Please do not interpret this piece as making light of the U.S. and U.K. bombing of the Houthis in Yemen. There are people dying on the ground and that is no laughing matter. The reason for my title is that the U.S. and U.K are acting like the clumsy cops chasing Pierce Brosnan in the movie, The Thomas Crown Affair. Watch the following snippet from the movie and I think you’ll grasp my point:
Yep. The Houthis are moving their missiles and drones around in the same fashion that all of the Bowler hatted, wool-coat wearing, Pierce Brosnan look-alikes are doing as they run around the museum exchanging fake briefcases. In the same fashion that the police were frustrated in trying to arrest Brosnan and prevent the theft of a piece of art, the U.S. and U.K. keep launching airstrikes at sites where they think the mobile missile platforms are and still cannot stop Yemen from launching more missiles. Tiny Yemen is frustrating the world’s self-professed “greatest” military power in the world.
This would be hilarious were it not for the fact the U.S. and U.K are killing people with no certainty that they are responsible for the actual launch of missiles. The Western world is striving to ignore the purpose behind the Houthi shutdown of the Red Sea — i.e., force Israel to cease killing Palestinians in Gaza. While most world leaders ignore this fact, the Houthi actions are being celebrated by street Arabs and muslims. In other words, a vast sea of humanity. This is a true David vs. Goliath struggle.
Yemen, based on videos of previous military parades, has thousands of missiles and drones. The International Institute for Security Studies reports:
In parades in 2022 and 2023, the Houthis unveiled additional ASCMs, including what appeared to be two anti-ship versions of the Iranian Quds/351 LACM. One version is allegedly equipped with a radar-homing seeker (Sayyad), and the other has an electro-optical/infrared seeker (Quds Z-0). Based on the range of the original Quds and on Houthi statements, both systems could have a range of at least 800 km.
The parades also featured a variety of anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) and guided rockets employing Iranian infrared or imaging infrared seeker technology. The 450 km-range Asef appears to be a rebranded ASBM version of Iran’s Fateh 313 missile, while the Tankil represents a previously unseen anti-ship version of the IRGC-developed 500 km-range Zohayr. The two designs constitute the heaviest Houthi anti-ship missiles, both with warheads of more than 300 kilograms, and are of Iranian origin.
Three smaller ASBMs – the 140 km-range Faleq, the Mayun and the Bahr al-Ahmar – strongly resemble Iranian design philosophy and seeker technology but do not precisely match known Iranian systems. They could either be Iranian systems not observed before and smuggled to Yemen, or Houthi-produced rockets combined using Iranian guidance kits, not unlike developments made by another Iran proxy, the Lebanese Hizbullah, in its precision-guided surface-to-surface missile programme. Finally, the Houthis have presented an S-75 (SA-2) surface-to-air missile, likely from pre-war Yemeni army stocks, modified for an anti-ship role using an Iranian guidance kit.
This means the United States and the United Kingdom will be embroiled in a lengthy, costly campaign with no guarantee of success. Fear of depleting U.S. Naval supplies of air defense missiles is the reason the U.S. is relying on fixed wing aircraft to deliver bombs. The U.S. is being very sparing about using Tomahawk cruise missiles because the inventory is being rapidly depleted:
Raytheon builds Tomahawks at a facility in Arizona. Each missile costs the Navy more than $1 million. In 2020 the Navy has around 4,000 Tomahawks. But that number is set to fall as the fleet upgrades some missiles and disposes of others.
While this means Raytheon will profit from new USG contracts to build more Tomahawks until an alternative becomes available, the U.S. cannot produce enough cruise missiles to sustain a rate of fire that uses up 20 missiles a week. DOD also has to keep a reserve for contingencies in Iran and China. The United States is like the Big Bad Wolf huffing and puffing at the brick house. For all of its bluster it cannot close the deal and shutdown Yemen.
Other subject. I did a virtual sitdown with Ryan Dawson and we talked about our friend Gonzalo.
Boy! Those Houthi’s think they’re hot Shiite.
I’ll show myself out.
Clever and funny. Submit a job application to the Gutfeld Show. You could be a star writer.
God dammit I like the Houthis.
I’m rockin’ with the Amazing Houthis!!! Just love saying their name….cool as shiite!!!
Sheikh ya Houthi vs shake ya booty
Guess I’ll have to take over
Did you hear that the Arabs are going to do a Muslim version of the Godfather saga? There’s a rumour its going to feature Shi’a Al Bouef in the role of Sunni Corleone
(Please dont try to match me when it comes to Islamopunning, as I am a trained proffessional)
Houthi and the Blowpipe.
The Houthi’s fascinate me. Especially in how they contrast to the USA, my country.
I can already hear the “He’s a racissst chant”, but anyway. What the fuck are you going to do to Yemen? How can you make their life more fucked up? These are not people with maximum leaders like Saddam Hussein with big bunkers full of gold. I mean Rank Hath It’s. But I cannot imagine the leaders of the Houthi’s are exactly rolling around in feather beds with good streaming service and Grub Hub. I’m pretty sure there is not a single Taco Bell to cruise missile strike in Yemen. Beware of a man with absolutely nothing to lose.
And now ‘Murica. Don’t push us too far OR Civil War 2. GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK.
Look at those poor bastards that are being raped in Washington DC jails from J6. They had money to buy a plane ticket. And that lesson has been learned. That will not happen again.
And in any case. You going to pack up the 2,000 dollar Daniels Defense AR-15, say bye to the wife, the 350K house, the toy hauler, your man cave, and head to the woods to FIGHT THE MAN. Negro Por Favor. You got shit to lose.
This was the lesson from the BLM boys. Jail did not mean shit to them. They been there before. They have lived with arrest warrants hanging over them since they were 13. Here white “conservative” Trumper go counterprotest BLM. And get arrested. And miss work on Monday. And let the word get around your corporate job. Say goodbye to the toy hauler son.
People with shit to lose versus people with NOTHING to lose. That has one outcome. You go Houthi’s! Love you.
” Beware of a man with absolutely nothing to lose. ”
“People with shit to lose versus people with NOTHING to lose.”
They have plenty to lose, more than most shallow Westerners; dignity, their lives, and the moral high ground. Two of those items are almost absent in the West.
Who gives a shit about new cars, electronic gadgets, and fancy houses?
Exactly those who sold they own opinion to the high priests for gizmos and toys , George Carlin said once ….
I followed the Houthi war against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates religiously for years. These dudes in sandals can school anybody on how to fight! They laid waste to everything the Saudis, Emirati and their Anglo-American puppet masters sent out against them: M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradleys, LeClerq battle tanks, and a myriad of assorted armoured vehicles. Furthermore, any and all mercenaries paid by the Gulf Arabs such as Sudanese and Colombians were massacred!!! The Houthis have amassed an arsenal of captured military equipment capable of fighting 5 wars. The US and its reluctant piss ant vassals are in way over their head if they have to put boots on the ground there. Iran is the most powerful country in the world in terms of asymmetrical warfare. Whoever they instruct be it Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi Shia militias etc. have no equals on the battlefield. Iran would destroy Israel in 2 days.
I too was an avid viewer of Yemeni war porn videos.
Lightly clothed, wearing sandals with not more than RPGs and AKs they laid waste to the Saudis and other scum.
I really hope the US sends in ground personnel. There is not much better than watching US/UK war criminals dying.
The real war criminals do go to battle, they stay in safe places! Wishing death on the average soldier is disgusting!
War criminals Don’t go to the battle fields
You need to check in iternational law pal.
Lost in the shuffle……
The Houthis know very well that the Saudis were UK/US proxies……
The know very well ….. that war was a bid by US/UK to regain control over the Band al Mandeb…. which they lost following the end of the puppet government they installed…
The current conflict is a grudge match…..
Houthis vis a vis UK/USA…… The Houthis are settling scores…..
This is a no holds barred… winner take all…. fight to the finish…
INDY
The Houthis have killed no one, sunk no ships…. Yet, they have asymmetrically changed the battlefield by blockading $ billions to Israel, suffering Israel gravely… Brilliant ethical bastards!
Like the Daniel Defense comment 🙂 You forgot the 1.5K optic on it too! And the 3k night vision.
Almost 10 (or maybe more) pieces in the AR 15 bolt carrier group assembly.
ONE for the AK series. ONE BIG BOLT and that’s it. No little pieces (rings, and that pin) that you can lose and then bye bye bolt.
The difference in weapon design philosophy demonstrated right there.
And AKs don’t cost 2k+.
Uh, yeah they do. I challenge you to find an AK anywhere on the internet for less than $1000. Meanwhile, a serviceable AR can be had for as little as $400. An AK bolt has essentially the same pieces as an AR bolt. Bolt carrier, bolt head, cam, extractor and so on and so forth. An AK isn’t even really any easier to produce these days. The stamped receiver requires specialized and expensive equipment to be done in any scale. Meanwhile, there are literally dozens of manufacturers in the US who have perfected the art of milling an AR receiver out of a block of aluminum. One guy on the Internet even made one from melted down beer cans.
