Tuesday, September 2, 2014
US Troops Are Heading To Ukraine
While only 'humanitarian adviser' boots on the ground are present in Iraq (and Syria), Reuters reports that preparations are under way near Ukraine's western border for a joint military exercise this month with more than 1,000 troops from the United States and its allies. As Obama told reporters last week, "that a military solution to this problem is not going to be forthcoming," it seems a little odd 'strategically' to go ahead with the Rapid Trident exercise Sept. 16-26 as a sign of the commitment of NATO states to support non-NATO member Ukraine, entailing the first significant deployment of U.S. and other personnel to Ukraine since the crisis erupted.
As fighting between the army and Russian-backed rebels rages in eastern Ukraine, preparations are under way near its western border for a joint military exercise this month with more than 1,000 troops from the United States and its allies.The decision to go ahead with the Rapid Trident exercise Sept. 16-26 is seen as a sign of the commitment of NATO states to support non-NATO member Ukraine while stopping well short of military intervention in the conflict...."At the moment, we are still planning for (the exercise) to go ahead," U.S. Navy Captain Gregory Hicks, spokesman for the U.S. Army's European Command said on Tuesday....But Rapid Trident will entail the first significant deployment of U.S. and other personnel to Ukraine since the crisis erupted...."It is very important to understand that a military solution to this problem is not going to be forthcoming," Obama told reporters at the White House last week....The United States European Command (EUCOM) says the exercise this month will involve about 200 U.S. personnel as well as 1,100 others from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Britain, Canada, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania and Spain.Focused on peacekeeping, it will include command post drills, patrolling and dealing with improvised explosive devices.
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Sounds like de-escalation to us... buy moar stocks.
Sounds like de-escalation to us... buy moar stocks.
Credit to Zero Hedge
FACEBOOK CAUGHT SUPPRESSING NEWS STORIES
Intellectual Takeout posted an excerpt from a fascinating article by James E. Miller at Takimag, sardonically titled: “Facebook is Not Watching You.”
Miller says social media, in particular Facebook, is altering our concept of the news.
Referencing an article from the Washington Post, Miller writes: “Facebook is using its algorithm to control the flow of news. While social media platforms like Twitter are broadcasting information in real time, Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild is filtering ‘upsetting’ content – including the rash of violence in Ferguson. Think of it as a trigger warning to protect delicate sensibilities. Or more accurately: information suppression.”
Surprised? Now we learn that Facebook is manipulating the newsfeed via a new marketing ploy to disrupt how stories are spread. Instead, FB is boosting positive stories while suppressing negative content.
Miller writes that in a national crisis, the Internet serves as a community bulletin board: “Regarding Michael Brown, millions of opinions on the [#Ferguson] teenager’s death are popping up on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. In all this proselytizing, armchair commentators are discovering something new: not all social networks are playing along.”
It’s a fascinating read. Especially if you’re a Facebook user, in which case, it’s a “must read.”
Fun photo tricks with your smart phone!
How do you snap a photo underwater with your smartphone? Create a panorama sequence? Create a zoom lens? Create a macro lens?
Photographer Lorenz Holder demonstrates seven creative photography tips and tricks using an iPhone 5S! You’ll be among more than two million who have viewed this video.
Facebook page of the week
Together We Served: “TogetherWeServed.com is the largest military only network for active duty and veteran US military servicemen and women to reconnect and record a legacy of their military service. Commencing with the launch of its US Marines website on the Marine Corps Birthday in 2003, Togetherwerserved.com has produced a series of US Military heritage websites for each of the 5 major service branches – US Marine Corps, US Navy, US Air Force, US Army and US Coast Guard – and has over 1.3 Members.” – From the “about” section.
While you’re on this page, be sure to read “A Sailor’s Dying Wish”. If it doesn’t move you, I don’t know what will.
Blog of the week
My choice for this week’s pick has been around a while. The American Digest by Gerard Vanderleun debuted on the Internet in June 2003 with the inaugural post, “Do You Want Fries with That?”
Vanderleun is a popular blogger on the conservative side of things, imparting words of dry wit, wisdom, humor, and a kaleidoscope of topics. He’s generous with links too. American Digest is chock full, directing traffic to other blogs that Vanderleun finds interesting.
