Wherever there is mass murder in the Middle East, there you find the Israeli fingerprint. And it was always forever thus.
Time and time again, since 1948, Israel has demonstrated that it solves all its regional problems with violent terroristic solutions that change the political and geostrategic equation in its favor. Time and time again, there is always a major Western government that benefits from and supports this Israeli terrorism, and in the case of the recent horrific explosion at the Beirut Port, now otherwise known as ‘Beirutshima’, it is the US who greatly benefits as well as Tel Aviv.
Since 1948, the Beirut Port has long been a target marked for destruction by Israel. It has long been Israel’s wet dream to destroy this busy and industrious port, originally built by the ancient Phoenicians. This is because the Beirut Port poses the biggest trade competition to Israel’s Haifa Port, therefore a constant threat to Israel’s lucrative marine economy. Also, the Beirut Port is a well-established and crucial lifeline to Lebanon’s daily energy and sustenance needs, therefore destroying it renders the Lebanese government vulnerable and open to a practical siege of all its economic and political decision-making: a virtual colonization of political Lebanon by its more affluent enemy and neighbor. Not forgetting here also that Lebanon’s militarized resistance groups being the biggest immediate threat to the very existence of the Jewish state itself, Israel fears the port being used to transfer unchecked weapons into the hands of Palestinian resistors residing in Lebanon, as well as into the hands of various other Lebanese resistance groups at war with Israel.
Moreover, the Port of Beirut also poses the biggest geostrategic threat for the US’s eastward-bound power projection where China and its new Silk Road operation is fast creeping westwards and is attempting to land at the eastern coastal strip of the Mediterranean, right where the Beirut Port docks. The US having recently forced Israel to cancel its Haifa contact with China has somewhat dampened the Chinese advance in the eastern Mediterranean, and what remains now in the path of the US is the Beirut Port. The US must either invade it to block the Chinese geostrategic mission creep, or else destroy it.
Evidently, the US has chosen the latter option – with Israel assigned the task of accomplishing the destruction of Beirut Port. After all, for different reasons, both benefit greatly from Beirutshima.
And so very timely is this destruction of the Beirut Port as the Lebanese government has very recently been in official talks with the Chinese over their offer to vastly invest in and develop the Beirut Port: a much needed gateway port and bridge into Europe for China, which represents an absolutely intolerable equation for the US’s hegemony in Europe. The Beirut Port’s rebuilding to its previous standard of activity will be contingent on strict conditions imposed by the US and Israel on the Lebanese government, if the port is allowed to be rebuilt at all, that is. Most certainly, the US is determined not to allow the Chinese any executive, investment or managerial access to it.
Furthermore, unable to overcome the Lebanese Resistance’s muscle on the battlefield, as demonstrated again recently by Israel’s hysteria and fear of Hezbollah’s retaliation over Israel killing one of its fighters in Syria, the Israeli terrorist attack on the Port of Beirut shakes off, to a degree, Israel’s own domestic sense of cowardice and military weakness in the face of Hezbollah; while simultaneously dealing a massive blow to the currently anorexic economic belly of its Lebanon enemy.
Dear reader, this article is not concerned with the ‘whodunit’ aspect of the Beirut Port bombing – it’s a fait accompli that this is the work of Lebanon’s enemy and its agents of chaos. Yes, there was gross negligence involved on behalf of the Lebanese port authorities and some politicians, but it was not the port authorities or politicians whose fingers triggered the gigantic port explosion, it was Israel taking advantage of this neglect and corruption and setting it up for an explosive false flag op against the unarmed Lebanese citizens themselves. A typical Israeli behavior: strike at unarmed civilians when unable to strike at an enemy’s army or armed resistors. And no, Hezbollah does not have an arms depot in the port: this is a ludicrous posit that should be immediately dismissed as it falsely demotes Hezbollah’s intelligence and renders their superior weapons strategists into inferior port gangsters. There is zero reason for the Hezbollah to use the busy and exposed thoroughfare of Beirut Port for a secret weapon storage when it already has several mountains and an endless string of remote hills for safe weapons storage. Certainly, Hezbollah is present at the Beirut Port, but only for Intel gathering, not for weapon storing.
This article is not concerned with establishing whodunit and whatnot forensics gathered in slo-mo. It is already clear to all discerning minds who exactly benefits from the false flag attack on the Beirut Port. This article is concerned with the geostrategic why’s and wherefores of the terrorist attack against the Lebanon, and concerned especially with the target itself and the timing. The pertinent questions here being why the Beirut Port and why now? Therefore, let us look at the wider geostrategic meaning of this terrorist attack on Beirut. After all, such a gigantic event does not just suddenly materialize out of the blue. Such a gigantic and consequential event is never for nothing. It is not an unfortunate accident that occurred by happenstance due to neglect and gross incompetence. Indeed, it is a trigger for a larger regional and global project, in the same way that the 9/11 attack was a trigger for a larger project whose ultimate beneficiaries remain Israel and the US’s MIC.
And this larger US project has everything to do with the current US war on China, albeit presently a non-military war, but a war nevertheless, a war that the Pentagon is militarily preparing for – hence the ever increasing and breathtakingly high defense budget that Congress has been allocating to the US military throughout the terms of the last three Presidents.
The US having lost Pakistan to the China sphere of influence, thus losing an attack dog bordering China, and having recently assigned Turkey as its new enforcer in the middle east, it now behooves the US to use its Mideast allies of both Turkey and Israel, two infamous terrorist states who regularly break international law with impunity: use them as spoilers and saboteurs against an advancing China and against any of Beijing’s Mideast regional allies. Beirutshima is clearly an apparent US endeavor to push-back the Chinese advance in the highly strategic eastern Mediterranean, as the US attempts to simultaneously pivot eastwards itself through secured territories wherever China is successfully backtracked by the US and its regional henchmen.
But, can this grand geostrategic plan really work for the benefit of the US? Can the US really succeed at remaining the only superpower in the world by the incessant knee-capping of China’s new Silk Road project?
This is yet to be determined. But judging by the deep budgetary and societal crisis engulfing the US homeland, with no sign whatsoever of its deepening troubles abating, analysts doubt that the US has lungs large enough to last the whole race through with China. Here I will add that the US-China fight over the Beirut Port is not yet over. One wonders what went through the mind of the wily Chinese ambassador in Lebanon to witness the Beirut Port exploding as it shockingly did: to witness his pet project and assignment be destroyed right before his eyes and right before a signed agreement was made between him and the Lebanese government of Diab. And knowing the Chinese, they will see this as an opportunity to entrench their feet even further in Lebanon by offering both a rebuilding and a security deal to the Beirut Port, whereas the deal on the table before Beirutshima was smaller and only for expansion and renovation. And here lies the crunch: is Diab’s government brave enough to face further US and Israeli terrorism in order to align with China who is offering to save Lebanon from its current intractable financial double-crisis? I estimate that sooner or later, Diab’s mettle will be tested in this regard.
Here, I will remind readers that within our living memory, little Lebanon has actually humiliated and evicted both the US and Israel’s military forces from its territory. But can it do it politically too? I say yes, so long as Hezbollah’s sophisticated weapons remain intact, coupled with a united society that gives its PM a clear mandate to go forward with a China deal. The first condition is guaranteed, no one can touch Hezbollah’s arms. But, will the US and Israel succeed at creating another sectarian war in Lebanon after numerous failures at this these past 30 years? The 7th of August (tomorrow) is the date of the official verdict release for the assassinated Rafic Hariri case – the nation of Lebanon has anxiously waited some 15 years for it. Local analysts are predicting a finger falsely pointing at Hezbollah. If this is the case, a sectarian gunpowder keg may very well be lit. Or it may not, as Lebanon since the night of the port explosion has been under Martial Law, therefore security on the street is in the hands of the military, not in the hands of government security apparatuses and their sectarian alliances. And even though the US has its own agents inside of the Lebanese army, they are a minority who would be risking the breakdown and breakup of the Lebanese army itself – an outcome that the US desires the least because should this army breakup happen, then Hezbollah will be forced to step in so as to take over the task of securing the streets of Lebanon. And nobody wants this scenario, not even Hezbollah.
All Hezbollah cares about is spending its energy on confronting and defeating Israel.
And despite Israel’s successful terrorist attack on Beirut Port, all that Israel cares about is finding someone else to face Hezbollah on the battlfield in its place.
Thus, post Beirutshima, Israel remains hostage to Hezbollah’s missiles. And China sees added opportunities to land bigger feet and currency in a devastated Lebanon.
In Memoriam:
I personally have no doubt whatsoever that this was a deliberate attack orchestrated by Israel-USA with Israel definitely the main player
Israel's whole history and even pre-history is littered with examples of such deliberate bombings on civilians and civilian infrastructure
For example, after the creation of this Satanic, diabolic, cancerous bastard entity in 48, the supremacist European jew-cunt invaders were desperate to bring the darker sephardic Jews to their newly stolen piece of real estate. The majority were living in Iraq at the time, around 500,000, including all my family from my mother's side. After two years of trying to persuade them to emigrate to Israel they realised that literally none of the iraqi Jews wanted to go. This is because the iraqi Jews did not believe or support this diabolical Zionist project and they had been in Iraq for 2000 years living in peace and harmony with all other iraqis. So in the early 50's the Zionist cunts actually blew up a few Jewish buildings (synagogues, cafes etc) and it was blamed on militant Muslims which was one huge big fucking lie. These acts forced the hand of the local iraqi Jews to leave their homeland. On top of it, the Zionists did a deal with the iraqi government at the time that they could keep and confiscate all the property, businesses and assets of the departing Jews because the supremacist Zionist Jews wanted them to arrive in that stolen land desperate, with nothing, in order to work hard as slaves for them
All of the above is factual, documented and even fully admitted and my family were forced to leave Iraq at that time because of these unconscionable heinous acts which only these cunts are capable of
So anyone with any doubts about what these extraordinary evil fucking bastards are capable of, this is what they did to their 'own people'. This is their MO, this is what they do, and this is what they just did in Beirut
May severe justice and punishment be served as soon as possible!
Thank you for sharing your personal story, Bornajoo, and I’m sorry to hear about your family’s traumatic experience and their forced eviction from their beloved Iraqi home by israeli Ashkanazim terrorists.
It is clear to me that pre the establishment of israel, Arab jews behaved in a completely different manner than Euro jews did. Arab jews were warmer-hearted and not fixated on aggressive domination and wanton kleptomania. But, Arab jews who’ve been living in israel for some 3-4 generations have by now been completely brainwashed by israeli society and institutions into hating their Arab lineage and motherlands, brainwashed into hating both their historic christian and muslim Arab brothers and sisters. I tend to cut Arab jews more slack than european ones because they do not have the history of deception and mass murder that euro jews evidently have. They too are victims of euro jewish racism and exploitation.
That's absolutely right Taxi. They have been severely brainwashed. It all started in the 70s when Begin created the Likud party. He promised the darker untermensche Jews that he'd even things up in society as long as they supported his agenda. And support they did. And today they are the most hardcore of all Netanyahu's supporters. So it's too late for them and they all have to go with the supremacist Ashke-Nazis and good fucking riddance!
My mum's family refused the invitation. They went to Bahrain instead, from there to India where she met my dad and then came to the UK.
It's certainly the case that Israeli intelligence knew full well of the negligent storage of that huge stockpile of ammonium nitrate. All they had to do was work out how to set it off. And set it off they did for all of the exact reasons you've stated in your article. This is occams razor on steroids. The 'cui bono' points in only one direction and the benefits for them are tremendous and also match the USA's agenda and strategy
This was no accident
I'm reading just now that the Hariri verdict has been postponed to August 18th. I'm hearing from a Leb friend who's been obsessively following the case for years that this is due to two judges falling into a disagreement regarding the verdict. One judge is saying that all evidence against Hezbollah is circumstantial and not actual. He's obviously not shekeled. But the media narrative that's circulating is that the delay was done "out of respect for the victims" of Beirutshima. In that case, why did it take them two whole days after Beirutshima to make the announcement? Why leave it to the 11th hour?
Never mind. The Leb has waited for 15 years for the sham trial to conclude, it can wait another 10 days.
Is there any evidence of radioactive contamination at the blast site, Taxi?
Sure they’ve tested and there are no traces of radiation at ground zero or in nearby neighborhoods either.
I will remind you here that Nasrallah had actually on several occasions warned israel that should it use any devastating weapons against Leb civilians, then he would send missiles at Haifa’s ammonia farms and cause tens of thousands of israeli casualties as response. Not so odd then that a vindictive israel would use ammonia to kill Leb civilians. It’s jewish payback for Hezbollah’s threats. But the REAL ULTIMATE payback will be when Hezbollah and friends liberate Historic Palestine.
Thanks, Taxi. I haven't been able to verify this, but people on Twitter have been saying that Hezbollah released a statement that says they're not backing down despite the explosion in Beirut, and they promise their retaliation against israel “will be bloody” and that they're ready to “face the consequences”, implying they're not afraid to go to war with the jew squatters.
I haven't seen an official Hezb statement to that effect but one of their insider top analysts pretty much said the same thing on Leb tv last night, and said it with gusto too!
And no, the Hezb is not afraid of yellow-toothed rats!
The image I’m using to accompany the above article is called the ‘Martyrs’, and it is located in Beirut in Martyr Square.
Taxi, really nice article, I agree when we follow the rational who benefits from it, does bring US/Israel to the frontline, and it may well be them that bribed the Beirute port and people at the Leb Gov to keep the Ammonium Nitrate there…what is the best way to blow a port if not using a mighty explosive raw material that is already right there, waiting for the right time and a spark?
I also agree that China has now an outstanding opportunity to build the best Med port in all TMENA region, it is up to the Lebanese Gov to speed things up.
Elijah will also write an article soon about Lebanon, it seems he has collected intel locally and is tending to what it seems a negligence of authorities and port personnel, as soon as he releases I will copy past here.
Thank you Canthama.
Our dear Elijah is a professional journalist who works strictly by collecting facts and analyzing them methodically. He probably won’t like my article because I don’t present ‘facts of whodunit and forensics’. Believe me, three days after the fact of Beirutshima is not long enough to collect EVERYTHING on the event. His new article will present gathered facts up-to-date, but not ALL the facts will be in his new article as they’re simply not yet available, not even to the gov investigators. Rescuers are still looking for missing bodies and official Leb forensic investigators are still collecting evidence. It’s too early for anyone to have access to ALL the facts. But I’m sure what he’s collected will be illuminating nevertheless.
Sometimes in life, if one is profoundly familiar with someone’s MO, facts become just belated details. The israeli MO itself and israel’s rabid hate and hostility towards the Lebanon logically makes israelis the clear culprits. Lebanon has only one enemy in the shape of israel, and its friends would never ever cause such a devastation upon Lebanon’s civilian life. Only the jews are experts at this level of evil. The shoe already fits!
Your " America Chooses a New Mideast Policeman" article is on The Unz Review, Taxi, and not only that, it's currently one of the featured articles at the very top (center!) of their homepage!
Thanks ZiojooistanSucks. Mr. Unz emailed me a couple of days ago and asked for permission to republish my article and I gave it to him. Beirutshima made me forget all about it till you brought my attention to it last night. I am a tad wowed about it heh.
Taxi, as usual, you continue to amaze me with your knowledge and prolific writing skills. This is indeed a sad day for the denizens of Beirut as their already sad lives are further deteriorated by the cowardly mischief mongers in Israel who just won't stop at inflicting Dante's inferno on them through stealth, guile, and deception, aided and abetted by our pathetic excuse for a US government, that is definitely not of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is the assembly of demons and their henchmen across our fair land that wreaks havoc on foreign shores for the pleasure of jewish overlords.
Israel and the US government, a pox on both centers of government (nay, rule).
kind words, thank you Cloak.
Lately, whenever I think of the synagogue of satan, all I can hear in my head is ‘tick, tock, tick, tock, tick tock’… getting faster and faster.
More sources are coming forward with pictures and videos showing something hitting immediately before the explosion while just the fire was raging. Undoubtedly by Israel. The US is likely involved no matter what the generals told Trump.
If I can figure this out then Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia can figure it out. We know that the US is trying to starve the Syrian people and disintegrate Lebanon, and we know of the open policy of Israel to 'flatten' its enemies – they have been making recent overt threats against the infrastructure of Beirut.
I cannot imagine that the targets of the vile US and Israel foreign policy will just give up and surrender. Quite the opposite will happen. China, Russia, and Iran will strongly respond with aid to rebuild and feed the people. The more the US and Israel attack the more they tighten the noose around their own necks.
This may well help readers on some of the fake videos………..
https://t.co/zwCqfaXjbG
I posted the original of the dockside video at the previous article…….
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1290976525764919297
Very well written article Taxi, top marks to you. You have well earned your front page position on The Unz Review.
Mucho gracias amigo.
The narrative that a fire caused the ammonium nitrate to explode is junk. Listen to the experts that have experience with it. Someone used something that we don't yet know about. This means it was a planned attack. This means a plot, a conspiracy.
Thank you, Arius. Yes, too many inconsistencies on the Beirut Port explosion would certainly indicate this. It’s like a mini 9/11 with all the predictable coverups. And let’s not forget here that the team behind both terrorist attacks jumped right in and spread its own ‘conspiracy theories’ (vids of missiles etc) right from the getgo just to muddy up the picture for all them discerning minds out there. They think that a single genuine conspiracy theory is by far more powerful than a hundred thrown into the ring. And they’re right. Big ops like that always come with readied multiple narratives that the perps disseminate, and disseminate soon as the op is triggered.
An article well worth the readers time as the drums for a civil war in Lebanon emerge, along will some interesting images of Warehouse 12……
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8600705/Leading-Lebanese-politician-blames-Hezbollah-corrupt-government-catastrophic-explosion.html
Looking forward to Nasrallah's postponed speech, which I gather will be post the trial verdict.
Bahaa Hariri, brother of bimbo Saeid and son of assassinated Rafic is the new Saudi mouthpiece/agent in Lebanon. MbS fired Saeid and installed his competitive brother instead.
Bahaa is another Leb elitist traitor. Everything that comes out of his mouth is pure lavatorial liquid. I couldn’t go past the first two paragraphs: so many stinky lies was enough for me for one day. Fuck the dailymail! Never could stand even the sight of it when I lived in London in my youth.
Couldn't agree more about the Daily Mail Taxi
We've got 3 ultra shit newspapers here in the UK. Actually there's more but the big three pathetic arseholian ones are The Daily Mail, The Sun and the Daily Express. I advise everyone simply not to read any content whatsoever from these sad excuses for alleged journalism. These 3 are all based on populism, clickbait articles and are all totally pro Israel.
Excellent article Taxi. Do you think HZB will retaliate in kind against Haifa Port? Whilst it would certainly be justified, I doubt that the escalation that would surely follow would be desirable for any of the parties involved.
That said, it is hard to imagine where precisely the red line for The Resistance currently lies … where large numbers of innocent civilians are killed and injured, does it matter what weaponry was applied? TEP.
Thanks TEP.
You can bet your sweet dog's arse that retaliation is coming. For the murder of the Hezb fighter in Syria a couple of weeks ago, the retaliation is still coming 100% and imminently. And for Beirutshima, you'd better believe it too once the Hezb actually has sure evidence in hand to present to their compatriots. And let me here tell you that there are NO red lines for the Hezb. None! Nasrallah has been saying this for a few years now – israel heard him loud and clear, hence, israel's perpetual fear convulsions.
The jews think they're a clever-clever lot, more clever than god and the devil rolled into one. They think they can false flag away forever and no one on earth will ever know. The Hezb is about to show them some clever-clever knuckles.
All that the Beirutshima evil has done for the terrorist jews of israel is buy them a little time, enough time to change their adult diapers. Leb is in mourning right now and the Hezb are exceptionally respectful-of-the-dead and their families – they will wait for the missing victims to first be found in the rubble and out at sea (rescuers are still looking for them), the hezb will wait for the dead to be buried, they will let a short period of mourning time to pass and then… freaking war!
And of course they'll hit israel's ammonia farms – no doubt about that whatsoever. They've publicly warned tel aviv about it enough times.
I see it coming like this: the Hezb, with evidence in hand will present their proof, and five minutes later the coward jews of israel will starting packing their made-in-hell suitcases.
"Beirut is our last tent, our one and only star" – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet, writing of his refugeedom in Lebanon.
What do you make of this "Large explosion of an unknown device in Syria" that happened eight whole months ago:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9nyQR_1576254676
It looks freakishly similar to the explosion in Beirut, no?
The blast wave in the liveleak video looks very similar except the blast wave washes over buildings leaving them intact.
What that means I have no idea.
Several SAA analysts said at the time that the vapor in the air does that white cloud, in the case in Syria it was quite fast due to the limited blast potential, in certain aspect it very similar to what happened in the Beirute port, but in Beirute it was way much larger due to the amount of explosive raw materials (ammonium nitrate) and the proximity to the seafront.
You did good, Taxi. Very good. My key takeaway as to what next needs doing – you nailed it with this remark > “a united society that gives its PM a clear mandate to go forward with a China deal.” Question: does PM Hassan Diab have sufficient support to rally that mandate and make the deal? Hopefully, so.
Thank you Mike.
The current diabolical plan for the Leb is the following: keep trade borders with Syria closed, bomb the main port, and force the Leb into opening borders and forced trade with israel as this is part and parcel of the ‘Deal of the Century’ prep. This is tantamount to an actual siege as Lebanon borders Syria from two sides, the Med from a third, and israel from the forth. Even people who are not fans of Diab are already scoffing loud at such a diabolical enforcement. It won’t happen. And in the meantime, the US embassy in Beirut and its handful of Leb agents will not break Lebanon’s spine, hard as they try. There will be war with israel before ‘normalization’ with it is forced upon the Lebs. The architects of this vicious plan are smoking their own pubes if they think they can pull it off.
Taxi, that is a very interesting point on the "keeping the trade blocked", because the first reaction from many countries such as Iran, Iraq, Russia, Egypt, Syria, Qatar etc…was the hell with the trading block and they sent food, medicine etc…there is a good chance the coalition of evil just lost their "sanctions" against Lebanon after the Beirute's port event.
Iran seems to have said it is sending 100,000 barrels of fuel daily to Lebanon, maybe a boat per week or so, all for free.
Iraq Gov was also caught saying it is sending by truck, fuel to Lebanon thru Syria.
I will try to collect evidences on this since "news" are not necessary the real thing arriving in the Lebanon, but if it is indeed arriving (I am not mentioned the several cargo planes landing in Beirute's airport) but the other possible logistic ways….then the sanctions will be long gone.
Thanks buddy. Your info about Iraq sending free fuel via Syria is correct. I think Iran is sending food and meds. Russia sent massive aid a few hours after the blast. Some Gulf countries sent aid too.
The sanctions don’t apply to ‘aid’ only to trade. And like you, I fully encourage the world to just ignore the evil sanctions and make good with Lebanon and Syria and Yemen and Russia and Iraq and China and Venezuela. Just goddamn ignore the sanctions and breach them in unison. Open the floodgates of trade between neighboring and friendly nations already!
Taxi…very happy to have found your writings via UNZ.com. Thanks for shedding some much needed light from where you stand. Best wishes.
Thank you dear Ron and welcome.
Another great article Taxi. Thank you. I can imagine the glee criminal israel must now be feeling at the carnage wrought by their "false flag." But as the days pass, their joy will turn to cringing terror at the thought of the reprisal coming from Hezbollah. The zionist cowards are like a bully that suddenly realizes the poor bloke they've picked on for years has grown-up, is the meanest bad-ass warrior and martial artist on the planet, and is waiting to demolish them at the first appropriate moment. This unspeakably evil attack is the start of the war we've all known is coming. God I hope Hezbollah can assemble undeniable evidence of the identity of the diabolic zionist perps.
Thank you, Saladin. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Lest we forget, the Hezb has its own professional investigative team and they work fast and thorough. Mindful that the hezb too has its very own port Intel.
Regarding Trump calling Beirutshima "an attack" – and saying it so matter-factly. I interpret is as a solid, open and shameless warning to Hezbollah: 'don't fuck with israel – quit it with your 'retaliation' threats or else!'.
The shekeled Pentagon slammed Trump's statement saying "we don't know what he's talking about". They did this because everyone on the planet and their uncle knows who it is who hates Lebanon to this degree and will do this degree of evil to them: israel! The Pentagon basically rushed in to cover the boily jew arse.
But… too late for that.
Taxi, the way the comment from Trump was expressed tends to tell me that no threat was intended/implied. That Trump appears to now be going into hiding suggests that definitive threats to Trump's safety have surfaced. See clip below.
Do you remember a public meeting between nuttyahoo and Trump a few years back, Davos I think, with a bit of a foto session? At the end Trump got up and simply walked away refusing to shake nuttyahoo's hand. This left all simply stunned!
With Trump, its some of the oddities/little things that are in fact markers for paying attention too.
You are going to find out, in time, that Trump looks on the juden the same way he looks on the Mob….. just part of the garbage you have to deal with to get things done in NYC.
Thanks Whozhear. For sure Trump’s personal security apparatus picked up intel on a valid assassination threat and for sure Trump knows who is behind the threat and what they’re capable of.
I never saw or heard of the Trump-Netanyahoo Davos incident. Thank you for sharing it. Interesting indeed.
Whozhear, you've got it wrong. You are overreading one incident. Trump is a crypto-Jew who identifies primarily as a Jew. Once you understand that, it all falls into place. I've written about it here.
Taxi, thanks for all the sincere work you do. Any serious person has to start with cui bono. The details come later.
Sarz, I agree with you. I also think Trump is a crypto jew. He falls all over them and that filthy demon Kushner. He has black eyes. Soulless.
STUNNING !! Trump is going into hiding?…….
https://twitter.com/me_think_free/status/1291501554890047490
Holy shitoonz!
When he says “… alotta lotta rich enemies”. The mega-rich jewish mafia are probably really pissed at him for calling the Beirutshima “an attack’ and therefore indirectly exposing the evil hand of the jews. If Trump’s supporters start seeing Beirutshima as a jewish attack on civilians, they might start taking a closer look at who was behind 9/11.
You see how the evil tribe works? When they longer need you, they cannibalize you.
Hi Taxi. I wonder what Trump supporters would say if they knew he was an accessory after-the-fact to 9/11. On the evening of 9/11 he called up a local TV station to argue at length, and convincingly, that the way a light aluminium tube that is an airplane crashed into an unusually strong steel structure, there had to be bombs involved. Smart guy. Too smart. Right there he blew the official hijacker story out of the water. 9/11 was obviously on a need-to-know basis, and Trump had to be clued in. He must have been, by friends among the known perpetrators such as Giuliani and Silverstein, because a day and a half later he was being interviewed adjacent to the site by Deutsche Welle. And he had completely changed his tune. He was now singing the official song of a steel structure designed for airplane crashes brought down by a kerosene and office furniture fire—and hatred.
Trump is obviously known to all the big Jews as a Jew. His elder brother, Frederick Christ Trump Jr, joined a Jewish fraternity at Lehigh and confided to his frat brothers that despite the middle name (lots of laughs about that) Trump Sr was a German Jew. We know about it because the frat brothers mentioned it to the New York Times just after the election. The Times, after reporting this went on to say in a single unsupported sentence that of course that was not true. Jews like to have it both ways. Trump's father at a young age was one of seven gowned and hooded KKK members arrested for rioting. Yet when a NYT clipping about that incident was published Trump's opponents, despite the nastiness of the election, just let the matter drop. Trump is carrying on the Judaic tradition of heroically serving the Jewish cause by pretending to be a Christian. His elder brither, whose daughter has just written a best-seller attacking Trump, was supposed to be a nasty guy in the tradition of his father. He refused, and drank himself to death. But Donald happily took on the mantle.
Trump loves it when people refer to him as King of the Jews. He's in direct competition with Lord Rothschild, whose son Ivanka was dating. Jews were united when they did 9/11. They have been split ever since those who love money more than they love Israel pushed through the Iran deal to safeguard their money. Trump pretends to be a heritage American nationalist, but he's a National Zionist.
Remember that absurd recitation of the snake poem that Trump used to do. That was to reassure the money-first Jews that he didn't really mean it. It was satanic exultation. Trump is the snake.
Fascinating comment, thank you sarz.
I wonderful who will win out: the jews who love israel more than they love money, or the jews who love money more than they love israel.
Either way, both sides are intent on throttling humanity for eternity in the name of their cause.
Remind me again of the “snake poem”. To be sure, I don’t really follow Trump’s news past the obvious passing headline. I am disengaged from the pig sty.
Yup. It's rich jews that stay out of the light. Well…they're vampires so..
Unfortunately AND DON'T LOSE YOUR HEADS FOLKS, most Trump supporters are too dumb to figure out anything. Most people are too dumb. That would require reading and thought and investigation. Too troublesome.
NO, In advance, I do not support Biden. It's all the same side of the card. We are screwed. Biden is F'ing senile and everyone knows it. They are setting us up for a Black female President. My opinion. God Help us All.
Sarz, Excellent post. I too think Trump must be a member of the tribe. I never heard about the admission of of Trump's father being jewish. Makes sense considering the amount of business that was done in NY.
It does however make Trump not jew by blood. A Mamzer. I think that is correct. The mother must be a jew. Trump is a bastard jew. HAHAHA! A bastard he is!
UPDATE ON THE LEB INVESTIGATION OF BEIRUTSHIMA:
Four Beirut Port honchos have been ordered to surrender their passports immediately, and 16 various port managers are today being questioned.
Here I’ll say that a two-pronged investigation of Beirutshima is going on right now: one that determines who it was that kept the ammonia parked up at the port all this time and why, and the second one is to do with how the ammonia was actually ignited and whether israel’s fingerprint is present in the ignition of the explosion.
And that is the real deal…we all know the Ammonium Nitrate was there, and many Lebanese audits done recommended to get it out of the port for many years, this is well documented, so why it was not must be investigated, and my 2 cts here is that people were bribed to keep it there for when it was really needed…here the investigation can extract who paid the Port mgmt to keep the AN there.
The 2nd investigation is the key one, what triggered the 1st fire so close to the well known ammonium nitrate, and that will point right on the money on who did it.
Bribes and ports go hand in hand, like husband and wife married forever. I too immediately thought that a bribe or two are involved in why the toxic AN was not disposed of sooner.
A very interesting article on the origins of the AN……..
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/beirut-explosion-port-ammonium-nitrate-floating-bomb-russia-lebanon-a9654906.html
Sorry but I couldn’t go past the headline that stinks of Russiaphobia. I hate the freaking shekeled so-called ‘independent’ UK media – nauseating twisters of facts.
Fact is the ship was flying a Moldovan flag and it’s common knowledge that Moldova sucks israel’s cock day and night and always. Moscow has nothing to do with it.
Our dear Elijah Magnier just sent me a copy-paste of his new article:
Israel doesn't want a war with Hezbollah and Lebanon.
By Elijah J. Magnier
Since Israeli jets killed a Hezbollah operative in Damascus, the Israeli army is in a state of full alert, amassing tanks and elite forces on the borders to prevent Hezbollah from crossing into Israeli settlers' areas. Israel is sending messages in all directions, expressing its readiness for war and for hitting Lebanon if its forces come under attack. However, the behaviour of the Israeli army indicates the opposite, that it is not aiming for a general war or to attack the heart of Lebanon's infrastructure. It is indicating its intention to retaliate in a limited “hit-back” reply along the borders without hitting the entire front line. Israel is not alone in its purpose to moderate its retaliation. Iran also is unwilling to go to war or see its allies engaging a long battle when there are critical challenges ahead in the international arena, and before the end of this year.
The Israeli army is on full alert where Sayeret Maglan (a reconnaissance unit specialised in operating behind enemy lines) and the Golani Brigade were sent to the length of the 150 km borders with Lebanon. It has cleared all unnecessary personnel from around the borders and prevented military vehicles from driving on roads exposed to anti-tank guided missiles fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon. However, last week’s response – when a 19-year-old female soldier saw "something moving" in the occupied Shebaa Farms – indicates how ready it is for a limited reaction against Hezbollah. Indeed, the Israeli army bombed its fence along the borders, and only one shell reached its “target”, a house in Habbariyeh village (on the southwestern slopes of Mount Hermon near the Syrian border, northeast of Rachaya Al Foukhar) causing damage to a balcony and a bathroom.
Israel refrained from hitting Hezbollah's positions along the frontline and did not hit the heart of the defences and the "responsibility zone" that includes the line of security and attack behind the defence line. Israel kept away from Hezbollah's Special Operation Forces’ position, "al-Ridwan", the same force that fought in Syria for nine years in urban warfare and in the vast open spaces of the Syrian mountains and desert.
The Israeli response is perceived as natural behaviour and an ordinary message to Lebanon and Hezbollah. A source within the "Axis of the Resistance" said "Israel is deploying border guards and elite forces who have engaged with Hezbollah in the past because it fears a crossing into settlers’ houses. Also, Israel would like to be able to assess the size of casualties inflicted by Hezbollah the day the retaliation takes place. Therefore, all the declaration and threatening speeches are very far from indicating the readiness of Israel to go to all-out-war- a war that would force over two million Israelis into shelters."
Recent Israeli official reports indicate that the closest shelter for the 50,000 Israelis living along the Lebanese borders is 9 km away. Moreover, apparently 20% of all shelters are unfit for use, so the Israeli evacuation and protection plan in case of war is far from realistic and feasible.
Also, last Sunday, Israel shared a film showing a group of four people and claimed they were planting explosives along the fence separating the occupied Golan Heights from Quneitra, Syria. However, the film shows how one of the four collected a bag from a very short distance and moved it a few meters closer to the fence before returning in a relaxed manner from where they came from. Israel later claimed it had discovered a coloured rucksack with explosives inside, without indicating if these were ready to be used or just left behind. Sources within the "Axis of the Resistance" described this event as an "nonsensical amateurish show".
"Hezbollah had already arrested the Israeli colonel Elhanan Tennenbaum in October 2000 in an intelligence operation when he was trying to buy drugs to sell in Israel. We are aware there are Israeli officers and border guards doing business with drug dealers along with the Lebanese and the Syrian borders. What Israel showed the other day is most probably part of this kind of traffic because no one adopted or claimed responsibility for these four people. Moreover, it was obvious they had no military training, no awareness of the enemy's night vision and thermal capability and were moving with ease because they were not concerned about their security and safety. This is Israel trying to flex its muscles… against drug dealers, and claim an unfounded victory" said the source.
There is little doubt that sooner or later Hezbollah will carry out an attack against the Israeli army in retaliation for its killed militant. But Hezbollah has no intention of allowing Israel to ease the tension it is going through along the borders, expecting the hit any time. However, it is unlikely that Hezbollah will choose a big target or that it aims to create many casualties. To Hezbollah, it already means a lot to see Israel nervous and on full alert for over 11 days without firing a bullet. Without being engaged in a battle, it is exposing the Israeli army's weakness, fear and confusion. Also, and meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is living his worst nightmare domestically and is being asked to step down. And, certainly, Hezbollah is far from willing to save Netanyahu by pushing him towards war and in consequences divert the attention towards the borders.
The general situation in the Middle East doesn't indicate there is an intention by all parties to trigger a war. Israel has its domestic troubles, and Iran doesn't want to heat-up the borders at a time when it is hoping to see US President Donald Trump leaving office soon. Hezbollah prefers to avoid war and will, therefore, avoid being dragged towards a general confrontation. However, it will not hesitate to impose its own Rule of Engagement and force its deterrence onto Israel to prevent further clashes. Israel seems to wish that Hezbollah will retaliate, so as to end its humiliation and the tension on the borders. Hezbollah is certainly aiming to hit back but is far from looking at a disproportionate retaliation. Israel lives in the hope that no other member of Hezbollah would be killed any time in the future, in Lebanon or Syria, to avoid any further embarrassment.
Elijah also kindly shared this with me on the subject of Beirutshima:
The Beirut Explosion: Who is responsible?
By Elijah J. Magnier:
On Tuesday 4thof August, an explosion at the Lebanese harbour in the heart of the capital Beirut caused devastating human casualties and material destruction. Over 140 people died instantly, 80 are still missing under the rubble, and over 5000 were wounded. More than 300,000 homes were destroyed and many more were damaged. 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) (an equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT) somehow ignited and registered the largest explosion since the end of World War II. Many theories, accusing Israel or Hezbollah or the CIA, are circulating like wildfire in the Lebanese capital. Where is the truth? Cui bono?
The Rhosus, a ship flying the Moldavian flag was sailing from Georgia to Mozambique carrying (among other merchandise) 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate destined for the Fabrica de Explosives in Mozambique. This shipment was paid for by the Banco Internacional De Mozambique. It stopped in Beirut on 20/11/2013 to offload agricultural machines and was expected toload goods from Lebanon for Jordan on its way to Mozambique. An inspection concluded the ship was unfit to sail, and local Lebanese authorities effectively prevented the Rhosus from sailing. Lebanese port authorities discharged the cargo into Port Warehouse no.12 and later confiscated the cargo due to bills unpaid by the shipowner.
Ammonium Nitrate has many properties, notably as a component of explosive mixtures (Mellor, 1922; Elvers 1989, Suslick 1992). Pure AN is very stable and should meet specified quality requirements to be used in the production of industrial explosives. According to the European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association, AN is especially difficult to detonate and does indeed need a substantial stimulus for this to happen. But it must be stored in a dry, well-ventilated and sealed storage area. Moreover, any electrical installation in the storage area must be resistant to ammonia vapour.
For over six years, the 2,750 tons of AN remained in the Lebanese warehouse without any plans to relocate or re-sell it. Moreover, the storage area chosen is subject to the changing weather of the Lebanese climatic seasons, which include suffocating heat in the summer. The storage area was of metal construction with no proper ventilation.
Last year, Captain Naddaf who works at the harbour under the National Security Service, called his superior to inform him about the presence of a “dangerous cargo at warehouse no. 12.” His superior officer, General A. instructed the young officer to provide a written report and take pictures of the warehouse and the contents. The warehouse construction had a breach big enough for the passage of a man, which would facilitate entry or even theft.
How is the Lebanese harbour organised? It is controlled by a kind of local mafia composed of high ranking officers, customs directors, administrators and security officials. Each person in charge has been appointed by a political leader offering his men immunity and protection. The harbour produces immense amounts of money and bribes are the daily bread of all those who run this “show”. In the face of such corruption, it is now clear that scientific expertise about what is happening to stored AN and the conditions in which 2,750 tons of it are stored counted for little. Actually, many officers in this Port have no competence for the jobs they do and are appointed, as we have seen, by favouritism and through political connections. This is indeed the case for the Director of Customs and the Army intelligence, General S., responsible for harbour movements and contents. So, given all that, when a problem or a disaster occurs, as it did on Tuesday, it will obviously be very difficult to find those really responsible. So how did the conditions for this AN explosion arise?
On the 4th of August, at 15:00 local time, a blacksmith was asked to close the holes in the warehouse to prevent potential smuggling of the content. The blacksmith was not informed about the hazardous content of the warehouse, nor he was told to take the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of metal particles that produce fragments and can trigger fire. He was working at a distance no more than a few centimetres from the AN bags that were lying on the floor, from which a clear substance was leaking. Once the job was done, between 16:30 and 17:00, smoke was seen coming from the warehouse.
Firemen were called to deal with the potential fire. At 18:08 the first explosion was heard, followed by the second one over a minute later. After the first explosion, a fire ignited inside the warehouse. The fire generated more heat, enough for the entire stock of AN to blow up and create a vacuum (negative pressure). The pressure of the explosion caused the many casualties and devastating destruction in the city.
Who called the blacksmith and allocated the budget for his work? Was he informed of the hazard of welding next to Ammonium Nitrate? Why were the 2,750 tons of AN left for more than six years in non-regulation storage for no justifiable reason whatsoever?
The question has to be asked: “who benefits from the explosion?” The affected area belongs mainly to people who are not generally friendly to Hezbollah. Therefore, it would not have been in Israel’s interest nor in that of the US to bomb and cause so much damage to the properties and businesses of friendly parties. Destroying this part of Beirut in order to impose a “new Middle East” or a “new Lebanon” makes no sense either, because the anti-Hezbollah population is currently weaker than ever and is not in a position to confront Hezbollah. France and the US are in no better position to influence the population.
Speculation about Hezbollah storing weapons at warehouse 12 is ridiculous and unfounded- because the place was under constant surveillance by cameras controlled by the security forces themselves. Hezbollah would certainly not store weapons in an area both unfriendly and not under its own control.
Hezbollah, in fact, is currently waiting for the Special Tribunal for the assassination of the ex-Prime Minister Rafic Hariri to announce its verdict. This is how the US, to please Israel, is trying to curb Hezbollah’s influence in Lebanon- but to no avail. Indeed, the US and Israel have tried everything in their power in Syria, in Iraq and in Lebanon but failed in their attempts. The US is imposing harsh sanctions on Syria and Lebanon (preventing Gulf and European countries from assisting with the severe Lebanese financial crisis) but the outcome is the same: Hezbollah won’t submit.
The many “conspiracy theories” fail to line up with the facts of this accident. Ignorance, incompetence, favouritism and bureaucracy are the reasons for the loss of so many lives and the destruction of Beirut, a capital where people have not learned to stand together. This is a huge national tragedy. The Lebanese hold property in many foreign countries, west and east. This expresses the lack of a sense of belonging- because this is a country where elected politicians have amassed and stolen all the country’s wealth, where they hoard power, and where they pass it on to their sons.
With all due respect, Elijah’s ‘evidence’ is surface deep and common knowledge in the Leb. And allow me please dear reader to adjust some of the info in his above article, also add a couple of things:
1- There are in fact 7 ‘bosses’ operating the port, and they all take a cut of all port business. These bosses answer individually to seven political party leaders. The 7 bosses are a mixed bag of anti and pro Hezbollah.
2- UNIFEL forces are also active in the security of Beirut Port. All cargo going out and coming in are inspected by their special teams, paid for by Germany as a gift to israel and its fears of weapons getting smuggled into the Leb.
3- Beirutis are more united than Elijah estimats. He’s gauging the unity of Beirutis based on the protest trouble makers who were mostly bussed in from israel-pal Gaegae villages and the sunni-zealot Hariri pals hailing from Tripoli. Judging from how Beirutis have reacted to Beirutshima where it’s been mostly civilians clearing street debris and residents’ damaged homes, all of their own volition and unorganized, I’d say that Beirutis are much more into a ‘togetherness’ than Elijah states. Beirutis may hotly disagree with each other on some political issues, but they are most certainly loyal patriots and they all love their city equally. Stranger helping stranger and neighbor alike has been the norm in Beirut the past three days. The authentic protestors we saw on the streets of Beirut last autumn have en mass turned into rescue teams performing selfless acts. So much profound kindness has been shown by people to one another in Beirut – brings a tear to my eye.
4- I disagree with Elijah when he implies that one is unpatriotic or lacking “a sense of belonging” if one owns property in foreign nations. That aside, it’s only the minority elites who have the lifestyle he refers to – a lifestyle found among the elites of every nation on earth. I know a couple of Leb elite who would rip your eyeballs out of their sockets if you spoke offensively about ancestral village.
5- Blaming nepotism and cronyism and negligence is all very well and true, but it’s just simply not enough to cover the whole picture of Beirutshima. Elijah is too generous towards the ‘personality’ of the US and israel. I don’t know why he believes that US-isrl actually love their Leb allies. Based on their actions, I’d say the opposite is true. The US and israel hate every single Lebanese, be they an ally or not – they use their Leb allies to benefit israel (not Lebanon) till these allies become disposable. Nobody is happier about Beirutshima more than the jews and the x-tian zionists of the US.
I am in your camp Taxi with respect to the blast. When you again watch the video that looks down over the warehouse…..
https://twitter.com/allushiii_new/status/1290672503275356161?cxt=HGwWgoC88bXzsekjAAAA
……. run it at your max slow you will see the initial blast center is forward and to the left of the warehouse. You can reasonably judge the center area of the initial flash by the curvature of the top of the flash. With the initial flash you can still clearly see the warehouse.
Both videos turned up early on the 'net, they are the closest to the event that I have come across, they are spaced about 120 deg's apart and they both show the two flashes whose point of detonation are well spaced apart. The first at the seaside end of the warehouse and the second from within the warehouse and in quick succession.
Nasrallah's speech today most likely will be compelling and may well explain why Trump has gone to ground. From your comments on how the port is run I would be inclined to believe Hezbollah already has the full story.
Am looking forward to your comments on Nasrallah' speech.
Then when you watch the video that was taken dockside you will see the first flash is to the right and it is behind the crane………
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1290976525764919297
Then the second flash, and the main blast is to the left and emanates from within the warehouse………
Thanks Whozhear. Very curious what you present indeed. I worked in film-making for a couple of decades so I’m very familiar with film editing tricks etc. I’ll confess that I don’t trust any phone or camera footage 100% and 100% of the time – just sometimes. The footage that I’m more likely to pay great attention to with regards Beirutshima is the port footage that’s currently being studied by government investigators. Let’s wait and see what the gov or the hezb present us with – shouldn’t be too long now – there will be no delays or side-tracking with this investigation or with the announcement of its conclusion. Here I’ll add that I may or may not be satisfied with the gov investigation results either. I just don’t know at the moment. Really, therefore, I will only pay ultimate attention to footage presented by the Hezb – whenever this happens.
Incidentally, I’m hearing that Nasrallah will be speaking today, in a couple of hours at 5:30pm local Leb time. Presstv.com usually carry a live broadcast of his speeches with a live English interpreter thrown into the mix. I encourage readers to watch it if they can. An important speech – no doubt will be illuminating. I don’t know what presstv page it will be on, but one can search it out on their website. I will be watching it in Arabic live on Almayadeen.
Presstv.com
If Nasrallah is speaking today, then I will use the comment box to put up notice that it’s happening. Otherwise, I will write a summary of Nasrallah’s major points shortly after the speech. He usually speaks for a good hour.
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Can you please explain to the idiots like me what it is we're supposed to be seeing in the above video, because all I'm seeing is an explosion.
I'm not able to identify a "first flash" to the right and behind the crane or a "second flash, and the main blast" that is "to the left and emanates from within the warehouse".
Can you please explain the significance of these two separate flashes you can see, the first to the right and behind the crane, followed by the second flash and main blast that's to the left and emanating from within the warehouse?
Are you saying these two discrete flashes are evidence of foul play—e.g. a missile strike, a bomb detonating or digital fakery—or evidence there was no foul play, or evidence of something else entirely?
Thanks.
Thanks for the heads up on Nasrallah 17:30 broadcast, it will be most likely one of the most important live speeches ever, millions will be watching and digesting each word he speaks.
Nasrallah just started his speech. Tune in to presstv.com for live English interpretation of speech.
FROM NASRALLAH’S SPEECH TODAY:
Nasrallah’s demeanor today was funereal, somber, even subdued. He began by giving prayers to the victims of Beirutshima and condolences to their families – gave gratitude to all the thousands of good people of Beirut who immediately stepped up to assist in helping and comforting the injured, the shocked and bleeding on the streets. He thanked the emergency first-responder teams, doctors, nurses etc. Also thanked all the foreign countries who expressed sincere affection and solidarity and sent generous aid to a suffering Lebanon.
Then he talked about how it was inappropriate, insensitive and unbecoming of the opposition media (Leb and Arab – meaning saudi funded) to have launched into attacks on Hezbollah soon as the explosion happened – even before the dead were collected from the rubble – spreading misinformation and blaming Hezbollah for “having a weapons depot in the port” which caused the explosion, trying to immediately take charge of the narrative to create a hate and a blame on the Hezb, with the intent of making people believe that their sons and daughters were killed by hezbollah and their properties too were destroyed by them. He asked that all media be more responsible and accurate and sensitive to the victims in times of crisis and national emergency.
He further went on to debunk the accusation of Hezb weapons in the port. He stressed that they have nothing to do with the port, that they do not know what goes on in the port, that they have no agency nor business there – nothing. He said that the Hezb “knows more about what goes on in the port of Haifa than in Beirut Port”. He explained that the Hezb is a resistance movement with a specific task directed towards the enemy and that Beirut Port is not enemy territory for them to be concerned with, but “the Haifa port concerns us”.
This was about the only mention or reference he made about israel.
He further talked about the Beirutshima’s investigative procedure taking place, saying that the government has access to all the tools and experts needed to investigate such a highly technical investigation, and hezbollah doesn’t. He asked viewers to be patient while the investigation is taking place, and that he doesn’t believe that results will take long.
He stayed well away from the subject of israel’s involvement in the explosion – and he mentioned nothing about the retaliation for the killing of a Hezb fighter in Syria several weeks ago either. Silent on all these matters. But he did say that “some other issues regarding the port explosion will be discussed and analyzed at another time”, that “now is time only for condolences and mourning”.
He concluded with sending good wishes to the nation, and again expressed his deep sorrow at the loss of life.
Yet, interestingly, President Aon gave a press conference late lunch today where he said that he’d asked president Macron to supply Lebanon with aerial footage of the port so as to determine if “any jet or rocket were in the vicinity”.
This tells me that behind closed doors, Lebanon leaders are most certainly looking into this aspect of the explosion. Looking for indications of a terrorist attack.
I read Nasrallah’s reluctance to talk about the israel angle as him wanting to give nothing informational to the enemy. No pulse for israel to read. Nasrallah’s concern today was to focus on giving comfort to the victims and to vocally join them and the nation in mourning, instead of going into fiery rhetoric at such a delicate and sensitive time.
No doubt israel is very much on his mind, and we will hear all about what’s on his mind sooner than later.
To be honest, Nasrallah made a Statesman speech, words were well placed, gesture and each subject he was clear and precise, he said many times that would not talk about certain subject because it was not time to do so, at least in three dif times, which I took as "we know, we are aware, we will see to it, but not now", another clear demonstration of incredible maturity, balance and powerful wording, he is an expert in speeches.
Nasrallah is one of the most impressive leaders I have seen in the past 100 years, very few leaders have the leadership qualities. that Nasrallah has…he is simply amazing.
Thanks Taxi for this summary, much appreciated.
Ouch!
The Hezb also knows more about what “goes” in speeches, to ensure maximum jew psychological damage.
LOL. Nasrallah always has a fantastic quotable or two in all his speeches. A master of the quotable and the memorable.
"We know more about what goes on in the Haifa Port than we do in Beirut Port". How can anyone forget this simple and stunning statement?
Just to echo Canthama's gratitude for your succinct summary of Nasrallah's speech, perfect. TEP.
Thank you Canthama and TEP and ZiojooistanSucks.
Actually, you’ll forgive me for forgetting to share with you a very important point that Nasrallah spoke of in his speech yesterday. I haven’t had proper restful sleep since Beirutshima, and by yesterday afternoon, my brains had slowed right down and my focus was thus somewhat slack during Nasrallah’s speech.
Here it goes…
First, let me tell you that most of the damage and suffering that the explosion caused was in Lebanese Christian areas. Couple that with Leb/Saudi/jewyMSM instantly declaring Hezbollah to be the cause soon as the explosion occurred, clearly indicates that the grand diabolical plan was to explode the port, kill Christians and blame it on Hezbollah so as to start an immediate civil war at the heels of the explosion. But this attempt failed. Nasrallah in his speech yesterday, while talking about the opposition media, stated that Leb medias that went into overdrive to accuse Hezbollah in the first minutes after the explosion – a time when victims and witnesses to the explosion were still dazed and confused and the body count and material damage clearly would be substantial – that these Leb medias should be held to account by the law for attempting to cause sedition and a violent civil war. He added that these medias should be tried for treason.
And allow me to add to the above the observation that the Western MSM has ceased to publish articles on Beirutshima – they talked about it and much accused Hezbollah for the first two days then… shtump – total shtump.
Obviously, when it became clear that a Leb civil war could not be ignited by the drive of these violence-loving medias, they dropped the subject matter from their columns altogether. Another indicator of terrorist israel's hand in the mix. They also dropped the subject matter because it was becoming worrisome for israel that so much global compassion was being felt for Lebanon, and simultaneously, suspicion of israel being behind the explosion was also on the increase right across social media.
So…. SHUT IT DOWN ALREADY!
His most important duty is to keep a broad popular front ready to fight against the enemy camp and he is doing this difficult job well enough.
Not enough facts on the table yet.
What role played Saudi agents (after losing the grip on Libanese government) or French intelligence after Diab government refused new negotiations with IMF during Le Drian blackmailing visit.
Zionist camp include more then just Tel Aviv.
Live footage of the streets of Beirut 4 days after Beirutshima:
For some four days now, Beirut witnessed tens of thousands of civilians, with own brooms in hand, taking to the streets to clean up the debris caused by Beirutshima. Civilians were also knocking on doors of strangers and offering to help clear debris and damage from their house interiors and balconies.
No one asked these helpful civilians to do this. No one organized them. No one paid them. They did it out of pure human compassion and patriotism.
Beirut looks like a war zone. Seeing the extent of the damage makes me think Hez will not be anxious to begin a major conflict when the Lebanese people are in so much pain and in need of healing and re-building. On the other hand, israel might look at Lebanon as wounded prey and desire to move in for the kill by intensifying the conflict. I can envision a scenario where the Party of God takes limited revenge for the killing of their soldier, and the zionist wolves attempt a serious escalation. What do you think?
One thing I can tell you for sure, despite Beirutshima, the Hezb remains untouched: its missiles remain pointing at tel aviv and Haifa port, and the israelis remain unready for war with Hezbollah.
Neither the retaliation nor a military response for Beirutshima are off the table. It is just a question of timing. Obviously the Hezb is hyper-sensitive to the current suffering of the Lebanese, but soon enough, this sensitivity will pass and the timing for a hezbollah reaction will be germane.
Beirutshima will not go unanswered.
Btw, I do not mean to disparage wolves! noble creatures.
I agree. It is a compliment in my mind to call someone a ‘wolf’, as much as it’s become an insult in my mind to call someone ‘human’.
While the Hezb remains mum on both the retaliation and Beirutshima, israel assumes that it has won this round of the deterrence war. Historically speaking, every time israel falsely slipped into a comfort zone, Hezbollah turned around and outsmarted them with an op of its own: reminding them that tel aviv remains in their crosshairs.
I, with utter longing, can hardly wait for Hezbollah’s reaction to both events.
In the meantime, patience, patience, patience…
Thanks for taking the time out to provide us with useful info and analysis on the situation over in Lebanon, Taxi.
Imo
1. The Americans are jittery with the rise of China and Chinese "encroachment" in to the Middle east and want to stop the Lebanese from bypassing the IMF and other US proxy organisations in terms of solving their financial woes.
The Lebanese bypassing US controlled organisations and turning to China would act as a very 'dangerous' precedent.
The US wants to maintain the post- war US centric global economic order/Bretton Woods order.
2. Thanks for letting us know that the coverage of Beirutshima seems to have died down indicative of what may have been the Zio-Americans pushing the brakes on their initial plan to start a civil war in Lebanon.
It looks like a civil war is very unlikely to happen especially given many people know that is the Zio-American goal.
3. The key question in my mind is will Diab still go to China for financial aid?
a: He might say, "well the Zio-Americans did their worst, an attack on our capital and our lifeline to the outside world, our port which receives supplies from the rest of the planet and which we're dependent on….but hey, we're still standing! They gave it their best shot and we can't get lower than this. Let's go to China!"
b: Or he might say, "The situation is very volatile now, let's proceed with caution and stay away from the US deal."
That is the key question.
4. Btw, as I said on Syrper (which I think is becoming a joke, I can't even login) the French have an agenda in Lebanon and hence Macron rushed to the country and there was even a petition believe it or not calling for Lebanon to be put under French control, of course naturally arousing huge anger amongst many Lebanese.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arabic-press-review-petition-calls-french-occupation-lebanon-following-blast
The Brits also seem to be upset with France trying to flex its muscles in Lebanon as you can see in this Spectator article.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/meddling-macron-won-t-do-lebanon-any-favours
The Spectator is a known British intelligence outfit and whether this is just the Brits or indeed the 'Anglo-Americans' speaking in opposition to France trying to show its influence in Lebanon is an interesting question.
Some would interpret France's Macron going straight to Lebanon as a move by France 'Hey we're part of what goes on here too!' Maybe even an implicit 'warning/message' to the Americans not to try and start another civil war in the southern Mediterranean and triggering another refugee crisis for Europe?
Thank you, M-dude, for your kind words and astute commentary.
So far, it seems that President Aoun is braver than PM Diab. I say this because Aoun actually spelled it out that he’s looking into the ‘jet and missile’ angle, whereas Diab has so far refrained from going in that direction.
Nasrallah licked at it yesterday by mentioning the “we know more about Haifa port than we do about Beirut Port”. But no doubt, he will be openly addressing it in the near future. I believe that had Nasrallah yesterday talked about the explosion being an israeli terrorist attack on Lebanon, he would have frightened an already traumatized Lebanon population who wouldn’t have been able to handle the thought of an immediate war with israel right after the devastating port explosion.
Today, I’m sensing the Lebanon remains in a profound sorrow, but an added layer of anger is beginning to slowly rise. Let’s hope that this anger is collectively directed at the enemy and its internal agents.
the Sunni Lebanon is an objective ally of Israel & the less “patriotic” faction of the confessional kaleidoscope of the political landscape. they did all they can in Syria in the last 10 years to topple Assad & eventually finish off Hezbollah in Lebanon. they failed. now they are no match to confront Hezbollah anywhere in the Middle-East. so, the last desperate moves are: 1. ask a thermo-baric “attack” of one of “their” silos, #12, to devastate the mostly Christian East-Beirut in order to exacerbate the “propagandized” animosity of the Christian Lebanon. 2. uncapable of confronting Hezbollah themselves they are “bringing in” Jihadi fighters from Syrian Idlib via the Northern town of Tripoli for eventual battlefields on Lebanese soil.
Thank you for your clear and astute comment, dear nietzsche1510. I agree with your view except I would tamper the first sentence into the more accurate: ‘sunni followers of the Hariri/saudi project…’, as the sunnis of Lebanon are now divided pretty much equally into the Hariri camp and the Diad camp – Diab himself being a sunni.
Also, the project to move Idlib terrorists into Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli has already been kneecapped by both the Leb and Syrian armies: both protecting and securing the Leb-Syria border. Of course, attempts at transferring the headchoppers into Lebanon has not ceased, but so far, they’ve had no success.
Amazing and hysterical that Hezbollah’s various enemies keep pushing one another to the front lines to face the mighty Hezbollah. Jihadi mercenaries don’t have a chance in hell in overcoming the Hezb inside Lebanon, even if a million of them came marching into the country. This is because deadly strategic traps have already been laid for them by hezbollah in mountain ranges and inside major cities and suburbs. For Hezbollah strategists who successfully fought and defeated the Jihadis in Syria, it was never enough to just secure the borders of the homeland. The internal security configuration: a second and third line of defense against jihadi terrorists had to also be set up in case of a worst case scenario.
The massive deal that China signed with Iran several weeks ago has practically arrested the negative effects of the US ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions on Iran, literally now rendering it moot. This is why US Iran envoy Brian Hook resigned soon after the China-Iran deal and got replaced by the devilish war criminal Eliot Abrams this week. Hook just could not see a way of ‘pressuring’ Iran through Trump’s sanctions with China and its mint aligning with Iran. And Abrams will fail too – he was assigned the envoyship purely as a psy-op. But this psy-op will fail too: nobody is scared of Abrams – only children who are unlucky enough to happenstance see his vampirical face in pictures on social media are scared of Abrams.
So, with China successfully circumventing the US sanctions on Iran, is it far fetched that it could do the same in Lebanon? Granted that the Leb political landscape has more disunity in it than Iran’s arena, it would nevertheless be foolish to underestimate the Chinese strategists directing their envoy in Beirut towards the same goal.
Last night, Trump phoned the Leb president Aoun – some five days after the terrorist attack on Beirut Port. After Trumpian condolences were given to Aoun, both leaders discussed an ‘easing of sanctions’ on Lebanon, and also briefly discussed between them was the topic of Leb’s maritime border with israel (gas field on Leb’s Block 9 that israel covets), with Trump asking Aoun to find a way to sit at a negotiating table with israel asap. I’m hearing that Aoun was ‘diplomatically’ non-committal on this point. Trump also agreed to attend an international conference for Lebanon aid that was set up by Macron yesterday, scheduled for Sunday August 9th.
Let’s here ask why only the ‘easing’ of sanctions and why now, some five days after Beirutshima? Why didn’t Trump phone and offer condolences and an ‘easing’ of sanctions on the first day of Beirutshima? Clearly, some western allies of israel and the US have suddenly gone into a panic over added Arab refugees in Europe, should a civil war break out in Lebanon. Most feared here are the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, all stuck in limbo between a US that forbids them return to Syria (to help with rebuilding their nation), and a Leb government that refuses US’s demands to naturalize them into Lebanese citizens – these very Syrian refugees is what concerns european leaders the most. Of course, flooding europe with more Arab war refugees is a most desirable outcome for an eternally vindictive israel: punishing both europe and the Arabs with a single whip.
I spit into the eyeball of anyone who supports the anti-gentile terrorist state of israel!
I think the US and israel realize they will be implicated upon investigation. Any attempt to "aid" Lebanon is to get their foot further in the door to cause yet more confusion and discontent with an already devastated Lebanese people.
This is tragic and criminal. Those bastards need to go down once and for all. God Bless Hezbollah. Where would we be without them.
May peace be with you.
Hi Taxi, thank you very much for your ongoing commentary of Nasrallah's speech, it is very much appreciated.
On Trump's call to Aoun, this is most likely the initial reason that Trump has gone to ground. Because of the ongoing issues Trump faces with having private conversations with anybody on WH comms, he has headed to his own secure setups. I get the impression Trump is about to sell the juden down the drain in the lead up to the election. The deep state is heavily infested with juden.
On the refugees, both Aoun and Diab should together authorize sending the Syrian refugees home as Syria has fully open her border with Lebanon.
Whozhear, can you say more about the possibility of Trumping turning on the Jews?
I find it almost inconceivable that he would, but one can hope.
To successfully turn against power-jews (who run the show), you must first find a way to simultaneously freeze all their assets. It doesn’t strike me like Trump is up to such a task. But he’ll have a food-fight with them if push comes to shove. From today’s headlines: Trump antagonizes GOP megadonor Adelson in heated phone call
But you never know with meglomaniac Trump – a man who cannot keep secrets. He might be one of them men who think: ‘if you take me down, I’m taking you with me’.
Worth a read
https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/trump-may-be-right-about-beirut-attack/
Yes, very interesting article indeed. Thank you for sharing, Bornajoo. It’s only limit is one of the sources it quotes – the quoted institution is not credible – it’s a known enemy of Hezb tasked with spreading misinformation mixed in with a couple of facts. I’m referring to this one here: Riad Kahwaji, head of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. Look, anything coming out of ‘institutes and think tanks’ that are allied with the US and israel are not to be taken seriously, despite their authoritative voice.
Here's something Elijah Magnier wrote on July 28;
One would think that Magnier by now would have put one and one together. But the penny has not dropped. Strange.
I hear you buddy, it is strange. My only explanation is that traditionally-trained journalists like our beloved Elijah just stick to the facts – it’s against the very fabric of their journalistic thought-process to go against this well-rooted training. And perhaps also, staying close to the official Leb gov narrative that doesn’t (yet) include the jet/missile/drone angle is Elijah’s way of throwing much needed ice water at a flammable torch – as indeed Diab’s stance has been since the event of Beirutshima, and will remain so till the investigation has been concluded.
I was just made aware of this site by a friend. I must say this has been so informative. I am constantly searching for valid, factual information which becomes more difficult by the day.
Taxi, One question I would like to ask is an opinion on Putin and Russia. Where do you think they’ll fall in? I’m sorry if I missed it in previous comments or another article.
I’m delighted to be here and am looking forward to any and all insight offered here.
Thank You!
Welcome to Plato’s, dear Pamela. Most happy to have you visit.
Russia makes geostrategic moves that first, foremost and ultimately serve its own interests. This is the norm with big powers. And in the case of Russia that has consistently shown genuine compassion for suffering nations, its geostrategic ‘selfishness’ ends up being a win-win situation for it and for the aggrieved nation. We’ve seen this benevolent and positive Russian tendency the clearest and time and time again in Syria. And in the case of Lebanon, Russia is deeply interested in the stability of Lebanon and also in its independence away from colonialist Europe and Imperialist USA. This is because, geostrategically speaking, any powerful nation that wants to embrace Syria (as Russia has) and use Damascus as a pivot for power-projection in any direction, it must also embrace the Lebanon too as the nations of Lebanon and Syria are forever bound by destiny and history: having both belonged to ‘Greater Syria’ till the Sykes Picot agreement dissolved Greater Syria and divided it into Lebanon, Syria and Palestine back in 1916.
In the case of Beirutshima, it was Russian planes full of aid that were first to land at Beirut airport, a mere five hours after the explosion. And it was Russian scientists who were the first to take samples of earth from the port’s ground zero for testing. This had to be done as Russia has a military port stationed in Tartus, just north of Lebanon on the Syrian Med coast: a mere hop away from Beirut Port, and I’m sure the Russians were thinking: ‘if ‘they’ can do this to Beirut Port, they can do it to us in Tartus, therefore we must immediately study the event so as to protect our base and people there’.
Russian companies are also contracted to excavate oil and gas from Lebanon’s Med waters – a massive project that has experienced ongoing delays due to US agents in the Leb government throwing one spanner in the works after another. Simply, Russia has a friendly and potentially a very lucrative relationship with the Lebanon that it would like to continue with. And I think that it will be aiding the Lebanon in its crisis to its best ability: for the benefit of both the Lebanon and for Russia’s long-term geostrategic advantages in the Levant. Question is, when the dust settles in the Levant after the destruction of israel, will Russia allow Lebanon, Palestine and Syria to become ‘Greater Syria’ again? Will this unity threaten the powerful patron? Perhaps we will get the answer to this question in our lifetime.
Taxi, Veterans Today is a questionable site with sometimes interesting scoops. This is possibly one, with photos snd videos of a missile.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/07/breathtaking-case-closed-infrared-video-reveals-details-of-israeli-nuclear-missile/
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1291417514891718656/pu/vid/712×406/Oj580qAeHRQzwuzm.mp4?tag=10
What do you think?
Oh man I tellzya: never a dull moment in the Lebanon.
Some three hours ago, having failed at manufacturing a civil war, at weakening hezbollah and at bringing the Diab gov down through sedition and propaganda these past five days, some three hours ago, the March 14th Alliance that includes the Hariri, Gaegae and Kataeb clan took to protesting on the street outside the Lebanese Foreign Ministry in Beirut – all kitted up with anti Auon, Diab and Hezb posters, life-like dummies of Aoun, Diab and Nasrallah with necks hanged on ropes, and their very own ‘new revolution flag’. (How very pre organized LOL). Thousands of them losers came to the square and attempted to enter the Foreign Ministry building to take it over. Lebanon is currently under Martial Law and so these stupid protestors are now fighting it out with the army on the street. Soon it will be dark and most protestors will return home, and the paid antifa-like youth will be left to fight it out with the (gentle) Leb army till they are eventually given an ultimatum by the General: leave now or you will be arrested. Some will leave and some will be arrested and that will be that.
Oh and what set it all off was the obviously pre-planned and coordinated lunchtime resignation of ALL the (fascistic pro israel) Kataeb Party MPs from parliament – yeah all three of them lol. As it stands, now team Hariri, team Gaegae and team Kataeb have resigned. They’re out. They’re out and they’re complaining they want in with EVERYTHING under their control.
More on this story if it develops further.
And hey, sure they can protest on the streets and claim this is a ‘revolution’ all they like, but their timing is really off the charts bad, both for their already losing side and for Lebanon. Their organizers know this and still they did the insensitively-timed protest intentionally. What the fuck do you do with desperado motherfuckers like that?!
Unbelievable! The same tactics in every nation. I thought people like this would receive much more severe punishment than those in western countries. Sadly, people are literally dumb and believe in their false promises and lies. They want their measly shekels. Traitors always need to be put down and promptly.
Thanks for the update. Victory for Hezbollah!!!!!!!
Diab gave a speech a half an hour ago and said that this coming Tuesday, he will name the date of a new parliamentary election.
*I’m too tired right now to explain the significance of this – I’ll save it till next Tuesday when it actually happens. And btw, the leader of the protestors was a retired army General who organized also an attempted take-over of the Trade Ministry.
I’d like to thank all regular readers, visitors and commentators for their rich contributions to today’s discussion – was a good one – I enjoyed it, hope you did too. Thank you. And goodnight y’all from the vivacious side of the Levant, south Lebanon.
Taxi, Thank you ever so much for your thoughtful response. I think I can truly gain knowledge here. I'm so wanting to understand the truth. I know truth but I desire to know more about the inner workings of each nation.
I realize Russia has been a tremendous asset to Syria and Iran. I am grateful to them. I appreciate Russia does not want war. I agree that Russia is self serving (although, you were far more polite) Again, I can appreciate this.
What troubles me is this…I have chatted with many online over the years. I understand that these nations are doing everything they can to maneuver around the hegemony of Israel and the US, to fight back but within limits. I get it. However, as we know from history and this recent tragedy, Israel and the US will not stop. They are bent on destruction. It is the air that they breathe. It is their thrill, their sickness. Russia needs to choose sides, at least they should. It's disloyal in this situation for them to have reservation.
I personally believe Israel needs to be put down. Collectively. Iran, Syria, Russia, Lebanon, People tell me "Easy for you to say sitting in the US". I get it. It's not easy and I do not know what it's truly like. I do know that they will not stop until they are stopped. It must happen. Their evil knows no bounds.
I am truly and honestly pained to know the suffering and destruction of their victims. I am not one that says " They're Muslims, or Sandniggers, etc." We are humans. This is wrong and evil. Look at Yemen, Iraq. I want it to end. It's sick. They will continue to bring suffering to the world until they are stopped. Rotten to the core. Truly demons.
To you and those who read this…The US is now a living hell. If you take solace in this, also understandable. We will not escape unscathed. I am a pawn in their twisted plan with little I can do about it although I try to tell people and help.
I'll tell you one last thing, I do care. Immensely. I would leave here in a heartbeat if I could go to Russia or some sane nation that would have me. I'm on the side of all that is good and true. May God Bless those who fight. May God bless Syria and Lebanon. May God bless us all.
"Is France helping Lebanon, or trying to reconquer it."
'It was almost as if Emmanuel Macron forgot that Lebanon is no longer a French protectorate. Visiting explosion-ravaged Beirut this week, France’s leader comforted distraught crowds, promised to rebuild the city and claimed that the blast pierced France’s own heart. "France will never let Lebanon go," Macron said. "The heart of the French people still beats to the pulse of Beirut.'
(All Macron had to do on his visit was announce loudly and clearly that he is demanding EU and USA immediately cancel all economic sanctions against Lebanon – and, also against neighbor Syria. Of course not. Taxi – did local Lebanon TV and radio media by chance interview him = and ask him why not and if not then ask him to please leave? If Lebanon's own media did not, wondering why not. Mike.
Sorry – forgot to include the link, which is from Leb's dailystar >
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2020/Aug-08/510026-is-france-helping-lebanon-or-trying-to-reconquer-it.ashx
Good post. How nauseating. Is Macron not jewish himself? I believe he is. Shocking that this country has suffered this massive assault and that the people are not attacking these devils like Macron in the streets.
Syria media > Beirut, SANA- The Syrian Embassy in Beirut announced Saturday that the number of the Syrian martyrs due to the explosion hit Beirut Port last Tuesday reached 43 in an initial outcome. (this suggests approx. 1/4 th of the deaths were Syrian? Wondering why. Mike.
https://sana.sy/en/?p=199409
Another excellent question.
Seems to be a bright crowd here. I would like to pose a question for anyone who cares to take their precious time to answer. I hope this is not to tedious but I have never received a good answer yet.
Why for the love of God are people tolerating this? Why???? I have no faith (or little) any longer. Evil always seems to win. My Catholic and Orthodox friends say it's because of "free will". This isn't enough for me. Why is the world letting these devils commit all these atrocities. Most sane humans don't have a death wish but if I had power this destruction would have been fought long ago.
Why? Why are so many countries not collectively saying "ENOUGH" you're done. Why? Is the world so polluted and ill that power and greed is worth more than civility, decency and humanity. To what end?
Not sure if this helps but imho the answer can be briefly put in two words: ignorance and fear. People are dumbed down by a lying media and brainwashed by incessant propaganda. Many who know, fear to speak out (at least loudly) for fear of the anger of the paid propagandists who attack those who question and dispute the official narrative. Careers can be destroyed by these psycho criminal distorters of truth and purveyors of lies. Many thus keep a low profile. For a politician or influential person in the establishment to confront the zionist criminals in power in media and government is to face serious violence. JFK is one prominent example. He sought to go against the zionist war machine and prevent them from obtaining nuclear weapons. That's a major reason he was murdered. When Hezbollah defeats israel in the coming conflict, many obscured truths will be revealed, including zionist perpetration of 9-11. The world will change radically.
Saladin,
Thank you for your response. I understand why it’s difficult for citizens to fight although I try anyway. I have known many that have lost their careers and have done jail time for hate speech. As far as the politicians and officials, you’re correct. Apparently they do get threatened. Unfortunately this rule by Israel and the US has been allowed to go on far too long. I suppose you are also correct that JFK was a warning to them. I wish countries would fight as a collective group.
Iran had some momentum going in Iraq and then nothing much. I guess the paid traitors always step in and ruin any efforts.
Several folks on this site seem very confident that Hezbollah will fight back. I am praying they do and I am praying for their victory. If Israel was put down there would be celebrations world wide and finally some peace.
Taxi – FYI > MSM full blast this weekend to sell US audiances this > “Clashes Erupt in Beirut at Blast Protest as Lebanon’s Anger Boils Over – fury over the corruption and negligence of the country’s ruling elite.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/world/middleeast/Beirut-explosion-protests-lebanon.html
Message is > citizens of Lebanon blame everything on their government – in other words, a typical west-organized ‘Color Revolution’ regime change activity has been launched to go along with economic sanctions, etc. Since Lebanon refused the IMF trap and started more publically turning toward China, also at time of US elections which include non-stop anti-China news. Considering timing such gives more credence the port blast was NO accident. Wondering how loyal are those trying to control the protests and what Lebanon’s inteligence services determine as to the demonstration leaders and then so informing the population and other media. Lebanon citizens have been strong and much united in the recent past – now leadership even more needed. Anything you can add to better clarify appreciated. Mike.
Taxi,
Thanks for the recent articles. I enjoyed them both very much. Congratulations on your being featured on the Unz Review, which I see as becoming one of the most important growing webzines on the internet. Of course in the pursuit of truth and free expression of ideas, Ron Unz runs the risk of having his entire operation shut down by the Ziocontrollers. We see that he has already been erased by Jewgle and Jewbook.
The result of your features on the Unz Review are already apparent in the increased comments by new people here on Plato's Guns. There seem to be more and more people interested in finding out the truth about our world and the political forces that drive geopolitics, and they have a strong suspicion that the pap that they are fed by the mainstream media, government, and academia is false and misleading. The truth will always find a way out, just as life will find a way to go on.
My condolences to the people of Lebanon on their tragedy. May the perpetrators be punished in a timely fashion.
Love and peace to you,
Frankie P
Dear Frankie, how lovely of you to visit again – always great to hear from you. I’m super glad that my articles are providing a handful of illuminations to an otherwise dark media. I always felt that most humans, even ones with average intelligence (nothing wrong with being average!), once given the correct information, these good people of the world would be able to reject the mental chains imposed on them by the msm propaganda factories, thus be able to make better political choices that would help change their lives for the better.
And you are so very kind to seal your comment with good wishes to the people of Lebanon. You were always a most compassionate commentator. Thank you. Be well and stay beautiful.
Hello Taxi,
Just want to let you know I've passed this article along to a host of others.
I've also emailed Mohammad, my friend and mathematical brother of 57 years and a native of Beirut. I've not heard back, so I'm worried.
Best,
Rudy
Thank you, dear Rudy. Good to see you here at Plato’s – hope you’re doing alright, buddy.
If you like, and if you have it, pass your friend Mohammad’s phone number to me (via email) and I’ll be more than happy to try and locate him for you. Am sure he’s alright. With all the destruction that Beirut experienced a few days ago, I’m hearing that Beirut’s internet connection is suffering from many ‘dead zones’ too. They will all be fixed in the next few days.
Dear Taxi,
To my great relief an email from Mohammed arrived 2 hours ago. For a very long time he's been one of the fixed points in my universe.
He said:
Greetings Rudy
Many thanks we are all OK but the situation is very bleak for the majority of people.
How is the situation with coming up presidential elections ???
All the best
Mohammed
Off thread:
Thank you for your offer to contact him, but I would not have been able to give you his phone number.
My hearing, now mostly gone, is among the spoils time has taken. Because of that I have no phone of any kind. Apart from the now collapsing postal service, the only way I can communicate person to person is by email.
Rudy
Good to know that your dearest friend Mohammad is doing alright. And how typical of Lebanese people to inquire about the state of our homeland when they themselves are in the thick of the ‘bleakest’ of crisis. Such a gracious and considerate people.
p.s. I envy your phoneless existence.
Rudy, Bless you and your friend. Wishing you the very best outcome.
Well done again Taxi, you are again gracing the front page of the Unz Review. You have attained a rarefied level.
Thank you, dear Whozhear. Old timers of Plato’s know that I prefer the quiet life away from the limelight – I’ve been saying this for years. I have no interest in even promoting Plato’s. I prefer the slower pace of word-of-mouth. This is because I am a lazy person who prefers to have as much free time as possible to do absolutely nothing with, and I also prefer to live with the least amount of responsibility. I always prefer to walk barefooted in my garden instead of going to a royal ball. I have a semi-reclusive lifestyle that I love and have no interest in altering. I hope that all this Unz exposure doesn’t take up too much of my time. I’m certainly glad and grateful to have my ideas reach a larger readership – I think some good can come out of it by my presenting a different political angle. Yet, something inside of me cringes at the attention too. I am by nature and in real life, a soft-spoken and very shy person.
The Saker is providing an English translation of Nasrallah's speech from two days ago – worth reading:
Nasrallah denies any Hezbollah activities at the port, calls to end incitement and impunity (full speech)
Hey y’all – hope you’re enjoying your Sunday. I’ve little time on the keyboard today so my comments will be brief. I will respond to yesterday’s unanswered comments tomorrow, if you please.
For now, here’s one story:
The protestors in Beirut yesterday, after failing to take over the Foreign Ministry, charged forth to the Trade Ministry where they managed to breach security into the building there and headed straight to specific rooms with filing cabinets. They proceeded to trash cabinets and to throw official government files and documents out of the windows. They did this because several of their ‘chiefs’ are implicated in the port explosion and their aim was to destroy evidence. They were eventually evicted from the building, with some arrests. After this despicable episode, some of the protesters charged into a hotel with the aim of taking it over and turning it into their congregational camp. A policeman attempting to herd a pack of protestors rushing through a 5th floor corridor and vandalizing everything in sight was not so lucky. The protestors grabbed him, assaulted him then threw him off a balcony causing his instant death (R.I.P.). Antifa in Lebanon! Investigations are now in process and some arrests have been made with the arrested now facing murder charges. Really, they should be charged with murder, sedition and treason. The Western media that supports these monstrous criminals who pretend at being just ‘angst-ridden civilian protestors’ can go fuck themselves till kingdom come. The medias and ’embassies’ that support Anitifa-esque activities anywhere in the world are haters of democracy and the BIGGEST enemies of peaceful protestors. So-called ‘activists’ who take to the streets with the sole purpose of causing injury to others should be treated as psychotic criminals, and those who pay them their wages should have ALL their assets frozen and their asses thrown in jail. They are NOT a ‘of the people, for the people, by the people’ crowd. They are simply of the elites, for the elites, by the elites. A pox on their houses and genitals – the lot of them!
Taxi, Do you think the proper and true officials and members of the military in Lebanon can handle this threat swiftly and by deadly force if necessary? I certainly hope so. I must say I am disappointed by your prediction of having to wait until after the election for significant retaliation.
Yesterday, was not soon enough. Victory for Hezbollah!
The israeli army could easily smash the Leb army, all due to the fact that since 1948, israel has made sure that the Leb army never lays hands on arms competitive with its own. But this has now become irrelevant because Hezbollah’s arms is what israel cannot control or influence, hard as it tries.
Isreal would love nothing more right now than to be hit BIGLY by hezbollah and have the Hezb kill (disposable to israel) jews while Trump is in power. This is so it can drag the US into the frontlines of the battle while it plays violin from the backlines. Trump would comply in this situ because it may very well aid in his re-election, with mega shekels pouring into his campaign.
Please know that one of the Hezb’s most powerful weapons is its patience. Nothing goes unanswered by them when it comes to israeli terrorism on Lebanon. My preferred time for retaliation against Beirutshima would be the 3rd November. But aaakhkhkh, I got no influence inside the organization.
Know also that Leb analysts with insider info to both the Hezb and Iran have been saying since June that “everything will be changing by end of 2020”. Even before Beirutshima, plans for big action against both israel and the US presence in the ME have been finalized.
The Iranians, who practice the profound level of patience of carpet weavers, indeed have taught the Hezbollah how to practice strategic patience. It behooves the supporters of the Axis of Resistance to learn this too.
I see it like this: even if Hezbollah today had proof-positive of israeli involvement in the port explosion, they will not retaliate against tel aviv till after the US’s November elections. Hezbollah have promised to do what they can to bring down Trump for assassinating General Suleimani and any military op that is open for exploitation by Trump will not be handed to him on a silver platter.
But the (limited) retaliation for israel killing a Hezb fighter in Syria three weeks ago is coming sooner than that – sooner than you think. Maybe even as soon as next week. I say this because… well, living in Hezbollah land, one picks up on comments by village security people, who also double-up as farmers, plumbers, shopkeepers and shepherds etc; and one also observes, well, small movements and (metaphoric) footprints here and there that were not present yesterday. I am faintly gleaning that preparations are being made for a hezb retaliation op – I find no other explanation for what I’ve been observing for two days now. Hezb reserve guys from the village are also suddenly on night-guard duties: this only happens during red-alert prep times so as to free up actual guard-fighters for mission training/instruction. I’m also picking up on other signs too that I prefer to be quiet about for the time being, really for the sake of Lebanon’s collective security. I could be completely wrong on this, of course, but something subterranean and barely perceptible is actually happening and it is hard to just ignore or dismiss it in these most anxious of Lebanon times. I’m sharing this with y’all because, well, who the fuck else am I gonna share it with
?
Let’s wait and see how next weeks rolls.
Good! Patience is a necessary and important factor right now. You don‘t want to rush in an area full of smoke and noise made by enemy. And this is exactly how the situation is after the terror attack against Beirut.
Everything I have learned in my political life tell me that the Beirut tragedy can not be an accident.
– the fact that Diab‘s government was promising in favour of policies toward national unity and against Zionist/Imperialist interests
– considerable weakening of the Lebanese inner reactionary camp thanks to the pragmatic political management of Hezbollah and President Aoun
– how fast the western and their Arab lapdog‘s media constructed and spread their disinformation campaign after the tragedy
– timing in relation to the so-called „international“ verdict about Hariri‘s terror incident and Hiroshima day
– ongoing events since then, Macron‘s visit and provocative colonial style speech, regime change mob in the streets of Beirut, western imperialists agreement to pull out UNIFIL out of Libanon by the UNSC meeting at 28th August. (source: elnashra.com) – (usually they set in UNIFIL when Zionists retreat and pull it back when Zionists attack)
Enemy had planed this „choke“ probably couple of years ago, maybe when they realized that their adventure in Syria is doomed to fail. That‘s why we must backtrack and study events to identify other elements that prepared the situation to this stage and get ready to face upcoming enemy actions within the planned frame.
I briefly wrote something about who could stay behind this particular attack. This degree of destruction doesn‘t fit Tel Aviv based Zionist profile, of course they are rootless criminals but the balance of terror have put them in a situation that mentally they are handicaped to decide something like this. Most probably this part of the scenario was done by some other, keep an open mind on the question about who did this.
Right now the „choke“ has deepened the crisis in Lebanon. Crisis management is number one priority not retaliation. This is the geniality of Nasrallah‘s message to the international community after the tragedy, something that was underlined with his body language. The „choke“ operation is something that we are going to manage, the resistance is standing firm, calm and concentrated, and support the national effort to overcome the tragedy.
Imho,
– Diab and Aoun have performed better then expected until now and deserve support (fight against resignation of the current government)
– Beirut is bleeding but Beirut is not Lebanon, focusing on Beirut is a key element in a regime change operation
– Not Hezbollah but the Axis of resistance should hit hardest possible the weakest point of the enemy camp in the Middle East, „choke“ back asap in the same manner as enemy (don‘t wait for Yankee election)
– If Lebanon crisis continue to grow, Tel Aviv could try a new war, in this case, one shouldn‘t wait at all to hit Zionist targets deep in the occupied Palestine
Great summation and advice, dear Omid. But if I may, I’d like to highlight your passage here:
I’ve heard worthy Palestinian analysts living in Jerusalem say that the israeli military was not surprised by the Beirut Port explosion but by the size of it. This of course points to either a miscalculation by the israelis, or a third party taking advantage of the timing of israel’s false flag. Only the CIA would be privy to accessing (covertly or overtly) such mosad info.
And lest we forget here, if the israelis can be involved in 9/11, a bigger false flag op than Beirutshima, then they’re perfectly capable of exploding Beirut Port. Not forgetting here that the israeli military is existentially cornered and liable thus to knee-jerk thinking and overreach, driven by intensive, existential panic.
All this destruction, death and political hoopla in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s threat to israel remains exactly the same, unchanged. When will the enemy learn that the only way to disarm Hezbollah is to face it on the battlefield and hope for the best?
Can anyone give me good Middle Eastern news sources in English? I typically read Sputnik which I know is a Russian site. It's not at all good these days and Fars news. I've seen garbage on there lately as well. I look at SANA and Al-Masdar. That's all I know of.
Looking for other good options.
Apart from SANA and Al-Masdar, unfortunately there are no other good rags in English to rely on. The Axis of Evil has pretty much monopolized ALL news sites in English. It is better to follow honest and informed journalists who publish here and there instead of rags with fixed urls.
I figured. I scour the internet looking for good sources and it's a desert. They cut us off from anything worthwhile these days. Bastards! I have also found that Twitter posts were actually a decent source for awhile. They now scrub those as fast as they go up. I have been hell banned anyway.
So thrilled to have found you I must say. Thank You for your time and efforts. It is greatly appreciated!
You're very welcome, Pamela. If it's any consolation, I've been banned from twitter too and just about everywhere else, hence my setting up of Plato's
.
I regularly monitor the Arab press and usually share what's geopolitically important.
Another quick question..Are the people, the citizens armed or allowed to be armed in Lebanon? What about Syria, Iran, etc. I'm thinking they are not.
That’s a good question, Pamela, thank you.
Until 4 years ago, Leb citizens could apply for a license to carry arms – this is no longer the case. Yet, much small and light arms dealing does take place on the black market.
Most arms in Lebanon are in the hands of the various security apparatuses, also, of course, the army. Notable is Hezbollah’s arms that far outweigh all arms in the Leb, including outweighing the Lebanese army’s arsenal.
Happy to hear about Hezbollah having the majority of the weapons but it has to rough for the people.
Brazilian Gov has told Lebanese President Michel Aoun that it is sending a plane with medicines, food, searching team & personnel to help on the investigation.
Brazil is also sending 4,000 tons of rice by boat.
Ex President Michel Temer, who's father was Lebanese, to lead the ops and help in any other possible need.
There are currently in Brazil 13MM 1st, 2nd, 3rd generations of Syrians and Lebanese, it is a very large community and highly influential in politics, having elected Presidents, State Governors and Mayors in important capitals.
As we say down here, better late than never, I wished the Government has taken this action in day 1 after the events, this is what friendly countries should do.
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Nice to know of Brazil's generous response Canthama. With so many Levantines and their descendants in Brazil, I'd say your nation has a bright future.
If memory serves, there was a huge exodus from the Leb to Brazil back in the 1910’s – by ocean liner. This was due to the colonialist Ottomans applying starvation policies to put down Lebanese rebels against their brutal colonization. Senior villagers in the Leb still talk about their Brazilian cousins.
Many thanks to the good Brazilian people for their kindness to Lebanon in their time of dire need.
My gut feeling tells me evil ‘israel’ got the idea from Nasrallah who mentioned in 2017 that he could do this kind of sabotage attack on Haifa.
Blake, israel doesn't need any help coming up with any ideas to harm, maim or murder. They are the masters at this. Nasrallah has every right and obligation to want to save his country and his people.
Is this true?
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected calls for an international investigation as a "waste of time".
This is fine as long as an investigation is done internally by the right people.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nasa-releases-specialized-aerial-shot-showing-extent-damage-beirut
It does sound strange. There are Russian, Turkish, French, Dutch and many other rescue teams on the ground helping to search for survivors or bodies in a large crime scene…for me it is the same as helping the investigators to find clues.
The President Michel Aoun said today that the initial finding of the investigation will be shared in 2 days…Tuesday.
Today, the MSM was salivating with a tunnel below the silos…saying it was a Hizballah weapon depot….but in fact…it was the foundation of the Silos, a high building that holds immense weight by the shore lines…if the foundation is not deep enough…it would hold a day up standing.
Another idiots shared Nasrallah escaped to Syria yesterday…then today was different, he escaped to Iran…because the "above tunnel" would implicate Hizballah and mind that…they called Nasrallah a coward and he fled not be brought to justice….
Pathetic attempts from many people, MSMs and foreign regimes, the more they beat Hizballah the stronger Hizballah will be in Lebanon and MENA.
I feel the up coming week is holding tremendous revelations in the Lebanon, and it will be positive ones, though suffering from thousands of people with destroyed homes will keep the wound open.
I think the upcoming week will be telling also. I haven't read the MSM nonsense that you have. I didn't have the stomach for it. I hope that there is pressure for an accurate and truthful statement to come out regardless of how that happens.
BTW… Hassan is actually here dining with me. It was so good of him to come by seeing he has so much to contend with these days. He says "Hello".
The investigation into the explosion is separate from ‘rescue missions’ by other nations.
Yes what prez Aoun said is true. And I agree with your last statement.
The best assessment on Beirut nuke attack is on veteranstoday.com
There was no “Beirut nuke attack”, Joe. The Lebanese authorities tested for elevated radiation levels and found no evidence of any radioactive contamination at ground zero or in surrounding areas, as confirmed by Taxi in an earlier reply to me. The reason the Lebanese (and Taxi) are calling this horrific event “Beirutshima”, is because of the degree of devastation wreaked by the explosion upon the city of Beirut and its inhabitants, not because there was a nuke involved.
While Veterans Today definitely has some serious problems, there can also be some very good info coming through. Gilad Atzmon posts there as do Jonas Alexis and Kevin Barrett.
I think that VT is suggesting that today's specialized nukes can create very little radiation – similar to @SARZ's comment about a "specialized nuke" a bit lower down.
And supposedly Italy picked up a spike in radiation – but I certainly can't verify VT's claim.
VT is infamous for either outright manufacturing of worst-case-scenario clickbait, or for exaggerating truths. Hard for me personally to rely on them.
And let’s for a brief moment look at what they’re actually saying: “very little radiation” is still radiation, no? Radiation that has not been recorded by either Lebanese or Russian detectors.
As one who seeks out mirrors which display the outside world–the real one–I reside within the confines of Plato's Cave–AKA that ruptured republic which was once looked to by many as a land of hope and opportunity; now under alien occupation by highest International finance and their puppet regime, the United $tates of America Corporation, duly registered under the corporate laws of the $tate of Delaware, also known to some of the cognoscenti as Dupontistan.
It is to my deepest regret that this once mostly free country has devolved within my lifetime into Global Robocop for the financier elite who own the misleadingly named "Federal" Reserve Bank. The aim of this elite is (1. a global depopulation agenda by means of the current plandemic and similar biowarfare agencies and (2. ultimate total control of mind-controlled Goyim serfs whose cultures they are destroying by various means including unlimited immigration of culturally undigestible numbers of individuals and families who refuse to integrate into the societal matrix. We must bear in mind (3. Virtually total control over the mass media of mesmerization and mind-control, thus monopolizing the messaging in order to maintain the matrix of domination.
Consider the symbolism on the rear-end of the U$ dollar bill. Key symbol is the socio-economic pyramid surmounted by the all-seeing eye of Horus. Symbologically, the pyramid stands for all the people of the country with everyday citizens occupying the lower courses and as one ascends into the upper reaches, it tends to be inhabited by those whose educations and willingness to conform to expected behavioral norms, allows them to exist higher up the structure. At the pinnacle we find graduates of elite colleges and universities, usually "legacies" from wealthy families (consider George Bu$h the lesser) whose father, the shotcaller at Dealey Plaza on 11-22-63, had been CIA since graduating from Yale and who ran the Reagan administration from behind the throne and also the administration of Clinton. Along with the likes of Heinrich Ki$$inger, the intermediary between the Rockefeller and Rothschild Crime Clans, we are now looking at what the Germans, Austrians and Swiss call the "Zugspitze", the peak of the pyramid.
And as for the identity of those who constitute that hovering Eye of Horus…I think that Taxi, who invited me to this site, along with most regular readers and contributors, are quite aware of those little men behind the curtain who control the lightshow in this land of Oz.
Thank you, dear Majority of One. If you peruse through Plato’s archives, you will find plenty of my older articles aligning with exactly your points – but sans the interpretation of the symbolism of the American dollar. Symbolism of the synagogue of satan and all its demonic machinations are not just on the US dollar, they’re strewn all over the world for the discerning eye to see.
Maybe there was no ordinary nuke. There was a missile fired from a drone or helicopter and there was an explosion, different from the AN explosion that left the red cloud. See the videos posted in the comments of the Unz Review version of Taxi's article. Some Russians from the base at Tartus were reported to have taken samples in the crater. What they will do with the results remains to be seen.
I totally disagree with your unacceptable comments about Turkey being an enforcer of USA politics on The Middle East. I would like you advise you to think and dig further on this after especially the collapse of USA supported FETÖ coup in 15 July 2016.
I advise you to have a better understanding of how geopolitics works. Let me give you a hint: ever since recorded time began, enemies have often made pacts with each other in order to advance their individual agendas.
I also disagree the assessment of Turkey acting as regional police for Yankee. No doubt that Turkish regime is not part of the resistance against Yankee or Zionists, initially they were partner in crime when Daesh was built up in Irak and Syria but since they saw the opportunity to take their own advantage out of the situation their criminal path approached it’s own destination. Pure opportunism based on a weak fundament, this is a risky game Turkey playing because of extraordinary circumstances right now.
I would assess Yankee, EU, Zionists and Saudi Arabia as friendly to Turkey as Russia, Iran, Irak and Kurds. With such a diverse mix of friends, you won’t get a helping hand when your next step doesn’t balance on the rope.
Thank you for your comment. I refer you to the same comment-answer I gave Halil above.
Geopolitics is where nations get married, only to get divorced, and thereafter only to get remarried again, followed by another divorce, then another remarriage, ad infinitum. Geopolitics is not about popularity contests or favor-doing, but PURELY to do with a nation’s interest, especially medium to long-term. Turkey was not chosen by the US and israel out of genuine love and trust of Ankara, but because Ankara is currently the best candidate for the job required: oppression and exploitation of Arabs and their resources. And Ankara accepting the role of ME policeman is for the boosting of its Ottomanesque regional ambitions, and not for the love and total trust of the US and israel either.
Halal, the coup is ancient history; four years is a long time n the ME.
And whether Turkey is or isn’t the JUSA’s bitch, they still are thieves, terrorist enablers, human rights abusers, human traffickers, drug traffickers, human organ traffickers, and liars.
Oh yeah two more, sooks and whingers.
Well said! It was hard for a second to tell if you were talking about Turkey, JUSA or Isra-hell.
HALIL DIVITLIOĞLU, Oh Please! Erdogan is for sale to all. Erdogan is out of his bloody mind and suffers from delusions of grandeur. He is being used to assist in dirty work for the US/Israel. He is not smart enough to pull any of this off ultimately but he has been successful in pissing many off. I see him going down shortly and it can't be soon enough. He is a traitor to everyone including his own people.
Let us all be clear here: Beirutshima was primarily an attack on Hezb weapons that israel cannot itself address and resolve militarily. Truth is that there is no solution to the existence of hezb weapons. Israel is trying to pass the bucket to hezb's internal opposition who desire the disarmament of Hezb too. Beirutshima has created the right political conditions for the opposition to attack the existence of hezb weapons. But it won't work. There's also a secondary attempt by israel to disarm hezbollah: create civil war that would necessitate foreign militaries friendly to israel to enter Lebanon thru UN instruction. This won't work either. The only time that hezb will drop its weapons is AFTER the destruction of israel – Nasrallah has said this on several occasions. The israelis know this but they'll keep trying this and that demonic route.
Massive political warfare going on right now inside of Lebanon. This week will be extremely dangerous, especially considering that the Hariri assassination verdict is due to be announced on 18th August.
A very worthwhile read from Pepe over at Zero Hedge……..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-who-profits-beirut-blast
Yes, an excellent article from Pepe Escobar that has also been published on The Unz Review:
Buyer beware:
Richard Silverstein has published three more articles about the Beirut port explosion since his first one, titled "BREAKING: Israel Bombed Beirut":
Richard Silverstein is a controlled opposition jew disseminating mid-level mosad propaganda.
You know how controlled opposition agents work, right? They tell the truth about everything except for when it counts. To call them slithering snakes would be an insult to snakes.
After lunch, I crashed for a solid two hours, woke up with comment notification from Unz, clicked on that, slammed the motherfucker jew hating on Lebanon and spreading lies about Hezbollah – then I tuned into a Leb TV station to discover that apparently, Diab's gov is now about to resign due to further resignations from his gov, with March 14th team (Hariri, Jumblat and Gaegae) demanding the investigation of the port explosion be handed to the international community and Macron be 'handed the Lebanon governance file'. Basically because the March 14th team are implicated in Beirut Port corruption.
The resignation is meant to be announced in two hours, but naturally, Diab will not be leaving his seat tomorrow – constitutionally, it takes six months to hand over power to a new PM. Anything can happen in the next two hours. And anything can happen inside of 6 months.
Immense political pressure on little Leb today. Wow.
Will keep you posted…
Bless you my Comrade. Thank You. Praying for Lebanon.
The great Xymphora has a bunch of articles on the Beirutshima story and the political setup, domestic and international, to wipe out Hezbollah and its Leb allies.
Shekels or Hezbollah
The enemies of Lebanon forget that Hezbollah is now not just local player but a powerful regional one. Hezb could take over Beirut in 24 hours if push comes to shove – as indeed they did back in 2005 when the March 14th team sent their armed men to the streets of Beirut to occupy it. It took the Hezb literally a handful of hours to halt the cantankerous coup attempt in the street and sent the March 14th militants back to their bases all shook up. Hezb pulled back its men from the streets a week later after the capital was secured, handing the security task back to the army and internal security apparatus.
In Alistair Crooke's article linked above at Xymphora, he asks: "… there is the question: Were there three explosions?"
I can tell you that I heard three distinct explosions, one after the other, increasing in intensity with every passing boom.
Could someone please explain the significance of this “three explosions” business?
This footage of the explosion was apparently captured from 6km away. I can only hear a sort of double or triple echo after the sound of the main boom:
https://twitter.com/_albandar/status/1291025178412163072
The Xmphora article points to one by Jonas Alexis on VT. Jonas is amazing. I have never found him to write anything that isn't well backed up – unlike the crap the Gordon Duff and other Sr Editors put out on occasion.
Here is the Jonas article linked from Xmphora:
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/09/jerusalem-post-israel-blew-up-beirut-to-hell/
Holy crap. As I was looking for a particular article from Alexis, I find this total shite from Ian Greenhalg who I think is a VT Editor. What a ZioMoron. He is such a blatant disinformation pusher or such an idiot that he makes the claim that such folks as Whitney Webb, Eric Zuesse, James Corbett, Jon Rappoport and Paul Craig Roberts are Zionist stooges and that they are spreading BS about Covid.
https://www.veteranstodaynetwork.com/2020/08/03/zionist-covid-disinfo-machine/
Syrian tribal chiefs held a conference in Deir el Zour today and announced the beginning of a political and military resistance against the US in Syria.
The Levant is heating up.
Indeed, for a week or so several villages rebelled against the occupiers and collaborators (SDF), some fire was exchanged, arrested done etc…the situation is extremely volatile, it is in fact expanding to Raqqa Province as well.
It all started with 3 attempts of assassination against 3 Sheikhs that apparently did not agree with the oil deal between SDF and a shady american company…1 Sheikh was killed, from one of the largest Arab tribe in eastern Syria and the other two managed to escape with their life….since them the area has seen small fights and major demonstrations in many villages.
It got a bit worst when the SDF started to frame these Arab tribes revolting against the occupation as ISIS cells, that did not go well at all with the tribes and it has throw gasoline to a hot fire….yesterday many tribal leaders met and agreed in a document that they will start an up rising and it will be done to re store the Syrian Gov presence there….no doubt SDF took it badly and there is indeed a chance for major onslaught in the next week or two.
SDF produced a pathetic "video evidence"… with few tortured and beaten up Arabs caught last week, saying they were Syrian Gov agent….it did not fly well either, since these people were locals, known by a lot of people, so the lie was quickly uncovered.
The fact is that the SDF is narrowing down its chances, instead of investing time and energy to negotiate with the Syrian Gov some extra benefits to the region in exchange of returning it all under the Syrian Gov, they decided to double down with the illegal occupier, the US regime, it is not end well all this.
Great summary – many thanks, Canthama.
Canthama, This is disgusting that it is happening at all. Trump brags about stealing the oil. It's THEFT! I wish Assad would go in there in clean house. Screw it. Wipe em out!
It's too much. Poor Syria. God bless them have withstood this assault now for what about 9 years. I'm so grateful to Hezbollah, Iran, Russia for aiding them for whatever the reason. These nations appear to be some of only a handful to attempt to fight the beast. Where would the world be without them?
May the heavens bless those that fight.
Hello again Taxi. You had asked me above to remind you of the poem, The Snake, that Trump recited repeatedly during his last campaign. Here's a YouTube link:
https://youtu.be/qSrOXvoNLwg
Oh yeah I remember it now – thank you.
What kind of sorcery is this?
It’s done. Diab has just announced his resignation.
He pointed at the gang of corrupt players who had brought on the financial crisis and the negligence of the Beirut Port affairs. He called them liar and falsifiers. It was a short announcement.
Now we wait to see how the Leb street reacts to the announcement.
Sarz, That was a great moment. I was so hopeful. Unfortunately it passed. Trump is owned.
Taxi,
Is it possible to do UP votes on people's comments? I am 2 days behind with comments on this thread alone. I don't want to clog up the thread unnecessarily. Damn. This thread is getting large. In addition, I haven't seen that you have a donation page. You should. I personally would be happy to donate.
Thanks Pamela but this is my personal blog – am not interested in ever monetizing it. Plato’s is a labor of love that I love.
Also the up vote thing – it’s not important to me at all if readers like or dislike mine or others’ comments.
Taxi, Wow. So honorable. Rare. I know it takes much time to do something like this. I just wanted to show appreciation for your efforts and writing.
I'm grateful to have found you. Thank you.
Agreed 100% with you Pamela.
So good to have found Taxi, her blog and her community.
Thanks, Golden Rule Please. Glad to have you visit.
I should have really added to Pamela that on regurgitated-news days, I will be absent from Plato's boards – too boring for me. Sometimes I'm away for several days in a row. But you betcha that I'm around on a regular basis and especially when blasted, blasting and consequential events occur.
Elijah just published his newest article, very timely with the events in the Lebanon.
IS THE PARTITION OF LEBANON NOW ON THE TABLE?
Posted on 10/08/2020 by Elijah J Magnier
By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
Following the end of the 1975 civil war in Lebanon, the Taef agreement (one of the worse agreements on record) was signed between the belligerents. It delivered the country into the hands of the civil warlords who today rule Lebanon along with their children. Since then they have been frenetically diligent in stealing public wealth, mismanaging the country and offering precious little infrastructure to the inhabitants. They shelter behind the religious leaders, who are keen to offer protection to these lords… as long as they guard the governmental position allocated to each of the 18 Lebanese religions, according to a confessional system far removed from democracy or even nationalism. And indeed, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, was careful to say, during his last week’s visit to Lebanon, at his meeting with these same warlords: “It is not up to a French President to write your history on your behalf. It is you who have to do it.”
