Jean:
I have often used this as an illustration as to who owns the oil and the
fields: If I was to blindfold you, or any other person, fly you over the
oilfields of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait or any other oil field in the world, once you hit the ground
and removed the blindfold, you would never be able to guess which country
you would be in, or which State or Province; you would just be looking at a
bunch of Shell, Standard Oil, Exxon wells pumping, along with the other
members of the Cartel and would not be able to tell where you had been dropped.
As G. Edward Griffin has said: "Wage and price controls are to keep the guy
down the street from lowering his prices." The big boys cannot compete in a
free enterprise society; they need big government to stop or control any
competition. That is what Communism is all about. That is what the United
Nations is all about. They need Communism.
There can be no such thing as free enterprise in a system where there is a
central bank, plank 5 of the Communist manifesto. All of the countries of
the world now have privately owned central banks. If the United Nations
fails to grab the power for our controllers, the banking systems of the
world will fold. Only a world tyranny can hold it all together. That was the
reason these same people fired up the League of Nations, only a world
tyranny can keep the people suppressed so the continuation of at least 80
percent of the fruits of everyone's labour is stolen - through deceit and fraud.
The over-energy devices, free energy devices and the Tesla material from
many years ago, all of which has been suppressed for well over 60 or 70
years, would not only have stopped all of the pollution and environmental
damage, it would have stopped the ability of these criminals from making the
kind of money necessary to buy the influence in government to make it
possible to control us.
I agree with Professor Sutton, that getting these devices to market would
still effectively stop their move to a one world tyranny. Hundreds of people
are working on these devices and they have a great deal of trouble bringing
them to market. The bankers and monopolists are frightened of them and they
need the pollution to pass restrictive legislation.
Your very truly,
Cliff Hume
At 07:09 PM 9/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>OPEC - "THEY IS US!"
>by Ralph Epperson
>Author of The Unseen Hand
>
> AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CONSPIRATORIAL VIEW OF HISTORY
>
> Newspaper headlines scream:
>
> OPEC REDUCES PRODUCTION, OIL PRICES RISE!
>
> And we, the American people, flail our arms in contempt as we
> our gasoline prices increase! Those blasted "oil producing
> countries" have done it to us again! (OPEC stands for
> "The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.")
>
> And our American oil producing companies seem powerless to
> do anything about the increase in price! Why isn't something
> done to get us gasoline at a reduced price? Why are we so
> dependent on OPEC for our oil needs?
>
> But we do not know who the "they" in the OPEC nations are,
> but all we know is that "they" are "foreign nations!" Because
> our American oil companies would not do such a thing to their
> fellow Americans!!
>
> Because we have the "free enterprise system" in America
> where competition forces down the high prices, and it doesn't
> occur to us that OPEC might be the American (and European)
> oil companies!!
>
> But let me tell you ................. they are!
>
> Because OPEC is not "the foreigners," it is "us!"
>
> However, proving that statement is more difficult than making it,
> because there is but a little information that I am aware of that
> tells us just who these "foreigners" are. However, there are
> adequate clues that OPEC is not owned by the "foreigners" at all.
>
> But to understand OPEC, we must first understand a few simple
> economic terms, such as NATURAL MONOPOLY, COERCIVE
> MONOPOLY, and CARTEL
>
> The industrialists of the "industrial revolution" soon learned that
> exorbitant profits could not be made in the "FREE ENTERPRISE
> SYSTEM," where competitors could enter the market place and
> compete by selling the same product at a reduced price.
>
> The "industrialists" soon learned the merits of the MONOPOLY,
> a market place where they could continue to charge their exorbitant
> prices and no one would compete. But in a "FREE ENTERPRISE
> SYSTEM," another producer could enter the market place even if
> they had a monopoly and once again, reduce the price.
>
> A NATURAL MONOPOLY is defined as a market place where one
> seller is allowed to be the only producer of a product, because no
> one wishes to compete. But that threat of future competition
> caused the MONOPOLIST concern: that competition could always
> enter the market place at a future date and drive prices down.
>
> The NATURAL MONOPOLIST soon discovered the joys of hiring
> a government to protect his NATURAL MONOPOLY by closing the
> door to its competition. (A basket full of money given to the right
> person at the right time has strange effects on politicians!) This
> NATURAL MONOPOLY became a COERCIVE MONOPOLY
> because the hired government closed the market place by making
> it illegal to compete. So the MONOPOLIST turned to government and
> together they creates what is called a COERCIVE MONOPOLY.
> This exists when govern-ment and the MONOPOLIST combine to
> restrict the access of their competitors to the market place.
>
> But how does THE COERCIVE MONOPOLIST control the world
> market place when there is another COERCIVE MONOPOLIST
> in another nation with its government supporting its COERCIVE
> MONOPOLY?
>
> The answer is obvious: THE MONOPOLIST signs an agreement
> with the competing COERCIVE MONOPOLY and that resulting
> agreement is called a CARTEL!
>
> OPEC is a "CARTEL" (defined as "a few sellers in a market place,
> combining to set the price of a good sold.")
>
> This connection between the monopolists and government was
> correctly discerned by Frederick Clemson Howe, Ph.D., an
> economist, lawyer, and a special assistant to Henry Wallace,
> the Secretary of Agriculture and later a Vice-President to
> Franklin Roosevelt. He wrote:
>
> "These are the rules of big business: Get a monopoly.
>
> Let society work for you, and remember that the best business
> is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy, or tax
>xemption
> is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock Lode, since it does not
> require any labor either mental or physical, for its exploitation."
>
> John D. Rockefeller, the American oil magnate, one who correctly
> learned the lesson about MONOPOLIES as well, expressed his
> opinion that "Competition is a sin."
