Interesting how ISIS appears to be the one entity unaffected by the global collapse in oil prices.
Spengler was right...it all comes down to blood and money, in the end.
Who is Zero Hedge?
Those guys are smart .....
The question all the Hollywood types want to know is what will they be wearing for the holidays, my vote is for funeral shrouds.
Who short sold airline stock prior to 9/11?
Answer to who is brokering the oil - Turkey.
Once in the world trade, oil is fungible, and oil obtained from questionable sources is traded just the same as that for which there is full provenance from wellhead to refinery.
Heavy arms can be traded back and forth with relative impunity on the black market, and there are enough “dirty” banks to cover the transaction, so who has the incentive to look into the cash flow on oil purchases?
We finally started to bomb their oil trucks this week. A year ago would have been better.
I have heard claims that ISIS is trucking the oil into Iraq (Putin is bombing the tanker trucks). I assume the oil is “laundered” by selling it as Iraqi oil. Someone in Iraq’s refinery or oil storage facilities is getting rich facilitating this fraud, shouldn’t be hard to find out who.
Financing is one thing.
As important, who is selling munitions to these murderers ?
Financing is one thing.
As important, who is selling munitions to these murderers ?
Does any serious thinker still belive that the soetoro / jarrett / soros regime is not complicit in the founding, funding and arming of isis?
Congress would not and has not passed a use of force resolution against ISIS, ISIL or IS.
Obama sent one over. Congress said it was not perfect. So instead of passing their own, they just let it sit.
Meanwhile, no sanctions at all against them. The last resolution was against Al-Q
My question no one is asking is, “If ISIS is contained, why are there so many refugees? Shouldn’t they be headed home?”
I have to believe that these Islamic jihadist terrorists somehow benefit from the cultivation and processing of raw opium in the Middle East.
Someone’s buying... interesting.
Obama knew about the role of the oil in funding ISIS 15 months ago.
ISIS makes $1-$3 million/day from selling this oil through Turkey.
Let’s take the middle: That’s $45 million/month.
15 months x $ 45 million = $ 675 million.
That’s 2/3rds of a BILLION dollars.
Bump
Why isn’t there more being done to see why Belgium seems to be the “Place to Be” if you want to join up with the ISIS forces?
Obama will close down the American petroleum industry before he goes after ISIS oil production.