Knowing that eventually the bedouins would become sophisticated enough to take control of their oil. The price of development along with a share of the profits was that oil could only be traded in American dollars
On Aug 14, 2016 6:58 PM, "Keith In Tampa" <[email protected]> wrote: > They did, along with the Americans and their technology. Plain Ol' for > some reason wants to emphasize that a bunch of camel jockeys moving around > from tent to tent, wiping their ass with their left hand, (and eating with > the same) somehow developed the whole hydrocarbon industry. > > Asinine...... > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:26 AM, geoffrey theist <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think the Europeans recognized the commercial potential of middle east >> oil. >> >> On Aug 14, 2016 12:48 AM, "plainolamerican" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> you're so fucking hard headed it's no wonder you're wrong about so much. >>> what part of 'Existence of oil in the Middle East has been known since >>> Biblical times' don't you understand? >>> >>> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 8:13:15 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >>>> >>>> That's exactly what you article spells out; that the British, the >>>> Dutch, the French and the Americans not only found the oil, they drilled >>>> for it developed it, and pretty much were the ones who laid domininon and >>>> control over it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 6:04 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Your article pretty much affirms what I wrote >>>>> --- >>>>> wrong again ... you said, 'It was the British, the Dutch, the French >>>>> and the Americans that found the oil' which is incorrect. >>>>> >>>>> but whatever ... it's still their oil. >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 4:31:54 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Uhm......Your article pretty much affirms what I wrote Plain Ol'. >>>>>> What exactly was your point? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 5:29 PM, plainolamerican < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It was the British, the Dutch, the French and the Americans that >>>>>>> found the oil, drilled the oil >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> wrong again, lawyerboy. >>>>>>> http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqre >>>>>>> srre1958091000 >>>>>>> there's lots more good information than what I pasted below. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Western Development of Mideast Oil >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Existence of oil in the Middle East has been known since Biblical >>>>>>> times, when surface seepage fed perpetual fires, but development by >>>>>>> foreign >>>>>>> companies did not begin until 1912 when oil was first exported from >>>>>>> Persia >>>>>>> (now Iran). Commercial production in Iraq dates from 1927, on the >>>>>>> island of >>>>>>> Bahrein from 1933, and in Saudi Arabia from 1938. Kuwait, now believed >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> have the largest oil reserves in the world, did not join the ranks of >>>>>>> major >>>>>>> oil-producing countries until 1946. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The first major oil concession was granted by the Shah of Persia to >>>>>>> William K. D'Arcy, Australian mining millionaire, in 1901. The >>>>>>> Anglo-Persian Oil Co. was organized in 1909 to exploit the concession. >>>>>>> In >>>>>>> 1914, the British government bought a 51 per cent interest in the >>>>>>> company >>>>>>> for $10 million. The deal was engineered by Winston Churchill, then >>>>>>> First >>>>>>> Lord of the Admiralty, who was preparing to convert the Navy from coal >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> oil and wanted control over resources that would supply at least a part >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> its oil needs. About the same time the British government gained >>>>>>> control of >>>>>>> oil rights in Iraq, then part of the Turkish empire, through >>>>>>> participation >>>>>>> in the Turkish Petroleum Co.8 >>>>>>> <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1958091000#NOTE[8]> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Britain strengthened her hold in the area after World War I. Under >>>>>>> the San Remo Agreement, signed in April 1920, the Turkish empire was >>>>>>> divided: the territory now Iraq became a British mandate; Syria and >>>>>>> Lebanon >>>>>>> became French mandates; Saudi Arabia became an independent state. