SAUDI ARABIA CONTROLLING OIL PRICES TO BREAK RUSSIA , 1 OF 30 PROVEN CONSPIRACY THEORIES

FOR THOSE WHO DROPPED INTO THE TEA ROOM FOR JUST THE REVELATION ABOUT THE SAUDI CONTROL OF OIL TO BREAK RUSSIA'S SUPPORT OF ASSAD, THAT IS #30 BELOW OF PROVEN CONSPIRACY THEORIES.

WHAT CREATES "CONSPIRACY THEORIES"?

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE...THE ODD WAY HISTORY HAS OF REPEATING ITSELF, AS THE CLICHE GOES.

PEOPLE LOOK BACK ON ONE EVENT IN WHICH IT WAS ORIGINALLY ASSUMED THAT ONE THING WAS UNTRUE AND THEN WAS LATER PROVEN AS FACT... AND THEY WONDER: "IS THIS THE SAME SCENARIO AS THAT?"

I KEEP GOING BACK TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY.
INITIALLY, IT WAS ASSUMED THAT INDIANS HAD DUMPED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TEA INTO THE BOSTON HARBOR.
THOSE WHO DID THAT APPEARED TO BE INDIANS.

WHO WOULD DREAM IT MIGHT BE WHITE COLONIAL REBELS, REVOLUTIONARY 'PATRIOTS' THAT WOULD DO SOMETHING TO BRING DOWN THE WRATH OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE?

WELL, IT WAS NOT INDIANS.

IF ANYONE TOLD YOU THAT AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS HAVE BEEN LYING TO AMERICAN STUDENTS FOR DECADES ABOUT "HISTORICAL FACTS" THAT ARE NOT AT ALL FACTUAL, WOULD YOU CONSIDER THAT A "CONSPIRACY THEORY"?

NO, THAT IS  A PROVEN FACT, PROVEN BY SOCIOLOGIST JAMES W. LOEWEN IN 1995.

"Loewen's book, "Lies my Teacher Told Me", is the winner of the 1996 American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and the Critics Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association."

TABLE OF CONTENTS CAN BE FOUND <HERE> WHICH GIVES MORE OR LESS A LIST OF LIES LOEWEN REVEALED.

I HAVE A FILE ON A THUMB DRIVE WHICH CONTAINED 109 "CONSPIRACY THEORIES" THAT HAVE BEEN PROVEN FACTUAL, THAT ARE NO LONGER "THEORIES", THAT WERE TRUE CONSPIRACIES TO DEFRAUD OR CONVINCE OR CHANGE OUTCOMES OR EVEN BRING DOWN NATIONS' GOVERNMENTS AND START WARS.

TROUBLE IS, I HAVE TOO MANY SUCH DRIVES AND AM SICK OF SEARCHING FOR THAT FILE.

SO, HERE INSTEAD, ONLY 30  SUCH PROVEN CONSPIRACIES THAT WERE ONCE SEEN AS THE THEORIES OF 'NUTCASES' AND WERE RIDICULED ALMOST TO OBLIVION IN OUR NEFARIOUS AMERICAN PRESS.

THEY ARE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER THOUGH i DID BEGIN, AT LEAST, TRYING TO LIST THE MOST RECENT FIRST.

THE FINAL LIST IS RANDOM.
I AM TIRED.

PROVEN CONSPIRACIES, NO LONGER THEORIES

1~ The Black Budget 
A conspiracy to garner extra funds for questionable military and "secret service" activity.

Suspected for many years, denied, Edward Snowden showed that the U.S. does indeed have a "Black Budget". 

The Washington Post,  U,S, News, Global Research, and dozens of others grabbed the disclosure and pumped out articles about this "hidden" budget that had been denied for years.


2~ Geo-Engineering and Solar Radiation Management Via Stratospheric Spraying, once a "conspiracy theory", now discussed openly in Senate Committee hearings...

They even mention <gasp!> "chemtrails"!

NOVEMBER 5, 2009
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
and
MARCH 18, 2010

[House Hearing, 111 Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]

GEOENGINEERING: PARTS I, II, AND III

From the transcript:

Mr. Baird:
Mr. Robock, did you want to add to that?
The reason I ask the question is, we are doing geoengineering on a
massive scale.
If 100 years ago somebody had said, hey, here is a bright idea.
We should promote a plan to put that much carbon
into the air--
And Dr. Caldeira, I commend you for mentioning
ocean acidification--25 percent of which will go into the
oceans to make the oceans 30 percent more acidic within 50
years, and then continuing on after that to make it so acidic
that it reaches levels not seen since the age of the
dinosaurs and dissolve coral reefs.
Shouldn't Congress support that? 
People would say, you are crazy. 
Geoengineering on that scale, which is what we are doing, and now we are looking at
ways to reverse that.

Chairman Baird:
I thank you for your indulgence on this hour break.
I will recognize Mr. Inglis in a minute. I will
share with you, though, this idea of placing particles in the
upper atmosphere. Are any of you familiar with the conspiracy
theory known as chemtrails? Have you heard of this?

But it does, on a more serious note, it does highlight that
if we are going to do this, we are going to have to be very 
clear with the public about what we are doing and how we are 
doing it and why we are doing it and unintended consequences, 
because legitimate scientific research must not get tied up
into these kind of things. Dr. Keith?

Dr. Keith.
I think it is really crucial to do it in a 
transparent way. One of the reasons I think we need a small 
government program now is to inject some transparency because 
right now we have got a hodgepodge, including private money, 
and that increases the risk that people are very fired up about 
this.
I have voice mails from people who told me I am going to
burn in a lake of fire and I don't love my kids and I am a
murderer.

Chairman Baird. You too?
Dr. Keith. Oh, yeah.
Chairman Baird. We must be on the same mailing list.

Dr. Keith. So I think that it is the only cure for that is 
transparency.

GOOD FOR THESE GUYS!
LET'S HAVE A ROUND OF TRANSPARENCY, JUST TO SEE WHAT IT TASTES LIKE!

YES, but don't just keep having hearings on chemtrails, fellows.

GO ON TV, TELL PEOPLE WHO NEVER WATCH OR READ TRANSCRIPTS FROM SENATE HEARINGS!

