Could these four men push world oil prices past $150 per barrel?
You'd better believe it.
Markets and economies will go bust. Crisis will follow. But certain stocks I'll name will soar yet again on the news... and very soon.
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Dear Fellow Market Maven,
We called it.
In April 2003 we sent out a special report. Maybe you remember it.
It was called After Iraq... America's Next Crisis.
On the very first page, it read...
I'm writing to warn you... there's an even bigger crisis developing in the Middle East. Maybe bigger than Baghdad ever was. When it unravels, the costs will be huge, both in stocks and politics. But I'm going to show you how, in spite of it all... you could make 300% or more on every dollar invested.
And sure enough, we did.
Subscribers who read that same report followed up with gains like 174% on PetroChina... 160% on Western Oil Sands.... an impressive 179% on Talisman Energy... plus 188% so far on Tesoro Petroleum... 519% so far on Suncor Energy... and another 553% and climbing on Valero.
Now, remember, around about this time, oil sold for $27 per barrel. And you paid a mere $1.50 for a gallon of gas. So when we wrote, under the headline Why Oil at $70 a Barrel Isn't out of the Question, how a burgeoning crisis... plus soaring demand... and geographically constricted supply... would all conspire to more than double the oil price...
You can imagine, we got laughed at.
Fools. Extremists. Blowhards.
They called us every name in the book.
But guess what...
Today, oil hovers right where we said it would - around $71 per barrel. At the pump, you shell out $3 a gallon. And the Middle East? Well, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's going to become the next hot vacation spot anytime soon.
Today, though, I want to put all that behind us.
Because I'm writing with an even bigger revelation.
If you're smart, what I'm about to show you will scare you out of your skivvies.
But it will also alert you to the fact that, even in times of mayhem, you have to stay on the ball. You have to protect your investments. And sometimes, if the opportunity is there, you have to jump on the opportunities that inevitably arise, whatever the impetus behind them.
Now is one of those times.
Few expect it.
In the following paragraphs, I describe what you could only describe as a whole new kind of mega trend. And not a pretty one. The consequences, in many ways, will be dire, indeed.
In fact, as you'll see, if I'm even half right - even the mere suspicion that this chain of events will take place is enough to spark a whole new wave of oil conflict that will make what's happened in Iraq or Lebanon already... look like a Sunday ice cream social.
Four men are behind it.
I'll show you who they are and what they're up to in just a second. I'll draw a thread through their colliding sets of motives. And you'll see just how this historic new and radical shift in oil power is about to transpire.
We'll all be impacted.
It's up to you to decide how you deal with it.
For my part, I'll show you a three-step strategy for guarding your wealth... and growing your wealth. Even as the crisis unfolds. Then, when you're through reading...
I'll show you how to get five more FREE investor's reports - each packed with my more specific stock and investment recommendations... including all the call letters, statistics and charts and fundamental research you need to get ahead.
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But before we dig in...
Let Me Introduce Myself...
My name is Justice Litle.
You could say I'm an odd bird.
See, long before I hit the scene as a top resource-investing expert, I had my nose deep in a different kind of research - of all things, philosophy and classical literature - at prestigious Oxford University in England.
I was ready, in fact, to get my Ph.D.
And if it weren't for a mega-rich investor named Jim Rogers, I might have done just that.
But then I read about Jim's famous worldwide journey in search of investing profits in his now-famous book Investment Biker. And I was hooked.
Jim, as I'm sure you know, cut his teeth as a partner and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, along with billionaire George Soros. Then and now, Jim is a genius in piling up resource riches. He's made a fortune of his own doing it. And he inspired me and many others to do the same.
That's when I put my Socrates and Aristotle on the shelf.
I jumped into commodities trading feet first, and love it. I quickly became a senior broker, working the floor alongside cutthroat currency hedgers, cattle ranchers and hedge fund energy consultants. You couldn't ask for more excitement. Or more opportunities to make a fortune.