The M-16 had a lot of teething problems primarily from the Army ordinance board scrapping the chromed barrel the designer specified and going with stick powder instead of the ball powder specified. But it overcame them and is a superior weapon to the AK today. Particularly as far as attaching optics a d accessories go.
I’m actually an AK fan and have multiple examples of them, including some made in Russian factories. But for most people the AR is a better system.
And ‘tribesmen’ in Afghanistan can make AKs in their villages with hand tools.
No, they can’t. But their cousins in the Khyber Pass gun shops can make a good to excellent copy of almost any firearm ever invented with rudimentary hand tools.
“excellent” copy
The original Kalashnikov was made in train depo , to be easy and fast to be made and do the job even covered in sand and under water . Not the one coming from the guy with the big busyness smile on his face .Nah what I am talking about , where are my personal ads .Like George Carlin said once , cheaply dressed 2 dollar bj .
To be fair, you can slap together a $450 ar-15 from a well made budget brand that is more than sufficient. 99% of shooters are less accurate and reliable than their weapons. Daniel defense is for professionals…you know, dentists and such.
There’s a lot to admire in their cause. I’ll bet they’re suspicious of the rare American and European who visit.
Yep, same with the Jan 6th protesters. As soon as they got threatened with losing jobs and frozen bank accounts they all turned on Trump.
Have some integrity and own up to your actions. Or just stay at home. America is full of weekend warriors who love playing revolutionary but when shit gets real they turn tail and run home to mama.
Well, they’re in a desert. Cut their water supplies, problem solved.
The US/UK clown show around the Red Sea is not able to “protect” any ships bound for Israel. They did shot down some of the Houthi’s missiles in the beginning, but in the end the US/UK military realized, that by depleting their own AD capabilities for that purpose, will make their own ships lose that same protection. And that is the reason, why the US/UK clown show all of the sudden is not able to successfully protect cargo ships anymore.
The Houthis have them by their balls. Pushing the criminal Israel cabal into diplomacy would have been the right call.
It’s too late for any “diplomacy” for Israel and the United States. As Putin says, “The US is diplomacy averse” or something similar.
Off to The Hague and the ICJ with Netanyahu, Biden and their crews!
And off with their heads!
Still, they had the choice. Bombing some sites in Yemen will achieve nothing. It will only show how inapt and helpless the US and their vassals really are.
But good to know for everyone that the US is just talk and BS and no real strategy or action.
The American taxpayers are getting ripped of big time. Paying millions and getting nothing but a clown show in return.
(Trump will never be able to make America great again. Even if he would have 100 years to do that. Obama won with his slogan and he didn’t change a thing. Trump is just copying that. Why not, it works, it makes the sheep believe and follow him.)
The Hague or ICJ, they are only symbolic. Run by people who belong to the cabal. The ME should basically establish their own tribunal and go on from there. This will scare the sh*t out of those warmongers and criminals. Because once they get caught somewhere they haven’t foreseen, they are done. And the western world is just getting smaller and smaller, while the rest of the world gets more and more united.
America is ‘agreement incapable,’ in Russian parlance.
or to put it in Seinfeld terms (for those who remember the episode), America is not “agreement worthy”.
Politically correctly said , yes . In reality lube is not included.
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The USG already knew that playing whack-a-Houthi would fail, that Houthis would pop up everywhere. How did it know? From the recent 7-year war that Saudi Arabia/US lost to the Houthis.
So why is the USG pursuing a sure-to-fail strategy? To bait Houthis to attacks US ships – which Houthis had vowed to do – and give the USG a casus bellum against Iran. Note how the American MSM has been conditioning Americans for weeks to scapegoat Iran, always with the phrase “Iran-backed Houthis” in every article. (CIA Director William Colby admitted CIA owned anyone of significance in the MSM.)
That is, the endgame of whack–Houthi is a “justified ” attack on Iran. The neocons who support Israel against Gazans (Blinken’s bombs without Congressional appropriation) are the same neocons who have been itching to get the US military to hit Iran, much as Satanyahu has been openly dreaming since the 2006 “nuclear Iran” propaganda.
Granted, Iran probably is backing Houthis with weapons, targeting info, and rhetorical support, but this is much more benign than the USG backing the Israeli regime with 10,000 tons of weapons and material via 20+ US ships and 240+ cargo airplanes for the genocide. Has anyone read in the MSM about “US-backed IDF” committing genocide?
The pretense that the USG is involved in the Red Sea to protect maritime commerce is belied by its financial-maritime blockade of Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan oil exports.
It’s why we have not seen Ansarallah hit any US naval vessels yet. They see the trap laid out before them. Iran sees the trap. So does Hezbollah. They are keeping this conflict focused on Palestine. Keep the pressure on Israel and don’t let the war widen just because of a couple provocations where the Mossad lashes out and assassinates someone. Keep the Zionist regime in the pressure cooker to soften them up. America doesn’t have enough teeth left to worry about its bark.
The US/IDF tried to change the script by using the Pakistani based terrorists to attack Iran. What happened? Iran retaliated in a targeted strike and China talked to Pakistan and told them to keep a lid on it. So Pakistan targeted the same Pakistani terrorists in Iranian Baluchistan. Then they all shook hands and turned back towards Israel.
“Sinnerman” by Nina Simone. Damn, baby, it don’t get no betta:) what a great segment. I love this segment of that movie. Nina is the epitome of the expression of the desire for Freedom. We all feel it and we want it and these kinds of movies (trite or not) inspire that deep feeling bc…. we have lived in the Empire of Lies for our entire lives and we sensed it deep within our souls. unless you were dead inside:(
That “Sinnerman” beat, taken from Revelations, is pretty appropriate for these maybe apocalyptic times. I’d rather hear her sing “I loves you, Porgyyyy!” but these are Sinnerman days.
Great piece.
The Houthis adapted to these dumb tactics during their long war against the Saudis/Yemen proxy government.
For example, they abandoned ground based launchers and developed fortified underground launchers to fire their missiles – see https://missilethreat.csis.org/houthis-unveil-new-underground-missile-launcher/
They also developed true expertise in using decoys to fool enemy aerial surveillance. These include ballistic missiles and launchers : https://armamentresearch.com/houthi-forces-deploy-decoys-to-counter-coalition-airpower/
Surely the Pentagon must know the above. If so, they are simply wasting expensive missiles and bombs for PR.
But maybe, being as incompetent as they are, they don’t know. Sad to say it but that’s entirely possible.
Either way, the Houthis wont be losing any sleep over these attacks, and will grow stronger.
Washington/ Brussels and London have allready shown their “competence” during the past 30+ years and nothing seem to have changed. Reminds me about “Dumb Dumber”.
Having been in the Navy (Naval Air) many years ago I have to wonder what the sailors aboard the Eisenhower must be thinking. Even with today’s mind set, there has to be some concern. As Col. Douglas Macgregor has said there’s only two kinds of ships in this day and age. ‘Targets and submarines’.
A missile with an 800 kilometer range (500 miles) has the ability to reach a target far out in the ocean. I believe the Russians have the technology able to defeat the anti-missile defensive systems now being employed by the US.
We’re playing with fire here. Someone in Washington has made the decision that this is worthwhile. Why? I have some ideas, but……
Arabian sea yes, Red Sea yes. Mediterranean is too far from Yemen. Israel is almost 800 miles of Saudi Arabia distant.
Hopefully they come to their sober senses and remember their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Not much hope for that. They have already demonstrated a complete disregard for the constitution.
I’m sure that’s going to happen, based on their past track record.
Well China just successfully tested their submarine tracking and detection system dubbed “submarine sky eye”. So more like targets and underwater coffins.
Sailors should take a que from Jaws “If you want to survive Fishing Season, don’t go in the water.”
My interpretation of the US submarine’s accidental damage near Taiwain due to “hitting the seabed” while on a mapping mission (a don’t-give-a-shit-lazy cover story) is that in shallow water (say 100 m), China has the ability to track US subs by remote sensing. So, this is a fairly mature Chinese capability and likely a capability Russia has as well. This means that all three legs of the US nuclear deterrent are partially compromised. A very dangerous situation, since I am certain the US political lords are ignorant or in denial that (given how expensive the nuclear deterrent is) it is not the best in the world.
Iran is also good in remote sensing – wouldn’t surprise me if one of their three satellite spy satellites collects the kind of data needed for submarine detection.
All vehicles are tracked by remote sensing, regardless of specific method used. Explicitly saying that “China has the ability to track US subs by remote sensing”, gives no additional information whatsoever.