IN THE ARTICLE  "U.S. OFFICIALS ADMIT WEATHER WARFARE" THERE SHOULD BE A LARGE ENOUGH MOUNTAIN OF DOCUMENTATION ABOUT THIS FOR THE BIGGEST SKEPTIC, BUT EACH PERSON WILL BELIEVE WHAT BEST SUITS HIM/HER.
I MERELY OFFER THE FACTS.

3~ CONTROL BY AN ELITE FEW
NOT TO BE CONFUSED IN ANY WAY WITH THE "NEW WORLD ORDER"...

A handful of wealthy individuals control the majority of financial institutions, corporations, media, food supply and the educational system.

Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich published a study titled “The Network Of Global Corporate Control” about a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

That is a VERY impressive piece of work, and suddenly, mainstream media was all over it!
Oh, the shock, the utterly appalling REALITY!
Who would have imagined?

MANY.
Many who were called "conspiracy freaks"...but not anymore!

4~ Water fluoridation uses waste byproducts which were deemed biological weapons and are known toxins.

“If this stuff gets out into the air, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the river, it’s a pollutant; if it gets into the lake, it’s a pollutant; but if it goes right straight into your drinking water system, it’s not a pollutant. That’s amazing.”  – Former VP and Senior Chemist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  Headquarters

Fluoride is classified today as a neurotoxin.

ONE CAN READ ABOUT THAT ON THE WEBSITE OF 'THE LANCET', <HERE>.

"Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity"

Industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain are among the known causes for this rise in prevalence [ of Neurodevelopmental disabilities, including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments].

In 2006, we did a systematic review and identified five industrial chemicals as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene.

Since 2006, epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants—manganese, FLUORIDE, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers.
We postulate that even more neurotoxicants remain undiscovered. "

ADD CANCER.

Former Chief Chemist at the National Cancer Institute of Health, Dr. Dean Burk, biochemist:
“In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer deaths than any other chemical.  When you have power, you don’t have to tell the truth. That’s a rule that’s been working in this world for generations. There are a great many people who don’t tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.

Fluoride amounts to public murder on a grand scale. It is some of the most conclusive scientific and biological evidence that I have come across in my 50 years in the field of cancer research.” 

5~ The safety and benefits of GMO foods.

NOT ANY MORE!
While this is a conspiracy to make a LOT of money by a small group of companies in the business of selling GMOs, it just may be one of the most heinous crimes uncovered in recent times.

Due to public outcry, the many studies that proved the dangers and side effects of these products, even some who help perpetuate this lie, that GMOs are GOOD for us, have turned on their manufacturers.

In response, our own Congress has set Monsanto, in particular, ABOVE THE LAW.

Jane Goodall summed it up nicely:
“As part of the process, they portrayed the various concerns as merely the ignorant opinions of misinformed individuals – and derided them as not only unscientific, but anti-science. They then set to work to convince the public and government officials, through the dissemination of false information, that there was an overwhelming expert consensus, based on solid evidence, that GMOs were safe.”

SOURCES OF THOSE STUDIES?
ALSO IMPRESSIVE...HERE ARE JUST A FEW:

~ the journal Environmental Sciences Europe

~ NUTRITION REVIEWS, OXFORD JOURNALS

~ ACADEMIA.EDU, A Review on Impacts of Genetically Modified Food on Human Health

~ Irina Ermakova, VP of Russia’s National Association for Genetic Safety

~ the Journal of Organic Systems 
“These data show very strong and highly significant correlations between the increasing use of glyphosate, GE crop growth and the increase in a multitude of diseases. Many of the graphs show sudden increases in the rates of diseases in the mid-1990s that coincide with the commercial production of GE crops."

HAVE YOU ASKED YOUR CONGRESSMAN WHY HE/SHE SUPPORTED THE "MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT" (HR 933) ?

READ 5 THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW AT 'INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES'  <HERE>. 

6~ AMERICA HAS NEVER FUNDED TERRORISTS

YES, WE HAVE. 
We still do!
The United States of America has at various times in recent history provided support to terrorist and paramilitary organizations across the world. It has also provided assistance to numerous authoritarian regimes that have used state terrorism as a tool of repression.

HERE ARE JUST A FEW PROVEN TERRORIST GROUPS WE'VE FINANCED.  
~ REAGAN ARMED THE TALIBAN, CALLING THEM "FREEDOM FIGHTERS".
a Slate article, <HERE> on the creation of Usama Bun Laden.

There are so many videos of Reagan praising the Taliban surely all have seen the truth of our support of that bunch.

~HE ALSO SUPPORTED THE CONTRAS IN NICARAGUA

~ AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS STILL FINANCE HAMAS, FATAH, AND ONCE FINANCED THE PLO.

The Wall Street Journal asked why we fund HAMAS <HERE>, the Guardian UK printed the facts <HERE>, Arafat's Missing Billions, a Despicable Truth <HERE>,"Salaries for Terrorists", the Washington Times <HERE>.

~ U.S. support of Jundallah (a terrorist organization operating in Iran) under the GEORGE W. BUSH administration. 
SEE THE ABC REPORT <HERE>, BBC's ARTICLE <HERE> , THE UK TELEGRAPH <HERE> AND <HERE>.

The New York Times, the New Yorker and several others also decried U.S. support of this group. 

Even Wikipedia found links and documentation on all of the above and more...read <HERE> and simply follow the reference material to quite valid sources.
7~ THE POLIO VACCINE WAS KNOWN TO CONTAIN A CARCINOGEN, FROM MONKEYS.

In 1959, Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health discovered that the monkey kidney cells used to grow the polio virus caused cancerous tumors when injected into hamsters. After reporting these findings, Eddy was excused from her job and assigned a new position. Not long after, the pharmaceutical company Merck made the same discovery.

In 1960, Merck scientists Dr. Maurice Hilleman and Dr. Benjamin Sweet (the Merck scientists who named the SV40 virus), published findings concluding that the polio vaccine was indeed contaminated with the SV40 virus.

