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1941 was Standard Oil of New Jer-sey, whose largest shareholder was the Rockefeller family - and the sec-ond largest shareholder at the time was Germanys IG Farben, then the worlds largest chemical conglomer-ate.

Their relationship came into exis-tence after the U.S. invested mas-sively in Nazi Germany during the American Depression in the 1930s, when Germany was considered a good and safe place to invest.

Western oil hedged the LuftwaffeNot only Standard Oil, but also firms such as Du Pont and General Motors were partners with IG Far-ben - the three companies were the main reason that Hitlers Luftwaffe was able to take to the air.

The German airplanes used Tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) as an additive to their fuel - and this was provided by Standard Oil, Du Pont and General Motors.

When World War 2 began in Europe, there was great resistance from England to the U.S. supply of

Since before World War II the search for economic growth in the Western world has made oil the most coveted resource across the globe. Oil is a prerequisite for heating, transport and the devel-opment of most modern products - and it is absolutely essential for waging war.

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As the nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommels forces were left stranded in the desert at Haifa in Libya after the Battle of Tobruk in 1942, it was not because of a lack of fire power on the part of the Allies - he had simply run out of oil.

In fact the whole campaign had been nothing more than a desperate attempt to conquer North Africa in order to provide oil to Adolf Hitlers Germany and fascist Italy.

Hitler had formulated the mission a year earlier. In a directive in August 1941, he stated that it was necessary to conquer the Crimean peninsula in order to cut off Russian oil supplies and ensure fresh ones as the US was about to stop trading with Germany.

In the early 1940s, the U.S. was the worlds largest producer of oil, and both the Nazi war build-up and

the start of World War 2 created a boom for the U.S. oil industry.

The United States was then a contemporary version of Saudi Ara-bia.

From early on in the war, U.S. companies delivered oil to all the belligerents: Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. None of them had signif-icant in-house production and were therefore all dependent on the U.S..

American oil to the JapaneseUntil shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it was American oil that fueled the whole Japanese army.

Japan had no oil resources, so tankers sailed in regular service between the United States and Japan until the Japanese operations in the Indian Ocean became so threatening that President Roosevelt stopped deliveries.

Similarly, the oil from the U.S. was the basis for economic growth in Germany until the war - and secured Hitlers aggressive expan-sion in its first year.

Without financial support and oil from the United States, the expan-sion and war efforts of Nazi Germa-ny, would never have been realized.

Standard Oil owned by Rockefell-er and IG FarbenThe largest U.S. oil company in

No wars without oil - and without oil no wars

oil and fuel to the Nazi Germany, and Standard Oil responded by immediately relocating all its oil fleet to Panama.

From there Standard Oil contin-ued supplying central plants in the Canary Islands and Tenerife where the oil was loaded onto German tankers for use by both German and Italian troops.

Trade until Spring 1941This traffic continued until Spring 1941 when the U.S. government published a detailed list of U.S. companies trading with the Nazis which raised a minor scandal.

At the time, Standard Oil was responsible for more than 80 per-cent of the U.S. oil production, and it was closely tied to Chase National Bank of New York - a bank closed by the U.S. authorities on 17 April 1945 after money-laundering Nazi money throughout the war.

Since at least World War II the key to waging wars througout the world has been oil. Oil is both the goal and the means of war, and in this century, wars and reconstructions have become both political and economical necessities (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline has been on the drawing board since the mid-1990s and was only made possible with the invasion of Afgha-nistan in 2001. Scheduled for com-pletion in 2016 it will connect the oil wells in the Caspian Sea with major markets in India and Asia. (Photo: PeaceReporter.net)

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Oil from Standard Oil, Du Pont and General Motors was the main reason that Hitlers Luftwaffe was able to take to the air

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cally its about rulers needing increasing amounts of oil to main-tain their positions, says Daniele Ganser.

Focus on oil in Iraq before 9/11Even before 9/11, it was clear that

the United States focused on oil reserves in Iraq, which at that time possessed the second largest reserves in the world. The West invaded the country, removed and liquidated Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi oil wealth was divided among selected Western oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon.

