British Petroleum and it’s humanitarian interests, are not just the provision of the wholesale sunscreen oil coated protection offered presently to the United States of America Gulf states alone, but are a whole lot more. They offer us vast amounts of oil directly applied to the beaches where tourists flock to bathe, just in order to save the lives of creatures great and small and especially human beings from the damaging effects of the UV radiation coming in from the sun.
Beyond petroleum meant they are getting into sunscreen oil products and personal health & hygiene too.
Ina parallel universe, BP and it’s spilled oil are potentially protecting us from sunstroke…too.
Although the above is implausible - it still is the BP insider office joke – that this would be their official PR doctrine in another world. The Middle East let’s say. Or Africa. Or the Caucasus…
But BP in reality is actually and largely responsible for the planning and the Doctrine of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and even for the faulty US foreign Policy against Iran…
And although this seems equally implausible – as the statements about sunscreen above – it’s actually and sadly the real state of affairs…
A US state policy that might lead us to war sooner rather than later against Iran, was crafted as part of the “Great Game” with scenarios from the British Petroleum strategic board and the British Secret Service. These two revolving door institutions share the same people and the same exact philosophy and Modus Operandi. And they come up with faulty logic and scenario planning of extreme consequences. And in the event of application of these plans into the real world, we’ll be faced with Catastrophes of unmitigated magnitude. With equally catastrophic consequences for all of us, similar to the therapeutic ”suntan oil” BP spilled all over the Gulf coast and is carried upstream through the Gulf Stream and it coats all Life forms with an oily sheen of death.
Same as they spilled the Gulf full of oil now, BP and their secret service boys working alongside their CIA counterparts, have spilled their toxic oil into the US-Iran relationship.
Because it was largely BP’s underhanded justifications, vast amounts of money and questionable intelligence, coupled with British Secret Service efforts to remove the Ayatollah who confiscated their colonial business assets in Iran, after the fall of the Shah; that led to the US Embassy seizure and the hostage crisis. This is the subtext that still poisons the US – Iran relationship today.
BP is the other door for the gainful employment of fired or burned out pencil pushers and career executives of the British Secret Service. They exchange jobs like worn shirts. Nobody knows who their real boss is except their real macho man: Control. In most cases it is BP’s oil security interests that trump the boss list and the cause to go to war or not. Always claiming Energy Security like some sort of Divine Right Command.
America and Persia are at each other’s throat… for a while now. The two great nations still fighting over the nasty colonial legacy of the foxy Brit secret service working with BP. It’s the spoiled fruits of the special relationship and in large measure the reason the empire’s remnant policy largely responsible for the bitter fruit of Iraq and the Afghan war, that brought us the mess and the American Economy’s near bankruptcy.
That is why Obama sent the Churchill bust packing home by FedEx. He sent him away from the White House and the Oval office, back to the Brits in the Whitehall. He understood intimately the poison it spewed.
Never mind that it might have been a plant inside…
Obama knew as he should, that British Intelligence, had doctored the real oil reason dossier justifying the case for a winnable war in Iraq. And it was the stupid SOBs [Cheney's bush] who bought it hook line and sinker. They thought they had their interests at heart.
Well…
That’s how you fish for the large sea bass. With a big hook. And a bit of oil at the tip of it…
Those cunning and willing MI5, MI6, ad infinitum old boys networks of middle class and middle age, mainly crypto-gay men playing their merry games is what the BP boys are all about too.
The observed human rights abuses of BP are well documented. Whether in building pipelines like the BTC while steamrolling literally over people and their lives and families, or glorifying and ”arranging” the Dossier for the war in Iraq spicing up the case for WMD and articulating the case for the Afghan war, literally based on the scenario for new oil transport routes and future pipelines through the Afghan grounds they need to cover for them; they all had British Petroleum central planning, written all over them.
The BTC oil pipeline human rights disaster was an internal BP and British Energy Security joint project. In it’s finished form; is called the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan, seventeen hundred mile long crude oil pipeline from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia and ends in Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is the longest oil pipeline crossing territories of the former Soviet Union and the west and it has caused tremendous human rights abuses in all the nations it traversed by supporting the strongmen in power in Georgia, Azerbaizan and Turkey and demanding the local militias and militaries to move people out of the way. Of course with the massive military deployment and the forced displacement of villages, towns and resistant populations out of the way; largely affecting only undesirable ethnic minorities of Kurdish, Azeri and Georgian peoples negatively, there was violence and massive human rights violations were performed in favour of BP’s planned expediency and corner cutting. Still the BTC pipeline is considered to also have been the main cause of the war that caused more human rights violations through the Georgian – Russian conflict of the year 2008.
