In a wtf moment, Israel Grants Golan Heights oil drilling license to Dick Cheney & Rupert Murdoch?

[Cleita]

Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company

Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.

A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company Genie Energy — which is advised by former vice president Dick Cheney and whose shareholders include Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch — will now have exclusive rights to a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights.

That geographic location will likely prove controversial. Israel seized the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War in 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981. Its administration of the area — which is not recognized by international law — has been mostly peaceful until the Syrian civil war broke out 23 months ago.Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports.

A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company Genie Energy — which is advised by former vice president Dick Cheney and whose shareholders include Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch — will now have exclusive rights to a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights.

That geographic location will likely prove controversial. Israel seized the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War in 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981. Its administration of the area — which is not recognized by international law — has been mostly peaceful until the Syrian civil war broke out 23 months ago.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-grants-golan-heights-oil-license-2013-2#ixzz3ZC0AH5EH

[joeybee12]

1. WTF is right...

And why is Cheney on the board of anything when he should be burning in Hell.

[Cleita]

8. Or sitting in the dock at The Hague for war crimes or in

another day and age in front of a Congressional investigation for treason.

[Downwinder]

2. Pardon me. What is a square mile radius?

Should I expect better from the Business Insider?

[Eleanors38]

3. 640 acres... rounded off

[Downwinder]

4. A radius is a linear measurement.

A square mile is an area designation.

[Eleanors38]

5. At this point, all tumor is lost

[Downwinder]

6. Sorry, I just woke up with a sore back.

[betterdemsonly]

7. The Golan Heights is the real reason they want isis to overthrow Assad n/t

[Cleita]

9. Yep. Follow the money. You'd think they'd have enough by now but

the blood on that money must taste good to them. It seems to be an addiction.

[Octafish]

10. Gee. It's like an Empire of Evil or something.

Here are a couple of modern day slavemasters, I mean, bankers...



Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, sharing a moment and a bit o' information in this small world.

Rothschild and Freshfields founders’ had links to slavery, papers reveal

By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times

Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.

Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.

Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.

JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.

CONTINUED (with registration, etc) ...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html

The back of the object they are examining shows typing in a box, a standard on US government images used for identifying content on the front of a photograph. Or map.