indonesian President Soekarno. Soekarno then, on August 17, 1945, came to be known as M1 under United Nations Approval No. MISA 81704 “Operation Heavy Freedom. This was because much of the world’s gold had been delivered into Indonesia and the Philippines. Canada, Australia, Great Britain, India and other British Colonies sent their gold to the so called “impregnable Singapore” The Japanese, as per the arrangements agreed to by Hirohito in the 1921 Pact Between Nations made in London, delivered much of this gold to Indonesia (Then a Dutch Colony) and to Philippines (Then a US Colony) into secret bunkers that had been mostly constructed by the Japanese between 1924 and 1945. This is why the Allied troops in Malaya had no air cover or sufficient supplies to that would have allowed them to resist the Japanese. Singapore had to fall so most of the global wealth could be “lost” into a secret system that made the gold standard redundant and fiat currencies a reality.
This gold was documented into accounts through the Swiss Commercial Bank Union Bank of Switzerland, placed under protection of the Swiss Attorney General, registered through the Swiss National Bank into the Bank for International Settlements International Collateral Combined accounts and then from within the BIS, blocked to form the Institutional Parent Registration Accounts of the Federal Reserve System.
Later President Marcos of the Philippines was appointed and held the position of M1 until 1987 and then the position was transferred to Dr. Ray C. Dam, in October of 1987, under Legal Decadency to Heir RCD1087 Far East Entire with formal Power of Attorney and Assignment of Indonesian Assets signed by Sarinah Soetiwi (holder of the assets on behalf of the Nation of Indonesia as assigned by President Soekarno) in 1992, Dam’s authority later promulgated January 20, 1995. Dam proved to be impossible for the entire system to work with, (either because he refused to allow those who placed him in authority to steal, or because of his personal arrogance…. Difficult to know which is correct) and his authority over the Institutional parent registration Accounts set aside and the system reverted to the three Nations who had controlled these accounts since World war II, United States, Great Britain and France, who systematically and illegally subverted the established system since 1996.
9. From this we can see that there are two functional operations. One was ownership and Depository control by the owners of the Gold and the other a control system set in place to administer and control the Collateral Combined Accounts as an independent Arbiter. Ownership rights are held by the signatory to the Depository Accounts in Commercial Banks and Control Rights have been held by M1.
10. So it was, that the entire world supply of bullion and coinage gold was withdrawn and fiat currencies became the order of the day. However, underneath the notes and money issued by the Federal Reserve was the underlying wealth within a centralized system that Nations was intended to be used equitably, but Bankers determined they would use to raid national economies.
11. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy entered into an Agreement with President Soekarno to provide the funds to allow the United States Treasury to print its own currency, thus subverting the “right” to print the currency held by the Federal Reserve. The Agreement would have transferred some 59,000 tons of gold to underpin this currency. The problem with this was that the US domestic currency would have then been backed by gold which would have been a violation of international agreements meant to stabilize currencies. 11 days after signing this agreement, President Kennedy was assassinated. President Johnson the suspended EO11110 as issued by Kennedy and transferred the bullion to the Federal Reserve. The Green Hilton Agreement was not implemented until 1968 when Soekarno fell from office and when Global Trade made it imperative that the world have a Global Currency. As the Gold had been transferred to the US Treasury in 1968, a series of Bonds known as Kennedy Bonds were issued in order to honor the terms of the Green Hilton Agreement made between Kennedy and Soekarno, the 1968 terms of the gold delivery to the United States being different than made in 1934. When after 30 years, interest had not been paid as promised, a reissue of the bonds in an increased number were issued as commemorative notes and were accepted by the owners of the Gold, the Dragon Family.
12. From copies of Bank documents received by Neil Keenan, within the Green Hilton Memorial Agreement, the funds the amounts of gold and platinum are specified. These amounts of gold are certificated and the certificates and ledger copies with full and exact identification and recognition codes are available. These certificates are further proven by the bank reports, copies of which are now held by Neil Keenan. The truth of these instruments can be vigorously defended through documentation in our hands and further through interrogation of the Black Screens where the off ledger collateral is held, together with an interrogation of the grey and blue screens where we will find enormous fraud from the illegal use of these assets.
13. In the few documents we present with this complaint we can see that the assets have been deposited, the counter-assets created and presented to the depositors, the depositors have been cheated for over 70 years through the intentional and fraudulent failure of the Obligor to honor the Agreements.
