Saturday, July 5, 2014

It’s 1914 All Over Again

29 comments:

Anonymous said...

If we had the good sense to select smart people, instead of just simply credentialed people born of elite families in Saint Lucia, we would not have had to worry about the inevitable short to medium term oil price rises. We would have long invested in renewable fuels for most if not all of our needs.

The people in Vieux Fort praised God for sending them a white man to represent them. See what that has saddled the rest of us with.

Our inferiority complex in Saint Lucia is too deep-seated to help us fashion a responsible and sustainable future.

With no vision, so says one book of philosophy, the people perish.

Anonymous said...

This talk of white men, as opposed to black men is pure garbage. Kenny Anthony is not a white man and neither is Allen Chastanet. If Kenny Anthony is a white man then so is Barack Obama! This nonsense must be stopped in the interest of the Nation. There is much work to be done to achieve our economic survival as a people, and this is what should absorb our energies.

Anonymous said...

Palestinians say initial autopsy findings show that murdered teenager Mohammed Abu Khudair was burned alive by Israeli settlers.

Mohammed’s body was found in a wooded area of the city on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a new video has emerged showing masked Israeli police brutally beating a Palestinian teenager in east al-Quds.

The 15-year old Palestinian-American has been identified as Tariq Abu Khdeir. He was denied medical treatment since he was arrested and taken into custody.

In the past few weeks, Tel Aviv has launched a violent crackdown on Palestinians, killing at least 12 of them and detaining many others.

Much of the international community remained silent as Israel continued its crackdown against Palestinians.

Palestinians are furious not only at the Tel Aviv regime, but also its Western backers and their lopsided media coverage.

Son-of-man said...

The news cycles in the first decade of the 21st century were dominated by the military events in Iraq. Following 9/11 the US government quickly decided that the time had finally come to invade Iraq (and reap its commercial benefits), even though the initial response was directed at Afghanistan. As eloquently illustrated by the veteran journalist Bob Woodward, the real goal had always been the invasion of Iraq, with President George W. Bush meeting repeatedly with Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his war cabinet from December 2001 to plan the US attack on Iraq.

Finally, Bush unleashed his campaign of "Shock & Awe" on 19 March 2003 and the subsequent invasion of the lands of Mesopotamia was completed on May, 1, when the US President announced that the mission had been completed. It’s hard to forget the iconic image of Bush, Jr., standing in front of a large banner displaying the words "Mission Accomplished" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. Unashamed and full of bluster, from the podium Bush, Jr. proclaimed that “[m]ajor combat operations in Iraq have ended”, adding that “[i]n the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”

Son-of-man said...

In 2006 the fragmentation of Iraq even led then Senator and now Vice President Joseph Biden (D-Del) to pen a rather prescient op-ed in the New York Times. Biden's piece effectively suggested the establishment of “three largely autonomous regions with a viable central government in Baghdad. The Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions would each be responsible for their own domestic laws, administration and internal security. The central government would control border defence.

A first step in that direction had already been taken by the establishment of a no-fly zone in northern Iraq following the completion of Operation Desert Storm (1991). Following the 2003 invasion and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the no-fly zone ceased to exist and became officially known as the KRG or the Kurdistan Regional Government. This de-facto independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq has since then been at pains to establish good relations with its northern neighbor. While Turkey, for its part, appears to have been equally willing to treat the KRG on equal terms, given Turkey's own restive Kurdish population (and the ongoing conflict with the terrorist PKK) and the KRG's hydrocarbon reserves that constitute an attractive incentive for maintaining friendly relations and good business partnerships.

Son-of-man said...

With the advent of Ramadan this year, the ISIS, simultaneously active in Syria and Iraq, officially announced the arguably partial achievement of their goal even holding "a parade in Syria’s northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic 'caliphate' after the group captured territory in neighboring Iraq," as reported by Reuters. The ISIS is said to have renamed itself into the Islamic State. Even though the report explains that Baghdadi has now been elevated to the position of "head of the state", the use of the term 'Caliph' really implies much wider aspirations. The Arabic term 'Khalifah' (transcribed into English as Caliph) literally denotes 'deputy' or 'successor', and in the context of a 'Khilafat' or Caliphate (as transcribed into English) refers to the succession of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam and the first ruler of the 'Ummah' or Community of Believers. Hence, the "hardline Sunni Muslim group" formerly known as ISIS in the West has now performed a cunning public relations exercise that at the same time is a threat to the legitimacy of the rulers of any state containing a Muslim population as well as an open invitation to anyone claiming to be a Muslim, as any believer should feel compelled to serve the 'Caliph', who is the 'Leader of the Believers' as the "Shadow of God on Earth'. And, in a very post-modern twist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi even assumed his own caliphal name as the "Caliph Ibrahim"

