09-12-2015, 09:04 AM
Michael Barwell Wrote:RT reckons ISIL's income at $80m/month; of which, oil accounts for c.45%, making c.$35m/month; @ c.$30/barrel, that's 1,166,666 barrels/month being shifted, most of which seems to go to Turkey. All these trucks/'oil tankers' that're being hit, don't seem to be oil trucks per se, but trucks carrying barrels, meaning a much greater physical volume of merchandise being shifted by road, for the last x-number of months/years, regardless of the absolutely massive truck parks. Obviously all this materiel and movement has been well & truely on the eyes-in-the-skies radar for all this time, but it's only since the Russkis started attriting it that anyone's noticed it's there, so to speak.
I just don't understand this shit; the 'west' (-loosely), is at war with the greatest threat to civilization since Adolf Hitler hisselfsbollock, and yet a blind eye's been turned to industrial scale oil processing/shifting/$recupement. Every sodding time I turn-on the news, there's some ISIL fuckwittery afoot, inclining me to be very afraid and allow the Gestapo to rule my life - for my own good.
And another thing, all those A-10's using all that depleted uranium...
ISIS is the best enemy money can buy, Michael. The US have been happy to let ISIS create havoc as it suits their longer term geo-strategic purposes. In Syria it is the Saudi backed Qatari gas pipeline proposal that wants to supply Europe with its gas needs thereby circumventing Russia which has become the European supplier. The US don't want that because it's put their key ally, NATO firmly under the influence of Moscow. Washington is also very worried that Germany and Russia might get so cozy together that they form a separate alliance between themselves thus combining Germany's technical know-how and ingenuity with Russia's vast resources. Were this to happen it would shift the world order and begin to relegate the US who use the Gulf oil and gas fields to control the world (and keep their own economy from collapsing overnight) via the artificially enforced Petrodollar system. This is not to mention the discovery in 2011 when Syria announced that there was a large new gas field - 400,000 cubic metres per day - discovered in the City of Homs. 2011 was when the Syrian war really took off. Coincidence, obviously.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14