The only thing we could find about him on his site was this: “Coming Soon: 100 Facts About Gerard Van der Leun. A breathless world awaits. March, 2006.”
But now, the world no longer waits. Vanderleun’s impressive profile is here.
Last Saturday he posted a brief, headlined “The Medium Is the Message”: “When you move your home, the most important tool turns out to be a twenty dollar bill. Lots of them. Collecting a stack from the bank yesterday, this one turned up.”
“What’s in your wallet?” he asks.
Funny he would ask. I recently found this in my wallet.
Check out American Digest. You’ll like it.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Find the best ice cream shops in your state on this interactive map assembled as a result of thousands of PBS fans who nominated their favorite ice cream shops in America.
Lest you think the cold and creamy treat is bad for you, here are some reasons why it is healthy!
- Bone-strengthening calcium (10 percent daily recommended value in ½ cup)
- Vitamins D, A, B12 and K
- Protein (10 percent daily recommended value in ½ cup)
- Low glycemic index (meaning that there is less chance you’ll have blood sugar spikes and drops associated with most carbohydrates.)
If you must indulge, the healthiest ice creams are Haagen-Dazs Mango Fat Free Sorbet; Ben & Jerry’s Black Raspberry Swirl Low Fat Frozen Yogurt; Ben & Jerry’s Strawberry Ice Cream; Baskins-Robbins Light Aloha Brownie Ice Cream; and Haagen-Dazs Cranberry Blueberry Fat Free Sorbet.
Amounts are given in half-cup measures. Now you tell me, can you be satisfied with a measly half cup of ice cream? That’s equal to a scoop the size of one of Obama’s golf balls!
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/facebook-caught-suppressing-news-stories/#BQc4MvSEYP5LjKJ1.99
History Repeats As Another US President Ignores Multiple and Credible Terrorist Attack Warnings
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ISIS, nor any other foreign terrorist group poses no specific threat to the United States in the immediate future. The FBI, in a report released on August 13, 2014, echoed the same sentiment despite the fact that last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting were both carried out by radical Muslim extremists.
The British Are Telling a Different Story
Despite the fact that the American intelligence agencies believe there are no foreign terror threats to the United States, theBBC is reporting that the UK, operating off of the same intelligence information as the DHS and the FBI, has led British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to state that the UK government raised its terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe”.
Judicial Watch Warns of Imminent ISIS Terrorist Attack in the US
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton , is stating that his organization has credible information which strongly suggests that the terror group ISIS is planning to launch terrorist attacks in the United States. Specifically, Judicial Watch sources have issued a dire warning that ISIS, is now confirmed to now be operating in Juarez, located across the Mexican border from El Paso, TX. The Judicial Watch warning states that a planned ISIS attack on the southern border of the United States is imminent and will include the use of car bombs and IED’s.
The Texas Department of Safety Issues Warning of an Imminent ISIS Terror Attack
FOX News is reporting that according to a law enforcement bulletin issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety, stated that social media chatter indicates that ISIS is very “aware” of the porous U.S.-Mexico border and are “expressing an interest” in crossing into the United states and carrying out terrorist attacks inside of the United States.
Saudi King Warns of ISIS Attack Directed Against Europe and the US
Saudi King Abdullah specifically warned U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry about a planned ISIS attack upon the United States and Europe.
“If neglected, I am certain that after a month they (ISIS) will reach Europe and, after another month, America”.Recently Fired DIA Chief Speaks Out Against Obama’s Flawed Terrorist Policies
Recently fired Defense Intelligence chief, General Michael Flynn.Recently fired Defense Intelligence chief, General Michael Flynn, has paid for outspokenness against the Obama’s administration impotent and nearly non-existent strategy to deal with terrorist attack threats upon the United States. And another General, serving under Obama, bites the dust.
An Ex-CIA Operative Warns of An Imminent Terrorist Threat in the U.S.
Earlier this summer I interviewed former CIA operative, Dr. Jim Garrow, about a planned attack upon multiple shopping malls inside of the United States which will be similar in scope to what happened in Nairobi. In fact, Dr. Garrow stated that Nairobi was merely the beta test for what’s coming to shopping malls inside the United States. Garrow stated that what is going to happen here, will dwarf the Nairobi event.
