Good find. Yup. Remember I told you that.
And look at the other angle I mentioned which is LNG exports from USA, and the suppression of the development of gas fields in the China Sea by the meddling USA (pretending to protect the Philippines from China, bullshit!):
http://www.dailywealth.com/2271/us-natural-gas-exports-fuel-worldhttp://pro1.contrarianprofits.com/135289(after page loads, click to close the window, when it prompts you, choose Stay On This Page, then you can read the transcript instead of watching the video)
Now you see what the BP nonsense in the Gulf of Mexico was about. It is about them gaining control over the area, so they can do as they damn well please. You know BP is building a gas pipeline across the USA.
Big oil owns Australian natural gas:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324904004578538831952138920.htmlAnother angle:
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/09/04/syria-iran/In Iran, the June elections ushered in a political change in the wind. President Hassan Rouhani won the election in Iran with a landslide. He campaigned on trying to get rid of the economic sanctions by engaging with the West. His victory was so impressive among the youth that he won even the very cautious backing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to move forward and try engage with Western countries...
President Hassan Rouhani is preparing to travel to New York to attend the UN personally this month. This will be a real first for Iran. The US military strikes on Syria seem almost a desperate attempt to stop Rouhani’s diplomacy efforts
> Tuesday, September 3, 2013
>
Will The United States Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline?> Michael Snyder
> Activist Post
>
> Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the
> rebels in Syria? Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of
> liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural
> gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar wants to install a puppet
> regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable
> them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe.
>
> Why is Saudi Arabia spending huge amounts of money to help the rebels and
> why has Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan been "jetting from covert command
> centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the
> Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime"? Well, it turns
> out that Saudi Arabia intends to install their own puppet government in
> Syria which will allow the Saudis to control the flow of energy through
> the region.
>
> On the other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole
> bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block
> the flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring
> higher profits for Gazprom. Now the United States is getting directly
> involved in the conflict.
>
> If the U.S. is successful in getting rid of the Assad regime, it will be
> good for either the Saudis or Qatar (and possibly for both), and it will
> be really bad for Russia. This is a strategic geopolitical conflict about
> natural resources, religion and money, and it really has nothing to do
> with chemical weapons at all.
>
>
> It has been common knowledge that Qatar has desperately wanted to
> construct a natural gas pipeline that will enable it to get natural gas to
> Europe for a very long time. The following is an excerpt from an article
> from 2009...
> Qatar has proposed a gas pipeline from the Gulf to Turkey in a sign the
> emirate is considering a further expansion of exports from the world's
> biggest gasfield after it finishes an ambitious programme to more than
> double its capacity to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG)."We are eager
> to have a gas pipeline from Qatar to Turkey," Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al
> Thani, the ruler of Qatar, said last week, following talks with the
> Turkish president Abdullah Gul and the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
> in the western Turkish resort town of Bodrum. "We discussed this matter in
> the framework of co-operation in the field of energy. In this regard, a
> working group will be set up that will come up with concrete results in
> the shortest possible time," he said, according to Turkey's Anatolia news
> agency.Other reports in the Turkish press said the two states were
> exploring the possibility of Qatar supplying gas to the strategic Nabucco
> pipeline project, which would transport Central Asian and Middle Eastern
> gas to Europe, bypassing Russia. A Qatar-to-Turkey pipeline might hook up
> with Nabucco at its proposed starting point in eastern Turkey. Last month,
> Mr Erdogan and the prime ministers of four European countries signed a
> transit agreement for Nabucco, clearing the way for a final investment
> decision next year on the EU-backed project to reduce European dependence
> on Russian gas.
