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SYRIA
SUMMARY
UK MoD report disputed David Cameron lies
re 70,000 'moderate rebels'
--> “misleading”
MoD
OVERRULED @ meeting
--> Joint Intelligence C'ttee
incl. heads: MI6, MI5 & GCHQ
+ senior military & Foreign Office staff
Dodgy Dave's lies:
like Tony Blair’s “dodgy dossier” on #Iraq WMD
Cameron / British claim to:
Target Islamic State Oil Assets in #Syria
--> over 380 UK targets, in over 1yr
[Comment: bet they're Bullsh*t claims. Must have been targeting Assad for over a year, because ISIS went on selling oil to Turkey & whoever else is in on the finance-the-terrorists scheme to take down Syria]
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-joins-airstrikes-in-syria-against-isis-1449131829
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NOTE this is 2013 Article
WikiLeaks cables have since revealed 2006
Israel-US plan to take down Syria
Note also: oil reserves Golan Heights
SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines
SUMMARY
Scumbag Hollande - 2013
welcomed the UK air force strikes in #Syria
--> Syria intervention plan fuelled by oil interests
Backers of attack on Syria:
US, UK, Israel + France
- cooperation w/ Saudi Arabia
--> 2007 CIA anti-Syria ops {Seymour Hersh}
deploy: al-Qaeda
w/ US approval
Saudi Arabia bankroll + give logistical aid
to Sunni radicals
hostile to US & al-Qaeda linked
to attack #Syria
#Syria
Covert US political + financial support
-- via Saudi Arabia --
given to: exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
former French foreign minister Roland Dumas:
--> Britain planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009
Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas
stated on TV that: Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria --> in 2009
Syria
2011 uprisings
-- domestic energy shortages + climate-induced droughts
--> massive food price hikes
--> EXPLOITED
WikiLeaks Stratfor e-mails
--> CONFIRM US-UK training of Syria 'opposition' since 2011
to collapse ASSAD govt from within.
US General Wesley Clark
(Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000)
--> confirms serial conquest = strategy for control of region's vast oil & gas resources.
2008 US Army-funded RAND report:
--> industrialized states to continue to rely heavily on oil
--> oil production: Middle East
#Syria
proven oil reserves Persian Gulf
coincide w/ power base of
Salafi-jihadist network
oil supplies / linked w. 'long war'
Regional policy trajectories:
1. divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
2. exploit sustained Shia-Sunni Conflict
West policy (1)
divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
turn groups against each other
/ covert action, info ops
divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
discredit transnational jihadist in local eyes
divide & rule (salafists-jihadists)
support indigenous security forces / local allies
West policy (2)
exploit sustained Shia-Sunni conflict
--> side with: conservative Sunni regimes against Shiite empowerment
-> USA to shore up Sunni regimes in Saudi Arabia #Egypt & #Pakistan
-> to containing #Iran power in ME & Gulf
USA aware backing Sunni regimes
--> result: empowering al-Qaeda jihadists
BUT this to advantage of West.