Hilleman later admitted (back then on tape) that Merck knew the vaccines were contaminated and continued to dispense them to the public anyway.

THE ATLANTIC DID A VERY GOOD PIECE ON THIS THAT YOU MAY READ <HERE>.  

PLEASE ALSO READ THE FINDINGS <HERE>.

AS I HAVE STATED BEFORE, I AM A VICTIM OF THAT VACCINE.
I AM A MULTI-TIME CANCER SURVIVOR, NONE WERE METASTATIC.

I HAVE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE GENETIC STUDIES.

OF THE LESS THAN 5,000 PEOPLE IN THE SMALL TOWN I WAS LIVING IN WHEN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OFFERED THE VACCINE TO ALL BUT BLACK RESIDENTS AFTER WE SCHOOL CHILDREN (AN ALL-WHITE SCHOOL) WERE PARADED ACROSS THE STREET TO GET OURS, ALMOST TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE VACCINATED DEVELOPED CANCER.
THAT WAS IN 1961.

OF MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY OF FOUR, I AM THE LONE SURVIVOR OF CANCER.
IN MY EXTENDED FAMILY, 16 PERISHED BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE.

OF MY SCHOOLMATES, ABOUT 70 INDIVIDUALS, 3 DIED OF CANCER BEFORE THEIR 20th BIRTHDAY, 22 OTHERS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE DEVELOPED CANCER, SOME SUCCUMBING LATER, OTHERS WON THEIR BATTLES AS WELL.
EIGHT OTHER KIDS DIED AS TEENAGERS IN EITHER VIETNAM OR IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS, AND 3 OTHERS DIED VERY YOUNG FROM OTHER CAUSES.

POINT BEING, WE'LL NEVER KNOW IF THEY HAD OR WOULD HAVE HAD CANCER.
WE LOST TRACK OF 9 CLASSMATES, SO THERE IS NO DATA FOR THEM, EITHER.

HOW MANY OTHERS WERE INFECTED?
FAR TOO MANY.

A WEBSITE VERY DEAR TO ME, A GREAT HELP, ALSO HAS AN EXTENSIVE ARTICLE <HERE>.

THAT DAMNED CONSPIRACY IS MOST ASSUREDLY NOW A PROVEN FACT.

8~ The Manhattan Project 

How long did our government deny this?
25 years. 
How many were ridiculed for believing this was ongoing? 

The Manhattan Engineer District (MED) refers specifically to the period of the project from 1942–1946 under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was directed by American physicist J. R. Oppenheimer. 

Born out of a small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion ($22 billion in today's currency value).
It resulted in the creation of multiple top-secret production and research sites.

These numbers make it one of the largest conspiracies in history.  
EVERYONE NOW KNOWS THE MANHATTAN PROJECT WAS A REALITY.

Entire towns were built for short periods of time, employing people, all under top national secrecy.

The government never admitted to it, the media never reported on it, and people had no idea for over 25 years.  

The three primary research and production sites of the project were the plutonium-production facility at what is now the Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the weapons research and design laboratory now known as Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

The MED maintained control over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy Commission in January 1947.

9~ Operation Mockingbird

Exposed by the congressional Church Committee, the CIA was shown to have paid both American and foreign media to publish CIA propaganda.

[SEE ALSO Bernstein, "The CIA and the Media."
OTHER INTERESTING READING, Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974,]

THAT WAS NOT ALL THE CHURCH COMMITTEE EXPOSED...

The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church in 1975.

A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the CIA and FBI after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair.  

The Committee uncovered, among many other things, that the CIA had violated its charter to perform only gathering of intelligence.

For example, the assassinations of Allende in Chile and Mossadegh in Iran.

Assassinations against Central and South American leaders and revolutionaries, as well as Africa, Middle East and East Asia were noted. 
The list was 'impressive'.

The Committee even declassified a “Heart Attack Gun” the Agency had made for the use of killing someone without it being detected.

There is a somewhat humorous video of a couple of Senators (including Barry Goldwater)  examining that "heart attack gun" <HERE>.

The hearings, although recorded in full in congressional record, the mainstream media and official policies, is still largely not taught in American schools on recent history.

The majority of the American public still has no idea this was ever actually confirmed or even took place.
 It is common for people to still refer to any of these assassinations as a joke or made up conspiracy.

IT PAYS TO READ AND BE INFORMED, BOYS AND GIRLS! 

[NOTE: I cannot begin to tell you what wonders can so easily be found in the Congressional Record, in the list of Presidential Executive Orders, Declarations and Directives.

Other incredible facts can be found in the reports of the General Accounting Office, mainly, who does business with the federal government and what the government is "in the market for".

The GAO also has some great documentation on testimonies by and to government agencies, officials, etc. 

Reading EVERY WORD, including some odd "notes", of each 'BILL' before Congress may give you sleepless nights, but knowledge gives us power and ends much blindness to REALITY.

Those opposed to knowing may surely ignore the above, as well as the rest of today's entry.]

10~ Operation Northwoods
The covert plans to take out Fidel Castro and convince Americans that a war with Cuba was justified.  

THE FULL REVEAL IN PDF FORM <HERE>.

In the early 1960s, American military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were reportedly rejected by JFK, then kept secret for nearly 40 years.

The declassified “Operation Northwoods” documents revealing that in 1962 the CIA was planning to stage phony terrorist attacks on the US and blame it on Cuba to start a war.

INTERESTINGLY, IT IS TO THIS DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENT THAT MANY POINT WHO ARE AMONG THE "9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS".
THE FAKED PLANE HIJACKINGS PLANS OF NORTHWOODS, EERILY SIMILAR, RAISED DOUBTS ABOUT THE HIJACKINGS ON 9/11.

11~ Use of asbestos knowing it was a carcinogen

American workers sued the Johns Manville company as far back as 1932, but it was not until 1962 that epidemiologists finally established beyond any doubt what company bosses had known for a long time – asbestos causes cancer.

VERY PERTINENT INFORMATION <HERE>.
THE EPA ON ASBESTOS <HERE>.

EVEN MEDICAL EXPERTS WERE CALLED LIARS WHO FIRST SPOKE OUT ABOUT ASBESTOS, JUST AS SOME ARE NOW ON "PENDING CONSPIRACIES".

