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In its disgusting fawning and hypocrisy, little could top the outpouring of praise from the major imperialist powers in response to the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who died Friday at age 90.
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is dead. But he left behind $500K in jewels and various other gifts for rabid anti-Putin fanatic Hillary Clinton Does Putin need to behead someone to curry her favor? Maybe...
King Abdullah's writ lasted all of 12 hours. Within that period the Sudairis, a rich and politically powerful clan within the House of Saud, which had been weakened by the late king, burst back into prominence. Its a palace coup in all but name.
According to reports in a variety of specialist military publications -- including Jane's, the UK-based group of defence industry publications -- the LAV IIIs are for the National Guard (SANG), a 100,000-strong force of Bedouin tribesmen and Wahhabi religious zealots whose prime task is to protect King Abdullah and the royal family from domestic opponents.
Indeed, the SANG acts as the king's personal army, is not administered by the Ministry of Defence and is commanded by his son Miteb. One of the SANG's main duties is to protect the monarch from military coups. Another is to guard the country's Muslim religious sites.
The role of the SANG, which outnumbers the 75,000-strong Saudi Arabian army, will be of critical importance in coming months and years as the country approaches an unprecedented succession crisis. King Abdullah is 91 years old and in failing health.
The majority of eulogies went beyond
An unidentified senior American official said that Obama warned Netanyahu "not to meddle in the battle" Obama was "waging against Congress over the sanctions legislation"
Ha'aretz, reported the firmness with which Obama addressed Netanyahu: "Obama stressed to Netanyahu that he is seeking to reach an agreement with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons and assure the international community in a verifiable fashion that Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only,
One week later, after secret meetings with Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner invited Israel's Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress February 11.
It is unprecedented for a House speaker to invite a foreign leader to speak to the Congress without prior consultation and agreement with the President of the United States.
On the surface, Salman will not govern much differently than his predecessor in affairs of oil politics and national security. Salman will be assisted by his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the minister of defense and the chief of the royal court. Mohammed was the chief adviser to his father when Salman served as the governor of Riyadh province. Prince Mohammed became defense minister when his father acceded to the throne upon the death of Abdullah.
'We're gonna teach you about great American sex': Guantanamo detainee was tortured and then forced to have sex with female interrogators, prison diary claims
The fawning by the American and British governments toward Saudi Arabia over the death of King Abdullah is for good – albeit unspoken – reasons. The oil-rich feudal kingdom is a lynchpin of Western hegemony in the strategically vital Middle East region. At a time when the region is gripped by instability more than ever, the House of Saud now enters a dangerous period of transition, which presents deep alarm to the Western patrons.
By buying eurozone governments' bonds using electronically created money – so-called quantitative easing– the ECB hopes to shore up confidence, boost inflation, and drive down the value of the euro on foreign exchanges, helping to boost exports and kickstart growth.
The €60bn a month figure includes the purchases of private sector assets that the ECB had already begun to try to unlock credit markets.
President Obama will forego a visit to the Taj Mahal during his visit to India in order to pay respects in Saudi Arabia after the death of King Abdullah, the White House announced early Saturday morning.
In the wake of recent psy ops news (in other words, news in general), an interesting conundrum was apparent to me today,
One obvious difference between the two leaders was that Chávez was elected and Abdullah was not.
A bipartisan, multi-religious group of Americans have offered to each take 100 lashes for Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Saudi clerics. All those who volunteered are members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
snip: America's "closest Arab ally," said Newsweek. Kingdom "decapitations are routine." For "crimes including political dissent."
"(A)nd the international press hardly seems to notice." Dozens of people have "their heads lopped off" annually.
On average, one every four days. Along with other horrendous forms of punishment. Including whippings involving hundreds of lashes. Sometimes 1,000.
Administered about 50 at a time. Too many at once assures extremely painful death.
Newsweek said beheadings occur in public. "People…gather to watch…" British author John R. Bradley calls them the "only form of public entertainment" besides football.
One Saudi executioner, Mohammed Saad al-Beshi, said he beheaded up to seven prisoners a day. Calling it "God's work."
Newsweek's article is the exception proving the rule. Virtually none of this makes Western headlines. Especially in America.
In short, increased Russia/China oil cooperation may have added pressure for Saudi Arabia to lower oil prices.
American politicians and mainstream media are falling all over themselves praising the late Saudi King Abdullah.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef, a close friend of the United States and a scourge of Islamist militants, will be the country's first king from the third generation of its ruling dynasty.
King Salman moved swiftly to appoint Prince Mohammad Bin Nayef as Deputy Crown Prince on Friday, hours after he took the throne following the death of King Abdullah. The decision appeared to settle for many years to come tough decisions over the kingdom's future succession.
So there will be no dramatic shifts in policy coming from Saudi Arabia. With King Salman being of great age and mentally challenged, Crown Prince Bin Nayef is the real power now.
Riedel says Salman has had a stroke, Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute says the new king's brain is "ravaged by dementia," and The Economist reports he's believed to be suffering from Alzheimer's.
Okay, so who is REALLY calling the shots in Saudi Arabia right now?
While undergoing treatment
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has died, Saudi state television announced early on Friday local time.
Abdullah's designated successor is Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, his 79-year-old half-brother.
There is a little wrinkle in the Saudi system called the Allegiance Council, which has the authority to bypass Prince Salman and choose a younger man to be the new king.
While many experts doubt that the Saudi Arabian authorities will actually carry out the execution, it is important to take stock of the political context in which the Special Criminal Court issued the death sentence.
As the hardly left-leaning Thomas Friedman has explained, even espousing the U.S. State Department's official policy that settlements are illegal and East Jerusalem is an occupied city can stop a career before it starts.
Veteran CNN journalist Jim Clancy's resignation this week is one of the odder media fallouts from the Charlie Hebdo Paris attack. On January 7, Clancy got into a late night Twitter spat regarding the French satirical magazine with online adversaries. When he told them they were ganging up on him and practicing "hasbara," the Hebrew word for "explaining" that describes pro-Israel advocacy often at the behest of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they lashed back as if the term were libelous.
On the one side you have the Syrian Government of Bashar Al Assad backed by Hezbollah and Iran, while on the other you have a who's who of the region's nastiest terrorists; from the mismatched posses of Islamic extremists fighting under the Islamic Army moniker, to ISIS and Al Nusra Front, backed by the deep-pocketed Gulf monarchies along with Erdogan's Turkey and the U.S., with Netanyahu's Israel added to the mix for good measure. Talk about a true rogues gallery.
The world now needs a fearless champion with clout, another overturner of money tables, scatterer of vested interests, exposer of hypocrisy and scourge of the unjust... a genuinely heroic figure that ordinary folk around the world can look up to.
In any month nearly 200 Palestinian children are held in Israeli military detention and the numbers remain fairly constant.
