To: "Health Freedom, Codex Issues
Subject: The New Great Game: Oil Politics in Central Asia: + David Schippers Effort to Sound a pre 911 Alarm Fell on Ashcroft's Deaf Ears....
From: John Hammell jham@iahf.com
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:49:00 -0400
IAHF List: Ted Rall's article (below) provides a succinct geopolitical overview of current events. In it he mentions Unical's plan of building a pipeline across Afghanistan. That plan was discussed in depth at a congressional hearing in '98 and you can see the complete transcript of it at http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm I am sickened by what is transpiring here. Stories are emerging raising all kinds of unanswered questions about what is going on, and it couldn't be any clearer that we're being totally manipulated and use and we can't let it happen. Gary North just sent out a great article about gross inconsistencies in what we're being told about the passenger lists on the 911 planes. The numbers just don't add up. Someone else sent out an article raising serious eyebrow raising questions about insider trading pertaining to the 911 disaster, and CIA links to this insider trading.
Go read the transcript of Alex Jone's interview with David Schipppers, the attorney who got Clinton impeached. FBI agents from several states got wind of the 911 attack before it happened, but they were silenced. So they went to Schippers for help in trying to reach Con-gress and Ashcroft: he was ignored. See the info below...listen to the audio archive of the Alex Jones interview... This is HORRIBLE but sure doesn't surprise me. People have been wondering how the NWO intend to eventually shove grossly restrictive Codex vitamin regs down our throats, in direct opposition to current US vitamin laws? Open your eyes, people, PLEASE open your eyes, and get ARMED! Go to http://www.ccops.org and read the in depth analysis of the fascist so called "Office of Homeland Defense" that Herr Bush the Nazi pedophile has unleashed on us in an effort to enslave us. His grandfather, Prescott Bush was one of Hitler's largest financial backers. We're living under the 4th Reich right now and this is NOT CONSPIRACY THEORY- this is a FACT! Project Paperclip has come home to roost!
Here's a Partial Transcript of the Interview Alex Jones Did with David Schippers about the Government's Prior Knowledge (of 911 - daf). It Is Absolutely Vital That You Email It to Everyone and That Americans Demand That Congress End the Cover-up! http://www.infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:30:27 -0500
From: H Reynolds
To: International Advocates for Health Freedom
Subject: AlterNet -- The New Great Game: Oil Politics in Central Asia
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11692
Ted Rall, http://www.alternet.org AlterNet
October 11, 2001
Nursultan Nazarbayev has a terrible problem. He's the president and former Communist Party boss of Kazakhstan, the second-largest republic of the former Soviet Union. A few years ago, the giant country struck oil in the eastern portion of the Caspian Sea. Geologists estimate that sitting beneath the wind-blown steppes of Kazakhstan are 50 billion barrels of oil -- by far the biggest untapped reserves in the world. (Saudi Arabia, currently the world's largest oil producer, is believed to have about 30 billion barrels remaining.)
Kazakhstan's Soviet-subsidized economy collapsed immediately after independence in 1991. When I visited the then-capital, Almaty, in 1997, I was struck by the utter absence of elderly people. One after another, people confided that their parents had died of malnutrition during the brutal winters of 1993 and 1994. Middle-class residents of a superpower had been reduced to abject poverty virtually overnight; thirtysomething women who appeared sixtysomething hocked their wedding silver in underpasses next to reps for the Kazakh state art museum trying to move enough socialist realist paintings for a dollar each to keep the lights on. The average Kazakh earned $20 a month; those unwilling or unable to steal died of gangrene adjacent to long-winded tales of woe written on cardboard.
Autocrats tend to die badly during periods of downward mobility. Nazarbayev, therefore, has spent most of the last decade trying to get his land-locked oil out to sea. Once the oil starts flowing, it won't take long before Kazakhstan replaces Kuwait as the land of Benzes and ugly gold jewelry. But the longer the pipeline, the more expensive and vulnerable to sabotage it is. The shortest route runs through Iran, but Kazakhstan is too closely aligned with the U.S. to offend it by cutting a deal with Teheran. Russia has helpfully offered to build a line connecting Kazakh oil rigs to the Black Sea, but neighboring Turkmenistan has experienced trouble with the Russians: they tend to divert the oil for their own uses without paying for it. There's even a plan to run crude out through China, but the proposed 5,300-mile line would be far too long to prove profitable.
The logical alternative, then, is Unocal's plan, which is to extend Turkmenistan's existing system west to the Kazakh field on the Caspian and southeast to the Pakistani port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea. That project runs through Afghanistan.
As Central Asian expert Ahmed Rashid describes in his 2000 book "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia," the U.S. and Pakistan decided to install a stable regime in Afghanistan around 1994 --a regime that would end the country's civil war and thus ensure the safety of the Unocal pipeline project. Impressed by the ruthlessness and willingness of the then-emerging Taliban to cut a pipeline deal, the U.S. State Department and Pakistan's ISI intelligence service agreed to funnel arms and funding to the Taliban in their war against the ethnically Tajik Northern Alliance. It has been reported that as recently as 1999, U.S. taxpayers paid the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official, all in the hopes of returning to the days of dollar-a-gallon gas. Pakistan, naturally, would pick up revenues from a Karachi oil port facility. Harkening to 19th century power politics between Russia and British India, Rashid dubbed the struggle for control of post-Soviet Central Asia "the new Great Game."
Predictably, the Taliban Frankenstein got out of control. The regime's unholy alliance with Osama bin Laden's terror network, their penchant for invading their neighbors and their production of 50 percent of the world's opium made them unlikely partners for the desired oil deal. Then-President Bill Clinton's 1998 cruise missile attack on Afghanistan briefly brought the Taliban back into line; they even eradicated opium poppy cultivation in less than a year, but they nonetheless continued supporting countless militant Islamic groups. When an Egyptian group whose members had trained in Afghanistan hijacked four airplanes and used them to kill more than 6,000 Americans on September 11, Washington's patience with its former client finally expired.
Finally the Bushies had the perfect excuse to do what the U.S. had wanted all along: invade and/or install an old-school puppet regime in Kabul. Realpolitik no more cares about the 6,000 dead than it concerns itself with oppressed women in Afghanistan; this ersatz war by a phony president is solely about getting the Unocal deal done without interference from annoying local middlemen.
Central Asian politics, however, is a house of cards: every time you remove one element, the whole thing comes crashing down. Muslim extremists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, for instance, will support additional terror attacks on the U.S. to avenge the elimination of the Taliban. A U.S.-installed Northern Alliance can't hold Kabul without an army of occupation because Afghan legitimacy hinges on capturing the capital on your own. And even if we do this the right way by funding and training the Northern Alliance so that they can seize power themselves, Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun government will never tolerate the replacement of their Pashtun brothers in the Taliban by Northern Alliance Tajiks. Without Pakistani cooperation, there's no getting the oil out and there's no chance for stability in Afghanistan.
As Bush would say, make no mistake: this is about oil. It's always about oil. And to twist a late '90s cliché, it's only boring because it's true.
Ted Rall, a syndicated cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has traveled extensively throughout Central Asia. Most recently, in 2000, he went to Turkmenistan as a guest of the U.S. State Department.