Macron rejected the idea of an early parliamentary election and requested that these war Lords unite in “one united government”- which means international community support for the same politicians responsible for the Lebanese crisis and large-scale theft for decades! But the population took to the streets the day following Macron’s departure, making the point that a sectarian confrontation could no longer be excluded. Is it possible to divide Lebanon, following on from another sectarian war? What would be the reaction of the powerful players? It’s high time for this Lebanese government to leave. What next?
The time has come for the departure of the Lebanese government led by Doctor Hassan Diab. Diab, a Sunni, is not a political leader and belongs to no party. He is an intellectual and a university professor who was prevented from implementing real changes and put an end to the long-established corruption pattern. Lebanese war lords gathered against him domestically and took the trouble to travel abroad asking world leaders to refrain from supporting the current government. Even the Speaker Nabih Berri tried to shake Diab and his government, although Berri has two ministers in the same Diab cabinet, and has contributed to its failure. Berri’s ministers finally rejected the idea of removing the Central Bank governor and taking him to trial for his mismanagement of public savings and for his spectacularly unsuccessful financial engineering.
Prime Minister Diab said he is “giving it two months” – he won’t last that long – to allow the war lords to meet and decide what to do next since they are the ones preventing the government from moving forward. He also said he is willing to seek an early parliamentary election, a proposal that will certainly be rejected by the powerful politicians and will maybe lead to Diab’s own resignation.
In fact, the Sunni and the Christian powerful parliamentary groups would be the most damaged from an early election. Both Sunni (Saad Hariri) and the Christians (GebranBassil) have suffered serious damage to their popular base and would definitely lose many of the seats they are holding today. The Druse (Walid Jumblat) and the Shia (Nabih Berry and Hezbollah) have stable seats and well-established popular support.
The international community is reasonably asking for a united front of all politicians – who boycotted the current government – in the forthcoming cabinet to avoid internal bickering and for all warlords to assume their responsibility to move the country forward. Lebanon is …
Macron believes the US economic pressure on Hezbollah is harming the Lebanese population, among these the friends of France and the US. Moreover, the more the US increases its pressure on Lebanon, the more the country will be heading towards Iran, China and Russia. That’s without counting the number of refugees that would be flocking to Europe. The US “maximum pressure” on the “Axis of the Resistance”, mainly Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, has not achieved the desired result. The US has failed in its attempt to subdue Lebanon and has managed to push its allies, mainly European, to find more ways to distance themselves from US dominance.
“The problem of Lebanon is the fact that there are too many countries around”, wanting to dominate it. This is what the French President said. He described a reality the Lebanese are dangerously unaware of, and where Partition remains a dangerous ghost."
Really great and accurate reporting from Elijah. Thank you for sharing, Canthama. But his partition angle is not on the table – I can't see it as being geographically feasible. Elijah could have at least added a line or two explaining how that would work geographically. I'm finding it hard to picture how Aoun's Christians in the north would agree to be divided from their Shia allies and compatriots in the south and in the east. The sunni and Gaegae and Druze territories are thusly geographically separated too. I'm scratching my head here at his lack of further explanation.
I would rather read analysis about driving forces of change in Lebanon then possible outcome of a change. This is what I expect from people like E. J. Magnier to deliver.
A. B. Atwan (raialyoum.com) had an interesting analysis for 2 days ago (before Diab’s resignation) where he identifies three currents:
– One current, working toward a military solution with help of imperialist aggression. This is the one supported by Zionists, Yankee and France.
– Another current, working toward democratic change of power structures and the birth of a young political class that respect the diverse identity of Lebanon‘s politic.
– and finally the current consisting of traditional actors of the Lebanon‘s power structure who want to preserve the situation as it is with minor changes in order to calm down the population.
I find this informative. Identify driving forces and you could get a picture of possible destinations.
Give us exact parameters and we can set up the actual equation of power balance, we can then utilize that equation to formulate the right solution.
Open questions, is France bringing in a genuine solution as an alternative to Yankee’s options? Why did Hezbollah welcome French initiative to begin with? Does Hezbollah still welcome the French initiative after Macron’s speech in Beirut and his promise of a new visit in September?
OMID, I can not trust the French regime at all, after it happened in Libya, Syria and weapons sold to kill Yemenis. France is part of the problem in the past decade, not the solution.
But we have to recognize that politics and geopolitics do change with the wind, it is my understanding now that with the clear weakness by the US in the global scenario (the golden joker has destroyed the little US reputation all over the world, honestly, someone had to do it)…France is trying to fill the gap in its area of influence, Med Sea…this is why we see France active again in Libya, Lebanon, Central Africa…I can not argue whether this is legit interest to help fix issues or playing trade/influence card, we will have to wait for, but we will see more of this as the US weakens all over the world…maybe German extending influence in Central Europe/Eastern Europe…no different from the terrorist Erdogan on MENA as well, it seems everybody is trying to take a bite out of the mess created by the zionazis in power in the US,UK,Israel.
There may be some critical moments from mid 2020 to the end of 2020…maybe the Beirut's blast was one of them, maybe another one will be the NordStreamII completion which will mark a mega defeat for the US regime, the end of UNSC weapon sanctions to Iran in a month+-, the Iran's ascension to full member at SCO, a false flag event in the once called Ukraine or Bielorussia, you name it, these are events that could change things deeply locally or globally, it may all happen before US fake elections.
I would not eliminate an assassination attempt on Trump, underground forces are desperate, they will try everything to create more chaos, for most Trump is disposable, even for his patrons in Occupied Palestine, they would sacrifice Trump in a second since they have lined up all US presidential candidates in their pocket or thru blackmail.
The late, great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote his poem 'Supremacy' in solidarity with America's Native Indians. Roger Waters and Le Trio Joubran participated in the making of a video of it. Here's the sonorous result:
Is it any wonder then with such a soulful connection of poet to subject matter, that the late, great Native American poet John Trudell himself was in soulful solidarity with the Palestine cause?
The best and most soulful people in America have always been Palestine supporters. And they always will be.
Since the passing of these two great poets, Palestine has become a universal symbol of injustice. A litmus test: a morality-meter for individual Americans. It doesn't matter how much Palestine history they know, it just matters that their instinctive conscience prompts their empathy and compassion.
These people are my America.
It's only fair to match up a Darwish poem with one of Trudells – really, I should have respectfully included it in the above post:
Agreed. I have left out the Palestinians in my recent posts. They are not forgotten just overshadowed at the moment. I guess they always are it seems. Whether or not people realize it, We are all Palestinians now. This is the plan and has been for years.
As the subject of poetry is on the board, please accept this contribution from a former political prisoner of 3+ years who took solace, inspiration and comfort in composing poetry.
No Permit Required
Poetry is not permitted
like when should I need to
hafta, gotta, gonna produce a permit
to commit poetry.
Poetry is a pit of passions
a penitentiary of pain
a palace of pleasure
a plenitude of power.
Why must a poetry follow the rules?
for rules are but tools, taught
to fools in schools:
There are no rules in poetry
only the company of poets
Whether committed to paper or
to institutions.
Rhyming is superseded by timing
Meter by your peter
(no saint is he
no sinner either)
Who needs to plan a poem of the soul
unless maintaining convention is your goal;
Rather let your spirit wander
letting go is not a blunder…
…When committing poetry
Love that! Thank you for sharing.
Here’s the US news release RE PM Diab stepping down >
“Lebanon’s Prime Minister To Step Aside, Clearing Way For 3rd Government In Less Than A Year – apparently, Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who rode into power as a “reformer” back in December, 2 months after an uprising brought down the previous government, has had enough: He’s stepping down with the rest of his cabinet (three ministers have already resigned). His government will soon accept “caretaker” status and saddle the Lebanese people with the responsibility of electing their third government in less than a year. Diab’s ministers had repeatedly accused the ruling class of disrupting their plans for reform. Politicians aligned with the country’s banking elite torpedoed the government’s IMF-endorsed economic program, which had been expected to dig into bank profits.”
So sorry to see Diab stepping down. I think he was a most honest man, understanding what was needed to help his nation – but unable to form a govt. strong enough to fully counter the spoilers tied to the Empire. Hopefully his stepping down for new elections will also push out many entrenched insiders – leading to a new begining. Time will show. In the meantime, strong public respect for Hezb may have further incrased – as the amazing Hassan Nasrallah strategically plays his long game > protecting national sovereignty, as the Leb carefully turns away from West-controlled shackles. Mike.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lebanons-prime-minister-step-aside-clearing-way-3rd-government-less-year
Thanks Mike. That’s one cute mishmash of facts and misfacts. Yet more facts than I expected.
The banking elites are opposed to an IMF deal? This doesn't make much sense, the IMF is all about banks and the imposition of austerity, supposedly to pay off debts. Look at what happened to Greece several years back.
Advice to Lebanon (and every other country on the planet)
DO NOT, EVER let the IMF get their claws into your finances or related policies. They will impoverish your nation and suck you dry. The IMF are vampires of the worst description.
Antoinetta III
I agree, for me IMF means losing sovereignty all together, it is slavery mode for the vast majority of the ordinary people and kingdom of heaven for the Assets grabbers.
Best and ideal economic solution for the Lebanon is a repeat of Iran-China deal, or Iraq-China deal…an exchange type of deal…the Lebanon has many oil/gas field to be explored on the coast line, sign a long term deal of exploration with China vs up front money, any sizeable money for the Lebanon will be peanuts to China, throw the Beirut port reconstruction and management for China for decades, then China gets its Med Sea port for Belt & Road, and theLebanon gets money up front, an efficient port, and huge amount of taxes coming from B&R goods passing by the Lebanon.
Any deal signed with China would break part of the long term corruption between Lebanese elites and the Western regimes…another blow to the Lebanon enemies, it would be a win win win.
The IMF is a bloody disaster for any country. You are owned. They destroy everything. I am somewhat surprised that after seeing what happens to everyone else that anyone would go along with this. You resist at all costs. The people of Lebanon must know who the jews are. They have to.
It's disgusting to me the so called leaders will allow themselves to be threatened by israel when they have Hezbollah to back them up and fight. A mystery to me. Selling out your ancestry, land, people's for "safety" which they will not receive! So few have any will to fight anymore. They have allowed the devil into their house. Putin, Orban, Duterte,Iran is doing a decent job as well a few others. It makes me sick. This all makes me sick.
I have not found any updates in the US news regarding Lebanon. A desert. Nothing to see here folks.
Antoinetta III, Good post. True. Greece was destroyed as well as so many others. I certainly hope this will not be allowed to occur by any means.Vampires indeed.
Taxi, Forgive me if I have missed pertinent information but in your opinion was PM Diab decent or not? Seems there is so much contradictory information from both sides. Seems some pro Hezbollah people on sites like him and also not.
Hassan Diab judged by his own actions: good, honest, patriotic, academic, non-politically aligned, secular and Socratic. He supports the Hezb, not so much politically or religiously, but purely as a national resistance group that provides essential and effective security for the Lebanon. A common sense realist. Not an idealist.
Ok. Thank you. That makes sense.
Nice article. This attack must be exposed.
Can you say what this is about please?
https://twitter.com/HDiabSupporters/status/1292074786395435008
Also, I don't understand why the government didn't just say: there was a fire and an explosion and we need to investigate.
AN is not dangerous! It has never exploded in warehouse storage. The warehouse was ventilated. Even if it's strange and expensive! to keep valuable AN in a port for 6 years it's exactly the same way it would be stored on a farm. All the AN disasters have occurred in a factory or in enclosed cargo holds of a ship. My "conspiracy theory" is that someone fed this information to the government and it was already planned by the people who planned the attack and control the media that they would write articles to make it sound dangerous.
Using AN as an explosive requires fuel oil and a detonator or very intense heat (not a fire near a ventilated warehouse with broken window).
Someone had obviously planned the story that would follow the attack.
Good points RR. It's suspicious that the "It's Hezbollah's fault" stories came out so fast. Similar to how back in the day the zionist media trotted out Osama bin Ladin as the culprit as soon as 9-11 happened. No proof or anything. Evidence not necessary, just accuse the patsy to fit the preplanned objectives. Hezbollah is the obvious target here. The entire Syrian war the past 9 years has been to isolate and destroy Hez. No matter what the zionist wiles, they will backfire and ultimately usher in the doom of the criminal apartheid regime occupying Palestine.
Thanks for your comment RR. The tweet you linked contains documents that claim info on the existence of AN had first landed on Diab's desk the very day of the port explosion.
I don't really have comment on this – non of the independent investigative media in the Leb have mentioned it. If it's true, it may very well come up when details and results of the investigation are made public.
Jumpy much?
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/8/8/israel-destroys-own-drone-suspecting-it-came-from-lebanese
Israel destroys own drone after mistakenly suspecting it came from Lebanon
Cloak and Dagger, LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Between now and new Leb elections, about same time as US elections, MSM will skillfully non-stop pump propaganda to push Leb voters toward Empire choices. Its so important that a great majority of Leb citizens have access to clean media reporting where everyone can hear Diab and others fully tell their story several times, including naming those who undermined and why. Does such clean media exist?.Additionally, since Leb constitution specifies PM candidates must be Sunni, who other than Diab might 'save the day?'
Yes, there is clean media in Leb, as well as trash media paid for by saudi money and dictated by the jews via the US embassy in Beirut.
Talk of Hariri returning to PM-ship is being circulated by saudi media. Whether it happens or not is another question. A sunni chief from Saida City is also being circulated by sunni media opposed to Hariri (sorry can't remember his name right now).
I doubt that Leb will be ready for new PM elections by November – I'm chucking it towards early 2021.
Howdy y’all – quick summary of the political Leb situ today:
Having yesterday scored a (overcome-able) victory with the resignation of PM Diab, opposition forces to the Aoun-Diab-Hezb now have president Aoun in their crosshairs and are aiming to force him into resignation – just like the israeli plan – all to weaken Hezbollah. Tel aviv is already claiming that hezbollah is finished lol! What these idiots don’t realize is that Aoun has massive support across the board so I can’t see how they can touch him. Also, Hezbollah has not lost any internal support or any of its missiles that remain aimed at tel aviv so I really don’t know where the coward jews get their fantasies from. Like all other Leb crisis before it, Hezbollah rides an untouchable crest. I’d love to see who’s actually willing to step up to directly face them either internally or externally. Talk is cheap. The classy act that it is, the Hezb has remained quiet and focused on helping the victims of the port explosion instead of playing politics. There will be a time for this. Diab will remain in office taking care of day-to-day issues, sans signing any new policies etc. There is no set time for a new elections yet so he remains the PM indefinitely, though with clipped wings. The sunni community has not decided on the candidates to put forward in his place. Much talk of Saad Hariri returning to govern is in the air and we will have to wait and see which way the wind blows for him. He has the task of uniting the sunnis under his flagship but this will be a difficult task as over half of them rejected him for Diab only some 9 months ago.
Articles out there that dismiss the hezb as ‘finished’ post Beirutshima and post Diab resignation are not to be taken seriously. Fact is in Lebanon, no new government can be formed without Hezbollah support, and no international support with boots on the ground can occur without Hezbollah’s approval and guarantee that they will not be attacked by the Hezb. So, you see, shekeled journalists who are pushing the story of the demise of the Hezb and the breakup of Leb etc don’t understand how the country works: without Hezbollah’s hand in shaping the future of the Leb, nothing can be imposed or constituted.
The hezbollah are pretty much, as it stands, untouchable – both locally and regionally. Not even ten Beirutshimas in a single day can touch the hezb.
Even nature is supporting the Leb: we’ve had a couple of short summer showers these past couple of days with warning of acid rain in the initial first two showers; and this morning an all mighty fresh rain storm fell for about 1.5 hours to clean up much of the dust and debris caused by Beirutshima. Right now my lungs are full of the wonderful negative irons released after the rains.
Charities across the nation and individual volunteers continue their humanitarian work: helping the victims of Beirutshima recover and regain their losses and dignity.
Of course! I would wounder if they didn't publish such BS. I assume the so-called "international verdict" to be announced soon on Rafiq Hariri assassination will also be part of the ongoing psyop.
I agree with Amal Saad on this:
They’ll get there. Eventually. After the big war. Because EVERYTHING will be changed then. EVERYTHING.
Agreed. I guess I should't even say it but it seems pretty dismal at the moment. Is it true what Mike-Florida wrote that the candidates for PM must be Sunni? Where the hell did this come from? How can that be right? I never knew this. I find that to be awful.
The savage French colonialist kleptos, upon being forced out of the Lebanon by Leb resistors when France surrendered to Germany during WW2, left Lebanon with a warped constitutional legacy based on confessional divisions that gave Christians (the majority at the time) the presidential office, with PM-ship given to sunnis (2nd largest majority at the time), and shias (3rd largest minority at the time) getting leadership of Parliament. Of course, by now, arguably, the shias have become a close majority in Lebanon. This French legacy of course much suited the political elite families who’ve more or less been running the show at its most corrupt for the past 30 years: the time when the (later assassinated) Rafic Hariri took office, and his seat of power was posthumously passed to his malleable, bimbo son, Saad. The Leb protestors who took to the streets last autumn were demanding a total dumping of the French legacy from their constitution and an installing of a ‘one man, one vote’ system. Diab was a supporter of this constitutional overhaul, but never got to that file as he first drowned in the financial corruption file that was more of an immediate priority. The Hezb btw supports a ‘one man, one vote’ initiative. It is Christian Lebanon that resists the change as they intend to hold on to the allotted presidential seat despite them no longer being a clear majority.
Golden Rule: Your suspicions about Ian Greenhalgh, the behind the scenes shot-caller at VT are spot-on, according to my recent experience with him. In the first place he is an extreme egotist and tends to be mendaciously envious towards anyone he might (consciously or unconsciously) feel to be his intellectual and theoretical equal or (shudder) superior. He is a Brit-twit–probably lowland Scots to judge by the name–and at least tacitly claims superior insight and judgement in matters of international consideration.
My experience with Greenhalgh emanated from an e.m. I sent to Gordon Duff, chiding him for some relatively minor faux pas. To my surprise, response came from Greenhalgh and after my initial response to his protestations, a seconding one from Duff. Duff's claim is that he is a former officer in the U$ Marine Corps, but was a native of South Africa. In further e.m. conversations with that pair, the usual respondent was Greenhalgh. So my surmise is that Duff is either his alter-ego or designated faceman. Upshot was that in a huff, Greenhalgh (not Duff) informed me that I was "cut off"–from exactly what, I do not know or care to know, as his actions evidenced that there is something very fishy about the VT site.
My current probability factoring assessment on VT is that it is a limited-hangout, a modus operandi frequently used by "intelligence" types. True, they do publish some useable information and a few writers and analysts of some merit. My current take is that these contributors provide a friendly face
which serves to mask the underlying agenda. I would like further input from Golden Rule and other posters who have had occasion to tune into Veterans Today. Perhaps by way of conjoint investigations and assessments we can all come to a composite determination as to the reality of that site.
Somewhat in accordance with Greenhalgh's threat to circumcise me as a correspondent and/or habitue' of their site; I have since that incident, chose to no longer waste my time in any form of communion with VT. Correspondingly, James Fetzer, the publisher of some excellent books on the 911 Inside Job, the CIA assassination of JFK (probably the best treatment out there on that subject) and the most thoroughgoing expose' of the Boston Marathon false-flag Fema exercise; had a falling-out some years back with VT. One of my upcoming tasks will be to contact Dr. Fetzer to obtain some particulars of the why's and the wherefores.
Great information Majority of One. Thank you so much for sharing. After spending quite a bit time on that site several years back and figuring out which writers were worthwhile and finding other sites to read them, I quit going there much. I only go back for Jonas Alexis at this point because he is the only person I can’t find anywhere else.
Taxi – if you have a chance to read through some of his stuff (he’s super prolific) and you like it, maybe you could introduce him to Ron Unz? It’s fine if Jonas wants to continue to write at VT, but like Gilad, he should branch out.
Majority of One – I agree that there is something weird about the editors and maybe it is a limited hangout. Ironically, one of the things I liked about the site was learning more about such concepts as limited hangout.
Another thing that surprised me about VT is that the editors all have Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s fine to see all of his faults and to speculate on other faults that may be hidden, but TDS fucks up the person who has it.
I despise Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and anyone else who thinks they should be able to control me, inject me with their fucking poisons and deny me therapies that work.
I also despise Judaism for its complete hypocrisy. The ADL is a hate group. The SPLC is a hate group. Judaism itself is by Talmudic definition the most Supremacist hate group on the planet.
And yet I don’t have Gates Derangement Syndrome, Fauci Derangement Syndrome or even Jew Derangement Syndrome because it is important for me to think clearly and to be in charge of my own mind and emotions.
Like everyone on earth, I suffer because of the Jews, but I still don’t have Jew Derangement Syndrome.
Jew Derangement Syndrome. Now that’s a new one on me, but fully understood as some people are congenitally incapable of maintaining an open mind, bringing us to the semantic difference between prejudice and discrimination. Back in the early 60’s boobtoob noose commentators did everything they were told to do to make discrimination the equivalent of prejudice. In all truth, they essentially opposites, as in my own personal case where I have much respect for Ron Unz, Gilad Atzmon, Derek Menuhin and others whom I regard as noble Jews. When living in major cities I had a number of Jewish friends (obviously individuals who had nothing against Goys) but since 1973 became a back to the lander homesteader (as a single man) and in my relatively impoverished rural county there are precious few Jews because of both cultural and economic factors.
Interestingly, rural America is almost totally bereft of its natural leadership as almost all those with get up and go, got up and gone. Thus the power of the fun’s-dirty-mentalists of the Judy-Christy magicmindfuck mentality has been amplified throughout much of rural America.
At least my particular area does not suffer from the embedding of very many of those terminally bewildered moronic oxen (much like “political” science) who call themselves “Christian” Zioni$ts and follow the egregious James Hagee outta Fort Worthle$$, Texas. In fact much of the South, again bereft of its natural leadership. is heavily Southernfried Baptist and Pineywoods Pentacostals …easy pickins for boobtoob evangelists with their hands always out to relieve half-demented widow ladies of hard-earned family money.
Sorry GRP but am not a fan of Jonas Alexis – okay admittedly I’ve only read a handful of his articles but I just didn’t gel with him for the following reasons: he swaggers more than he analyzes and he misses nuances all over the place. As a non-journalist myself, I can’t be bothered reading articles by journalists who know less than I do.
VT is very likely a ‘limited hangout’. Personally, I follow writers not rags.
TRUE STORY: I had VT people contact me a few years back assuming that I, being a US citizen and already living in Lebanon can help them get into Syria if they landed in Beirut. I don’t know what the hell they thought I was – probably thought I was undercover intel (like they are?), which I get every now and then from idiots – which of course is laughable as I live right smack in Hezb land mainly because I hate israel so freaking much and been writing shit about israel for a good decade before I moved to south Leb. Also, I live as an open book here and I even have a (unseen) resistance security cell monitoring and guarding my hill day and night, the same way other village hills are monitored and guarded. And as it happens, the village nearest to me has a couple of retired army Generals in it and I asked one of them to meet the VT team in Beirut to check them out. The retired Leb General did meet them, even gave them an interview, but did not facilitate their entry into war-torn Syria. He said to me later: “they’re a very strange bunch – I couldn’t define them clearly so I didn’t help them get into Syria”.
And btw, VT never did publish the interview they did with my ex-General neighbor.
About Veterans Today, I used to correspond regularly with Gordon Duff and Jim Dean ten years ago. They were quite open about being intel. The figure they were closest to was Brzezinski. Duff especially was important to my education. I had to stop thinking like an academic and start thinking like a spy. The most important thing to look into is, Cui bono? (Good to see that Taxi, a major asset of Lebanon, knows this.) Duff also mentioned the civility amongst intel people even on opposite sides, that one could speak frankly with them. I was a big fan of Israel Shamir. Duff saw him as Mossad, and told me to look for signs that showed this was not a solitary person but a committee. (I recently called out Shamir as Mossad in a comment to a Shamir article at Unz attempting to make light of Epstein's crimes.) It's important to see VT as an intel op that finds supoort as anti-Zionist but pro-globalist. Knowing who they are, one can make use of them. My contacts with them came to an end when they tried to recruit my voice in support of the invasion of Libya.
Hey I ain’t no nobody’s “asset”. Nobody’s putting any memos or dollars on my table lol! I am just a private citizen and a close-up witness who is simply sharing my local info and observations with my compatriots and internet friends – I go back some two decades as a prolific commentator on the Palestine issue: my regular readers have known me for that length of time from old internet hangouts (before I got banned from them). Sure I support the regional anti israel brigade, but this is purely because of my total and soulful alignment with the Palestine cause – even from way back as a tween. When Palestine is liberated (which I intend to witness from south Lebanon), I aim to move away from south Lebanon and to live in the liberated Golan. Another Levantean heaven worth experiencing in my book.
Oh and btw, Gilad tells me that his friend told him that Shamir is himself a pedo, hence his defense of Epstein in the article you mention. I discussed Shamir’s article with Gilad via email like 10-12 days ago.
Taxi, one doesn't have to spell out that you are not a paid asset. There is a straightforward meaning to the term before the metaphorical use of it in the intelligence context. If I had to draw up a balance sheet of Lebanon's assets, Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah would be at the top. But you too would be somewhere on the list. I had tried to find out more about your background but it's difficult. I assume you are Lebanese by background, though you seem to be an American citizen. I am of course curious about your biography. I have to confess that though I have read some of your stuff over the years, and even have a bookmark for your website, I had only read your articles but not the comments on your website. After the blast I thought, let me see what that chap who does Plato's Guns has to say. I was pleasantly surprised to discover in the comments that you're no chap. If there's some place where you have written about yourself, do give a link.
I’d be honored to be a Leb citizen, dear Sarz, but I’m not. I’m a south Cal beach babe – ex Hollywood screenwriter. However, I did spend some four years of my childhood living in the Leb in the early 1970’s (my dad’s work took us there) – old timers of my blog already know this – so I do have some past orientation towards the Lebanon. After the Leb, my family and I lived in the Uk for a good two decades, thereafter I moved back to Venice Beach, and from there back here to the south of Leb. Always, while living overseas, one or two trips per year to California were regularly undertaken.
I began blogging on the 12th September, 2001: one day after the event of 9/11, and I haven’t stopped since. Even if you knew my real name, you will still hardly find any personal info on me on the internet as I’ve never been someone who enjoys the limelight or talks much about self in other’s company – I am both socially and camera shy, hence my semi-reclusive lifestyle.
And you do give me waaaaay more credit than I feel I deserve when you declare me as a top Lebanon asset – there are Arabic-speaking analysts in Lebanon who would just blow me out of the water with their knowledge and smarts. Really, I’m just doing what any self-respecting, justice-loving, lies-hating person would do in this dangerously fucked up world. And btw, I did not even instigate the recent appearance of my articles at the Unz: my good friend, the great poet Linh Dinh did by forwarding my recent articles to Mr. Ron Unz without my consultation first. Mr. Unz read Plato’s and subsequently requested (via email) permission to republish and I felt somewhat obliged so as not to embarrass Linh after all his great attempts over the years: Linh had previously attempted to get me to write to Mr. Unz and make article submissions and I’d declined to do so – never wanting the attention and all that.
There’s really not much more to say about myself. I know it’s skeletal, but I think this skeleton is meaty enough.
Majority and Taxi – thank you for your great replies!
Sorry for being absent for almost 2 weeks. I've been getting in every day or two to catch up on the lastest comments and news shared.
After writing about Jew Derangement Syndrome (as being something like Trump Derangement Syndrome) I felt like I might be on to something, but I also wasn't satisfied with the concept or metaphor.
I still don't quite know what I am talking about when I say I don't have Jew Derangement Syndrome or Trump Derangement Syndrome. But it has occurred to me since I made up the JDS concept that the people who suffer from JDS are first and foremost Jews. They are deranged with their belief in themselves. Secondly, all the self-hating gentiles (which really it's just whites that have become self-hating on behalf of the jews) have JDS.
I don't know if JDS is a worthwhile concept or not, but whatever it is, it afflicts Jews and their idiotic Goy followers.
Taxi – the info about Jonas is very interesting. I think I understand what you're saying. I'll read him more carefully going forward.
Sarz, Taxi – incredible info about your contacts with them. And Shamir making light of Epstein – I missed that. Wow.
In any case, I'm going to comment at the bottom of the thread here in a bit to ask for help and/or report on what I am doing as I enter the next phase of trying to wake up the Jews around me to the fact that they are the biggest racists and supremacists of all. Right now they're all convinced that I am a horrible anti-Semite. Even my poor wife is wavering under the onslaught.
I am going to look into things that came out of Nuremberg (there was some good from those trials, though much less than I originally was led to believe). Things like the immorality of "collective guilt". I will ask why it is that if Jews can't be collectively guilty, why can Whites? If Israeli's can't be collectively guilty, then why do Jews get to treat Palestinians as one guilty group?
Thanks, GRP. Yours is not an enviable family situation. Very difficult indeed. Judaists behave just like cult members: the ideology is more important than family unity. Really, there should be support groups for people like you: people whose family members have been brainwashed/taken hostage by the talmudic cult. I have said before that whoever starts de-brainwashing centers across the US that specifically work with de-zionifying clients will make a fortune once israel has been wiped out and zionism has been exposed as a worse mental sickness than fascism and racism combined.
Perhaps an ex-jew Plato reader who’s already escaped the tribe after much family upheaval can give you advice to help you better deal with your situation? They can email me privately at [email protected] and I can then connect the both of you. Or maybe they can respond publicly to you here on Platos.
It takes much courage and emotional energy and spine to stand where you are, GRP. I commend you for sticking to your position and I wish you all the luck in the world as you navigate through the dirtiest of waters ahead. Safe arrival, dear GRP.
Dear God, as I start looking into Nuremberg, I’m seeing that in fact “collective guilt” was used as a concept to punish all Nazis. And from there, all Germans are guilty of Naziism, just as all (white) Americans are guilty of slavery.
Whenever Jews are involved, you can be sure logic and ethics will be turned firmly on their heads.
ROFL!
The latest effort from Mr Crotchety Pants:
Israel, Hezbollah, Sworn Enemies, Have Vested Interest in Lying About Beirut Attack
An excerpt:
Severious doubt about that narrative…sounds an awful lot like finger-pointing at Hezbollah by those who would prefer to see the primary defenders of the Lebanese people and state be taken out of the picture.
Hezbollah's intel operations are quite sufficient to be fully aware of that alleged stash of ammonium nitrate at a portion of the port which was controlled by a muddle of gangsters/politicians who were absolutely no friends of the H.
Why would the most feared by the Israelis resistance organization possibly store munitions in a facility where they have no control or even input? Makes no sense whatsoforever when you consider the fact that they are storing thousands of Zionista-bound missiles deeply underground in southern Lebanon in shelters which are impervious to Israeali air-strikes.
No matter what kinda name a given poster uses on this or most any site, my suspicionometer ululates louder than an air-raid siren when, particularly after such a tragedy as just hit Beirut, the only ones who should be assaulted on this site are those who are the most probable perps and who currently celebrating yet another blood-offering to their tribal WarGod, Yahweh.
The jewy press in terrorist tel aviv is flooded with wishful thinking about the current weaknesses of the Hezb post Beirutshima. And when I say "flooded" I mean like wow the deluge of lies is cartoonishly massive. More lies about the Hezb than even about the Nazis during WW2 lol! I mean the brainwashed civilian jews of israel are so convinced that the hezb are weak now that they're applauding their army reinforcing their northern border overnight with even MORE tanks?! Let them put the whole of the idf and its machinery on the border all they like. Hezb's silence evidently remains like ants in the idf's Pampers-stuffed khakis. Their tanks will receive the same treatment as they did back in 2006: an explosive death. For those who don't know, the lauded israeli Merkavas got a big smash up in several south Leb valleys during the 2006 war and these valleys are now known to the Leb natives as 'Merkava cemeteries'.
Investigations into the corruption and neglect behind Beirutshima have progressed and a total of 18 persons involved are now under arrest. I won't bother giving details yet as the investigation is still fluent and ongoing. But I will give commentary on it once the investigation has been completed.
On the other hand, investigations into the port explosion being an israeli terrorist attack is taking place too, but with zero leaks to the media. Obviously, this is a most sensitive issue for both Hezb and Leb military intels. Do they compare notes behind closed doors? No doubt they do.
After Macron‘s old-colonial style speech now European old-colonial style Gunboats at shores
British „HMS Enterprise“, French „Tonnerre“, German „Ludwigshafen am Rhein“ all gathered at Port of Beirut. The European Trio are insisting that these warships and their military personnel are there to ease the „Humanitarian Aid“ to Lebanon.
Macron has promised to visit Beirut again in September and look into the political process in the country.
The Germans were already there as weapons inspectors in the port. The other arrivals are small and symbolic (carrying peanut aid to Leb with them) and represent easy floating targets for the Axis of Resistance should they misbehave. They really don’t represent a threat to the Resistance – all colonial warships are sinkable with Hezb weapons. The foreign ships are there to allay israel’s ongoing fear of Hezbollah (presently hiding behind their glee), especially post Beirutshima.
You’ll see for yourself how in a handful of days – after the 18th August and the announcement of the verdict of the Harriri assassination – you’ll see how the jewish media would have run out of lies to spread about the hezb and their nervous jitters will be publicly returning in full technicolor spectrum.
No doubt the Axis of Evil is cooking up something ‘special’ for Lebanon on the day of the verdict announcement. Whatever chaos and bloodshed they’re planning, the Hezbollah will remain standing upright. I cannot stress enough to you how powerful the Hezb is both domestically and locally. If protests by Hezb supporters were to show their numbers on the street today, they would instantly wipe out the paid-by-US-embassy antifa on the streets of Beirut today. The eclectic MASSIVE in number supporters of the Hezb in Lebanon have remained quiet thus far, but they will make their presence known when the Hezb decides it’s strategically and politically opportune to do so.
I’d like to add that I don’t mean to downplay the sudden and unusual appearance of foreign navies in Leb’s waters, especially that of the vile and treacherous UK (under the pretense of bringing a pitiful €5,000.000 as aid for Beirutshima!). In my mind, this may be linked to evil preparations for the 18th August Hariri assassination verdict announcement. And I just called my next-village neighbor who’s a retired General for clarification on this – he didn’t answer his phone but he watsapped me saying he can’t talk now cuz he’s just had a tooth pulled out (ouch!). I’ll share what he says when he calls me back.
Anywayz, the Hezb will have the presence of these warships in Leb waters covered. This is 100% certain, whatever the reason may be.
As I've mentioned upthread: Hezbollah's (limited) retaliation against israel for killing one of its fighters in Syria 3 weeks ago still stands – it's still a-coming. And I wanted to also add that the Axis of Resistance's military plan to liberate Historic Palestine remains very much on the table as a mega-top priority, despite the distracting headlines coming out of Lebanon, Syria, and other mideast hotspots. Not forgetting here also that the project of evicting the US military from Syria and Iraq in the next handful of months also remains very much on the the Axis of Resistance's table. And add here also the wild card of Hezbollah's retaliation against Beirutshima, which no doubt will now also be included in the Axis of Resistance's war theater configuration.
A convergence of all the above reactive military projects between now and the end of 2020 is highly likely. There is so much palpable heat in the Levant right now as to burn off the wings of any passing eagle. And this heat is on the increase with no sign of it abating.
What keeps the eviction of US forces from taking place today are the following:
1- waiting on the US elections in early November, just in case Biden wins and his policy in Iraq is one of peaceful withdrawal. This would save resistor and civilian lives, and saving native lives is the preferred route of the Axis of Resistance.
2- waiting on the new Iraqi PM to be done with negotiating the US exit from his nation: a peaceful exit and not a humiliating one that takes place under Resistance fire. I'm hearing from reliable sources that this 'civil exit' is by America's request, having sent the Iraqi PM numerous letters to this effect. But… if no such peaceful exit-action is forthcoming from the US soon after the November elections, then the combined Axis of Resistance will begin initiating military battles directly against the US – and they won't stop till the US is out of Iraq and Syria.
… The liberation of Historic Palestine may possibly occur in tandem too. The Axis of Resistance strategists are not distracted by Beirutshima: the liberation of Historic Palestine remains the 'be all and end all' military cause for them. No satanic blood-ritual by israeli rabbis and their idf followers can stop or reverse this steely focus. The jews may very well trigger WW3 AFTER their loss of Palestine, in the hope of re-entry into the holy land. But not even WW3 will reverse the inevitable eviction of the terrorist klepto jews from Historic Palestine.
Taxi, I mentioned above some reasons for considering Trump to be an ultra-Zionist Jew. The Adelsons had not so much bought him as worshipped him. Miriam said he should get his own book in the future Jewish bible, like Queen Esther. It seems to me that Sheldon Adelson's reported telephone quarrel has to do with the attack on Beirut. Adelson wants Trump to destroy Hezbollah before the election when payback for the nuke attack is carried out. Trump feels his reelection comes first. So Adelson is holding back his support. It's because Trump does not want a war for Israel before the election that he came out with the surprising admission that his generals had told him it was an attack. If it was an attack, of course it was Israel. Adelson is peeved that ultra-Zionist Trump is putting aside his ultra-Zionism temporarily, for electoral purposes. When he loses it will be too late. As Hitler observed, the big Jews who were pushing for a supposed homeland had no intention of living there; what they wanted was a base for their criminality with sovereign immunity. The biggest big-Jews are not overly sentimental. Israel is proving to be a liability for big-Jew big-money. Interesting times.
Thanks Sarz. Sounds like a fight between jews who love money more than they love israel, versus the jews who love israel more than they love money. Both will be broke and refugeed when Historic Palestine is liberated.
If your most believable story is true, then too bad that Trump refused to comply with decrepit Adleson. I don’t see any reason for further delaying the inevitable BIG WAR – especially post the Beirutshima attack. And the jews are idiots to think that they can for a second hide behind America’s shrinking apron once this war ignites. Regardless of America’s involvement in the defense of israel in the next war, Resistance missiles and rockets will rain non-stop on tel aviv till there is no more (stolen) evil jewish capital.
And I’m not warmongering here, I’m just wanting the highly-stressed region to get off the next-israel-war-cliffhanger already.
Sarz, Excellent post once again. You are right on the money I believe.
Interesting, appears that the khazars are desperate to get wiped out………
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/11/631566/Three-Israeli-tanks-cross-border-fence-to-enter-Lebanese-territory
Thanks, Whozhear. I kinda mentioned the extra israeli tank maneuvers at the border in my morning comment today (I think 1st or 2nd comment) – but I guess I didn’t detail it enough. I really appreciate you linking us to the story.
I think this is just the puerile israelis testing the waters with their tiniest of toes, unable to bare Hezbollah’s retaliation clock ticking oh so very silently. What’s to indicate that the retaliation will take place at the israel-Leb border – now post Beirutshima? It could be that the Hezb will bring down the next israeli jet attempting to strike in Syria: firing at it to death from outside of Lebanese territory. The Hezb has missiles strategically placed in Syria – and – shock of all shocks, in Gaza too (shshshsh!). This way the retaliatory violence occurs as far away from Hezbollah’s nest as possible.
Who’s to say where the retaliation will take place and what target of significance will be chosen?
Heck! What the fuck do I know?! Heh! I just try and think like what I think a Hezb strategist would think. Know waddamean?!
That aside, it’s a list of targets that the Hezb has in hand, not just one single target option in a fixed location. This is how professional war strategists work.
To bomb China from Diego Garcia with B-2s is fraught with danger, so this flight of 3 B-2s is either a PR ploy or they will do runs into the ME………
https://www.kadena.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2309915/b2-spirit-stealth-bombers-deploy-to-diego-garcia-in-support-of-bomber-task-force/
Whozhear my friend, 100% PR and waste of tax money, it is a show of idiocy and not strength. China has effective AA that can shoot down any Empire of Chaos long range bomber, China has advanced systems near Sri Lanka for years now…why…to check on Diego Garcia. Sometimes the US military seems to be really playing dumb.
Canthama, Agreed. It is a show. It is highly obnoxious however and has to stop. Screw this! I wish someone would finally smack them and then let's see if they continue this crap.
Taxi,
Once again I am behind on comments which contain much info. I am catching up. I have mentioned before reading similar comments to yours from people in the region that all of you have confidence that Hezbollah retaliation WILL happen. I, on the other hand am very nervous.
What the hell is this about Saad Hariri coming back? It’s too much. How can this even be floated? It shouldn’t even be allowed to be printed much less entertained.
If Trump gets in or not, I see Kamala Harris doing exactly what she is told to do and the Israeli assault on the world will continue.
There will be no civil exit from Iraq. I too know people that served in the US military and it won’t happen. They have no intention of leaving unless they are made to leave. This is a lie.
I would love for Palestine to be liberated. I have wanted this for years and things just get worse.
You say that the Axis of Resistance will begin but I have heard this for years also. Russia, Syria have stated they will retaliate “if they are attacked one more time” hasn’t happened. Sure, they fight off attacks but they are never on the offense, always defense.
TAXI says:
If your most believable story is true, then too bad that Trump refused to comply with decrepit Adleson. I don’t see any reason for further delaying the inevitable BIG WAR – especially post the Beirutshima attack. And the jews are idiots to think that they can for a second hide behind America’s shrinking apron once this war ignites. Regardless of America’s involvement in the defense of israel in the next war, Resistance missiles and rockets will rain non-stop on tel aviv till there is no more (stolen) evil jewish capital.
And I’m not warmongering here, I’m just wanting the highly-stressed region to get off the next-israel-war-cliffhanger already.
Delighted to read this. I agree. I don’t want this war to happen but it seems it will. You state that “Resistance missiles and rockets will rain non-stop on tel aviv”….I think they will need allies in this fight to make that happen.
Does Hezbollah have the allies?
This post is coming from fear. If we don’t have those that are currently fighting, we’re all screwed.
You know what? All this waiting isn't helping anything. As Hezbollah, Russia, Syria, Iran, etc keep waiting for the perfect scenario, the other side is building up their side and plan as well. Russia has ever encroaching enemy forces on their borders.
Obviously, the US/Israel is "going for it". Their big push. No one can afford to wait.
Russia's move with Crimea was brilliant as was their skirmish with Georgia (it was riveting) These current events however don't seem to be going well at all in my opinion. Time will tell. I pray I'm wrong. Unfortunately, I have a strong sense of impending doom.
Thanks for your comments, Pamela. The situation in Syria with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah there is not the same as the situation between Leb and Israel. They are profoundly related but not the same equation. Russia is not a member of the Axis of Resistance, for one.
The Axis of Resistance’s first tier members are the nations of Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus the non-state actors in the shape of the Houthis, Hezbollah (and all other Leb resistances), Islamic Jihad, Hamas (and all other Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria), add to that Resistance groups native to Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and also Pakistan and Malaysia – plus a second tier of Resistance support by the nations of Algiers and Tunisia (Egypt and Jordan would join with them once they saw for themselves tel aviv half demolished), as well as about a half a million ready shia fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Simplified, the liberation of Historic Palestine is in the combined hands of several nation armies as well as the above resistance groups, otherwise altogether known as the Axis of Resistance – now all sharing a unified war theater specifically for this purpose and only the singular purpose of liberating Historic Palestine.
I don’t think I need to tell you who the Axis of Evil is :-).
I too feel a sense of impending doom – for both sides – this is the nature of war. The point is that when the dust settles, the natives will get back up on their feet like they’ve done before throughout history to rebuild, whereas the invading euro jews will not return to the middle east for at least another hundred years – and when they do, it will not be as jewish supremicists and violent invaders, but merely as religious visitors with no military or political muscle.
I estimate that this war of liberation will be short and exceptionally violent. And if israel’s (blackmailed) Western allies step into the war fray after the fall of tel aviv, then so will Russia and China too as the Levant is extremely vital for both eastern nations’ trade and national security. Thus a WW3 scenario; which I’m still on the fence about it actually happening for a variety of reasons, specially those reasons to do with dangerous economic and political instabilities now taking place in pretty much all the Western Hemisphere nations.
War is the most expensive indulgence known to man. Impossible to win a war when your coffers dry up and there’s no reliable source to fill them up again and in perpetuity. A regional war in the mideast will not break the economic spine of the world, but a WW3 involving giant and midget nations will.
I actually see the West abandoning israel on its death bed. Why would the West COMPLETELY destroy its own nations by willingly going to a WW3 scenario if they’re already broke and not guaranteed a victory themselves and israel is already dead? Where’s the money in a pile of rubble? And tel aviv will be that pile of rubble. And, no one fears a pile of rubble.
The Axis of Resistance will burn down the synagogue of satan’s headquarters in tel aviv in our lifetime. Liberation of Palestine is also the liberation of so very many nations occupied from within by jews who answer to a monster called tel aviv.
Yes, there is doom in war. But there is also rebirth.
Taxi,
Thank you for your response and I want to state once again I truly enjoy your writing. That being said I question your response ( I know you don’t care what people think. Good)
I realize Russia is not officially part of the Axis of Resistance. It doesn’t matter as they are essential to the fight. In addition, these battles are being fought at their doorstep. If their neighbors go down Russia is surrounded with no buffer. These countries NEED Russia as far as I can tell.
I must say The Axis of Resistance has not done a good job defending and aiding Palestine. The atrocities committed there by Israel have been ongoing and devastating for decades. No real resistance has helped assist them. I don’t need to tell you anything. They continue to lose land, settlements, olive groves, water, their offspring, any true means of survival.
Everyone points to history. History isn’t necessarily applicable any longer. There are new and flashy weapons, drones, technology and traitors galore!
As far as money goes…this is a loser. They just keep printing it which is fine because it means less and less. Money is artificial. This is about power. They don’t care anymore. They are doing what they want. The Final push. They want us gone.
Jews want to erase history. They want to claim everything as their own. They despise White Europeans more than anyone else and want to be the "White Race". They will never be. They are ugly. Physically ugly. They are thieves and murderers. They have no sense of beauty, aesthetic. No sense of real joy and happiness. They will never be White.
I don’t see the West abandoning Israel because Israeli officials have government appointments in every western country. They are on Israeli’s side with no allegiance to their host nation. This is also a huge difference from the past. They loathe everyone that much. They are Satan.
The West has already destroyed its own nations. They have flooded Europe with untold and obscene amounts of third world garbage. They would need to be expelled immediately. Have you ever read The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail? I am certain you have. We are living it.
I am waiting for the rebirth but I fear it will only come in our dreams.
I agree, and so very well put. I am unable to reply to Pamela's reply but I think Russia will not go to war with the US over Syria (and vice-versa). Even though it's relatively small fighting force and air defenses in Syria are very able, they would simply be overwhelmed by a CENTCOM saturation missile attack, albeit at significant cost to the attacker. Per her defensive constitution Russia has avoided direct confrontation with US/NATO in Syria for years, whilst simultaneously helping Syria to incrementally regain her territory, the last areas of which are being achieved with incredible patience. Taxi I was always hopeful that what you indicate above for Israel could happen in my lifetime, and with the hegemon collapsing at increasing speed I now believe it is possible. One thing is for sure – the more the anglozionists commit cruel desperate acts of self-preservation, the more they backfire and the faster they sink. Kia kaha. TEP.
Thank you TEP. To reply to a comment that does not have a ‘reply button’, simply scroll up and use the nearest ‘reply button’ in the comment thread. This will insert your comment right below the one you wish to reply to.
“Kia kaha” – how I love this phrase.
Thank you for your many comments, Pamela
If there is no israel, there is no "israeli officials" to fear. Think about that.
Printing more money out of nothing does not make a nation wealthy, nor does it win wars. Productivity is what makes a nation rich. And strategy is ultimately what wins wars.
You overestimate the enemy, and underestimate the Resistance.
Israel is NOT invincible. Hezbollah alone can smash up israel, let alone what the combined Axis of Resistance is capable of.
The US too is NOT invincible. Deadly, yes, but not invincible.
Your post is literally saying: it's hopeless, it's impossible to defeat evil. There is no place for defeatism in the hearts and minds of righteous fighters. Lucky for the Resistance that you are not one of their leaders.
Sure it's horrendously costly to go to war with evil, but once the price is accepted, the possibilities for victory become evident. The Axis of Resistance is pickled in the culture of martyrdom. This is one vital weapon that evil cannot manufacture or steal.
The war in Syria going too slow for you? The Axis of Resistance hasn't done enough for Palestine? Wow, Pamela. I fear you have but a kamakazi understanding of the strategies of warfare.
The bigger the enemy, that more care and patience that needs applying.
All usurped land can be liberated. History is littered with such events. Especially in the middle east.
Most jews in the world today are euro converts to judaism. Sorry to tell you but they're white – not black, not Chinese, not Red Indians, not Mongolian and certainly not middle eastern. They claim they are not white, just like you are claiming, but they're physically, certifiably white alright. Some of their arses are even whiter than yours and mine.
Sometimes I wonder if most everyone is part of the evil plan.
TAXI says:
Most jews in the world today are euro converts to judaism. Sorry to tell you but they're white – not black, not Chinese, not Red Indians, not Mongolian and certainly not middle eastern. They claim they are not white, just like you are claiming, but they're physically, certifiably white alright. Some of their arses are even whiter than yours and mine.
Jews are certainly not White they're a mongrelized group made up of long dead Semitic lines, Turkish and Arab admixture and Slavs from the Caucus areas. White has a very specific context. The “White Race” is simply an umbrella term for the numerous nations that a share a distinct genetic and cultural similarity with one another. Something Jews have never been apart or nor will they ever be no matter how long they have resided within the borders of these host countries. If you question this, I have to wonder why? This is well known to anyone who has taken a long and serious look into just “who” the Jews actually are. They’re basically a false, rootless people.
“Jews are certainly not White they’re a mongrelized group made up of long dead Semitic lines…”. I’m sorry but I have to laugh at your preposterous definition of who the jews are, which btw I’ve seen before shared between idiots on the net. Moreover, sans the word “mongrelized”, WHITE euro converts to judaism aggressively push exactly the same fake story of them being non-white all over the place in their attempt to justify their theft of Palestine.
And no, I will not give you my time on this question by debating or detailing who the jews are. Suffice it to say you’ve obviously not read their history – clearly you know nothing of the origins of Arab jews (the semitic ones), and the completely separate history of non-semitic, euro khazar converts to judaism, who are a majority of the jews today and who currently rule the jewish universe via tel viv.
Please do not litter my personal blog with nonsense. I’ve been known to shut it down on commenters who do just that.
taxi, thank you for your insights, always much appreciated. i've been following you for a year after canthama suggested platoguns on syper. i'm wondering if you have any thoughts on the article in the asia times on the leb & the sightings of 3 planes? which you also heard? i'm foolishly hopeful that it may indicate AT is beginning to open its publication. (i've noted that pepe standardly publishes his more radical articles elsewhere.)
Thank you for visiting, dear Emersonreturn.
What I heard were three booms, I did not see jets. And one of the booms may have been an echo. I say this because I know people who were much closer to ground zero than I was who heard only two booms. This is why for me to engage in the 'how' of it all before the investigation results are concluded is somewhat time-wasting.
And regarding the Asia Times. Not all their articles are on the money, but I actually think they publish more worthy and informative articles than does any other Western MSM rag.
Also, Every article everywhere just talks about the harsh condemnation of attacks. "Russia slammed the US for their recent comments…" Iran says " The US statement on is xyz is unacceptable!" UN has "Severe disapproval" for Israel. Blah, blah, blah.
All talk, little action. Meanwhile, Syria suffers more fatalities everyday as has Palestine, Iraq, Yemen and now Lebanon.
This is getting us nowhere. Hit the bastards back and bomb them into oblivion. That's what I say. Talk is cheap and it's deadly. Fight back or let it be done. This is just a slow and painful death anyway.
Up coming Elijah's article, yet to be published publicly.
"How Israel views the Beirut explosion and Hezbollah’s involvement
By Elijah J. Magnier:
“Hezbollah controls the Harbour of Beirut and is knowledgeable of everything happening in it. It uses its influence to smuggle its shipments through and prefers to keep these shipments at the harbour to prevent Israel from bombing them.”
“Hezbollah controls Lebanon and forced the choice of General Michel Aoun as a President and of Hassan Diab as a Prime Minister. Moreover, through its influence in the parliament and the cabinet, it is enforcing protection of its arsenal and of its presence as a powerful armed organisation”.
“Israel will use its influence to prevent any financial support from reaching Lebanon unless it is conditioned on the disarming and dissolution of Hezbollah and prevention of its participation in the forthcoming Lebanese government”.
“The international community should prevent Iran from helping Lebanon to reconstruct its infrastructure or to offer financial support to the country; it should keep tight control over all cash flows reaching the government.”
“The international community should prevent Iran from taking advantage of the weakness of Lebanon and stop it from helping the Lebanese.”
Israeli media, military analysts and official commanders commented in these terms on the Beirut harbour explosion of 4th August. The explosion was caused by negligence and lack of regard for public safety. 2,755 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) – classified as dangerous goods– were left at the harbour in 2013 while local officials and judges threw the ball of responsibility at one another until it exploded. The AN (NH4NO3) widely used as fertiliser but is also a component in many types of mining explosives if mixed with fuel oil or detonated by an explosive charge. AN does not burn on its own but acts as a source of oxygen to accelerate the burning of other materials. It is the rapid release of gases that causes an explosion if an intense fire ignites nearby. This is indeed what happened: at Beirut harbour, several tons of ignited combustible materials were left and firefighters tried to control the fire that had started an hour before someone realised it.
Israeli Foreign Minister GhabiAshenazi said “Hezbollah is acting in urban and populated territories and using Lebanese citizens as human shields as we saw in the unfortunate event last week. Hezbollah is responsible for the explosion of the harbour.”
Israeli Prime Minister said, “in order to avoid disasters like the one at Beirut port, we have to confiscate the explosives and missiles that Hezbollah has hidden in civilian population centres in Lebanon.”
Most Israeli officials and analysts concluded that Hezbollah is much weaker today and, therefore, should remain outside the forthcoming government. They considered the resignation of Prime Minister (now caretaker) Hassan Diab as a positive step for Israel because he was leading a “Hezbollah cabinet”.
Israeli officials called “for the rapid formation of new government excluding Hezbollah so Diab doesn’t remain for long as caretaker.” It seems the general opinion among experts in Israel is that the political power in Lebanon will definitely change in favour of Israel’s objectives in Lebanon and the Middle East.
There should be grave doubts regarding the Israeli assessment, which is superficial and indicates little knowledge of Lebanese internal dynamics. Most of what the Israeli media and analysts said is taken from the Arabic and Gulf media hostile to Hezbollah, expressing wishful thinking and part of their general anti-Hezbollah propaganda.
Significantly, Israel’s own intelligence reports undermine the general conclusions of these analysts . They say, in no uncertain terms, that“no adequate options are available to indicate Hezbollah’s position has been weakened. All previous attempts have so far failed to isolate Hezbollah and to undermine its power.”
Israeli media analysts, like many Lebanese and Arab leaders and writers, failed completely to explain how a weak country like Lebanon could disarm Hezbollah, “one of the strongest armies in the Middle East”, according to Benny Gantz. Hezbollah is considered the only protector of the south of Lebanon against Israel’s ambitions and the defender of the Lebanese oil and gas rights in the Mediterranean. The US and Israel called for the disarmament of Hezbollah but offered no means for the Lebanese army to protect itself against over 53 monthly Israeli violations of Lebanon’s air, land and sea territories.
It is strikingly obvious that the Israeli demands, and those of the international community, coincide exactly with those of a few Lebanese political leaders, notably the Christian Leader Samir Geagea, the former ally of Israel and the leader of the “Lebanese Forces”, and with those of other politicians allied to Saudi Arabia.
If the international community intends to link the financial support of Lebanon to the disarmament of Hezbollah, it means clearly that the world is not willing to support the current Presidency headed by the christian General Michel Aoun, one of the closest allies of Hezbollah. This would leave little hope for the necessary new developments necessary to boost confidence in the Lebanese system, both domestically and internationally: electricity, infrastructure, roads or reconstruction of the harbour .
Moreover, Lebanon has a deficit of over $110 bn due to the mismanagement and corruption of its elite political leaders. International creditors now want the money back. The international community has a better alternative: accept and acknowledge the power of Hezbollah. Hezbollah is willing and able to respect the balance between the various religions in Lebanon: thus it avoids being pushed into a corner and fighting to regain power by force.
In the government of PM Hassan Diab, called the “Hezbollah government”, twelve out of the twenty ministers have American nationality! Moreover, many ministers resigned to bring down Diab: the Foreign Minister (NasifHitti, nominated by the President Aoun), the Information Minister (Abdessamad Manal, nominated by the Druse Leader Walid Jumblat), the Finance Minister (Ghazi Wazni, nominated by Speaker Nabih Berri), the Justice Minister (Marie Najem, nominated by Aoun) Minister of environment (DumiaousQattar nominated by PM Diab).
The closest ally to Hezbollah, speaker Nabih Berri, fired the last bullet at the head of the government the day PM Diab announced his decision to call for an early parliamentary election. Every single “ally" of Hezbollah – together with its opponents – worked for the failure of “the government of Hezbollah”. This title is a misnomer for a group whose aim has been to put a stop to corruption since its nomination 7 months ago. It was a fight lost in advance, since these politicians, all friends of the US, are the very ones responsible for the corruption and mismanagement of the country for the last three decades.
The international community tried to defeat Hezbollah by supporting the second Israeli war in 2006, but failed. The second unsuccessful attempt took place in the 2011 war in Syria with the intention of closing the weapons supply road on Hezbollah via Damascus. The third, in 2014, was the plan to divide Iraq into three sub-states to break the “Axis of the Resistance,” but to no avail. The US moved on to a policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, followed by the “Caesar Act” on Syria. Now it is the turn of Lebanon again, a country devastated financially where the unity of the various political groups is very fragile. This invites a real concern from, and a challenge to, Hezbollah but is still very far from weakening it. Hezbollah is both robust and resilient: it has the full support of its society, the capacity to survive and, unlike Hamas, has open borders with Syria, one of the main “Axes of the Resistance”. The Israeli total air sovereignty during the 2006 never stopped Hezbollah from receiving its most sophisticated weapons via Syria during the 33 days of war.
The US is targeting Hezbollah’s main Christian ally: President Michel Aoun. Recent events in the country have weakened Aoun and his political party, the largest Christian popular group, without weakening Hezbollah’s popularity among the Shia. Whoever will dominate the parliament, no political party can dominate Lebanon, not even Hezbollah. Politics operates by consensus, and any attempts to go against any main player in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, will paralyse the country. The international community, including Israel, will not come to grips with this reality. This is why instability in Lebanon will continue. "
Canthama, Well, This addition is just confirming my thoughts. How could this be allowed to happen?! How could Lebanon allow twelve out of twenty ministers to have American nationality?
Everyone is always waiting for the perfect moment to strike but that moment has passed us by. Everything is just worse.
A good third of Lebanon is dual-citizen due to Lebanon's long wars and refugeedom. Not all Lebanese citizens who also hold American passports are pro America.
I am not defending dual-passporters in politics, I am merely pointing out the nuance and difference between for instance American jewish politicians who hold israeli passports by choice, and Lebanese who hold dual passports by necessity.
Nothing is black and white in Lebanon. Many shades of of black and white and gray.
Thank you for sharing, Canthama.
Though his article is valid on several points, ie israel and its agents' current endeavor to weaken President Aoun, I'm a tad disappointed that our Elijah is not even for a second entertaining even the vague possibility of Beirutshima being an exploitative terrorist attack. He is so very entrenched in thinking it's just an "accident", even before investigations have been completed. I find this depressing.
Indeed Taxi, not sure why he has completely eliminated that possibility, because, honestly, it is a real possibility. I know few things about AN, have consulted companies to better storage AN, mostly agrichemical companies, and AN is stable as long as it has no contact to a liquid vehicle (kerosene, diesel etc…) and sparks (any kind…electric light bulb, lifters that can generate sparks etc…), we understand AN had enough fire as a "spark" but still no viable answer on the liquid vehicle and how it got mixed together, was it storage by mistake near the AN? Was it placed intentionally there near AN? Was a car/bike bomb used to ignite the second explosion? Too many questions and few answers so far, looking forward to the investigation finding but I am afraid it may be politicized toward an accident, though Hizballah would really know what has happened there.
Thank you, Canthama. Your explanation of AN matches other experts’ definition of it that I’ve read. And yes, we are stuck in an ocean of questions with very few floating answers to grab at. And of course the conclusion to the investigation may very well be politicized, but if the Hezb ends up having an alternative conclusion, then perhaps another investigation can be politically promoted to take place and this time by the army. Some crimes take several investigations before the truth comes out.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-president-explains-reasons-for-israeli-airstrikes-and-us-economic-siege/
May God Bless Assad and Syria. Troubling words in here though..Adapt.
Assad stressed that “the war will not prevent us from fulfilling our duties and the power of peoples to adapt to circumstances and adapt them to their advantage.”
Yes, he ends with to their advantage but it's still disturbing. Why should the people adapt? That is all we do. God Bless Syria. They must prevail.
Whenever I encounter the words "international community" my gag-reflexes go into overdrive. One of the most critical elements in the war between the consensus of Resistance and the Globali$t financier enemies is the ongoing battle of semantics.
Use of semantics by the enemies of common humanity is widespread and "international community" is one of the big ones. There is NO international community. That term is merely a semantrick meme.
When the minions of the financial elite use the term they are describing the nations controlled by their privately-owned central banks–all owned by the same beings who own the mass media of misinformation and mesmerization; the prostiticians in national capitols and most of the corporate and educational infrastructures. There is no sense of community among thieves and brigands, only shared goals of control and domination of the masses of Goyim.
Here in the U$ the American public has long been confronted by the lies and misinformation from the time of LBJ's appointed Warren Coverup Commission, which semantically was simply described as the Warren Commission. But the objective of the minder binders was to cover up the roles of LBJ, the CIA, the FBI, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Judeocracy—all of whom wanted JFK out of their hair.
Secondly, we have the "War on Terror" which is in all actuality, the War on Terra and on freedom and liberty of people all across the globe.
Before that one, we had Rockefeller Crime Clan's minion Richard Nixon's 1972 declaration of "War on Drugs" which he openly admitted was directed primarily at blacks and hippies.
Fast forward again and we have the "911 Terrorist Attack" as a semantic formulation created to obfuscate the true terminology, the 911 Inside-Job.
I could go on and on with the battles of semantics in the war for people's minds and conscious realizations. Point is, waaaay too many good people get caught up in using THEIR terminology–semantic tricks to befuddle the masses of media-mesmerized millions. We,the people need to counter-attack in the battles of semantics, NEVER use THEIR semantic mindfuckery and teach ourselves to use our OWN terminology in this ongoing war for the minds of the public.
It is the degeneration of abstract meaning that is causing much of the gullibility in the American population.
To take the meanings of words from the realm of "is" and transfer them into the realm of "is not", is a form of simple trickery.
The only real power that the zionist and pentagon power projectors still wield with great effect is that of propaganda.
They gladly destroy generations of hard effort to create systems to pass know-how along, all in an effort to tickle their moronic selfish perversions.
Destroying educational abilities is deranged. The list of crimes against the people of this planet is so large that it seems to be an off world invading force.
It is, however, likely that it is just unchecked perversions of the most base human natures.
This is the result of overly comfortable minds who have never worked an honest day in their life, and will not see the result of their evil until it rolls over them like a tidal wave.
-work makes free-
Majority of One. Real leaders are always capable of taking full responsability of actions from own initiative. Look at Hassan Nasralah and Hezbolah, for instance. This attitude is out of reach for the enemies of the people, always hidding behind some diluted entity, as cowards. Refrain from recognizing too much importance to such semantic tricks. Honest people is able to distinguish.
Majority of One,
Well said.
Thank you, Pamela. I do try to inform, rather than simply rant.
The investigation into the explosion has not yet been completed. What's established so far by investigators is that no external missile struck the port, and no foreign jet flew over the Beirut port right before, during, or immediately after the explosion. There is no mention in the unfinished investigative report of a possible incendiary drone attack, or what exactly caused the first fire in the first place. Also, investigators have yet to find out who exactly paid for all the AN and why the ship carrying it made a diversion to the Beirut Port on its way from Georgia to Mozambique. So much is yet to be discovered, yet Elijah considers it a closed-case already.
Well, he could be correct at the end of the day, but we are not at the end of the day yet. Investigations continue. And just because Al-Manar (Hezbollah's rag) quotes a page from the ongoing investigation does not mean they are quoting Hezbollah's own investigations and word. And in fact, if the final conclusion of the investigation declares that the explosion was purely the result of negligence, then this removes a huge bolder off the back of Hezbollah vis-a-vis engaging in an added huge retaliation before the last duck (Syria) is lined up for the Big War.
I am personally waiting on Hezbollah's report delivered through Nasrallah's mouth. No doubt it is a-coming in the soon.
And btw, all the top hezb-insider Leb analysts have so far been saying that the port explosion "is no accident". A suicide-drone, an ignition box placed conveniently inside the AN storage in the port is what they are pondering. They are utterly mystified by the untraceable name of the owner of the AN stock.
Nasrallah is scheduled to give a speech tomorrow, on the occasion of the victory of the 2006 war with israel.
No doubt, unlike his last speech, the name of israel will be much mentioned.
Same here. Who could afford to just abandon a ship, with all its contents in such a manner? The last known location of the alleged owner was Cyprus and they have a very cosy relationship with Israel, colluding in hiding Israeli pyramid scams and also over hastily allowing suspected rapists to flee the island.
Taxi: regarding the investigation:"A suicide-drone, an ignition box placed conveniently inside the AN storage in the port is what they are pondering."
They are correct.
I don't know you don't like VT and I am on the fence about much of their stuff but they have ONE story which does make a lot of sense: Israel / Mossad got that AN there and made sure customs were NOT allowed to sell it in the end-of-year abandoned cargo auction. They made sure it sat there for 6 years due to create the "negligence" story. The part of the VT story I don't agree with that the bags were not AN. I don't agree that it's a "nuke" and don't agree that the bags were empty but the rest of it is probably true.
I have done enough of my own research now that I am 100% sure that a paper trail was created around this cargo from the beginning including the photos of the three men standing in front of the warehouse. That photo was staged specifically for this event. The Georgian company exists, it is plain old fertilizer, that part of the story is true.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/08/09/source-israel-planned-the-nuke-attack-on-beirut-years-in-advance-exactly-how-they-did-it/
Abandoned cargo especially AN has to be disposed of through International Maritime Organization guidelines. There needs to be a paper trail. So customs and the port kept asking the judges for authority to dispose of the cargo. The judges kept denying authority. Lot of documents in Arabic on this. It was NOT dangerous or negligent to keep the cargo but it was strange to use up warehouse space and not auction it to make revenue for the port. Somebody probably paid the judges to deny authorization to sell the cargo. There are even people on twitter who have already created a campaign to defend the judges.
Then in July, suddenly Michel Aoun was informed of the cargo. It's NOT NORMAL FOR HEADS OF STATE TO KNOW ABOUT FERTILIZER SHIPMENT! Now these documents were suddenly circulated, again to blame Aoun who is known to be at least in some form of dialogue with Hezbollah. Aoun immediately ordered the people to deal with it. So why was it not done?
Then what happens immediately after? Judges DENY everything and arrest the port and customs people. There were angry crowds outside the Justice Minister's home but she is protected by Macron. She denied, denied, denied.
Nasrallah wanted the ARMY to be in charge of the investigation because he knows the justice department is corrupt. The justice department will find the port and customs people guilty.
There were absolutely bombs placed within it, very expertly.
Look at this Tianjin AN accident:
AN has to burn for sometime before it can explode. By itself it is FERTILIZER. It is not dangerous. It has almost NEVER blown up in storage. Only on ships/ transport/factories and only after a huge fire. Did you see a huge fire for 10-20 minutes before the explosion?
Personally I do not trust Elijah because he published a whole blog post on August 7 on "Who is reponsible for Beirut explosion". He stole the whole story from OTV Lebanon which published it on August 5 and then on August 6 it was in Reuter's. I hate bloggers who steal material without acknowledging the sources.
The problem is: with that destruction they will never find evidence.
So what will happen: the world will say: Lebanon you had an accident. You don't have a right to take Israel to ICC. You don't have any right of retaliation.
Israel, gets away with murder and this is bad. btw, I don't think Nasrallah mentioned Israel at all in his speech on August 6. He only said we know more about Haifa port than Beirut port.
ps: what is your opinion of Aoun?
Thank you for your comments,pq. Thank you also for your cogent explanation of AN. I too am of the mind that the port explosion is a false flag a longtime in the making. And I too am wary of the Lebanese Justice Department, and should Hezbollah’s own investigation be contrary to the LJD, then duplicity against the victims and complicity with the enemy by the LJD will be then be exposed.
And Presiden Aoun? Brave patriot. Proof of this? The US and israel hate him because he is not malleable like the last Leb prez was. His son-in-law Baseel is another story: a few dodgy deals to his name. The enemies of Lebanon are attempting to bring Aoun down through Baseel. True that newbie Baseel is corrupt, but he is small fish compared to the other corrupt Leb politicians who’ve been dominating the scene for 30+ years.
General Michel Aoun’s wiki
To add on: as you said, I think: it's all about patience. I don't think Nasrallah will say anything. He was very clear on Friday that first there has to be mourning and taking care of the injured and homeless. The conspiracy was making an attack look like an "accident". There has been a LOT of work to make it look like an accident. So many different angles, I can't summarize here.I am not talking about videos and the missile debate. I don't know anything about weapons. I am talking about the media sources: who is saying what and when. The whole accident story has been very carefully created for over 6 years and it was put into motion immediately after the explosion.
Followed by the destabilization efforts of Lebanon.
The accident narrative is key to take away Hezbollah’s right to ever retaliate against Israel and to destabilize Lebanon. Remember: if it is an accident, the outside world will only remember that it was Hezbollah's fault and that maybe Hezbollah had their missiles hidden in the port. Everything that is bad in Lebanon is Hezbollah's fault. For most people, this story is already over. This is what they think.
There was a good opinion piece in Al Manar about the rioters. They take the rioting seriously and understand that Lebanon can literally fall apart if Lebanese fight each other rather than unite against Israel. If it's declared an "accident" the whole focus will be on who to blame, who to sue. This will destroy Lebanon. But if it is known to be an attack, at least psychologically the country will stay united.
The only hope is that they declare it an attack and try (no matter how hard) to fight it through the UN and ICC system. Instead of trying a real battle. You talk about the big war very casually but what about the people who die? Wouldn't you be scared of dying or being injured if you live right there? The important point is not the retaliation but to have it recognized for what it was: an attack. However it was done. Because the science says: AN needs help to blow itself up.
I have no connection to anyone in this whole saga, I am very far away. But if the truth doesn't come out…the world is going to an even darker place.
For anyone to say case closed is just disinfo. AN cannot explode all at once. Over 5 minutes in a huge fire, but not after 15 minutes of smoke and little fire.
It is very important strategically for Israel to push the following narrative: 1. It was an accident. 2. Your leaders are so stupid you could have avoided all this horror if only you had better leaders.
Thank you, pq. I too understand much of the plot from the propaganda content and the timing of the release of articles by the opposition media. They are very telling of the thought-direction that the perps would like the world to adopt as ‘reality’.
Accident or attack, either way is still really very bad news for Lebanon. People are still walking around dazed and winded, north to south and east to west of Lebanon. So very sad. Suddenly, there is no sense of security and an atmosphere of instability can be whiffed in the air. They’ve been through this before and they have overcome. They would overcome faster if the financial situation eased up.
If israel’s fingerprint can be proven, then the ICC would be a civilized route to take. But the enemy of Lebanon is not civilized and the ICC is also open to corruption by the enemy. It would be impossible to only punish the mass-murdering enemy through a lengthy litigation that would no doubt take decades to conclude. The Lebanese, especially the shias of Lebanon have lost tens of thousands of lives to finally establish a deterrence against israel. To not respond militarily against such a gigantic terrorist attack on Beirut Port would drastically regress the Hezb’s deterrence and render all the Lebanon victims of israel as having died in worthless vain. Please understand that as far as the Leb-israel conflict is concerned, it’s kill or be killed by the perpetually assaulting israel enemy. I apologize if my tone about war appears “casual” – I assure you it’s not – I take the issue of war extremely seriously. Living under the permanent threat of war somehow thickens one’s skin about war, as indeed I feel has happened with me. What you read is the thickness of my skin, and not careless impetuousness. And no, I am not afraid to die in a Leb-israel war. I have long resolved this issue of what to do when war breaks out: I will stay right here where I am and deal with it. I happen to have a large pack of rescue dogs and it would be absolutely impossible for me to abandon them in the midst of war. I know it sounds crazy to most people, but… it is what it is and I am who I am.
Just prior to landing here and reading the postings, insightful and plangent as usual, I chanced to observe a new essay by Pepe Escobar on the Unz Review site. Again, he addresses the terror bombing of Beirut by the Zionists, with their various minions and stooges joining on in order to obfuscate the facts and smear shit on Hezbollah.
Coincident, or more probably congruent with my appearance on the new blog, an infamous Sayanim–Hasbara–Anti-Defecation League poster identified as A-123 was directed by his Mo$$ad superiors to commit the usual smear job against Hezbollah. These people work in tag-teams. Some of them are extremely blatant and readily identifiable.
Others operate from deeper cover and do not superficially ape the standard Zionista line. What they do is clog up the thread with ongoing arguments about the ammonium nitrate in the dockside warehouse. What this accomplishes is to divert attention away from discussion of the perps into the sidebar cover-story claiming that the whole affair was caused by the AN along with a nearby Hezb munitions store and/or someone's storage of fireworks adjacent to the fertilizer stash. These arguments are pure fertilizer, but of 4-legged (or two legged) animal nature and not of the chemical variety.
Make no mistake about it. Our enemies are exceedingly clever and employ a plethora of psychological-warfare tricks and ruses. Their trickbag inevitably includes coverted operatives who are tasked to muddy the waters.
BTW Taxi: Your heroic efforts on behalf of the people of Lebanon–and of general humanity for that matter are much appreciated and I consider it an honor to offer some thoughts to your blogs.
As a recovering journalist, I do have one suggestion. Your paragraphs tend to run to a length which makes them difficult to digest in a single reading. Believe me, I can definitely run on and on.
Over time I have learned to self-edit my stuff, mostly on the basis of breaking-up those lengthy paragraphs…highly useful even for personally re-reading my own material.
P.S, Taxi: Please feel free at any time to contact me at my posted e.m. account. I promise not to take too much of your time rehashing the brief 3 weeks I spent living at Venice Beach in May of 1970.
Ah I thought you’re a wordsmith of sorts soon as I saw the word “plangent” in your comment. Excellent! I love obscure words of sorrow, sweet, temperamental sorrow.
Really, thank you for a great and insightful comment. Kind words about me too – thank you.
Let me first tell you that Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote a single sentence that went on for almost three and a half pages, and all in a single paragraph. It blew my mind when I read it. I couldn’t believe how the whole endless sentence made sense – riding on the crest of punctuation, that very long single-thought sentence made perfect sense. Length was irrelevant. Fluidity of content was everything. The mind suddenly understood the potential of freedom of thought. Here, let’s call it the the jazz of paragraphing. If the cognitive stream is rushing, kick the rules of the reader right off the page. Demonstrate staggering and staggered human thought. Garcia was asking his readers to run with him through the vast field of a single thought.
I understand it like this: paragraphs are not random. A writer remains in the same paragraph till the point of the paragraph has finished its thought-output. A following paragraph indicates the beginning of a new thought. Some thoughts are longer than others, hence the varying sizes of paragraphs in every book and article ever written. But, yes, well observed by you: I do throw some chunkers out there – but you know what, I don’t write as a journalist because I am not one – nor do I want to be one. I enjoy writing my bigger paragraphs when they happen – I enjoy the process of unfolding some fucked up brainy mishmash. Well, actually I enjoy it only when I have plenty of time on hand. When I’m short on time and one of them ‘long chunky thoughts’ hits, it’s a very frustrating thing as I just want to put the fucker down on the page quickly and get the fuck out of chunk-town – but the chunky thought often wins and I end up eating my dinner cold.
Anyway, about the sayanim and hasbarados and shamzbarados and how the whole jews-shit-on-your-brains-show works. Yeah. We know all about it here at Plato’s. We’ve talked much about their porno of tricks and schtick ops on social media. We’ve lanced with them. We’ve exposed them. We spat right in the black hole of their nostrils. Let me tell you the jews have been repeating exactly the same set of crimes for three thousand plus years – the same tribal subterfuge and coordinated chicanery over and over and over again and again and ooof such bores, such banal evils they are by now, don’t you think? No, they’re not smart, buddy, more precisely, they’re smart idiots. Idiots because they think they are so supremely smarter that the whole of humanity, so very smart that their conspiracy against humanity cannot be detected by active human intelligence. They’ve been doing this ‘scratching of the eyes of reality’ as a tribe for thousands of years. Whisper campaigns, turning even people they like against each other, rumormongering, promoting the politics of fear, instigating divisions where non before existed – deceptions, deceptions, deceptions, wars wars wars and the senseless mass death of non jews. And I’ll stop right here now cuz I don’t want to over-chunk it for you
But seriously, Venice Beach 1970? Wow! I’d love to hear all about it. And if you’re comfortable with sharing your story with our friends here at Plato’s, then please feel free to use the comment board. I can tell you everyone here loves a good yarn. And you’re a pretty good yarnist, no?
Taxi – to the best of your knowledge is there near nil goods trade traffic today flowing between Syria and the Leb? Beteen Iraq and Leb? Between Jordan and the Leb?
Thanks, Mike.
There were trade deals between Iraq and Lebanon (Iraqi oil for Leb veggies) getting organized right before the port explosion event. No doubt this has now been delayed as the Leb now needs its veggies, and friendly Iraq is now sending free oil to Leb as aid post Beirutshima.
Past the odd smuggling of crates here and there, there is no trade traffic between Lebanon and Syria or Lebanon and Jordan.
Yes, Leb is a besieged nation.
Today, the 13th August marks the day of victory for Hezbollah and Lebanon over the terrorist state of israel back in 2006. I'd like to give a wholehearted and soulful congratulations to the wondrous victors. May they forever remain a burning fear and a thorn in the eye of the enemy.
And I'd also like to congratulate the leader of UAE, Mohammad bin Zaid, for being an absolutely perfect surrender monkey and officiating a 'normalization' with tel aviv on this same day, instead of honorably aligning with his regional brethren resistors and fighting the jewish menace and bloodlust. The timing of this official, treasonous conduct is no accident, but is indeed a flaccid attempt at dampening Lebanon's heroic, grand and consequential 2006 victory over the terrorist cowards of israel.
Nasrallah will speak today to mark this great day in history. I will watch his speech and share with y'all his major points in the afterwards.
Oh yeah and congratulations too to Ilhan Omar (not a fan but what the heck!), who kicked the jewish lobby hard in the nuts by beating their jewy cog in the Minnesota primaries and gathering 57% of the votes.
Another example of the non-invincibility of jews and their illicit powers.
A little trip down the 2006 war memory lane:
More, more, more…
Check out this Israeli website.
Though always psy-ops, what are they trying to front run and debunk? They know seismic activity was accurately recorded.
Sorry, the link didn’t upload. I have to tweak my security browser settings as I rarely comment. Anyway, Omid already listed the link further down.
Been lurking for sometime now all the way from deep Africa watching the world descend towards the inevitable 3rd WW.
Salutations to our hostess; Taxi. Well wishes.
Thank you, dear Ponder, and glad to see you and to hear your voice cast out all the way from beloved “deep Africa”.
Less than an hour ago, a statue of UAE's Mohammad bin Zaid in Beirut was brought down by patriotic Lebanese. I just watched it on Leb TV but can't yet find a picture of it on the net. So instead, I present you with the ritual branding of UAE's arse… before the customary jewish rape:
"Six blasts, each 11 seconds apart, preceded colossal Beirut explosion
Each of those explosions was equivalent to that of several tons of explosives (it is difficult to determine the exact amounts at this stage of the investigation), and the amount of time between them was the same – 11 seconds. As seen in the seismogram, we can clearly identify five identical explosions 11 seconds apart, while the sixth blast, 11 seconds later, was several times bigger. And then, after 43 more seconds, came the massive explosion that was picked up by all the seismographs across the Middle East and devastated large parts of Beirut. …"
Now guess who is the source of this news … IsraelDefence
https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/44662
Looks like they are building up a narrative, close to reality, but blame it on allegdly secret storage of Hezbollah weapons in Port of Beirut.
Taxi could you give us an update about the state of the investigations in Lebanon.
Thank you, dear Omid. Nothing new re the port explosion investigation in the past 24 hours – at least, nothing new released. Interrogations and questioning by LJD investigations however are ongoing. Overall, it seems that most Lebs believe it to be an israeli attack; even Lebs who hate on the Hezb are slamming both the hezb and israel for the explosion. And… so nice of the terrorist isrealis to tell us how they did it via your above link.
Yesterday the Leb army announced the extension of an added one month to their Martial Law rule which began some 9 days ago and was supposed to end on the 18th August, the date of the release of the Hariri assassination verdict. Last night and this morning, some talk on reassigning Diab as PM is circulating: this is because most Leb people have little faith in Hariri being able to resolve both the corruption and the financial crisis himself if he’s given the premiership again. And just to be clear here, Diab did indeed submit his resignation to President Aoun, and even though Aoun received it, he still has not yet officially accepted it. Constitutionally speaking, Aoun has the privilege of 8 days to either accept or reject Diab’s resignation.
Hi Taxi. New reader here and you're doing an amazing job, thanks. Miss Narwani the Iranian journalist in Beirut tried to take a photo of what appear to be a Moroccan military installation disguised as a field hospital, they tried to prevent her from doing so:
.https://mobile.twitter.com/snarwani/status/1294174689305206785
Hello dear Mia. Welcome and thank you very much for your link to the great Miss Narwani. Morocco is considered as israeli-occupied territory so anything from them is poisoned apple. Yeah there’s vultures and jew trojan horses all over Beirut at the moment. Watch them all scram the fuck out of the Lebanon soon as their own shit hits their own fans.
And I laugh here to count how many ‘foreigners’ israel has called upon to go inside Lebanon so as to hold the Hezb back from its promised retaliation. Hilarious, don’t you think?
It sure is and judging by the great Hezbollah victory over these genocidal fakes occupying Palestine in the video above, in likewise sure Hezb has it covered. Whatever dirty filthy tricks they come up with. Looking forward to Russian style victory parades and immortal regiments in Beirut from hereon….
Colonel Cassad has three pieces up on his site that I would suggest is well worth the reader's time. All the pieces are in Russian. There is a radio button near the right top that allows the reader to select one of many tongues. If the radio button does not work for the reader the reader might then run the page through google translate.
The first piece has three videos on it, though its the first one that is of interest. It has a video clip that is of the blast taken at a similar angle to the first twitter video I posted well up this thread. It is further away and higher up, looking down along warehouse 12. This video is run three times, the first at actual speed, then slowed down and then really slowed down. In the really slowed down run it is crystal clear the bright flash outside the warehouse and milliseconds later there is the main blast………….
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/6084359.html
The second piece is a lengthy write-up on AN which I would consider a must read. At the bottom of the article is the link to the site that the write-up is taken from, which I list here too……
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/6088942.html
and……..
https://forum-msk.org/material/news/16627844.html
One point I will add here to this write-up is the point that the terrorists on the battlefields of Syria at times used well stored AN as major bombs simply by packing C4 charges into the AN. Since ISIS were the ones that did this improvisation its was likely done under khazar supervision.
The third one has some images that would be of interest………
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/6092440.html
Canthama has links at his twitter feed for two US publications on the 2006 war that readers might find useful………..
https://twitter.com/UpdatesLebanese/status/1294043135497183236
Light reading for the weekend……
Howdy Whozhear and many thanks for your vid links and articles on Canthama’s twitter.
I literally get winded from sorrow watching videos of the Beirut Port explosion. I think of Beiruties and their collective, ineffable gasp of horror in the first five seconds after the explosion. I think of the shock of victims who suddenly found themselves blown out to sea: deafened, bleeding and drowning all alone. I think of the screams of children and pregnant women and all them shuddering Palestinian and Syrian refugees and birds en mass falling with wings on fire. Three hundred thousand other horrific moments of sudden homelessness and despair in the first 5 seconds after the explosion…
I don’t think I can watch any more videos of the port explosion. I’m on blast-overload.
But please feel free to post all the related videos that you deem interesting – others may glean important insights from them.
And Canthama’s links are good and hefty. I read a handful of pages from the first link. Very interesting. Thank you.
Taxi – thanks for your response that so far there are still no meaningful trade flows of goods between Lebanon and neighbors Syria, Iraq and Jordan. None of these countries can sufvive without strong levels of bilateral trade with each other. Is this the fault of refusal of certain named Lebanon politicians, or blockage by its neighbors?
2nd question if you can > is there any evidence so far during Diab's time as PM of any meaningful reductions in huge governement over-spending, instead of hoping to continue to relly on even more debt – even after missing recent payments? Walking away from the IMF trap was good, but continuing to over-spend is not.
Your above statement is right-on > "Yes, Leb is a besieged nation." And, so are its above neighbors.
Many thanks, dear Mike. To answer your pertinent questions:
1- Trumps sanctions and trade restrictions are applied on Lebanon via Leb allies in Parliament. They are the ones doing the trade blocking with Syria – and the Leb gov, whoever leads it, needs full parliamentary support to safely breach Trump’s sanctions.
2- Diab cut gov expenditure by cancelling some three extraneous ministries including the useless ‘Ministry of Information’. There was not much more he could have done in the time that he had to govern, especially that on every day of his short premiership, literally walls were built around him by agents of the US embassy so as to block him from doing ANYTHING good for Lebanon’s finances. Diab wanted to arrest Salameh, the head of Banque Du Liban: arrest him and force him to provide names of dodgy politicians and the evidence of paper trails that would lead to where the stolen money is so Diab could then retrieve it, but the US protected Salameh and punished Diab ultimately by bringing his gov down via US political agents. Salameh remains head of Banque Du Liban, the official national bank of Lebanon.
From the pen of the ever cool-headed Alistair Crooke:
Was ‘Beirut’ a Botched Act of Deterrence?
No Taxi, it was a long planned attack by the khazars on Beirut that exceeded all expections. Remember that nuttyahoo and khazar high command have made very public fiery comments in recent years that destroying the port of Beirut was a khazar option.
In this area Hezbollah is simply looking for the 'how and where' for the detonation of the main blast. The fireworks burn was just a diversion.
Last week, I submit, Nasrallah nominated Haifa as the city for retaliation.
Looking forward to your rundown of Nasrallah's speech from last nite.
People, hey people, listen up: Nasrallah's speech tonight just now was unbelievably amazing, absolutely amazing and rich and long and fucking wow! But it's late here in the Levant and so you'll have to forgive me but I think I can do a better job writing about it tomorrow morning when my brain is turbo not turbaned
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For now, g'nite from Lebanon the beautiful.
(… Man! That was a superb and stellar speech. Rock Star!)
And thank you Mike and Ponder for comments – will respond tomorrow.
Taxi: Hope you caught a good, restful sleep and thanks so much for including the link to Alistair Crooke. Have encountered his insightful and telling observations in the past and he certainly didn't disappoint this time.
Noticed that he placed quotation marks around the words "international community" as I did the other day.
Semantics, my dear. Semantics. The message is all too frequently in the medium and by so-delineating that nasty-assed P.C. term, Crooke has made it clear for all who read between the lines, thereby exposing those who consider themselves "chosen". Its all about the words we choose and the words we use. We must ever bear in mind the old axiom of "the pen is mightier than the sword".
The enemies of humanity control the minds of mass-conscious through their domination of mass media. Though we posters be not in the domain of physical combat, we yet remain warriors on behalf of truth, justice, honor and beauty.
It behooves everyone who loves life, regardless of their political stance, to fight whichever way they can the haters and wannabe destroyers of humanity.
Multiple acts of piracy on the high seas over the past couple days. Who were the perps? Well, U$, of course…the puppet regime in the Di$trict of Corruption, the United $tates of America Corporation, which is not us, WE THE PEOPLE.
Particulars: Four tankers of multiple registries of multiple nationalities were hauled over by U$ Navy vessels. The tankers and more than a million barrels of petroleum products were seized. Vessels, as charged, were allegedly owned by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which U$ officially has listed as an organization which backs terrorists. No, we all know that they are NOT supportive of the terrorists who recently destroyed nearly a quarter of Beirut. The unlawful act of piracy was done on BEHALF of the Israeli terrorists.
The vessels were on their way to Venezuela in solidarity with a nation which dares stand against Yanqui imperialism. There. are times when I an NOT proud to be an American, per se, though I do have some pride in having been a political prisoner in this ruptured republic which has a government which is totally under control of the financier enemies of humanity.
There are doubts about this claim of piracy. It appears that the original claim was made in the Wall Street Urinal, according to Zero Hedge……..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-seizes-4-iranian-fuel-tankers-en-route-venezuela-diverts-houston
However it was denied 17hrs ago by Iran's Ambassador to Venezuela via Press TV……
https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1294204316019036160
I believe I read a couple of days ago in the Tehran Times that this story is fake.
Seen on Canthama's twitter feed, Moscow has significantly upgraded its position on The Lebanon……….
https://twitter.com/m_suchkov/status/1294373795621482505
Providing unsubstantiated rumors are not limited to the Wall $treet Urinal, this ambassadorial appointment by the Russian Republic is a double-barreled diplomatic shot across the bows.
In the first instance this naming of a top operative is a riposte to Trump's calling on the egregious Elliot Abrams to represent I$rael and the dog it wags, to deal with critical Middle-Eastern matters.
Secondly, Russia is sending their first-team to Beirut (most probably covertly seconded by China) to assist the Lebanese authorities in maintaining a stern hand on the tiller when confronted by a series of politico-economic vultures, fronted by former Rothschild employee Emmanuel Macron, currently serving has the financial cabal's front-man in a bald-faced operation to effectually seize Lebanon's major national assets, as well as to decapitate the Arc of Resistance.
Astute. Thank you.
There are major new strategic reasons for Moscow to upgrade The Lebanon.
Capt. Hook, in his resignation letter, set out to Trump that the end of the road has been reached with Iran, much of the issues remaining being from pompousass' actions.
To appease the khazars for the time being Trump has installed a low IQ blood thirsty psychopath who carries a history of failures.
Howdy! Am a bit late in rising today. Am about to watch Nasrallah's August 14th speech again then write a brief summary of his main points. In the meantime, I found a vid of the speech with English voice-over for those who want to watch the whole speech for themselves. Please be mindful that it is Nasrallah's habit to spend the first few minutes in praise of martyrs and offering greetings and blessings to prophets and resistance heros etc, afterwhich he gives a list of the topics that he will be addressing. The speech in the vid starts to get going @ about 8mins and steadily picks up pace addressing a variety of current topics. His words on the Beirut Port explosion are @ 56mins.
Kicking Trump's teeth and passing a ton of dry Pampers to the coward terrorists of israel:
UN Security Council rejects resolution to extend the arms embargo on Iran
Did I say “ton”? Well make that ten tons:
BTW the vid gets its numbers wrong. The number of Golan resistors already trained and ready is in the thousands, not 175 as the video claims. And their training by Hezbollah has been going on since 2007.
Sadly, I bring you the news of the passing of one of Plato's dearest Palestinian friends, Nadia, otherwise known as 'Bintbiba'. In her mid 80's, she passed away in a London hospital last night, post heart surgery. May she forever rest in peace and love.
I had the sweet honor of meeting her in London a few years ago. She was a sensitive, intelligent and generous person; warm, dignified and a lover of life and music, despite the inconsolable wounds of her refugeedom. She will be forever remembered and kept in my heart – beautiful child of Palestine.
She was but a mere girl when she became a refugee in 1948, forced towards Lebanon with her good family. She survived that ethnic-cleansing trauma. She survived the Lebanon civil war. She also survived many of life's sadnesses and travails of refugeedom in England. The map of Palestine was permanently etched on her heart; the trees of her childhood took root deep in her heart; endless softness and compassion forever flowed through her veins and from her mouth. She was truly a beautiful person inside and out.
In memoriam, I link you to a piece of music by her son Wissam Boustany, an internationally renowned flutist and composer:
Palestinians in their sunset years sadden me the most when they pass away. Having carried their burdened and profound sorrow for endless decades already, I so want them to remain alive to witness the liberation of their beloved country, which I believe we are on the soon-brink of.
Again, R.I.P. dearest Nadia, truly one of the loveliest ladies who ever walked the earth. My deepest commiserations to her dear family and friends. She will be forever missed. Let the unseen heart of creation now eternally embrace her.
Thank you so much Taxi for such a beautiful tribute to our dearest Bintbiba
We were close friends for many years and she'll be sorely missed by all her family and friends. She treasured your friendship and your blog provided her with an incredible amount of stimulation and solace
She was a truly beautiful person who had to withstand many traumas in her life. But she always maintained her unbreakable bond with the olive trees and land of her childhood
RIP
I only learnt of Bintbiba in the past few months, her comments were always polite and full of hope, indicating a very balanced person.
Her moniker caught my eyes when I started to learn Arabic…Bintbiba…dear daughter… most likely "dear daughter of Palestine".
May she rest in peace and may her kins see Palestine liberated and vindicated.
Thank you Bornajoo and Canthama for your sweet words and kindness to the memory of our Bintbiba.
Nadia’s mother's name was 'Biba', and 'bint' in Arabic means daughter/girl. She so loved and adored her mother that she went by the moniker of 'Bintbiba'.
R.I.P. to mama Biba and to her adorable and adoring little girl.
This is so heartbreaking. I only knew Nadia as "Bintbiba", here on Plato's. Her comments were always measured, always hopeful, and often resonated with me. My heart goes out to Nadia's family and to everyone who loved her. May she rest in peace and may her family and friends find consolation.
SUMMARY OF NASRALLAH'S SPEECH – AUGUST 14TH, 2020
The man's demeanor was much calmer than I expected – he was very cool-headed, measured, relaxed, most confident – and at times even witty. He did not look concerned or troubled by recent dramatic Leb events at all.
After his customary acknowledgements of the 'one god', and after praise and prayers to prophets and resistance martyrs, he gave first attention to the victories of Hezbollah over israel, defining thus the 2000 victory as one of "liberation", and the 2006 victory as being one of "protection" as it established with certainty a balance of deterrence between the Hezb and terrorist israel. He added here that this achieved deterrence remains today and that the Hezb's decision to avenge the killing of Hezb fighter Ali Mohsen also "REMAINS VALID". He said that the israelis knew very well that Hezbollah would respond to Mohsen's death – that the Hezb didn't need to make a public announcement of this and that "Hezbollah's coming response will be a studied and measured one, will be serious, will be a calculated action and not a media stunt.”
Then he addressed the UAE-israel normalization deal saying that the Hezb was not surprised by this, and he analyzed its timing as being a "personal favor" by Mohammad bin Zaid to Trump, so as to help boost Trump's empty election chest of achievements, with Trump having failed in just about all his projects in the mid and far east. He also said that Netanyahu too greatly benefits from this 'theater of peace' where other Gulf nations are already standing on the sidelines and waiting for their turn to officiate peace with israel at politically opportune moments for Netanyahoo too, so as to give a boost to his current and palpable weaknesses. He called the move by UAE an “electoral favor” to both Trump and Netanyahu. He also called this agreement a betrayal of Arabhood, of islam and of the Palestinian cause – even slamming and insulting the Gulfies with a sudden small smile and calling them "no longer Arab, and, non-Arab". (My jaw dropped to hear him say this!). He advised the Palestinians to hold fast and not to despair; that this illicit union between UAE and israel will not effect the Axis of Resistance's resolve or plans for liberating Historic Palestine.
Turning his attention towards the Beirut Port explosion, Nasrallah clarified the Hezb's position with “we’re not investigating it ourselves, the Lebanese government is doing this job and we will have no position on it till after we've studied the official result of the government investigation". He added that some Lebanese will likely not accept their government's verdict, and that Hezbollah will not accept the result of an international investigation led by the FBI as they see it as a cover-up team for israel's (plausible) involvement. Then he gave a stern warning to israel saying that should evidence be found of its involvement in the explosion, then it is "guaranteed that Hezbollah will retaliate in kind and in equal measure for this most vicious attack on Lebanese civilians and infrastructure!". He said that retaliation will be for the death and damage caused by israel, AS WELL AS “for what may have been an even bigger explosion and casualty count”: explaining that most fortunately, not all the stored AN had actually exploded. This part of the speech was the only time when the temperature of his voice was raised in severity and anger.
Nasrallah further added that if israel's hand in the port explosion is discovered, then not only will Hezbollah retaliate, but the state of Lebanon itself and all its civic and military instruments as well as its population will also be part of the retaliation equation.
He then went on to address the plot by the "enemies of Lebanon internally and externally" currently attempting to bring down president Aoun and Parliament, after succeeding at bringing down Diab's government last week. He praised Diab's patriotic instincts and all of his team too for tirelessly and sincerely working for the people of Lebanon in the short time Diab was in power. And he further warned that bringing Diab's government down is actually part of a plot to cause a bloody civil war in Lebanon, with the enemy intending to next exploit the release of the Hariri assassination verdict this coming 18th August. He asked all Leb patriots and civilian followers of the Resistance to be vigilant, smart and in rigid control of their own emotions in the face of expected provocations. He said that citizens who remain angry at the government and the current ruling system should indeed keep their anger burning, but to hold it in check and save it for another time AFTER the next attempt at stoking a civil war fails and passes. "There will come a day when this righteous anger you feel can be used to expose and hold to account those who relentlessly aim to destroy Lebanon through civil war".
Then he assured his listeners that as long as "everybody keeps cool heads, then there will be no civil war possible". He reminded viewers that the Hezb had already successfully foiled another major attempt by Lebanon's enemies to stoke civil war when Saad Hariri was kidnapped by MbS several years ago. “We can do this again”, he said. "Don't respond to any provocation, small or large, and all will be well", he added with calm confidence, closing thus this topic.
Remaining on the subject of Lebanon's security, but external, Nasrallah also said "do not worry about warships docking in Beirut waters – we have that covered, I assure you", he said this, paused for a moment, then broke a little amused grin before reminding viewers that the Resistance solidly remains the strongest group inside of Lebanon as well as regionally, and not to think that the port explosion had weakened the Hezb in any measure.
Now focusing on discussion of what a new Leb government should look like, he advised that a so-called 'neutral government' that's been much discussed lately would be a "waste of time for everyone as they will have no allies to help them advance much needed projects”. He added, "we want a strong government that has political backing from as many parliamentary factions as possible, so it can then withstand internal and external pressures that will be heaped upon it". He also said: “the next PM should look to form a national unity government, and if he can’t, then he should form a government with the broadest political and popular backing and consisting of both politicians and technocrats. A neutral government is a fake way to bypass the popular will", he advised.
And regarding the recent protests on the streets of Beirut, specifically the ones post the port explosion and post the resignation of Diab's government this week, he said: “we’ve seen all boundaries crossed by these protestors. Who do these people represent? We respect those peacefully protesting and not those who are backed by embassies.”
And regarding the Hariri assassination verdict due this coming Tuesday, he belatedly added: "For us it will be as if no decision was ever announced. If our brothers are unjustly sentenced, as we expect them to be, we will still continue to staunchly support them and maintain their innocence. There are those who will certainly try to exploit the STL decision, so I ask our civilian supporters to be extra patient with this controversial issue. Through patience and through faith in the Resistance and its capabilities, together we will overcome the difficult times ahead”.
He closed his speech by reminding viewers that COVID19 casualties and fatalities had increased at an alarming rate in Lebanon these past several weeks; and that citizens should continue practicing protection against covid in strict and regular ways – not to allow the port explosion and the ongoing political and financial crisis to distract them from this most important safety issue.
Nasrallah sealed his speech with sincere thanks to the patriotic citizens of Lebanon and to all its numerous martyrs. He also congratulated Arab and Muslim supporters, as well as “all free people the world over” for their support on the anniversary of the Hezb’s July 2006 victory. His final words of praise:
What the terrorist israeli media is saying about Nasrallah's speech:
Nasrallah suggests Israel behind Beirut blast, calls for retaliation
Nasrallah: Response to Israeli assassination will come
Seriously, that's about all I could find on Nasrallah's speech in the israeli press today.
I guess it's understandable as tel aviv doesn't want to panic its satanic jewish population who remain drunk on that big blood orgy their military created at Beirut Port a week ago. But I bet when Nasrallah warned live that it is "guaranteed that Hezbollah will retaliate in kind and in equal measure for this most vicious attack on Lebanese civilians and infrastructure", that evil smirk on the faces of jewish military honchos got instantly wiped out. From here on, they will be anxiously increasing protection on Haifa Port's massive AN farm storage: by far large than the stock in Beirut Port.
Oy vey!
Thank you once again for this amazing summary of Nasrallah's speech. I hope the evidence pointing to we-all-know-who can be discovered
Hey y'all, just found an English translation of Nasrallah's last speech at the Saker. If anyone is interested in getting the whole shebang from the horse's mouth, then here it is:
Nasrallah: If Israel is behind Beirut blast, our response will be devastating
We all await the Tuesday "verdict", though hardly with bated-breath, as it has, by means of composition of the panel, been assured beforehand that the decision will be wholly satisfactory to those who manifest injustice and malfeasance upon most specifically the Arc of Resistance and secondly the all too often bewildered and mind-controlled people of the Western world.
Ultimately, though, truth will out. The serene wisdom and self-control manifested by Nasrallah will stand in vivid contrast to the hysteria and polemics shrieked by the perpetrators of evil.
The only way Hezbollah can get fucked up is if the enemy succeeds at 1) dividing the shias of Lebanon (impossible, hard as they try and they’ve been trying for years!), and, 2) turn The Aoun Christian supporters (majority of Leb Christians) against Aoun himself (impossible too!).
Taxi – thought you might like to review this article regarding the potential Leb & China project >
“Battleground Beirut: Western Colony Or Back To The East?”
“Lebanon has everything to gain from rejecting the West’s neoliberal demands and embracing China’s Belt and Road.”
(evidently Israel hoped to entice China and its Silk Road project away from Lebanon by pushing intead they consider its Haifa port – until with much MSM public display US Sec of State rushed to Isreal to demand stop all discusions with China. Regardless of the theater, such just made it a no-brainer that China already considered that Lebaon remained #1 for China on the eastern Med coast – with its great port in Beruit plus its other port in Tripoli 80 km north of Beirut and only 30 km away from the Lebanon-Syria border). “Tripoli port will also be essential in process of Syria reconstruction – to which China is totally committed. Add the role of the port of Tartus in Syria – bearing a strong Russian naval presence. Beijing will inevitably invest in expansion of Tartus – which is crucially linked by highway to Lebanon.” (very interesting article. Clearly, the Empire knows China’s direction and are MSM-huffing & puffing threats. However, China continues undeterred marching forward on its own strategic plan and pace. BTW – is this also another data point supporting possible Israeli/Empire motive RE the Beruit port blast? Mike).
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-battleground-beirut-western-colony-or-back-east
Thanks, Mike. Good article. New Leb gov will have to make the new BIG decision: drop the West and go East to remain solvent and intact. Will the new gov have big balls enough to do this after the ‘warning’ explosion of its main port? We’ll have to wait and see. What happens in the Leb with Harriri’s verdict release this coming Tuesday will be interesting. Will yet another plan for a Leb civil war be foiled? I can tell you that should sectarian blood be spilled on the streets of Beirut after the verdict release, the Leb army, already implementing Martial Law on the streets, will jump into forming a military non-aligned government itself to put out the fires of a manufactured civil war.
Regarding above article RE Lebanon-China silk road statement > “Lebanon has everything to gain from rejecting the West’s neoliberal demands and embracing China’s Belt and Road.”,- have you ever heard Nasrallah discuss this subject and where he might stand on this?Clearly, Nasrallah is strongly pro-Leb soverignty to itself, and he knows sovereignty cannot be achieved caving to West-orientation. But, he also recognizes the alternative of China may also presents potential sovereignty issues. Naturally, he fully understands it all, and that he and his party will be deep into defining details of a China deal, Jusl wanted to hear your view of what if anything he has remarked in this regard. Additionally, Leb’s president Michel Aoun on this, most likely similiar to Nasrallah’s? Lastly, regarding wide citizen understanding of this issue,have you seen local media report in depth details such as in this article for Leb putlic understanding.Thanks. Mike.