His Holiness, on reflection, must know that the situation in Palestine is wretchedly deplorable and an ugly stain on civilization generally and Christendom in particular for allowing it to happen. Praying with villains like Peres and accepting their refusal to allow access to Gaza's communities doesn't cut the mustard. Extraordinary evil requires extraordinary measures.
Save you prayers, Holiness, for someone and something more deserving. Are we just people who use fine and pious words?
Ambassador al-Ja'afari: I'm sure you're aware of the alarming reports of Da'esh coming from Camp Bucca in Iraq, the famous American prison in Iraq. Al-Baghdadi, the caliph of Da'esh, was at Bucca. He was released by the Americans, not by the Syrian president. The men who committed the massacre in Paris, they were fighting in Syria and came back to France. France allowed them to go to Syria, where they killed scores of people, and in Iraq. Then they came back, normally, and the French police let them in. The same terrorists. They are good when they kill Syrians, and they are bad when they kill the French.
Not many weeks after that bizarre presidential pray-in with the Pope, Israel launched its most recent murder spree, Operation Protective Edge, slaughtering nearly 2,200 including more than 500 children, seriously injuring thousands more, making countless families homeless, wreaking massive destruction on vital infrastructure and causing lethal public health problems.
In short, enjoy the $2.50-a-gallon fill-ups while you can, grasshoppers, because when the current crop of fast-depleting shale oil wells dries up, that will be all she wrote. When all those bonds held up on their skyhook derivative hedges go south, there will be no more financing available for the entire shale oil project. No more high-yield bonds will be issued because the previous issues defaulted. Very few new wells (if any) will be drilled. American oil production will not return to its secondary highs (after the 1970 all-time high) of 2014-15. The wish of American energy independence will be steaming over the horizon on the garbage barge of broken promises. And all, that, of course, is only one part of the story, because there is the social and political fallout to follow.
On the program I asked Mustapha if Zionism and the octopus of lobby groups that work on its behalf is as big a driving force behind US and broader Western foreign policy as some contend. "France, the US [and other Western countries] are under the domination of Israel," Mustapha told me. Mustapha contends that Israel's agents have supplanted all independent leaders in the West, replacing them with grovelling lapdogs who do the bidding of Israel at all costs, even to the detriment to their own people and nations.
We touched on the recent events in Paris, wherein "Islamist" gun-men are said to have carried out a massacre at the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher market. Mustapha pondered whether the attack was stage-managed by the intelligence services, considering the two deceased suspects were being closely surveyed and watched by French intelligence and police for years, their names even showing up on 'terror watch' and 'no fly' lists.
Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar would all reject a policy that would allow a regime they regard as an Iranian ally to persist in Syria.
Contradictions between the Obama administration's policy in Syria and realities on the ground have become so acute that U.S. officials began last November discussing a proposal calling for support of local ceasefires between opposition forces and the Assad regime in dozens of locations across Syria.
The proposal surfaced in two articles in Foreign Policy magazine and in a column by the Washington Post's David Ignatius. Those indicated that it was under serious consideration by administration officials. In fact, the proposal may even have played a role in a series of four White House meetings during the week of Nov. 6-13, to discuss Syria policy, one of which Obama himself presided over.
This neocon madness – this "anti-realism" – has been playing out in the real world on a grand scale, destroying real lives and endangering the real future of the planet.
The primary distinction between the neocons and the liberal interventionists has been the centrality of Israel in the neocons' thinking while their liberal sidekicks put "humanitarianism" at the core of their world view. But these differences are insignificant, in practice, since the liberal hawks are politically savvy enough not to hold Israel accountable for its human rights crimes and clever enough to join with the neocons in easy-to-sell "regime change" strategies toward targeted countries with weak lobbies in Washington.
Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on all forms of political dissent and protests that could "harm public order".
The new laws have largely been brought in to combat the growing number of Saudis travelling to take part in the civil war in Syria, who have previously returned with newfound training and ideas about overthrowing the monarchy.
To that end, King Abdullah issued Royal Decree 44, which criminalises "participating in hostilities outside the kingdom" with prison sentences of between three and 20 years, Human Rights Watch said.
It appears that no matter WHAT issue is vexing the sclerotic House of Saud, you can always, always bet that they will get it wrong.
Royal Decree # 44 is absolutely no exception to this reality.
And I am sorry, however; we hear the propaganda about Isis, characterizing it as "brutal" in their torture and killings of prisoners. They flog, stone, amputate, and behead, with wild abandon.
And YET, the US's second BBF in the Middle East (after Israel, of course) does precisely the same things, and no one in DC dares speak a whisper here.
IF any one of our readers happens to know any of the younger members of the House of Saud, please remind them of the following statement, which I think was one of the most profound statements ever said by the late President Kennedy: "where peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable."
And as a Christian Pacifist, I abhor violence; I can, however, understand the circumstances through which it might come about.
Through this decree, and cracking down on peaceful protestors, the Saudi Government and the House of Saud are creating the perfect storm for a potentially very nasty and turbulent future.
That which is most rigid and hidebound,(and governmental policiy is no exception here) eventually, shatters.
For decades American politicians of both parties have been hand-wringing and nay-saying about why a fence on the border with Mexico won't work.
The new Universal Credit Rating Group (UCRG) is being set up to rival the existing agencies Moody's, S&P and Fitch, and its first rating will be issued this year.
The setting up of UCRG is in its final stages, ready to challenge the 'Big Three' that currently dominate the industry, the Managing Director of RusRating Aleksandr Ovchinnikov told Sputnik News Agency on Tuesday.
"In our opinion, the first ratings [will] appear … during the current year," Ovchinnikov said, adding that accreditation with the local regulator is already underway.
The news comes on the heels of Fitch's decision to follow S&P in downgrading Russia's sovereign credit rating to BBB-, a step above junk level and on par with India and Turkey.
Alternative media warned about this weeks ago
A true friend of Israel should be able to send a message about what Australians think.
More Australians winced than applauded when they learned of their country's very last vote at the end of its two year term on the security council.
It was a lousy way to wrap up a two year term on the security council, given the intense competition to win the seat.
How does that make Saudi Arabia substantively different from the Charlie Hebdo attackers? Is it merely a matter of scale and method?? Well, everyone must at least feel better now, having chanted and declared for days that we're all Charlie. It was, or it seemed, a cry for freedom of speech, ringing outward from one of the world's first secular democracies.
More than 230,000 dollars has come in from various donors in the United States. It makes up almost 90% of Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election funds, most of it coming from just three American families.
But even all that money can't buy popularity – Bibi's ratings are languishing, as voters look to alternatives, Paula Slier reports.
WEBMASTER ADDITION: Yet another reason for Israel to stage a flood of false-flag terror attacks!
Turn on Your Smart Phone! Justice Calling! See You in Court!
