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If even 1% of the world's Muslims were violent terrorists bent on conquering the world, that would constitute an army 18 million strong - or in other words - larger than the next 20 largest armies on Earth combined. Most critics of Islam infer that the number is actually much higher than 1% - many suggesting that the majority of Muslims either are engaged in or support terrorism. It is logical to conclude that if even 1% were dedicated to terrorism and the "conquest of infidels," the war would have ended in their favor long ago.
It is clear that there is not even 1% across Islam engaged in or supporting terrorism. Across the Arab World, the vast majority of Muslims, Christians, other sects, and the secular, stand united against terrorism. It is clear that a mountain of lies stands between many and the truth - a mountain built so tall that it leaves entire segments of targeted populations in the perpetual darkness of ignorance.
Best of the Web: Leaked Israeli diplomatic cable reveals Saudi-Israeli plans to provoke war with Iran and demonize Hezbollah
Left: Israeli PM Netanyahu, Right: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Comment: The Hariri resignation is most likely a response to the fact that growing Iranian and Syrian influence in Lebanon - as a direct result of Russian involvement in the Middle East over the past 2 years - has made his position as a Saudi stooge untenable. So the Saudis pull him out and force him to resign, then they collaborate with the Israelis in a futile attempt to provoke the Iranians and deal a political blow to Hezbollah. All of this is just an Israeli/Saudi/US 'deep state' reaction to the new powerful Russia/Iran/Syria axis in the Middle East, and a rather impotent one at that.
The classified embassy cable, written in Hebrew, constitutes the first formal evidence proving that the Saudis and Israelis are deliberately coordinating to escalate the situation in the Middle East.
The explosive classified Israeli cable reveals the following:
- On Sunday, just after Lebanese PM Hariri's shocking resignation, Israel sent a cable to all of its embassies with the request that its diplomats do everything possible to ramp up diplomatic pressure against Hezbollah and Iran.
- The cable urged support for Saudi Arabia's war against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
- The cable stressed that Iran was engaged in "regional subversion".
- Israeli diplomats were urged to appeal to the "highest officials" within their host countries to attempt to expel Hezbollah from Lebanese government and politics.
Comment: The balance of power in the Middle East has undergone a dramatic and swift paradigm change over the last few years. Israel is still stuck in its rather myopic (and pathologically persistent) goal of remaking the region to suit its own vision where it (and its Saudi friends) reign supreme and all other Arab nations are kept in a state of dysfunction and conflict. What Israel (and Saudi Arabia) do next in the region will be a testament to just how irrational their leaders are in their drive to stay on top, despite the desire of many millions of people in the region to simply live in peace.
Previously:
- The unlikely anti-oligarchic Bolshevik? MBS's 2017 Saudi revolution
- SOTT Exclusive: Palace clean-out: Are Saudi royal heads rolling because Arabian kingdom is breaking with Washington?
- Pepe Escobar reveals the inside story of the Saudi "night of long knives"
- Lebanese PM Hariri's resignation is the Saudis' opening shot against Hezbollah
- Hezbollah leader Nasrallah gives first address to public since PM Hariri's resignation, provides calm rational analysis
- A Saudi 'Night of the Long Knives'? Prince Salman's crackdown signals significant shifts in the kingdom
- Royal coup: What happened in Saudi Arabia last night - and how Washington corruption enabled it
- Saudi attorney general: Phase 1 of anti-corruption push complete, "a great deal of evidence" has been gathered
- Saudi Crown Prince's purge consolidates control, eliminates rivals, but puts govt at risk
- Political upheaval in progress: Saudi Royalty arrests threaten to rock Clinton-Obama cabal
If anyone actually read the leaked "embassy" cable, however, they'd see that it's a stretch to report it as being a "smoking gun" purportedly confirming that the Crown Prince is the Zionist leader's puppet. The document in question doesn't contain any evidence within it that the Saudis' geopolitical bluster is due to any sort of coordination with "Israel", but rather reads like a straight-forward plan for opportunistically capitalizing on this "advantageous" event in order to advance the overlapping interests that Tel Aviv shares with Riyadh vis-à-vis Tehran, Sanaa, and Beirut.
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Just because two actors share the same interests doesn't necessarily mean that one of them is being controlled by the other, even if one makes a move that's to this pair's collective benefit in that given Neo-Realist context. Saudi Arabia's war-mongering statements against Iran, Yemen, and Lebanon perfectly align with "Israeli" interests, just like Trump's campaign promises to restore pragmatic relations with Moscow also served Russia's interests, though in neither case was the Crown Prince or the current President saying what they did for any other reason than to advance what they subjectively believed to be their country's national interests.
That said, there are indeed actors who stand to gain by purposely misportraying the Saudi-"Israeli" leaks in the previously described inaccurate manner, and it's here where another argument interestingly emerges to debunk the "collusion" narrative.
