The Military Industrial Economic Complex & It’s Implications in Mali & Algeria

Mali, Algeria, Somalia, Libya, Congo, Egypt – Africa burns as The West launches yet another war for the control of natural resources and political domination.

It comes with a dreaded irony that fifty two years ago this week, President Dwight D. Eisenhower used his farewell speech to the nation to warn the country against the rise of what he called the military-industrial complex.

Sadly, his words, though they became iconic and well-remembered, were not heeded and his warning is now more relevant and critical than ever.

It is the coming together of vested interests across the military, politics and multinational corporate giants that dictate war is a booming business, especially in a time of western economic crisis.

Mohammed Ansar pointed out:

“Tribalism and religion has always been exploited as a pretext to economic and imperial ambitions. We have always known this but how quick we are to forget”

Yamin Zakaria’s piece, titled “The Massacre of Muslim Civilians is always: ‘Self-Defence’ but never Terrorism” explores the nuances of who the media frame as terrorists. Although written about recent events in Gaza, you can easily replace “Palestine/Gaza” with so called “Militants/Islamists” that are the bogey terms in Mali & Algeria.

Former British soldier and now staunch opponent of the governments imperialist agenda, Joe Glenton was quick to point out the critical role of China in Mali.

Perhaps we should remember the role of Margaret Thatchers son, Mark “Scratcher” in the failed coup d’état attempt in Equatorial Guinea, along with his Etonian old boys, amongst them former British Army officer and mercenary Simon Francis Mann.

And as I sat here writing this, with the Channel 4 News playing in the background, Krish Guru Murthy, happens to mention in passing that “British mercenaries, the Stirling Group – are the on ground in Algeria offering advice & assistance”, of course it was mentioned in passing, as if it were purely irrelevant.

The Stirling Group’s website makes for interesting reading.

You can read more about the Stirling Group and how they were established in a brilliant expose by documentary maker Adam Curtis on his blog.

Or if you have time, I’d recommend you watch the documentary “The Mayfair Set” below:

The ever consistent Glenn Greenwald put it simply:

As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which western powers – over the last four years alone – have bombed and killed Muslims – after Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and the Philippines.

The Financial Times made the economic case even simpler:

“across the countries which directly border Mali, there are sizeable assets at stake in the form of mines and gas fields….Niger supplies 7.5 per cent of the world’s uranium according to the World Nuclear Association, much of it to France”

Is it little wonder that President Hollande’s economic crisis back home in France is causing “French utility companies to cut costs and sell assets to shore up their balance sheets hit by high debt”

In fact, France are actually so broke that the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has been going cap in hand to gain funding for their war, from non other than……“Rich Arab Gulf states in The Emirates”

Nafeez Ahmed also drew the conclusions between military and economic interests over lapping:

“NATO’s strategic interests in North Africa, described in 2007 by State Department adviser J. Peter Pham as “protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources… a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment”

While our politicians crow about no “boots on the ground” we judge by their past form, and boy do they have it, after all, what were the SAS doing in Libya less than a year ago?

Recently, documents were submitted to a French high court judge that showed:

“Gaddafi approving an ‘agreement in principle to support the campaign for the candidate for the presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy, for a sum equivalent to 50 million euros (£40 million)”

It has also been claimed that:

The man that put the bullet into Gaddafi’s head was French secret service, sent by French President at the time Nicolas Sarkozy.

Why?

To ensure Gaddafi would never make it to an open court and start talking about his cosy relation with western leaders.

Other former western leaders, including ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were also extremely close to Gaddafi, visiting him regularly and helping to facilitate multi-million pounds business deals.

Maybe Gaddafi’s overthrow broke all kinds of local ethnic, tribal and commercial bargains and power-broking arrangements that the experts at the FCO never understood?

Not that the politicians will ever admit that their disastrous actions in Mali have had anything to do with Algeria, even if Kofi Annan says it does.

At the heart of the issue is a simple underlying factor.