This past week the International Criminal Court at the Hague accepted the application of Palestine to join the court. This so-called risky move by Palestinian President Abbas was both applauded by the world and sadly panned by the USA and Israel as being provocative and an obstacle to the "peace process".Strange the USA and Israeli governments attempt to argue against a day in civil court right? Talk about being on the wrong side of humanity! Ouch!
I mean there is NO better way to behave in a civil society with our fellow man than going to court.
Going to court is the most excellent non-violent way to seek justice when injustice exists unchecked. It exposes our bad behavior to objective peers for a judgment that help us all better live together under commonly held values. Yet here we are watching the lost USA and Israel stand-alone against justice! Sad really!
France has recently supported the Palestinian people and their cause at the UN Security Council, causing panic among Israeli officials in Tel Aviv who have said on several occasions that they fear they have lost the entire European continent as a result. They have also expressed worries that the European position, led by France, is turning against the Israeli occupation and in favor of the Palestinian people's struggle for freedom, independence, and statehood.
Many Israeli analysts have urged authorities in their country to work to regain European support, fearing that losing France would mean losing Europe as a whole. The response to these fears has been an unprecedented campaign of Israeli incitement against Muslim immigrants in Europe.
Europe is still capable of differentiating between a bunch of crazy terrorists, a crazy occupation, and an innocent citizen living under occupation seeking help.
After Friday prayers at the Al-Jafali mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, Raif Badawi will receive the first 50 lashes of his 1,000 stroke sentence for the crime of publishing blasphemy against Islam on Facebook.
Dennis Ross, writing in The New York Times, criticizes Mahmoud Abbas for using international institutions to put pressure on Israel.
Ross's accusation reminds me of the The Israel Project's training manual designed to help the worldwide Zionist movement win the propaganda war.
Dennis Ross co-founded the (pro-Israel Lobby) AIPAC-sponsored Washington Institute for Near East Policy and has been described as more pro-Israel than the Israelis.
The State Department seems stuffed to the gunwales with people like him and the consequences are worrying.
For those hoping that the recent brief dip in Brent crude below $50 - most notably Venezuela's intrepid socialist leader Nicolas Maduro whose numbered days get shorter with every day Brent closes red, and countless bondholders of junk- debt capitalized shale companies - would mean that Saudi Arabia's vendetta against OPEC would finally be put on hiatus, we have bad news: the vendetta just wen nuclear because as Reuters reports, there is "no chance of OPEC output cut."
As Reuters further adds, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf OPEC allies are showing no sign of considering cutting output to boost oil prices, despite Brent's dip below $50 a barrel this week, where it is surely headed once again in the coming days.
PCR interviewed by Sputnik: Has President Obama delivered on his pledges? Whose interest has Obama served?
He has achieved the agenda of the neoconservatives and the military security complex. He has demonized Russia and its President. He has broken up the economic and political relationships between Russia and Europe. He has secured the agenda of the Wall Street, by establishing through the Department of Justice that there would be no prosecution of the criminal gangsters that dislocated the American financial system and ripped off millions of people. He has achieved the agenda of the lawlessness of the US, having determined that the people who tortured detainees will not be prosecuted, even though torture is a felony under the US law and is also prohibited under the international law.
We sheep'll take you down, Harper!
It's hard to feel any optimism about end-of-year reflections when the Isramerican military-industrial-corporate-media empire, which controls our reality, is going through its death throes and taking the planet down with it. If the empire ain't killin', it's dyin'! The need to keep the world in a heightened state of panic means that rational decision-making must be sabotaged, which is why the same crises persist or get worse from year to year while omnipresent solutions to them are actively ignored. In other words, human time, the time associated with progress, stands still, and so every December 31 we reflect on a year that is morally, politically and economically worse than the one previous.
Drilling for oil these days is all about endless amounts of no-questions-asked cheap money. And now, as the price of oil plunges relentlessly, the cheap money is drying up faster than ceiling paint. WTI traded at $46.90 Tuesday evening. Down 56% from June. At these prices, the entire North American oil equation is out of whack, regardless of what Wall Street is telling investors to bamboozle them into surrendering more of their money cheaply in order to keep the house of cards from collapsing. But it seems, investors are catching on.
Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, on Monday reassured the public about the health of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.
Someone started a Twitter rumor that the King had dies, sparking a jump in oil prices.
Bernard "Bernie" Madoff, the most extraordinary swindler of the heady pre-recession years, was arrested six years ago on Thursday, but the distrust that his dealings directed toward the financial system is indelible.
Many people know a friend, relative or school acquaintance whose college savings or retirement fund was pillaged by Madoff's gargantuan Ponzi scheme. The Occupy movement, the Heartland's vitriolic anger towards bankers, and the proverbial Main Street-Wall Street divide are all linked to the mess Madoff sank himself into. His loss of $65 billion in Americans' savings rattled what little confidence many Americans still had in Wall Street and the finance industry.
Some members of Congress are ramping up their call for the public release of 28 classified pages from the government's 9/11 report. The top-secret pages reportedly reveal Saudi funding of the terrorist attack.
On Wednesday, Reps. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., and Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., will join former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham of Florida for a Capitol Hill press conference on House Resolution 428, demanding that President Obama declassify the 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001.
The 28 pages were initially classified by President George W. Bush and have remained under seal.
Saudi Arabia does not have a history of dirty tricks, nor a demonstrated ability to carry out such deceptions. More to the point, Saudi Arabia has no motive to attack the United States. The Saudi princes have grown very rich indeed through the Petrodollar arrangement. Saudi Arabia buys many American products and weapons ($61 billion in 2011), and unlike Israel, the American taxpayer does not have to give them the money first with which to buy those weapons. Whereas Israel constantly takes money out of the US, the Saudis pour it in! Private Saudi investment in the US economy is over $400 billion. Saudi Arabia is a major creditor to the US Government. Exact figures are hard to find but Saudi Arabia has loaned the US Government hundreds of billions of dollars.
Saudi Arabia is not going to risk an attack on the US because all that wealth would vanish. The Saudi wealth inside the US would be frozen or seized, and the outstanding loans to the US would never be repaid. The "useful idiots" trying to save Israel by blaming 9-11 on Saudi Arabia have yet to come up with a motive for the Saudis to do something like 9-11 that risks losing all that cash.
Remember that Saudi Arabia was being framed for 9-11 right from the start. One of the accused hijackers, a Saudi Pilot named Saeed Al-Ghamdi, was still alive after 9-11 and sued the US Government for defaming him.
And finally, here is some common sense that totally undermines the attempt to frame Saudi Arabia for 9-11. If Saudi Arabia really wanted to hurt the United States, they don't need to fly airplanes into skyscrapers to do it. All they have to do is ask for their money back, all at once. The resulting damage to the US financial system would make 9-11 look like a minor inconvenience in comparison.