My investing reports started showing up on Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires. And also in The Wall Street Journal. I soon launched my own brokerage firm. And I ran training sessions for 75-100 traders at a clip, in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Helping qualified investors find these opportunities was even more fun than trading in the resource pits. And it was about that time I met someone I think you know well already, New York Times best-selling author Addison Wiggin.
Addison is a top dog in the world of market analysis. He's been on interviewed by Forbes, ABC Money Matters, CBS Sunday Morning, FOX, Bloomberg, CNN/Money, MotleyFool.com, TheStreet.com, Money, The New York Times Magazine and more than 350 different local and national radio shows about his books Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis.
He also manages a nearly prophetic, multimillion-dollar financial research group. Long story short, he and I saw eye to eye on many of these forces that both threaten the U.S. economy and make commodities such a brilliant investment, not just for the near future, but for a long time to come.
So I joined his international team of experts.
And that's why I'm writing you today. Inside this exclusive network, I was able to team up with someone else you might know extremely well - widely known resource trading genius Kevin Kerr.
Kevin's also all over the national media. He's traded commodities for the last 18 years. He even studied resource trading at the elbow of the great Paul Tudor Jones, one of the 25 richest investors in America. Today, Kevin and I share the pleasure of co-editing Outstanding Investments, recently ranked as...
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Hello, my name is Addison Wiggin. I was proud when Outstanding Investments earned the title "#1 Ranked Equity Trading Newsletter for 2005" from MarketWatch. And I was ecstatic when Mark Hulbert, of the unbiased Hulbert Financial Digest, crowned Outstanding Investments the #1 Ranked Investment Advisory Letter for the Past Five Years. But I've got to tell you. Neither tops the day when I was first able to persuade Kevin Kerr to take the helm of this award-winning service. Kevin Kerr has been quoted on MarketWatch over 500 times. You can also see him quoted from time to time on CNN and CNBC. Not to mention in Investor's Business Daily. Recently, he was even featured on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. What's more, Kevin has traded commodities professionally for the last 15 years. He's worked the floors of the New York and Chicago... and the commodity derivatives markets of London. He's cutthroat and successful, and he believes the energy explosion related to China and India will be one of the biggest... if not the biggest... investment stories of the next 10 years. I couldn't imagine being luckier. And I can't imagine two guys more qualified to lead you through the explosive wealth-building opportunities in raw resource investing. Especially right now, at this fundamental turning point in history. As oil and other resources soar, a lot of investment wealth hangs in the balance. You should join readers of the #1 ranked Outstanding Investments in landing on the most profitable side of this monumental and historic shift. Read on to find out how... |
The #1 Performing Investment Advisory of the Last 5 Years
That's right.
I'm proud to say that unbiased and meticulous industry watchdog Mark Hulbert just recently ranked our service, Outstanding Investments, as the #1 Performing Investment Letter of the Last FIVE YEARS.
Sorry for bragging... I can't help but be proud.
But I'll let some of our Outstanding Investments subscribers tell you what they think.
For instance, this is what reader Jeff B. recently had to say:
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I'm not cherry-picking these results.
We get letters like this all the time:
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Here's my point.
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Now... let me share with you the dire warning we talked about...
A Collaborator Countdown:
The 4 Horseman of the Oil Apocalypse
There's a good chance you'd never heard of Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. But his stock is soaring in the world of Islam.
Hassan Nasrallah heads up Hezbollah, the known terrorist organization that dominates the southern half of Lebanon. And that just took on Israel with shoulder rockets. And here's where it gets complicated.
Nine years ago, Nasrallah's son was killed in a battle with Israelis. He's angry to the core. He's also very powerful.
See, Lebanon isn't a major oil power. In the late 1960s, it was known as the "Switzerland of the Middle East." Modern. Moderate. Beirut was a playground for the rich, a beach town dotted with discos and exclusive hotels.
Very different from what you see today.
And a large and very driven group of Muslims want to keep it that way. For 16 years, in fact, they fought civil war with Christians and others in their country. It got so rough Syria stepped in to end it.