The dismantling of Iraq into three separate entities would create a precedent that could very well also engulf the populations of the region. The Islamic State's recent appearance on the Iraqi scene directly endangers the KRG, as a quasi-autonomous Kurdish entity on Turkey's borders. Even though, the KRG has been able to profit from the recent turmoil, adding more ground to its territory, but given that military gains and losses are seldom set in stone, the eventual outcome of the Islamic State's onslaught is still open to drastic and dramatic changes, reversals, setbacks and victories. At the moment, for instance, the Islamic State is battling its erstwhile Syrian ally the Nusra Front for control of the city of Abu Kamal on Syria's eastern border with Iraq. The Coventry-based one-man Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the fighting has been escalating now for nearly a week. The border town is located in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, which happens to be a region rich in oil, and thus one can see that even terrorist groups do not shy away from engaging in resource wars.

Anonymous said...

The Middle East is made up people who are implacable. It is part of their DNA and religion to offer sacrifices of themselves, of Jesus Christ and the Christian God for example, and of animals, the sacrificial lamb that most know about, and of their enemies.

Savages seem to have an edge on humanism.

How do you destroy this culturally insatiable idea and need for sacrifice and revenge? It is a shared belief and value system. That is a most fundamental question that most Middle East negotiators and honest brokers have tip-toed around.

Every attempt at reconciliation is deliberately sabotaged by one side or another. No side wants to see the bloodletting end. This is deeply cultural. They lose part of themselves and their being if they should stop. There is no other purpose to life other than to kill, in parts of Afghanistan and in the Middle East.

I don't read the news about these subspecies. I turn off the news when it covers other episodes in the lives of the primates in that region.

Anonymous said...

The hanging gardens of Mess-up-to- mania

The worlds first paid standing army- The warrior is now a soldier.

King Nebu....(pardon abbreviated spell) like Egypt's Pharoh holds thousands of Jews in exile.

No forests , lots of sand.
fresh water in very narrow valleys

Always the best hashish to block or convert obtuse behaviors into the acceptable dogma of the day.

As the Saracen King Salladin sits regal on his finest cool white Arabian charger (yup, the same type that stole Ben Hur's equestrian heart), ready to let fly his steely eyed falcon to talon the rabbit on the run; he smiles appreciably, as he checklists his falconry skills. He is assured that that it is fitting preparation for any decimation he launches under the religiously sanctioned term of "Holy Jihad"

Holy smokes! that was no Frankincense
- Just ask a Knight Templar from any Crusade.

Son-of-man said...

Yea 2:29

Like the Great African Pyramids these hanging Gardens are bequeathed to a world known for blowing humans to elements with Atomic bombs, and Drones, and suicide vests, are still considered Wonders of the World.

The Islamic State has now declared that nearly a century after the end of the Great War (better-known as World War I, 1914-18) and the application of the Sykes-Picot agreement (1916), dividing the territories of the erstwhile Ottoman Empire(Islamic Khalifate) among the victors, a new world order has been established, or rather re-established. The Islamic State is bent on unmaking the results of the Sykes-Picot agreement and redraw the map of the Middle East.

While you comfortably sit in the front row of this remaking of the World Enjoy this from Bob.

War - Bob Marley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XHEPoMNP0I



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Son-of-man said...

2:29

Quote, "No forests , lots of sand.
fresh water in very narrow valleys"

Do you suffer from a vision problem, like Short Sightedness, Near Sightedness, to see only those things you mentioned, completely missing the 800 lb. Gorilla; OIL??