Money and the energy needed to create it, as I wrote in a recent post:

“It’s the way money works that has locked us into an inevitable collision of two mutually exclusive operating principles. A manmade requirement for infinite growth that collides with a man-sustaining and unyielding finite planet resources”

The lands that are portrayed as “The Third World” are heavily rich in natural resources. What they lack is the technology owned by the western nations to extract and commodify the abundance of mineral wealth that lies a few metres below their feet.

That’s why the Chinese will build President Obiang a vast metropolis in Equatorial Guinea in return for the rights to the countries natural resources.

This is why our Government has allowed dozens of multinational companies a full and access privileged access to the heart of our so called democratic process.

The minister for trade Lord Green launched the “strategic relations” initiative in July 2011, giving 38 companies, including oil, telecoms and pharmaceutical giants, a direct line to ministers and officials.

Companies such as Google, Vodafone & Starbucks are paying little or no UK tax and making “sweetheart” deals with tax authorities. Why is it that Petro giant Shell has met with high ranking ministers within the Business, Culture, Energy and Climate Change departments, with at least 56 official meetings in the last 18 months?

The often crowed myth of us being a representative democracy is a lie. We are not a democracy, we are a plutocracy.

A plutocracy in which we see the coming together of military and economic interests to gain what they crave the most – money.

Add into this devilish mix of self interest is the media. In the run up to the Iraq invasion, Rupert Murdoch and his 175 newspaper editors worldwide all backed Bush’s policies in the Middle East, and were prominent in whipping up a frenzy to go to war.

So next time you switch on your television and are watching government propaganda on the BBC, and you see a group of Africans burning your flag, ask yourself this one simple question:

Why do they really hate us?

Who said imperialism was dead?

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Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy

The man that put the bullet into Gaddafi’s head was French secret service, sent by French President at the time Nicolas Sarkozy.

Why?

To ensure Gaddafi would never make it to an open court and start talking about his cosy relation with western leaders.

Other former western leaders, including ex British Prime Minister Tony Blair, were also extremely close to Gaddafi, visiting him regularly and helping to facilitate multi-million pounds business deals.

Sarkozy, who once welcomed Gaddafi as a ‘brother leader’ during a state visit to Paris, was said to have received millions from the Libyan despot to fund his election campaign in 2007.

Mahmoud Jibril, who served as interim Prime Minister following Gaddafi’s overthrow, told Egyptian TV: ‘It was a foreign agent who mixed with the revolutionary brigades to kill Gaddafi.’

Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra stated that a foreign assassin was likely to have been French. The paper writes:

‘Since the beginning of NATO support for the revolution, strongly backed by the government of Nicolas Sarkozy, Gaddafi openly threatened to reveal details of his relationship with the former president of France, including the millions of dollars paid to finance his candidacy at the 2007 elections.’

In another twist to the story, a 22-year-old who was among the group which attacked Gaddafi and who frequently brandished the gun said to have killed him, died in Paris last Monday.

Ben Omran Shaaban was said to have been beaten up himself by Gaddafi loyalists in July, before being shot twice.He was flown to France for treatment, but died of his injuries in hospital.

Related posts:

What Were The SAS Doing In Libya?

ITV Documentary Exposure: ‘Libya, Gaddafi & the IRA’ used footage from videogames to bolster war propaganda

CIA sent 1500 Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan to Libya & why regime change was needed – OIL!

O.I.L. – Operation Invade Libya – Oil for Weapons?

Murdoch’s Fox news caught lying by CNN over claims of Libya/human shield report

The King Gaddafi is dead. Long live the King NATO

As I came around, feeling rather sick & groggy I switched my phone on to receive several congratulatory messages about the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

I’m not in much of a celebratory mood, so I’ll keep it brief.

I was pretty disgusted with Al Jazeera’s blood letting footage of Gaddafi being dragged through the streets.

And yes he was captured alive, before being executed.

You can see the Mistress of Destruction Hilary Clintons reaction to Gaddafi’s demise, perhaps her glee wouldn’t have been so forthcoming if she knew the camera’s weren’t rolling.

I remember the cries of the west when the bodies of yankee mercenaries are dragged through the streets in Iraq, yet the images of Gaddafi’s dead body on TV is comes more anticipated than a world cup final, with expert white man analysis included.

So let’s celebrate death again.

