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PROBABLY THIS IS The ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD PURE GAS mine.
MOTEMBO IS ONE SMALL LOCALITY IN THE NORTH COAST OF CUBA,
WHERE NATURAL GASOLINE IS FOUND IN A NATURAL MINE
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Motembo,+Cuba/
By Manuel Alberto Ramy On Aug 7, 2016
HAVANA — It all began before Admiral Columbus landed in Cuba. It may have happened when — during an areíto, a dance feast of the Siboneyans — one of the dancers stomped so hard on the ground that fire burst from it. That may be why the region was dubbed Motembo, which, in the native language, meant “land that expels fire.” For the natives, it was probably a sign from Mabuya, one of their gods.
More than three centuries later, in 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce petroleum and asphalt, so much asphalt that, according to urban legends in Cuba and New York, many of the streets in the Big Apple were covered with alphaltite from Motembo.
Then Motembo began to resemble the Far West towns during the Black Gold Fever, with bars, seedy hotels, rum and the attendant fauna. Even dictator Gerardo Machado paid a visit to see how Mabuya vomited fire.
Years passed and World War Two came, a conflict that Cuba joined in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They say that, when Hitler heard the news, he looked on the map to find the defiant island that, during World War One, had defeated Germany with its salvos of sugar, according to that excellent book by Pablo de la Torriente Brau.
Once in World War Two — today’s war is episodic and waged with different resources — we continued to send sugar to the Allies and chasing Nazi submarines in the Caribbean and part of the Atlantic. The sea became a center of operations for the Nazis in their mission to sink the Allied ships that carried support to a besieged Europe and logistics to the troops.
The Cuban Navy fought hard and managed to sink a German submarine. The news may have angered the Führer — the nerve of that Navy lieutenant in that minuscule spot on the map!
Gen. Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar ruled Cuba at that time (1940-1944). He phoned Navy Lt. Mario Ramírez, who on May 15, 1942, commanded the submarine chaser CS-13, and berated him for his excessive eagerness in sinking an “enemy” sub. Evidently, the idea was to play a war game by patrolling the seas, not by sinking German U-boats.
The event was reported by Edwards Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit, who said: “Beginning in early 1942, German submarines were very successful on the Atlantic coast. […] We have information that they are being supplied with fuel by Germans in Cuba.” (*)
The fact is that many German submarines docked in Cuban bays, especially Matanzas Bay. And the presence of German networks in our territory is debatable, unlike the corruption brought to us by Columbus. Or didn’t he trick the first watchman who sighted land?
An uncle of mine, Fernando Llaneras Álvarez, who died years ago, a former commander in Cuba’s War Navy, served during World War Two patrolling the Atlantic coast and the keys north of the island. Fernando left Cuba in 1960 and decided to tour the Nordic countries. A sailor at heart, he wished to see how the new Vikings navigated the famous fjords, where skill and boldness are essential to mariners.
Aboard a ship, he spoke to the sailors and identified himself as a former officer in the Cuban Navy. They took him to the ship’s bridge and introduced him to the captain.
Fernando told me that the German officer had commanded one of the many Nazi submarines that operated in the area during World War Two. During the conversation, he told Fernando that he could sail with his eyes closed into Matanzas Bay, one of Cuba’s deepest and best, as he described it. He would stay there overnight and resupply with food and fuel, he said.
Where did the fuel come from?
Some say that it came from the Shell Oil Company depot in Havana Bay, from which it was extracted and shipped to the island’s eastern region. If, according to the German officer, one of the most likely destinations was Matanzas Bay, we could lean toward Motembo, given its nearness to the Matanzas-Cárdenas are and the keys north of Villa Clara — precisely the area where today we find
MEO Australia’s Block 9.
That speculation grows stronger when we hear some elderly residents of Motembo and Sagua la Grande (in Villa Clara province), whose grandparents worked in the wells, recall stories that every evening several trucks loaded with fuel departed for the west, toward Cárdenas or Matanzas.
As it happened, the Cuban sub chaser that sank the German U-boat was led by U.S. planes toward its objective, initially detected between Matanzas and Cárdenas.
So, Motembo, “the land that expels fire,” has some interesting connections to our political history. More may surface later.
(*) Report on the Resupplying of U-boats. Memorandum from the Alien Enemy Control Unit to the U.S. Congress, May 1942.
Progreso Weekly authorizes the total or partial reproduction of the articles written by our journalists so long as source and author are identified.
