Donald Trump Announces 2016 White House Bid
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https://russia-insider.com/en/us-wo...-shia-war-see-itself-outplayed-russia/ri25387
And that is what the 'Arab NATO' idea is all about
All wars initiated or supported by the US establishment – from the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the second Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the regime-change in Syria in 2011 and the occupation of a third of Iraq in 2014 – have failed in their goal of stoking the fire of sectarian war between Sunni and Shia in the Middle East. The failure of this strategy has pushed the US establishment towards two new options: the first, of using media to reveal Saudi Arabia’s intention to harm the Iranian economy and assassinate its military commanders. The second is to promote and advertise for an “Arab (Sunni) NATO Army”. The goal is to keep the possibility of sectarian war alive.
The struggle for dominance between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been going on since the fall of the Shah and the victory of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Nevertheless, today’s level of direct confrontation in various parts of the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Bahrein and Yemen) is unprecedented. This is partly the result of US efforts to throw gasoline on the fire of hate and competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
It is against the interests of the US establishment to see the Iran-Saudi struggle wane because that would damage the US economy. Trump said clearly that he needs Arab money in exchange for the protection he is offering, otherwise “the Arab regimes won’t last for one week”. Accordingly, a state of non-war or non-competition between Tehran and Riyadh would significantly reduce the billions of dollars in US arms sales to Saudi.
The Saudi monarchy is well aware of the US need to sell them weapons. Indeed, Saudi media threatened the US – in the aftermath of the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi – to cease all hostilities towards Iran if Washington were to insist on accusing a Saudi top official (MBS) of the horrible kidnapping and murder. This shows that Saudi animosity towards Iran is a double edge weapon used by both the US and the monarchy to reach their own sometimes mutually conflicting objectives. Saudi officials are happy to continue feeding Trump the sums of money he wants as long as he allows Saudi Arabia a free hand in the region, mainly against Yemen.
(in part)
https://russia-insider.com/en/washi...-and-now-playing-very-weak-hand-syria/ri25377
Anglo-American elites still dream of swooping in and toppling Assad on humanitarian pretexts but this is no longer 2013
With Damascus and its allies firmly in control of Syria's largest cities and the vast majority of Syrian territory west of the Euphrates - not only has the US-led proxy war against the nation failed - with Russian and Iranian forces involved indefinitely - the return of additional territory under Damascus' control seems all but inevitable.
However, the US still holds territory east of the Euphrates, and - as American policymakers like to gloat - much of Syria's oil wealth falls within this territory illegally occupied by US troops.
There is also the northern city of Idlib and surrounding countryside - the future of which is still nebulous due to the presence of Turkish forces and Ankara's ever-shifting agenda and alliances.
And that is what the 'Arab NATO' idea is all about
All wars initiated or supported by the US establishment – from the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the second Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the regime-change in Syria in 2011 and the occupation of a third of Iraq in 2014 – have failed in their goal of stoking the fire of sectarian war between Sunni and Shia in the Middle East. The failure of this strategy has pushed the US establishment towards two new options: the first, of using media to reveal Saudi Arabia’s intention to harm the Iranian economy and assassinate its military commanders. The second is to promote and advertise for an “Arab (Sunni) NATO Army”. The goal is to keep the possibility of sectarian war alive.
The struggle for dominance between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been going on since the fall of the Shah and the victory of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Nevertheless, today’s level of direct confrontation in various parts of the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Bahrein and Yemen) is unprecedented. This is partly the result of US efforts to throw gasoline on the fire of hate and competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Saudi monarchy is well aware of the US need to sell them weapons. Indeed, Saudi media threatened the US – in the aftermath of the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi – to cease all hostilities towards Iran if Washington were to insist on accusing a Saudi top official (MBS) of the horrible kidnapping and murder. This shows that Saudi animosity towards Iran is a double edge weapon used by both the US and the monarchy to reach their own sometimes mutually conflicting objectives. Saudi officials are happy to continue feeding Trump the sums of money he wants as long as he allows Saudi Arabia a free hand in the region, mainly against Yemen.
(in part)
https://russia-insider.com/en/washi...-and-now-playing-very-weak-hand-syria/ri25377
Anglo-American elites still dream of swooping in and toppling Assad on humanitarian pretexts but this is no longer 2013
With Damascus and its allies firmly in control of Syria's largest cities and the vast majority of Syrian territory west of the Euphrates - not only has the US-led proxy war against the nation failed - with Russian and Iranian forces involved indefinitely - the return of additional territory under Damascus' control seems all but inevitable.