BP is responsible for more Coup d’ Etats and regional conflicts around the world, than the clumsy flatfoots of the CIA.
Of course with a little help from their friends…
From across the pond in Washington and the Potomac.
Just look a bit at the history of their past.
And this is just what’s out there in the public domain. Well almost.
Not the really secret stuff…
BP’s historical background in IRAN:
In May 1901, William Knox D’Arcy working for the British Admiralty, was granted a concession by the Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar of Iran to explore for and mine petroleum in Iran, and which he found plenty of, in May 1908 in several fields throughout Persia. This was the first commercially significant find in the Middle East. On 14 April 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit this. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). The British Admiralty’s and the Secret Service strategic interest was mainly for the Persian oil to become part of the British fleet and motorized army divisions supplier and the state’s oil supply security. Please remember that recently the British naval fleet’s ship boilers have all been converted to burning petroleum [diesel oil] under Churchill’s supervision. The very same man whose bust was sent packing from the White House…
After World War II, AIOC and the Iranian government initially resisted nationalist pressure to revise AIOC [predecessor to BP] oil sharing concession terms in some greater balance towards the nation of Iran, and the Prime Minister eventually fell out of favour of the British when He decided to open negotiations with BP about more equitable sharing. Before he could complete the job, and in March 1951, the Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated by British agents and the petroleum concession remained unchanged. Because of that assassination of a beloved Prime Minister by foreign agents, the people of Iran rebelled and the democraticaly elected Parliament of Iran, elected a nationalist, Mohammed Mossadeq, as the new Prime Minister of Iran. In April, the Parliament voted to nationalize the oil industry by a unanimous vote. The National Iranian Oil Company was formed as a result, displacing the AIOC. The AIOC withdrew its management from Iran, and organised an effective boycott of Iranian oil. The British government – which owned the AIOC – contested the nationalisation at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, but its complaint was dismissed. And of course they started their secret operations anew against Iran’s democracy, this time with the Cousins from across the ”pond” with the Americans who were just too happy to share the Oil.
By spring of 1953, incoming U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to organise a coup against the Mossadeq government with support from the British government. On 19 August 1953, democratically elected Iranian President Mossadeq was captured in his office and thrown in a secret jail where he died, by the CIA and British Intelligence operatives who conspired against the Persian Democracy and toppled it. The Coup d’Etat in Iran, was tremendously ”successful” as measured by such ”geniuses” as the UK military intelligence, the Shah of iran and the Iranian military, and known by its CIA codename, ”Operation Ajax.” And it is to this day, the main shameful reason that the current democratic Iranian government tries to develop strong defenses against the interference and constant threat of overthrow by the US state and CIA and the UK’s Secret Service operations.
Can you blame them?
Try putting their shoes on; and see if they fit for size, and if George Washington could have ever trusted the British secret agents again after he was betrayed several times. Times change and the intelligence gets lost and History isn’t studied by the claimants to the White House anymore. Especially after the Cheney’s bush came along and in their infinite stupidity, publicly claimed that regime removal and replacement was their main Petroleum business. Even though the Iranian people enjoyed a democratically elected government. Mostly… At least they were elected by an absolute MAJORITY of the people – something that Cheney’s bush couldn’t even claim for his own ascent to the White House Oval office he so soon befouled and left behind in broken laws and human rights violations and in such complete disarray like only a mean spirited drunken lout might have done.
Back in History though, it was because the Democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mossadeq was attacked, toppled and jailed that they could replace him with a puppet called ”Shah.” Shah’s first act was that the British Petroleum Corporation was reinstituted in IRAN and given a charter that controlled all the oil flows out of the country at very favourable rates. The new Shah immediately abolished the democratic Constitution and dissolved the parliament and assumed autocratic powers. He allowed all government to be led from the US and the UK embassies controlling all Ministers and he lived the rest of his life as a simple string puppet of his British and American masters… He oppressed his people ruthlessly and armed his army with anything shiny killing toy, he could buy from the Anglo American industrial military complex with his Petro-dollars.
In details; the subject of oil was the main reason for the CIA and British Secret Service Coup d’Etat in IRAN, and right after Mossadeq’s conspired & forced removal from office, the National Iranian Oil Company ownership was transferred to the Anglo American interests and ”became” an international consortium, and AIOC resumed operations in Iran as the master of it. The consortium agreed supposedly to share profits on a 50–50 basis with Iran, “but not to open its books to Iranian auditors or to allow Iranians onto its board of directors.” AIOC, as a part of the Anglo-American coup d’état deal, was allowed to monopolise Iranian oil as before the democratic government tried to control it. Supposedly BP was limited to a 40% share in a new international consortium but You know the greed of those Secret gay boys… From the rest of the company petroleum flows: 40% went to the five major American companies and 20% went to Royal Dutch Shell and Compagnie Française des Pétroles [today's ''Total'' of France], in equal terms.