Like we did with Saddam, like we did with Bin Laden, like we did with Awlaki.

Gaddafi is dead.

Let’s pass around the photos & videos, let’s give each other high fives & cheer on looking at his corpse.

This death porn is making me sick.

You’ve replaced one tyrant leader with a NATO puppet.

In 20 years time, a Libyan will come to London or to Paris, blow himself & countless other civilians up, and we’ll wonder why he did it.

There will be no reconstruction in Libya.

There will be a flood of capital from the PEOPLES Oil wealth into French & British companies bank accounts.

To understand what has transpired, I will not insult your intelligence with half baked shit the media are giving to you. You can click through for all my posts on Libya & Gaddafi to get a full flavour of what’s coming to every single Muslim country.

Liam Fox & Adam Werritty, but no mention of Luke Coffey, CIA agent with access all areas pass at the MOD

The big story is of Liam Fox & his special relationship with Adam Werritty, homo-honeytraps aside, the real story here is of another one of Fox’s special advisors Luke Coffey that is going unreported.

Liam “I’m not a homo” Fox hired an American, Luke Coffey to work in the Defence Department as a special advisor.

On 6 June 2010, The Sunday Times reported that Liam Fox, the UK Defence Minister lets a US ‘mole’ roam the Ministry of Defence

According to the Sunday Times in June 2010:

UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox hired Luke Coffey as a special adviser.

Luke Coffey runs the London branch of an American think tank called CENSA (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs).

At least a quarter of the members listed on its website have been in the CIA or other American intelligence agencies. They include Matthew Thompson, a former CIA analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence; Jeff Benson, who worked in the US Office of Naval Intelligence; Sean Bielat, who serves in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as an intelligence watch officer; and Paul Crespo, who served as a defence and naval attaché at American embassies in the Balkans, the Gulf and Latin America. Coffey was encouraged to establish a London chapter by one of his former army commanders.

Luke Coffey has been issued with a pass giving him access to all areas of the Ministry of Defence.

Liam Fox now wants the UK to buy American, rather than British made military equipment.

Adam Werritty is a director of a company called Security Futures and has been seen setting up deals where the real Weapons of Mass Destruction (British made military exports) can be sold – Sri Lanka, Libya and the Gulf States who are so scared of a revolution they have bought in crypto soldier of jesus, Eric Prince and his Blackwater/Xe mercenaries to protect the scumbag shakes (misspelt deliberately).

Former UK armed forces minister Kevan Jones has told the Guardian that Fox’s unrecorded meetings with Adam Werritty could pose “a threat to national security”.

So Liam “The lady doth protest too much” Fox has a thing for hiring young men (as special advisers) who have their own financial interests and those of the American military before any loyalty to Britain.

What was that about THE special relationship again?

The Military Industrial Complex runs shit….ask Dr. Fox

ITV Documentary Exposure: ‘Libya, Gaddafi & the IRA’ used footage from videogames to bolster war propaganda

Here’s an upload of a video from Monday nights ITV documentary into Colonel Gaddhafi’s supposed support of the IRA. It contains shocking footage of a helicopter being shot down using weapons allegedly supplied by the Libyan baddie to the IRA baddies.

Except of course it’s actually from a video game “ArmA 2”.

The first episode of Exposure, which was watched by 1.3 million viewers, examined the relationship between the former Libyan dictator and the IRA.

You can view the video on the daily motion site here

The shaky camera footage, captioned “IRA film 1988” showed a helicopter being shot down accompanied by a voiceover: “With Gaddafi’s heavy machine guns it was possible to shoot down a helicopter as the terrorists’ own footage of 1988 shows.”

“This was what the security forces feared most,” said the voiceover. “It may have been a lucky hit, but for the army and crew once was enough. No one died in this attack.”

Words absolutely fail me.

ITV have been caught absolutely red handed in fabricating propaganda to promote Britain’s farcical role as co-cheerleader (along with mini napoleon psychozy) for the war over Libya’s natural resources.

If you’re looking for the footage in the documentary in the ITV player – I would tell you where to go and watch it (the footage is in place from 28 minutes, 20 seconds) but being rumbled, ITV have pulled their war profiteering propaganda.