When Rafik Hariri, a self-made billionaire, became prime minister and tried to rebuild Lebanon into a modern state all over again... this activist group of Muslims did what any voter would do. On Feb. 14, 2005... they blew up his car with 1,000 kg of TNT.
What Does This Matter to the Price of Oil?
Insiders, the CIA and just about everyone else believe that the group behind the murder of the ex-prime minister... and the backers of the Hezbollah terrorist organization... are not Lebanese at all. They're Syrian. And Iranian.
See, Hariri wanted Lebanon for Lebanon.
Both Iran and Syria want to use Lebanon, and especially Hezbollah, to stir up fights with Israel.
When Israel fights, the Middle East gets hot.
And oil prices go up.
Iran sends over $100 million a year in secret financing to Hezbollah. Along with guns and shoulder rockets and other sophisticated weapons. And most of these get shipped secretly through Syria, one of Iran's few real allies in the Middle East.
The bigger Hezbollah gets, the further Iran's reach across the region.
Tel Aviv wants to send missiles into Tehran? Go ahead. Iran will unleash Hezbollah on northern Israel. Just like it did this summer. And in propaganda terms, it was a huge success.
Hezbollah doubled its victory by handing out bags of money to fellow Muslims whose houses were destroyed by the bombing. Today, that's made Hezbollah even more popular across the Middle East than al-Qaida. Hezbollah's gaining strength. And that's the problem.
Edward Walker is a Middle East expert. He heads up the Middle East Institute and was once ambassador to both Egypt and to Israel. "Hezbollah," he says, "is more popular than sliced bread." All the "wrong guys" are getting a boost from the current situation.
Keep in mind, before Sept. 11, the FBI considered Hezbollah an even bigger terror risk to the U.S. than al-Qaida.
Today, Hezbollah has taken terror mainstream. Imagine al-Qaida, but with seats in Congress. Hezbollah has done almost that. It's recently won seats in Lebanon's parliament... it's now hugely popular with a certain, large group of Lebanese... only the biggest danger about Hezbollah is that it doesn't really work for Lebanon at all.
No, it serves a much bigger, more dangerous master...
The Middleman:
Playing a Most Dangerous Game
Syria, next to Lebanon, plays a dangerous game. To understand, you need to know Syria's young president, Bashar al-Assad. 
His family has ruled Syria for more than 30 years. They hold "elections." They win with 99.99% of the vote every time.
Bashar was an eye doctor, trained in the U.K. At age 34, his dictator father died. He took over and pretended to be a moderate. But he quickly changed his tune.
See, Syria also has no real stake in the Middle East.
What it does have, however, is a long-lasting friendship with all the wrong kind of people. In 1985, Syria helped finance the terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruiseliner.
In 1983, Syria helped pay to bomb a military bunker in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. Marines. Again in 1985, it also funded the hijackers of TWA Flight 847.
Syrian backing is even linked to the Munich Olympic massacre in 1972. And investigators say they can directly link Syria to killing Rafik Hariri in February 2005. Though of course, Syria denies it.
Why?
Syria wants the Golan Heights.
The Golan is a key fresh water source in the parched Middle East. It's also a perfect lookout into Damascus. And Syria doesn't want anybody but itself to own that advantage. But it lost the Golan to Israel in 1967 and 1973. Iran has promised to help Syria get it back, even if that means throwing its military might in a future war with Israel.
In fact, days after Hariri was killed in Lebanon, Iran's foreign minister flew to Damascus and forged a "united front" with Syria, including military support.
What does Iran get in exchange?
Syria lets Iran use Syrian territory as a land bridge over the border into Lebanon... so Iran can keep Hezbollah fully armed. As another part of its role in the new Middle East alliance, Syria also feeds support to new resistance fighters in Iraq...
The Radical:
Why We'll Never Gain Access to Iraqi Oil
How's democracy taking hold in Iraq? Not too well. Meet Moztada al-Sadr, son-in-law of a grand ayatollah.
He's young. But he can trace his family lineage directly back to the prophet Muhammad. That gets him a lot of credibility.
al-Sadr heads the Mahdi Army. It's not an official army. It's a band of 10,000 Shiite militiamen, vying for control of Iraq.