12~ Watergate.
No way the White House would be responsible for a burglary and other covert operations against a rival political part and its members, right?

Now we know, yes, the Nixon White House, like so many others, engaged in such activities.

Watergate may have been proven in record time, as compared to other conspiracies that have since come to light as factual...only 2 years passed before the truth came out.

13~ The Tuskegee Syphilis "Study " 
WOULD A U.S. HEALTH AGENCY ALLOW HUNDREDS TO DIE JUST TO STUDY HOW A DISEASE PROGRESSED?
ABSOLUTELY!

The United States Public Health Service carried out this ATROCITY on 400 poor, African-American men with syphilis from 1932 to 1972.

THE CDC DOCUMENTS THE TIMELINE <HERE>. 

During the study the men were given false and sometimes dangerous treatments, and adequate treatment was intentionally withheld so the agency could learn more about the disease.
While the study was initially supposed to last just six months, it continued for 40 years.

Close to 200 of the men died from syphilis or related complications by the end of the study, most from simple lack of treatment.

14~  TARGETED STERILIZATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN, LATINO AND BLACK FEMALES IN AMERICA AND AFRICA

YES, IT REALLY HAPPENED AND MAY STILL BE HAPPENING TODAY.

BUSH THE SENIOR SIGNED OFF ON THIS, AMONG OTHERS. 

PBS DID A DOCUMENTARY ENTITLED "BLACK GENOCIDE". 

SEE ALSO <THIS> (Late Twentieth Century Physician Cooperation with National Eugenic Policies) ,  AND <THIS> ( Race, Immigration, and Reproductive Control in Modern California).

SECRET STERILIZATIONS CARRIED OUT BY U.N. IN AFRICA.
ALSO SEE <THIS>.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZES....ALMOST.

15~ 1990 Testimony of Nayirah
"OH, THE HORROR!"

A 15-year-old girl named “Nayirah” testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die.

The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War, but — despite protests that the dispute of this story was itself a conspiracy theory — it was later discovered that the testimony was false.

AN ABC REPORTER BLEW THE LID OFF THE SCAM.

SEE ALSO <THIS>.

The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which was in the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the testimony. ("Jury says 3 took Kuwaiti money to promote war". Sun-Sentinel (The Washington Post). July 8, 1992. p. 3A.)

 Nayirah was later disclosed to be Nayirah al-Sabah, daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA.

The Congressional Human Rights Caucus, of which Congressman Tom Lantos was co-chairman, had been responsible for hosting "Nurse Nayirah", and thereby popularizing her allegations.

When the girl’s account was later challenged by independent human rights monitors, Lantos replied, “The notion that any of the witnesses brought to the caucus through the Kuwaiti Embassy would not be credible did not cross my mind… I have no basis for assuming that her story is not true, but the point goes beyond that.

 If one hypothesizes that the woman’s story is fictitious from A to Z, that in no way diminishes the avalanche of human rights violations.”

Nevertheless, the senior Republican on the Human Rights Caucus, John Edward Porter, responded to the revelations by saying that if he had known the girl was the ambassador’s daughter, he would not have allowed her to testify.

TOO LATE, DAMAGE DONE.
SCORE FOR THE WAR DOGS.

16~ The Iran-Contra Affair

NOW WE KNOW THE RUMORS WERE TRUE.

 In 1985 and ’86, the REAGAN White House authorized government officials to secretly trade weapons with the Israeli government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in Iran.
The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987.

Old Ollie North and a few others took the blame and Ronald Reagan attained godlike status, America's most beloved Prez.

17~ The BCCI Scandal   
 Bank of Credit and Commerce International
In the late 1980’s BCCI became the target of a two year undercover operation conducted by the US Customs Service.

This operation concluded with a fake wedding that was attended by BCCI officers and drug dealers from around the world who had established a personal friendship and working relationship with undercover Special Agent Robert Mazur.

After a six month trial in Tampa, key bank officers were convicted and received lengthy prison sentences. 
Bank officers began cooperating with law enforcement authorities and that cooperation caused BCCI’s many crimes to be revealed.

BCCI came under the scrutiny of regulatory bodies and intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to its perceived avoidance of falling under one regulatory banking authority, a fact that was later, after extensive investigations, proven to be false.

BCCI became the focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991 and was described as a “$20-billion-plus heist”.

Investigators in the U.S. and the UK revealed that BCCI had been “set up deliberately to avoid centralized regulatory review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy jurisdictions. Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and to avoid detection.”  

18~ CIA Drug Running in LA
YES, THE CIA HAS LONG DEALT DRUGS. 

Pulitzer Prize journalist Gary Webb and LAPD Narcotics Officer turned whistleblower Michael Ruppert, CIA Contract Pilot Terry Reed, and many others exposed this "conspiracy theory" as fact.

In August 1996 the San Jose Mercury News published Webb’s “Dark Alliance”, a 20,000 word, three-part investigative series which alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the 1980s, and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan Contras.

Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
10/10/2014  “It was a situation where, 'We need money for a covert operation, the quickest way to raise it is sell cocaine, you guys go sell it somewhere, we don’t want to know anything about it.'"

19~ Gulf of Tonkin
ANOTHER RUSE TO INCITE AMERICANS TO ACCEPT ANOTHER WAR.

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate incidents involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

On August 2, 1964 two American destroyers engaged three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, resulting in the sinking of one of the torpedo boats.
This was also the single most important reason for the escalation of the Vietnam War.

  After Kennedy was assassinated, the Gulf of Tonkin gave the country the sweeping support for aggressive military action against the North Vietnamese.

The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by “communist aggression”.

 In 2005, an internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it concluded that USS Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese on August 2, but that there may not have been any North Vietnamese vessels present during the engagement of August 4.

The report stated “It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night…”  In truth, Hanoi’s navy was engaged in nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August 2.

 In 1965, President Johnson commented privately: “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there.”

In 1981, Captain Herrick and journalist Robert Scheer re-examined Herrick’s ship’s log and determined that the first torpedo report from August 4, which Herrick had maintained had occurred—the “apparent ambush”—was in fact unfounded.