Tracking submarines is mostly top secret stuff. Public discussion about it is mostly hogwash.
The US Navy can close the Red Sea to all traffic and eliminate the Houthi threat to shipping and save itself.
Is this satire FRG?
The poor US sailors are mere bait for the USG to catch a casus bellum against Iran, once a US ship gets inevitably hit or damaged or a sailor killed. The neocon faction in USG views them as expendable in service of a larger goal. Much like the Satanyahu regime, which knew of Hamas’ plans one year in advance and observed its training, left the Israeli settlers and rave-partiers next to Gaza as bait for a casus bellum to erase Gaza. Those settlers and ravers were expendable in service of Greater Israel, the Zionism’s defining goal. Just yesterday Satanyahu spoke, ““In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea,” turning the Palestinian freedom slogan on its head.
January 6th participants would fit in nicely w/ all those Selfie Shooting Nazis of Ukraine, it’s called electronic warfare an’ your carrying a tracking device-do the Nazis get pop up adds for erectile dysfunction and diabetes drugs for weight loss-or is that the only way to escape adverts, head to the war zone:) to be con’td……
“January 6th participants”. Do you mean the FBI goons?
Yeah no. FBI helped incite but plenty of true believers showed up and went along with things.
Wannabe revolutionaries who immediately folded and turned on Trump as soon as they got fired and bank accounts frozen. Should have just stayed home.
Al, well said. the amount of self-sacrifice needed to literally rise up against an entrenched national security state is not in large supply at this point in time. rhetoric is inexpensive.
Gonzalo Lira, RIP.
Like many, I remain just so sad about his death.
This was a sensitive man of courage and real conviction, who had a long and fruitful life ahead of him.
I got the sense that Lira felt a real calling to remain in Kharkov once the SMO started. I think he sensed that it was his duty to chronicle the truth of what was happening, as well as to expose evil and lies.
Gonzalo could have left Ukraine, but chose not to, even though he understood the risks involved.
Now that takes courage.
For his courage, Gonzalo paid a terrible price and suffered an awful death – a slow murder.
I suspect tens of millions have been appalled by Gonzalo’s death, and how the despicable Biden regime let him die.
And they will have taken note that if it could happen to a guy like Gonzalo, it could happen to them. To anyone, in fact.
Many if not all will now also have a special hatred of the Biden regime and in particular, the vile pig Victoria Nuland. It’s personal, now, for millions.
I’m not sure the Obama/Biden gang that let Gonzalo die, truly understand the forces they may have unleashed. However, they may well come to understand those forces – and sooner than they realise.
Don’t get sad. Get angry.
His death? Don’t you mean murder?
He didn’t **just die** in there. This was murder. The intention/motive was there all along.
You are absolutely right about Biden and Obama
The Anglo-Saxons are good at what they have always been good at, killing countless innocent civilians. But winning a war?
High-ranking Russian and Belarusian politicians recently announced that they assume that the USA and its vassals intend to attack Russia and Belarus directly between 2025 and 2030. I don’t know whether these statements have domestic political reasons or whether they have information to back them up. In other words, intelligence information.
I would like to point out that both Russia and China are nuclear powers. You cannot defeat nuclear powers. What’s more, Russia has superior means of delivery for its nuclear warheads. This is the pathological side of the West.
A few days ago it became public that the USA wants to station hypersonic weapons in its extraterritorial area of the German “Grafenwoehr”. 12 times the speed of sound. This information comes from Dieter Dehm, member of the Bundestag. As far as I know, the USA does not yet have this technology. Is this information still correct? Or has the USA now achieved it? If this information is correct, then Russia must destroy these US hypersonic weapons with a first strike once they have been deployed. 10 minutes to Moscow. What would happen if these hypersonic weapons were stationed in Poland?
History is a river. The First World War was the result of the declining British Empire and the rising economic power of the German Reich. The Second World War was the continuation of the First World War. Once the German competitor had been successfully eliminated, the Soviet Union remained as a task. The Anglo-Saxon covetousness for Russian resources was already evident in the early 20th century. US and British boots entered Siberian territory. The “Cold War” was the continuation of the Second World War. Although the USA had subjugated Europe, it had not succeeded in eliminating the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, the USA thought it had reached its goal. In fact, the USA had control over Russian resources. Until Putin came along. But he was only the leader of a national movement. I suspect from the secret service and military circles.
The current 3rd World War is similar to the “Cold War”. The West uses proxies. The BRICS as well. The Houthis are just one piece of the puzzle. Now it is the West that is weakened by the systemic crisis of capitalism and this is leading to desperate activities. That’s what I fear.
There’s no point in thinking about who becomes president in the US. They are not the decisive figures. Trump, however, is a special case. He is an oligarch himself. What makes me nervous about him is that this man is extremely crazy and narcissistic.
“USA wants to station hypersonic weapons”
They don´t have anything similar, but working on it.
What Washington are not telling us is that Russia counters every move with even more power.
Have Washington told us how many warheads are pointed at Washington, Norfolk and San Diego ? Every aircraft carrier is tracked by at least 2 subs and only God and Russia knows how many are based outside the east & west coast.
The empire days are over and the west better accept it or get fucked up.
Picking fights with the whole world is utterly dumb to do.
Starting at the end:
not intending to speak up for Trump, but crazier and more narcissistic than the Biden/handlers are hard to imagine. Raising lying with a smile to an artform (Kirby beats them all in that regard) doesn’t make them any less crazy, they only come around smoother. Trump most of the time doesn’t have a filter between brain and mouth. The majority of the Europeans detest him as they detest most who aren’t from the system. I keep telling them that he only says out loud what the others think.
On the rest: The difference is that the West had serious production capacity that dwarfed much of the rest of the world. They had highly skilled workers. These were quite cohesive states. Neither is the case any more. They face now an adversary (styled enemy) who has a huge capacity, has the skilled staff, has the cohesion and can field motivated military and most importantly is slowly wisening up to Western way of doing business (“Western values”). Because these play there hand very wisely there is a good chance that it won’t be as devastating as it was for Germany or Poland last time around. The longer this drags out the less likely it is that the uniparty is doing something truly stupid
Production capacity is the key. How many Americans know someone who actually works at a company that makes things. Growing up in a Northeast rust belt city, many people did. Now, I don’t know a soul who does this. What’s worse is the younger generation don’t want to go anywhere near an assembly line or become a tool and die maker. We cant all be MBAs, someone has to make something.
Again the last Anglo-Saxon king was KIA in 1066
There is very little Anglo-Saxon DNA in British population but I suppose you mean Blinken and Nuland and AIPAC „Anglo-Saxons“
True, It would be much better for Lavrov et al. to say British Israelite’s – now that would put the fox amongst the chickens.
After all King Charles III descends from King David, Israelite’s all the way down.
Germans were too, until a Royal Review discovered they were Assyrians.
The Normans never had a chance.
Come to think of it the Normans were likely the Knights Templar bank, who became a bank, and were exterminated. But not quite – they ended up in Scotland, and sailed west for Sinclair (Saint-Claire), to be smashed by Iroquois near Palmyra New York. Mormons call this the battle of Cumorah – was Joseph Smith’s, the Latter day Saints founder, a Knights Templar?
A LOT of unlikely “likely” there. Of course the Templar legend has grown to mythological proportions, an easy ride for those who trade on zero-reference proclamations. Ya, you phrased your answer in the form of a question, but this ain’t Jeopardy!
Real references please.
The Empress Matilda was a descendant of King Edmund Ironside, so the Planta Genet (broom) kings descended from her were part Anglosaxon. No doubt there were many other family connections, going back to Alfred (‘the Great’) and other (supposed) descendants of Odin, linking later monarchs of England with the Saxon royalty.
You know Christian Zionism is a British project :
Is Queen Elizabeth Descended From King David Of Israel?
https://www.latintimes.com/queen-elizabeth-descended-king-david-israel-438470 –
“The idea that Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family might be descendants of Israel’s King David was first introduced by Rev. F. R A. Glover, M.A. In his book titled “England, The Remnant Of Judah, And The Israel Of Ephraim,” which was first published in London in 1861, Glover was able to link King Heremon of Ireland’s heritage (580 BC) to the Israelite tribe of Dan.”
Zionism took off with that. Queen Victoria was claimed to be from King David, thus a descendant of the Davidic family tree that produced Jesus. The British Pentecostalists taught that the tribes of Israel wandered into northern Europe; that by this supposed genealogy, the British are the real Chosen People, and the British Empire is thus God’s empire. Divine Right of Kings on steroids!
So, Prime Minister Disraeli’s Ulster of the Middle East to resettle the real Chosen People.
This Pentecostal stuff permeates the US military. Some have a date with Armageddon whose goalposts move al the time…..