Support Sunni & exploit:
bogging down jihadi activity w. internal sectarian rivalry
{rather than targeting US}
American Saudi Arabia allies Salafi-jihadist
--> afraid of upsurge in Shia identity
--> to want to target #IRAN vs #USA
Following vulnerable to internal destabilisation:
1) Saudi Arabia
2) Gulf States
3) Egypt
4) Syria
5) Iran
Internal destabilisation factors - multiple, converging:
a) rapid population growth
b) 'youth bulge'
c) internal economic inequalities
d) political frustrations
e) sectarian tensions
f) water shortages - environment
Syria
= pipeline geopolitics
/ Assad refused to sign Qatar pipeline deal 2009
re supply Europe via Syria
ie. bypassing Russia
Note that British plan for invasion Syria 2009
coincides w/ Assad refusal of Qatar pipeline deal
to supply gas to Europe
Nabucco pipeline
backed by
USA & European Union
parties:
Austria-UAE
Hungarian
Romania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Germany*
-------------------- ie
OMV - Austria-UAE
{Romania Turkey Hungary interests}
MOL - Hungarian
Transgaz - Romania
Bulgargaz - Bulgaria
BOTAS - Turkey
RWE - Germany, big / largest investor Egypt
-- 2015 sale oil & gas unit to:
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman
RWE operates: Europe, Middle East & Africa
RWE partnership w/ British & Netherlands
re Urenco Group uranium enrichment plants:
in Germany, Netherlands,USA & UK
-- supplies nuclear power stations in 15 countries
-- sale of depleted uranium tails
-- Russia owns radioactive waste
-- waste transported to Seversk
[wikipedia]
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Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
--> attempt to bribe Russia to dump Syria
w/ Saudi 'block of gas' to Europe assurances
Russia wasn't buying what assurances of the Saudi
/ stuck w. #Syria
Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan = slap in face of #Qatar
Putin refusal to take bait & sell out #Syria
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
vowed military action.
Saudi Arabia Intelligence Agency
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
director general: Saudi Intelligence Agency
2012 to 2014
--> supporters: Chechen terrorists
Bandar bin Sultan
confrontational re USA
--> Replaced by: Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
head Saudi intel
Muhammad bin Nayef
Head of Saudi Arabia Intelligence
--> escaped x4 assassination attempts
--> incl. rectum bomb { ... lol, always get a laugh out of that detail }
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ALSO pulling strings in Middle East oil-focused US policy in Syria:
aim: pliable Syria opposition
Writer concludes Assad is 'war criminal'
[comment:
--> but USA a pre-eminent war criminal & Ghouta was a false flag by USA-Gulf proxies.]
SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines
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SUMMARY
British Airstrikes on Syria
UK Tornado attack planes
deployed to: Akrotiri, Cyprus - first raid 3 Dec.
support: Voyager tanker + Reaper drone
variable payload
The Brimstone
automated anti-armour missile
for use re fast-moving platforms
first fielded #Afghanistan 2008
The Brimstone
light warhead - 9 kg / a range of 7.5 miles
--> can be used on fast jets, helicopters & UAVs
The Brimstone
laser-guided missiles
UK RAF weapons of choice
since #Libya in 2011
UK RAF Tornados - transit from Cyprus to #Iraq:
--> via Israel
--> via Jordan
--> Voyager tanker accompanies
British airstrikes covering #Iraq + #Syria
--> 10 Tornados
--> 9 Eurofighter Typhoon
reinforcement.
The Brimstone
automated anti-armour missile
for use re fast-moving platforms
first fielded #Afghanistan 2008
The Brimstone
light warhead - 9 kg / a range of 7.5 miles
--> can be used on fast jets, helicopters & UAVs
The Brimstone
laser-guided missiles
UK RAF weapons of choice
since #Libya in 2011
#Syria
UK RAF Tornados - transit from Cyprus to #Iraq:
--> via Israel
--> via Jordan
--> Voyager tanker accompanies
British airstrikes covering #Iraq + #Syria
--> 10 Tornados
--> 9 Eurofighter Typhoon
reinforcement.
http://theaviationist.com/2015/12/04/raf-tornados-first-air-strike-in-syria/
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AUDIO
Syria / Libya / Refugee Crisis / Turkey
Scott Bennett
former US Army officer
counter-terrorism analyst
'Impeach Obama' / 'Arrest Carter'
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COMMENT
Some of what I've enjoyed looking at today.
The stakeholders in the Nabucco pipeline gets complicated, once you start looking at the companies. eg. Austrian stakeholder itself has a United Arab Emirates stakeholder. So working out who's really who would take more time, patience and focus than I have. Above is just a rough, surface sketch re the companies.
The US military guy's audio was kind of cool. He's anticipating a Turkey military coup against Erdogan. I don't know if he might be a bit melodramatic there or not, as I'm not that knowledgeable or experienced. At this stage, it sounds good but far-fetched to me.