William Hague has already stated that Britain “won’t be left behind” in getting it’s share of contracts in Libya, with David Cameron chipping in with the UK will “play its part”.

The official aim of the “Friends of Libya” summit was to split up the mineral wealth and the reconstruction (of all the areas blown up by NATO, UK & France) contracts, in essence expropriating Libyan wealth by other means.

We’ve seen all the “reconstruction” projects in Afghanistan & Iraq right?

The infrastructure destroyed by the Americans & British in their illegal invasion means Iraq has massive shortfalls of electricity, with blackouts commonplace.

The money earmarked for reconstruction?

$6.6 Billion the US government’s auditing department have declared as being stolen.

Add into the mix that the real power-broking was happening behind the scenes to carve up Libya, with UK oil firms pressing William Hague to get them the juiciest fruits from the Libyan tree.

Is Gaddafi a mad man?

Of course he is, if a man coins the phrase “Allah, Muammar & Libya only” you know he’s a little bit special.

Then again Robert Mugabe isn’t that far off…nor is our favourite North Korean Kim Jong-Il, but guess what, none of those countries have any mineral wealth or a strategic advantage that we need, so we leave them alone.

OIL – Operation Invade Libya, it’s always been about oil.

That’s why the CIA sent 1500 Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan to Libya & why regime change was needed – OIL!

That’s why the mass media produce propaganda like ITV1’s Exposure Gaddafi & the IRA, to reinforce their message as to why it’s necessary to blow up another country, because if the people knew the real reasons why in 20 years time a Libyan wants to attack the UK, it has nothing to do with the BS notion of “freedom and democracy” but the war, murder and theft that was committed in the name of the citizens of the UK by our government.

This is what our soldiers are dying for, there is no noble cause, there are no ideals you are defending. British soldiers are finally getting the picture that it’s all “about strategic influence; economics & mineral wealth”.

It is the interests of multinational corporations that will lobby the government and if not the ruling government, then its political rivals who will drop their pants and bendover to the same corporate & media leeches that will back them into getting into Downing Street.

It’s cost the us, the taxpayer, more than £1.75bn to bomb Libya, at a time where government spending is being slashed left, right and centre, but they can still fund highly dubious acts of aggression abroad.

Now that’s a freedom and democracy that I never voted for.

CIA sent 1500 Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan to Libya & why regime change was needed – OIL!

The CIA sent 1500 Al-CIAda fighters from Afghanistan to Libya, Abdel Hakim Belhaj is a Al-CIAda asset and leader of the Rebel army and finally both the CIA & Mi6 had a solid working relationship with Gaddafi.

Don’t expect any of that making the mainstream media though, so let The Akh break it down for you.

Libya has always been about oil & grabbing natural resources, I made that point clear back in April in my post “O.I.L. – Operation Invade Libya” and the excellent analysis of “PETROLEUM & EMPIRE IN NORTH AFRICA”

I have written long and hard on how the US military industrial complex created Al-Qaeda (as I refer to them Al-CIAda) under my intelligence section of “Creating the terror threat”.

On 31 August 2011 The Nation (Pakistan newspaper) reported:

The CIA recruited 1,500 members of Al-Qaeda, from Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, to fight in Libya.

Sources told The Nation:

“Most of the men have been recruited from Afghanistan.

“They are Uzbeks, Persians and Hazaras…

“Men attired in the Uzbek-style of shalwar and Hazara-Uzbek Kurta were found fighting in Libyan cities.”

“Some Uzbeks and Hazaras from Afghanistan were arrested in Balochistan for illegally traveling into Pakistan en route to Libya”

This is trustworthy reporting for one major reason, The US recently admitted they are paying off Pakistani journalists to write propaganda on it’s behalf.

It makes no sense that a journalist in Pakistan would write such a piece, after all thats what Pakistani investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote “Inside Al-Qaeda & the Taliban, Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11” exposing the links the US & Pakistan have with Al-CIAda, and it got him murdered.

Aljazeera has reported on the smuggling of Afghans through Pakistan.