However, the US still holds territory east of the Euphrates, and - as American policymakers like to gloat - much of Syria's oil wealth falls within this territory illegally occupied by US troops.
https://russia-insider.com/en/us-wo...-shia-war-see-itself-outplayed-russia/ri25387
And that is what the 'Arab NATO' idea is all about
All wars initiated or supported by the US establishment – from the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the second Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006, the regime-change in Syria in 2011 and the occupation of a third of Iraq in 2014 – have failed in their goal of stoking the fire of sectarian war between Sunni and Shia in the Middle East. The failure of this strategy has pushed the US establishment towards two new options: the first, of using media to reveal Saudi Arabia’s intention to harm the Iranian economy and assassinate its military commanders. The second is to promote and advertise for an “Arab (Sunni) NATO Army”. The goal is to keep the possibility of sectarian war alive.
The struggle for dominance between Saudi Arabia and Iran has been going on since the fall of the Shah and the victory of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Nevertheless, today’s level of direct confrontation in various parts of the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Bahrein and Yemen) is unprecedented. This is partly the result of US efforts to throw gasoline on the fire of hate and competition between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
It is against the interests of the US establishment to see the Iran-Saudi struggle wane because that would damage the US economy. Trump said clearly that he needs Arab money in exchange for the protection he is offering, otherwise “the Arab regimes won’t last for one week”. Accordingly, a state of non-war or non-competition between Tehran and Riyadh would significantly reduce the billions of dollars in US arms sales to Saudi.
The Saudi monarchy is well aware of the US need to sell them weapons. Indeed, Saudi media threatened the US – in the aftermath of the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi – to cease all hostilities towards Iran if Washington were to insist on accusing a Saudi top official (MBS) of the horrible kidnapping and murder. This shows that Saudi animosity towards Iran is a double edge weapon used by both the US and the monarchy to reach their own sometimes mutually conflicting objectives. Saudi officials are happy to continue feeding Trump the sums of money he wants as long as he allows Saudi Arabia a free hand in the region, mainly against Yemen.
(in part)
https://russia-insider.com/en/washi...-and-now-playing-very-weak-hand-syria/ri25377
Anglo-American elites still dream of swooping in and toppling Assad on humanitarian pretexts but this is no longer 2013
With Damascus and its allies firmly in control of Syria's largest cities and the vast majority of Syrian territory west of the Euphrates - not only has the US-led proxy war against the nation failed - with Russian and Iranian forces involved indefinitely - the return of additional territory under Damascus' control seems all but inevitable.
However, the US still holds territory east of the Euphrates, and - as American policymakers like to gloat - much of Syria's oil wealth falls within this territory illegally occupied by US troops.
There is also the northern city of Idlib and surrounding countryside - the future of which is still nebulous due to the presence of Turkish forces and Ankara's ever-shifting agenda and alliances.
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Poor stupid MHz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He thinks we have not noticed that both Iran and Russia are hostile to the west!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons to kill Jews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for others who get caught in the nuclear crossfire and radioactive dust..............................Iranian Ayatollahs say "SCREW them"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God can sort them out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals WHINE because Saudis are backing govt forces in Yemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals WHINE because food and water are in very short supply in Yemen due to the fighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals WHINE that the misery and starvation in Yemen is the fault of Saudis..............WHILE IGNORING the Iranian troops operating with Russian backing in Yemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This LIE-beral moral stance has all the style and grace of Adolf Hitler whining about the British bombing Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Hitler did not want to fight then he should not have PICKED the fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals have all the moral fibre of a standard dictator- they want to fight ONLY WHEN THEY ARE CERTAIN OF WINNING!!!!!!!!!
Apparently the Saudis and their allies are WINNING in Yemen so LIE-berals have chosen this time to smear Saudis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saudi Arabia is governed by an unlovable regime..........................but at least it is pro western!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neither Russia nor Iran is ruled by anything resembling a democratic or lovable regime...............so why single out Saudi Arabia???????????????????????
The Saudis are not lovable..........but they are NOT THREATENING THE WEST EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STUPID LIE-berals CANNOT say the same about either Russia or Iran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNLESS YOU ARE A LIE-beral HYPOCRITE????????????????????????????
Report: Ivanka Trump used personal email for government work
Associated Press
Published:
November 19, 2018
Updated:
November 19, 2018 9:35 PM EST
In this Nov. 14, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, centre, greets guests in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Andrew Harnik / AP
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a top White House adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year, The Washington Post reported Monday.