Key info re Syria (now superseded by further info indicating 2006 planned attack):
Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas
Britain planning covert invasion / attack on Assad
as early as 2009
WikiLeaks Stratfor e-mails
confirm US-UK training Syria 'opposition' since 2011
to collapse Assad from within
British attack
coincides w. Assad rejection of
Qatar pipeline deal 2009
in favour of Russian interests
NB Qatar pipeline deal 2009
benefits USA & European Union
US 4-Star General, General Wesley Clark (Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000) confirms a serial conquest strategy for region (7 countries).
NOTE ALSO:
Julian Assange: US & Israel Planned To Overthrow Assad In 2006
Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
By Kit O'Connell
@KitOConnell | September 14, 2015
LONDON — Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government as far back as 2006, several years before the start of the current crisis.
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The ongoing threat to his freedom hasn’t kept Assange from continuing his work revealing the dirty secrets of world governments. His latest revelations come in a Wednesday interview with RT in support of his new book, “The WikiLeaks Files,” published late last month.
The United States and its allies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Israel, have been frequently accused of contributing to the ongoing destabilization of Syria in the wake of the uprising and subsequent civil war which began in 2011. But according to cables from the WikiLeaks archive, discussed in the Syria chapter of Assange’s book, plans to deliberately destabilize the region go back at least five years further.
“In that chapter is a cable from US Ambassador William Roebuck, who was stationed in Damascus, which apparently discusses a plan for the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria,” RT reported.
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The cable also details plans to foster sectarian strife in the region and make Iran appear like a larger threat to Assad than it really was, Assange continued:
“In particular, to take rumors that are known to be false … or exaggerations and promote them – that Iran is trying to convert poor Sunnis, and to work with Saudi and Egypt to foster that perception in order to make it harder for Iran to have influence, and also harder for the government to have influence in the population.”
WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government, and show that the U.S. government intended to work with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt to encourage the breakdown of the Assad regime as a way of also weakening Iran and Hezbollah.
“[I]f Syria sufficiently destabilized, it might be in a position where it can keep the Golan Heights forever, or even advance that territory,” Assange said.
According to Assange, the cable illuminates how the current Syrian crisis reflects U.S. influence on the Middle East, particularly the ways it has used its allies to put pressure on the country. “Part of the problem in Syria is that you have a number of US allies surrounding it, principally Saudi and Qatar, that are funneling in weapons,” Assange noted, adding that it shows how the U.S. uses its over 100 army bases and network of embassies to further its imperialist interests.
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planned-to-overthrow-assad-in-2006/209493/
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As the article re the WikiLeaks cable indicates, the plan to take down Syria began even earlier than indicated by the former French Foreign Minister: it was outlined in 2006 US cables.
Israel could be a driving force in for US foreign policy in the Middle Eastern region. As in, the article states:
"WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government."
Maybe this has something to do with it:
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PS ...
Think I might simplify things too much. There's a combination of things going on. It's not just a single driving factor.
I'll probably never understand what's going on.
Just read some Forbes article on Russian billionaires having been bought out of Russia's Rosneft (state oil company), and it's a struggle to understand how anyone can have so much money and how the entire thing works, so what hope is there of understanding politics without understanding of the money men? lol
I'm really disheartened ... and I can't comprehend why anyone would spend $14 million on a frigging mammoth. Apparently, it's a gilded skeleton. Intended as a good deed for an AIDS charity. Just looked up the artist:
won the Turner Prize. New York public health officials banned Two Fucking and Two Watching featuring a rotting cow and bull, because of fears of "vomiting among the visitors" [here]
Well, now I'm sure I'll never understand anything on this planet. Who the f*ck considers a rotting cow art? This hilarious. The fellow behind this is the "richest living artist to date." Guess the 'Virgin Mother' would have taken some effort and talent to produce. That anyone actually bought the finished product is mind-boggling. I'd definitely go the mammoth. ;)
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EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 