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Weekly Review And Open Thread 2018-01
We covered the protests in Iran and the foreign attempts to hijack them for their purpose.
Dec 29 – Iran – Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests
Dec 31 – Iran – Early U.S. Support For Rioters Hints At A Larger Plan
Jan 2 – Iran – Few Protests – Some Riots – U.S. Prepares The Next Phase
Jan 4 – Iran – Europe Rejects U.S. Drive To War
Protests against the fallout of neoliberal policies by the Rouhani government are surely justified. Even Supreme Leader Khamenei supports them. But in late December people chanting "regime change" slogans started to take part. They were obviously pushed from abroad by the MEK, the monarchist and other CIA front groups. The situation changed. Directed through Telegram channels, groups of young rioters tried to take over police stations and to gain access to weapons. The Iranian people saw the dangers therein and did not support such behavior. The original protesters disappeared, their important voice was no longer heard. But for lack of local backing the riots soon died down.
The riots exposed the anti-Iran propagandists and imperial dreamers who believe that there is some significant internal movement in Iran against the Islamic Republic. But a few ten-thousand total protesters are absolutely insignificant when they have no backing from the masses. Still, the U.S. tried to use the riots to expand sanctions against Iran. It was slapped down when it brought the issue up at the UN Security Council.
Jan 1 – NYT Writes Epic Cover For Comey's FBI – Its Sole Source: "Officials Said"
The full Clinton conspiracy against Trump, which was supported by the intelligence services, has not yet been exposed. But bit by bit more details are coming out. The main stream media are heavily invested in the anti-Trump/anti-Russia narrative and therefore continue to throw smoke bombs.
Jan 6 – Trump Offloads Foreign Policy Problems – Lets EU Grow A Spine
Results of Trump's foreign policy seem to be consistent with his generally isolationist views. Is he playing more clever than it seems?
Upcoming:
- An update on the military situation in Syria. The Syrian army continues to make significant progress despite the efforts by the U.S., Israel and Turkey to each strengthen their particular variant of Jihadist "rebels".
- The simmering water war between Egypt and Ethiopia. The issue is existential for both sides. They and their respective allies are currently positioning their troops. There is a high chance that the conflict will suddenly explode.
Please use the comments as open thread …
The “Trump Offloads” trope, like his “7D Chess” joke, or his “Populist President” meme, is all patently absurd, right on the face of it. He’s a serial bunko artist and lifelong fraudster, a money launderer and human trafficker through his ex-Soviet Mafiya funded hotel:casino empire. He has no political expertise or finesse. He’s just a side-show.
Even a cursory examination of 2016 confirms this was the ‘Deep State’ playbook:
RNC ran an ‘American Idol’ charade. After all, their operatives had captured the alt Right, the Right and the Cracker Middle, under Obama. The election was theirs to LOSE! DNC ran a Clinton and Sanders campaign. Sanders was the bagman to capture the Left. He sewed them all up. This left Clinton free to drift Right, hence her militarist braggado against Russia, (even at the same time, when BOTH parties were using Russia to obtain ‘classified and highly sensitive data’ on each other.) She had to pander to the Right!
So what the People got was: NeoLiberal ZioWarPigA v. ZioWarPigB 2016. Bernie dropped out at the appointed time, delivering the Left to Clinton. The Republican candidates dropped out one by one, delivering the alt Right and Right to Trump, WHO IS A CRYPTO-LIBERAL.
TPTB (aka ‘Deep State’) didn’t care one way or the other who ‘won’. Just like Karzai 2009, the Executive, whomever the People ‘chose’, was there to sign the final bust out:
1999 Gramm-Leich-Bliley Bankster Coup (aka ‘Survival of Banking’)
2001 Pentagon-DHS-CIA-NSA Deep State Coup (aka ‘Survival of Government’)
2008 TBTF TARP Bailout Coup (aka ‘Survival of Wall Street’)
2012 Citizens United Coup (aka ‘Survival of Oligarchists’)
2016 Trump-Rodham Bust Out Coup (aka ‘Tax Abeyance for the Ricos’)
Trump has ‘opted out’ of his duties as Commander in Chief. He lets Pentagon and CIA run that half of his Administration. Trump has ‘opted out’ of his duties as Leader of the Free World. He lets CIA-State run that half of his Administration, just like Obama did, or for that matter, just like Bush Lite and Clinton before him, and Reagan 2. And he’s totally ‘toadied’ up to Wall Street, bringing the greatest Tax Cuts to Corporate since Reagan 1, (and at that point at which Reagan realized he was committing capital crimes.)
Democracy in USA ended with Carter and Reagan 1. Brezinzski, Rumsfeld, Cheney, you can trace the lines down through the End of History to the Surrender of the American Dream.
Now we’re left with Team Spirit, and $21,500,000,000,000 black hole in SS and MC Trust, and All Future Generations will be debt slaves to the Rentiers and Mil.Gov Deep State.
It’s over. Smell it! This is the point in the movie where the Titanic breaks in half. There is only one quintile left on Earth with unencumbered wealth, the USA Boomers. The inheritance they might have passed down to the next generation will be stripped out by ZIRP, by >30% per year R/E asset inflation, runaway stock market inflation, Crypto, all the usual suspects. Then the Boomers will be schlepped off into MIC elder concentration camps, their 401ks and reverse-mortgages locked into auto-deduction, and whatever hope the Next Generation held to inherit their Boomer wealth will have been stripped away by Corporate, while the Next Generation are made Debt Paupers in the interim.
Can’t you feel the heat on your skin? It’s a CROWN FIRE! Nothing but ashes will be left.
A mouthful of ashes, and dust. An American Pompeii. Use whatever meme gives you comfort.
Posted by: Chipnik | Jan 7 2018 23:03 utc | 36
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