Debt Rattle October 17 2019
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Salvador Dali Sick Boy (Self-portrait in Cadaqués) 1923 • Pelosi, Trump Exchange ‘Meltdown’ Barbs Over Meeting On US Policy In Syria (R.) • The
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 17 2019]• The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins (Pieraccini)
If Ankara halts its military operation in the coming days, Damascus will regain control of the oil fields. The world will then have witnessed one of the greatest diplomatic masterpieces ever conceived, responsible for bringing closer the end of the seven-year-long Syrian conflict.I couldn’t agree more; Pieraccini has nailed it!
Iran (the Persian Empire) may have invented chess; Russia has mastered that game.
The U.S. hasn’t a clue…
Pity? Maybe not……………“Russia has always wanted a “foothold in the Middle East”
One of these two countries is there illegally, as a war crime, murdering millions in a voluntary war of invasion and aggression. The other is Russia.
“The Russian Masterpiece in Syria: Everyone Wins (Pieraccini)”
It works but I wouldn’t call it a masterpiece. Making as much of bad material as you can. Also their pretending (lying) about it all these months gave them years more time to get a good arrangement than diplomats generally have. Nice that they attribute it to Russia, though. Not that we weren’t there, but it’s almost certainly more appropriate. The style and choice of not openly saying (bragging) about what’s been decided has Russia (or the “oriental”) style written all over it. Russia is where East meets West, so their ability to think both ways has long been noted.
Pieraccini’s professional take is just like mine from days ago, and I think that will be proven out, not “genocide” and “abandonment.” Hope.
“Damascus will regain control of the oil fields.”And now because they wanted it ALL, we will not build or run the hundred-billion pipeline, and make no money either. Russia will. Too bad. If you don’t want a war, don’t start one, because this is what happens when you lose, and it’s a gift it’s not a lot worse. Use that gift wisely.
“The US has been trying to covertly overthrow the Syrian regime off and on for some fifty years, periodically joined on occasion by Israel or Saudi Arabia or Iraq, or Turkey or the UK.”
Election meddling? Oh no sir, constant, open, violent attacks, murders, assassination attempts, and open wars. …But that’s okay when we do it. Now if Syria were to come here and undermine Texas by attempting to kill every leader one by one from LBJ to W., we’d be all kinds of mad. Bite me. Thankfully, the U.N. has been there to hold the line by rolling over and completely vacating the field, approving of every act of overt war we and those other four countries have committed for half a century. Israel’s still bombing them today. Clear article by Fuller though. No bones.
“Schiff Pushed Volker to Say Ukraine Felt Pressure from Trump (WE)”Is that witness tampering, like he did when he pre-arranged testimony from the (non)whistleblower? Well, probably not, and there is far more damaging evidence against Mr. Schiff elsewhere.
“One Person Is Missing in The Dems’ Impeachment Inquiry: The Whistleblower (R.)”
Pretty typical. The one person they DON’T have is the one person who knows anything. Or in theory. Really when you release no evidence of 3rd hand hearsay, he doesn’t know anything either: the transcript does. So we’re going to do the same for Assange, right? He doesn’t have to show up, can stay hidden at his condo, collecting his pension, and ordering Thai food from Uber and cavort with Senators under FBI protection? No?
…Btw, they say he’s hidden because he was receiving ‘death threats.” Can anyone tell me how? No one knows who he is, so do the assailants email his lawyer, “Ima gonna get you sucker?” And in which case, why are these not being followed up by FBI or D.C. police, and the people arrested? A: because it’s all made up for the cameras, like the rest of his case.
“Of course, the effort to “protect” the “whistleblower” has been a juke all along. For one thing, he-she-it is not a “whistleblower” at all; was only labeled that via legalistic legerdemain to avoid revealing the origin of this affair as a CIA cover-your-ass operation.”
By a standing employee, who was in Ukraine with Biden, and while on company time.
“why is the FBI sitting on those phones?”
Nothing of the “Brady”, i.e. exculpatory evidence was released, in total contradiction of 230 years of Federal law. But it’s the FBI, so OF. COURSE. they lied and framed everyone they meet! What do you think they DO over there in J. Edgar’s department? But this is also staged. Guarantee executive insiders, prob NSA know all that has gone on there and ‘leak’ these things they know/shouldn’t know to Flynn and the press on demand. That’s because if they just SAID SO and told the truth (and they’ve tried) it would refuse to be reported. So they’re forced to “release” only a “scoop” that reporters are too dumb to understand the implications of. Recently with the twist that they pretend it’s Trump’s faux first.
Another option: Barr got the phones from Italy when he visited the other day. Italy has Mifsud on tap, because he’s a longstanding FBI/CIA asset. Oh, and therefore NOT a Russian spy, duh. Just like the OTHER longstanding FBI informant, Carter Page. So let me get this straight: you’ve had Page on payroll for years, have background checks way back, and he’s been in the public eye since then, and you suddenly got a FISA warrant because you supposed YOUR OWN employee/informant was now somehow a Russian agent? Fire yourself if that’s true. Or you can arrest yourselves if it’s false and you just used him to get a warrantless wiretap on an opposition candidate during a national election.
Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. But today’s fake is pretending they didn’t already know all about Mifsud’s phones. Admiral Rogers had told them all about it by December ’16.
“she went and called them despicable to their faces”
Ah, she’s too easy on them. “the obligatory David Duke reference” A classic! Used on Ron Paul and anyone else they haven’t developed a fake story for yet. Really, they have no imagination, and do the same thing over and over like robots. Or minions.
“Assange Subjected To Torture & Violations Of Due Process Rights – UN Envoy (RT)”
It’s not torture: it’s a “British Holiday” where a foreign citizen is held in maximum security, solitary confinement, on the basis of no present charges on behalf of the 3rd country that is breaking its own federal laws until he dies. See? Not torture at all. Ask the Guilford Four.
Speaking of movies, the other sick boy:
This is one of my favorites:
Schumer said, “Is your plan to rely on the Syrians and the Turks?”
Trump: “Our plan is to keep the American people safe”
Pelosi: “That’s not a plan. That’s a goal.”
http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/10/third-grade-politicians.html
Professor Anthony Hall has a lot of insight gained from his attendance at the New Horizon Conference in Lebanon. The Yemeni victories within Saudi Arabia have been particularly hushed up in the west, as has the weakness and instability of the ruling Saudi royal clan.
In recent years the Saudi assault on Yemen has been widely recognized as the basis of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The invasion has directly affected about 80% of Yemen’s 24 million people where starvation in running rife. As a high-level UNICEF official put it, “Yemen has become today a living hell for children…. with 400,000 children suffering acute malnutrition.”
Those engaged in the Yemeni resistance to Saudi Arabia’s assault on their country began in the summer of 2019 to demonstrate increasingly sophisticated forms of self-defense especially through the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles including drones. In mid-September this strategy of targeting Saudi installations in the cause of undermining the strength of the imperial predator extended to hitting oil-producing and oil-refining installations of the Saudi corporate giant, Aramco.
As the New Horizon delegates learned in Beirut, the Yemeni resistance forces followed up this action in late September by capturing about 2,000 Saudi officers and their mercenary soldiers who hail from many locations including Sudan, Pakistan, and Iraq. The Yemeni resistance also captured hundreds of Saudi military vehicles including some light armored vehicles made in Ontario by a Canadian-based unit of General Dynamics.
The turnaround in the military balance of power in the Arabian Peninsula in September of 2019 has many global implications. There is no doubt this turnaround is a game-changer with many far-reaching implications. The Yemeni resistance demonstrates that the world’s biggest importer of armaments emanating mostly from the United States cannot repel a concerted attack on the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces within Saudi territory. The attack comes from highly-skilled fighting units hailing mostly from one of the poorest and most aggressively assaulted countries in the world.
In 1945 Saudi Arabia was effectively taken over by the United States and its oil and gas sector. The USA claimed the lion’s share of Arabia’s fossil fuel wealth as one of the main fruits of victory for intervening to help shift the balance of power towards the allies in the Second World War. The family of Ibn Saud was entrusted to play the role of custodian of the massive Saudi oil fields largely on behalf of the emerging US superpower with its imperial headquarters in the Pentagon.
https://ahtribune.com/world/3564-iran-biggest-exporter-of-terrorism.htmlCongresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was again, most-Googled during the Democratic debates Tuesday.
Why does that always happen? White suit?
Here is 6 minutes of Tulsi.
https://971talk.radio.com/blogs/marc-cox-morning-show/tulsi-gabbard-democratic-debate-highlightsPepe Escobar, who was also at that New Horizon conference in Beirut with Professor James (lead article) has a complimentary update on Syria, discord in US politics, and the Iraqi rumor that the snipers were US/Israeli actors.
In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused...
What’s happening is a quadruple win. The US performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell as avoiding a conflict with NATO alley Turkey. Turkey has the guarantee – by the Russians – that the Syrian Army will be in control of the Turkish-Syrian border. Russia prevents a war escalation and keeps the Russia-Iran-Turkey peace process alive. And Syria will eventually regain control of its oilfields and the entire northeast.
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/10/article/kurds-face-stark-options-after-us-pullback/I don’t have very much to say. Others have said it before me and much better than I could.
Distraction
Read something that is true.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/10/economic-decay-leads-to-social-and.htmlIf we want to make real progress, we have to properly diagnose the structural sources of the rot that is spreading quickly into every nook and cranny of the society and culture.
Automatic Earth: “The secrets get spilled.”
Mick Mulvaney: “We do that all the time with foreign policy,”
Mick Mulvaney admitted on Thursday that President Donald Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine’s help in the U.S. election.
Automatic Earth: ” One Person Is Missing In The Dems’ Impeachment Inquiry: The Whistleblower.”
Mick Mulvaney: See the previous statement above.
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