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Union in and around Baku! Another fact to ponder: the Russian Revolution kept Russian oil off the world market for quite some time. vast might that it was, in effect, "running" America. The USA was Union in and around Baku! Another fact to ponder: the Russian fighting another brutal "War of Independence" (this time from Revolution kept Russian oil off the world market for quite some Standard Oil), which it won in 1911 when the Rockefeller monopoly _ time. was dismantled. Just as in the case of the other War of Independence, victory was an elusive concept. OIL, WAR AND TERRORISM The rest of the 20th century has been called by many in very sim- In the early 20th century, the British Empire began to fray around ple terms as "Rockefeller's revenge". To all intents and purposes, the edges and First Lord of the Admiralty Captain (later Lord) Fisher this was a "re-volution", as it effectively re-established the domi- argued for (re-)fitting the Royal Navy with oil-powered engines to nance of the oil industry over American politics and the American give these ships a definite speed advantage over coal-powered people. What has changed is that not only have the American peo- steamships. With the closest supply then being in the Persian Gulf, ple been pushed around the chessboard, but most of mankind has the British meddling in Middle Eastern affairs becomes understand- been made into pawns in the game of "Big Oil". able. This sounded the death knell for the Ottoman Empire, which In 1823, US President Monroe declared (in wise prescience) the was in control of this region until the end of World War I. Americas "off-limits" to any other polity, and the world was divided That virtually all the oil supplies for the German Empire came into the "Western hemisphere" and the rest. Zischka’ gave a chrono- from the Mosul field in present-day Iraq explains the fighting in the logical account of the oil industry's early development. It turns out. — Dardanelles (Gallipoli) during World War I. The German oil sup- that in the early 20th century there were two major players on this plies had to be disrupted. When you look at the geography of the stage, with an early contender for "second place": region and follow the railroad line from Mosul to Berlin, you will ¢ John Davison Rockefeller, son of a Rabbi-cum-haberdasher and notice that, with the exception of a stretch of less than 100 kilome- purveyor of comforts to the men in the Pennsylvanian oil fields, tres, this line ran entirely in Entente territory. The little piece of land focused his attention on the "downstream" side of the oil industry missing was Serbia! The assassination of the Austrian Crown and by the late 1880s established an almost total monopoly on trans- _— Prince, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo (the port and refining of crude oil. capital of Serbia), takes on an entirely different "flavour". The rest * Henry Deterding, an enterprising young Dutchman, was aclerk _is "bloody history", as Kronberger so bluntly puts it in Blood for in a bank in Batavia (Jakarta) at the turn oil." of the century when the Duri oil field in After World War I, the domestic oil Sumatra was discovered. A fast learner, industry in America swamped the coun- he became involved in the company At the end of the 20th century, try with cheap oil. After the discovery holding the lease over this oil field and the American war machine of oil in Venezuela, the Smoot-Hartley by 1902 had risen to the position of Act enacted by the American Congress president of this company. Deterding had become so awesome that was ostensibly designed to keep oil from veggemelesetminateeo | inthe absence of a credible ff Sowa stn terse concessions. , ; opponent a "replacement did in effect was it exported American srteratoamcalae tances | Monster" had tobe found. “si srsytity, Fess mountains. Ludwig Nobel (brother of One of the (other) remarkable results Was sen by his father (who at this time cil ndusty got involved in the exploit was an arms manufacturer supplying the Imperial Russian Army tion of the Persian Gulf region.'' From that time on, the Middle East with guns) into the Caucasus region to secure a supply of walnut was racked with one after the other war that sent the oil price spi- wood to be turned into gun stocks. Instead, he came back with own- _ralling skywards. ership of the oil concessions on what is now known as the Baku At the end of the 20th century, the American war machine had region of Azerbaijan. become so awesome that in the absence of a credible opponent a The House of Rothschild, through its various branches established "replacement monster" had to be found.” This is where the perpetu- in London, Paris and Vienna by the sons of Amschel Mayer* (named al "side show" of 20th century history comes in: the systematic ter- "Rothschild" after the "red shield" sign on his house in the Frankfurt —_rorism with which Israel perpetrates genocide among the Palestinian ghetto), financed: owners of the land promised (but not given) to World Jewry by the ¢ the Rockefeller oil empire in America; British Empire causes symptomatic terrorism.” The entire situation, * the emerging alliance (soon to be named Royal Dutch Shell) of caused by the Balfour Declaration, is unsolvable by peaceful means, the Dutch and English royal houses to take control over the oilfields as no amount of goodwill (from either side) will ever overcome the in the Far East; and need for instability in the region to "justify" inflated oil prices and * the Russian oilfield operations controlled by the Nobel family. provide "use" for over 50 per cent of industrial production, which is As always, the third player got mangled up in the tussle between —_arms related. the two stronger ones.’ After oil was discovered in the Persian Gulf This is where "terrorism", yet again, rears its ugly head. Alexandre region and the British secured control of it, the Nobel family was de Tocqueville described régime de la terreur as a methodology to forced by a "no holds barred" price war between Rockefeller and make the masses familiar with the realities created by elites.'* Deterding to "sell out". In order to win this fight, Deterding teamed While all this was happening, events unfolded on the other side of up with Lord Samuels of London, who had established the oil ship- the globe that went entirely unnoticed by most then, and hence their ping industry. eventual outcomes (which determine the lives of a large portion of While it would be too cumbersome to detail this epic struggle mankind at present) seem mysterious. That need not be, as there are here, just one fact should make the attentive reader sit up: Josef sinister "games" at work which are so plain and obvious as not to be Stalin spent his early political life as organiser of the Oil Workers cases of the proverbial needle in the haystack! opponent a "replacement monster" had to be found. 12 + NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 the American war machine had become so awesome that in the absence of a credible www.nexusmagazine.com