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Behold, The Great Wall Of Saudi Arabia: 600-Miles Of Protection From ISIS

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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Oh the irony. You just have to laugh when you see this closed, autocratic regime scramble to build a neo-feudal wall in order to protect itself from radical terrorists of its own creation. In fact, it reminds me a lot of U.S. foreign policy. In case you aren’t up to speed on the Saudi relationship to ISIS, I suggest you read the following post: America’s Disastrous Foreign Policy – My Thoughts on Iraq. Here are a couple of excerpts from that piece:

So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit – and Raqqa in Syria – and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.

 

From Aleppo in northern Syria almost to the Iraqi-Iranian border, the jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the Saudi Wahhabis – and by Kuwaiti oligarchs – now rule thousands of square miles.

 

Under Obama, Saudi Arabia will continue to be treated as a friendly “moderate” in the Arab world, even though its royal family is founded upon the Wahhabist convictions of the Sunni Islamists in Syria and Iraq – and even though millions of its dollars are arming those same fighters. Thus does Saudi power both feed the monster in the deserts of Syria and Iraq and cosy up to the Western powers that protect it.

 

But in the years they were getting started, a key component of ISIS’s support came from wealthy individuals in the Arab Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the support came with the tacit nod of approval from those regimes; often, it took advantage of poor money laundering protections in those states, according to officials, experts, and leaders of the Syrian opposition, which is fighting ISIS as well as the regime.

 

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been publicly accusing Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding ISIS for months. Several reports have detailed how private Gulf funding to various Syrian rebel groups has splintered the Syrian opposition and paved the way for the rise of groups like ISIS and others.

 

Instead of building this Medieval monstrosity, you’d think the Saudis might want to figure out who amongst them had funded ISIS in the first place, but that would make too much sense. The Independent has reported on the fence:

When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost.

The jihadists were launching an assault on the new, highest profile effort by Saudi Arabia to insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its neighbors.

 

The Saudis are building a 600-mile-long “Great Wall” – a combined fence and ditch – to separates the country from Iraq to the north.

 

Much of the area on the Iraqi side is now controlled by Isil, which regards the ultimate capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the “Two Holy Mosques” of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal.

 

Riyadh also sent an extra 30,000 troops to the area.

 

It has also created a physical barrier along parts of the even longer, 1,000-mile border with Yemen to the south.

Here’s what it looks like:

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I believe that the recent drop in oil prices puts the current leadership in Saudi Arabia under a significantly higher threat of “regime change” over the next several years. In fact, I’d be surprised if the current status quo continues beyond 2020. While many have noted that the Gulf states are in a good position to ride out the recent price collapse due to massive FX reveres, these reserves can go much faster than expected. Particularly when you need to consistently bribe your own citizenry and build enormous walls on your northern and southern borders.

Of course, perhaps the Saudis aren’t that concerned with ISIS, and rather are looking to defend their ability to wantonly behead people. Indeed, after record beheading lasts year by the Saudis (see: Record Beheadings and the Mass Arrest of Christians – Is it ISIS? No it’s Saudi Arabia), the Kingdom has already put 9 people to death in the first 14 days of 2015. Including a woman, who was decapitated in the middle of the street in Mecca earlier this week.

 

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Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:45 | 5672509 DetectiveStern
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So the US sells more arms. We get it already.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:55 | 5672526 kliguy38
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That should last all of about 5 seconds.......of course maybe they can staff it with tens of thousands of those crack Saudi patriots every four feet to defend their "country" .........ehhehehehe

