56:17 Yet they're not good and and here's a prediction there will be no no fly zone There will be no boots on the ground We are not going to go in there The only thing that has to happen is we have to have the right Kurds running the show. So here's where we move over to The Kurds in northern Iraq who are you know, right now? We have Turkey Iraq or Iran Oh, yeah, Iraq sorry Iraq. They are killing the Kurds, the wrong... the Kurds who are not on board with the program so I think you and i discussed that Assad must have done something wrong in order for all of this to happen he then we had he had to do something really screwed it up and he did
57:09 But it wasn't against the United States of America, Gitmo Nation states directly. It was against their longtime ally Turkey! So Turkey of course at the moment is in the hot bird seat they are the pass-through country for all oil and natural gas pipelines into Europe. Europe of course is the market. I want to interrupt you with a clip? Oh please FSA, which is the Free Syrian Army in a nutshell who's financing them. And the West no longer seems to have faith in the political opposition so they're now braced for a military solution The outcome of street by street fighting between the regime and rebel fighters But in Syria there are scores of different groups some unconnected Some rebels apparently fighting for democracy others jihadists
57:58 Mostly under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA which owes loyalty to those paying and arming them from Qatar Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Bing bing bing! Exactly so turkey is of course is the proxy for this but Turkey and Syria were bestest buddies they were really good we know some of this because we discussed it on our pipeline episode but they were the bestest buddies because of course The Arab gas pipeline coming up from Libya Egypt all the routing around Israel Going up into Turkey. So that was part one, but Syria is actually the crossroads of energy Because they have pipelines coming in known as these Islamic pipeline the IPC from Iraq
58:51 But one year ago, two months before the Arab Spring in Syria Assad signed a deal and this is the key part. He signed a deal, a $10 billion natural gas pipeline deal with Iran and Iraq and instead of routing this So we have the one going from south to north, that's the Arab gas pipeline. And then the one coming in from east to west which Turkey was okay with because they wanted to connect those points in places like Homs and Aleppo so it comes in from the bottom comes in from the right It connects and all goes up into Turkey into Europe
59:40 But Assad then decided with this $10 billion deal that this pipeline wasn't going to go up, it was going to continue going to the left and west right into Tartus. And they were gonna pipe it up through Cyprus or whatever else they wanted to do there we're going and they were routing around Turkey so after this deal is announced in this thing has to be completed by 2015 so it's already being built of course who owns Tartus? Who owns the port there? That would be the Russians So they get their deal Two months after that, all of a sudden we have the uprising because it's Turkey who said oh really? You're gonna go and screw us. I don't think so! And this oil and this gas is supposed to be coming from Kirkuk This is where the Kurds are playing a role So the whole idea
1:00:30 And by the way, the Kurdish population makes up 9% of Syria is Kurd. But you have different types of Kurds and this is where it gets very complicated for me because this is like Sunni and Shia that has a lot to do with it but they want the Kurds who are on board with the program to be running the show in Syria so they don't pipe it on out to Tardis where the Ruskies pick it up or whoever else can sell it too They want it to be at the connection point So this is what is going on. No one gives a crap about Syria, not a single crap! They got nothing like four billion dollars in oil a year no one cares This is all about the Islamic pipeline deal that Assad signed and they're stopping that
1:01:14 And of course, it's very important for a country like Turkey and for Europe actually to not just be reliant upon all the Russian natural gas. They needed an alternative because we've already got the North Stream, the South Stream and the Nabucco or whatever it is called. Right! We have already seen that... Because the Russians are playing their hand too soon by ruining Europe Exactly! By pulling the plug and even having trouble killing all of the Polish government to get their way with this, with their pipelines. So that's why NATO and Europe are on board because they also don't want to be dependent upon the Russians They wanna make sure they have that independent oil but we don't actually run northern Iraq The Kurds run northern Iraq at least when it comes to pipeline security
1:02:01 So that's where the rub is and they want to make sure that the pipelines continue, it's about 30% extra. I mean there is a huge amount of gas and oil coming in It has to be connected in Aleppo and home to go up And not out to the left which was the deal that Russians had The Russians are sitting there going like we got them on front end and back end We've got him on top and bottom That's what happening That why you're not seeing any reports on Turkey killing Kurds In Northern Iraq Because they're just killing the ones that are in the way. So, the ultimate outcome will be... The right Kurdish government taking over Syria No one cares about these people! No one gives a shit about these people It's all about these pipelines
1:02:47 All the oil companies, the only future they have left is service industry. And of course this ties into Iran and the reason why they're not supposed to be in this soon it's because it's fine! We want to have your nationalized gas and oil coming in but we wanted to route the way we wanted to route Now of course there is another faction who think that's the last bastion, right? We already got Iraq so we might as well go and get Iran and control all their natural resources. I think they're kind of afraid to do that So they really don't want Iran messing around with it because you know...we'll do the deal with you! We'll take your oil & gas just let us route it properly and shut up already! Go away
1:03:29 That's what's going on. No boots on the ground in Syria no one gives a crap about the people It's all about routing the oil and gas upwards Surprise surprise That was another pipeline episode. Yeah, but it's this is what's going on that makes nothing but sense because there's no real any other issues I mean except for the fact that I and Feinstein in a casual conversation said she thinks they should have a no-fly zone all i've been hearing is No! No we're not gonna do if no flies We're just not gonna do it And then there's just a lot of saber rattling and we're not gonna do anything and the British are getting
1:04:09 No, we can't send them anything. We had a clip last show or the show before where the British foreign minister says we're not... we're sending him you know cell phones. Oh oh! While your on that hold on a second I got another clip from Panetta And he's talking about the cell phones. This is actually about self-radicalization in Afghanistan, just to show you that these people are all actors and all boneheads! Listen to what he's saying... listen to this. Mr Secretary there was a Pentagon report in the spring that said most of these green on blue incidents had to do more with personal grudges. Basically, Americans maybe disrespecting Afghans and it led to bloodshed... Green on blue by the way this is a new one green on blue violence. Yeah let's just talk about that They said very little Taliban infiltration you mentioned the Taliban are we seeing a change now? We're seeing more Taliban infiltration with these incidents You know in talking with John Allen it's clear that