There are very few people in the western media, both corporate and alternative, who seem to fully understand the significance of the announcement this week that Saudi Arabia's largest oil company, Aramco, is investing $BILLIONS in China's growing petrochemical industry. Aramco was originally the name for the "Arabian American Oil Company," founded by the Standard Oil Co. of California (Chevron) in 1933, when the government of Saudi Arabia granted it a concession. Other U.S. companies joined after oil was found near Dhahran in 1938. In 1973, the Saudi government bought a 25% interest in Aramco, increasing that interest to 60% the following year. In 1980, the Saudi government increased its interest in Aramco to 100%. Eight years later, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (now renamed Saudi Aramco) was officially established. I worked in Dhahran in the early to mid 1990s, teaching English at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. It is a huge university with around 10,000 students, and the entire curriculum is taught in English, hence the need for many English teachers. But as large as the campus in Dhahran is, it is quite small compared to the Aramco company compound directly next to the University. We had many American (and Filipino) friends at Aramco back then, and often visited them at the Aramco compound. Driving into the Aramco compound was like driving into the suburbs of a modern U.S. city, where you could literally find all the same comforts you could find in the U.S., even though you were out in the middle of a desert. Even the women there drove cars at that time, while outside the compound, it was forbidden (at that time). Back in the 1990s, Americans still mostly ran the company, as they transitioned to Saudi management and more members of the board of directors came from the Saudis. But things are very different today, as this announcement of investing in China clearly demonstrates. Gone is the respect for the Rockefeller oil industry and their puppet politicians, as recent comedy skits produced by Saudis mocking Joe Biden clearly show. So are the days of Ishmael here, and the fulfillment of God's promises and prophecies made thousands of years ago to bless Ishmael?
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The mv brave commander has now docked in djibouti with an aid shipment bound for ethiopia where drought and conflict affect over 20 million people. our africa correspondent catherine byaruhanga reports. bone dry earth. these women in eastern ethiopia are digging holes to trap rainwater to grow crops and feed animals, but it rarely rains these days. drought is making it harder to survive, even for camels. ao year old ishmael is trying to save his last one. translation: i m a pastoralist. in fact, i was one of the successful pastoralists. i had 15 camels, 1a of them died one by one, and i am only the left with this one. this one is also very sick, as you can see, i don t know whether he will die or survive. war in ethiopia is also making people go hungry. this nursery school was hit
Mediated by the un and turkey. 0ur africa correspondent catherine byaruhanga reports. bone dry earth. these women in eastern ethiopia are digging holes to trap rainwater to grow crops and feed animals, but it rarely rains these days. drought is making it harder to survive, even for camels. ao year old ishmael is trying to save his last one. translation: i m pastoralist. in fact, i was one of the successful pastoralists, i had 15 camels, 1a of them died one by one, and i am only the left with this one. this one is also very sick, as you can see, i don t know whether he will die or survive. war in ethiopia is also making people go hungry. this nursery school was hit in an airstrike last week, during a resurgence in fighting in the north of the country.
And feed animals, but it rarely rains these days. drought is making it harder to survive, even for camels. ao year old ishmael is trying to save his last one. translation: i m pastoralist, i was one of the successful - pastoralists, i had 15 camels, 1a of them died one by one, and i am on the left with this one. this one is also very sick as you can see, i don t know whether he will die or survive. war in ethiopia is also making people go hungry. this nursery school was hit in an airstrike last week during a resurgence in fighting in the north of the country. the united nations world food programme has paid for this ship to carry over 20,000 tons of grain to africa from ukraine, bound for ethiopia. before the war three quarters of the wfp s food assistance came from ukraine and russia. ethiopia is particularly really badly hit. the fuel prices have shot up, the food prices and market prices, which were already very unaffordable for the vast majority of the population,