... it's understandable why the US would be opposed to the Crown Prince's "deep state" coup, even if Trump tweeted otherwise in order to save face after having earlier demanded that the Kingdom "drive out" all corrupt terrorist-supporting individuals such as the pro-American ones who Mohammed Bin Salman ironically just detained.
Nevertheless, the future King reportedly compelled "imprisoned" Prince Alwaleed to sell his shares in 21st Century Fox, thereby endangering anti-Trump tycoon Robert Murdoch's control over the media group, so Trump might indeed see something of a "silver lining" in what just happened.
In any case, the securing of Mohammed Bin Salman's Vision 2030-related reforms and multipolar Great Power partnerships is comparatively more to the US' grand strategic disadvantage than whatever benefits its President might reap from Murdoch's potential weakening, so it's plausible to assert that the US has a clear interest in undermining the Crown Prince.
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It's very likely that the document is authentic, but the point to focus on here is the reason behind its disclosure, which like all leaks in history had more than an inadvertent coincidental reason behind it. In this instance, the whole point is to discredit Mohammed Bin Salman in the eyes of his countrymen, thereby weakening his newly assertive grip on power and creating space for his citizens to have "second doubts" about what's really going on in the royal halls of power.
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The so-called "collusion" between Saudi Arabia and "Israel", as supposedly "proven" through the weaponized cable leak, is nothing more than the typical opportunism that Tel Aviv is known for, though that does not say that the two sides haven't collaborated in the past and won't do so again in the future, but just that it's inaccurate to report that the latest events are another example of this.
Thus we have seen a series of sensationalist reports insinuating that Arron Banks - the British millionaire who partly funded the Leave campaign - is being funded by Russia, and claims that Professor Mifsud - the London based academic referred to in the Papadopoulos indictment - may have met British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at a fundraising dinner arranged by another MP (Johnson denies it) and that Papadopoulos himself whilst a member of the Trump campaign met a British minister on the fringe of the UN General Assembly session in New York in September 2016.
There have also been insinuations that Russia launched a social media campaign to support Brexit, and even that Russian intelligence is behind the 'black book' setting out various sex allegations against Conservatives ministers and MPs which is currently circulating and which has led to the forced resignation of Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
Comment: More astonishing is that they've been at this since last year. See:
Fake news: Are magazines that blame Brexit on Russia legitimate?
US defense industry: Putin is responsible for Brexit
And more recently:
Putin did it! Establishment claims Russia interfered with Brexit
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Remember, Remember the Fifth of November!
V for Vendetta may be the most revolutionary film ever made, but don't expect the BBC to tell you that.
"V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?" the BBC recently asked.
They published a couple of vague, misleading answers.
The BBC quotes David Lloyd:
"'My feeling is the Anonymous group needed an all-purpose image to hide their identity and also symbolise that they stand for individualism - V for Vendetta is a story about one person against the system...' "Blathering about individual vs. collective, the lure of anonymity, etc., without grounding the interpretation in specifics from the film is the worst possible way to answer the question. As a literature teacher - I have four advanced degrees in literature and have taught everything from Chaucer to Hausa Literature to Philip K. Dick - I would award a D at best to any student who offered such a lame interpretation of a story's central symbol.
"...It is that image of collective identification and simultaneous anonymity that is appealing to Anonymous and other groups, says Rich Johnston, a commentator on the world of comics."
A portrait of Guy Fawkes, who was executed for ‘the gunpowder plot.
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November,Today, November 5th, is Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Gunpowder Day. In 2012 it's the 407th anniversary of The Gunpowder Plot or Gunpowder Treason, as it was first called.
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."
- Old English folk rhyme (anonymous)
It also happens to be my 78th birthday. So I've been more aware of Guy Fawkes Day than most. I'm especially happy about how ubiquitous the Guy Fawkes mask has become.
The mask was hugely popularized in the movie V for Vendetta. As stalwart 9/11Truther Kevin Barrett wrote, a year ago, in a piece entitled "Unmasking Media Lies: Why BBC's V-for-Vendetta Mask Piece is Fawked Up":
"V for Vendetta may be the most revolutionary film ever made. Its obvious message is: Let's get out there and visit some rough justice on the treasonous bastards who created the 9/11 and 7/7 media spectaculars, and destroyed the freedoms for which we've been fighting for centuries.Watch (on YouTube) 'V for 9/11 Vendetta: Past, Present and Future'.
It is also possible to read the film from an interior, psychological perspective: Rather than just a call to action, it's about the psychological process of coming to terms with the 9/11 and 7/7 inside jobs, by allowing oneself to feel the overwhelming anger that is the natural response. Once one has faced the facts, overcome fear, and come to terms with one's own righteous anger, THEN it's time for revolution.
