Black Weekend

 

Home Forums The Automatic Earth Forum Black Weekend

Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #25302

    Sign on Greece/FYROM border Nov 2015 How black would you like your Thanksgiving Friday slash weekend? Many Americans don’t even appreciate the term, o
    [See the full post at: Black Weekend]

    #25303
    Glennda
    Participant

    Back in the US of A, police profile blacks, especially young black men to shoot down rather than arrest them, or shoot them even while in hand cuffs. Black Friday has begun to be a #BlackLivesMatter day. We call out against the police actions against young surplus black men and protesters.

    The police have had many Special Sales and auctions for surplus war supplies. The old guns and armor are being sold off to trigger happy police. . Even “progressive” cities need their new tanks, flack gear and Darth Vadar armor to dress up their Tack Squads.

    The bottom 30% has been deemed surplus.

    #25305
    Nassim
    Participant

    I tried reading Arabic on the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) sign on the photo. It is totally wrong. Appallingly amateurish. It is as though they don’t even have access to Google Translator. The letters are repeated and many are printed unconnectedly. The concept of capital letters does not exist in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew etc.

    Here is the Google version (I don’t have an Arabic keyboard) and anyone can see the difference.

    هل تبحث عن عائلتك؟
    اتصل بنا!

    #25309
    Chris M
    Participant

    This war in Syria and the adjoining areas of the Middle East has caused me to wonder what the interest of the United States is in the matter. What is the endgame?

    As has been suggested here, the debt monopoly would like nothing more than to sell their currency to keep financing these endless tugs of war for land and the resources it holds. As the debt piles up, the system is bound to collapse, and the suggestion can be made for a new world order currency system that will be better than what we currently possess. A dumbed down public won’t know any better, sadly.

    In the meantime, the quest for empire continues. Putin wants to continue to hold his bargaining chip with Europe, in the building of pipelines for their fuel. Syria seems to be the bone of contention. If the Sunni can get a pipeline through Syria fom the Arabian penisula, Putin has lost some of his power. Russian pipelines through Turkey don’t seem very likely at the moment, but who knows in this game of empire chess. The interests in the US want to help their Sunni buddies, but this nasty thing called Islamic State keeps messing up things. Religion, or religion bent on conquest by the sword, can do that.

    As Ilargi knows, love is the highest power. Everything else is just a clanging cymbal.

    #25310
    Nassim
    Participant

    Chris M,

    The way things are going, the Turks may find out that instead of them taking over much of Syria, the rest of Cyprus plus much of Europe, they will be kicked back where they came from. Istanbul may revert to being Constantinople. I know it seems far-fetched, but the present regime in Turkey is on a long continuum of declines – interrupted by brief renaissances.

    The Syrian Turkmen have revealed that their allegiance lies with Turkey – and they will be kicked back across the border in due course.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Turkmen

    #25311
    Chris M
    Participant

    Nassim,

    I have read that some members of the Erdogan family want to reestablish the Ottoman Empire.

    Good luck with that, huh? Maybe that is to what you allude.

    #25312
    Nassim
    Participant

    A good read, which costs $12 on Kindle but can be seemingly downloaded for free from Booksee.org

    “The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire” by Edward N. Luttwak

    https://amzn.com/0674062078

    It explains how they kept the hordes from Asia at bay. Few in western Europeans seem to know that there was an Eastern Roman Empire and that it lasted twice as long as the one of Rome.

    #25321
    John Day
    Participant

    Black Friday, Steely Dan

    How does ISIS oil, and Iraqi Kurdish oil find it’s way to Israel ? It’s 77% of Israeli oil demand in-total.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c
    Lebanese American Journalist, Serena Shim, reporting on weapons flows from Turkey into Syria, got warned, got overrun by a cement truck going the wrong way on a one way, got taken to a hospital, where she “died of a heart attack”. This was in Turkey.
    “Accident” says Turkish government.

    ISIL Truth and the Suspicious Death of Journalist Serena Shim: Hypocritical Western Media Remains Silent


    “Hybris War to Break the Balkans” Greece figures in. Pipelines, railroads, refugees. Turkey is a hub for so many flows.

    A Hybrid War to break the Balkans?

    #25332
    tabarnick
    Participant

    Raúl,

    The children washing up dead on Greek shores were safe in Turkey. They were put on leaky dinghies without a life jacket by their parents who thought a shot at getting a welfare check in Germany or Sweden was worth gambling on the life of their kids.

    The humanitarian policy by european countries would be to ship everyone back to Turkey. Everyone would get the message that there was no room for them in Europe, and no one would drown. The baby-drowning policy is to encourage everyone from Afghanistan to Guinea to try their luck at landing on the shores of Europe, no matter what the odds or the costs.

Viewing 9 posts - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.