(Cont).... These historic fault lines inside Islam which lay dormant, were brought into a state of open warfare with the launching of the US State Department and CIA’s Islamic Holy War, otherwise known as the Arab Spring. Washington neo-conservatives embedded inside the Obama Administration in a form of “Deep State” secret network, and their allied media such as the Washington Post, advocated US covert backing of a pet CIA project known as the Muslim Brotherhood. As I detail in my most recent book, Amerikas’ Heiliger Krieg, the CIA had cultivated ties to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood death cult since the early 1950’s. Now if we map the resources of known natural gas reserves in the entire Persian Gulf region, the motives of the Saudi-led Qatar and UAE in financing with billions of dollars the opposition to Assad, including the Sunni ISIS, becomes clearer. Natural gas has become the favored “clean energy” source for the 21st Century and the EU is the world’s largest growth market for gas, a major reason Washington wants to break the Gazprom-EU supply dependency to weaken Russia and keep control over the EU via loyal proxies like Qatar. The world’s largest known natural gas reservoir sits in the middle of the Persian Gulf straddling part in the territorial waters of Qatar and part in Iran. The Iranian part is called North Pars. In 2006 China’s state-owned CNOOC signed an agreement with Iran to develop North Pars and build LNG infrastructure to bring the gas to China.[4] The Qatar side of the Persian Gulf, called North Field, contains the world’s third largest known natural gas reserves behind Russia and Iran. In July 2011, the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an historic gas pipeline energy agreement which went largely unnoticed in the midst of the NATO-Saudi-Qatari war to remove Assad. The pipeline, envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory. The agreement would make Syria the center of assembly and production in conjunction with the reserves of Lebanon. This is a geopolitically strategic space that geographically opens for the first time, extending from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[5] As Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar put it, “The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline – if it’s ever built – would solidify a predominantly Shi’ite axis through an economic, steel umbilical cord.”[6] Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs. Gazprom, with Assad in power, would be a major investor or operator of the new gas fields in Syria. [7] Iran ultimately plans to extend the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon’s Mediterranean port where it would be delivered to the huge EU market. Syria would buy Iranian gas along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran’s part of South Pars field.[8] Qatar, today the world’s largest exporter of LNG, largely to Asia, wants the same EU market that Iran and Syria eye. For that, they would build pipelines to the Mediterranean. Here is where getting rid of the pro-Iran Assad is essential. In 2009 Qatar approached Bashar al-Assad to propose construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar’s north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU. Assad refused, citing Syria’s long friendly relations with Russia and Gazprom. That refusal combined with the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline agreement in 2011 ignited the full-scale Saudi and Qatari assault on Assad’s power, financing al Qaeda terrorists, recruits of Jihadist fanatics willing to kill Alawite and Shi’ite “infidels” for $100 a month and a Kalishnikov. The Washington neo-conservative warhawks in and around the Obama White House, along with their allies in the right-wing Netanyahu government, were cheering from the bleachers as Syria went up in flames after spring 2011. Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture any Eurasian counter-pole to a US-controlled New World Order. In each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas pipelines—from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria to the EU via Syria—is the strategic goal. The true aim of the US and Israel backed ISIS is to give the pretext for bombing Assad’s vital grain silos and oil refineries to cripple the economy in preparation for a “Ghaddafi-”style elimination of Russia and China and Iran-ally Bashar al-Assad. In a narrow sense, as Washington neo-conservatives see it, who controls Syria could control the Middle East. And from Syria, gateway to Asia, he will hold the key to Russia House, as well as that of China via the Silk Road. Religious wars have historically been the most savage of all wars and this one is no exception, especially when trillions of dollars in oil and gas revenues are at stake. Why is the secret Kerry-Abdullah deal on Syria reached on September 11 stupid? Because the brilliant tacticians in Washington and Riyadh and Doha and to an extent in Ankara are unable to look at the interconnectedness of all the dis-order and destruction they foment, to look beyond their visions of control of the oil and gas flows as the basis of their illegitimate power. They are planting the seeds of their own destruction in the end. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130
Your post is long and full of interesting facts & figures, R67 .... and I have, no doubt, that the Globalists inside & outside of the USA/EU have sold us out for "30 Pieces of Silver" these past 50+ years but the USA/EU is still very dependent upon oil/products & necessaries of all kinds from unfriendly places. We have squandered the Military/Industrial assets we once had, failed to maintain/improve the aforementioned and will be hard pressed to protect our international supply lines. Given a decade we may have the wherewithal to pull off a Reagan like renewal ... but we are not the Nation nor do we have the personnel/$$$$ we had 35 years ago and Europe is a magnitude worse. GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
http://www.oann.com/oan-investigation-finds-no-evidence-of-chemical-weapon-attack-in-syria/ OAN Investigation Finds No Evidence Of Chemical Weapon Attack In Syria April 16, 2018 One America’s Pearson Sharp visited the war-torn town of Douma outside the capital of Damascus, looking for evidence of a chemical attack. However, residents there deny the claims of an attack, and say it was staged to help the rebels escape.
