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U.S./UK Paid “White Helmets” Help Blocking Water To 5 Million Thirsty Syrians
The blockade of water from Wadi Barada to 5 million people in Damascus is taking an interesting turn. The U.S. and UK financed White Helmet organization seems to be directly involved in it. This increases the suspicion that the illegal blockade of water to civilians in Damascus is part of a organized campaign under U.S. command. The campaign is designed to block utilities to government held areas as revenge for the liberation of east Aleppo.
As we described it yesterday:
After the eastern part of the city of Aleppo was liberated by Syrian government forces, the local rebels and inhabitants in the Barada river valley were willing to reconcile with the Syrian government. But the al-Qaeda Takfiris disagreed and took over. The area is since under full al-Qaeda control and thereby outside of the recent ceasefire agreement.
On December 22 the water supply to Damascus was suddenly contaminated with diesel fuel and no longer consumable. A day later Syrian government forces started an operation to regain the area and to reconstitute the water supplies.
Photos and a video on social media (since inaccessible but I saw them when they appeared) showed the water treatment facility rigged with explosives. On Dec 27th the facility was blown up and partly destroyed.
The Syrian government is ready to send repair teams to rehabilitate the water flow to the millions of civilians in Damascus. But access to the site is denied and the Syrian army is now trying to push al-Qaeda and its allies away from it.
Curiously some "civil" groups today offered access under several (not agreeable) conditions:
Hassan Ridha @sayed_ridha – 2:10 AM – 3 Jan 2017
Wadi Barada statement: we will let teams to fix water spring if SAA-Hezb stop attack, siege lift & monitor ceasefire by intl observers
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EHSANI2 @EHSANI22 – 6:43 AM – 3 Jan 2017
Offer by opposition to trade access to water source for #Damascus with halting of military operations by army
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Here is the attachment to both tweets. Note who signed it:
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Check the logos of the undersigning organizations You will probably recognize the middle one in the second row. Here it is magnified.
And here is the original of that logo taken directly from the website of the Syrian Civil Defense organization aka The White Helmets:
The organizations who make an offer to lift the water blockade of Damascus obviously think they have the power to do so. They then must also be held responsible for keeping the blockade up. They must also have intimate relations with the al-Qaeda fighters who currently occupy the damaged water facilities.
The U.S. and UK government created and paid White Helmets are "impartially", "neutrally" and "for all Syrians" blocking the water supply to 5 million Syrians in Damascus. U.S. military and CIA officers run the "operations rooms" in Jordan and Turkey that direct the insurgency.
This increases suspicion that the blockade is part of an organized response by the enemies of Syria to the recent liberation of east-Aleppo. As noted yesterday:
This shut down is part of a wider, seemingly coordinated strategy to deprive all government held areas of utility supplies. Two days ago the Islamic State shut down a major water intake for Aleppo from the Euphrates. High voltage electricity masts of lines feeding Damascus have been destroyed and repair teams, unlike before, denied access. Gas supplies to parts of Damascus are also cut.
Even after 14 days of water crisis in Damascus the "western" media are not reporting about the al-Qaeda blockade of water for 5 million Syrians. We can be sure that not a word will be written by them about this illegal hostages taking of millions of civilians in Damascus by their favorite propaganda organization White Helmets.
@ rg the lg | Jan 4, 2017 12:23:45 AM | 55
Truly.
Look at the Washington Post, what a steadfastly consistent journalistic dishrag/fish-wrap … none, none of this is NEW … lets go back, a mere 118 years … here’s a WP editorial on the eve of the Spanish-American War, 1898:
A new consciousness seems to have come upon us – the consciousness of strength – and with it a new appetite, the yearning to show our strength. … Ambition, interest, land hunger, pride, the mere joy of fighting, whatever it may be, we are animated by a new sensation. We are face to face with a strange destiny. The taste of Empire is in the mouth of the people even as the taste of blood is in the jungle …
Was that taste in the mouth of the people through some instinctive lust for aggression or some urgent self-interest? Or was it a taste (if indeed it existed) created, encouraged, advertised, and exaggerated by the millionaire press, the military, the government, the eager-to-please scholars of the time? Political scientist John Burgess of Columbia University, at the time, said the Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon races were “particularly endowed with the capacity for establishing national states . .. they are entrusted … with the mission of conducting the political civilization of the modern world.”