Since Dr. Garrow’s first revelation about the coming series of terrorist actions, more information is coming to light regarding the operation. The end game is martial law with, as we have suspected, with the UN in charge. The facts surrounding the Garrow revelation speak to the fact that Russian and Chinese soldiers will likely be used in any martial law scenario. Below, is the link to the one hour Dr. Jim Garrow interview.The following linked interview, with Dr. Garrow, commences 6 minutes into the recording listed here: Listen to Hour 2.
Dr. Garrow is my guest this evening on my talk show at 9pm Central.
Conclusion
Is history going to repeat itself?
There are 28 mainstream media accounts of how President Bush had multiple and repeated advance warnings regarding the terror attacks on 9/11. Yet, President Bush did not take one precaution and the CIA and the FBI, also aware of these reports, subsequently stood down as well.
If 100 people tell you that you are drunk, you better sit down. In the same light, while the present ISIS threat, being warned about in several credible circles, is being ignored just as the multiple warnings were ignored regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is very difficult to not conclude that a very serious and tragic false flag attack is coming and that this administration is woefully incompetent or complicit in what appears to be coming.
We should all be asking and demanding answers while we still have voices to raise.
Credit to common Sense
U.S. ARMY PLANS TO BATTLE ANTI-GOVERNMENT DISSIDENTS IN “MEGACITIES”
The U.S. Army is preparing to fight political dissidents who challenge the power of the state as “megacities” become the battleground of the future, according to a new report in the Army Times.
The article details how the Army’s Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) worked with US Army Special Operations Command, the chief of staff’s Strategic Studies Group and the UK’s Ministry of Defence earlier this year to wargame the future of armed combat, which will revolve around the neutralization of groups “who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state,” a chillingly vague description which could easily be applied to political dissidents.
The plan foresees an unprecedented realignment of U.S. military strategy focused around putting “boots on the ground” in megacities to deal with “politically dispossessed” populations while relying on “more lethal and more autonomous” methods.
“It is inevitable that at some point the United States Army will be asked to operate in a megacity and currently the Army is ill-prepared to do so,” asserted a report by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno’s Strategic Studies Group, while Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster warned that the Army will increasingly have to expand its presence to battle an enemy which operates in “other contested spaces like organized crime and politics.”
The report also notes how the Army will utilize directed energy weapons which “would allow U.S. to have direct-fire capabilities with significant logistics reduction, and to counter enemy long-range missile capability.”
The article also cites a recent report by the Australian Army which identifies the fact that “these cities represent the battlefields of the future.”
Confirmation that the U.S. Army is preparing to fight disaffected groups and individuals who attempt to ‘undermine the authority of the state’, which could apply to a whole host of perfectly legal political activities, is particularly concerning given the recent militarized police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
A 2012 study by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland which was funded by the Department of Homeland Security lists Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty” and “suspicious of centralized federal authority” alongside violent terrorist groups.
Will citizens who ‘undermine the authority of the state’ by espousing these beliefs also be a future target for the U.S. Army under this new doctrine?
Earlier this year we also highlighted how the U.S. Army built a 300 acre ‘fake city’ in Virginia complete with a sports stadium, bank, school, and an underground subway in order to train for unspecified future combat scenarios. The city included a Christian chapel and subway signs in English, suggesting it was intended to double as a domestic town in addition to an overseas location.
The Army Times report is also disconcerting in light of a recently uncovered U.S. Army training documentwhich detailed preparations for “full scale riots” within the United States during which troops may be forced to engage in a “lethal response” to deal with crowds of demonstrators.
As with previous examples, the manual made it clear that such operations were being planned not just for foreign occupations but for inside the “continental United States (CONUS)” in the event of “unruly and violent crowds” where it is “necessary to quell riots and restore public order.”
The document also describes the deployment of a “lethal response” directed against “unarmed civilians,” including “sniper response” and “small arms direct fire,” while making reference to domestic political upheavals such as the 1999 demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle.
While the U.S. border remains wide open amidst reports of ISIS insurgents planning attacks, the fact that the security apparatus of the United States is more concerned with taking on political dissidents inside megacities is likely to prompt fresh outrage.