Turkey, the direct successor to the Ottoman Empire in the region, is famously the one local without any substantial oil fields in its possession. The fact that the Ottoman province of Mosul (originally part of Baghdad province, the area was given provincial status in 1878) was excluded from the territories held by Ankara in the Lausanne Treaty and assigned to the British Protectorate of Iraq has always been a source of great frustration on the Turkish side. But now, the AKP-led Turkish government has been establishing friendly ties with the KRG in northern Iraq, as a way of accessing oil wells beyond its borders. The oil trade between Ankara and Erbil has been going strong now for a while, much to the chagrin of the central government in Baghdad however. As such, Turkey has used its business relationship with the KRG to construct its own section of "Pipelineistan" in western Asia.

Now that ISIS in cooperation with erstwhile Saddam loyalists, Sunni militias, and innumerable foreign fighters from across the world, is in the process of effectively Balkanizing the state of Iraq, the ties between Turkey and the KRG appear as crucial as ever. Particularly now that the Islamic State has gotten hold of Syrian territory actually bordering Turkey, in the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, facing the Turkish Akçakale in the province of Urfa.

Even though the Islamic State has now brought the intra-Islamic Cold War between Sunni and Shi'a Islam to the forefront of global attention, underneath this ideological rhetoric and behind the bloody fighting resides the true prize of the vast hydrocarbon wealth hidden underneath the sand of the Middle East.

The sudden appearance of ISIS has also disrupted the recently revived and augmented oil trade between Ankara and Erbil. This "messy Iraqi Kurdistan/Turkey energy love affair" had just started to bear fruits when Mosul fell.

Now that the ISIS in cooperation with erstwhile Saddam loyalists, Sunni militias, and innumerable foreign fighters from across the world, is in the process of effectively Balkanizing the state of Iraq, the ties between Turkey and the KRG appear as crucial as ever.

Son-of-man said...

Surah Al-Baqara

And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: "Verily, I am going to place (Khalifah/mankind) generations after generations on earth." They said: "Will You place therein those who will make mischief therein and shed blood, - while we glorify You with praises and thanks and sanctify You." He (Allâh) said: "I know that which you do not know." (30)

And He taught Adam all the names (of everything) [], then He showed them to the angels and said, "Tell Me the names of these if you are truthful." (31)

They (angels) said: "Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what you have taught us. Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise." (32)

He said: "O Adam! Inform them of their names," and when he had informed them of their names, He said: "Did I not tell you that I know the Ghaib (unseen) in the heavens and the earth, and I know what you reveal and what you have been concealing?" (33) And (remember) when We said to the angels: "Prostrate yourselves before Adam.". And they prostrated except Iblîs (Satan), he refused and was proud and was one of the disbelievers (disobedient to Allâh) (34)

And We said: "O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and eat both of you freely with pleasure and delight, of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near this tree or you both will be of the Zâlimûn (wrong-doers)." (35)

Then the Shaitân (Satan) made them slip therefrom (the Paradise), and got them out from that in which they were. We said: "Get you down, all, with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be a dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for a time." (36)

Then Adam received from his Lord Words []. And his Lord pardoned him (accepted his repentance). Verily, He is the One Who forgives (accepts repentance), the Most Merciful (37) We said: "Get down all of you from this place (the Paradise), then whenever there comes to you Guidance from Me, and whoever follows My Guidance, there shall be no fear on them, nor shall they grieve (38)

Anonymous said...

Just some misplaced satire to solicit your eminent take on the current situation.

A deliberate bypass of the Fossilized gorilla and you remain in top form with your facts.

Your analysis (despite the expected religious slant) is verified by traditional sources.

Pardon my japanese chuckle: Its a coping mechanism for dealing with major world events that have the potential to impact activities of dail living.

I am actually looking forward to your take on the unfolding scenario -minus the glib satire.



Anonymous said...

Since we have completely no control over any of the groups of retards and degenerates in that part of the world, I couldn't care less if they roast each other on a daily basis as supper. What they do is not any of my business.
In terms of their impact on energy prices, we are price takers like most energy importers around the globe. This should always remain our utmost and primary concern, as always. In life, it is not what happens to you that is key. It is what you do in response that really counts.

Anonymous said...

ISRAELIS TERRORIZE CIVILIANS IN THE LAND OCCUPIED BY THE SETTLERS. DROPPING 2000-POUND BOMBS FROM JETS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLING AND WOUNDING THOUSANDS, AND THE WORLD IS SILENT.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEPUBou3wso




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Anonymous said...