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (Grandfather of Ambassador Cabot Lodge of Vietnam fame) of Massachusetts, wrote in a magazine article:
In the interests of our commerce … we should build the Nicaragua canal, and for the protection of that canal and for the sake of our commercial supremacy in the Pacific we should control the Hawaiian islands and maintain our influence in Samoa. … and when the Nicaraguan canal is built, the island of Cuba … will become a necessity… . The great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present defense all the waste places of the earth. It is a movement which makes for civilization and the advancement of the race.
– A people’s history of the United States – Howard Zinn
Our champions, no doubt respectfully, refer to the ‘generally brown‘, ‘Others‘ of the Middle East, as ‘rag-heads‘ & ‘sand-niggers‘, just as we called the Fillipinos of 1898, ‘Slant-eyed kakiack ladrones‘ …
The first half and prime of my life was in wilful, blinkered service, first the Military then Intelligence. My viewpoint now is totally 180 degrees to those days … partly why this grumpy ol’ bastard in poor health gets too passionate and loses it sometimes …
The ClubOrlov piece seems quite on point to me, the Roman Empire ultimately collapsed upon itself due to Debt, massive human/social/financial inequality & internal contradictions/structural fratricide, etc, as did others … our useful poodle, perfidious Albion, may soon be an irrelevancy without a viable economy, little at-the-table influence, nor any ‘special relationship’ myths either … as pointed out, Good ol’ US of A is utterly bankrupt and cannot percievably service nor overcome the cumulative debt burden by economic means, and it’s agencies, bureaucrats and factions ‘appear’ to be unable to work to a common goal … for Rome, for a long time, the temporary solution was stealing other nations loot … the solution for the Third Reich was similar, Total War … for Imperial Japan preceding WWII all was risked on a throw of the dice, success or destruction, with War … this chatter of somehow befriending Russia whilst attacking/undermining China is deluded, laughable … China & Russia are geographical neighbors and increasingly economically linked & interdependent … cannot foresee a ‘split’ to Trumps/US advantage. So, maybe, the US will survive in the meantime by cannibalizing/looting 3rd tier nations to get by, however, only if it can extract loot that exceeds the cost … yes, Saudi Arabia is looking tempting … there are strategic War Plans in existence for virtually every nation state contingency … would have to look it up, tho recall a declassified War Plan for the seizure of the Saudi oilfields and plant to ensure US economic and energy security (Eisenhower ?) … the Iranians would be heartily amused if we did a Mosaddegh ’53 coup rerun, this time on the House of Al-Saud and setup a new SAVAK to go after all the recalcitrant Wahhabi’s … if the rewards for doing so exceeded the current bribes/tribute ?
A much more multi-polar world seems fast approaching, before our very eyes. In many countries, a similarity to the events preceding the French revolution of 1848 ? May be mis-remembering my Socrates, tho recall him seeking to discover what made a leader ‘great’ or ‘wise’ ? Ultimately, grievously disappointed to realize ’twas the open humility to acknowledge Not-knowing-everything/nor-all-the answers, IIRC.
@ Ghostship 51 & Julian 58
IF Trump is legitimate, yes, he will be at War with the Deep State … IF he follows thru … IF that were to be the case, he and is administration either dismantles or suborns it (a herculean feat, in defiance of the entirety of US history), or they kill him/remove him, and Pence is POTUS … or is it all just Kabuki theater for our consumption & entertainment … as post-election factions re-align and co-coalesce ?
However, perhaps it’s all just crystal ball gazing in a dark room filled with fog, with Trump, how can we possibly know ? Attempting to read tea-leaves ? That is until at least 100 days after he’s inaugurated … surely, Deeds(actions), Not mere words! (Facta, non verba!), is all that will count.
Hm, apologies b, seriously ranting & contributing to going way, way, OT. Perhaps a new Open Thread is due ?
Posted by: Outraged | Jan 4 2017 7:06 utc | 61
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