After 100 or so generations it is quite likely that we are all descended from King David and all the other kings from Africa to China, but the ‘proof’ can only be provided by an enterprising geneologist and backed up by lots of power and money.
Sure, all from Eve, except the Kurdish Yazidic believe they are from Adam.
Tawûsî Melek is no ordinary angel. And his story is not unique to the Yazidi. In the Bible, one can find reference to the angel “born of eternal light” in Isaiah 14:12: “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!”
Haunting USMC expose here :
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/sympathy-for-the-devil
bonbon:
That’s pretty thin “proof”, one 19th century “Reverend” cobbling together a lineage that is an obvious re-imagination of tautological Biblical references and wishful thinking. The Pillow of Jacob? Almost a silly as the meteorite Muslims walk around as if it was sent by God.
So REAL “references please”… or it’s crap.
She was a granddaughter of William The Conqueror via Henry Beauclerc
25-40 % is not ‘very little.’
https://metro.co.uk/2016/07/28/its-more-than-likely-youre-not-ethnically-british-6034191/
https://theconversation.com/why-the-idea-that-the-english-have-a-common-anglo-saxon-origin-is-a-myth-88272
“Anglo-SaxonISTs” please, not “Anglo-Saxons”.
More to the point, it is not making the red sea safe for shipping (the declared aim, which would have been better served by forcing Israel to back down and do the only deal that will work to bring all this to an end). The military ping pong is making that sea even more dangerous, and behind all this hoo ha inflation (plus shortages of such niceties as pharmaceuticals) is rising in the west accordingly, at precisely the worst time for those who are going to be seeking re-election.
So far, western populations have been deliberately shielded from the consequences of their leaders’ actions in their name and using their tax and credit (to enable the bally hoo in Ukraine and the ME to continue, largely now to save Biden’s increasingly blank face). This is not going to last. Snaffling Russia’s 300 billion to avoid a domestic confrontation, won’t even achieve that. It will set in motion the denouement.
Not that I believe for a moment that these puny politicos will be allowed to blow up the international monetary world order. They won’t, and they know it. This is just an attempt to pressure US donors to pressure the republicans to free up the 61 billion.
As for Zelensky’s idea that he can pledge someone else’s assets (without their consent) as security for HIS borrowing, just how stupid have people become to even run that cunning plan. It is risible. Yet the western MSM reported it dead pan.
The denouement will happen regardless whether they steal the money. The damage has been done by seizing the money in the first place and by contemplating the theft. But again, it is better for the counterparties if the denouement goes slowly.
Russia has $700million in Western assets to size if the US/ZATO takes the $300million.
For Zelensky, it’s about the money.
But it’s not really about the money, it is about destroying international/legal confidence in the US$ Reserve System, which must be crippled for the Great Reset to be easily taken over or stealth-replaced by the Rothschilds. If the $300M is seized, it signals to all other Rothschild Controlled gov’ts, banks, corporations that their “reserves” aren’t safe anywhere in the US$ system. Behave or else. That same list is nearly irrevocably tied to the US$ system. This has been 200+ years in the planning, the Rothschilds aren’t going to give up without being reduced to penury.
I think it’s $300 billion.
Thanks, I stand corrected. Same for the amount Russia has in “Western” assets.
Seeing the battle between the US and the Houthis reminds me of a game called Wack-a-Mole.
A bigger hammer isn’t going to help.
Very excellent analysis. Last night was watching Iranian news channel and a guest analyst was saying US-UK aerial attacks on Yemen is a staged theater just for propaganda purposes and television. In fact they have a 24h backdoor communication channel with Ansarallah so as to when and where they are going to drop some bombs. It means they don’t want to get into actual war. That explains why Ansarallah haven’t yet used any of their advanced anti-ship missiles. Also following Iran’s missile attacks at various terrorist-spy gatherings inside Syria and N. Iraq, BBC Persian was saying the attacks were quite imprecise and missed their designated targets but instead hit a residential place which killed a child plus several others. The BBC Persian also showed fake image of a building with minor damage as if caused by ordinary house fire that was still standing to illustrate the Iranian missile don’t have enough explosive power. Likely it was a picture from Ukraine or may be even Florida. However later, another news program showed the totality of destructions after the missile attack. Also, all 24 or so missiles reached their targets without miss some at 1300 km distance, with pinpoint accuracy measured in meters and centimeters.
I happened to watch this a few days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ze4sQteik
…with the main reason I bring this up, to Larry, and anyone else, is the guest Sarah talking a bit about her position that talking about “the Houthis” is actually a bit of a confused misnomer of a sort… she wishes people would stop talking about the Houthis, because it muddles understanding of who is actually involved and their positions.
I thought that was interesting, and maybe somebody who knows more than I do about that could shed some light. That would be just about anybody and their dog. Other than vague awareness that there has been armed conflict in Yemen for years, I know pretty much naught. My ignorance regarding this is nearly complete. Which, of course, lines me up with nearly the entire US population.
Larry, maybe you could dig into this deeper in the coming days and maybe help out me and anybody else as ignorant about the players involved?
I love those little Houtis. Feisty, defiant, brave, and proud. They are trying to do the world a favor.
Not related but censorship troubles at substack….
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/year-of-troubles-the-hatchets-come
It is only Jan 2024 and de-platforming is in full swing.
This site will for sure be targeted as well.
The tactic of going straight after payment systems is out in the open.
yeah
“The tactic of going straight after payment systems is out in the open.”
Yes, but, for that matter, all kinds of activity of the Thought Police lunatics are out in the open, more and more. It’s not even close to subtle, getting more blatant and aggressive by the day.
Platforms are an unintended evolution of the internet. Centralizing information in a decentralized network has some conveniences not only for the users, but it’s a killer for the network infrastructures in itself.
Let me be the grumpy old man yelling at cloud but in the old timey there was not even search engines, just people hosting thing themselves and a lot of hyperlinks. “Surfing” was passing from one linked page to another.
Yep, decentralization was the basic idea behind the Internet. Then the “business people” took it, and turned it into yet another game of Monopoly.
Wait a minute – CERN html was a research tool for scientific data sharing. Court case well known.
Then came eBay, Amazon, and Musk tried an X payment platform overtaken by Paypal.
Now simplicius mentions X will have a payment channel, again. That is why Musk renamed Twitter to X, his original idea.
We may all have to go to X.
(pasting this in here since it somehow ended up misplaced)
Yeah. I just read that last night. Obviously, it isn’t just about Substack, of course. That just happens to be one area under attack. Call it a recent symptom.
In short, we have become a nation where it’s: have an unapproved thought? Telling the truth? You will be destroyed!
Hey, how about this “freedom and democracy”, eh? Got to remember that, so we can tell the rest of the world how superior we are, and that’s why we must rule the planet.
Of course, when I say “we”, that doesn’t mean any of us (like we have any control).
“The Western world is striving to ignore the purpose behind the Houthi shutdown of the Red Sea — i.e., force Israel to cease killing Palestinians in Gaza.”
1) This is silly. (Won’t say stupid.)
2) Dishonest as hell.
3) Palestinians are being killed in Gaza in pursuit of belligerents who started a war with Israel. That war could end today if those belligerents stopped fighting. And released hostages. Both of which are obligations under international law.
4) Larry knows this. What’s up with that?
“The Houthi actions are being celebrated by street Arabs and muslims.”
Yes. And the Hamas actions (brutal killing of hundreds of unarmed Jews) on October 7 were celebrated by street Arabs and Muslims. Does that mean a vast sea of humanity is anti-Semitic? Maybe. And that’s about all that “celebration” proves.
Give it up, Paul. Israel isn’t justified in killing ~30 times as many people (so far) in Gaza as Hamas killed on Oct 7th. It’s genocide and ethnic cleansing. They consider the Arabs subhumans, proving themselves no better than the worst antisemites.
Address point # 3.
That would be helpful.
I suspect you are more interested in the survival of Hamas as a fighting force than in the lives of non-Hamas Palestinians.
And I suspect Larry is more interested in his subscribers’ subscriptions than in addressing point #3.
Pls come down on your high horse. Your point#3 is based on a wrong premise that you only of your own self-interests have conjured up, inside those little gray cells, similar to how Blinken does when he sees no relationship whatsoever between the Red Sea events and the genocide in Gaza. His brain is very much compartmentalized at exactly the right time. It’s an old deception actors use on stage to sound logical, yet divert attentions away from the main topic. Again your question is built on a wrong foundation. See my comment below for additional info.
better say: it’s an old deceptive trick criminals use when interrogated by police, to sound logical yet divert attentions away from the main topic.
Good observation.
Also that logic is a part of the talmud style. That genocidic hate book had full of ‘exemptions’ to the self-mde ‘oral law’ it catagorizes for every detail of imaginable activities and actions. That logic allows the trans-semtics (hat tip to Ron above) to do whatever they want and cements the kazarine kontrol of the talmudic rabbis over their communities.