Nasrallah has stated on several occasions, one of them being only last month, that the Hezb is open to doing deals with both the West and the East. “Whatever is good for Lebanon”, he said.
Again Taxi, thank you very much for the summary of Nasrallah’s speech, very much appreciated.
A comment made by Nasrallah is extremely important…. “explaining that most fortunately, not all the stored AN had actually exploded”. The entire area where warehouse 12 stood has been replaced by a massive crater filled with sea water, therefore, Nasrallah’s comment implies to me that Hezbollah knows far more about the lead-up to the attack than they are letting on……. good.
Thanks Whozhear and Mike and Majority for your comments. Sorry I’ve had little keyboard time tonight and tomorrow I hope to make time to respond to yesterday and today’s unanswered comments. Bintbiba’s passing really knocked my energy sideways today and so my focus has been somewhat wrinkled. I just about managed to muster up enough mental energy to relay Nasrallah’s speech.
I will however right now clarify and answer Whozhear and say that a big chunk of the AN was apparently caught up in the blast suction and was thrown out at sea, never itself exploding. This is what Nasrallah is referring to.
Thank you for the clarification Taxi, very much appreciated.
What do you think of Aoun's recent statement on Israel: we could be ready for peace with Israel…depends…we first have problems to resolve…..
https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/lebanon-president-open-to-israel-peace-talks/
To me it looks a lot as if the blast has scared everybody: UAE etc.
Rightly or wrongly (and probably wrongly) they see peace with Israel as the quick fix. And they want to throw hzb as the sacrificial lamb. Reading your blog, I understand the hzb perspective better. They are in the buffer zone between Israel and Beirut. Their choice is between resisting or living the rest of their life in refugee camps, if I understand correctly. Nothing will change that for them. Creating more and more refugees only creates a bigger and bigger powder keg.
That should be evident after 30 years of bombing the Middle East since 1990.
Thank you pq. You’ve provided me with a perfect example from the current anti Aoun media campaign to dissect for readers. I’m really laughing here at the article’s angle for the following reasons:
President Aoun is an experienced and classy statesmen who always uses diplomatic language even when addressing his enemies – this is his famous style. He’s previously used this expression of “it depends” when others have asked him questions regarding peace with israel and Lebanon. As a statesman holding the highest position in his county, he cannot exactly say to international media ‘we want to wipe the fucking terrorist state of israel right the fuck out of existence’ – it’s just simply not his language, nor the acceptable language of his high office. And here’s the important crux to note: any journalist worth their salt, upon hearing “it depends” from an interviewee should really have immediately asked ‘depends on what exactly, Mr. President?’. But the French interviewer doesn’t go there, instead she goes for asking him about the UAE-israel normalization. And notice Aoun’s response to this question too: “UAE is an independent country”: an answer that’s neither here nor there, just like his ‘depends’ answer. Now, if the journalist had actually asked ‘depends on what, Mr. President’, then Aoun would have answered with the following, as indeed he had so in the past: “it depends on whether israel de-occupies Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine – it depends on whether israel is prepared to apologize to Lebanon and pay reparations that go all the way back to 1948 – it depends on whether israel gives up its nukes and redirects all its weapons away from ALL Leb targets”, etc etc. See what I mean? This dodgy interview and article that supports it are totally taking his words out of context because they’ve got nothing else to work with that was said in the interview. This is part and parcel of the current jewy media’s wave against Aoun: specifically trying to imply that there’s a wedge between him and his major ally in Lebanon, the Hezbollah. There are many other articles on him that attempt to separate him from his Hezb allies – they fail at it locally because the Lebs know the steely bond between the Hezb and Aoun, plus they know the history of Aoun who’s been literally fighting the terrorist jewish military one way or another since 1948. The natives know of his patriotic mettle and are not buying into the ‘manufactured’ cynical articles, but evidently western readers can easily fall for such subtle twisting of context, especially in the atmosphere that the Leb in now living in. Not even a nuke thrown between the Hezb and Aoun can separate these two parties: they are umbilically and patriotically connected – both the Hezb and Aoun know that it’s their allegiance that is keeping Lebanon intact. And coincidentally, just now I watched a live speech by Gibran Bassel (Aoun’s son-in-law and leader of Aoun’s political party) – Bassel just now out and out declared, yet again, that “the enemies of Lebanon are israel and wahabism, and Lebanon must re-establish ties with Syria to block both of those terrorist entities from beaching the Lebanese borders”.
So there you have it.
And btw, though some Lebs are now “scared”, post the port explosion, there is actually more anger than fear in the hearts of the natives.
The latest propaganda memo dictated to the jewy Western and saudi-funded Arab medias is the following: Hezbollah is weak and even Lebanese shia are questioning and hating on Hezbollah. Take a look at these articles, all written by infamously shekeled liars:
Hezbollah faces toughest challenge yet after devastating Beirut explosion
Anger over explosion sees support for Hezbollah start to crumble in its heartlands
Can you see the same memo in both articles? And there are many more jewy articles saying exactly the same thing.
Liz Sly (and what a fitting name!) who wrote the first linked article is a known shekeled Aipac cocksucker, continuously targeted and exposed by 'The Angry Arab' blogger, Asad Abu khalil – she's been like his punching bag for yonkers lol.
Quoting fake people from Nabatiyeh and saying that they don't want to identify their names out of fear of retribution is bullshit. Nabatiyeh is the very capital city of Hezbollah, and the city, having suffered so very much under israeli attacks and occupation within living memory has literally 100% and complete support for the Hezb, indeed as attested by their voting record these past 3 decades, and by the high number of their martyrs who fought against jew and wahabi terrorists. Plus, Nabatieh's poor get the most charitable support from shia charities here in the Lebanon and directly from Iran – nobody is hungry there – nobody – the shia poor in the Nabatieh are better taken care of than anywhere else in Lebanon! No city is more important to the Hezb than the Nabatieh. The majority of Hezb fighters come from the Nabatieh and its suburbs. So it really is a preposterous claim that the links are making, tantamount to saying that Black Lives Matter are now secret Trump supporters.
Right now, there is the most vicious media campaign hurled against the hezb EVER! I've never seen anything like it lol!
Look, it works like this: the only time anyone can accurately claim the Hezb has been weakened is if their missiles have been successfully taken away from them. Regardless of what is happening in the Leb and in the region, so long as the Hezb possesses its massive arsenal of missiles, it remains undeniably powerful and israel remains weak. It's as simple as that. So far, nothing that has politically or financially occurred in the Leb or regionally has achieved the de-arming of the Hezbollah. Nothing! So the shekeled journalists out there can go fuck themselves. They already know that the Hezb's armory is untouchable yet they push to sell you otherwise. Honestly, I find this hilarious!
Don't let the jews manufacture 'reality' for you. Pretty much everything they say is a big whopping scumbag lie.
@ Canthama, @ Taxi.
Erdoggies Turkish lira heading into free fall……
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkey-hit-bank-runs-currency-panic-locals-sell-their-cars-and-houses-buy-gold-while-lira
Enjoy the ride…….
Whozhear, TRY melt down was expected, though it gives local goods a competitive edge in exports, it brings inflation to imports dependent. I see USD=10 TRY soon. This is another example that once a regime embraces the zio-nazis plans, as Erdogan's regime did it blindly in Syria, Iraq and Libya, when it does not serve its purpose anymore or it does some independent sorties against zio-nazis interest, the money dries out for this country. In my view, the zio-nazis are trying hard to bring Erdogan back in line, the zio-nazis had a clear plan to create a large Sunnistan/Kurdistan buffer zone south of Turkey and block Syria/Lebanon from Iraq/Iran, that was the plan with ISIS (remember how ISIS came from Turkey and the Iraq Province of Kurdistan to attack Mosul, both were actively part of the original plan. One can argue but Kurds and Turkey do not get along….but the answer is simple….there are many Kurdish factions, Turkey gets very well along with the Barzani gang that rule Iraq Kurdistan Province which we all know is deeply aligned with Israel and US, the Kurdish factions not aligned were to be eliminated by ISIS, that was the plan, and somehow in the middle of the almost 95% job done (except for Afrin canton /Qamishli,Hasaka/DeirEzZOr cities, the wind changed and the international community pushed the US to support the last defenses of Ayn al Arab (Kobane), changing the plan not for a Sunnistan/Kurdistan but a Kurdistan plan…and again, they almost did it, this time the slave Turkey reacted and invaded Syria to control al Bab, thus blocking and continuous land between the border of Iran and the occupied Syrian Province of Iskenderum.
Turkish attempt on northern Syria early last year was another dent to the US/Israel plan, clearly Turkey pushed hard to increase its bargain power on the table, they never left the plan of a Sunnistan under Turkish occupation in Syria and Iraq, with that Turkey would occupy Aleppo and Mosul, two cities the new Ottoman idiots want so badly, and forgive my cliche…it is all about oil, the rich Mosul/Iraq Kurdistan oil rich area would be under Turkish occupation, Turkey would control the Kurds as they do inside Turkey (95% of Kurds are very much in line with the turkish culture and rule), and we would see pipelinestan from oil rich Mosul all the way to Iskenderum to ship cheap oil and gas to Israel, EU etc…
As we could see, the whole melee got messed up due to Russia's presence, Syrian & Iraq reactions, and strong support and guidance by Iran and Hizballah to spoil both plans…the original US/Israel/Turkish and the new Ottoman boyish plans.
The price for Turkey will be one very agonizing, either it falls into Israel/US plan again, which it will tend to in the near future as the economy goes down, or it will collapse internally and be split in many pieces, the idiot Muslin Brotherhood terrorist Sultan knows that, he is agonizing, but we will see him betraying Russia & Iran as he betrayed friendly Syria and Iraq.
Turkish people will pay the price, dearly, the result of this devaluation is inflation, very high one…something the Turks were used to back in the 70-80-90s, but the youth population has no clue of.
Thanks much, Canthama, a very good article connecing many dots – including prediction Turkey will cave to Empire control, while Iran, Syria and Lebanon will continue to resist. But, Iraq? Appreciated. Mike.
Half in jest and half pointing out one of the reasons why American males have become such wusses over the past 80 years or so: You noted, Taxi, that Sly was an "Aipac cocksucker." Incorrect. Only once in my life have I met a Jew who did not experience the "bris" at the age of 8 days. Wounded-weinies are not cocks (which tend to be proud, independent and relatively fearless) rather they are dicks, so semantically the proper operative term would be "dicksucker".
Surgical (or Mohel) removal of the foreskin alters greatly the sense-dynamics of the male organ and also has deeply embedded psychological consequences. From my own experience, a truck-driver ride I had caught years ago while hitchhiking told me that I'd get the couch while one of his over the road g.f.'s hosted him for the night. Next day he told me that he was the first man she had experienced who was genitally intact. She told him that the difference between her former partners and him was akin to being pounded with leather as against stroked with satin.
About three years ago I raised the question of this practice to a Moroccan man who was being deported from the U$. He replied that the Muslim tradition in his country was at the age of three years, on average. Consider: The three year old boy has had opportunity to bond with his mother, his father and a number of others. His frontal-lobe consciousness is in full development. On the day he is feted, celebrated, showered with presents and generally given oodles of positive reinforcement. He is thusly welcomed into the community.
Now, consider the Jewish bris at the age of 8 days. The innocent infant has had opportunity to bond with his mother for a week. Suddenly on that 8th day he is surrounded by a group of men, held by his father and dis-membered by the Mohel. In the Orthodox custom of "bris millah" the Mohel literally sucks the blood off his wounded weinie. This probably goes a long way to explain Marilyn Monroe's statement when she blossomed into a superstar that she would never have to suck-off another one again. The male foreskin is the most nerve-ending rich part of the entire body. When a man enjoys the status of retaining his man-hood, he is all about the primary act. Conversely, from a number of observations and interviews it would appear that a majority of those who lost that sensitivity tend to possess it only in a small part of the dorsal region of glans. That leads to the ca. 1960 pop-song titled "my boy lollipop".
Nearly two years ago I had opportunity to interview a Philipino doctor who informed me that the traditional custom in his country was done as a manhood-initiation rite at the onset of puberty. Again, the youth was heavily celebrated on his "special day" and welcomed into the community.
Now let's switch to the U$, the only major Western nation which still employs the blood-ritual. The day-old infant is taken from his mother's arms to a hyper-lit room and placed naked on a cold metal table. A plastic shield is placed over his body, his arms and legs are restrained. The general discomfort already has him stressed out. Then his teeny member is drawn out through a small opening in the shield and the doctor does his thing. I saw a documentary on the procedure and the poor little tyke was wailing his eyes out.
Now let us consider the psychological implications. The Jewish boy feels betrayed by his mother. He is now fully ripe for patriarchal indoctrination. Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis are prime exemplars of a neurosis towards females. The American boy's lizard-brain becomes the repository of the psychic castration. The lower brain forgets nothing and forgives nobody. The cerebrum is clueless as barely the first dim glimmers of consciousness smothers all memory of the assault. The Moroccan boy, though still very young, associates the event with both pain and pleasure. The boy from the Phillippines bears with the pain, which he has associated with being accepted into the society of man.
The American Pediatric Association a number of years ago determined that there is no tangible medical reason for the procedure, except in rare cases of an overly enclosive forseskin. My grand-nephew was born some three months ago. Though my niece did not approve, his father wanted his son to be like daddy. So the sins of the grandfathers are visited upon the grandsons and the blood-ritual maintains its hold on the majority of Euro and Afro-Americans, while being relatively rare on traditional Natives, Hispanic immigrants and the vast majority of East and South Asian immigrants.
This may be a sore subject for American male readers in particular as there is a lot of guilt buried within the subconscious of the average American father and resulting from junior-high locker-room observations, the teen boys grow up feeling that their look is "cuter" and fully in accord with the majority of his classmates. He is proud to be "normal".
Thanks, Majority.
Do you have an explanation why men are such cunts?
"Why men are such cunts?" Chromosomally, women are fully balanced with paired "X" female chromosomes. All fetuses in the early stages are biologically female. As testosterone builds up in roughly half the population, the male "Y" chromosome comes into play. Thus the John Wayne myth propounded by Hollywood to propel the warrior meme, is a huge lie, because the dual combination of the X and Y means that the female element is ever present in males. Fighting that reality, men act out in various ways, struggling mightily, though subconsciously to maintain their element of manhood. This could form the basis of Freud's hypothesis of the "return of the repressed". Repressed femininity, in order to maintain the prerogatives of patriarchal traditions, often is expressed in strange and otherwise unaccountable ways.
LOL Majority, thanks for the explanation – I think I intended my question to be rhetorical
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To be fair, some woman are cunts too. Definitely!
And btw, the word ‘cunt’ comes from the old Norse ‘kunta’, meaning purse. Germans adopted it and passed it to the Anglo-Saxons who shortened it to ‘cunt’. I guess that means that in olden Europe, the woman’s genitals equaled the man’s purse.
Rhetorical, even when not discerned, offers me aperturas, and like all males I do love me some aperturas. In this particular, however, I suspected rhetorical and joyfully pursued possibilities.
Heh, I know exactly what you mean.
I'd say Kuwait now needs to watch its ports for rejecting the deal with the devil:
Kuwait Rejects Normalization With Israel
Let me tell you here that all Arab nations who reject the 'Deal of the Century' are targets for mass terrorism. Kushner said right from the getgo that all Arab nations that accept normalization with israel will be rewarded, and all those who don't accept will be sanctioned and "pressured by other means" into signing the Deal of the Century. Of course the mass murdering jews would like to kill all Arabs whether they support or don't the Palestinian cause, but Kushner needs their signature on the contract so he'll just have to kneecap the rejectors with terrorism instead, then kick their asses as they hobble down tel aviv's corridors of power.
And let me tell you here that Oman, Bahrain and Sudan are already lined up and waiting to be told by tel aviv and DC exactly when to peel the stage curtains back to announce their 'normalization' interest. Of course the last and BIGGEST candidate for normalization to be announced will be terrorist saudi arabia and they will opportunistically step into the normalization center stage RIGHT BEFORE the televised presidential debates air across the US, in a typically ostentatious Trumpian attempt to show foreign policy muscle where Biden has none, and to give the (manufactured) impression that Trump is a 'peacemaker' who not only did NOT start any new mideast wars as promised by him back in 2016, but had also managed to create actual peace between israel and a handful of Arab nations, where Democrat presidents Obama and Clinton before him had miserably failed to create peace between israel and a single Arab nation.
This scenario will be played out exactly as I lay it out above. How do I know this? Because presidential races are all manufactured theater, and because I used to be a fucking screenwriter and I know how this shit works. All the characters and dramatic ingredients available right now add up to the 3rd Act finale which will take place at the coming presidential debates.
Here's Elijah Magnier latest article on the US's exit from Iraq, which I'm sure Trump would like to achieve a measure of before the November election. Will it be a meaningful exit? Probably not. After all, terrorist Obama exited Iraq only to fast return as Iraq's savior after unleashing ISIS on the suffering Iraqi people.
USA to Iraq: We will withdraw but without being humiliated
By Elijah J. Magnier:
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi is preparing to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House, carrying with him weighty files that are burdening Iraq. The country is indeed struggling with a stifling economic crisis, the Coronavirus pandemic, the US military presence that is no longer desirable, the Iran-US “unmanageable balance”, and the omnipresent Turkish military activity and Turkey’s presence on Iraqi soil.
The Al-Kazemi team includes economic experts and diplomats with an objective to proceed with the second round of strategic talks that began between the two countries last June. This exchange has been imposed on both sides following the binding decision of the Iraqi parliament to order US forces to withdraw from Iraq, following the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani, leader of the "Axis of the Resistance" and commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard- alongside the Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis- together with their companions this last month of January 2020.
Several groups of unknown affiliation have attacked US bases with Katyusha rockets and mortar shells, deliberately not inflicting fatal injuries. Moreover, Iraqi convoys transporting equipment belonging to the US forces have been intercepted and the contents set on fire- with a warning to Iraqi drivers to refrain from providing any services to the US forces otherwise they too would bear the consequences.
These “so far unknown” groups were responding to a common goal: warn the US forces that their presence in Iraq will no longer be tolerated unless they withdraw as requested by Parliament. Therefore, it is to be expected that these groups escalate, intensifying their attacks so as to put more pressure on both Al-Kazemi’s government and on Washington so that they realise that a violent confrontation can no longer be ruled out.
Iran has repeatedly indicated its support for Iraq as well as its support for the Iraqis who want to get the US out of Iraq. When Al-Kazemi visited Tehran last month and met with Iranian officials, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, told him: "The US has killed your guest." Sayyed Khamenei wanted to arouse Arab tribal feelings that sanctify and protect the guest, to tell the Iraqi officials that you have done nothing yet to avenge your guest’s murder and that if the Iraqis revolt against the killers, this is indeed their right.
Thus, the Iraqi Prime Minister – who is trying to find common ground between the US and Iran – is not mediating for the two countries’ officials to meet, because Iran refuses to engage with the killers of Major General Soleimani, the current US administration. Al-Kazemi would rather try to avoid a military clash in Mesopotamia. However, the chances of him succeeding in his endeavour between Tehran and Washington are weak as long as the present Trump administration is in power.
The big challenge that Al-Kazemi faces is actually the illegal Turkish presence in Iraq. For many years, the Turkish army has been in Bashiqa in Iraqi Kurdistan without giving any indication of leaving. Turkey has been able to establish more than 15 military bases on Iraqi soil which look permanent. This is what worries Baghdad’s government, especially after the Turkish politicians’ repeated announcements that "Mosul is the 82nd Turkish province." This reveals expansionist intentions, as Turkey clearly considers Mosul to be part of the Ottoman Empire which therefore must be restored to its previous owner. Consequently, we should no longer wonder why Turkey keeps its diplomats and consulate in the city of Mosul in 2014, and this even during ISIS’s occupation of the city.
The Iraqi Kurdish oil is exported via Turkey who enjoys economic, military and financial influence in Iraq. Furthermore, Turkey controls the amount of water flowing to the Tigris and the Euphrates River (which passes through Syria and from there to Iraq) and controls the quantities of water that 80 per cent of Iraq’s agricultural sector depends on.
Turkey has recently built the Ilisu Dam, located 140 kilometres from Iraq. The Baghdad government fears that Ankara will use this dam on the Tigris River as a weapon directed against Iraq. Indeed, water imports for the Tigris river have decreased by about 60 per cent (i.e. from 20 billion m3 to 9 Billion m 3), which will be reflected upon all the residents living on the river basin. These are 5 Iraqi governorates, 13 districts, and 21 sub-districts. This will force farmers to migrate towards the cities due to lack of water, which would damage about four million dunums in the coming years.
In addition, last week Turkish drones killed two senior Iraqi officers and their driver whilst they were meeting with PKK militants near the Turkish-Iranian border. This is what necessitated Baghdad's summoning of the Turkish ambassador and raising the voice of the demand for a complete Turkish withdrawal from Iraq.
Al-Kazemi will carry the Iraqi-Turkish relationship with him to Washington even though the US is not expected to take a stand against Turkey, an active and major member of NATO- especially as Iraq is also demanding the withdrawal of the US. In addition, the US administration is especially concerned with what the Iraqi Prime Minister will do to protect the US forces from humiliation until their departure – as formally requested – and also put an end to the Popular Mobilization Forces (-this includes a number of forces also loyal to Iran).
But Al-Kazemi has promised to protect the PMF: he has reassured all the different brigades which they include that they would not be exposed or be dismantled. The PMF was established when ISIS occupied Iraq in 2014 and is considered by Iraqi officials as much needed, not least as long as the danger of ISIS is still hanging about Iraq’s neck. But this means that although Al-Kazemi complains about the performance of some of the PMF forces, at the same time he does rely on the largest disciplined groups within the PMF. Al-Kazemi says he needs the PMF to fight ISIS, protect the borders with Syria, and threaten the enemies of the state and put an end to the ambitions of those who are supposed to be part of Iraq but are really waiting for an opportunity to separate.
Undoubtedly, Al-Kazemi has a growing political future he never dreamed of, because his political opponents are weaker, because he listens to the people and their demands, and because he does not belong to the ruling political class that cripples Iraq, and he stands for the people who insist on reform and change. The Iraqi Prime Minister is expected to build an important political force that will manifest itself in the forthcoming early elections, whose date is less than a year from today, to bring about the changes required by the population. However, Al-Kazemi’s challenges are still multiple and complex: the Iraqi economic situation is not enviable, like its regional location: Iraq is positioned at a regional crossroads which is therefore prone to conflicts.
As for the re-election of President Trump or the election of another (Democrat) president, the result will force Iraq onto a collision course in its relationship with the US. It will put Al-Kazemi in front of other future challengers. The US administration does not want to lose its foothold in this important part of the Middle East and will, therefore, try to maintain it regardless of the challenges. Consequently, Iraq will wait for the white smoke rising from the White House to understand the future Iranian-American relationship, whether it moves towards further tension or release. This will undoubtedly be reflected in Iraq. And as far as Trump’s present request is concerned, it may be quite simply that Al-Kazemi is not in a position to give Trump the assurance he is asking for, to keep and “protect” US troops in Mesopotamia.
thank you, taxi, for publishing the full text. much appreciated.
It must not be forgotten that all sales of Iraqi oil are deposited in US banks and the US gives the money to the Iraqis to settle Iraq’s outgoings usually on several months basis [this arrangement was probably negotiated when the US gave them an offer they could not refuse years ago]. This money and Iraq’s gold is Trumps bargaining chip, he will use that chip to try and derail that Chinese deal signed by the last Prime Minister which included oil deals and Chinese reconstruction of the electricity infrastructure. Can the Iraqi Prime Minister face that bullshitter Trump down and continue with the Chinese? Iraqi officials fear economic “collapse” if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a U.S.-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90% of the national budget. https://www.dailysabah.com/energy/2020/01/13/iraq-warns-of-collapse-if-trump-blocks-oil-money
Trump, the economic sadist, is going to end up whipping America’s ass right out of superpowedom with his overreach jewy sanctions.
Someone should have told him that harshly sanctioning a whole bunch of countries at the same time only pushes them all to, first, unite against you, and second, elope with your competitors.
As expected, the FBI has arrived to Beirut Port.
Need I say why?
LOL this only spreads further, if not cements the viral idea that israel is behind the port explosion and that the yanks are now in Beirut to clean up the usual jew shit from view.
The FBI as janitors for jewish terrorism. So glad to see more of our tax dollars spent on washing tel aviv's bloody hooves.
I just asked my retired army General friend who exactly invited the FBI to investigate the Beirut Port explosion and this is what he said: “Lebanon has security arrangements with all nations on earth except for israel, so it’s normal for Lebanon to invite the assistance of foreign agencies to help investigate big crimes that occur in Lebanon. In the case of the port explosion, the invitation would have to come from the head of Internal Security, with the signed approval of the President”. Then I asked him why President Aoun would give approval to FBI investigators when they are known bffs with all of israel’s security apparatuses, and he answered: “This is because Aoun wants to see exactly which direction the FBI takes the investigation because this in itself will indicate whether the FBI is in Beirut to cover up israel’s fingerprint or not”. He added: “Aoun is not stupid”.
Superlative analysis, Taxi , in your 5:56. The scenario as you laid it out has a high probability factor of playing out exactly as you delineated it. T'will be interesting to observe Trump's moves as the "(s)election nears.
The Democrats will squirm to have the rug pulled out from beneath them. Biden will stand there with a blank look on his face as he reads his script…that is if he is not dumped before or after the convention by the ruling DNC, which identically to the RNC, takes its orders from the major minions of the financier elite.
"High Theater" indeed.
Taxi: Thank you for inclusion of the assessment by Magnier. It clarified and buttressed many elements of the Iraq situation for me, particularly in their dilemma with the Terrible Turks under "Sultan" Erdogan.
Another article Taxi in support of your thesis………
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/11/631585/Who-benefited%C2%A0from-Beirut-explosions
Thank you, Whozhear.
Yesterday, we had a very calm day here in the south of Lebanon while everyone waited and wondered what the heck will happen the very next day (today) with the release of the Hariri assassination verdict (the calm before the storm?). I’m hearing now that it will be released in the am and not the pm. Will keep you posted…
And here, let me briefly tell you about the assassinated Hariri. He is from south Lebanon, from the port city of Saida. Having been a businessman working between saudi arabia and Lebanon for a couple of decades, attaining thus a saudi arabian passport (most unusual), he was an ‘unknown’ when he burst on the political scene with his billions and bribes and big development ideas. So much moneyed goodwill established him politically in Lebanon, especially in the suni sector. So, he literally popped out of nowhere. I tend to agree with some local analysts who say that he was a saudi-israel project to weaken hezbollah and push Lebanon into normalization with israel. And boy did he try, and boy did he fail – and when he realized that such a project is impossible in the face of Hezbollah’s unstoppable growing powers internally, he told his paymasters that such a project is no longer possible and that he could no longer push their two-pronged file on the Leb table. It was shortly after a tense Hariri visit to saudi arabia that saudi press began to express anger at him by publishing articles that criticized his leadership in Leb, whereas before this the saudi press was permanently in praise of him. It was several weeks of intense saudi criticism of Rafic Hariri (now publicly allied with the Hezb) before he became the victim of the massive car bomb. Israeli jets were present right over Beirut when the car exploded.
Right, well, now I’m hearing that the verdict will be read out at 4pm local time – I’m being told that it takes two freaking hours to read the looooooong file before the verdict-reader finally announces the predictable result at 6pm local time.
Meanwhile, the Leb army has today installed army road blocks and closed down all roads going in and out of Beirut City, also sealed up important governmental roads inside of the city, as well as strategically planted soldiers and army tanks here and there inside the city.
I hope I’m right about this but I estimate the day will end in a whimper and not a bang. Pretty much all major party leaders have asked their supporters to stay cool post the verdict announcement, but obviously the paid ’embassy protestors’, supposedly leader-less, will be out on the streets shit-stirring as usual – probably looking to spill blood to get their extra dollar-bonus.
Really, my concern is the return of a wave of carbombs by the jew-usual suspect if Beirut doesn’t rock with instability and their diabolical Hariri-verdict plan fails.
Lebanon right now is a nation under financial siege from without, and covert attacks from within. Plus covid cases have been on the rise. A lot of stress in the Leb air – much nervous anticipation.
Hezbollah not guilty? The Dutch potheads must have been smoking themselves out of their minds to reach such a verdict, despite orders from Tel Aviv, in lost for words I thought it was a done deal and apparently the Zionazi's too..
Thanks Mia. Actually the reading of the verdict is not over – the court is in lunch recess for half an hour right now. So far, the leadership of the Hezb has been cleared in the morning session and the court is focusing on 4 hezb members accused of the crime: reading out a looooooooong list of their ‘circumstantial evidence’ phone records in an attempt to pull the zio-rabbit out of their arse by end of phone list.
Let’s see what the final verdict actually is – I’ll be back on the boards later.
Circumstantial evidence WITHOUT motive is meaningless in any court btw – except perhaps in jewy Madelaine Albright’s brainchild, the ICC. Mindful here that right before Rafic Hariri’s assassination, he made peace and political reconciliation with the Hezb. Mindful too that the Hezb does not practice political assassinations against their political opposition (against their religion), and we know who it is who has a looooong record of resorting to this mafia style crime.
I forgot to also mention that the morning session cleared both Nasrallah and the party of Hezbollah as well as Syria from any involvement in Hariri’s murder.
Knowing how disciplined and how rank-respecting the hezb are, are we really to believe that 5 of its members (5th man not mentioned today as he passed away in Syria fighting the wahabis) all went totally rogue and ‘acquired’ that massive bomb and plotted and planned without being detected by other hezb members? C’mon: no motive and no MO!
Oh man how much longer ooooof! They started reading the verdict details at 11am and it 4:05pm now and it’s still going ooooooooon!
But in the meantime, I’ve picked up from the loooooong Arabic-overdubbed proceedings that one of the 4 accused has been cleared – at least that’s how I understood it with brain way over-stuffed with multilingual Hariri porridge aaaaaaaagh khkhkhhhhelp-help-elp-lp-p!
But, if this is so, if I understood it correctly, then out of the five accused, one is dead-by-war and another is innocent. This leaves… oh dang the goddamn math, let’s sing: Ten green bottles hanging on the wall, ten green bottles hanging on the wall, and if one green bottle should accidentally fall, there’ll be… yeah you know the mathy rest – and you now know how seriously Hariri-mushed my brain is right now 🙂
They cleared Nasrallah and therefore the Hezbollah party for lack of ‘motive’. The persecutors did not present a convincing motive to the judges.
Motive: non existent.
Ok now they’re saying two of the remaining three accused are cleared, and only one remains ‘hanging on the wall’.
The judges are claiming they have “sufficient evidence” against Salim Ayyash, but not against the rest. They’re also saying the assassination was a ‘political act by an opposition’, but they have no evidence that indicates who exactly ordered the hit.
Leb media that’s opposed to Hezbollah started off their day by dancing on their gaudy desks and now they’re pulling their hair out from disappointment and grief and wiping off their runny mascaras.
FINAL VERDICT IN THE HARIRI ASSASSINATION: Salim Ayyash is guilty on all four counts, despite there being no direct evidence.
This case has taken some 15 years to conclude and cost the Lebanese tax payer a whopping one billion dollars.
Saad Hariri is scheduled to say a few words about the verdict soon.
Saad Hariri gave a live statement just now saying that he accepts the verdict, and that he now wants to see actual justice done. He had an even and somber tone for the most part, betrayed here and there by rising black anger at Hezbollah and Syria. Really, I thought he was disappointed and angry that both the Hezb and Syria were declared innocent by the court and only one hezbollah accused was convicted. He remains thus an emotionally confused boy who lost his father in a horrible assassination. He remains a man with two simultaneous contradictory messages: accepting the verdict, yet not.
The court had determined that the plot was hatched only two weeks before the assassination, based on Salim Ayyash’s phone records. The court explained these phonecall linkages, having color-coded 5 phones used in the crime and all that, but it went right over my head and sounded like a big bowl of rainbow spaghetti to me. I’ll have to wait for a lawyer-analyst to explain it all to me in a simplified way – I’m sure now all Leb TV stations will be inviting such experts to explain the verdict further to their viewers. Already one lawyer this morning said that phonecalls are not usually admitted as evidence in court, but an exception was made in the Hariri assassination case because that’s all that the prosecutors had: a bunch of phonecalls – not their content, but just that calls were made between the ‘yellow phoneline’ at this location and the ‘green phoneline’ at that location at such and such a time, then the orange phoneline called the yellow phoneline 18 minutes later from X location and so on and so forth ad color-coded infinitum.
The hezb has not released a statement yet.
Accessed this, through links, via the Jerusalem Post, of all possible sites. My primary take from the coverage was that the court could find absolutely no evidence implicating either the Hezb or the Syrian government to the assassination. Overall, this is good news and should NOT lead to further domestic disturbances in Lebanon. The four men accused and the one who caught the heat were not major players, in any event.
Overall, the verdict must have been devastating to the plans and schemes of those who would continue to demolish Lebanon and their primary protectors in the nation's south.
A protest by Gaegae and Hariri supporters bused into Beirut from the northern city of Tripoli and Mount Lebanon was expected this morning to take over the city and gather pace into a massive one post the verdict, but nobody turned up. Literally, Lebs stayed well away from the streets all day. This is a huge tell that Lebs do not want a civil war – the poor loves they’re still reeling from Beirushima.
It sure looks like the enemies of Lebanon overreached with their timing.
We will have to see how peaceful the nation remains over the verdict in the next few days.
First of all, thank you Taxi for the many insights and up to speed comments on this critical matter.
Majority of One, I also agree the verdict seems to indicate a lesser bumpy road ahead, clearing Hizballah and Syrian Gov was already a big thing while clearing 3 out of 4 living accused was also a very positive, in my view it deflated the "bomb" this trial was supposed to explode and cleared the way for Lebanon to resume diplomatic relationship with Syria, hopefully it will happen in 2020…inshallah.
Here's another very suspicious detail in the assassination of Rafic Hariri: the parked vehicle that was stuffed with explosives and that was triggered to explode as Hariri's car passed it was stolen in Japan and brought over into Lebanon via the UAE.
Musical interlude from Gaza while I scrub all that Hariri congestion right off the walls of my skull with gusto:
The US have attacked a Syrian Army checkpoint killing one and injuring 2 soldiers, this will continue until Syrians hit back and drive the invading thieves out.
It would be understandable if the Syrians made that stolen oil the most expensive oil ever to be transported over that long distance by oil trucks to Turkey, special forces or better still proxies could litter the route [well known] with mines, IED’s or better still EFP’s [see below] just to prove crime does not pay.
What drove the US out of Iraq the first time was a simple device called an explosively formed projectile [EFP] it consisted of a steel pipe [or even a piece of PVC waste pipe packed with high explosive with a disc of copper at the end, this was placed at the side of roads frequented by US army patrols, they could easily be disguised as rocks or other common features of the landscape, Initially they were set off by electronic means i.e. a cell phone, garage door openers or other such device. The US spent billions and asked Government research laboratories and universities to counter this phenomenon, they succeeded at first when convoys were headed by a vehicle bristling with antennae, the Iraqis were one step ahead of them, they started using a long piece of string, game over. An EFP can destroy the latest tanks, penetrate from one side to the other killing the unfortunate crispy critters inside, on detonation the disk is propelled thus…. EFP 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter can throw a 3 kg (7 lbs) copper slug at Mach 6, or 2,000 meters per second . These devices are easy to build and impossible to defend against.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator
Thanks Harry – good to have you visit again – hope you’re doing alright, buddy.
I think the murder of the Syrian soldier by US forces happened yesterday – and if I remember correctly, the US military caravan was forced to turn away after some gunfight kerfuffle between the two sides at a roadblock manned by locals who’d refused to allow the US caravan through: the Syrian army was called in and soldiers helped the locals shove the US caravan off. Subsequently, soon after our troops hauled ass and trailed up dust, US helicopters came and shot up the same roadblock and killed a Syrian soldier (R.I.P.). Fucking Captconed cowards!
I think everyone who supports Syria against the international terrorist wahabi project and its architects and greasers just want the goddamn Syria war shit to be over already and all them baddies dipped into the dark of coffins. We’ve been told by a variety of leaders in the Axis of Resistance that operations will kick up in intensity and frequency as we move closer to the US elections this November – we’re kinda beginning to see signs of this here and there nowadays. I’ve heard seasoned Arab analysts who are Iran and Hezbollah insiders say that “everything in the middle east will be completely different by end of year, give and take a couple of months”. I don’t know what is on the minds of the Axis’ strategists, but I’m gleaning that they must have a ‘surprise’ game-plan waiting very close by in the wings.
Really big, intense shifts are happening in the middle east right now. This means that big plans are being rolled out.
Hello,
Do you think the STL judgement could have been modified in Hezbollah’s favor (compared to what was expected) in hope that they smooth their retaliation for the Beyrouth bombing, in case Israel is really behind it?
Cheers from France,
Marc
Hello back, Marc, and thank you.
Hezbollah would never “smooth” over an israeli crime committed against the Lebanon, or any other country. Never! Impossible to buy Hezbollah’s righteousness and commitment to justice. The STL (Special Tribunal for Lebanon) did the Hezb no favors – all it did was legally and rightfully clear it from any involvement in the Hariri assassination. I mean the STL HAD TO clear it because the persecutors did not provide ANY evidence of Hezb involvement that the STL could work on expanding. Of course, this official clearing shuts up the Hezb’s detractors and their propaganda-media on this point, so I guess there is value in this. The STL, no doubt under enormous pressure to pin anything on the Hezb, in the end resorted to using a fall guy in the form of Salim Ayyash: a supporter of hezbollah (like the majority of the country is), and the only man who was convicted in the end. And let’s here take a quick look at Ayyash, shall we?
Ayyash at the time of Hariri’s assassination was a government employee working as a fireman in the Civil Defense department. He was not an official member of Hezbollah, but merely known to his fire brigade colleagues as a supporter of the the Hezb. He was also not an “affiliate” as the STL claims – and here the word ‘affiliate’ means ‘officially attached’, which Ayyash in no way was: no official records were produced in court to indicate this. And let me tell you here that most gov workers in Lebanon are open supporters of one party or another – this is just the norm in Lebanon.
Also, interestingly, the defense team did produce official documents with official saudi entry-and exit stamps that show that Ayyash wasn’t even in Lebanon at the time of the assassination, nor soon before and neither soon after. He was actually in saudi arabia where he’d gone for the Haj pilgrimage and had extended his stay for extra prayers (many pilgrims do this). When presented with documents that showed that Ayyash was completely absent from both scene of crime and country itself, the court decided that the stamps were a forgery – just like that! If the stamps were a forgery, then saudi arabia would have been first to jump and confirm their fakeness and publicly call the hezb forgers and murderous cheats – but not a whisper came out of Riyadh on this point: no propaganda and endless chatter on saudi TV discussing how the hezb managed to forge official saudi stamps. None!
Even from the above small facts of the trial, one cannot help but see that the STL, unable to determine who exactly was behind the assassination after a 15 year investigation, in the end needed some kind of a fall guy, and preferably one who supports the Hezb. And btw, if they even for a second entertained the idea that israel might be behind it and to investigate israel, I doubt that the lead judge would still be alive.
Even though the court cleared the Hezbollah completely, the ruling remains a sham – a total sham in my eyes. Fall guys are never guilty.
The murderers of Rafic Hariri remain free and their zip code is in tel aviv.
Here’s some further clarifying info on Salim Ayyash’s so-called membership to hezbollah: as a firefighter and supporter of hezbollah, he is registered as a first-responder volunteer on Hezbollah’s emergency list of helpers, although he is not a hezb member on the payroll. So his registration as a first-responder volunteer has been cynically turned into a ‘membership’ by the court.
And btw, Ayyash is accused of “involvement” in the assassination, and not as being THE assassin.
I can smell the jewish and wahabi sour grapes all the way over here in south Lebanon. Maybe you can smell it too from where you are in France?
Israel urges action against Hezbollah after tribunal ruling on Hariri hit
And here's the sour grapes gurgling out of Pompeo's ass over the Hariri verdict:
Pompeo: Guilty Verdict in Lebanon Assassination Shows the Threat Posed by Hezbollah
The only thing that the motherfuckers have to work with is the false tagging of Ayyash as being a "member" of Hezbollah. He's NOT a freaking member, he's a first-responder volunteer on their loooooong list of volunteers. He's just like most of the villagers who live around me: they are not actual members of the Hezb, but dedicated supporters, and some of them who work in the medical field as doctors, nurses and orderlies become hezb first-responders during times of emergency.
BTW none of the villages around me have actual fire stations or professional firefighters. Normally, when a fire breaks out in a house, a field or hill, and a few do break out in the summertime, everyone just rolls their sleeve up and joins in putting out the fire. Most of these villagers are probably signed up on the Hezb's volunteer list too, without them being actual members.
The Palestinians, now united more than ever post the UAE-israel normalization deal, have accused the UAE of "stabbing Palestinians in the back with a poisoned dagger". Not just your average dagger, but a "poisoned" one.
I heard the great Leb analyst Anis Nakash say two days ago that "the UAE sheikdom headed by Mohammad bin Zaid has signed its own death warrant with this normalization deal with israel". He added: "Did bin Zaid not once stop to think of what would happen to his kingdom when israel is finished, is destroyed? Now the death of israel will also kill that family's hold on power". He continued: "There are major tribal sheiks in UAE who are categorically against the signing and they're having to bite their tongues for the time being while sharpening their sabers for later".
Unreported in Western media are the many protests in Arab cities and other parts of the world that are appalled at the UAE's betrayal of the long-suffering Palestinians. The loudest protest voices have been heard in Kuwait and Pakistan.
Translation of Wael's Arabic intro above the twitter video: "Wissam Al-Hassan alone knew the route that Rafic Hariri's convoy would be taking on the morning of February 14th…
I still maintain that a big op like the Hariri assassination, 9/11, the JFK assassination etc always need an insider to pull it off.
Here’s a sister article to my Beirutshima one, with the focus on the US-China-Lebanon, instead of the US-israel-Lebanon that mine focuses on – a pretty good read:
Lebanon: Pearl on the New Silk Road or Zone of Dark Age Chaos
Popcorn time, as spotted at Canthama's twitter feed………
https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/status/1295769108760453120
Never intrude into an intranacine war!
Hi Taxi,
Many thanks for the background info on Ayyash, I always thought he (and the others) were official high-ranking Hezbollah members, this sheds a new light.
In France at the moment there is definitely a narrative being pushed that Lebanon’s problems are mostly due to Hezbollah and its allies, favorable reporting of the US-orchastrated protests, and blackout on the possibility for Lebanon to « turn east » and the origins of political corruption. But it has always pretty much been the case. France (official France I mean) is of course aware that Europe has zero geopolitical influence and that it needs to act by itself, going all-in on its old allies, i.e the anti-Hezbollah forces.
There is however a subtle change of tone, for instance there was reporting about France establishing a permanent communication channel with Hezbollah, that suggest that maybe it is preparing to turn sides if need be. This is the big surprise recently for me. Things are moving, slowly but surely.
Cheers, Marc
Good observation, Marc. Indeed, Macron is attempting a rapprochement with the Hezb. This is basically due to France finally acknowledging that the Hezb is an important and powerful actor on the scene, both domestically and regionally. Of course, although the Hezb is going along with the new French embrace, they know fully well that this will not lead to a French kiss. They know full well that this current French embrace had to first be approved by tel aviv. They know full well that Macron used to be a Rothschild banker, groomed by them to enter the French political scene. And just because France embraces you for five minutes, it doesn't mean that their jewy media ever will, not even for a second.
No Westerner will ever learn the truth about Hezbollah from their nation's MSM.
Must read…"Lebanon: Pearl on the New Silk Road or Zone of Dark Age Chaos". Article by Matthew Ehret-Kump appearing in today's 'globalresearch.ca', website (my favorite among news, information, analysis and opinion options).
Ehret presents the big picture of the great clash between the decaying Bank$ter-owned and controlled vampire squid of imperialist economic and political control apparati and the multipartite consortium centering on China, Russia and Iran. Lebanon has a key role in spearheading this Arc of Resistance into the Mediterranean basin and throughout the Middle East.
What I particularly appreciate in this overview is its comprehensive perspective as to how Lebanon fits into this wholistic approach to geopolitical contention, which posits the powers of imperial might and hegemony versus a cooperative roadmap.
Understand the latest UNIFIL mandate regarding Lebanon’s southern border expired on 31 August 2019. Its funding is approved on an annual basis by the General Assembly. The UN mandate also prevents UNIFIL from entering private property to search for ammunition and weapons without permission.
Question > will its continued funding be rejected in the general assemply or security council? Of courese, Israel and US are campaigning for UN Interim Force in Lebanon’s mandate be revised, empowering the force to eject Hezbollah from south Lebanon. And, of course, Isreal has ‘neutral’ France present their case. Lebanon an its friends should respond demanding UNIFIL keep IDF X km south of the border AND assire ceasation of any and all IDF violations of Lebanon air space, including air stikes into Syria. We shall see. Mike.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/israel-us-lebanon-hezbollah-kelly-craft-gilad-erdan-unifil.html
No longer clear on the details, but memory seems to insist that the General Assembly has excoriated I$rael numerous times for its racism and genocidal policies and practices. Thus with "Zionism=Racism"clear in my mind, I do feel that the enemies of common humanity would get one more vote in the G.A. than previously—the United Arab Emirates.
Thanks, Majority. You make a good and valid point.
Question here is: how many G.A. sessions can israel bend/bully/blackmail before tel aviv is wiped out?
Thanks, dear Mike. Empowering the UNIFIL to enter privates homes in south Lebanon in search of weapons and Hezb intel will never happen, mainly because they will first have to re-write the whole goddamn function of UN ‘peace-keeping’ forces – and no nation will agree to this. They would have to change literally the character of the UNIFIL setup altogether, going from tagging it as ‘peace-keepers’ to ‘invaders’.
The Hezb has already said that they don’t care whether UNIFIL stays on the Leb borders or not – their presence does not either hinder or aid the Hezb’s work. They also added that they would never ever allow for UNIFIL to bust into private Leb homes in the south or anywhere in the Leb – this is their red line with UNIFIL.
Of course, the Apartheid terrorist state of israel is absolutely desperate to put anything and anyone as buffer between its coward forces and the Hezb.
Last night, Hasan Fadlallah, Hezb MP and official Hezb spokesperson said that his party has no official stance or comment to make on the STL Hariri verdict. Zero, nada, ziltch, nothing – no comment. He clarified that the Hezb had nothing to do with the assassination in the first place therefore they have nothing to say about it.
And it's worth noting here that the Leb sunni community clearly rejected all of US-israel-saudi incitements to civil war pre and post the Hariri verdict. We can determine this with certainty because NOT A SINGLE PROTEST broke out on the day of the verdict, despite an aggressive campaign by the above mentioned evil trio to incite Leb sunnis to take to the streets and shed the blood of both Leb shias and Leb Aoun christians. We can certainly call the lack of protests erupting on the day of the verdict as 'the anticlimax of the century'.
If anyone calls you an antisemite when you criticize criminal jews, just tell them to go fuck themselves and suck on this atrocity:
I am beyond speechless! Disgusting, odious, satanist motherfuckers! They’re the ones who need to be run over straight out of Palestine and right into their unmarked graves!
These self-identified "chosen" by their diabolical self-created tribal WarGod Yahweh, are ambulatory proof that evil does exist in this world; quite contrary to the protestations of moral relativists and similarly devolved human beings.
Hello. I'd like to order a hot Qassem Souleinmani missile to be delivered to the smallest orifice of that jewish mass murderer of sheep – side of fries, please . Thank you. Have a nice day.
Thanks Taxi for your detailed response on Aoun and the Asia Times article. After I posted I saw the original in French. As you explained: a nothingburger.
Another question on Aoun’s son-in-laws. You said Bassil is critical of Israel. I read an article that described a growing rift between Aoun and Bassil and the other son-in-law who runs OTV Lebanon. Was this propaganda too?
One fact: OTV’s tweets in the first 24 hours after the explosion: they were the ones responsible for feeding a lot of disinfo to international media that undermined Aoun. It was quite deliberate: all of it from unlikely anonymous sources. Many of those tweets were later corrected after the damage was done.
Q.1 Who are the people/parties undermining Lebanon from within in various ways?
Q.2. When we say “FPM” is it a cohesive unit or a divided party? If this issue is too complex could you just say which parties are facing internal conflict and which are more united?
Corporate media is promoting a vision of Lebanon to those of us who don’t have a clue (most of the world outside Lebanon) which is different from what is happening in Lebanon. Even I can figure that out at a basic level.
Q.3 When you say the Lebanese are more angry than fearful who exactly are the top targets of the anger?
The MSM pushes on me an idea of Lebanon as a place where sectarianism rules not only in allocation of institutional positions but also in daily life i.e. daily interactions and friendships.
I think Lebanon shares in common with many countries a sort of class war: those who benefit from neoliberal/neocon policies (i.e. nice lifestyle well paid jobs) advocate for them. They want to invite in the IMF and the banking cartel to run Lebanon now on the condition that Hezbollah disarm. They BELIEVE they won’t be affected by Southern Lebanon becoming a second Gaza. For them it’s probably fine if Lebanon is reduced to a glitzy Beirut and some nice beach and mountain resorts for when they are not in their second homes abroad.
I don’t see this class conflict being any different in Lebanon than where I live, just that there are no aggressive violent neighbours eyeing the land and resources.
It is impossible for a non-Arabic speaker to understand the nuances of Lebanese politics. I am just really really tired of NATO Israel destroying the Middle East. The horror doesn’t seem to stop. It’s a testament to the strength of the Middle East that has resisted. All the military adventurism has ended in dismal failure. This goes back to 1990 when Saddam was encourage to attack Kuwait specifically by CIA/NATO. It’s no wonder that Kuwait was the first to send medical supplies to Lebanon. They have lived through this and still remember.
Many thanks for your work.
Thanks pq. Good questions. If you please, I’d like to answer them tomorrow – I just got back from a long day on the beach and I just about have enough energy right now to walk my dogs, eat early dinner… and sleep.
But I’ll leave you with this small answer: OTV has like two or three news show presenters who, although they vote for Aoun’s party and are for the most part supportive of his policies, they are actually extremely critical of his methodology and they tend to question everything he says and does, especially on issues to do with his allegiance to the Hezb. These OTV presenters support the Hezb as a resistance group but they are politically against them. Their shows tend to have guests who are supporters of Aoun and who approve of his governance and allies, and they together verbally spar in a way that reveals the pros and cons of Aoun’s day-to-day governance and his deals with his domestic allies. It’s the station’s way of providing a variety of views instead of being just a one-note news station in the worship of Aoun. And happenstance when the port explosion occurred, OTV had one of those antagonistic presenters who was really freaked out and taking up whatever narrative was being shared on social media instead of just neutrally reporting on the catastrophe till definitive info was available. During the first couple of hours after the port explosion, most Leb media fell apart and became hysterical, disseminating anything and everything that came through their social media feeds. A couple of TV stations, notably MTV News/Lebanon, immediately went into blaming Aoun for the port blast and then other stations who are anti Aoun basically repeated the propaganda to death. This added to the confusion and shock that the population was suffering from.
And here I must also add that Lebanon’s christian community (generally speaking) suffer from a syndrome, a nervous tick, if you like. They’ve had this condition from waaay before the Hezb was even a glint in its daddy’s eye – they’ve had it since the brutal Ottoman times. And this neurosis is as follows: they fear that moslems (both sunni and shia) are clandestinely working to evict them from Lebanon. There is no basis for this fear whatsoever, but it’s a fear that’s passed from generation to generation and they collectively experience it especially in times of national civil strife. I’d say perhaps about 10% of Aoun supporters are against his allegiance with the Hezb for this very reason, but they nevertheless continue to support Aoun.
Right pq, here’s some answers to your questions:
Q.1 Who are the people/parties undermining Lebanon from within in various ways?
A- Everyone who works with the West is fucking up the Lebanon. They’re the ONLY ones fucking the Leb up from within. The West is the protector of the corrupt underminers. Leb agents allied with the West gain personal benefits from their allegiance while their country suffers.
Q.2. When we say “FPM” is it a cohesive unit or a divided party? If this issue is too complex could you just say which parties are facing internal conflict and which are more united?
A- The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) was founded by Aoun and its leader is currently his son-in-law, Gibran Bassil (pronounced Basseel). It is a cohesive and united political party, and the most popular and powerful christian party too.
Q.3 When you say the Lebanese are more angry than fearful who exactly are the top targets of the anger?
A- The confessional political system is the main target for the population’s general anger. Known politicians and gov administrators who are known to be corrupt yet still walk the streets free of accountability are also a target of the people’s anger. Anger at America and France and wahabi Gulfies (and of course israel) is also rife. Some Lebs are angry at the Hezb but that’s a very small minority who have access to saudi’s loud and massive media operations inside and outside of Lebanon.
“The MSM pushes on me an idea of Lebanon as a place where sectarianism rules not only in allocation of institutional positions but also in daily life i.e. daily interactions and friendships.
I think Lebanon shares in common with many countries a sort of class war: those who benefit from neoliberal/neocon policies (i.e. nice lifestyle well paid jobs) advocate for them. They want to invite in the IMF and the banking cartel to run Lebanon now on the condition that Hezbollah disarm. They BELIEVE they won’t be affected by Southern Lebanon becoming a second Gaza. For them it’s probably fine if Lebanon is reduced to a glitzy Beirut and some nice beach and mountain resorts for when they are not in their second homes abroad.”
My response: Sectarianism is more political than social in most areas of Lebanon. And even politically, it’s not as bad as the jewy West makes it out to be. By necessity, political parties need to collaborate with each other on day-to-day policies. The Hezb’s weapons is a highly controversial topic that several anti Hezb parties politicize using sectarian speech: mainly parties that are closely aligned with the West (this means directly or indirectly israel), as well as saudi arabia. They are the Gaegae team (fascist, christian extremists who are aligned with saudi arabia, israel and the US – they represent a minority of Leb’s christian population, around 12-15%). The Hariri team (sunnis closely aligned to France and saudi arabia – they are lessening in popularity and now represent about 35% of Leb sunnis). And the Jumblat team (Druze closely aligned to saudi arabia and the US – they represent about 60% of Leb Druze). Altogether, it’s a mixed bag of nuts, you could say, and added all up, they still represent a minority of the populace and not the majority. And as regards the “glitzy Beirut’ thang: yeah that’s Gaegae’s and israel’s wet dream that will never happen: the Jumblat Druze enclave is literally but a short hop to the south, and Rafic Hariri (the father) is from Saida, a major southern city full of sunnis. The safety of the south of Lebanon is therefore important not only to Leb’s shias, but also to the Druze and the sunnis, and not forgetting here also that the south has numerous christian villages too. Even though the south is dominated by the shias, it is also an ancient christian and sunni territory too.
“I don’t see this class conflict being any different in Lebanon than where I live, just that there are no aggressive violent neighbours eyeing the land and resources.//It is impossible for a non-Arabic speaker to understand the nuances of Lebanese politics. I am just really really tired of NATO Israel destroying the Middle East. The horror doesn’t seem to stop. It’s a testament to the strength of the Middle East that has resisted. All the military adventurism has ended in dismal failure. This goes back to 1990 when Saddam was encourage to attack Kuwait specifically by CIA/NATO. It’s no wonder that Kuwait was the first to send medical supplies to Lebanon. They have lived through this and still remember”.
My response: Absolutely right you are, dear pq.
And I forgot to add above that the Western media is not a reliable source of info on the Leb. Hardly ever.
I began having very serious reservations about Hezbollah and Nasrallah ever since the start of this plandemic. I am questioning Nasrallah’s true place in this New World Order. I cannot believe that Nasrallah could believe more in the power of this so called corona virus than the power of God Almighty to protect the people from such a bug that is not more deadly than the regular flu. Instead he subscribed to this newest cult and its rituals (mask wearing, anti social distancing, incessant washing of hands, self isolation instead of participating in Islamic prayers and even traditional Ashoura meetings,…). I just stopped respecting him due to this naked disrespect to God and His desire that we treat each other as human beings in one ummah instead of treating each others as lepers. We have enough data to see that this fake pandemic is just that a fake pandemic. We are all witnessing that the invisible rulers of this world are not taking all of these extraordinary measures for our protection. They are proceeding in lock step for the control of the whole world population and its enslavement. Despite the obvious data showing the low death rate of this virus, Nasrallah is still pushing the narative of the liars at the WHO and the satanic leaders of this world. I cannot believe that he is blind to the BS of this so called pandemic.
Please make him (Nasrallah) aware of this message. I do wish that he sees it. If he is serious he will stop all this masquerade. If he reveals himself as being mistaken I will apologize openly to him. Until then I will continue to believe that he is part and parcel of this NWO.
Just for your information, I am a Lebanese originally from South Lebanon born a Shia.
there are many things in our world to doubt, nasrallah is not one…if you have a flaming need to doubt, perhaps begin your search in israel, the excited snakes, or the uk? examples abound in all. evidently, nasrallah's faith is obviously too vast, too deep for your poor soul to grasp.
Thanks CoronaBS. Last week, I heard someone quote from the koran a story about how the prophet Mohammad was in company of some man (sorry I forgot his name). They rode into a town and after dismounting their horses, the prophet proceeded to tie up his horse when the man said to him: “don’t worry about your horse, God will protect our horses from thieves”, whereupon the prophet replied: “first tie the horse then put your faith in God”. The moral of this story is that one has to first put common sense above that of faith. And I think here the same message applies to corona. There is nothing wrong or clandestine with Nasrallah advising people to take the following protective steps: mask up, keep clean hands and practice social distancing. He does not advocate for business mass closure or anything like that, which is where the NWO agenda is. He simply gives common sense advise. It’s a given that surgical masks do not provide a guaranteed 100% protection, but for sure they can provide some protection, so why not do it? The washing of hands should be a normal practice anyway, but not to an illogical and neurotic level – only when exposed to alien environments and materials, or actual dirt and bacteria. Pre covid, even I used to practice social distancing from people who were suffering from pneumonia or the flu – so did most people I know. And here I’ll remind you that covid is a new type of pneumonia, but unlike other pneumonias before it, it happens to be extremely easy and quick to contract. What I’m actually disappointed in, with regards to Nasrallah’s advise, is that he did not urge people to eat smarter and healthier so as to boost their immunity. Boosting one’s immunity through diet is key in my book. This way, even if one did contract covid, the chances of non-sickness from it will be optimum.
I appreciate where you’re coming from, dear covidBS, and I ask you to apply common sense instead of wariness of a leader whose very blood is against the imperialistic mindset of the West and all their anti-humanitarian projects.
A twitter feed that is a strong zionist supporter, EndGameWWIII, is reporting an armed altercation between Amal and Hezbollah………
https://twitter.com/lummideast/status/1296552338228940800
Any knowledge Taxi please, as to the facts?
LOL that’s hilarious and desperate propaganda. Heeeeheeeehaaaaawzy! That’s my response to the stupid linked tweet.
By now, we all know how the jew fuckers work: spread misinfo that divides people, and right now they’re desperate to divide up the Hezb’s allies. Not gonna work.
Always remember the jew motto: by deception thou shall do war.
Oh dear, the Saker has yet again published another article by Ghassan Kadi who is a controlled-opposition agent. I discussed and dissected his last article in a comment here on Plato's several months ago (sorry I don't have time to search for and link the comment right now).
Doesn't the Saker know how these motherfuckers work? They are on the money about absolutely everything except for WHEN AND WHERE IT COUNTS! Sneaky devils that they are!
The Hezbollah-France Twist
That Kadi dude is fucking deluded. I mean he's promoting the idea that the Hezb is abandoning Aoun! Nothing at all could be further from the truth. Kadi is therefore participating in the current global misinformation campaign about the hezb's allies breaking up. Fuck him and his stupid lies!
And btw, pretty much everything Kadi says about Aoun is taken out of context. He paints the man as a disloyal opportunist. Again, nothing could be further from the truth. And just so you know, both the Hezb and Aoun get a major chunk of their strength from being allies. United, they are the strongest team working the Leb beat. Disunited, they become open to a heck of a beating by their opposition. Their allegiance is based on both patriotic affection and pragmatism.
And another btw, the French have never liked Aoun BECAUSE he's always been a real patriot, hence he's always been OPENLY wary of the French. When Aoun lived as an exile in France, the French Foreign Ministry banned him from living in their capital city of Paris – he was consigned instead to living in the shabby Parisian suburbs, otherwise known as the 'banlieue'. They hated Aoun because he was openly an anti colonialist and they did not want him in their capital city socializing with the very affluent upper crust Franco-Lebanese there in case his anti-colonialist patriotism became contagious.
Hey, Mr. Saker – get it the fuck together man! Stop giving platform to political con men like that snake, Ghassan Kadi.
Taxi, The Saker has gotten Middle East events wrong many times….recall very well that in 2015 he got totally wrong the Russian arrival into Syria and in many other moments since them, he understands quite well the dynamics in Central-Eastern Europe, but not in the ME, where he usually rely on other writers and some as you well said are paid from the coalition of evil. No surprise The Saker is mis stepping in the Lebanon, he just does not have the right contacts and knowledge in the region. Something that it was told to him and his key followers, but they reacted badly for any honest criticism.
Nevertheless, I still like to read The Saker blog when it refers to Central-Eastern Europe.
I like the Saker because he's lately been providing English translations of Nasrallah's recent speeches in full. Albeit belatedly.
Did you btw ever read my take on Russia's entry into Syria? Plato's was first to publish the geostragic implications of Putin's seemingly sudden move into Syria back in 2015:
Russia Destroys The Greater Israel Dream
Taxi, I haven't at the time, but I did now, and it was a refreshing experience, you got it all right where The Saker did not. Congrats.
I recall Putin's speech at the UN at that very moment, he saying those immortal words…"do you realize what you have done?"…and Russian jets flying through Iran and Iraq toward Syria's airfield, what a moment of joy…we at Syrper were thrilled, we knew the tide has changed and we would Syria strong again.
Thank you for the article, it was a pleasure to read your piece.
Being a good investigative journalist or geopolitical analyst require connections in intelligence community, I try keep it in mind that by reading some geopolitical analysis, I am reading a story where the writer has accepted at least some terms and conditions by the providing intelligent service.
It‘s the same process with the news, you read the news then try to find the right angle to see behind the news, and first then you start to extract the facts.
China is not stupid. It knows very well who exactly is the destabilizer of the middle east and the very source all wars, pestilence and klepto-terrorism in the middle east.
China to UNSC: Palestinians can count on us to back their just rights
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/silent-majority-rejects-gulf-ties-israel
“Silent majority” rejects Gulf ties with Israel
Thanks, Cloak. As you and I and everybody else already knows, it’s just impossible to force people to love their enemy overnight. The jews have no real friends in the world; and this is of their own making. Jewish coercion and blackmail are not tactics that gain them real friendships. Jews don’t have friends, they have exploitees listed on their rollerdecks.
As we also already know, the Arab world is blighted with corrupt and greedy leaders who suck up to israel while their people rage in silence at the obscene spectacle. This is not an everlasting condition. Something will give way one of these days. There will be rebellion, but this rebellion has to first emerge from the top, then downwards. The affluent in Arab societies living under authoritarian regimes have to be first to scream out at the rulers to give courage to the small guy to do the same.
And let’s here briefly look at why Mohammad bin Zaid of UAE signed up to suck on tel aviv’s cock. The ‘old’ Greater Israel Project, currently like a cat that’s been forced into a grain sack, is now prohibited from actually usurping by force of arms any further Arab land. Their only option therefore is to woo corrupt Arabs into opening up borders for them so that they may enter Arab land under the cover of ‘peace’, despoil this Arab land from within then pounce, as per their historic pattern of behavior indicates. This is now their ‘new’ Greater Israel Project. The question here is: how to woo Arab corrupt leaders away from their moral and religious duties towards Palestine? Well, very simple: appeal to their greed. And in the case of MbZ of UAE, mega lucrative projects have been offered to him. The main project being this: agricultural industrialization of the Jordan Valley that links the holy land to the Arabian peninsular, with the building of a high-speed railroad and motorways that connect the holy land directly to the Arabian peninsular where trade and normal and religious tourism will be available to billions of Arabs and global muslims. Mindful here that especially religious tourism is a trillion dollar industry, never mind the added yearly trillions that can be generated from copious agricultural harvests, from the building of new industrial factories, from expanded full spectrum trade as well as normal tourism.
Netnayahu is currently touting his big project in the Jordan Valley (that he was supposed to annex last month) as the best thing that will be happening to israel. He is planning to build a new jew city in the Jordan Valley called ‘Eretz Israel’ (literally translated: Greater Israel!) that would be the financial center that will administer and process the profits of this grand project, with their main clients being regular Arabs and other muslims from countries who have normalized relations with tel aviv. So basically, if the jews cannot out and out physically occupy more Arab lands, they will steal their resources with the help of corrupt Arab leaders who will be rewarded with mega kickbacks from the humongous profits, as indeed is the case with MbZ, who is so Mammon-smitten that he was literally the easiest target for the jews. When you love money more than you love self-dignity, well, the jews will sniff you out quick and bare their wolverine yellow teeth and swoop.
The key for the success of this new jewish looting project is control of the Jordan Valley. The jews must first wrestle it right off the hands of Jordan – and obviously they believe they can. They don’t care how many Arabs die or are made homeless to make this vulturous Mammonite project happen. And the US supports this pillaging project because US companies (owned by US jews, of course) are involved. Plus the US sees this project as regional competitor to China’s trade route. The US so far has no counter to China’s Silk Road 2 except to fully support israel’s NEW Eretz Israel project that links the Arabian peninsular to the holy land on the Mediterranean: a giant territory that’s exceptionally rich in natural resources. Mindful here that the landmass of all Arab nations combined is in fact the second largest landmass in the world, after Russia.
MbZ of UAE is privy to this project and has signed on to be a major facilitator and participator in it, in preparation for when UAE’s natural resources run out. One could say he’s versifying his kingdom’s portfolio by putting Mammon before dignity and justice. Mindful here that his share of looted profits do not go to his people, but to his own pocket.
He should be so lucky to see the Ertzel Israel project through. Like the great Leb analyst Anis Nakash said last week: “did Mohammad bin Zaid not once think of what would happen to his family and kingdom once israel has been destroyed?”.
And it will be destroyed before the city of ‘Ertzel Israel’ has been built.
Canthama, to me, the most exciting component of the 2015 Russian intervention was the three MIGs hiding under the belly of a transport plane to enter Syria. The Zionists/NATO were completely hoodwinked.
And then the Russian general walking into US military HQ and giving them notice that bombing their terrorist pets would begin in an hour (IIRC).
For fun, I like trying to visualise in my mind the anger that would have been within Zionist command centres LOL.
Another fun moment was when the Russians with a Kalibr missile attack took out a ISISrael command centre in northern Syria swarming with US, Israeli and Saudi's. The silence afterwards must have been deafening…
Hezbollah brought down an israeli drone overnight when it crossed the southern Leb border.
Good.
Terrorist israel needs to be reminded that there remains a formidable force right at its doorstep. They need to be reminded that retaliation for the death of the Hezb fighter in Syria last month remains on the table, despite the the terrorist attack on Beirut Port two weeks ago and despite the current fragility of Lebanon.
Post the Hezb’s downing and capture of the above-mentioned drone, I've had this other jew drone fly overhead for about 40 minutes earlier this morning. And right now a terrorist israeli military jet is circling overhead.
I wouldn't mind one bit the regional mayhem that would come should the Hezb right now decide to down that motherfucking terrorist jew jet with two jew pilots in it.
Dear readers and friends. You should know that post Beirutshima, even though the Hezb remains untouched, yet Lebanon itself is in extreme danger. Many respectable Leb analysts are now openly indicating, even before the results of the official investigation has concluded, that their assessment of Beirutshima is that it was a terrorist attack by israel.
They point at the highly suspicious identity and "theatrical circumstances" of the cargo ship's arrival into Beirut Port; and how some politicians and port officials were bribed into 'guarding it' from being relocated. Most of these individuals would not have known who the exploitative mastermind behind this terrorist project was, or that it was even a terrorist project, but had merely accepted yet another bribe to look the other way, as per their usual behavior. In other words, they were unwitting players, exploited for their existing rotten core by the criminal mastermind. Moreover, these Leb analysts do not believe in missile or jet strikes, but they do believe that there was "a human hand" in the port itself that had created a setup that triggered the blast through a pre-planted detonation device. Of course, after such a colossal explosion, a detonator would have been blown to smithereens and no evidence of its existence would indeed remain.
These analysts are also saying that Diab had received a report that there exists this dangerous material in the port some two weeks before the explosion, and that Diab had immediately ordered his own investigation and a report on this, and that his report had arrived at his desk the very same day of the explosion. These analysts are concluding that the evil hand/team that was tasked with protecting the AN in wharf 12 had realized that Diab is a serious PM who was about to vigilantly work towards removing this material out of the port, thus the mastermind of this AN theater was suddenly forced to play his hand and gave orders to explode it before it was removed; and with the help of the treasonous saudi-funded Leb medias, had also attempted to pin this explosion on Hezbollah literally only minutes after the explosion occurred. The opposition media as well as the global jewish media's memo/instructional was to aggressively pin the explosion on the Hezb, incite civil war, bring down the Diab government and force president Aoun into a humiliating resignation too. Even though the perps could have given the order to explode the material the day it was supposed to be removed, which would have taken a couple of weeks under Diab, they chose the very week of the Rafic Hariri verdict just to be sure that maximum destabilization would follow suit.
So far, only Diab has fallen, but the opposition media attacks on the Hezb and president Aoun continue at maximum intensity, with the past couple of days seeing the saudi-funded treasonous Leb media calling for "an international investigation" into Beirutshima. Even though many nations are already involved in the investigation of the port explosion, they remain appendages to the official Lebanese investigation and not an official UN sanctioned and internationalized investigation. Analysts are saying that the evil designers of all this are attempting to create yet another endless investigation to busy up the Hezb with, in the same way they had set up the Hariri assassination previously. The enemy of Lebanon, and this would be terrorist israel, is now fixated on a project of maximum destabilization of Lebanon because in reality, it is unable to go to direct war with the Hezb and the general Axis of Resistance. Instead of the battlefield, the terrorist coward jews are now aiming to completely cripple the city of Beirut that represents Lebanon's financial center, whose financial muscle depends absolutely on its port activity. And the evil hand is now also attempting to delay reconstruction of the damaged part of the port so as to keep Beirut in its current financial devastation. The bigger evil picture behind this port reconstruction delay is to re-route Lebanon's cargo either to the port in the northern city of Tripoli, or to the Port of Saida in the south, thus already cantonizing the Lebanon into two smaller financial centres: one in the north and one in the south with the middle part of coastal Lebanon being a crippled and devastated Beirut, unable to swiftly reconstruct due to ongoing political disarray.
Are you following me so far?
Listen, Beirut without its port is a nobody, and Lebanon without Beirut is a non-nation.
This is currently the most dangerous and complex equation that the Hezb and Aoun's camps are dealing with: pushing back against the attempted financial cantonization of Lebanon, and the attempt of evil medias to distract the Lebanese public with another lengthy 'international investigation' into the Beirutshima.
Some analysts are even saying that the presence of foreign zio-loving navy ships in the Beirut waters may very well be connected to the timing of israel's project to ethnically cleanse the remaining Palestinians from Historic Palestine. But that's another story for another comment.
The best of Leb analysts are saying that none of the results of the investigation into Beirutshima done by foreigners should be given a single consideration as they are all there to cover up and protect israel. One analyst who is a known Russiophile said that even Russia's results should be taken with a grain of salt because if Russia did find the israeli fingerprint on Beirutshima, then it may very well, for its own strategic configuration, cover up the jewish fingerprint.
And this current status of a Lebanon destabilized with Beirut Port remaining un-reconstructed will persist till a new Leb government has been formed. Constitutionally speaking, Diab, because he has already resigned, is not in a position to sign ANY new reconstruction contracts with ANYBODY. Only a newly assigned government can legally do this.
It's a big fucking political and financial mess at the tail end of the largest explosion that Lebanon has ever known.
Obviously, here one looks for the enemy's weakness to target so as to push back the multi-pronged assault, and israel's weakness is its utter fear of being dragged into direct battle with Hezbollah and the Axis of Resistance. If I were in that egghead Hezb room, I would work to trip up israel into an existential war that would finish it off, regardless of the cost to the Lebanon. After all, the Lebanon is practically close to the gates of destruction from the enemy within and from the enemy without anyway.
Don't do and you die, or, do or die.
Surely, the twelfth hour is goddamn close by now!
https://twitter.com/HDiabSupporters/status/1292074786395435008
Is this the Diab thing? Could you translate it?
I listened to Nasrallah's shorter speech a couple of days after the explosion. It was my first time hearing him speak. What he said was (paraphrasing): unless everyone in Lebanon takes full responsibility to ensure the investigation is honest, Lebanon will cease to exist as a nation. He said it was a defining moment.
I felt sad after I heard that. It seemed as if he were acknowledging that regardless of what Israel may have done and the other external forces, there are also many internal forces undermining Lebanon's unity at such a critical moment.
For example, if Lebanese politicians had been more forthright in immediately floating the idea of an attack, even as just a hypothesis to the "fertilizer blew itself up accident", it might have been more of a unifying force instead of everyone pointing fingers at each other and making the country even more vulnerable to those who seek to destroy it.
I wish Lebanese politicians had hit back on the "fertilizer is dangerous" claims from the beginning. I understand, it was a very traumatic moment. Nobody had the time to research basic chemistry and mining manuals from the 1980s. Ammonium nitrate btw only began to be highly regulated after 2011 when the war of terror on the Middle East picked up steam. Before then, it was basically plain old fertilizer despite the McVeigh incident in the 90s (which people have also questioned).
Thanks pq. You make good and valid points re the initial framing of the attack. Yes, all possibilities behind the attack should have been immediately put on the table, but some sensitive leaders, in the confusing immediate aftermath of the devastation did not want to disrespect the victims and pile on an already traumatized and petrified population. Meanwhile, the opposition media went into immediate insensitive overdrive accusing singularly the Hezb for the devastation. President Aoun, some 48 hours after the blast was actually the first politician to verbalize it by saying that it “could possibly be a terrorist attack”. The following day, Nasrallah hinted at it in his eulogy/speech, and in the speech that followed several days after that, he spelled it out loud and clear as a very feasible possibility, adding that he will nevertheless wait for the results of the investigation before he commented on what he really thought had caused the port explosion.
And yes I too felt a twinge of sadness to hear Nasrallah literally have to implore the Lebanese people as a whole to be responsible patriots and collectively all insist on an honest investigation, else all will be lost. The Lebs, you know, they are a charming and very smart people, but they are a hot-blooded and crazy people too – brawlers in suits – can easily become emotional and volatile when triggered. Nasrallah was but being gritty-realistic and warning them not to fall for preset triggers that are meant to lead to absolute disaster.
And as regards your linked tweet: it is referring to the attached two documents, official documents from different Internal Security departments regarding the presence of AN in the port that were delivered to Diab’s office, and here is the tweet’s translated comment:
“Documents that demonstrate how fast Diab had acted soon as he first received info on the existence of the AN at the port. Beware! The media is accusing Diab.
[Diab’s] Minister of Labor received the letter on August 4th. This means the day of the catastrophe. Coincidence?
The media today will turn the criminal into the victim, and criminalize the victim.
Payback is coming”.
Thanks for the answers!
Btw, there's a lot of useful info in this comment section additional to the article. People who are new to your blog like me wouldn't know it's there.
Taxi, you yourself spoke of hearing three explosions, of increasing volume and so not echoes. Then there is the matter of the orange and white persisting column of smoke, against which there appeared a brief symmetrical white ball that quickly dissipated—more like water vapour than smoke. That suggests a concentrated high intensity event. See the discussion at Meyssan's website.
I wonder what you are basing your changed interpretation on.
Thank you, Sarz, but I don’t understand what you mean by this: “I wonder what you are basing your changed interpretation on”.
How have I changed my interpretation? Please point to it. So far, my article provides you with my finger pointing at israel, and pretty much all my following comments say same, including today’s long one that gives the reader updated commentary from local analysts who are also pointing fingers at israel.
Also, I just gotta say one thing about Thiery Meyssan. And this is a personal thing for me and for me only because I now know Arabic. I used to read him all the time back in the day, but since my Arabic picked up, why would I go to him when Lebanese analysts who are highly specialized in Lebanese and Arab politics leave Meyssan's analysis way in the dust? Truly, the Lebanon has some very well-sourced and incredibly astute analysts. Why would I go anywhere else for info, especially on the Leb, when the place itself is a writhing ocean of REAL and direct info.
I tend to listen to a whole bunch of top Leb analysts and distill a logical consensus from that cauldron of information.
Sorry to have projected onto you my sense of greater confusion with the later explanation you have accepted. With the story you now report, how are there three explosions? The last event, with the symmetrical round cloud of vapour, was possibly a small exotic nuke, something the Israelis have on occasion been accused of using. Possibly the nitrate fire was cover for something far more destructive. Anyway, I don't have any answers, just some uneasy questions.
No worries, buddy.
In case I haven’t yet mentioned upthread: where I live is teeming with hills and echoes. I actually once wrote a comment way back describing how intensely echo-y the south of Lebanon is, all due to the endless necklaces of tightly linked hills. My friend, who was about two miles away from the port explosion when it happened says only two explosions blasted out, with the second one being a huge one; so, even though I heard three explosions, I’m tending towards what my friend said because he was closer to the explosion than I was (I’m some 60+ miles away), plus my environment is a natural echo chamber.
The cloud of vapor was port water sucked up with the charged explosion. No nuke was used because no radiation was detected after the explosion – and they continue to test the port’s atmosphere on a daily basis and the result is still the same: no radiation detected.
Of course, the exact details of the ‘how’ it happened remains a mystery under investigation. But we sure as hell know who the terrorist motherfuckers behind the explosion are!
@ sarz/taxi
I've watched [and listened to] various videos. Closer to the explosion you can also hear firecrackers going of, followed by 2 explosions. Farther away, you only hear those 2 main explosions, first a rumble, followed by a loud bang, one that sends glass flying in all directions.
But what do I know, I've got ekrixiphobia… :o]
Taxi, can you recommend any good Lebanon web-sites for analysis and opinion? As it is, I get most of my info from the Saker, Moon of Alabama and Sic Semper Tyrannis, as well as from here.
Antoinetta III
Hiya Antoinetta. Your list of sites is pretty good – I used to regularly visit them myself till I learned Arabic and discovered that good as these sites are, they can sometimes be right off the mark or short on info, while Arab analysts are pretty much always on the mark and much rich on info. Unfortunately, there are no truly excellent sites in English that give you bone-and-soul news on the middle east. And really, I don’t follow any specific Arabic sites either – I tend to follow Arab analysts through their appearances on various Arab TV stations where they would sit and discuss current issues for a good solid hour (without commercial breaks!), therefore giving audiences a big fat focused micro and macro picture. Because my Arabic reading is a tad slow while my comprehension is much better and faster, I tend to mostly get info from Arab TV and from informed locals I know. Sometimes I even get news bits from interacting with locals before Arab TV picks up the story. But I still occasionally go to the sites you listed just to see what the heck be going on over there. I keep my fingers on a pulse here and a pulse there by following English-speaking analysts instead of specific webzines. And usually, after I watch a particularly supreme session of analysis by an Arab analyst, I get really frustrated that the station doesn’t provide English translations or subtitles of its programming so I can share it widy’all. This would indeed save me much time writing up summaries on Plato’s.
What I particularly enjoy about watching Arab analysts is that many of them have been in actual wars and battles themselves so their astute analysis usually carries a combined political, military and geostrategic perspective. Three-dimensional chess? You betcha!
Soon as I learned Arabic, a giant and deep chest of info opened wide for me.
@ taxi,
“…many of them have been in actual wars and battles themselves…”
The good thing about people who’ve actually been there [combat], they’ll advocate peace first and war second.
Having said that [and being a peace advocate myself] Occupied Palestine needs to be kicked in the nuts so hard, it’s neutered once and for all and flees into the sea.
As the say in Japan, “Sayo-fvcking-nara!”
And btw Antoinetta, I always enjoy visiting ‘Xymphora’ – it’s a really great daily newsstand:
Xymphora
Mark Oct. 18th, It's the day Iran could change membership status in SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization or "Alliance of the East") and become a full member, needless to say what impact this going to have for Yankee hegemony in ME and also the elections in US.
Omid, this is a big date indeed…..October will be an interesting month for Iran, weapon sanctions will be dropped by UNSC and SCO membership could be finally activated for Iran toward full membership, it would still take sometime, but just the announcement would make the ME a different place all together.
@ Canthama,
I hope the SCO turns into a cohesive force for good and be the opposite of ZUS/Occupied Palestine.
The world [at large] needs it/them.
From the divine:
Morocco rejects normalization with Israel ahead of Kushner’s visit
To the ridiculous:
Arafat widow apologizes to UAE for Palestine protests
Zionists are afraid that the Arabs may understand what a junk F-35 is and spread the word.
"The United Arab Emirates cancelled a meeting with Israeli and American officials to formalise normalisation, due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to the US selling Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets to Abu Dhabi…
… Israeli journalist Barak Ravid reported on Monday that Emirati officials abruptly cancelled a ceremonial meeting that was set to take place last Friday "indefinitely".
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-cancels-meeting-us-and-israel-over-f-35-deal
@ OMID,
The F-35 is the US military version of a ‘special needs’ kid.
Russian fighter jets can [and do] take of from dirt strips. The F-35 sports [among others] the following:
The list is endless and I’m sure even a Mig-25 can take it on and be victorious.
A useless piece of crap, of true Boeing quality [like everything else in the US]. crap parading as quality.
Heh heh heh! Yeah Omid, I heard the cheerful news right before I fell asleep last night. And curiously, while I was walking my dogs earlier in the day yesterday, I did actually have the thought of: ‘wouldn’t it be just a fantastic punch in the Pompeo gut if UAE changed its mind about normalizing with israel overnight’? Heh! I guess the godly gods were listening.
This is yet another example of jewish arrogance losing them friends. I guess israel didn’t realize that the extremely and exceptionally wealthy Mohammad Bin Zayed is even more arrogant that their shit ashkanazi asses.
Taxi, it‘s enough to have a look at UAE demographics to understand that this deal is a lot of agitprop and very little objective change of balance.
Less then 12% of the population in UAE are Emirati-Arabs counting for about 1 million out of a total 9,5 million. During the last decade the population has increased from 4,1 to 9,5 Millions while female part of the population is about 28%.
I mean, forget the rivalry among the Emirs that has a personal and political character, forget Gini coefficient showing the amazing gap between rich and poor and forget all external elements pushing UAE to different directions, when you study demographic figures you know that UAE is an artificial nation and highly unstable. Not much is needed to disintegrate this construction in a short period of time and make it to what it actually is, a couple of trade hubs on the shores of the Persian Gulf.
Zionists and Yankee celebrating that a couple of trade hubs have recognized Zionist Apartheid regime. It reminds me of the latest voting in UNSC, Yankee managed to get the Dominican Republic out of 15 nations to support their diplomacy against Iran.
Daniel, Why a Mig 25 when an EW equiped Shahed 129 could do the job. Would love to see an incident where F-35 crash into it’s F-22 bodyguard (and if needed, terminator) like the newly incident above Idlib where 2 Yankee MQ-9 neutralized each other. These poor UAVs can simply not see what’s going on over their head.
More about this super happy story:
Prominent American activist resigns from UAE peace forum over Israel statement
UAE attempt to get Muslim scholars to endorse Israel deal falls flat
UAE nixes meeting with US, Israel over F-35 arms deal row: Report
Pompeo: We’ll honor Israel’s military edge, but are reviewing arms sales to UAE
Thanks, Omid.
Yeah I've been to UAE a few times over the years and have visited all the emirates bar two. Everywhere you go in UAE, you can visually tell that expats waaaay outnumber the natives. And these natives are for the most part spoiled, arrogant, lazy and dumb – better at delegating jobs than being productive themselves.
And UAE's weakness is even worse than you think: the whole goddamn place is made of glass! You don't even need to strike directly at their hi-architecture high-rises to turn their financial and trade centers instantly into an ocean of broken glass.
'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones' applies to UAE %1.000.000. Don't be a dumbass and let the mosad throw stones from your shores at Iran!
Instead of paraphrasing Ahhhnold, I’ll say, “Am I back…?”
Yes, indeed, I am. Huzzah!
@ taxi,
You mentioned an Occupied Palestine plane flying overhead. Do you have an inkling about it's height and speed [approximately]?
No idea whatsoever. All you see (occasionally) is the smoke trail waaaay high up in the sky and all you hear is the loud testosterone rumble in D-major.
Some guys in the village have such keen ears that they can distinguish between the sound of an F-16 and an F-35, and I’m told by them that most of the time, it’s israeli F-16’s that fly overhead, with the occasional F-35.
Off topic from Lebanon…I recall a discussion about Tibet few months ago right here at Platosguns…it was a heated debate at the time….hear now Dalai Lama's brother on US/CIA…the same is currently being done in far western China…Uyghur, evil has no limit.
"Dalai Lama's second brother regretted for working for CIA to subvert Tibet and China"
https://sgtalk.org/mybb/Thread-Dalai-lama-s-second-brother-regretted-for-working-for-CIA-to-subvert-Tibet-and-China
Translation:
"The U.S. only wants to subvert and split China through the power of Tibetan independence 2017-01-04
time proves everything! In April 2015, the Dalai Lama’s elder brother Jiale Dunzhu, who used to be Dalai’s special envoy for a long time, published his memoir "The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet". Jiale Dunzhu said, "The greatest regret in his life" is to cooperate with the US CIA, receive various assistance from the CIA and train Tibetan armed personnel and guerrillas on his behalf. The armed training base set up by the CIA for Tibetans was initially selected near the India-Pakistan border and later moved to Mustang in Nepal and Colorado in the United States. After training, a large number of Tibetan militants sneaked into Tibet to launch attacks with the assistance of the United States. Capture important information from the CCP to the United States.
It took many years for Gyal Tundup to realize that he had been fooled and that he had missed the best time to resolve the Tibet issue peacefully. He said that the United States not only has no intention of alleviating the tension between Tibet and China, but has tried its best to expand it, with the purpose of harming China. Jiale Dunzhu said that the problem is that it hurts China while also hurting Tibet; the only thing that has benefited is the United States, which has turned upside down. Gyaltendup also emphasized that the various weapons provided by the United States to Tibetans are not made by the United States. He believes that this is because the United States does not want to leave any evidence of secretly assisting Tibetans in armed organizations and attacks.
Regarding the whole process, Gya Le Dunzhu said: There is only one regrettable thing in my entire life: that is the connection with the CIA. At first I really believed that Americans wanted to help us fight for independence, but finally I realized that things are not so simple, it is just my wishful thinking. The CIA’s goal has never been Tibet’s independence. In fact, I don’t think the United States really wants to help. They just want to cause conflict and use Tibetans to create misunderstandings and discord between China and India. In the end they succeeded. The Sino-Indian border war in 1962 was a tragedy.
Our cooperation with the CIA has annoyed the Chinese and gave them an excuse for mass suppression. As a result, tens of thousands of Tibetans died as a result. My relationship with the CIA has weighed heavily on my heart. I have been silent for decades, but now I must tell the truth. Our cooperation with the CIA was wrong. We should not receive assistance from the CIA. If we do not cooperate with the CIA and we do not covet the extremely limited benefits given by the CIA, the CCP will have no excuse to kill so many Tibetans. Our cooperation with the CIA has resulted in the deaths of so many innocent people. They are not only killing our people, but also trying to kill our culture. The things I accomplished with the CIA contributed to the complete destruction of Tibetan culture. This caused me great pain and troubled me for many years. I cannot forget all this, I am guilty. This is the greatest regret in my life.
Such actions of the United States have been repeatedly carried out to this day, using the so-called democracy, freedom and human rights as an excuse to do everything in their power to provoke bloody disturbances and conflicts in order to subvert, attack, and even invade and occupy all disobedient or hostile governments; One is by providing economic aid and weapons to the so-called opposition forces, so as to provoke various struggles and unrest, and reap the profits from it. There is no doubt that today, if it were not for the great power of the Chinese Communist Party, the entire continent had already become the bloody purgatory of Iraq and Afghanistan."
Thanks Canthama. Your link then finally seals the argument. I hope that the commenter ‘Sparrow’, who’d wigged out at my statement that the Dalai Lama’s celebritydom was a freaking CIA psyop, now understands that FACTS are above ideology.
It was so very foolish of the ‘enlightened’ Dalia Lama to allow himself and his institution to be politicized and used by the CIA against China.
Smart leaders know that the US stabs its small allies in the eyeball and its bigger ones in the back. This is the US MO. With the exception of israel, of course, who is not a victim of US backstabbing but in fact is the one that every day backstabs the US.
Most certainly, we can say that Hezbollah is smarter than both the US and the freaking Apartheid Einsteins combined (heh heh!):
No changes in the UNIFIL mandate and the attempt to destroy the Lebanese state has failed
By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
The US had threatened to withdraw its annual financial support of $135 million (27% of the $500 million annual costs) for the 10,000 UNIFIL men deployed in Lebanon unless its mandate was strengthened. The US, at the request of Israel, asked to see the UNIFIL forces disarm Hezbollah and evacuate arms depots in the south of Lebanon. But above all, the US wanted UNIFIL troops to evaluate and inform Israel of the deployment and the accurate location of Hezbollah’s highly trained and experienced Special Operation Forces, called the “Ridwan”, spread along the borders facing the Israeli army. However, this US-Israeli wishful thinking has not been gratified. A series of disappointing events has thwarted Israel-US objectives: the Special Tribunal verdict on the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was considered unsatisfactory by a number of pro-US Lebanese at the time when a (failed) coup d’état was being prepared against the government, the parliament and President Michel Aoun. So what will be the fate of UNIFIL in Lebanon?
The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005 was followed by a Lebanese domestic uprising against the "Axis of Resistance" and paved the way for the second Israeli war of July 2006, which failed to achieve its objectives. In fact, in 2006, Israel was supported by several Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia and also by Lebanese political leaders acting as US-proxies, with the aim of fulfilling Israel’s wish to disarm Hezbollah. However, the assassination of Hariri did result in the exit of Syrian forces from Lebanon.
The failure to disarm Hezbollah was followed by another attempt to weaken the organisation when Israel assassinated Hajj Imad Mughnniyah in February 2008. Mughnniyah was Hezbollah’s military commander and the deputy leader of the Jihadi Military Council headed by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah – Secretary General of "Hezbollah". However, these assassination tactics did not achieve the hoped for result, and they remind us that attacks against leaders of jihadist organisations can never be an effective way to defeat ideologically motivated groups, especially a highly driven one such as Hezbollah.
A few months later in the same year 2008, US loyalists in Lebanon – led by communication minister Marwan Hamadé, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and Druse leader Walid Jumblat – decided to help the US and Israel by attempting to remove the private and closed-circuit fibre-optic communication system used by Hezbollah, which represented the backbone of its “command and control”. The aim – as revealed by Wikileaks which published secret cables between the US embassy and Lebanese officials – was to cripple Hezbollah's secret communication system, reveal Hezbollah’s secret locations and blinker it in the event of another war. In fact, during the second war in 2006, Hezbollah demonstrated its ability to communicate in time of war in spite of total Israeli control over Lebanese cellular communications and their eavesdropping access to landlines. This control, had it been successful, would have identified the origin and location of communications and could subsequently identify and target all offices, warehouses, leaders and individuals in Hezbollah.
Hezbollah responded a month later by occupying Beirut with an uprising – a few hours in which it imposed its red lines, after it had warned against harming it, treating it as a "declaration of war", information revealed by documented correspondence between the US embassy in Lebanon and Washington. The pro-US side, motivated by financial rewards, was caught in Hezbollah’s blitz attack, in dozens of apartments, armed to the teeth but without the will to fight back. These Lebanese men were brought to the capital, weeks before Hezbollah’s attack, from different parts of Lebanon, in anticipation of the day they might create domestic clashes and flex their muscles against Hezbollah.
These international and domestic attempts to disarm and weaken Hezbollah expanded particularly when information emerged about the sophisticated weapons it possessed and the danger the groups represented to Israel. The next step was the Syrian war that began in 2011, in which President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents promised from the first days that their next destination would be Lebanon; to cut off the road to Hezbollah’s military financing and armed supply that passed through Syria’s airport and ports.
The 2006 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 gave the authority to UNIFIL, with the support of the Lebanese army and its government, to inspect any suspect contents of shipments arriving in Lebanon to ensure that they did not carry weapons or ammunition to Hezbollah. Consequently, Hezbollah received its military equipment via Syria, its only remaining supply line.
The overall failure of the campaign to turn Syria into a "failed state" pushed the US to direct its efforts towards economic sanctions on Iran – the main source of support for Hezbollah. The US also focused on weakening Lebanon and blaming Hezbollah for the country's crisis. Decades of corruption and US sanctions had revealed to the Lebanese public that Lebanon needs tens of billions to recover, billions that it no longer possesses due to the corruption of all the pro-US political leaders that ruled the country. But pushing Lebanon towards bankruptcy – with its $110 billion deficit and its inability to pay back its international debts – would unfortunately lead to “successfully” classifying it as a failed state in the coming months- or perhaps sometime next year- unless the international community is willing to prevent this (almost certain) path.
In 2010, the former US ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, admitted in his testimony before the US Congress Committee that his country had spent $500 million to attempt to destroy the image of Hezbollah. One result is that, many years down the line, US spending and its support for everyone who volunteered to stand against Hezbollah inside Lebanon have created a rift in Lebanon that is no longer hidden.
The August 4th recent explosion at the harbour in Beirut, resulting from negligence and the evasion of responsibility by the security forces and the Lebanese judiciary, provided another opportunity for the US camp and its loyalists in Lebanon. At the start, accusations were directed against Hezbollah even before any official investigation. Next was targeting the Lebanese government – which submitted its resignation – and the ministries of foreign affairs, economy and environment. Then there was the resignation of many parliamentarians, aiming to bring down the parliament. A self-proclaimed "Leader of the Lebanese Revolution" revealed himself, the retired Brigadier General George Nader, who read his first and only statement from the Foreign Ministry: this attempt failed utterly and was dead within hours.
The US-Israeli wishes relied on two other events: that the UNIFIL mandate for Lebanon be altered the to fit the Israeli objectives, and that the decision relating to the assassination of Rafik Hariri by the International Special Tribunal for Lebanon, STL, (postponed from August 7 to 18) was supposed to accuse Hezbollah.
After 15 years of investigation that cost somewhat less than $1 billion, the 2638 pages of the judgment of the Hague International Court shocked all those who expected a guilty verdict: Hezbollah and Syria were not responsible for the crime. The fifteen Lebanese and Syrian false witnesses were not mentioned in the investigation, nor did the verdict tackle those who misled the investigation throughout its operation. The Tribunal offered no tangible proofs for the responsibility of the only person accused of being behind the assassination. According to the STL, one person, Salim Ayyash, bought the van that was driven by the suicide attacker, invested half a million dollars’ worth of explosives and organised the most complicated surveillance and assassination against a highly-protected target, Rafik Hariri. The STL verdict was received in the streets of Lebanon with an unexpectedly cool reaction.
The French President, Emmanuel Macron, came to Lebanon following the harbour explosion, without the necessary US ‘carte blanche’, but rather as a simple coordination between the two states wishing to save the western- backed Lebanese. France and the US would like to avoid losing their supporters in Lebanon and tried to save what is possible to prevent the country from falling into the hands of China, Iran and Russia for its reconstruction.
For the first time in French history, a French president, Macron, met in privacy, twice, with Hezbollah’s parliamentary group leader, where he emphasised that France supports Hezbollah’s participation in the next government and asked the Hezbollah MPs to work together with all other political parties to support the country and preventing it from becoming a failed state.
Hezbollah would like the country to work with China, Iran and Russia without turning its back on the west if it is willing to help. The French President asked all political leaders to form a new government by the first of September, a wish that is impossible to fulfil due to the huge gap which separates Lebanese politicians. In fact, the resignation of the government will most likely not easily generate another government, and it will certainly increase the rifts between the Lebanese, who now appear more fractured than ever.
Relying on expanding UNIFIL's mandate as an alternative plan is no longer a viable option because this move is inseparable without a set of other measures to overthrow Hezbollah’s influence and its allies. All attempts have failed, and the conditional amended renewal of UNIFIL has no sustainable basis. Therefore, the UNIFIL mandate is expected to remain as it is and will be renewed just as it is at the end of this current month of August.
If the US were to seek UNIFIL withdrawal, Israel would reject the idea and convince Trump’s administration to take a contrary action, because it needs these forces to stay on the other side of the border to act as a dissuasion, and as observers- which are better than nothing! In fact, Hezbollah would be delighted to see the UNIFIL forces leave and have free movement all along the borders and throughout the villages without restrictions.
Lebanon remains unstable. It awaits parliamentary elections – due in two years because the early parliamentary election plan has failed – to remove the parliamentary majority from the "Axis of Resistance" and its allies. There is little doubt that the US-Israel alliance envisages other plans that would turn the tables in their favour and give them the majority to take provocative decisions. However, the anti-US camp has no intention of just sitting there, watching and doing nothing, and the next stage of developments in Lebanon will doubtlessly be very revealing.
Highly informative and deeply insightful. Much appreciated essay. This was very useful for my overview of developments.
A little off topic but I'd like to share it anyway. A couple of years ago, I was emailed by some Pakistani thought-police org asking me to remove an article I wrote about saudi arabia else they would block Plato's from Pakistan. I wrote them back and said to go ahead and block my blog, which they promptly did. This morning, I received the exact same email again about the same article lol. Of course I'm gonna ignore it cuz I've already responded and I'm already blocked. Here below is the list of all WordPress sites that are blocked. Check out the length of how many websites Turkey has asked WordPress to block lol:
Country Block List, August 2018
Sommmmmbody in Turkey is just toooooo sensitive for this world!
Russia too has asked WordPress to block several hundred sites too – probably belonging to Pussy Riot and other Russo-CIA treasonous liars. But I reckon blogs blocked by Turkey are for the opposite reason: blocked for telling the truth about Erdo.
It's an education to peruse though the linked lists.
Saad Hariri, ex Leb PM said earlier this evening that he will not be putting his name forth as a candidate to lead the next government. He says that he has conditions for returning to power and that "these conditions are not being met by interested parties" (saudi arabia). These conditions are that foreign (saudi) money should be behind him before he takes office so as to already have the tools to begin lifting the Leb out of its economic crisis; and that also, he would like his new government to consist of politically non-aligned experts – kind of like what Diab just had.
We'll see how the Leb sunni team figures out how to circumvent the diabolical saudis who are insisting on only supporting a sunni candidate who's prepared to waste time on attacking Hezbollah instead of rebuilding Beirut and resolving the financial and a multitude of other crisis currently piled on Leb's shoulders.
Taxi, hello. I would like to share with you and your guests a recent experience over at ZeroHedge, where I have been a participant for almost ten years. I had heard a complaint or two over the years of censorship, but my experience was that in the comments section ZeroHedge was indeed libertarian. I am aware that the current sole claimant to the pseudonym "Tyler Durden" (named after the character in The Fight Club) used to share it with two others. Now only he is left, a Bulgarian Jew, Daniel Ivandjiiski. I think this might be the sort of takeover we saw in the case of Facebook, where a valuable media property ended up in Jewish hands.
While there has been great freedom in the comments, a large part of the agenda is in selecting the topics. For example, just one of many, there have been several ill-informed articles critical of Modern Monetary Theory, but none raises the main point that a country need not pay rent on its currency to private bankers who are gifted the extraordinary privilege of creating it out of thin air.
Recently an algorithm has taken over the comments, sometimes with flagged warnings, and sometimes not—the comment simply disappears. The main feature being censored is use of the word "Jew". I tried out a single word comment saying just "Jew" and it was disappeared. There was mention that this was Google giving ZeroHedge a hard time. People started using various tricks to get around the algorithm, such as "Amish" in place of "Jewish". But it seems these are being picked off post-algorithm by a flesh and blood Jew or shabbos goy.
I mention all this because a comment of mine made it for an hour and then got picked off. If you are going to allow free and fair political discussion you cannot, I would say, disallow the following, a comment on a weasly pro-Trump article by Patrick Buchanan, that I took the precaution of copying before posting:
I wonder if the new ZeroHedge will allow me to say this, but Trump, like his father before him is a Jew, pretending in the interest of Jews to be a heritage American Christian. Even his election manifesto, after spelling out that the nation state taking care of its own was humanity's best bet, immediately followed up with a paragraph on why America had to carry Israel like a limpet forever.
There are two factions of big-Jews, the usury-firsters and the Israel-firsters. Trump is the latter, with due concessions to the former whose rules he violated to run as a pretend America-firster. Back when the big Jews did 9/11 they were united. Look up Trump’s show-off but spot-on analysis phoned in to a TV show on the evening of 9/11, arguing at length and convincingly that the way a light aluminum tube that is an airplane entered a solid steel structure there had to be bombs involved. That shot the official hijacker theory out of the water. 9/11 was on a need-to-know basis and Trump didn't know. He had to be clued in fast, and must have been, by one of his friends among the known criminals such as Giuliani and Silverstein. Because a day and a half later he was being interviewed live by Deutsche Welle onsite, and now he was talking of how a kerosene fire plus hatred had brought down a steel frame skyscraper—for the first time in history, and this guy is a builder. Nothing shows as clearly and definitively just exactly who Trump is.
But don't expect anything nearing the truth from a pussy like Buchanan.
Thanks for sharing, Sarz. Yes, you’re talking about the jewish norm here: hostile takeover of media. Been seeing this going on since the advent of the internet. For fuck’s sake even The Onion is now owned by a jew lol!
And really, here at Plato’s, we call a jew a ‘jew’ even when a goy behaves like a jew. If Trump behaves like a jew, then he is a jew whether he came out of a jew cunt or not. It’s a behaviorism thing. You know, the perpetual pathological lying, the klepto terrorism, the arrogant and privileged elitism (chosenism), the remorseless narcissism, the constant blaming of the victim, and the perpetual supreme entitlement to eternal victimhood.
And btw, I have made a point to use the word ‘jew’ as often as possible on my blog so as to normalize its use and counter the brainwash. Well, the freaking word is in the dictionary innit?! I have lost a handful of readers over my regular use of the word jew on my own site lol! They considered it antisemitic to use the word even though jews themselves use the word a million times a day. My thinking: if they use it, then so can I! No, I ain’t letting nofuckingbody tell me what words to use when communicating FACTS!
The word ‘jew’ will always be kak till the jews reject their genocidal, evil, racist, anti-humanity talmud.
Reading from the bottom up right now and came across this excellent comment Taxi.
Your consistent use of the word Jew is one of the reasons that I have sought refuge here. If we can't name the most obvious elephant in the room that ever existed, then we are truly fucked.
And I totally agree with you that anyone whose mind has been colonized by the Jew is himself a Jew.
As I mentioned downthread, David-Ben Gurion himself said "A Jew is anyone who says he is.".
I would go further and say "A Jew is anyone who doesn't recognize the sickness of Jews and therefore does not consciously or even subconsciously defend oneself against the sickness."
Right, well, I've just been woken up by a long series of boom echoes coming from the southern border. Apparently, the terrorist jews discovered something suspicious at the border and began firing up boom flares in the sky, fearful that a Hezb op was in progress. Jewish border settlers have been sent to jew shelters.
Not clear yet if a Hezb op is in process or that the coward terrorist jews have gone hysterical again.
Will let you know.
Now israeli tv is announcing end of 'security emergency', without clear explanation of what the emergency actually was. And the Leb side/hezb has released no info either. I guess tomorrow's daylight will clarify.
G'nite.
@ taxi,
Guy heading the platoon starts firing to the left, into a dense jungle.
Everybody else fires to the left and saturates the jungle with a plethora of bullets.
It's a survival mechanism. Questions are asked afterwards.