And it would be perfectly legal for Saudi Arabia to ask for their money back.
The Secretary General of Al Wefaq Society was arrested on Monday 29th December and remained in custody for one week. He had been summoned by the Alkhalifa torturers and questioned for two days before the dictator decided to exact revenge from him by detaining him for one week. Sheikh Salman is known for his soft language and tone, and has steered Al Wefaq within the Alkhalifa laws. But the tyrant has been enraged by the decision of the political societies led by Al Wefaq to boycott the regime's hollow elections in November. It was a strong slap on his face because it showed the lack of popular support or legitimacy to his rule. The Alkhalifa and their Saudi and British backers had hoped that those elections would provide a plausible exit from the political crisis that has engulfed the country since the eruption of the 14th February Revolution.
You didn't need a crystal ball to see this coming, over the last several years.
In 2015, we may well see peaceful movements for change in Bahrain turn violent.
And Saudi Arabia, with a projected budget deficit of $38.6 billion for this year, may not have the money to send in Saudi troops to put down demonstrations, as it did a couple of years ago.
The US Navy's 5th Fleet calls Bahrain its home. So what will the Al Khalifa monarchy ask the US government to do, I wonder, and to what degree will the the US government comply in suppressing unrest in order to keep the Navy's Fifth Fleet there?!?
It will be curious to see how this unfolds.
Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man on Wednesday convicted of smuggling "large quantities" of heroin, the kingdom's state news agency reported, bringing the number of publicly announced executions to its highest level in at least five years.
An Associated Press tally of announcements from the official Saudi Press Agency shows 83 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia in 2014, including Wednesday's execution. Most were executed for drug smuggling.
Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world.
In talking about the barbarism of ISIS, rarely a word is stated regarding Saudi Arabia's penchant for lopping off the heads of their prisoners.
Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was admitted to a hospital in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday for medical tests, state media reported on Wednesday, citing a royal court statement.
King Abdullah was born in the court of his father, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, in the early 1920s.
The softly-spoken monarch, who took power in 2005 after the death of King Fahd, has undergone surgery in the past few years related to a herniated disc.
This is a critically important juncture for the House of Saud, because should the king die, succession is not yet clear. And it will be King Abdullah's successor who, most likely, will be calling the shots on foreign and domestic policies.
And one has to wonder; after the US vetoed the establishment of a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council yesterday, just how western-centric Abdullah's successor might be, and whether they will still insist on selling their oil in US dollars?
As reported in wickipedia.com:
The order of succession to the throne of Saudi Arabia is determined by, and within, the House of Saud. It follows agnatic (a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males) seniority, but a prince may be surpassed or another elevated. The Allegiance Council was created in 2006 to facilitate the royal transfer of power.
The entire world is watching Putin play poker with the Western politicians lead by Obama and followed by Washington quislings in London, Brussels and Berlin. America's goal since the end of the Cold War has been to weaken by financial, economic and, if necessary, military means any real competition to its global financial and resource domination through the petrodollar and dollar world reserve currency status.
Two women's rights campaigners detained in Saudi Arabia will face a tribunal on charges of "terrorism", following their campaigning activities, which led to one being arrested for trying to drive over the border from the UAE.
According to the activists who spoke to AFP, the ruling was issued in the city of Al-Ahsa, in the Eastern Province.
The initial attempt to cross the border, carried out by Loujain Hathloul, 25, was designed as a statement of sorts, while the other woman, a journalist from the United Arab Emirates, appeared at the scene later to show support, before also being arrested. They have now been in detention for nearly a month.
Saudi Arabia's oil chief on Sunday dismissed allegations that his kingdom conspired to bring down oil prices in order to harm other countries and told a summit of Arab energy leaders that he was confident the market would stabilize.
"There is no conspiracy. We just decided to sell twice as much of our oil for half as much money. We do things like that. Honest!"
The net result of the CIA-inspired fracking operations, which the Saudis were warned not to pursue by petroleum engineers working for some foreign-based firms like Schlumberger, is that there will be an oil supply glut for the next 5 years. The glut will be followed by a reduction in Saudi oil production unless new oil fields are brought on line. There is now a major push by U.S. and Canadian oil companies to bring online the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the United States to offset the expected sharp rise in oil prices in four to five years. But with Canada suffering financially from the drop in oil revenues, the Keystone XL project is also on financially shaky ground.
Saudi Arabia, the most influential member of OPEC, and the United States are working together to destroy the Russian economy and destabilize the country.
The problem with waging an economic war is how easily it can become a shooting war.
A Naval engineer is facing federal charges for allegedly giving an undercover FBI agent secret documents on a new aircraft carrier being built in Norfolk, Va.
Saudi-born Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Va., was arrested Friday on an FBI affidavit claiming he planned to use a dead-drop location along a secluded hiking trail to hand off secret information about the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, set to be delivered to the Navy in 2016, Fox News reported Saturday.
If this obvious entrapment doesn't wake the Saudis up and make them realize they are on the US Government's list of nations to eventually invade, nothing will!
When OPEC announced on Thanksgiving Day that it would maintain oil production at 30 million barrels per day, chaos broke out in the oil market, and the price of oil around the globe spiraled into a terrific plunge. The unity of OPEC, if there ever was such a thing, was in tatters with Saudi oil minister smiling victoriously, and with a steaming Venezuelan oil minister thinking of the turmoil his country is facing [OPEC Refuses to Cut Production, Oil Plunges off the Chart].
During the closed-door meetings in Vienna, Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi told OPEC members that OPEC had to combat the US fracking boom. If OPEC cut output to raise the price of oil, it would lose market share, he argued. The way to win would be to allow overproduction to depress prices to the point where they would destroy the profitability of North American producers. And they'd have to cut production, rather than OPEC.
It's not just Shale oil stocks in the US that are hurting. Following the OPEC decision to not cut production and squeeze US producers, Saudi Arabia's major stock market index has tumbled into a bear market, giving up all the year's gains. As one analyst noted, "investors are afraid if oil stays where it is, it will negatively impact the government revenues, thus creating potential headwinds on government spending." Dubai stocks - our long-time favorite bubble index - has also been hammered, down over 7% intraday at its worst...
Saudi Arabian officials say they are preparing to move forward with an upgrade to the country's navy that could include a multibillion-dollar contract for Bath Iron Works, the Reuters news service reported Wednesday.
BIW's DDG-51 destroyer is one of at least two ship designs being considered for the long-discussed Saudi Naval Expansion Program II, or SNEP, which has an estimated value of roughly $20 billion, Reuters said.
Patrick Dewar, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin, told the news service that Saudi officials were planning to release new information over the next several months about how the country plans to proceed with SNEP.
Dewar told Reuters that the Saudis are considering whether to buy up to a dozen of Lockheed's steel monohull Littoral Combat Ship or the larger DDG-51 destroyer built by BIW, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp.