Trump: Prisoner of the War Party? By Patrick J. Buchanan “Ten days ago, President Trump was saying ‘the United States should withdraw from Syria.’ We convinced him it was necessary to stay.” Thus boasted French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday, adding, “We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term.” Is the U.S. indeed in the Syrian civil war “for the long term”? If so, who made that fateful decision for this republic? U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley confirmed Sunday there would be no drawdown of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, until three objectives were reached. We must fully defeat ISIS, ensure chemical weapons would not again be used by Bashar Assad and maintain the ability to watch Iran. Translation: Whatever Trump says, America is not coming out of Syria. We are going deeper in. Trump’s commitment to extricate us from these bankrupting and blood-soaked Middle East wars and to seek a new rapprochement with Russia is “inoperative.” The War Party that Trump routed in the primaries is capturing and crafting his foreign policy. Monday’s Wall Street Journal editorial page fairly blossomed with war plans: “The better U.S. strategy is to … turn Syria into the Ayatollah’s Vietnam. Only when Russia and Iran began to pay a larger price in Syria will they have any incentive to negotiate an end to the war or even contemplate a peace based on dividing the country into ethnic-based enclaves.” Apparently, we are to bleed Syria, Russia, Hezbollah and Iran until they cannot stand the pain and submit to subdividing Syria the way we want. But suppose that, as in our Civil War of 1861-1865, the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and the Chinese Civil War of 1945-1949, Assad and his Russian, Iranian and Shiite militia allies go all out to win and reunite the nation. Suppose they choose to fight to consolidate the victory they have won after seven years of civil war. Where do we find the troops to take back the territory our rebels lost? Or do we just bomb mercilessly? The British and French say they will back us in future attacks if chemical weapons are used, but they are not plunging into Syria. Defense Secretary James Mattis called the U.S.-British-French attack a “one-shot” deal. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appears to agree: “The rest of the Syrian war must proceed as it will.” The Journal’s op-ed page Monday was turned over to former U.S. ambassador to Syria Ryan Crocker and Brookings Institute senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon: “Next time the U.S. could up the ante, going after military command and control, political leadership, and perhaps even Assad himself. The U.S. could also pledge to take out much of his air force. Targets within Iran should not be off limits.” And when did Congress authorize U.S. acts of war against Syria, its air force or political leadership? When did Congress authorize the killing of the president of Syria whose country has not attacked us? Can the U.S. also attack Iran and kill the ayatollah without consulting Congress? Clearly, with the U.S. fighting in six countries, Commander in Chief Trump does not want any new wars, or to widen any existing wars in the Middle East. But he is being pushed into becoming a war president to advance the agenda of foreign policy elites who, almost to a man, opposed his election. We have a reluctant president being pushed into a war he does not want to fight. This is a formula for a strategic disaster not unlike Vietnam or George W. Bush’s war to strip Iraq of nonexistent WMD. The assumption of the War Party seems to be that if we launch larger and more lethal strikes in Syria, inflicting casualties on Russians, Iranians, Hezbollah and the Syrian army, they will yield to our demands. But where is the evidence for this? What reason is there to believe these forces will surrender what they have paid in blood to win? And if they choose to fight and widen the war to the larger Middle East, are we prepared for that? As for Trump’s statement Friday, “No amount of American blood and treasure can produce lasting peace in the Middle East,” the Washington Post Sunday dismissed this as “fatalistic” and “misguided.” We have a vital interest, says the Post, in preventing Iran from establishing a “land corridor” across Syria. Yet consider how Iran acquired this “land corridor.” The Shiites in 1979 overthrew a shah our CIA installed in 1953. The Shiites control Iraq because President Bush invaded and overthrew Saddam and his Sunni Baath Party, disbanded his Sunni-led army, and let the Shiite majority take control of the country. The Shiites are dominant in Lebanon because they rose up and ran out the Israelis, who invaded in 1982 to run out the PLO. How many American dead will it take to reverse this history? How long will we have to stay in the Middle East to assure the permanent hegemony of Sunni over Shiite? http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-prisoner-of-the-war-party-129140
But you don't want peace Carol. You agree with the War Party. Most of us don't understand why you are so against Russia. Why should Russia have to let go of Crimea, when for 200 years it's been part of the Russian federation? Why should we care?Unless you are a Mossad agent, your first concern should be the lives of Christians. Russia has been fighting Islamists for centuries. "It's in their back yard" - is an English term meaning Iran is Russia's neighbor. Strange you didn't get that. Are you an American?
