The Armenian and Jewish Holocausts have popularly been regarded as two distinct and unrelated dark episodes of recent history. This appearance weakens with careful and insightful study. May it be here suggested, perhaps for the first time, that they are not only inextricably connected but are indeed two phases of one lengthy operation which spanned close to fifty years, guided by a group of cunning, patient and most powerful planners.
The twentieth century has been called the century of oil. Our Age is referred to that of Hydrocarbon Man. Yet this phenomena is barely one hundred years old. It was a hundred years ago that our planet was actually shifting energy sources from coal to oil. In fact it all began in Northwestern Pennsylvania, in a remote little place called Titusville to be exact, where oil was first extracted via drilling yielding the first oil well. The American oil business itself was to be mastered and monopolized by John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company who was to supply the entire world’s oil needs from the wells of Pennsylvania.
It is here necessary to point out one of the most important aspects of the oil business. Due to the extremely flammable nature of oil it’s extraction, refining, and transport must be done under supremely stable conditions, in others words, in an environment of peace and tranquility. Rockefeller was able to become the “richest man in the world” by virtue of an early oil empire nestled in peaceful Pennsylvania. Standard Oil’s first bout with serious worldwide competition would come from a region halfway around the world whose stability was far from that of Pennsylvania.