The Occupied Palestine squatters are [very] nervous, as they should be and easily startled. Rattle their nerves. Make them shoot each other. They know they're doing something wrong. Retribution is a monster, especially when facing it.
:o]
Last night, israeli tv was saying that a female soldier guarding the border swore that someone had shot at her an this started a panic that the border had been breached by the Hezb and so off went the petrified jew fireworks.
We've seen this stupid movie before.
Today, jew medias are not mentioning the hallucinated panic of its female soldier.
Tsk tsk tsk.
IDF: ‘Security incident’ on Lebanese border; warns residents to stay in homes
Ooof now the coward jews have changed their headlines to hide their cowardice lol! Of course, no hezbollah "posts" were struck cuz hezb's posts in the south do not exist in the open as such – they do NOT advertise their locations. Only Leb army posts and UNIFEL posts are visible at the Leb side of the israel border.
Israeli aircraft strike Hezbollah observation posts after shots fired at troops
Nothing but silence from the Hezb's side so far. No statement from them. Only Leb border villagers reporting israeli fireworks that lit up the night sky for several hours, causing several small fires on the borders from all that White Phosphorous bang.
If the jew army doesn't ball-up in the face of Hezbollah soon, they're gonna be known as the army that shoots at shadows then flees.
Hey Americans, you like your tax dollars spent on jew bullets that pierce shadows? LOL! Yeah I'm laughing at you suckers for not stopping this preposterous waste while your roads and schools and vets are cracked and falling into the raving mad ravine.
"Shadow piercing bullets" – hilarious!
Well WTF did the jews expect? They can starts fires using American matches in Iran, in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Yemen and even in UAE supermarkets, but they cannot put out the fires raging in their eyeballs at this:
UN Security Council rejects US demand to ‘snap back’ Iran sanctions
So now they will wait a month and try again with the Nation of Niger taking over the Chair at the United Nation Security Council from Indonesia.
Will they succeed? Let's just say that their international blackmail rollerdeck is now frayed from excessive use.
LOL some normalization MbZ has got himself into. I mean how many jewy slaps in the face and on the bare arse can MbZ take before he declares himself bff with Iran and the Hezb? Hey it could happen! You just never know with egomaniacal self-appointed royalty:
Likud minister: We oppose sale of ‘even one screw’ of the F-35 to UAE
I know I've posted a few articles on this topic already but man I just can't get enough of this happy, leggy story
Aaaaah the gift that keeps on giving:
Backing Arab Peace Initiative, Bahrain appears to reject US push for Israel ties
Oh dear, Trumpyahu's Plan A is fast falling apart and there's no Plan B on the table.
Now not even poofy midget Bahrain wants to normalize with israel, but, they will go disco-dancing with them every now and then.
Pretty insightful and respectful article for an American!
https://original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2020/08/25/lebanon-inconvenient-truths-about-syria-iran-hezbollah-and-the-shia-street/
I’ve read Major Danny Sjursen before and been pretty impressed.
Taxi and community, what do you think?
Taxi – thank you so much for your comments to me upthread. I’ll probably take you up on your offer to correspond with the person you mentioned. And to some degree I think I’ll comment here about my conversations with my family about their addiction / enslavement to the Talmudic cult of Judaism.
Rambling on a bit, I would like to see all Gentiles adopt the use of the Talmudic terminology of the academic (Jewish) left on Jews. So when “White Fragility” is mentioned, ask about “Jewish Fragility”. When “White Adjacency” is mentioned, ask about “Jewish Adjacency”. When “White Supremacy” is mentioned, ask about “Jewish Supremacy”. Etc. etc.
Isn’t it amazing that in the western world one can barely even mention the word “Jew” without everyone instantly becoming uncomfortable? It is because Jews have “colonized the minds” of the western world. “Colonizing minds” is another concept of Jewish academia that applies to Jews far, far more than any other group let alone Whites.
In one recent conversation w/ family I explained that in fact Jewishness is nothing but an identity (the strongest egoic identity in the world). I found a David-Ben Gurion quote to back me up “A Jew is anyone who says he is.” Far too many whites have become jews without even realizing it.
Finally, here is a great link to help people navigate the insane terminology and thinking of the Talmudic academia.
https://newdiscourses.com/
The author of the site doesn’t seem to call out the Jewishness of the subversives at the center of it, but he does an incredible job of exposing the illogic and anti-Golden Rule nature of the project.
@ GOLDEN RULE PLEASE ,
Jews are uncomfortable with themselves, that's why gentiles can't feel comfortable around them.
Furthermore, why should 16,000,000 spasmodic idiots dictate what 8,000,000,000 individuals should do [or not]?
That’s a great link, thanks GRP! I may have read a single article by the (ret) General a few years back – his name is vaguely familiar – and after reading your linked article, I’m a freaking fan! Thanks again.
“Colonizing the mind” – great alternative to saying ‘brainwashed’. It is also more offensive to those smart Alecs who think they support israel completely out of free will.
Having words censored by a bunch of fucking terrorists is never going to be acceptable to me, or to most of humanity. I see it like this: I’m a writer therefore my tools and instruments are words. Taking words away from a writer by force is tantamount to taking strings away from from a violinist. Here the jew says to the violinist: you’re forbidden from using four strings on your violin cuz I just don’t like their pitch!
The jewy haters of freedom of speech can fuck the fuckoff right outta my face!
Do feel free to use the word ‘jew’ here on Plato’s as much and as often as you like.
Something is brewing in the ME at the moment, there are many rumours referring to an alliance between Syria-UAE-Egypt to face the Ankara regime invasion into Syria and maybe it includes Iraq.
Many sources pointing to some sort of alliance, no details yet, but if it comes, then it will be in the next 10 days.
These 3 countries are strongly collaborating in Libya for the past 3-4 months, actively working together, I know two SAA officers that are in Libya since April, two turns so far, the 2nd turn has taken 2 months already.
Ankara regime seems really toasted, it is "threatening" Greece-Italy-France alliance in the Med Sea, and now maybe about to face a possible Arab alliance against Turkey, the ME will be reaching a boiling point soon, maybe this last Israeli slap in UAE's face will pay also dividends for Arabs, maybe…just maybe…though I do not trust MbZ for nothing.
Canthama, I remember reading an analysis in Jan. or Feb. this year about an Arab alliance being built against Turkey that included Syria, Egypt and UAE supported by Saudis. It was written by a Pakistani, my impression was that the guy have at least military background if not military intelligence. Based on his narrative this alliance was taking shape to gradually distance Syria from Iran and included also investment offers by Saudis and Emiratis for the time of reconstructions in Syria. I think it was published in Persian version of Tasnim News but I can‘t find it in their archives anymore.
You’re correct, Omid. There were meetings between Syria and UAE, with Egypt as friendly ice-breaker referee; and it was verbally agreed that the trio will cooperate together against Turkey, with the proviso that UAE gave rebuilding monies to Syria. Soon as US and israel caught wind of this, fast rushed Trump to enforce the ‘Caesar’s Act’ on Syria, thus blocking UAE’s participation in the rebuilding of Syria. Mindful here too that the Caesar Act was signed into law by Trump in December 2019, laid dormant for some six months, then suddenly enforced in mid June, 2020.
Thanks, dear Canthama. The region is indeed at a boiling point, with the Axis of Resistance and the Axis of Evil edging closer and closer to each other, with horns ready to lock. Anything can happen anywhere and at any given point.
The fuse is now unraveled out of its package and a matchbox is beside it. Whose hand will light it? Probably the Axis of Evil out of despair, in the hope that tables can be turned to their advantage. Deluded fools! There won’t even be a single table leg left in the first hour.
I haven‘t a good feeling about this.
We had these reports about Egyptian military advisers visiting Damascus and later the fronts near Idlib, there were even rumors about Egyptian military units actually being moved into the area. Many of us doesn’t like the idea of having any Egyptian or UAE backed military units in Syria if the next Lebanon war (even civil war) starts.
We have 4 Nato military ships at port of Beirut that there are no reason for them to be there. More Nato ships heading to the area allegedly to deescalate Turkey-Greece (2 Nato members) conflict.
We have these Lebanon border incidents, while we have been laughing at Zionist’s nerves, one shouldn‘t close eyes on the possibility that Zionists trying to test the field and the level of preparedness. Nasrollah reacted in a serious manner against the last one.
We have those B2 bombers at Diego Garcia since couple of weeks, most analysts connected it to the ongoing exercises in the South China Sea, is it the case?
And today we have Pompeo’s tweet about how Yankee interpreting the latest events in the UNSC. Indeed an odd and very dangerous message for UNSC escalations to come.
I don’t like the current configuration in the area at all.
It is obvious Hezbollah is a major pucker factor, resulting in the Occupied Palestine brownshirts tying ever tighter knots in their intestines.
So, keep them on their toes day and night [especially nights]. Be inactive [the fear factor]. Be active [kill or maim – maiming is more expensive].
I’d have unmarried shepherds move their flocks up and down the border with Occupied Palestine at night. I’d have others set of firecrackers very late at night and then create a lull, before picking up speed again.
Agitate. Irritate. Annoy. But above all, stretch their nerves to a breaking point. When you don’t have an air force, make psychological warfare your wingman.
Their nerves are already at breaking point. I say release thousands of moths nightly right at their electronic fence. Before you know it, the idf will be known as the army whose nerves were destroyed by a bunch of paper-thin wings.
@ taxi,
Do you remember the Wadi al-Haramiya sniper attack when a 22-year-old Tha’ir Kayid Hamad nailed 10 illegal squatter with a WWII-era Mauser and 30 rounds?
Says it all.
Link is to wiki, but what gives…?
Yeah I do remember the Wadi al Haramiah attack. Thanks for bringing back a happy memory
.
And LOL I guess the wiki hasbara brigade are short-staffed and haven't noticed that Hamad is referred to in the wiki page as a "sniper" and not as a terrorist. Nice oversight motherfuckers lol!
Here's a very interesting report on the combined investigations of who exactly owns the ship Rhosus that dumped the AN in Beirut Port. In it, a linked paper trail points at a Cypriot shipping tycoon called Manoli as being the owner of the ship. The article does not cite any investigation into a Manoli-israel connection, not even a Manoli-Turkish-israel connection. Other shady Mozambique characters involved in the ordering of the AN also need investigating, especially with regards to any mosad and cia connection. Clearly, this Mozambique company that produces weapons materials is connected to the terrorists who warred in Syria. Even though the article lists much information, many-many questions still remain. Oh and the Hezbollah connection to some shady Lebanese-owned bank in Cyprus is exactly that: an "allegation".
Read for yourselves:
A Hidden Tycoon, African Explosives, and a Loan from a Notorious Bank: Questionable Connections Surround Beirut Explosion Shipment
And then this here too (warning: read with nose peg cuz it's published by the despicable and stinky Grayzone: a controlled opposition outfit owned and run by jewy motherfucking elitists):
After Beirut blast, Israel revives tales of Hezbollah ammonium nitrate terror plots
From the prolific pen of the great Elijah Magnier, whom I reckon is the best reporter in the Western world on Iraq and Syria, and especially on Iraq:
Can Al-Kadhemi walk the fine line between “domestic mines” and the Iran-US conflict on his soil?
By Elijah J. Magnier:
Iraq is entering a new and dangerous phase. When Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi visited Washington, President Donald Trump declared that US forces deployed in Iraq would not leave for three years. The Prime Minister finds himself pinned between multiple conflicts, internal, regional and international. No statesman, no matter how experienced, could master such a dangerous situation. Moreover, the Iraqi economy is in a catastrophic state: Iraq needs tens of billions of dollars annually that the government does not have to pay the salaries of millions of employees, create job opportunities, and build infrastructure to calm the anger in the street. People have high expectations from this young government, after the long deprivation caused by the political leaders who have ruled the country for less than two decades.
The same political party leaders who have misruled Iraq for over a decade expect Al-Kadhemi to seek US withdrawal and to organise parliamentary elections, nothing less. But Al-Kadhemi can't deliver because he needs the international community to support his country financially. This international community expects Baghdad to protect their forces operating in Iraq and to stand against the Iraqi resistance. An impossible equilibrium, not because al-Kadhemi is new in the political arena but because it is impossible to ask for international financial support and to push the US out at the same time. Thus, where is Iraq heading?
Iraq is headed towards a gradual military escalation between the Iraqi resistance, supported by the main political parties, opposing US forces and Iraqi security forces commanded by al-Kadhemi. This threatens to create a dangerous and unstable situation in the country.
During his meeting with Al-Kadhemi, President Trump stated that he would not withdraw for three years. This statement was undoubtedly in response to what Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Iranian revolution, said during his meeting with Al-Kadhemi a few weeks before. Sayyed Khamenei demanded that the US leave Iraq as the price to pay for the blood of Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, who was assassinated by Trump's drone at Baghdad airport. Soleimani was on an official mission as announced by the (former) Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi. Iraqi security forces commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis was also killed by the US drone while in the company of Soleimani. Trump boasted of his double assassination by saying: "Two in one blow."
It can be said that Trump – by opposing the Iraqi majority who want immediate withdrawal of his troops – aimed to respond to Sayyed Khamenei by sending the aggressive message that he is staying in Iraq, against Tehran's wishes. However, Trump and his team within the current administration don't seem to realise that they have put themselves where Iran wants them to be. By refusing to accept the Iraqi parliament's binding decision that foreign forces withdraw, the US is challenging the Iraqi parliamentary majority, which requested a US withdrawal within six months, not three years. Consequently, Iran is eager to see the US forces remaining in Iraq so that the Iraqi resistance can strike them and inflict human losses to avenge Soleimani and his companions and to further humiliate President Trump in his last days at Washington, and in following years if he is re-elected.
Various Iraqi organisations – undoubtedly supported by Iran, although not visibly so – have started sending multiple warning messages, hitting vehicles belonging to the US forces carried on Iraqi trucks, deliberately bombing sites near the US embassy in Baghdad and at the various camps in which the US and other foreign forces are located. However, the use of mortars or small blind missiles was – before Trump's announcement – enough to tell the US administration that it would not have a quiet presence if it stayed in Iraq.
Last Sunday, the Iraqi resistance – it is considered resistance because it is supporting the Iraqi parliament's decision to remove all foreign forces from the country – began an escalating attack by planting an improvised explosive device on Al-Ghazaliyya Road, where US forces were moving out from al-Taji military base to other US controlled locations in the Iraqi desert. Al-Taji is the eighth site (last week) the US has handed over to the Iraqi forces, in an attempt to show its intention not to remain indefinitely in Mesopotamia. However, the US withdrawal from al-Taji is only a redeployment, because President Trump will not take a step in his last seventy days of ruling that could have negative consequences for his upcoming presidential elections were he to leave Iraq 'as dictated by the Iraqi parliament'.
The US delay in leaving is precisely what the Iraqi resistance and Tehran need, to strike at Trump's election chances and cause US human losses to embarrass Trump in the last days before the elections. As for Al-Kadhemi, he signed an electricity and oil deal with the US equivalent to 8 billion dollars, thinking that, as his country needs billions in cash and projects to boost the dear financial situation, he is bringing back with him what could calm all political groups. However, the Iraqi resistance and its powerful political parties behind were expecting Al-Kadhemi's announcement of imminent US withdrawal. A US announcement of departure is the last thing the Iraqi prime minister could reasonably expect to broker when dealing with an irrational and confrontational US administration that lacks any robust experience in managing Middle East affairs.
The Iraqi factions have decided to escalate their attacks on US forces. This will prompt Al-Kadhemi to react because he committed himself with Trump to protect the foreign troops stationed in the country as long as the Iraqi government did not request their immediate exit. Al-Kadhemi's potential reaction against the domestic resistance which declared war on the US forces would leave him in a position of hostility to the Iraqi resistance and to the strong political groups that support this resistance.
This can only lead to a deterioration in the stability of Iraq-the threat of "ISIS" is omnipresent in several provinces of Iraq and requires military effort to pursue it and prevent it from expanding and striking different targets.
The political groups that currently dominate the parliament have weakened, and their popularity has decreased. Consequently, the parliamentary elections coming next year will not produce the same distribution as today. Prime Minister Al-Kadhemi has an opportunity to strengthen his supporters and his future bloc if he masters the art of the impossible by balancing the critical economic situation and the US-Iranian conflict on his soil. Al-Kadhemi's real challenge is his internal confrontation with the resistance. His chances to gain the largest political block could significantly increase if President Trump falls in the elections and is replaced by Joe Biden, who will put an end to the undeclared war between Iran and the US. But if Trump (and his staff), who do not believe that it is "insane to do the same thing over and over and expect different results", are re-elected, then Al-Kadhemi will not be able to buy the time he needs to calm things down at home.
Kadhemi cannot run the affairs of Iraq by relying on a US that has angered foes and friends alike, even its closest European and Middle Eastern allies. It will also be challenging for the Iraqi prime minister to win the largest political parliamentary group if he declares war on the Iraqi resistance. Consequently, al-Kadhemi must learn to walk between internal, US and Iranian "mines". Thus, Mesopotamia is now opened wide as an operational theatre for the various belligerents, and Iraq has to live with the fact that stability is not an attainable option. As long as Trump remains in power the US will not leave Iraq.
Go visit Europe [especially Germany], Japan and South-Korea and you'll get the gist of unca Sammy's bloated [military] footprint.
MAGA = Make America Go Away!
US troops need to guard US borders. Not be pawns in an international power scheme [and used as such].
taxi, thank you again for posting EM's take, much appreciated. my reservation with his view resides in assuming biden or kamala will be less adversarial. kamala loves israel & biden, if he should recover sufficiently to govern, will @ best follow obama's dictum…that of a slow poison. i trust the axis of resistance will prevail & peace, prosperity & self rule will return to syria, the leb, iraq, iran & yemen.
Thank you, dear Emersonreturn. I concur with you on the Biden-Harris-israel issue. The Axis of Resistance strategists would concur with you too. Like they say in the Levant: 'black dog, white dog – no difference'. They know this only too well.
Dear Emersonreturn,
As I'm wont to do when disagreeing with Elijah on a point or two in his articles, I did email him last night and basically said that his faith in a Biden presidency is misplaced, and that I personally do not differentiate between Trump and Biden's evil intentions towards Arab nations. They're all self-confessed zionists by word and by deed. And this here below is a cut and paste of his nuanced response to my email:
Elijah's cautious optimism is righteous and positively pragmatic. For sure he posses a cooler head then I do. Me, I'm just more cynical and by far more impatient than he is.
My understanding of US foreign policy is that it doesn't matter if a sock puppet is the US President: Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump/Tweety bird. AIPAC has a stranglehold on EVERY horse in the US election starting with the primaries. But not only federal, they control candidates in states, municipalities, etc. and the key federal appointees who make all the foreign policy (and banking) decisions. Think about what happened in March 2015: who addressed the US Congress without the permission of the US President?
Who is Trump's shadow photographed at every single key meeting despite having no business being there? In 2016, Hillary already belong to AIPAC and Trump was only allowed to run because of his shadow.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with Kushner's plan B, and what a smack of a plan it is!
Since MbZ's unexpected hissy fit a couple of days ago, Kushner's been fucked right up the ass. Everything was falling apart too quickly and a quick plan had to be conjured before everything literally turned to shit – for Trump, for Netanyahu, and for kushner. If that Chabad desperado doesn't pull off his (lousy) Plan B, he's gonna lose both the WH and the Knesset. This means lose ALL his GLOBAL political powers – and lotsa lotsa shekels. If his Humpty and his Dumpty both fell off the Arabian wall, there will be no frigging chabad kleptomaniac orgy going down. (These sick and insane chabad fucks think they would literally die unless they perpetually steal and kill!).
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Pulls Out of Planned Meeting in Washington with Netanyahu
Frigging amateur! Did you check out the scenario-writing skills in this political theater of the absurd? Did you see that pasty kushner desperately trying to defibrillate the wonky heart of the old Deal of the Century?
Never should you forget, dear reader, the appalling criminality and sheer evil of the conceiver of the Deal of the Century.
Yes, we have seen kushner's soul and it's as black as satan's underpants.
@ taxi,
That would make him almost human.
It's a face diaper worn backwards, to indicate he doesn't give a s***.
You don't want to be in the trenches with this guy. He's mentally FUBAR and has to be culled. Here's a dart…
WTF Americans?! You cannot be BOTH supporters of democracy AND imperialism at the same time! When your leader of choice commits perpetual mass murder right across the world, that spilled ocean of blood is on your freaking hands too! Are you so morally bankrupt that a promised pitiful tax cut (that never materializes!) is enough for you to turn a blind eye to your leader's incessant imperialist crimes against humanity?! You think your presidents past, present and future are any better than MbS?! Better than Erdogan?! Better than Pot Pol?! Than Lenin?! Think again!!! You all live in a dark-dollar bubble! Stop voting in imperialist warmongers! Stop living in political filth and mass murder! Demand your president declare WORLD PEACE NOW! No more lobby-wars of choice!
Shut down the wanton American war machine already!
Man, your lethargy and selfishness make me sick!
Let’s Talk U.S. Foreign Policy: It Is the Root Cause of Many Evils
@ taxi,
They're too busy wolfing something down, including BS.
News about the Beirut Harbor explosions has faded away, but I haven’t forgotten. Back in 1995, a building was blown up in Oklahoma, with the use of fertilizer, mixed with diesel fuel and a few more chemicals. Here is a picture of the building [Oklahoma City Bombing]. The link is to the FBI [I can’t find a similar picture elsewhere, sorry]. Have a good look, not at the building hit by the explosion. but those surrounding it.
Of course, in Beirut a lot more fertilizer was stored, but that’s not what I am after. The buildings around the aforementioned and targeted building look rather unscathed. In Beirut glass was sent flying out of and into buildings all the way up to the airport, which is an estimated 6 miles down the road. Therefore, imo, whatever went Boom in Beirut, I don’t believe it was fertilizer. It has to be something way more powerful.
Back in the day, when Hariri was sent to heaven in a massive explosion the crater was way too deep for a simple car or truck bomb and I’m therefore convinced Occupied Palestine had a hand in it, as they did in the Beirut harbor explosion.
Having said that, I do keep an open mind, and when proven wrong, admit to it.
Thanks for the link, Daniel. Keeping "an open mind" leads straight to the jews being the primordial terrorists in the Beirut port explosion. Fucking bloodlusting mass murderers cannot hide their MO despite them destroying the evidence.
Personally, I'm way past needing actual evidence. I can sniff out jewish terrorism from a thousand miles away. My nose knows only too well the indelible stench of their filth!
Neither have I. It’s just that it seems most of the alternative media is too scared to touch it. MoA on Aug 5: “case closed” That’s rubbish.
Israel and the rest of the world are hoping it’s case closed and they have a lot of their own problems right now. However, when it’s least expected, this attack will be back under the spotlight. Meanwhile, I am just hoping that Israel implodes internally which is in a way, the least bloody way to let steam out of the pressure cooker. Israeli society is disintegrating from within. No country whose security forces have become that inhuman can just chug along pretending that nothing is happening.
Meanwhile, the failing Anglo American empire is also imploding from within. No matter what happens in the election, civil unrest in the US will continue. No country can wage war for 30 years without destroying itself from within. In Beirut, 6000 people suddenly have horrible injuries. In the US and UK it’s been slower but there are so many disillusioned vets many of whom are permanently disabled or homeless.
I have always believed that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Despite all the suffering, the populations of the countries which are constantly under NATO attack have become stronger and more resilient as a whole (notwithstanding the individual sacrifices).
I was listening to a podcast where Mohammed Marandi reminded everyone that the ANC used to be considered a terrorist organization and it wasn’t till 2008 that Mandela was taken off the US terrorist list. A true resistance always has the moral right-of-way.
@ GRP,
I left Tim McVeigh out of the equation just for that reason.
The mil in Down Under relies on this saying, "Never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see."
I like it.
I’ve been reading here for a while, this is my first comment.
@PQ
Israel … have a lot of their own problems right now …. Meanwhile, I am just hoping that Israel implodes internally which is in a way, the least bloody way to let steam out of the pressure cooker.
In my opinion, Israeli society is inherently unstable, as is any society that is so dishonest. How can you possibly trust anyone that you know is probably lying to you? Of course you can’t. If betrayals are frequent, people will respond violently. Then society will fracture.
I think the Israelis are aware of their peril, and that is why they’re prosecuting one of their top liars, Benjamin Netanyahu. It is probably too late to clean their country; their pervasive internal lack of trust can only grow. And what you call the pressure cooker will likely blow soon.
Welcome, dear Tonsil.
Israeli society is so fractured by racism and wanton warmongering that I see the eventual arrest of Netanyahu as a trigger for a jewish civil war.
Woohoo!
Daniel et al, I haven't looked closely at the Oklahoma Bombing, but when I did go back and look briefly at it (after I understood that 9/11 was a Jew job), I wasn't completely surprised to see all kinds of fuckery. It looks like yet another False Flag. I haven't pursued if the Jews had a hand in it. It certainly wouldn't be surprising.
One of the things about the bombing is that it is extremely unlikely that fertilizer alone did this.
Here is a page with a documentary on it.
http://www.the-office.com/okc-witnesses.htm
@ GRP,
My reply to you sits in a slot higher up, sorry.
Ask yourself this: no Secret Service members could be on the back of JFK's car, otherwise the 'lone shooter' theory couldn't and wouldn't fly. The 9/11 'box cutter wielding jihaids' couldn't fly by instruments so they needed 'clear skies': who knew the skies would be clear all over the US on 9/11 [or who made sure these direly needed weather conditions materialized]?
Many questions arise regarding the alleged 19 Arabs armed with box-cutters. The germane one in this particular is the fact that even after some modest flight-training not even one of them was capable of being able to handle a twin-engine Cessna. How, then, can anyone truly believe that these well-prepared patsies could possibly have flown huge, complex jet airliners when to pilot one of those aircraft hundreds, if not thousands of hours of flight training are mandatory.
Christopher Bollyn has done the best work on this issue and he started the day after 9/11. He has lived in Israel and does an amazing job of sketching out all the connections to 9/11 and Israel
PQ, great video, thank you.
Just a couple of days after OKC came up on this thread I saw this article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-20/23-years-later-oklahoma-city-bombing-story-you-were-never-told-about
So depressing. The story is about a heroic police officer who, after rescuing many people, saw things at complete odds with the official (i.e. JEW) story. He started collecting evidence that showed what really happened. Ultimately he was brutally murdered and the system (i.e. JEW system) declared it a suicide.
Al-Mayadeen TV reporting about a small Saudi military unit entering north east Syria together with part of Yankee that had to leave Al-Taji camp in Iraq. Looks like Saudi try to meddle between Arab tribes in east Syria and Yankee occupation force there. While some Arab tribes chose to cooperate with Yankee and their Kurd partners, by receiving some stolen oil money, others are loyal to central government and have given Yankee much headache lately.
https://southfront.org/saudi-troops-entered-northeast-syria-with-u-s-led-coalition-forces-reports/
This is very similar to what’s going on in Lebanon right now.
Zionist mercenary leaving their post in occupied Golan protesting against lacking delivery of enough adult diapers. Here JerusalemPost version of the story.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/abandoned-tanks-weapons-found-by-hikers-in-golan-heights-640253
Obviously stoned out of their little jew minds on good Lebanese hashish.
Reminds me of this stupidly drunk IDF soldier whom I once had the misfortune of meeting at a London party back in the late 1980's. He told me that he went on active duty as an occupier in Lebanon and returned as a "hippy in army fatigues".
What do you make of this, dear readers? By day, israeli jew men shit in their pampers while waiting for Hezbollah's retaliation, and by night they go out on gang-rape sprees:
'Shocking': Outrage in Israel over alleged gang rape of teenager
When the talmud promotes and justifies even the rape of two year old girls: calling it "unharmful and as if a poke in the eye of the two year old" victim, are we surprised then to hear of 30 jewish men lining up to rape a 16 year old?
Don't give me this bullshit about jews being Einsteins and all that malarkey about jews being positive contributors to the human race, fact is, upon closer inspection, rape, war and pillaging IS at the very heart of jewish culture.
By their own actions, we judge them.
@ taxi,
During discussions about Epstain & Maxpane on UNZ, certain types of ‘men’ would crawl out of the woodworks and proceed to lecture the world about how these ‘little whores‘ function.
Personally, sent me with one guy [or all of these guys] into the woods and don’t ask questions afterward. Both rape and gang rape must be the worst thing that can happen to a wo/man [~35% of molested boys are raped by gay guys], and devastate a person’s mind/personality. Am not really for the death penalty, but would like to do my handiwork in CCGA with a knife on these mofus.
CCGA = Creative Cutting in the Groin Area.
Young Kyle Rittenhouse has done the right thing with three khazars, 2 of whom will not be repeat offenders…………
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1598703329619.jpg
Tel-aviv recently had over 600,000 homos and their supporters have a parade day. It is unfortunate that Nasrallah had more pressing matters to concern himself with during that time frame.
Thanks, Whozhear. I think as far as Nasrallah’s concerned, jew homos become targets only when they’re in terrorist idf uniforms and not when they’re clad tightly in pink Speedos – despite him not exactly being a fan of the rainbow brigade.
And your 4chang link: honestly, I have an instinctive aversion to this site but would love for you to take the pulse there when you visit and share your reading of the 4changers with us – especially in October when the US elections will be but a handful of weeks away.
Wow what mayhem and civil unrest awaits the US…
And btw, I hear that Anon_decoder is Q-anon’s younger brother :-).
Whozear, I know that the pedophile Rosenbaum was a Jew but I haven’t found a source saying that the others also identified with that racist, murderous, talmudic cult of hatred (otherwise known as Judaism).
Can you share a source that shows this?
I so hope it’s true.
It’s almost like divine intervention that Kyle got to kill 2 of the most deserving scum on earth and injure the 3rd.
It looks like the next couple of months are going to be entertaining as the empire tears itself apart………….
https://twitter.com/Anon_decoder/status/1299459910275657730
Remember, the difference between communism and judaism is the spelling.
UPDATE on the flaming paranoia of terrorist jews at the Leb-israel border as they await the Hezb's retaliation:
The jewish baby-killers otherwise known as the idf are so beside themselves with terror while they await the Hezb's retaliation at the border, that they've now taken to using midget robots dressed in jew border patrol fatigues looking for any breach of the separation fence. As the jewbots wade and waddle along the border, jew smoke pellets are also used to obscure what these jewbots are doing. I've just watched a video of one of these jewbots at the border operating behind a smokescreen on Almayadeen tv. I can't find this vid on the net yet, but soon as I do, I will share it here on Plato's.
Let's bare in mind here that the Hezb never said it would retaliate at the border. The Hezb did not say it will target only a single jew soldier either. Nor did the Hezb specify a time for this retaliation. All these above configurations were determined solo by terrorist israel. And the hezb, as we all know, is full of pleasant surprises.
Clearly all this waiting has snapped the nerves of terrorist jew soldiers and now they've been substituted by heartless, bloodless jewbots operating right on the Leb border. So don't nobody now tell me that the port explosion has altered the military deterrence equation between the idf and the hezb. All the explosion has done is destroy a chunk of Beirut port and much civilian housing and business materials; plus, sadly, it created a collective bereavement over the passing of some 174 victims of the explosion.
Really, when you see the unsophistication of these jewbots in action on video, you would think it a Hollywood B-comedy sketch. Knowing the Lebs, they will probably start taking fun road trips to the border fence just to have a look at the jewsbots in queer robotic action.
And speaking of israel's current fear of a Resistance combat op or war breaking out, I notice that the 3-day jew terrorism op inflicted on Gaza earlier this week was the most cautious one against Gaza EVER! The terrorist jews did not incessantly bombard all day and all night long like they usually do in Gaza, nor did they use ultra heavy weaponry, nor did they target the weakest Gaza residential areas for collective punishment. Know waddamean? THEY REALLY-REALLY-REALLY-REALLY don't want an escalation on ANY front.
Here's a sobering thought: exactly how will the israeli military protect the UAE against a perceived enemy attack when they can't even handle Gaza's incendiary balloons sent over to illegal settlements where jew civilian terrorists hunker?
And speaking of UAE-israel nooky, even though MbZ has gone suddenly flaccid over the F-16 controversy and is refusing to currently be aroused by experienced israeli whores, bankers from both nations have gone into an immediate fellatio orgy and have no intention of stopping the suck-you-off and the suck-you-up marathon till kingdom cum. Mammon watches this porno while snacking on sumptuous deep-friend gold nuggets gifted to him by the banking kleptomaniacs of the world.
Meanwhile in Beirut, the past two days have seen nothing but political pogo dancing as chieftains and parliamentarians jump higher than their neighbor in an attempt to be first to spot the next Leb PM. Sadness of citizens over the port explosion remains. Covid lockdown and martial law remain. The financial crisis remains, though an itsy-bitsy bit less: due to a medium measure of foreign disaster-aid coming into Lebanon. And last but not least, Hezbollah remains the freaking champion of the world, untouched by the menace of jewy rumor-mongering or its terrorist military.
Aha! The robojew video!
That's hilarious….. I take it the khazars now have a maximum IQ limit for their officer class…. maybe 90?
@ taxi,
Monty Python regrouped…?
Oh man how perfectly and hilariously apt – thank you!
Geez, this is really ridiculous, how these freaks put up a comic show like that ? Hizballah's heroes must be thinking the IDF is made of freaking pu**ies, ridiculous.
@ Canthama,
Allow me to correct your line of thinking [without becoming too vulgar]: a real pussy has warmth and depth. These cunts are f***ing cowards that need to end up in shallow graves below the choppy Med waves.
Please pardon my French!
The great thing about the video is that the Hezb is there filming it. Yet not there at all. Heh heh!
The stupid jew cowards were too busy rehearsing their jewywood scene to notice they had an audience. How hilarious is that?!
Did the camera shake a couple of times because the cameraman couldn't hold up his bellyfull of laughter anymore? Just maybe so, just maybe so lol.
You should know that the footage was immediately sent to Almayadeen TV and Almayadeen TV first aired it at midday then lunched and dined on it throughout the rest of the day and night with some really fantastic analysis on the current frayed idf's state of mind and how Nasrallah single-handedly has so successfully pierced the jewish-israeli psyche and the Hezb's intel advancements over israel and the geomilitary crumbling of the terrorist idf in the face of Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance and every other topic under the sun to do with tel aviv's current crippling despair at the solid-solidity of this immovable object called the Hezbollah etc etc etc… wow what a day of analysis!
That robojew video, I mean the Hezb releasing it fresh off the press, man, that's like the funniest psyop ever!
Much media in israel showed the video after lifting it from Almayadeen. All talked about the video all afternoon; and some stations even showed hebrew-subtitled clips of Almayadeen analysts shooting the cool shit about the cowardice of the idf and the dangerous mistakes that jewish army strategists keep making. Israeli media doesn't usually show Arab analysts who logically and factually dissect the israeli army's geostrategic incapability and its fissured psyche and morale. Only Arab analysts who are spitty and un-photogenic and all ranting out tired slogans get shown on jew tv.
Now sane israelis are thinking that their stupid coward army will end up killing them before the Hezbollah gets to retaliate.
Well hot dangady-dang they just might be right about that heh!
@ taxi,
Time for Hezbollah to form a few new, 'Hammerhead Brigades.'
Hammerheads don't give shit whether you lay still, don't breath or move. They can detect the electric pulse triggering your heartbeat and kill 'you.' That's how the Occupied Palestine squatters should feel: no matter what you do, the Hammerhead Brigades will find and kill you. Ask German WWII survivors how they felt, sitting in their foxholes at night, praying the Russians would go after the guy a few holes down the line and slaughter him instead of you. That feeling grates any moral down to the bone [not that there's much left of the goons' mental state of being] – link to twatter [supposedly abandoned OP tanks]
Ooooh goody! Some headlines on da djuz dat djuz don't want ya readin’:
Jewish Shell Games, Mind Rapes and Final Solutions
Who Buys This Phony ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smear Language?
Jewish racialization genetic consumer ancestry testing in the US
I see that Moscow is now taking the mickey out of the empire, in spades………
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8677347/US-says-Russian-intercept-B-52-bomber-Black-Sea-unsafe-unprofessional.html
@Taxi
Aha! The robojew video! … pic.twitter.com/3B2VQ1aUwY
That clunky robot backing into the concealing smoke is very funny, thank you Taxi.
You are right, the Israelis are truly frightened of the coming war; the light attack on Gaza is more evidence of this. Yet they continue to provoke and anger the neighboring countries. I think they have little choice. Their internal strain is rising to a dangerous level; they need some external threats to keep their inner pressure cooker from exploding.
Occupied Palestine is at it again: “Prolonged power outages in the #GazaStrip have exacerbated the dire humanitarian situation in the impoverished enclave amid the #Coronavirus #pandemic. This came after Israel intensified its seige on Gaza, forcing its sole #electricity plant to shut down.”
As Hezbollah hasn’t named a target [yet], may I suggest they go after Occupied Palestine’s entire electrical grid…?
Good morning – hope y'all be having a nice weekend.
Since the Shia mourning fest of Ashura began ten days ago, Nasrallah has been giving nightly religious talks on the occasion: recounting the historic battle/massacre of the shia prophets Hassan and Hussein and their families in the historic battle of Karbala. I haven't been tuning into these Nasrallah talks or reporting on them because, well, religious shmiligious… But, yesterday at the end of his Ashura talk, Nasrallah spoke for a few minutes on current affairs saying the following:
1- The US has for years been contacting the Hezb and offering them billions of dollars and assured political domination of Lebanon and all sorts of international and regional perks etc on condition that they give up their resistance against terrorist israel. Of course, time and time again, Nasrallah says, the Hezb rejected all these offers because justice to the Hezb is by far more important than dollars or cronyism, adding that any political powers they may gain in the future in the Lebanon should be given to the Hezb by Leb citizens and not by a foreign imperialist power.
2- The US embassy in Beirut is giving millions of dollars to opposition media to smear and attack the Hezb in unprecedented levels. Nasrallah urged supporters of the resistance to completely boycott these poisoned and lying media outlets and asserted that neither assassination nor rumors will affect their political or military stance in the Leb and in the region.
Only rarely does Nasrallah mix his religious sermons with political speak and he did it last night. Today at 11am local time, he's speaking again to mark the end of Ashura, and I'm assuming here that he will also speak of pressing political and Leb security issues. I will comment on anything political he may say.
And this Ashura thing: I've been ignoring this aspect of the Hezb for decades but it occurred to me last night that Ashura distills and symbolizes everything that shiaism is. It teaches shias to be exceptionally patient, exceptionally disciplined and to fully embrace martyrdom: the three most important characteristics that distinguishes Hezbollah from any previous Arab resistance movements. And it's these attributes that the Hezb culture of resistance has so successfully exported across the region, including to sunni-based resistors who are now members of the Axis of Resistance.
Ashura
Summary of short Nasrallah's speech today, after he delivered his Ashura talk:
1- Retaliation is still coming, plus retaliation to all the material damage caused by israel for the past two months. "Zionist theatrics are meaningless to us, we are still looking to take the life of one of their own just like they did to one of ours", he said. He explained that "it is not a revenge op, but a justice op. We do not focus on whether someone is jewish or not, we focus on whether they wear enemy uniform or not". Adding, "part of the just punishment is to make the israeli army wait in maximum fear for our retaliation". And, "look now how they hide their soldiers as if mice in holes".
2- Urged Lebs not to put aside the port explosion investigation with the passing of time – hoping that the official Leb Justice Dep investigation will be honest and transparent. Warned against taking any foreign investigation as the 'official' one.
3- Again urged Lebs to boycott the paid-by-US-and-saudi 'poison media' whose sole purpose is to cause a civil war and divisions.
4- Called on politicians to speed up the selection of new PM.
5- Urged people to practice covid self-protection as the covid count is increasing in the Leb and leb hospitals are already too full from previous covid cases and port explosion casualties.
Really, his political speech was short and he didn't say anything that we didn't know already. His speech time was mostly taken up by religious Ashura narrative (the real purpose behind the speech). And, he seemed to be in a jolly good mood throughout the speech.
@ taxi.
This what the yanquis don't get. None of them wants to die. Especially in lands far away from their mom and pop stores. Death by a thousand cuts should take care of breaking down moral. Let fragging rule [again].
Good morning Taxi, long time lurker first time poster. First I want to thank you for your courage and bringing unadulterated in your face truth. I am another American, not many left, that have my own mind and can see the truth. Not all of us are brain dead zombies.
The reason I am posting now is the discussion of 9/11 and OKC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwozKMwpXA&list=PL3LeF6P1CeS6oB_zI_3JsWCPjwq6SIeCx&index=15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75Gga92WO8
If these links don’t work query google, the first one is a interview with a man named Cody Snodgress ex cia/m ossad spook who was offered the OKC job but turned it down. It was to protect the clintons.
The second link is pentagon security camera footage showing a cruise missile strike on the pentagon.
Google cruise missile strike on pentagon. There is a good video on Veterans Today, query Camera two where have you been. 9/11 was a gladio false flag operation to start the Oded Yinon plan among other reasons. And it wasn’t the US military that launched these from two submarines off the eastern seaboard.
The only way to find and know the truth is to keep digging for it.
Thanks
Welcome, Durlin, and thanks for the links.
Because your first ever comment had more than one link, my site’s firewall picked it up as spam. I’ve just rescued both your comments from there. There should be no problem you getting immediate publishing from here on. And if you get locked out again, I will come to the rescue again, no problem.
Sighhhhh… and I sigh again at the evil weasel 9/11 event. It was such a spectacularly successful mission for israel. But those days of high achievement for the haters of humanity are over. Payback for EVERY evil committed by tel aviv regionally and globally is approaching.
No, do not pray for their souls. Their souls have long ago fled them.
Thanks Taxi, I will remember that in the future. And no I will not pray for their souls, pure evil resides in israhell.
I have a question for anybody here, how long does it take for a post to show up? I have been trying to share information on OKC and nine one one but they dissapear or your website becomes unavailable cody snodgress. There is good information on youtube.
@ durlin,
Do you use the link button [the one directly to the right of B and I]?
I couldn't post for weeks coz something was amiss somewhere in the system. Am sure taxi will look into it.
Thanks Daniel, Taxi already figured it out. At the same time I was trying to post there seemed to be some server problems going on, I took it personally and was blaming the 5 eyes, turned out it was my own ineptitude.
Taxi – might you provide published news what positive actions have been implemented by the Leb, since Diab stepped down? Including > what is status of Leb govt. actually implementing open borders with Syria, with trade in goods acceleraing – and if not what prevents?
Also, has the govt, as now exists, actually implemented signficant government spending cuts, and where – to firmly addreses Leb finances from within? Just hoping to see some concrete pprogress at least these areas. Thanks, Mike.
Thanks, Mike. The resigned Diab remains a functionary PM but not one who can sign on anything new. All his previous negotiations in all areas of government, and all his ‘rescue’ projects are currently frozen, for the time being, that is. The new PM may or may not pick them up and push on further with them – this would be his prerogative. Simply, Diab, since his resignation has been a lame duck PM and nothing has moved an inch forward since the port explosion his subsequent resignation four days after that..
Thanks, Taxi. as you reported > evidently the Leb cannot do anything signicante to improve its internal economics (trade with Syria, slash huge govt. spending load) until new elections produce a new PM. the enemies of the Leb must be most happy with the current inabiliety to improve. But, of course the income of govt employees and politicians continue. So sad for the people. So – is the new election plan yet in process with a defined date – or, is this also in limbo as a 'freebe' to benefit of those who wish to crush the llittle nation?
Hiya Mike. Leb today officially got itself a new PM in the name of Mustafa Adib. He is now tasked with forming a new gov asap.
Fingers crossed, he won’t be surrounded by red-lines from this politician chieftain and that, as indeed had happened to Diab, which had crippled his gov from advancing any positive progress.
@ taxi,
When you’ve got gangrene [morally corrupt ‘leaders’] the only solution is to cut deep and remove all unhealthy tissue until you reach fresh and bleeding cells [true justice]. Leave the ol’ boys club in place and you’ll end up with the same mess. Either you insert a man who rules with an iron [and just] fist or you’ll end up with the next [western maligned] sock puppet. There simply ain’t nothing in between.
Elijah just posted this:
"Mustafa Adeeb, the Lebanese Ambassador in #Germany (his wife is Italian #Italia) has strong chances to become the new PM of #Lebanon
. The final name will be decided around midnight."
@ Canthama,
Anything on the man's credentials [Mustafa Adeeb]?
Not a clue Daniel….but Elijah also said :
"It is a Macron's government in Lebanon. The Sunni PM should enjoy the support of all Sunni to reach the Prime Ministership. However, the success is far from any one's reach. Lebanon is in deep financial problem."
It seems there is a strong support from Macron to Mustafa Adeeb.
Lets wait to hear more info, not doubt Taxi will have the best insight.
Thanks Canthama and Daniel. Mustafa Adib is the only name circulating and it appears that overnight, all major players have given verbal approval to his appointment as new PM. Let’s wait till if this choice become final and official today.
I can tell you that Adib a PHd in Political science, he is politically non-aligned, married to an Italian lady, is 49 and has been Lebanon ambassador to Germany for seven years – oh and he’s from the northern Leb port city of Tripoli. The sunnis from Tripoli have been suffering immensely from financial hardships and a kind of ‘vandal rebellion’ exploited and backed by Turkey has emerged in Tripoli this past month, so perhaps the official appointment of Adib would now deflate the (small but destructive) Turkish muscle there and it would also give hope to all Tripoli people that Adib would be able to help alleviate the financial burden that Tripoli especially has been suffering from.
The choice of Mustafa Adib could very well be a positive choice in as much as it would put out a few small but volatile fires in Tripoli and in Beirut. Let’s wait and see.
Oh and there’s rumors that Adib is vaguely aligned with Mikati (ex PM thief, from Tripoli too). Mikati, though a sunni, is anti saudi arabia and his wife is of Palestinian origin, though this wife now lives in Paris with her lesbian lover. So, sounds to me that Adib (via the Mikati connection) understands the fundamental need of Hezbollah and its weapons in the Leb national security equation. The Hezb, Amal, Hariri and Aoun approve of his appointment. This constitutes a majority of parliamentarian votes.
@ Canthama,
Thanks. Nothing beats HUMINT and taxi is worth her weight in gold :o]
An alternative way of scaring Occupied Palestine Brownshirts – Link to youtube
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Taxi – asking for your input regarding approx. 1.5 million Syrian refugees reportedly in Lebanon. Questions >
1, what % reside in camps vs. within the population?
2. what % represent former Syrian rebels (and famillies) who fought against Damascus and fled to the Leb in face of SAA counter actions, suggesting many may not be welcomed by Sria as retunrees. Perhaps you know if there is currently a strong return flow or is all mostly in limbo?
2. Is there any data RE approx % who hope to remain in the Leb, although Lebanon most likelly would not grant them citizenship, right to vote or receive work permits – as such would likely undermine the current delicate Sunni/Leb ‘eqiation’ of current Sunni 27% of the total population. Worse case is all remain allowed to vote would add up to 1,5 million more sunnis to the current Leb/Sunni pop. of 1.1 million (27% Sunni/Leb X 4 million total pop), bringing max sunni total to 2.6 million or a 65% rato – if occurred may assure the end of Hezb and therefore Leb’s sovereignty, as many Leb enemies would so hope. Meanwhile, destablization pressure seems never-ending on many fronts.
Mike. There’s currently a little less than 1.5M Syrian refugees in Lebanon. I don’t have stats to any of your questions but I can tell you that there’s definitely some ISIS cells mixed in with regular Syrian refugees. Only last week, an armed robbery in the north-east of Leb that resulted in the death of three villagers led to an arrest of this Syrian perp who then fessed up to robing in order to purchase explosives for terrorist acts in Lebanon (they targeted this Christian village and hoped that by killing Christians there, a civil war between that village and an adjacent muslim one would ignite). This confession led to the arrest of 5 other Syrians who belonged to 3 sleeper-cells. Also, another armed robbery in the suburbs of Beirut led to the arrest of a would-be Syrian suicide bomber. So, although most Syrian refugees are peaceful visitors, there are some sneaky motherfuckers who remain in Leb as sleeper cells waiting for activation. Fortunately, Leb is a small nation so unraveling these cells is by far less complicated than say Syria itself that is by far a much larger territory to comb and scan.
There is no way in hell that the Syrian refugees will be naturalized to become Leb citizens. The Leb has been refusing to do the same for Palestinian refugees since 1948. The Syrian refugees in Leb are mostly still there because the US will not allow them to return: returning them needs Leb gov programs and organization. The US is doing this to slow down the rebuilding of Syria, but eventually, they will return to their motherland. Most Syrian refugees in Leb right now are blue-collar workers – perhaps half of them are in camps by the Syria-Leb borders. Until about two years ago, the southern city of Sidon was full Syrian women and children begging on the streets – now, you just don’t see them anymore. Also, in villages near me, there used to be many Syrian workers at village centers early in the morning, all waiting for trucks to come pick them up to do a day’s work at farms and building sites – no more does this happen – though there remains Syrian workers in villages, probably about 20% of what there used to be a few years back.
As you sow…
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/08/31/632999/Saudi-airspace-direct-Israel-UAE-flight-
Blasts hit Dubai, Abu Dhabi ahead of first flight from Israel
Palestinians Can't Be Stuck in the Past, Should Come to Negotiating Table, Kushner Says in UAE – Jared 'I'm on Team Occupied Palestine' Kushner [Link to Sputnik]
Transgender Kushner seems really desperate in my view, his greater Israel plan has sunk badly, any attempt to savage Israel is gone for good, of course he pretends to sell this UAE thingy as the earth shattering event for the ME…and it will backfire once more. Jared is toast in my view, I would not be surprised at all that Mossad kills him in a pretext to worth more dead than alive…
@ Canthama,
I wouldn’t be surprised if/when Jared’s wife, Ivanka Trump, goes head to head with Chelsea Clinton to deliver the WH to Occupied Palestine as first female POTUS in the foreseeable future.
So, I think, unfortunately, we’re in it for he long haul.
So, lil’ Bonaparte [and his mom] come to Lebanon to tell them what’s best for them. Good to see 19th century colonialism is still very much alive in the 21st one… /sarc
Daniel, there are rumours that Iran and France are "working" together on Lebanon.
Should we put 1+1 on what Taxi said earlier that this new PM may not be a KSA fan….than it makes a lot of sense this new rumours, lets wait a bit more time to hear "rumours" shifting to possible policies, hopefully for the good of Lebanon and The Resistance.
@ Canthama,
Never trust a Rothschild protege to have the best for mankind in mind. Look at what he did to the yellow vests movement back home… Iran sacrifices lives in Syria to help it liberate itself, so that’s a total different cookie [am having coffee with one :o].
The French, through proxies or actively, support the takfiri head-choppers [TSIF, bro].
Yeah, I’ll sit back and wait to see what Mr. Mustafa Adeeb brings to the table, but, moreover, what he does in reality.
@ Canthama,
The little critter makes a point for me: Macron threatens Lebanon with sanctions unless Beirut brings about ‘real change’ in three months
Neo-colonialist dreck.
Yet another terrorist attack by terrorist israel on the suburbs of Damascus yesterday – I'd say timed as a response to Nasrallah's last speech where he said that the retaliation is still on and that "the hezb doesn't mind waiting – we'll wait till they're out of their holes and on the roads again".
The terrorist israeli military, now unable to show much muscle in Gaza because Gaza immediately retaliates with both incendiary balloons and rockets and israel does not desire an expanded conflict with Gaza, and unable to also touch Lebanon for fear of the Hezb, the idf is thus left with only the ability to strike at Syria because Syria is not yet in a position to immediately retaliate. These strikes on Syria that do NOT change any facts on the ground are purely for israeli domestic reasons: for allaying the fears of its terrorist citizens and for fooling them into thinking that their jewish army still rules the Levant.
We all await Syria to be in a position where it's able to retaliate immediately against israeli terrorism. It's game over for israel when this happens.
@ taxi,
It's impossible to fight on multiple fronts and be successful/victorious, especially when you're not that strong to begin with. Syria lost tens of thousands of martyrs. Men of all ages and backgrounds, since 2011.
A country is defined by those who call it home and are willing to die to defend their homes and families. Both Occupied Palestine and the Yanqui grunts don't have what it takes to die with honor in foreign lands and on foreign territory.
They move around in the dark, like scared cockroaches. My pet gecko deals with anything scurrying around after dusk, so they're f***ed right from the start. Hopefully Syria gets its own 'gecko' to take care of the brownshirts.
Last Sunday night, Christian president Aoun of Lebanon gave a speech where he announced that Lebanon must now switch its government composition to a completely secular one: "a civic and non-sectarian government". The following day, Nabih Berri, shia leader of parliament gave more or less the same message in a speech. The idea now is to form/construct a Lebanese equivalent to the UK's House of Lords where this new Leb senate has representatives of all 18 different religious sects and takes care to keep a political balance between these sects, while the government, now turned complete secular and civic, takes care of running the country.
This is how the Leb will now politically "separate church from state".
This new Leb House of Lords concept (should really be called House of Warlords!) is an old proposal that was spoken of and agreed to after the Leb civil war ended some 30 years ago – should have been implemented then – but I guess better late than never.
This could be a step in the right direction to avoid the western backed "sectarian deal" to end the civil war. Lets see how the new PM will jump into this wagon. Tks for letting us know.
Well Macron landed in Beirut and here is what I could find so far to share, according to Macron:
– Libanese government get 3 months to reform the structures or face financial punishment
– Hezbollah can keep his weapon
– Hezbollah should leave Syria and Yemen and stay only in Lebanon
(Fars News Agency)
While European population is under totalitarian Covid-19 regime and Iran busy with Yankee games in UNSC, French colonialists on behalf of western imperialists try to formulate new rules for Lebanon.
Secular government in Lebanon? Sure, why not, but is it the problem having most priority to solve right now? Religious faction's and their influence doesn't vanish even with a secular government. I don't see why a secular government, specially one teamed up with France would act less corrupt.
Hizballah is in Syria for the long run….it is an integral part of Hizballah's supply chain for weapons, it is wishful thinking for Macron to think about that…..at the end he can never control it anyway….
Thanks Omid. "Religious factions and their influence doesn't vanish" indeed, but it does get restricted/compartmentalized and elbowed out of decision-making when it comes to the practical running of the nation with the new 'secular-civic' direction that Aoun and Berri called for implementing. Despite Leb having 18 religious sects inside of a population of some 4+ million, many Leb people currently, especially the youth, are completely secular. And this itself gives us a clear outline of the political future of the Lebanon.
And Macron's demands? LOL what a cheezy pipe dream! The Lebs are rushing to reforms themselves without his orders anyway because they do not want their country to teeter on collapse indefinitely, especially after the port blast. And NOBODY tells the hezb what to do. It's as simple as that.
Macron is eating tabooli in front of the media and eating shit off camera. It's as simple as that.
Thanks for your reply. We are not agree!
You can change the structure of the Government (overlaying) or the structure of the market (underlaying) to reform the country.
One of the most progressive elements of the Iranian constitution after 79 revolution was the §44. Defining three main sectors in the Iranian economy, State owned, Private owned and Cooperate owned. Unfortunately liberals and later neoliberals in charge of Iranian governments managed to add amendments in order to hand almost everything to the private sector. IRGC however had free hands to mix and match the sectors in the Iranian military – industrial complex and they succeed much better then any government in Iran.
Limit private sector in Lebanon’s economy, keep strategic assets state owned and increase the share of community run cooperative sector and you are going to see a wounder not only in terms of fighting corruption but also erasing the religious influence. This will be the major reform, they avoid to even talk about.
Fair enough, Omid, thank you.
Diab did not give much face or cooperation to the IMF – in fact, he pissed them right off. Will Adib do the same, now that Macron is using the port explosion as the IMF’s backdoor re-entry into Lebanon? Read this and weep:
Exclusive: French reform proposal for Lebanon delves into details
Taxi, I wasn't surprised going through the french "reform proposal". It's formulated like an old style colonial decree and of course damaging Lebanese interests.
Under other circumstances this "reform proposal" would be enough to mobilize the masses and bring them to the streets chanting anti-colonial slogans.
Thanks, Omid. I wasn’t surprised either but I sure was disgusted! A tall order of reforms that would be impossible to fulfill in the allotted time plus reforms that serve first and foremost the Leb elites. So fucked up! But I’m glad for it cuz France’s popularity has sunk even further in the eyes of your average Lebanese since Macrons visit last week. I watched a presstv item on Macron, the US and the Leb this morning, and despite his occasional cringe-worthy and suspect statements here and there, Elijah Magnier in the video does get the majority of his info right – worth checking out:
hez & leb have danced the dance with france…france is now a very old whore wearing too much make up for either H or L to be charmed or seduced. macron arrived too late with too little & his powder conceals neither his wrinkles nor his hunger.
The only friends that France has in the Leb are a fragment of Leb christians who speak nothing but French in the Leb, and, of course, the handful of elite neolibs who share the same bank name and address with Macron.
Yes, there are Lebs in the Lebanon who speak nothing but French all frigging day and night. They're know as 'busboys and garcons' whose great-grandfathers benefited from French colonialism back in the day.
enlightening, thank you, taxi.
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My gut feeling about 'Russia Today' having become very Occupied Palestine centered is right:
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Well spotted, lol!
@ taxi,
That honor goes to someone on UNZ. He mentioned something about it. I merely dug it up. Credit where credit's due :o]
Openweb started as Spot.im and changed name in 2020. Already in 2018 there were a lot of reactions in RT Germany user community, critisizing that RT using an Israeli forum service provider. Users asked "Is there no Russian developer out there to take over our communication and data?"
You find Roman Abramovich, Russian oligarch, among the early investors of Openweb.
Due to what seems like relatively small numbers, I am assuming the protests in Beirut are the usual (irrelevant) rent-a-mob protests of any leadership move (Adib) that looks away from the hegemon whilst also timed to coincide with mini-Macron’s attempt to get his obnoxious foot in the door. Would be interested in your opinion on what evolves from here Taxi, though I note your comment above re (finally) separating religion from state. TEP.
https://www.rt.com/news/499640-beirut-protests-tear-gas-macron/
Thanks TEP. And you're right about the "irrelevant rent-a-mob" brigade and their theatrics. So far, after months of intermittent protesting, they have presented no leader to speak on their behalf and no one knows what the fuck they want – they just turn up when they hear the US embassy whistle-and-dollar blow. The Lebs are still pissed at them and their insensitivity for rioting on the second day after the port blast, when bits of victim remains were still being picked up from the port area etc. I've stopped reporting on them because it's the same boring antifa shit. When REAL protestors turn up on the streets, then I'll report on it.
What does Macron's visit to Lebanon mean? Nothing! Just cheap, French lingerie tailored by tightwad pervy Rothschild. Listen, all them foreign leaders with their noses up israel's arse are given their due Leb diplomatic protocols in their face, then given the proverbial finger at their backs when they leave. This is the Lebanese way. And when these crypto-jew visitors say that "Hezbollah can keep its weapons", well, that's a frigging joke, isn't it?! I mean who the fuck are they to determine what the hezb gets to keep or watnot?! Fact is, not israel, not US, and certainly not frigging France can do ANYTHING about the Hezb's weapons so they should really just stfu about it already.
At the end of the day, the Lebs will still do with their nation what they want to do. Macron wants to IMF the Leb when the Leb has already rejected the IMF. He wants to re-IMF the Leb when it's on its belly after the port explosion. He wants to IMF the Leb to keep a French footprint in the Leb, its ex colony, after years of this stinky footprint gradually fading. He wants to compete with the US over a corner of the Levant. For sure Macron is not in the Leb for the love of Leb but for the nostalgic love of France's colonial past there. Everybody in the Leb knows this and in return all Leb politicians are trying to exploit Macron's visit for their own personal agenda. So, really, the whole thing is but a stupid media event that will add nothing and take away nothing from the Leb equation.
Let's not forget here that the Lebs have already militarily kicked the French right off their land twice. Once in 1943, and again in 1983. If the French want a third humiliation, then by all means, bring in the pantalooned gendarmes.
Hi Taxi
Many thanks for keeping us informed about the complexities of the Lebanon political process.
Someone caught my attention to this incident in Syria
Thanks, Anonymous. Yes, I saw this footage a few days ago. What can I say but that I have more respect for a loathsome cockroach scurrying across the Syrian desert than I do for any old US soldier invader there.
The Russians were invited by the Syrian government. The klepto yankles were not. I therefore rest my case, and I hope that soon enough, our arrogant army gets its ass kicked black and blue in Syria.
Just because the Chinese gov isn't a drunken selfie freak, it doesn't mean that it's not having an exciting time traveling the Asian parts of the world. Here's Elijah Magnier summing up its most important boarding card in the Asian realm: Iran.
Iran and China are building new empires on the failure of Trump's policy
By Elijah J. Magnier:
Since the victory of the “Islamic Revolution” in Iran in 1979, the slogan "Neither East nor West but an Islamic Republic" has been a commonplace. This slogan represented the desire of the late Imam Khomeini, who aimed to liberate Iran from foreign control and from the superpowers that had ruled Iran for decades. Consequently, the Iranian constitution prohibits the establishment and influence of any foreign military base on Iranian soil (article 3/5). However, by tearing up the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) signed by former President Barack Obama , the current US administration of President Donald Trump has pushed Iran into the arms of Russia and China. Tehran has now signed strategic and commercial military cooperation agreements lasting 25 years with the two superpower countries Russia and China. The reconstruction of the Chinese and Persian empires is expanding at the expense of the US empire and as a result of its weakness.
In 2018, when President Trump reversed the nuclear agreement that the US had signed with the five permanent members of the United Nations and with Germany (known as the 5+1), the US administration began imposing harsh rolling sanctions on Iran, the harshest since 1979. In fact, the first US sanctions against Iran were imposed by President Carter in November 1979 by Executive Order 12170. However, President Trump’s sanctions left nothing in Iran except for the sanctions themselves, and the air that Iranians breathe.
Moreover, President Trump and his administration were not satisfied with these (unlawful) unilateral sanctions, they also threatened any country that dealt with Iran. This prompted European companies to cease all deals with Iran for fear of being hit by US sanctions. The US measures caused serious harm to many European giants and in consequence, to the European economy. However, China rejected US sanctions on Iran and continued to buy oil, do business and conduct joint naval drills.
Iran was disappointed when German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, unlike the UN Security Council and other European countries who had initially announced that they wouldn’t back the US unilateral snapback, agreed to extend a weapon embargo on Iran. However, the slogan "neither East nor West" no longer stands, and the Iranian orientation towards the East is now the order of the day, even if the establishment of foreign bases remains out of the question.
Thus, Iran signed a strategic partnership agreement with China in the fields of gas, oil, research and technology, the 5G network, military cooperation, railways, port construction and development in Bushehr, Chabahar, and other areas that are in the interest of the two countries.
Turning East does not mean establishing Chinese bases in Iran, but rather unprecedented and unparalleled cooperation. Going west is no longer an option so long as the US administration headed by Trump is in power, even if Trump is re-elected and it remains in office for another four years. In his recent speech, Sayyed Ali Khamenei said that Iran should get used to the idea that "the sanctions will continue for the next 10 years."
Iran and China see their countries as two emergent powers with broad and important roles to play in Asia and the Middle East, or West Asia, as Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif calls the region. China and Iran believe that the US's star has begun to decline, that its control over the world has weakened, and that Russia has regained the role it lost in 1990 with Perestroika and the decline of the Soviet Union.
In ancient times, notwithstanding the might of the Chinese and the Persian Empires, the two countries never fought each other but rather cooperated in trade through the "Silk Road". Sino-Iranian relations deteriorated in 1979 when Imam Khomeini came to power because China had supported the Shah of Iran. However, relations regained their glow in the following year after China supported Iran against Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and the UN Security Council Resolution 598 to stop the war in 1989.
Following the Al Qaeda 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, the US began an international campaign to restore its influence over the world in a violent and aggressive military manner, sending soldiers to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq and most recently Syria. The long Russian hibernation allowed the US to fill the vacuum and become for a while the only policeman of the World.
However, Iran's challenge to US expansion and its success in supporting Iraq, Syria and Lebanon has given Tehran unprecedented influence in many countries in the Middle East. China thus sees Iran as a non-authoritarian partner (unlike the US administration), with limited ambitions but far from becoming a superpower that poses a threat to China.
China has been keen to move closer to Iran, that has defiantly scorned every single US attempt at submission for many decades notwithstanding enormous and heavy sanctions. Indeed, Tehran challenged US authority in Syria by supporting the country’s unity, in Lebanon (supporting Hezbollah to stand against the Israeli aggression and ambitions) and in Iraq (prevented its partition into three sub-states). In 2019, the most important confrontation was the downing of a US Navy Broad Maritime Surveillance aircraft, a RQ-4A, the most expensive $220 million US drone, over the Strait of Hormuz. And in 2020, following the assassination of Brigadier general Qassem Soleimani and his companions at Baghdad airport, Iran had the audacity to bomb two large US military bases in Iraq, Ayn al-Assad in the Anbar desert and Erbil base in Kurdistan, inflicting dozens of injuries but triggering no reaction from the most powerful country in the world.
Consequently, the killing of a major in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, is strategically rather than morally a very simple event in comparison to the gains that Iran has made by, for the first time, challenging the US face-to-face and demonstrating its willingness to go to war if need be. This was the first time the US was attacked by a country who claimed its responsibility and warned of the beginning of the missile launching prior the bombing since World War II at Pearl Harbour.
The US has not been able to prevent Iran from becoming a "Middle Eastern superpower country" for all its attempts to weaken Tehran. Likewise, the US has not been able to prevent the growth of powerful players hostile to Washington and loyal to Iran (Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, Syria in the Levant and the Houthis in Yemen).
Washington's allies led by Israel and Saudi Arabia have lost their wars against Iran and its allies. On the contrary, Iran has established itself in Syria with new bases at the request of the Syrian government. Thus, the US and Israel have failed to expel Iran from the Middle East notwithstanding their support for jihadists and the hundreds of Israeli attacks on Iranian and other targets throughout the Syrian war. Russia and China observed these attacks with great interest. Iran's new status in the Middle East convinced both Russia and China to see Tehran as a strong ally, and to benefit from its influential anti-US allies and contacts in the Middle East.
Today China is restoring its glory and influence with the aim of expanding even greater possibilities, exchanges of experiences, and wealth. It is developing access to many countries, including Iran’s large area of influence in the Middle East. China was able to create a balance never seen before in the Middle East, to develop economic and trade relations with Israel and with Iran at the same time, where the US has been unable or unwilling to do so.
Europe has lost its window on Iran, and America has lost its bet on eliminating Iran. Trump is still waiting by the phone for a call from Tehran, but the phone will not ring as long as the nuclear deal is in the trash. Trump apparently has strong chances to be re-elected for another four years. However, Iran will not sign any agreement with him a month after his re-election, as he may hope. Iran will close the door on the US as long as Trump remains in power, unless he restores the deal and offers guarantees. The decision to go to China is irreversible, although the door has not been forever closed on the US.
The US's loss of its influence on the world stage has become a reality, and the emergence of other forces, Russia, China and Iran, is impossible to ignore. The influence of these countries can no longer be limited, thanks directly to the failure and mismanagement of US foreign policy!
Is he serious?!
@ Daniel Rich,
Yes, he is serious as it appears he is bunking with the dark side.
A few weeks back he gave a puff piece on the disgusting New Zealand PM. Elijah is either ignorant about the mosque shooting in Christchurch or he is shilling for the empire. The so called shooting was a false flag event whose sole purpose was gun confiscation throughout NZ. The event carried many of the mossad's earmarks, including two shooters.
Worse, he confuses the NZ PM for a she when in fact she is a he…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7YiFQFk6fc
I call him Jack Blair….. he has the looks of Tony Blair along with some of Tony's speech and movement patterns.
Yeah I do have a problem with Elijah adhering to a bunch of manufactured ‘scripts’. I think when it comes to highly disputed and controversial topics, he works by ‘official documents’ more than he does his own personal instinctive intelligence. So many ‘investigative’ journalists do this for fear of being seen as tinfoil-hatters and conspiracy theorists. But any keen observer of any political playground can clearly see that indeed it is ‘conspiracies’ created by governments against their own people that fuel the monster machine. And yes, I have on multiple occasions wondered about his yoke: is it self-made or placed there by external hands?
So many intel operators work the media beat now that it makes one wonder: is there a single fucking genuine journalist in the whole goddam universe left?!
Holy freaking shit! That vid hurt my eyes and my brains!
@ WHOZHEAR ,
…
Well, f*** me, dude!
Had to pick up my jaw from the floor there…
I mean, how much more in your face does it take to wake up…?
I've got little time so very short reply on the issue.
First, If you get time, read Pepe Escobar's latest on Global Research:
Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer than You Think
https://www.globalresearch.ca/definitive-eurasian-alliance-closer/5722417
Second, the "25 years agreement with China" is not signed yet, however Iran utilize the possibility of signing this to give a hint to the Europeans about possible change of equations. Actually Iran have two options regarding China, either go only with the 25 years agreement or full membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Rouhani’s neoliberal government (Technocrats) try to avoid the later and get support from part of Clerics (Theocracy) + major Iranian Trade offices (both of these have traditionally good relations with MI6). There is an ongoing fight between Nationalists (like Ahmadinejad's faction)) who actually distanced themselves from the 25 years agreement, supported by another part of Theocracy and most of the IRGC, on one side, and Technocrats, part of Theocracy and the big money in Bazar on the other side about the option Iran should pick regarding China. Needless to say, any choice made about this matter going to influence the entire Axes of Resistance.
@ OMID,
'You' either go it alone or you don't. Iran needs friends that have its back [China buys Iranian oil, regardless of what unca Sammy wants], so agreements with trusted partners [China and Russia] is the only way forward, imo.
@ Taxi,
As spotted over on Canthama's twitter feed, it appears that erdoggie may only have weeks left in power…….
https://twitter.com/Pyrmha/status/1300880921147650051
Thanks, Whozhear. Did I get this right: Turkish army refusing Erdo orders? Fascinating!
He’s gonna have to arrest and disappear the whole Turkish army now lol!
This week in Beirut, by far more important than Macron's visit to the capital is the gathering of ALL leaders of the Palestinian armed resistance factions for a week long series of meetings and confabs. Haniyeh, Hamas's political leader who arrived the day after Macron's landing at Beirut airport, has already had meetings with Leb president Aoun and parliament leader Nabih Berri – no doubt a meeting with Nasrallah has either already occurred or is on the cards.
The very location of this grand Palestinian Resistances meeting is a clear message to israel: Lebanon, despite everything, remains the very capital of resistance against terrorist israel. Indeed, as it always has been and forever will be:
Hamas leader in Lebanon to meet Palestinian factions
I urge the Axis of Resistance to immediately give terrorist israel what it currently fears the most: FULL expansion of combat ops against it on multiple fronts.
Israeli expansionism? Show the freaking klepto terrorist jews what 'expansion' is all about!
Just don't bomb the mosad's headquarters (yet!). Find a way to take it over instead: we all need access to their massive crime files. We need detailed evidence of ALL their crimes against their neighbors and the world at large. We all need to see their frigging 9/11 files!
For the past hour or so, I've been watching live TV coverage of the first night of the official Palestinian conference taking place in Beirut this week. While all the armed resistance leaders sat in a Beirut hotel hall, Abbas, linked to Ramalla via livestream screen, was first to take the podium and gave a unity speech; followed by him, Hamas leader gave a speech; then the leader of Islamic Jihad/Gaza gave one; and right now, the Palestine National Liberation Movement leader is speaking… leaders of other Palestine armed forces will also take turn in speaking.
So far, all spoke of unity as a necessity and duty; also, notably, all in Beirut payed special homage and kind words to Abbas. They sounded genuine in their affection. The failed Palestinian 'peace negotiators' are tonight holding hands with the successful Palestinian armed resistance. All seeking a single strategy, all becoming a single fist pointing at the one enemy and not at each other.
I'll have more to say on this tomorrow – give you outline of consensus notes etc. For now, I continue to watch this historic Palestinian unity event…
… One unity pledge after the other: this is the singular flavor of the conference.
Altogether, I must have caught 10-12 Palestinian armed resistance leaders speak yesterday. The consensus, as I mentioned above, was unanimously pro unity; and also, much commentary was given by all to the urgent issue of normalization with israel. Lesser known groups named UAE by name as "traitor and backstabber", while the larger groups like Hamas and PA and Islamic Jihad indicated at Arab treason but without naming names: this is to leave diplomatic room for further dialogue between UAE and the main Palestinian factions. The leader of the Palestine National Liberation Movement even called on the Arab League to cancel the membership of all Arab nations that sign to normalize with terrorist israel.
Some speakers urged leaders into 'action' and not just into more 'meetings'. Let's hope that this week-long event will produce effective and timely Palestinian action.
Me? I'd love to be a fly on the wall when meetings with Nasrallah are held by Palestinian leaders of the armed resistance.
Great news. Most encouraging that the various Palestinian communities are coming together with Beirut as the nexus. Truly, that will not only send a message to the Israelis, but also to the Imperial West, that the arc of Resistance is beginning to jell and to coordinate efforts.
If Iran, Russia and China reach the accord that has been in talking stages so far and provided that cooperative arrangement develops a modus vivendi with a broadening arc of Resistance; then the politico-economic overreach by the imperialists and their ruling banksters will find their plots and schemes in check. Should they be foolish enough to maintain the pressure they might find themselves in a situation which the Persian people who invented the game of chess called "Shah Mat", which translates into English as Checkmate. Original meaning is "the Shah is dead."
How the hell will the mosadies in Beirut keep up? There’s more Palestinian leaders in the Leb this week than there are enemy agents on the ground lol!
I love the education I get from this site and community!
So good to hear of the unity occurring in BEIRUT!
Taxi – I love your idea of getting our hands on the evidence of decades of the most horrendous crimes, committed by Mossad and all of their evil Jews and shabbos goy worldwide.
Zionist India under Modi is nothing but israel in brownface makeup and a one-eyed attack dog for the US's current cold war against China. Geostrategically speaking, India now functions like a whore with two cunts. So, like, does Modi think that China will just stand aside while it literally invades the Himalayas? Brace yourselves, dear reader, the dragon may very well now swallow the holy cow whole!
India Captured Strategic Outposts in Stealth Move Against China
Do the terrorist jews really believe they are the lamb of god? The eye-socket of god’s eyeball?
Israel’s Characteristic Beirut Hypocrisy
And anyone who knows Leb politics knows only too well that NOTHING political gets moving in the Leb without the Hezb's participation, and, NOBODY can touch the Hezb's missiles hard as they try. And last but not least, let it be known that France is israel's left arm in the Levant:
In Lebanon, Macron offers the carrot or the stick
I think we all know where Macron's 'carrot and stick' should be shoved.
I'd very much like to be stuck in an elevator with a jew today, wouldn't you?:
I don't know what's more maddening, perpetual jewish terrorism against native civilians, or the disgusting hypocrisy of the fucking West and their BLMers! I'll eat my shorts if a SINGLE BLM leader retweets the above!
The senior pictured above is Kheiri Hanoon, a Palestinian activist who's been beaten, imprisoned and harassed by violent jews ever since he was a child, yet he remains resisting the terrorist israeli presence in his homeland. He is famous for always walking with Palestinian flag in hand, which always invites violent assaults by terrorist jews on his person and body.
How many of us have actually met a person like the honorable Mr. Hanoon in our respective nations? Shame on us and our cowardice in the face of the coward jew!
The Palestinians yesterday requested an Arab League emergency meeting regarding the issue of 'normalization' with terrorist israel, only for two hours later to have the decrepit zioshitheads in Bahrain kick up a fuss and adamantly refuse the request, thus now triggering a loooong hoopy red-tap procedure for the Palestinians to have to go through to get their important meeting.
What can I tell you, dear readers, except that a lot of (the right) people need to die a horrible death before world peace can be achieved.
Hi Taxi
Hope you feel well.
The following message is all I get from the comment above:
http://www.youtube.com’s server IP address could not be found.
Maybe you can correct it, or there is some other reason.
Thanks for your attention
Hello Antonio. Link seems to work fine at my end.
Maybe try this here: https://youtu.be/BocQbTvNx8w
Today, a special religious delegation sent by the Pope arrived to Beirut for a meeting with Leb christian, muslim and druze religious leaders, with the aim of establishing an interfaith committee to counter continuing efforts by the enemies of Lebanon to create a religious civil war there.
It seems that everyone and their uncle are landing on the coastal capital this week. Lebanon: even when it's down, it remains a most politically exciting and excitable city in the Levant. And of course, the views and the food remain exceptionally delicious for the intrepid visitor :-).
But seriously, the Pope's delegation should now shut up all the Leb religious shitstirers, especially the Maronite 'Batrak' (Papa) who keeps publicly criticizing the Hezb and its weapons as if tel aviv's hand is up his arse and moving his lips for him. For weeks on end now the Batrak has been making religiously divisive comments that are meant to scare Leb christians away from supporting the Hezb. The Batrak has literally been attempting to create a christian-muslim divide at the behest the US embassy in Beirut. I say this because the timing of the Batrak's incitements have been tending to occur a couple of days after stupid Leb antifa protestors take to the streets. It's like a coordinated puppet show by the US embassy: one day it's antifa, then it's Batrak, followed by more threats of sanctions – and round and round and round it goes.
Hello Taxi, first timer here. I saw a comment about grazone not being a reliable source and am wondering but how? Ben Norton has written some very good stories.
Hello Hani. Granzone is owned by Max Blumenthal: the most successful Controlled Opposition agent in the US and a despicable jewish supremacist hiding behind fake anti-israel and anti-establishment articles. Sure he is eloquent but don’t let anyone’s eloquence fool you. Max came into prominence thru writing books about Gaza that even Hilary Clinton publicly applauded (that’s such a giveaway if you ask me!). Notable here that not a single dime was donated to Gazans whose suffering Max made his money and reputation off. His father is no other than Sidney Blumenthal, a high level mossad asset and a Clinton insider and fixer with tight connections to the CIA. Sidney Blumethal IS at the very heart of Benghazigate that landed the US ambassador to Libya dead. It was liar Max Blumenthal’s article claiming that a ‘video’ had angered the Libyan mob into killing Ambassador Stevens – this same lying article that Hilary Clinton cited as explanation for the death of Stevens. The Clinton crime machine meets the Blumenthal crime machine: scratching each other’s backs has never been more sickening.
And Ben Norton is nothing but Max’s shrimpy shabot boy serving the synagogue of satan probably without even realizing it. He might get some of his facts straight but he’s a fucking idiot cog who works under the instruction of cunt Max Blumenthal. Ben Norton is not even worth talking about for the non-existence of his own personality.
When you search for ‘who funds grayzone’, you get creepy and suspect language like “completely independent funding” and “utterly independent funding from private patrons and paying subscribers”. Who the fuck are these “private patrons”? Why aren’t their names listed and exactly how many subscribers does the grayzone have? None of this crucial information is made available. Why stress financial independence with words like “utterly” and “completely” when you can’t back it up in black and white? Grayzone has a very expensive look and obviously is not a low-maintenance operation. Sure they publish the odd good writer here and there, but that’s just for cover. Controlled Opposition cunts tell the truth EXCEPT FOR WHEN IT REALLY COUNTS. BOTH Max and Ben continue to call Bashar Assad an illegitimate leader who gassed his own people: which of course is a completely proven lie that’s incessantly promoted by the tel aviv terrorists. Max defends the Muslim Brotherhood and literally had a breakdown when Morsi of Egypt was ousted by Sisi. Man, I could go on and on about the Blumenthal skulduggery but I just woke up and don’t want to vomit up before breakfast.
I don’t want to convince you of anything, dear Hani – just do your own research. But beware: the Blumenthals are professional tricksters who are part and parcel of pushing identitarian politics, jewish supremacy, antisemicism laws, divisive ideologies and wars for israel. I once even saw a vid of Max claiming that “jews are smarter than white people” – he said it with such gusto lol! And as if Max Blumenthal isn’t white as snow himself! This video and others like it by Max have long been ‘disappeared’ from youtube.
Both father and son deserve a turd pie in the face followed by a bullet between the brows for their treasonous and deadly activities against the Palestinians, Syrians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Libyans AND Americans. They have aided and abetted the death of untold numbers of civilians in the above nations. There is so much blood on their manicured fingers that it makes me sick to just think about it. And lately, everything that Max does is about re-asserting his ‘street cred’ after being exposed as a shyster journalist and an opportunistic liar.
Just because the NYT or Washington Post occasionally publish an article critical of Israeli politics doesn’t stop them from being literally glued to israel’s bed. Same with the creepy Grayzone.
@taxi:
I remember miss Narwani wrote a piece about this mother f:ers past which alerted me to the fact. Another great journalist, Anja Parampil has done some great jobs for the zone after she started there but has since even married the guy, yikes. That zone is getting blurrier by the day …
Thanks, Mia. Indeed “yikes” for Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil getting married lol! Their sprog will probably be born already covertly plotting regime change against the kindergarten teacher cuz she’s not jewish.
Now Max will no longer be able to ‘acquire’ himself girlfriends from nations targeted for regime change just to give himself street credibility. You bet he was doing that before his marriage: Egyptian girlfriend, Syrian girlfriend, Libyan girlfriend, Venezuelan girlfriend – all gone now lol! And his ‘Indian-American’ wife Anya Parampil: soon enough she’s be indistinguishable from Nikki Hailey.
Eh here you are, yet another holococks documentary made by a 'belated jew' that reminds us all of all them poor and helpless jews. Documentarian thinks he's got a 'new' angle on it all. Review of documentary written by a soppy jew and published by a shitty jew rag.
One heck of a jewy holocunts orgy:
Elderly Nazis Laugh as They Recall Massacring Jews
Meanwhile, in the jewish Apartheid klepto-terrorist state, a REAL holocaust by the jews against the native Palestinians continues unabated and with impunity and ANYONE who attempts to tell the legal truth about it all gets… well… sanctioned. Sanctioned, then either ostracized or executed:
US sanctions ICC prosecutor who allowed complaint of Israeli ‘war crimes’
SyrPer web site still down. Expected recovery? Mike.
No idea Mike, it seems endless attempts to shut it down….it is down all over.
Goddamn the terrorist jew hackers! I just checked and SyrPer is still down. That's sadly serious. Wishing all the best to Fadi Ziad (this his name?). Hope he can circumvent the attacks in the future. What a horrible headache for him and for his community.
In empathy and solidarity.
Some good reads from today's newsstand:
Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer Than You Think
India Implodes Its Own New Silk Road
The Left Case Against Supporting Joe Biden in the General Election
America’s Summer Exodus: Thousands Flee The Cities Every Day Because They Don’t Feel Safe
And this food-for-thought here:
Why America Has Gone Mad
Taxi – more MSM hype RE Macron to ‘save’ the Leb > as French intel chief joins Macron pushing the Leb for a govt to pull out of devastating economic crisis. Meaning to me > they need to accept being trapped by the IMF which, of course, the Leb president and Hezb will never allow. Agree?
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-lebanon-crisis-france/french-spy-master-joins-effort-to-deliver-lebanese-reforms-sources-say-idUKKBN25U2FO
Thanks Mike.
Not sure whom you mean by "they".
Taxi – your reply said > …they need to accept being trapped by the IMF. Not sure whom you mean by “they”.
‘They’ = the Lebv. Meaning > the Empire, together with its French component, wishes that the Leb would accept being trapped by the IMF, instead of avoiding said clutches as so far Leb is doing. Another thought regarding why the French intelligence chief is visiting Leb > he hopes to influence outcome of the bomb-blast investigation, by also delploying a fat wad of Euros stuffed-in his carry lugage for bribe pay-offs. In any case, Leb’s president and close supporters are wise to such, but there are always those in the investigation trenchesl willing to sell-out for money. Dejpends on how secure are Leb’s own inteligence members, top to bottom.
@Taxi, thanks for a convincing run down on the granzone. I thought Max was independent of the father! How naive of me.
Dear Hani, jews who work inside the US Palestine movement are ALL gatekeepers for israel – every single one of them. Jewish groups like Jewish Voices for Peace who have self-appointed themselves as honchos and spokespersons for the Palestinians in fact work AGAINST Palestine. Notice how despite all their combined activism over the decades, the BDS movement/USA have not managed to even land a single bill in congress, not even one that failed to pass. Meanwhile, JVP collect membership fees in the millions and get richer and richer while Palestine loses more land. The bigger BDS in the US gets, the more land Palestine loses.
This is why I don’t support the official BDS movement, even though I do support the boycott cause and have myself been boycotting israel products as an individual since the 1980’s. Nobody needs a highfalutin ‘movement’ with high membership fees just to stop buying from Apartheid israel.
The worst enemy that Palestine has is not the idf but all them insidiously evil controlled opposition fuckers who work from inside the corridors of the Palestine cause. At least with the idf, your enemy is clearly identifiable, but with controlled opposition agents, you are thrown into a dark pit with eyes and limbs bound.
Dear readers, whenever a rag, especially a jewy rag says they have "interviewed" Hezbollah fighters, just you know it's a big freaking turdy lie pie aimed at your gobs and brains. I mean imagine Hezbollah fighters actually freely talking to a 'Rosenfeld' from the likudist newspaper 'The Nation' when they don't even talk Hezbollah business to their own families lol! But here it is in black and white: one jewy lie after the other attempting to paint Hezbollah as "afraid" and "confused" and in big boo-boo "trouble":
After the Beirut Blast, Hezbollah Almost Went to War
Never mind that most Lebs, whether Hezb supporters or not, believe the port explosion is a violent act of israeli sabotage that took advantage of Leb negligence.
Honestly, it's like jews wake up every morning thinking: what whoppers can I disseminate to the goy today? The ugly fuckers live for nothing but deception.
"By deception thou shalt do war". Never forget this prime jewish motto, dear reader. NEVER FORGET IT! It is at the very core of EVERYTHING they do.
And this counter here:
Why does the world ignore Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty?
Please understand that EVERYTHING criminal that israel does in the Levant and around the world has the approval of ALL the Western nations bar none. ALL THE FRIGGING TIME! Why? Because they're all klepto terrorists themselves whose nations' very foundations were built off the blood and resources of colonized faraway nations.
Before seafaring became available to Western nations, Westerners were killing and colonizing each other like there's no tomorrow. They still have the exact klepto-terrorism mindset, only they now apply it against faraway nations and not against each other.
This murderous bullshit must end! And short of destroying the West, there will be no end to this pathological Western sickness!
I urge all Western voters to question their political candidates not just on their taxes and healthcare, but also on where they ACTUALLY stand on colonialism issues.
Stop voting in the worst of the worst just because they're wearing starched frigging suits! Beware of the cannibal with unnaturally white teeth!
A shoe drops…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/iranian-resistance-axis-strikes-back-convoys-us-equipment-blowing-iraq
Iranian Resistance Axis Strikes Back: Convoys With US Equipment Blowing Up In Iraq
Thanks, Cloak.
There is no gun in the US's arsenal that can kill the ghost of General Suleimani.
In the end, the ghost will win over the mightiest army the world has ever know.
I define narcissism as the inability to take responsibility for ANYTHING. A fixation on the puerile self that demands the world fulfill its most stupid whimsy: over and over and over again. A retardation of the intellect and a degradation of the humanistic impulse. Is it therefore any wonder that Americans now find themselves trapped in a deep shithole of their own making?
The Picture of Dorian Gray – a parable for America today
‘Oh muh color revolution, where have you gone to’?
Shithead war criminal Schenker came to Beirut yesterday, not to satisfy normal protocol and meet with Leb officials, but to meet Leb agents of the US. He's much disappointed that his color revolution in Leb last autumn failed. And it will fail again.
Nobody in Leb knows who the fuck these people are who are pictured above. They give no names, they present no leader, they present no manifesto bar the single slogan of 'destroy everything and leave a giant vacuum for israel to abuse'. Fuck them and their ugly faces. They will FOREVER be outnumbered by REAL Leb patriots. All they're good for is giving bad blowjobs to jewy Schenker.
@ taxi,
Late at night, you see your jewish mother-in-law staggering and bleeding through your backyard…
What do you do?
Well, obviously, you didn’t pull rightfully through the first time, so…, shoot her again!
You can kill people. Many if you so choose to. But, like you said up-thread, you can’t kill the spirit of people.
Occupied Palestine needs to be fully and thoroughly liberated for peace to settle in and bloom once more in the M.E.
This poisonous plant, loaded with ptarmic petals of narcissistic nasutes isn’t an asset to mankind. Like all before it, it needs to be burned on the altar of peace.
Contradiction in terms?
Just give a try…
Crikey Daniel, you must be the only goy in the universe who’s telling jewish mother-in-law jokes. Oh, wait… it’s not a joke lol!
Taxi – much appreciated > are your continuing expressions of your love for the Leb, and its citizens, together with conviction most citizens are bound together fully understanding the threats to their sovereignty & living standards, despite constant pressure from the powerful Empire and its MSM designs to mis-inform. Such is most contageous. Thanks. Mike.
Thanks, Mike. Really, my essential interest in the Lebanon is Hezbollah: the ONLY entity in the world that’s actually smashed terrorist israel’s teeth. Respect! Moreover, this little nation becomes addictive once you’ve been here for several weeks. There’s a joke in the diplomatic circles that says that candidates assigned to Lebanon arrive reluctantly and with much hesitation, and when it’s time for them to leave they weep buckets from separation anxiety. Yap. I can relate to that :-).
But really, here in south Lebanon, the heartland of Hezbollah, self-dignity is so thick in the air and I find this a very attractive trait – the opposite of flaky southern California, my original homeland.
“So, you are a Gemini!”
“A what?”
“A Gemini!”
“I dunno. But if it’s about dignity and honor, you’re right on the mark…”
It’s part of a genetic code. Either you have it or you don’t. My ‘yes’ is a ‘yes’ and my ‘no’ is a ‘no.’ I don’t do maybes. I recognize that style in Hezbollah and as I naturally root for anyone that stands up to a bully, I side with them. Although, to be honest, I’d help bring this circumcised bully down without any questions asked. Strength and honor to the resistance. May your martyrs rest in peace and may your bullets find their targets and kill it/them.
Hamas leader Haniyah and his inner circle delegation met with Nasrallah last night. There is a brief vid footage of the meeting but with no audio – but you can tell, despite everyone in the room wearing masks, that they all looked bright-eyed and jolly happy
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And, hey, was there a jewish switcheroo against the Serbian leader yesterday?:
Serbian leader seems puzzled by Trump’s announcement of embassy move
I wouldn't put past the klepto terrorist jews.
And btw, if you're jewish and you support the existence of israel in Historic Palestine, then you are a klepto terrorist in my eyes. And if you're a gentile who supports the existence of israel in Historic Palestine, then you too are a klepto terrorist. Full stop! No ifs or buts!
Let us never forget the history of the geography of the holy land: Palestine is actually southern Greater Syria. Jordan is southeastern Greater Syria. And Lebanon is western Greater Syria. Whaaaah you don't believe me? Just ask Mr. Sykes and Mr. Picot.
Yesterday, israeli media reported that "unknown persons" sneaked from the Leb borders into a large israeli military base in the Galilee and stole a bunch of weapons: 15 M16's, 23 grenade launchers and 11 boxes of various ammos. The israeli military is holding an investigation into the theft.
My guess is that HezbollRobinHood did it
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Makes you wonder how they managed not only to sneak into such a large military base that's currently on high alert because of the Hezb's promised retaliation, but also carry all that heavy-weighing equipment out of the base totally undetected too, plus cross back into the Leb undetected by israeli border patrols as well.
Wow!
Hezbollah: army of ghosts.
Obviously the Hezb doesn't need the israeli crap they pinched from the base – my guess is that they're further fucking with the terrorist jew soldiers nerves. I bet my farm that no jew soldier on that base had a good night sleep last night. And nor will they tonight and thereafter
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@ taxi,
Hmmmmm, doesn’t make any sense.
First: you can attach the grenade launcher to the M-16.
Second: as you can’t attach it to the AK-47 [standard service rifle for the Hezbollah military] why bring 8 more than you need [23 – 15]?
Third: an ammo box is made so it can easily be transported, by hand, from point ‘A’ to point ‘B.’ Logically, to remain in balance, you carry 1 in each hand [2 per person]. That’s 10 boxes. Oddly enough, 1 person carries 1. So, these 6 guys [5 1], sneak undetected onto a heavily guarded military base in Occupied Palestine, snatch what is best described as shit weapons, especially given the fact that they do have access to highly reliable Russian and Iranian armament, leave the heavily guarded military base and sneak back to from whence they came.
Conclusion: the usual OP BS!
Thanks for the breakdown, D. I don’t think the idf would release a breech incident into one of their large military bases just for the heck of it. I actually think the Hezb must have dug a tunnel right under the motherfucking base and did a psy-op on the terrorist base, grabbing the nearest weapons to them just to fuck with the terrorist jew soldiers.
@ taxi,
The only thing I can think of [provided this heist it true], is to humiliate Occupied Palestine by killing one of its soldiers with their own guns/weapons, coz that’s what I’d do..
Still, I wouldn’t jeopardize the lives of a group of my men to kill a single Occupied Palestine brownshirt or to make some sort of statement. I’d just kill him.
@ taxi,
Also, these critters don't mind killing their own to get a leg up. A simple false flag will suffice to get the jewish masses to toe the talmudic line…
Yesterday, an airport road that takes you straight from Beirut International Airport into Beirut City was renamed: Martyr Hajj Qassem Suleimani Street. Now every official American cunt arriving into Lebanon will have to drive through it heh heh!
The raid on the military base and the renaming of that road are indeed two brilliant master chess moves. The psychological advantage is arguably just as important as the military one
Love it!
Here's a strategic conundrum that the Axis of Resistance is facing post the destruction of the terrorist state of israel: who will fill the power vacuum created by the eviction of both jewish and American forces out of the Levant? Will it be Turkey, or will it be Egypt?
Resistance strategists clearly prefer Egypt to be reinstated as the major regional power post the liberation of Historic Palestine, but they fear another war between Turkey and Egypt erupting at the heels of the victory of the liberation war over the issue of Levantean hegemony.
There is also another Resistance school of thought that thinks that ideally, the nation of Syria should be the one overseeing the Levant, but Syria needs a few years of rebuilding its institutions to be in a position of top regional power – and should the BIG WAR that kills israel break out before Syria is ready to take over, then a war between Turkey and Egypt would be practically unavoidable.
Therefore, it is two consecutive big and destructive wars that the Resistance has to be ready for and not just one.
Either way, the Resistance will highly likely end up fighting the colonialist Turks after the death of israel.
This is a very interesting subject, historically, in the past one thousand years, Egypt and Turkey influenced most of events in MENA, either through occupation forces such as the Ottomans or political-soft-soap opera influence from Egypt, no doubt the Arab world would most likely enjoy influence of Egypt vs the always view as occupiers and violent Turkey.
Since 2011, have shared my thoughts on Syrper that time was Syria's friend, this culture has stand for many millennials in different form and shape and that is something NATO/GCC/Israel terrorist supporting regimes can not have a grasp on it. I usually said two things back them:
1) Every single country that helped invade and kill Syrians would "enjoy" the same treat back at home, and most would disappear in the process.
2) Syria would emerge stronger from this war of aggression, with millions of trained soldiers and militia, with honor defended, with huge pride of the achievement, and would slowly change the game of influence on all MENA, Syrian heroes such as Issam Zahraddine would be MENA hero and so forth.
Time will tell but things are advancing rather quickly in the 1), we see many of the aggressors with huge internal problemas just waiting for a big long depression to make them dissolve away, this is what is needed for them, an economic collapse of the western financial rotten system, it is all built on a house of cards, the burst would wipe them out and with them all GCC and settlers in occupied Palestine.
We can see countries preparing for this big tsunami coming…countries strengthening their domestic economy vs connecting globally, countries replacing it all with local made stuff… etc…these are the countries that will survive better this harsh times, and the names are well known….China, Russia & Iran, and allies to these countries will benefit of it. This is where I see Syria playing a larger role in MENA, and lets keep in mind historical ties between Syria-Iraq-Egypt-Yemen, all shared vision of an Arab Renaissance, why not this decades old dream to come back ?
What I am certain of is that GCC regimes and Israel will disappear as entities, while Turkey will most likely see its breakdown in many smaller statelets, fruit of an insane terrorist, Erdogan, that is driving Turkey toward the abyss, financial, social and military, Turkey may still exist but it will be smaller, maybe de 1920's size give or take.
MENA will change forever, and that may be a good thing, though much suffering will happen until it happens.
I should have reported this here a few days ago:
UAE blasts ‘unacceptable and inciting’ threats by Iran over Israel accord
Seriously now, what else did the uae dictator MBZ expect from Iran? Rose petals and sweet rice on a silver platter for his official skunky alignment with terrorist israel?
Hahahahaaaaa!
Big day in Syria today, in few hours we will know a fraction a of what has been discussed and agreed.
Landed yesterday in Damascus, one of the most senior group from Russia….Yuri Borisov, Mikhail Bogdanov, Maria Zakharova and Sergei Lavrov….big things will happen this week in Syria, no doubt Russia brings a possible solution to end this war of aggression against Syria, it follows major changes in the US illegal presence in Syria, SDC visit to Moscow and meetings between Turkey, Russia and Iran.
@canthama: the visit has also been followed by unprecedented traffick of AN-124 large military transport planes to Khmeimim. At least 1 sometimes two planes every day, according to flightradar24.
Very true Mia, it has been very busy in Khmeimim Air Base, and it was for over a week, Tartous was also busy receiving the Russia-Syria express, fully loaded cargo with weapons.
The fact is that very recently it expired the deadline Russia gave Turkey for its terrorists to retreat from southern M4 and 10 miles north of it so the highway was cleared for public use, for folks that have been following the war of aggression against the Syrians understood since day one that Turkey and al Qaeda terrorists would never do that, this is al Qaeda bread and basket in Syria…the control of Jisr al Shughour by radical Uighurs and their family is what secure NE Lattakia for the terrorists, then there is Ariha, another key mid size city and the control of it protect Idlib city itself, the only Province capital under the turkish backed terrorists, without M4, the terrorists would have to retreat to the turkish border…it is a no go for them.
Russia gave time for Turkey, knowing it would meet its obligations, instead, Turkey placed dozens of new bases inside Syria, this is what Turkey wants, buy time to settle bases and pretend to be in control of it…well the recent Syrian offensive showed the SAA give a fig for turkish bases, they advance encircle and let the idiots inside relying on Russia for protection, the SAA will do the same again.
I have no doubt an offensive is coming, but ain't sure the timeline for that.
@ Canthama/et al,
From the Russian side:
"High level talks with Assad and his PM. It's getting close to setting up Parliamentary Elections and forming a government that can bring in outsiders, like Tribal representatives and some of the rebels.
Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Foreign Minister, are there to do detail work on bilateral arrangements. Russia is staying one step ahead of things, like they did with the 50 year leases on the bases, the expanded area at the Latakia AFB, port development, and oil industry development.
Here's a Tass report:
TASS, September 6. The Russian delegation, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday. This was reported by the Syrian state Agency SANA.
According to him, Russian representatives will hold a number of meetings with Syrian officials on the development and strengthening of bilateral cooperation in various fields.
According to SANA, over the next two days, the Russian delegation will hold talks in Damascus within the framework of the Syrian-Russian intergovernmental Commission on trade, economic, technical and scientific cooperation, the previous meeting of which was held in Moscow last December.
According to the Al Ekhbariya TV channel, the intergovernmental negotiations will begin on Monday. Sana Agency has distributed photos of the arrival of the Russian delegation. They, in particular, depicts the meeting of special presidential envoy on the Middle East, Deputy foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov with the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic Aiman Sosana."
Canthama, I think the next offensive (operation) would find place at east front where Saudi officials and mercenary working hard to split Arab tribes as some of these tribes already mobilizing against Yankee and their Kurd militia.
On the other side of the east front, Irak, attacks against Yankee mercenary is rapidly increasing. Some dead Yankee mercenary would make US elections more exciting. Let wait and see.
thank you, canthama. god bless syria & russia.
Hi Taxi! Magnier is retweeting P.Giraldi that "israel continously strikes Hezbollah positions", have you seen or heard any of that from your horizon or is just Zionazi BS?
Thanks, Mia. The article says “israel claims” blah blah. Yeah that’s coward terrorist israel’s delusional hysteria from last weekend.
Just you know that Hezbollah does not have fixed “positions” or ‘posts’ that are visible to the eye. They simply do not operate like that. And if this were really the case and israel was “continuously striking” at the Hezb, there would be hell for the jews to pay: like the hezb would be storming to liberate the Galilee while missiles would be flying at tel aviv. In other words: the BIG war would be the headline.
@ taxi,
What base are we talking about and where is it located [how many miles from a border]?
An/y army without an air force will use tunneling in combat, but [nowadays] the opponent will have sensitive mics deployed to pick up any noise emanating from underground, indicating any such activities [especially around/on major bases].
How true is the story of Occupied Palestine hikers bump into abandoned/empty merkava tanks [last week or so]?
Something about the story keeps nagging at me…
The US army only formulated a doctrinal publication on tunneling in 2017 @ https://mwi.usma.edu/elephant-tunnel-preparing-fight-win-underground/
Typically as usual > "Israel Demands More US Arms to Counter F-35 Sale to UAE. Israeli officials increasingly resigned to reality US will be selling F-35s to United Arab Emirates even if they object. This turned out particularly embarrassing as UAE believed they were promised these sales as part of the Israel peace deal, only for Israel to try to undermine it." (No surpise here – clealy designed to suck ever more 'juice' out of the US, which of course their majority congrssional control will grant. Mike).
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/07/israel-demands-more-us-arms-to-counter-f-35-sale-to-uae/
SyrPer still down. Hope Taxi’s security more than adequate. Mike.
Ah, the sweet agony of anticipated reprisals…
http://thesaker.is/war-of-nerves-israel-begs-hezbollah-to-retaliate/
Thanks, Cloak. Let’s together look at what the idf mettle is made of, shall we? Let’s look at this bunch of short vids from back in the 2006 war with Hezbollah:
Haifa Port and it’s large stock of Ammonia: payback is coming for Beirutshima and this time, even the sirens will be killed.
Did you see that flatfoot on the sleeping soldier in above vid? Lol!
As if a stupid little black box tied to a jew’s forehead can protect them from the wrath of Hezbollah! And take a look at the obscene body movements of a jew in prayer – really now! Cover the eyes of your children immediately!
Sloppy, weedy soldiers: that’s the jewish terrorist army for you – what a fucking joke! And btw, the following day, 41 of them ‘advancing’ merkavas were killed by Hezbollah.
The idf are a bunch of paper tigers and posers! Notice how the Lebs built fabulous houses right there on the borderline, while the jew terrorist army built apple groves to hide behind.
An oldie from Jezzine, one of my fave towns in southern Lebanon: a Christian town that the Hezb liberated back in 2000. My internet guy is from there and he was imprisoned by the israelis back in 1989 for refusing to collaborate with them against his town folk.
And at this stage, do we really need to see footage of Hezb fighters to compare and contrast them to the above jew terrorist soldiers? I think not. Enough said and seen!
Incensed that several days ago Palestinian leaders had their first unity meeting in 15 years, a meeting where some armed resistance leaders poopooed the UAE for normalizing with israel and called the ugly-faced and black-hearted Abu Dhabi leader a "backstabbing traitor to Palestine and to the Islamic Umma", Mohammad bin Zayed lashed out at the suffering Palestinians and demanded that Abbas immediately issue a public apology to MbZ, claiming that his “normalization with israel is for the good of Palestinians and for the benefit of peace in the middle east”. LOL what a stupid and jewy explanation! Without a forthcoming and groveling apology, MbZ is threatening to cut off all aid to the Palestinians. This leaves Abbas in a very tight corner: apologize and he loses ALL respect from ALL Palestinians: respect that he only recently finally managed to inspire; and refuse to apologize loses Abbas aid dollars and gains him a powerful and rich Arab enemy. Let's see how this dramarama unfolds over the next few days.
And here, I'd like to say that israel normalizing with UAE is a sign of tel aviv's geomilitary weakness. We know that israel's jews profoundly hate Arabs, ALL ARABS, and to have Netanyahu rushing-rushing to shake hands with MbZ is but a desperate compensation for their inability to face the Resistance on the battlefield. Currently, the terrorist jews are fighting (and winning) on two fronts: political and media – and they're sticking to this strategy for the time being cuz they dare not go the battlefield way. Normalization gains israel political points and the furious media blitz against especially Hezbollah of late gains them, well stupid media points. The Resistance is perfectly aware of this and the trick now is to pry the terrorist jews away from their ephemeral political and media successes that do not change the facts on the ground, and lead them into a battle they fear the most.