Don, I have been watching OAN for well over a year now. I think I have watched everything that Pearson Sharp has done on Syria in the past year. This is just not convincing enough evidence to say that this never happened. Can you be 100% certain that a chemical attack did not occur in Douma on April 7th? Can you be 100% certain that Syria did not have chemical weapons or that they did not have the facilities to manufacture chemical weapons? Will we ever know the truth about this? This is another segment OAN is currently broadcasting of Pearson Sharp's investigation of the chemical attack in Syria. In this segment he interviews a Syrian comedian about what is occurring in Syria (TV-MA imo). _________________ I believe that the OCPW inspectors have still not been able to gain access to the actual site to be tested and this is the latest "battle" in this very sad saga... Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW denied access to Douma Inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are on stand by waiting to enter the area of Douma. April 20, 2018 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...opcw-denied-access-douma-180420114921148.html Russia is denying US accusations that it is trying to delay international inspectors getting to the site of a suspected gas attack in Syria. The team is still waiting for access to the area in Douma almost a week after arrival. Al Jazeera's Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports. ___________________ CBS' video of Seth Doane's investigation in Douma in the following article tells a completely different story from Pearson Sharp's investigation in Douma, only God knows... Inspectors reportedly reach alleged Syria chemical attack site April 17, 2018 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia...eapons-inspectors-to-douma-days-after-attack/ [***PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO***] View attachment 7706 02:19 Inspectors reportedly reach alleged Syria ch DAMASCUS -- A team of international inspectors entered the town near Damascus that was the scene of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state TV reported. They arrived in Douma more than a week after the U.S. government and its allies accused President Bashar al-Assad of killing his own people with poison gas in the April 7 attack. The head of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Monday that Russian and Syrian authorities had prevented his team from reaching the scene of the attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma, due to what the two countries said were "security issues" caused by U.S. and allied missile strikes over the weekend. President Donald Trump, joined by France and Britain, launched what he called "precision strikes" against alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities in response to the purported chlorine and nerve agent attack. The question now is what OPCW inspectors will find, days after Russian and Syrian forces reclaimed Douma and took control of the scene of the alleged chemical attack. As CBS News correspondent Seth Doane reports, rebel forces had held Douma almost since the start of the war in Syria, now more than seven years old, and the government's fight to take it back was fierce. Doane got the chance to see what the militants left behind as they fled just a few days ago. Syrian forces led the CBS News team into what they said was some sort of bomb factory. There were bins filled with mortars, shells laying around all over the floor, and a makeshift artillery or rocket launcher. While Russian airpower enabled Assad's forces to win the fight, the rebels used whatever they could to fire back. Civilians lived in Douma for months under bombardment from Russian and Syrian airstrikes. In many cases there was very little access to basics, including food, and as CBS News visited this week, the desperation was apparent. Throngs of desperate civilians clamored to grab bread thrown from government trucks. Doane and his team met one mother waiting for bread. She said she didn't flee the besieged suburb because she couldn't, as the rebels wouldn't allow her family to leave. Retaking Douma means the Syrian government controls the building hit in the suspected chemical attack, which sparked the U.S. coalition strikes. In that building, Doane met Nasr Hanan's, who told us his brother Hamzeh died in the attack. He showed CBS News what he said was the origin of the deadly gas: a missile on the roof of the building. The scene now has been cleaned up, and when the OPCW inspectors finally make it into Douma, Doane says they'll find that not only time has passed, but plenty of people, too. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former head of the British army's chemical weapons unit who is now a consultant on chemical and biological weapons, said Tuesday that his contacts at clinics in Douma told him doctors from the suburb had been taken in recent days into central Damascus for briefings, and not returned. De Bretton-Gordon said both chlorine and sarin gas -- the weapons the U.S. says were used in Douma on April 7 -- dissipate quickly in open air, so inspectors will likely focus on obtaining biological medical samples from the victims to try and prove or disprove the presence of those toxins. The OPCW is not tasked with assigning blame, only establishing whether chemical weapons were used, and if so, which ones. ________________ 01:15 Chemical weapons team in Syria kept from alleged attack site 2 days ago AP/NBC News https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...E65CCCC4297A0E4ECBA6E65CCCC4297A&&FORM=VRDGAR 02:38 US claims Syrian regime cleaning chemical attack site 17 hours ago Fox News http://video.foxnews.com/v/5773477941001/?#sp=show-clips
