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THE DYING EMPIRE(HEGEMONIC POWE5R)
Donald Trump’s rant against Iran is the howl of a dying empireDonald Trump does not strut the world stage as Augustus triumphant. On Wednesday he might have commanded that “Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon … we will never let that happen”. But as he slurred at his autocue, he conveyed only ritualised abuse of Iran and pleas to Nato for help, a Nato he once majestically derided. I sensed we were seeing the US’s days as world hegemon dribbling away. Even Trump’s Republican ally Mike Lee called the Iran briefing “the worst briefing I’ve seen – at least on a military issue – in my nine years” in the Senate. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/donald-trump-rant-iran-dying-empire-nato?fbclid=IwAR0yC0DZczwfmTuqiocR7BnzkhU7QIh4qsK2zVd-eWvWDSmzc-5_pM0H-mU
2017 Donald Trump's hotel in Azerbaijan linked with corruption, Iran's Revolutionary GuardAn unopened Trump hotel in Azerbaijan has been linked to corrupt officials who support the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports Adam Davidson in a New Yorker piece. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-azerbaijan-hotel-linked-with-corruption-iran-2017-3?fbclid=IwAR2aXlW1K2hhAAembtTc84VmcM595Iek0q62wSeZr_q6qr31YB9f4LRp7Us&r=US&IR=T
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Society's Child
'Designed by clowns and supervised by monkeys': Senate investigation into Boeing air disasters reveals what employees thought of 737-MAXNewly released internal emails from Boeing Co. paint a disturbing picture of its 737 Max program, with employees bragging about fooling FAA regulators and ridiculing its safety.The emails were part of more than 100 pages of documents sent Thursday by Boeing to House and Senate committees that have been investigating the aircraft maker in the wake of two crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed a combined 346 people. The 737 Max family has been grounded for nearly a year, with no return date yet.The emails were also made public, in three batches: here, here and here."This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys," read one email.Some messages detail problems with the development of Boeing's 737 Max simulator and suggest the planes got FAA approval under false pretences.
"I still haven't been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year," one of the employees says in a 2018 email, apparently referring to interactions with the Federal Aviation Administration."Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee emailed a colleague. "No," the co-worker responded. https://www.sott.net/article/427162-Designed-by-clowns-and-supervised-by-monkeys-Senate-investigation-into-Boeing-air-disasters-reveals-what-employees-thought-of-737-MAX
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Was Iranian Missile Operator Tricked Into Shooting Down The Ukrainian Airlines Plane Over Tehran?he Iranian confession that their military shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane near Tehran is the end of the matter as far as international diplomacy and the media is concerned. The official story then about what happened is this:It's 2am on January 8th 2020 and our guy is sitting in a Tor-M1 air-defense missile system about 10kms north-west of Imam Khomeini international airport, west of Tehran.