In late 1990, the Western oil giant Unocal, joined forces with the Saudi Arabian oil company Delta. Togeth-er they signed a cooperation agree-ment with the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan, to establish an oil and gas pipeline through the coun-try. It was to secure supplies from

resources. The alternative was that the Japanese war machine would face an abrupt halt.

Most wars are resource warsThe Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser, is convinced that the under-lying reason for most wars, is the need for oil.

- The military machine, is depen-dent on oil; without oil no war. And if we look at the worlds hotspots at any given time, you will nearly always find, that massive oil inter-ests are present, says Daniele Gan-ser.

- Almost all wars are resource wars. The people are told all sorts of reasons, usually something with democracy and freedom, but basi-

the Caspian Sea through Turkmeni-stan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and beyond to the major markets in Asia.

The Trans-Afghanistan pipelineThe construction of this Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, which is scheduled for completion in 2016, was initially strongly opposed by the Afghan people and especially among the various Afghan warlords, who were not controlled by the cen-tral Taliban regime in Kabul. The invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 is therefore seen by many observers as a desire to ensure and secure this pipeline through military presence.

The U.S. interest in securing oil supplies and consumption is due to both the U.S. oil industry and the U.S. dollar. Since the early 1970s it has been the standard procedure, that oil transactions are paid in dol-lars, and no other currencies.

85 percent of Hitlers oil came from the U.S., Venezuela and IranAs oil supplies from the U.S. to Nazi Germany were finally stopped, Hitler faced a serious problem. Even at the outbreak of war, Germany consumed about three million tons of oil a year, with 85 percent of it coming from the United States, Ven-ezuela and Iran. Just as in World War I, Germany was once again dependent on oil from Romania and the Ukraine - and once again the production wasnt sufficient to ful-fill the German ambitions for growth and invasions.

When the Japanese in March 1942 invaded the Dutch colony, Indonesia, the goal was to ensure access to the countrys rich oil

OIL-FOR-DOLLAR - According to the 1973 agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. would provide military pro-tection of the Saudi oil fields - as well as equipment, manpower and supplies for the construction of the new Saudi Intelligence Services, modelled by the CIA. In return, Saudi Arabia rejected to trade its oil in any other currency than the US-dollar. Thus the nickname Pet-rodollar.

Two years later, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela were in on the same agreement, followed by Qatar, Indonesia, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Gabon and Angola.

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Dr. Daniele Ganser is a historian and peace researcher and director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research in Basel. Ganser specializes in international history over the past 100 years, pointing to oil and other fos-sil fuels as the sources of war. As the Wests oil consumption has increased, invasions and false flag operations have secured access to an increasing amount of the worlds oil resources.

The war on terror after September 11th has primarily been carried out in the oil-producing regions of the world, paving the way for massive new supply lines on the Eurasian kontinent

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The currency confusion- If you look at the so-called Brent oil coming from North Sea oil fields in the area between Norway and the UK, the price is listed in dollars. Today, no one finds it strange that we dont use the Norwegian krone, pound sterling or for that matter the Euro to pay for the oil. This linkage between one countrys currency and a global demand for a raw material is extremely dubious, to say the least, says Dr. Daniele Ganser.

In practice, the 1971-73 petrodol-lar agreements, automatically strengthens the U.S. dollar whenev-er oil is being traded, 24/7 around the globe. The dollars value is arti-ficial, created by hijacking the whole planets trading of a given natural and very essential ressource.

It is generally unknown to the public, that before 2000, Saddam Hussein announced plans to sell

Iraqi oil for EURO, generating posi-tive reactions in European financial circles. But after the invasion in 2003, when Iraqi oil production was taken over by Western oil compa-nies, the oil trade has remained in dollars.