Byron, Your posts get personal some times and you should have proof of what you say or don't say it at all. I do want peace and I am not for the war party. I am an agent for Jesus Christ, I am a member of the Catholic Church. If these debates are just about winning an argument then I will be praying for you even more. My question about "Russia's yard" was meant to question what do they have the right to do in their "yard", do they control everything in their "yard"? Do they get a free pass for any lives that are lost in their "yard" as a result of their actions? You say that I don't want peace, I suppose you call what Russia is doing currently in both Syria and in the Ukraine* as peace. Good luck with that. Maybe you will take a MOG poll and ask everyone if they believe that Russia is spreading peace in the world and you can see how that works out. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbass [Again, Donabass is not in Crimea.]
Donbass, Carol, Donbass. And it's a region in Ukraine, that is highly pro Russian. And that is the name of the game. This is Russia's back yard they have controlled for hundreds of years. The people are not for NATO, they are for Russia. Russia controls the politics there like in Crimea. The U.S. has it's control all over our hemisphere too. If it's convenient for a pro U.S. government in Mexico, for instance, our CIA, makes sure of it. Unfortunately, it's convenient for U.S. oil to have a Maduro in Venezuela, and a communist government in Cuba is convenient for Florida's tourism. So there you have it. We are not saints either. But sending our boys to fight Russia's wars, is where Americans say NO! And spending billions to change the politics in Crimea or the Donbass region of Ukraine is immoral. That money should be spent on our own people here in America.
Byron, We already discussed some of this on another thread #76. The following is from the "Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine" completed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) page 17*, In total, from 14 April 2014 to 15 November 2017, OHCHR recorded 35,081 conflict related casualties in Ukraine among Ukrainian armed forces, civilians and members of the armed groups. This includes 10,303 people killed and 24,778 injured.33 The people of Ukraine are not in favor of Russia being there but you continue to argue in favor of Russia's intervention which began in the Spring of 2014**, A poll of the Ukrainian public, excluding Russian-annexed Crimea, was taken by the International Republican Institute from 12–25 September 2014. 89% of those polled opposed Russian intervention in Ukraine. As broken down by region, 78% of those polled from Eastern Ukraine (including Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) opposed said intervention, along with 89% in Southern Ukraine, 93% in Central Ukraine, and 99% in Western Ukraine.[640] As broken down by native language, 79% of Russian speakers and 95% of Ukrainian speakers opposed the intervention. 80% of those polled said that Ukraine should remain a unitary country..[640] You may want to peruse the OHCHR's report completed in November of 2017 and see what some of the people in the Ukraine are dealing with, *https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UAReport20th_EN.pdf “It is now worse than in 2014 because we cannot continue to bear it any longer.” - Resident of a village near the contact line. “When you do not understand anything and just sit there in the basement, every night you expect that someone may come, take you out, kill you and bury you in some forest, and then no one will ever find out where you are. That’s the only thing you can think about.” - Victim describing incommunicado detention “If you behave well, if you say what we want – you won’t be hurt. If you resist, we will send Right Sector to your house. Your boy will be crippled; your wife will be met on the way from work. We will inject you with drugs, so you will become a plant.” - Perpetrator to a victim of torture. “We will bring your daughter here and we will have sexual intercourse with her in all possible ways.” - Staff to detainee during interrogation. “We will kill you now, and we will avoid any punishment for that.” - Perpetrators to victim of human rights violations. To be clear, Byron, our opinions differ about what Russia does and I don't think I will change my perspective on Russia any time soon. **https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbass
These segments of this week's EWTN's World Over are both related to the discussions on this thread. Peace to all of you!