The 46-year old French national is claiming that Saudi Embassy officials were involved in a plot to shoot down Air Force One to assassinate Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton during a trip to the United Kingdom.
"And it only took 286 waterboardings to get him to admit it, too!" -- Official White Horse Souse This is getting obvious,. No matter what oil nation the United States plans to invade next, they always start by claiming they were part of 9-11. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, now it is Saudi Arabia, and next month it will be Venezuela!
This is getting obvious,. No matter what oil nation the United States plans to invade next, they always start by claiming they were part of 9-11. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, now it is Saudi Arabia, and next month it will be Venezuela!
Prices briefly jumped after rumors circulated on Twitter that a pipeline exploded in Saudi Arabia, raising fears that the country's crude production and exports could be curtailed.
An oil pipeline belonging to Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's oil company, caught fire earlier Wednesday during construction repairs but the fire was limited and has been brought under control, a source at the company said. The source didn't give further details but said the company is expected to issue a statement soon.
Crude oil prices have hit a four-year low after Saudi Arabia unexpectedly cut the price of oil sold to the US.
Brent crude fell to near $82 a barrel in midday trading, as worries about global growth also spooked investors.
Earlier, the European Commission reduced its growth forecasts for the eurozone.
Investors are concerned about the US oil industry, in the face of slowing growth and lower prices.
Euro zone manufacturing is in decline. US manufacturing declined. GM is channel stuffing once again to boost sales. US construction is down, showing housing is imploding on itself. First time home buyers collapsed to a 27 year low. Spain wants to impose a Google tax. Those who purchased a policy last year from Obamacare do not want to signup again because of the higher premiums. Canada is banning visas from West Africa. FEMA drill scheduled for Nov for Ebola. Morocco on high alert over terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda. Central bankers pushing Ukraine back into war with the South Eastern people. The Islamic State flowing into Lebanon which allows the US to bomb in this region.
US shale oil is now the marginal swing barrel in the new world oil order, and as Goldman Sachs warns (despite Larry Kudlow apparently knowing better), a decline in WTI to $75/bbl would start to significantly slow US shale growth (and thus employment, capex, and the entire US economy).
Obama was intent on harming Russia's oil exports and made a deal with Saudi Arabia to increase production to crush oil prices. But, as has become the hallmark of decision-making by the White House, nobody thought this all the way through as to what harm it might bring to the US. And Saudi Arabia is laughing that US attempts at oil independence are being crushed under the anti-Russian agenda and US dependence on Saudi Arabia will increase!
The 9/11 attacks on the United States undoubtedly benefited a number of actors, including the American military-intelligence complex, Israel, and most definitely, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Cold War-era, the area of responsibility for which had long been confined to Europe and North America, used the provisions of Article 5 of the NATO Charter – which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all – to extend NATO's power deep into Eurasia, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
After engaging in out-of-area invasions and occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, and Syria and, again in Iraq, against the «Islamic State,» the «North Atlantic» military bloc has transformed itself from a Cold War defensive alliance into a global offensive axis of nations that acts with or without United Nations authorization.
Human rights organizations and activists called on Saudi Arabia to overturn the death sentence handed down to prominent Saudi cleric and pro-democracy activist Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, accusing the Saudi regime of curbing freedom of speech and opinion.
Nimr, who has repeatedly criticized the lack of basic freedoms in Saudi Arabia and has called for greater rights for Saudi minorities, including the Shia, was convicted on Wednesday of multiple charges, including "delivering anti-government speeches" and "breaking allegiance with the ruler," and was sentenced to death by The Specialized Criminal Court, Saudi Arabia's "terrorism tribunal."
The US-Saudi "secret" plan that was supposed to crush Putin quickly turned sour when as we reported several days ago, one after another America's own shale plays, which recently entered a very sharp bear market, started appearing on various death watches (case in point today's MHR Second Lien refi which repriced from L+500 to L+750 in minutes).
As a result, one wonders: did Obama realize that Russian "costs" which as everyone knows by now include a Eurpoean triple-dip recession, could also very soon include an insolvent US shale industry, and thus may be just a little too much, and, one further wonders, if he is the one who just tapped Saudi Arabia on the shoulder?
Raising fears of renewed sectarian tensions in the region, Saudi Arabia's top court has sentenced a charismatic opposition leader to death for speaking out against the kingdom's ruling family.
Nimr Baqer al-Nimr, a reformist cleric, has repeatedly called for an end to corruption and discrimination against minorities. He has a wide following, particularly among young people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, home to most of the country's minority Shiites, who are considered heretics by the Sunni-ruled government.
After being imprisoned for nearly two years, al-Nimr appeared in Riyadh's Specialized Criminal Court Wednesday with his lawyer and two brothers. Charged with terrorism offences and "breaking allegiance to the king," the judge upheld the country's harshest sentence — "crucifixion" — where the decapitated body is publicly displayed. His brothers were reportedly detained after the sentencing.
WOW!! The Saudi government and its royalty have almost caught up with ISIS in terms of Medieval barbarism, and that is just my point.
And it is THIS government with which the US is BFF in the Middle East?!? IF we are judged by the company we keep, as a nation, we are in deep trouble here.
Because Saudi Arabia and the US government are inextricably entwined geopolitically, I would almost be willing to bet that you will get absolutely no corporate coverage of the execution itself, or the aftermath, the parading of the headless corpse, in US corporate non-news stations.
And a memo to the House of Saud and its judiciary: making a martyr out of this guy may well up the ante for religious unrest and demonstrations in your country, rather than smothering it.
In the 21st century, the parading of his corpse may well cause riots, intense enough that your military personnel will not be able to put them down.
A Saudi Arabian gunman killed a U.S. national and wounded another in the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, officials said, heightening Western concerns over security in the world's top oil exporter as regional unrest rises.
Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said a statement from the police carried by state media. No motive for the attack was given, but a source familiar with the situation said the gunman may have been taking revenge after being sacked from his job.
A US national was shot dead and another wounded in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Tuesday, police said, in what appeared to be the first killing of a westerner in years in a gun attack in the kingdom.
Police later shot and wounded an assailant and then arrested him, said the brief statement, carried by SPA, the state media agency said.
"The attack resulted in the killing of one person and the wounding of another and it turned out they were of American citizenship," it said.
A US official said both victims were working with a private security contractor, Vinnell Arabia. The company was working with the Saudi national guard, the official said.
During the last years U.S. president Obama talked a lot about energy independence:
In his fifth State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama celebrated the efforts his administration has made to cut greenhouse gas emissions, while also praising recent increases in domestic oil and gas production.
Obama said early in his address that there is now more "oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world," for the first time in two decades.
Obama did not say that the increase in U.S. fossil fuel production was only possible because international oil and gas prices had increased above the magic $100 per barrel equivalent. Below that price shale gas and oil extraction as well as oil production from tar sands are only marginally profitable or not profitable at all.