14. In recent weeks we have come into possession of the books and records of the late President Soekarno, and all the codes and ledgers of the Global Accounts. The size of these accounts can be seen by reviewing the Collective Agreement between the Garuda Memorial Hilton Indonesia and the Green Memorial Hilton Geneva, established, structured and made operational between 1961 and final signature in 1972. Under this Agreement the assets of the international collateral combined were established and brought forward, then, within a short period of time misused to change the operating systems of banks.
15. Reviewing these books, we can now see that Banks set aside the notion of operating under the Charters they hold as banks, instead of being Banks they became like very poor casino operators and traders, selling what they do not own. The records in our possession, signed and registered by the receiving and managing commercial bank, show the underlying funds in numbers and amounts that stagger the imagination. The Green Hilton and Garuda Memorial Agreements demonstrate clearly the value of the global account system.
a) Gold and Platinum Deposits ran into millions of tons.
b) 1934 series Federal Reserve System Bonds, Notes issued in 1928 , Kennedy Bonds ran into Quadrillions of US Dollars, Dragon Bonds are all recorded and acknowledged within the Green Hilton and Memorial Hilton Collective Agreements. Both Assets in the form of Bullion surrendered to the Global Accounts through the United States Government and then entrusted to a private corporation, the Federal Reserve System.
Some more recent under-the-radar geopolitical activity is summarised here (12.12.11), here (12.12.11), here (05.12.11), here(30.11.12), here (28.11.11), here (21.11.11), here (15.11.11), here (08.11.11), here (05.10.11), here (03.10.11), here(26.09.11), here (25.09.11), here (22.08.11), here (19.08.11), here (15.08.11), here (09.08.11), here (08.08.11), here(01.08.11), here (25.07.11), here (17.07.11) and here (14.12.09).
The Monaco Colloquium of August 2011, which intimately connects with the launch of US Civil Action #8500 cited above, is outlined here. The issue of the $47 trillion World Global Settlement Funds is referenced here. The increasingly urgent, and related, matter of Global Debt Forgiveness is summarised here. And preliminary indications about the international opening of Pandora’s Suitcase are assembled here.
Morpheus says:
Whilst we await developments with baited breath, we do not recommend holding your breath for the grand plan to be finally revealed 
Anybody who thinks we might be being flippant about something “as serious as this” should probably read this thread through for balance before making any conclusions. Note we are not in general recommending that site, they are mostly pseudo skeptics, but in this instance, they might have a point.
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The main body of this post comes from here and was originally part of a blatent stock-pumping pitch which we have mostly removed, but it has some interesting ideas in it, and would certainly explain much of the USA’s obsession with the area..
The war drums are beating louder, with Iran clearly next in the pre-planned sequence, as we have discussed before Iran is basically under siege for years already, and is now subject to aggressive sanctions (financial warfare) and covert ops (assassinations and cyber war).
Many people think Israel is Iran’s main priority, primarily because of a continually mis-quoted piece of text the warmongering Neo Cons always use to justify their (years old) plans for the coming war, we think that possibly the Iranian priorities might be slightly different than what most are lead to believe.
Whatever you think of Iran, having once been the 2500 year old Persian Empire, they are not totally stupid, they fully understand that if they were to use WMDs on Israel, they would be basically wiped off the map by the far superior military might of the USA, so this is not ever going to happen.
In our opinion they have watched Iraq and Libya get attacked by the USA, (and are now surrounded themselves) and they have seen North Korea, well not get attacked and have worked out that a nuclear deterrent, does in fact deter.
There are also other considerations that the majority of non-Muslim westerners are likely not aware of, and if much of this is actually true, has the potential to indeed become the start of World War III..
1,354 Years in the Making:
The “NEW” War That Could Rocket Oil Past $220?
by Byron King
Nobody in the Pentagon will talk openly about it. Nobody in the White House knows what to do.
But make no mistake…
What I’m about to show you could be the deadliest surprise threat to your money and livelihood of the coming year.
I say “new” because as you’ll see there’s not much newabout it at all — the pressure’s been building behind this for the last 1,354 years!
Yet for the first time in history, that pressure has found its release. I’m imagining a volcano of blood.
When it blows, you could see your savings get SLAMMED… the dollar thrown into a TAILSPIN… and, here’s what will stun the still-recovering world economy, gas and oil prices doubling or even tripling within the next 12 months.
How on earth is that possible?
It’s the last thing most people expect, from market pros to bumbling D.C. bureaucrats… but if nothing changes in what I’m about to show you… this is a page in future history books that’s already writing itself.