> "For this aim, I think a gas pipeline between Turkey and Qatar would solve
> the issue once and for all," Mr Erdogan added, according to reports in
> several newspapers. The reports said two different routes for such a
> pipeline were possible. One would lead from Qatar through Saudi Arabia,
> Kuwait and Iraq to Turkey. The other would go through Saudi Arabia,
> Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey. It was not clear whether the second option
> would be connected to the Pan-Arab pipeline, carrying Egyptian gas through
> Jordan to Syria. That pipeline, which is due to be extended to Turkey, has
> also been proposed as a source of gas for Nabucco.Based on production from
> the massive North Field in the Gulf, Qatar has established a commanding
> position as the world's leading LNG exporter. It is consolidating that
> through a construction programme aimed at increasing its annual LNG
> production capacity to 77 million tonnes by the end of next year, from 31
> million tonnes last year. However, in 2005, the emirate placed a
> moratorium on plans for further development of the North Field in order to
> conduct a reservoir study.As you just read, there were two proposed routes
> for the pipeline. Unfortunately for Qatar, Saudi Arabia said no to the
> first route and Syria said no to the second route. The following is from
> an absolutely outstanding article in the Guardian...
> In 2009 - the same year former French foreign minister Dumas alleges the
> British began planning operations in Syria - Assad refused to sign a
> proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline from the latter's
> North field, contiguous with Iran's South Pars field, through Saudi
> Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey, with a view to supply European
> markets - albeit crucially bypassing Russia. Assad's rationale was "to
> protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is Europe's top
> supplier of natural gas."Instead, the following year, Assad pursued
> negotiations for an alternative $10 billion pipeline plan with Iran,
> across Iraq to Syria, that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas
> to Europe from its South Pars field shared with Qatar. The Memorandum of
> Understanding (MoU) for the project was signed in July 2012 - just as
> Syria's civil war was spreading to Damascus and Aleppo - and earlier this
> year Iraq signed aframework agreement for construction of the gas
> pipelines.The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan was a "direct slap in the
> face" to Qatar's plans. No wonder Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, in a
> failed attempt to bribe Russia to switch sides, told President Vladmir
> Putin that "whatever regime comes after" Assad, it will be "completely" in
> Saudi Arabia's hands and will "not sign any agreement allowing any Gulf
> country to transport its gas across Syria to Europe and compete with
> Russian gas exports", according to diplomatic sources. When Putin refused,
> the Prince vowed military action.If Qatar is able to get natural gas
> flowing into Europe, that will be a significant blow to Russia. So the
> conflict in Syria is actually much more about a pipeline than it is about
> the future of the Syrian people. In a recent article, Paul McGuire
> summarized things quite nicely...
> The Nabucco Agreement was signed by a handful of European nations and
> Turkey back in 2009. It was an agreement to run a natural gas pipeline
> across Turkey into Austria, bypassing Russia again with Qatar in the mix
> as a supplier to a feeder pipeline via the proposed Arab pipeline from
> Libya to Egypt to Nabucco (is the picture getting clearer?). The problem
> with all of this is that a Russian backed Syria stands in the way.Qatar
> would love to sell its LNG to the EU and the hot Mediterranean markets.
> The problem for Qatar in achieving this is Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have
> already said "NO" to an overland pipe cutting across the Land of Saud. The
> only solution for Qatar if it wants to sell its oil is to cut a deal with
> the U.S.Recently Exxon Mobile and Qatar Petroleum International have made
> a $10 Billion deal that allows Exxon Mobile to sell natural gas through a
> port in Texas to the UK and Mediterranean markets. Qatar stands to make a
> lot of money and the only thing standing in the way of their aspirations
> is Syria.The US plays into this in that it has vast wells of natural gas,
> in fact the largest known supply in the world. There is a reason why
> natural gas prices have been suppressed for so long in the US. This is to
> set the stage for US involvement in the Natural Gas market in Europe while
> smashing the monopoly that the Russians have enjoyed for so long. What
> appears to be a conflict with Syria is really a conflict between the U.S.
> and Russia! The main cities of turmoil and conflict in Syria right now are
> Damascus, Homs, and Aleppo. These are the same cities that the proposed
> gas pipelines happen to run through. Qatar is the biggest financier of the
> Syrian uprising, having spent over $3 billion so far on the conflict. The
> other side of the story is Saudi Arabia, which finances anti-Assad groups
> in Syria. The Saudis do not want to be marginalized by Qatar; thus they
> too want to topple Assad and implant their own puppet government, one that
> would sign off on a pipeline deal and charge Qatar for running their pipes
> through to Nabucco.
> Yes, I know that this is all very complicated.