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The Turkish Petroleum Co. kept its concession in Iraq, but Turkish >>>>>>> and German holdings in it were turned over to a French company. Through >>>>>>> Anglo-Iranian and Royal Dutch-Shell, British interests held 75 per cent >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> Turkish Petroleum, French interests 25 per cent. The French government >>>>>>> agreed to build oil pipelines through Syria and Lebanon to bring Iraqi >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> Iranian oil to the Mediterranean and to erect refineries for its >>>>>>> processing. >>>>>>> Acquisition of Interests by U.S. Companies >>>>>>> >>>>>>> British and French monopolization of Middle Eastern oil concessions >>>>>>> was viewed with alarm in the United States American oil production had >>>>>>> been >>>>>>> greatly expanded to fill World War I needs and Washington was worried >>>>>>> over >>>>>>> the rapid depletion of domestic reserves, A month after signing of the >>>>>>> San >>>>>>> Remo Agreement, the State Department protested against exclusion of >>>>>>> American oilmen from the area. After eight years of controversy, >>>>>>> Anglo-Iranian agreed in 1928 to transfer one-half of its interest in >>>>>>> Turkish Petroleum to several American companies. The company thus >>>>>>> formed, >>>>>>> renamed Iraq Petroleum, operated under a 75-year concession covering >>>>>>> moat >>>>>>> of Iraq. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The British and French monopoly of Middle East oil was challenged >>>>>>> when Standard Oil of California found oil on the island of Bahrein in >>>>>>> 1932. >>>>>>> The next year the American company acquired a 60-year concession for oil >>>>>>> exploitation in 360,000 square miles of eastern Saudi Arabia. To provide >>>>>>> markets for Bahrein oil as well as possible Saudi Arabian discoveries, >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> company in 1936 sold a half interest in both ventures to the Texas Co. >>>>>>> Two >>>>>>> years later, the joint group thus set up—later to be known as the >>>>>>> Arabian >>>>>>> American Oil Co. or Aramco—struck oil at Dammam.9 >>>>>>> <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1958091000#NOTE[9]> >>>>>>> The >>>>>>> following year, King Ibn Saud, father of the present King Saud, granted >>>>>>> Aramco a supplemental concession covering 90,000 square miles at the >>>>>>> northern and southern ends of the original concession. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Outbreak of war in 1939 temporarily halted rapid expansion of the >>>>>>> Middle East oil industry. After Italy joined Germany as a belligerent, >>>>>>> transportation of oil through the Mediterranean became impossible. Iraq >>>>>>> production was greatly curtailed, although production of Iranian oil, >>>>>>> to be >>>>>>> shipped by tankers through the Persian Gulf, increased. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 3:59:52 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think we're all forgetting that these folks were all living in >>>>>>>> the desert; had only camels as transportation; once the area that >>>>>>>> they had >>>>>>>> set their tents up in and called home became so polluted and filthy, >>>>>>>> they >>>>>>>> moved twenty paces and set up a new encampment. It was the British, >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> Dutch, the French and the Americans that found the oil; drilled for >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> oil; built any structure that was made over one story tall and was not >>>>>>>> constructed out of animal hyde; and today, they want to revert back to >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> 8th, 9th or 10th Centuries. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 3:59 PM, plainolamerican < >>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> i blame the entire fiasco in the middle east on the French and >>>>>>>>> British ... they drew the lines in the sand after the Ottoman Empire >>>>>>>>> (which >>>>>>>>> was in decline) back Germany in WWI and as payback carved up the >>>>>>>>> region >>>>>>>>> based on oil interests >>>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>>> the US was also heavily involved in carving up middle east oil. >>>>>>>>> disrupting the balance of power has cost them all. >>>>>>>>> but hey ... US weapons manufacturers and the zionists love it. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 2:52:51 PM UTC-5, brine wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I suppose this was in reaction to the banning of the burkini!!! >>>>>>>>>> The French are definitely an odd bunch, i can' figger out if they are >>>>>>>>>> socialists or just nasty folk who want to offend all not French ... >>>>>>>>>> seems >>>>>>>>>> that the years of colonialism has come back to bite them in the ass >>>>>>>>>> as is >>>>>>>>>> happening to the Brits as well ... What is the proper response to the >>>>>>>>>> hatred that was created by the years of colonialism ... i blame the >>>>>>>>>> entire >>>>>>>>>> fiasco in the middle east on the French and British ... they drew >>>>>>>>>> the lines >>>>>>>>>> in the sand after the Ottoman Empire (which was in decline) back >>>>>>>>>> Germany in >>>>>>>>>> WWI and as payback carved up the region based on oil interests ... >>>>>>>>>> Never a >>>>>>>>>> good idea to impose your will on people who do not recognize your >>>>>>>>>> authority!!! >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Travis <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> sharia unveiled posted: " Fench satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo >>>>>>>>>>> has been inundated with fresh death threats after featuring two >>>>>>>>>>> naked >>>>>>>>>>> Muslims on the front cover this week. by, The Express - UK | h/t >>>>>>>>>>> Blazing >>>>>>>>>>> CatFur Islamic terrorists sickened the world in January l" >>>>>>>>>>> Respond to this post by replying above this line >>>>>>>>>>> New post on *sharia unveiled* >>>>>>>>>>> <https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/author/shariaunveiled/> NEW >>>>>>>>>>> Death Threats Arise From the ‘Religion of Peace’ Following Charlie >>>>>>>>>>> Hebdo’s >>>>>>>>>>> Latest Publication >>>>>>>>>>> <https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/new-death-threats-arise-from-the-religion-of-peace-following-charlie-hebdos-latest-publication/> >>>>>>>>>>> by >>>>>>>>>>> sharia unveiled >>>>>>>>>>> <https://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/author/shariaunveiled/> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> [image: Charlie Hebdo Naked Muslims 2] >>>>>>>>>>> Fench satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been inundated with >>>>>>>>>>> fresh death threats after featuring two naked Muslims on the front >>>>>>>>>>> cover >>>>>>>>>>> this week. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> *by, The Express <http://www.express.co.uk/> - UK | h/t Blazing >>>>>>>>>>> CatFur <http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/>* >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Islamic terrorists sickened the world in January last year when >>>>>>>>>>> brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices >>>>>>>>>>> of the >>>>>>>>>>> Paris-based satirical weekly newspaper and turned assault rifles on >>>>>>>>>>> staff >>>>>>>>>>> killing 11 people and injuring 11 others. The reason was >>>>>>>>>>> believed to be an anti-Muslim joke and image of Mohammed on the >>>>>>>>>>> front cover. Undaunted, >>>>>>>>>>> the latest issue of the magazine features a naked man and woman >>>>>>>>>>> running >>>>>>>>>>> towards the shoreline of a beach. The man's penis can be seen >>>>>>>>>>> through his long beard, and the woman is totally naked except for >>>>>>>>>>> her veil >>>>>>>>>>> over her head and shoulders and a caption below reads: "The reform >>>>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>>>> Islam: Muslims, loosen up" or "Musulmans decoincez vous". Charlie >>>>>>>>>>> Hebdo bosses are so worried they have called in the French police. >>>>>>>>>>> Le >>>>>>>>>>> Parisien newspaper reported the magazine – which continues to make >>>>>>>>>>> fun of >>>>>>>>>>> religion – remains a top target for Islamic extremists and on >>>>>>>>>>> Thursday >>>>>>>>>>> formally filed a complaint against an unknown person after >>>>>>>>>>> receiving a >>>>>>>>>>> string of serious threats. 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An inquiry has been launched >>>>>>>>>>> and French police are currently investigating the “very threatening >>>>>>>>>>> death >>>>>>>>>>> threats” made against Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journalists. >>>>>>>>>>> Although >>>>>>>>>>> the first incident was reported in June, number of threats rose >>>>>>>>>>> dramatically after the latest edition hit the newsstands this week. >>>>>>>>>>> Charlie >>>>>>>>>>> Hebdo’s editorial board has been under police protection since the >>>>>>>>>>> January >>>>>>>>>>> 2015 attacks. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> [image: Je Suis Charlie 4] >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> The Algerian-descent brothers who committed the Charlie Hebdo >>>>>>>>>>> atrocity in January 2015 also killed a French National Policeman >>>>>>>>>>> outside >>>>>>>>>>> the building. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to >>>>>>>>>>> the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, who took >>>>>>>>>>> responsibility for the attack. 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