His followers battle coalition troops in Baghdad. They've taken control of cities in the south. They run police stations, holy sites and political offices.
His own father, two brothers and father-in-law were all murdered by Hussein's secret police.
In a U.S.-run poll in Iraq, al-Sadr ranked more popular than Iraq's "elected" prime minister.
Then you've got the "Badr Brigade." The Brigade is also Shia. It's the armed wing, in fact, of SCIRI, the party of Shia Muslims who dominate the newly elected Iraqi Parliament.
Shia Muslims - or Shiites - are a sect of Islam. Around the world, there aren't many of them. But in the Middle East, the 140 million Shia Muslims make up more than half the population of the entire region.
The other half is Sunni Muslim. Shiites and Sunnis hate each other. They have been at war in Iraq ever since Saddam fell. They have been at war across the Middle East for the last 1,374 years.
The 40% of people supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon are also Shia. President Assad in Syria is Alawi, which is a Shia subgroup. The new president of Iraq is Shia. In fact, 60% of the Iraqi population is Shia.
Sadr City, Karbala and Najaf, Iraq... they're all jammed with Shia Muslims. The oppressed Shiites partied in the streets when Saddam fell. Today, they terrorize the coalition troops and take potshots at their Sunni neighbors.
The call it the "Balance of Terror" - a cycle of violence and counterviolence between Sunnis and Shias across the region - that's supposed to keep Shia populations from being marginalized ever again.
This virtually guarantees the Iraqi civil war will happen. In fact, even though Washington says we don't have to worry, our own top generals, CIA insiders and Middle East experts all say it's already begun.
Gen. John Abizaid was our top U.S. military commander in the Middle East. Here's what he had to say recently: "I believe that sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have ever seen it."
And William Patey, the U.K. ambassador to Iraq who just retired, says, "The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy."
Bush and his cronies have turned a deaf ear. They're in denial.
But that doesn't mean you should ignore the writing on the wall.
Think about it. Shias dominate the new Iraqi government. This is a "New Middle East" all right. Just not the one anyone ever hoped for.
The Iraqi Highway Patrol, run mostly by Shias, doubles as a not-so-secret Sunni Arab death squad. When Sunni's bombed the Shias' Golden Mosque, Shias bombed eight Sunni mosques and killed over 50 Sunni Arabs in retaliation.
Gunmen spraying worshippers with automatic fire during morning prayers... blasts in a crowded marketplace... over 1,000 Shia dead in a stampede, on rumors of a Sunni suicide bomber.
The last time Shia militias threatened to blow up oil fields in southern Iraq, they shut down - cutting of 90% of Baghdad's oil revenue. This is the seat of world oil wealth on edge, worse than at any other time in history!
And behind it all...
The Mastermind: How a Blacksmith's Son Just Engineered the End of Cheap Oil
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the son of a blacksmith.
He's smart. He's also ruthless.
In the late 1970s, he graduated as one of the top students from Iran's version of MIT. He joined the Revolutionary Guard.
During the Iran-Iraq war, Ahmadinejad trained 12-year-old boys to march into mine fields, sacrificing their own lives, to make way for the Iranian army.
After his election, he said in his speech, "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution is arisen..." He's doing everything possible to make sure he's right.
Take Iraq.
The Iran-Iraq war was one of the bloodiest battles of the 20th century. Iraq was run by Sunni Muslims then. Now it's run by Shiites. And Iran, also nearly 91% Shiite, is sending electricity. It's sending wheat. It's sending $1 billion in foreign aid.
Ahmadinejad knows what he's doing.
Iran just offered to pay for three pipelines running across Shia territory in Iraq. Iran has offered to open its ports, so war-torn Iraq can use them for shipping. And every day, Iraq will ship 150,000 barrels of light crude direct to Iran, for refining. Remember, Iran also funds Hezbollah in Lebanon. And it's busily buying influence in Syria.
Don't look now, but...