And whose fault is that, pray tell? Big boys don’t whine.
[Shafaq News] CIA director Bill Burns told Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman that the US feels "blindsided" by Riyadh’s moves to restore ties with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Syria as part of the kingdom's increasingly independent foreign policy streak.
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Burns travelled to Saudi Arabia at an undisclosed time this week to discuss intelligence cooperation
#2
Looking at it on the geopolitical picture. Likely many lukewarm allies right now, are wondering if the USA will even be a 4th rate world power on 5 years? The loyalty $$$$$ and/or military support that is funneled out to various leaders is backed by, for all means, a Bankrupt nation.
#3
When you treat your friends like sh*t, they tend to find new friends.
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Well, ole Jake Sullivan can add another disaster to his Yale boy resume...
-VP Biden's NSA advisor when Biden lost Iraq to ISIS
-lost Iraq to the Iranians
-failed Iran nuclear negotiations
-failed Clinton campaign
-collapse of Afghanistan
-Ukraine disaster
-currently making his administration look like fools in the middle east
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#9
Apply the Strong Horse - Weak Horse test and outcomes are obvious. All the Ivy-League pettyfoggery, sophisticated language about nuance and effeminate fashion sense notwithstanding, the real world's leaders see who's who and what's what. Does it look like America will cast off this suicidal malaise induced by the choke-hold our elites have on basic institutions and th media? If I'm on the outside looking in, not so much!
#10
Thing about backlash is, the further back it has to lash, the more you'd better stand back.
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Thing about backlash is...
My winch cable allegory fits.
Haul them out of their log filled mudpit and with the last tug, the shackle shatters and the cable end comes back thru the windshield.
#12
Does he mean to say that the Saudis have made us a Pariah State?
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Not sure who they are complaining about with regard to being blindsided. We depend on the intelligence community to keep us from being blindsided. This is like the baker complaining about the buns being burned.
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Did you see this one coming Bill??
--Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales
--Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington
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Blindsided by the Taliban speed with which they took Kabul.
Blindsided by ___________________ (fill in the blank).
Time for the DNI to be subordinated to a new and improved intelligence department. That'll fix everything.
[Shafaq News] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i group Ansar Allah (Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s) announced on Saturday that they had reached an understanding with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to stop the ongoing war in Yemen and bring peace to the country.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the political bureau of Ansar Allah, confirmed the agreement in an interview with the al-Mayadeen channel.
The understanding includes all files related to the truce and achieving comprehensive and lasting peace.
Ansar Allah indicates it will support any Saudi approach to peace with Yemen or other parties in the "axis of resistance."
The comprehensive solution will be in two stages, with the first stage expected to be before Eid al-Fitr.
Al-Bukhaiti denied the relationship between Ansar Allah and the ongoing consultations in Riyadh between the Yemeni leadership council and Saudi leadership regarding the Yemeni file, stating that Saudi Arabia is a party to the war.
The UAE has also started withdrawing its military forces from Yemen, with Ansar Allah having almost certain information that it intends to keep some Yemeni islands, which Ansar Allah does not accept.
Regarding the Yemeni-Yemeni dialogue, al-Bukhaiti called on all Yemeni political components to accelerate dialogue with Sana'a to reach a Yemeni-Yemeni solution. He also revealed Western pressure, led by the United States, on Saudi Arabia and the UAE to continue the aggression and siege.
Al-Bukhaiti believed that withdrawing the Saudi and Emirati forces and American, French, and British troops "is necessary to achieve a comprehensive peace in Yemen."
The ongoing war in Yemen, which began in 2015, has claimed the lives of 377,000 people, inflicted cumulative losses estimated at $126 billion on the Yemeni economy, and left 80% of the Yemeni people in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... The conflict has had devastating consequences for the Yemeni people, including a humanitarian crisis that has left millions of Yemenis facing severe food and water shortages, displacement, and disease outbreaks.
The conflict has also resulted in significant damage to infrastructure and institutions, including hospitals and schools.
[GEO.TV] A court in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... on Saturday handed over Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur to the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police in a case registered against him at the capital's Police Station Golra.
The former federal minister and PTI central leader was arrested by the police in DI Khan on Thursday in separate cases filed by Islamabad and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police.
Earlier today, a judicial magistrate in DI Khan ordered to hand over the PTI leader to the ICT police. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... the PTI’s supporters staged protests against Gandapur’s arrest
After obtaining the court’s order, a police party of the ICT took the PTI leader from DI Khan's central jail and left for Islamabad, where he would be produced before a court.
A day earlier, a local court sent Gandapur to central jail on six-day judicial remand, ensuring his presence in separate cases filed by Islamabad and Punjab police.
Accepting his plea, the judicial magistrate Mazhar Ali rejected the two cases registered by DI Khan police against him.
The magistrate also rejected the plea of Islamabad and Punjab police seeking physical custody of the PTI leader in separate cases registered against him.
The judicial magistrate directed the representatives of both Islamabad and Punjab police to fulfil and complete the required documentation for further hearing proceedings.
PTI leadership strongly condemned the arrest, terming the Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government in the centre a "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... " administration.
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[GEO.TV] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday castigated President Arif Alvi for returning Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill, 2023, unsigned and called him a worker of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI).
The bill is aimed at curtailing the powers of the chief justice — including the suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... and the formation of benches. The PTI has strongly condemned the move to pass the legislation and said it is an "attack on the judiciary".