 In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, categorically denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2.

In the Fall of 1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar operator’s report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.

 In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J. Hanyok, a historian for the U.S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident.
He concluded that the motive was not political but was probably to cover up honest intelligence errors.


20~ AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN PLOTTED A COUP AGAINST FDR

In 1933, a group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States.

Yes, that would be Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and was grandfather to another one.

Smedley Butler was both a patriot and a vocal FDR supporter.

Apparently none of these criminal masterminds noticed that their prospective point man had actively stumped for FDR in 1932.

Smedley spilled the beans to a congressional committee in 1934.
Everyone he accused of being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and none of them were brought up on criminal charges.
Still, the House McCormack-Dickstein Committee did at least acknowledge the existence of the conspiracy, which ended up never getting past the initial planning stages.

Though many of the people who had allegedly backed the Business Plot also maintained financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America’s entry into World War II, it seems profits for America trumped justice.

 In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler’s allegations of the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten.

THE MESSAGE?
"CONGRESS LOVES YOU, WALL STREET, BECAUSE YOU FUND OUR REELECTIONS AND BOOST AMERICA'S ECONOMY!"

[SEE: BBC – Whitehouse Coup]

OH, BTW, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED MILITARY COUP AGAINST OBAMA?

REMEMBER ALL THOSE "SUDDEN" RESIGNATIONS" AND DISMISSAL OF SO MANY HIGH-UP MILITARY BRASS?
ALL NEAR THE TIME OF THE BENGHAZI ATTACK, REMEMBER?
LOOK INTO THAT IN YOUR SPARE TIME...

TRY <THIS LINK>, AND <THIS ONE> JUST TO GET YOU STARTED. 

AN EARLIER ARTICLE ABOUT THAT HERE ON THE TEA ROOM  <HERE>.

THOSE SOLDIERS ARRESTED FOR THIS WEREN'T ARRESTED FOR LOITERING, YOU KNOW.

21~ OPERATION AJAX
A COVERT U.S. PLOT TO OUST A DULY ELECTED LEADER OF ANOTHER NATION....AGAIN.

For years, Britain had a sweet trade deal with Iran regarding their prodigious oil fields. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company was basically a giant money machine for the Anglo half, while the Iranian half got almost nothing.

That all changed in 1951 when Iran nationalized the AIOC and the Iranian parliament elected Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister.

Mossadegh was relatively secular, something that angered Iranian clerics, but he was also very nationalistic.

He was a democratically elected, pro American figure but the West saw his nationalizing of the oil fields as a  "communist move" and began the campaign to oust him.

[SOUND FAMILIAR, AS IN IRAQ AND LIBYA MAYBE?]

Those oil fields were under the control of British Petroleum, but unfortunately Mossadegh overruled this long-standing FOREIGN control.

The United States sent Kermit Roosevelt, FDR’s nephew and CIA coordinator in to figure out the mess.
The best he could come up with was to have Mossadegh overthrown and this was accomplished by bringing in what the agency refers to as “jackals.”

The United States backed the return of the Shah of Iran, one of the most brutal dictators the country had ever seen.

The result of America's reinstalling the Shah was a violently anti-American revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini which overthrew the Shah and took U.S. embassy workers hostage, many of whom were involved in the plot with Kermit Roosevelt that installed the Shah.
The planning for the Coup took place largely in that U.S.embassy, but Americans were told this was due to the rise of radical Islam.

FOR THE TIMELINE ON HOW THIS UNFOLDED, EISENHOWER'S PART IT, SEE THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE <HERE>.

HAVING EGG ON ITS FACE IN MANY INSTANCES OF THIS DRAWN-OUT "CONSPIRACY" HAS NOT DETERRED THE U.S. FROM DEPOSING WORLD LEADERS.
ASK ASSAD OF SYRIA, WHO JUST WILL NOT BE OUSTED...YET.

22~ OPERATION SNOW WHITE
WHEREIN A 'CHURCH' INFILTRATES THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

The Church of Scientology managed to perform the largest infiltration of the United States government in history.
THroughout the 1970s,  5,000 of Scientology’s members wiretapped and burglarized various U.S. agencies.
They stole hundreds of documents, mainly from the IRS.

This operation also exposed the Scientology plot 'Operation Freakout', because Operation Snow White was the case that initiated the US government investigation of the Church.

No critic of the 'church' was spared, and, in the end, 136 organizations, agencies and foreign embassies were infiltrated.

 Eleven highly placed Church executives, including Mary Sue Hubbard (wife of founder L. Ron Hubbard and second-in-command of the organization), pleaded guilty or were convicted in federal court of obstructing justice, burglary of government offices, and theft of documents and government property.
The case was United States v. Mary Sue Hubbard et al., 493 F.Supp. 209 (D.D.C. 1979).

A timeline of events can be found <HERE>.


23~ Operation Gladio
AKA, "SUPER-NATO"...let's spy on our allies and play a game of covert warfare!

Once busted on this, America claimed its purpose was to continue armed resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest.

Thousands of documents, depositions and testimonies as well as recorded conversations and admissions by the highest levels of government officials in Italy eventually exposed this "theory" as FACT.

Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries into the matter.

What took place?
Among other things, the shooting of innocent civilians, "terrorist attacks" and assassinations all blamed on leftist communists, but were actually part of well coordinated, “black operations.”
Black operations typically involve activities that are highly clandestine and, often, outside of standard military protocol.

Why, yes, Virginia, America does that!
Many are the Congressional inquiries into several of these little games.

Black military operations, or paramilitary operations, can be used, HAVE been used, by various "secret services" to achieve or attempt to achieve an "unusually sensitive" goal.
The methods used in black operations are also used in what is termed "unconventional warfare".

 A documentary previously banned in the United States that was allowed to air on BBC regarding Operation Gladio is now available on Youtube <HERE>.

America really spread itself quite thinly by the sheer number of nations it carried out operations in...16 of them!

