i don't know. i am not interested in that but that is something you see in the back of a taxi in illegal it is -- it is illegal to drink malt without a cover. >> maybe you are right. [laughter] >> expect a call from big brother. thank you very much for coming. i appreciate it. [applause]

>> oil, we cannot survive without it. whenever we need to secure it, the subjugation of entire people, killing millions on all sides.

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hearing your thoughts. rear anxious to hear what you have to say. [applause] thank-you very much. there are so many interesting people in the room and i am so grateful you have all come. some from montgomery county in maryland, the philadelphia, pakistan, isra el, lebanon, thank you very much for coming there are too many to give names but we have a good crowd here. we are here to discuss an issue that we deal with

every day which is petro politics. and how we got into the middle east and how we became addicted to oil. and indeed, what we are facing. we can never move forward in the future if we cannot comprehend the history that we have come from. we actually never needed to be on oil as an energy source. most of you know, that there is about 80 million barrels per day used in this country and some of that is used for transportation and 99% of

that is based on automotive with clarence fact will it is sold thursday in modern civilization. they were using it 65,000 years ago. self africana ass but for the medicinal purposes but the illuminate came in a bid 18 hundreds where kerosene was the fifth did and they started to ruminate. throughout the remainder of the 1800 s, all of the taxis

but they were all electric to oil. how did the west get into oil, middle east, iraq? we were never originally nations in the middle east. nations as we know did not exist until they were created by one country acting in concert with the league of nations. if i say one company in a concert i will tell you how happened.

originally at the turn of the 20th century, most of them were cold very ships in the german fleet had already moved. talking 1903 they had already moved into oil because it was being developed in the middle east in elsewhere. when does it actually come to the bill eased? primarily come that it was discovered commercially 1859 in titusville pennsylvania. the allegheny mountains were a the middle east of the world. the first oil exploration in the middle east was bid on it -- when begun late and

there was a company that obtained the exploration and office and from 1908 they struck oil that was the first will that was discovered commercially using to drill down industrially and did not carry it out to on donkey's but actually transport did commercially, distribution and it took on been named anglo persian and we'll company. this oil was in the middle east it was generally a controlled by the turks and the ottoman empire. the sick man of europe. this was applied to the ottoman empire because it

was a weekend from foreign warders or in turn called debauchery zero or corruption not unlike some countries of the node today but it is expected that the middle east would fall apart and when it did, what would happen to the colony's and territories controlled by the ottoman empire? >> although that time it was controlled by abdul. abdul the day and was the sole 10 and he owned everything. if there was an urge to ring

of democratic reforms to allow people to own their own land, he said okay. citizens can now register their own land. it does not all have to be owned by the government it can be owned buy citizens. he said i am also a citizen so he registered all of mesopotamia. [laughter] now known as iraq. the reason he registered mesopotamia as his own property was he had surveys have found out there rose ohno in mesopotamia and now known as iraq. for centuries they only had to interest to the west. geology and geography.

until oil the only engineers said it was the mid 482 and the that is a right way but one soil was discovered to not to drill down to the ground, they became concerned this is a cradle to civilization. the term was not a genuine term since there was civilization is going back 35,000 years to the cave trawlers of what is now france. but in the 1860's there is a meeting with the royal geographic and is said

mesopotamia was the birthplace of civilization. because the industrial revolution in bypassed the ottoman empire. once the sole 10 recognized he had something of value, he did not try to develop a himself but to auctioned off to the greatest debtor. england and germany were rivals for power and were also facing the run up to nationalism. that is the effort by dominated people to throw off the ecclesiastical and dynastic regimes and identified themselves as a national people who could govern themselves.

there was jewish nationalism and many different forms and each based on geographic borders borders, language, religion, culture, any of a variety of reasons. so abdul registers all of mesopotamia and auctions off the right to to build a railroad from berlin to baghdad. in those-- the road meant a way of transportation but he also gave the 40 negative zero right of way on each side and the railway company

and you need to understand. even today, and no one knows who own or know of this set toyo of mesopotamia. the joy to date has the right to exploit. they exploit the oil.