The AIOC officially became the British Petroleum Company in 1954. In 1959 the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska and in 1965 it was the first company to strike oil in the North Sea. In 1978 British Petroleum acquired a controlling interest in Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio, a break-off of the former Standard Oil that had been broken up after anti-trust litigation.
British Petroleum continued to operate in Iran until the Islamic Revolution in 1979… when the people of Iran reasserted their authority again over the national resources. They overthrew the puppet Shah and his masters from Teheran and the new democratic people’s government of Ayatollah Khomeini nationalized all of British Petroleum assets in Iran, finally closing British Petroleum’s 70-year presence in Iran. Till now that is because the future appears changeable again…
BP worked through the CIA and British Intelligence and Secret Services hard to force another Coup d’Etat against the people’s government and their leader Ayatollah and even lobbied the White House directly under U.S. President Carter who wouldn’t hear of it. Carter wouldn’t authorise the Central Intelligence Agency to organise another Coup d’Etat against the new people’s government of Iran, even though the BP plan for regime replacement had all the support from the British government and it’s secret tendrils of Merry Men. There is even reasonable speculation that the ”Iranian student’s action” against the US embassy and the seizure of the American hostages in the Teheran embassy of the US, was the master work and indeed was orchestrated by British Intelligence as an act of provocation and aggression appearing to come from the Iranians against the US in order to force the hand of the Americans. They reasoned that if they make the Americans mad enough, they would have to go in there with the Marines to topple the Ayatollah and the people’s government and reinstall the Shah. Because only through that method, the British Petroleum corporation would regain control of the oil supply of Iran and its vast fields and resume it’s pressure and control of the neighborhoud’s potentate regimes…
President Carter to his credit did not fall for this slippery British banana peel thrown on his path from the erstwhile ”Allies” remnants of the old empire thinking they could outsmart the odd peanut farmer…
But incoming cowboy Reagan did step on the treacherous peel; and not only he armed the Iranians and Iraqis with weapons through Olie North [or is that Oilly North] but also supported the client state of Iraq fully and he created the butcher of Baghdad Saddam with the CIA’s blessings and the best and latest in weaponry. Weapons so potent and ideology so toxic that Saddam was coopted, so he can be turned against Iran and waste their revolution. A ten year bloody war followed between the two countries causing tremendous negative space now for the US in the Middle East. To this day the US cannot be trusted by anyone in the ME who knows the British banana peels the State boys are liable to step onto. Thus the very same toxic oil policy was continued till after the Clintons and of course reinvigorated when Cheney’s bush came into office and embarked to their oil adventurism wars of conquest in Iraq and oil and gas transport pipelines in Afghanistan.
Both War efforts of today, were spelled out clearly, within the early twenty century scenario maps of the predecessors of British Petroleum and the British Admiralty’s Secret Service. And today’s British Secret Service and CIA’s joint operational War footing preparations against Iran is spelled out right in them BP maps and scenarios too. Old habits die hard and although the recent wars have bankrupted the Treasuries of both countries, the Energy Security lollipop ideas, fly high these days. Out of the mouths of babes… and Crazies.
Energy Security is a most dangerous political misunderstanding and a slippery British banana peel coming underfoot. Coming from the bubble heads like the Republican lady Senator from Alaska Murkowski and so many sensible others all the way to the crack addicted ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin. All these are misinterpreting what were old Winston C’s calls for a variety of resources and sources… of energy to ensure the Energy Security for the British Naval Fleet, the Army and Airforce. The Economy is another vast overreach the dummies push for. They don’t even know that economies on the move and under stress to find new resources and new technologies of Energy, are far more resilient and much faster growing than their placid and corpulent counterparts. Just compare China and India’s growth rates these last decades with any of the established safe and secure economies that sink from one recession to a depression and a Bipolar W double dip recession state of affairs, after another…
The knowledge that during World War II, Winston Churchill was the victorious Prime Minister of the United Kingdom isn’t enough. Most folks are unfamiliar with early 20th century history and do not know that before and during the First World War, Winston Churchill served as the First Lord of the Admiralty for the British Navy. It was in his role as pre-WWI First Lord of the Admiralty, that Churchill converted the British Navy from coal-burning boilers, to petroleum burning ones, to make the navy ships of the fleet faster and more agile than the German Navy battle ships. A smart move by anyone’s reasoning with the set of facts then available… But by doing this major fuel conversion for the fleet, old Churchill recognized that a new vulnerability had been created. And he wanted to address this thus: Because coal was an abundant UK isles domestic source of fuel yet the vast amounts of petroleum needed, had to be imported, he sought to find secure supplies from many and various sources. Relying on petroleum, meant that the British Navy would, for the first time, be dependent on foreign sources of fuel. And these needed to be ”domesticated” somehow… Here come the ”useful” services of the boys of the Secret Service and British intelligence morphing into BP. The Anglo Persian Petroleum Company that morphed in today’s British Petroleum was born in the drawing rooms of the Whitehall – no less. The heritage shows…
It was Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, leading up to WWI, and in the context of the British Navy’s new dependence upon imported fuel oil, that said: “Safety and certainty in fuel, lie in variety and variety alone.”