You opened my eyes : Larry is only after money .
We are all so naive…and you do cunning .
Paul Schneider:
Your willful blindness, intransigence and general ignorance are showing. ZIONIST.
You earn that ignominious label every time you spout off like this. And you show readers EXACTLY why the Apartheid State of Israel needs to be eradicated for there ever to be peace in the Middle East. THANKS SO MUCH, regular folks wouldn’t believe us about how irrational you Evangelical ZIONISTS are if you didn’t show up to prove it on an nearly daily basis.
Your #3?? FFS.
– Larry has fully covered how innocent Oct 7 Israeli deaths were at the hands of their own IDF.
– Hamas attacked IDF troops and known violent militant/armed kibbutz residents.
– Hamas was envisioned to hamstring the Palestinian Authority and funded WITH NUTTY-YAHOO’S BACKING for YEARS.
– Palestinians have been violently and economically abused for 100 years by ZIONIST Jews and ZIONIST Christians.
And mostly: The bloodshed would end as soon as Nutty-yahoo declared a cease-fire, the IDF left the West Bank, the border with Lebanon, and Gaza, and the demolition of the Gaza Prison Wall begun. Free travel of Palestinians out and humanitarian aid in.
On Oct 7, Hamas just put the focus of the entire world on what’s been going on in Palestine for 100 years. THAT is why the Rothschilds and their puppets are ineffectively scratching around like a dog that crapped on the carpet, trying to cover the shit they’ve been up to all this time.
Any you’re here doing your part in that pointless endeavour…
It’s going to happen eventually, the longer this goes, the more Israeli Jews will have to be scattered to the corners of the Earth to ensure this BULLSHIT never happens again.
This will be the end of Judaism as it has existed. The whole “GOD promised Palestine to the Jews” lie will have to exorcised from all the Abrahamic Texts/Religions. At a minimum footnoted as the reprehensible genocidal history it is, never to be repeated.
Where’s yer Rapture gonna come from then?
GOOD JOB!
First things first.
– USA should go home and take care of it´s own shit.
– Israel is built on stolen land and on terror.
Why are we in the west always trying to impose our sence of what is right or wrong ?
What give us the right to tell others how to live and manage their culture ?
hahaha. Suck on it.
geeeze, when even israeli publications are asking how many of the civilians have been killed by indiscriminate machine gun fire of Apache Helicopters and tanks of the IDF on october 7th …
exactly.
I read a comment last week, either on this site or Naked Capitalism, that stated that the IDF has yet to post a photo of a single dead Hamas fighter despite the fact that the IDF has body cams galore. If anyone has further information it would be helpful. From Hamas’ point of view, aren’t all adult Israel citizens required to be in the military (except the ultra religious). Doesn’t that make all adult citizens of Israel legitimate targets as they – the Israel citizen – because of their perpetual reserve status?
I have seen a dozen or so dead Palestinian fighter pics on various tg channels. That is not many at all.
Ignoring the civilian casualties, the ratio is very large, and in favour of The Reistance.
The reports of 1,000 armoured Zionist vehicles knocked out (in Gaza, West Bank, and the northern theatre) are very credible, with videos to back up the claim.
Palestinians are definitely more Semitic than the Eastern European Ashkenazim set on genociding them. So no, a vast sea of humanity isn’t antisemitic, a vast sea of humanity only wants that Israel behave as everybody else is required to behave. As for Palestinians being killed in “pursuit of belligerents”, nope, they are killed b/c IDF are incompetent cowards. Israel has killed orders of magnitude more children in three months than were killed since the start of the Russian SMO in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, Israel has killed at least twice more Palestinian children in three months than were killed in three years of civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There is absolutely no possible justification for that.
Those living on Palestinian occupied territories illegal kibbutz settlements are all armed and trained by military. Most if not everyone is part time soldier in civilian clothing. An occupier is not a civilian. Legally speaking Israel does not have the legal right to use the term self-defense in any court of law. If that’s so then every type of criminal can justify their actions based on the concept of self-defense. A bank rubber, for instance, can say he went to the bank, killed the bank clerks and took the money because it’s his divine right to defend himself against the ills of the world. Hamas did not invade on Oct. 7. they entered their own territory. And it’s not just Muslims who celebrate Hamas, Ansarallah… actions it seems vast majority of the world does too.
True and well said
They are Semitic people. As opposed to carpetbaggers from The Pale of Russia.
I am deeply concerned, and you should be too, about the prospects facing the many Israeli Jews fleeing Israel since Oct 7 attack (odious, needless to say) by Hamas (Iran-backed, I should say). Some say 1 million jews have already fled Israel.
Many of these Jews leave thinking it is only a temporary measure to take themselves out of harm’s and have made no long-term arrangements. This worries me.
You and I know that they will never be able to come back and millions more will join them because Israel has the same chances to survive as a state as Ukraine does to regain Crimea.
So does any Jewish organization have a plan to help Israeli Jews resettle in the countries of their choice? What is H.I.A.S. doing in this respect?
A large influx of Israeli jews would naturally be warmly welcomed in any Western country (US, UK, Canada, etc) whose nations admire this self-effacing, industrious, and modest ethno-religious group. Nevertheless, their governments must be vigilant to suppress any manifestation of judeophobia the White supremacist, Holocaust denying riffraff is wont to indulge in. In the US the ADL can continue to help guide the government.
Briefly there is a lot of work to do and organized international Jewry must step up to the plate.
Like any problem, the solution begins with recognizing it: Israel is not where it still is now, tenuously, but where the legendary Jewish ingenuity blossoms, whether in Washington, DC, NYC, or London.
I have long advocated Birobidzhan as the safest haven for Jews, but I have come to accept the Jewish reluctance to consider living in an agrarian, virtually bankless environment. Fiddlers on the roof they are not, except in Yiddish fiction.
Plans have to be made!
Cx:
to take themselves out of harm’s way
The above comment was addressed to
Paul Schneider
19 January 2024 at 05:19
Very excellent points. Let’s not forget the Jews now have an official criminal record of genocide registered in their own name which is impossible to wash away.
According to the Forward:
Mexico and Chile referred Israel to the International Criminal Court, citing possible war crimes. The ICC is the criminal counterpart to the civil International Court of Justice, which last week heard arguments related to South Africa’s claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
>Palestinians are being killed in Gaza in pursuit of belligerents who started a war with Israel. That war could end today if those belligerents stopped fighting
Israeli psychopaths are killing Palestinians because Israelis are effectively above international law and do not need to honor promises. And Uncle Sam will give them anything their bribe-payers and blackmailers ask for. Uncle Sam will hold the Israelis’ coats while the Israelis attack the USS Liberty and analogous targets, and Uncle Sam will cover up the crimes afterward.
The war started by Israelis does not end when the victims stop fighting. If the victims stop fighting, the Israelis will just torture them to death instead of killing them in battle. Did they start a war with Israel on 7 Oct 2023? I suspect Mossad either conducted the attacks or encouraged them. But even if uncivilized Moslems, mad with bloodlust, did initiate the latest violence, the maddest of Moslems are only a threat to their immediate neighbors (as Norwegians are beginning to realize). Israel is a threat to everyone.
Re: PS – The apologist for genocide. Game’s up trans-semite (hat tip to Ryan: trans-semite – a pretend West Asian from Kazarian-European genetic heritage charecterized pathological lying, Genocidal impulses, self-worship of Baal/Molloch, etc)!
Thank apple and goog for the world wide spread of smartphones that destroys the hasbarbarian leg of the demonic zionazi/talmudic/mizrahi Genocide state.
“Israel’s well-oiled PR machine collapses”
new.thecradle(dot)co/articles-id/18488
Pauli ‘the habbarbarian’Sched (Schneider) and his alter-ego Paul ‘Ersatz’ (as in ‘ersatz’ Israel) are טרול מסביר (hasbara trolls) shilling for Genocide. Maybe Iran and the Houthis can ‘invite’ them to the dock of the War Crimes Tribunal in the shadow of al-Aqsa when this concludes. Let’s demand a talmudic sentence: talmud: Gittin 56b, 57a see: sefaria(dot)org/Gittin.57a.2?lang=bi
Palestinians are being killed in Gaza in pursuit of belligerents who started a war with Israel.
Those are justifications for eradication of Israelis……….after all Golan Heights, destruction of Lebanon, sequestration of Jordanian lands, seizure of Sinai, destruction of Iraq, cavorting with ISIS, arming of Azerbaijan against Christian Armenia, bolstering the Kurdish mafia around Bargouti, murder of French citizens in Paris……..