In the end, it's victory on the battlefield that really counts. Everything else is but political distraction and meaningless hubris.
According to Reuters, the Palestinian (Abbas faction) statement proposal about Zionist-UAE relation has soften a lot. No more talking about betrayal, no condemnation request toward Arab League.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-emirates-palestinians-arab-lea/palestinians-set-to-soften-stance-on-uae-israel-normalisation-draft-statement-idUKKBN25Z2GR
Thanks, Omid. I’m hearing just now that last night UAE got so insanely furious with the Palestinians that it also threatened to campaign to have it evicted from the Arab League, just like it did with Syria. This explains today’s ‘softening’ of Abbas’ stance. I don’t know that this will be enough for the sadistic and vindictive MbZ: he got a ‘softening’ of language and not an apology.
The drama continues…
The strategic stupidity of MbZ’s normalization with terrorist israel is truly mindblowing. I mean, exactly what military protection does he get from israel when israel itself can’t even defend itself from tiny Gaza and is now permanently threatened with an actual existential war with the combined forces of the Axis of Resistance? MbZ could get equally lucrative trade deals with other countries; really, he can get even larger profits from deals with countries that have a larger population and market: so there is no real financial advantage there either. He literally gains nothing from this normalization but a big fat red target now painted on his back when war breaks out. He was better off just sneaking around tel aviv’s political brothels and synagogues as indeed he had been doing before.
Since the announcement of the normalization, Iran has taken the leash off the Houthis and with finger pointing at Abu Dhabi it said: ‘go ahead, it’s all yours now’.
At the Arab League meeting today, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Malaky, strongly rejected normalization with israel; and the Secretary of the Arab League, Ahmad Abu Ghait, also rejected normalization with israel while stating that the only way forward to peace with israel is the route of the Saudi Peace Plan of 2002.
UAE stands isolated at today’s Arab League meeting.
After military clashes between Saudi backed and UAE backed mercenaries in Yemen, the UAE normalizing secret contacts with Zionists without prior notice to Saudi, was the tipping point. Saudis are pissed off and actively try to isolate UAE.
Read this if you get time:
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009091080406416-riyadh-reportedly-expresses-support-for-palestinian-state-based-on-1967-borders/
Exciting times ahead for the UAE Sheiks. Next time it sounds BOOM, they have to sit and answer:
– was it Iran?
– was it Yemen?
– was it Qatar?
– was it Palestinians?
– was it a Zionist false flag?
– was it a US false flag?
– was it a Saudi false flag?
Oh boy, oh boy!
High Larry Us!!! Yes, a guilt-ridden bad case of nerves.
Yesterday's Arab League meeting, in short, would not condemn nor condone Arab normalization with terrorist israel – this means they support normalization. Instead of condemning the synagogue of satan and its hunchback Arab agents, indeed the League condemned Turkish and Iranian 'interference' in Arab affairs.
As if the evil hand of the jews is not a major and ongoing "interference" in Arab affairs!
So, yes, tel aviv and terrorist kushner scored another political point off the backs of the suffering Palestinians yesterday, and did so right in the heart of the Pan Arab institution.
Seriously, Arab shmarab! I don't know why they don't change their name to 'The Hebrew League', or better yet, to 'The Greater Israel League'!
Still, Hezbollah's missiles remain pointed at the global center for terrorism and usury: tel aviv. And no normalization and no Arab League or shmeague can change this.
When political establishments fail the people, the gun is the only option left. And it was always and forever thus.
@ taxi,
Throughout all my travels around the globe, the ordinary wo/man in the street and those who ruled them, couldn’t be further apart when it comes to human, interactive ideologies
So, these so-called men, that call themselves Muslims and abide by Allah’s rule, need to be taken out either by the deity, or when s/he’s too busy, by the ordinary wo/man in the street.
The door to dialogue is slammed shut and the window to more walla-walla by the usual suspects, smashed to smithereens.
So pick up arms and feel no mercy. Do onto them what they’ve done onto you, for ages.
Now that more and more Americans are seeing the evil jew hand in the double-crossing destruction of their nation, will American Blacks and Whites and Yellows and Browns and Reds all unite against the American branch of the synagogue of satan? Let's fucking hope so!
Ideally, we would see tel aviv being missiled to fuck while simultaneously, American jews are shunned and violently pursued from coast to coast by millions of American victims of jewish destruction.
Hypocrisy Thy Name Is Zion
The whole frigging world needs to unite against the unrepentant "Destroyers of the World", otherwise known as the 'jews'.
@ taxi,
No, they won't. Think about the Colosseum in Rome. The killing and rape of criminals, christians and women by beasts was elevated to a level unheard of before. Did the people rise up and fight this evil? Nope, they sat back, enjoyed the 'games' and slid with their entire 'empire' into the abyss of history.
Can't wait for the good ol' US of A to do the same.
Thanks, Daniel. Americans will revolt bigly if they ever fully realize that it’s them who stand inside the jewy Colosseum ring.
Is it just me or does the world grow more disgusting everyday?! I mean I'm having another nauseating overload from our daily distressing news headlines – even feelgood headlines are sickening me for their utter vacuous shallowness. I'm seeing everything in every corner of the world crack and more small pieces fall off the old grid of life in slo-mo. Honestly, there will never be an answer to ANY of the world's problems. Never ever will there be one. Everyone, good and bad people, we are all going to hell in a hand basket. Countdown to self-destruction. In agonizing slo-mo. This is where humanity is currently at.
And for what?!
For Mammon!
Greedy, insatiable Mammon!
No, I'm not giving you a Christ message here, I'm saying that Mammonism is the preferred religion of collective humanity. Evidently! So let's just stop with all this church, temple, mosque and synagogue bullshit! Let's all admit that the ginormous force that has taken over the mind and behaviorism of collective humanity is actually that of Mammon. Not of Christ and Shmist. This is my reading of the zeitgeist.
Coveting and obsessing over trinkets and shiny things, well, this used to be somewhat benign before, but now, now Mammon wields nukes, hoards nukes, salivates over nuclear power and other such mass murdering machines and forces, and not just over oceans of gold coins like it used to in the old days. Now Mammonite corporations are more powerful than governments and it is them, the unelected, who determine policy – all policy – for all people. And the most powerful corporations? Why it's the Military Industrial Complex! Perpetually fixated on nukes, and, on the manufacturing of enemies that go along with it.
Ooof, I can't take it anymore!
I'm going riverside camping for the weekend tomorrow. Not that I expect it to cure my indelible malaise, but just to be away from all them forever rolling and depressing headlines.
In the meantime… some frigging headlines:
Saudi purge: Why Mohammed bin Salman can never rest
Israel Funds America’s Israel Lobby, While U.S. Taxpayers Pay for Endless Fraud Against Themselves
At Least 37 Million People Displaced by US War on Terror, Study Finds
Taxi, I think I know what you mean. Perhaps the following will make you feel a little better. It’s the lovely closing paragraph of “The City and the Stars”, a science-fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (1955):
“In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.”
@ taxi,
A lot of weaponry in the mil is penis shaped. I think that's a dead give-away…
But, yeah. This planet is heading toward a place I don't want to be [in]. So, I'll soldier on to where I want to be.
Thank you kindly, dear Tonsil. And what a beautiful Arthur C. Clarke passage you included. Thank you.
Brings to mind the old and long-forgotten adage: 'But for hope, death would be a relief'.
And here's a newer adage given to us by Iraqis suffering under simultaneous war, extreme corruption, and a brutal US occupation:
"We hope, but we are hopeless".
Taxi, don’t thank me, I was not the author of that passage. Thank Arthur C. Clarke, the co-perpetrator of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”.
“We hope, but we are hopeless.” Indeed!
What does France want from Lebanon and Hezbollah, and will it achieve its goals? (1/3)
Written by Elijah J. Magnier:
On the first day of September, French President Emmanuel Macron came to Lebanon carrying several explicit and implicit messages to diffuse in various directions. The French President said that Lebanon should establish a government as soon as possible in order to benefit from international financial support. As for the explicit messages, Macron – despite his meeting with a representative of Hezbollah in the Lebanese parliament (13 MPs), MP Muhammad Rand – focused on Hezbollah’s armed presence. In fact, France is attempting to adopt the same approach Hezbollah has used for decades to win the hearts and minds of a large section of the population. Macron is aiming to confirm France's influence over Lebanon by embracing the soft approach if he can. Indeed, the French President is benefitting from the failure of US policy in Lebanon to curb the “Axis of the Resistance”. Macron is endeavouring to divert to his country (and away from Turkey, Russia, Iran, China and the United Emirates) Lebanese economic-commercial-energy contracts. And finally, France would like to have its own window to the Mediterranean through the harbour of Beirut and to elbow the Turkish expansionist threat away from Lebanon. Many “birds with one stone”, if Macron is successful.
On the first of September 1920, the French General Henri Gouraud, the military commander and high commissioner for Lebanon and Syria, announced the birth of the “state of Greater Lebanon”. He visited the tomb of the Muslim conqueror Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, saying: “Wake up, Saladin, we have returned. My presence here consecrates a victory of the cross over the crescent (Mayer Karl and Brysak Shareen, (2008). King Makers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East, NY: Norton).
President Macron himself landed in Lebanon with an agenda to try to conquer the Muslim Shia, though, in an unprecedented move for a European Leader, he met with Hezbollah twice, separately just after the port explosion and again on the first of September. In the first meeting, Hezbollah considered – according to informed sources – the private dialogue very positive. In fact, merely meeting the French President is a significant recognition, especially since European countries such as Britain, Germany and others consider Hezbollah a terrorist organisation (or at least its military wing). However, France considered that the meeting with Hezbollah, the king-maker in Lebanon, was indispensable for accessing Lebanon and returning to it through a broader and more acceptable door. France is making an exceptional effort especially since the militant wings that joined Hezbollah after the end of the Lebanese civil war (1989) were responsible for the assassination of the French ambassador Louis Delamar in 1981, the bombing of the French embassy in 1982, and the bombing of the French barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Macron did not mention Hezbollah’s weapons on his first visit. Rather, he raised the subject on the second visit by way of inquiry without exerting any pressure. He knows that the time has not yet come to have a more aggressive approach because France has not yet achieved any substantial progress in the Lebanese arena. But Macron has created a sensation and fostered moral and speculative hopes for the people and the economy of Lebanon.
And when he raised the issue of arms, the French President addressed the susceptibilities of Israel and America, which viewed with suspicion and caution the objectives of France. America has few goals in Lebanon because it does not have geographical borders and it does not care about the problems of this small country, which is difficult to find on the international map. However, the presence of Israel on the borders of Lebanon and the presence of resistance imposed a balance of deterrence and caused panic for the Israelis. In fact, the Israeli army has been hiding ever since it accidentally killed a Hezbollah element in Syria, for fear of the retaliation promised by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. This makes Lebanon a place of great concern and interest to the friends of Israel regarding the goals, armament and position of Hezbollah in the country.
Consequently, France is practising a smart rapprochement with Hezbollah that claims recognition through its members of the parliament and the cabinet, the ministerial statement, and the Taif Agreement. As for considering it a terrorist organisation, imposing European or international sanctions on it, and confiscating its foreign accounts, these measures have in any case proven ineffective because Hezbollah does not have accounts in local or foreign banks, receives its money in cash and distributes wages in US dollars even in the most severe crisis in Lebanon. It is worth noting that the US sanctions and strangulation of the Syrian and Lebanese economies and decades of US support for the corrupted political Lebanese elite raised the exchange rate of the US dollar to six times the Lebanese Lira. As for foreign sanctions, they neither progress nor retreat. Accordingly, the US administration's preferred hobby of imposing maximum sanctions has proved a failure against Hezbollah but rather successful against most Lebanese, including American and Western allies in Lebanon.
Consequently, Paris took care to step intelligently and at the appropriate time to remind the world that Lebanon was once upon a time the spoiled son of France, and it could return if the French administration played its cards wisely. President Macron raised the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons without insisting on it. His message to the US is that asking to disarm Hezbollah without making significant achievements and earning the trust of the Lebanese will not work. The French agenda is not expected to ignore the Israeli-US demands but is expected to approach the topic in a different manner and with different timing.
If France is able to achieve a qualitative change in Lebanon’s economy and lobby for the removal of the corrupt politicians, then it will begin to touch the hearts and the minds of the Lebanese. The French President told the assembled leaders and heads of parliamentary blocs that he knew that they had received money: this means that he threatened them because their accounts are abroad and may be subject to seizure if they do not comply. Here, Macron used the method of the stick without giving the carrot with the other hand when he told them: "I want you to cooperate to form a government." He used the stick again when he asked the Lebanese politicians to form a new government: Prime Minister Hassan Diab's government resigned and President Mustafa Adib was elected. Macron continued to demand the formation of a government within fifteen days, but he will wait for reforms until after the US elections due in November, to reassert his future steps.
France has shown flexibility in a way that neither the United States nor regional countries have been able to follow with the Lebanese. President Macron asked the Lebanese leaders to be present in the next government, but he returned and retracted his request to form a neutral government. In the two requests, he faced rejection in order to cope with the consensual appointment of politicians as their ministers, as long as the goal – to quickly form a reformist government – is accomplished. Macron did not address the early parliamentary elections in the first visit but he demanded these in the second visit. However, when Hezbollah’s rejection of the French request came to him, Macron bowed to MP Muhammad Raad’s wish and did not make any confrontational demands.
As for the most important demand that Macron asked of Hezbollah during his last visit, it is the ability to search for and assess Hezbollah's military capability. The answer came to him that Hezbollah was ready to discuss and put the subject of weapons on the negotiating table. But does Macron know what Hezbollah has up its sleeve and what its intentions are? The answer is in the next article…
You can't trust a zionist rothschild boy as far as you can throw him. He doesn't give a f*** about Lebanon or the Lebanese. He's there to help in securing a greater occupied palestine. Nothing less. Hopefully, Hezbollah gives this mama's boy nothing but white noise and friendly smiles. Do not let him and those whom he represent get any closer. Did they check the room for listening devices after the creep left?
Daniel, I agree, I do not trust the French regimes, they were fundamental for the f*ck up in the ME thus millions of deaths in Libya, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, they were among the first to go to war of aggression against the Syrians by directly supporting Muslin Brotherhood/al Qaeda. There is nothing good out of these freaks, nothing and never.
On the other side, it is important for the Lebanon to wave this domestic political and financial crisis at this very moment, thus negotiating, even with the enemy, may be a good thing, this is way I fully trust Nasrallah's best judgement on it, he is no fool.
Elijah has his own view, I am not 100% in agreement with him always, but he has shown to be very well connected and informed throughout the years, I like reading him, he is one of the top journalists in the ME, and the best of all is to mix Elijah's with Taxi's view, then this is it for being well informed on the ME events.
@ Canthama,
“I have spent 33 years being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism… I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped rape half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street… In China, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested… I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotions. I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents…” – Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC [in 1933]
Thanks, Canthama.
Two points in the article made me flinch a little:
1- " Lebanon was once upon a time the spoiled son of France". This may be so in the beady eyes of France, but it is not how Lebanese remember their French colonialist past. France was a horridly racist colonial who treated all Lebanese with abusive and arrogant contempt. Literally, all Lebanese were treated abhorrently by the Vichy and its heavy-handed soldiers except the very small-tiny handful of collaborating, froufrou christian elites. The names Picot and Vichy remain cuss words in Lebanon. And let us not forget here that today's youth in Leb profoundly detest France for intentionally leaving political Lebanon a sectarian constitution that literally guaranteed the Leb civil war of the 1970's, as well as enabled the current political sectarian power-struggle crisis that threatens Lebanon with yet another civil war. No, the French were not popular in the olden, nor in modern Leb in the slightest – never mind that Lebs are aware that France, with (Rothschildean) Macron at its helm, work for the sole benefit of Israel and no one else in the Levant.
2- "… Hezbollah was ready to discuss and put the subject of weapons on the negotiating table". This statement goes against literally everything that Nasrallah has ever said about Hezb weapons. Nasrallah's repeated words for decades: "our weapons are not up for negotiations!". And earlier this summer, "we will only agree to discuss our weapons ONLY when an alternative to securing Lebanon is presented to us and that this alternative is convincing: extremely convincing". Nasrallah said "discuss", not 'negotiate'.
I look forward to reading Elijah's part 2 and 3, in the hope that he can enlighten us further especially on point 2.
Hey y'all, I'm off camping right now and I'll be back Monday latest. Feel free to post up your comments and links in my absence as per usual: mi casa es su casa.
Have yourselves a lovely weekend.
Sending my love and good wishes to friends and readers and to all the people of the world except… you know who!
@ taxi,
Have tons of fun!
OY VEY
https://twitter.com/USPoliticsPoll/status/1303726017291456518
Yes yes yes I know the sample is small, it looks impressive though!
Whozhear, wow…80% was certainly not expected…tks for sharing it.
US seizes websites of Iraqi militia-affiliated news outlet. US government has seized control of Iraqi news sites affiliated with Iran-backed militias in the country. The seizure follows the United States also taking over the websites of energy companies that allegedly facilitated a deal to deliver Iranian fuel to Venezuela. (SyrPer site still down. Taxi caution. Mike.)
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/us-government-seizes-iraq-news-site-militia-iran-aletejah.html
Iran Lambastes Arab League >
Iran strongly censured recent allegations of Arab League’s self-proclaimed committee on Tehran’s interference in internal affairs of Arab countries, urging the body to address the main source of regional threats – Israel – instead of serving the interests of Washington and Tel Aviv. Countries that have closed their eyes to the US and Israeli plots and betrayed the cause of the liberation of Holy Quds by disclosing their relations with the Zionist regime have no right to question Iran’s honorable support for the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon. it has kept silent toward the Saudi war against the defenseless Yemeni people which has claimed the lives of scores of thousands of innocent people and devastated the infrastructures turning the already poor country to the stone age.
https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990621000165
Elijah Magnier’s article (1/3, thanks Canthama) raises another interesting question.
Hezbollah pays in US dollars? Where do they get the bucks? As Lebanon is in deep financial crisis, probably not from there. Iran is under US sanctions, so is unlikely to have many dollars (quite a bit of wealth, but not in US currency). My guess is, from Iraq’s Shia majority, or possibly from China.
From Iran, through oil and other exports, though sanctions limit Iran from access way more USD, it has access nonetheless from many clients….Turkey is one of them, Iraq is another one (Iran export electric power to most of Southern Iraq, pays in USD to Iran.
Iran was very keen to developed some sort of currency trade with Lebanon so it could pay Hizballah with Lebanese Lira.
@Canthama
Apparently Iran is exporting far more oil than I thought was possible. According to Russia Today, Iran may be exporting up to 600,000 barrels per day. That’s a lot of dollars!
Believe me, it is way more than that….Iran has some “innovative” ways thru southern Iraq, some sort of bartering with Iraq but also selling oil for Iraq so Iraq exports like Iraqi oil. Selling fuel to Afghanistan in exchange of USD…and it goes on and on.
Iran is easily pumping 4-5MM barrels a day, I guesstimate 1.5MM in exports, the balance goes for domestic consumption (80MM people use a lot of cheap gasoline) and Petchem…one of the ways Iran exports “higher value oil” export…in the form of polymers….most to China.
Iran has currency swap in place with China, India, Russia among others, meaning, Iranian customers can pay in Iranian currency and Iranian imports can be paid in exporters currency, this is on going for a decade.
Iran has also a bartering deal with Russia, oil for good, and I believe it is the way Iran pays the bills for all the nuke power plants technology to Russia.
In other words, Iran has managed to developed a non USD trade route for decades, but can also be paid in USD or Euro when needed. Needless to say, it is impossible to track off grid transactions…it is like paying in cash for everything you buy or earn…IRS will have hard time to track it….the US and its partners are totally blind on it, same goes to many other countries doing the same.
@ tonsil,
My buddy has an Iranian gf. When he visits her/the country, he always has tons of $$$ on him.
Can’t vouch for Hezbollah though. It’s like accepting cookies from the devil…
What does France want from Lebanon and Hezbollah, and will it achieve its goals? (2/3)
Written by Elijah J. Magnier:
It would be inaccurate to say that the US has given the green light to French President Emmanuel Macron to carry his initiative to Lebanon. In fact, US policy does not coincide with the French goals in all details. In fact, following each of the two French visits an American envoy followed behind to assure his allies that the US had not relinquished the Lebanese theatre to France. The French approach differs from that of the Americans. Macron visited all the heads of parliamentary blocs, while Assistant US Secretary of State David Schenker visited lower echelon Lebanese officials and met via video "civil society representatives," revealing the faces of those who claim to be revolutionary but receive support and are guided by Washington to promote US policy. If this indicates anything, it indicates the US administration’s lack of experience in dealing with the complex Lebanese file (and others, undoubtedly). As for the French President, he seemed determined to push Lebanon forward, grappling with the thorny issue of Hezbollah’s armaments , while still adopting unavoidable parts of the US-Israeli goals.
Germany had enjoyed a reliable reputation among Hezbollah and Israel following the exchange of prisoners and bodies. This reputation was lost when Germany bowed to Israeli pressure and claimed that Hezbollah, in all its military and political branches, is a terrorist organisation. France, by approaching Hezbollah in its own way is attempting to replace Germany but without any guarantee of success. Thus far Hezbollah is not showing a particularly warm attitude towards the "mother of Lebanon" but neither is it showing (yet) any aggression towards President Macron.
French sympathy was always directed towards the Christian community since the declaration of the "Greater State of Lebanon" and continued until the last decade. In 2011, the Maronite Patriarch, Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, visited Paris, where he met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who “suggested that Christians leave Lebanon – since the number of Christians had decreased to 1.3 million (in 2011) – and come to Europe, since there was no longer a place for them in the Middle East and that Europe could absorb them as it had already absorbed two million Christian Iraqis"!
The Shiites of Lebanon have acquired a very powerful social status. Hezbollah had already received several offers to seize power in Lebanon in exchange for giving up its arms: Japan, the US and European countries’ offers were rejected because they did not take into consideration the ideological makeup of Hezbollah. This ideology categorically rejects any peace deal with Israel. Consequently, Hezbollah cannot give up its weapons even if there is an offer to become part of the Lebanese army, merge with it, assume the highest command authority and lead the parliament. This was one of the foreign suggestions turned down by Hezbollah.
Informed sources say, "Israel could destroy the Lebanese army within a few hours if the battle is drawn between two classic armies. Even if France provides anti-aircraft and defensive missiles, the protection of the army's qualitative capabilities needs an ideological unit that does not hand over state secrets to the enemies." The confessionalism that is observed within the military establishment forces, where different sects and affiliations must be included, opens the door to people whose loyalty belongs to different regional and international countries. Therefore, there can be no secrets within the Lebanese army. "
The sources explain: "classic army fighting methods differ from the guerrilla fighting method which is Hezbollah’s style. This combines classic, urban and street warfare, open-yard, forest and guerrilla warfare. The Israeli army was forced to create combat units that mimicked the evolving Hezbollah fighting style. Moreover, Hezbollah has fought many wars, while the Lebanese army has not fought any real war, but rather a few battles here and there."
The source added: "The management of the battle against Israel is no longer confined to the Lebanese borders from Naqoura to the Shebaa Farms. Rather, Hezbollah uses the backlands such as the Lebanese-Syrian borders where its strategic missiles are deployed. This means that the presence of Hezbollah forces behind the front and at the same time on the front line and in all villages is mandatory. Confrontation and back villages. This is what the Lebanese army cannot do with its classic composition. "
The source goes on to say that "Hezbollah is starting today from a strategic axis that includes Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. Therefore, any communication with Hezbollah or agreement with France must consider not only the Lebanese map, but also the interconnected regional map. Following the normalisation between the Emirates and Israel and the reaction of the Palestinians, the situation is getting more complicated. The Palestinians are no longer as divided as in previous years and have declared armed resistance on all fronts. The measures taken by Washington to promote Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the "deal of the century" and normalization with the countries of the region have in fact added more power to the “Axis of the Resistance”. Indeed, the potential unification between Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization is offering Hezbollah a greater margin to move within the axis and stick to it more than ever to support the cause of Palestine and stand against Israel. "
Since 2006, there is a state of cessation of hostilities, not a ceasefire, between Hezbollah and Israel. Consequently, France does not have the ability to impose a ceasefire and avoids decisions that are not in the interest of Israel, which would inevitably have rejected them. Israel never abides by any inconvenient agreement, and officials justify their actions by hiding behind the usual slogan whenever they want to justify a military strike against any country in the Middle East: “Israel has the right to defend itself. "
Consequently, any French attempt to come close to Hezbollah will not be welcomed in Israel if it does not feature the disarmament of this powerful group. To stand up to the Israeli challenges, the sources said, "Hezbollah needs permanent preparedness, and consequently, it has set up a special military unit on the borders – the Radwan Special Forces is part of it. The mission of this new unit is offensive and not defensive, with the goal to advance and cross the Lebanese border in wartime. Israel is aware of the presence of this force and is starting to prepare to match it, and emulate Hezbollah's pre-emptive steps. "
When Hezbollah was first created in Lebanon, it began by fighting Israel and provided protection for the South and for the Bekaa inhabitants, among the most deprived governorates in Lebanon. Hezbollah continued the journey to win the minds and hearts of the people in those regions through the development of projects and infrastructure that the state had failed to carry out for decades. Today, Emmanuel Macron is trying to follow the same path as Hezbollah by presenting himself in person, and by suggesting that he can provide the necessary money to help Lebanon to get out of its critical financial crisis. Macron said in one of his statements in Lebanon that "there are many countries intervening in Lebanon." France is one of the countries who seem to be dictating what must be done to and by the Lebanese, actually increasing the number of those countries interfering with the Lebanese affairs.
However, Hezbollah did not "stand in that queue" because the head of its parliamentary bloc, MP Muhammad Raad, said following the meeting with Macron that "Hezbollah supports forming a government as soon as possible because it is a domestic need and not a foreign request." Hezbollah adheres to the Taif Agreement and the clause which gives "Lebanon the right to defend itself in the manner it deems appropriate." It presents a defensive strategy in which the French President will never be able disarm Hezbollah, let alone convince it of Israel's peaceful intentions. Consequently, it is to be expected that – at some future point – America will attempt to pull the rug from under the feet of the French President. The ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel would therefore remain as it is. The balance of deterrence imposes itself and Hezbollah will continue to develop its capabilities, to train its elite units, and to acquire and modernise its weapons.
@ Canthama,
Never, ever deal with jews and expect justice to be done.
Hezbollah exhales justice through its commitment to defend the motherland.
Occupied Palestine lacks both a father and mother, hence the schizophrenia projected onto the world via Holiwood, MSM and the music industry.
F*** the US, France and all of Europe!
Thanks Canthama, Elijah J. Magnier is correct when he said “Hezbollah will continue to develop its capabilities, to train its elite units, and to acquire and modernise its weapons.” In my opinion because most of Hezbollah’s missiles are of the short range and inaccurate Katyusha variety, [Stalins organ] it is imperative they have more guided ones, if only to put out of action for as long as possible all Israeli military airfields, Ram David in Northern Israel for instance could easily be put out of action by fusillades of accurate missiles, taking out all the buildings and infrastructure plus hardened hangers and other logistics necessary for the IDF, think of the destruction of the Al Asad US airbase in Iraq but on a bigger scale, other IAF airfields given similar treatment. It must be remembered that with similar fairly short range rockets Hamas fired at Israel in operation “Protective Edge” in 2014, most of the estimated 7,000 rockets landed in the desert, only a small number caused any damage to Israel [which was insignificant], whereas Israel destroyed 20,000 buildings [Finkelstein] and caused 8 billion dollars of destruction. One wayward missile caused consternation in Israel, it landed approx 1 mile from Ben Gurion airfield causing the World aviation authorities to close Ben Gurion for several day’s causing severe economic damage to Israel since it was its only International airport responsible for tourists and other vital economic reasons.
If I can use an analogy, supposing during WW2 the UK Air Chief Marshall had approached Churchill with a plan and said he wanted to send 7,000 RAF bombers on a raid to Germany, and was given permission, unfortunately the bombers, like the Hamas rockets had no navigational aids so were flying blind, 99% of the bombers had to ditch in the sea or wandered off course and were lost, Germany suffered minimal damage. the air Chief Marshall would have been dismissed immediately and told to do the right thing with his service revolver. Such are the importance of guided missiles, all members of the ‘arc of resistance’ must acquire these missiles.
@Canthama
That is vastly more than I would have thought possible. My guess is that the clever tricks used by the Iranians will last long enough, despite the Empire’s frantic interdiction. In a few years, when the BRI is built, Iran could *really* start to sell its oil. That may be the reason why Nasrallah is clearly unconcerned for Hezbollah’s survival. (And no wonder the Zionists are so desperate to stop the BRI.)
Iran’s currency on Saturday dropped to its lowest value ever against the dollar, and has seen its value fall by 30 per cent since June amid severe US sanctions.
Iranian officials for months warned exporters to bring their foreign earnings home from abroad or face having their export licenses revoked, and central bank has warned it would publish the names of violators. In June, the central bank reported that Iranian companies export more than $40 billion in non-oil products per year, and officials say some 50 per cent of that remains abroad. (If Iran’s export firms bring their foreign sales proceeds back to Iran it most likely would be forced into Iran’s currency, generating foreign exchange losses compared to leaving much abroad to maintain foreign buying power which places the funds at risk of foreign capture via sanctions. Perhaps their 50-50 game is best. In any case one must marvel at Iran still standing tall despite – also advantage to the Leb and Hezb support. Mike).
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/9/12/irans-currency-hits-new-record-low-against-the-dollar
What does France want from Lebanon and Hezbollah, and will it achieve its goals? 3/3
Written by Elijah J. Magnier:
From Lebanon, French President Emmanuel Macron has transmitted messages in multiple directions. It is clear that America did not object to his attempt to intervene directly. Lebanon is a very complex country and that France does not have the necessary base to bring about the changes it desires. But France wants to regain a strong foothold in the Land of the Cedars, starting from the Port and ending with oil, gas, electricity and infrastructure agreements to build a robust popular base if it succeeds in its endeavour.
However, there is another reason for the presence of France in the Middle East, from which it has been absent for a long time, and that is the Turkish presence that is building for itself fixed positions in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. After the Port blew up on the 4th of August, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay arrived in Lebanon at the head of a delegation that also included Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, expressing to President Michel Aoun "Turkey's readiness to build the port and the adjacent buildings."
Turkey did not stop at this point, but announced its willingness to grant "Turkish citizenship to anyone who declares that they are Turkish or Turkmen and who wishes to become a citizen." This has huge implications because the presence of Turkish citizens in a nearby Middle Eastern country offers the leadership in Ankara an excuse to intervene directly to "protect its citizens" whenever it thinks fit. The Turkish expansion in Libya, Iraq, Cyprus and Syria clearly doesn’t stop President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – who visited the Turkmen Lebanese community in the northern Lebanese town of Kawasha, Akkar, in 2020 – from putting his arms out towards Lebanon.
The foothold of Turkey appeared in North Lebanon through assistance provided by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in the northern regions of Denniyeh, Tripoli and Akkar. Remarkable activity by Turkish associations has been recorded in other Lebanese locations, particularly in Ketermaya, Burj Al-Barajneh camp, Debbieh, and other Palestinian camps.
It has been the practice for the states behind the relief agencies and non-governmental agencies (NGO) to pave the way for building an incubator environment for those who fund these agencies. Lebanon has been open to foreign “interference” and, for decades, had embraced multiple foreign countries’ intervention in its domestic affairs, especially after the retreat of Syria (in 2005), which had had a major influential role in Lebanon. Following the harbour explosion this August 2020, several hundred NGOs officially registered to be able to receive the $290 million world donation to (apparently) distribute the money to the most damaged areas of Beirut.
Turkey has an interest in investing its companies in Lebanon to explore for gas and oil, and sees Lebanon as fertile ground with opportunities for establishing itself more robustly in the country. The existing and potential allies of Turkey in Lebanon are more than ready to adopt the Turkish line after the decline of Saudi Arabia’s influence in this country in particular and in the Middle East in general.
Moreover, the decline of the popularity of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri who used to enjoy the support of the majority of the Sunni, and the sharp differences in the Lebanese Sunni arena that is divided into multiple sections under a multiplicity of leaders from different backgrounds is offering a perfect environment for Turkey. There are strong signs and visual indications that the former Minister of Justice Ashraf Rifi has switched loyalty from the Saudis to the Turks in the North. That has brought former interior Minister Nihad Machnouk to bring forward these accusations overtly against Rifi.
The strong Turkish presence in various countries and – even if Ankara maintains excellent touristic and commercial relationships with Israel – its support of the Palestinian cause raises to a higher level the appetite of many northern Lebanese Islamists and Palestinian camp to line up behind the Turkish influence. It is no coincidence that Hamas leaders, headed by Ismail Haniyeh landed last week in Beirut. Hamas is known for its affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement and its alignment with Turkey and Qatar, though without excluding its full support to and from Iran.
Turkey believes that Iran has achieved what it aims to do in the Levant and that Tehran has become an essential part of the new regional order in the Middle East. Therefore, Ankara is getting closer and closer to Tehran and is cooperating with it through several files notwithstanding the serious differences in the Syrian arena. Although the “Axis of the Resistance” is fighting Turkey in Syria, it agrees with it regarding the Palestinian cause, the regional policy, and the balance it imposes to combat and confront any French-US intervention.
The presence of Hamas in Beirut – for the Conference on Reconciliation with the Palestine Liberation Organisation organised by the “Axis of the Resistance” – had the goal of unifying the Palestinian resistance to Israel, the unity of destiny of the “Axis of the Resistance” and of announcing military solidarity among all resistance partners to confront Israel in the event of a future war. These messages have implications in various Lebanese, Israeli, Regional and European directions.
Hamas’s visit to Beirut- that is in harmony with the Turkish line- took place after the visits of French President Emmanuel Macron. It aims to inform Paris that the Lebanese arena is not vacant nor available only for France to occupy on its own and that Turkey is also present with multiple and different arms and allies. It is a message to the domestic Lebanese politicians in response to the neutrality expressed by the Maronite Patriarch, Mar Bshara Boutros Al-Raei. The Maronite Patriarch said last month that Lebanon should remain neutral.
Hamas and the “Axis of the Resistance” are responding when hosting the Palestinian meeting in Beirut by saying that in Lebanon “there are neither independents nor neutral parties”. The Patriarch represents a segment that lost the majority long ago and therefore he is not influential in deciding which direction the country should go in. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with his guest Haniyeh and declared a “unity of destiny” in confronting Israel. This means that Lebanon could be a base for launching missiles against Israel in the event of an all-out war on Gaza.
It is worth mentioning that Lebanese officials, even among Hezbollah’s allies, tried to block the entry of Hamas representatives by requiring an entry visa prior to the arrival of the Palestinian group. Only a last-minute intervention removed all obstacles and allowed a smooth entry of the delegation.
However, the internal domestic division over the legitimacy of Hezbollah in Lebanon is not considered a negative aspect for the "Axis of Resistance". Indeed, it allows a large room for Lebanon not to be destroyed in the event of an open war with Israel and offers safety to several regions considered to be pro-Western allies. Therefore, Europe and the US want to protect these people, their Lebanese allies, which allows safe refuge for all residents to find protected cities that civilians can resort to.
The weight of the French intervention in Lebanon has not reached a level where Paris could impose its decisions, because this arena is not Macron’s exclusive reserve. The French President will return after 3 months to Lebanon to see where things have reached in terms of political reforms. However, he will return to find that Lebanon has not progressed much because the Lebanese are not used to resolving their differences by themselves and without external interference. Moreover, Lebanese politicians are divided and, as we have seen, have loyalties to different countries who do not necessarily have compatible goals.
The French President’s visit caused a storm in a teacup. The Lebanese political class are still strong notwithstanding the dismal failure to rebuild the country for many decades, and, when accused of corruption, they seek shelter behind their sects. However, a vacuum has been created between these politicians and the people, who have begun to slowly wake up slowly. What President Macron is proposing to do represents only temporary steps to compensate for the current US void. But France is far from succeeding to cover even a small part of the $81 billion deficit. All that President Macron was able to collect was an amount of less than $300 million dollars, insufficient to repair even part of what was destroyed by the Beirut Port explosion. Hence, if we include this financial shortfall and the US role after November 3d election, it is very unlikely that Paris will achieve its desired goals in Lebanon.
Thanks Canthama. Much appreciated.
Hey y'all
. Am back from my camping but am not rested up in the slightest. As I was loading up the car last Friday, my cousin's (adult) kid asked me to review and edit his MA thesis on the subject of solar-powered air conditioners, due tomorrow – so I pretty much spent three days in the wilderness learning all about frigging air conditioning systems and editing his paper instead of doing divine nothing by the river and leaving the mean world behind 
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And I come back to what? Even from a brief perusing of recent headlines, I see nothing but more stress and misery in Lebanon and all over the world too oooof! (Right now the terrorist israeli F-15 are flying overhead – should I invite them to tea or to a punchup
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Okay. Never mind…
Big day for terrorist israel's terrorist theater with terrorist uae today. Good! Let them party like it's 1999! Finally the Palestinians know who REALLY is on their side and that ONLY GUNS will serve them the long overdue justice they deserve. My friends in Dubai tell me some restaurant doorways there are already sporting 'certified kosher' stickers lol. The line in the sand has been clearly drawn and the enemy within has finally peeled off the mask. Let the mother of all wars begin!
Also my friends on twitter tell me that they've suggested that every terrorist israeli strike on Syria should be answered with an Iranian strike on Abu Dhabi. Nice equation, but I believe the Axis of Resistance is saving it all for the biiiiiiiig war day that's most certainly coming to the region.
Funny how uae openly befriends israel thinking it will protect it against Iran, and israel befriends uae thinking it will protect it against Iran. Dumb and Dumber if I ever saw a pair!
Okay. I've got a bunch of house and pet food to buy today and some email catch-ups etc, plus I gotta also catch up on some headlines – plus, I need to probably watch a whole netflix series to wipe out all that solar-powered-air-conditioning porridge that's stuffed into my brain aaaaaaaaaargh
– but I'm good and back and around for banter and bile
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The great analyst Anis Nakash says that uae was taken by israel after the mossad handed Mohammad bin Zayed secret recordings of other uae royals talking shit about Mohammad bin Zayed in their palaces. This apparently made MbZ feel ‘secure’ enough with the mossad, thinking that tel aviv has proved it’s a worthy friend to the dictator sheik.
As if the jews ever desire ‘friends’. The stupid gulfies will soon enough realize that israel only ever desires slaves.
Hey thanks to everyone for visiting, commenting and linking in my absence. Plato's deeply appreciates your smarts and your generous sweetness.
Another excellent article from Alastair.
Maintaining Pretence Over Reality: ‘Simply Put, the Iranians Outfoxed the U.S. Defence Systems’
By Alastair Crooke
"One key signal (historically) to any impending crisis is the maintenance of pretence over reality. The flaw to finding solace in one’s recent gilded glory, as if something or other (i.e. Tech?) magically will restore that earlier status quo without sacrifice, loss of status or power. We have witnessed recently how the entitled élite in Lebanon has been unable to move beyond the status quo, in order to save themselves – and the country – from collapse."
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/14/maintaining-pretence-over-reality-simply-put-iranians-outfoxed-us-defence-systems/
@ Canthama,
Hi there, my friend. Hope all's well in your neck of the woods.
Any news on what's going on with SyrPers?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel, all good on the country side, things are looking a bit brighter as Spring approaches.
I am a bit concerned about Syrper, Ziad is not answering emails, not sure whether he is facing some issues, was avoiding to connect with Leith but will do today.
I am afraid Syrper may be done for good, but will get an answer and let y'al know it.
@ Canthama,
Thanks! Funny, we're running into autumn and your facing spring. If those opposite forces can manifest themselves on this one planet, there's still hope mankind will one day learn from it.
Emphasis on 1 day…
Hi Taxi. While at it are you planning to inform us more about that solar powered AC business of yours
? Just joking sorry.
What i really wondered was about the latest fire that erupted in Beirut, any news about that? could it be another Zionist attempt to keep the fear going?
Heh heh Mia. The forefront of my brain is still full of AC info today aaarghhh help I can’t yet focus on any other topic in my accustomed measure and intensity! Unfortunately, I couldn’t exactly edit the MA paper without understanding at least the basics of how an AC system works – something I never wanted or excepted to learn in this lifetime. For what it’s worth, now I can add mundane AC engineering to my catalogue of life skills. I’m gonna spend the day watching ‘Roman Empire’ series on netflix – that should well kick the AC frontal brain-slate in the teeth for good!
And just so you and others know, I retired from anything ‘businessy’ at 50 (a few years ago). Never enjoyed doing business, always preferred doing NOTHING with my life. This is because I loathe the combination of responsibility and routine. What a drudge! Watching grass grow is the real meaning of life for me.
Spoilt brat…..
LOL Whozhear but actually I'm neither spoilt nor a brat – I can't help it if I was born both philosophical and lazy which made me have no ambition to become either an astronaut or a president. Watching my parents tackle the rat-race made me realize at an early age that the meaning of life was elsewhere to all that. I spent all my teens telling family and friends that my ambition in life was to be a beach bum – drove my parents insane and gray in the hair and hard as they tried to shift my thinking, they just couldn't. First they tried to lead me into several office-type jobs – and I sincerely tried with them too – but ooof that lifestyle was just not suitable for me and I never lasted more than 6 weeks in this work – one job I had lasted just under 4 hours heh! Then they suggested I work in the service industry after doing some hotelier course, which I did, and when I got a job with an event organizer in my mid twenties, I realized that I'm not a 'people person' at all – in fact, I realized then how much I despise humanity as a species and don't really enjoy 'serving' them at all – helping them, yes, but not serving them. Finally, because I'd had this ongoing knack for writing since childhood, my parents went into overdrive trying to convince me to be a writer of books, which I rejected because, well, books just take waaaaay too long to complete and my lazy bone and all that, plus my fundamental philosophy of ‘everything we do is meaningless, only beingness counts’ were in the way and internally blocked any interest in book-writing. After all this to and fro buggery, I embraced my 'beach bum' vision and rented a hacienda on Venice Beach, did a variety of crappy odd jobs that paid badly but afforded me time to just bum around the beach doing nothing. It made me realize that for me, I felt rich when I had much 'time' in hand as opposed to wads of cash in pocket. Then this friend of mine who was an indie filmmaker one day said: 'I've only raised $18,000 to make a movie with so why don't you write me a crazy story that I can shoot for nothing'. It sounded like a fun challenge and it took much shorter time to finish than book-writing and so after that I thought: 'I'm going to earn my living from writing screenplays'. But I had no craft, no agent and worst of all, I hated everything Hollywood. Conundrum when you enjoy doing something but hate the world of it plus you're unqualified. I bit my lip and grinned and thought: 'right, I'm going to agent myself and I'm going to write letters to big producers and directors to introduce myself. No, I will not phone them and ask their pesky assistants for a meeting, instead I’m going to write them top filmmakers the BEST letter that they’ve ever received in their life! Even if no work comes from these letters, these people will NEVER EVER forget my brilliant letter, or my name'. And this is exactly what I did: I wrote each producer and director a memorable letter and fortunately, I got several responses and invites for meetings and for work. I spent the first year winging it and quietly teaching myself the techniques of screenwriting and the way the business side of it all works. My paycheques rapidly grew even though most of the projects commissioned to me were really crap ideas that I hated but I kept biting my lip and saying yes to many stupid projects. Very mentally painful work. Five years later I wanted to stop doing this shit job of writing other people's bad ideas, so instead I reinvented myself as a 'script doctor': correcting other people's finished scripts. Because unlike most screenwriters in Hollywood, I'd actually cracked the 'Hollywood formula' and was really very quick at seeing character and plot mistakes on the page, and because I also knew how to fix scenarios quick and good, work as a script doctor just kept streaming in. This job paid handsome too and took less time to complete than even screenwriting did: woohoo I have arrived: I can earn good PLUS have plenty of time to myself! I did this for over a decade and meanwhile wrote my own political screenplays, all based on researched modern history: mainly to do with US wars in the mideast (this level of serious screenwriting was a fuck of a lot of arduous mental work!). Even though I was careful not to 'feature' israel in my screenplays, big producers would not touch my political screenplays – they certainly liked them much, but would not touch them. It was then that I realized that one cannot make political movies in Hollywood, especially mideast-centric ones, without the approval of the CIA and the mossad branch of Hollywood. Pissed me off royally! Lost total interest in screenwriting/doctoring work at this stage and was also starting to feel bored with being a beach bum. It was time for me to do some traveling and so travel to tour the mideast I did and landed in the Lebanon and thought: huh, nice weather, nice food, nice eyes, nice nature and the fucking best armed resistance in the world is here woohoo I wanna live right here! So I stayed, and here I still am: living off my savings' interest and off renting out my beach hacienda, which I'd bought a good 18 years ago now.
"Spoilt"? Nobody handed me no nothing. The childhood plan was always to escape the rat race asap and by what I can only call 'spontaneous fluke', I found a way to do it by age 50.
@ taxi,
The bottom line is: $$$.
I lived in the jungle. I lived off of the land. I can do it. I did it, but at the end of the day, whatever else I wanted, had to be paid for in $$$.
Even if nobody listens to it, looks at it or reads it, I do create.
Check Patreon
Check Pixta
Check Amazon
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I love to look at it, for ever.
I used a point and shoot Canon IXY to take pictures, and even though I can take pictures, the quality [pixels] is too low to be competitive and I had to fork over $$$ to buy a better camera.
I had no choice but to work, save $$$ and get that camera.
You and I are completely opposite forces, but that’s how the universe creates energy, so that’s totally fine with me. I judge a person by the feeling s/he creates in me… You know what I’m going to say next, so I don’t have to.
Big hug.
Thanks for linking us to your multiple creative endeavors – wow great stuff there, Daniel.
Philosophically speaking, your attachment to creativity is what's requiring you get $$$ to spend on manifesting your unique creativity. And in your case, of course having better camera and better piano/keyboard is essential therefore living off the land is not sufficient. What I'm trying to say here is that your creative vision itself, a vision that you clearly care deeply about, is what is determining your need for dollars, and not the external world itself. I know that our modern world is all about the 'bottom line', but this is so only if your vision is part and parcel of the modern world. I know musicians who've sold their cars and beloved leather jackets just to pay for studio time and for the latest guitar peddles. Great sacrifices by artists are forever being made just to achieve their desirable level of art – this is the norm here. This is neither right nor wrong: it just is. People have visions and endeavor to manifest them as best as they can. I personally have no creative or commercial ambitions so I'm assuming here that I need less $$$ to exist than you and my musician friends do. I live mostly off my seasonal veggie garden here in the Leb and my overheads remain a good quarter of what they were back in LA – and ironically, the dollar crisis that the Leb is in the midst of has made me 7 times richer – I'm spending a chunk of this anonymously on needy, local village people: paying for their medical ops and for computers for their kids' education. I fundamentally seek no personal, creative or commercial validation – I care nothing for 'leaving my mark' on the world, either creatively or reputationally. What for? It's all going to get destroyed by either us or by eventual solar storms. For me personally, being a committed minimalist, my vision is to need the modern world as less as possible – my vision is to have as little engagement with the rat race as I possibly can. I just want to live healthy and simple, and with as much non-attachment to this world as possible.
Really, there is no right or wrong way to have visions, but clearly some visions are more expensive than others – and there's absolutely nothing wrong with expensive visions if they provide one with personal satisfaction. Here one can use the rat race to achieve one's expensive vision instead of being a slave to it (the rat race). It's enslavement to the rat race that I personally have long sought liberation from.
You are rare soul Taxi. God bless you.
So I'm kinda ignoring all that 'normalization' circus because, well, what difference is this normalization really going to make when israel will be dying in the next war, and with it the despicable sheikdoms of the Gulfies?
It's all spectacle with no everlasting substance.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to either the Trump or the Kamala Harris administration:
And… 81 Nobel laureates endorse Joe 'The Sniffer' Biden's White House bid … Thank you Mrs. Coleman…
Well, when they decided to give ff-ing Obama a Peace prize, before he'd done f*** all, I knew we were f***ed. Royally and once more.
@ Canthama
@ Taxi,
A few days ago I posted the results of a twitter poll on the khazars. Here is another couple of polls noted by USA Today that add to the twitter poll’s believe-ability……..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/16/holocaust-history-millennials-gen-z-cant-name-concentration-camps/5792448002/
For moi there are two takeaways for starters. First, the indoctrination processes at US schools is failing rapidly. Secondly, internal polling by khazar think tanks has noted this decline in believe-ability of the holocaust and is the likely cause of the massive onslaught of anti BDS movement laws, and clauses, in government contracts.
My second takeaway is likely adding further fuel to the anti-khazar sentiment.
Thanks, Whozhear. Interesting polls but… we must be careful here because the synagogue of satan, as usual fiddles with numbers (increasing or decreasing them) in order to say to donors: ‘poor jews’, so that the jews can then raise more money for their evil deeds around the world.
I think we can safely say that, due to the advent of the internet and the activism of an increasing number of righteous websites, more adult people are now actually aware of the global terrorism that israel is behind. And as far as the US’s generation Z not being aware of the the so-called holocaust, well the twisted jewish narrative is today competing with tiktok dance videos cuz that’s where gen Z’s attention is at and not on the mainstream media that drip-drips the jewish brainwash serum into the minds of its viewers. Can holocaust instructional videos compete with tiktok dance videos for the attention of gen Z? No frigging way! America’s gen Z doesn’t give a shit about a war that happened 80 years ago in faraway europe. About the only thin thread that’s keeping the holocaust in the minds of disparate American groups of youth is the fake Anne Frank story. The Anne Frank brainwash serum is the ONLY literature that jews currently have left to wield against generation Z. Is it any wonder then that zealot jews tasked with occupying the American education system are ardently pushing to make this stupid book a mandatory study in ALL American school curriculum?
And let us here take this opportunity to know the exact definition of the word ‘holocaust’, which is: the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. The jews have yet to present the world with actual and indisputable evidence of their ilk having been destroyed by either fire or by nuclear war during WW2.
Russia breaks the US "Caesar Act" and Syria refuses the Lebanese & Iraqi models
Written by Elijah J. Magnier
Russia is showing its willingness to consolidate its role as a superpower and its readiness to challenge the United States of America. Moscow will not return to the lethargy that began after Perestroika and lasted for two long decades (from 1991 until 2011). Its decision to wake up and return to the world stage began in Syria. It was 2015 when it sent its military forces to protect its interests and allies and to fight terrorism in the Levant. Today, it has sent its « diplomatic heavies » to Damascus, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the head of an economic-military delegation to prepare forty agreements in all important domains for signature. This has broken the US-EU sanctions on Syria. This step has a distinctive significance because it comes after the US administration’s decision to impose the severest sanctions on Damascus, the "Caesar Act", and sends a clear message to the US that Russia’s area of influence and its allies in the Middle East will not be abandoned. This is nothing less than a direct Russian confrontation with Washington.
In the Levant, both US and Russian forces are present in a small area, but with different goals, interests and reasons. Russia seeks the unity of Syria because it is its region of influence. Long-term stability must be established there as an example to other nations. That is not an easy goal to achieve when the US is operating in Syria, interfering with the flow of food, oil and gas in an area considered to be the resource reservoir of the entire country. US President Donald Trump tried to withdraw from Syria more than once, but Israeli interests and demands that the US remain prevented the extraction of US forces. Israel’s national security took precedence. Israel’s unachievable desire is to confront Iran, Hezbollah and President Bashar al-Assad and see all these enemies of Israel leaving Syria, or else be contained.
Moreover, the US continues to encourage the Syrian Kurds to divide Syria into a semi-state in the north-east of the country. The Kurds are changing the study programs in Al-Hasakah and Deir-ezzour provinces, where the Kurdish forces are operating under the command of the US. The Kurds have taken control of more than 100 schools and forced students to study the Kurdish language and newly modified books that do not conform to the general Syrian curriculum. In addition, the US has brought regional allies to train some of the Arab tribes present in the Kurdish regions, especially since there is a powerful dissonance between the Arab tribes and the Kurds in north-east Syria. With the help of the Saudis and Emirati officers, the Americans are trying to create a kind of Syrian "awakening" loyal to the USA.
Such an attempt was successful in Iraq, but in Syria it only protects the American forces as long as these forces actually remain in the country and provided that the “awakening” tribes receive their salaries continuously. These tribes will quickly return to the state’s custody when the occupation forces leave.
The Kurds have tried to challenge Turkey by cutting off electricity (due to the Assad Dam's presence in the Kurdish regions) to the areas occupied by Ankara's soldiers in north-west Syria. In retaliation, Turkey cut off water for the Kurds for a period of time until Russian forces intervened to restore matters to normality on both sides. Although there is an established alliance between Turkey and Russia, Damascus considers Turkey an enemy and now feels closer to the Emirates and Saudi Arabia because of their competition and animosity with Ankara. As for Iran, it is cooperating with Turkey in strategic areas, but does not agree with it in Syria; this complicates the scene of the Middle East for an ordinary observer. Each country involved in the Levant has shared interests which may be incompatible in Syria where permanent enmity doesn’t dictate relationships, which have actually become quite flexible.
Also, the US is trying to challenge the forthcoming Syrian presidential elections by preventing the internally displaced and Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan from returning to their countries. The US aims to declare the Syrian presidential elections unconstitutional and illegal. However, Damascus has other plans. The election date of next June will not change, and elections will be held on time whether or not the US recognises them.
But that is not the end of it: Washington is trying to amend the Syrian constitution to create a confessional Syria on the model of Lebanon or Iraq. Damascus refuses to allocate positions of power in top leadership seats according to sects. It is a secular country. Syria has learned the harsh lesson from Lebanon and Iraq. Syria considers the entire population to be Syrians, while positions are shared and distributed according to sects in Lebanon and Iraq. The first UN envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, and after him, Staffan de Mistura, had tried to establish this equation without success. Consequently, the meetings of Syrian officials and Syrian opposition leaders to rewrite or amend the Syrian constitution under the UN and Russia’s auspices have become more feasible. Indeed, the Syrian opposition, which lost the nine years of war, has realised that it is no longer in a position to impose conditions, but rather to negotiate to amend and improve the Syrian constitution to suit all parties. There is no timetable for an agreement to be reached over the constitution, whose discussions can continue until before or after the Syrian presidential elections due next June.
Russia itself is pushing for the amendment of the constitution to the satisfaction of most – but not all – parties, so that Moscow can then ask Turkey to start preparing for withdrawal once the US danger ends with the departure of the US forces. Syria has declared its hostility to Turkey, an ally of Russia and Iran. However, the Turkish presence – despite being an occupation – represents a challenge to the Kurdish separatists. Consequently, Moscow cannot pressure Turkey to withdraw until the constitutional discussions end and the parties reach a consensus that would allow the return of most refugees to their own country, or at least for whoever desires to do so.
The problem of the northern city of Idlib where jihadists of the "Guardians of the Religion" (al-Qaeda) and ISIS are present, remains. Jihadists are established there, but their dislodging or elimination remain one of Russia's most important goals. Once the constitution is amended, there will no longer be any reason for Turkey to protect these jihadists and for them to remain in Syria. Then Syrian resistance will be able to concentrate on the US occupation forces in north-eastern Syria.
It is necessary for Russia to secure stability in Syria, where it intends to stay for decades, invest in projects and infrastructure, impose security and stability, and hit hard the application and effect of US sanctions, no matter how much these sanctions increase.
Russia has achieved military integration and harmony of operation with the Syrian army and its allies in Syria. Today Moscow seeks to launch economic integration, even if differences remain between Russia and its allies, including Syria. But these are organised and accepted differences, and all parties operating in the arena of the Levant coexist with them.
Russia has no hostility towards Israel. However, hitting the "Caesar Act" is felt, no doubt, as a severe blow in Israel, which had been hoping for the downfall of the Damascus government and the partition of Syria. Israel had also hoped to see Syria, even if it won the war, on its knees due to US economic sanctions. This has been the latest attack on Syria. Consequently, Russia’s strong delegation to Syria represents a powerful economic message that will definitively destroy Israel's dreams in the Levant. At the end of the day, the Israeli-Russian relationship is a detail: far more important is the Russian military and economic base in Syria and the Mediterranean.
Ooops, I just realized that I’m sharing Elijah’s new article above before he’s published it. Quelle dommage – j’espère qu’il me pardonne.
I'm of the mind that confronting the US occupation forces in Syria first is smarter than cleaning up Idlib first. US presence is Syria is small and smashable and it will result in Idlib terrorists scurrying like rats back to whence they came from.
Hit the biggest bully in the yard first and smaller bullies will just scram like lightening to see this.
And let us remember here that whatever happens in Syria directly affects the Lebanon.
So far, Macron's dictates are proving impossible to materialize in the Lebanon arena. The newly appointed PM, Mustafa Adib, has produced zilch government thus far, and it's looking like he may very well resign before even officially receiving the governance keys.
Like I said before, France overestimated its influence on Lebanon. The majority of modern Lebanese don't trust France and especially Macron who's known on the Leb ground as 'Rothschild's shoe shiner'.
And at the 11th hour, if Trump goes all out to destroy Lebanon before or after the November elections, then don't expect the Hezbollah to remain silent on the sidelines. Nasrallah clearly told us some two months ago that Hezbollah will never allow the starvation of Lebanon to take place: "we will kill you, we will kill you, we WILL kill you!", he said, directing his words at any enemy intending to destroy Lebanon through starvation, or otherwise.
Russia now ready to break the Ceasar Act right in the face of Trump is cause for hope of reprieve in the Lebanon.
taxi, i'm so glad he allows you to post his articles…& i'm certain he will forgive you. thank you, em, for like pepe on unz, finding a way for us to access your insights through a trusted source.
About that 'normalization' thang: the Palestinians are kicking up a big fuss over it, and so they should, but really, everyone and their uncle already knew of the secret relations between israel and major Gulfie dictatorships like Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. These nations have for decades been operating as controlled opposition agents inside the wider Arab and islamic Umma. And now, well now the shadowy traitors have outed themselves all of their own volition: propelled directly by their own desperation at the unstoppable massive Iranian gains in the region. In the past, the Gulfies used to say that they were 'concerned' by the spread of Iranian 'influence', and now they're jumping out of their skin straight into israel's lap and screaming blue murder at the massive advances of Iranian military technology. By outing themselves as treasonous pro israel, they've literally overnight cleaned up the House of Palestine of the enemy within, which has only added strength, determination and unity to the House of Palestine, in readiness for their Liberation War. This 'normalization' thang is a time-saving godsend, it truly is. I say: normalize away stupid Gulfies – knock yourselves out. Literally! And here let us remember that these Gulfie nations are pro imperialism and anti Arab unity, as they've often demonstrated by aligning with US and Western imperialism and colonialism against any Arab secular nation that promoted Pan Arab independence.
Now, Bahrain, UAE, Oman and Qatar (Qatar is yet to out itself but it's a traitor too): their normalizing with terrorist israel is not much of a game-changer in the global islamic world. But when Saudi Arabia announces its normalization deal, and all indications point to it coming sooner or later, then this itself will be the biggest news to hit the mideast and the global islamic world since, well since the death of the prophet Mohammad. The House of Saud will then be exposing itself to all Arab and Muslim nations as corrupt infidels to the core, therefore the Saudi appointment of 'Guardian' of islamic shrines and the two holiest islamic cities, Mecca and Medina, will become highly questionable, and thus challengers from other major islamic nations will come knocking on the House of Saud's door demanding it surrender this Guardianship. (This is tantamount to global Christianity demanding the Vatican surrender its powers). Islamic nations like Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia will then publicly challenge the self-appointment of the House of Saud as the 'Guardian of Islam' and all hell will break loose all over the islamic world. Yeah, just as israel has always wanted.
Breaking up the christian world and breaking up the islamic world has always been top of the jew list. But the breakup of the islamic world is by far more dangerous to the jews than that of the christian world. This is because there is no serious christian armed resistance against the devil jews but there is one in the muslim world, and these muslim rebels will eventually militarily align with the Axis of Resistance nations and its groups to engage israel in an existential war that terrorist tel aviv will not survive.
Therefore, I wholeheartedly encourage terrorist chabadian jews to continue on their destructive path of judeofying the Gulfies because I see this as their ultimate overreach: an overreach that will trigger an extra 1 billion non-Arab muslims directly against them. All them muslim missiles will be added to the Axis of Resistance missiles already aimed at jewy tel aviv. This is why normalization is by far the most suicidal maneuver that the jews have ever made – ever! A maneuver that now cannot be undone. It's just simply too late for the synagogue of satan to now outsmart or outbomb the Axis of Resistance and the larger islamic Umma. Do not be surprised to see tel aviv simultaneously fighting no less than six fronts if not more in the future: fighting Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, West Bank and Gaza – with added military involvement of Jordan, Algeria and Pakistan and Malaysia, to name but a few.
And how far will the US be prepared to go into aiding the evil terrorist israel in such a war? Not far enough when tel aviv can be destroyed by islamic missiles inside of 48 hours. Not far enough when US cannot afford a major distraction in the face of China and Russia who would love nothing more than to see the US distracted and weakened further by a major war against the global islamic nations, and not just by Iran and its friends in the Axis of Resistance.
Really, I can't figure out who is more stupid, the jews or the panicked Gulfie traitors.
I've sent Netanyahoo this
so he has something to play on/with, when his precious shithole burns to the ground…
And interesting angle on China's creep into the middle east:
How China is Unwinding the US’ Middle East Supremacy
If China really wants to make a statement of solidarity, it should insist on holding its meetings with other M.E nations in Palestine.
When it comes to $$$, root for China.
When it comes to someone having your back, rely on Russia.
China does f*** all in Syria [militarily]. Russia does all the heavy lifting.
Yes, China builds things, but my Yamaha keyboard [built in China] has lost the sound to 4 keys [in just under 2 years]. My Yamaha DX-7 [42 years old, and built in Japan] still works wonders.
Make of the above what you want.
Not quite true. The confrontation in the South China Sea is drawing US heat from the Middle East. The Middle Kingdom’s strong defense in that sea influences the American position everywhere. We’re seeing imperial overstretch in action: China’s huge and rapidly expanding navy will be stretching the whole Empire till it breaks.
Those in the Resistance to US hegemony should utilize their strengths and skills according to their own agenda. China is doing this, but you feel that they should step up militarily and have a beef about your bad keyboard, made by the same company as your DX7. Perhaps you should blame Yamaha instead of China.
Russia has military strengths and a history of involvement in military affairs internationally, especially in the MENA. They have a soft underbelly, ripe for infiltration from radicalized Sunni extremists who have been taught a twisted, inaccurate version of Islam. Russia's intervention in Syria made sense for Russia at the time, and it has proven to be effective and increased Russian influence in the region. China has a different history, a different modus operandi, and yet, they are proving just as effective as the Russians, but in a different, longer term way. China has economic power, and they have a great ability to develop infrastructure in allied nations; this ability is greatly needed in Resistance nations in the MENA region: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen. China is looking for win-win situations, and I feel that they will be very successful in developing these relationships by providing key infrastructure, including high-speed rail, industrial capacity, ports and airports, telecommunications systems, and even military support, though that will be in special cases only. For all the years that the US has been involved in the Middle East, they have not helped the nations to develop and become modern, industrial nations. Why? Because the Israelis despise "the nations", and the US has acted primarily in the interests of the Israelis in the MENA for many years, at least since Eisenhower.
Exercise patience, and don't expect China to deploy troops to troubled regions; it's not their style, and we should respect their desire to project their power and influence in their own way.
Thank you, dear Frankie. As usual, you provide us with clarity, with righteousness, and most importantly, with solidarity.
Let us always remember, be we a nation or an individual, that each one of us has their own talent therefore our own individual contributions towards the war between good and evil that humanity is forever entangled with.
Russian humor:
The text reads: I am asking you, is it Navalny's morning or evening stool?
:o]
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MAS flight 370 disappeared, never to be found again [although some remnants have washed ashore in various places and is tucked away as ‘suicidal captain’ in our history books. According to a buddy of mine, the US and Thai AF were conducting ‘drills’ that same night [think 9/11]. It remains a mystery. Only those in the know, know better.
MAS flight 17, was, imo, a punishment for the The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), after it delivered its judgement on the two charges against the State of Israel and retired Army general Amos Yaron, on Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 4:10 pm. The Tribunal found the State of Israel guilty of genocide, and Amos Yaron of crimes against humanity and genocide.
/rant
Poor US just can't get a REAL break out there in the funked out middle east. Only FAKE prizes like the official signing by Kosher Arab states like UAE and Bahrain with israel got a green tick this past week. Everything else: meh.
France, UK and Germany refused to line up with pork-eating Pompeo against Iran at the UN. His trick-or-treat visit to Venezuela to distract away from failures in the mideast got a belly of laughs out of child and adult alike. Threats against Iran and the ghost of Suleimani got more laughs. Iraqi resistors continued to target American military 'assets' in old Mesopotamia, so-called 'incidents' that go UNREPORTED in the jewy Western media. China won the tiktok war. Russia resolved to officially ignore the US's Caesar Act in Syria. And in Lebanon… well this handsome little-big failure against Hezbollah:
Oh well, better luck next week motherfuckers!
Arab media ALL this week was obsessed and flooded with endless analysis and chatter on 'normalization' with israel. MbZ announced the commencement of the building of a GRAND synagogue of satan in Abu Dhabi (nice target, thank you very much!). Israel prematurely talked incessantly of the railroad line that Saudi Arabia will build to connect Mecca with Jerusalem (an old Ottoman plan partially finished back in the day). Meanwhile, Hezbollah continues to slap Macron in the face with white glove in Lebanon's parliament, as indeed it continues to prick the ass and brains of idf soldiers on the Leb border as they wait for the Hezb's retaliation.
EVERYONE and their uncle patiently waits for November the 3rd elections in the United States of Jewmurica. Will it be the Orange cannibal or the groomed corpse of some pervy idiot called Joe Biden? Not that either one will make one bit of difference to the native people of the middle east. War is still coming. Evicting imperial and colonial forces from the region remains a top priority of the Axis of Resistance, to the applause and utter delight of China and Russia.
Have a lovely Sunday y'all. Me, I'm off to the beach again, just like I did yesterday.
Obstacles to French success in Lebanon: Saudi Arabia and the US
By Elijah J. Magnier:
A US counterterrorism official has claimed that Hezbollah “is stocking ammonium nitrate in France, Italy, Greece, Spain and Switzerland”. The French Foreign Ministry responded that these allegations were untrue. Consequently, it dealt a direct blow to the American administration, which is working in Brussels to place Hezbollah with its military and political wings on the EU's terrorist list. France enjoys enough influence within the corridors of the European Union and the European Parliament to stand as an impediment to the American plans. For France, it is not a matter of love or support for Hezbollah, but rather its belief that the time has not come to declare war on the organisation. France believes that it needs a relationship with Hezbollah if it is to advance its strategic interests in Lebanon. Hostility to Hezbollah means engaging in a war with the group or moving away from acquiring a foothold in Lebanon. Paris is trying to advance its chances by, for example, avoiding the resignation of its candidate, Prime Minister Mustafa Adib. But France does not hold all the cards and certainly not all the aces.
It is common knowledge that Prime Minister Mustafa Adib does not have any experience in navigating Lebanese domestic politics and its complications and ramifications that extend out to Saudi Arabia, the US and France. These are the countries mainly involved in Lebanon, while Turkey and Russia play smaller roles.
Adib's nomination was arranged when former Prime Minister Saad Hariri lost any hope of being appointed to this position due to his rejection by Saudi Arabia. The Lebanese former Prime Minister Hariri holds both Saudi and French nationalities. During his time in office, Hariri understood that Hezbollah was part of Lebanese society and represents over a third of the population, not counting his allies. Hezbollah and its allies have held, for a couple of years, the majority in Parliament, making it impossible for Hariri to ignore and ostracise them from the government as the Saudis and the Americans wanted. During his last mandate, Hariri’s relationship with Hezbollah triggered the anger of Saudi Arabia which reacted by closing the doors of Riyadh to the Lebanese Prime Minister and weakening his popularity. In consequence it divided the Sunni camp among many sub-leaders. When Saudi Arabia imprisoned and hijacked Hariri, Hezbollah was the first to insist on his release, and the French President managed to obtain the freedom of the Prime Minister who had earned the anger of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.
Hariri, aware of the Saudis’ antagonism towards him, asked France to intervene in his favour to help him get the prime ministership. When the French President Emmanuel Macron failed to soften the American-Saudi stance towards Hariri, the former Prime Minister decided to push for the selection of Mustafa Adib, a malleable personality. Through Adib, Hariri imposed impossible conditions on Hezbollah, to which he already knew the response. Hariri has only 20 deputies, while the Amal movement (led by Speaker Nabih Berri), Hezbollah, Tayyar al-watni al Hurr (the Free Patriotic Movement – FPM) and their allies, have more than 65 deputies. Consequently, imposing a Saudi-US agenda on the parliamentary majority whose key elements are sanctions by the US administration in an attempt to thwart the French initiative will certainly not form a new government.
Hariri is trying to regain Saudi-US support by challenging Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah through Adib, hoping that the newly appointed Prime Minister falls and that the position returns to his person. From Hariri’s point of view and political interests, he has no other solution but to toughen his position against Hezbollah. Hariri’s parliamentary block will not be elected by the Christians, the Druze, or the Shiites, but rather from the Sunni community. Therefore, the indignation of Saudi Arabia towards him does not benefit him politically. This is why he is taking a more aggressive approach towards Hezbollah and the Speaker Berri.
Accordingly, Berri and Hezbollah agreed to defend their interest, which stipulates that whoever has 43 deputies (30 Amal and 13 Hezbollah) and enjoys the majority in the parliament has the right to impose whoever it wants within the cabinet or to refrain from granting confidence to the new Prime Minister when he refuses their demands. Democratically speaking, the majority of the parliament has the right to choose the Prime Minister. Thus, Hariri, who owns the minority, has no constitutional right to stop Berri and Hezbollah from nominating the finance minister as they are requesting. This is what Hariri is trying to do, to push prime Minister Adib to resign and to promote the failure of the French initiative from behind the scenes.
French officials informed those concerned that it does not object to Speaker Berri and Hezbollah naming those they want as finance minister, regardless of who is responsible for corruption or mismanagement of state affairs. Adib, who receives instructions from former Prime Ministers Fouad Siniora and Saad Hariri, has no say and is limited to carrying messages back and forth. It is known that Siniora is on bad terms with Hezbollah, and that Hariri wants to return to office by imposing impossible conditions (that are unacceptable to those holding the majority), to reopen the Saudi doors. Hence, that government has little hope of surviving.
However, France is aware that its failure will take away its window on the Mediterranean, as it is competing with Turkey for this important Lebanese spot. France knows that America does not want it in Lebanon except on one condition, which is that Hezbollah not be part of any future government. However, France believes that the time is not right to declare hostility toward Hezbollah, and that postponing the conflict is necessary until after empowerment.
The US however, does not have time to wait. This is what prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to criticize France for its relationship with Hezbollah and for preventing the European Parliament from officially considering Hezbollah a terrorist organization
Hezbollah has no fear of the French presence, even if France brings in its military, because it is Hezbollah’s conviction that any possibility of a military confrontation is weak- since both the French and the US forces are on territory they do not know and Hezbollah has fought enough wars on its territory to confront any force trying to impose itself on Lebanon. However this will not prevent the organization from taking precautionary measures. It prepares for war as if it were to occur tomorrow- or indeed if it will not happen any time soon.
But the spectre of a civil war is still far away from Lebanon: there is a complete lack of forces willing to fight against Hezbollah notwithstanding any foreign force intervention. Despite those right-wing Lebanese Forces headed by Samir Geagea who parade here and there, a show aiming to lure foreign funds, mainly from the Saudis and the Americans, and to attract neutral Christians into their ranks so they can have a Christian majority in parliament. However, this does not change the fact that the Christian majority is still lodged under the roof of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) headed by Gebran Bassil, who is trying hard to keep it off the US sanctions list. Geagea– who enjoys full Saudi-US support – is trying hard to demonstrate that the FPM-Hezbollah alliance was bad for the Christians.
It is impossible and unacceptable to imagine Lebanon divided between sects and regions in the way Geagea intends. No one can bear the burden of being internally displaced, nor the resulting suffocating living situation, isolated and relying on external support only, within a small plot of land. Consequently, Lebanon is governed by sects and a combined distribution of roles and quotas until further notice.
It will not be easy for France to achieve a breakthrough which can push its way through the Lebanese complicated politics and foreign alliances. The US wants to completely isolate Hezbollah, and this is also a Saudi – Israeli demand. France is not completely antagonistic to these wishes, but its timing is different. The current US administration is acting as if it will stay for another four years. Political sanctions are imposed even within the last forty days before the elections. People close to Hariri and Bassil are expecting the application of US sanctions which would complicate further the French initiative and risk showing its limited power. However, France seems determined to pursue its strategy and to protect its interests in the Mediterranean. Will it sink into the Lebanese quagmire, or manage to remain floating on its surface? Its task is almost impossible.
That was fast! Thanks and good morning to you.
Bonjour and a happy day to you too dear Mia. Yes, I'm the fastest gunslinger in the whole wild west
. Actually, Elijah sent me his new article last night and I waited till he linked it on his twitter this morning before I shared it here with everyone – not like his last article that I shared prematurely: an honest accident it was.
And as far as the content of the new article above: it is clear-headed and concise and very good indeed; except I would have gone further and titled it : Obstacles to French success in Lebanon: Israel! This is because both saudi jewrabia and the united states of jewmurica are both scumbag valets for tel aviv when it comes to ALL Lebanon's internal affairs.
But we all already knew this, didn't we?
But never mind all that bollocks, here's a South African song that's sung in the Zulu language called 'Jerusalema' – it's spreading like wildfire across the continent of Africa and the middle east:
Hey let's all learn a coupla Zulu words today, shall we?
Lyrics to Jerusalema with translation:
Jerusalema ikhaya lami (Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Uhambe nami (Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana (Do not leave me here)
Jerusalema ikhaya lami (Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Uhambe nami (Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana (Do not leave me here)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana (My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana (My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Zuhambe nami (Walk with me)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana (My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana (My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Zuhambe nami (Walk with me)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana( Do not leave me here)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana (Do not leave me here)
Peace? Fat chance! End it already!
https://original.antiwar.com/jason/2020/09/20/israel-uae-deal-requires-new-us-funded-arms-race/
Israel-UAE Deal Requires New US-Funded Arms Race
Thanks, Cloak. It was to be expected that the American tax payer will be footing billions for the outing of the uae-israel tryst after decades of illicit coupling. And pay through the nose we will have no choice but do because our capital, nay our nation continues to be under an exploitative and insidious jewish occupation.
The thing is that the deal signed between uae-israel is NOT actually a “peace deal”, otherwise they’d been naming it that. Instead, they’re calling it the “Abraham Accord”. It’s an “Accord” to do with trade as well as strategic security alliances. Here the online dictionary defines an “Accord” as “a settlement or compromise between conflicting parties”. It is NOT a direct peace treaty, but naturally includes ‘peace’ as a paramount and necessary ingredient for its success. Note how little we’ve heard the media refer to it as the ‘Abraham Accord’ and how much we’ve heard it referred to as a “peace treaty”. Know waddamean? It’s as if the architects of the deal do not want us en mass reaching for our dictionaries to learn exactly what the word ‘Accord’ really means. It’s as if these same architects are sticking fake peace feathers in their cap and getting a manicure in readiness for receiving a frigging corrupt Nobel Peace Prize they clearly do not deserve.
To break an accord is by far less dramatic and less serious than breaking an actual peace treaty. You break an Accord and you will lose trade and security deals, but it’s a declaration of war to actually break a peace treaty. This is the fundamental difference between an Accord and a Peace Treaty. An Accord is a safer bet for both (loathsome) parties in this instance. Obviously, the two signatories did not want to declare war on each other in the the event their Iranophobic project fails and the paradigm for their security interests therefore ends up shifting with it. Clearly both parties have not the genuine interest or the balls or courage to sign an actual peace treaty. In other words: two pathologically paranoid parties shook hands with a tremble.
Before the signing, only israel’s nearing death was a certainty. After the signing, all that’s changed is that now the uae’s death is also a certainty.
Iran offered a peace deal with the Saudis….rejected, then the US at the behest of Israel rejected the nuclear deal the JCPOA, then the US/Israel moves to garner support from other Gulfies to shore up an anti Iran alliance, literally driving Iran into the arms of China and Russia. That 25 year deal with the Chinese is clever, not only oil and gas deals with discounts but arms deals. It is obvious that the US will not abandon Israel or its stake in the Gulf with Saudi Arabia and Co, they have chosen the wrong side, China’s belt and road initiative has Iran as a main component and by investing 400 billion dollars over 25 years intend to see it through.
Iraq is also a key in the ‘Arc of resistance’ and is also doing oil deals with China in exchange for electricity infrastructure etc, this is not going down well with the US who are threatening the Iraqis with access to Iraq’s oil funds held in the US Federal reserve since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The war is on, US sanctions bases in Bahrain and Qatar, although these are surely hostages to fortune since they are so vulnerable and easily within range of Iran’s short range and deadly accurate missiles.
Here is a reasonable article on the China/Iran deal, Comments are very good too…. https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/China-Inks-Military-Deal-With-Iran-Under-Secretive-25-Year-Plan.html
Thanks for the great link, Harry. An illuminating and excellently laid out perspective – yes, with value-commentary too.
Really, China has no choice but to attach itself to Iran and Iran’s oil pump. It needs it and it needs it secured today for its industrious future that’s projected at superpowerdom level. Therefore Iran is a necessary ingredient for China’s leap into future success. Therefore a stable Iran is now a Chinese national security issue. (And vice-a-versa).
It’s ironic and curious to me, I mean I shake my head with amusement when I see China itself using capitalist weapons and talents to fight capitalist America with. Funny that, no?
@ taxi,
Chinese are the Americans of Asia.
Not surprised at all.
Thanks Daniel – I see what you’re saying with regards to Chinese attitude to commerce and trade, but I’m more likely to say that the Japanese are the Americans of Asia, considering that for pure imperial power and economics, they occupied Chinese Manchuria and killed some 10+ million of mostly Chinese civilians in their invasion and occupation of Chinese territory back in the 1930’s (Nanking and Shanghai anyone?). I’d say the Japanese bloodlust and cultural sense of ‘exceptionalism’ is on par with America’s arrogant world view. And I say this as a person who is besotted with Japanese art and epicure.
Governments, such as the Japanese one you cited, rarely express the will of their people, particularly that of the creative minority.
@ taxi,
My goal in life was to obtain a katana [samurai sword] and live according to the bushido code.
I do have a katana, but let me assure you, there is no fighting spirit left in Japan. Here, the bureaucrats rule, with a vengeance. Lining their pockets at every opportunity.
And I thought/believed banana republics were the worst. Oh, boy, how wrong could I ever be…?
China could [but it will not] rule this planet in the next few decades. Fortunately for us/mankind, both Russia and China have long term strategies that are focused on a peaceful coexistence of people and countries.
Cue in the US and…, well, that’s exactly where we are today.
They prefer win-win situations for all involved, not the narrow minded ‘It’s all mine!!!’ view the US is entangled in. That tumbleweed’s heading for the abyss, and there’s no way back to anything resembling sanity.
Without having ever heard of it, the bushido code and I are made for each other, regardless what’s happening around me.
Let's none of us be surprised when the despicable king of saudi arabia's death is soon 'fixed' to fall in a timely manner, with just enough window for MbS to take the oily crown and promptly announce his normalization with terrorist israel, right before the November 3rd elections.
And btw today, Sudan and the US met in UAE to discuss Sudan's normalization. Sudan is asking for its name to be removed from the Hague's terrorist list in return for normalization. This was previously refused and a modest petrodollar package was instead offered by the israel-US-koshergulfies. Today is the day Sudan is forced to accept whatever is slammed on the table before it. No doubt Arab-African Sudan will announce normalization with the ONLY Apartheid state in the world. Yeah, truth is stranger than fiction. Or, as I like to say: Ruth is stranger than Richard.
Also, Kuwait Foreign Ministry today said "No Kuwait normalization with israel. We see normalization with israel as dangerous to our national security and we don't understand why uae does not see how it's unilateral actions is putting the whole of the Gulf region in high danger".
Algiers too yesterday balked at the normalization with: "We do not approve, and will not be congratulating any Arab nation on normalizing with israel. We view normalization, that does not include giving Palestinians their full rights, as illegitimate and treasonous against Palestinians and Arabs altogether. We hold the Palestinian cause as sacred and we will always support the Palestinian people in their struggle against the zionist enemy".
Tunisian President also released a statement denouncing the normalization as "treasonous, unjust and destructive".
Morocco's king a few days ago also rejected normalization with israel, with his statement describing the normalization as "unjust to Palestinians and dangerous to the safety of the Al Aqsa Mosque".
Qatar two days ago said it will "highly likely normalize with israel", yet yesterday, it backpeddled on the statement.
Oman is waiting in the wings to be called up to do its normalization monkey dance on the world stage. Them Trumpian jews will probably pair its ceremony with Sudan's next.
And on the fringes of the normalization wave swirling over the mideast all this week – all because the Orange idiot motherfucker said a few days ago "we have 6 or 7 Arab nations now waiting to normalize", thus driving Arab nations to AGAIN clarify their positions due to people wondering what nations were referenced in the Orange goo's statement – yeah on the fringes of all this media commotion and stately statements of clarification, two towns in northern Egypt erupted with anti Sisi protests today, with protestors crazed on the streets and demanding the sacking of Sisi as president. There's been no anti Sisi protests for several years now so this event could be a hot portent of what's waiting Egypt in 2021.
What more can I tell you than to close with: never a dull moment in the devil's backyard.
That region is a geo-strategical clusterf***, engineered by the west to ensure sock puppets, like the clowns [the 'kings' and 'princes'] we see today, are able to project their wahabistic wet dream into the wider M.E. A project, that only benefits this little slice of rulers and not the majority of Muslims that simply want to get along.
Viva republics [and small communities]!
Question is, how much and how hard should we laugh at America's disintegration? No really, it's a sober and serious question. Laugh from despair? Lose your hair? I give up! Ticked off at the ticket? Are you? Tickled by stupidity? I am! Political satyr, political satire, political quagmire and quackmire – beasts and beasts of burden and the burden of proof are all a hoot or a hoof? Laugh, or cry, or laughcry? Oh I give up! Bad chuckie-chuckles and shitshooting like this:
The War on Populism: the Final Act
China and the Washington Oscars
@ taxi,
Let me apply my granddad's remedy:
Here's a glass of wine [beer] and give me a hug.
Feels much better already.
@ Taxi
@ Canthama…………
Looking toward the day Haifa and Tel-aviv are turned into open air ovens………….
https://avia-pro.net/news/izrailskiy-kompleks-pvo-sbil-nad-siriey-istrebitel-su-22-video
Thanks Whozhear. The article is dated today Sept 22nd, meaning the Syrian jetfighter was shot down yesterday, which explains all them illegal jewish jetfighters hovering over my farmhouse for a good two hours yesterday morning.
When the south Leb where I am experiences much non-stop to and fro in the sky by terrorist jewish jets, we can be sure that they’re in the middle of an op in nearby Syria. But sometimes they fly overhead quickly, then quickly return before completely disappearing, which I interpret as routine training for terrorist jew pilots. Israeli drones in Lebanon skies are of course spy cams, with the occasional striker drone thrown in every now and then. Striker drones have louder engines, whereas cam drones have a dull and whining drone sound.
Whozhear, this news was misleading from avia site, there is no Su22 missing in Syria, nor there was an attack yesterday by the apartheid regime, I looked at the radar's data and it shows 2018…which in fact it was a Su22 that was downed in Quneitra when bombing Israeli's allies, ISIS, at Yarmouk valley. These ISIS freaks where al Qaeda once and turned coat to ISIS, but in fact where Israelis die hard fanatic zombies.
@ Canthama,
Thank you for bringing me up todate, very much appreciated.
Previous experience would dictate that you do not repeat an operation that resulted in complete failure………
https://avia-pro.net/news/ukrainskiy-flot-korabli-i-aviaciya-nato-pytayutsya-ottesnit-rossiyskiy-flot-ot-kryma-pervoe
Good grief, were these pilots trying to defect or what?………
https://avia-pro.net/news/belorusskie-voennye-zahvatili-vosem-boevyh-samolyotov-nato
About an hour ago, I was napping after lunch and was woken by the sound of a really massive explosion. It sounded as if it had come from a half a mile away, but it was actually out in the southeastern city of Nabatieh, which is about a forty minute drive from where I am. For those who don't know, Nabatieh is literally Hezbollah's capital: a massive Hezb stronghold of a city (an ancient Phoenician trade city too). So far, no specific info on the reason for the explosion has been aired by the Leb media. So we wait to see what the fuck this was all about. Will keep y'all posted.
… And before I took my nap I was doing some gardening and thinking: 'it's so goddamn beautiful and peaceful and quiet around here'.
Unconfirmed reports are claiming that the explosion was at a gas station. Definitely casualties are involved, but media has not specified the numbers yet.
Currently on 4chan………..
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/278672343
Thoughts?
So far, unconfirmed reports of the explosion being at a gas station. That’s all. Will share info here when it becomes available. The Leb media doesn’t seem to be fixated on the story at all, and no statement yet from the Hezb on this either.
… Now at this hour, I’m hearing that Leb army sources are apparently saying that un-exploded landmines collected by the Leb army from the Nabatieh surrounds for safety and stored near Ain Qana/Nabatieh is what exploded. These landmines were a gift from terrorist israel back in the 2006: them jew losers dropped some 2 million landmines across south Lebanon AFTER a ceasefire was agreed upon. No explanation yet of ‘how’ or what made the army landmine depot explode. For sure much israeli drone activity over Nabatieh all morning was recorded today.
So… unable to face the Hezb directly on the battlefield, the terrorist jews have now taken to covert warfare a-la mossad? An explosion here, an explosion there, an assassination here and there blah blah.
Let’s wait and see if this army statement is verifiable first.
There is more at INTELSky………
https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky
Scroll down.
The jewish terrorist army, who hates both humanity and the brilliance of nature, today set fire to 40+ Lebanese dunams of oak and pine tree forestry siting right there at the border. Leb locals and soldiers managed to eventually put out the fire. I guess the forest was spooking the bejeezuz out of the coward terrorist jews so they just burned it up poof! As if this fire will halt the promised Hezb retaliation. And as if this will help them spot the Hezb's 'ghost soldiers' peppered all along the border.
Whatever – I'm still pissed at this news! I always feel whiplashed whenever I hear of senseless echo terrorism taking place.
The morning raid………
https://twitter.com/ramezelkadi/status/1308394074701955072
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1308408419372675075?s=19
@ taxi,
Forests and trees provide excellent cover. Occupied Palestine's copying the US' treatment of Viet Nam and Cambodia.
Can't win battles? Burn, baby. Burn!!!
Asia Times having a crack at Trump/Pompousass sending a flat top back into the Persian Gulf………
https://asiatimes.com/2020/09/pompeo-threatens-to-light-the-fuse-in-persian-gulf/
Well heck then bring it on tel aviv and watch your own ass get stuffed into an oven.
Should Pomposity commit such a gambit, it would ignite those Bernie supporters who might or might not vote for the dodderer and the bitch. Trump already has the Evangelicals and it would not likely bring out more of them. But an open set of war would set all lovers of peace into reactivation.
Trump should have some political analysts around him who would de-claw the CIA creep who was chosen by the Agency, not Trump, to run U$ foreign policy. They couldn't remove the bastard, but sometimes wiser heads prevail. Trump is quite aware of what the spooks do to uncooperative presidents and such. However, he maybe able to call in some chips to halt the madness in its tracks.
Hmmm I wonder whom president Xi is referring to?
Xi: No nation should act like boss of the world
Taxi – can you shed lighet on whether the various factions facing off in the Leb govt. agree or disagree taking actions to return Syrian refugees to Syria – or, is it the Syrian govt. blocking? Is it not in best interest of both to make this happen – or? I can understand why the Axis of Evil want them remaining where they are to assist their constant destabilization of both Leb & Syria. Its also clear many refugees would not wish to return without economic security from the beginning.
Related article > President Aoun to the UN > “We call on the world to help us secure the safe return of displaced Syrians because Lebanon is groaning from the brunt of unprecedented crises rendering it incapable to further host the largest number of refugees per capita,” referring to Lebanon hosting the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Thanks. Mike.
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/9/22/lebanons-president-renews-calls-for-return-of-syrian-refugees
For those that have an interest in the Bidens and the Ukraine fiasco, the Senate's report has been published in FULL…………
https://www.scribd.com/document/477156881/Read-Republicans-Biden-report#from_embed
Hey everyone, 4 keys on my keybort r not workin neet fiksin thus no comments till fikst
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For Syrpers at Platosguns', have managed, finally, to talk to Ziad, he and his family are fine, he asked Leith to fix the site, it seems domain went public, maybe due to lack of payment, not sure whether it is "fixable" after 3 weeks, it happened in the past at least twice. Lets wait and see. Stay safe folks.
Thanks my friend for the SyrPer update. Mike.
Hi Canthama,
Could you email Ziad and/or Danny and ask for posting only for registered members to be removed? I know a few vocal members who bully others insisted on that but the site has really gone down hill and it became just an echo chamber of a few regulars. I tried to login twice and had password issues and the forgotten password option doesn't work. Thanks.
– MD
MD, Syrper is down for 3 weeks, it seems it lost its domain, have talked to Ziad after a long time, he and family are fine, asked Leith to fix Syrper, it was mid last week, so far Syrper is down, can not reach Danny so far.
Will Michele Flournoy Be the Angel of Death for the American Empire?
Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space
Exiled Saudi dissidents launch opposition party
Netanyahus said to bring suitcases of laundry from Israel to wash at White House
US Tells Kenya to Publicly Support Israel or Forget Free Trade Deal
Taxi – thanks for above link – article about Kenya required to kiss the ring of the axis-of-evil as a precondition to gain entry to the US market. It was another Uni-Polar World Empire control action in an accelerating string of democracy strangulations. Everyone has but two options – surrender all forever, or be destroyed. Empire ramping up somehow hoping to derail China's steady rise. Not going to be a 'pretty' world for so many – until.
From the article:
As I said a few days ago, China’s strong defense has drawn a lot of US pressure from the Middle East. The quoted phrase above is more evidence of that.
Imperial overstretch is starting to hurt.
The despicable apartheid regime doing what it does best, zion-nazi's criminal methods. These freaks have been controlling Ethiopian Jews (yes…the same ones that Netflix shows on that rescue mission blockbuster movie) birth rate by illegally injecting contraceptive for decades…surprise surprise…black jews population has been declining in occupied Palestine. There is no hope for these zio-nazis, they will soon start eating each other for pure & utter evil instincts.
https://twitter.com/Bigjavhotmailc1/status/1309417712163213312
Like Kenya – now its Sudan's turn of the screw to 'kiss the ring', or else > "Trump Admin Tells Sudan: Normalize Ties With Israel Or Else Stay On Terrorism List." Sudan has been on State Department's list way back to 1993. Sudan thought they had previously met all US negotiation conditions, but as always US continues to turn the screw.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-admin-tells-sudan-normalize-ties-israel-or-else-stay-terrorism-list
Axis-of-resistance where are you? When?
Trump:
"“Biden … sent our youth off to fight in these crazy endless wars. It’s one of the reasons the military— I’m not saying the military is in love with me; the soldiers are. The top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. But we’re getting out of the endless wars…. And I said, ‘That’s good. Let’s bring our soldiers back home. Some people don’t like to come home. Some people like to continue to spend money.’ One cold-hearted globalist betrayal after another, and that’s what it was.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-military-coup-undo-november-elections-donald-trump-republic-itself
MD: We really are living in dramatic times when even the president of the USA uses terms such as 'globalist' (considered a fringe – i.e. people like us on the alternative media who don't lap up MSM propaganda – term really) or clearly alludes to the military industrial complex, something not as fringe but semi-fringe.
Hi Taxi
Although not related to Lebanon, you may be interested to know this little episode of yesterday in Lisbon
George Glass, US ambassador to Lisbon, on the Huawey 5G network instalation in Portugal:<em> If we do not have reliable partners in the Portuguese telecommunications network, it will change the way we interact with Portugal in terms of security and defense. We have made this message loud and clear </em>
https://androidgeek.pt/huawei-embaixador-dos-eua-ameaca-portugal-de-forma-execravel
Response by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva:
<em>The Portuguese Government records the declarations […]. But the fundamental point is this: in Portugal, the decision-makers are the Portuguese authorities, who make the decisions that interest Portugal, within the framework of the Constitution and Portuguese law and the powers that the law attributes to the different to the different relevant authorities </em>
Antonio, this is awesome. Direto na cara dos gringos arrogantes.
Hi Canthama, bom dia Caro Amigo
What amazes me most is that the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs is a fanatical Atlanticist. Now we can see very clearly, as William Engdahl would say, the schizophrenic position in which all of Western Europe finds itself. The United Kingdom and France, due to pressure from the United States, have pledged to remove all Hawuei 5G network equipment by 2017 (UK) or 2028 (France). If Germany had given in to blackmail, I doubt Portugal would have dared. But Portugal was in a very weak financial position after entering the euro, as was Greece. At that time China entered the capital of port and energy infrastructure. Portugal would be in an even more difficult position if it accompanied the USA in the hostility of China. In addition, Portugal has historically had friendly relations with China. When the Revolution occurred in 1974, Portugal wanted to negotiate with China the end of the colonial presence in Macau. It was China that postponed negotiations because it intended to associate the Macau process with the Hong Kong process. what happened. In addition, Portugal's international policy is strengthened by participation in the Organization of Portuguese Official Language Countries.
Indeed, Portugal and China's relationship goes back a long time, it was always based on mutual respect and not imposition or anything else. Brazil is in a big dilema now…the current Government acts as a US lapdog in foreign affairs, while the US does nothing for Brazil…nothing…including recently imposing higher tariffs for several Brazilian products such as steel….while demanded Brazil to reduce import tariffs for ethanol…something Brazil is self sufficient of but there is an old quota between both countries and the US demands Brazil to buy it…quite ridiculous.
On the other hand, the real trading partner is China, over 40% of all Brazilian exports are heading toward Chine, iron ore, oil, all sort of meats, soy, corn, airplanes and the list goes on and on…
The US is demanding Brazil to drop China's 5G as well, and there is a current fight internally in Brazil, but so far it seems Huawei will stay…hopefully, but the pressure is huge.
The Portuguese were the biggest global empire a few centuries back with their colonial legacy extending as far as places as diverse as south America, Carribean, India (e.g. Goa) Africa, east Asia and so on.
This is from Wiki:
"The Portuguese Empire was the first global empire in history, and also the earliest and longest-lived of the Western European colonial empires"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_great_powers#Portugal
I suspect amongst the Portuguese military and affiliated diplomatic service there is an awareness of this and who knows how much this contributes to the Portuguese state standing its ground against the Americans.
Good to see you, MD
How much this contributes to the Portuguese state standing its ground against the Americans, who knows? You may be right.
Follow-up as of today, directly from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of the Republic and former Secretary General of the right-wing Partido Social-Democrata:
It is an obvious matter of principle that, in Portugal, those who decide about their destinations are the representatives chosen by the Portuguese – and only them – in respect for the Constitution and the right it embraces, such as international law.
https://expresso.pt/politica/2020-09-27-Marcelo-responde-ao-embaixador-dos-EUA-em-Portugal-sao-os-representantes-escolhidos-pelos-portugueses-quem-decide
Food for thought:
“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only ally in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel we had no enemies in the Middle East.” – John Sheehan, S. J. (Jesuit)
Howdy doodlez y'all! I've finally got my laptop keyboard fixed! Had to take it all the way to Beirut city – they said two days before it's ready – I spent them two days visiting some Beiruty friends, good times – went to collect my computer on the appointed day and darn it: wasn't ready and they said two more days 'madam' – decided to go to Baalbek for sightseeing for them two days, good times, made new friends who invited me to Leb's wine country 'Kefrayah': wonderful place – been to both Baalbek and Kefrayah before and always enjoyed these places, especially historic, mindblowing Baalbek. Drove west back to Beirut this morning , picked up my fixed computer and drove all the way south – finally back in my farmhouse – exhausted!
A lot of world shit gone down while my computer's been down. Oh man we're all in such trouble – some more than others. More on that later-later…
Tomorrow I'm picking olives from my grove, pressing them for oil and pickling a few jars (with help of village woman) – yap it's that time of the year again. Picking early this year cuz global warming's really fucked up a lot of agricultural calendars. Usually olive picking occurs after the second autumnal rain that fall like clockwork every year between 9th-11th October. Not this year. The olives are already turning yellow and falling off branches so I'm not going to wait another two weeks – still hot here in the Leb, most unusual for this time of the year and no sight of rain is forecast for the next two weeks either. We've had six months of winter rains this year (instead of the usual 3) and so far 4 months of horrid hot-humidity: very unusual too. But then again, we shouldn't be surprised. Over-industrious homosapien have fucked up EVERYTHING including the weather. Failed species!
Tomorrow Nasrallah speaks in the pm. Will share his main points with you, as usual.
Tonight I'll catch up on some article reading – hopefully I'll share some interesting headlines widy'all.
Now time for my dinner…
Hope you're all hanging in there as the world turns crazier and fucking crazier.
And hey thanks everyone who visited, and all who commented in my absence.
Peace.
I’m too tired to read about the shit state of the world, so, Baalbek… A hezbollah stronghold in today's Lebanon. But, it's much, much more than that too. It's an astonishingly serious and wondrous place of antiquity. I tried to find a super short vid of it to share here but meh, none were doing the place justice. But, I did find this one here below – worth your time if you're interested in rich, voluptuous, grandiose history. And the thing is, I mean such a gigantic and well-preserved ruin in any other country would be secured by high walls and wires and cameras and guards and dogs and a fancy-shmancy over-priced gift shop. No, not the famed ruins of Baalbek. Astonishingly, the only parameter (partial) wall is by the ticket booth – a handful of meters this way, and a handful of meters of short wall that way. That's it. It's wide open for ANYONE to just walk in any time they like. Yeah it's practically unwalled aaaand… it's right smack in the middle of a working-class shia neighborhood: unwalled magnificent Corinthian masterpiece circled by shia housing lol – well, you'll see it for yourself in backgrounds of the vid. Surprisingly, the Baalbek temples, the place itself is hardly a commercialized national heritage and tourist attraction. I mean if that motherfucking ancient wonder was in the States, man they'd turn it into a freaking over-commercialized Disneyland monstrosity yikes! LOL! I just mean it's nice to go to a heritage place and not feel like lassoed cattle being tugged to the kaching-cashmchine.
Oh well okay, despite my sleepy head, I couldn't resist reading and sharing Elijah's latest. I'm telling you, you could really feel the war temperature rising around here all last week, and today, Monday, it's even hotter:
Russia and Iran in Syria; Iran prepares a move on the Israeli borders
By Elijah J. Magnier:
There has been a lot of talk about a Russian-Iranian conflict of interest in Syria and the differences of priorities, goals, and about the deployment of the Iranian forces in different Syrian provinces, in particular in the south of Syria bordering the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. In reality, there are organised disagreements which the various players have accepted without this necessarily affecting their primary objectives. However, Iran seems to have decided to take more escalatory steps in Syria that are expected to cause concern in Israel. This step follows the normalisation of the Emirates and Bahrein relations with Israel, whose open relationship and collaboration with the Gulf countries now give Israel a presence directly on Iranian borders.
During the years of the Syrian war, Israel tried everything in its power to topple President Bashar al-Assad to allow ISIS and Al-Qaeda to win. The Israeli air force bombed hundreds of objectives over the entire Syrian map to no avail. Iran's support for Syrian stability and unity and its victory over takfiri terrorists and their backers in the region and the international community earned a privileged presence for Iran's forces and its allies in Syria.
Speculation has abounded about Russian efforts to push Iran back 40 kilometres away from the occupied Golan Heights. However, the reality – according to well-informed sources in Syria – is different. Iranian advisors and military experts are present with their allies along the borders and in the areas of Daraa and Quneitra in particular.
The sources explain that "due to the recent developments (normalisation with Gulf countries) in the Middle East, Israel is now moving on the borders of Iran and has a security and military presence there. Consequently, Tehran is preparing to show its existence and the presence of its allies along the Syrian borders. It is sending a message to Israel that the balance of deterrence is omnipresent and that Israel does not have the upper hand. Iran has cards to play and can hit back when appropriate. "
The sources confirm that "Iranian advisors are present in the governorates of Daraa, the Golan, Quneitra, Damascus, Albu Kamal, Palmyra, Aleppo and in the Badia. These areas are among the most important areas that provide a supply line and support to the Syrian forces and its allies in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon."
The sources added that "the Iranian presence comes in full solidarity and coordination with President Al-Assad, who relies on the Iranian role in Syria, especially after signing defence and security treaties between the two countries. Also, Russia does not interfere in this relationship and does not try to influence it. Moscow has strong relations with Israel but has not interfered in the Iranian-Syrian conflict with Israel."
Russia had deployed the S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missiles after it accused Israel of the downing of a Russian plane and the killing of fifteen officers in September 2018. Deployment of these missiles was to protect Russia's naval and air force bases but also a threat in case Israel failed to notify Russia, with plenty of warning, of its intention to bomb targets in Syria. Russia wants to be able to take adequate measures to prevent casualties among its forces and therefore forced Israel to alert the Russia coordination office at Hmaymeem airbase in western Syria. Due to Israel compliance, Russia has not allowed the use of its anti-air missiles, and Israel has accepted the rules of engagement imposed by Russia. Moreover, Israel is aware that Moscow informs its allies in Syria, including Iran, whenever Israel has planned air or missile strikes inside Syria.
Iran has engineer officers that run drone bases. However, Iran has evacuated most of its known military posts and command and control bases and handed them over to the Lebanese Hezbollah. Iran doesn't have combat forces in Syria, but only advisers and commanders.
By handing over its positions to Hezbollah – as mentioned in recent articles – Iran means to impose a new Rule of Engagement (ROE) on Israel. Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, announced that he would respond to the killing any of his militants in Syria and Lebanon. Israel did not comply and attacked a target in Syria last June, killing a Hezbollah operative. Since then, Hezbollah announced its plan to kill an Israeli officer in retaliation, confirming Hezbollah's ROE. Israel took the threat seriously and has stopped hitting targets in Syria for the last 68 days. The Israeli army has evacuated all of its positions along the Lebanese border, is on high alert is still waiting for the Hezbollah response. It is humiliating for the strongest army in the Middle East to hide and wait for the killing of one of its soldiers, especially when a small non-state Lebanese actor formulates the treat.
There are differences among Syria's allies, but they are mainly limited to dealing with the Turkish presence in Syria. Moscow believes there is no solution in Syria without the cooperation of Ankara, even if there are Turkish-Russian differences in Idlib and its surroundings. Russia considers that Turkey has deployed its forces in static positions and that it cooperates whenever matters get complicated on the ground.
Iran and Syria believe that Turkey has not deployed forces in a country since World War II and then left. They look to Turkey's interventions in Cyprus, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Qatar. The Syrian President stresses his hostility to Ankara. At the same time, Iran considers Turkey a strategic Middle Eastern ally even if it disagrees with it in Syria and doesn't like the Turkish protection of the jihadists in Idlib and its rural area.
The Middle East region is anxiously awaiting the US elections to build a strategy for the next four years. However, Iran considers whether or not President Donald Trump is re-elected; it must act to maintain deterrence and the balance of terror with Israel. Therefore, it is preparing to send messages to its enemy in Tel Aviv that the arena is not vacant and that Iran has many more cards to play.
Thank you for the travel footage, appreciated.
Baalbek was the landing place of the gods and is noted as such in the Epic of Gilgamesh. A couple of ancient coins depicted a rocket ship on Baalbek long before it was built over by the Romans……..
https://bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_arqueo/baalbek06_02.jpg
That ancient coin from Baalbek. Is there any provenance as to by whom it was minted and an approximate date?…BC, I presume.
