Theresa May’s Husband’s
Firm Made A “Financial Killing”
From Syria
Bombing!
Syria & Iraq
Wars Benefit
US, UK,
France & Israel
(M. Javed Naseem)
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Saudi Arabia
has invested
$750 billion in
treasury securities
and other
assets in the U.S.
Qatar
has invested $50 billion
in the UK.
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| (Saudi army officers walk past F-15 fighter jets during a ceremony marking the creation of the King Faisal Air Academy at King Salman airbase in Riyadh last year. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images) |
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Filthy rich but
coward and biased
Arabs are being
blackmailed by the
‘Triangle of
Evil’ for oil/gas and endless
money. In
return, their stay-in-power
is assured for
some time.
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The Guardian (UK) reports that ‘Nearly half of US arms exports go to the Middle
East.
Saudi Arabia
is world’s second biggest importer, with global US sales up by 25% in past five
years.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri)
has said that global transfer of major weapons systems between 2013 and 2017
rose by 10% compared with the five-year period before that, in a continuation
of an upward trend that began two decades ago.
The US,
which is the world’s biggest exporter, increased its sales between those two
periods by 25%. It supplied arms to as many as 98 states worldwide, accounting
for more than a third of global exports.
Russia,
the world’s second biggest exporter, saw a decrease of 7.1% in its overall
volume of arms exports; US exports were 58% higher than those of Russia.
The US,
the UK, and France were the main supplier of arms to the
region, while Saudi Arabia, Egypt
and the UAE were the main recipient countries.
In contrast, Saudi Arabia’s regional rival, Iran, which is
propping up Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, did not even make the list of
the 40 largest importers – only accounting for 1% of arms imports to the
region.
Israel increased
its imports by 125%, receiving arms mainly from the US,
Germany and Italy.
India, which
receives most of its arms from Russia,
heads the list of top importers.
Egypt,
UAE and China
were also among the world’s top five importers.
Now the million-dollar question: Are these weapons being
delivered for peace?
No, they are delivered to promote wars.
War-business is the best business in the world today. But
all weapons are sold in the name of peace.
The hawks in Washington
were fully aware of the consequences of their actions in Syria, but they kept pursuing the ill-fated
policy of nurturing militants in the training camps located in the border
regions of Turkey and Jordan to weaken the Baathist regime in Syria.
The Saudi royal family was resentful of Iranian encroachment
on traditional Arab heartland. Therefore, when protests broke out against the
Assad regime in Syria in the
wake of Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, the Gulf Arab States along with their
regional allies, Turkey and Jordan,
and the Western patrons gradually militarized the protests to dismantle the
Iranian resistance axis.
Syria
has always been a playground for the Zionist war-hawks. Makia Freeman writes in
‘Foreign Meddling In Syria 1916-1946’
(pub. April 7, 2016, by Wake Up World):
“Foreign meddling in Syria has been going on for a
very long time now. For over a century, Syria has had to fend off
aggressive and colonialist world superpowers in order to retain its
independence and sovereignty. Even if we just examine a brief history of Syria — the last 100 years, from
1916-2016 — the degree of foreign meddling in Syria is
extreme. Although, given the heinous crimes of the US-UK New World Order
Empire of the last century, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at all…”
“Syria
spent the first 30 years of this 100 year period fending off mostly
French, but also to a large degree British, ambitions for its territory.
Although Syria finally
gained independence from France
in 1946, only 2 years later Israel
was formed out of the rib and flesh of Palestine,
creating another Syrian nemesis. The US got in on the scene around this
time as well. In all, Syria
has consistently had to defend itself from the foreign intervention attempts of
the US, UK, France
and Israel for a long long
time, and the current war in Syria
– a foreign war, not a civil war – is a continuation of that 100+ years of
intervention by these same imperialistic nations.”
I call this vicious club of the butchers the ‘Triangle of
Evil’ and it consists of the US,
UK and Israel. France should
be considered a European Israel.
Regarding the Western interest in collaborating with the
Gulf Arab States against their regional rivals, bear in mind that in April last
year, the Saudi foreign minister threatened that the Saudi kingdom would sell
up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets if Congress passed a
bill that would allow the Americans to sue the Saudi government in the United States
courts for its role in the September 11, 2001 terror attack.
