Let's see how this shakes out
[AYPEE] Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91.In a Middle East replete with elderly rulers, Sheikh Sabah stood out for his efforts at pushing for diplomacy to resolve a bitter dispute between Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and other Arab nations that continues to this day.
His 2006 ascension in Kuwait, a staunch U.S. ally since the American-led war that expelled occupying Iraqi troops, came after parliament voted unanimously to oust his predecessor, the ailing Sheikh Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah, just nine days into his rule.
Yet as Kuwait’s ruling emir, he struggled with internal political disputes, the fallout of the 2011 Arab Spring protests and seesawing crude oil prices that chewed into a national budget providing cradle-to-grave subsidies.
"He represents the older generation of Gulf leaders who valued discretion and moderation and the importance of personal ties amongst fellow monarchs," said Kristin Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington who studies Kuwait. "No question he has suffered from the lack of deference and respect shown by the younger and more brash young princes holding power today."
State television announced his death after playing Koranic prayers, with Royal Court Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al Sabah reading a brief statement, his hands shaking.
"With great sadness and sorrow, the Kuwaiti people, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the friendly peoples of the world mourn the death of the late His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, emir of the state of Kuwait who moved to the realm of the Lord," the sheikh said, without offering a cause of death.
In the past, 83-year-old Crown Prince Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, an elder statesman and the deceased emir’s half-brother, has been appointed acting ruler when the Sheikh was indisposed, as per the country’s constitutional law. Sheikh Nawaf has held high office for decades, including top positions. As ruler, his brother pushed a policy of diplomacy to solve regional problems, while also leading the 2017 boycott of Qatar by members of the GCC.
And 3dc gives us Peter Zeihan and the Wall Street Journal in one efficient tweet:
Kuwait will now go through something similar to the Saudi succession struggles of the 2000s. I don't think it'll be nearly as cloak and dagger, as the Kuwaiti royal family is so much smaller. https://t.co/Eioppevtja
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain has announced that it will open its land border with Afghanistan for passengers, and transfer of goods from the country.
Mohammad Sadiq Pakistain’s special envoy to Afghanistan said in a tweet Monday night, that "All border terminals with Afghanistan located in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including Torkham, will be opened for pedestrian traffic on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Will fully revert to pre-Corona schedule shortly. Officials at the border crossings are being informed."
The Pak government blocked all transit routes and public transportation after the outbreak of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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St. Louis prosecutors will not prosecute nine people charged with trespassing on the private property of a gun-wielding couple who pointed weapons at them
Deputy city counselor Michael Garvin said prosecutors investigated each of the cases through the review of multiple videos, documents and interviews
All of the charges have been dropped
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, residents of the neighborhood face one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon
The couple made headlines when Mark was seen armed with an AR-15 rifle and his wife with a semiautomatic handgun during a confrontation with marchers
The protesters were on their way to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house
An Nahar doesn’t usually report on Israeli speeches, but this one seems to have something they think their readers will appreciate. Very neatly labelled satellite image can be seen at the link.
[AnNahar] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned that the "next explosion" in 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... might take place in the Beirut suburb of Jnah, where he said Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... has an alleged secret arms depot.
"We all saw the terrible explosion at Beirut port last month... Two hundred people died, thousands of people were maimed, and a quarter of a million people were made homeless," said Netanyahu in an English-language virtual address at the annual U.N. General Assembly.
"Now, here is where the next explosion could take place. Right here. This is the Beirut neighborhood of Jnah. It’s right next to the international airport. And here, Hizbullah is keeping a secret arms depot. This secret arms depot, right here, is adjacent, a meter away, from a gas company," Netanyahu explained, pointing to a huge image of the supposed neighborhood.
"These are gas canisters. Right here. It’s a few meters away from a gas station. It’s fifty meters away from the gas company. Here are more gas trucks. And it’s embedded in civilian housing here, civilian housing here," he added.
He also displayed a picture of "the entrance to Hizbullah's missile factory."
"It’s right here. This is the gas company, and this is the missile explosive depot," Netanyahu said.
Addressing "the people of Jnah," he called on them to "act now."
"You’ve got to protest this. Because if this thing explodes, it’s another tragedy.
I say to the people of Lebanon, Israel means you no harm. But 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... does," Netanyahu added.
Warning that Iran and Hizbullah have deliberately put Lebanese civilians in "grave danger," the Israeli PM advised Lebanese citizens to tell Iran and Hizbullah that "what they have done is unacceptable."
"You should tell them, tear these depots down," he said.
Netanyahu also pointed out that "just a few days ago, one of these depots went kaboom! at Ain Qana in south Lebanon," adding that this is why "the international community must insist that Hizbullah stop using Lebanon and Lebanese civilians as human shields."
Nasrallah: We know very well where we should put our missiles
[Jpost] Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... claimed that the terrorist group's munitions are not kept in civilian areas, despite claims by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the contrary at the UN, during a speech on Tuesday on the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar TV.
In response to Netanyahu's statements, Nasrallah invited the media to visit the Janah facility that the prime minister referred to in his UN address, "so that the world can watch Netanyahu lie on air."
Simultaneously, Hezbollah media relations announced that they were arranging a media tour of the area for Tuesday night "to learn about the reality of the situation there and to uncover the false claims of the enemy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
In his speech on Tuesday evening, Nasrallah claimed that Hezbollah is not placing munitions near civilian homes. "We know very well where we should put our missiles," added the Hezbollah leader.
Lebanon’s Amal movement slams French President Emmanuel Macron over accusations that Shiite party triggered collapse of talks in forming new government https://t.co/1HqUgzHOXA
We knew it all along, but it's nice to have a confession.
Indeed. As an aside, Mr. Cotto’s childhood orthodontist was clearly worth every penny Daddy Cotto paid him. Also, he appears to be at higher risk for Covid, so he should be careful.
[YouTube] When Obama was president we got very little energy so when Trump was elected or you know whatever happened in 2016 and he was inaugurated in January I thought well maybe these people who weren't anti-war when Obama was president even though he was continuing the wars and expanding them and adding new ones maybe they'll become anti-war activists now and it wouldn't to me it wouldn't be principled but at least there would be some action some activity and that didn't happen.
I'm seeing 95% new people come into the movement and want to help and I think that most of the people that I did anti-war work with when Bush was president were not really anti-war they were just anti-Bush and then they you know supported Obama so they couldn't really protest Obama but then they realized that that protesting wars isn't really politically correct because it's both sides of the aisle who are complicit in them.
I think recognize the nonpartisan nature of our march. We're not marching against Republicans we're not marching against Democrats or for Democrats. We're marching against the system, against the Pentagon, against the violence of the US empire and I think that's attracting a lot of people is that we're nonpartisan. Some of the women's march people even like even when they told me that they never addressed war and peace when I announced that I was going to do this on October 21st they were really upset because they said "Cindy you can't do it on October 21st, it's too close to the elections! You might hurt the Democrats!" and I said "Exactly. That's why we're doing it." You know if you are so scared of an anti-war march hurting your party why are you even in that party if you care about this issue?
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Wikipedia’s Cindy Sheehan page can be seen here, Chique McGurque7373. Her son, Casey was killed in action in Iraq in 2004, after which Ms Sheehan became an antiwar activist and very failed would-be politician.
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#6 Meanwhile, Trump is trying to end wars.
And getting slammed for it.
War is peace
Peace is warmongering
Silence is violence
Violence is peaceful protest
Insurrection is patriotism
Love of country is fascism
Fascism is anti-fascism
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...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...
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
