WATCH: Robert Newman’s History of Oil

Wonderful thank you,
I had no idea that WW1 started in Iraq but i was always thought the official reasoning was plainly ridiculous.

If you haven’t watched Corbett’s recent documentaries on oil. I hold them worthy of watching.
Note that the energy cartels – which branched into many others – became disproportionately powerful and therefore significantly unchecked and unaccountable to a true governance under the law. Unlike the ‘personality caricatures’ of nation states and their principle actors, a large part of Corporate power operates in the shadows or behind obfuscations, fronting organisations and institutions, targeted PR and of course key networks of influence – ‘by the usual means’.

Mercantile endeavour, as plunder or trade – or plunder masking as trade, was the basis of The British Empire – I was going to say ‘and any Empire’ – but perhaps there are exceptions.
One could suggest it was the basis of the nation state – where does one find a ‘line’?

Possession defends against being dispossessed. Possession of private property writ corporate requires defence – but the means of defence of course are also the means of taking possession from others by subjection. The East India Trading company traded with various Indian principalities for a long time before a series of events brought about war for rule though nominal puppet regimes. And ran as a corporate endeavour before a growing antipathy to despotic behaviour led to the transfer to the Crown. None of what I say here is ‘apologising’ for or seeking to justify anyone’s actions or negligence. But a prompting to beware of the simple and appealing narratives that essentially serve a self-reinforcement without really connecting to anything but cherry picked history – that may of course itself be a distortion. Fake news is nothing new.

I don’t see the point of claiming moral high ground over history – or other cultural expressions – in fact I feel integrity rests in not putting others down as if to become ‘better’. People act as an expression of their ‘terrain; the context of their times and their unique individual timing or personality traits – as do we now. Bringing the ‘terrain’ into awareness enables less of a stumble in the dark and of course the human ‘terrain’ is a psychic-emotional-physical experience – in which the first two are framed or packaged in the last – as if the forms of things have built in meanings. And so now we have ‘narrative war’ seeking to dominate the ‘officially accepted, settled and consensus meanings’ that we are to think and act out for social credit – or mitigation of legally structured existential guilt.

The liberal idea has changed to become some sort of ‘we should be nice – as a corruption of a hopeful belief in rational ways to organise society and international affairs – (if not our personal lives), But a pseudo-rationalism or war or loveless intent, masking as rational ideas, works ideological – and now identity mind-capture – as a different path to dominion than stealing kingdoms. This is reflected in armies of lawyers drafting out complex and generally secret legislation for global ‘adoption’ through concerted networks of preparing the mind-scape and incentivising uptake. This is the ‘sustainable’ private agenda masking as global ‘protections’.

Are governments effectively acquired assets to an array of powers they cannot hold to account?

The undermining of the British Empire came as much from within Britain – as a result of changes in the way people saw themselves and the world – as from attrition of resistance or rivalry. But the British grew such an influence in rivalry with other powers, and for various reasons became the dominant sea-power where corporate and state operated hand in hand, as well as corporate piracy. The Industrial Revolution gave Britain temporary advantage in the suppression of rivals and breaking of obstacles to developing that power.

It was Churchill who made the then huge decision to switch from a coal fired navy (Britain was abundant in coal) to oil fired ships. (Pre North Sea discovery Britain had no oil resource). The significance of that one fact as the need to secure oil supply from abroad – casts a shadow that has trodden on the faces of many. The nuances of the way history unfolds are multilayered. I didn’t mention financial advantage of funding for war.
But the nature of undue dependence on external support and supply is addiction and subjection. The banker and the dealer start to rig the game – of course. Its a devil’s pact.

We are to a very large extent corporate assets through our dependency of being managed and supplied with commodities to consume. The idea of central banks operating the ability to let flow or choke off credit supply as a leverage that then does not care what form of government runs – because it can be trained or undone and replaced, is similar to identity management of technocratic system control. It doesn’t matter what we think or say, because we can be trained to think and say – using our own beliefs to operate as an asset or system entry.

At the very root of all of this is the very idea of possession, as taking or getting for oneself FROM others and at expense of whole – that is therefore no longer whole and simply a resource to exploit. The moment we invest in the idea of subjecting life or others to a loveless will (no matter how it is mind-masked) – is the moment of becoming subject to and possessed of that intent. But in the pride of self-inflation we do not want to know or even believe in consequences. Everyone protects their investment – but a negative investment multiplied debt.

Some illusions are held to and fought for much more deeply and therefore viciously than others. But that does not make them true. It means we desperately want them to be true.
Necessity is the mother of invented lies. The ideas we have accepted and embodied are ‘working out’ their consequences, in unexpected and disempowering ways.

George Carlin ‘revealed’ a front row seat in an insane asylum. But what function did that serve? People take from anything according to their wants or needs – where ‘wants’ can be artificial substitutes for need. Seeking outside our self for love, power, peace, or joy – and becoming addicted to substitute or fake reality driven by necessity of what is actually a self-evasion.

The technocratic world order is of energy control – along with any other necessity – such as water – and induced necessity such as drugs – but also seeds to grow food and access to land.
The Environmental movement is a key vector for the mind-capture – and oil guilt a key element.

To a manipulator finding out your hidden fear and guilt is like discovering oil. We are thus not only loaded, but can be used as batteries and recharged. The manipulator is always manipulated – but while in the power of a self-inflation, does not want to know. The greedy are the useful dogs of their master – they are unleashed to order. Unnatural appetites are considered honesty by those who share them.

So is the ‘pathogen’ the primary factor, or is the ‘terrain’?
We have it backwards.
‘Clear up your (own) room’ is a start.

“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality”. Michael Ellner

For another ‘oil perspective’ that doesn’t paint within the presumptions of the political narrative
Look up “nujol Rockefeller”. One among many finds was http://transmissionsmedia.com/skeletons-in-the-closet-rockefeller-history/

The means to power (over others) is nothing in itself but for what it useful for. A principle scam is to induce or take opportunity of fear to offer support and protection against the feared. The protection then further weakens and makes dependent. Those who fear to feel and face their fears WANT an external power to save them, and can be induced to fight for their subjection and sickness against those who seek and share in healing. Such is the power of the belief in the protection – as a hiding of a greater fear.

The sickening sketch – (I also heard ‘stench’) of secrets and lies breaking through a wishful reality – is the opportunity to dissociate from that which dissociates by coming back into a true possession of having and being. Guilt and fear – and their progeny – dispossess and usurp a true governance within – which is not imposition of control over feared chaos – but unified purpose – in which the nature of what arises is revealed rather than concealed.

Newman sets it all out in a marvellously constructed piece that skips effortlessly between comedy, theatre, and education.

I would go as far to say that Rob squeezes more geopolitical insight into those magical 45minutes than the Guardian has managed in the last 20 years.

I haven’t come across anything quite like it but would love to hear from Off-G regulars if they have any other recommendations.