Yes, I agree. The only reason Putin was forced to secure Crimea was because Team Neocon under Obama violently overthrew the legitimate and duly elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who remains the legitimate President-in-exile. Poroshenko and the Kiev Junta currently occupying Kiev are illegitimate and criminal. Their ongoing war of genocide against the Donbass is unjust and evil and it makes me ill to hear Catholics and Americans support the neo-Nazi Junta currently occupying Kiev. Ordinary Ukrainians did not and do not support the Western-installed Junta that overthrew their legitimate President. If Putin marched to Kiev tomorrow to destroy the Junta and reinstall Yanukovych, he would be entirely justified in doing so.
Best not to deal with or believe in the Devil!! Russia Denies Allegations of Delaying Tactics and Evidence Tampering in Syria...(BUT) ......... Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) attempted to enter Douma to examine the chemical attack sites this week but were keptaway by security concerns, including gunfire and an angry mob appearing at one site. ... The U.S. State Department on Thursday said it has obtained “credible information” that Russian and Syrian officials are working together to deny inspectors access to Douma, buying time for the attack sites to be “sanitized” and incriminating evidence removed. ........ “This disinformation campaign (Russian/Syrian) is not just aimed at social media and the UK – it is intended to undermine the actual institutions and processes of the rules-based system, such as the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. We must do all we can at every turn to challenge this,” May said. !!! This week, the director of the largest medical relief agency working on Syria, the Union of Medical care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said that doctors who treated patients in Douma were intimidated and threatened by agents of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, including threats of violence to their families if they tell international inspectors what they have seen. “There has been a very heavy security presence on the ground ever since the attack and they have been targeting doctors and medics in a very straightforward way. Any medic who tried to leave Douma was searched so vigorously, especially for samples. At one medical point, seven casualties were taken away. The Russian military police were heavily involved. They were directing things,” said one physician. “We were receiving threats since the siege began, prior to the chemical weapons attack. When the attack took place, things became much more dangerous. They’re wiping out evidence that would prove the crime, and they are forcing doctors and residents who are witnesses to say that nothing took place,” said another medic. AFP reported on Thursday that photographs circulated by Russia and the Assad regime that purportedly showed “White Helmet” rescue volunteers faking the chemical attack in Douma were themselves fakes. The photos were taken from the set of a propaganda film supported by the Syrian culture ministry that was completed and screened over a month before the chemical attack. http://www.breitbart.com/national-s...ns-delaying-tactics-evidence-tampering-syria/
The High Point for me with the Dear Leader was when he fed his uncle , to attack dogs to eat alive. I am reading a book at the moment about the Emperor Nero. I admit he has the Dear Leader beat, but only just.
Totally illegal investigation and appointment of "special counsel": The Obama DOJ NEVER had any intelligence that Trump was working with the Russians. They started spying on him and his campaign and family anyway. It was all politics.
Also within the "Trump prophecies" of Mark Taylor, this one presented as "Energy energy" has the prediction of control of energy shifting to an outpouring of production by the U.S. (and Israel as well). And that Saudi wells are running dry; why so much cooperation with the U.S., esp. the necessity of building their arms protection. Now this report: Trump's revenge: U.S. oil floods Europe, hurting OPEC and Russia MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - As OPEC's efforts to balance the oil market bear fruit, U.S. producers are reaping the benefits - and flooding Europe with a record amount of crude. ......... Now, the relatively high prices brought about by that pact, coupled with surging U.S. output, are making it harder to sell Russian, Nigerian and other oil grades in Europe, traders said. "U.S. oil is on offer everywhere," said a trader with a Mediterranean refiner, who regularly buys Russian and Caspian Sea crude and has recently started purchasing U.S. oil. "It puts local grades under a lot of pressure." ..... U.S. oil output is expected to hit 10.7 million bpd this year, rivaling that of top producers Russia and Saudi Arabia. ..... Trade sources said U.S. flows to Europe would keep rising, with U.S. barrels increasingly finding homes in foreign refineries, often at the expense of oil from OPEC or Russia. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-revenge-u-oil-floods-europe-hurting-opec-082847496--finance.html