>
> Another who wrote of this connection was Dr. Antony Sutton, who
> wrote in his book WALL STREET AND FDR: (meaning Franklin D.
> Roosevelt)
>
> "Old John Rockefeller and his 19th century fellow capitalists
> were convinced of an absolute truth: that no great monetary
> wealth could be accumulated under the impartial rules of competitive
> laissez-faire [the free-enterprise system] society.
>
> The only sure road to the acquisition of massive wealth
> was mo-nopoly: Drive out your competitors, reduce competition,
> eliminate laissez-faire [the free enterprise system] and above
> all get state protection for your industry through compliant
> politicians and government regulation.
>
> The last avenue yields a huge [COERCIVE] monopoly
> and a legal monopoly always leads to wealth."
>
> And in his book, WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK
> REVOLUTION, Dr. Sutton further amplified his point:
>
> "The financiers ... could by government control ... more
> easily avoid the rigors of competition.
>
> Through political influence they could manipulate the police
> power of the state to achieve what they had been unable, or what
> was too costly, to achieve under the private enterprise system."
>
> In other words, the police power of the state was a means of
> maintaining a private COERCIVE MONOPOLY.
>
> As I said before, the best known cartel in the world is OPEC.
> This cartel is thought to be foreign, primarily Arabian, in
> ownership. However, there is ample reason to believe that
> the principle ownership of OPEC is not primarily Arabian but
> international, primarily American.
>
> Dr. Carroll Quigley, the mentor of President Bill Clinton at
> Georgetown University, (Clinton praised Quigley in 1992 on
> national television as being one of the two men who got him into
> politics) in his massive 1300 page book entitled TRAGEDY AND
> HOPE, discussed an oil cartel formed in 1928:
>
> "This world cartel had developed from a tripartite agreement
> signed on September 17, 1920 by Royal Dutch Shell,
> Anglo-Iranian, and Standard Oil.
>
> These agreed to manage oil prices on the world market by
> charging an agreed fixed price plus freight costs, and to store
> surplus oil which might weaken the fixed price level.
>
> By 1949 the cartel had as members the seven greatest oil
> com-panies in the world: Anglo-Iranian, Socony-Vacuum, Royal
> Dutch Shell, Gulf, Esso, Texaco, and Calso.
>
> Excluding the United States domestic market, the Soviet
> Union and Mexico, it controlled 92% of the world's reserves
> of oil . . . ."
>
> It might help if I try and identify each of these 7 oil companies:
>
> Anglo-Iranian: An Iranian company in partnership
> with
> several American and European oil
> companies
>
> Socony-Vacuum: Standard Oil Company of New York
> and
> Vacuum (an English company)
>
> Royal Dutch Shell: Owned in the main by the Royal Family of
> Holland
>
> Gulf: Not certain, but I believe this is an
>merican
> owned oil company
>
> ESSO: Standard Oil of England
>
> Texaco: A Rockefeller oil company
>
> Calso: Standard Oil of California
>
> (Not much Arabian ownership in that list!!)
>
>
> James P. Warburg, who should know, further discussed the
> cartel in his book entitled THE WEST IN CRISIS. Apparently
> the cartel had grown to include an additional member:
>
> "Eight giant oil companies - five of them American -
> control the non-Communist world's supply of oil, maintaining
> administered prices which. . . yield exorbitant profits.
>
> The oil companies extract oil from the Middle East, which
> contains 90% of the known reserves of the non-communist
> world, at a cost of 20 to 30 cents a barrel and sell it at a collusive
> price, varying over a period of recent years from $1.75 to $2.16
> per barrel, F.O.B., the Persian Gulf.
>
> The resulting profit has, as a rule, been split on a fifty-fifty
> basis with the government of the country in which the oil is
> produced."
>
> See how noble these oil companies are? They share the profits
> "50 - 50" with the country they take the oil out of!
>
> Now for the fun part: I will use the figures shown above to show
> you just why there is money to be made in the CARTEL
> BUSINESS! Using Mr. Warburg's figures, it is easy to
> extrapolate price increases to today's oil market prices.
>
> Years Cost Price Profit % of
>rofit
>
> 1950 $ .30 $ 2.16 $ 1.86 620
> 1979 ** $3.25 $20.00 $16.75 515
>
> ** Presuming a lO% per year increase in costs and using
> the OPEC price of $20.00 in 1979, the profit of $16.75 is
> approximately the same as that pointed out in Warburg's book.
> (Gee, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to determine that a 620%
> profit on your investment is NOT TOO SHABBY!)
>
> (I must admit that these figures come from my 1985 book
> THE UNSEEN HAND and I have not updated them.)
>
> In other words, the OPEC countries are increasing oil prices
> today (in 1979) in order to maintain their profit percentages of
> 30 years ago.
>
> It is interesting to note that both Dr. Quigley and Mr. Warburg
> wrote about the years 1949 and 1950. OPEC was formed in
> 1951, right after both authors pointed out that the Arabian oil
> reserves were owned by non-Arabian oil companies.
>
> It is doubtful that these non-Arabian oil companies gave up the
> ability to make a 620 percent profit to the OPEC nations when
> OPEC was formed. So, I think it is fair to conclude that they still
> own the oil from "the middle east."
>
> In summary, then, these agreements that artificially set prices,
> (the cartels and their cousin, the monopolies) lead to the
> accumulation of large quantities of amassed wealth through
> exorbitant profits!
>
> These marketplace aberrations exist solely because the
> monopolists have formed a partnership with the government,
> and the result is higher prices for the consumer.
>
> Think about this as you pay the higher price for your gallon
> of gasoline!!!!!!!
>
> "They" is "us!"
>
> (If you want to read THE UNSEEN HAND by Ralph Epperson,
> call him at (520) 886-4380 or contact him @t
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