The US shows everyday the weakness of their weaponry and military personnel. If they can not protect a single place, giving access to the red sea to the ships of their vassals (Israel, EU, Australia, etc.), they can not protect anything. The US military force became a joke and is humiliating at daylight.
It is sadder to see how some many “intellectuals” in West still think the US is the “most powerful force on earth”. Wake up guys!!!
“It is sadder to see how some many “intellectuals” in West still think the US is the “most powerful force on earth”.
Pardon me, but you misspelled “idiots”.
Rene Russo is always a pleasure to watch.
US destroyed most of North Korea in war but it is back and nuclear
US bombed Hanoi and VietCong and ran away in 1975
This is about to turn out as a real PR-Desaster for the US. The non-western world is watching closely and it ceratinly is going to draw conclusions
The purchased US and UK governments, controlled by Bibi, have no problem failing at all mission objectives as long as they continue to kill Arabs. This is how they invoke their game of “Crisis and we, and only we, have the solution, so do as we say.”
I heard that the death toll in Gaza has reached 30,000 fellow human beings and Israrl has dropped, since the 7th, 30,000 Bombs. That is one bomb per human being and they call it precision bombing. Get the Front door out of here.
All this killing iis killing the Soul of the World.
Bombing the houthis is basic terrorism. The civilians being killed are intentional to try to make the people rise up against the houthis. That is what terrorists try to accomplish by killing civilians instead of the politicians.
@Ian:
For the sake of accuracy:
They are not bombing the Houthis. They are bombing the Yemeni people.
Just like Israel is not killing Hamas, they are mass killing Palestinians
How can “the people” “rise up against” the Houthis ?
It is at least 25% Yemeni population and the alternative is what ? Submission to USA and radical Sunni Islam ?
“How can “the people” “rise up against” the Houthis ?”
Just like the Palestinians will rise against Hamas. Not yet but any day now….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-blistering-rebuke-us-post-war-plans-israel-will-control-entire-area-river
Netanyahu In Blistering Rebuke Of US Post-War Plans: “Israel Will Control Entire Area From The River To The Sea”
Financial news read all through the FIRE sector.
This defiance is amazing.
Good cop Blinken, bad cop Netanyau – nobody is falling for it.
BRICS is panicking the would-be imperialists.
All Trump needs to do is misspell some word!
“Good cop Blinken”
That’s funny. Maybe Keystone Cop. Seriously, if somebody wrote a movie script with a US Secretary of State like Blinken, nobody would buy it, unless it was a farce comedy. (Think- Leslie Nielsen as The Secretary)
Just focusing on Israel for an example… the thing a US SoS should have been doing is traveling to Israel, no, just getting on the phone, not wasting time and loads of jet fuel, and saying some form of “stop it, right now, and to make sure, you get not one more item of weaponry or ammunition from us, you psychopath”.
Nope. Not that. More like “hey! I’m Jewish, just like you! we’re pals now?”.
The clueless ineptitude is staggering, and the results and repercussions make it not funny at all. It’s tragedy of the highest order.
@bonbon
“This defiance is amazing.”
Netanyahu speaks and acts like the fiercest anti-zionist and self-hating jew imaginable, determined to rip to shreds all the gaslighting and sanctimonious lies used by pro-Israel propaganda for many decades..
Bibi is The Man Who Would Be King. Kipling showed that ends badly.
The Kingdom of Babylon 2 is a dud.
Go Houthies! 👍
These guys have masterfully played Uncle Sam for the fool he is.
Uncle Sam, never seems to learn his lesson, as he was humbled by a bunch of sandal-clad guerrillas in Vietnam armed with nothing more than AK-47s.
I am one hundred percent on the side of the Houthis. Fuck the warlike Western oligarchy!
Good program. This is a good interview with a representative of Yemen.
See- Yemen Gaza support Thurs, Jab 18, 2024;
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/18/718485/Yemen-Gaza-Support
Military mans are people able to die for their country , Politicians are people able to kill several countries to try avoiding death for themselves.
Anyway, as I stated earlier, someone is boiling some frogs in the ME these days. At first I saw only Israel being put in the boiler, but the US are also gradually put in. Someone is gradually moping up all traces of US first the bases, then the “moderated terrorists”, now the complicit warlords like this Kurdish oligarch Iran bombed the other day in Iraq (it was not done to make Erdohan happy …also it can help.)
My point is it look less and less like the job of a single country, it’s a coordinated effort with lots of complicity inside at least a big part of the ME governments to kick out the US and it’s proxy Israel. I totally subscribe to the “wack a mole” mechanism, but do we agree on the scale it’s played ?
Here are 5 letters – BRICS, and 5 currencies .:
the Rational 5 R’s, Ruble, Renminbi, Rial, Rand, Rupee.
The petroEuro-dollar is being SWIFTLY wack-a-mole’d.
Now, where is Chainsaw Milei’s dollarization Plan for Argentina?
Petrodollar died the day US cut 20% of world energy reserves from swift… around 2 years ago.
BRICS are now 10 countries, just add Egypt, Ethiopia , the United Arabs Emirates , Iran & KSA and that might helps for relevance of your comment in context … I’m trying to help 🙂
The Wake is jolly , sing praises for the dead. Life goes on.
” the Houthi actions are being celebrated by street Arabs and muslims. In other words, a vast sea of humanity. This is a true David vs. Goliath struggle.”
And being celebrated by this American.
If we can , in the minds of my fellow working-class, white, Trump voters, unite the cause of the Houtihi’s with the cause of the oppressed Americans (we are oppressed), then we have a start of a world-wide coalition of the working class against the Davos faggots.
Before you mock this, consider that Dugin, and Arch Bishop Vigano are working towards a global coalition to stop the scwabs of this world.
BRICS10 is the global coalition, with many more signed up to join.
The US must sign up – there is big business there.
The US won’t be allowed in BRICS+. It is “agreement incapable”.
Remember the >100 Palestinian journalists murdered and support Assange:
“…over 100 journalists have been killed in Palestine—many of course because they put themselves in harm’s way to do their job— the one that the MSM doesn’t do. Others were targeted— murdered by strikes on their cars or their homes, along with their families, women and children. There was no place to hide.”
Just two examples of more than 100:
Wael Dahdouh’s family, for example, was killed in an Israeli “safe zone”.
Mohamed Khaireddine died with his entire family.
US: CIA reportedly plotted to kidnap and assassinate Julian Assange
“A report published by Yahoo News citing over 30 former US officials revealed that the CIA allegedly planned to assassinate Julian Assange as they feared he was planning to escape to Russia from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge for seven years.
According to the officials quoted, the CIA plans included a “potential gunfight with Kremlin operatives in the streets of London, crashing a car into Assange’s getaway vehicle or shooting the tyres of his plane to prevent it from taking off”, the investigators said. That plan was apparently discarded because it was too obvious – so for Assange it had to be slow death in a British prison. The wheels of the law grind slowly but they grind.
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-freedom/article/us-cia-reportedly-plotted-to-kidnap-and-assassinate-julian-assange?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Pres. Trump should have pardoned Assange, and Ed. Snowden. And released ALL the JFK files required by law.
Pretty sue there will be no dilly-dallying next time. What will the CIA do then?
Hold it cheap, they who have not hung there…. (Hopkins)-
So Trump can make a campaign pledge to pardon Assange or at least to revoke the Extradition Request which leaves UK to sort itself out
@bonbon
Pretty sure, are you? The Brooklyn Bridge is not in good repair but I’ll sell it to you for a low price.
Cx: Delete the last line (yours).
Hold it cheap, they who have not hung there…. (Hopkins)-
Seems the sheer danger went under the radar?
“the U.S. and U.K are killing people with no certainty that they are responsible for the actual launch of missiles”
Like the mafioso in ‘Casino’, their attitude is “Why take a chance?”
https://youtu.be/Ka7hSZhgplk?t=55
Given Larry’s comments about those early CIA propaganda documentaries I note the plethora of bogus YouTube sites now and wonder how much of these are created and supported by Western governments. After all if one can bury the truth in piles of nonsense this certainly would act like a form of censorship.
“The truth is out there” but the reality is finding it is like a prospector looking for gold.
This is why people like Larry are so important – and Gonzallo too.
Ron Unz (American Pravda Series in Unz Review):
“The Israel Lobby appears to possess near total control of our political system, government, and media organs, and most observers see no prospect of change, agreeing that it would take an unprecedented ideological earthquake to dislodge such control.
But surely the collapse of the Holocaust narrative would constitute exactly that sort of unprecedented ideological earthquake, perhaps causing the total disintegration of the entire Zionist project built upon it.
For most pro-Israel partisans, the reality of the Holocaust is the fundamental cornerstone of their understanding of the world, and calling it into question would threaten the complete annihilation of their entire system of beliefs.