The emails were sent to White House aides, Cabinet members and Ivanka Trump’s assistants, many in violation of public records rules, the paper said. President Donald Trump mercilessly criticized his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state, labeling her “Crooked Hillary” and saying she belonged in jail.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the email use, but a spokesman for Ivanka Trump’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, didn’t dispute the report.
“While transitioning into government… Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” said the spokesman, Peter Mirijanian.
Mirijanian stressed that no classified information was transmitted in the messages, that no emails were deleted and that the emails have since been “retained” in conformity with records laws.
“When concerns were raised in the press 14 months ago, Ms. Trump reviewed and verified her email use with White House Counsel and explained the issue to congressional leaders,” he said.
The discovery was prompted by public records requests from the liberal watchdog group American Oversight. The group’s executive director, Austin Evers, said in a statement that “The president’s family is not above the law,” and he called on Congress to investigate.
“For more than two years, President Trump and senior leaders in Congress have made it very clear that they view the use of personal email servers for government business to be a serious offence that demands investigation and even prosecution, and we expect the same standard will be applied in this case,” he said.
The emails the group uncovered include correspondence between Ivanka Trump and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/report-ivanka-trump-used-personal-email-for-government-work
Associated Press
Published:
November 19, 2018
Updated:
November 19, 2018 9:35 PM EST
In this Nov. 14, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, centre, greets guests in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Andrew Harnik / AP
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a top White House adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year, The Washington Post reported Monday.
The emails were sent to White House aides, Cabinet members and Ivanka Trump’s assistants, many in violation of public records rules, the paper said. President Donald Trump mercilessly criticized his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state, labeling her “Crooked Hillary” and saying she belonged in jail.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the email use, but a spokesman for Ivanka Trump’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, didn’t dispute the report.
“While transitioning into government… Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” said the spokesman, Peter Mirijanian.
Mirijanian stressed that no classified information was transmitted in the messages, that no emails were deleted and that the emails have since been “retained” in conformity with records laws.
“When concerns were raised in the press 14 months ago, Ms. Trump reviewed and verified her email use with White House Counsel and explained the issue to congressional leaders,” he said.
The discovery was prompted by public records requests from the liberal watchdog group American Oversight. The group’s executive director, Austin Evers, said in a statement that “The president’s family is not above the law,” and he called on Congress to investigate.
“For more than two years, President Trump and senior leaders in Congress have made it very clear that they view the use of personal email servers for government business to be a serious offence that demands investigation and even prosecution, and we expect the same standard will be applied in this case,” he said.
The emails the group uncovered include correspondence between Ivanka Trump and Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
http://torontosun.com/news/world/report-ivanka-trump-used-personal-email-for-government-work
Put on your thinking cap for a second. Why would an ultra rich nation like Iran want to invade a country that is a 'dust bowl'? If Gaza is just above starvation it is because the Jews insist any money sent has to be sent to them and they will 'forward' what remains. Think Haiti / Clinton Foundation to see where the money really goes. JT would make a good Jew as demonstrated by the way he allows medical experiments to use Indians as the lab-rats. That is one smelly fuking boat you are on. Be sure to offer some feedback when you start to feel something nipping at your heels.
Are you say she was not a crook or just on that one issue. Be sure to watch the Clinton body count vid first. So you like her and the Don.
Profit from war still the deciding factor for you, Yes? Since you like them both does that not make you an enemy of the people (Americans that is?)
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The REAL QUESTION HERE is just what sort of "work" Ivanka Trump is doing for govt?
Last I heard she is a lightweight in Washington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS such her responsibilities are light and her access to any real secrets is quite LIMITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This compares sharply with Hilary Clinton who held a serious post under Obama and who was seeking to become president -with access TO ALL THE BIG SECRETS if she should become president!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Ivanka Trump biz only6 coming to light now illustrates that Yankee security is not omnipotent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ypthe whole story isn't out yet.
It:'s just the beginning and with her husband's well documented connections to Russian agents, it's high time to lock corrupt Ivanka up before she passes on any more state secrets to America's enemies
LOCK HER UP!!