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SEE THE MAP BELOW : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Motembo,+Cuba/
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About 100 cubic feet of free gas were produced per barrel of oil. ... comprising 68,000 barrels of naphtha from the Motembo field and 200,000 barrels of ... The Mining Committee of the Cuban Senate held hearings in November in connection ...1947
https://progresoweekly.us/motembo-oil-nazi-submarines/
The Geology of Cuban Petroleum Deposits | AAPG Bulletin ...pubs.geoscienceworld.org › aapgbull › articleSep 5, 2019 - Small amounts of gas are produced from the Motembo and Shaler Williams wells and approximately 150 barrels per day of oil of good quality is ...by E DeGolyer - 1918 - Cited by 42 - Related articlesReport on a Geological Reconnoissance [sic] of Cuba: Made ...Search ResultsWeb resultsMotembo Crew in front of hut in pre-Castro Cuba circa 1932
www.jspayne.com › motembo › photo1
Motembo, oil and Nazi submarines - Progreso Weeklyprogresoweekly.us › motembo-oil-nazi-submarinesAug 7, 2016 - More than three centuries later, in 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce ... that they are being supplied with fuel by Germans in Cuba.A Brief History of Petroleum in Cuba; #30478 (2016) - Search ...
www.searchanddiscovery.com › documents › ndx_podruskiwww.searchanddiscovery.com › documents › ndx_podruski
PDFDec 19, 2016 - supercharged petroleum system, manifest by numerous oil and gas seeps ... crude near Matanzas in 1872 and 58 degree “naptha” at Motembo in 1881 that ... Asphalt mines also were developed to pave streets in the USA,.by J Podruski - 2016
Charles Willard Hayes, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Arthur Coe Spencer - 1901 - Geology... of Cárdenas , ” Cuba ( 1 ) Peckham states that several wells have been bored on ... of the Province of Santa Clara is a naphtha well known as Mina Motembo .Mining and Manufacturing Industries in Cuba
books.google.ca › books
A very light crude oil (like heavy gasoline) is produced in Cuba at the Motembo field, which was first developed commercially in 1934* Because of its low octane ...
United States Tariff Commission - 1947 - Cuba
Mining and Manufacturing Industries in Cuba [through 1943].books.google.ca › books
A very light crude oil (like heavy gasoline) is produced in Cuba at the Motembo field, which was first developed commercially in 1934. Because of its low octane ...United States Tariff Commission - 1949
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Motembo,+Cuba/
By Manuel Alberto Ramy On Aug 7, 2016
HAVANA — It all began before Admiral Columbus landed in Cuba. It may have happened when — during an areíto, a dance feast of the Siboneyans — one of the dancers stomped so hard on the ground that fire burst from it. That may be why the region was dubbed Motembo, which, in the native language, meant “land that expels fire.” For the natives, it was probably a sign from Mabuya, one of their gods.
More than three centuries later, in 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce petroleum and asphalt, so much asphalt that, according to urban legends in Cuba and New York, many of the streets in the Big Apple were covered with alphaltite from Motembo.
Then Motembo began to resemble the Far West towns during the Black Gold Fever, with bars, seedy hotels, rum and the attendant fauna. Even dictator Gerardo Machado paid a visit to see how Mabuya vomited fire.
Years passed and World War Two came, a conflict that Cuba joined in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. They say that, when Hitler heard the news, he looked on the map to find the defiant island that, during World War One, had defeated Germany with its salvos of sugar, according to that excellent book by Pablo de la Torriente Brau.
Once in World War Two — today’s war is episodic and waged with different resources — we continued to send sugar to the Allies and chasing Nazi submarines in the Caribbean and part of the Atlantic. The sea became a center of operations for the Nazis in their mission to sink the Allied ships that carried support to a besieged Europe and logistics to the troops.
The Cuban Navy fought hard and managed to sink a German submarine. The news may have angered the Führer — the nerve of that Navy lieutenant in that minuscule spot on the map!
Gen. Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar ruled Cuba at that time (1940-1944). He phoned Navy Lt. Mario Ramírez, who on May 15, 1942, commanded the submarine chaser CS-13, and berated him for his excessive eagerness in sinking an “enemy” sub. Evidently, the idea was to play a war game by patrolling the seas, not by sinking German U-boats.
The event was reported by Edwards Ennis, director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit, who said: “Beginning in early 1942, German submarines were very successful on the Atlantic coast. […] We have information that they are being supplied with fuel by Germans in Cuba.” (*)
The fact is that many German submarines docked in Cuban bays, especially Matanzas Bay. And the presence of German networks in our territory is debatable, unlike the corruption brought to us by Columbus. Or didn’t he trick the first watchman who sighted land?
An uncle of mine, Fernando Llaneras Álvarez, who died years ago, a former commander in Cuba’s War Navy, served during World War Two patrolling the Atlantic coast and the keys north of the island. Fernando left Cuba in 1960 and decided to tour the Nordic countries. A sailor at heart, he wished to see how the new Vikings navigated the famous fjords, where skill and boldness are essential to mariners.