Whozhear, while looking for Baalbek vids to share at Plato's yesterday, I discovered that there's so very many conspiracy theories surrounding the original builders of Baalbek: from the place being an alien landing pad, to being Titan temples for giants who roamed the earth before the 'great flood', to everything else in between. I understand too that apparently Palmyra in Syria (which is only a hop away from Baalbek) is also architecturally linked to the original (unknown) builders of Baalbek.
Yes, Baalbek is one heck of a wondrous mystery – and to see it with one's own eyes is literally mind-expanding from the intense feeling of wonderment it fills you with. My first trip there 8 years ago was mindblowing, and every time I've visited it since then has jolted me with wonderment.
Little Lebanon is full of big surprises. Let's hope this trait translates into their political arena soon.
Sadly, again > “Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustapha Adib has announced his resignation after his efforts to line up a non-partisan cabinet ran into trouble, particularly over who would run the finance ministry. In a televised address on Saturday, Adib said he was stepping down from “the task of forming the government” following a meeting with President Michel Aoun.”
(If true, Taxi, what seems next at bat? Has Nasrallah commented on continuing inability to form a govt? Regarding who runs the finance ministry appears no govt allowed unless those tied to the Empire’s PTB control, also tied to pressure to allow IMF capture? Mike).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/26/lebanon-pm-designate-resigns-amid-impasse-over-govt-formation
Hey, Mike – briefly: yes it’s true Mustafa Adib resigned a couple of days ago. I will expound tomorrow.
And Nasrallah is scheduled to speak televised tomorrow at 8:30pm Leb time – I will write about it either soon as the speech is over, or the following day.
I can tell you that right now, Lebanon stands in a very serious danger zone politically, financially, and security-wise: getting punched up by some big nasty merciless gloves. The whole region is, actually. And it’s getting more and more intense as the November American elections near.
Regardless of who wins, this coming election appears be a massive scary trigger here in the middle east, as indeed it will be Stateside.
I find it so aaaaaaaargh maddening that two of the most loathsome cuntidates on the planet will duke it out with lie after punching lie over control of the world and humanity. OMG it’s either psycholiarperv or psycholiarprev! No other option for the world. We’re getting yet another psycholiarperv leader of the free but freaked out world.
When will this madness end?!
Adding to latest PM designate also stepping down, Leb’s ‘buddy’, Macron, using this as a hammer for his prime agenda, to tell the Leb people basically he is for them and its the Hezb standing in the way of their salvation. Artical MSM , again >
Macron says, “I see that the Lebanese authorities and political forces chose to favour their partisan and individual interests to the detriment of the general interest of the country. I, therefore, have decided to take note of this collective betrayal and the refusal of Lebanese officials to engage in good faith. There’s a question that needs to be asked to Hezbollah and ourselves. Is it really a political party or does it proceed just in a logic dictated by Iran, and its terrorist forces?” he added.
(its indeed a most scary time for dear Leb – with pressure to give-in accelerating on all fronts. That’s why interested in what Nasrallah might finally say to strengthen resolve of the Leb people to hang in there, who suffer and worry so much – with cause. Regarding your mention impact US elections, in my humble opinion the Leb remians even tighter on the hook no matter who wins. The Empire recognizes its up to the Axis of Resistance to respond to the dare, while also baiting large outside powers to stand aside, or else. Scary for more than just the dear Leb. Patience and steely nerves needed long as possible. Mike).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/27/macron-accuses-lebanons-leaders-of-betrayal-over-failures
@ MF,
Napoleon also did see and then he saw, giving birth to the famed seesaw. The French are good at talking and should stay glued to that.
Thanks, Mike. Macron said even worse than what you quote above. He said: "Hezbollah can't be fighting in Syria, fighting israel AND be part of a government". LOL! First of all, says who?!!! Secondly, I guess Macron has forgotten that the French Resistance did EXACTLY that during and post WW2. I guess he doesn't know his own nation's history to recall that it was the leadership of the French Resistance that actually took over the governance of France during and post WW2.
Macron, with 62% disapproval in France, failed miserably in the Leb because he simply does NOT understand how Leb politics works: he is both arrogant and under-educated in Leb politics. His plan was bound to fail because evidently it was not about Leb welfare but covertly about israel, the IMF and about France clinging for dear life to its old and very last eastern Med colony. His last two visits to the capital of Beirut exhibited peaceful regard towards the Hezb, but as soon as his new boy Adib resigned, he pulled out tel aviv's anti-hezb directive from his back pocket and went on a reprimand and an assault on everything Lebanon, especially and pointedly against the Hezb and president Aoun.
And why did Adib resign? Because evidently he was tasked with covertly elbowing the hezb out of government and it proved an impossible task for him (just like it was for Hariri). Adib failed because he was trying to impose ministerial appointments as if a dictator, and constitutionally speaking, the PM does not have the power to name party reps in government: this is the domain of the party leadership itself and not the PM's whimsy. And with the Hezb and its allies holding the majority in government, Adib was basically trying to take away the right of the majority to choose reps as they deem fit. It didn't work. And it never will. I don't know why Macron and Adib didn't see that their attempts to take away political powers from the majority is utterly unconstitutional, undemocratic AND stupid. Would any Western nation allow a minority party to dictate to the majority party who their ministers should be? Of course not! But Macron and his mouth glued to tel aviv's cock thought he could suck and swallow without chocking. Fuck him and his hypocrisy. Fuck him and his colonialist mindset. Fuck him and his Rothschild masters!
What Macron said in his speech to Lebanon a couple of days ago is extremely dangerous and has many Leb analysts very concerned. He changed his tune soon as his 'Adib' plan collapsed and basically publicly threatened the Lebanon with more sanctions (economic collapse and starvation), with civil war, and with external violence inflicted on the Leb (war) – all taking place at the same time.
Sounds just like Pompeo-speak doesn't it?!
And so what's next for the Leb? Let's see what Nasrallah has to say tonight about Macron's lies and threats.
… And a mere 8 hours after Nasrallah's speech, the nauseating spectacle of the first of the US presidential debates between Trump and Biden will take place. Oh boy! Nasrallah's event will be full of truths and dignity, and the US debates 8 hours later will be full of lies and showbizy hubris. I don't know whether to recommend popcorn or a sick bag for the debate. Maybe both?
Oh my God. Can you imagine if Biden and Trump had to debate Nasrallah?
@ GRP,
“Oh my God. Can you imagine if Biden and Trump had to debate Nasrallah?”
That is, provided they can find the studio [on every imaginable level :o]
Occupied Palestine tried desperately to nix Hezbollah’s televised speeches [during the onslaught on Lebanon, back in 2006].
Result: naught.
Some headlines you may have missed last week:
Trump Confirms U.S. Is Israel’s “Protector”
America Is Finished
US: UAE will not get F-35 jets for up to 7 years, despite Israel peace deal
The World Has Gone Absolutely Insane!
How the west lost
Harvey’s Homies: The Weinstein Scandal as Paradigm of Collectivist Jewish Predation on Atomized Gentiles
Report: US Global War on Terror Has Displaced Up to 59 Million People
Taxi, et al, I have a couple of links to share that I find to be are utterly profound. The first is the most comprehensive review of the Babylonian Talmud and Judaism that I have ever come across in one place.
It is written by a devout Christian who earnestly wants to save the Jews from the pure evil of their Talmud. The writer explains that by revealing the truth about the Talmud to Gentiles, the write is now effectively viewed as ''rodef" by anyone following rabbinical judaism. Rodef is translated as "homicidal pursuer". Amazing powers of projection those Jews have. Funny how the Jews and radical Muslims have the same concept (fatwah, rodef).
https://www.unz.com/article/what-does-rabbinic-judaism-say-about-what-makes-jews-and-gentiles-different/
The next article finally helped me to let the scales fall from my eyes as to how Christianity has always allowed, even invited Judaism to creep into Christianity and to make Christians helpless in the face of this subtle but inexorable poisoning. In recent years, I have objected to the term "Judeo-Christian" since I started to understand the true evil of Judaism. But in a crazy way it is right to call it "Judeo-Christian" because the Church has done a horrible disservice by not rejecting the homicidal, psychopathic God of Israel, Yaweh. Instead there is a weird little trick whereby somehow Yaweh converts to the God that Christ describes, the universal God of Love and of Heaven and Earth.Yet Yaweh is never properly rejected.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-holy-hook/
@ Golden Rule Please,
The jews catapulted jesus to the crucifix and thus created catholicism [aka judaism lite for goy].
I'm a board certified heretic, until the day I die.
And if there turns out to be a god after all, I'll kick his/her/its ass for being such an f***ing dick.
Have read the same piece at Unz. THEY call it "Judeo-Christian Civilization." Many years ago I made a bit of a switch on the appellation, calling it the Judy-Christy Magick-Mindfuck. In all truth that what it was for the aboriginal peoples of Europe, because in both the Celtic and Norse traditions (as well as many others) people had a very deep relationship with the magical essence of the cosmiconsciousness connective with the natural world.
After Constantine, Eusebius and a procession of successors had come up with "Jesus will save us from Original Sin" and suchlike spirituality transmutated to goddam "revealed" religion; the entire Western world has been devolving from Classical civilization and particularly that of the Hellenes.
@ MoO,
Try explaining that to those that brought this world some shiny bling, in the form of a 'Golden Calf'.' There's no money to be had in shticking with nature [according to the clans that run/control the banks/Fed, and thus the world].
The only solution [all be it a far from perfect one]: keep it local.
All of this because Jews have completely colonized the white, Christian mind.
https://www.voanews.com/usa/report-us-global-war-terror-has-displaced-59-million-people
@ Golden Rule,
I'm confident enough to state that 100% of taxi's regular guests have minds of their own, regardless whether I dis/agree with them.
Hi Taxi,
I would suggest that macaroni's interference in the affairs of Lebanon is a blessing in disguise for Hezbollah, as it allows Hezbollah extra time for the buildup, improving their relations with the Lebanese at large and then make a fool out of macaroni to boot. That macaroni and his supporters figured they could come into the Lebanon and dictate terms to the Lebanese after the khazars blew up the Port of Beirut is hilarious, if the whole disgusting affair wasn't so evil. The speed with which macaroni and his crew got involved into Lebanon straight after the explosion indicates to me that macaroni was in on the deal from the start.
What has been learnt of the massive explosion in the so called gas station in southern Lebanon last week?
And thank you for reprinting Elijah's columns, very much appreciated
Looking forward to your insights on Nasrallah's speech..
Hiya Whozhear. The hezb has not commented on the Ain-Qana/Nabatiyeh explosion, and I don’t think they will comment on it in the future either. But a guy I know in the village next to me has a son who is a hezb fighter and he (the father) told me (the day my keyboard broke down last week) that his son says that the explosion occurred in a known hezb arms depot while two hezb weapons engineers were doing some repairs there on a weapon of sorts. The depot is ‘known’ to everyone because the hezb has intentionally made it known that this particular depot is where they store israeli weapons left behind in battlefields. The engineers doing the fixing in the depot were injured and are currently still recovering. And the reason why israeli aerial activity was more than usual over Nabatiyeh province that same morning of the Ain-Qana explosion is because earlier at daybreak, a wild boar on the Leb side crossed into an israeli minefield on the israel side and caused a mine to blow up, and unknowing it was triggered by a boar at the time, the israelis freaked and thought they were under the ‘retaliation’ attack and thus sent fleets of terrorist drones and jetfighters all across the southern Leb terrain that morning. Ironically, that strain of wild boar is not indigenous to south Leb (though thriving now) – they were actually released into the south Lebanon in their thousands by israel back in 2000 after the idf fled the Lebanon like rats. It’s a stupid jewy poke in the eye of the non-pork-eating shias of south Lebanon. And yeah jews don’t eat pork either. Silly fuckers. And BTW, I see these wild boars on my hill every now and then – and once, several years ago, a couple of them looted my tangerine tree of all the fruit on it: picked it clean then the pair lounged on my garden deckchairs – I know this cuz I saw them lounging there at dawn after their tangerine party and it was me who cleaned up all the peeled tangerine skins from my lawn lol!
Nasrallah's speech just ended – he sure packed a heck of a lot in there – unfortunately I had a couple of unexpected distractions during its broadcast and I think I'll watch it again first thing in the morning then write a summary to share here on Platos. And… lest we forget, the first US presidential debate 2020 starts in a few hours too – I won't be watching it live as it's on at 4am Leb time.
But before I say goodnight, let me very quickly tell you this super cool bit that happened in the speech.
Well, Nasrallah, approx 5 minutes into his speech said that only a few minutes before he started his speech, Netanyahu was addressing the UN assembly and was aggressively warning that hezbollah has a weapons depot near Beirut airport, right next to a gas station – Netanyahu even presented (surprise-surprise) a snazzy Hollywood power-point showing the world the exact location of the Hezb's secret and dangerous weapons depot. And Nasrallah's response? LOL the man is an undeniable genius and turned Netanyahu's dangerous rhetoric – dangerous in light of the Beirut port explosion and the current vicious campaign to make Lebanese citizens 'afraid' of the Hezb's weapons/creating a civil war over hezbollah's weapons etc – yeah with this in mind, Nasrallah being swift, elegant and oh so nimble-minded and nifty proposed to all Leb medias to immediately go to said location, identified at the UN by Netanyahu, where he has arranged for a couple of Hezb spokespeople to meet them all there, so all can then take a good look inside the alleged depot and see for themselves what a liar Netanyhu is. Nasrallah said that he also wanted the UN members who'd heard Netanyahu at the UN, as well as the Lebanese people and the whole world at large to see for themselves what a liar Netanyahu is. Nasrallah said: "I m making an exception here by responding to the enemies' lies – I will not be doing this again but I do this tonight in the light of the port explosion and to expose, in real time, what a liar Netayahu is. I'm doing this for the Lebanese people who are still frightened by the port explosion and vulnerable to lies about our weapons. I want them and the whole world to see what a liar Netanyahu is. He is never to be believed".
Naturally, many press people watching Nasrallah's speech just made a mad dash for the airport depot soon as they heard the surprising invite, and by the time Nasrallah had finished his speech, TV stations were showing live coverage of a crush of press members inside the so-called 'depot' with many cameras and many over-caffeinated journalists.
Basically, Nasrallah was spontaneous and quick on his feet and kicked the jew grenade right back at Netanyahu's face by the time he'd finished his UN address and got his blowjob from Pompeo and other unsavory christian zionist mouths. Netanyahu's evil plan crumbled within an hour. (I'm sure he'll try again. Evil, like rust, never sleeps).
Oh and what was inside the 'depot'? A metal-cutting workshop owned by a civilian who is not a Hezb member but indeed supports the Hezb (he was interviewed on site by journalists).
Yeah what an anti Netanyahu scoop Nasrallah delivered tonight. A spontaneous countering of the enemy's psyop.
Someone should tell Netanyahu that no one out-psyops the Nas(rallah).
… More on other parts of Nasrallah's speech tomorrow.
G'night y'all from the land of anything-is-possible-at-any-given-moment and honey.
Priceless moment indeed Taxi…scenes are telling, whole Lebanon saw and a lot of people around the world, it was, literally, a Grand Slam for Nasrallah and all. The Resistance.
@ taxi/et al,
From a military PoV, you destroy a target first and then tell the world at large about it [or brag about it].
When this process is reversed, we’re listening to a man panhandling bull biscuits in the back alleys of D.C. As they are reserved for cattle, I’ll give the whole lot a pass.
May netanyahoo’s gambit turn into one, giant Charlie Foxtrot :o]
… And this here from the intrepid and prolific Elijah Magnier:
The USA threatens Iraq: stop the attacks, or else …
By Elijah J. Magnier:
The US administration sent an official threat to the Iraqi government requesting it to prevent all insurgency attacks against its forces, especially against the US embassy in Baghdad. Otherwise, the US threatens dire consequences, including the use of military power, economic sanctions and political boycott against Iraq.
According to officials in Baghdad, "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo informed the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, and Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi of the need to stop all attacks immediately, particularly against the US embassy in Baghdad; otherwise, the embassy will close its doors in the Iraqi capital."
"The US will impose sanctions on 36 Iraqi persons who will be placed under an international warrant for arrest. The US administration will adopt measures that prevent any form of economic aid to Iraq, including preventing it from exporting its oil. Military options will be considered against the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), in particular, "Asaib Ahl al-Haq" and "Kataeb Hezbollah Iraq". The US forces are expected to target their bases and offices in Iraq in retaliation to the several rockets launched against the US embassy in Baghdad. These attacks should stop immediately." This was the content of Pompeo's message that was delivered to the highest Iraqi authorities.
Upon receiving the US threat, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi informed all major political blocs, predominantly the Shiite, including regional players in Iran and Lebanon. Sources in Iran and Lebanon said that "any attack against foreign diplomatic missions is counterproductive and serves the enemies of Iraq and Iran." Contacts were established with all known Iraqi resistance forces to make sure all attacks cease and for these forces to denounce attacks against foreign diplomatic missions.
"There is no doubt there are Iraqi groups which are not under Iran or PMF's control. Iran would like to see US forces leaving the country. Prime Minister al-Kadhemi confirmed to Iran during his last visit that the US promised to leave Iraq before the end of this current year. There is a possibility that the US remains in Kurdistan, but that is another matter. All foreign forces must leave the country, and that is achievable without firing blind rockets or attacking convoys carrying US equipment but driven by Iraqi citizens. This is not the way to force the US forces to leave", said the source.
Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader of the largest parliamentary bloc and the Sadrist group, proposed the formation of a military and parliamentary committees to investigate the attacks on the American embassy. Sayyed Muqtada also suggested to investigate all attacks against other diplomatic missions – such as Britain and the United Nations – and stressed the need for the government to restore its prestige and impose Security. Al-Khademi acknowledged Moqtada's request and supported it.
However, a leading source in the Iraqi resistance said that "Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr has his vendetta against Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF), especially Sheikh Qais Khazali, the leader of "the League of Righteous People" (Asaeb Ahl al-Haq). Sheikh Qais – who was leading Asaeb to the request of Sayyed Moqtada – defected from the Sadrist group after 2007 when British Special Forces arrested him in Basra. His defection was communicated to Moqtada al-Sadr when Sheikh Qais' second in command, sheikh Akram al-Qa'bi, refused to hand over the Asaeb's properties to Sayyed Moqtada. Both Qais and al-Ka'bi were encouraged by the assassinated Iranian commander of the IRGC-Quds brigade Qassim Soleimani. The split of the Sadrist group into different sub-groups has overwhelmed the relationship between Moqtada and Soleimani for many years.
The Iraqi source asserts that "Sayyed Muqtada has his agenda and that "the prestige of Iraq" he talks about has been restored by the resistance and the PMF. Those threatening this prestige are the US forces that allowed Israel – as the US ambassador revealed to former Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi – to bomb the Iraqi security forces' positions and killed their leaders. Ion the other hand, the US has repudiated the decision of the Iraqi Council of Representatives that approved the removal of all foreign forces from Iraq immediately and has not committed itself to it and is still evading it by keeping its troops in Iraq. The US has no intention to withdraw completely, and this is what strikes at the prestige of Iraq, this is what Sayyed Moqtada should be concerned about. "
High-officials in Baghdad affirm that "Iran does not favour the attacks carried out by several unknown factions because the US has promised to leave. Consequently, these attacks delay the withdrawal for a longer time, may trigger a harsh reaction against Iraqi groups and do not hasten the US forces departure. Therefore, a blind rocket launched from here and there or an attack on an Iraqi-led convoy is not considered a successful policy and serve no purposes. The Iranians were straightforward with us, and we believe them."
There are more "convincing" military methods to force the US forces out quickly, but they would be employed after the date promised to conclude the final exit. Therefore, these Iraqi individuals responsible for the unattributed attacks seem not to be acting in the interests of Iraq nor Iran. Tehran has managed to build a robust relationship with al-Khademi, and his last trip to Tehran was successful by all means. Iran is happy to establish a strong relationship with the government and acknowledges there are groups put of control.
PMF has many enemies at home and abroad. The religious authority in Najaf, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Sistani, has stopped his support to Hashd al-Shaabi for many reasons. Sayyed Sistani especially opposed the loyalty of some of the has groups to Iran. The Marjaiya in Najag has contributed to forming four groups of Hashd known as the "Hashd al-Marjaiya". These groups operate around the holy city of Karbala that borders Anbar province, the heartland of ISIS. However, the grand ayatollah wishes to see for the rest of the Hashd brigades integrated within the security forces, i.e. the federal police, the counterterrorism brigade and the army. Sayyed Sistani would wish to see the regular security forces present over the whole of Iraqi territory. He believes that the danger of ISIS has been significantly reduced.
The PMF also has domestic enemies in Iraq (ISIS and the Kurds) and external enemies including the Americans, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The robust ideological convictions of Hashd al-Shaabi permitted this force to defeat ISIS and regain Iraq, unlike the regular security forces who were trained by the US for ten years and ran away from ISIS in 2014. The Kurds would like to see Hashd move away from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and far away from Kurdistan borders. The Americans consider most of Hashd al-Shaabi loyal to Iran and adverse to the US agenda in Mesopotamia. Israel believes Hashd al-Shaabi is part of the "Axis of the Resistance" and that it would participate in any future massive war against Israel and Iran's allies.
However, PMF has made many mistakes. It has been able to unite its ranks, was not entirely respectful of the government's institutions and hierarchy, is accused of corruption for inflating the number of its members and of being unable to control all groups within the PMF.
The US threat is precise, and the clash between the US forces and the PMF is inevitable if President Donald Trump is re-elected for another four years. It is highly unlikely that the US will entirely withdraw from Iraq, including Kurdistan. It is most likely that the US will reposition its forces. The US promise to withdraw is far from guaranteed because Trump has changed his mind on many occasions regarding the withdrawal from Syria and Iraq. A battle seems only a matter of time.
Can’t think of a better insensitive to up the ante.
Oops. That was me. Not Anonymous.
Ooof! What a backbreaking day I've had! Last night I slept waaaaay past my normal bedtime so I woke up much-much too late and already too tired this morning and had to instantly rush off to olive-picking instead of re-watching Nasrallah speech and writing about it for Plato's readers, as I had hoped. All day out in the sun climbing trees, picking thousands of olives (almost 22 kilos) and lugging them off to car (quarter of mile away) and then driving fast and straight to the oil press to process them. The whole thing about olive-picking is that it's extremely time-sensitive. You must either pickle or press the fresh-picked olives inside of 24 hours otherwise this minuscule worm, practically invisible to the eye, appears inside the olive fruit and alters its flavor and medicinal value. For me, it's three days of olive-picking-pressing-pickling madness per year. But these three physically demanding days are well worth it. They provide me a whole year's worth of olive oil and pickled olives – yumz! Tomorrow is the last day of olive-picking.
Right now I've a few minutes to spare on the keyboard before I eat early dinner, walk my dogs, clean up and crash early. I don't have it in me to do anything else like read headlines/articles or watch any attention-demanding videos right now – but maybe I'll get second wind later, who knows? Anyway, I will deliver the promised Nasrallah speech points soon as time permits, soon-soon-soon 'inshallah'. And on this note, did you see this bit of 'inshallah' at last night's presidential debate? LOL:
Man, I watched a video of some of the Trump/Biden debate just now and they both talked non-stop out of their asses nd over each other. A very assy event indeed. Bubble butt versus bony butt. One heck of a butty butt debate.
And quickly, so very much world drama is going on these past couple of weeks that I honestly can't keep up – can you? I mean to catch up with both local and world affairs these days I'd need to put aside like a good 12 hours per day of reading, researching and commenting.
What a ride to be alive today!
Faster world faster!!!
For those who don't know, 'inshallah' is defined here.
The WaPo dedicated a whole frigging article to Biden's 'inshallah':
‘Inshallah’: The Arabic ‘fuggedaboudit’ Biden dropped to blast Trump on tax returns
@ taxi,
It’s always funny to see how Arabs steal Russian words and claim them as their own.
Novdastrovyev = In the Salad
First mentioned 400 BCE in the scripts of Piotr the Gimp, when he tripped over a small table with vegetables on it, hit his head against a low hanging beam and then yelled these famous words, ‘In the Salad!!!’. This myth then traveled to Mesopotamia and over time bastardized into Inshallah.
Well, make of this history lesson what you want… Biden sure knows this phrase like he was there when he first heard it [and in fact, he was, and he did].
Heh heh, good one Daniel.
OT
Rant:
I really hate censorship. no matter what from it comes in or whatever reasons are presented as a valid rationale to do so.
“…we had reported that the company’s employees wish to censor his podcast. This includes the direct editing or removal of problematic content or entire episodes. It has now been reported that Spotify employees are planning a strike if their demands regarding Rogan’s ‘editorial oversights’ are not met.” – Link to Sportskeeda
My question is: ‘How do I get rid of those who want to censor anything they don’t like or agree with?’
Those who preach diversity can’t stand opposing views. Kinda funny, ain’t it.
Oh, wait… That’s exactly what’s happening in Occupied Palestine…
Times ran an article back in 1978, proudly proclaiming 80% of stand-up comedians were jewish. That kind of explains why I haven’t laughed in such a long time [at stand-up comedians’ jokes].
/rant
Fortunately, taxi always manages to put a smile on my face, even when she never sees a single one.
<3 you, hon.
And, right on cue, here to make my point for me:
French Writer Hervé Ryssen Jailed for Criticizing Jews – Link to Unz Review
Excerpt: “Ryssen was found guilty of “insult, provocation, and public defamation due to origin, ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion.” In 2016, he was sentenced to 5 months in jail for passages in his books Understanding Judaism, Understanding Anti-Semitism. In 2017, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail for “anti-Semitic messages” on Twitter and Facebook.”
That’s why everybody must luv jews [even when they wholeheartedly hate you]!!!!!!!
Joe Rogan is fucking controlled opposition agent sucking on jew dick. Watch how he and his jewy sidekick perpetuate and promote jewish supremacy and refer to antisemitism as a "virus". Yeah real smart man – NOT! He can shut the fuck up till kingdom come for all I care:
@ taxi,
OK. Point taken.
However, freedom of speech is freedom of speech, so he [and all his sidekicks] have to be allowed to spout their diatribe, because I wanna hose the world down with mine :o]
I only know Rogan from Newsradio [sitcom, mid '90s].
If Joe Rogan and his ilk are allowed to stuff shit into my brain then I’m allowed to stuff turds way down his and their throats. Free speech with gloves on or off: hooray!
Perspective, little humans, perspective!
Nasrallah's September 29th 2020 speech summary.
Mr. Nasrallah began his speech by giving a brief eulogy on the passing of the Emir of Kuwait, relaying all the help and consistent support that Kuwait and its leaders had given the Palestinians since 1948. He also praised Kuwait for resisting the 'normalization' pressures put upon it by the US and other GCC nations.
He then went into matters of Leb national security, stating that the US is now actively reviving the terrorist ISIS/Daesh army in the Levant, citing several recent armed battles between the Leb army and (the uncovered-by-army-intel) Daesh sleeper cells in the north of Lebanon. He urged Leb citizens to be vigilant and give their full support to their army. He said that the US has revived the terrorist army to give itself an excuse to stay in the region, when clearly the US has been on an irreversible losing streak in the mideast.
Following this, he took up the israel subject and reminded viewers that the terrorist jewish army remains in acute fear of Hezbollah's promised retaliation: remaining in hiding at the Leb-israel border. He said that never before in its history has the idf stood at such a level of fear for this length of time, and that the promised retaliation is still coming: "we shall see what happens in the next few days or weeks", he said. Moreover, he spoke of Netanyahu's UN address that had taken place a few minutes before Nasrallah's speech began, where the terrorist and mass klepto-murderer Netanyahu accused the Hezb of storing missiles in a depot by a gas station near Beirut airport. Nasrallah promptly invited Leb media to immediately go to this location and see for themselves what's inside the depot, exposing thus, in real time, the pernicious and dangerous lies that Netayahu had told the UN – (I reported on this part of the speech upthread here).
Then he took up the issue of Leb's internal politics regarding the formation of a new government and Macron's involvement. He gave a summary of Macron's seemingly friendly visits to the Leb and the press conference he subsequently gave a couple of days go in Paris regarding this issue where he turned sour on the Hezb and President Aoun and accused them of 'ruining' the chances for the formation of a new government under Mustafa Adib. Nasrallah was exceptionally diplomatic and said that he appreciated France's attempts at helping Lebanon and that the Hezb will continue to be open to French suggestions so long as Macron is respectful of Lebanese sovereignty and integrity. He analyzed, step by step, and exposed Macron's mission in Lebanon as being a failed political coup at removing the majority parties (Hezb, Amal, Aoun) from power and replacing them with "a small minority portion" (Hariri, Gaegae): “a completely undemocratic and unacceptable equation”, he said. He practically gave Macron a 20 minute lecture on how democracy works while smiling throughout (lol!). "We are not corrupt, we have no corruption charges against us, we have no wealthy corrupt families to protect, nothing like that", Nasrallah said of the hezb's rejection of the Macron ruse, adding: "we rejected Macron's recommendation purely for political and democratic reasons and not to personally foil his plans to protect our own sect". And in response to Macron's press conference statement of "Hezbollah cannot fight in Syria, fight israel and be a part of the government", he added: "We did not choose war, we did not initiate attack or invade anyone, the zionist entity did and we have every right to militarily defend ourselves against any external aggression. We went to Syria by invitation from the Syrian government to fight the terrorists that YOU (Macron) yourself label as terrorists; that YOU (France) have declared a war on; that YOU (France) went to Syria to fight WITHOUT official invitation from the Syria government. We did not go to Syria to kill civilians, we went there to protect Lebanon, Syria and the region; we went there to fight against the most dangerous project in the region: the Takfiri project that's second in danger to the zionist project. We do not practice terrorism or the instilling of fear in the hearts of our own people, as Macron alleges. A large part of the Lebanese media continuously criticize us and spread lies about us and smear us and they are not fearful of us when they do this, whereas in some Arab countries that you (Macron) ardently support: they have no freedom of speech or freedom of the press there". He further added addressing Macron with: "your media keeps accusing Iran of interference in this and that in Lebanon any time there is trouble in our country, but this is all baseless, empty talk. Iran is not like that; Iran is not like you. Iran does not interfere with internal Lebanese politics – the owners of decisions to do with Lebanese internal politics is us and only us, the Hezbollah – we, only we decide internal Lebanese matters".
A large part of the speech was dedicated to the issue of forming a new government and Macron's role and Nasrallah closed the topic with: "we welcomed the French role in our government-formation crisis, we continue to do so and we remain open to further dialogue with France and all other friends of Lebanon and political entities, but the way and methods that were employed by France this past month, the domineering methods employed by Macron negate truths and the reality of the crisis that Lebanon faces – this method will not produce positive and effective results. We support the continuing efforts by Macron (who's given Lebanon another 6 weeks to get a new government together), but I urge Macron to review his method and approach, and to also use more respectful language when dealing with us and Lebanon. Respect is the most important thing. The most important thing is the dignity of people. What occurred (with Macron's press conference) is abuse of our nation's dignity – this is unacceptable", he concluded.
Lastly, he commented on Bahrain's normlization by reminding viewers that the minority rulers do not speak for the honorable Bahraini people who are totally against normlization with the "violent rapist zionist entity". He praised Tunisia and Algeria for their anti normalization stance and also praised the Sudanese people for rejecting normalization despite their government's activities in that direction. He reminded people that even though Jordan and Egypt's governments have normalized relations with israel, their citizens have not done so even decades later. He closed his speech with "those who normalize will soon discover their failure".
@Taxi
Thanks for the summary of Nasrallah’s speech. As you said, it was meaty.
Heh, Mohammed bin Salman probably wants to normalize with the Palestinian Occupation, but he is probably acutely aware that his people would object, perhaps violently.
This ties in with a link you posted earlier, “Exiled Saudi dissidents launch opposition party“. The opposition party probably will not amount to much, but its very existence likely indicates that it is being funded by some wealthy Saudis who don’t like the crown prince, meaning that a coup is very possible. That could be another reason for the bone saw man to hesitate on normalization.
Thanks Tonsil. Mohammad bin Sawman is first in line to normalize, but he’d first have to literally to kill the decrepit king of saudi arabia as the king is refusing ‘open’ normalization – the king is happy to keep saudi arabia’s relationship with israel covert during his reign.
When saudi arabia normalizes, and it will under MbS, the whole global islamic nation will rise up and question saudi leadership/guardianship of the islamic world and its heritage. This will be the biggest crisis EVER that the islamic world will face since the Battle of Karbala back in year 680; a battle that resulted in the creation of the sunni-shia divide. Turkey, Pakistan, Iran and Indonesia (Indonesia being the largest islamic nation in the world), they will all be aggressively vying to take the islmic crown from MbS for his treason against islam: for handing the criminal and treacherous jews all the holy islamic sites in occupied Palestine. The current king of saudi arabia knows this only too well, which is why he won’t be publicly normalizing. He knows he’s just too old to take on the mother of all inter-islamic fights.
US Imposes New Sanctions on Syria – to prevent the reconstruction of the Arab country after nine years of war – announced yesterday 30 Sept. In June, the US drastically stepped up its sanction campaign against Syria with the Caesar Act, which specifically targets Syria’s construction and energy sectors.
(While the IDF fears Hezb – Israel still weilds powerful political influence over the US to do its bidding – to continually accelerate destabilization-bleeding of both Syria and the Leb – to prevent reconstruction and economic recovery of any kind. Its doubtful such pressure will be reduced regardless of the winner of the US election. For the sake of the dear Leb & Syrian citizens help is needed – sooner than later. Mike).
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/30/us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-syria/
Over the last few months Elijah has made a couple of commentaries that defied logic, likely starting with his off the wall glowing comments about the NZ PM Jack Blair.
Now it appears he has deserted the cause altogether and headed over to the dark side to support khazars………..
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1311625600600342528
Thanks, Whozhear. Yeah I saw that tweet myself last night. Thing is, Nasrallah’s instant expose of Netanyahu’s lies at the UN barely made a wave inside of israel, and this is because israelis generally already know that Netanyahu is a compulsive liar so it was nothing new to them, nothing shocking. And I did wonder why Magnier was using the word “win” in favor of israel. This conclusion was a head-scratcher for me indeed. But to be fair and square, Magnier he did ask for patience till he presents his explanation in his new article, so let’s first wait and see what led him to this boggling conclusion.
For Nasrallah, exposing Netanyahu’s nasty lie was foremost for the following reasons:
1) To assure the Leb population that no such hezb missile was located near a gas station: “we do not have any missiles stored near a gas station – we know where to store our missiles”, he said.
2) To present to the UN body, to indirectly put it on record, that Netanyahu’s pernicious accusation is false and dangerous.
For israel and the US and all them jewy Western medias: none of them give a shit about filmed facts, actual evidence or the truth. They will all cling to Netanyahu’s false accusation for dear life and repeat it ad nauseam till kingdom come. But I wouldn’t exactly call that a “win for israel”. I would call it business as usual for the Axis of Evil leaders and their lying media. Mindful here too that this story was not even mentioned in the US press. They buried it way under the presidential debates taking place on the same day.
Remember Netanyahu’s lies to congress when he claimed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction – a claim that sealed the US’s war on Iraq: the very war that opened the evil gate for more costly wars against Arab nations that challenge israel? Yeah sure we all remember this. Even though millions of Americans know that Netanyahu lied about Saddam’s WMD’s, they still support israel and Netanyahu’s leadership, and israel still gets our tax dollars despite the hugely ruinous lie. Clearly, being caught in a lie that cost America thousands of lives and trillions of tax dollars is meaningless to the American leadership and its media. Nothing new here.
Whatever truth Nasrallah says makes no bit of difference in the US. He has no positive press there and he will NEVER have a good word said about him in the US media. We should all take this as a given.
Some hilarity from erdoggie……….
https://twitter.com/trpresidency/status/1311670936870023168
I say let him at it……
The jews are getting adventurous with their hate for humanity and warmongering and careless weapons sales. They're punching up at poor Armenia just to cause trouble on Iran's border with Azerbaijan. For decades the evil jews have been drowning Azerbaijan with sophisticated weapons to be used specifically against Armenia, their bitter enemy. The evil jews have now ganged up with evil Turkey and evil Azerbaijan on this evil war project to get the following out of it: Azerbaijan wants Armenian territory; Turkey wants to continue its 1920's genocide of Armenia; and israel wants to destabilize Iran's border, just like its own border is destabilized by the Hezbollah. Here, Armenia is clearly the jew's sacrificial lamb.
I tellzya the sooner israel dies, the more peaceful the world will be.
While waiting for Russia to take an actual stand against the war on Armenia, as it did with the war on Syria, poor Armenia can only do so much to help itself:
Armenia recalls ambassador from Israel to protest sale of weapons to Azerbaijan
What would be even better news is if all warmongering jewish billionaires got covid and died overnight:
President Donald Trump tweets he and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19
Is this the first of many ‘October surprises’? Trump’s sudden covidian status adds an extra layer off dark ‘unknown’ into an already frightfully unknown election equation.
East coast is just about waking up right now to learn of the White House turning into Corona House overnight. By the time banks open on the West coast, we will see mass Dem-glee, we will see mass Rep-sadness and we will see much-much mass worry right across the spectrum sweep across the land – we will see a crazy mix of the three all-consuming emotions.
If Trump survives by remaining asymptomatic, then the Trump haters would say it was all a manipulative act to change the headlines away from his sinking polls post the debate. They will hate him even more for it.
If Trump gets punched by full-blown corona and recovers (a miracle in my eyes when his blood is fueled by toxic Big Macs),then the undecided/independent voter may very well feel sorry for Trump and see him as a heroic winner having faced and beat covid and thus vote for him – mindful here that it’s the undecided and independent voters who determine the election winner.
And if Trump dies after the corona punch (big probability that he dies if it blooms in him, especially considering his age and his Big Mac staple), then the US faces a grim near future. Highly unlikely that bigwig Republicans would accept Pence as a presidential candidate when he wasn’t democratically voted in as candidate, and especially those bigwigs who think that Pompeo would by far be a stronger and more capable bet would HUGELY object. You will then have an inner-party civil war, while the crazed Dems screech demanding immediate elections in the midst of a bizarre constitutional crises taking place at the 11th hour of election season. Elections will be postponed. Violence on the streets from both sides will follow. This violence will increase and lead to one of the sides committing an atrocity against the other (it always does), and THAT’S the very moment that civil war hell will break out.
The delayed elections will be cancelled altogether.
A national emergency will be called.
The National Guard will be called in.
Everybody fighting everybody else.
The dollar is brutally kneecapped.
Empire’s Nancy-boys (Gulfies) and bulldog (israel) will find themselves in existential dangers.
Old colonial Europe prepares to take over America’s vacuum left around the globe – but they’ll have to face the Axis of Russia and China first, oh yeah face belligerent Turkey too.
Nobody respecting International Law.
Death of the UN.
A complete turning over of the table of the world.
… Lord have mercy if but one of the above predictions comes true.
Yet another new Magnier article on Macron's fiasco in Lebanon:
I did not fail, Macron said; but why did he indeed fail-and could not have succeeded?
By Elijah J. Magnier:
The French initiative President Emmanuel Macron has taken towards Lebanon is not expected to succeed, now or in the coming weeks unless new elements are introduced. The French President is far from finding a solid foothold in Lebanon or uniting the Lebanese and has not even convinced the Europeans to join his initiative and inject sums of money into the crumbling Lebanese economy. Macron has friends in Lebanon who do not mind preserving a good relationship with France as long as it can offer solutions to solve this intractable Lebanese crisis. As for blaming others, not admitting his mistakes, and not realising the pitfalls of Lebanese politics, this is evidence that the master of the Elysée is not yet ready to learn the lessons from his previous mistakes and does not possess other solutions following his initial plan, which was just not realistic. But why is it that France will not succeed in its initiative in Lebanon? The reasons are numerous.
Without a doubt, President Macron is more knowledgeable about the details of Lebanese politics than any other western President. However, this knowledge is not sufficient to accurately predict the reactions of well-established politicians, their fears, and the lack of trust between them.
When Macron delved into the details of the financial situation and how Lebanon reached the size of its current debt and its causes (corruption, theft of public funds and the lack of an infrastructure plan whose money went into the pockets of politicians), as a former banker, he was able to explain more than 30 years of financial engineering that failed due to corruption in less than two minutes. Lebanon is not in a position to reconstruct international and domestic financial trust when its production belies its expenditure and the foreign investment in the infrastructure is ending up in the pockets of local warlords.
As for when Macron tacked a possible political solution, he appeared weak and did not hold to a robust road map which would have had chances of success. During his first meeting with the politicians,he asked for their participation in the forthcoming government. Then he returned to Lebanon to request a consensual government. In both cases, he did not clarify what sort of government he was hoping to see and for the international community to collaborate with. It was not until his last press conference a few days ago that he clarified some of his wishes, only to confirm his confusion.
Macron made it clear that former Prime Minister Saad Hariri made a mistake when selecting ministers based on confessional choice only to confirm that Hariri, the leader of a political party, was dictating his wishes to the designate Prime Minister Mustafa Adeeb. How can Macron ask Lebanese politicians – who disagree and distrust each other – to accept that the "club of former Prime Ministers" loyal to Saudi Arabia and the US run the Prime Minister Adeeb and suggest the new cabinet members? This "club" is formed by former PMs Fouad Siniora who is extremely hostile to the majority Christians led by former Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and to Hezbollah. Its second member is Najeeb Miqati, a Sunni billionaire close to Saudi Arabia with a substantial interest in the USA. Its third member is Saad Hariri who holds Saudi nationality, and a declared enemy of Bassil, whose family lives in Riyadh, who seeks the Saudi blessing even if Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has rejected him. Hariri has 17 MPs in parliament while Bassil has 20 and the duo Shia groups (Amal and Hezbollah) have 34 MPs.
President Macron says that politicians have to choose between "the politics of the worst," which means a civil war, as he said, or democracy. Macron did not explain how the concept of democracy would work in this case, which, if applied, governs the parliamentary majority and not the club of former presidents who represent the minority of the deputies. This indicates confusion in Macron's message.
The French President seems to be destroying the bridges he created with Hezbollah during his two visits to Lebanon when he accused the organisation of being responsible for obstructing the formation of the government that Macron adopted (Adeeb's government). The French President did not say at any time in his successive visits to Lebanon that the parliamentary minority represented by the Club of former MPs must manage the naming and selection of the new cabinet and draw the road map for the resigning Prime Minister, Mostafa Adeeb.
Had Macron formulated his road map, he would undoubtedly have faced face a total rejection by the majority of the politicians. At no moment has the French President said – as MP Walid Jumblatt revealed– that Macron wanted a government that does not represent the Lebanese political leaders. Also, why would PM Adeeb refuse to meet the leaders of the MPs and limit his consultation with the Sunni club of PMs? Furthermore, notwithstanding the nomination of Adeeb, the Christian leader Samir Geagea (who represents 15 MPs) refused to give confidence to Macron's candidate from the very beginning. Geagea is known to be totally pro Saudi Arabia and the US.
The duo Shia groups Amal and Hezbollah insisted on nominating the Finance Minister. In fact, for the first time, Hezbollah insisted more than the Speaker Nabih Berri (head of Amal). It held a firm position on the constitutional right to choose the Shia representative in the cabinet. The Finance Minister has the power to agree and release the budget of any cabinet project or payment to any official institution. The firm position of the Shia came after the designation of the US to the duo-Shia allies of two ministers on the sanctions list and after being ignored by PM Adeeb as suggested to him by the anti-Hezbollah advisers, the Sunni "Club of former Prime Ministers".
Moreover, the insistent position of the duo Shia on nominating the Finance Minister saved President Aoun and the Christian majority party. Each religion has the right to be consulted on the names of the future cabinet members when the selection of all Ministers is carried out by the Sunni PM and the Sunni former PMs. It is worth mentioning that in around three weeks, between the designation and the day the Prime Minister resigned, Adeeb never presented a list of the names of his ministers to the President for approval or opinion.
During his last press conference, the French President offered a second chance for another 4-6 weeks. The six-week period coincides with the US Presidential election planned for 3rd November. However, the US election results won't be available immediately but rather weeks afterwards. Moreover, the fate of the US is uncertain if Donald Trump is not re-elected. The "New York Times" columnist Thomas Friedman is said to be terrified by the possibility of covering a potential civil war in the US if Trump is not returned to the White House.
It seems evident that the US did not give France the green light and did not leave the Lebanese stage free for Macron to draw his road map. Indeed, following each visit of the French President, a US envoy landed in Lebanon just days after Macron's departure. Moreover, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered harsh overt criticism following Macron's meetings with Hezbollah in Lebanon. To give another hit to the French initiative, the US imposed sanctions on Lebanese personalities that Emmanuel Macron explicitly said he does not agree with, though he can neither stop nor control their timing.
It was precisely these sanctions that indicated the Shiite duo "Amal" and "Hezbollah" that France does not have control and that its international role has only a narrow space. The US has its objectives in the Middle East that differ and do not intersect with Europe, and with France in particular.
Lebanon needs three billion dollars to cover its monthly needs of first necessities (fuel, wheat and medicine). Its long-privileged banking system has lost domestic and international trust. Most of the politicians who rule the country and dominate the minority and the majority of the parliament have lost the confidence of the population because they are responsible for decades of corruption and mismanagement. However, these are still powerful and are not ready to leave the Lebanese theatre to real reformists. They all have middle eastern and international backers. The French President himself warned against increasing external interference in Lebanese domestic affairs even as he, as an external player, is intervening- dictating his conditions and distributing lessons and an inconsistent and unclear road map. Macron does not have the real vision or solution that must begin with the Lebanese constitution: old, rusty and inadequate though it be. Politicians hide behind their religion when they face criticism and wave the card of civil war when their personal interests are at stake. Any Prime Minister can be expected to have only a limited margin of manoeuvre in these conditions.
Macron gave six weeks to sort out the problem of forming a government in Lebanon. This is an unrealistic plan when there are so many domestic, regional and international players who are stakeholders. There is little chance for this deadline to work. Instead, there is a need to construct clear and sound foundations on which to build healthy stability in this small country, whose fate concerns the entire international community.
Even if the period of six weeks expires, Macron will not give up because France has interests in Lebanon, in its port, its energy, and the competition that France is exposed to from several countries interested in having a foothold in those hungry Lebanese markets. Turkey, China, Russia and Iran are lining up, and France is not the only Coca-Cola in the desert. But if Macron continues to "give lessons" without having a clear and adequate plan, then his initiative is doomed to total failure. Already by evoking Hezbollah's status in Lebanon and Syria, he has knocked on the wrong door and lost the credit he accumulated on his first visits. Restoring is more complicated than building from scratch.
Listen up guys and gals, if Macron REALLY wanted to help Lebanon, he'd help the Leb investigators locate the 20 billion dollars that were illegally, privately and quickly transferred out of Lebanon without a trace in the first month of the dollar crisis. Macron literally said last summer when commenting on corrupt Leb politicians: “we’ve looked into their accounts and know their activities". So why not help Lebanon by giving Leb investigators this information? Why force Lebanon into begging for 11 billion that he's promising to bring to Lebanon when he can delivered them their own 20 billion?
The motherfucker!
The Leahy Laws: Why Biden’s Promise to Israel Is Illegal
https://original.antiwar.com/zarefah_baroud/2020/10/01/the-leahy-laws-why-bidens-promise-to-israel-is-illegal/
Thanks, Cloak. But since when do our elected reps ever follow the laws of the land, especially when it comes to all things israel?
More political theater! Testing positive means absolutely nothing when the tests are rife with false positives. Apparently the tests report positive if any Covid strain (not just Covid-19) is found to be present. Worse, even if here are dead Covid-19 organisms in your body, specifically after you have recovered from Covid-19, you will test positive for months afterwards! So, does this mean that all the "vaccines" that Trump has been imbibing are also worthless? Well yes. Because Covid-19 is another variation of the common cold – the actual death rates (they only talk about the infection rate and not the recovery rate) have been much less than the annual 'flu outbreaks!
President Trump, first lady test positive for coronavirus, set to quarantine at White House
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-confirms-he-first-lady-melania-trump-tested-positive-for-coronavirus
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1311892190680014849%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpresident-trump-confirms-he-first-lady-melania-trump-tested-positive-for-coronavirus
Cloak, we can call it many names indeed, but the point is that it kills people. There is no doubt that it’s a deadly virus.
Recovery stats and cures and all that controversial stuff aside, it remains the case that covid can kill you. Especially if you’re old, sick and on a poor diet.
Of course it can kill you if you are in the at-risk group. More people die from the 'Flu each year in the US than died from Covid so far. Color me unconvinced…
My cousin’s wife, who is a UN doctor, cites that globally speaking, 3.4% of reported covid victims have died. Whereas, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected. I’ve seen a variety of contradictory numbers for covid versus flu US deaths – it’s why it’s hard for me to say precisely what the actual stats are in the US, but I would think the death rate would somewhat relatively match the global one.
I really try not to get into stat covid debates because nothing is fixed and absolute in that regard – our scientific information on covid is incomplete. And really, we should take into consideration that while many people locally and globally have built up immunity to existing flu strains, covid is a new virus to which no one has immunity. This means more people are susceptible to its infection and those who get infected, may even die from the virus.
This HERE is the latest US stats for flu and covid deaths: data collected and compared as of September 19th, 2020.
@ taxi,
That group is at risk from a lot.
I second CaD's sentiments: " Color me unconvinced…
I need clarity from you and Cloak on this “unconvinced” business. What exactly are both of you “unconvinced” by, about, etc.
Personally, I have no fixed judgement because nobody thus far has the full-spectrum information on covid-19. All I know is that if you get it, it can kill you. This is a proven fact that I personally cannot deny. Everything else about covid, like its stats and cures etc, are up for topsy-turvy grabs.
I need clarity from you and Cloak on this “unconvinced” business.
Taxi: you know that I am a scientist and can only accept assertions that follow the rules of logic and conclusions derived from that and *scientific* observations. Let me see if I can state concisely what I am unconvinced about:
1. We have no reliable tests for Covid-19 (amazing isn't it?), therefore positive detection of Covid-19 is meaningless in making statements about a pandemic.
2. People who have died "from Covid-19" have invariably had other accompanying illnesses at the same time as the presence of Covid-19 (how tested?). I am unconvinced about the causal relationship to death
3. Here in Marin County, some place I am intimately familiar with, there have been a total of 6,751 cases of detection, with a total of 119 deaths – about 1.7%. Before you get excited about this, remember the amount of false attribution of death to Covid above. To complicate matters further, we are home to San Quentin, where prisoners are exposed. Additionally, 121 prisoners were brought in from SoCal. At its height, there were 2,200 cases in San Quentin, including a prison guard who died, of which 27 prisoners have died – greatly affecting the numbers for Marin County.
4. Lockdowns as a solution have no scientific basis. Countries like Sweden, who did not lockdown, have achieved herd immunity and are now "clean". There is no scientific evidence that lockdowns have done anything but clobbered the economy, greatly increased the suicide rates, dramatically increased crime (San Francisco crime rate has increased to 147% of 2019 already), created a mental health nightmare all around.
I can provide you pages more of arguments, including why masks have caused more health problems than prevented them, since they are ineffective in blocking the flow of the virus. As is usual, we thrive on security theater, health theater, and now behold, the ongoing political theater with the current pair of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (b).
So, I am unconvinced that:
a. Covid-19, while possibly deadly for some, rates the kind of over-reacton it has enjoyed. Deadliness is not sufficient reason fo panic – after all, Ebola is far deadlier than Covid – why no equivalent reaction for that?
b. Covid-19 destroyed the economy. The Federal Reserve/Jewish bankers had already destroyed the economy and used Covid to deflect blame. The economy did not die from Covid – it died from crony-capitalism, insidious Jewish control of our money, the existence of the private Federal Reserve – neither federal, nor a reserve – just the foisting of horror on us in 1913.
c. Lockdowns were the optimal course of action to achieve herd immunity. CIP: Sweden
As I stated, I have been amassing information about this for many months, so I am pretty confident about my stance on this.
@ taxi,
Am not the kinda guy to hide behind someone else’s skirt, but CaD has put it in such an eloquent way, I can’t improve on it, and thus say, “My thoughts exactly.”
The only thing I will add: Logic is free of contradictions.
Good morning guys, hope you're all alrightyright.
Okay so if I understand you right, you're dismissive of US policy on covid, and not that covid is a hoax or that its deadly. Fair enough. Herd immunity is your answer to tackling covid. Fair enough. But I'm not sure you can compare Ebola to covid because Ebola didn't reach anywhere near the pandemic level as indeed covid has. And, I also believe when a human is faced with an instant life and death situation, one's survival instinct tends to overtake 'science' – and everything else, for that matter.
Here I'll say that personally, in times and situations of mortal danger, especially if I am not equipped with full-spectrum information, I will err on the side of safety even if it makes me look dumb to others. That's just me.
Updated covid stats from Sweden HERE.
Thanks for clarifying guys.
Taxi, for context about why I feel so strongly about this, let me move from the logical to the personal and emotional:
Two months ago (I think I told you), my baby brother died from cancer. He and his family resided in Calgary. Because of the covid panic, and due to Trump's motor mouth to some extent, Canada barred Americans from entering.
I could not hold my baby brother in my arms one last time and tell him how much I loved him and how my life would never be the same again after such a devastating loss. No man should have to watch his youngest sibling die before he does. No mother should have to watch her youngest son die before she does, as my mother did. But I was not able to be with him in his last moments, nor be at his funeral to throw dirt on his coffin, after one last lingering look at that beautiful face that I shall never see again.
So yeah – fuck this fake pandemic. It is better to die from this sickness than live in the sickness that we are all forced to endure. If I could have spent one more day with my baby brother, I would have gladly surrendered my life to Covid. That is what freedom means – the right to choose to live my life my way and not in some jew-controlled government, finance, and media enforced prison.
To echo Patrick Henry – give me liberty or give me death. It would complete my life if I could take some of these scoundrels and rogues down with me.
Dearest Cloak. No, you didn’t share your bereavement with me till just now. First I’m hearing of it. I wondered why the tone of your emails of late had been so gloomy and morose – I didn’t inquire because I thought I might be invading your personal space. What you just shared about your brother brought a stream of tears to me eyes. I wholeheartedly understand and agree with your position. I grieve with you. I’m sure yours is but one tragic and sad story out of tens of thousands. My true commiserations to you and to your good family. My heart is breaking for you all. Your little brother is my little brother too. R.I.P. dearest, beautiful, wondrous little brother. In heart, in soul and in mind he will forever remain.
‘Give me liberty or give me death’. I would burn all other lofty principles if I was forced to, except for this one.
Thank you, beloved Taxi, for your ever sincere commiserations and also for your support over the past 6 months with the other catastrophe in my life. Your words of support have helped to pull me back from the abyss that I was spiraling into. In your case, I know that every utterance of empathy comes from the core of your soul, and for that, I shall be eternally grateful to you.
It’s been such a hard year for you, dear Cloak. A year of deep loss and sorrow like never before. When the warrior is injured by shadow of night, the warrior endures till the sun rises again – and it always does.
But the pain of bereavement: this is a different realm of pain altogether. Bereavement is eternal. It never goes away. It is the deepest pain. But it does make the warrior’s heart grow larger, larger than transient life itself.
The comfort of friendship is but small in the face of bereavement, yet, it always stirs the sun towards the darkest corner of soul.
It is an honor and a pleasure to have your friendship, dear Cloak. Always, forever and a day.
@ taxi,
Ebola Zaire had a death rate of 90%. It is also one of the most vile ways to die [so, I'm not going to describe it], but it died down on its own [it didn't die out].
Roughly 8% of our DNA are remnants of viruses, so there is a logic behind why viruses have been adopted by evolution to become part of us.
You make a very important point, Daniel. Thank you for bringing the enlightening evolution aspect into the equation.
@ Taxi,
New CDC report shows 94% of COVID-19 deaths in US had contributing conditions…….
https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/new-cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-us-had-underlying-medical-conditions/
And dont forget many of the deaths in nursing homes was due to infected people being forced by edict to remove to nursing homes.
Throughout much of the West, the stats on the virus are BS. Much of the testing is producing false positives too.
Thanks Whozhear.
Sure, I know this. I have family members who've had false-positives and other members who were asymptomatic too and now they're not. But how does all this negate the fact that the virus is highly contagious and kills? It doesn't. About the only certainty about covid is that it has a high level of contagion and can kill. This is the bottom line that my survival cognitive faculty attaches to and operates with accordingly. I don't trust government stats and I don't trust hospital stats either. But do we really need stats to be proactive and mindful of covid at this stage? No we don't. Do we need gov stats to wear a seat belt while in moving vehicles? No we don't. We just do it and hope for the best.
I find getting into stats and shmats a real brain clusterfuck and a waste of time, basically because whose stats the fuck to do you believe? That's the problem with getting fixated on mountains of ever-changing and unreliable graphs.
Some freakydeaky headlines and revelations for y'all. I'll begin with the first link that discusses the new jewish push to equate anti-pedophilia with antisemitism. Yeah, you heard right: anti-pedophilia = antisemitism. A heady and disgusting slogan:
Authoritarians and Jews: the Push to Normalize Pedophilia
And what do you think of this underground social subculture now growing upward tentacles and spreading here and there. Brave new world or strange new world?
Pirate Care, a syllabus
And when jews are not busy promoting child-rape in your neighborhood and fleecing your taxes to spend on the infanticide of Palestinian children, you'll find them with shovel and smirk and mirror: falsifying present reality and history to hide their wanton, incurable kleptomania and insatiable hate for humanity.
Israel’s army of archaeological looters
And after all the above wretched reads, I say it's a good thing that people who are smarter and wiser than me exist:
Why the US Is Falling – and Faster than You May Expect: A 40-year-old Prediction Coming True
… and lastly, I enjoyed the prism of history presented here:
Good night, wacky world. Mind your funky step now.
@Cloak and Dagger
Rigor is quite appropriate in science; I applaud it. That much strictness can impede some necessary actions, however. Hardly anyone would ever be convicted of a murder, for example, if the scientific rules of evidence were legally demanded in all cases. A true scientist would have a hard time proving guilt, as exculpating possibilities are often nearly endless. Yet a functioning and stable country needs to find and then convict the murderer, for reasons of sound justice and deterrance. (We only have to look at Lebanon for what can happen if the major crooks aren’t punished.) So scientific rigor, usually to be welcomed, actually can be a drawback in some situations.
The pandemic is one of those situations; time is critical. If China had delayed its response to Covid-19, waiting for a strong scientific consensus, it would still be waiting, and the virus would still be raging there and possibly killing millions of people. When patients in large number are at death’s door, we cannot afford the time.
Yes, Covid-19 has been devastating to the West’s economies. But China is an existence proof that an economy need not suffer much for long. The West is hurting from poor policy and not from overreaction to the virus.
Thanks dear Tonsil. Yes, human science is king, but it's not god (for wont of a better word). Science can occasionally become blinkered and get in the way, I agree on this. But, it is a life-saving deductive and cognitive tool whose benefits have advanced the cause of humanity.
When science cannot illuminate the door in a dark room, then it behooves the five senses and the hand to feel out the doorway. The human survival instinct is a form of intelligence in and of itself. Science cannot imitate it, but it can illuminate its machinations through methodical research and study. I encourage embracing both science and the human instinct in one's life journey. Both are equally important. What I don't encourage is superstition disguised as instinct. Instinct, after all, is a form of intelligence, intangible as it may be, and superstition is, well, it's airy bullshit.
I'm the sort of a person who is not a gambler at all. I like my terra firma solid and not mushy. So if there is even a 1% chance that a medical mask can save my life in any given dangerous situation, I will use it. No question about that. And I don't care what people make of it.
I can tell you that here in the south Leb, because natives have been observing covid-safety measures, they have by far fewer cases of the virus than they do in the north of Lebanon that has been lax in following covid social etiquette and medical recommendations. It doesn't take a scientist here to figure that smart caution is king.
And yes, Chinese covid policy has worked for China, while US covid policy has but caused ongoing grief and death. And as Cloak has commented above re Sweden's policy, well it worked for them too. Here I have to say that it's more difficult to contain a pandemic when you have a large population. The US population count is somewhere between that of China's and Sweden's – makes one wonder therefore: how come both China and Sweden, having different population counts and using different policies, how come both have succeeded better at containment than the US has? Yeah, 'it's the POLICY stupid', as the saying goes – and it's ALSO the level of individual intelligence. A combination of smart policy and an intelligent personal approach to covid seems to be a best route to follow. Clearly, there is more than just one way to contain a pandemic, as exampled here by China and Sweden. There are many roads to Damascus. Just go with what actually works.
Let's be honest here and face it: both sides of the American aisle are using the race card for their own political benefit. Disgusting and dangerously divisive!
The “White Supremacy” Trap
A short true story: an English friend of mind came to visit me in LA over two decades ago. We went to a 'Hollywood' party. We stood in a group of merry guests and my friend saw a nice-looking guy standing at the other end of the garden with his friends. She asked us all: "who's that guy in the blue shirt?", and a girl in our group said: "oh that black guy, his name is Darren". Well, my English friend’s eyes popped out of their sockets and she turned to me, leaned close into my ear and whispered: "what the fuck – I didn't see him as blacky-black".
My English friend had identified the dude by the color of his shirt, while my American associate identified the same guy by the color of his skin. I realized then how deep the race-conscious issue is within the American psyche.
Our good friend and a Plato old timer, Rudy, emailed me this fascinating article on covid today – many thanks, dear Rudy, you always share so generously and so superbly:
The COVID-19 PCR Test is Detecting DNA Found in All Humans
Really, this article here below is more of an attack on lying journalism than it is informative on the true character of Hezbollah. Writer doesn't know shit about the Hezb, but he's wearing boxing gloves and stepping forward for them:
Why Is the British Press Sexing Up Stories on Hezbollah, Iran and China?
Here's a seriously ballsy rag for y'all:
Violent "Antifa" Doxer Is Prominent Syracuse-Based Jewish Political Strategist
Ooooh the oozing evil of that jew.
Hi
Off-topic but since it came up, thought I'd weigh in on the pandemic because it's one of the things I've done a lot of research on. The countries I've looked at in some detail include Italy, US, UK, Germany, Canada, Sweden, Spain. All the data (not from media but directly from health authorities and the medical journals) suggest the following:
1. MESSED UP STATS: Of all the covid-attributed deaths e,g, only 4%(Italy)-6% (US) are covid only. The other 94-96% have on average 2.6 severe comorbidities. In many countries death certificate guidelines were changed for covid such that doctors could write death certificates without seeing the deceased, autopsies were banned and the WHO took the unprecedented step of including a special code for "suspected" covid (U07.2) allowing anything and everything to be added to the "covid" count. U07.1 is confirmed covid. But when you look at footnotes, most countries include both. It's so wrong to include multiple cause deaths as "covid".
A concrete example, Italy has two sets of death statistics. One is produced in real time: if someone dies and has cancer, diabetes and flu they'll be triple counted. A year or two later, after careful analysis, a primary cause of death is allocated for healthcare resource planning purposes. At this point, there will be one primary cause of death. So the final count of flu deaths is available only after a year or two.
For covid, all these rules have been thrown out of the window. Everything is tossed into the covid bucket and updates are provided every 24 hours.
2. CASEDEMIC: The few instances where people have tried to culture virus from "positives" has shown that over half of the time, the "positives" don't result in any viral growth. The "asymptomatic positive" is unprecedented in history and is being used to prolong the pandemic. It has zero connection to actually being ill or contagious.All previous pandemics defined a "case" as a positive test result PLUS symptoms.
In all countries, the statistics now show that mostly have zero or light symptoms and deaths and critical cases are very few.
3. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BREAKDOWN: If you look at mortality WITHIN countries, you will find that deaths are concentrated in those care homes and hospitals were standards fell dramatically in no small part due to media hysteria. In Italy almost 50% of deaths occurred in Lombardy. In the US, NY and NJ account for half the deaths. And so on. The deaths resulted from healthcare system chaos and not from the virus. Germany for instance has zero excess mortality. The lockdowns helped only to free up resources by reducing traffic accidents etc.and scaring people away from hospitals even if they needed care.
4. CARE HOMES: Across the OECD, 50-85% of pandemic deaths have occurred in care homes. Many of these deaths have been labelled covid despite having nothing to do covid.
In short, this virus is no more and no less deadly or contagious than other flu viruses. It can be deadly for frail or sick people. Some people can have long term effects. But we don't get hysterical for flu and we should not do so for covid.
Stay safe but realize that the hysteria is being pushed by those who can profit from it. Every country whose unpopular government was in hot water before the pandemic has been quick to use the pandemic to shut down protests: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, etc.
@ PQ,
A wholeheartedly felt Thanks!
10,000 years ago, there was only natural selection and survival of the fittest.
Today we have trailer parks and slums where breeding continues unabraded and government agencies [with their own agendas] that throw their individual policies to the wind.
Therefore, stick to what ‘you’ think is the best thing to do, as long as it isn’t mandatory.
Personally, I stick to nature and live in peace with it.
@ taxi,
As to CaD’s story about his brother, I did read about it on Plato’s pages. I think you just have missed it. As you’ve had quite a few problems with connectivity and keyboards, that’s fully explainable as such.
Good morning Daniel, good morning y’all. Daniel: I’ve just done a search of Cloak’s comments and I don’t see a reference to his sick brother in any of his comments going back 3 months. I usually read all comments on Plato’s – even when I’m absent for several days, I tend to check comments that I’ve missed upon my return. In any case, I remain in sadness over Cloak and his family’s loss. Very upsetting story. R.I.P. Cloak’s little brother.
@ taxi,
In that case I sincerely apologize.
Did he mention it on UNZ and I’m simply confused?
The only one that can shed light on this is CaD. Hopefully he will comment, because I knew his brother’d died of cancer [and I’m absolutely not clairvoyant].
@Taxi, @Daniel Rich:
Hmm. I had sent that in a private email to @Taxi, IIRC. I may have posted something related in UNZ in response to some Covid comment, but I don’t remember now. But obviously, if Daniel read it, I must have posted it.
Thank you both for your voices of support and friendship. I truly appreciate it.
One of the things that I have observed over the past months is that people like me, extroverts (I am an ENTJ – with 60% T and 40% F), are more adversely affected by isolation than introverts, who may not even feel anything differently with isolation). For us extroverts, the damage from the lack of human interaction is physically perceptible. I heavily use Zoom and other f2f communication tools (better than a phone call) to be in continuous contact with my friends and colleagues, and I have resumed dating again to restore more normality into my life. This has helped significantly, although it is a pale shadow of what we had before (heh, those were the Good Times!)
Isolation kills. Ask anyone in solitary confinement.
Good observation, Cloak. Myself being a life-long introvert with but the occasional extrovert outburst back in my youth, I can here confirm that any kind of quarantine has little to no effect on me. In fact, nothing I love more than being left the heck alone.
@ taxi/CaD,
Hmmmm, that's odd. Maybe I'm just mixing things up, using various internet platforms as ingredients. As taxi discovered, my primary assessment was wrong, right out of the gate, so, my sincerest apologies for any and all confusion to you both.
@Taxi – Heh! For an introvert, you sure pull off the facade of an extrovert extremely well! Brava!
Cloak,
My writing personality is literally the opposite of my real life personality – I've remarked on this before on Plato's. Stick me in a room full of people and I get tongue-tied – stick me in an internet chatroom and off I go like a rocket. I tried to force myself into extroversion as a youth but it didn't work for long – all I got out of it were a few hangovers and some bad company
!
Of course, when with family or old friends, I'm a mix of introvert and extrovert, all depending on the mood of the day. But essentially, I'm a natural introvert. I'm a natural observer as opposed to a natural participator. Not forgetting here that my long stint as a screenwriter means that I can write in the voice of any character: pretty convincingly.
@Taxi – LOL! I do recall you saying that in the past now that you mention it!
Cloak, once in my youth, I went out to meet a friend for afternoon tea and came back home 28 days later. I went out, then I continued being out: went more out, then more out from there, then outer than that out, and out of that out more out, another out, then another, then another: and like that out and out I went for 28 spontaneous days lol. I needed a toothbrush? I went and bought one. Needed change of clothing: went out and bought some. Wanted something to eat, read, CD albums, whatever: just bought the small of what I needed. Like that I lived visiting one friend after another: chilling from house to house and from place to place, from outing to outing. Then, I suddenly remembered that I had rent to pay and eeeeek I rushed home lol. Yeah I pretty much overdosed on going out that month. But I loved it and I’m loving the memory of it now. I kept it all spontaneous and I traveled it light. I mean because I’m lazy, I didn’t want to have to lug a bag getting heavier every few days cuz I’m buying more things and stuffing them in there – yikes I didn’t want to see a bag anywhere near me – so, I just left all extraneous clothes and books and CD’s behind wherever I was. I’d say goodbye to friends at their front door, weighing exactly the same as I came in. Luggage-free I traveled. And that’s what made it sweet and ethereal-like: floating around town weightless.
@Taxi – I have a similar tale to recount.
After I graduated (in a major that I had no interest in, and discarded later for a Masters in Computer Science), I was lost for direction and strategy, but brimming with the exuberance and immortality of youth, with no concern for survival, I spent the next couple of years trekking through Europe, and soaking in the cultural spectrum that it had to offer. This was not a tourist trip – I lived and worked with the natives in each country (e.g. picking hops on a farm in France, Tulips in Holland, etc.) and got to learn their traditions and cultural nuances, and even picked up their languages (I can speak Italian, French, Spanish, and a smattering of Flemish – never could get motivated to learn German – and they all speak English).
To this day I am a wanderlust, and before Covid, I had negotiated 8 weeks of vacation every year with my company, which I would spend in 4 different countries for two weeks at a stretch every year without fail.
The convoluted point of this tale is that it was my extrovert nature which made such a trek unremarkable, as it played to my strengths of being able to start a conversation cold with a stranger and assimilate myself and become one with them.
How did you feel when you stepped out into the wide world without the cocoon of familiarity to withdraw back into? The above anecdote from your youth when you "went out, and continued being out", is actually more resonant with an extrovert than an introvert, don't you think?
Thanks for sharing dear Cloak. Sounds like a great adventure you had in your youth – you lived the fantasy of millions of American youth.
And to answer your question: yes, my uninterrupted 28 day jaunt around town was an act of extroversion. I don’t know where it came from. When I went to meet my friend for tea that fateful afternoon, I had 100% intention to return home afterwards. My tea-time friend suggested we go visit a friend who’d just returned from a long trip to Zimbabwe after tea and I said yes and it just kicked off from there. I guess a corner in me is extroverted, so long as it’s with people I know. I mean I couldn’t have done what you did in your youth: travel afar and travel cold without knowing anyone en route or at destination. That’s the adventurer’s realm, therefore this makes you an adventurer: a fun doer.
Thanks @Taxi! It's another day of wistful nostalgia under these smoke-filled California skies. The bleaker the future, the pleasanter the past with selective memory erasing all the scratches and scars of yesteryear.
Live.
Death is inevitable so why dwell on it, since we still don't know if death is a terminus, or merely the portal to the next plane of existence.
As for the Israelis, live and let die.
Just a reminder.
What?
That’s my quote.
Yes, it is.
No, I’m not a humble person. To me, all lives matter.
Elijah's on a roll:
Will the Israel-US “New Wars” succeed in weakening Hezbollah?
By Elijah J. Magnier:
When conventional military war failed to defeat the Lebanese Hezbollah, Israel and the US adopted different tactics in the art of war whilst avoiding overt conflict in the public eye. The new tactics, whilst not excluding traditional warfare, include a group of wars or actions based on irregular formations, terrorist acts, chaos, sanctions, electronic platform warfare, media wars, propaganda, fake news, the division of society, starvation policy and engaging the enemy from within, to weaken Hezbollah before attacking and finishing it off. This is “fifth-generation war”; it is the hybrid war against Hezbollah.
The United Nations delivered a message to Hezbollah from Israel stating that killing any Israeli soldier or officer would push Israel to hit ten Hezbollah targets and centres in different regions of Lebanon. Israel has provided the maps, offices and locations it intends to target, according to a leading source familiar with the matter.
Hezbollah replied to this message, that the bombing of ten targets in Lebanon will trigger an immediate response against ten Israeli military targets, command and control centres and other offices affiliated to the Israeli government. Precision missiles will be launched against Israel – said the message – without prior warning.
The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, had announced that he would kill an Israeli soldier in return for Israel killing a Hezbollah member in Syria while targeting a centre of the joint forces in the vicinity of Damascus. Since that day, that is, since July 2020, Israeli jets have not struck any Iranian command target in Syria. Furthermore, the Israeli army has been asked to conceal itself in its barracks to avoid triggering Hezbollah's announced process of retaliation.
The commander of the IDF's Northern Command, Major General Amir Baram, stated, "Israel is keen not to be dragged into a large-scale war with Hezbollah. It is fundamentally a war that both sides wish to avoid."
Israel's leaders no longer brandish the threat to take Lebanon back to the Stone Age by bombing and destroying the entire infrastructure and whole villages and cities as it did in the 2006 war. This is because Hezbollah has achieved a balance of deterrence: Israel has acknowledged that Hezbollah has missiles that can strike any target anywhere in Israel with enormous destructive power and precision.
Consequently, the theory – introduced by Hezbollah’s opponents in Lebanon to say the international community can protect Lebanon and not a heavily armed domestic group – that ''Lebanon is strong due to its weakness and incapacity to defend itself'' has fallen. Indeed, the balance of deterrence has forced Israel and its ally the US to back down from the use of military force, without necessarily abandoning the project to weaken or defeat Hezbollah. This is what has pushed this strategic alliance (US and Israel) to shift towards "soft and hybrid warfare". This new approach creates windows of opportunity to direct a military strike on Hezbollah to defeat it when the right time comes. That is possible only when Hezbollah becomes weak and without allies, supporters or a society protecting it, and indeed if Hezbollah fails to confront this hybrid war.
In 2006 during the second Israeli war on Lebanon, Israel did not achieve its goals because its intelligence failed to predict Hezbollah's missile capabilities and readiness to hold its ground. The first surprise came at Wadi Al-Hujair with the Kornet anti-tank missiles and later with surface-to-surface missiles (when the class corvette Saar-5 was hit). Also, Hezbollah possessed the electronic capabilities to break through to the Israeli drones and other capabilities, which enabled it to know a large number of pre-prepared operations and targets in Israel's bank of objectives. Israel has since modified its electronic protection with more advanced technology. However, electronic warfare continues: it is an ongoing battle with measures and countermeasures on both sides.
That is why it was necessary to introduce « hybrid warfare ». It needed another more effective approach to attack Hezbollah, more comprehensive. Let us take, for example, what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented in 2018 and a few days ago to the United Nations General Assembly about the presence of Hezbollah missiles near Beirut airport and others in the Jnah area in the Lebanese capital. In the first attempt of Netanyahu, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil reacted by inviting Country Ambassadors to visit the site. In the second most recent case, Hezbollah invited the local and international press to visit the site and to confirm the falsity of Netanyahu's claim. However, did Netanyahu lose the two rounds against Hezbollah or did he reach his desired objective?
I asked a Lebanese leader within the "Axis of the Resistance": How many out of the 194 representatives at the United Nations saw Nasrallah's response to Netanyahu’s lie? The immediate answer did not wait: ""Maybe one, two – very few. ""
Consequently, the Israeli prime minister won the disinformation war, and the powerful Zionist lobby helped him in the international media to publish his colourful pictures and folkloric output and to overlook Hezbollah's point of view. It is likely that Netanyahu aimed in his media war to amplify the already existing negative international and domestic public opinion against Hezbollah: though in Europe, most of the leaders of the old continent have refused to consider Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, resisting the tremendous US pressure to join the US-Israeli objective.
In Lebanon, there is a well-known saying: "There are people who, if we anoint them with filtered honey, only hate us more. Others, if we wound them and cut them to pieces, love us the more." Lebanese society is divided between those who support Hezbollah and those who hate and voice their hatred of Hezbollah.
Whoever ideologically or by conviction supports Hezbollah will maintain the same position and never budge. As for those who support Hezbollah only circumstantially, some will turn against it or voice their criticism, particularly on social media. Many within the Lebanese Christian camp, particularly those who support the Tayyar al-Watani al-Hurr (the Free National Movement- FNM), no longer take into consideration that Hezbollah prevented the election of a President for two and a half years to impose – successfully – the FNM leader, General Michel Aoun, as President, notwithstanding domestic and international opposition. Instead, due to the US brainwashing campaign claiming that Hezbollah supports corruption or is responsible for corruption or is the ally of the Speaker Nabih Berri accused of corruption, a growing number of the FNM supporters fail to recognize the US-Israel hybrid campaign and give no more extended consideration to the alliance of two minorities (Shia and Christian) in the Levant. The expensive US economic sanctions and the decades of US-allies Lebanese-corrupted politicians overwhelm any reasoning. Daily life necessities become the priority, and alliances become marginal. The hybrid war against Hezbollah forced the society that supports the group to be entrenched and on the defensive.
The US administration imposed harsh sanctions against Lebanon and Syria as part of this multi-faceted hybrid war so that the Levant is subjected to the will of the US-Israel objectives. Washington has been content with the embezzlement of corrupted Lebanese politicians, the friends of the US, for many years. But the time came for the US and Israel to change the style of war from traditional to hybrid because Hezbollah has grown in size and its combat experience in Syria has increased so as to overtake many regular armies around the world. Hezbollah possesses lethal precision missiles from Iran; and Hezbollah is bigger than Lebanon, more robust and is now a regional force. For the US-Israel, the time has come to starve the Lebanese and the Syrians, so that they pay a greater price and hurt them much more than a military war could, even if it overthrew the Syrian leadership or defeated Hezbollah in the battlefield.
Israel and the US have never abandoned the goal of defeating Hezbollah because it is unacceptable for them that it should become a stronger organisation than the state of Lebanon and stronger than several armies in the Middle East. Hezbollah played a crucial role in spoiling the international community’s effort to divide Syria and Iraq, leaving both countries in the hands of extremist religious groups.
Even when the US contributed to clearing the Lebanese market of foreign currency, Hezbollah decided to maintain the payment of monthly salaries in US dollars to tens of thousands of its operatives, injecting just under 100 million dollars a month in Lebanon to fight the hybrid wars being directed against it. Currently, Lebanon is approaching a chaotic level because the government has no longer enough money to subsidise the price of (some) medicine, gasoline and perhaps wheat. Serious challenges are facing the country unless Hezbollah takes a countermeasure that fortifies its position internally and prevents Lebanon from reaching the level of a failed state or at least to protect itself and its society from reaching a level of misery. However, the war of misinformation, disinformation, fake news and social media continues and represents a part of this hybrid war that Hezbollah finds itself unprepared for.
It is evident that Hezbollah does not have an electronic army active on social media and does not have sufficient support to stand up directly to the strong attack mounted by those who are well-organised and against it. Israel has many friends in most newspapers, the mainstream media and on social sites. Moreover, Hezbollah has many enemies who have a common cause with Israel against Hezbollah. This is why in social media these have the upper hand. There is, however, a real Hezbollah community-and because it is always in a position of defence, it is finding it hard to catch its breath!
What has contributed to the domestic criticism directed against Hezbollah is the fact that Sayyed Nasrallah has decided, of its own free will, that Hezbollah will become the shield of all its allies in the Lebanese arena. It has accepted to take responsibility for the failure of the French initiative to spare them the upcoming US sanctions. In fact, Hezbollah, unlike its domestic allies, has the power to negotiate without fear of international sanctions. It stands against the French President Emmanuel Macron, and it preserves its gains and principles. This is what has increased the weight and accusations directed against Hezbollah domestically.
It is clear that the international community wants to push Hezbollah to take control of Lebanon militarily, especially with the absence of other forces that can deter it. However, such a decision will never be adopted because it would cause a blockade, just as Hamas is witnessing in Gaza. And except for the « incubator environment », Hezbollah would lose all internal support.
It is indeed a Fifth Generation War against Hezbollah: it combines classic warfare with drone surveillance, drone attacks, suicide drones, social media intelligence gathering, propaganda warfare, and a campaign to divide Lebanese society. This is designed to create an appropriate environment, first to weaken Hezbollah and then eliminate it. Will Israel and the US succeed?
@ taxi,
There are several ways of fighting your enemy. Given the fact that Hezbollah doesn’t have an Air Force or a Navy to support them, I’d suggest they opt for, what in military parlance is described as ‘Grab your enemy by the belt.‘
Of course, there’s the ‘Hit & Run‘ gambit, but that inflicts relatively minimum damage.
Then there’s the ‘Danger Close‘ gambit, in which your enemy can call in air/artillery support, but because you’re so close to them, they’re in danger of being hit by defensive fire as well.
The ‘Grab your enemy by the belt‘ ploy means your enemy can’t call in any support whatsoever because you are in his face. On flat terrain that means tunneling, but as I see it, most of the terrain is either mountaineous or hilly, perfect to get upclose and personal. As most of us know, the Occupied Palestine army is littered with cowards, so that would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Fortunately, Hezbollah has an array of missiles to back her up, in case other ways of battling the zombies next door is necessitated.
Thanks Daniel. We can all see how Hezbollah is grabbing the enemy by both belt and balls.
Thanks for the article Taxi, Here's another must watch for y'all:
https://mobile.twitter.com/gndapet/status/1312086923624800256
LOL thanks Mia for the butt-rubbing video: I hope butt-rubbing between the evil-doers of the world catches on and becomes a mimetic trend – sure is funnier than cocksucking – and my hashtag would be: #buttrubisthenewbackscratch. And as regards the nostraTurkey ganging up with nostraAzer against nice Armenia: I can only interpret it as the evil USrael preparing for a regional war against both the Axis of Resistance AND the Axis of the East (Russia, China, N-Korea and Pakistan). Unable to win anything against anybody, the Axis of Evil is now drawing lines in the sand and forcing neutral countries to take a stand so that the USrael war can then be launched with everyone paired up with an enemy.
@Taxi OCTOBER 3, 2020 AT 4:59 PM
I’m not qualified to judge molecular biology. However, the article names an Amandha Dawn Vollmer as the critic of the RT-PCR tests for Covid-19. Is this the same Amandha Vollmer responsible for the following YouTube video?
Kobe Bryant’s Ritual Murder to Fuel Wuhan Coronavirus Hoax Caused by 5G and Incinerator Pollution
(The video’s description references “Yummy Mummy Emporium & Apothecary”, which is owned by Vollmer.)
As for the “80% false positives” mentioned in the article, I think that may have been referring to antigen tests (some early ones were quite inaccurate) and not to RT-PCR. I’m relying on my memory for this — thus the lack of a link — so I could be wrong.
I would wait a while to see if Vollmer gets debunked.
Thanks for the links, Tonsil. Yes, let’s see if a virologist out there can debunk Vollmer.
All this to-and-fro covid info only confirms that NOBODY as of yet has been able to pinpoint, with absolute accuracy and certainty, the full-spectrum picture of covid. This is why I am personally open-minded to exploring new suggestions on it, but I cannot as of yet fully back any specific theory. I really just don’t know, hence, I take precautions while I’m in a state of unknowing.
As an accompaniment to Elijah Magnier's above article on the Hezb, here's Robert Inlakesh's take on the Leb's internal crisis and the current US war on Hezbollah:
To continue the conversation about Elijah Magnier, and to further my exchange with Whozhear about Magnier's recent articles, I'd like to share some email content that I recently had with Elijah. But first, here's Whozhear's comment which I've copy-pasted below for context and for everyone's convenience:
The following day after my exchange with Whozhear, I emailed Elijah the following:
Then followed Elijah's response:
Elijah had copy-pasted the unpublished article inside the email for me, and here follows my response:
And yes, Elijah did soon respond to my email with:
Elijah's last email was just this past Friday when I was up to my eyeballs in olive-picking-pressing-pickling and I have yet to make time to respond. Or maybe I'll just leave it at that. But, I have to say here that the Tayyar Lebs (Aoun's supporters that Elijah refers to above), by and large remain committed to the Hezb – only the ones on the fence about Aoun himself, only this small fraction of fringe Aoun supporters 'appear' to have been swayed of late by the media's lies and politics of fear against Hezbollah.
And the other thing is that I've never before heard that the Hezb "forbids its people to be active on social media". That is a bizarre statement to make and I will be checking on it as soon as poss. I mean I understand if actual fighters aren't allowed public social media accounts for the sake of both party and personal safety (hello we're talking the treacherous-assassinting mossad who practically own social media here!), but I'm sure the 'forbid' thing doesn't apply to civilian members and citizen supporters.
Really, I understand that Elijah wants to ring a loud alarm bell at this stage, and he should do so whichever way he can for whatever reason he gives. Fact is, and I've said this before and I'll say it again: 'the Axis of Resistance's only weakness is their media arm'. For years I've been saying this. But, even if their media arm grew serious muscle overnight, can it really compete with the juggernaut global jew media and billions of Gulfie media money? I don't think so. I don't believe the Hezb can compete with that. BUT, every battlefield victory accorded to them is worth a thousand jewy media muscles. And let's not forget here that only a few days ago, an israeli poll taken concluded that 92% of israeli jews believe Nasrallah over Netanhayu, while only 8% of israeli jews thought Netanyahu was more honest than Nasrallah.
Media wars? Dirty filthy gross and grotesque mental shit-of-shit wars!
But they are important to win too.
What a conundrum.
I recommend the smarter and eloquent Hezb supporters step up their game and charge forth with no shame and no apology.
@ taxi,
As a fighter/military man, you want to stay as far away from social media as possible. Words uttered there are meaningless.
Speeches can be eloquent, but on the battlefield one needs bullets and courage to not spill one’s own blood. You want the other guy to die.
In 2006 Occupied Palestine bombed the living daylights out of Lebanon. Still they were beaten and humiliated by Hezbollah. Today, Hezbollah is capable of saturating the OP defenses with thousand and thousand of missiles. There simply aren’t enough military measures to counter this.
Netanyahoo at the UN shows OP’s weakness and fear. He didn’t go to the UN to tell the world about Syria’s [non-existing] nuclear plant. He didn’t go to the UN to tell the world about Saddam Hussein’s nuclear plant.
They bombed it.
So, by telling the world Hezbollah has missiles stored wherever, OP shows the world how utterly weak it actually is. Shivering and waiting for Hezbollah to retaliate and kill one of their own.
What a pathetic bunch of losers.
OP has lost and will loose much more.
Can’t wait for the exodus to happen ASAP [although I feel sorry for the countries that will have to absorb this influx of refugees].
I won't be surprised if we see a deluge of articles on the race issue/crisis in America in the next month, leading up to the highly contentious Nov 3rd elections.
White Racialism in America, Then and Now
War, war and more WAAAR! The synagogue of satan just can't get enough enemies, enough blood, enough of anything that hurts humanity.
Will Lebanon be the Next US-NATO Humanitarian War? The Elimination of Hezbollah is Israel’s Top Priority
Perspective: how on earth can US-NATO-gulfies-israel redirect Hezbollah's missiles away from tel aviv? How the fuck are they going to launch a full-on war against the Lebanon without Hezbollah launching everything it has and the kitchen sink at tel aviv?
Let me tell you dear readers, soon as Hezbollah is forced to send its first missile at tel aviv because an external military attack on it is taking place, it will also not be alone in immediately attacking tel aviv. Nothing short of a titanic tempest of missiles on tel aviv and israel proper from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Gaza will shred the motherfucking evil place in the first handful of hours, regardless of the hits the resistance members take. They are trained not just in high-caliber warfare, but in martyrdom too.
And need I mention here what will happen to the cryptojew gulfies should the Hezb be under military attack?
Any attack on Hezbollah will not be contained inside the Lebanon border. It will spread fast and furious to the very courtyards and palaces of ALL the warmongers, including that of Empire's own turf. Whaaaah you still think Empire is untouchable?
You think the combo of poofy 'normalization with israel' and NATO's airforce guarantees victory? You think the above two elements can delete the Resistance's weapon stock just like that? You think the jewy media and its lies and evil threats can scare or tamper down the resistance fighter's willing martyrdom? Well, think again. Look at the other side of the equation, not just the numbers that the enemy presents.
Fact is, impossible for israel to survive such a wicked adventure, even if it has a thousand empires and trillions of dollars backing it. Sure the Resistance will get a fucked-up smack-up and many of its people will die, but so will israel. Indeed, so will israel. It's as simple as that.
Let them go ahead and attack Hezbollah instead of just dry-humping the idea in the media.
Even if a Leb civil war is manufactured, the Hezb will win that too.
You ask, is it worth it? Is is worth destroying Lebanon for the sake of Hezbollah? I tell you this is a preposterous and stupid question. Why? Because the enemy's aim behind an attack on Hezbollah IS to destroy Lebanon anyway.
I say to kushner and his yellow-toothed klepto chabad vampires: bring it on you filthy coward fuckers. Stop talking war and domination already and JUST DO IT!
Lebanon is not Yugoslavia. The same model cannot be applied. Whoever thinks Lebanon can be Yogulavia-ed by NATO is not a sound strategist nor do they understand mideast geopolitics or the world-changing domino effect that attacking Hezbollah will create.
And talking of the enemy on a mission to manufacture more gruesome civil wars, israel currently is experiencing a mini-mini organic civil war all of its own. Anti-Netanyahu protests continue and continue growing unabated, despite a seething national covid condition and the evil colony quarantined under lockdown. Last Saturday, it's estimated that some 250.000 jew protestors took to the streets in all of israel's major cities: protesting Netanyahu's corruption and handling of covid – (note how they're NOT protesting his wanton klepto-terrorism and perpetual mass murder of unarmed non-jew civilians!).
The protestors sure were out in force last Saturday night, but so too were the psycho likudists. The likudists attacked the anti-Netanyahu brigade with fists and steel-toe boots and sticks, as indeed the jewish poehleece too did kick the anti-Netanyahu brigade in the face. Jew blood on the streets: mostly the protestors'. The Anti-Netanyahuettes got a super-sized punch-sandwitch from both frothing punchers. Finally! Some jew-on-jew violence woohoo!
I would absolutely love the irony were a civil war to organically break out in israel, while a manufactured one in Lebanon fails. Heh heh hhhhheh!
Oh and Netanyahu's son, whateverdafuckhisnameis, apparently he tweeted today that the organizers and engineers behind the violence at US protests are the same ones behind the violent protests in israel. He made an actual direct connection between both. Now… would that be a mossad message to Soros, or is it the cunt son's cocaine talking? Hmmm…. what a curious quizzle.
A jewish civil war in israel would be the surest and cheapest way towards world peace. Think about it.
Now rub your hands together real good and hot and say 'Amen, Taxi, Aaamen'.
Taxi, thanks for your writing and insight. I'm a new reader, via unz.com.
There's a valuable analysis and partial transcript of Nasrallah's remarks regarding the political situation surrounding the Macron initiative from resistancenews.org (also available at the Saker's site).
Thank you for visiting, dear Stanley, and thank you especially for bringing such fantastic mind-food to our political picnic here at Plato’s – really great and immense link!
Clearly, Macron came to old Beirut with no clear and positive ‘road map for Lebanon’ that he himself had devised of his own studies and assessment – he didn’t come inspired by his own affection and passion to see a healthy and independent Lebanon. He came but with a Rothschildian-reptilian IMF agenda (should be called the JMF: jewish monetary fund) designed to simply destroy the Lebanon by financially enslaving it further and worse: Macron came to kill off Hezbollah in the shadows and in silence, not understanding that even the worst of Lebanese politician can run circles around his pampered and pompous waxy ass. His abhorrent colonialist tone lost him audiences from even the (diminishing) Leb Francophile corner. Nobody cared what he said – most Lebs didn’t even care that he insulted them: so pathetic he came across. He must think he’s the French ‘Sun King’: Loius XIV throwing hissy-fits and thrashing orders at the peasantry. And the timing of his first visit still bothers me. My mind cannot help but think that Macron knew of the Beirut Port explosion before it had happened and had booked a proverbial airline ticket beforehand. Pretty much everything dramatic that occurs in Lebanon is not a coincidence – cuz it usually never is! Macron is but a soldiering member of the jewish economic-military conspiracy against Lebanon, and especially against the Hezbollah. Intellectually and morally speaking, he stands inferior and is vastly eclipsed by Mr. Nasrallah’s rhetoric and intention. (If I hear one more ex-colonial Western leader lecturing the world on democracy I will explode with rage at the seething hypocrisy!).
Fact is, regionally speaking, Hezbollah is by far more powerful than the fucking French and if Macron really wanted to strengthen France’s presence in the eastern Mediterranean, he should have acknowledged this and utilized it to France’s advantage. But Macron didn’t come to Lebanon to help either the Lebanese or the geopolitics of France, he came with a kosher poison syringe held behind his back, with the aim of jabbing it in Nasrallah’s jugular soon as he got close enough. The Frenchman with the fake tan missed because he is an amateur who could not outsmart Nasrallah’s superior intellect. He missed because he underestimated the proven and formidable powers of the Hezb both politically and militarily. The Lebs are not stupid and this is NOT the colonial world of the 18th century! The clear and indelible Lebanon reality that Macron dismisses is that if Lebanon’s financial life completely collapses, Hezbollah remains rich in dollars. If a civil war there is manufactured (close to impossible), then Hezbollah wins it. If a military war against Hezbollah is launched, then tel aviv gets it right between the eyes. Hezbollah is basically beyond the reach of the evil conspiracies issued out of tel aviv to all its Western agents. Macron’s cynical interference changes nothing in Lebanon. Macron came to Lebanon with nothing in hand and so therefore left with nothing but a smack on the lips. Really, it’s a self-smack. All Hezbollah had to do was INSIST on democracy being king and the whole nasty Macron charade fell apart. To effectively deal with Hezbollah, you gotta be a straight and honest shooter, even if you disagree with them. No other approach works.
Let this be a lesson to all the idiot motherfuckers in tel aviv: stop having fantasies about destroying Hezbollah from within and step into the freaking battle already! If you don’t go to battle, then the battle will be forced upon you.
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China now reminds the US of what happened 70 years ago on the Korean peninsula, when it entered the war, with what at best can best be described as a peasant army.
China Today – Link to youtube
Lyrics: “We’re just waiting for the order to kill! Kill! Kill!”
Try to sell this one [another vid about the Chinese military], in PC-US [especially the lyrics]. But, then again, they fight to defend the motherland, instead of countries most US citizens can't find on a map, and halfway around the globe, while at it.
So like what, like Empire, in its current and irreversible state of internal misery and cutting and self-harm now wants to take on China and Russia and North Korea and Venezuela and Libya and Iraq and Iran and Syria and Lebanon and Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Germany and even Armenia and and and and – all at the same time? Empire wants to go to war with all them nations thinking it can win the lot all at the same time? In the shabby and sodding state it’s in internally? Whooofff! Methinks Empire is deluded and believes the world can be remade like a cheap Hollywood movie.
Dear Daniel, we are in the midst of a transition from a unipolar to a poly-polar world. This is upsetting Empire, yet it won’t admit it. This denial of reality in the end will cost America more than it will cost all the targeted nations combined. You can only dictate a new reality if you’ve already acknowledged the existing facts on the ground. And please do tell this to the idiot and deluded jews too while you’re at it. Jews always dismiss reality and just keep pushing their own unrealistic ancient shit fantasy of superiority on the world. Our modus operandum has become just like theirs. We are now unrealistic strategic idiots like the jews are. But to give credit where credit is due, we are not as cowardly. Phew! Maybe this means that America has a hope in recovering from its ruinous delusions of grandeur whereas israel has not a chance in hell.
@ taxi,
The US needs to hit rock bottom as hard as is still survivable.
You can smash a mirror into a 1,000 pieces and then carefully piece [and glue] them back together again, but what it reflects when you're done, doesn't reflect the past. It shows you a butt-ugly present [and foreseeable future].
I'm a very positive guy, but I don't see much sunshine awaiting a nation at a loss, as she staggers blindly onward, through the hollow hallways of history.
Regarding "israel" and the fakes i sometimes re-read this article from 2010 by Juan cole whom i don't agree with for the most part but this is spot on:
https://www.juancole.com/2010/03/top-ten-reasons-east-jerusalem-does-not.html
Great link – thanks dear Mia. And here’s an accompaniment to it:
Netanyahu’s Dirty Laundry Tells All
@ taxi/et al,
One of the reasons why Hezbollah fighters should shun social media, is because the sharing of pictures and videos is common. Osama bin Laden nearly got nailed because of the rocks he was sitting in front of, as the Usual Suspects recognized it as belonging to a particular region in Afghanistan.
Am not advocating deadly silence, but the risk of giving away sensitive data [locations/positions/etc.] is and will be deadly [in case of Occupied Palestine]. Hezbollah can’t afford to make crucial mistakes like that, and given their verifiable track record, they never did and never will.
Thanks, Daniel. I agree with your advise. Let’s not forget here that one of the major reasons why the Hezb beat the shit out of the jewish army and its expensive war toys back in 2006 was because the hezb had good intel on idf movements, while the idf had much faulty intel on the Hezb.
The jewish mass murderer Gantz is an amateur propagandist. He knows damn well that Nasrallah has warned him and his evil brigade that should terrorist israel bomb a Leb bridge, a jewish bridge will be hit. An airport for an airport and a residential building for a residential building etc. In fact it's this Nasrallah's very WARNING that has halted jewish assaults on Lebanon since 2006. So, if the motherfucker fucker-of-fuckers Gantz wants to target Leb gov buildings in the next war, then the satantic knesset too will be targeted. Gantz knows this yet he tells his new gulfie girlfriends that Leb gov compounds will be hit in the next war. LOL does he think that this will scare Leb politicians into evicting the Hezb from government? Amateur! EVERYBODY and their uncle in the Levant know that the next war with israel will be EVERYWHERE in the Levant, not just inside of Leb. So, mister Gantz, shut the fuck up already, take that nasty pancake makeup off your ugly mug, eat Hezb shit and start that war you're so petrified off already! Fucking coward!
Gantz: During Next War with Hezbollah, ‘Israel’ Will Strike Governmental Targets in Lebanon
It's amazing how much common evil the kleptoterrorist jews have in common with the kleptoterrorist cryptojew rulers of saudi arabia:
Neom: Ancient Saudi tribe in danger of ‘disappearing off face of the earth’ to make way for vanity project
Dear readers, you should know that I don't use the word 'klepto' lightly. I consider the crime of thieving to be a serious class A crime – unless of course you're stealing food cuz you're poor and hungry, or stealing medicine cuz you're sick and poor. So, when I repeatedly describe jews as being 'kleptos', my intention is not to insult or smear them with falsities, but to define them by their own actions:
Israel founders were ‘thieves’, Israeli historian says
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F*** me!
The world lost the other best guitarist on this ff-ing planet
You and Jimmy light up the sky tonight and for days to come.
RIP = Rock In Places
Oh man! One by one all my rock idols are dropping like flies (fucking Keith Richards is still alive despite how he has continuously abused that so-called body of his)! It does remind one of one's own mortality.
It's a toss-up as to who the better guitarist was, but I would give a slight nod for legendary Jimmy Paige – they broke the mold after they built him. Van Halen could be a bit scary with that whole infernal theme. I did have a crush on Valerie Bertinelli in both our younger days.
Sad day. Childhood's end.
@ CaD,
The best guitarist is the one you like best. The rest is nuances and semantics.
Only 2 things sure in life: I was born. I will die.
In between it's going to be [and is] one big, f***ing ball [no matter what happens]!
Am sure your bro knew how much you wanted to be with him. That thought doesn't change anything, but knowing someone loves you, will never die. Even better, he still lives on in your mind.
What better compliment is there to give a person?
@Daniel Rich
Thank you for that wise and insightful observation of how our loved ones still reside in our minds forever even after they are no longer corporeally present in our company. That is a comforting thought.
Bless you.
VH invented wire tapping, holds some patents and generally anything he touched rocked. He and Alex were unbelievable
Hi all,
I may have missed it but has there been a definitive cause of the Beirut dock bombing announced.
Cheers.
@ grr,
As far as I know, nothing. Perhaps taxi can shed some light on it, as taxi has a finger at the Lebanese pulse.
Investigations into the Beirut Port explosion are still going on, but no official announcement yet. Suffice it to say that most Leb citizens and Leb politicians strongly think israel is behind it. Problem is: what can the little Leb army do in the face of such an official finding? The Leb army is already at war with israel. Only the hezb can military act but they would first need a nod from the Leb government and as of today, there is no official government formed, and even if there were one, the gov would first and foremost concern itself with the financial crisis Leb is experiencing and not with the promotion of a costly war in the middle of a financial crisis. But be sure that payback in Haifa’s port has been put on the Hezb list.
Patience, grasshoppers, patience.
RE Leb maritime borders > ‘Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has named members that will negotiate with Israel over maritime borders, while the UN has decided on the format of the negotiations, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday. The maritime border negotiations, the first of their kind between Israel and Lebanon, will take place next week in border town of Naqoura and will be mediated by the UN and the United States.’
(Israel has accelerated non-stop pushing the US before elections to serve its needs, such as piling even more crushing sanctions on Iran’s banking sector, pusing US congress to make a law that grants Israel’s ‘veto’ over any future mid east arm sales, pushing this maritime border issue with the Leb, etc. etc. I can’t believe the LEB would be comfortable with US as an impartial mediator regarding its borders – no way. However, MSM reports US Sec of Stqte Pompeo said, “The US was asked by both sides, Israel and Lebanon, to act as a mediator and facilitator to draw up the maritime borders, and it is ready to do this,” So far, President Aoun has displayed his steadfastness protecting Leb sovereignty and has his eyes wide open. Taxi? Mike).
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/10/7/lebanon-names-delegation-to-israel-maritime-border-talks
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/10/1/pompeo-hails-historic-israel-lebanon-border-talk-agreement
Hey, Mike, Taxi, et al., how are you keeping?
Yeah, apparently Arabs are done with their jihad, and it’s game over for all us “Jew-haters”:
Israel and Lebanon to Begin Negotiations Next Week:
I mean, seriously, WTF? Is this even real?
Any Lebanese in government prepared to “negotiate” with the sociopathic nation-destroying jew occupiers south of the border should NOT be in government. Period.
Dual purpose lampposts: as you can use them to light the streets and hang criminal people from.
Daniel, you reprobate!
@ M-F,
Dual use purposes…
What do you mean by "Dual use purposes", Daniel?
Thanks Mike and ZiojooistanSucks. But really guys, I wish you wouldn't post links from lying jew and saudi rags on ANY issue to do with either Lebanon or Iran. Their spin on the story (any story!) is predictable, full of ridiculous lies etc.
This story broke in Lebanon through Nabih Berri, shia leader of Parliament, some 12 days ago – it got discussed to death in the Leb for a couple of days then died down. I haven't reported on it because so far it's just 'talk' about officially marking the land and maritime borders between Leb and klepto israel and registering it with the UN – and it's talk that's been going on-and-off since 1994! I thought I wouldn't bother writing about it till it started to actually happen, instead of reporting on it as just mere 'talk'. And no, this is NOT Lebanon 'normalizing' with israel in the slightest, this is a UN issue that's been pending since 1994 – and the talks, when they do actually take place, will be to 'talk' about the negotiations that will follow. See what I mean? We're a long way from any legal determination.
Israel's agents very recently and suddenly made moves to make headlines out of it because drilling companies who've signed to extract gas out of israel waters are fed up waiting to start drilling – they can't start drilling because Nasrallah three years ago told them that it's not safe for them to drill, that the Hezb can destroy all their drilling stations inside of four hours. The American jews with dual israel passports are now trying to push it to the fore before the US elections, spinning it as part of the 'normalization' campaign – and as part of the sanctions on the Leb, they've pressured Nabih Berri to revive the dormant land and maritime border issue else more of his top guys will get sanctioned. Know what I mean? It's a set up urged by the jewy gas drillers and klepto pushers of the Deal of the Century.
And… they've already hit an obstacle a week ago: it is traditional that land borders are drawn first before maritime borders are addressed, and the jews want to do it the other way round. Leb refuses this order of negotiations so now, for this past week, both sides have been quietly tug-negotiating through the US embassy in Beirut over what comes first: land or maritime negotiations. We're still a loooooooong way from any signed deals over either land or maritime borders.
Listen, it doesn't hurt Lebanon to officially define its land and maritime border with any of its neighbors, be they friend of foe. Note here that israel is in more of a hurry to do this than Leb is, which is to Leb's negotiating advantage. Nobody in the Leb would dare give away an inch of land or sea to ANY of its neighbors, considering that Leb is already the smallest in landmass of all its neighbors.