The phrase Energy Security, which is oftentimes used today as a substitute slogan for Energy Independence, and ”Drill baby Drill” and ”burn and crash” politics of Energy, and the Economy, originates from that Winston Churchill pre WWI thesis spoken to the Admiralty Board.
Again here Churchill meant variety of oil suppliers and fuel resources as he detailed further in his Admiralty reports. Those who foolishly and willfully misrepresent him and prefer to say “Energy Security” rather than “Energy Independence” are usually advocating for increased oil exploration and production worldwide, including within the USA, especially in Alaska and in the U.S. coastal waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. These are the PR boys of BP and it’s other oil brethren, undoubtably the oil majors’ fast and furious first lobby victims.
So now You have been briefed. Because correct Leadership requires information that helps You get to the right decisions…
Because of this you can intelligently, see how well it all ties together, who is responsible for the broken wing hawk’s agenda, and why the call for armed intervention – aka -WAR against Iran is an old geezer idea that should be locked deep in the insanity ward… along with it’s vocalizers. Starting with Cheney’s bush and Tony Blair and their proponents.
Iran on the other hand needs to be engaged in dialogue and constructive mutual prosperity goals and re-engagement with the world community in Peace and Trade. Their elections are bound to yield a moderate democratic result sooner rather than later…
The alternative to that is to buy a WAR from the same gay boys who brought us the giant MOFO BP oil spill, raping the homeland of America and the Gulf states.
They are so ignorant these naughty British public schoolboys, that they can’t tell the one Gulf from the other.
Sticking their drill deep – where it shouldn’t be – and messing with other people’s lives.
And because of their superior ignorance, they kept on doing what passed as ”posh n’ proper” in the Persian Gulf to the American Gulf.
And again they would Go-ahead and redo it to the Americans in their own Gulf never fearing consequences nor God nor nature. Sadly they didn’t reason about that old curmudgeon Uncle Sam. They’ll live to regret it. Once they raised the Yankee ire – their demise was assured.
Big and Bad mistake Tony…
Live n’ Learn as they say in N’ Orleans…
Yours,
Pano
PS:
Just Desserts and the oil covered chicken now coming home to roost is what the school boys deserve.
Bye Pie is the new meaning of the acronym of BP
Would You buy another war from these men?
The question is for you Obama.
Wake up and smell the oil.
PS2:
Human Rights is at the centre of our Energy Policy.
And the moment we realize this – we liberate ourselves from the fetters of oil addiction bondage.
And we can remove the shutters from our eyes too by recognizing and seeing truly – perhaps for the first time the real cost of oil.
The real cost in Human costs and in Environmental costs as it becomes evident now n the Gulf of Mexico.
And it is crucially and inexorably related to what we are doing in the Persian Gulf.
We are harming people in both parts of this earth, for the same reasons, as we are killing humans, other species and most of nature too.
Need to clean up our act. Both Gulfs need to be rid of BP and their nasty legacy thinking and oily residues.
Prosperity with various alternative forms of Energy from Renewable and sustainable sources is the answer for Peace and Prosperity.
That is the real Energy Security for America.
PS3:
And incidentally this is the Energy Security Public Policy for the rest of the world as well.
And the only one that ensures that Human Rights and the Millenium Development Goals are adhered to.
Renewable Energy protects the Human as well as all the other species too. And even the Un gets the idea now.
We ask for a transition to Renewable and Sustainable Energy Sources with low CO2 emissions to boot.
And the Green Bonds Conference at the UN this September is what is all about.
At the final analysis:
What’s Good for the Environment, for the People and the Climate is good for Security too.