Credit to Infowars
Muslims Take Man For Not Observing Ramadan, And Crucify Him For Three Days
By Theodore Shoebat
A young boy named Muhammad in Iraq was forcefully seized from his parents to join their child army. ISIS also forced him and other young men to watch crucifixions, beheadings, stonings, and other executions. In one horrific setting, a young man was taken for not observing Ramadan, and they crucified him for three days. As the young man witnessed:
We saw a young man who did not fast for Ramadan, so they crucified him for three days, and we saw a woman being stoned [to death] because she committed adultery.
The young boy said that ISIS went into their mosque as they were studying Islam and recruited them. The boy’s father did not permit him, but ISIS agents told him that if he did not allow them to take the boy, that they would cut his head off. Their words were:
if you prevent Mohammed from coming to the camp, we will cut off your head,
The boy explained his cruel training experience:
For 30 days we woke up and jogged, had breakfast, then learned the Quran and the hadith of the prophet… Then we took courses on weapons, Kalashnikovs and other light military stuff. … They used to bring young [kids] to the camp to lash them,” Mohammed says. “When we go to the mosque, they order us to come the next day at a specific time and place to [watch] heads cut off, lashings or stonings.
Muhammad’s father further explained his worries:
He is only a child, they might make him a suicide bomber and [convince him] that will be in paradise and stuff like that How can a child like that be convinced? Where is the conviction in that? He is a child, it’s not possible… He just saw his friends and kids his age went to the camp, so he wanted to go with them for entertainment. They thought war and guns were entertainment.
Remember the story of this crucifixion the next time the president hosts a “Ramadan dinner” in the WhiteHouse.
Credit to Walid Shoebat
What It's All About: Russia, China Begin Construction Of World's Largest Gas Pipeline
If after months of Eurasian axis formation, one still hasn't realized why in the grand game over Ukraine supremacy - not to mention superpower geopolitics - Europe, and the West, has zero leverage, while Russia has all the trump cards, then today's latest development in Chinese-Russian cooperation should make it abundantly clear.
Overnight, following a grand ceremony in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia and China officially began the construction of a new gas pipeline linking the countries. The bottom line to Russia - nearly half a trillion after China's CNPC agreed to buy $400bn in gas from Russia's Gazprom back in May. In return, Russia will ship 38 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually over a period of 30 years. The 3,968 km pipeline linking gas fields in eastern Siberia to China will be the world's largest fuel network in the world.
As BBC reports, "the deal will lessen Russia's dependence on European buyers, who have imposed economic sanctions because of the crisis in Ukraine." That is not news and has been known for months ever since the long-anticipated Holy Grail deal was signed in May. More importantly, as Zero Hedge reported last week, one awaits as the invoices become increasingly less denominated in USD, and more in CNY or RUB. Most importantly, and confirming the significance of Russia's pivot away from Europe, which ultimately can have Qatar's gas it so very desires, irrelevant how many thousands of innocent people have to die, the construction ceremony was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli.
China will start work on the construction of its side of the pipeline in the first half of 2015, Mr Zhang said.The first gas will be pumped from Siberia to north-east China in early 2019.Over the past 10 years, China has used other gas suppliers. Turkmenistan is now China's largest foreign gas supplier. Last year, it started importing piped natural gas from Myanmar.
Increasingly it appears that China will defer to Russia when it comes to cementing bilateral commodity deals, especially if it means further distancing both sides from what has emerged as a natural foe to both aspirational nations: the United States.
Here is what Putin had to say about the latest gas pipeline, soon to be the world's largest, during the groundbreaking ceremony outside the city of Yakutsh, via RT: "The new gas branch will significantly strengthen the economic cooperation with countries in the Asia-Pacific region and above all - our key partner China."
“Once we create a gas pipeline network here in the Far East and Siberia, we will be able to connect European pipeline system to the East. And this, in terms of export opportunities and expanding Russia’s ‘gasification’, is very beneficial. Depending on the situation in world markets, we can more effectively implement gas flows- either more to the West or to the East,” Putin told students at North-Eastern Federal University earlier on Monday.