Those who wish to end what they regard as the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians must recognize that one of their best and only chances to achieve that goal may involve their courageous willingness to challenge a purported genocide from eight decades ago, a genocide that never took place, but has subsequently been used to justify an enormous catalog of war crimes and massacres.”
https://rumble.com/v47f50r-new-wef-participant-crashes-2024-davos-meeting.html?fbclid=IwAR2Yy_UagYspHmqu94_SpCkCWwaWkohlH4MpZVTTJwtje7kqhqrxZQJi5hE
The link at the end ot in by error. It is funny but not relevent to the comment
The holocaust narrative has been extremely useful to various Jewish projects including, reparations, silencing critics and justifying land grabs and war crimes. It also plays an important role congealing Jewish identity (us against them). It’s not surprising that it was one of the first cards played by Israel’s defense team in the recent ICJ trial.
I agree that it’s important to debunk this myth but it will be a hard thing to do since it is so well entrenched in the Western Culture. As Twain said, “It’s harder to convince a man he has been fooled than to fool a man.”
What I find so amazing is how so many have been fooled with stories which on their face are ridiculous. Take Tony Blinken’s story of how his step father survived the gas chamber twice.
https://youtu.be/p-LqgDkMeQE?si=EPD8G9MmpJYzBthW
Somehow his step father survived in a Nazi death camp for 4 years when the operator’s of that camp were intent on killing him. The sheer lunacy of it never even crossed his mind.
It just goes to show the power that propaganda and the media has in shaping people’s reality. It is both facinating and scary. The surprising thing is that the narrative being spun doesn’t even have to be well formulated and logical. Thus, a shower room is turned into a gas chamber, because we are supposed to believe that those evil Nazis have nothing better to do in the middle of a war than to play a lethal practical joke.
Another interesting aspect of this topic is how people have been trained to have a visceral reaction to questioning the holocaust narrative (aka holocaust denial). On the other hand Israel and various Jewish organizations have no problem denying the Armenian genocide ( perpetrated by crypto Jews). It truly amazing how much the Western population has been hornswoggled.
“Take Tony Blinken’s story of how his step father survived the gas chamber twice.”
Well, the good thing is that he only “escaped” twice in 4 years, which means he was forced to wash all the other times.
It appears that the Ostjuden, among other neuroses, suffered from hydrophobia. Aside from the “showers that kill” obsession, this is supported by their repeated assertion that the Palestinians wanted to subject them to the most frightening death: to “push them into the sea.”
Let’s not jump to conclusions, blinkie;s stepdad could very well have been telling the truth. Elder blinkie could have been a sonderkomando or a funktionshäftling (kapo) in the camp. Both classes of Jewish collaborators were working fo and under the supervision of the SS. The sonderkomanmdos disposed of corpses and funktionshäftlingen (kapos) worked under SS supervsion in camp administrative jobs and supervising camp inmates and work projects. Elder blinkie could have been one of those.
Or elder blinkie’s talmudic reasoning and use of talmudic ‘exemptions’ could have baffled the poor, dumb SS deutchernazis and allowed him to run about as he wished. Afterall look at blinkie’s great diplomatic skills! Certainily had to learn them from someone!
When our Jewish overlord’s favorite pet project is being threatened, no cost is too great, no crime too horrendous, no logic too twisted. Israel must be defended and be given carte blanche. Damn the innocence. Damn morality. Damn the world. Jewish ambitions are at stake and the vision of a greater Israel is all that matters.
“But surely the collapse of the Holocaust narrative would constitute exactly that sort of unprecedented ideological earthquake, perhaps causing the total disintegration of the entire Zionist project built upon it.”
Unz agrees with Dr. E. Michael Jones on the Holocaust Narrative.
Arthur Butz, tenured professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University wrote “The Hoax of the Twentieth Century” that exposes the gigantic lie of the tunnel-rats.
When the mass population no accepts the Big Lies of these people, then it is over for them, again.
Speaking of NYC tunnel’s, if they have them there, then most likely there is a history of this behaviour, and similar tunnels throughout Christendom.
After Butz published his book, his university (Northwestern) created an endowed professorship on the subject of Holocaust and implemented a policy whereby graduation or any degree program must include a course dedicated to the study of Holocaust.
His book from removed from Amazon in 2017 at the request made to Jeff Bezos by the director of Yad Vashem library.
(I had bought it long before, too ignorant to know what an “antisemitic, pseudohistorical ” (per wiki) book it was.
Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway made Thomas Crowne Affair movie a generation before Pierce Brosnan re-make. They were even bigger stars in their day.
I can’t remember the man’s name. He is a former Marine intelligence officer. But I listened to what he said about the HOUTHIs. He implied that they were carrying the missiles around by hand, or in wagons and carts, dragging them into caves by hand, to hide them, and using make shift ramps to launch them. Apparently, unless he’s faking it, he doesn’t know that they have truck mounted launchers, maybe formed into batteries, that can hide in road tunnels, or in various buildings that can receive trucks internally, like warehouses. Or under trees, or in alleys, or in factory yards.
It’s the same old Anglo failing of downplaying the competence and capabilities of their enemies, and portraying them as hopelessly backwards and buffoonish. I wonder how many sailors and marines died, thinking that the Japanese were cartoon characters, that could be rubbed out with an eraser.
The list is long and extends into the 18th century…. Russia is a gas station and they’re all drunks…. Damn gooks in black pajamas…. Surely when we French take Moscow the Czar and his primitive orientals will surrender…. I’m sure there are some great qoutes from British imperials.
“Russia is a gas station and they’re all drunks”
while the US is a banana republic without bananas and the baboons are getting restive
It’s the same old Anglo failing of downplaying the competence and capabilities of their enemies, and portraying them as hopelessly backwards and buffoonish. I wonder how many sailors and marines died, thinking that the Japanese were cartoon characters, that could be rubbed out with an eraser.
Fewer than you imagine – I suspect Orde Wingate and the Chindits had a very clear view of them as did General Slim at Kohima Ridge and Imphal
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wwii-kohima-imphal-india-battle-intl-hnk/index.html
Curiously, Japan just right now landed a Lunar spacecraft, name SLIM.Just sayin’.
The Japanese Luna landing craft looks remarkable similar to US’s module of the 1960’s, made of allufoil.
The new US craft leaked and will crash.
All this, and discounting all the asymmetrical capabilities available to them.
War is art. We’re brutish savages with some expensive toys.
Expensive clubs and stone axes.
Human mental capabilities haven’t changed in 50,000 years.
We have surpassed all other advanced species population density – 8+ billion, by exercise of ideas, such as power, water transportation, machine tools, science, progress.
In 50,ß00 years , look at the huge jump in relative potential population density.
Davos does not like that so does a Shaman ritual at close, from a time of population density of 50,000 BP.
Even science has limits…. Humans have limits, too.
Not the limits of animals, only self-imposed limits.
Personally WEF, Davos, and King Charles III are rather limited, what?
Religion does not have limits.
Yes I have noticed it, watching our native/indigenous people in Australia.
The Huffing, Puffing US has COPD 😮💨
In case you’ve been wondering why ME countries other than Yemen are not doing much more to stop Genocide Joe’s and Nutty Yahoo’s Final Solution to the Palestinian question, it’s becuase those nations are scared shitless of getting the “Iraq treatment”. What’s the Iraq treatment? Here it is from just as few years ago, shortly after the Tangerine Jackass killed Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
https://en.prothomalo.com/business/Iraq-warns-of-collapse-if-Trump-blocks-oil-cash
Iraq warns of ‘collapse’ if Trump blocks oil cash
AFP . Baghdad
Published: 12 Jan 2020, 22: 38
Iraqi officials fear economic “collapse” if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a US-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90 per cent of the national budget.
US president Donald Trump was outraged by the Iraqi parliament voting on 5 January to oust foreign forces, including some 5,200 American troops, who have helped local soldiers beat back jihadists since 2014.
If troops were asked to leave, he threatened, “we will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before.”
The US then delivered an extraordinary verbal message directly to prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s office, two Iraqi officials told AFP.
“The PMO got a call threatening that if US troops are kicked out, ‘we’ — the US — will block your account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York,” one official said.
Parliament’s vote to oust the troops was triggered by outrage over a US drone strike on Baghdad two days earlier that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi right-hand-man, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The Central Bank of Iraq’s account at the Fed was established in 2003 following the US-led invasion that toppled ex-dictator Saddam Hussein.
Under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483, which lifted the crippling global sanctions and oil embargo imposed on Iraq after Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, all revenues from Iraqi oil sales would go to the account.
Iraq is OPEC’s second-biggest crude producer and more than 90 percent of the state budget, which reached $112 billion in 2019, derives from oil revenues.
To this day, revenues are paid in dollars into the Fed account daily, with the balance now sitting at about $35 billion, Iraqi officials told AFP.