Gladio operations in NATO countries

1. First publicly revealed in Italy
2. Belgium
3. Denmark
4. France
5. Germany
6. Greece
7. Netherlands
8. Norway
9. Portugal
10. Turkey

Parallel stay-behind operations in non-NATO countries

12. Austria
13. Finland
14. Spain
15. Sweden
16. Switzerland

Britain's Churchill had his own similar agenda known as the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Known as Auxiliary Units, they were headed by Major Colin Gubbins, an expert in guerrilla warfare who later led the SOE.

[Read more on Churchill's games in "Churchill's Underground Army" and "With Britain In Mortal Danger"]

So the U.S. and the U.K. formed a little pact and the rest we know as "GLADIO".

I AM RECALLING GERMANY'S MORE RECENT OUTRAGE WHEN WIKILEAKS LET IT BE KNOWN THAT AMERICA WAS STILL SPYING ON GERMANY.

SOME THINGS JUST NEVER CHANGE, RIGHT?

24~ THE SYKES-PICOT AGREEMENT   
Wherein the victors of WW2, behind a cloak of secrecy, divided the spoils (the conquered nations) and first began "romancing the Stone"...one of their creations...SAUDI ARABIA.

Modern Saudi Arabia is a British colonialist creation forged at the Treaty of Darin in 1915. Indeed, much of the Middle East was secretly carved up around the same time by Laurence of Arabia and London's Foreign Office and the French government in the hush-hush 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement.

[The following is from the Guardian U.K., Jan. 20, 2015)

"It’s a story that includes the spread of Wahhabism ; the oversimplification of the world, by Reagan and Bush (Sr) and Bush (Jr) and Blair, into a kind of fairytale of good versus evil; the banks, inevitably; Bin Laden and 9/11 too, also inevitably; and now Islamic State, who want pretty much exactly what the Wahhabists wanted over half a century ago. 

 America protected Wahhabism through its thirst for Saudi oil, and in doing so helped sow the seeds of radical Islam today. In Afghanistan they built dams to irrigate the Helmand valley, making it perfect to sow actual seeds, opium poppy seeds."

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and King Ibn ( Abdulaziz) Saud had a little-known 'oil for protection' meeting in 1945, on board a warship, the  USS MURPHY, on the Great Bitter Lake, a saltwater lake through which the Suez canal flows.

 It was a meeting that would have extraordinary, far-reaching and unintended consequences, for the west, for the world.  

THERE IS A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THIS BY THE NAME OF "BITTER LAKE" WHICH YOU CAN WATCH <HERE>. 

25~ PRISM 

The Orwellian Big Brother has been revealed to be real. 

PRISM is a clandestine surveillance program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from at least nine major US internet companies. 

Since 2001 the United States government has increased its scope for such surveillance, and so this program was launched in 2007.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden of the NSA (National Security Agency) has come forward with reports of the NSA having direct access to the data of all major tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Skype, AOL, PalTalk, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.

The program can access live communication data and stored information of all users of the above companies, based on "reasonable suspicion". Anyone in the US can be targeted for surveillance if they communicate with anyone outside the country. Also, anyone outside the US who uses services from the above companies can be monitored.

According to reports, Microsoft was the first to be involved, in 2007. It was followed by Yahoo in 2008. Facebook, Google and PalTalk followed suit in 2009. YouTube came onboard in 2010, Skype and AOL in 2011. The latest entrant is Apple, in 2012. The program continues to grow and more online providers are expected to follow suit.

The Atlantic's article can be read <HERE>.

26~ The Reagan October Surprise  
WIN ELECTION AT ANY COST.

Proven to be true after years of Democrats, etc, telling us this happened, the Reagan October Surprise related  to operations by supporters of Ronald Reagan to assure his election in 1980, including contacts with Iran to convince them to hold the hostages until after the election (to deny Carter a last-minute political "win" that could swing the election his way, thus "October Surprise") and laid the groundwork for the subsequent Iran-Contra scandal.

The evidence proving this is not even a big secret (among other things, it includes Bill Casey's credit card bill during his travel on meetings to arrange the deals), but it's still not well known to most of the public despite the evidence being overwhelming and glaringly obvious.

SEE AN ARTICLE ON THE RUSSIAN ATTEMPT TO REVEAL THIS <HERE>.

THE QUESTIONING BY THE NEW YORK TIMES <HERE>. 

JUST ANOTHER LITTLE THING REAGAN SAID HE WAS UNAWARE OF.
MAYBE HE WAS.

REMEMBER THE 'FOILED' RESCUE ATTEMPT BY CARTER OF THE HOSTAGES?

The hostage rescue team consisted of eight helicopters, six C-130 transport planes, and 93 Delta Force commandos.
But Delta Force never made it to Teheran.

Of the 8 helicopters in the rescue mission, only 5 arrived operational.

One helicopter encountered hydraulic problems, another got caught in a sandtorm and turned back, and the last one showed signs of a cracked rotor blade.

As the U.S. force prepared to leave, one of the remaining helicopters crashed into a transport aircraft which contained both servicemen and jet fuel. The resulting fire destroyed both aircraft and killed eight servicemen.

During planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than 6 helicopters remained, although only four were deemed absolutely necessary.

 In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the commanders asked President Carter for permission to abort and Carter agreed.

INTERESTINGLY, just days before the rescue attempt, Miles Copeland ran a hypothetical hostage rescue piece in the Washington Star, a 'fictional' take on how he would do it, remarkably close to the actual mission. 

His scenario for a rescue in the desert was later broadcast on Radio Iraq and Iran.

Yet another "conspiracy theory" that TIME ALONE will clarify as fact or fiction...was the rescue mission sabotaged, right?


27~ THE HILLSBOROUGH FAN STAMPEDE DISASTER, 1989

Because a certain British friend offered this, and for my many British readers, the truth of what happened at Hillsborough.

According to my friend, people present there that day began trying to tell authorities that it was gross negligence of the police department which caused the deaths of 96 people.

During a match between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, police knowingly allowed too many Liverpool fans into one particular "pen"  which was steel fenced in.

Once inside the pen there was no getting out as more flooded in behind. People present argued that the police could see that too many were already packed into that steel caged pen, but continued to allow Liverpool fans access.

As a support barrier broke, many were getting crushed to death by the fences, as well as by each other.