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Both President Putin and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli signed the freshly-welded pipeline in a time-honored Russian tradition. The 'Power of Siberia' was welded together by workers from Chayanda gas field, overseen by CEO Aleksey Miller."Gazprom is always a reliable supplier of gas to its customers - which also applies to the ‘Power of Siberia," Miller said.The 3,968 km pipeline linking gas fields in eastern Siberia to China will be the world's largest fuel network in the world. Both Putin and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli have called the project the world’s largest construction project, as investment from both countries will be more than $70 billion.“The gas pipeline ‘Power of Siberia’ will increase energy security and ensure Russia’s ability to fulfill export obligations,” Putin said in the opening remarks.Starting in 2019, Power of Siberia will pump gas from Siberia to China’s populous northeast region as well as to Russia’s Far East. The Chinese side will start the construction of its part of the pipeline in the first half of 2015, the Vice Premier of China said.Last year, China consumed about 170 billion cubic meters of natural gas and expects to consume 420 billion cubic meters per year by 2020. Europe still remains Russia’s largest energy market, buying more than 160 billion meters of Russian natural gas in 2013.
So while the west is no longer able to find any growth opportunities, with the marginal free cash flow dollar increasingly going in stock buybacks, Russia has no such problems: running from the Chayanda gas field in the Republic of Yakutia, the cost of construction is estimated at more than $20 billion (770 billion rubles), which includes other investment in the region of $7.5 billion (283 billion rubles). Russia’s largest steel pipeline manufacturer, TMK, will provide materials for the project.
The gas pipeline will become a common transit center for gas production centers in the Yakutia and Irkutsk regions.The first stage of the project will be to transport gas from the Chayanda deposit in Yakutia and connect to the town of Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border. The 968 km pipeline should be completed by 2018.The Chayanda field, which will begin production in 2015, is estimated to have reserves of 1.2 trillion cubic meters in gas and 93 million tons of liquid hydrocarbons. Each year the field is expected to produce up to 25 billion cubic meters of gas and at least 1.5 million tons of oil.Putin also said that China can become a shareholder in the Vankor oil and gas fields in the Krasnoyarsk region in Eastern Siberia. China will enter into a strategic relationship with Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, which owns the field.
But, Obama keeps repeating Russia is isolated by the entire world... Is he once again simply, gasp, lying?
To summarize all of the above: while Europe will continue to depend on Russia for its gas imports indefinitely, Russia will no longer depend on Europe for its experts.
Finally, a video of today's festivities if only for Russia, not so much the countries which are "isolating" it...
Credit to Zero Hedge
US SLOUCHES TOWARD SYRIA, AGAIN…
Mobilization seems to have begun for a long-term US intervention
The Americans have a habit of first naming their imminent war before the troops march out and it will be interesting to see how this one is going to be christened. There seems some ambiguity about the war ahead in Iraq and Syria – what it is really going to be as it gathers momentum. That probably explains the shyness in naming it.
What began as “humanitarian intervention” in Iraq has since spread from Kurdistan to Baghdad to Anbar and in the past forty-eight hours or so reached Syria with the US president having given approval for sustained air reconnaissance missions in its airspace.
So far, the US’s intervention in Iraq has been episodic but it produced some gains. These gains have been far from consolidated or irreversible, but are important enough. Humanitarian aid has apparently reached the beleaguered Yazidi community on Mount Sinjar and some areas lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Lebanon [ISIL] in northern Iraq – Gwer, Makhmour and the Mosul Dam – have been retaken by the Kurdish forces with the help of US air strikes. An ISIL advance toward the Kurdish capital of Erbil has been stalled for the present.
However, there are widely-shared misgivings too that the ISIL might have been bruised but is far from defeated and the spectre of a quasi-state run by a terrorist entity with worldwide networking is presented as the challenge facing the US. The American pundits are quibbling over the efficacy of a “containment” strategy toward the ISIL, but most experts agree that there is no alternative to defeating the network by eliminating its sanctuaries.
Having said that, the challenge is not merely a military one because also that the ISIL banks on key power centres within Iraq – tribes, former Baath military officers, disaffected Sunnis – and in the region and is estimated to have a daily “income” of over $1 million and has a huge stockpile of weapons and considerable financial wherewithal. But the debates view this as a peripheral issue and the focus is on the military part.