LOCK HER UP!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PITY THE POOR DELUSIONAL LIE-BERALS WHOSE POLICIES ARE ALL FALLING INTO DISGRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor LIE-berals have NOTHING to hope for except this desperate DREAM that somewhere, some day, some how, somebody will impeach Trump and take him out of the lives of LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The TERRIBLE FEAR OF LIE-berals is that TRUMP WILL BE GONE...........RIGHT AFTER his second term of office runs out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The stupid can get stupider.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201811211070010566-us-china-wto-tensions/
The latest flare-up of tensions between the US and China comes just weeks after Trump and Xi agreed to ‘strengthen economic exchanges’.
Adding a new twist to its trade war with China ahead of a crucial meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at this month’s G-20 summit, the US has once again ramped up trade tensions with Beijing, accusing the country of intellectual property theft.
In a 53-page report, the US trade representative’s office released blames China for conducting a global espionage campaign to collect sensitive commercial information and operated an unfair technology transfer regime whereby US companies are required to hand over tech and IP to their Chinese competitors, Bloomberg wrote.
“We completed this update as part of this administration’s strengthened monitoring and enforcement effort,” Ambassador Robert Lighthizer said. “This update shows that China has not fundamentally altered its unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices,” he added.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded by insisting that China ‘firmly protects’ intellectual property rights.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201811211070006150-pakistan-us-bin-laden/
In an official Pakistani FM statement made this Tuesday (20 November) it was, for the first time, publicly recognised that "it was Pakistan's intelligence cooperation that provided the initial evidence to trace the whereabouts of OBL" (Osama bin Laden). The foreign ministry's announcement came after the US Chargé d'Affaires (US CdA) Paul Jones visited the foreign office in Islamabad where he had been summoned by the Pakistani foreign secretary to "register a strong protest on the unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegations made against Pakistan" by Donald Trump.
"No other country had paid a heavier price than Pakistan in the fight against terrorism. The US leadership had acknowledged on multiple occasions that Pakistan's cooperation had helped in decimating the core Al-Qaeda leadership and eradicating the threat of terrorism from the region. The US must not forget that scores of top AQ leaders were killed or captured by active Pakistani cooperation. Pakistan's continued support to the efforts of international community in Afghanistan through Ground/ Air and Sea lines of communication was unquestionably critical to the success of this Mission in Afghanistan", said the official press release.
The Pakistani statement said that the two countries continue to seek ways to achieve a political settlement in Afghanistan and concludes with the remark that "baseless allegations about a closed chapter of history could seriously undermine…vital cooperation" between Islamabad and Washington.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201811211070010566-us-china-wto-tensions/
The latest flare-up of tensions between the US and China comes just weeks after Trump and Xi agreed to ‘strengthen economic exchanges’.
Adding a new twist to its trade war with China ahead of a crucial meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at this month’s G-20 summit, the US has once again ramped up trade tensions with Beijing, accusing the country of intellectual property theft.
In a 53-page report, the US trade representative’s office released blames China for conducting a global espionage campaign to collect sensitive commercial information and operated an unfair technology transfer regime whereby US companies are required to hand over tech and IP to their Chinese competitors, Bloomberg wrote.
“We completed this update as part of this administration’s strengthened monitoring and enforcement effort,” Ambassador Robert Lighthizer said. “This update shows that China has not fundamentally altered its unfair, unreasonable, and market-distorting practices,” he added.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman responded by insisting that China ‘firmly protects’ intellectual property rights.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201811211070006150-pakistan-us-bin-laden/
In an official Pakistani FM statement made this Tuesday (20 November) it was, for the first time, publicly recognised that "it was Pakistan's intelligence cooperation that provided the initial evidence to trace the whereabouts of OBL" (Osama bin Laden). The foreign ministry's announcement came after the US Chargé d'Affaires (US CdA) Paul Jones visited the foreign office in Islamabad where he had been summoned by the Pakistani foreign secretary to "register a strong protest on the unwarranted and unsubstantiated allegations made against Pakistan" by Donald Trump.
"No other country had paid a heavier price than Pakistan in the fight against terrorism. The US leadership had acknowledged on multiple occasions that Pakistan's cooperation had helped in decimating the core Al-Qaeda leadership and eradicating the threat of terrorism from the region. The US must not forget that scores of top AQ leaders were killed or captured by active Pakistani cooperation. Pakistan's continued support to the efforts of international community in Afghanistan through Ground/ Air and Sea lines of communication was unquestionably critical to the success of this Mission in Afghanistan", said the official press release.
The Pakistani statement said that the two countries continue to seek ways to achieve a political settlement in Afghanistan and concludes with the remark that "baseless allegations about a closed chapter of history could seriously undermine…vital cooperation" between Islamabad and Washington.