More than 100 Afghans were discovered 20km from the border town of Quetta last week inside a container.

Most of the men were recruits for Libya’s rebel force.

Thanks to Aangirfan for alerting me to this.

Abdel hakim Belhaj is now the military boss in Tripoli.

He has long been linked to Al-CIAda.

Belhaj’s ‘Tripoli Brigade’, was trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces

Meanwhile documents found in one Gaddafi’s abandoned bases show that both Mi6 & CIA had a good solid working relationship with Gaddafi sending their kidnapped Muslims to Libya to be tortured to death.

What you have witnessed in Libya is regime change, instead of being carried out by american troops on the ground, you’ve had Britain & France pulling the strings, with NATO providing the firepower.

Previously, the Labour governments foreign policy was to kill Muslims for their natural resources.

The Conservatives foreign policy is to let the Muslims kill each other & then to negotiate a percentage on rebuilding (what we just destroyed) and get a share of the oil contracts.

William Hague stated that Britain “will not be left behind” on receiving its share of Libyan contracts.

The race is now well and truly on for Libyan oil, with Britain & France both staking their claims, and being blasé enough to admit it publicly.

Expect Tripoli to be renamed TripOIL any time soon.

You didn’t honestly believe that with all the hundreds of millions spent in Libya, the principal investors wouldn’t seek a return on their investment?

Blatant enough why regime change was needed?

Do you get it now?

A 1976 BBC documentary on Muammar Gadaffi – Allah, Muammar & Libya only!

Vodpod videos no longer available.

I have found a sort of fly-on-the-wall documentary made in 1976 which follows Muammar Gadaffi around as he goes about ruling Libya.

One highlight is a section with his mother and father who still live in a tent out in the desert. Mrs Gadaffi explains how her son has insisted that they must remain living in their old tent until every other Libyan is properly housed in a modern apartment.

The documentary makes it clear how repressive and brutal Gadaffi’s regime is. How he has locked up and tortured thousands of his opponents.

But then it takes a fascinating turn. The interviewer asks Gadaffi to explain why he has sent Libyan troops to fight with the Palestinians against Israel, and why he has sent in Libyan agents to try and overthrow President Sadat of Egypt.

In response Gadaffi launches into an explanation that countries like Libya have a duty to intervene in other nations where the ordinary people are being oppressed by autocrats or oppressive governments – and help free them.

That includes helping to liberate Egypt and Tunisia.

But it also means, he says, that politicians like him are justified in intervening in Northern Ireland to help the Provisional IRA. Because they are oppressed by the British government

They too are victims.

Gaddafi in his time has done plenty for the advancement of Libya, however, as is the want of Muslim/Arab leaders, he has clearly stayed well past his mandate.

Arab leaders love to have their pictures adorning every surface in their country, from the walls of government buildings, to pictures hanging from the entire length of a skyscraper.

His love of power can be seen in the delusionally oft repeated mantra which states – Allah, Muammar & Libya only!

This demagoguery is rampant within the Arab/Muslim world and the cult of the leader is one that The Akh despises.

Video Credit:“Goodies & Baddies”, Adam Curtis

Gaddafi accepts roadmap to peace

The African Union seems to have brokered a peace deal with Gaddafi.

A delegation from the organisation, including South African president Jacob Zuma, has visited the capital, Tripoli.

And they say Muammar Gaddafi has accepted their road map to peace.

The Akh remains suspicious, this could be a ploy to take a breath and consolidate his own forces against the anti gaddafi fighters.

O.I.L. – Operation Invade Libya – Oil for Weapons?

Whenever their is western intervention in a Muslim country, the first conclusion we jump to is “they’re after the oil”. Within a week of meeting in London, Lloyds list reports the first tanker is docking at rebel held Tobruk to take load of one million barrels of oil, or about 130,000 tonnes of oil, over $100 million (70.5 million euros) worth of crude.

The tanker is owned by VITOL one of the big three “Big Oil” crude traders in the world.

Last week I stated why Turkey had been so outspoken over the Libyan situation.