Aboard a ship, he spoke to the sailors and identified himself as a former officer in the Cuban Navy. They took him to the ship’s bridge and introduced him to the captain.
Fernando told me that the German officer had commanded one of the many Nazi submarines that operated in the area during World War Two. During the conversation, he told Fernando that he could sail with his eyes closed into Matanzas Bay, one of Cuba’s deepest and best, as he described it. He would stay there overnight and resupply with food and fuel, he said.
Where did the fuel come from?
Some say that it came from the Shell Oil Company depot in Havana Bay, from which it was extracted and shipped to the island’s eastern region. If, according to the German officer, one of the most likely destinations was Matanzas Bay, we could lean toward Motembo, given its nearness to the Matanzas-Cárdenas are and the keys north of Villa Clara — precisely the area where today we find
MEO Australia’s Block 9.
That speculation grows stronger when we hear some elderly residents of Motembo and Sagua la Grande (in Villa Clara province), whose grandparents worked in the wells, recall stories that every evening several trucks loaded with fuel departed for the west, toward Cárdenas or Matanzas.
As it happened, the Cuban sub chaser that sank the German U-boat was led by U.S. planes toward its objective, initially detected between Matanzas and Cárdenas.
So, Motembo, “the land that expels fire,” has some interesting connections to our political history. More may surface later.
(*) Report on the Resupplying of U-boats. Memorandum from the Alien Enemy Control Unit to the U.S. Congress, May 1942.
Progreso Weekly authorizes the total or partial reproduction of the articles written by our journalists so long as source and author are identified.
https://progresoweekly.us/motembo-oil-nazi-submarines/
SEE THE MAP BELOW : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Motembo,+Cuba/
Foreign Commerce Weeklybooks.google.ca › books
About 100 cubic feet of free gas were produced per barrel of oil. ... comprising 68,000 barrels of naphtha from the Motembo field and 200,000 barrels of ... The Mining Committee of the Cuban Senate held hearings in November in connection ...1947
https://progresoweekly.us/motembo-oil-nazi-submarines/
The Geology of Cuban Petroleum Deposits | AAPG Bulletin ...pubs.geoscienceworld.org › aapgbull › articleSep 5, 2019 - Small amounts of gas are produced from the Motembo and Shaler Williams wells and approximately 150 barrels per day of oil of good quality is ...by E DeGolyer - 1918 - Cited by 42 - Related articlesReport on a Geological Reconnoissance [sic] of Cuba: Made ...Search ResultsWeb resultsMotembo Crew in front of hut in pre-Castro Cuba circa 1932
www.jspayne.com › motembo › photo1
Motembo, oil and Nazi submarines - Progreso Weeklyprogresoweekly.us › motembo-oil-nazi-submarinesAug 7, 2016 - More than three centuries later, in 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce ... that they are being supplied with fuel by Germans in Cuba.A Brief History of Petroleum in Cuba; #30478 (2016) - Search ...
www.searchanddiscovery.com › documents › ndx_podruskiwww.searchanddiscovery.com › documents › ndx_podruski
PDFDec 19, 2016 - supercharged petroleum system, manifest by numerous oil and gas seeps ... crude near Matanzas in 1872 and 58 degree “naptha” at Motembo in 1881 that ... Asphalt mines also were developed to pave streets in the USA,.by J Podruski - 2016
Charles Willard Hayes, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, Arthur Coe Spencer - 1901 - Geology... of Cárdenas , ” Cuba ( 1 ) Peckham states that several wells have been bored on ... of the Province of Santa Clara is a naphtha well known as Mina Motembo .Mining and Manufacturing Industries in Cuba
books.google.ca › books
A very light crude oil (like heavy gasoline) is produced in Cuba at the Motembo field, which was first developed commercially in 1934* Because of its low octane ...
United States Tariff Commission - 1947 - Cuba
Mining and Manufacturing Industries in Cuba [through 1943].books.google.ca › books
A very light crude oil (like heavy gasoline) is produced in Cuba at the Motembo field, which was first developed commercially in 1934. Because of its low octane ...United States Tariff Commission - 1949
Saturday, April 11, 2020
WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?"
NEWS APRIL 09, 2020
https://www.theblaze.com/news/former-ny-times-reporter-sounds-alarm-over-flawed-coronavirus-models-that-have-tossed-economy-into-freefall
Former NY Times reporter sounds alarm over flawed coronavirus models that have tossed economy into 'freefall' — and blasts the left
'The people on the left hold themselves out as being science-driven ... they think they're smarter, but they won't look at facts that won't meet their narratives'
Image source: Facebook video screenshot
DAVE URBANSKI
Alex Berenson is a former reporter who worked for the New York Times from 1999 to 2010 where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina.
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After that stint he devoted himself to writing books full time. Last year, his project "Tell Your Children" was published, which deals with the science around cannabis and mental illness.