One place where Russia has been hit the hardest as a result of tumbling oil prices, is the crashing currency, with the Ruble hitting new record lows against the USD on a daily basis. In fact, as Bloomberg reports, Russia has been forced to spend a whopping $6 billion in just the past 10 days to slow down the tumble of the RUB.
Russia's central bank intervened in the past 10 days to stabilize the ruble, central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina told lawmakers in Moscow today. The action, which comes as President Vladimir Putin orders a withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine's border, has so far failed to halt the ruble's decline amid a domestic foreign currency shortage stemming from sanctions. The cost of swapping rubles into dollars widened to a record.
On Wednesday, the Saudi Arabian government beheaded Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan woman who had worked as a maid in the kingdom, holding her responsible for the death of the four-month-old baby of her employer.
So, where is the constant airing of the video by ABCNNBBCBSFOX followed by outraged demands for bombing and invasion? Oh, that's right, we LIKE Saudi Arabia. It is only [staged] beheadings by people the US wants to invade that make the evening news! :)
Oh, that's right, we LIKE Saudi Arabia. It is only [staged] beheadings by people the US wants to invade that make the evening news! :)
Two weeks ago, we revealed one part of the "Secret Deal" between the US and Saudi Arabia: namely what the US 'brought to the table' as part of its grand alliance strategy in the middle east, which proudly revealed Saudi Arabia to be "aligned" with the US against ISIS, when in reality John Kerry was merely doing Saudi Arabia's will when the WSJ reported that "the process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a fresh U.S. commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad, whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority."
As the United States expands its proxy war against Russia and the BRICS nations through a newly discovered secret deal with Saudi Arabia to force down global oil prices, Russia is firing back to this monetary attack against their currency and economy.
Front row, left to right: Dr Abdullah al - Hamid, Waleed Abu al - Khair, Dr Mohammad al - Qahtani , Sheikh Suliaman al - Rashudi, Dr Abdulkareem al - Khoder, following a trial session on al - Hamid and al - Qahtani. (Photo Courtesy of Amnesty International Report)
U.S. ally Saudi Arabia is methodically harassing, detaining, and abusing human rights campaigners, going to "extreme lengths to hound critics into silent submission," according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International.
"The Saudi Arabian authorities have consolidated their iron grip on power through a systematic and ruthless campaign of persecution against peaceful activists in a bid to suppress any criticism of the state in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings," said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program.
While the US decries beheadings by ISIS, Saudi Arabia beheads and amputates limbs with impunity, not to mention their treatment of human rights campaigners. And yet, Saudi Arabia is a "partner" for the US government and the West, just as is Bahrain, which has the same human rights problems?!?
I love the smell of US government hypocrisy in the morning!!!
The barbarity of those beheadings combined with the online availability of ISIS's videos has made this war an easy sell for the U.S. and Canadian governments.
There is another group in the Middle East that uses beheadings as a preferred method of execution. That is the government of Saudi Arabia.
Canada is entering this latest war in the Middle East as part of a U.S.-led coalition of which Saudi Arabia is a member.
Bahraini fighter jets have joined US-led air strikes in Syria to prevent extremist fighters from expanding throughout the region.
The US operation included the Royal Bahrain Air Force (RBAF) and military forces from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Jordan, which was part of an international action plan to stamp out the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.
I try to stay as logically focused as humanly possible, when I am posting.
But there is one thing I want to share with our readers, because I am pretty sure that some of you will have a resonance with this.
Monday, when we got the news here on Oahu that President Obama had begun a a series of air strikes against Syria, I felt as though he had knocked on our door; I had graciously let him in; and then he proceeded to knock this 65 year old gal to the floor with a sucker punch to my gut.
That is how completely betrayed I feel by this government right now.
And for God's sake, look at the company the US government is keeping in this Administration's "Coalition of the (allegedly) Willing, 2014"!!!
Saudi Arabia, which carries out beheadings frequently, and Bahrain are two of the worst human rights abusers on this planet, and probably on a couple of others as well. (do we call that Species rights abuse on other planets?!?)
So THESE are our allies, chosen in order to take out Bashar Al Assad, who has done absolutely NOTHING to the United States?!?
President Obama, there is nothing that can take the moral stench out of this decision you have made, nothing whatsoever.
The country I used to believe I lived in exists no more; that is one hell of a hard reality to get my head around, but it is the absolute, stone cold truth.
And, not surprising, it is once again Assad whose fate was the bargaining chip to get the Saudis on the US' side, because in order to launch the incursion into Syrian sovereign territory "took months of behind-the-scenes work by the U.S. and Arab leaders, who agreed on the need to cooperate against Islamic State, but not how or when. The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a fresh U.S. commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad, whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority."
In other words, John Kerry came, saw and promised everything he could, up to and including the missing piece of the puzzle - Syria itself on a silver platter - in order to prevent another diplomatic humiliation.
For me, the wild card in this equation is, how far will Russia allow the regime in Damascus to fall before they feel they feel compelled to act?!?
And what, precisely, is Putin prepared to do? Wish I had a "Vulcan mind-meld" capability - at a distance - on this.
The way Obama has gone in with bomb strikes in Iraq and Syria, it does not appear that there is any way he can, or will, de-escalate any time soon.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly deployed warplanes to Yemen in a bid to confront revolutionary Ansarullah forces, sources say.
Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and to counter Iran's growing influence in the region.
The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
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The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of jihadi movements such as al-Qaeda in the years since, says former Senator Bob Graham, the co-chairman of the official inquiry into 9/11.
For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.
It is in that direction that the battle for control of the world's largest oil fields is currently heading.
"So, you see, we just HAVE to take military control of Saudi Arabia. We just HAVE to. Honest!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Last week, Russia announced an game changing shift for energy in which they are now allowing the sale of oil and natural gas to be done in both Roubles and Yuan, bypassing the dollar and cracking the 40 year old petro-dollar system. And on Aug. 31, Dr. Jim Willie reported during an interview with TFMetals Report that this break away from U.S. hegemony over the purchasing of oil is not being limited to just Russia, but that the foundational country of petro-dollar origin, Saudi Arabia, is in talks with the Eurasian energy giant to join them in a partnership that will also disconnect the Arab Kingdom from the dollar, and open energy sales within the OPEC nations to be done in Roubles, Yuan, and perhaps even the Euro.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has a stark warning to America: The Islamic State's terror will visit American shores in one month if it is not confronted in Syria and Iraq.
Saudi Arabia continues to play ball with the US supporting more wars because more wars means more oil and gas for war which means more money for Saudi Arabia. But King Abdullah needs to pay attention to the anti-Saudi propaganda taking place (such as the attempt to frame them for 9-11) and realize that the US, goaded by Israel, will eventually turn on him.