Moreover, $750 billion is only the Saudi investment in the United States, if we add its investment in the
Western Europe and the investments of UAE, Kuwait
and Qatar in the Western
economies, the sum total would amount to trillions of dollars of Gulf’s investments
in North America and Western Europe. Middle
East Eye has published a report that Qatar
has invested $50 billion in the UK
and that its property portfolio in London
is three times larger than the Queen’s. (Veterans Today)
How the Conflict in Syria Benefits Washington’s Allies?
By: VT
Senior Editors (pub. March 29, 2017)
Here are a few rough stats from the OPEC data:
Saudi Arabia has world’s largest proven crude oil reserves
of 265 billion barrels and its daily oil production exceeds 10 million barrels;
Iran and Iraq, each, has 150 billion barrels reserves and has the capacity to
produce 5 million barrels per day, each; while UAE and Kuwait, each, has 100
billion barrels reserves and produces 3 million barrels per day, each; thus,
all the littoral states of the Persian Gulf, together, hold more than half of
world’s 1500 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.
Additionally, regarding the Western defense production
industry’s sales of arms to the Gulf Arab States, a report authored by William Hartung of the US-based Center
for International Policy found that the Obama Administration had offered Saudi Arabia
more than $115 billion in weapons, military equipment and training during its
eight years tenure. Similarly, £43 billion Al-Yamamah arms deal between the BAE
Systems of UK and Saudi
Arabia is another case in point.
Thus, keeping the economic dependence of the Western
countries on the Gulf Arab States in mind during the times of global recession
when most of manufacturing has been outsourced to China, it is unsurprising
that when the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia decided to provide training
and arms to Sunni Arab jihadists in the border regions of Turkey and Jordan
against the Shia-dominated regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Obama
Administration was left with no other choice but to toe the destructive policy
of its regional Middle Eastern allies despite the sectarian nature of the proxy
war and its attendant consequences of breeding a new generation of Islamic
jihadists who would become a long-term security risk not only to the Middle
East but also to the Western countries.
(Courtesy: https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/29/how-the-conflict-in-syria-benefits-washingtons-allies/
Theresa May’s Husband’s
Firm made a “Financial Killing”
from Syria Bombing
(Pub. April 20, 2018 by Covert Geopolitics)
It is common knowledge that Theresa May’s husband Philip
essentially acts as the unofficial advisor to the Prime Minister – a fact
proven by the former Conservative MP for Chichester, Andrew Tyrie, who said during a Newsnight profile
of the PM’s husband that “Philip is clearly acting as, informally, an advisor
to Theresa. Probably much like Denis did to Margaret Thatcher.”
Whilst it is pretty obvious that almost all married couples
act as informal advisors to each other in come capacity, Tyrie’s admission that
the Prime Minister’s husband has such a great influence over his wife’s
decisions is made all the more worrying by the fact that Mr May – who is a
Senior Executive at a £1.4Tn investment firm – stands to benefit financially
from the decisions his wife, the Prime Minister, makes.
The fact that Philip May is both a Senior Executive of a
hugely powerful investment firm, and privy to reams of insider information from
the Prime Minister – knowledge which, when it becomes public, hugely affects
the share prices of the companies his firm invests in – makes Mr May’s official
employment a staggering conflict of interest for the husband of a sitting Prime
Minister.
However, aside from the ease at which he is able to glean
insider information from his wife about potential decisions which could go on
to make huge profits for his firm, there is a far darker conflict of interest
that has so far gone undiscussed.
Philip May is a Senior Executive of Capital Group, an
Investment Firm who buy shares in all sorts of companies across the globe – including
thousands of shares in the world’s biggest Defence Firm, Lockheed Martin.
On the 14th April 2018, the Prime Minister Theresa May
sanctioned British military action on Syria
in response to an apparent chemical attack on the city of Douma – air strikes that saw the debut of a
new type of Cruise Missile, the
JASSM, produced exclusively by the Lockheed Martin Corporation.