Gaddafi wanted to nationalize Libyan oil fieldsSimilarly, in 2009, Libyas dictator Mohammar Gaddafi announced his plans in to nationalize Libyan oil fields and introduce a new currency, based on the more than 144 tons of gold reserves in the country. He would henceforth not recognize the U.S. dollar as payment for anything at all. The plans were effectively shelved when Libya was invaded in March 2011, and Gaddafi was killed. According to the former head of Libyas National Bank, Qasem Azoz, Libyas gold disappeared shortly after the invasion. Libyas oil trade also, still remains in dol-lars.

It is a fact that every single attempt to leave this petrodollar agreement have been halted under great economic and political pres-sure, ultimately with American mili-tary intervention.

The friendships between Saudi Arabia and the United States, and the extensive trading links between the Saudi and U.S. oil industries are historic and well documented. As the organizers of the attacks on 11th September 2001 should be found, international observers find it strange that the Bush administration

focused on Afghanistan, rather than Saudi Arabia - although 15 of the 19 alleged hijackers were residents of Saudi Arabia and the alleged ring-leader, Osama bin Laden was a Sau-di national.

The Bush family, the CIA and Saudi ArabiaThe Bush familys close friendship with the Saudi royal family and the Bin Laden family is widely recog-nized and a part of American histo-ry. When former President George H. W. Bush in 1976-1977 was direc-tor of the CIA, he had amongst oth-er things, the priority task to initiate and build the Saudi Security struc-ture - based on the American model. This came as a counterpart oil-for-

Through generations, the Bush family have had close friendships and busi-ness dealings with the Saudi Crown and the Bin Laden family who own and operate one of the largest enterprises in middle-east. They specialize in the construction of American military bases.

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dollar contract - at the time, the United States was in the process of building strategic military bases throughout Saudi Arabia, to protect the Saudi oil fields.

The friendship between Saudi Arabia and the United States and the extensive trading links between the Saudi and U.S. oil industry is his-torical and very well documented.

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This military alliance consolidat-ed the value of the oil / dollar agree-ment, officially securing the U.S. dollar, while the U.S. and Saudi Arabian oil industries literally boomed.

In 1953, the oil company Zapata Petroleum was founded. A joint ven-ture was made between George HW Bush and former CIA staffer Thom-as J. Devine, who coincidently quit his CIA post to enter private busi-ness. Thus, the documents declassi-fied in 1993, confirm that George HW Bush, until 1963 was both

director of Zapata Oil and employed by the CIA. This was 14 years before he became director of the CIA.

In 1979, George HW Bush found-ed the oil company Arbusto Energy, in Midland, Texas, along with a number of local businessmen, including James R. Bath, represen-tative of Salem bin Laden (older half-brother of Osama Bin Laden) and of the Saudi Binladin Group. Arbusto Energy has since led a Che-quered existence, and has also been associated with fraud and money

laundering scandals in the CIA infil-trated Bank of Credit and Com-merce International. The BCCI was forced to close in 1991, by the inter-national court in Luxembourg. In 2002 it was revealed to have contin-ued activities long after closure.

Over the last 100 years, high lev-el politics, decisions concerning oil, foreign policy and global Develop-ment, have been heavily influenced by increasingly powerful families. Effectivly shaping the global agenda to fit private financial interests.

Through links with firms such as

the Carlyle Group, the same fami-lies today have created vast person-al and private corporation fortunes with billion dollar values. War has become a political and economic necessity. Carlyle Group is the worlds largest private capital inves-timent company. The Carlyle Group payroll has a shifting string of for-mer presidents and ministers from the United States and governments around the world.

Follow the oil

Follow the petrodollarTying the global demand of an energy resource, to the currency of one particular country, ensures almost perpetual prosperity for that one currency. The system can only be threatened by alternative energy sources or countries that attempt to waive the agreement and go their own way. All attempts to leave the oil-for-dollar agreement since 1971 have been halted, by monetary or ultimately military invasions. The foreign military presence in Afghanistan has now secured the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline, between the Caspian Sea and the major markets in India and Asia. Through Ukraine, future access to the major oil sources in the Russian continent are secured.