Every month or so, Iraq flies in $1-$2 billion in cash from that account for official and commercial transactions.
“We’re an oil-producing country. Those accounts are in dollars. Cutting off access means totally turning off the tap,” the first Iraqi official said.
The second official said it would mean the government could not carry out daily functions or pay salaries and the Iraqi currency would plummet in value.
“It would mean collapse for Iraq,” the official said.
Trump ‘politicises everything’
A third senior Iraqi official confirmed the US was considering “restricting” cash access to “about a third of what they would usually send.”
The Federal Reserve declined to comment on Trump’s threat.
A US State Department Official confirmed to AFP that the possibility of restricting access to the Fed account was “raised” with Iraq following the vote.
“You can imagine why, if troops were expelled, banks might be nervous about sending lots of… cash to Baghdad,” this official said.
But the US threat was still highly unusual as the Fed is meant to be independent of foreign policy.
“The attempt to politicise dollar shipments has the Bank worried because it affects its prestige and integrity in dealing with clients,” the State Department official added.
“Trump is obviously willing to politicise everything.”
Washington has considered the measure for months, with a senior US diplomat at the Baghdad embassy telling AFP in July it was looking at “limiting the cash that comes into Iraq.”
“That would be the nuclear option,” this diplomat added at the time.
Just before Iraqi lawmakers voted on the troop ouster, Speaker Mohammad Halbusi warned the world could stop dealing with Iraq’s banks in revenge for the move.
Blocking the Iraqi central bank’s Fed account could be done by blacklisting a government body, which would immediately restrict Baghdad’s access to dollars.
The US already sanctions Iraqi nationals, armed groups and even banks for links to Tehran, Washington’s arch-foe in the region.
It had left oil revenues untouched, with officials previously telling AFP such a move would be too damaging to a country considered a US ally.
US would ‘lose Iraq’
But ties worsened recently, with the US frustrated by Iraq’s alliance with Iran and repeated rocket attacks on US installations blamed on Iraqi factions.
Relations then took a nosedive with the January 3 US drone strike that killed Soleimani and Muhandis, a senior Iraqi paramilitary figure.
Iraq slammed the killings as a violation of its sovereignty and immediately called for the vote on US troops.
The US is considering other — less inflammatory — options too, US and Iraqi officials said.
One would be declining to renew a temporary waiver that Washington granted to Iraq in 2018 that allows Baghdad to import gas from Iran to feed its gutted power grid, despite US sanctions on Tehran’s energy sector.
If Washington does not renew the waiver in February, then the Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI), which buys the gas, could face secondary sanctions for dealing with blacklisted Iranian entities.
Iraqi officials said the US threat to deny access to oil revenues was met with shock, anger and near-disbelief.
“The PM was pissed and insulted,” one official told AFP.
Another said the US would then irreversibly “lose Iraq”.
“They’d push us towards Russia, China, Iran. We’d have to form a separate economy with those countries.”
Americans think history began in 1945, and ended in 1990 with Fukuyama.
British Prime Minister Disraeli first proposed an Israel in 1855, well before Balfour.
Biography : Disraeli by Stanley Weintraub
Penguin Books, New York, 1993
Review here : https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n24-19940610/eirv21n24-19940610_052-benjamin_disraeli_a_venetian_lio.pdf
Benjamin Disraeli: A Venetian lion in Lord Palmerston’s Zoo
D’israeli anglicized to Disraeli was actually Venetian. The Venetian Party ran Britain during Queen Victoria’s time. King Edward VII was Venetian Party. Shakespeare knew the Venetian takeover then. Disraeli published Tancred, Sybil and Conningsby, the blueprint for Israel.
I had wondered just how far you were down the Lyndon Larouche rabbit hole……..it has been self-evident for some time
So you like Disraeli?
Been evident for some time.
Kneel to King Charles III, descendant of King David, Squire.
Disraeli…
1) apparently his claims be descended from Venetian aristocracy are well documented as false.
2) please provide references to back up your claim that he was a Zionist and openly advocated/acted for the Jewish reclamation of Palestine before Balfour. “flirted with proto-Zionism” is the nearest reference I could find.
AGAIN… King Chuckie of the FlappyEars is about as direct a descendant of Biblical King David as my cat. Claims are NOT PROOF.
bonbon, purveyor of Apologist Fables.
What “proof” is needed? They say it , suck it up.
Sound familiar?
Thanks for admitting you have none, in case anyone here still thought your posts were factual or correct.
I found ample proof of many other things Disraeli did and said, but none which gave clear evidence of any major leadership, contribution or allegiance to the ZIONIST cause. Maybe Victoria liked him BECAUSE he didn’t toe the ZIONIST line, knowing he had some semblance of intellectual connection to reality. Chomsky, for all his faults, stated the best place to see what the corporate class was paying attention to was in the back pages of the Financial Section. They may lie on the front page, but they told the truth to each other.
To borrow a paraphrase of Daniel 5-27, You have been measured, you have been weighed, and you have most definitely been found wanting.
You can stop digging your own ideological grave at any point.
Americans think that history began when group of slaveowners took a piece of paper and wrote on it that they consider everyone to be equal, but that some are more equal than others.
I call the Houthis the Honey Badgers of WEST ASIA.Google “Honey Badger Dont Give AFuck”
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
Sun Tzu, maybe the Houthis are reading this author.
We can’t even safely take commercial flights anymore. The planes are defective, pilots inexperienced and ATC controllers incompetent.
Yeah. 747 had to return to Miami last night because an engine caught fire. I’m 66 and I’ve been flying at least a few times per year since childhood and I’m now a bit scared of flying.
What part of life in a 15-minute city don’t you like?
ATCs and pilots have all had health degradation due to clot shots. Heart damage is ignored by CASA, FAA, et al.
The head of the Australian ATC wrote an open letter to the Fed Govt. warning a catastrophe is in the making. On any given day 40% of ATCs are absent and many on duty are inexperienced replacements for the sick, and sacked (for not accepting injections).
Major airports have some ATCs working remotely, IE not in the airport tower, so no visual of the airport or surrounds. If there is an internet outage they are blind.
At over two hundred minor airports pilots have to “self separate” IE look out the window to check for other planes.
There is no way I will get on a plane until this clot shot debacle is recognised and healthy pilots and ATCs are brought back.
Yeah. I just read that last night. Obviously, it isn’t just about Substack, of course. That just happens to be one area under attack. Call it a recent symptom.
In short, we have become a nation where it’s: have an unapproved thought? Telling the truth? You will be destroyed!
Hey, how about this “freedom and democracy”, eh? Got to remember that, so we can tell the rest of the world how superior we are, and that’s why we must rule the planet.
Of course, when I say “we”, that doesn’t mean any of us (like we have any control).
Larry, kudos – an upgrade! Looks good so far. DOS to be wary of….
I think it was the very useful edit button that brought WUWT down from DOS.
Testing :
Making fun of the ineffectiveness of whack-a-Houthi is dangerous, because it neglects to acknowledge that its real goal is to bait Houthis to hurt US ships and sailors and deliver a casus bellum against Iran, the neocon prize. That Iran is the prize is clear from the incessant mantra in the MSM of the “Iran-backed Houthis” and the censorship of their motive – MSM does not write “Gaza-backing Houthis” or anything of the sort.
True, no laughing matter but great analogy… what’s happening in ME and with Global South and to some extent in EU as in Germany with the farmers and maybe soon in U.S., is similar to Nemik’s Manifesto from Disney’s Andor..
It may be the only good piece of writing from Disney..
“There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.”
Why Houthis and not Yemanits?
Hmmmm! Da wird sehr viel angesprochen! Die verschiedenen Gedankengänge und Ansichten muss man erst mal , geistig,sortieren!!!!
Nun! Die Militärgeschichte zeigt wieder ein mal, (ich lasse die ökonomischen Aspekte bewusst weg!) , dass sich, wie im Vietnam Krieg, Strategien entwickeln, die den “scheinbar” Überlegenen in eine schwierige Situation bringen! Die ehemalige Sowjetunion hat in Afghanistan gelernt. Eben;”aus der Geschichte gelernt”, ebenso aus der Unterstützung von Vietnam!
Mein Fazit;
Ich kann und möchte jedem, halbwegs gebildeten Menschen auf diesem Planeten empfehlen, den “ANTI -SPIEGEL”, vom deutschen Thomas Röper zu lesen! JA! Er lebt seit längerem in Russland, da er in Deutschland ‘sanktioniert’ wurde. Sicher, er schreibt mehr über die Zusammenhänge, die EUROPA, USA und Russland betreffen, aber seine Recherchen und Schlussfolgerungen zu den “HUTIS” sind “auf den Punkt gebracht”!!!!
Eben: FAKTEN, FAKTEN, FAKTEN!