I’ll show you the evidence myself.
If I’m right, as many as eight key Islamic countries are hurtling headlong toward a bloody “new” war — with each other — that’s been FOURTEEN CENTURIES in the making.
This could begin as early as the next 12 to 18 months.
And with no less than 66% of the world’s key energy reserves smack dab in the crosshairs.
Sound impossible?
Even if I’m only half right, and we get an oil-state stalemate unlike anything the world has ever seen — you could see oil soar past the old high of $147.30 per barrel, well on its way to as much as $220… with gasoline bucking against a ceiling of $8 per gallon.
I’ll show you how this unfolds below.
You’ll see the maps, I’ll name the names. And I’ll reveal to you the stunning web of “secret revenge” that lies behind it all… waiting over 1,354 years for this moment!
| Soaring Oil Costs, Even a Dead Economy?
Remember the “Nixon Shock” and market collapse of ’73? Stocks fell 43%… but that didn’t stop oil and gas prices from quadrupling thanks to an Oil Embargo. And how about 1979 and gas lines? Even with Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” and stagflation, oil prices almost tripled… thanks to the hostage crisis in Tehran. It was oil that German subs targeted in both World Wars… and oil Japan gunned for in Pearl Harbor… even Afghanistan is part battle over a $3.2 billion oil pipeline. After the S&L banking crisis of the late ’80s, oil still soared in Gulf War One… and soared again on 9/11, despite the aftermath of the dot-com bomb. It took off again in 2003, as bombs dropped on Baghdad. With politics as a driver, oil doesn’t need a red-hot economy to take off… even the last peak of $147 came six months after the Dow first started shedding points and two years after property markets turned south! |
Of course, events like these echo around the world. And nobody gets the chance to just “sit on the sidelines.”
But before I do, let’s step back so I can explain how this “war” begins.
Long before $147 oil… before the war over 9/11 or the war in Afghanistan… before either war in Iraq, the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, or even the oil crisis of 1973.
All the way back to a lamb dinner, served up one evening in the year 629 AD…
The Murder That’s About to Change the World
Nobody could have known that the dinner they were about to eat would one day change history. Some say it was goat. Others say it was lamb. And the guest of honor was Mohammed, the controversial founder of Islam. Either way, it was poisoned
It was just one bite, that’s all it took. He tasted the poison and immediately spit it out. But it was too late. He would soon die, sparking a bitter and deadly divide.
See, when Mohammed died nobody could agree on who should take over…
And they’ve been killing each other as a result ever since.
On the one side, you’ve got the Sunni Muslims. They’re the ones that run Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and many of the other countries in the Middle East.
On the other, you’ve got the Shia Muslims. It’s the Shia that run Iran. And now run Iraq, as well as Lebanon and Syria.
Think Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland… Serbs vs. Croats in Bosnia… or even the religious Thirty Years War that ripped apart Europe in the 16th century.
Only this Sunni-Shia split has built up pressure now for the last 1,354 years.
But it’s only now that this pressure has found its ultimate release — with Iran driving a new Shia uprising smack dab in the middle of the most dangerous place on Earth — the oil-soaked Middle East.
Isn’t the Middle East already a mess? Yes, it is.
What’s different is that too many in the West… right up to the White House and the Pentagon… don’t “get” just how deep this Islam divide could go or how far it could run.
Take a look at this map…
The Deadly Sunni-Shia Divide — 2011
If it’s black in this map, it’s Shia ground.
It’s also mostly oil heartland and some of the most strategic territory in the entire Middle East!
One terrorist with a grudge can do a lot of damage. Iran, all by itself, could even be a deadly force.
But can you imagine what millions of Shiites with a 1,354-year old ax to grind could do?
The 162-Million-Man March
Nobody knows exactly how many Shia there are right now in the Middle East. That’s because in all but four Middle Eastern countries, Sunni leaders don’t bother to count.
Sunni schools teach that Shiites aren’t real Muslims. Shias don’t get a seat in government. They can’t become judges or even testify in high courts. In Sunni-run Saudi Arabia, Shias and Sunni can’t even marry.
For centuries, the Shia have been the underclass.
But now, for the first time in history, they see this as their chance to turn the tide. And how big a tide is it? Hands down, saber-rattling Iran has the most — 70 million Shia.
But then you’ve got the “liberated” Shia of Iraq — 22 million. Plus as many as 2 million Shia in Iran-backed Lebanon. And up to 4 million Shia in Iran’s top ally, Syria.