>
> But no matter how you slice it, there is absolutely no reason for the
> United States to be getting involved in this conflict.
>
> If the U.S. does get involved, we will actually be helping al-Qaeda
> terrorists that behead mothers and their infants...
> Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers
> traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a
> mother and a 40-days old infant.Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of
> Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road in Talkalakh and killed
> everyone before setting the bus on fire.Is this really who we want to be
> "allied" with?
>
> And of course once we strike Syria, the war could escalate into a
> full-blown conflict very easily.
>
> If you believe that the Obama administration would never send U.S. troops
> into Syria, you are just being naive. In fact, according to Jack
> Goldsmith, a professor at Harvard Law School, the proposed authorization
> to use military force that has been sent to Congress would leave the door
> wide open for American "boots on the ground"...
> The proposed AUMF focuses on Syrian WMD but is otherwise very broad. It
> authorizes the President to use any element of the U.S. Armed Forces and
> any method of force. It does not contain specific limits on targets –
> either in terms of the identity of the targets (e.g. the Syrian
> government, Syrian rebels, Hezbollah, Iran) or the geography of the
> targets. Its main limit comes on the purposes for which force can be
> used. Four points are worth making about these purposes. First, the
> proposed AUMF authorizes the President to use force “in connection with”
> the use of WMD in the Syrian civil war. (It does not limit the President’s
> use force to the territory of Syria, but rather says that the use of force
> must have a connection to the use of WMD in the Syrian conflict.
> Activities outside Syria can and certainly do have a connection to the use
> of WMD in the Syrian civil war.). Second, the use of force must be
> designed to “prevent or deter the use or proliferation” of WMDs “within,
> to or from Syria” or (broader yet) to “protect the United States and its
> allies and partners against the threat posed by such weapons.” Third, the
> proposed AUMF gives the President final interpretive authority to
> determine when these criteria are satisfied (“as he determines to be
> necessary and appropriate”). Fourth, the proposed AUMF contemplates no
> procedural restrictions on the President’s powers (such as a time limit).I
> think this AUMF has much broader implications than Ilya Somin described.
> Some questions for Congress to ponder:(1) Does the proposed AUMF authorize
> the President to take sides in the Syrian Civil War, or to attack Syrian
> rebels associated with al Qaeda, or to remove Assad from power? Yes, as
> long as the President determines that any of these entities has a (mere)
> connection to the use of WMD in the Syrian civil war, and that the use of
> force against one of them would prevent or deter the use or proliferation
> of WMD within, or to and from, Syria, or protect the U.S. or its allies
> (e.g. Israel) against the (mere) threat posed by those weapons. It is
> very easy to imagine the President making such determinations with regard
> to Assad or one or more of the rebel groups.
> (2) Does the proposed AUMF authorize the President to use force against
> Iran or Hezbollah, in Iran or Lebanon? Again, yes, as long as the
> President determines that Iran or Hezbollah has a (mere) a connection to
> the use of WMD in the Syrian civil war, and the use of force against Iran
> or Hezbollah would prevent or deter the use or proliferation of WMD
> within, or to and from, Syria, or protect the U.S. or its allies (e.g.
> Israel) against the (mere) threat posed by those weapons.Would you like to
> send your own son or your own daughter to fight in Syria just so that a
> natural gas pipeline can be built?
>
> What the United States should be doing in this situation is so obvious
> that even the five-year-old grandson of Nancy Pelosi can figure it out...
> I'll tell you this story and then I really do have to go. My five-year-old
> grandson, as I was leaving San Francisco yesterday, he said to me, Mimi,
> my name, Mimi, war with Syria, are you yes war with Syria, no, war with
> Syria. And he's five years old. We're not talking about war; we're talking
> about action. Yes war with Syria, no with war in Syria. I said, 'Well,
> what do you think?' He said, 'I think no war.'Unfortunately, his
> grandmother and most of our other insane "leaders" in Washington D.C. seem
> absolutely determined to take us to war.
>
> In the end, how much American blood will be spilled over a stupid natural
> gas pipeline?
>
> This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael
> Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own
> blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter
> here.
>
>
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