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Post-modern notions have blurred the strategic clarity of Israel's political leadership and its defense and foreign affairs establishment. [T]he outcome of the 2006 [Lebanon] war makes the next round inevitable – Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic StudiesEven if Israel can very capably defend itself...it lacks the will to make the protracted efforts to defeat its enemies.... No one at the upper echelons of Israel's political life articulates the imperative for victory – Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East ForumThe IDF either lost ability to or forgot how to close with and destroy a determined enemy.... When a nation's infantry cannot close the last 100 meters and kill a determined foe a country is in trouble – Col. (ret.) Kevin Benson, former director, the US Army's School of Advanced Military Studies.Last week, Yaakov Lappin, who covers military and security affairs for The Jerusalem Post, published an article which should give cause for grave alarm to anyone concerned with Israel's security.The reason the article, titled "Israel redefines victory in the new Middle East," is so disturbing is that it appears to indicate that Israel's defense establishment has learned little from the string of military failures – or at least, non-successes – incurred by the IDF over the better part of a decade.Fossilized thought process?As Lappin is a well-informed, responsible journalist, there seems little reason to question the credibility of his account of the prevailing mindset of the senior echelons charged with formulating the nation's military doctrine.For what emerges is a dismal picture of fossilized thinking – a kind of mental rigor mortis – reflecting an unawareness of, or a refusal to acknowledge, the fact that the conceptual templates and perceptual frameworks being employed to formulate Israel's operational procedures have precipitated a series of grossly unsatisfactory outcomes in virtually all the IDF's major military undertakings since the beginning of this century.Indeed, if one examines the realities that developed in the wake of all these engagements, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Israel's adversaries emerged with their strategic positions perceptibly enhanced – or at least, with having wrung important benefits for themselves and/or their constituencies.Time and again, Israel's leaders have been unable to translate operational success into political-strategic advantage.Quite the opposite. Each time, after the guns fell silent, the other side has gained in strength and/or prestige, and Israel has been pressed into making concessions regarding the conditions that prevailed in the status quo ante.Catalogue of counterproductive campaignsA brief survey of the aftermaths of the IDF's more significant campaigns/operations in recent years reveals a depressing picture of counterproductive martial endeavor, despite frequent displays of impressive intelligence gathering, pinpoint targeting and awesome destructive power.Thus, the 2006 Second Lebanon War paved the way for the ascent of Hezbollah.Despite the massive devastation inflicted on Lebanon, the inconclusive end to the fighting left Hezbollah in a distinctly enhanced position both in terms of refurbished armaments and political power. Indeed, any future threat to its status would seem more likely to arise from the outcome of the civil war in Syria and the fate of the movement's hitherto sponsor, Bashar Assad, rather than any peril it might face from the IDF.Similarly, the 2008-9 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, which, although conducted with a greater level of professionalism than the Lebanon fiasco, still left Hamas entrenched in power and spoiling for a fight, after defying the might of the IDF for almost a month – and, as was to be demonstrated a few years later, with greatly enhanced capabilities militarily and international stature politically.Even the interception of the 2010 Gaza flotilla, which was intended to enforce the blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, resulted in the blockade being eased and restrictions being lifted.Likewise, the November 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense demonstrated that Hamas had not been deterred by Operation Cast Lead, but merely forced to regroup and re-arm, with a greatly improved array of weaponry. The premature curtailing of the fighting by Israel not only left the organization in a position to claim its defiant resistance victorious, but with its international standing considerably upgraded, with visits by high-level international figures and pledges of generous financial aid.Worse, the Egyptian brokered cease-fire understanding left Hamas with considerable concessions, including the lifting of additional restrictions on imports, and with undertakings by Israel to refrain from various military activities it had carried out in the past.Responding with resignation and rhetoricAlas, judging from Lappin's account of the mentality that dominates the formulation of Israel's security doctrine, this abysmal array of results is not difficult to understand. Indeed, some might contend that they were largely inevitable. For it appears that the nation's policy-makers have resolved to respond to the realities of the New Middle East with a regrettable combination of resignation and rhetoric.Lappin begins his article with the following observation: "Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors."However, to some it may appear that the notion of "victory" (at least as it is understood in common English-language usage) has been expunged from Israeli strategic thinking, both as an admissible cognitive entity and as an attainable, even desirable, military goal.According to Lappin: "Victory was seen by the Israel Defense Forces as a clear-cut event, which ended when the enemy raised a white flag."He continues: "Today, however, the IDF considers this thinking out of date in the 21st-century battle arenas of the region, where a terror organization such as Hamas will continue firing rockets into Israel right up until the last day of a conflict, and claim victory despite absorbing the majority of damages and casualties."Lappin also writes that Israel's strategic planners have renounced the notion of seizing territory from which attacks are launched against Israel – or at least prescribe refraining from it as far as possible: "Today, the goal of seizing control of the enemy's turf is seen as a short-term initiative, and...is a highly unpopular development among strategic planners, who now argue that this should be avoided wherever possible."Redefining deterrenceIt would seem that "victory" is not the only concept that is undergoing a "semantic overhaul." So it would seem is the notion of "deterrence."Lappin: "Deterrence, rather than clearcut conquest or triumph over the enemy, has formed the goal of Israel's last three conflicts: the Second Lebanon War of 2006; Operation Cast Lead against Hamas and Islamic Jihad in 2009 and Operation Pillar of Defense against the same entities in Gaza in November."As he goes on to clarify, however: "...deterrence-based military achievements are temporary by nature. At some point, deterrence erodes away, and must be reestablished all over again. This is what happened in Gaza last month. And the IDF has been preparing for a fresh confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which today is armed with at least 50,000 rockets and missiles, many of them... that can strike deep inside Israel."This suggests a radical departure from the usual significance ascribed to both "deterrence" and to the means employed to attain it.For as Lappin explains: "The IDF's evolving new [deterrence-rather-than-triumph-based] doctrine involves short spells of fighting, in which the IDF hits the other side...hard enough to ensure that the Israeli homefront will enjoy prolonged calm after the fighting ends."Deterrence redefined (cont.)Clearly, in the new IDF jargon, "deterrence" no longer entails engendering the ongoing perception in the mind of potential adversaries that aggression will have unacceptable consequences, but merely inducing short periods of respite until the consequences are no longer so perceived.This is a formula for a never-ending tit-for-tat cycle