But Berenson has again come into prominence amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, as he's been posting data analysis revealing a disturbing conclusion: The models that have dictated mass business closures — and that have swiftly collapsed the American economy — are deeply flawed.
A closer look at what Berenson is seeing
Fox News reporter Adam Shaw spoke with Berenson in detail regarding what he's been learning — and he pulled no punches with his conclusion: "The response we have taken has caused enormous societal devastation; I don't think that's too strong a word."
"In February I was worried about the virus. By mid-March I was more scared about the economy. But now I'm starting to get genuinely nervous," he tweeted Wednesday. "This isn't complicated. The models don't work. The hospitals are empty.
WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT INDEFINITE LOCKDOWNS?"
More on what Berenson's been doing from the cable network:
Recently he's been focusing on discrepancies within the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model. That model has come under renewed scrutiny as it has revised its metrics multiple times. It once predicted more than 90,000 deaths by August but recently issued a new estimate that has the figure closer to 60,000. Government officials say it's a model that's moving with what the country is doing.
And while Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of national experts on the White House coronavirus task force, said indicators show social distancing is working — "what you do with data will always outstrip a model. You redo your models, depending upon your data, and our data is telling us that mitigation is working" — Fox News said Berenson insists those models already figure in social distancing and other measures.
"Aside from New York, nationally there's been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty," he told the cable network. "This is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in South Carolina where the lockdown was early, it's true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast."
Fox News also said Berenson has argued on Twitter that the drop in cases has come before lockdowns would have had an impact since it takes time for social distancing to work due to the time lag between infection and symptoms:
It's the economy, stupid
The tattered state of the U.S. economy due to widespread business shutdowns isn't lost at all on Berenson.
"There was incredible pressure to do something ... so these lockdowns all cascaded, every governor tried to outdo the next," he told Fox News. "And no one stopped and said, 'OK what about Japan? They don't seem to have a terrible epidemic, they wear masks, maybe we should wear masks.'"
Berenson added to the cable network that "we're in a bad spot because there's clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now — the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there's going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say, 'Oh, it's the lockdown that saved us.'"
More from Fox News:
Berenson is not a known partisan. His Twitter feed and other works contain few references to specific politicians, and there's no indication that he's in this to bash or defend Trump or either political party. But he noted that, like with his conclusions on marijuana, there has been a distinct lack of interest from the left.
"I went to Yale, and I worked for the New York Times," he told the cable network. "The people on the left hold themselves out as being science-driven, as being smarter; they think they're smarter, but they won't look at facts that won't meet their narratives."
Here's Berenson talking to Fox News' Tucker Carlson about the conclusions he's reaching:
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More on what Berenson's been doing from the cable network:
Recently he's been focusing on discrepancies within the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model. That model has come under renewed scrutiny as it has revised its metrics multiple times. It once predicted more than 90,000 deaths by August but recently issued a new estimate that has the figure closer to 60,000. Government officials say it's a model that's moving with what the country is doing.
And while Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of national experts on the White House coronavirus task force, said indicators show social distancing is working — "what you do with data will always outstrip a model. You redo your models, depending upon your data, and our data is telling us that mitigation is working" — Fox News said Berenson insists those models already figure in social distancing and other measures.
"Aside from New York, nationally there's been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty," he told the cable network. "This is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in South Carolina where the lockdown was early, it's true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast."
Fox News also said Berenson has argued on Twitter that the drop in cases has come before lockdowns would have had an impact since it takes time for social distancing to work due to the time lag between infection and symptoms:
It's the economy, stupid
The tattered state of the U.S. economy due to widespread business shutdowns isn't lost at all on Berenson.
"There was incredible pressure to do something ... so these lockdowns all cascaded, every governor tried to outdo the next," he told Fox News. "And no one stopped and said, 'OK what about Japan? They don't seem to have a terrible epidemic, they wear masks, maybe we should wear masks.'"
Berenson added to the cable network that "we're in a bad spot because there's clearly a dangerous political dynamic right now — the economy is in freefall, a lot of people are hurting. If we acknowledge what is clearly happening ... the people who made these decisions, I think there's going to be a lot of anger at them, so they don't want to acknowledge it, so they say, 'Oh, it's the lockdown that saved us.'"
More from Fox News:
Berenson is not a known partisan. His Twitter feed and other works contain few references to specific politicians, and there's no indication that he's in this to bash or defend Trump or either political party. But he noted that, like with his conclusions on marijuana, there has been a distinct lack of interest from the left.
"I went to Yale, and I worked for the New York Times," he told the cable network. "The people on the left hold themselves out as being science-driven, as being smarter; they think they're smarter, but they won't look at facts that won't meet their narratives."
Here's Berenson talking to Fox News' Tucker Carlson about the conclusions he's reaching:
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