General Soleimani had been buried the day before, and in the last half-hour or so a couple dozen Iranian ballistic missiles had been fired from western Iran at two US bases in Iraq.The entire Iranian military is on alert and stress levels are particularly high. There's been a lot of chatter about a likely US response to the Iranian missiles and our guy is one of several teams positioned around Tehran tasked with shooting down anything on his radar screen that fits the profile. But as the hours pass without incident, he starts to doubt he'll see any action - at least, not tonight.By 6am the only thing he can report having seen on his radar screen are each of the 9 scheduled flights that departed the nearby airport that night. He watched them take normal flight paths off the northwest runway, climb into the clear night sky and then veer north or northeast. Since the Tor-M1 system he is operating is fitted with IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) functionality, he could even see their call signs. The second-to-last one was Qatar Airways Flight QR8408 heading for Hong Kong. https://www.sott.net/article/427303-Was-Iranian-Missile-Operator-Tricked-Into-Shooting-Down-The-Ukrainian-Airlines-Plane-Over-Tehran?fbclid=IwAR0jt6dUk6grRa-3XccTh4C888M6V90J7cVdbbX01B9c0W9UihyfZfO5tcw
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Danish Troops Testify To Greater Damages At US Base in Iraq, As Well As To NATO’s Lack of Readiness https://southfront.org/danish-troops-testify-to-greater-damages-at-us-base-in-iraq-as-well-as-to-natos-lack-of-readiness/?fbclid=IwAR2D6jYajmQIZdbKi37VhB4aASLcIRvYcEHlCCnzTSF65gDNeg-4Lu2YwMs
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Tony Gratrex
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I'm not particularly convinced of the ICC's neutrality when it comes to even consider prosecuting western or Israeli officials. However it gives me some satisfaction that Israeli officials are getting worried that they may be held to account.Members of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet are said to be “profoundly concerned” that the International Criminal Court and may issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials it considers suspects as it will launch a war crimes investigation against Israel, within the next 90 days. http://english.pnn.ps/2020/01/12/israeli-cabinet-warns-from-secret-icc-arrest-warrants/?fbclid=IwAR2tf3hyHovA73UW5YkV3T5ZFjjemo2nqsf2cQ2OhNh5pj41OrauHWboVro
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Paul Apollonio Trump was conned into this assassination. There would have been NO ONE in the entire country whose assassination would create unification and martyr status more than this man, Solemani.
Mossad pointed it out because the OWNER, Rothschild, wants us to fight the war with Iran so he can control their resources just like he controls ours, the UK, France, Germany and most of the countries on the face of the planet.
Isn't it funny, every war has one thing in common and the media THEY own never point it out? I wonder why....
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By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
Well-informed and established sources at Iraqi Prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s office in Baghdad believe “the US is unwilling to listen to reason, to the Iraqi government or the parliament. It has the intention of bringing war upon itself and transforming Iraq into a battlefield, by refusing to respect the law and withdraw its forces. The US will be faced with strong and legitimate popular armed resistance, even if some Iraqis (in Kurdistan) will break the law and will accept the US presence in their region, though without a heavy price.” https://ejmagnier.com/2020/01/13/iraq-is-the-next-battleground/?fbclid=IwAR3Jhi6gYoqTACuiGwIYr55wf6C5AsLREbc4CS94pYfAEgCec5Wwd0RtLg8
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Barry Grossman
6 hrs •
The Times report makes clear that, far from being a spur-of-the-minute decision by Trump, the murder of Suleimani had broad support within the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, which had planned this crime for the past 18 months. The account implicates former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel in advocating and plotting the murder.
The Times report presents a picture of a criminal state, in which the most flagrant violations of the law are treated as routine. It is a testament to the degree to which US foreign policy has been criminalized after nearly two decades of the “war on terror.”
This noramlization of illegality extends to the press. The tone of the Times report is that of an adventure story. There is not a hint of a critcial attitude toward the flagrantly criminal character of the actions it describes. The word "legal," or any variant of it, simply does not appear in the body of the text.
The article makes clear that the Trump administration’s motives for murdering Suleimani had nothing to do with a supposedly “imminent” threat, as claimed by White House officials. Rather, the United States wanted to retaliate against Suleimani for a series of US policy setbacks for which the American state held him responsible.
The assassination of Qassem Suleimani and the criminalization of US state policy
13 January 2020
On Sunday, the New York Times published a detailed account, based on high-level sources within the US government, of the Trump administration’s decision to murder Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani on January 3, 2020.