The debut of this new – and incredibly expensive – weapon
was exactly what US
President Donald Trump was
referring to when he tweeted that the weapons being fired on Syria would be
“nice and new and ‘smart!’”
Every single JASSM used in the recent bombing of Syria costs more than $1,000,000, and as a
result of their widespread use during the recent bombing of Syria by Western forces, the share
price of Lockheed Martin soared.
Consequently, with the air strikes on Syria having hugely
boosted Lockheed Martin’s share price when markets reopened on Monday, Philip
May’s firm subsequently made a fortune from their investment in the Defence
giant.
It is obvious that weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed
Martin stand to benefit financially from the sales and subsequent use of their
weapons in war – and the dramatic surge in the share prices of defence
contractors since the so-called ‘War on Terror’ began in 2001 are a testament
to this grotesque fact.
The added fact that investment firms such as Capital Group
are also profiting from these bloodbaths is also disgusting in itself.
But for the husband of a sitting British Prime Minister to
be benefiting financially from the very decisions his wife, the Prime Minister,
makes on whether or not to send British troops into combat, should make every
single person in the entire country, and especially anybody who is still
insistent on voting for the Conservatives, feel physically sick.
The Prime Minister took the decision to bomb Syria – without
even so much as consulting Parliament – under the full knowledge that her
husband’s investment firm would make a financial killing from the resultant
bloodbath.
If this isn’t enough to make you sit up and take notice of
just how disgustingly corrupt, and morally bankrupt the British Establishment
truly is, then surely nothing will.
Who Will Profit From
the Wars in Iraq and Syria?
By William Hartung and Stephen Miles
(Huffington Post, pub. Oct. 2014, updated Dec. 2014)
If there’s one thing we should have learned over the past 13
years of war, it’s that war is good business for those in the business of war.
Unfortunately, while profits for the Pentagon’s contractors increase, so does
the cost to taxpayers in billions in waste, fraud, and abuse. As America embarks on yet another war in the Middle East, Congress needs to act now to stop this
unjustified bonanza for the Pentagon’s contractors.
The most recent wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan
offer an ominous example about what can happen when the rush to war is met with
sharp spending increases coupled with little to no oversight or fiscal
restraint. The Commission
on Wartime Contracting — a bipartisan congressional body — estimates that
there was $30 to $60 billion in waste, fraud and abuse associated with the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan — a total of $12 million per day. Even worse, at least
$6 billion is completely missing, never accounted for, gone forever. That is a
stunning amount of taxpayer dollars — yours and mine — to simply disappear into
the wind.
Among the most egregious examples of corporate and governmental
malfeasance during the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan
was a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract for Halliburton’s Kellogg, Brown and
Root (KBR) division to rebuild and operate Iraqi oil fields. Halliburton was
found guilty of price gouging on everything from the supply of oil for military
vehicles to feeding the troops; shoddy workmanship that resulted in scores of
unfinished buildings and inadequate supplies of electricity; and
life-threatening situations like defective showers that electrocuted a soldier.
A long list of other examples is available in the reports of the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction, whose investigations helped spur the convictions of 82
companies and individuals of illegal activities connected to contracting in Iraq.
(Note: The ex-US Vice President Dick Cheney was the co-owner
of Halliburton).
A recent estimate of the likely costs of our latest war in Iraq and Syria by the Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Assessments ranges from $2.4 billion to over $22 billion per
year, depending on whether significant numbers of ground troops become
involved. Gordon Adams, the former deputy director of the White House Office of
Management and Budget in charge of national security spending, suggests
that a full accounting of the costs of operations, replacement of equipment,
training and aid to other members of the coalition, and a doubling or tripling
of the current level of 1,600 U.S. troops in Iraq could put the annual price of
the wars in Iraq and Syria at $15 to $20 billion. While these sums are less
than the costs for the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan,
the potential for wasteful spending remains enormous. Our latest war represents
a welcome new source of profits for arms makers like Boeing (Joint Direct
Attack Munitions) Raytheon (cruise missiles), and Lockheed Martin (Hellfire
missiles), whose weapons systems have already been heavily used in Iraq and
Syria. This is particularly true if the conflicts drag on for years, as
administration officials have suggested.
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