of attacks and counterattacks, in which the aggressor can persist in attrition, secure in knowledge that the IDF will eschew measures aimed at "clear-cut conquest or triumph over the enemy."In other words, whatever the damage inflicted on the environs, the enemy can be sure of being left able to fight another day.But perhaps what is even graver is that measures to achieve an effective deterrent posture are no longer focused on ensuring that the enemy's will-to-fight is broken – as in the case with Germany and Japan after World War II. Instead, the virtually explicitly stated goal today is to coerce the enemy into a temporary truce, which merely forces it to regroup and redeploy while allowing it to rearm and rebuild, and thus to resume hostilities at a later stage, with its appetite to engage undiminished.As Israel Harel recently remarked in Haaretz in a scathing rebuke of the prevailing ethos in the IDF: "This is why terrorists can and will fire thousands of rockets at Israel, and this is what will lead us to the next intifada."Remilitarizing the IDFIn his "How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War" in Middle East Quarterly, Efriam Inbar makes an astute diagnosis of the malaise: "... many IDF leaders believed that minimal force if not diplomacy would suffice to minimize the threat."To make the point, he cites then-chief of the Northern Command, Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam, who declared: "There is nothing that can be solved just by the military... There is a need for a diplomatic solution," adding, "I do not believe that anyone wants to go back into Lebanon."This is precisely the point.Cowered by the tyranny of political correctness, Israel has abandoned the pursuit of military imperatives. The dread of being bogged down in a "quagmire" of a land operation has ensnared it in the quicksand of impotence, leading to a string of strategic failures that have left its adversaries stronger than they were before Israeli action.Yes, Israel's overall national strategy must incorporate a judicious mixture of military and diplomatic endeavor. But diplomatic endeavor must be geared to facilitating the pursuit of that strategy's objectives, not to undermining it –and certainly cannot become a determinant of those objectives, nor a factor that dictates the measures to achieve them.The IDF needs to remilitarize its thinking, readopt military methods/methodologies, and reinstate military objectives.It needs to refocus on "military solutions" and leave the diplomatic ones to the diplomats.Reinstating the "white flag" objectiveAccording to Lappin, the architects of Israel's defense strategy have essentially renounced any endeavor to coerce the enemy to raise a white flag of surrender.This is a grave error rooted more in the prevailing mood in the political milieu rather than in military realities in the field.True, some might protest with a degree of justification, the idea of a comprehensive victory over the Arab world is a dangerous, unattainable delusion. Perhaps – but imposing surrender on the enemy in specific theaters of military engagement is not.Thus, as Inbar observes, the IDF definitely could have "eviscerat[ed] Hezbollah's ability to harm Israel."So surrender could have been imposed on Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006; it could have been imposed on Hamas in Gaza in 2008. It can and must be imposed on Hamas today.The missing ingredient was not martial prowess of the IDF, nor the motivation of its warriors. The lack of political will was the missing ingredient required for a more successful outcome.In the next encounter – regrettably made inevitable by the policies now adopted – Israel's Arab adversaries, whether non-states, quasi-states or states, must be crushed by overwhelming force, from the land, sea and air. Their leaders must be seized or slain. 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PELLA, Iowa – Top-ranked Linfield continued its systematic demolition of the NCAA Division III Pella Regional, thumping Coe College 10-0 in five innings in a winners bracket game Sunday at Kuyper Athletics Complex.
The Wildcats (44-2) won for the 33rd consecutive time and moved into the driver's seat of the eight-team double-elimination tournament hosted by Central College.
Coe (38-9), ranked seventh in the most recent NFCA Top 25 poll, lost for the first time in the tournament and now must fight its way through the losers bracket with hopes of meeting Linfield again on Monday.
The Wildcats, 3-0 in the regional tournament, have outscored opponents 37-0.
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Linfield followed its intended plan of attack - stay focused on the matter at hand, get an early lead, then start swinging for the fences.
Coe's all-star pitcher, Ashlee Simon, lasted only two innings against the Linfield bats. She surrendered eight hits, three walks and eight earned runs without recording a single strikeout. Simon, one of the hottest pitchers in the nation this spring, fell to 27-3.
Wildcats All-American Staci Doucette went 2-for-2 with a home run and four RBI, Emilee Lepp was 2-for-3, and Karleigh Prestianni blasted her 10th home run of the season as the Wildcats piled up a dozen hits. Kayla Hubrich and Alex Hartmann also contributed a pair of hits.
Claire Velaski pitched her third victory of the tournament, striking out three Kohawks and scattering three hits over four innings. Freshman pitcher Karina Paavola came in to wrap up the victory in the fifth, fanning two of the three batters she faced.
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The Providence College men's track and field team hosted the program's first meet on the newly constructed track today, April 9. The Friars raced against Bryant and Stony Brook at the Ray Treacy Track at Providence College. Providence took top-finishes in eight events on the day against the Bulldogs and Seawolves.
The Friars came out flying in the 3000 meter run, where Providence took the top-six places. Juniors Benjamin Connor (Derby, England), Shane Quinn (Waterford, Ireland) and Liam Hillery (Smithfield, R.I.) took first through third, respectively. Connor finished in a time of 8:16.25, while Quinn and Hillery ran times of 8:17.03 and 8:23.07, respectively.
Following the junior trio was freshman Trevor Crawley (Cumberland, R.I.), who claimed fourth in a time of 8:31.13. Sophomore Christian Costello (Ridgewood, N.J.) was fifth in a time of 8:31.56 and freshman Jake Feinstein (Sandy Hook, Conn.) was sixth with a time of 8:32.81.
Providence took one and two in the 1500 meter run with graduate student Julian Saad (Trumbull, Conn.) and junior Brian Doyle (Swansea, Mass.). Saad finished first with a time of 3:52.06, while Doyle was second in a time of 3:57.55.
The Friars also had success in the 800 meter run, where a trio of sophomores took the top-three spots. Classmates Harvey Dixon (Aldershot, England), Julian Oakley (Tauranga, New Zealand) and Joseph Vercollone (Pembroke, Mass.) finished first through third, respectively. Dixon and Oakley nabbed IC4A Championship qualifying times of 1:51.05 and 1:51.80, respectively, while Vercollone finished in a time of 1:52.12.
Senior Nik Andrews (Clarksburg, Mass.) and sophomore Austin King (Kempton, Pa.) claimed first-place finishes in their respective races. In the 100 meter dash, Andrews was the top finisher with a time of 11.53, while placing second in the 200 meter dash with a time of 23.36. King ran first-place finishes in the 200 and 400 meter dashes with times of 23.02 and 48.99, respectively.
Field specialist, junior Phil Reid (Oceanport, N.J.) claimed first in the men's high jump with a cleared height of 1.93m.
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Notes: | "With certain exceptions, the N.C. commissioner of labor adopts federal OSHA standards verbatim and incorporates them by reference into the N.C. Administrative Code. This publication contains the following, incorporated by reference, federal OSHA standards: 29 CFR 1910, General Industry; 29 CFR 1903, Inspections, Citations, and Proposed Penalties; 29 CFR 1904, Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses; 29 CFR 1990, Identification, Classification, and Regulation of Carcinogens."--Page 2 of cover. "Printed 3/03"--Page 2 of cover. |
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