Then you’ve got another 700,000 Shia in Kuwait… up to 500,000 Shia in Bahrain… up to 400,000 Shia in the United Arab Emirates… 300,000 Shia in Oman… and around 100,000 Shia in Qatar, according to the Pew Research Center in Washington.
On top of that, as many as 10 million Shia in Yemen… another 7 million Shia in Azerbaijan… and 11 million Shia in Turkey… not to mention the combined 30 million Shia in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Not all Shia want a revolution.
But out of between the 147 million to 162 million Shia spread from Pakistan to Lebanon and Azerbaijan to Yemen, enough do that this is the river of “Secret Revenge” and common blood running through the entire Middle East.
The Sunnis are worried. Especially in Sunni-run Saudi Arabia.
And especially now.
Here’s why…
“New” Oil War Flashpoint #1:
The Real Reason Iran Wants the Bomb
Don’t forget, Iran used to be Persia.
At one point Persia was the biggest and most powerful empire in history!
Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt — even Israel — the Persians controlled them all. Along with all of Afghanistan and Pakistan and most of the oil-rich coast of the Caspian.
For 300 years, Persian armies held off the Roman Empire. Their scholars walked with Aristotle and Plato. And influenced Greek art.
It was the Persians who invented chess. And the windmill.
Not to mention bricks, algebra, trigonometry, and wine.
The bottom line is… no Empire forgets its past glory.
The Iranians resent losing theirs.
But now they see a chance to get it back.
The nuclear bomb? Tehran’s crackpot leaders don’t just want it to scare Israel. They want it so they can throw a dark shadow over their Sunni Arab neighbors, too!
Take a look at this…
Iran’s First Move…
With total control of the Hormuz “oil chokepoint” in the Persian Gulf and new power in “liberated” Iraq, the Iranians have a brand new foothold for kicking off the long-awaited “Shia Revolution.”
You’ll notice two things.
First, you’ll see how Iran’s Shia influence has spilled across the border into southern Iraq. Southern Iraq is where you’ll find six of Iraq’s eight “Supergiant” oil fields. It’s also where you’ll find a key border with Shia Islam’s mortal enemy — Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is Sunni.
For eight years back in the 1980s, Saudi Arabia helped Iraq wage a bloody war against Iran. Along with other Sunni governments, the Saudis even gave Saddam over $47 billion to launch missiles and nerve gas attacks over the Iranian border.
Iran hasn’t forgotten. Or forgiven.
(Imagine if Canada or Mexico had given money to Japan to help them bomb Pearl Harbor. Iran has waited to make the Saudis pay — and now they have their chance.)
Hormuz is the tight waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
Over 17 million barrels of oil have to pass through Hormuz every day.
The second thing you’ll see in the map above is that Iran has almost total control over the Strait of Hormuz.
That’s 40% of all the oil shipped in the world. And 90% of all the daily oil shipments from the entire Middle East.
With Hormuz alone, Iran could cripple the world overnight.
Today, Iran backs Shia militants in Iraq. They give them money and guns. They’ve even helped Shia politicians take over the Iraqi government. Why?
Because gaining control in Iraq takes the Iranians one step closer in their twisted plot for secret revenge. For another one of those steps, just look further south… to Yemen.
“New” Oil War Flashpoint #2: Yemen’s Ugly Secret
The Pentagon has just tripled its budget on Yemen.
Top U.S. General Patraeus just had a not-so-secret meeting with Yemen’s president.
And our own State Department calls Yemen a “threat… to global stability.”
What gives?
Even ABC News just called Yemen the next “top target” in the terror war and a “near-perfect haven for terrorists.” Obama just sent Yemen our troops, ships, and weapons.
Here’s what’s happening…
The Shia Revolution’s Next New Front…
Yemen’s on/off Shia revolution gives and “Gate of Tears” oil chokepoint could soon give Iran a strategic “backdoor” attack point into Saudi Arabia…
Temen might be a failed country… with a collapsing government, a shrinking oil supply, an exploding population and not much of anything else but lawlessness and chaos.
But what Yemen does have is position.
It sits just on the tip of the Arab peninsula… south of another key Saudi border and on the coast of another key oil strait called Bab-el-Mandeb.
That name means the “Gate of Tears.”
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And like Hormuz, most oil states on the Red Sea can’t get a drop of oil out without shipping it through the Bab-el-Mandeb. Over 3.3 million barrels go through every day.