Who knows what is going on behind the scenes over this right now? All we know is that israel is in a mad rush to do this, and the Leb side is trying to figure out ways to lessen sanctions on it yet remain intact. And even if both land and maritime borders were drawn and signed today, this will NOT mean the two nations cease to be at war with each other. Any other explanation or spin by the saudi-jew media on this issue is moot and just basic propaganda.
The comforting thought in all this: no actual agreement over this issue is possible without a nod from the hezb who already guard both land and maritime borders in the south of Lebanon. An agreement may very well get signed in the end, yes, but I don't see the jews gaining an inch of either Leb land or waters. Impossible, simply IMPOSSIBLE!
UPDATE on the subject of border-drawing between the Leb and terrorist israel:
Last night, the US DEMANDED that Lebanese politicians attend a border-drawing meeting set for this coming Wednesday between the US, UN, israel and Lebanese army figures. Because Leb is officially at war with israel, it is against Lebanese law for any civilian or government official to hold official or non-official meetings with Israeli gov or military reps. The US already knows this but doesn't give a shit about Leb laws – however, fortunately, Leb politicians do immensely care about it and so therefore it won't happen. The US also knowing that these border negotiations will take years to conclude, the jewy Trump admin wants to rush a photo-op with Leb politicians and israeli reps (together in the same frame) to use for Trump's reelection PR campaign: they want to spin the presence of Leb politicians at the meeting as 'Lebanon normalizing with israel', even though no such thing will be taking place. Deception deception deception!!!
And strangely, and simultaneously last night, Hariri announced he's now willing to be a PM candidate for the new government, after months and months of out and out rejecting such a proposition – and after months and months of saudi and US refusing to support such a proposition too; all because after years of trying, Hariri had failed to evict the Hezb from government or even weaken it. So what gives now, and so very suddenly? Clearly, some new jewy political conspiracy against the Leb is afoot and Hariri is part and parcel of it. Whatever it is, it will fail (cuz patriotic Lebs aren't stupid!), and when it fails, the jewy media, as usual, will blame hezbollah – never mind that the genuine Leb protestors from last autumn would never allow such a Hariri return to government either: Hariri, who along with his party members had for decades robbed the Leb blind and spiraled the nation into the current economic crisis.
The American embassy in Beirut is also leading a concerted effort to yank the border-drawing file away from Nabih Berri's hand: him being a shia and a major supporter of the Hezbollah. This won't work either. Nabih Berri is from the south of Lebanon and is officially (and has for decades) been responsible for ALL political, civic and even military issues in south Lebanon. Not even a single pothole in the south is repaired without his prior approval.
I doubt the terrorist jews will succeed in bringing Leb politicians into next Wednesday's border-drawing meeting. And I also doubt that anyone in Lebanon can prise the border-drawing file out of Nabih Berri's hands. Plus I doubt that Hariri can return to Leb politics as its new PM.
The Resistance in Lebanon is just waaaay too strong for obvious conspiratorial shit like that to happen. But I guess the motherfucking enemies of Lebanon are allowed to dream away.
Yeah just look at this gaping hole in the normalization agreement between UAE and terrorist israel – just look at the pathetically submissive yanks when it comes to israel's security. Nothing, no agreement that's ever done with jews smells of roses:
Gulf Sheikhs resent subaltern role
Is this my punishment for the link to the lisping jew lawyer I posted earlier? It is, isn’t it?
Yeah a "punishment" yeah
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But seriously, linking up saudi or israeli media here at Plato's should at least have one single truth in it. I mean why bother when we already know that they peddle lies and not facts – and even when they list a fact, they spin that into a lie. The saudi and uae medias in both Arabic and English are especially soooooo frigging bad that I personally just don't bother. That scumbag propaganda is even less credible than both the israeli and US mainstream media combined!
Why the fuck bother reading especially the saudi/uae media it past the headlines? (Read headlines for a laugh, that is).
Help me out with the math here guys and gals: have more Americans died from covid under Trump's watch than foreigners have in Empire's wars for the jews?
Another explosion in Lebanon, this time down town Beirut………
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/10/10/636030/Lebanon-blast-fuel-tank-fire-Beirut-
Thanks, Whozhear. Lebanon has just had a 3 day heatwave (most unusual for this time of year), with grueling temperatures sitting steady at 35 Centigrade (95F) for three straight days: ending only last night. The “explosion” you link to was indeed an explosion of a diesel tank in the basement of a residential building (it’s the norm in most residential buildings here to store diesel in their basements: as this diesel is used for a generator that subsidizes the apartments with daily electricity during ration hours). The intense heatwave we’ve just experienced here in the Leb has caused several butane gas explosions as well and now this diesel one. Four citizens perished in last night’s explosion – R.I.P., and dozen or so were injured. Also, we’ve had several forest fires during this past heatwave as well.
Strange fires, huh?
Let me tell you here that I do actually suspect (in most of the recent fire cases in the Leb) that the terrorist pyromaniac jews are now using fires instead of the usual car-bombs against the Lebanon – the cowards can’t face Hezbollah on the battlefield so they’re picking off Leb citizens with fires instead. There’s just been such a crazy spike of fires and explosions these past several months in the Lebanon – this is most unusual and does raise suspicion. Yesterday in Syria and in Palestine too: wild fires raged in the wilderness and forestry of these nations, while israel that sits in their lap went fire-free during the intense heatwave. Fires are just not a Lebanon thing and lately they’ve been erupting, killing, injuring and capturing headlines – headlines that make the citizenry edged out, especially in light of the massive Beirut Port explosion just over two months ago.
Lest we ever forget the quintessential MO of the terrorist jews: ‘BY WAY OF DECEPTION, THOU SHALT DO WAR’. (Hebrew of this motto that I’ve memorized so I can one day spit it sarcastically at a treacherous jew’s face: Be’tabulot ta’ashe milchama”).
Instead of giving the jews any further benefit of the doubt (they’ve had frigging plenty already!), just you remember their prime motto. Just you never forget it! “BY WAY OF DECEPTION, THOU SHALT DO WAR”!
@ Taxi,
Diesel fuel storage tanks do not spontaneously explode, they are blown by an explosive charge. Diesel is often stored above ground in steel tanks without issues, even in desert type environments. Portable diesel generators commonly have their diesel supply built into its skid/pallet mounting, while the very small portable generators often have the fuel tank, diesel or gas, on top right above the engine.
With heavy equipment such as dozers that have suffered through a bush fire its common to find its fuel tank undamaged, except for the paint, and plenty of diesel still in the tank.
Ask, in a few days time, your friend in Hezbollah to see the pics that Hezbollah will have aquired of the remains of the storage tank…… you will soon enough see what actually took place.
Thanks for the diesel explanation, dear Whozhear. Pretty much no more than what I’ve told you upthread has been circulating in the Leb media about the diesel explosion today. And even though I do know local hezb people, they are just fighters who indeed often do know what’s going on, but they are not actual hezb intel people and I doubt they would provide me (or anyone) with pics of anything :-).
But should I hear of further explanations of the diesel explosion, I will definitely share it here on Plato’s.
Is it truly possible that the world is waking up for the Apartheid regime crimes and illegal activities ? Time will tell, the wind may very well be changing in favour of The Resistance movement.
Non-Aligned Movement demands Israel withdraw to 1967 borders
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/non-aligned-movement-demands-israel-withdraw-to-1967-borders/
Thanks for the link, Canthama. They’ve demanded the same before, I believe, and nothing came of it. But I do find the timing of the demand interesting – I shall mull on that.
Look, israel doesn’t give a shit what the world thinks or demands of it – not a single poop – never has and never will. This is why I can’t get excited by the announcement you link to. However, I would get excited if the Non-Aligned Movement would actually declare both economic sanctions and a military war on israel. Nations and organizations need to understand the diabolical nature of the terrorist and belligerent jewish state – they have to stop treating it like its a member of the civilized world. I personally subscribe to what the late and great Egyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser said of israel with regards its occupation of Arab land: “what was taken by force can only be retrieved by force”.
I have no doubt that the majority of the world now sees israel for the treacherous klepto terrorist nation that is it, and I have no doubt that the Resistance is seen by the majority of the world as holding the moral high ground.
We need ACTION against israel from nations and global institutions – we’ve had more than enough ‘objections’ using only words.
@ taxi,
We need a repeat of what was done against South Africa. No talking. Burn down companies that deal with Occupied Palestine and see how long it takes for them to back off. The time of 'civilized conversations' has long since left the station of normalcy.
Thanks, Daniel. I put all my faith ONLY in the bullet-fired-from-close-range when it comes to terrorist israel. I don’t trust the international community to do ANYTHING in the future with regards to Palestine. Why would I, considering their neglect of israeli mass crimes against humanity for the past SEVENTY TWO YEARS ALREADY AND ONGOING FOR FUCK’S SAKES! Who can tolerate this level of dereliction of duty?!!! No reasonable person would, that’s for damn fucking sure!
I have no idea who or what this “Non-Aligned Movement” is, but any person or group that calls the cancerous jew regime in jew-occupied Palestine: “Israel”, and calls the 1949 armistice/ceasefire lines the “1967 borders”, and claims to be a “Non-Aligned Movement”, should probably just move somewhere they can never be seen or heard from, ever again.
Non Alignment movement is something from the Cold War times….120 countries that did not want to blindly ally to the US or the USSR, they created this group which was lead by India, Egypt, Iran among many other nations for decades. It kind of lost influence post USSR collapse, but somehow some members are trying to bring it back to life…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement#Members,_observers_and_guests
The political speech will always remain, no doubt they will call Occupied Palestine as Israel, no matter their feelings against it such as member State like Venezuela, Iraq and many others.
Today's newsstand picks for y'all:
‘Asian NATO’ plan stillborn at Tokyo Quad meet
The United States has Intensified the Process of Forming Coalitions against its Adversaries
Thought Control American Style: the Social Justice Warriors Will Destroy Our Basic Freedoms
Russia’s Strategic Intervention in Syria Five Years On – An ‘Unpardonable Blow’ to U.S. Empire
Can and Should Russia Stop the War in the Caucasus?
Our world remains dangerous because of the greed and violent psychosis of a tyrannical minority. Let's all keep sane and safe and determinably righteous in the face of the evil they continue to relentlessly fling and thrust at us all. One way of fucking up the enemy, belittling its grand scams for domination and control, is to simply enjoy your life regardless of their ongoing sabotage (and regardless of your personal problems). Even having a nice weekend is a slap in their face. They would rather you were depressed and sick and on pharma drugs and in despair. Don't give 'em that. But do go now: relax and give yourselves a really nice weekend. Slap 'em up like that
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Help from the non aligned movement would be welcome, help from any Nation would be welcome, unfortunately help from ‘the west’ will not be forthcoming, that is why the ‘arc of resistance’ is so important and it is why Trump’s head explodes every time Iran is mentioned. “They've been put on notice: If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” – Trump to Iran, Trump’s usual bullshitting, fortunately Iran has already put the US under notice by immediately destroying those two US bases in Iraq with precision missiles, that needed to be done because the US will think long and hard before provoking Iran again. You will know when the US is serious about taking military action when the sixth fleet in Bahrain and its massive base in Qatar and others are completely evacuated. Both bases are a little over 200 kilometres away from mainland Iran, missiles flying at 5000 m/second will be landing on such bases in approx 1 minute, can US pilots get all US planes including B52 bombers [based in Qatar] out of harms way in 1 minute or can the sixth fleet up anchor and sail to safety through the strait of Hormus in 1minute? No, that is the beauty of hitting back at a bully straight away. Iran needs to buy more missiles from Russia and China when the UN embargo finishes on the 18th October including s400 anti aircraft missiles, then give Hezbollah the Iranian Bavar 373 anti aircraft missiles to deter IAF missions over Lebanon. That’s just a start.
it's to china & russia's advantage to give iran all the weapons, know how & money it needs. i expect both have & are, both know iran & hezbollah are true allies & what is about to unfold is both inevitable & for real & therefore no need to rush but rather patiently ensure they are prepared to surprise.
This below just in from Elijah Magnier – I've no time to spare right now: I'll comment on it tomorrow. (Oh and a quick shout-out to our buddy Harry Law: one heck of a commentator, always comes at ya with stunning realism).
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Difficult negotiations between Lebanon and Israel ahead
By Elijah J. Magnier
Amid the domestic split between members of different political groups in Lebanese society, the country is preparing to start an indirect negotiation with Israel, pursuing a decades-old border dispute. After nine years of indirect discussion, both sides have agreed on a road map negotiated by the Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri. The negotiations over the final borders are expected to begin in the week starting 14 October in the neighbouring Lebanese city of Naqoura at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and under its auspices. The negotiation is far from being a Lebanese normalisation with Israel, nor is it a recognition of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Lebanon signed previous agreements with Israel in 1949, 1996 and 2006 yet still considers it an enemy. However, there is a remote possibility for Lebanon to have a place among the gas-producers’ countries soon. Lebanon has indeed started down the energy path, but it has for sure a very long way to go, notwithstanding the inevitability of ‘domestic bickering’. From day one of the negotiation, Israel will try – supported by the US envoy David Schenker – to offer a false impression to the world that Lebanon is on the path of normalisation with Israel. Israel is expected to try everything to show an apparently friendly behaviour with the Lebanese delegation to embarrass President Michel Aoun and his main ally, Hezbollah. However, when it comes to respecting the Lebanese borders the Israelis are not expected to agree any time soon.
President Aoun wishes to secure an agreement that enables Lebanon to become an oil-producing country. The agreement over the Israeli-Lebanese maritime and land borders would help him to establish this legacy and boost the Lebanese financial credibility, amid the severe crisis the country is currently experiencing.However, this is a trap that he has himself walked towards by evoking his constitutional right article 52 that gives the President the right to negotiate and ratify international treaties in agreement with the Prime Minister even though the Parliament must ultimately approve the treaty.
The trap consists of President Aoun being more vulnerable than Hezbollah to international intimidation, mainly by the US.US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker is expected in Beirut on Monday and will be present at the opening session. There is little doubt that the US, particularly the current administration, is looking for any “victory” (shaking hands, photos of the Lebanese and Israeli delegation, to name but a few) to support President Donald Trump’s election. Also, the US aims to help Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing severe challenges and domestic difficulties. Moreover, the US will accuse Lebanon of being responsible for any rebuff during a negotiation that doesn’t give Israel the upper hand or some concessions from Lebanese waters. Lebanon requires international financial support and the World Bank loan and will be extremely vulnerable to US blackmail.
The US has invested over $10 billion to counter Hezbollah and “demonise” the organisation. Inevitably, the US has allies in Lebanon and the Lebanese are divided politically, where criticism, exchange of accusations and attacks in media and social media are the rule of the day. This kind of machine is ready to roll whenever the US needs it and to campaign against the President and his son-in-law who leads the major Christian party in Lebanon (Tayyar al Watani al-Hurr – Free Patriotic Movement – FPM). He fears sanctions against himself in person and dozens more of his party.
The Lebanese Christian majority is not an anti-western group and are the only political party who supported the French President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative, unlike their allies in Amal and Hezbollah. Therefore, the west will always find its way through Hezbollah’s lines (the partners) to the advantage of Israel.
Lebanon and Israel signed an armistice on 23 March 1949 and agreed on the Armistice Demarcation Line (ADL) that would correspond precisely to the 1923 international boundary demarcated in 1922 by Anglo-French surveyors. The borders between Lebanon and Israel were fluid, particularly since the Maronite Lebanese government did not want the south of Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and the north of the country as part of Lebanon. The Christian Maronite ruling class of Lebanon focused, to develop and prosper, on the capital and Mount Lebanon because they represented 70% of the inhabitants of these areas.
Due to the formation of “Greater Lebanon”, the Christian population of the new Lebanon then represented only 54% (and the Maronites alone, 30%) pushing these to demand to reduce the country to a “smaller Lebanon” where the Christians would no longer be a minority. The relationship between the Lebanese Christian Maronites and the Israelis started with President Emile Edde’(1933-1938). The Maronite Patriarch Antoine Arida signed (through one of the patriarch associates Tawfiq Awwad) an agreement with Bernard Joseph in the name of Chaim Weizmann, the director of the Jewish Agency Political Department in 1946. Contacts were established with the Lebanese “phalanges” representative Elias Rababi in 1948 (Zisser Eyal (1995). The Maronites, Lebanon and the State of Israel: Early Contacts, Taylor and Francis LTD, Vol 31, N.4, p. 898 & 908) and were maintained until the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. This is why the issue of borders between Lebanon and Israel was never problematic until the year 2000 when Israel was forced to pull out of Lebanon under the pressure of the Lebanese “Islamic Resistance” and other resistance groups.
In the year 2000, Israel built a sophisticated defence complex that it has improved throughout the years without following the 1923/1949 borderline. Israel “adjusted the borders” to meet its defensive and security needs, trying to match the 1949 Demarcation Line. Israel claims that the Anglo-French agreement consisted of 1:100,000 English and French military maps, mostly inaccurate in scale and missing important ground features. Israel asked the UN to come to its rescue: TerjeRoed–Larsen was sent as the UN envoy to draw the “blue line”, the withdrawal line”. The UN said that the Blue Line is only temporary and without prejudice, that it does not affect any future boundary demarcation. The Lebanese government was unwilling to accept this compromise and claimed many “violations” of the border by Israel.
The landline inevitably determines the maritime line. Lebanese sovereignty extending over its belt of the sea is identical to that which it exercises over its land territory, i.e. it extends also to the airspace above the territorial sea and the seabed below it, except for the right of “innocent passage” for foreign vessels (the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea – UNCLOS – Part II).
Suppose there is a disagreement over the landline and the line at Ras Naqoura. In that case, the Lebanese maritime borders will be disputed, in particular where the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is delimited. Indeed, Cyprus and Lebanon signed an agreement in January 2007. However, Lebanon asserts that Cyprus did not consult with Lebanon on the amendment of the positional accuracy of the median line with Israel that moved the delimitation point 23 to point 1, which should be agreed by the two parties using the same principles. Lebanon affirms that there was a lack of coordination and agreement prevailing at the time of the change of the EEZ and its maritime territory: this deprived Lebanon of 863 sq. km of its territorial waters. Cyprus responded that it is within its right not to consult with Lebanon over naval borders.
Significant offshore natural gas fields have been discovered in the eastern Mediterranean since 2003 when Rafic Hariri was a Prime Minister of Lebanon. The information was kept away from public knowledge for many years until it was no longer possible to hide it.
Lebanon agreed to a consortium of Russian, French, and Italian companies to begin the exploration off the coast north of Beirut in the coming month of December. In 2020, drilling was set to start in Block 9 — one of the two blocks containing disputed waters with Israel. However, Total, that is a French company linked to the Elysée is holding back its programme at the request of President Macron. Over a year ago, Total said it was willing to keep a distance of 25 km away from the disputed borders and start drilling. However, the French company did not fulfil its commitment and contract, offered no explanation and is, it seems, waiting for the Lebanese-Israeli dispute to be solved.
The Lebanese-Israeli dispute does not fall under UNIFIL’s mandate. This is why the Lebanese government has been adamant that the UN must lead any indirect talks with Israel with the US presence since Washington always pushes for the Israeli interest. Lebanon and Israel are at war since 1948 but signed the first armistice agreement in 1949. In April 1996 an“informal written agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, reached through the diplomatic efforts. A cease-fire understanding was agreed between “the governments of Israel and Lebanon” with the consultation of Syria. There were previous talks with Israel to define the “Blue Line,” the line of Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon demarcated by the United Nations in 2000 (without any change in the attitude of hatred towards Israel). And lastly, in 2006, after the second Israeli war, Lebanon and Israel reached an agreement of cessation of hostilities.Three lines have been cited throughout the years. In reverse order, they are the 2000 line of Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon (the Blue Line), the 1949 Israel-Lebanon Armistice Demarcation Line (ADL), and the 1923 “international boundary” between Palestine and Lebanon. When Lebanon and Israel signed an armistice in March 1949, they agreed that the ADL dividing them would correspond precisely to the 1923 international boundary demarcated in 1922 by Anglo-French surveyors.
Success in these negotiations means nothing in the Lebanese-Israeli non-existent relationship, even though both Lebanon and Israel maintain an almost weekly meeting since the year 2000 under UN auspices and will continue to do. There are no new elements on either side that will change this apparent “state of hate” in the medium future.
In 2012, the US-appointed Frederic Hof to negotiate the maritime borders between Lebanon and Israel over the offshore oil block 9. His proposition to divide the dispute giving two-thirds to Lebanon and one-third to Israel over the 863 sq. km was rejected by Beirut.
Than succeeded Amos Hochstein, the US assistant secretary of state for energy. Hochstein’s suggestion to draw a temporary “blue sea line” was rejected. No progress was then registered as Lebanon went two and a half years without a government. The third envoy, David Satterfield, went back and forth for over a year and handed over the file to the newly appointed assistant secretary for Near East affairs, David Schenker after a year of unsuccessful talks. Schenker is expected in Beirut this week to flex the US muscles and try to smooth the Israeli road. Lebanon is not likely to abide by the US pressure.
In early 2019, eastern Mediterranean countries began discussions on creating a regional gas market, a move that would help to tie the region together and could ultimately reduce Russia’s leverage over Europe when it comes to energy supplies. Besides, American oil companies, such as Noble Energy, a primary explorer in Israel, could benefit from an Israel-Lebanon deal. The US would like to use Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus to curb Russia’ gas distribution to Europe by facilitating an agreement.
It is unlikely that President Donald Trump, who is big on striking deals, will have an Israeli-Lebanese agreement to add to his CV before 3 November or at some later date in years to come.
My email response to Elijah on his above article:
I guess I missed this story a couple of weeks ago. I'll remind you here that in the past, I've accused Andre Vltchek of being a controlled opposition agent – same school of scumbag agent as the treacherous jew, Max Blumenthal – both supporters of color revolutions, though Andre was a tad more shady and selective with his support. The Guardian describes him as pro Russia and China and I say this is BULLSHIT: he merely cultivated this image. Andre supports first and foremost the jewish agenda and is a giant proponent of both corrosive identitarianism and tyrannical political correctness:
Turkish police investigate ‘suspicious’ death of Russian-US journalist
Andre Vitchek is a very dangerous "journalist", he is beyond controlled opposition for me, he is most likely paid by certain regimes to spread their narrative. Andre used to have an incredible amount of followers, I used to be 7-8 years ago, but I bet he lost many on the road like me when article after article he exposed his agenda. His type is dangerous because he does not use a straight line, he goes toward many directions building lengthy narratives to hide his sole message, that he always delivers at the end, and it is always the same…against whoever tries to derail the globalists zio-nazi plans.
As Andre, there are others who most likely receives a fat check, one is the owner of pennyforyourthoughts blog, this person used to hide behind "supporting Syria" and vague critics on the apartheid regime while drooping F bombs on the Kurds…as if they were one united group and not fragmented ones in many countries…and the cherry of the cake was her blind defence of Erdogan and his policies……her narrative always pretended to say something but in fact she was covering up the alliance of Turkey-Kurds-Israel all the time, told Ziad many times, she is clearly a zionist agent.
People get easily fooled with good writing and some arguments, that is why your wake up call on Max Blumenthal and Andre Vitchek is so important, these freaks should be always exposed and busted.
Thanks Canthama. Yes, I agree that Andre’s type is the most dangerous because the writing style is creative and it can dazzle the reader straight into a dark alley.
It’s a real shame to see creative writers go to the dark side. Thankfully, not many do convert to darkness.
And his sudden mysterious death? Huh! Probably bit off more than he could chew.
So now the US Armenian community has two big bones to pick with the jewish lobby. One: israel and the US jew's refusal to classify their genocide by Turkey in the 1920's as a 'genocide' (plus the Young Turks who were slaughtering Armenians were crypto jews). Two: israel's unapologetic supply of intel and arms to Azerbaijan, Armenia's enemy.
I suggest The Armenian lobby in DC gets its act together and form alliances with anti-aipac and anti-Turkey lobbies asap.
Maybe get that proud Armenian Cher girl to fund-raise and lead an army of disco gays against aipac lol!
Or, elbow out that stupid BLM flavor of the month and start a new slogan for Armenia – my choice would be: Get that fucking jewish monkey off my back already!
Lookie here what I just found:
Why these Armenian American celebs are speaking out about a chronic conflict
I'd love to see the Kardashians bitch-slap at israel, wouldn't you? LOL! Of course you would, but of course you would heh!
A week ago, it started with a little Armenian finger-wagging like this:
Armenia accuses Israel of arming Azerbaijan
And now it's a fucking whamorama:
Armenian ethnic leader: Israel complicit in Azeri 'genocidal' war
Iran lost a dearest son three days ago: the great Mohammad Reza Shajarnian. A most revered and accomplished musician and composer. Five octaves: this is what his wondrous vox bono could do. Incredible. What depth of soul. Soaring height of connectedness.
Shajarian’s vocal gift transcends language
R.I.P. beautiful man of Iran.
… And his son, Homayoun Shajarian carrying the soulful torch forth into contemporary times:
Truely Beautiful. Thanks, Taxi, for posting. Mike.
Elijah's latest,' Difficult negotiations between Lebanon and Israel ahead' is heavily slanted towards the khazars, why? The khazars have NEVER respected ANY of the various border agreements, exhibit A would be the khazars continual violation of Lebanese air space. I strongly suspect that the khazars and or the empire has gotten to him. Does he have one or more boyfriends on the side and has been caught?
The Lebanese charged with these 'negotiations' should go in with maps showing the Sheeba Farms and points south as returned to Lebanon, then a complete shift of the khazar/Lebanon border shifted 10kms further south.
The border extension out into the sea should be moved to the new border point and the angle swung down at least 5deg's to the south.
Then let the khazars and the empire explode from there.
If Nasrallah does not want to step up to the plate and strongly support the negotiators that hand the khazars a total failure, then The Lebanon is doomed.
Thanks, Whozhear. I now strongly suspect that Elijah's main Leb 'source' is a disgruntled Maronite Aounist who falsely believes he's speaking on behalf of the Aounist majority. He doesn't. He's speaking on behalf of the minority defeatists – and yes, they do exist, but exist in a small measure. I did think that Elijah's latest piece was schizophrenic. He's recently showing a somewhat diluted faith in Hezbollah's power: he's certainly sounding like a typical Leb who's caving under pressure instead of seeing the picture soberly for what it is: all the political banter and arrows aimed at hezbollah have missed their mark and the hezb still remains an immovable object to ALL its enemies. No even the terrorist attack on the Beirut Port shifted the Hezb power a single inch (tel aviv must be pulling its hairs and pubes out!). Is Elijah a controlled opposition agent? I'm not seeing it, to be frank. I'm seeing a pragmatic journalist who doesn't know the language and is reporting from afar instead of from the field, thus missing nuances and the overall picture. But hey, I remain vigilant in my observation and study of his work because, well because I see all media people as potential enemies.
And regarding the Leb's occupied Shebaa Farms: israel will NOT negotiate a withdrawal from there because geographically speaking, the territory sits at the feet of the occupied Golan and presents a strategic security point for israel if it is to hold on to the occupied Golan. Israel giving up the Shebaa literally means giving up the occupied Golan.
That aside, Whozhear, you should know that the Lebs are craftier negotiators that you give them credit. It's really a joke to put a Leb in a negotiating room with a jew: all jewy tricks don't work on the Leb as indeed they work on the Western world and other spineless Arab nations. Just look at all the indirect negotiations that israel has had with the Leb especially since the rise of the Resistance. Hezbollah has won EVERY SINGLE NEGOTIATION with israel. They've managed to have thousands of Leb (and Palestinian!) prisoners released UNCONDITIONALLY and for close to nothing in return! Who in the whole fucking world has managed to out-negotiate the jews like this? No one – no one but the freaking Hezbollah! The Leb army negotiators know this and they think the same as Hezbollah (they're Lebs too after all: sons of the masterful Phoenician traders who were master negotiators). I'm not worried about the imminent indirect negotiations (taking place tomorrow) at all. Not one bit. I'm actually amused to see how weak the jews will be arriving at the table. They're in a mad-mad rush to seal a deal and Lebanon is not. They want the deal sealed pronto for two main reasons. One: they want their petroshekel and they blindly want it now! Two: the US remains in a rush to exist the Levant but first they must insure not just israel's security, but israel's economy as well, hence they need to first FAST activate the maritime gas projects in israel before they exit (the yanks too re in a mad rush!). These two points alone take negotiating power away from the jews. They will hide these weak points from the media and exploit the lie of 'negotiation is normalization', but when their stupid headlines die down and the Leb remains extremely hostile to the jewish terrorist state, what will be left in their hands is but another Lebanon turd pie. The jews will limp through the negotiations that will take a looooooong time and in the end they will give the Leb what it demands is its rights. Indeed, as has been happening between israel and the Leb for the past 3 decades.
You can weaken the Leb itself to point zero and the Hezb will still not lose one single drop of power. This is what the jewish scammers are up against and this is why they will continue to lose in any and all their dealings with the Leb.
If not for this power that the Hezb has accumulated (right under the jewish nose), there would be no 'negotiations' taking place at all. Instead, there would be AGGRESSIVE IMPOSITIONS and DOMINATION by israel over Lebanon and Lebanon would have no say in the matter whatsoever.
So just relax and enjoy the upcoming show.
For israel, the maritime border with Lebanon is by far more urgent to determine than the land one. They really-really-very-very-really want them petroshekles like yesterday! Major israeli and international jewy companies have already invested big in israeli gas and they've been forced to halt their operations from going any further since 2014 for security reasons, when Nasrallah first warned them against "touching one Lebanese grain of sand or drop of seawater". These companies have been losing money all the while due to this forced inaction.
The first hurdle that the Leb has already thrown at israel's negotiators, a hurdle that israel will find close to impossible to swiftly negate is the following: Lebanon is insisting that land borders first be drawn. This is the norm in ALL border negotiations that take place globally: maritime borders must correspond to already established land borders, not the other way round. Not surprisingly, treacherous and greedy israel is rejecting the norm and so both parties will therefore spend months vacillating between 'land first, no, maritime first'. Anyone can predict that these sessions will become extremely heady and mortally tedious. Will israel submit and reverse a corner of its Yinon Plan by fixing its land borders with Lebanon? Hardly. But if estimates are correct and there are indeed trillions of cubic feet of gas right there at the maritime border, then it will eventually cave: choosing 'profits now, Yinon later'; thinking Yinon can be resumed at a later stage. But, it will first stubbornly try to bust Lebanon's head at the negotiating table to gain its desired 'maritime before land borders' advantage. It won't get it. The Lebs have been threatening to pull out of the negotiations unless land borders are first drawn and agreed upon. And once these land borders have been drawn and agreed upon, the watery Leb territory that israel has its beady eye on will fall inside of Lebanese territory. Therefore case closed. Klepto israel will be denied its Leb loot.
I suppose we can here place bets on how long it will take israel to lose the first round to Lebanon over which comes first: land or sea. I know the US side wants it done before the Nov 3rd elections. Not gonna happen. And if Trump loses then a new Biden team will be assigned the file and this won't be happening till Feb-March 2021 if not later, and in the meantime, pretty much everything to do with these negotiations will be put on hold.
These negotiations will take epic time to fully conclude. And the Lebs will not budge because they have the joker and the ace card: a little something we like to call 'Hezb weapons'. The threat of Hezbollah's weapons will be utilized by the Leb side in these negotiations. Each time the klepto israeli side transgresses the norm or attempts to circumvent or take a bite out of anything Lebanon, Leb negotiators will say to the israeli side: 'we cannot stop Hezbollah using its weapons if you take maritime or land territories belong to Lebanon, we do not control Hezbollah therefore your point and your direction is moot as it will not lead to a settlement: Hezbollah won't allow it, regardless of what you or I might want'. In other words, the Hezbollah, though not actually present, will be a huge presence in the negotiating room. Neither the Leb army nor the israelis can afford to ignore the Hezb's red lines on these border negotiations. Israel, because it loves the petroshekel more than anything in the world, will again find itself submitting to Hezbollah's will.
This is why I'm not worried about the Lebs losing in the upcoming negotiations. They will absolutely receive all their territorial rights. The israelis will not be able to jew them out of "one grain of sand or drop of seawater".
Yet another reason why the Lebanon is luckiest to have their Hezbollah.
In fact, post Leb elites robbing the country blind for decades on end, Lebanon now has literally nothing else of any significance except for… Hezbollah.
Hezbollah! Hezbollah! Hezbollah! Essential, and essentially a clever-clever lot.
Taxi, thank you so much for your thoughts on this up coming event. I do believe we have seen the evil play from the zio-nazis all around toward this very moment, the sanctions, the economic collapse of the Lebanese currency, the explosion in the port, apartheid regime provocations with drone, assassinations etc….all of it to weaken Lebanese hand to the table, and I truly agree with you, these freaks are professional criminals but they are amateur in negotiations and that is why they tried hard for over 1 year to up their filthy hands with so many crimes against the Lebanese people, ain't helping them when the negotiation starts.
As in Syria, time is in favour of Lebanon and The Resistance, the more time the weaker the freaks will be, and though their hubris is galactic in size, it blinds them to see the reality that their overall situation is the weakest in decades, their society is deeply corrupted, their economy is fragile, their main supporters are entering in a catastrophic collapse, so their future seems bleak at best.
They will walk in to a killing zone, in the negotiations, the Lebanese people, as the Syrians know their situation sucks, they lost so much and so many loved ones, instead of weakening them, it makes them way more stronger and resilient, and patient.
Good times ahead, the Empire of Chaos is coming down and all their evil children with them, as you say, let the show begin.
An interesting deconstruction by the constructive Alastair Crooke:
The Barbarians Are Threatening Us!
SyrPer website info for Canthama, Daniel Rich, and others > Trying to access that site continues to bring up > "This site can’t be reached." I wrote prior savvy site fixer Danny his take about website status. Here's his reply > Hi Mike, I have no idea, server is still there but someone pointed the domain somewhere else. Best, Danny.
Mike, true, I exchanged some 5-6 emails with Ziad in the past 2 days, he told me Leith has said the site was up & running, and told him it is not and your communication with Danny just confirmed that, they thought the site was up and at the end it was redirected….but it seems it is coming up, he is writing an article at the moment. Hopefully the issues will finally be solved, told Ziad how people miss Syrper all over the place, I get dozens of inquires by twitter and VK regarding Syrper.
Thanks Mike.
Thanks, Canthama my friend. We keep pushing and sooner or later – hopefully SyrPer will return, possibly better than ever. The long-evolving important Syrian story continues – and broadcasting its status and direction is most necessary, for so many. Mike.
Last night being the 11th hour, the fanged slippery swamp eel otherwise known as terrorist israel was up to more abnormal evil with regards the Lebanon-israel border definition: trying to address drawing the maritime borders before the land one. This morning, Hezbollah and Amal Movement just released the following as reponse:
I'll keep you posted with further developments
Okay so I've got more on the above story now. Last night, a saudi-funded Leb newspaper accused one of the Leb army's choice of border negotiators of being "An American dual citizen". Very late last night, this man was interviewed and he denied ALL associations with the US: "I am not an American. I am 100% Lebanese. I hold a single passport which is Lebanese. I have no business relations with America. I don't even have any relatives in America". His statement was verified by the Leb media this morning.
Obviously, saudi-israel-US are trying to sew as much doubt and discord internally while the negotiations open today. And no doubt they will continue this line of attack on the Leb who holds the upper hand in the negotiations.
Some clarifications: the Leb negotiating team consists of Army heads and ex-army experts in geology, energy, and cartography. These ex-army experts are referred to as 'civilian'. Also, it has now been announced by President Aoun that the southern Leb land borders that were determined by the UN in year 1949 and agreed upon by Lebanon at that time are the legitimate land borders, and that the maritime borders should therefore be drawn according to it. This 1949 line includes the 800 maritime meters that klepto israel wants to loot. This 800 meters is supremely rich in gas, and israel is saying that it now merely wants to 'share 48% of it with Lebanon and not claim the whole of it'. In other words, it's a 'normalization' ruse. The Leb army has been instructed by Aoun NOT to agree to this cynical sharing. The Hezb and Amal's statement this morning was more of a warning to internal israel-saudi-US agents to fuck the fuck off or they will throw their own spanners in the work.
Tanks, TAXI, for your almost live coverage of the important events taking place in Lebanon.
Isn't "800 m" a typo? (https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/lebanese-crisis-and-mirage-natural-gas).
Thanks for the link, Antonio. And you're correct, the maritime Lebanon border that israel covets is 800+ kilometers.
The information in your linked article is mostly accurate, but it's conclusion is waaaay too academic and you cannot apply 'academics' to a place like Lebanon because, well, Lebanon is politically fluid and overnight revolutions there do happen, peaceful or otherwise. That aside, the article is not aware of the trillions of cubic feet of gas sitting at the base of this 800+ kilometers. This is not a puny or irrelevant amount regardless of whether the current market is already flooded with gas or not. My advise to international gas companies would be the opposite of the article's recommendation. I would advise that because the gas market is not experiencing any current shortages, companies should get in and negotiate cheap with the Lebs for their gas. One does not say no a new and plentiful energy source. One contracts it on the cheap if the market is experiencing a surplus, then saves it for later as the demand for gas as a source of energy has longevity. The global demand for gas (especially in Europe) will remain high in the near and far future.
Israel MSM BS on martine border talks > “Israel lowers expectations ahead of ‘historic’ maritime talks with Lebanon,”
(over and over they dribble – Leb must negotiate with a “pragmatic” approach RE maritine borders only. Bla Bla – but instructive to wade through their narrative propaganda. Perhaps below map informative – if correct. Mike).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-lowers-expectations-ahead-of-historic-maritime-talks-with-lebanon/
@ M-F,
Time for Lebanon to opt for the Kuwaiti angle and do some serious slanted drilling into Occupied Palestine's illegal riches.
F*** those bastards over and over again, and at every possible opportunity. Bullies can't stand a bloody beating.
1,000%……… fuck the khazars.
Thanks for the link, dear Mike. And let me here correct some info from my yesterday's comment. The two Lebanese 'civilians' are not ex-military as I had written, but had done some consultation work for the army in the past. They are indeed civilians entered into the team by Aoun at the 11th hour under extreme US pressure. I have inquired about these two men and apparently Najib Massihi is a good egg, but Wissam Chbat is corrupt and was suggested by Gibran Bassil, Aoun's son-in-law and leader of their party (Free Patriotic Movement). Bassil is already accused of some small-potato corruption and he is absolutely desperate to dominate the lucrative Leb gas file that's in the hands of Nabih Berri, shia leader of parliament – so much so that last year he understated the amount of gas in Block 9 (that's currently being negotiated over: located in the shia south), while overestimating the gas in Block 4 that's located in northern christian Lebanon that's dominated by his Free Patriotic Movement, all in order to push for drilling in Block 4 so that his territory gains the upper hand (and profits). I would even go as far as saying that Bassil is gas-mad. However, both Leb civilians who are now part of the team will not hold any 'speaking' roles in the negotiations, but have been instructed to merely be silent observers reporting back to Aoun and Bassil. So really, Aoun paid a small concession to the US by using his own anti-israel civilians. This will make no difference whatsoever to the end results of the negotiations that will find Lebanon claiming ALL of this 800+ maritime waters.
Yesterday's first negotiations, under the heaviest security, lasted one hour and it was agreed that the next one will be on the 28th of October. The content of the discussions were not released to the media, aside from the "we didn't give an inch away" from the Leb side. At the end of the negotiations, the israeli team attempted to get a photo-op with the Lebanese delegations, but failed. Under Aoun's strictest instruction, the Lebanese team was forbidden from this and they ducked and dived and rushed out of the meeting with zero pictures taken of both enemy-teams together. Israel had prepared not just photographers, but also pre-written articles to be published in their global media soon as the pics were taken. Well, pics never happened and pre-written articles were dumped. No big 'hooray for the jews' was scored in the jewish media after this first meeting.
The tentative score so far: Lebanon 1, israel 0.
Let me also add here that were it not for Hezbollah's weapons, israel would have never 'sat down' to negotiate the maritime borders with Lebanon. It would have just started unilaterally drilling and come what may, as it usually does with its neighbors' territories.
Furthermore, all the financial distress forced on Lebanon this year, plus the many attempts at color revolution and civil war, not forgetting the devastating terrorist attack on Beirut Port as well: these were all ploys to weaken hezbollah so that Lebanon can arrive at the maritime negotiations in a weakened state. None of these evil ploys worked. Though little Lebanon is financially broke, because of Hezbollah's weapons it remains geostrtegically stronger than terrorist israel. Israel itself is at the negotiating table out of weakness, not out of strength, or out of good neighborly intent either.
Don't let the jewy media tell you otherwise.
@ taxi/et al,
If I were Hezbollah, I'd send a 'rogue' madman [plausible deniability] as a guard to these meetings, to secretly film Occupied Palestine 'negotiation' members and release the footage next year, on Sunday, 28 March, 2021, with a red cross over every single OP participant.
F*** with them, over and over again. Rattle their nerves. Pluck at their stringy intestines and make them look over their shoulders every step of the way.
Oh, and of course, kill 1 of those mofus.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/10/in-a-first-british-trade-unions-commit-to-challenging-israeli-apartheid
In a first, British trade unions commit to challenging Israeli ‘apartheid’
Thanks for the good news, dear Cloak. Ironic isn't it that Arab Gulfies are bigly dissing on Palestine while faraway foreigners are voicing commitment and support for the Palestine cause. And even though news like this is always welcome, in the end, only the violent extinction of israel will solve the Palestine-israel problem.
Armed resistance remains the only solution.
Thanks @Taxi. I should have added my own comments to the above, 'specially given this other news:
https://www.redressonline.com/2020/10/bully-boy-ministers-christmas-message-to-uk-universities-adopt-anti-semitism-definition-thats-too-vague-to-be-useful-or-ill-axe-your-funding/
The above is an interesting read. Perhaps it is wishful thinking on my part, but I sense a wakening in the public perception of Israel – that cuntry [sp. deliberate] has overreached – a typical trait of groups that believe that they have absolute power – which always leads to tone-deafness, and absolute corruption, which leads to their destruction. CIP: Netanyahu.
While 2020 has been a terrible year for many of us, it has been an absolute disaster for pro-Israeli governments and leaders. Mark my words, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of unrestrained and absolute power. Or we are not… in which case, we are witnessing the end of this current instantiation of "western civilization" – Israel cannot be continued to be treated like a western European country, and needs to feel the full wrath of what it has wrought on the rest of the world in its selfishness, greed, and manipulation of the policies of "friendly" allies (not a legal definition without a treaty) who have drawn a viper into their respective bosoms.
Israel has stained our daggers with the blood of innocents, with western governments colluding immorally to demonize and destroy Israel's enemies – i.e. those who have more rights to the occupied lands that flourished with the original population of Palestine than the subsequent illegal occupation that lives to this day.
Somehow or other (and I have no pretensions to knowing how), we have to wrest power back from these daemons from Hades, and strive to be that City on the Hill, that our founders envisioned. Somehow or other, we must all rise against this usurpation of human rights and bring it down once and for all times, and do it so dramatically that no other collection of jews will ever contemplate such an assault on humanity and the teachings of history.
@ CaD,
We have Marx, Freud and Einstein to tell us how the world and universe work and should be run [according to the talmud and jewish thinking].
Well, I ain't looking and listening. I go my own way. I do good where I think that good should be done. I do bad against what I think deserves to be treated bad/ly.
I don't run the world. I don't rule the world. I am where I am, and do whatever I think is necessary to be done there. As I'm a mixed bag of lone wolf and team player genes, I feel perfectly at home, no matter where I am or who's around me [or not].
@Daniel Rich
What you described is individual sovereignty, which makes you more powerful than the state – as it should be. While Thomas Jefferson may not have said this (Some controversy over origin of quote), it is a very concise declaration of individual freedom:
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
@ CaD,
You have your feet closer to the fire than I do [I reside in Japan], so I don’t have to tell you what you see when you walk down the streets.
Friend in Georgia sent me a picture with the sheriff’s new wheels on it [a while ago]. My eyes focused on the appropriately painted APC behind it. With a militarized police, tyranny has already arrived. It’ll take some time to fully settle, before it storms out of the closet.
The holocasut [sorry, I'm a Holiwood exec] is a Trojan horse that's slowly hollowed out by the termites of history. More and more people begin to question the validity of all those 'horror' stories, brought to the wider world by Billy Wilder in his 'Death Mills' docu-drama.
That, and its infamous AS-BS, are running out of steam.
You see a jew. You see a living lie.
I hate lairs.
Take it from there.
Do not cross my path.
For Plato readers who still carry the torch for Moon of Alabama (myself, I hardly ever visit MoA and its been this way for several years now, basically because I suspect Bernard has allowed himself to be compromised: his price was named and he stuffed his pockets with dirty dollars):
Moon of Alabama – It’s time to say goodbye
Taxi, true indeed, last year MoA has crossed the Rubicon for me, B censorship was clearly a no go, but it seems covid19 made him very very arrogant, he is not the only one, many people around the world went nuts, both ways…denying totally or embracing it like the end of the freaking world.
B, basically smeared anyone bringing doubts to the global orchestrated move to combat the covid19, simply not accepting not even the possibility, nor listening and accepting another point of view….Most recently there was smearing on Eva Bartlett, from MoA as well, on the very same subject…covid19…due to her coverage in Syria of covid19 and counter Canadian response to it (she got stranded in Syria due to traveling restrictions during the pandemic), so clearly for me this is beyond defending a position or opinion, it is intentional, it is driven, it is pushing a narrative….and we all know how it is done and usually by whom is done…
Thanks for sharing what’s been going down with MoA of late. There’s nothing I loathe more than a controlled opposition agent, as well as a fake poet. Bernard Bin Alabama ticks both boxes for me – a double-whammy of loathing at him – and a pox on his house for allowing himself to get seduced by the dark side.
All for dirty dollars.
Fucking whore!
Some 5-6 years back I began posting on Moon of Alabama. This was during the all-out assault on Syria by the various proxy and mercenary forces taken on by the usual set of suspects. Along the line I traced the chain of command clear on back to the ownership of the Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Bank of Australia, Bank of New Zealand and the U$ puppet regime's ruling "Federal" Reserve bank and their primary shotcallers, the Rothschild Crime Clan. The site rather rapidly blew me off on that line of counterattack. So we can trace MoA's departure from human righteousness at least back to the heat of that era.
Thanks, Majority of One. If it's any consolation, I was banned from MoA after only 3 comments some four years ago. If memory serves, my 3 comments were not bolshie or bimbo. The opposite. My last comment was saying to Bernard Bin Dollar something to the effect of: 'you complain that Trump's Russiagate is but a hoax yet you keep incessantly writing about it, therefore perpetuating it'. This was too much salt for the "starving poet", I guess. To put it in a wider context, I've been banned from just about everywhere, hence: Plato's Guns.
@ Taxi and @ Canthama,
Over time, we are going to witness more reporters and commentators move over to the dark side. For myself I simply stop frequenting their site. When their page views drop off, sometimes like a brick off a bridge, they are done for good. At the end of the day the khazars have achieved exactly what they set out to do….. silence the opposition for a few pieces of silver.
Sadly, you cannot get through to the minds of these writers.
For readers looking for a primer on the Hunter Biden HDD, here is a good start from Rudi ……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LuSpHJNPe0
For readers who are not familiar with my view that the difference between communism and judaism is the spelling, this primer may help you too……
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1602935817705.png
Thanks Whozhear. It’s astonishing, isn’t it? I mean how many human whores are among us in the world today. Especially in locations that house mega halls of bombast-power.
Humans so easily forget that dignity and self-respect are not just flighty ideals. They are living, electrified rods in the human consciousness. Dignity and self-respect are personal attributes that have nothing to do with gender or race, religion, education, occuption or nationality. Dignity and self-respect are organic and intrinsic to the human experience. They are vital for personal and for collective survival – natural evolutionary progress. Dignity and self-respect exist as mental organs for the purpose of human transcendence. Discarding them for money, for party politics, for fame, for the heck of it or even for love – for anything – discarding them is tantamount to selling out your renaissance to the basest bidder. Means going to the dark side of the devil’s ass. Whoring. Perpetual whoring. And infecting clients with diabolical mental syphilis.
This is the dangerous trade of a professional Controlled Opposition Writer (COW). Controlled Opposition Writers are, in effect, weapons of mass mental destruction. A clever lot. But not THAT clever. Because they shit on truth and only stupid people defecate on their life-raft. Dignity and self-respect INSIST that one pursues the truth. Why? Because life without the presence of truth is base, lunatic, haphazard – dangerous. Truth, harsh or soft, always being an illuminator and definer of reality, truth therefore is a vital survival weapon and antidote against mental turbulence and self-harm. Because truth can easily be blown aside, dignity and self-respect function as weight-support for feathery truth. A complimentary triad, essential for both physical survival as well as mental health. Being in this wretched world explicitly demands that you protect both your body AND your thought-process from external violence and assault. There’s a jungle out there and there’s a jungle in there too. Controlled Opposition Writers are vicious assaulters and predators of the private inner world of humans. Observe: you’re born: they want your tax money AND they want your mind. They first take your tax money, then they send in the Controlled Opposition Writers. They send in the COWs. And you… what else to do except send them, well, the bull. Gore their fucking lies out!
(Pardon the ramble-amble but you caught me in a semi-philosophical mood, buddy).
@ taxi/et al,
Some say the truth hurts. In my case, it doesn’t. Lies irk me and liars better not cross my path. I don’t handle them quite well.
Every day I can look in the mirror [if I had one] and say, “You lived up to all your promises.”
The truth is never about being right or wrong. It is about one’s honest perspectives. Those perspectives might [and often will] change.
For a long time I thought of myself as a liberal, social oriented kinda guy. That was until ‘liberals’ and ‘socialist’ turned into something alien to me. I’ve lived and worked in many countries around the globe, thus fail to think in terms of 1st, 2nd or 3rd world concepts. I also fail at thinking in national terms, although I do understand the concept of nationalism.
My life’s motto is as simple as I am: live and let live. You need help? Knock at my door and I’ll step outside to lend you a hand. Knock at my door to tell me how to live my life and I’ll step outside to kick your ass.
The truth doesn’t need a single ff-ing law to protect it. Lies do [insert the holocasut crapola, among other things].
Extra-extra read all about it:
The US of A(rms)
American Coup d’états
The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
Fact-Checking the Liars: the Record of U.S. Imperial War and Plunder
POTUS Punk vs. Dem Dementia
The Great Barrington Declaration: A manifesto of death
Jews Are Enabling Genocide Against Armenian Christians In Nagorno-Karabakh
The looming specter of fascism in capitalist states
And I couldn’t resist sharing this WTF covid video here:
Dear readers and friends, man what a mindfuck Elijah Magnier has dumped on me this week. Last Wednesday he emailed me a copy of his next article before publishing, saying that he will publish it this weekend. I responded negatively to it and he said he would be making adjustments to it before publishing (the subject matter was Gaegae and how he will ignite a religious civil war in the Lebanon with 15.000 Gaegae fighters: a total lie that Gaegae spread and Elijah ran with). Then last night he sent me an email with another different article that I discovered he'd published this morning. Well I read it. And my response was double the negative of Gaegae's article: though I do see both articles as aiming for the same target: conjuring a 'fitna' (Arabic for civic distress, unrest, civil war) in Lebanon. I'm trying my best to remain polite when disagreeing with his… his fucking stuff! Honestly, I don't know how long I can remain in polite mode with him for.
Oooof! Out of fucking control with his latest article! Here it is below, followed by my email response (negative, but still restrained). I really hope he doesn't email with further response, explanation etc as seriously, I've now lost interest in what he has to say and the article below may very well be the last one of his that I share with my readers. I am fast losing trust in his intention. Has he gone the way of Bernard Bin Breadhead from MoA? You be the judge.
This is what happens when Sunnis and Shiites agree in Lebanon
By Elijah J. Magnier:
French President Emmanuel Macron does not want his initiative for Lebanon to fail. His initial path was not successful because he did not possess the political acumen necessary to confront the tricks of the Lebanese politicians. Macron wrongly believed that the "weight" of France was sufficient for everyone to stand "inline" and carry out the orders of the French "professor". The French President did not realise that there are many political "professors" in Lebanon who insist on implementing their agendas and interests notwithstanding the severe financial crisis. Macron rectified the path of his initiative by encouraging and supporting Saad Hariri to form a "rescue government" that is supposed to stay for only 6 months. In reality, Hariri is expected to lead the cabinet until the upcoming elections in 2022.
What is the state of consultations now, and how have the alliances between political parties been reshuffled?
For the first time, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri appeared, to hold the game from all sides as he wanted it. For the first time, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri appeared to hold the game from all sides as he wanted it. He "burned" all the previous candidates, including Prime Minister Hassan Diab (and was efficiently assisted by Speaker Nabih Berri from the day Diab stepped into the Parliament). Hariri adopted the same policy even with the candidate of French President, Ambassador Mustafa Adib, overwhelming him with impossible conditions that led to his failure. The former PM disrupted the French initiative himself, by blaming the Shia duo(Hezbollah and Amal – the group led by Speaker Berri) who insisted in nominating the Finance Minister. Indeed, the duo still wants this cabinet position, but they were not the only political group with specific demands. The decision of the 'Shia duo' saved Hariri by blowing up Adib's place and by allowing the leader of the 'Free Patriotic Movement' (FPM) to hide his requests in nominating his candidates for the new cabinet.
Today, however, the 'political game' is no longer under the table: Hariri – who was granted non-opposition status from Saudi Arabia to become Prime Minister – announced that he wanted this position by all means. The former PM is aware that he can form a cabinet only if he strikes a deal with the 'Shia duo' to secure the majority of votes at the Parliament and not the 'majority bloc' (which includes the Shiite duo and the Free Patriotic Movement and their allies). The House of Representatives is witnessing today a change of alliances and a sharp internal division. Fundamental and even ideological differences between old allies now appear visibly on the surface.
Hariri seized the opportunity to approach the 'Shia duo' and agree on the finance minister and their other ministers- as long as they are technocrats and experts in their field. This means that he fulfilled the first step he needed to return as Prime Minister, especially since Speaker Berri ensured that several Christian representatives vote for the PM, for Hariri to maintain the pact and consensus. This, of course, will no longer hold if and when the majority of Christians are out of the new cabinet, as they may well be.
Saad Hariri knows how to bring the Druse leader Walid Jumblatt onto his side by securing his share in the new cabinet. Thus, Hariri is able to achieve a political victory over his political arch-enemy Gebran Bassil by ignoring him and rejecting his cabinet demands.
The President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, postponed the parliamentary consultations that were, and still are, attempting to nominate Hariri as Prime Minister. Aoun accommodated Bassil, his son-in-law, who was isolated by his political ally – Hezbollah – unwilling this time to support him as it did in the formation of the previous government. The relationship between Basil and Hezbollah has endured severe differences in the past year, including "strikes below the belt". These strikes are now no longer the exclusivity of one partner and not the other.
However, postponing the parliamentary consultations for the nomination of Hariri brought about the resentment of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who has little sympathy for President Aoun and his son-in-law. There were no endorsed justifications to postpone the consultations except the attempt to protect Basil and allow him, for another final week, to try to secure a place in the next government. Bassil was insisting on keeping the Energy Ministry, a request Hariri was not ready to accept. Bassil does not realise that there is no one currently among the political and influential leaders prepared to allow him to succeed in this ministry (even though he was in charge of it for years).
There is no constitutional reason that compels Hariri to fulfil Bassil's desires, especially since France has intervened to express its displeasure at the delay. The French President forcefully proposed that no further delays be tolerated and that next Thursday the Prime Minister (Saad Hariri) has to be nominated. This bickering is revealing the fact that the 'Shia duo' was not the only one insisting on appointing its representatives in the cabinet: other parties want their share.
Hariri positively responded to the Shia, Druze and Sunni, and left the main Christian groups out – the leaders of the "Lebanese Forces" Samir Geagea and Gebran Bassil – so they stand out as those prepared to obstruct this "reform and salvation" government.
But does this mean that the agreement between the FPM (led by Bassil) and Hezbollah has ended?
The alliance that Hezbollah's Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah signed with the head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), General Michel Aoun (known as the Mar Mikhael Accord) in 2006 changed its complexion when its Christian leader, who became President of the Republic, gave the leadership of his party to his son-in-law Gebran Bassil.
Hezbollah considered that the "debt" owed to General Aoun (when Aoun stood by Hezbollah during the 2006 second Israeli war on Lebanon) had been fulfilled. Hezbollah froze the country for over two and a half years, blocking the nomination of a President, notwithstanding the existence of the regional and international effort rejecting General Aoun’s candidateship. Certainly, disputes have to be tolerated because they always occur within an alliance: it is not one single party and the inherent differences become obvious to all.
However, in this case, these differences were not appropriately organised to maintain political unity and solidarity all the way through. The two parties benefited from each other and showed that they could be separate. In the last parliamentary elections, Gebran Bassil wanted to confront his ally Hezbollah in numerous regions, allowing Samir Geagea the victory of 15 MPs and the loss of Hezbollah in Jbeil. Of course, the Geagea-Bassil alliance during the elections crumbled quickly when the FPM did not hold to its promises to the LF once the results of the elections were out. The struggle around the "Christian leadership" remains a continuous saga between the two leaders. This is what brought back Bassil to Hezbollah notwithstanding this temporary split.
However, It seems that Bassil believes that he can get away with 'flirting' with Israel, by stating that there are no ideological differences with the Israelis, facilitating the release of Amer al-Fakhoury, the ‘butcher of Kiyam’(when the chief of the Army, nominated by the President, pressured the general head of the military court for a temporarily release allowing al-Fakhoury to reach the US embassy where he was smuggled out of the country), promoting "direct negotiations" with Israel (as the FPM parliament member Ziad Aswad said); and forming a delegation to the maritime negotiation dispute with political members to please the US administration. In Hezbollah's eyes, Gebran Bassil has crossed all the lines that can be tolerated.
When the US announced sanctions against the Minister Youssef Finyanous, the head of his party, the Presidential candidate Suleiman Franjyeh declared that severe sanctions would not alter their principles and support to Hezbollah. On the other hand, the US threat of sanctions against Gebran Bassil and dozens of his party has produced the desired US-Israeli results and forced the FPM leader to take decisions that he would not have taken in normal times. Now Bassil is caught between the rejection of the French initiative (unlikely, because President Macron would cease his pressure in the US to halt sanctions against the FPM) and his political ambitions. If he goes against Hezbollah, Bassil will have no allies left: all political parties have been declared enemies.
However, all these Hezbollah-Bassil disputes do not mean divorce. Nor the fall of the Mar Mikhael Agreement. Nevertheless, the Sunni-Shiite agreement is creating a rapprochement that could trigger a Christian-Christian understanding. At All the same time, nothing will affect the nomination of Hariri and the formation of a new government, one that is expected to face more significant challenges than the question of any old or new alliances, strategic or progressive! Macron's initiative is back on track, and the 1989 Taef agreement is derailed: its coffin has even more nails than before.
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My email response to Elijah's above article:
Bonjour Elijah and thank you for sharing your latest article. Truth be told, I'm not a fan of this article at all. Mostly because there is no actual substance in reality to back up either a political rapprochement between Hariri and the Hezb (they remain at fundamental odds and always will be, despite Hezbollah's public tolerance of him); and no evidence whatsoever either that a Hariri's return to government is certain even in the slightest; or even that the Aounist are now unsure of their alliance with the Hezb. And never mind that you mistakenly put Macron in the driver's seat, when in fact, he is being driven by the US and israel and the Aounist know this only too well, hence their tepid cooperation with him. Plus, your writing that Bassil is covertly "flirting" with and pandering to israel is just outright the wrong and sensationalist interpretation (a propagandistic notion that I expect to read in the jewy press and not in your articles). And, dear Elijah, Bassil never said: 'there is no ideological difference between him and israel' – you've taken what he said out of context and adhered to tel aviv' intentional mistranslation. What he actually said was "we are not against Israel living in security" in context with UN resolution 1701 – and he further added in the same breath that israel remains the enemy of Lebanon till the Shebaa Farms are no longer occupied by israel. He has often stated and even tweeted statements from his office saying that over the years he had "rejected Israel’s existence", and accused it of "raping Palestine, Lebanon and Arab rights". You didn't quote him right or in full, regrettably. You spend a bulk of the article spreading what I see as misinformation or misinterpretations (call it what you may), only to retract it all with your conclusion in the last paragraph. Looks like you're trying to please too many people with opposing views in this article, when only the truth and the facts should be promoted by you.
The point I object to the most in the article is its attempt at planting a 'fitna' seed between Christian and Muslim Lebanon: a growing antagonism alluded to by your article that simply does not exist between the ruling christian (Aounists) and the ruling muslims (Hezbollah). These two giants of Lebanon politics remain today exactly as they were yesterday: friends and best of allies, regardless of several political disagreements between them. And they will remain 'merged' in the future. These two shia and christian parties have for some time now merged and become like inseparable twins. Their 'merging' insures no religious civil war is possible in the Lebanon. So why are you creating a doubt of their alliance and leading the reader to falsely believe that a religious civil war is on the cards? It's just simply not the case at all.
I sincerely hope you find alternative sources on Lebanon: whom you are listening to now are leading you down the garden path.
Elijah, I do not intend to offend you with this email, I only aim to illuminate your blindspot.
Yap, Elijah responded to my above email. Here below is his response, followed by mine. I really hope he does not write because life is too short to spend on, well, political banter and swagger.
ELIJAH'S RESPONSE TO MY EMAIL:
Dear Taxi,
No offense whatsoever in most but not all of what you have written. It is healthy to disagree and I see how you mix your wishful thinking with reality. The rapprochement between Hariri and Hezbollah is so obvious I am surprised you can't see it when Sayyed Nasrallah said a year ago he wanted Hariri to stay. Moreover, Hariri will be nominated PM only because Hezbollah (and Amal) accept in the first place. Otherwise, he won't see himself ever back to the prime-ministership.
You say that there is no evidence Hariri is returning. I respect that and we only have to wait until next Thursday to find out if my information is accurate or not. Hariri's return will explain how Hezbollah and Tayyar are further away from each other more than ever. Besides, the serious and critical Amer al-Fakhoury's release by Aoun and Bassil, the selection of the negotiating delegation (and here I refer to your previous mail when you said Masih is a good egg. Allow me to correct that Masih is the one who is convinced that the Hof line is suitable for Lebanon), Tayyar's MP Aswad statement (you did not mention), and Gebran's position (that is not out of the contest at all, mainly when Gebran acknowledged the 'right of Israel to exist' https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/lebanese-foreign-affairs-minister-i-dont-deny-israels-right-to-exist-520261). That is in the heart of Hezbollah's ideology to deny and reject Israel's existence. That without mentioning the "neutrality" Gebran advertised for https://www.albawaba.com/news/gebran-bassil-says-only-way-stop-israeli-attacks-lebanon-be-neutral-1369514). What Gebran's office tweeted earlier this year is an attempt to cover the interview he has given to al-Mayadeen acknowledging the 'right to safety' https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2017/12/28/Lebanese-minister-lands-in-hot-water-over-remarks-on-Israel-s-right-to-safety- that his office later denied even if the interview was filmed. In fact, The majority of the Christians of Lebanon have no problem with Israel and never had.
Here is my main point: when you say I am 'pleasing someone' you are totally off track. Actually this is the first time ever someone made this remark or believed this is my goal in my articles. This comment I refuse to accept by all means. You are, clearly to me, blind by your own narrow vision and conviction rather than having a bird-eye view. Moreover, I never write an article unless I check with my sources (that I think were very reliable) and my 38 years of experience in this business
To add to your wrong political view, Sayyed Nasrallah said there are differences between the two and disagreement. Otherwise, the two would be one single party, which strongly contradicts the "merging" you are wrongly mentioning in your mail.
I hope you won't be offended but I think you better take a distance from your own conviction when you analyse or you ready analysis of the situation that is different from yours.
Take care,
Elijah
MY REPLY TO ELIJAH:
Hello again,
"Wishful thinking"? I don't think so, my dear. Rather, I call it understanding the multi-layered nuances of Leb politics. Something that most foreigners are deaf to.
"The rapprochement between Hariri and Hezbollah is so obvious I am surprised you can't see it when Sayyed Nasrallah said a year ago he wanted Hariri to stay". Realpolitik is not rapprochement. You missed the nuance in this story: Hezbollah ALWAYS works FIRST AND FOREMOST towards avoiding the igniting of a civil war and at the time it was wise to give VERBAL support to Hariri instead of publicly antagonizing him and his supporters with outright rejection that could have easily caused the sunni street to rage during an extremely volatile period. Only Nabih Berri is insisting on Hariri because, well, they're partners in crime and all the baggage that comes with it. Hezbollah is standing on the sideline and offering a passive 'non objection' to Hariri. They are not maniacally insisting on him like Nabih Berri is. Big difference in nuance here between Berri's Amal and the Hezb with regards to Hariri's 'sudden' recent wish to return to government. And lest you forget, the Hezb needs to also keep shias undivided at the same time as keeping the sunnis happy and they do this (out of realpolitik necessity) by allowing Berri the megaphone and voice while they stand watching quietly from the wings till the story/issue dies down or gets resolved. This is the Hezb's fundamental domestic MO that really you should be familiar with by now. Time and time again, they preform incredible political feats of balance to keep the country out of civil war.
"You say that there is no evidence Hariri is returning. I respect that and we only have to wait until next Thursday to find out if my information is accurate or not. Hariri's return will explain how Hezbollah and Tayyar are further away from each other more than ever". I shall here skip your speculative points over what may or may not happen next Thursday. Pointless to engage in speculation. Remember, I am neither a journalist, nor a crystal ball reader. But I am a good observer of the human condition and this includes political behaviorism.
"Besides, the serious and critical Amer al-Fakhoury's release by Aoun and Bassil". Again you've missed the nuance of Aoun's action. After foiling Fakhoury's evil plan at attempted civil war by arresting him at Beirut Airport, it was easier and by far less trouble to allow the US to take him off their hands. A court proceeding against him would have majorly distressed the country and caused christian-on-christian street violence by the Gaegae brigade: something that the Aounists wanted to avoide so as to NOT divide the christian community further. Calling it "critical" is amateur and melodramatic and again demonstrates lack of understanding of the volatile intricacies of christian-on-christian antagonisms between Aounist versus Gaegae and his Falange Kataeb allies. No doubt the shias, being the major victims of Fakoury's sadistic crimes, would have sided with the Aounist in street battles between the two christian groups, and no doubt this would have easily led to civil war. Once understood in this context, one understands that it was a smart and protective decision by Aoun to let go of dual-nationaity Fakhoury.
"… the selection of the negotiating delegation (and here I refer to your previous mail when you said Masih is a good egg. Allow me to correct that Masih is the one who is convinced that the Hof line is suitable for Lebanon), Tayyar's MP Aswad statement (you did not mention), and Gebran's position (that is not out of the contest at all, mainly when Gebran acknowledged the 'right of Israel to exist'". You do not provide me with ANY evidence on Masih being a bad egg (I spell it Massihi btw). In fact, I inquired about him from a (shia from the south) Leb army General and he would be first to call out Leb traitors and 'normalizers' with israel. He says Massihi is a good egg and I implicitly trust this General. I certainly trust him more than I trust your source. And really Elijah, why bother linking me to a stupid israeli propaganda piece whose headline is spun out of context YET the subheadline says otherwise! I personally heard the interview with Bassil and he did NOT say what you and the deceptive jewish media translates and would have people believe he said. You want me to believe a treacherous jew over my own ears? Fact is this Bassil statement was picked up by media opposed to Bassil several days AFTER the interview was aired and they tried to use it as a bludgeon against him BECAUSE he is anti israel, not because he is pro israel. Think about it, why would israel-centric media in Leb criticize him for giving a nod to israel? This logic aside, the Hezb was certainly not offended by what Bassil said because like me, they understood not just the Arabic language, but also the context AND diplomatic nuance of his statement. I would appreciate it in the future if you would refrain from linking me to israeli propaganda to make a valid point. And I should also add that I also do not accept Saudi and Gulfie funded rags like Al-bawaba and Al-Arabiya as legitimate truth-telling journalism – nothing but nasty lies and propaganda factories there. Bassil's interview was filmed in Arabic and I heard it for myself, so do I really need to fact-search infamous propaganda outlets writing in English for further illuminations? I certainly don't.
"In fact, The majority of the Christians of Lebanon have no problem with Israel and never had". Putting aside the long history of jewish terrorism against Christian Lebanon, Let's just keep it simple and short and do the math together here, shall we? If the majority of Leb christians support Aoun who is allied with Hezbollah, how is it that you can make a preposterous statement of belief like the one above? What you say is NOT a "fact": literally every word in this statement is false and indeed it appears to be 'wishful thinking' on your behalf. Or on your source's behalf. Either way, it is altogether a COMPLETELY faulty reading of the "majority" of christian Lebanon. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard Leb christian men say to me: I do not like hezbollah's politics, but I would instantly join them in a war against israel".
"Here is my main point: when you say I am 'pleasing someone' you are totally off track. Actually this is the first time ever someone made this remark or believed this is my goal in my articles. This comment I refuse to accept by all means. You are, clearly to me, blind by your own narrow vision and conviction rather than having a bird-eye view. Moreover, I never write an article unless I check with my sources (that I think were very reliable) and my 38 years of experience in this business". Elijah, I've respected your work and been an admirer of your articles for a long time, but some of your recent Lebanon articles are schizophrenic and have me concerned. Don't blame me for this. Take responsibility for your own words. You can have all the "bird-eye view" in the world that you like, but if you're suffering from myopia or from 'external influence', then your view is moot. That aside, I am observing Lebanon from an up-close-and-personal vantage, and you are at your keyboard in Belgium with your 'source' feeding you second-hand info. If I am "blind", then so is your source – your source is certainly not smarter or better informed than me. And I must here tell you that I throw shade not at you, but at your dubious source. I find their summary of Lebanon's political affairs of late sensationalist, spun, and utterly unfounded. Their information appears to be fished out of a fishbowl and not from the big stormy sea that we call Lebanon politics. In my humble estimation, your Iraq and Syria sources are by far better.
"To add to your wrong political view, Sayyed Nasrallah said there are differences between the two and disagreement. Otherwise, the two would be one single party, which strongly contradicts the "merging" you are wrongly mentioning in your mail. No, it doesn't contradict it at all. What Nasrallah said was honest and correct and does not negate the ongoing political merging between his and Aoun's party. Your above argument is but a strawman argument not worth addressing any further.
"I hope you won't be offended but I think you better take a distance from your own conviction when you analyse or you ready analysis of the situation that is different from yours". No, I am not offended by your email. But I am saddened by it.
But hey, I'll get over it, for sure.
All the best to you in all your endeavors.
His highness Elijah is not amused, he now writes:
"Hello Taxi,
You are not a journalist but I am. That is my job and that is the difference between you and me. You speculate and I gather information and analyse accordingly.
You have a source at the MOD that you trust more than my source. Good on you. I have dozens of sources I trust and that is enough for me particularly when I am not trying to convince you or prove anything to you. That is not my problem. I only responded to your anger that is unprofessional and emotional rather than constructive and critical. This is no longer a conversation. Sad to read this level of exchange. I have constructed my reputation not from a keyboard in Belgium but from a very valid reason you are not aware off it seems.
I think I spent in Lebanon more time than you did and gathered sources more than anyone. NO need to compare my knowledge with yours, of course, because it is not your job to gather information but it is mine. You are in the south of Lebanon with your dogs in your little world, which is obvious but I do respect of course. Many inspirations come from looking at a field or the trees. However, For this shallow remark of yours, I shall not answer further because I don't have anything to prove to you. Therefore, I think, if I may, I'll adopt your following sentence where you say here: "not worth addressing any further". That closes the conversation I presume.
Here is an article for you to read and start perhaps thinking again. No need for you to reply:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests-hariri-hezbollah-exc-idUSKBN1X92EQ
I won't poison you with my articles. You have enough sources to feed your abundant knowledge.
Wish you all the best,
Elijah
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Of course, I will not write Elijah back, and phew, I will not be receiving any more of his articles – saves me having to keep writing the customary courteous 'thank you for sharing" emails to him, especially when content of his article is annoying.
Well I hope he enjoyed his exercise in one-upmanship.
I don't care what he says about me, or what he says about himself.
I don't care if someone's been at something for a hundred years: if they get it wrong, they're wrong.
And for fuck's sake did he have to link me to another jewy rag after I'd just asked him not to? Now THAT really hurt lol!
A quick comment about the reuters-linked article: It's a year old and updated and it suffers from exactly the same nuance-challenged malady that I was lamenting over in my email exchanges with Elijah. For instance, yes it's true that Hezbollah did not want Hariri to resign at all – they were vocally and vehemently against his resignation at the time. But there's more to it than just that and the article skips right over the golden nugget: makes no mention of the fact that Nasrallah himself stated in his speech at the time: "we do not want to see Hariri resign because we do not want to see a failed government. We never want to see any failed government. We fear a vacuum", he said. So, you see here how Reuters's omission of the full explanation given by Nasrallah makes all the difference to understanding the full picture? Nasrallah did not want Hariri to resign, not because he loves Hariri to bits, but because he knows the devil does his best work through a vacuum. He fears the vacuum that could easily be exploited by the civil war predators and promoters. And when you have MASSIVE street protests like the ones that suddenly erupted in Lebanon a year ago, and you add to this a sudden resigned government and a sudden massive political vacuum, the conditions are indeed ripe for civil unrest or even war and the anarchic abnormalities that go with it.
Nasrallah is right to fear 'the vacuum'. He was against Hariri's resignation because he feared the vacuum. The calculation was: bad Hariri was better than a vacuum. And Nasrallah was right: just look at the degradation that the country has been through while it still lives with this vacuum created a year ago by Hariri's resignation. Nothing has been stable in the Lebanon since. Everything is shaky. Everything but the Hezbollah. This is a fact. Hezbollah's enemies are shaky. Even Hezbollah's allies are shaky. But not the Hezbollah. They remain solid. Keeping it all together. Domestically AND regionally.
I could take this article apart line by line for you and demonstrate the missing limbs and nuances in every paragraph in it. But honestly, it would be torture for me to have to go dissecting all the fucking annoying bullshit that jewy media writes. But, I do hope you get my point. I hope you've gleaned an insight into how media works its dark art of omission. Sometimes they do it seamlessly and that's how they hook the smarter fish among us into accepting their distorted narrative.
'Beware the sins of omission'. Isn't that like some kind of journalistic motto or something? Can I get an answer on this one from a REAL journalist out there? I mean what the fuck do I know, right?
As a recovering journalist, I do happen to have an elementary insight into Reuters. From the get-go Reuters has been a wholly owned tentacle of the British branch of the Rothschild Crime Clan. If any presstitute (that's why I consider myself as a RECOVERING journo) wants to be dead sure certain that his writing is "on message" all he needs do is ape the takes of Reuters. If the presstitute happens to source most of his messaging from an American spout, he toadies the line of the Chew Pork Slimes,
Yes, I am a name-caller. It's all a reaction to the faux objectivity which has characterized presstitutional journalism as least since my college days back in the earlier '60's. Sometimes people need a good knock on the noggin when it comes to the employment of semantics as a weapon. Do you happen to dislike the way the main-scream media portrays the Patriot Suppression Act—or the 911 Inside-Job?
Personally, I feel it essential that all of us who make up the arc of resistance should use our own truthful descriptions rather than accept their propagandistic, mind-control memes and semantic ploys.
@ taxi,
When you’re surrounded by blue falcons and headless chickens, you need a pragmatic rooster to protect the brood against the onslaught of foreign interference.
Although I don’t know the man personally, Nasrallah comes across as a seasoned individual, who uses reason and logic to draw his conclusions and is more than capable of expressing his thoughts either verbally or in writing.
I’ve heard Hezbollah fighters tend to be eager to go into battle, even if that gets them killed unnecessarily, but they are regarded as a brave and formidable force.
So, no matter what happens politically, that force remains intact and ready to defend the motherland. Occupied Palestine is very well aware of what awaits them. Hence, they literally chicken out.
P.S. even when 50 million people repeat a lie, it is still a lie.
Thanks, Daniel. Hezb fighters are immersed in what they call ‘martyrdom culture’ – they do not fear death and they’re trained to avoid death whenever possible but not to fear it to achieve victory for their army. This culture of martyrdom is their ultimate weapon, a weapon that the coward jew cannot buy or steal: a weapon the jews will never EVER possess. When faced with an army of determined martyrs, the jewish finger on the trigger freezes and their bladder bursts uncontrollably. All jewish soldiers are issued with adult diapers before going into battle against the Hezb/Lebanon. Diapered jew soldiers versus martyr-loving shia fighters: this is now the fixed battle equation between these two sides.
I know who I’m betting on in the next war. A war that the jew is desperate to avoid.
Thanks, Majority of One. "Writing on message" is the quintessential problem with journalism in the 21st century. It was bad enough in the 20th century but back then, you could at least find quite a few journalists who adhered to the noble principle of 'accurate reporting'. Now just look around: maybe 5 articles out of 500 practice accurate reporting and not political-social engineering, glib propaganda and mind-theft. I forgive journalists who get it wrong here and there, but the fuck I don't forgive the ones who write their shit right off Aipac's memos all the fucking time. And you can spot those liars from how the words are arranged in their headlines. You don't need to read past the headline to know that a loathsome lying motherfucker has penned it while sucking on jew cock.
I applaud your 'recovery' and congratulate you on escaping the jewy brothels of journalism. Mental syphilis is incurable and somehow you managed to escape it intact. Bravo!
May the humanity-hating 'ovenables' face their infernal end by their own overreach and sooner than later.
@ taxi,
When your opponent doesn’t fear death, but ‘you’ do, you’ve got a problem. Personally, I prefer to live. So, in that sense, I’m a ‘coward.’ I lost quite a few people along the way, and that has instilled a raw lust for life in me. I’ll hang on as long as is humanly possible [unless I lose my marbles, of course]:o]
Thanks, Daniel. Wired deep into all of us humans and animals and nature is an inexplicable and powerful clinging to life, at any cost. This instinctive clinging to life falls apart when needing to protect one’s family or loved ones. A ‘coward’ may very well become a willing martyr when defending their child, wife, mother, brother, sister etc. The Hezb’s culture of martyrdom is based on ‘protection of loved ones’ and not on suicidal tendencies or a cultish love of death. Let us remember here that Jesus pursued and embraced both concept and act of martyrdom.
A little glimpse into the difference between fighters immersed in a martyrdom culture and fighters who just pretend to be:
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I will always stand next to those who defend their motherland against the nefarious infringements of outsiders. Although I’m a/n [total] outsider when it comes to Hezbollah, I do recognize something in its fiber/structure that I’m personally familiar with and that’s fighting for what you believe in, for the things that you personally stand for.
That’s why Hezbollah is [and always will be] the moral winner in any conflict with Occupied Palestine.
I only follow honest intentions.
They can be right.
They can be wrong.
I can be right.
I can be wrong.
But honesty and the truth should be fertilizing any wrongdoing I'm not aware of.
Thank you, Daniel. What a great little jazzy haiku. Love it.
@ Taxi,
Looks like a hornets nest has opened up about Elijah, and clearly now rightly so. I have watch maybe a dozen of Elijah’s interviews over the last few years that Elijah has been the one interviewed.
It is granted that my handle on cultural norms in the ME is far from 100%, however, Elijah strikes me as a homosexual.
There is a selfie Elijah took that’s been on the web for a bit now………..
https://justworldeducational.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/magnier.png
Note the broad two rows back on the other side of the aisle, note the look on her face…. not happy?…… Elijah’s handler?…… strawberry blonde with milkers?……. mossad? …… ideas?
Further up in this thread I commented about Elijah’s ‘biased to the khazars view’ article to the then upcoming discussions on the Lebanese/khazar boarder. You Taxi indicated that Elijah had likely only talked with one group about these discussions. A REAL journo would talk with a cross section of groups that are a party to these discussions before putting pen to paper. In Elijah’s article it more closely resembles a rewrite of a Debkafile article than a journo’s well researched output.
Thanks for your comment, Whozhear.
Personally, it wouldn't bother me if Elijah was gay or shmay, but I doubt it because I used to receive the occasional flirty email from him in our early days of correspondence (I politely put a stop to it). And as regards the linked selfie: I doubt the blondie even knows him: if she were a "handler", she would have made him delete the photo that clearly identifies her face.
Before the Beirut Port explosion, I used to find the occasional blip in his articles, but since the port explosion, a MASSIVE explosion that Elijah pathetically blamed on a blacksmith working in a nearby hanger, his Leb articles have had an increasing amount of misinformation in them. I mean I've even seen a christian 7 year old Leb boy interviewed on TV, who, when asked "who do you think is behind the explosion", instantly and confidently replied with "israel!". I mean Elijah would not entertain even the possibility of israeli terrorism on Beirut Port!!!!! He certainly did not post my Beirutshima article on his twitter – the only article of mine that didn’t make it to his twitter these past couple of years.
What's amusing is him thinking that the label of 'journalist' is a superior badge of honor in this day and age. Really now! And poopooing my bucolic lifestyle as 'isolated' from local or world events – what's THAT about?! I guess he's never heard of the 'internet'! I assure you that I can get the info he puts out in his articles from watching a mere 5 minutes of opposition Leb TV. He repeats their exact spin in his articles, which is why I called his sources "dubious" and 'fishbowly'. His sly and condescending tone towards my intellect throughout our exchange and especially the one-upmanship he displayed in his last email did nothing but tickle me. He doesn't know me from uncle or how many 'contacts' I have access to, who my contacts are etc. My advantage over most Western journalists remains: I am actually on the ground in Hezbland (immersed in local news 24/7 for the past nine and a half years), AND, I speak the language. You can't beat that with a million prejudiced 'sources'. English-speaking media reporting on the mideast simply can't fool me. Elijah Magnier articles can't fool me either. I gave him an extended 'benefit of the doubt' because I do (did) actually respect his work immensely. He can belittle my intellectual ability all he likes – who cares?! Let him underestimate my observational and linguistic prowess. It's him who loses the benefits of my insight and analysis. He will now have nothing but my cold shoulder forevermore.
@Taxi
I completely get where you're coming from, and I would have been similarly irked by his email. His lack of respect for your journalistic abilities is, well, disrespectful and uncalled for. I do grant him a bit of slack by virtue of his being embedded in the front lines for so many years – it must have impacted his state of mind – and consequently, influenced his analysis.
You, @Taxi, are an amazing resource from your vantage in your perch in Lebanon. I am convinced that the tinder box in the next (and possibly final) event will, most likely, spark in Lebanon – that is not prescience, just mere logic, with the Hez being the most potent (and underestimated) agency for the mother of all battles to come.
Early in the last century, Lord Acton made the following observation:
Israel has enjoyed absolute power in the ME for 70+ years, thanks to the backing provided by the US, as well as some other European governments (note that I don't say "countries", as these countries have been hijacked by their respective governments, who no longer have the approval of the people being governed). I, for one, have complete faith in the ability of history to repeat itself, mainly because corrupt leaders, insulated from their subjects, naturally tend to ignore them, and because of this, are eventually overthrown by the next challenger to the throne.
I contend that we have reached "peak power", and the pendulum is about to retrace its swing. The inception of the swing is the slowest point in the locus of the pendulum, after which it speeds up thanks to gravity, and similarly slows down before coming to a stop at the other extremity of the swing.
As George Santayana said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" – and that is what we see around us – the telltale signs of an empire in decay and the rise of counter-power. Another one of Santayana's aphorisms: "Only the dead have seen the end of war", is sadly true.
So, dear friend, stay chill just the way you are, and above all, be safe always.
Thanks for your comment and support, dear Cloak – and I loved the quote-passage you included.
I too give respectful kudos to Elijah for landing himself on so many front lines these past three decades. I have no problem acknowledging this. I don’t even have a problem with his disrespect towards me: I acknowledge that my honesty rattled him and it couldn’t have been nice for him. Notable here that he didn’t debate or debunk any of my pointers/suggestions, instead, he just got angry at me personally and huffed and puffed how much more superior of a journalist he is than I am, when really, I never did nor would compare myself to him or to any other journalist. I am not a journalist nor do I have the slightest desire to be one. As a writer who is fundamentally immersed in poetics and not politics, I view journalism as the lowest form of writing, just sightly above copywriters in advertising. This isn’t supremacist or snobbery on my part, this is a fact that all genuine writers define in the trade. For instance, a poet can easily write an article about a subject matter he/she is fluent at, but a journalist couldn’t write a real poem to save his life. This is the very meter that writers use as a gauge in the writers’ universe. I do not want to be seen as a journalist – I am not in competition with any journalist – I am just an observer of the human condition and I happen to be in an environment that’s steeped deep in political dramas, therefore I write about it, mostly because the media doesn’t. If some journalist out there was consistently reporting accurately on this side of the Levant and in the English language, I wouldn’t even bother with Plato’s – except for the occasional rant.
Really, I’ve learned more about how to analyze complex political scenarios from Arab analysts who were not in the war zones to report, but were there actually fighting in the thick of battle. Arab analysts like Nasser Kandil and Anis Naquash (both ex fighters and both served time in enemy prisons): masterful analysts like them just leave all Western journalists behind in the dust – every single time. These guys really are 5-D chess thinkers, and as you watch them analyzing, you’re learning not just the info, but also exercising your own analytic faculties to higher standards. In this context, I don’t need the Elijahs of the world to either inform or inspire my intellectual and analytic palate.
I’ve shared this ‘Elijah’ back-and-forth here on Plato’s really for the benefit of my readers, in the hope of demonstrating how one can learn to discern a well-sourced article from a badly-sourced one. My whole yoke with Elijah was about his ‘sources’ and he was in noway ready to question them. I brought it to his attention out of friendship and not to antagonize him. What his Leb sources are supplying him with is faulty info that can be found in many opposition medias, and I don’t think just because you find the same story in many outlets is in itself ‘verification’ these days.
Oh well, c’est la vie: you lose some then you gain some, n’est-ce pas?
@ taxi,
The truth doesn’t need anybody on its side to be true.
Either ‘you’ see it for what it is or ‘you’ wrap it up in a bunch of half-truths and/or lies.
The mind-pollution masquerading as journalism will [hopefully] end one day soon, so the sky of clarity will shine its light on the marvels of mankind once again, instead of on the 0.0000001%-ers and the handful of mind-numbing celebrities telling their social media warriors what to do, how to do it and why.
I look at [personal] acts and words differently…., as words are just vehicles to [try to] communicate. A deed equals a thousand words [or more], so, that’s what I’m looking for [and looking at].
The animals around you [taxi] look at you with an inkling of gratitude for a reason. They can’t explain it to me [in words], but their hearts tell me everything I need to know.
You just keep on trucking. My heart is with you, all the way.
Thanks Daniel, but really, as a (failed) species, humans still have a long ways to go before they lose interest in deceiving one another.
Taxi, thank you to ends of the universe for your integrity, intelligence, wit and commitment to truth (If I were a better writer, my list of what I thank you for would be much longer or at least would express even greater gratitude for the wonder that you are). And to the community here, thank you too for supporting Taxi, for supporting each other and for allowing her to support all of us.
What a devastating loss for Elijah, even if he doesn't fully fathom it.
Regarding your comment that he will have nothing but your "cold shoulder forevermore", I would say that's probably how things will play out.
But I think I understand you well enough Taxi to know that if Elijah had a true come to Jesus moment (I am not being flippant in using this phrase) and returned to you with true humility and explained to you his new awareness of his egoic, wayward behavior, I'd bet you'd accept his sincere apology (obviously you'd be paying close attention to the actual level of sincerity).
Unfortunately, the chance that Elijah will do this is probably not a whole lot bigger than the chance that large numbers of Jews will spontaneously recognize their religion and their Talmud as Satanic, immoral, evil, hateful, supremacist and then, with grace in their hearts, name the evil and disavow it forever.
Here's praying for all of us to be as honest and humble as God, Nature, Life intend us to be.
Thank you so much, Golden Rule Please – I’m really a bit of a shrinking violet when it comes to praise, especially the kind of high praise that you’ve showered on me. Though really I’m much fallible, I hope I can live up to your praise and not disappoint.
And your assessment of me is on the bullseye: I’m quick to let go and forgive. I always think ‘most people just don’t know any better’ so I quickly drop it because I feel genuine pity for the ignorant. Besides, holding onto grudges is waaaay too tedious and time and energy-consuming: aspects that I’m known to flee fast from. If EM wants to live a shady and sketchy life, well, good luck to him and bye-bye.
The only people I do not forgive and NEVER WILL are the synagogue of satan motherfuckers. My hate of them (yes it’s a ‘hate’!) never dries up and only very occasionally bores me. Plus, this hate doesn’t drain my energy because it’s a righteous hate. I hate evil-doers and I’m not ashamed to say that I’m proud of this hate.
@Taxi / @Daniel Rich
Truth/Lies additional thoughts:
While the laws of thermodynamics point to greater entropy (i.e. tending to greater disorder), the evolution of the soul follows the exact opposite path: to greater order and harmony. The motive force for the evolution of the soul comes from the innate trait of the universe (multiverse?) to seek perfection.
What is perfection? What is perfect?
The religious will tell you that "God" is perfect – but that is hardly a satisfying description, besides not being a description at all.
I submit that an entity is perfect if it does not depend on anything outside of itself for its existence.
So, is "the truth" perfect? YES! The truth does not depend on something being false in order to exist. i.e. a table is a table because it is a table – not because it is not a crow or an airplane.
How about a lie? A lie depends on something NOT being true – and as such, is imperfect. A lie cannot exist on its own – it exists by virtue of occluding the truth.
…random meanderings of a mind bored with the elections and lockdowns.
In vino veritas! Let's all get drunk!
@ CaD,
When I look throughout the universe, when I travel around this planet, nothing is 100% 'perfect.'
Personally, I always strive for perfection [even though I'll never achieve the 100% faction of it], because it means I'll always end up with something very good and something I'm proud of.
Like everything else, this pride is beholden to the eye of the beholder. My beauty might be your ugly, but as long as that doesn't lead to 'I'm better than you,' we can all live in peace and harmony.
The universe tells me that energy exists because of 2 opposing forces, so I'm not looking for those who sing off the same hymn book I do. I can live with those who have and make different choices.
Point in case, when my wife and I order a steak and a salad, the steak always ends up in front of me [a 6'3", 195lbs. guy] and the salad in front of my wife [a 5'4", 97lbs. lady]. Fact is, I'm the vegetarian and my wife is [obviously] not.
Like I said earlier, 'Live and let live!'
@taxi,
Although I've given up on mankind as a whole, this community shows me the good of wo/man.
When entering a 'dick-swinging' contest, the semen and eggs just shrug, as that's totally besides the point of making any progress.
The constant undertone of stress and unease permeates everything we touch in these strange and unprecedented times. So, here I am at 3:30 AM, unable to sleep. It's a great time to philosophize! Maybe, I can bore myself to sleep!
@Daniel Rich
…and nothing can be, because 'perfection' is an aspirational (and an unattainable) endpoint. Like parallel lines 'converging towards' infinity, it is a theoretical and ever-changing trajectory. The very nature of your soul (which is itself both, all of, and also a part of, the cosmic soul that manifests itself as the perceptible universe), will always try to pick the path to perfection [I once wrote an article on the subject – now lost], but can never actually get there, however, continuously altering the trajectory to this theoretical destination greatly influences the quality of your life, both positively [that deserves a definition of its own!] or negatively, and that of those you encounter on this journey. Even though we have never met, your trajectory influences my life, and I claim that my trajectory influences yours, the magnitude and significance thereof can be disputed, but it exists nonetheless.
I understand your frustration with humankind, and why you have given up on us, but, the concept of something from nothing (e.g. the universe) requires that both good and evil (opposites) must simultaneously exist in order for either of the two to exist at all. As everything in the universe is paired (Noah's Ark), depending on our vantage and our ability to perceive even a fraction of the cosmos, each of us is able to alter ( co-create) reality, which is mind-blowing to consider our individual potency to bring that about. The nearest analogy that I can draw upon is that of infinite darkness, chased away by the light of a single candle.
It is a topic for a much larger conversation than I can muster in this sleepless night.
Nothing I love more than after-hours philosophizing. Night-owling rules! Thanks, Cloak.
“I understand your frustration with humankind…” – Cloak and Dagger.
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.” – Mark Twain (and Taxi)
@ CaD,
There can’t be darkness without light and there can’t be light without darkness. The universe prefers circular and/or elliptical shapes. Who am I then, to challenge such ‘choices’?
Any interaction between 2 [or more] individuals leaves its marks.
My life has always been about learning [even though I’m a teacher]. I always learn from outside forces [be it nature/the universe or people], so I always welcome diverse/different voices [and even those who agree with me, of course :o].
The way I see it is like this: you and I sit opposite each other at a table. On the table, between us, sits an oddly shaped cup [we might even entertain the thought of who put it there in the first place]. When you describe what you see [from your perspective] and I describe what I see [from my perspective] we have the unique opportunity to create 3D imagery between the two of us.
Again, when we toss the ‘I’m right’ factor to the side, we’re able to make progress.
As a side note, I haven’t given up on people like yourself. In fact, I enjoy your company and the conversations we have. We never met and most likely never will, but I do know, we’d get along very well. So, hand over that jug and let me sip on the whiskey for a bit :o]
Hope you can sleep soon!
Hugs,
Daniel
@ CaD,
Damn! Anonymous is ff-ing me!!!!
:o]
To underscore my point:
@Daniel Rich
The feeling is mutual, pal!
adding to Taxi’s great discussion regarding forming of a new govt – MSM reuters reports > “Top Christian cleric urges Lebanese leaders to agree on government. His remarks came after two main Christian parties, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Lebanese Forces, said this week they would not back the nomination of former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to lead a new government. Hariri, who quit as prime minister last October – has said he is ready to lead a government to implement reforms proposed by France as a way to unlock badly needed international aid.”
(Comment > interesting the Top Christian cleric pushes the issue, which the thrust of the article appears pushing for Hariri, while the 2 main Christian parties say no to Hariri – if I got that right. Also, note the article has the tone of very pro Hariri, as clearly in favor of the Leb to bow down and accept control by the IMF where the condition for approval is for the Leb to just give up and say no to the Hezb. Taxi is right – the most stable faciton in the Leb is the Hezb, standing firm and respected – while letting the world know the Leb is well protected from any hostile neighbor. Mike.)
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-lebanon-crisis-patriarch/top-christian-cleric-urges-lebanese-leaders-to-agree-on-government-idUKKBN2730BG
Thanks for your comment and for your vote of confidence, dear Mike.
Just so you know, the christian maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai is a despicable islamophobe and friend of the US embassy in Beirut and open to israeli hegemony: out of sheer, unfounded pathological fear of Iran. He regularly makes divisive comments that instill an islamophobic politics of fear in the hearts of christian Lebanon. Only the ultra religious maronites follow him as a political figure, the rest follow Aoun. He hates both Hezbollah and the maronite president Aoun. He is very jealous of president Aoun because, politically speaking, Aoun commands the support of more maronites than he does. Often, al-Rai supports Gaegae’s islamophobia and pro israel stance, as per US embassy in Beirut’s instruction.
These past two days, Lebanon witnessed big political public fights between the Aounists and the Gaegaes: with Aounists accusing Gaegae of inciting civil war with the intent of sacrificing maronite blood for his treasonous political agenda. ‘Pope’ Rai is clearly disturbed by an increased division in the maronite community and is trying to distract the maronite community with ‘it’s the lack of new government that’s causing the schism in the community and it’s Aoun who is delaying the appointment of a new PM’. He’s excusing Gaegae and blaming Aoun. It’s true that Aoun is causing the delays, but for good reason: the Leb street will find it exceptionally hard to swallow another Hariri reign. If he sees fit, Aoun can keep delaying the appointment for another two years, when new parliamentarian elections are due, if he thought it would save Lebanon from another Hariri/IMF power grab. He has the constitutional right to do this – and Lebanon, only several years ago managed to survive without an elected president for some 19 months, so there is actually a precedent for Lebanon functioning without a major power seat for long periods of time. And lest we forget, Diab is still going to his PM office every day in the meantime, doing what he can to keep government wheels turning. He could do this for another two years if need be.
Oh it’s a mess alright, dear Mike, and I honestly can’t see the ruling Aounists accepting Hariri back into government. Unless, of course, the US guarantees it will immediately lift its sanctions and dollar stranglehold on Lebanon. Aoun is a feisty little boxer who is very wary of both the US and France, but he is also a practicing pragmatist. His hold on power remains strong because of Hezbollah’s support and not because of the Maronite church and its leader al-Rai’s support.
Aoun is supposed to put a PM name on the table this coming Thursday. He was supposed to do it last Thursday but he postponed the naming by a week. In the meantime, all that’s happened is much LOUD media bickering between the pro and anti Hariri camps, and NO NEW PM CANDIDATE NAMES got put forth. Because of this, I doubt that Aoun will be naming a new candidate this Thursday (unless he’s got a secret wild card in his back pocket). He is under extreme pressure by the US to name Hariri (who will bring in the IMF). This pressure can only get worse in the next 48 hours.
In the meantime, the Hezb remains quiet and on the sidelines: not responding to opposition insults and smears. Like a rock. No! Like an immovable mountain!
Hi TAXI, nice to read your updates.
On the long caretaker governments in Europe:
<a href="https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/en/news/belgium-with-new-record-of-591-days-without-government-621278">Belgium sets new record 591 days without government</a>
Not much distant from two years, I would say.
Sorry, correting the link above
https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/en/news/belgium-with-new-record-of-591-days-without-government-621278
Thanks for the link, dear Antonio. For sure a ship doesn’t immediately sink if its captain suddenly dies of a heart attack out at sea. So long as the ship has no holes in its hull, it can sail on and on and on…
Roll up roll up: get your newsstand pick here:
Trump vs Biden: What does Tehran want?
Escobar: There Won't Be An Iranian 'October Surprise'
“A Blow Against Neoliberalism”: Socialist Wins Bolivian Election a Year After Coup Ousted Evo Morales
The Muslim Zionists
The White House is Wrapping Sudan around its Little Finger
Israeli Arms Trade, the Lobby and the Meaning of Chosenness
Jewish Organization Admits to Role Censoring Donald Trump and Conservatives On Facebook and Twitter; Promises More
Somebody shoulda told Donald that it's a crime for a US president to refrain from starting new wars for the jews. Sanctions on israel's enemy simply aren't enough: they don't provide daily buckets of bloodshed for the satanic alter at the synagogue of satan. If only Donald had given them three lovely gift-wrapped wars like Obama did, right?
@Taxi
DJT's saving grace is his ego. He is not stupid (although he frequently appears to be), and knows that starting a new war would kill his chances for re-election, and that would be a blow to his self-image as the "bestest prez evah".
Trump will do whatever it takes to clinch the all-important 2nd term in office. There are many who hope that four more years would unshackle Trump from his jewish chains and allow him to deliver on the promises that got him elected for the first term.
I have no such expectations.
Trump will get re-elected (Biden? Seriously?). He was gifted Hillary for the first part of the journey, and Biden for the end, so he benefits from being the lesser of two evils, although, at such a low bar, it is hard to categorically assert which of the two deserves the title.
Goodnight America. We hardly knew ye!
@ CaD,
It is with sadness in my heart that I have to concur with your sentiments.
I’m a very optimistic guy [sometimes too much, according to my wife] and always find something positive in whatever transpires. But I’m also pragmatic and realistic: there won’t be any major change in politics.
Even when armed citizens march upon DC to evoke change, history tells me there will be new and different ‘leaders‘ doing the exact same thing as before. And when you and I read up upon history, we always detect jewish hands behind much [if not all] of the mayhem.
The solution? Eradicate the pest.
One of the things I do is being a businessman. Whenever I receive a shipment that contains some Occupied Palestine goods, I instantly and happily burn them [as an offer to the gods of evil]. It’s a very satisfying event, each and every time.
Surely this was no accident – mindful that Baldwin Park is Democrat-majority. Will setting ballot boxes on fire become a trend in the next couple of weeks?
After ballot box fire, registrar is sorting through votes that can be salvaged
I also do not believe this was an accident, have a bad very bad feeling about this election in the US, not only corruption will be off the charts but any of losing side will accept the result, I mean politics may actually pretend to accept, but the radicals in both sides won't, I doubt in civil war in the US in 2021, but it won't be easy whatsoever.
Speaking of truth and lies, in case some readers don't know the classic allegorical painting by Jean-Leon Gerome, 'The Truth Coming Out of the Well', and its accompanying story:
For further exploration, here.
@Taxi
Nice fable! Thanks!
Taxi – much appreciated your additional comments RE President Aoun delays naming a PM candidate. You wrote > “Aoun is under extreme pressure by the US to name Hariri (who will bring in the IMF). This pressure can only get worse in the next 48 hours.”
Asking what specific additional pressure above that existing?
Additionally > Is there any reason US election is cluttering minds of the various Leb factions, fearing some significant short-term impact on them? If so, delaying 22 Oct plus another Thursday (29 Oct) gets past the election – with huge MSM noise to follow – to further justify even more delays, as Aoun believes he needs to continue treading most ‘cautiously’, until convinced he has the right candidate. I hope you can report you believe local media is sufficient such that the average Leb citizen fully understands and supports their president’s judgement.
The ‘pressure’ I speak of is: the US threatening Aoun with sanctions against his son-in-law and leader of his Aounist party, Bassil – other Aounist members are being personally threatened with sanctions too. There is no available evidence of corruption on president Aoun himself (cuz he’s not corrupt therefore evidence does not exist), but there is a couple of corruption evidence against Bassil in his business dealings (not his political endeavors). The US of late has resorted to threatening sanctions against not just muslim Hezbollah and its members, but against christian Aounist leaders and high ranking members too. Although Bassil has displayed mortification at such threats, he’s yet to cave in completely. So far, Bassil has circumvented direct sanctions on himself and his party members by making small compromises to the loathed Macron (who is the ‘diplomatic’ enforcer of the US’s pernicious plan for Lebanon) – ie, Bassil eventually agreed to Macron’s time-table for new government forming when he was initially against it. He also agreed to US’s demand to include ‘two civilians’ in the Nakoura maritime negotiations taking place with israel. The US embassy suggested two negotiator names of its choosing that the Aounist rejected, and instead a compromise was reached where president Aoun personally named his ‘civilian’ and Bassil named the second one. The distrust and loathing between Macron and christian Aounist is mutual, as indeed is the distrust and loathing between Aounists and the US (who for some twenty years blocked president Aoun from reaching the presidency – a feat Aoun finally won with the relentless help of Hezbollah).
Taxi – another if I can > You remarked above > “Diab is still going to his PM office every day in the meantime, doing what he can to keep government wheels turning. He could do this for another two years if need be.”
Really glad to hear Diab doing what he can. Question > Have you seen evidence Diab’s keeping ‘govt wheels turning’ includes specific actions to actually reducing huge govt over-spending? While the Leb bobs and weaves to avoid the IMF bullet, hoping a China, etc. will financially rescue, should not the Leb get its own spending under control, to demonstrate such to hoped for better suiters?
Thanks for your question, Mike. Right now, no significant attempts at changing anything in the system is being done by Diab – he is merely keeping the wheels turning. This is because as a resigned PM, he has no constitutional right to alter or add anything new to the existing system. He freaking well tried and tried hard and harder when in office, but got blocked bigly by the Hariris, Gaegaes and by the grand thief of Lebanon, Riyad Salami, who is the head of the national bank (Banque Du Liban), and he’s also a bff of the US embassy in Beirut.
Hey y'all! Thanks for all your comments and support (kind words especially from Golden Rule Please). I don't have time to respond or rant/comment today: busy organizing plowing of fruit orchard and veggie garden earth-tilling and planting winter veggies. If not too tired at end of day, I shall return. In the meantime, hope you're all having a good day, and… this here below is about all I've had time to read this morning:
Why Iran Is Quite Capable Of “Shooting-Down” US’ Most Advanced Fighter Jets Like F-35s & F-22 Raptors?
Also, the Leb is busy figuring out a new MP today. I will give summary of this day-long (televised) event tomorrow, inshallah.