ONLY because some fans on the upper tier pulled people to safety were the number of dead reduced.

When the players realized what was happening, they and the referee were trying to pull down the front fences, but they had deliberately been recently reinforced to deter local 'hooligans'.
The police weren't helping but, instead, were blocking fans' exits.

96 people died.

The police, it was later determined, fabricated evidence making it appear that the calamity was due solely to the LIVERPOOL fans, making themselves blameless.

British media took sides.
Those who insisted it was the fault of the police were called liars and worse, and were maligned everywhere by all who believed the police would never do such a thing.

The 1990 official inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, concluded that "the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control".

Some were not satisfied with that.

On the 20th anniversary of the disaster, government minister Andy Burnham called for police, ambulance and all other public agencies to release documents that had not been made available to Lord Justice Taylor in 1989.

This led to the formation of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which, in September 2012, concluded that Liverpool fans were NOT responsible for the deaths and that attempts HAD been made by the authorities to conceal what happened, including the alteration by police of 116 statements relating to the disaster

In September 2012, the Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded that up to 41 of the 96 fatalities might have been avoided had they received prompt medical treatment.

The report revealed "multiple failures" by other emergency services and public bodies that contributed to the death toll.

It was learned that officers even ran criminal background checks on the dead in the hope that they had previous convictions,

The BBC carried an article in March, 2015, in which the man in charge of policing at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on 15 April 1989, David Duckenfield, admitted the police did open the gates to the Liverpool fans. 

IT ONLY TOOK 26 YEARS FOR THIS "CONSPIRACY THEORY" TO BE PROVEN A FACT.
YES, MANY 'PUBLIC SERVANTS' CONSPIRED TO SAVE THEIR OWN BEHINDS AT THE EXPENSE OF CLOSURE FOR THOSE FAMILIES WHO LOST LOVED ONES IN THIS DISASTER.

HOW OFTEN HAVE WE SEEN THIS SAME THING HERE IN AMERICA?
I LOST COUNT SOMEWHERE AROUND 1982...

28~ Rex 84
A MILITARY APPROACH TO "CIVIL UNREST".

NO, AMERICA, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT "MOTHER HEN".

One of the least-known but most shocking government conspiracies in U.S. history, and one created, in part, by Oliver North.

Many people don't even realize this is a documented part of history, but it was very real indeed. 

Basically, it was the plan to suspend the U.S. Constitution and enact martial law, round up people considered "subversive," and defend the government against any mass uprising of the citizens in opposition to something like an unpopular foreign war for example.

Rex 84 was part of the broader Operation Garden Plot, which is the WELL-KNOWN U.S. military plan to respond to civil unrest in the U.S.

Readiness Exercise 1984, was a classified scenario and drill developed by the United States federal government to detain large numbers of American citizens deemed to be "national security threats", in the event that the President declared a "State of National Emergency". 

The plan was first revealed in detail in a major daily newspaper by reporter Alfonso Chardy in the July 5, 1987 edition of the Miami Herald.

Existence of a master military contingency plan (of which REX-84 was a part), "Garden Plot" and a similar earlier exercise, "Lantern Spike", were originally revealed by journalist Ron Ridenhour.

Transcripts from the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987 record the following dialogue between Congressman Jack Brooks, Oliver North's attorney Brendan Sullivan and Senator Daniel Inouye, the Democratic Chair of the joint Senate-House Committee.   

 [Transcript from the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, New York Times, July 14, 1987]

[Congressman Jack] Brooks: Colonel North, in your work at the N.S.C. were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the continuity of government in the event of a major disaster?

Brendan Sullivan [North's counsel, agitatedly]: Mr. Chairman?

[Senator Daniel] Inouye: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch upon that?

Brooks: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed, by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was an area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation.

Inouye: May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I'm certain arrangements can be made for an executive session."

NOTHING MUCH NEW HERE, REALLY, FOLKS.

Contingency plans by the US Government for rounding up people perceived by the government to be subversive or a threat to civil order have existed for many decades.
[Diana Reynolds, "The Rise of the National Security State: FEMA and the NSC," Covert Action Information Bulletin, issue #33 (Winter 1990).]

For example, from 1967 to 1971, the FBI kept a list of over 100,000 people to be rounded up as subversive, dubbed the "ADEX" list.
[Donner, Frank (1980). The Age of Surveillance: The Aims & Methods of America's Political Intelligence System. New York: Alfred Knopf. p. 166. ISBN 0-394-74771-2.]

"Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Ritt Goldstein, Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002

29~ P2, THE VATICAN, THE MASONS AND A MURDER

6 DEC, 2003
THE GUARDIAN U.K. 

Roberto Calvi, known as God's banker because of his close ties to the Vatican, was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, central London, with a length of orange rope woven into a lover's knot around his neck. He was weighed down by bricks and found with £15,000 in cash in his pockets.

Calvi's death, in June 1982, was the moment the Italian underworld went overground in London. 

The City of London police working on the case today describe a mosaic of vicious mafia dons, and assets traced all over the world.

Evidence has come to light which is leading the investigation to four UK suspects who helped bring about Calvi's downfall. 

Three months after Calvi's death, a small-time drug dealer, Sergio Vaccari, was stabbed in the face, neck and chest more than 15 times.

 At the time the City of London police saw no link with Calvi. But Vaccari had possession of masonic papers. 

It was decided that Calvi could not have committed suicide, as was first suggested by the City of London police after an investigation that lasted no more than a week.

Further forensic evidence was presented which satisfied an insurance company to finally pay Calvi's son $10 million. 

Calvi was a haunted man as he entered his final days. As chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, he was in charge of an organisation that laundered money made largely from the heroin trade for the mafia. He knew the dark financial secrets of the Vatican. Letters of comfort to offshore companies which he created were signed by Archbishop Marcinkus, a Chicago-born prelate and key Vatican insider who has never faced an interview or charges.

But more ominously Calvi had intimate knowledge of regular payments made by large Italian companies to political parties. He should have known: the payments went through his bank.

It was one of the biggest and most intriguing financial scandals of the last century.