The real message of the V mask is simple: We know you bastards blew up the Trade Center. We know you're blowing up the economy. We know you're lying to us 24/7/365. We know you're trying to keep us poor and weak and fearful and impotent. Well, guess what? We're not afraid of you. We're not afraid to die. And we're coming to get you.
No wonder the BBC is afraid to admit what the V mask really means."
Comment: Well, isn't that interesting? Until 1959, it was law in the UK to ritually celebrate the execution of a
With this kind of indoctrination and programming laid down in the minds of generation after generation for hundreds of years, is it any wonder why people cannot see that no jet airliner hit the Pentagon and that two quarter-mile high buildings don't just blow away in the wind because some floors went on fire?
Best of the Web: Terrorist or patsy? Manhattan attacker Sayfullo Saipov and the government's record of manufacturing terrorism
"They didn't look like construction workers. They weren't dressed like they were going to work," Carlos Batista told Fox News. "I would see him with them more than his own kids."
Like the mysterious woman reportedly seen with accused Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, the two individuals spotted with Saipov will never be identified and the corporate media will dismiss Batista's story as irrelevant, if they acknowledge it at all. The lone wolf inspired and radicalized by Islamic State videos is now the official narrative.
"In many ways, this now a classic case of a radicalization of a domestic jihadist who associated with ISIS, and this is their new playbook," New York governor Andrew Cuomo told CBS News. "Very simple. Use a vehicle to cause harm. It's New York. It's London. It's Germany. It's France. It's Ohio. So, this is more of what we've seen."
Comment: Previously:
- Assange: Manhattan attack would not have happened if CIA 'spent less time' arming terrorists
- NY truck attacker was interviewed by DHS 2 years ago for possible ties to terrorists
- New York hit-and-run suspect Sayfullo Saipov being investigated for links to terrorism (hint: they won't find any)
- New York attack suspect: Who is Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov?
Best of the Web: The good, the bad and the ugly in major new study on free speech and PC culture in America
Overall, the data confirms that liberals are significantly more hostile to the open exchange of ideas than other groups; self-identified liberals tilt heavily toward banning or punishing speech they find to be offensive or "hateful," although conservatives have some pro-authoritarian blind spots, too.
The numbers reveal that in many cases, large majorities agree with critiques of political correctness often advanced by conservatives.
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The US spent decades building up its soft power reputation as "the land of the free" and portraying itself as the most "democratic" society in the world, only to have generations' worth of soft power investments dramatically done away with over the past twelve months as the media-manufactured "RussiaGate" scandal transforms into an institutional inquisition. It's presumed that the reader is already generally aware of what's going on and why, namely that hostile elements of the US' permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (the "deep state"), in full collusion with academia, the Mainstream Media, and Hollywood, are vehemently working to subvert Trump's surprise election victory by alleging that he only won because of secretive Kremlin support.
This is a completely false narrative that's regularly debunked every time a newly invented accusation arises, but instead of crafting a different political approach to complicate Trump's Presidency, the Democrats and their "deep state" accomplices have continued to advance this made-up storyline, and in the process they've inflicted irreparable soft power damage to the US' international prestige. The country that was once the unquestioned superpower of the world has all but committed soft power suicide in the course of only a single year by confirming the same "conspiracy theories" that it's worked so hard to belittle in the past, thereby exposing many of its international information campaigns as lies and ultimately contradicting the very essence of "American Exceptionalism".
© U.S. Air Force 145U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, dismount a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter during an air assault in the Al Jazeera Desert, Iraq
The 74-page DoD dossier was obtained by the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News. It breaks down the cost of the US's various conflicts and reveals the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq account for the greatest chunk of change.
Operation Enduring Freedom (the name given to the 'War on Terror' between 2001 and 2014), Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq War) and Operation New Dawn (past operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011) made up the biggest expense. They cost a combined $1.315 trillion.
Comment: $1.46 trillion is an impossible figure to imagine. Tell us, what has dumping this grossly obscene amount of money into the US war-machine brought the world?!
Comment: It's diabolical, isn't it? In placing the worst kind of 'Islamic' regime in charge of Islam's holiest sites right next door to the worst kind of 'Jewish' one, it's as if the (then-British) Empire went out of its way to pit Jews against Muslims.
In this light, Israel is the modern Crusader state, which, together with Saudi Arabia, have for the last 100 years been wholly Western creatures, if not outright colonies.
The end of WW I didn't end 'the war to end all wars' - it began a century of endless war and terror; the 'anglo-American century', a Western quest for global hegemony.
Now we can understand why these two regimes support ISIS, why they have full backing from 'on high' in London and Washington, and why they're cooperating against the rival alliance of Iran, Syria, the Houthis and Hezbollah:
Leaked Israeli diplomatic cable reveals Saudi-Israeli plans to provoke war with Iran and demonize Hezbollah
Radical Islam is an invention of European intelligence agencies