Blocking this chokepoint alone could slap a $30 “political premium” on the price of every barrel of oil… but there’s an even bigger threat taking shape.
For the last six years, Yemen has fought a vicious and bloody war with Shia rebels. These rebels are poor. There’s no way, says a Yemen general, these rebels “could fund and fight this war with pomegranates and grapes… no doubt there is Iranian support.”
Could it be true? Absolutely.
Iran loves to buy loyalty.
Take the $1 billion Tehran now “donates” every year to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Or the billions they gave Syria’s Shia president to build cement factories, car factories, power plants, and storage silos.
In return, Iran gets Hezbollah’s Arabic-speaking terrorists to run militant Shia training camps in Iraq. And gets Syria to distribute Iran’s money and weapons to others in the Shia network.
The secret money Iran sends to Shia rebels in Yemen could soon have a payoff too — by opening up another route for “backdoor” Shia access into Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s rebels have already hit towns across the Saudi border. And the Saudis have hit back, losing dozens of troops in the process. We’re just in the first innings of this one.
How bad is it?
So far, 50 Saudi schools along the border have had to close. Another 240 border towns have already been evacuated. And Saudi jets have already dropped bombs in Yemen.
What exactly has the Saudis running scared?
Final Oil War Flashpoint #3: Iran’s Final Prize — Saudi Oil
Don’t think for a minute that I think Iran’s plot for “secret revenge” could succeed.
But the threat alone could be enough to kick oil much higher.
And sooner than you might think.
For instance…
- Our CIA, Britain’s M16, and other top spy agencies say Iran could have a working nuclear bomb within three months…
- The Times of London uncovered a confidential document that says Iran already has a “neutron initiator” ready to test. That’s the part you need to trigger a warhead.
- And Der Spiegel, the German magazine, says Iran may even have the tech and material to build a simple nuclear bomb before the end of THIS year.
But the Bomb is just a beginning.
Even if the go ahead to build a nuke never comes from Iran’s top cleric, the more immediate danger is a wildfire of Shia-Sunni unrest… starting in Iran’s new hotbeds of Shia support… and spreading across the rest of the Sunni-run oil states… with the richest oil fields in the world’s richest oil nation as the final battleground.
Take a look at this last map…
The Final Battleground — Saudi Arabia!
Suddenly, Iran has its mortal enemy, Saudi Arabia, surrounded — millions of Shia even live on top of the Saudis OWN biggest oilfields.
As you can see, Saudi Arabia looks like a sitting duck.
Iran has a Shia network that reaches from Afghanistan to Lebanon once again… more connections building along the Persian Gulf… Yemeni Shias to the south… and Shia connections along the oil rich Caspian Sea.
You could see this spread to the nearly two million Shia that live and work on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields very soon. Even though that’s exactly what the Saudis — and our own Pentagon — hope will never happen.
As you read this, big and small Gulf states are piling up weapons, stocking anti-missile batteries, and sandbagging their oil terminals, ports, and water desalinization plants…
Abu Dhabi alone has already bought $17 billion worth of U.S. anti-missile hardware. And the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia just splurged on weapons, to the tune of $25 billion.
As you read this, our own F-16 fighter jets, Patriot missile systems, giant cruisers and up to 20,000 more U.S. troops are quietly digging in for an epic fight… that could spread past Iraq and Yemen… and even into Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
All to get ready for what could be the fight of a lifetime…
Say Hello to the “Jihad Generation”
It’s not just our experts saying it.
Leaders in all three of America’s biggest Middle East allied countries — Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia — claim the epic Sunni-Shia showdown is in the cards.
It could start from any one of the flashpoints I just named.
But no matter how it starts, Saudi Arabia is where it’s most likely to end up. Why?
Not only is Saudi Arabia home to Mecca, Islam’s holiest place… but it’s also home to the corrupt and U.S.-allied Royal House of Saud, considered an insult to all Islam.
Think about it.
In a country where they’ll cut off your hand for stealing and whip you for holding a glass of whiskey… Saudi princes gorge on cocaine and prostitutes, gambling, palaces, and more.
All while the vast Saudi underclass starves on just $6,000 per year and 30% unemployment. And as many as two million of that underclass is Shia. With a 1,354-year-old ax to grind and billions of dollars in oil revenues as the prize.
It’s a near-perfect formula for a FULL-ON war.
And the fuse is already lit.
Iran is ready to assert its place in the world. Think Japan or Germany in the 1930s.
The threat is there, it’s large, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
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