Weeks after Roberto Calvi's murder in June 1982, the Italian bank he chaired, Banco Ambrosiano, went under with a then staggering $1.4 billion debt.

The scandal touched financial institutions around the world and the Italian political elite.

Calvi's bank built its empire in close association with the Vatican bank, the Institute for Religious Works. This was headed by Archbishop Paul Marcinkus from Chicago. 

While the Vatican never accepted culpability in the collapse of Ambrosiano, it stumped up $250m to creditors. 
Some believe Marcinkus may yet face trial now a court case in Italy is progressing.

One of the most influential figures in the Calvi story was Licio Gelli, now 84. 

He was Grand Master of the P2 masonic lodge of which Silvio Berlusconi was once a member. 

Gelli was sentenced to 12 years for fraud in connection with the collapse of Calvi's bank and is under house arrest.

Calvi's mentor Michele Sindona was friends with former US President Richard Nixon. Sindona died in prison in 1986 poisoned by coffee laced with cyanide."

Like a falling of dominoes... time, again, clarifies theory from fact, murder from suicide, and what was once "unimaginable" becomes documented history.

30~ OIL PRICES, CONTROLLED MAINLY BY SAUDI ARABIA, HAVE REMAINED LOW TO PUT A FINANCIAL STRAIN ON RUSSIA TO MAKE THEM STOP SUPPORTING ASSAD.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE!

THE NEW YORK TIMES BROKE THE STORY IN FEBRUARY...DID YOU READ IT?

“Saudi Arabia has been trying to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abandon his support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, using its dominance of the global oil markets at a time when the Russian government is reeling from the effects of plummeting oil prices…

Saudi officials say — and they have told the United States — that they think they have some leverage over Mr. Putin because of their ability to reduce the supply of oil and possibly drive up prices….Any weakening of Russian support for Mr. Assad could be one of the first signs that the recent tumult in the oil market is having an impact on global statecraft…..

Saudi Arabia’s leverage depends on how seriously Moscow views its declining oil revenue. “If they are hurting so bad that they need the oil deal right away, the Saudis are in a good position to make them pay a geopolitical price as well,” said F. Gregory Gause III, a Middle East specialist at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service ."

The Saudis “think they have some leverage over Mr. Putin because of their ability” to manipulate prices?

That says it all, doesn’t it?

WHAT WILL WALL STREET DO NOW?
CRAWL OVER TO SAUDI ARABIA AND LICK A FEW 'HOUSE OF SAUD' FEET?

ANYTHING FOR PROFITS, BOYS.

FROM THAT ARTICLE IN THE NYT...

“If oil can serve to bring peace in Syria, I don’t see how Saudi Arabia would back away from trying to reach a deal,” a Saudi diplomat said. 

[WOW! SAUDI ARABIA AS "MESSIAH"? WHY NOT...?]

An array of diplomatic, intelligence and political officials from the United States and Middle East spoke on the condition of anonymity to adhere to protocols of diplomacy.

So what would it take for the price of oil to finally jump? 

Not much: Putin's announcement that Syria's leader Bashar is no longer a strategically of Russia.

Any weakening of Russian support for Mr. Assad could be one of the first signs that the recent tumult in the oil market is having an impact on global statecraft. 

Saudi officials have said publicly that the price of oil reflects only global supply and demand, and they have insisted that Saudi Arabia will not let geopolitics drive its economic agenda. 

But they believe that there could be ancillary diplomatic benefits to the country’s current strategy of allowing oil prices to stay low — including a chance to negotiate an exit for Mr. Assad."

BUT THEN OIL PRICES ROSE SHARPLY, 27  CENTS PER GALLON IN ONE WEEK, IN SEPTEMBER, 2015.

WHAT HAPPENED?

MANIPULATION OF THE MEDIA.
SEE <THIS>. 

AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF "PREVIOUSLY INCORRECT DATA"...
SUDDENLY, THE U.S. DIDN'T REALLY, REALLY INCREASE SHALE OIL PRODUCTION, NO.

THERE WAS SCRAMBLING EVERYWHERE TO MAKE THE WHOLE RUSE LOOK GOOD...CANADIAN OIL PRODUCTION WAS OFF, PROBLEMS WITH PIPELINES "ALL OF A SUDDEN"...

BUT, THE LIES PLUS THE HALF-TRUTHS COULDN'T KEEP OIL PRICES HIGH NOR DRIVE THEM HIGHER.

Citigroup analysts think the recent rebound is overdone, calling it a “false start,” and the 27 percent gain in just three days was “driven by a misread of market data and financial headlines.” 

Indeed, the largest three-day price rally since 1990 was driven by headlines, but given the severe volatility and huge price swings, oil prices are not trading on the fundamentals right now. 

Nobody knows what will happen next. 

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, WHEN IT SENT OLD JOHN KERRY TO THE SAUDIS TO BARGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 11 (WHAT A COINCIDENCE, THAT DATE, YES?) MIGHT AS WELL HAVE SENT HIM WITH A NEON FLASHING SIGN THAT READ,

"AMERICA WOULD RATHER TARGET RUSSIA THAN ISIS."

ANOTHER "BTW"...HAVE YOU LOOKED AT MAPS OF ISIS-HELD TERRITORY IN SYRIA?

EVER SINCE AMERICA SAID IT WAS 'TARGETING' ISIS, THAT GROUP HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED ITS HOLDINGS IN SYRIA!
 AND THE NEW YORK TIMES <HERE>. 

SEVERAL FOREIGN NEWS SOURCES HAVE ALSO FILMED AIRDROPS FROM AMERICAN PLANES INTO ISIS-HELD AREAS...RESUPPLIES!

AMERICA, NATURALLY, CLAIMED IT WAS ERRORS...NOT INTENDED.

WILL RUSSIA CAVE IN?
WILL WALL STREET GET ITS $5.00 A GALLON GAS PRICE?

WILL WE EVER REALIZE THAT CONSPIRACIES DO ACTUALLY EXIST IN GREAT NUMBERS AND THAT TIME WILL REVEAL MORE EACH YEAR?

THEORY  TODAY, FACT TOMORROW.

THE WORLD IS FULL OF DECEIT.

QUESTION EVERYTHING.