Another Fake Bin Laden Story

Reblogged this on SilentSoldier.

Paul Craig Roberts says…
“RT has fallen for a fake story put out by the Pentagon to support the fantasy story that a SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, who died a second time in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a decade after his first death from illness and disease.”
The problem is that RT gives too much editorial freedom to foreign anchors like Aby Martin, for example. The result is uneven material, and sometimes flat-out lies. Everything RT says must be taken with a grain of salt.
For example, RT commentator Abby Martin was once an energetic member of the “9-11 truth movement.” She blogged, joined marches, and so on, but the minute she got the RT gig, Ms. Martin did an about-face and renounced everything she had said about 9-11. She became especially keen to deny that Israel had anything to do with 9-11.
Furthermore, Abby Martin frequently has guests who parrot the imperialist line about Gaddafi, and who insist that Syrian President Assad must be destroyed. Abby Martin agrees with these guests.
https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/abby-martin.jpg
Be careful with RT.
Do you know why RT doesn’t condemn the latest US involvement in Iraq? Because Russia has massive oil investments there, and the US is protecting them. I will explain more if challenged.
https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bin_laden_raid.jpg

@la silencia – Russia’s second largest oil company is Lukoil, which is owned by Vagit Alekperov.
Mr. Alekperov is a multi-billionaire oligarch who comes from Azerbaijan, which crawls with Israelis. The Israelis have contracts to provide security at airports, government compounds, and so on. Israelis also use Azerbaijan to spy in neighboring Iran.
Azerbaijan is a Muslim country, but I suspect that Mr. Alekperov is actually a Jew. (I have no proof of that. He claims that his mother was Russian orthodox, which I question.)
In November 2009, Shell and Exxon-Mobil won a $50 billion contract to extract 9-billion-barrels of oil from the West Qurna Oil Field in southern Iraq. This is the second largest single oil field in the world, after the Ghawar oil field in Saudi Arabia.
In December 2009, Mr. Alekperov’s Lukoil and Norway’s Statoil were awarded the rights to extract 12.88-billion-barrels from the West Qurna oil field.
In March 2012, Statoil sold its 18.75% stake in the field to Mr. Alekperov’s giving him a 75% stake, and leaving the Iraqi state oil company with only 25%.
Mr. Alekperov also won the right to develop “Block 10,” which covers an area of 5,500 square kilometers (2,124 square miles), and is located 120 kilometers to the west of Basra. In April 2014, Lukoil began a 2D seismic survey at Block 10.
All these oil companies are engaged in massive “fraccing” (hydraulic fracturing) to get the oil. They are causing massive pollution.
Meanwhile Sunnis in Iraq have no oil. They have been marginalized, tortured, slaughtered, and starved by the Shi’ite majority. They want a share of the Iraqi oil money. They are socialists, wanting control of Iraq’s oil to be in the hands of all Iraqis; not only a few oligarchs. The USA says no, you can’t have any money, and the Shi’ite oligarchs will continue to rule. The USA labels the desperate Sunni insurgents “ISIS” in order to justify exterminating them.
(“ISIS” in Syria is a different story.) “ISIS” in Iraq consists of ordinary Sunnis who have been brutally marginalized, and are now desperately fighting for survival. The West pretends that they are all one group, and that they are all religious fanatics, in order to make them seem insane, highly disciplined, and a “global threat.” Whenever imperialists want to smash and loot, they brand everyone in their murderous path as a “global threat.” The West called the Vietcong a “global threat,” and then the populist revolutionaries in Central America a “global threat,” and so on.
Israel’s “global threat” is Hezbollah, and sometimes Palestinians, both of which supposedly have “terrorist bases” around the world.
It’s all about grabbing the oil, supporting Israel, and putting all wealth in the hands of the global 1%.
Southern Iraq is full of Shi’ites, and the oil fields are too heavily guarded. Therefore the Sunni insurgents tried to get control of some of the oil in the northern Kurdish region. The USA is bombing these desperate Sunnis, and protecting the Iraqi Kurds, who are extremely tight with Israel.
In November 2000, Lukoil acquired Getty Petroleum Marketing and its 1,300 gas stations in the United States. Like many other Russian oligarchs, Alekperov has also moved into banking and media. In May 2006 Mr. Alekperov was one of the two main owners of IFD Kapital Group, a Russian financial holding company based in Moscow. IFD Kapital is also an investment bank, with assets exceeding US $14.7 billion.
Back in the north, in the Kurdish country, Exxon Mobil is negotiating to bring OAO Rosneft (a Russian oil company) into oil and gas licenses. Although Lukoil is privately owned, OAO Rosneft is majority owned by the Russian government.
For this reason, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has nothing to say about Washington’s manufactured ISIS™ Crisis. Russia just wants the oil extraction to go smoothly, an therefore opposes the starving Sunni insurgents (i.e. “ISIS”).

@ lasilencia ~ The EU-US sanctions enacted on 12 Sep 2014 bar Western oil companies from working in the Russian arctic with oil companies that the Russian government has a controlling interest in.
The sanctions are not directed at privately owned Russian companies.
Exxon was working with Rosneft, which is Russian-government-owned. Rosneft was founded in 1993, but did not become a major player until Putin had Mikhail Khodorkovsky jailed (25 Oct 2003), and the Yukos company was broken up.
The EU-US sanctions do not affect Mr. Alekperov and his Lukoil, since…
1. His company is privately owned (by him)
2. He works with Israeli interests in Azerbaijan.
3. He is not involved in Ukraine (at least, as far as I know)
4. He is not in the arctic
On 20 Sep 2014, Exxon obtained a two-week extension on US-EU sanctions. Six days later, Exxon discovered a new oil and gas field that is expected to yield 2.7 billion barrels of oil and gas, just short of a “supergiant.”
However the area is freezing up right now, so Exxon must wait until spring 2015 to start drilling in any case. In the meantime, Exxon might work on getting the sanctions removed, at least on Exxon. This should not be a problem, since Exxon has plenty of money to bribe US politicians.
As I said, the sanctions do not target privately owned companies. Only companies owned or controlled by the Russian government.
Putin is retaliating by squeezing some of the Russian oligarchs. For example, the EU-US sanctions target the government-owned Rosneft Company, which is the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company by output.
Rosneft wants to get control of the Bashneft Company, which is Russia’s seventh-largest oil producer (350,000 barrels of oil a day). The Bashneft company is privately owned by an oligarch named Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who refuses to surrender the Bashneft Company to the Rosneft Company and the Russian government. (Rosneft’s chairman is Igor Sechin, a Putin ally).
Therefore, despite Mr. Yevtushenkov’s personal wealth of $7.5 billion, the Russian government filed criminal charges against him for “money laundering,” and put him under house arrest on 16 Sep 2014. Mr. Yevtushenkov must wear an electronic anklet, and may not use the Internet or the telephone, except to talk to his lawyers.
As we can see, Russia’s topmost politicians have as much power as do the topmost oligarchs. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when Putin had him arrested in 2003. (Obama, by contrast, is a mere puppet of the rich.)
So in Russia, the oligarchs and the top politicians are equally powerful. This infuriates the West, which is a pure plutocracy.
The EU-US sanctions ban the Rosneft Company (government owned) from borrowing money or equipment from the West, and from buying western technology for deep-water, Arctic offshore, and shale oil deposits.
The sanctions do not target the Bashneft oil company, since it is privately owned. Therefore the Russian government wants to nationalize Bashneft in retaliation for the sanctions.
We’ll have to wait and see how all this plays out.