What do you have pleasure in reporting here? Beasts killing other beasts. Retards!

Anonymous said...

“Zionist racism, like Nazi racism, is virulent to the point of being genocidal…. Just as the Nazis dedicated themselves to building an ever-expanding Reich free of the taint of lesser races, the Zionists are likewise bent on ethnically cleansing an ever larger slice of Palestine,” Kevin Barrett wrote in a column for the Press TV website.

The analyst’s comment comes as more than 16 Palestinians, including two children, are reported to have been killed and 80 others injured in a fresh spate of air attacks by the Israeli regime on the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Barrett said the Israeli regime’s continued air strikes against the Palestinians are reminiscent of “Nazi-style behavior.”

“Zionism and Nazism have something else in common: racial superiority,” he wrote.

The analyst added that Nazis and Zionists both believe themselves a “master race” or “chosen people.”

“The Nazis looked down on Jews, gypsies, Slavs, Arabs and Africans in exactly the same way that Zionists look down on Arabs (and goyim in general) today,” wrote Barrett

He described the Zionists as “new Nazis” seeking to trigger a “total war” in the world.

The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.

Anonymous said...

Palestine: It's déjà vu all over again

As with Apartheid in South Africa and now in Israel the USA is on the wrong side of history supporting white settlers occupying land stolen from indigenous people. The State of Israel was built on land that had been populated by Palestinians as well as a small minority of Jews. This land was given to Zionists by Britain and the UN. No one asked the Palestinians what they thought of sharing their land, or what they would think of being ethnic cleansed and murdered in the process of building the new Jewish state. Palestinians are oppressed, tortured and murdered, with the help of US tax dollars and US diplomatic cover. They cannot return to their native land, and have been living in refugee camps for nearly 60 years. A state that discriminates against some of its citizens as part of its legal structure, is an apartheid state. Apartheid is illegal under international law. The Zionist law allowing Jewish right of return while not allowing the Palestinian right of return is one of the most basic principles of Israel-- it is also obviously an apartheid law. There are many more Israeli laws that are discriminatory. Israel has imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, and has tortured many of these prisoners. Gaza is suffering from ongoing Israeli attacks and closure. It is known as the largest open air prison in the world. People there are not only victimized, they cannot even leave if they want to -- a spectacle of cruelty continuing for years. We are supporting this genocide with our tax dollars. The Israeli lobby is deforming the US political system. Some people have gone so far as to call Israel the 51st state.

Thanks Amy Hendrickson

Anonymous said...

From the moment three Israeli teens were reported missing last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s military-intelligence apparatus suppressed the flow of information to the general public. Through a toxic blend of propaganda, subterfuge and incitement, they inflamed a precarious situation, manipulating Israelis into supporting their agenda until they made an utterly avoidable nightmare inevitable.

Israeli police, intelligence officials and Netanyahu knew within hours of the kidnapping and murder of the three teens that they had been killed. And they knew who the prime suspects were less than a day after the kidnapping was reported.

Rather than reveal these details to the public, Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency imposed a gag order on the national media, barring news outlets from reporting that the teens had almost certainly been killed, and forbidding them from revealing the identities of their suspected killers. The Shin Bet even lied to the parents of the kidnapped teens, deceiving them into believing their sons were alive.

Instead of mounting a limited action to capture the suspected perpetrators and retrieve the teens’ bodies, Netanyahu staged an aggressive international public relations campaign, demanding sympathy and outrage from world leaders, who were also given the impression that the missing teens were still alive.

Meanwhile, Israel’s armed forces rampaged throughout the occupied West Bank and bombarded the Gaza Strip in a campaign of collective punishment deceptively marketed to Israelis and the world as a rescue mission.

Anonymous said...

Critical details that were known all along by Netanyahu and the military-intelligence apparatus were relayed to the Israeli public only after the abduction of more than 560 Palestinians, including at least 200 still held without charges; after the raiding of Palestinian universities and ransacking of countless homes; after six Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli forces; after American-trained Palestinian Authority police assisted Israeli soldiers attacking Palestinian youths in the center of Ramallah; after the alleged theft by Israeli troops of $3 million in US dollars; and after Israel’s international public relations extravaganza had run its course.