The Times report makes clear that, far from being a spur-of-the-minute decision by Trump, the murder of Suleimani had broad support within the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, which had planned this crime for the past 18 months. The account implicates former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel in advocating and plotting the murder.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/13/pers-j13.html?fbclid=IwAR1PNs_4lB87NxQEsQRxc_9qe1GOJjEH9MfX2Gx7WrxZFyimZ241o5Lx6LE
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THE DYING EMPIRE(HEGEMONIC POWE5R)
Donald Trump’s rant against Iran is the howl of a dying empireDonald Trump does not strut the world stage as Augustus triumphant. On Wednesday he might have commanded that “Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon … we will never let that happen”. But as he slurred at his autocue, he conveyed only ritualised abuse of Iran and pleas to Nato for help, a Nato he once majestically derided. I sensed we were seeing the US’s days as world hegemon dribbling away. Even Trump’s Republican ally Mike Lee called the Iran briefing “the worst briefing I’ve seen – at least on a military issue – in my nine years” in the Senate. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/donald-trump-rant-iran-dying-empire-nato?fbclid=IwAR0yC0DZczwfmTuqiocR7BnzkhU7QIh4qsK2zVd-eWvWDSmzc-5_pM0H-mU
2017 Donald Trump's hotel in Azerbaijan linked with corruption, Iran's Revolutionary GuardAn unopened Trump hotel in Azerbaijan has been linked to corrupt officials who support the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports Adam Davidson in a New Yorker piece. https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-azerbaijan-hotel-linked-with-corruption-iran-2017-3?fbclid=IwAR2aXlW1K2hhAAembtTc84VmcM595Iek0q62wSeZr_q6qr31YB9f4LRp7Us&r=US&IR=T
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Society's Child
'Designed by clowns and supervised by monkeys': Senate investigation into Boeing air disasters reveals what employees thought of 737-MAXNewly released internal emails from Boeing Co. paint a disturbing picture of its 737 Max program, with employees bragging about fooling FAA regulators and ridiculing its safety.The emails were part of more than 100 pages of documents sent Thursday by Boeing to House and Senate committees that have been investigating the aircraft maker in the wake of two crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed a combined 346 people. The 737 Max family has been grounded for nearly a year, with no return date yet.The emails were also made public, in three batches: here, here and here."This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys," read one email.Some messages detail problems with the development of Boeing's 737 Max simulator and suggest the planes got FAA approval under false pretences.
"I still haven't been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year," one of the employees says in a 2018 email, apparently referring to interactions with the Federal Aviation Administration."Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee emailed a colleague. "No," the co-worker responded. https://www.sott.net/article/427162-Designed-by-clowns-and-supervised-by-monkeys-Senate-investigation-into-Boeing-air-disasters-reveals-what-employees-thought-of-737-MAX
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Was Iranian Missile Operator Tricked Into Shooting Down The Ukrainian Airlines Plane Over Tehran?he Iranian confession that their military shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane near Tehran is the end of the matter as far as international diplomacy and the media is concerned. The official story then about what happened is this:It's 2am on January 8th 2020 and our guy is sitting in a Tor-M1 air-defense missile system about 10kms north-west of Imam Khomeini international airport, west of Tehran.