"President Alvi returning the Supreme Court Bill duly passed by Parliament is most unfortunate," the prime minister said in a hard-hitting tweet hours after the president returned the bill to the legislature.
The president has, since the formation of the Pakistain Democratic Movement's government in April last year, returned bills and also refused to administer the oath to several members of the federal cabinet, including PM Shehbaz.
Alvi has sought the advice of PTI Chairman Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... — who was ousted as the prime minister in April last year — on several crucial matters, including the appointment of the chief of army staff.
In the tweet, the prime minister said the president has belittled his office through his actions as he follows the PTI chief's orders rather than fulfilling his constitutional duties.
"Through his conduct, he has belittled the august Office by acting as a worker of the PTI, one who is beholden to Imran Niazi more than the Constitution & demands of his Office," he added.
The bill was approved by both houses of the parliament last month and sent to the president for assent amid a deepening political and constitutional crisis in the country over elections in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
After Alvi's refusal to assent to the legislation, the government is likely to get through this bill from a joint session of the parliament.
The president returned the bill for reconsideration to the parliament as per the provisions of the Article 75 of the Constitution, stating that the bill prima-facie travels beyond the competence of the parliament and can be assailed as colourable legislation.
In his letter to PM Shehbaz Sharif, President Alvi said that he thought it fit and proper to return the bill, in accordance with the Constitution, with the request for reconsideration in order to meet the scrutiny about its validity (if assailed in the Court of Law).
President Alvi said that SC Rules 1980 had been "made and in force duly validated and adopted by the Constitution itself" under enabling provisions such as Article 191 of the Constitution which empowers the top court to make rules regulating the practice and procedure of the court.
"These time-tested rules are being followed ever since the year 1980 —any tinkering with the same may tantamount to interference with the internal working of the Court, its autonomy and independence," the letter stated.
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[The Nation (Pak)] The National Security Committee (NSC) — the country's top security body comprising civil and military leadership — decided on Friday to "speed up" the operation against terrorists.
The two-hour long NSC meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. According to sources, the meeting was attended by Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, chairman joint chiefs of staff committee (CJCSC), heads of armed forces, federal ministers for defence, finance and information and senior military leadership.
According to sources, Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum gave a detailed briefing on the ongoing operations against terrorism and the security situation of the country.
Officials, privy to the meeting and who spoke to Geo News on the condition of anonymity, stated that NSC reiterated that the zero-tolerance policy against Lions of Islam would continue.
Sources shared, that in two-hour long meeting, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also briefed the NSC on the economic situation of the country.
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[Shafaq News] An Iranian official says footage from surveillance cameras in public places such as subways will be used to help identify and fine women who fail to adhere to the country's mandatory hijab rule.
In a video published on social media, Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani said this measure is based on the July 5 order by President Ebrahim Raisi to enforce the so-called hijab and chastity law. It is the first time that an official in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has publicly admitted the presence of facial recognition technology in public surveillance cameras.
Golpayegani is the secretary of Iran's Headquarters for Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil, which is responsible for determining and enforcing behavioral models in society.
Golpayegani has previously said that women who publish their pictures without a hijab on the Internet will be deprived of some social rights for a period of six months to one year.
Authorities in Iran are increasingly cracking down on women deemed to be in violation of wearing the hijab, which is mandatory in public in Iran.
In recent weeks, women judged not to be in compliance have been barred from entering government offices, banks, or riding on public transportation.
The notorious Guidance Patrols, or morality police, have become increasingly active and violent mostly peaceful. Videos have emerged on social media appearing to show officers detaining women, forcing them into vans, and whisking them away.
The hijab -- the head covering worn by Moslem women -- became compulsory in public for Iranian women and girls over the age of 9 after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Many Iranian women have flouted the rule over the years and pushed the boundaries of what officials say is acceptable clothing.
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[Shafaq News] The U.S. Navy has deployed a guided-missile submarine capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk missiles to the Middle East, a front man said Saturday, in what appeared to be a show of force toward Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... following recent tensions.
The Navy rarely acknowledges the location or deployment of submarines. Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a front man for the 5th Fleet based in the Gulf nation of Bahrain, declined to comment on the submarine’s mission or what had prompted the deployment.
He said the nuclear-powered submarine, based out of Kings Bay, Georgia, passed through the Suez Canal on Friday. "It is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and is deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet to help ensure regional maritime security and stability," Hawkins said.
The 5th Fleet patrols the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil transits. Its region includes the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and the Red Sea stretching up to the Suez Canal, the Egyptian waterway linking the Mideast to the Mediterranean Sea.
The U.S., the U.K. and Israel have accused Iran of targeting oil tankers and fat merchantmen in recent years, allegations denied by Tehran. The U.S. Navy has also reported a series of tense encounters at sea with Iranian forces that it said were being recklessly aggressive.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Following up the latest developments on borders with Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... and Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , the Zionist circles mourned the Israeli deterrence power and expressed sorrow over the deteriorating conditions of the occupation entity in face of the axis of resistance.
The Israeli circles described the axis of resistance as active, noting that the Zionist government has been committing mistakes utilized by the enemies of the Zionist entity.
The military news hound of Channel 12, Nir Devori, said that the same scenario of limited responses is repeated, highlighting the Israeli fight on multiple fronts.
Yaov Limor, a military analyst, warned against the threats posed by the "active" axis of resistance from Tehran through Gaza, stressing that the Israeli deterrence power has eroded.
The Zionist circles also compared between the confused and clumsy performance of the Israeli security cabinet and the important decisions taken during a meeting between Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, command.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
...aka 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