The assault on the West Bank arrived on the heels of the collapse of the US-led framework negotiations, for which the US blamed Netanyahu, and immediately after Hamas’ ratification of a unity deal with the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu was still smarting from the US recognition of the unity government when news of the kidnapping reached him. Never one to miss an opportunity to undermine the Palestinians, he and his inner circle resolved to milk the kidnapping for maximum propaganda value.

Weeks after the incident, it is now clear that the Israeli government, intelligence services and army engaged in a cover-up to provide themselves with the political space they required for a military campaign that had little to do with rescuing any kidnapped teens.

The disinformation campaign they waged sent a heavily indoctrinated, comprehensively militarized population into a tribalistic frenzy, provoking a wave of high-level incitement, the shocking revenge killing of an innocent Palestinian teen and rioting across East Jerusalem.

Where the chaos will end and how far it will spread is unknown. But its origins are increasingly clear.

Anonymous said...

It will not end. These subspecies live to kill, themselves and one another. They love to see the spilling of blood as sacrifice.
Today they beat themselves with chains and draw blood. This bizarre practice draws them closer to the figment of their imaginations, in other words to their god. If the world winds up with fewer of such with their continuous mayhem, it would turn out to be most definitely, a much better place.

Anonymous said...

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses an imminent threat not only to the Middle East but also to the United States as well as to Europe.

"This is a force that is sophisticated. It's dynamic, it's strong, it's organized, it's well-financed, it's competent, [ISIL]. And it is a threat to our allies all over the Middle East. It's a threat to Europe. It's a threat to every stabilized country on Earth, and it's a threat to us," he declared.

According to media reports, the Takfiri militants, who are wreaking havoc in Iraq, were trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012. The reports said that they were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the militants operating inside Syria.

Hagel added that the Pentagon was taking daily assessments from US troops deployed to Iraq, and the "finality of those assessments will be completed in the next few days."

Anonymous said...

The Chosen People - The People God Loves More than all others - The Master Race - The Israeli!!


Kills many Terrorist in clip below:



https://www.facebook.com/161399403976816/photos/a.161405333976223.33413.161399403976816/575104689272950/?type=1&theater



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Anonymous said...

In the current round of fighting between mighty Israel and the little Gaza Strip, Israeli airstrikes have killed 53 Palestinians.

The supposedly deadly little rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have killed or injured no Israelis, though they have done some property damage. In fact, those rockets have no guidance systems and very seldom hit anything, mostly landing in the desert.

Nevertheless, Reuters and other agencies (or their headline writers) routinely equate deadly Israeli airstrikes with sophisticated American fighter jets with small dumb rockets, some of them the sort of thing that could be made with an 8th grade chemistry set. And, of course, Palestinian lives are cheap and their 53 dead and (150) wounded don’t count. That no Israelis have been killed is not mentioned because it would interfere with the narrative of violent Palestinians and victimized Israelis (it is mostly the other way around).

Anonymous said...

The fewer left on both sides the better.

Anonymous said...

Did Natanyahu ordered the kidnaping of the three Israelis by Arab spies?...something is not right here; the victims making phone calls?

Anonymous said...

xe]. It was written by Jagger, Mick / Richards, Keith.

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Anonymous said...

Death to Neanderthals! The more that are killed in the Middle East the better the earth becomes.

Anonymous said...

July 11, 2014 at 1:24 PM, you are obviously a sick, uneducated, and primitive psychopath, with an inferiority complex that your bitch and litter must be tormented daily by your demented invectives. Just what kind of depraved mutant are you, always calling other human beings primates and subspecies.

Wonder what you call your bitch, mother and daughters while you sodomize them in your sick domain? You should be capable of instructing us what the primates in your galvanized corrugated-iron shack, sleeping with the pigs, roaches, bedbugs, fleas and ticks, do for relief from your self-abasement and abuse, since you exhibit such familiarity with Gorillas and monkeys.

Anonymous said...

5:17, wow! Say what? You are that familiar with all of the above?
Hey! Is that is your social milieu? Good for you! Good for you! I would never have guessed :) You have achieved something way beyond most of us. You moronic POS!