Suffice to say, the mobilization seems to have begun for a long-term US intervention. The reports suggest that similar to the scale of effort in the first Gulf War, the US is already moving toward mobilizing a coalition of donors to support its intervention financially. It is entirely conceivable that an international conference may take place in a near future after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s summit in Wales on September 4 gets over to bring together the potential donors who would finance the US-led war and to constitute a “contact group.”
By now, it is clear that the theatre of the US intervention is not going to be Iraq alone. Senior American officials have begun briefing the media about the possibility of US intervention in Syria. How the Syrian chapter is going to develop has not been spelled out in detail, but what stands out is that there is open talk by American experts about increasing the support for the Syrian opposition ostensibly with a view to putting pressure on the ISIL from the western flanks. How this pans out remains unclear. The point is, the proposed intervention in Syria is also being cast in political terms.
As a leading figure in the US strategic community on Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad (former US ambassador to Baghdad) wrote last week in the National Interest magazine, “Even if progress is made in Iraq, the ISIL threat will persist in the absence of a settlement in Syria. As in Iraq, the most feasible formula for resolving the crisis in Syria is a unity government with power sharing at the center between the [Bashar al-] Assad government, moderate Sunnis, and Kurds and other groups, and devolution of authority to regions and provinces, perhaps organized on an ethnic and sectarian basis.”
Significantly, Khalilzad, who is closely identified with the neoconservative platform in the American foreign-policy discourses, also argued that “increased support for the national Syrian opposition and timely military strikes against ISIL targets in Syria are necessary both to put pressure on ISIL across all the territory it controls and to lay the ground work for a political settlement.
This is where the catch lies. First of all, all the American attention so far has been on demonizing the ISIL (rightly so) with a view to etching the “enemy” in stark terms. Taking note of the perceptible shift (following the horrific killing of photojournalist Jim Foley) in the domestic public attitudes toward US involvement in the Middle East’s conflicts, a strong case is now being made for long-term US intervention in Iraq and Syria. But no one speaks about international law or the need to associate the United Nations.
Syria has forewarned that while it is willing to collaborate with any party in any effort to vanquish the ISIL, it is also conscious of the bottom line that all foreign powers should respect Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity under the principles and norms of international law. To quote Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, “Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate on the regional and international level in the war on terror. But any effort to combat terrorism should be coordinated with the Syrian government.”
He then went on to say, “Any strike which isn’t coordinated with the government [in Damascus] will be considered as aggression.” Al-Moallem said air strikes alone won’t suffice for eliminating the ISIL; effort is also needed for “drying up” their resources, including cutting off funding and arming by regional state entities and private donors, as well as controlling the borders and exchange of intelligence information.
Plainly put, Al-Moallem has demanded that the US should also discipline its key regional allies such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Qatar, which it now proposes to include as partners in the upcoming ‘war on terror’ against the ISIL. True, sincerity of purpose will otherwise be lacking in the US’ interventionist strategy. After all, the ISIL monster, which poses the newest threat to Western security, didn’t just arise out of the earth. The ISIL needed the money, weapons, logistics, propaganda facilities and regional and international connections to reach where they are now in Syria and Iraq. And there cannot be any running away from the bitter truth that the ISIL got them all free of charge from the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other oil-rich Gulf countries.
The US’ regional allies were in a de facto alliance with the extremist groups affiliated with the ISIL in a master plan with the principal objective of forcing “regime change” in Syria. There is deep irony here that Qatar used its good offices just this week to engineer the release of an American freelance journalist who was being held by a jihadist group in Syria. Quite obviously the nexus between the Syrian jihadists groups and the Gulf Arab petrodollar states such as Qatar is very much continuing. And now, despite all that, to associate and co-opt these very same “regional allies” today in the upcoming Syria project as key partners raises suspicions about the real American intentions.
At least 200,000 Syrian people have been killed, 2.5 million Syrians have been turned into refugees, and over 6.5 million Syrians have been displaced in the carnage in Syria so far. Isn’t that enough? Surely, some of that blood at least must be on Obama’s hands?
Credit to Infowars
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