Platts have stated;

“In a related development, the National Transitional Council in Benghazi announced Sunday the establishment of a crisis team to manage affairs in an interim cap city while battles raged between the rebel forces and the heavily armed Qadhafi loyalists determined to seize oil terminals and ports west of Benghazi.

The eight-member Crisis Management Team will be headed by Mahmoud Jibril, chairman of the rebel interim administration, with Ali Sayeed El-Barghathi as its secretary. Ali El Essawi will handle international affairs and Ali Tarhouni economics and finance with Bougaighis and Ahmed Shareef of the Benghazi central bank reporting to him.”

The opening up of the Oil supply will have two effects.

Firstly, it legitimises the opposition as the above crisis management team shows. Under whose directives they are operating seems unclear.

It has been widely acknowledged that U.S. President Barack Obama has signed secret orders, allowing CIA teams to enter Libya to gather intelligence and set up links with rebels.

Secondly, the west, does not want another expensive war to fund and to see itself bogged down in another Muslim country, but it is prepared to arm the opposition.

“US should not hesitate to arm Libyan rebels” Bill Clinton

While Robert Fisk reported on America’s secret plan to arm Libya’s rebels hinged on Obama asking the Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi.

The situation in Libya now looks like being a long drawn out one.

If the west are to benefit by effectively swapping oil for weapons, then there is a conflict of interest.

Why would you want the ensuing civil war to end if you are getting access to oil without having to fight for it, you can sell your inferior, out of date military hardware to the rebels and make a huge chunk of change in the meanwhile, with the added bonus of Muslims killing Muslims, heck, what’s not to like?

For further reading into the geopolitical and battle for natural resources, The Akh would recommend reading an article titled GENOCIDE IN LIBYA? NATO INVASION UNDER WAY. ITS NOT ONLY THE OIL, STUPID.

Creating The Terror Threat: ‘Fake’ bomb UPS flight from UK to Turkey investigated

How does a bomb complete with timer, wires and a detonator work it’s way undetected from the UK to Turkey via airfreight through the UPS freight company.

Those of you with a memory will recollect that UPS were the freight carrier who delivered “printer bombs” from Yemen to the USA in 2010.

Media outlets are reporting that:

“Police stressed the incident was not terrorist-related.”

BBC News

“It wasn’t a real bomb. It wasn’t sent by Al Qaeda and it wasn’t on a passenger plane.”

ITV News

Anytime someone comes close to farting near a plane, it’s Al-CIAda & the media kicking up an almighty fuss of how close we came to armageddon.

So why are the media downplaying this?

What I do know is this.

UPS are one of the few freight carriers in the world that do not have third party checks on the freight it carries, meaning it is deemed trustworthy and competent enough not to need extra security checks.

Has that made it complacent or does that mean it has been infiltrated by the military industrial complex as a conduit to launch false flag operations?

Back in December 2010, I wrote about how the intelligence agencies had been targeting UK airports with dummy explosives to “test” security measures.

Why Turkey?

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an outspoken opponent of a British & French led military campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Erdogan said:

“I wish that those who only see oil, gold mines and underground treasures when they look in [Libya’s] direction, would see the region through glasses of conscience from now on.”

President Gül reinforced the Turkish view that France and others were being driven primarily by economic interests:

“The aim [of the air campaign] is not the liberation of the Libyan people, there are hidden agendas and different interests.”

Turkey was the only country that stressed that Nato should be given “sole command”, of the Libyan mission.

Turkey is Nato’s second biggest army after the US and its only Muslim member.

France & Germany do not want Turkey, a Muslim country to join the EU.

More than 40 countries and organisations met yesterday in London to discuss the Libyan situation.

The one thing they did agree upon was:

“Qatar had also agreed to facilitate the sale of Libyan oil”

Libya runs it’s oil & gas industry along nationalised lines.

What are the chances that the price Libya will have to pay for western intervention is the opening up of it’s industry to foreign owners – privatisation – and flight of capital into foreign hands?

For further reading on the geo political situation the mainstream media will not discuss, The Akh would recommend reading an article written by Keith Harmon Snow entitled GENOCIDE IN LIBYA? NATO INVASION UNDER WAY. ITS NOT ONLY THE OIL, STUPID.