General Soleimani had been buried the day before, and in the last half-hour or so a couple dozen Iranian ballistic missiles had been fired from western Iran at two US bases in Iraq.The entire Iranian military is on alert and stress levels are particularly high. There's been a lot of chatter about a likely US response to the Iranian missiles and our guy is one of several teams positioned around Tehran tasked with shooting down anything on his radar screen that fits the profile. But as the hours pass without incident, he starts to doubt he'll see any action - at least, not tonight.By 6am the only thing he can report having seen on his radar screen are each of the 9 scheduled flights that departed the nearby airport that night. He watched them take normal flight paths off the northwest runway, climb into the clear night sky and then veer north or northeast. Since the Tor-M1 system he is operating is fitted with IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) functionality, he could even see their call signs. The second-to-last one was Qatar Airways Flight QR8408 heading for Hong Kong. https://www.sott.net/article/427303-Was-Iranian-Missile-Operator-Tricked-Into-Shooting-Down-The-Ukrainian-Airlines-Plane-Over-Tehran?fbclid=IwAR0jt6dUk6grRa-3XccTh4C888M6V90J7cVdbbX01B9c0W9UihyfZfO5tcw
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Danish Troops Testify To Greater Damages At US Base in Iraq, As Well As To NATO’s Lack of Readiness https://southfront.org/danish-troops-testify-to-greater-damages-at-us-base-in-iraq-as-well-as-to-natos-lack-of-readiness/?fbclid=IwAR2D6jYajmQIZdbKi37VhB4aASLcIRvYcEHlCCnzTSF65gDNeg-4Lu2YwMs
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Tony Gratrex
15 mins •
I'm not particularly convinced of the ICC's neutrality when it comes to even consider prosecuting western or Israeli officials. However it gives me some satisfaction that Israeli officials are getting worried that they may be held to account.Members of the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet are said to be “profoundly concerned” that the International Criminal Court and may issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials it considers suspects as it will launch a war crimes investigation against Israel, within the next 90 days. http://english.pnn.ps/2020/01/12/israeli-cabinet-warns-from-secret-icc-arrest-warrants/?fbclid=IwAR2tf3hyHovA73UW5YkV3T5ZFjjemo2nqsf2cQ2OhNh5pj41OrauHWboVro
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Paul Apollonio Trump was conned into this assassination. There would have been NO ONE in the entire country whose assassination would create unification and martyr status more than this man, Solemani.
Mossad pointed it out because the OWNER, Rothschild, wants us to fight the war with Iran so he can control their resources just like he controls ours, the UK, France, Germany and most of the countries on the face of the planet.
Isn't it funny, every war has one thing in common and the media THEY own never point it out? I wonder why....
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By Elijah J. Magnier: @ejmalrai
Well-informed and established sources at Iraqi Prime minister Adel Abdel Mahdi’s office in Baghdad believe “the US is unwilling to listen to reason, to the Iraqi government or the parliament. It has the intention of bringing war upon itself and transforming Iraq into a battlefield, by refusing to respect the law and withdraw its forces. The US will be faced with strong and legitimate popular armed resistance, even if some Iraqis (in Kurdistan) will break the law and will accept the US presence in their region, though without a heavy price.” https://ejmagnier.com/2020/01/13/iraq-is-the-next-battleground/?fbclid=IwAR3Jhi6gYoqTACuiGwIYr55wf6C5AsLREbc4CS94pYfAEgCec5Wwd0RtLg8
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Barry Grossman
6 hrs •
The Times report makes clear that, far from being a spur-of-the-minute decision by Trump, the murder of Suleimani had broad support within the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, which had planned this crime for the past 18 months. The account implicates former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel in advocating and plotting the murder.
The Times report presents a picture of a criminal state, in which the most flagrant violations of the law are treated as routine. It is a testament to the degree to which US foreign policy has been criminalized after nearly two decades of the “war on terror.”
This noramlization of illegality extends to the press. The tone of the Times report is that of an adventure story. There is not a hint of a critcial attitude toward the flagrantly criminal character of the actions it describes. The word "legal," or any variant of it, simply does not appear in the body of the text.
The article makes clear that the Trump administration’s motives for murdering Suleimani had nothing to do with a supposedly “imminent” threat, as claimed by White House officials. Rather, the United States wanted to retaliate against Suleimani for a series of US policy setbacks for which the American state held him responsible.
The assassination of Qassem Suleimani and the criminalization of US state policy
13 January 2020
On Sunday, the New York Times published a detailed account, based on high-level sources within the US government, of the Trump administration’s decision to murder Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani on January 3, 2020.
The Times report makes clear that, far from being a spur-of-the-minute decision by Trump, the murder of Suleimani had broad support within the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, which had planned this crime for the past 18 months. The account implicates former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel in advocating and plotting the murder.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/13/pers-j13.html?fbclid=IwAR1PNs_4lB87NxQEsQRxc_9qe1GOJjEH9MfX2Gx7WrxZFyimZ241o5Lx6LE