Laterz
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Super short summary of today's Leb PM news: Hariri was voted back in with 65 votes for and 63 against. Barely in. Bassil/Aounists did not vote for him and Hezb did not vote for him either, despite Magnier stating that there's a Hezb and Hariri alliance in his last article – an alliance that he reckoned was making the christian Aounist nervous: analysis that I completely objected to on the basis of it being the Hezb opposition’s fantasy). I guess this little non-journalist nobody (me) knew better than a 3 decade veteran of journalism. Seriously! As if the Hezb would ever backstab its most important ally for the sake of Hariri: the Hezb’s nemesis. Magnier’s claim is bogus and part and parcel of the manufactured narrative of ‘leb muslims ganging up against Leb christians and therefore religious civil war is at Leb’s doorstep’: the very false narrative that Hezb’s enemies are pushing.
Let's now see if Hariri can actually form a government (he only has 19 parliament members in his block). And let's see how the Leb street feels about it all too. Local experts are saying that it's "extremely difficult" for him to achieve formation of government. Hariri will be up against the same kind of thick wall that he himself erected to stop Mustafa Adib from forming a government that led to his resignation several weeks ago.
It ain't over till the fat lady sings.
@ taxi,
Female baboons are known for dragging around their dead babies for quite some time, to protect them against the ever present vultures, silently sailing overhead.
At 1 point though, they have to let go.
Don’t let anyone get under your skin. You don’t have to prove anything, but being yourself.
So, let this EM thing go and focus on bringing me the news I won’t get elsewhere.
Your HUMINT is priceless, as it gives me an insight into Lebanon’s real life, I would not have access to otherwise.
Thanks Daniel. Definitely good advise. Please know that in both good and bad life, I practice non-attachment and am in no way stuck on the EM thang or other pesky human shenanigans. There’s nothing really to get over in the first place. My skin is too thick and oily for shit to stick to.
TAXI
You've done the analysis that matches perfectely the unfolding events, so you deserves the title of leading analyst. Don't let lagging analysts bother you. Complex social process are too demanding, and commentators like you and Canthama are really too scarse. In adition to the right perspective, I love the energy of your writting style.
So many kind words, I’m blushing. Thank you, dear Antonio. I hope to continue providing you and other friends and readers with my insights and collected info. And I must here give sincere thanks to my teachers: good Arab analysts and bad Western ones :-).
Your continued support is truly and most supremely appreciated. Always. Thanks again.
In the mean time, in neighboring Syria:
I have read EM for a long time. Compressed cycles, and fluid conditions only make it more complicated, and more difficult to be right with every post (not defending a COW). I do hold a bit of malice towards EM as several years ago he did a go fund me or similar capital raise to write a book on Hezb. I chipped in $250 and never heard back from him. I think it would have been an important work.
Taxi your writing style is stellar, eclipsed only slightly by Ziad Fadel, because of his ability to compare the disgusting behavior of some to what are traditionally thought of as disgusting creatures always amused me. I do miss Syrper but am happy to see Canthama posting here as well as some of the other regulars.
Thank you for all your hard work.
WbDucan, me too buddy, I did the same for the supposed book on Hizballah, helped at the time EM and never heard back, I did inquire him and told him at the time that if he wanted to continue to get funding from many people he would have to share bits and pieces of the book to folks that funded…never happened.
At Syrper I shared many years ago (2015-2016) an information EM shared on a Arab army invading eastern Syria, it was when the US has started to fund SDF, I vividly recall I doubt it and many at Syrper said the same, there was no possibility for a large force from KSA, UAE, Jordan to go to Syria and fight ISIS (LOL) terrorists…where most of them were from these countries…and we have seen KSA/UAE in action in Yemen at the time…so no way…that was a big mistake, he was not the only one…The Saker said in Oct 2015 that Russia was never go into Syria in full, it was a sort of "raiding party"…I also recall I made some honest critics on The Saker, some of his followers came on my neck due to that…these are major mistakes…anyone can do, but few accept it and retract.
I see with huge disappointment the exchange between EM and Taxi, he was arrogant and did not want to hear arguments against his view/his source, that is sad, in a volatile world where strange things happen, sources can be dead wrong, you can never rely on one, but on a variety of sources with different point of view, and always be humble since mistakes can happen…I do not believe he will learn this lesson, hubris may be a tough thing to overcome.
Last but not least, I did help him for 2 months during the pandemic so he could stay afloat with his articles, I dropped it in late August due to his coverage of the Beirut Port explosion, just could not agree with some statements he was making on several articles at the time, anyhow, I continue to read him on twitter, he has ups and downs…lets hope he back on track…but it left a stain…
Thanks Canthama and WbDuncan. It’s very concerning to raise money in the name of writing a book that never gets written/published/shared out in increments even though unfinished. Very disappointing that Elijah would display such a behavior. Did he ever explain why the promised Hezbollah book was never delivered? It couldn’t have been from Hezb threats because, well, Hezbollah doesn’t leak its secrets to ANYONE, not even to the majority of its own members. Plus, ‘threats’ are not the Hezb’s MO. I mean I know a writer with an unpublished manuscript about Saddam, which I’ve read, that he still cannot publish because the content will expose his life to mortal danger even though Saddam is dead. He’ll probably never publish it and its most spectacular content for fear over his and his family’s safety.
Every person must guard their reputation as an honorable one. Wise men and women have been telling us throughout recorded history that the only thing worthy of leaving behind in this world is one’s good reputation. Elijah episodes that you both describe really have my head shaking with disbelief and dismay. I’ve met people who could barely write their own name who’ve shown more honor than you describe of him. My head is spinning with downcast surprise.
And WbDuncan, glad to have you visiting Plato’s – really great to have you sharing and I consider it a compliment to be ‘almost’ on par with the great Ziad – I too love his zingers. …If only I hadn’t dropped out of law school after the first year :-).
The book was related to the history of Hizballah, something missing out there, I understood it was not intended to share any recent info from it, as far as I know.
He also said it would take a while to write it, but surely folks who placed some money to help him out did not expect it would take that long…and no word if it was ever initiated.
That is sad event indeed.
“Sad”. No better word fits a broken friendship.
Elijah’s bathos.
We opened his chapter, we had a good read, and now we close it.
… Book-writing is mentally extremely grueling and lonely. First, you gotta know how to write. Second, you gotta be willing to take the journey. A journey that could take years. That’s years out of your life and its commercial rewards are often paltry. This is the math of book-writing. And if you don’t know this before you launch yourself into writing a book, regardless of how good a writer you are, a black wall will at some stage suddenly appear and smack you in nose and knuckle and stop you from writing another word. Dead end. Black-wall end. Black-wall-black-curtain.
… Many would-be writers have their unfinished books cast out in bottom drawers.
Taxi,
I woke up in a pool of shame around 3AM for walking into your house and including in the post my affection for Ziad’s writing style. If my mother were alive she would slap me for being rude. Please accept my apology.
Goodness me, dear WbDuncan. No way is there a need for an apology. Not even in the faintest-slightest-itzy-bitzy-nano-nitzy-noo! I enjoyed EVERYTHING about your comment and I too love Ziad’s turn of phrase – he’s a cracker and honorable and a smart one to boot and he deserves all the kudos and praise in the world. C’mon all together now: hip-hip-hooray to Ziad, hip-hip-hooray hip-hip-hoorayyyy!
I am no narcissist nor am I ever jealous of people who are talented or who bring thoughtful light and laughter and goodness into our grim and grimy world.
I’m okay, you’re okay.
Right… well, I've now got to go and finish up the farming and veggie planting that I started yesterday – I'll be back on the boards later, if not too knackered. In the meantime, I'd like to leave you with this little joy that I experienced yesterday. For the first time in the nine years that I've lived on a farm, yesterday I used two donkeys pulling an old-fashioned plow to till over the orchard earth instead of hiring a loud and noisy tractor. Oh man I couldn't get enough of watching them donkeys go back and forth. I bought them 10 kilos of pears and I would reward them with this fruit every time they finished a lap. They wagged tails constantly and could hardly wait to get the field laps done to get their sweet pear treat lol! I love donkeys, I really do! Love their soulful eyes and long eyelashes. My granddad used to say: "buy a baby donkey and treat it like its a horse all its life and it becomes one" – lol! I'm definitely doing my farming with donkey-and-plow next year and from here on. Wonderful stuff!
Two powerful articles that I consider a must read to understand current world's dynamics, things have changed and it seems 2021 will be the year that will go down in history as the crossroad, though we know it has been building up to this point for few decades…
Monkeys or Children? Russia Chooses Neither Dooming Germany
https://tomluongo.me/2020/10/23/monkeys-or-children-russia-chooses-neither-dooming-germany/
Escobar: 'Business As Usual' Is Over Between Russia & The EU
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-business-usual-over-between-russia-eu
Thanks for the great links, Canthama. Yes, Putin is a saint for all the patience that he’s generously afforded the back-stabbing EU and the general West over the years. But there comes a point where enough is fucking enough and kindness to abusive ingrates becomes self-defeating and an endangerment to one’s well-being and safety. I support this quote here from the first link:
And, of course, Escobar keeps the fires of truth and the grit of reality burning underfoot and in the mind when he brings us this (from your second link):
A great and complimentary pair of articles. Thanks again, Canthama.
MSM's Aljazeera reports > "Saad Hariri renamed as Lebanon PM."
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has been tasked with forming his fourth government, winning a slim majority of votes in parliament – by the votes of 65 MPs, incl. his own party Future Movement. Abstentions, numbering 53 – Hezbollah party also did not vote. Hariri always remained the strongest Sunni Muslim candidate to take the post, which must be held by a Sunni under a 77-year-old pact that gave the presidency to Maronite Christians and the position of Speaker of the House to a Shia Muslim. Hariri received the smallest number of votes in parliament, compared with Diab’s 69 and Adib’s 90.
Hariri is a major shareholder in one of Lebanon’s biggest banks. As newly named prime minister, Hariri likely faces a difficult government formation process after Aoun on Wednesday indicated that he would “participate in the formation of a government, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution.” More troubling for Hassan is the “weak popular reaction to his return”.
If and when it is formed, Hariri’s government faces an immense task. Not least is Lebanon’s crippling financial crisis, which has left more than half the population in poverty, depreciated the currency by more than 80 percent, caused shortages of basic goods such as medicine and foods, and is leading to growing instability.
(Comment > Al Jazeera is a state-owned broadcaster based in Doha, Qatar. Dispite this being a major MSM outalet full of MSM BS about 'counter revolutions', 'nationwide uprising', etc, I posted because it contains a lot of detail regarding the vote – to assist over-loaded dearTaxi commenting if he wishes. Mike).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/22/lebanons-saad-hariri-secures-parliamentary-support-to-be-next-pm
More on US > “Not Agreement Capable” – World Has No Future, says Putin > that issue is far mor important than issues of trade, politics, and international law agreements. Big Time!! >
Putin says world has no future without arms control system, with the future of a nuclear weapons pact between Russia and the United States hanging in the balance. Washington last week rejected a Russian proposal for an unconditional one-year extension of the last treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons deployments, calling the suggestion “a non-starter”.
The START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) extension accord, signed in 2010 and due to expire in February 2021, restricts how many strategic nuclear warheads Russia and the United States can deploy as well as the missiles and bombers that carry them. US policy appears to just let it expire.
(scary – real scary. Mike).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-nuclear/russias-putin-says-world-has-no-future-without-arms-control-system-idUSKBN2772FU
Those of you who have known me for many years (which includes @Taxi), also know that I don't have a single racist bone in my entire bod, but these BLM thugs are really pissing me off! Yes, there have been several incidents of police brutality against blacks, and reform of the police departments is justified, but defund the police?? Are we insane? Who wants to go back to the Wild, Wild West again?
https://www.rt.com/usa/504443-protest-sanbernandino-shooting-police/
https://twitter.com/SanBernardinoPD/status/1319686790626750465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1319686790626750465%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F504443-protest-sanbernandino-shooting-police%2F
I support going after those bad cops who truly are guilty of brutality against blacks, including some notorious departments like LAPD, but who in their right mind wants to live in any major US city without police protection?
Everybody is a fucking victim! Guess who taught these people to be triggered, whiny bitches – you get three guesses and the first two don't count.
For obvious reasons, I hate anything and everything that jews fund in politics and BLM is Soros funded. I’ve no more to say on this except how sorry I am to see African Americans be so fucking stupid AGAIN! Controlled Opposition jews literally spoiled the African-American Civil Rights Movement back in the 1960’s, and here they are again cutting off black balls without a pip-squeak from the African-American community. I therefore shrug my shoulders and say: whatchagonnado?! To hell with the lotta them!
Cloak, there is definitely ongoing systematic racism against not just Blacks but against all non-whites in our America. And this obese and obscene infestation of injustice must be addressed and corrected asap – and fuck NO you don’t need BLM to correct it! You need DC fuckers doing the right thing for EVERY American, not just for some. But what also needs to be corrected too is Black racism against non-Blacks too. The idea that ONLY whites are racist is lunatic and positively untrue and extremist. I’ve met too many African-Americans who were racist to the bone too, as indeed I’ve met racist Mexicans, Koreans, Arab and Chinese racists too.
Everybody should just stfu about racism already and clean up their own house first! And after everyone’s house has been cleaned, only then can we, as a multli-race humanity, only then can we legitimately demand and order our policies and laws into equitable protection for all. Kill the racial-injustice American monster already before the jews fully succeed at using it to kill us all.
And regarding ‘defund the police’. It’s a stupid and sensationalist demand that will never happen. It’s a freaking slogan that US jews operating inside of BLM have handed African Americans. A pernicious slogan copied from tel aviv’s ‘defund the Palestinian Authority’ ruse used to both control the PA as well as incite the Palestinians into street violence where the jewish security apparatus can then massacre a few Palestinians under false justification. I wouldn’t lose my feather over it, Cloak. It’s meant to outrage Whites. Meant to put hate in the hearts of non-racist Whites. Meant to manufacture and conjure up even MORE fresh racism. Pure and simple. Just shut the fuckers out. That’s how you kill their message.
@Taxi – I couldn't agree more!
@ taxi.
Follow the Romans. I admire their military adventures, but also know when they ran into the Germans, they lost big time. So, I have to be honest [to myself and you] and realize that I want nothing but the best for everybody/the country, but ‘my best‘ isn’t what the DC whores have in mind. They only care about being re-elected and their [financial] backers.
So, it’s up to you and me to make the best of where we reside. When we’re neighbors we can cooperate and help each other out [when/where necessary and needed] when we’re not, we can give moral support and reach out.
And speaking of "triggered", those of you who have access to Netflix, I highly recommend watching "Bill Burr: Paper Tiger", recorded at the Royal Albert Hall last year. I watched it earlier this evening and I am still laughing at his brilliant performance against snowflakes, male feminists, Transgenderism, etc. He is undoubtedly the funniest man in this solar system and the theme of this show hits the nail on the head with current conditions (this was recorded pre-Covid – so no comments about that). Must watch!
Hot damn we could all do with a good laugh! Thanks for the tip, Cloak. I’m putting your recommendation on my ‘to watch’ list.
@ Taxi,
The inference here from Tore is that the Bidens were on the receiving end of a lot of embezzled funds out of Beirut………
https://twitter.com/TweetWordz/status/1319820980848627714
Tore is heavily involved in the Shadow Gate doco series, plus worked on the inside for intel spooks for years.
Thanks Whozhear. I know nothing of this ‘Tore’ thang, but I can tell you that Beirut used to be a major banking hub for decades, most suitable for domestic and international money-laundering due to its lax banking regulations. This was the case for decades till a few years back when israel’s vast investments and coercion against Cyprus bankers made sure that Cyprus (a hop away from Beirut and tel aviv) overtook Lebanon and became THE major money-laundering hub on the eastern Mediterranean that jews now dominate and of course use for their own global money laundering and other illegal activities. And now that Leb’s banking system has pretty much collapsed, international financiers, legal and illegal, have lost all confidence in processing their money through Lebanon – therefore impossible these days to launder money in the Leb – impossible right now to even take money out of the country. The “inference” that the Bidens were part and parcel of criminally exploiting Leb banking does not surprise me one bit. And if true (it probably is), I doubt that pro Biden voters give a shit about it, let alone understand the criminality of Biden and his family’s corruption and kleptomania.
I can tell you that I’ve never been as disengaged from a presidential election as I am for this one coming up on Nov 3rd. Makes me sick just to think that a pair of despicable and perverted criminals competing for office is the best that we’ve got; or worse: that both believe that they’re actually capable of fixing ANYTHING in a much-broken America. That voters actually believe in the ability of either is the absolute height of collective delusion and madness. I refuse to side with either or to have anything to do with that bedlam we call the United States of America. Last election had a spark of hope for America because it was all about ‘draining the swamp’, and somehow, since the last election, the elite swampers have somehow made the masses forget about that hopeful slogan and direction and regressed them back to pre Trumpian times with ‘business as usual’ thinking – and that’s not to say that Trump is not himself ‘business as usual’, but he did successfully sell himself to voters as the swamp drainer therefore he did promote the consequential concept of real change in DC. The idiot people have allowed themselves to be distracted by identitarianism, racism and Corona. Fuck the fucking people just as much as fuck the politicians! They deserve each other a thousand times over!
One step forward and ten steps back. That’s America for you now.
And it was bound to happen this way because, well, the fucking jews…
I hear ya! What if they threw a party and nobody came? I am only going to vote on local issues in the "election" – I am not voting for any politician this time around.
My stupid neighbor came over to berate me after I announced that I was not going to vote this time around for a prez. "If you don't vote, you are handing the election to the Republicans" – he says.
So?
What's the difference which side it lands on if they are just two facets of the same coin? Not that my vote would have counted anyway since California will always vote for whichever Democrat was being promoted as our savior, regardless of which sheep's clothing they don.
If everyone would boycott the elections, how would they sell the results? I have always wanted to see "None of the above" as a voting choice, with the stipulation that if neither candidate got more than single-digit percentages of the votes, the election would have to be redone with a whole new batch of candidates, and the current ones can never run again.
I think it is too late for us. We will have to face the unavoidable destruction of this country. But, I am also confident that when the deluge has subsided, we will reawaken out of our stupor and hang every last traitor and rebuild the nation without jewish interference or sabotage.
The US is dead. Long live the new US of tomorrow, sans jews.
I congratulate you for rejecting insanity.
@ CaD,
So, you're giving up on Florida, eh?
:o]
@Daniel Rich
Florida?? Home of those giant cockroaches with wings that fly onto your face?? It is already a part of Israel.
Hell, I am about to give up on Southern California – home to a different kind of cockroaches.
I'm turning into a country bumpkin, I really am. I say this because lately I seem to care more about crops than I do dollar or headline. I mean I've spent most of this week buying seeds and sprouts and goatshit to prep the garden soil for winter veggies, and as I shared upthread, I've even employed a local farmer and his two donkeys to plow the lot instead of the usual tractor – gone the whole full organic hog even though it was more tiring and more time consuming. All this activity was good and dandy. The weather all week has been cooling off thus allowing, finally (!), for an opportune time to plant seeds and winter veggie sprouts etc. All was finally set for a plentiful winter harvest, with now only a little tending to do in the meantime, all thanks to an imminent 3 months of regular rain. Aaah what a truly satisfying feeling. But godfuckingdamnit! Despite the cooling weather all this week, today we got suddenly hit by a horrid hot and dry wind storm punching at us all the way from the Sinia desert. We do get these hot smacks from Egypt occasionally but never at this time of the year. Now, after a horrid windswept day with high temps, almost all my veggie sprouts don't look like they're going to make it and I'm going to have to do it all over again (long tired sigh)…
Point is, there's just been too much weird weather going on here in Lebanon which is soooo unusual. Normally, Lebanon's weather is like Old Faithful: always predictable and always on time. Every year Lebanon gets 4 seasons with exactly 3 months each in length. Every year, the first rains fall on exactly the same date, give or take a day or two. For instance, every year the first rains fall between 30th September and the 2nd of October, and the second rains fall between the 7th and the 9th October. I know this because it is after the second rains that everyone's olives are picked, thus giving each olive fruit a chance to plump and juicy up nice with rainwater. This year, we're already almost out of October and we've not had even a single drop of rain yet. People who are still waiting for the rains to fall before picking their olives are having their olives turn yellow and drop off branches – the olive fields around here are littered with dead yellow olives. I've already picked mine so I'm okay but I'm really concerned by all this weird weather. Last year we had 5 months of winter storms instead of the normal 3, and this year we had 6 months of wintry storms, followed by a very short spring then a suffocating hot and humid long summer – and though it cooled off a tad this week, it now seems like we're back on a heatwave tilt that will last for another 9 days, taking us well into November and still no rain. I'm normally firing up the chimney for an hour or so at this time of the year at night and right now I've got the frigging AC on because it's unbearably hot tonight (81F). I'm finding that this is more distressing to me than Corona and the global financial crisis combined.
Sorry folks, I don't mean to bore you with all this weather and farming talk, but I really am concerned. I mean my veggie patch is ruined but it's a small one and nowhere near as big or as important as all the work done by real farmers out there whose much bigger farmlands and hard work are being wasted and despoiled by this level of extreme weather changes. Call it global warming, call it global shawarma, call it anything you want, fact is that the weather is no longer what it used to be, and it hasn't yet settled into an identifiable new pattern and this will impact EVERYTHING in our lives in the four corners of the world. (Another long, tired sigh…)
I guess I'll now have to wait for the soil to cool up again before I can redo the veggie planting – probably happen the last week of November if we're lucky.
On top of everything, nothing is on fucking time anymore.
Not only in the Lebanon my dear Taxi…all over the world…we are planting corn and beans down here but with “our heart in our hands”…old local saying that translate…with freaking fear that the rains that should be falling do fall…last year, the small farmers that planted as usual lost about 2/3 of the crops…lack of rain, who delayed for 45 days hit the golden pot…this year we are planting in turns…1/3 planted as usual, 1/3 planted 2 weeks later and 1/3 another 2 weeks later…spreading has been the nest choice in 2020.
Weather is crazy, not in 2020…for the past 20 years we have seen big shifts in the southern hemisphere, each year a new thing happens…only the mechanized and large land owner can do well, these people have irrigation and all and the result is that Brazil is poised to be labeled the food depot of the world in 2-3 years time…
Thanks, Canthama. For sure the weather has been topsy-turvy all over the world, but this chaos appears to be more pronounced lately.
Brings to mind this little poem by the Punjab poet, Shiv Kumar Batalvi:
@ taxi/et al,
When I stood on beach in Koh Phangang, I said [to a local], “Isn’t that a palm tree stump sticking out of the water down there [roughly 45 feet away]?”
“Yes, that’s where the beach used to be 20 years ago…”
That answer was given in 2000. Also 20 years ago. One thing all of us should keep in mind: ‘We need this planet. This planet does not need us.’
Therefore, we should be responsible for what we do, where we do it. The rest is up to the weather gods, and they love to chase me with rain…
So, taxi, want me to hop over and be a true ‘rainman…?7
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It occurred to me today – and I don't know what took me so long to realize it! – it occurred to me that this whole 'normalization' shebang is like THE most idiotic move as far as US Intelligence is concerned. What normalization does in effect is EXPOSE the US's controlled opposition agents in the region. All of them! This is not exactly a smart strategy for a weakening Empire at all – or for any nation for that matter! We could say that Jarred Kushner has just destroyed a giant secret US Intel arm just to hide the fact that israel cannot handle the battlefield despite all the aid and military freebies that it gets from the US (and Germany and France and and and and!). He's also made the 'normalizers' extremely vulnerable, considering that over here in the middle east, the majority of the people from nations that have been steered/forced into normalization are vehemently against it and very angry, silently or otherwise, at their treasonous rulers and dictators for normalizing. Oh yeah I've seen the minority brainwashed saudis and emiratis who've just had their teeth whitened so they could appear on TV and social media and tell the world how much they love israel and how much they hate Palestine – these motherfuckers are a socially-engineered and Hollywoodified minority: paid and rewarded for their part in the great jewish swindle. These motherfuckers are cowards like the jews are and would piss in their unmentionables if the Resistance ever knocked on their door. Utterly inconsequential maggots in the belly of a fatter maggot. They are NOT a representative barometer for 'peace between jews and Arabs'. They are crash test dummies in a jewish PR campaign.
And what of israel, what does it gain from all this normalization? Well, it will fleece blind its new gulfie pussies that's for damn sure, but this will not save it from the killer punch that the Resistance will be delivering it. Dear reader, if Empire is weak, then so is israel. It's as simple as that. I honestly don't understand why the smartypants jews are so unbelievably shortsighted. Don't they know that any overreach by them that weakens the US only makes them more vulnerable? After all, the Resistance is waiting in the shadows for just such a time when Empire is sufficiently weakened to land the deadly blow on israel. The Resistors have the weapons and they have the ability and the dedication to get it done. And YES the 'Deal of the Century' IS an overreach! Even the name itself has 'overreach' written all over it for god’s sake!
It’s ironic that it's israel itself that's unwittingly weakening Empire for the benefit of the Resistance.
So, normalize awaaaaay motherfuckers! C'mon put it in turbo gear already!
@ taxi,
When I get kicked out of a bar, I can blame the bar.
When I get kicked out of every single bar [for thousands of years], I should blame myself.
jews will always blame others for their misdeeds. Such is the jewish mindset.
They [the goy] don't understand me? I must not have explained it well. Let's try it again…
When I stood in a ruined fortress in Africa [used in the slave trade], people looked at me as the guilty party…
I learned a precious lesson, right there and then.
@ taxi,
This is why you' better of on your farm – link to Live Leak
I'm heading back into my cave :o]
Taxi, thanks for that Jeffrey Sachs video, his interview on MSMBC on Syria via the Jimmy Dore show was brilliant
Bombshell: Professor Stuns MSNBC Panel On Syria
This other video on the Julian Assange Show Episode 1: Nasrallah (2012) is a little dated but shows how good Nasrallah is and witty with it, he talked about how his young men from villages talk in code on their walkie talkies, phrases like ‘father of the chicken’ the Israelis listening in would not know who they were talking about, he then said to Julian “it would do you no good” to huge laughter. [All important communications are through their own fibre optic systems] What a leader Nasrallah is.
@ Harry law,
Hear, hear.
Thanks, dear Harry. Great links. And a too-true observation of Nasrallah. What a fantastically stellar example of a human Nasrallah is! The Lebanese Resistance has advanced by leaps and bounds under his humble leadership.
Look what I got sent today about coronashmorona:
https://www.facebook.com/gilad.atzmon/posts/3651642818189259
Yesterday afternoon, on an exceptionally clear afternoon, I went out after work [yes, I do work on Sundays] to shoot some pictures.
The mountain top [Kirishima], underneath the red arrow is ~ 150 miles away from where I'm standing [or stood]. That fact triggered a thought in my mind:
"We [humans], should be aware of the fact that our perceptions might be clouded at times and might become part and parcel of our expectations."
Make of that what you will.
I came across this very interesting article:
http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/10/birth-rates-will-drop-people-will-stay.html
If you want to read the actual paper, it is at
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/21/2009787117
Abstract
What do you guys think about the predictions?
Thanks, Cloak. Really interesting links. I read the first one and perused through some of the second one: looks like goood food-for-thought to chew on, but it’s long and too mentally demanding for this hour of night for me, but I’ll definitely make time to read it tomorrow, for sure.
The assessment/predictions in the first article strike me as sound and stand to common sense. I’m beginning to see Covid-19 now as a potent virus that fucks up your mind as well as your breathing. So sci-fi weird! Raises another infinity of trippy questions regarding the metaphysical purpose of our existence and creation.
It took a virus and not a prophet to change people’s behavior in the 21st century.
@ CaD,
I tend to look at trends rather than predictions.
This might be of interest: Wolf Street
Thanks Daniel. Clicking your Wolf Street link took me to the main page – was there a specific article in there that you wanted to share, or just the general site in and of itself?
@ taxi,
Just the site and it's data. Should've mentioned it [but, of course, didn't :o]
That’s a useful site, Daniel – thanks for sharing it.
Watch this vid before jewtube bans it:
A quick peruse through today's headlines left me kinda meh, then I stumbled on this video below and found it gripping. Recommended for history and war buffs:
This is nice Taxi, thanks for sharing it…I am a sort of amateur historian, love History and study it with all my heart, and one of my favorite character is Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. Many years ago, my wife and I decided to follow Alexander's footsteps and to visit all the Ancient Wonders (we saw 6 out of 7), few know that both are interlinked ancient wonders and Alexander the Great,, We managed to do to quite well in Greece, Turkey and Egypt, some of the sites we could tell he walked on it such as in Vergina, Perla, Dion, Halicarnassus, the battle places at Queronea, Granicus, Issus, as far as a much tougher area in India where it is hard to pin point places
There are places we have not reached, such as the coast of Lebanon and Syria, Iraq, Iran and Central Asia for obvious reasons since NATO attacked most of them or there is a risk of war, we had to cancel our trips in the past 20 years, twice to Iran and once for Syria/Lebanon, I dearly regret it but we still have time and energy to check on them all,
From the Ancient Wonders the only one missing is the hanging garden in Babylon, near Baghdad, maybe in few more years we will be able to go and check it out as well as the Gaugamela/Arbela battle place in todays province of Kurdistan in Iraq.
For folks interested in a very good tip, so far very accurate historically, watch the Netflix series, Barbarians, the history of the Teutoburg Forest. I was in Teutoburg site in 2015, visited a small part of the battle site…it is said that the battle took place in some 10 kms long line…the museum on the site is simply amazing, I spent a good full day there, and saw with my eyes what several books on the matter passed to me. Watch it, won't regret…spoken in Latin and Deutsch to get closer to reality, of course today's Deutsch is not the same, but it gives the feeling.
Hey Canthama, thank you for the 'Barbarians' recommendation. I finished watching the first season last night. Great stuff and I can hardly wait for season 2!
Notable to me was that even Barbarians had loftier principles than the fucking evil jews. I mean they were an occupied and dirt-poor people who were struggling against a brutal Roman occupation, but I guess jewy Hollywood in its old cheap movies just had to paint them as pathologically genocidal savages because, well, they were German.
The jews have behaved, and continue to behave, by far worse than the Barbarians – or anyone else in history or in contemporary times for that matter.
Thanks for sharing your fascinating travels with us, Canthama. I hope you make it to the ‘7th wonder’ sooner than later, inshallh. You might also enjoy this related short vid:
Though the real speech is not known, the video translates well its essence, of a leader that brought the "suburban" quasi-greeks (Macedonians were considered barbarians by the Greeks) to lead the known world.
What few know was that Alexander spent the last year in Babylon planning for his next venture, which was to circumnavigate the Arabic Peninsula all the way to the Alexandria, then invade Carthage and the Italic peninsula. Just think for a second what would be the world now if that happened…he wanted to control Africa and Europe all the way to Hercules Pillars.
There are many modern historians that succumbed to the politically correct and call Alexander a murderer, judging some one 2400 years ago with their insane modern BS…yes Alexander committed crimes…the siege of Tyre, the siege of Gaza, all tough ones, but this was life back then…set examples and many towns were preserved due to it…
Some tips in books worthy to read on Alexander…
1) This is a remarkable piece by an investigative policeman.
https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Great-Babylon-Graham-Phillips-ebook/dp/B007KZXYVK/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=the+murder+of+alexander+the+great&qid=1603741763&s=books&sr=1-6
2) This is an amazing read, I truly believe Chugg hit something real, Alexander's remains may lay under St Mark's Church in Venice.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Tomb-Alexander-Great/dp/1902699629/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+lost+tomb+of+alexander+the+great&qid=1603742148&s=books&sr=1-1
3) The good and solid Hammond on Alexander, he wrote so many books on him, I took this book to my ventures on Alexander, to locate battle sites etc…
https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Great-King-Commander-Statesman/dp/185399068X/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=N.+G.+L.+Hammond&qid=1603742797&s=books&sr=1-8
The site below has millions of books for download, millions, worth checking it, I love to feel the book in my hands…but with such an incredible amount of books available….for free…have fun.
https://b-ok.lat/s/?q=N.G.L+Hammond
… And I’m remembering right now watching a documentary on Hezbollah’s genius strategist and Military Chief, Imad Mughniyeh, where infamous ex-CIA agent and author Robert Baer breathlessly describes Mughniyeh as a “modern Alexander the Great”. Robert Baer had spent decades chasing after Mughniyeh and never caught him: the only man that Baer never managed to capture. Sadly, the mossad, with the help of UAE intel, managed to assassinate him in Syria back in 2008 after a 25 year pursuit – BUT not before Mughniyeh had handed over his war plan to defeat and dismantle the terrorist state of israel. It’s Mughniyeh’s plan that Nasrallah will be directing come the time – Nasrallah himself told us this several years ago.
Wow some great links you're sharing further with us, dear Canthama. Thank you. Soooo much to learn about the history of great makers and shakers of our world – and so much of it for free now! Alexander the Great was 20 years old when he took over power after his father passed away – and he performed unbelievable strategic military feats inside of just 13 years! Just think of where a modern 20 year old is at these days. The difference embarrasses and boggles the mind.
A couple of decades ago, I used to have an out-of-print little book called 'For Those About to Die, We Salute You', published in the early 1960's and written by an academic whose name I now forget. It contained all the great and consequential speeches made by Greek and Roman leaders in history. I'd bought it for a dollar at a garage sale in LA and after reading it, I loaned it to a friend who is a cinematographer because he liked Greek and Roman history. When I asked for it back months later, he apologized for losing it at a Ridley Scott film set – he said it was stolen there. Two years later, Ridley Scott released his iconic film 'Gladiator'. Heh! I like the thought the Ridley Scott stole my little book and made an epic movie out of it
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Years ago, I tried to find another copy of it thru the internet and did indeed find a single second-hand copy priced at $800! As much pleasure and insight this little book had given me – and I'm a sucker for good oration – nah, I didn't buy an exuberantly priced second copy of it.
I wonder if Trump was insulted or amused:
Are the Chinese Epsteining the Bidens?
So much physical and political wham-bam-thank-you-mam going down in this story – astounding!
Even more astounding: the Chinese are such capitalist pigs
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The Chinese are Epsteining many countries. This is a by-product of the belt and road deals which, for many countries, requires corrupt-able leaders.
With the reelection of Trump, you are likely to see a laundry list of countries and their leaders exposed as being traitors.
If you want to learn what is happening, go read Un-Restricted Warfare
ISBN 9781626543058
You are welcome.
Thanks Whozhear for bringing us info on “Unrestricted Warfare”. Excerpt from the review of the book:
Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
The book "Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America" is for free here…among many other geopolitical ones
https://b-ok.lat/book/3687985/16ab06
FYI………
https://twitter.com/Anon_decoder/status/1320784052434227200
I cannot testify to there being actual missiles on board, though it would make for an excuse.
Thanks Whozhear. I honestly can’t see a benefit for Trump in attacking an Iranian ship in Venezuela waters this close to election time. A violent response to such an attack from Iran or Venezuela where US navy officers die will sink all his campaign efforts pronto.
@ Taxi,
Trump is running unopposed…………
Jews for jewy Trump got into a big punchup in NY with goys against Trump heh heh:
Oh the irony…….
https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1319705840119668736
https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1320797290299334659
@ WHOZHEAR,
jewish hats good at raising their voices and keep talking.
Let's see if Hezbollah is as underwhelmed as I am, when those words are fired at them on a battlefield.
No need for diapers at that side, that's for sure :o]
Biden commented during the last debate that we are going into a dark winter. Since Biden was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from '97 he would be well versed in Operation Dark Winter………
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Winter
How did Biden's double at the podium know the answers to a lot of shit you ask………..
https://twitter.com/ScottFantasy/status/1319628336902135808
Prophetic……….
https://twitter.com/BrandonStraka/status/1320864086842871812
Thanks Whozhear. I watched that live myself and I distinctly remember both teams had assistants who entered the stage at the same time: one from the left and one from the right: both picked up their boss’s shit folder/ipad whatever, then existed through the wings again. Showing just half of the stage and building a conspiracy around it is, well, let’s just say that we see this kind of omission at every single election debate.
Whozhear, the phrase ‘dark winter’ sounds so scary even without the bio-attack aspect. We’ve all kinda had a ‘dark winter’ all this year. I see a dark winter continuing regardless of who wins the election.
And a Biden double? Sweet Jesus we see this concept of a ‘double’ at every election. Both candidates are marionettes for the jews and that’s even worse than having ‘a double’ in my eyes. Jill Biden is as dangerous and power-hungry as they come. She’s whoring her retarded husband out just to get her First Ladyship whip. At least Melania appears to really hate politics and everything that goes with it. But not that Jill woman. Really Whozhear, I hate the lot of them equally. Both sides are whack and need a whackaroon between the eyebrows.
@ taxi,
It’s not about who dances onstage.
It’s about who wrote/writes the script, composed the music and orchestrates the choreography
At the end of the day, the puppets go back in a box and the puppet master has a field day
I understand erdoggie is not happy…………
No he is not happy…lost dozens of oil tankers in Jarabulus, most likely from his family business and some 180 of his favorite terrorists got fried by RuAF.
Charlie Hebdo is a mosad limited hangout tasked with spreading and celebrating islmophobia. Erdogan the monster should be chewed by some toothy sea monster inch by slow inch, same as most politicians and celebrities deserve. Hey you wanna be in the public eye? Then be prepared to get both praise and offensive ridicule and even violence and don’t fucking complain about it. But, the anonymous nobody hijabi woman baring her ass out at Erdo and serving alcoholic beverages in the Hebdo cover is not funny or legit humor at all. It is a downright talmudic assault on religious goy women’s values – in this case, on observant muslim females, of which there is a good 1+ billion of them. I would find the same unjustified and reprehensible assault value if the hijabi woman was dressed as a nun. And considering that islamophobes keep telling us that muslim hijabi women are suppressed and oppressed by their misogynistic muslim husbands, that they are themselves victims of the koran, why then kick them in the cunt in public like that? Know waddamean? Whatever did hijabi women ever do to Charlie Hebdo? Oh right they make muslim babies – thank you very much tel aviv! Fact is, whatever we may think, most hijabi women love their hijab and they have a right to it, just as much as strippers are allowed their thong and nipple pasties.
Although I’m a goof and my funnybone tickles easily, I don’t find ‘humiliation humor’ against ordinary people funny at all. I find it downright oppressive and aggressive and deserves no less than a hundred steel-toe kicks in the balls. Yeah that normally shuts up the fucking bully!
What next? Satirizing naked muslim children on Hebdo covers to encourage pedophilia and violence against them? You fucking bet Charlie Hebdo has already thought of it and is just waiting for the ‘right incident’ to justify publishing a campaign of this unopposed!
Freedom of expression can sometimes come with freedom of fist. Live with it bigmouth jews, live with it!
True freedom of speech does not promote anarchy or hate. It promotes the truth. A truth spoken for naught but the actual truth itself. A truth spoken by both silky and coarse tongues. But, the TRUTH AND ONLY THE TRUTH nevertheless.
Freedom of expression is another thing altogether. This one is subjective, whimsical and non-static and requires more delicacy on behalf of the expresser. If you can’t be bothered to control your baser expressions out of sheer narcissism, then freedom of the fist is the answer you will get. And NO, you’re not allowed to complain if you get a shiner for offending people with no justification.
Picking on the powerless and meek really pisses me off!
Beware the vast difference between freedom of speech and freedom to incite. Especially against the defenseless.
@ Taxi,
The Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicts erdoggie lifting the haijab, not the woman.
The treatment that Charlie Hebdo is giving to erdoggie is partly because of the general condition Muslim women are sadly subjected too, which is how all women are treated in general by the Muslim world's leaders, sunnis and wahibbis in particular………..
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20201028-women-on-10-flights-from-qatar-forced-to-undergo-invasive-examinations
Worse, young muslim women can be forced to endure the same inspections to insure their virginity.
We can go further……
Whozhear, in case you’ve missed it, there’s been a HUGE fight between France and Turkey lately, and it has NOTHING to do with muslim women’s hijab and everything to do with geopolitical competition between two ugly ex-colonials over Levantean territory, mainly Lebanon. They’re also fighting over Turkey’s recent involvement in Libya and Turkey’s (false) claims over Cyprus and Greece marine gas that France is involved in. There’s also the recent incident of a Chechnya muslim who decapitate the head of a French teacher for showing his class some offensive picture of the prophet Mohammad. Macron responded to this heinous crime with a thoroughly islamophobic speech instead of a speech warning against religious zealotry and religious insensitivity. Charlie Hebdo jumped on this wide bandwagon and exploited both anti Erdo AND islamophobia as a whole in their mag cover that you’ve so gingerly shared with us.
And as regards your take on islamic hijab women, get back to me when you’ve actually talked to one or two of them. They will assure you that they don’t need your ‘concern and sympathy’ and that really, your time would be better spent ‘rescuing’ abused women in your own nation, faith, etc.
That’s not to say that misogyny doesn’t exist in islamic societies, but you ‘generalizing all’ (a kind of an oxymoron here) the way you did above is a mere repetition of the so-called liberal-islmophobe’s shallow understanding of muslim women – plus, the level of misogyny in muslim countries varies in different muslim nations, ie you cannot compare how women are treated in saudi arabia to how women are treated in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, etc, or even in Iran for that matter. Here at Plato’s, we appreciate a nuanced ‘negative’ observation and not a propagandized one that serves the jewish agenda of the clash-of-civilization.
I’ve met hundreds of hijabi women from different countries over the years and I’ve yet to meet one who hates her hijab – not a single one! I have no doubt that they do exist but they are an evident minority, if you please.
Simply, it is an incorrect assumption to equate the hijab with oppression of women because the majority of women who wear them do so off their own volition for their own religious reasons. There are many things that oppress women in islamic society, and indeed in the whole world for that matter, but the hijab is not one of them. I am personally not a fan of the hijab (fries your brains in the summer) but I do respect the idea that it’s people’s right to choose to wear what the fuck they want to without their clothes being politicized and thus causing prejudice against docile, religious women (and men).
The mother of Jesus wore a hijab, in case you don’t know this. You wanna call her oppressed and Jesus a misogynist for not taking a stand against it? The hijab was not born with islam: it is much, much older than that – think over 2000 years older.
I repeat: Charlie Hebdo is a jewy rag that is pickled in a culture of talmudic hate and disrespect of the ‘other’. They attack both muslims and christians, but NEVER THE JEWS. Hebdo’s anti-gentilism is neither funny nor truthful. No need to bring them into my dive, dear Whozhear. Years ago I dissected them and dumped them into the stinkiest of media sewers.
BTW, Macron’s islamophobic speech several days ago was a really stupid move. Now in Lebanon, Hariri’s ‘sunni’ muslims supporters and kin are angry at Macron and don’t want their leader Hariri to listen to him anymore. Macron put Hariri back in play (by demand of israel and the US), then literally a couple of days later he pretty much cancelled himself out of the Lebanon picture with this stupid speech. Macron will have to now perform a miracle to regain the acceptance of Hariri’s sunni followers. Fucking stupid loser French prez! Can’t think and chew at the same time.
Dear readers, it's almost 100 days now since the terrorist IDF has been in hiding at the Leb borders. Not a single sighting of the terrorist jewish army. A few days ago, they performed yet another 'military exercise' that supposedly readies them for a war on Hezbollah. They did this latest exercise in a foresty area that’s obscured from the border. I mean how many frigging military exercises these cowards need?! That's all they've been doing since 2006: exercising instead of stepping up to the plate. I see this latest exercise as Gantz's attempt, yet again, at raising idf morale while they remain in fearful hiding. I mean wtf israel?! Get out there and fight already! Hezbollah seems to be happy to just milk that jew fear day after day. At this stage, putting the terrorist idf on high alert and out of view is by far more punishing than killing a single jew solider, as Hezbollah has promised. How long can the idf bare this level of humiliation for? Certainly can't be good for their morale. No military exercise or shmexercise will produce sufficient high morale. There’s nothing for them coward jews to do except for one frigging military ‘exercise’ after another, literally on a weekly basis. Pathetic military exercises like this:
Meanwhile, Hezbollah is spending its waiting time doing this:
The 2nd negotiations over the maritime borders between terrorist israel and Lebanon took place today. The Leb team, the israeli one, and reps from the US and the UN were present. The treacherous israeli team brought with them an extra two jews without prior announcement. This created an immediate icy atmosphere between the two sides. The meeting was long – over three hours. The Leb side brought with it marine maps and official UN documents going back to 1948, and as far back as 1923 too: confirming that block 9 waters belong to Lebanon in its entirety.
After the Lebs presented their case, the israeli side tried to slime and slide and made much reference to the 'Blue Line' as a point of departure for the negotiations. Some 20 years ago (May 2000), the occupying idf forces were smashed into withdrawing from south Lebanon by Hezbollah (and other Leb Resistance groups), and right before the jewish troops’ exit, the UN marked the line of withdrawal with blue barrels inside of Lebanese territory, now known as the “Blue Line”. This Blue line is therefore NOT the official border between Leb and israel. The Leb team stuck to their guns on this Blue Line point and repeated time and time and time again, in fact repeated the following for practically three whole hours: "We are not here to negotiate borders, we are here with official maps and documents to validate our claims that we presented to you at the first meeting. We are here to present validation, not for negotiation". The meeting ended with no official anouncement, but with the statement that a third meeting over this issue will take place tomorrow morning. So, we now wait to see what happens tomorrow.
And those two extraneous jews added to the team last second, what/who do you think they are? Israel referred to them as 'experts' that they need. And experts at what, pray tell? Israel wouldn't say. Off the top of my head I'd say they are psychologists looking for holes in the personalities of the Leb team, to see if there's a way to prick at their weaknesses during the negotiations. I mean you'd need to be in the same room as a person in order to thoroughly study them three-dimensionally, in order to give a best and most accurate assessment of their personality. I'd say it's a waste of time. The Lebs are an infamously wily lot. They're not spineless and stupid like the uae, bahrain, Sadat and Abbas. People in the know in Lebanon, and the Nakoura team IS in the know, understand perfectly well the humongous gas wealth that's at stake here, plus they hold the Hezbollah card. They could have holes in their personality like Swiss cheese, but they're confidently holding onto what they know they have: two ace cards: legitimacy and Hezbollah.
Predictably, the saudi-emirati-israeli media reported on this meeting as a 'normalization' meeting and spread it like wildfire in Arab media today, only to have the whole thing fizzle out by end of day due to many Leb official taking to TV news shows and social media and countering the jewy lies.
You'd think if normalization between Leb and israel was truly on the table, the idf wouldn't be hiding their coward asses at the border, right? LOL! I mean to have to be the author of such shameless lies – I mean don't these fuckers EVER get embarrassed when their lies are exposed? Evidently not! Cuz soon as one lie gets exposed, they go tell another straight away.
Remember, evil loves and lives for lying.
Thank you Taxi for this info, it is incredible how the twisted minds of the Apartheid regime and its supporters work….steal steal steal…
Taxi,
Thank you for keeping us up to date on the swindling attempts. Unfortunately even smart people fall for this tired ploy “Oh well let’s settle and be done with it”. Typical MO Lets cause a problem (shake the tree) and negotiate a settlement (see what falls out). In reality it is much worse when you consider financial and murderous terrorism. Glad to see the Lebanese stuck to their plan.
Some shmaltzy headlines for y'all classy fellows and fellowettes:
France’s love affair with decapitation
Why French President Macron’s clash of civilisations with Islam is misguided
When Exactly Did the AngloZionist Empire Collapse?
'Lebanon will pay the price if Hezbollah attacks Israel'
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The 2020 Candidates on Foreign Policy
Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections
@ Canthama,
Boeing's collapse is accelerating……..
https://komonews.com/news/local/boeing-makes-deeper-job-cuts-as-company-continues-to-bleed-money-during-pandemic
There is no "normal" saving for this corrupt US Corporate…only Government printing machine can save it.
The image is so damaged worldwide that it will pay a heavy price for the MAX case.
Companies and people are just starting to sue this US Frankenstein Company, I continue to estimate that 737MAX will cost Boeing anywhere from USD50-100 Bi in losses.
Down it goes.
@ Canthama,
I hope you and yours are well, good sir.
I have this uncanny feeling Boeing will be another 'too big to fail' contraption [although I sincerely hope I'm wrong]. Once flying bounces back, we'll see how many people avoid flying on Boeing airplanes [although on some routes people might not have the luxury of choices].
In the real world, this company should've vanished already.
As expected, David fails to mention why Southwest's fleet is all Boeing… I wonder why…?
Let's put some cartoons out there making fun of the holocasut, and see how long this 'free speech' lasts, shall we…?
Wonder for how long Macron and his mom will laugh their heads off…
When jews run the show:
“Thank you for signing our petition and taking effective action to cut off Kirin’s flow of money to Myanmar’s army. This week, please follow up your action!
Recently, I visited a restaurant that sold Kirin Ichiban beer on draft. Later, I posted a review on its Facebook page asking it to stop stocking Kirin and its brands.
This week, please ask your favorite restaurants and bars to stop selling all Kirin brands. Whether you order in or dine out, leave a review on their Facebook and Yelp pages as well as sending them a direct message through their website or Facebook page. Consider using this language at the end of your review or message. (Just list the Kirin brands available in your country.”
Kill freedom of everything you don’t agree with!!! Be like a true ff-ing jew!!!!!!!
P.S. I didn’t sign anything. I’m just on their lists to know what they’re up to.
Grrrrrrreetings folks!
A third Nakoura meeting took place today and the Leb team did not shift from their yesterday's slogan of: "we are here to validate not to negotiate". They stressed that they will not budge from this position, that not a single inch of Leb land or drop of seawater will be given away or negotiated over. After almost three hours of this, the referees at the table (the US and the UN) called for a half an hour's break. The table emptied. Half an hour later everyone returned to the table except… the israelis. No show for the jews lol! And to demonstrate their displeasure at the Leb, they sent hostile fighterjets and drones over south Lebanon, all flying low and threateningly all afternoon.
After the meeting ended, Leb officials did not indicate whether there will be any further meetings, but the israeli media is saying that the next meeting will be next month, without the jew media stating a specific date – nice bit of abstract there heh. Let's together have a look at the shambolic lies about Nakoura that the jews are spreading shall we:
Israel-Lebanon maritime border talks to resume next month
You can see from the above article how empty that jew egg basket is after the meeting, right? I give them 10/10 for putting a brave face on a disastrous conclusion to today's meeting.
Now what?! I mean the jews did not get back to the meeting to decide on a date for another round. They've hit a Leb wall that not even US pressure on Leb can demolish. The coward jews can't go to war with Hezbollah and they STILL want the Leb gas. What a conundrum for the spoiled fucking klepto Shylocks! Will they blow up Beirut airport as punishment? Well just they try! Hezbollah won't stay quite if they did this like they did with the terrorist Beirut Port explosion.
So what next? The issue is not over by any means. I'll be keeping you posted with further developments.
Well done Lebanon, keep it standing tall. Thank you Taxi for these reporting on the meetings.
You’re welcome, dear Canthama. I’m much enjoying the Nakoura dramarama myself.
Late last night, Leb officials announced that the next meeting over the maritime border will take place on the 11th November. A mere single week after the US elections. The klepto jews were hoping for a Nakoura agreement before the elections so are they now expecting a Trump victory that allows them and Trump’s jewy mideast team to continue kicking at the Leb maritime door? Are they so stupid to think that Leb’s position will change for the benefit of israel? Ever?!
The klepto bully bullheads are in for a hoof-chopping or two should they attempt to force the Lebs at gunpoint to give up their seawater. Hezbollah’s stick is bigger the israel’s!
NewWorldNext Week with the two James, always a good weekly video, this time, they share news on global covid19 vacine and the "Economic Reset", worth watching it.
The Truth About the Coronavirus Vaccine Trials – #NewWorldNextWeek
That controlled opposition rat, Glen Greenwald resigned from that rodent hub, The Intercept, citing unacceptable levels of censorship because they wouldn't publish a positive article of his on Trump.
Who gives a shit about this pervy political swinger, right?
Except I'm sensing that, because Greenwald is sooooo in with the shadowy Deep State lot, he must have received intel and instruction from them to help keep Trump in power for another four years by penning positive articles on him.
Trump's poll numbers have surprisingly picked up these past few days and 'leftie' Greenwald has been making appearances on Tucker's Fox News shows.
I dunno, I'm just connecting dots here. What do you think?
Did Trump promise the evil Talmudic Sheldons, who constantly dine with the Deep State, that he will launch a war on Iran (and islam!) should he remain in power? Did Trump get on his knees and with clasped, pleading hands beg the jews to give him a chance to fulfill their darkest dream ever of creating a ‘war of civilization’ that pits muslim against christian and the east against the west all rolled into one?
It would be naive of us to think that such a conversation didn’t happen between a desperate Trump and the king-making jews.
Glen Greenwald is a dangerous SOB… he is backed by powerful globalist left money, rich families (Soros' type), he is involved in criminal activities to produce his narrative, as he did in Brasil by dealing with rackers that were hired to break internal media/private texting of many Judges in Brazil, from the Supreme Court to the Car Wash team. The racking was hired and executed, paid by a network of people around him.
In another move, he placed his husband to be the replacement of a hardcore leftist for a Federal Representative position, and the deal was that the vote runner would "abdicate' alleging "persecution" from "ghost militias" so Glen's husband would assume the post and be protected with parlamentar immunity, and of course having access to a lot of information prime for Glen to boost on Intercept, and BTW, Intercept was financially involved in all dirty deals from Glen.
I can only sense his decision to leave Intercept as the same he did on Guardian, a patron must have put a lot of money for him to start a new "Intercept" like news channel. Glen has millions around the world the blindly believe on him due to Snowden case….millions have no idea how corrupt he is.
There is nothing wrong in being left or right…people are free to choose, my issue is that people are blind…totally blind…for me both left and right are the same nowadays…you can change the Gov label but the essence is the same, everywhere, so Glen does play the game for the deep pockets that run the world, thus he is directly involved with zionist of all sorts.
MOP > did not like reading last week that a so called bipartisan group in Congress again pushing recommendation to transfer the GBU-57 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), and the means to deliver it, to Israel. The most powerful air-delivered conventional weapon in the U.S. arsenal. The bunker-busting MOP is reported capable of holding at risk hard and deeply buried targets. Supposedly the most capable delivery aircraft is the B2, of which reportedly the US has just 20 in inventory.
(Comment > although Congrss critters said it would open up Iran's nuclear facilities to Israel, most likely at this time of max political pressure to give Israel everything possible high on that list > including this bomb as a major weapon against underground Hezb missles – perhaps as a prelude to a ground attact on the Leb. Speculating of course, but the trend of many dots connect. Mike).
https://hamodia.com/2020/10/27/congress-back-bunker-buster-bombs-israel/
https://warontherocks.com/2015/09/this-big-bomb-should-not-go-to-israel/
@ M-F,
Ground attack?
It takes people with guts to execute such a thing. The Occupied Palestine dittyboppers are only good at one thing: shit in their pampers.
So what?! These monster weapons are useless without accurate intel on where Hezb’s big weapons are. The terrorist jews don’t even know where the small weapons are for Pete’s sake! And not forgetting here that should big weapons like that be used by the terrorist jews, then the Hezb missiles will be saying hello to the Dimona via the ammonia plants in Haifa.
Israel Prepares for War on Multiple Fronts.
Ground attack? Thursday, Israel’s military completed a massive military exercise known as Lethal Arrow. The drill began on Sunday and simulated war on multiple fronts, in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and countries far from Israel’s borders. An IDF spokesperson said the drill simulated a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon to the north and battle with other groups in Syria, Gaza, and “in countries that don’t border” Israel. The drill involved ground forces, fighter jets, and Israel’s Navy.
(watching out for possible false flag to further pressure US strong backup, regardless of who wins election. Whatever, the Axis of Resistance all know what is possible, and hopefully are ready. Mike).
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/29/israel-prepares-for-war-on-multiple-fronts/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-massive-exercise-in-north-idf-prepares-for-war-on-multiple-fronts/
@ M-F,
The last time Occupied Palestine did the real thing [ground attack], they got a very bloody nose. So, the only thing left to do is to do MANY and BIG 'drills.' Sells well to the audience at home. Thumping your narrow and hairy chest while at it.
A soldier is only worth his salt when he faces his enemy and is capable of killing it. The Occupied Palestine 'army' therefore prefers to shoot at [and kill] unarmed Palestinians.
Ff-ing cowards. The lot of 'em.
Thanks Mike. I’m laughing because all this jew ape show is meaningless and done often and meant for domestic consumption to allay the low morale and panic of their terrorist soldiers and terrorist civilians. Let the coward jew fuckers make an appearance at the Leb borders first instead of hiding like the yellow-toothed rats that they are!
They’ve done soooo many of these ‘exercises’ since their memorable and deserved defeat in 2006. They can’t even control the Gaza border – they don’t even dare ENTER Gaza let alone fight on multiple fronts against a determined and sufficiently well-armed Resistance armies and groups. Who the fuck are they kidding?! Oh right the dumb jew hiding behind his stupid little pinky!
Let us remember here that before the jews were defeated by Hezbollah back in 2006, israel NEVER had a big mouth with frothing threats pouring out of it: what they used to do before 2006 was stay shtumpy-quiet and just strike hard at their Leb neighbors then brag much about it later in the media. Now they’re loud and beating at chest every five minutes WITHOUT striking.
Israel is weak-weak-weak inside of its own borders and doing this ape show with the backing of its mega jewy media that’s designed purely to hide their fatal Achilles heel.
They can exercise till they’re blue in the face and it won’t help them one bit. The Resistance is coming to get them and get them good and forever.
Taxi, believe you nailed this one in the middle of the head….indeed the apartheid regime used to be quite in any of their aggression, it was its trade mark until 2006…now they beat chest, bark loud and once per week the apartheid regime has its weekly threat…to Hizballah or Iran or Syria on and on and on….it is like a clock….if Hizballah attack we will destroy to their last blah blah blah.
It is clearly a shift in driver's seat….the apartheid regime is no longer in the driver's seat…The Resistance is…we can draw a parallel with the Empire of Chaos, the US, it is also barking loud a lot but is limited in biting….all these regimes, that defend evil, have in common their fear of killing its on citizens, fear it could bring domestic rebellion, thus the use of proxy wars and terrorists, believe we have been in a crossroad for a long time, few decades, where this method worked, but no more, there will be always consequences if the coalition of evil try something on these lines….see Ukraine, Belarus, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Libya etc…
We live in a very interesting times, we will witness the fall of this coalition of evils, we will see them all paying their "debt to humanity, and it gonna be soon, in the next few years…
Thanks Canthama. I should have also added a VERY IMPORTANT reason why these jew exercises have been scheduled on a continuous loop: they are a demo for tel aviv to promote and sell israeli arms and training to the global market. The shekels spent on these useless exercises are recovered by the israeli arms industry. I should really say the American tax dollars spent on these exercises are converted into free shekels through israeli arms sales.
Last night, Nasrallah gave an impromptu speech addressing the issue of islamophobia in France and other Western nations. I don't have time today to give my own summary of it, but here below is an article that delves into its main points:
Sayyed Nasrallah Cites Double Standards of Freedom of Expression in France: Western States Protected Takfiri Groups
How can any sensible, fair-minded person give respect to governments that allow their citizens to question the almighty god himself yet ban them from questioning the holocaust? Huh?! You can question the creator of creation but not an event in history otherwise know as the holocaust? Get the fuck outta my face and outta town!
We have been following events escalating in Syria for the past 2 weeks, from the destruction of dozens oil tankers in Jarabulus, near the turkish border, owned by turkish companies (and most liked linked to Erdogan's family energy business-they supplied/supply stolen oil from Iraq and Syria to Israel-Russia has all documented in 2015-2016) and most recently the neutralization of over 200 turkish backed terrorists in a training camp.
Today we have witnessed what is seems a Syrian loitering munition (suicide drone) attack in two different events, in a 155mm artillery and a car…initially though it was US loitering drone, then Russian but pictures show a different kind and related to a Syria-Iran version that was disclosed to public few months back.
The situation clearly indicates an effort by Syria and its allies to prep for a new offensive, something that has been delayed for months, but these attacks, plus the amount of artillery and air strikes behind enemy lines and new intel of SAA storm troopers forward to frontlines may indicate the offensive is nearing. Several SAA air defense systems were spot taking position near the frontline, BUK systems, Pantsirs and S125, meaning SyAAD is prepping to counter the turkish drone attacks that caused so many casualties to the SAA and its armoured vehicles early in the year.
Should this offensive happens then we will see all M4 highway liberated, meaning a 10-20 kms safety zone will be pushed north of it which will mean the main cities of Idlib, Ariha and Jisr al Shughur will be finally re-embraced to Syria, also NE Lattakia will be completely cleared of turkish terrorists (TIP mostly), and by far most of the arable land under the terrorists at the moment (Idlib plains, al Rouj plains and al Ghab plains).
Roughly, 2/3 of the highlighted pocket map below would be liberated, the bottom half and the eastern side, pushing the terrorists to the turkish border and the Afrin canton.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=pt&lat=36.030221&lon=36.397705&z=9&show=/36448218/Greater-Idlib-Idlib-pocket-Idlib-demilitarization-zone
No need to say this would put Russia and the Ankara regime at odds. We could be witnessing the show down of Turkey inside Syria, finally.
Thanks for the update on Syria and friends’ stride towards liberation. Today’s status was supposed to have happened last Christmas. Many people around the world who love Syria and the Syrian people are experiencing a Syria-fatigue from these over-lengthy delays. This is not good for the cause at all. What do you think is the main cause of this delay? I mean, of course, it’s a very complex situation with multiple human-cockroach infestations to fumigate and the geopolitics of several nations to consider in the configuration, but don’t you think a full-throttle charge ahead is now necessary and let the chips fall where they may. Syria and friend’s gains cannot be reversed at this stage so what’s the hold up?
Taxi: Much news from the western front. Linh Dinh has arrived in south Lebanon from North Macedonia via Istanbul. His account just hit frontal Unz. At least two of us posters at that site are hoping that the two of you will have a meeting of the minds.
Second one is that in response to an essay I posted on Unz earlier today, a fellow poster name of J. Walters shared a most amazing link to the history and the contemporary nexus emanating from the Rothschild Crime Family and their little pet connivers in Occupied Palestine. This link and the numerous sub-links it includes is far and away the most comprehensive and incisive exposition on the enemies of humanity.
Here goes: warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank-html
I've yet to learn uploads, attachments and other advanced computer techwizardry, so those who wish to connect with a virtual encyclopedia of research and informed commentary will simply need to copy that line to connect with a great site.
Lebanese-American connexion: Former South Dakota US Senator Abourezk has some powerful ammunition for posters here:
ifamericaknew.org/us_ints/ps-abourezk.html
Lately I've not posted on this site very much, but all at once all this synchronistic serendipity showed up and I simply had to share. Enjoy.
Always wonderful to have you visit, dear Majority of One, and thank you so much for sharing the warprofiteer link. Although I already know (too!) much of the Rothschild’s history of financial AND war crimes against humanity, I will definitely make time to read through the link.
‘Ifameicansknew is a great and honorable site and I actually had the pleasure of meeting Alison Weir a few years back when she paid a visit to Lebanon to attend a ‘Palestinian Right of Return’ conference. And speaking of good eggs, I am in fact hosting the great Linh Dinh here in my farmhouse. I have a spare empty one bedroom cottage on the property and I’ve ensconced him there nicely. He’s been here for some three days now and for the most part he’s been recovering from his jetlag and writing, but I have had a good chinwag or two with him already and I can testify to his authentic pro Resistance voice.
Here’s a link to the ifamericansknew article re sentor Abourezk that you so kindly brought to us:
Yes, It’s the Lobby: “Political Fear” Drives US Support for Israel
@ MoO,
Your link leas to a 'Page not Found' page.
This link will take readers to it
Hope this helps.
Indeed very complex with multiple balls up in the air….how to start maybe…
1) Syria is roughly a broken State, it consumed most of its treasury, from a zero external debt Nation to heavily indebted one after a decade. That means Syria has to manage credit lines from its few partners, meaning also accommodating their allies will and needs. Tough spot right there.
2) Even if Syria was whole again, its main industries were severely affected, literally either disappeared such as Aleppo's factories packed and stolen to Turkey to oil/gas that either were destroyed or in dare need of repairs. The past 2-3 years with the liberation of Aleppo and Damascus, we have seen some industry sectors back, such as Pharma, carpets and plastic housewares, and slowly it starts to pop up new factories and plants. A bad news for Syria is that this is a long process, a good news is that plants and factories will be extremely competitive in MENA due to its new equipments and somme state of the art facilities. Even if Syria could produce much, sanctions would limits its commerce, so this delay plays into sanctions, Syria is focusing on domestic market, replacing imports, and that is a good thing.
3) The SAA was almost completely depleted after so many years of fight and deaths, airforce was reduced to maybe 10-15% of its original size, meaning it depends of CAS and air strikes from RUAF, and SAAF has not received any new equipment since 2011, even the ones it purchased and paid, which was the case of the Russia YAK130s. Syrian Navy (it once had submarines and mid size corvettes, is now reduced to coastal force, missiles and patrol boats), zero investments there. The army, which it had been fighting and losing equipments and soldiers for so long, had to rely on armed militias to control areas and sometimes to help the main army, at one point the once powerful 150-200M soldiers SAA was reduced to no more than 30-40M trained soldiers, that was the very low moment back in 2015-2016…then the SAA relied on Iran and Russia to train new forces and re equip the army, sometimes from ground up…today the SAA has restored some aspect of its former glory with armoured vehicles, missiles, drones and offensive capabilities, and slowly the army and Syrian air defenses are returning to its formed control of liberated areas, this is key since Syria has lost control of most of its air control (down to Damascus and Lattakia/Tartous) but now it has regained presence in central, northern and southern Syria, slowly regaining footing in eastern. Having said that, the SAA is far from what it used to be, in size and equipments, but it has learnt new doctrine, with the help of Hizballah and IRGC, the SAA is way more mobile, relying on special forces as storm troopers and now capable in fighting inside cities and constrained areas. The old SAA was trained for open battles….mainly 60-70 doctrines from the wars with the apartheid regime.
4) I mentioned the 3 itens above because it directly links to the question…Russia has a broader geopolitical play with Turkey, it is beyond Syria, it was suppose to be all over TMENA and central Asia, but when it refers to Syria, Russia is trying to accommodate Turkish needs, it is a game of patience for Syria, because Turkey is indeed an enemy of Syria under Erdogan, and Russia has a strong saying with Syrian Gov, there is no offensive without Russia's ok since it can remove CAS and air strikes which means leave the SAA vulnerable to turkish drones and modern artillery. The SAA needs coordination between Russia and Iran for an offensive, or disaster will happen.
There is a good chance now that Russia and Iran are mad on Turkey's aggressive move on Artsakh, directly affecting both countries, that a payback will be given to Turkey in Libya and Syria, so we have seen lately Russian PMC in Libya (photos and videos), meaning since it was leaked to public it was a message to Turkey, and the air strikes in Syria against Turkish interests…so it seems and offensive is coming this time, hopefully one that will push the Muslin Brotherhood/al Qaeda terrorists either to hell or to Turkey.
5) Last but not least there is the US/SDF play in eastern/NE Syria, this one was decided to be dealt with negotiations and compromisses, for over 1 year there are serious discussions between Russia, US & Syria about it, recently leaked meeting informations were intentional from the US part (Elijah wrote an article about that yesterday, I will post below), and it seems there seems to some sort of process linked to the phased reduction of US presence in Iraq and Syria…we will have to see about that in time, meanwhile Russia, Syria and the US puppet SDF are constantly talking, if the SDF does not play its card correctly, it will be a disaster for them. Lets keep in mind that Russia's strong presence in Qamishili airport is not only a message to SDF but to Turkey itself. The US respects Russia's presence in NE Syria, the bumping each other in roads were more like a mutual fun than serious stuff.
So, M4 will be liberated with or without turkish saying, and it will be soon, without turkish terrorists in the M4, it means they will lose all key towns…such as Idlib city, Jisr al Shughur and Ariha…they will be pushed back to rocky places and not sustainable without arable land control…and most important for the turkish terrorists, they would lose their main income, taxation from the population centers they control, without this money they will rely in Turkey/Qatar regimes for funds…and Qatar is approaching Syrian Gov as we speak, and may isolate Turkey and its al Qaeda terrorists in Idlib. 2021 will be a good year for Syria in my view, with the national election and most likely victory by President Assad under UN supervision, Syrians will tell the world they support its President and there will be no need for sanctions or lack of commerce, things can change for good for Syria, hopefully.
Great update and breakdown of the current situ in Syria – thank you Canthama. My only point to make is that it is unlikely that Qatar will “isolate” Turkey in any actual or significant way. Qatar remains under a saudi-emirati blockade and it is Turkey and Iran who are keeping Qatar fed and protected during this blockade.
It seems to me that only Russia can tame the Erdo beast, but Putin’s methodology in doing this is agonizingly slow. His strategy and tact is to woo Turkey away from NATO and into the Russian fold, and not to have direct confrontation with the Turkish military. The Idlib terrorists are disposable to Erdo – he only holds on to them as a bargaining chip against both sides. I really-really-very-really do hope, like you, that 2021 will take Syria out of the tunnel and into the light, but this will be due to Resistance activities and not to diplomatic engagement with the invaders in Syria.
Elijah’s article that you so generously shared with us (and many thanks for this) has a naive conclusion: an empty and rosy promise of a Trump withdrawal should Trump win. I just can’t see this happening. Trump is a taker and not a giver and he is utterly beholden to the terrorist jewish tribe that half of his family are now blood-related to. The jews will put a bullet between his eyes should he win and go rogue on them in his second term, regardless of familial ties.
No American president is allowed to make independent decisions in the middle east and especially in the Levant. It is israel who dictates this American policy file and not the president of the United States. This will not change should Biden win. Biden has stated that he intends to “keep a limited number of troops in Syria” should he win. This is EXACTLY Trump’s policy too – same indeed as it was Obama’s policy before him too. Same policy dictated by same jewy master.
Why is Elijah telling us that it would be a good thing if Trump wins? The US changing presidents makes no fucking difference at all to the current equation in the Levant. Only force will evict all the illegal invaders in Syria. Whoever thinks otherwise is either deluded or a controlled opposition agent.
Like a geopolitically-weakened israel will ever allow Syria to fully stand on its feet again. No sir! Not in a million years! An independent and war-free Syria is but an added existential nightmare for an already pathologically petrified and cornered israel.
Thought I would weigh in on covid. We don't know much about covid, but do we know that everything around it is manipulated:
1. Manipulated Statistics. Normally it takes a year or two for any country to produce their flu stats because flu deaths like covid happen to people who already have serious pathologies. If you die with cancer and flu, it takes time for the statistical agency to figure out the primary cause of death so each unique individual is assigned one primary cause.
However for covid they are able to produce definitive statistics in 24 hours, because it is does not matter if you also have cancer etc. everyone is a "covid" death.
There was a big scandal in the UK some months back because it turned out that the ONS were recording every death following a positive test as a covid death, even if the death happened months later and was due to a car accident.
2. The Unreliable RT-PCR test protocol was first produced in Germany independently of the virus. It only searches for RNA fragments. That's why 95% of people have zero to no symptoms even if they are positive. They are neither ill nor contagious. There is no evidence other than crappy mathematical models that completely asymptomatic covid is contagious.
Now they are doing 10 million tests per day in the world for covid and finding a ton of asymptomatic positives. Meanwhile nobody is testing for flu. It is not that flu has disappeared due to lockdown measures but that so much is being thrown at covid tests, there is none left for flu.
https://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/updates/flunet_globalviruscirculation_20201023.pdf
3. Manipulated media coverage: You cannot know the actual death rate from covid early in the pandemic because nobody knows the denominator. As you do more tests, and discover more cases or infections, the IFR or CFR will keep dropping. Now, the death rates are similar to flu and for young people they are much less than flu.
For instance, in Italy there are 37,000 deaths. Do you want to know how many of those were people under 40? Around 90. Do you want to know how many under 40 died of covid until today in Italy who had no pathologies? About fourteen out of 39 million age 40 and under.
When you look at the attacks on scientists who are speaking out, you understand that something is going. Check the youtube channel Co-Immunity. It has a lot of information from the scientists who are being censored on the mainstream.
Why do you think Macron has suddenly declared war on Islamofascism based on the false flag attacks attributed to a couple of young men who were almost teenagers? Because everyone realizes that the covid scam has been exaggerated beyond all belief.
There is a virus. It is dangerous for people who are seriously immunocompromised. The HUGE variation in death rates between and among countries is because deaths were higher wherever standards of care fell, for whatever reason. This is why across the OECD, 50-85% of deaths have occurred in care homes and not in the general population. The other source of excess mortality over this period was people dying at home and not being able to get care in time because the hospitals were just focused on one disease.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Thanks pq. All the points you make are cogent and noteworthy. But seniors constitute a fairly large percentage of the global population and can contract the contagion from asymptomatic carriers and this in itself necessitates non-senior citizens to practice covid-safety measures, no? Your thoughts on this please, dear pq.
And also, can you please elaborate further on the fascinating point you make here:
Are you saying that Macron is practicing extreme politics-of-fear, this time in the form of islamophobia, in order to fully maintain control of his population as if a dictator? Even at the expense of sinking his economy further, and also with the risk of creating more ISISian style terrorism against his own people? At the risk of also inflaming a (jewy) ‘clash of civilization’? I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thank you.
Comments anyone?………..
http://www.voterig.com/bidenvotefraud.mp4
Sheldon appears to have had another change of mind: looking to me like he wants Trump back in. Trump must have sucked his forked and wrinkly cock real goody-good and hard lately (after the two had fallen out several months ago).
Either way it goes, the election is already fixed. Like the last one. And the one before it. And the one before that one and so on and forth and on and on back into a time before you and I were born.
America is not a democracy. Has not been one since the jews took it over through coercion, blackmail, and religious nepotism and cronyism.
What are your comments/thoughts on your linked vid, Whozhear?
Fundamentally, Biden's comments are correct. Trump attempted to take control of all the computerized mail sorting systems, and basically failed.
Thoughts on Boris?
I don’t give a shit about that cunt. Waste of breath to comment on jewy puppets and whores.
In case some readers missed this video a couple of years back when I first posted it:
Trump and Assad: the ongoing negotiation
By Elijah J. Magnier:
In 2012, the US administration closed the American Embassy’s doors in Damascus and, two years later, ordered the Syrian Embassy in Washington to close. However, an exchange of messages continued through the Czech embassy, and the backchannel never closed. President Donald Trump, known for his willingness to strike business deals, decided to take the contacts further with President Bashar al-Assad. In 2017, he sent a military-political delegation to Damascus airport, intending to reach a breakthrough. Other visits followed, along with letters from President Trump that President Assad refused to accept. The question here is: why did the US leak details about an August meeting between Syrian Brigadier General Ali Mamlouk and President Donald Trump’s Special envoy for Hostage Affairs and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Roger Carstens, together with Trump Counterterrorism advisor Kash Patel, in the heart of the capital Damascus?
President Trump moved further than the contact level initially established with the Syrian leadership. He opted for direct negotiation over details to find common ground between the two countries. In the art of diplomacy –the art of the impossible– negotiations are expected to move cautiously when there are essential requests on both sides. Each country will try to “improve” its demands, particularly in this case, when both the US and Syria have many cards to play in the exchange of mutual concessions.
The US has requested that Syria “change its behaviour”. This request was first made in 2003 by US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his visit to Damascus just after the US occupation of Iraq. Powell asked Assad to give up support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran.
During the Syrian war, President Assad cut his relationship with Hamas on account of its support for the jihadists and NATO-sponsored regime-change. It is, however, only a matter of time until the relationship between Assad and Hamas is restored; Hamas has changed and is no longer anti-Assad. The group has recognised that it has made a grave mistake and wants to repair the relationship with Assad. Despite Hamas’s support to jihadists Takfiri, Syria has never abandoned the Palestinian cause.
The Syrian-Hezbollah relationship is no longer on the table for Assad. Both Iran and Hezbollah were significant contributors to the unity of Syria in defending their ally and preventing the Syrian government from capitulating to the Jihadists throughout nine years of war.
President Assad has said repeatedly that Hezbollah and Iran are in Syria at the invitation of the Syrian government and will leave when requested to do so. However, Assad is not expected to offer this card to President Trump without a hefty price- including not only US withdrawal from al-Tanf and east-Syria but also recovery of the occupied Golan Heights that Trump unlawfully offered to Israel. Thus, it is certainly not in Syria’s interest to ask Iran and Hezbollah to leave southern Syria and clear the occupied Golan Heights area. It is a question of price and what one side can get from the other over the negotiation table.
Damascus believes that the US leaked information related to the meeting last August to the press as part of a pre-prepared plan to soften the ground for further overt negotiation. The US administration – that hopes and believes it will remain in power for another four years – is preparing the mainstream media– which is hostile towards both Trump and Assad—for such a deal.
President Trump needs highly valid reasons for peace to offer US public opinion and those who wrote reams of articles against President Assad in the last nine years. The search for the six American citizens who the US believes are in Syrian government custody is a valid reason for Trump to negotiate with Assad- to bring US citizens back home. No one in America can contest this objective and, if in exchange the US President has to withdraw forces from Syria, the price is not too high because the US forces anyway are considered occupation forces and their presence is illegal.
Trump has said on more than one occasion that Syria is a place of “sand and death” and twice said he wanted to pull out his troops. However, he changed his mind and instead claimed that the reason for his presence is only to steal the Syrian oil. The American President (who doesn’t originate from the ‘Washington swamp’) told an American-Jewish gathering that he is staying in Syria “just because of you”, referring to Israel. But if Trump is re-elected he, of course, will no longer need the support of Israel for another mandate- and might no longer care about the mainstream media opinion of him.
Damascus believes that the re-election of Trump will push him to make a deal with Syria because he will be free from any future engagement with Israel in relation to Syria. This is why Syrian officials preferred not to negotiate and commit before the US presidential elections. The breakthrough has been achieved, and contacts moved to the level of negotiations; therefore, there need be no hurry to complete a deal, better to take the time to build trust. President Trump can’t offer many guarantees in the time left for him and, for Damascus, achieving a partial withdrawal in exchange for US demands is worthless.
Damascus has no obstacle to exerting the art of the impossible: Syrian and Turkish officials met (Brigadier General Ali Mamlouk and National Intelligence Organisation Director Hakan Fidan) three times notwithstanding the enmity between their two countries. Mamlouk visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2015, when the Saudis were financing jihadists fighting against the Syrian government forces! Therefore, the US-Syrian direct negotiation is a “natural” procedure to reach a common ground for both countries, including total US withdrawal from occupied Syrian territories.
If the price of US total withdrawal and return of the Golan Heights were Iranian and Hezbollah withdrawal from Syria, the issue would be on the table. Hezbollah has only a small force in the north, and Iran has no fighting troops in Syria, only military advisors.
Syria sees positive signals from the US towards President Assad. Qatar airlines are resuming their flights over Syrian airspace and flights to Damascus resume. Doha can’t move towards Syria without US’s blessing; this move indicates that some red lines are disappearing, slowly.
Russia was not far from the US-Syrian negotiations. It was Moscow who encouraged Washington to talk to Assad. President Trump would like to achieve the return home of the six US citizens. President Assad is running in the forthcoming election in 2021 (where no candidates can beat him…). After all, no US sanctions last forever, nor have they yielded the desired results in the Middle East.
Trump dropped the “backchannel” negotiation and is moving forward to achieve a direct deal with Syria. More meetings are expected soon if Trump is re-elected. It is a matter of agreeing on details and a question of time for achieving common ground between the two countries.
There is some fundamental changes happening in MENA due to the overall Turkish increased aggression in geopolitics…for months, the slimy Arab League has made some inroads back to Damascus, with Embassies re opened without much noise…UAE, Oman, among many others, and Syria has been reaching out way more frequently to Arab Nations lately as well. No doubt there is still bad blood from a decade of aggression against Syria, but the late Turkish new Ottoman stupidity seems to have helped some Arab regimes to approach Syria under a new approach…as ally…hard to believe, but it seems the old saying…the enemy of your enemy is you friend..it seems Turkey is uniting the Arab countries, even if it is in a hypocrite way….LOL.
So…Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt are rebuilding diplomatic and economical links with Syria in order to reinforce one of the most important force against turks/proxies in the region…in another word…the Arabs will now use/help Syria as a buffer against Turkey….
2021 will be interesting to say the least…if Turkey continues to isolate itself like this…it will find itself split in many smaller nation in a decade or so…maybe this is Russia's main objective with Turkey after all…Russia had two long term strategic enemies…UK and the Ottomans….the former is reduced to a regional player and the latter is playing stupid near the Russian border…if Turkey is gone as an important player for NATO and TMENA, Russia would have neutralized the historical threat of its southern frontier…
Thanks Canthama. True that Arab nations aligned with the Axis of Evil are, due to Turkophobia, aligned with Damascus again, but only verbally. They’ve been banned by USreal from giving ANY assistance, monetary or otherwise, to Syria. Their alignment aims at creating a block in the Levant against Erdo, and not at all at helping Syria back on its feet again; certainly no reparations will be paid by them to Damascus for the damage and death that they’ve created, which is what Bashar had asked them to do.
Taxi, I agree wholeheartedly with your views on Charlie Hebdo cartoons, criticism is alright but in my opinion abuse, ridicule, deliberate insult and contempt is not. Although I have no religion, others beliefs have to be respected, in many cases it is wise, in others it is just common sense.
People profess affection for cartoons that offend a religion — until the targeted religion changes……Abusive drawings about Muslims equals ‘freedom of speech’. Abusive drawings about Jews equals ‘Anti Semitism’ clear double standards.
Hi Canthama – thanks much your above report about Syria, its SAA, economy, etc. Much appreciated hearing about Syria, with SyrPer still down. Since the direction of Syria also impacts the future of the Leb, I’m sure Taxi does not object to your most savvy reporting now and then RE status and trends in Syria.
While on the subject of Syria, we certainly agree dealing with Turkey’s Erdo is a biggie, coming to a head – and the sooner resolved hopefully in Syria’s favor the better.
In case you missed the following article, I suggest you read regarding its slant on the Erdo equation. So much continuing to depend on savvy Putin. Thanks again, Mike.
“Russia and Turkey, Has Putin Lost Patience?
Putin and Assad have lost patience with Erdogan and the Turkish position in Syria that “was and is still the cause of all of Syria’s problems.”
https://www.syrianews.cc/russia-and-turkey-has-putin-lost-patience/
US Election – Almost nobody recognizes that every U.S. presidential voting ballot contains 5 offical contenders in addition to Trump and Biden. Of course MSM does not report such as to allow citizens to see and listen to the other 5 articulate their platforms and plans for America – nor pointing out these 5 were not allowed to participate in the official presidential debates between candidates. The System does not want other than their choices be heard, especially if others might point out the horrors of much of Empire's foreign policy and their own view of what it should be towards Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Russia, etc.
Can't allow voters even thinking about such. Nope.
Thanks, Mike. You’ve just given us THE primal indicator that democracy does not exist in the US.
There is an incredibly powerful and simple system of voting that the Talmudic Fuckers in Charge will never let us have because it utterly breaks the control of the uni-Party (i.e. Dems & Reps working for the Tribe).
When I mention it to people those who have heard of alternative voting systems always get excited and say “Oh yeah Ranked Voting, it’s great!” or “Instant Run-off Voting, it’s great!”.
And I say, yes those voting systems are better than what we have, but there is a simpler method that is much better even than those which truly breaks the “strategic voting dilemma” (where you vote for the lesser of evils so the greater evil doesn’t win). Even with Ranked voting or IRV, you still put your “lesser of evils” choice higher than the choices you might actually prefer.
Approval Voting (approvalvoting.org) solves this completely. The voter simply votes Yes or No for each candidate on the ballot. Some excellent examples to show you how this works are the Clinton, Perot, Bush Sr. election in 1992 and the Gore, Nader, Bush Jr. election in 2000.
So for 1992 this is how it breaks down:
1. A Democrat who is partially clued in says to self “I don’t want evil Bush Sr. to win, so I’m going to vote Yes for less evil Clinton. But I really do like Perot, so I’m going to vote Yes for him too.” It goes without saying that Bush gets a No vote.
2. The Republican voter who is partially clued in says to self “I don’t want evil Clinton to win, so I’m going to vote Yes for less evil Bush Sr. But I really do like Perot, so I’m going to vote Yes for him too.” Clinton of course gets a No vote.
3. The intelligent voter who is more highly clued in says to self “I refuse to vote for the lesser of evils so I will vote only for Perot.”
The final tally is Perot with 3 votes and Bush & Clinton with just 1 vote each. Perot wins in a landslide. If you remember, even though Perot dropped out (due to threats against his family), he still took an incredible 19% of the vote.
In the 2000 election, Nader would have given Gore and Bush Jr a run for their money without anyone being able to accuse a Nader voter such as myself of costing Gore the election.
Ranked voting and IVR get you closer to this, but people still fear to put their real choice in the top spot. Approval Voting solves this by not having a top spot, just Yes or No for each candidate.
The only way to screw it up is to vote yes for EVERY candidate or to vote no for every candidate. That’s not the kind of mistake that one really has to worry about.
The logical simplicity of approval voting is precisely why they would never allow it…a bit too democratic for the ruling bankster elite.
@ GRP,
When I look at my family, I can't find two single voices, singing in unity.
Therefore, the US needs a variety of parties, each reflecting their particular niche.
This smorgasbord of political shenanigans ensures a broader acceptance of various voices, all gunning for the ultimate victory.
On a personal note: I only voted once [when I turned 18]. Never again. Nobody represents me, but myself. I can [and will] be held accountable for all my acts.
Thank you for a timely and important comment, Golden Rule Please. One knows damn well that when a simple process is intentionally made complex for the masses, something is terribly wrong, corrupt and corrupting. Not only are we time and time again blighted with despicable and criminal candidates, but our democracy too has been stuffed into a box and buried in the walls of a basement. These are the very two reasons why I do not vote. I refuse to participate in an unjust game of mass deceit conjured to benefit only a group of mercenary and miserly billionaires suffering from pathological immorality.
Robert Fisk passed away yesterday (R.I.P.). Even though his articles became somewhat diluted in his later years, and he didn't really write much these past few years either, his archive of articles before that did a service to Western inquiring-minds. Here I give kudos and respect to a journalist who remained independent throughout his career. His strength in reporting on mideast affairs is that he took the time to actually learn the Arabic language and thus had direct access to factual information, nuances and all.
Robert Fisk, veteran Middle East correspondent, dies aged 74
I don't expect the UK to produce another journalist like him in my lifetime. He's probably the last of a dying breed in that jew-centric damp hellhole of an island.
Hello Taxi. Second attempt after the first froze up my phone.
How nice for you to have Linh around.
I have a dissenting view of Robert Fisk. Several years after 9/11 by which time Chris Bollyn and others had done a lot of heavy lifting and delineated the clear outlines of the crime, Fisk was still writing of Osama as a perpetrator. When challenged, he had nothing to say. He knew Arabic and he did his homework. A thorough professional. Only that profession was not journalism. Think of State Department arabists. He was cultured and not a bad sort, but it's hard to judge if he did more harm than good. He wrote slyly about Osama, pointing out his personal acquaintance with him and implying that he was obviously behind the assassination of Ahmed Shah Masoud. That was an impetial lie. Osama was no saint, but he was an Islamist who had made common cause with the CIA, and at the time of 9/11 he was doing nasty work against China in Sinkiang. Osama said it plainly. 9/11 was the work of Jews, running a state within a state in America. MI-6 is more of the same. Robert Fisk seems to have been part of that setup, and speaking Arabic and being sensitive and cultured was part of what he brought to the job.
Thanks, dear Sarz. I actually agree with you and remember the incident you refer to very well and was surprised, disappointed and utterly turned off by Fisk at the time. After this weird journalistic episode of his that stained his reputation in my mind, he did go very quiet for a long time, only to re-emerge earlier this year with an important and crucial investigative article on who’s behind the chem attacks in Syria and pointed squarely at the right ISISian culprits and their paymasters and thus redeemed himself again in my eyes.
If one is to be fair-minded and place on a scale the good and bad of Fisk’s total journalistic career (his whole life, really), the good by far outweighs the bad.
Fair enough. Truth heroes are so rare these days that we have to be grateful for those, like the vicar's egg, that are good in spots. Luckily we know the species is not extinct, because there is a warm and breathing one staying with you these days.
Thanks, sarz, and yes indeed I do have a “warm and breathing one staying” with me – wish you were here with us too.
RIP Robert Fisk
Definitely one of the good ones
I had the pleasure of communicating with him some time ago when he was almost the only journalist we had that was brave enough to try and get the truth out there. He took loads of personal risks and lived through some of the most turbulent times in Lebanon. He was a great writer, author and journalist and his persistence in telling the truth, against the mainstream narrative forced him further out to the fringes in his later years. That's the fate of any journalist who refuses to toe the mainstream-jew line
Another good bloke gone
Hey y'all, a couple of election 11th hour headlines for you:
America’s Future Might Be Lebanon
Does the Presidential Election Matter?
Good luck America, the fuck you're gonna need it!
Are you bracing yourselves today, this day, this voting day? My deep sympathies, my dear Americans. You are today forced to pick between Dumb and Dumber. You have no other choice and you will never be offered an alternative. Whoever wins, you'll do your best to help yourself out of the rut, and the winner will do their worst to help themselves off your back.
So let's go roll the voting dice, voter!
Good luck and good grief, America!
New article from Elijah, this time on Hizballah.
Israel’s "Lethal Arrow" military exercise anticipates Hezbollah will its cross-borders
By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
After a week of military manoeuvres, Israel revealed that its main military objective was focused on the northern front to confront the possibility of Hezbollah "Radwan" special forces advancing into Israeli settlements adjacent to the border. During these manoeuvres, messages were exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah that only the two sides understand. What were these indirect "messages" between the two sworn foes?
In these large-scale exercises, Israel has acknowledged, for the first time, a new reality which is a source of real concern. A "Radwan” Special Forces attack taking control of Israeli border settlements is indeed a high probability. This shows that Israel has been closely tracking Hezbollah’s capabilities and the performance and organisation of its special forces during the nine years of the Syrian war.
It is not a coincidence that the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah agreed to broadcast episodes on local TV showing how his men fought in the rugged mountains bordering Lebanon and Syria, and the recapture of the city of Qusayr and the region of Qalamoun between 2013 and 2017. In Syria, Hezbollah revealed its use of armed drones, its experience in urban and highland warfare, its capability to reconnoitre inside enemy territory, the military academic study of military operations (strategy and tactics), the live follow-up of the forces' progress through giant screens inside Hezbollah's operations rooms, and its capability to liberate territories over ten times bigger than the entire Lebanese territory.
Sayyed Nasrallah wanted to limit the sharing of warfare experience accumulated by his group and deliberately did not reveal the numerous night attacks and the great night ambushes Hezbollah carried out during the war in Syria. Hezbollah did not, therefore, share all the capabilities it possesses, information to be revealed only in the event of a future war with Israel. Sayyed Nasrallah’s message was also directed at those Lebanese groups, if any, contemplating the possibility of an internal civil war. Sufficient information was conveyed so that Tel Aviv could understand that future action will not be a picnic for the Israeli army.
Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi spoke about other objectives in the military manoeuvres. The Israeli media revealed the creation of a new Israeli Division 99 and the multi-dimensional “Ghost Unit” to counter Hezbollah. In reality, these units have been formed only to face a new force Hezbollah deployed along its borders, a mixed force of “Radwan” and other specialised (attacking rather than defensive) forces that were deployed during this current year along the Lebanese borders following a 16-month training on “Israeli settlement attacks” and the coordination of several different forces. Hezbollah has deliberately shown this new deployment, which is its way of reducing the spectre of war with an indirect message, as if to say to its opponent: "See what we have in terms of forces and capabilities, you should think carefully before embarking on a new adventure against Lebanon."
The Israeli army said that its ground forces will not be effectively ready to defend the settlements- and thus be able to face Hezbollah’s new force and be in position- before 2022. This Israeli readiness needs to include the ability to circumvent, isolate, prevent expansion, purify, besiege and eliminate the attacking troops in places where breaking through the borders and controlling a village or more villages nearby is likely.
Consequently, from the type of Israeli military exercises it is engaged in, there is little doubt Israel is convinced for the first time that the next war will not be limited to Lebanese territory; that its own borders will be violated; and that offensive combat forces will enter settlements and homes and clash with Israeli troops.
This is a chess game in which Israel relies primarily on the air force to pave the way for the ground forces and eliminate enemy targets, to paralyse their capabilities and send drones (that will represent the backbone of the next war) carrying multi-functional missiles targeted against armoured vehicles and personnel. On the other side, Hezbollah has prepared measures to protect supply routes, search for gaps, and present alternative plans during the separation process and to secure withdrawal when crossing the borders and controlling settlements.
Moreover, in its developing hypothesis of a new war with Hezbollah, Israel believes that all its airfields will be bombed with precision missiles. Therefore, it is trying to get from the US a few squadrons of the new generation F-35B jets that do not need long runways, so as to maintain military superiority in the Middle East.
Hezbollah is also trying to find a new equation to confront Israel in the next war – which no one wants to take place, but both are preparing for as if it could take place tomorrow – by creating underground shelters and new warfare technology to compensate for the enemy's air superiority. The surprises of the 2006 war were essential in neutralising the Israeli navy (the bombing of the Israeli battleship Sa'ar-5 off the coast of Beirut by a C-802 missile), and the armoured corps (the Kornet laser missiles in Wadi al-Hajeer). Consequently, it cannot be known what surprises those trained during the "Lethal Arrow" exercise are “expected” to encounter.
Thanks Canthama. I read it last night – I don’t know why but Elijah sent it to my email – I guess it’s his way of saying ‘sorry’ to me? Ooof who gives a fuck.
We’ve known for a long time that the idf is already in the shithole and Hezbollah’s hand is on the flusher.
The US election results are sucking the oxygen out of mideast TV. Every mideast TV news station has special election decorations in their studios and they're covering extensively. It's election madness over here! Unz Review is piling up with election articles too – here's some:
Israel Wins U.S. Election
The Last White Man
Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi: Media as Propaganda and Censorship Bureau: the Jewish Angle
Our friend at Xymphora's got much to say about the vote counting and many links on the knife-edge election here:
Xymphora
The UK Labour party suspends Jeremy Corbyn for exaggerating the numbers of Anti Semites in the party
The number of members expelled from the Labour party in 20018 was 10
The number of Labour party members expelled in 2019 was 45.
https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/13434_20-Statistics-Report-No-Place-For-Antisemitism.pdf
The total membership around this time was approx 550,000.
This works out at 0.0001% of the total membership. Jeremy Corbyn said the accusations were exaggerated and Angela Rayner [Starmers Deputy] agreed with him and told BBC’s Newsnight she agreed with him… “I believe that the statement around the small numbers and to suggest that it is a small number in the Labour party WHILST THAT MAY BE TRUE is completely unacceptable to not understand the hurt and the distr END. https://skwawkbox.org/2020/10/31/video-rayner-admits-what-corbyn-said-was-true-but-it-was-unacceptable/ Telling the truth in the Labour party is now an expellable offence.
Corbyn suspended, Rayner not. You could not make this up.
UK jews have thoroughly chewed up and swallowed whole the Labor party, bones, flesh, sinews and all. I think the current labor party should now be called the Jewbor party and a new workers’ political party should be formed and called Fuckoffouttamyfacejew party.
Sad state of affairs, indeed. And here I have to say that but for Corbyn’s cowardice/niceties, non of this would be happening. The jews perpetually dine on pacifists, be they left, right or center and do so every day. Youngsters thinking of entering politics should know this about jewish power before dipping their toe in the murky waters of politics.
I did of course mean Labour Party suspends Jeremy Corbyn for saying the MSM and Labour party enemies have been exaggerating the amount of Anti Semitism in the Labour party.
The very term "anti-semitism" is totally misleading. It is a semantic trap, much like the "Patriot Act", which is actually the Patriot SUPPRESSION Act. The majority of today's Jews are NOT Semites–at least this is the case in North America,where most of them are of Khazarian descent. The falsity of the term is most egregious because the Palestinian people ARE Semites.
Maybe this could be turned on its head, where Palestinians and various Arabs are always referred to as Semites and most American Jews described as blended Indo-European Caucasians blended with Turco-Ugrian strains. Now that would be a left-handed curveball.
Thanks Majority of One. Yeah they’ve stolen the word ‘semite’ as well. It’s like my Leb friend keeps saying with gusto, “I am an antisemite semite!”
Syria's Assad says billions locked in troubled Lebanese banks behind economic crisis. He said anywhere from $20 billion to $42 billion of Syrian deposits could have been lost in the once vibrant banking sector that held over $170 billion in foreign currency deposits.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/syrias-assad-says-billions-locked-in-troubled-lebanese-banks-behind-economic-crisis/ar-BB1aHqL8
Thanks, Mike. Yeah I caught this bit of news yesterday too, and actually even a year ago this news item was circulating, just not out of Bashar’s mouth. Worth mentioning here that many Emirati accounts in Leb banks emptied out in unison a mere few days before the dollar crisis in Lebanon manifested. It’s estimated that some $20 billion vanished literally overnight from Lebanon, thus precipitating the dollar crisis.
DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran. Wednesday’s announcement followed the seizure of 92 domains in October that the DOJ also claimed were operated by Iran. DOJ and the FBI collaboration with Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
(Perhaps the SyrPer site also caught in this web, as Twitter accounts and others transmit info with reference there to. Bottom line > former trustworthy sources drying up, thereby drowning voices RE the Leb, Syria, etc. Mike).
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/11/04/doj-seizes-27-domains-claims-they-are-controlled-by-iran/
Dear readers, I hope you're all well and safe and remaining sane during the extended election count up. Accusations of 'cheating the vote count' by Trump are running wild and the truth is that BOTH sides cheat during elections, and it was always forever thus – at least during my lifetime.
I have a new article that I've been sitting on for a couple of weeks now – nothing to do with the US elections, and I'm just waiting for the freaking election headline's circus to die down before publishing it so it does not get drowned out by the topic du jour. God knows how long this will take – a few days, a few weeks? The longer it takes, the more likelihood of post-results bigly violence, I anticipate.
Brace yourself, America. And brace yourself, dear world.
Welcome president Kamala Harris!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/correia-fkery-afoot
Taxi, cheating is par for the course but what the Rothschilds have pulled off here is a never-before-seen level of transcendental fuckery.
Thanks, sarz. The Unz newsstand today is full of election-cheating articles:
Evidence Mounts of a Stolen Election
First Thoughts on the Election
You’re Next! If Biden/ Harris Win, A Crackdown On Whites Is Coming
So many thieves in such a small den.
Sarz, I don’t get why Trump and his people aren’t presenting their evidence of Dem cheating before Americans and before the world. It’s not enough that Trump takes the podium and talks about it WITHOUT presenting evidence. Republican supporters are presenting evidence all over the internet, but not the leadership. Why the fuck not? I don’t get it.
And no, the loathsome Eric Trump doesn’t count as official leadership member.
Taxi, I do agree the Labour party is not fit for purpose and whilst I think Corbyn was/is a nice guy he simply could not stand up to the ruthless Zionists all around him including in his own party, in short he lacked the backbone to take on ‘the enemy’.
Hope you can find time to read this article by your neighbour the excellent Jonathan Cook who lives in Nazareth. He sets out the Labour party failings in response to the EHRC report https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2020-11-05/equalities-commission-labour-antisemitism/
Thanks, Harry. Really good investigative report by Jonathan Cook. The jewish motto is not just your straight forward 'divide and rule', it's: divide, destroy, and rule.
I'm surprised at the level of passivity of the British people – I really am. I mean I can understand their politicians eating jew shit, you know, for shekels and all, but to see the Brit masses for instance rejecting European rule (Brexit) yet lying down en mass without a pip-squeak for the odious jews who literally give them nothing but just steal and steal from them – steal even their liberty?
Shame, shame, shame.
I read earlier (in one of the US links I shared today, can't remember which one now) how jewish power now supports 'minorities' over the working class. This is clearly true, as the destruction of traditional Labor by British jewry clearly demonstrates. I hope the working class wake up to this animosity directed at them by elitist jewish power. And I hope the 'minorities' wake up to abusive and racist jewish power that is merely using their backs and shoulders to ride on and not to protect.
Am I hoping for too much? Yap!
Some Leb updates:
Pompeo yesterday announced that the US is now sanctioning Gebran Bassil, Leb's ex FM, leader of the christian majority party (Free Patriotic Party), son-in-law of president Aoun, and a major christian supporter of Hezbollah. Bassil is now banned from entering the US and his assets there are now frozen. The State Department is accusing him of "corruption and links to terrorism". Bassil response was defiant:
This decision by the USA spits in the face of Macron's 'rescue plan for Lebanon' and forces Christian Lebs thus to turn further away from France's incompetence and from the West in general. This is a good thing: a positive miscalculation on behalf of the US, in my opinion. Now more Christian Lebs will be looking Eastwards for assistance, rendering American influence in Beirut weaker overnight.
And the Nakoura marine borders discussions are heating up right now, in anticipation of the next meeting on the 11th November. Israel is incensed and saying that the 'Green Line' presented by the Leb negotiators is unacceptable as it cuts into two of their marine gas fields. Heh! Well incense away motherfucking jews – the Lebs will NOT BUDGE! I anticipate a non-productive meeting between the two sides this coming Nov 11th.
Meanwhile, israel is fast attempting to turn the next local war against it into a regional one, in the hope of escaping the wrath of the Resistance by creating more Arab-on-Arab wars. Dream on jew cowards, dream on. It doesn't matter if the coming war is local or regional: israel will be the foremost focal point of attack by ALL resistance groups come the day. NOTHING can distract the Resistance from annihilating israel and liberating Palestine in the next war.
I've been watching election coverage in English and in Arabic. I've tuned into the Fox's, the MSNBC's and the CBS's etc as well as several Emirati and Lebanese stations carrying up to date coverage and analysis. I can tell you that soooo much partisan garbage is being disseminated by the US's pseudo-punditry, and Emirati stations are covering it at HUGE expense with excessive flamboyant flare like its the Superbowl of frigging camel racing. The Leb stations covering it are by far more modest and balanced AND the presenters there are easier on the eye for lack of Botox and pancake on their faces.
Nothing more repulsive than the face of a liar with copious botox and makeup on their face. Hurts the mind and simultaneously the eye. Yikes!
Bonjour et bonsoir y'all. I bet you're all buzzed up about the corpse of Biden being prez, no? LOL! It was a crazy race full of lunatics and thieves. You wanna know more? Then please join me here at my new article:
Congratulations President Kamala
See y'all at the other side (after I have my breakfast – yeah I wrote the new article on an empty stomach).
BTW I still have my other article that’s not to do with US elections waiting to be published. I’ll be doing this soon as the feverish election headlines somewhat die down in a week or so. But for now, let’s all meet at the above link for a virtual beer and chinwag.
"all that Israel cares about is finding someone else to face Hezbollah on the battlfield in its place"
I am bothered every time I see this unfair characterization of Israel that makes the IDF sound like a bunch of cowards. I always point out that the IDF were not properly prepared to fight Hezbollah: they had only been trained to confront those bellicose Palestinian women and children. The Hezbollah fighters are a tough lot. Also we don't hear of the debilitating long-term sequelae the IDF soldiers suffered from after their retreat from Lebanon: PTSD, irritable bowel syndrome and worse.
Speaking of Lebanon, I read a very nice article in Unz Review by Linh Dinh (an excellent writer whom you apparently know).
I know, I know: we all feel oh so sorry for the israeli army, right? I mean it’s not their fault they’re born cowards and liars and thieves. Their repulsive antigentilism is not their fault at all – it’s in their dna, according to them loony, ass-ugly chosenites. And we don’t hear about the idf’s ptsd and ibs because all israeli media is censored by the jewish military and their honchos do not want anything published that would undermine their already chickenshit, shitting-bricks, dumb army.
Oh yeah I’m hosting the great Linh Dinh while he’s in Lebanon – he’s been here for three weeks now. Haven’t seen much of him these last few days – he’s staying in my spare little cottage at the other end of my farm and I’ve been sleeping a lot these past several days. Am still sleepy today – kind of sad-sleepy – I will energize this morning and go get some food for the house then go back to sleep again. Might as well have a good sleep while hezbollah keeps guard and watch on them motherfucking satanic, humanity-hating jews.