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:03 | 5672559 Stuck on Zero
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I think the wall is a great idea.  It will give future tourists and archaeologists lots to see and do.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:07 | 5672564 WayBehind
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Can we get one of those for out south border?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:10 | 5672566 NoDecaf
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Worked well for the French and their Maginot line.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:10 | 5672570 Publicus
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Joke's on them, ISIS will come from Kuwait and Jordan.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:39 | 5672637 knukles
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Even easier, they'll go through Mexico, claim citizenship, get a drivers license, EBT card and passport, get a job (government provided, of course) in the State Department as an interpreter, get a diplomatic passport, get assigned to the US Embassy in Riyadh and ... well, you get the gist of the charade.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:46 | 5672660 The9thDoctor
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Here's how they keep ISIS out of Texas, lol.

http://youtu.be/3BZVMNV4ycs

/sarc

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:52 | 5672672 knukles
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All these people in the ME are like a bad case of toenail fungus run amok at a nudist convention.
Please dear God, Chemtrail them or something; just make them all go away.

                                              Please

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:18 | 5672743 Paveway IV
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Wasn't there an Israeli company that was going to build this for them? Seriously. It has all kinds of electronic surveilance stuff built-in. The Israelis are experts at prison walls.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:25 | 5672752 strannick
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A medieval monarchy erects a medieval wall, against medieval religious  fanatics.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:23 | 5672819 Paveway IV
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OK - I remember the deal with this. It's not about the wall or fence at all. The Israelis want the Trans-Arab Pipeline rebuilt at the Saudi-Iraqi border. 

The TAP line has been closed for decades and dismantled - everyone figured it would be blown up as soon as it was rebuilt. In order to rebuild it and keep it safe, the Israelis proposed burying it 10 or 15m below the surface.

Now when Israel wants a gas or oil pipeline, the last thing on earth they will do is pay for it themselves. They pretty much got the Iraqis to build the Kirkuk to Haifa pipeline for them even though Iraq (to this day) refuses to sell Israel oil or gas. 

This stupid security wall isn't about protecting Saudi Arabia from Iraqi ISIS terrorists - it's to designed to create a permanently-guarded strip of land above the Kuwait to Haifa pipeline. The same technology that detects 'intruders' with a quarter mile of the border also detects terrorists with a backhoe or the vibrations from tunnelling by hand. The diagram is misleading because the 'strip' of land the Israelis really want protected is like a mile wide - it's huge. Iraq and Saudi Arabia would each permanently lose a half-mile of land on their sides of the border (effectively to Israel and its oil/gas security).

Part of the ISIS scheme was to make and excuse to divide Iraq into Sunni and Shia pieces right at the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline and build a similar 'secrity' fence. Again, built right on top of the pipeline route. Supposedly to separate warring parties, but in actuality to guard the Israeli pipeline.

This Saudi-Iraqi border fence is an excuse the Israelis are pushing for to ensure 'free' guarding of their planned gas and oil pipelines, but from Kuwait. These pipelines all go through to Amman, Jordan and then turn south. Supposedly to feed terminals in the Red Sea port of Aquaba. Israel will tap all of them just south of Amman and run them across to Israel's Haifa port. They don't want to own all the gas and oil in the Middle East - they just want it to run through Haifa and sell it for everyone.

There was a Lebanese port exporting oil and gas for years before the Israelis destroyed the TAP pipeline. One of the reasons Israel seeks to keep the Lebanese in disarray is to ensure that the Lebanese deepwater oil terminal will not 'compete' with Haifa - ever. 

"He who controls the tap..."

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:26 | 5672896 847328_3527
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Big Gubmint projects are all about keeping the hoi poli busy so their minds don't wander. Hard labor also keeps thier little fingers occupied and away from twittering and 'friending' other restless A-Rabs on FB.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:41 | 5673064 Anusocracy
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Put a gigantic steel-belted condom on the whole damn country.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:05 | 5673189 TruxtonSpangler
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Paveway is on to something here ;)

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 06:09 | 5673344 Your guess is a...
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Who needs their oil?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 08:34 | 5673403 weburke
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Look, it says they completed the wall. is the pipe in? that would mean war with iran can start?  

http://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/saudi-arabia-completes-600-mile...

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 09:39 | 5673445 Took Red Pill
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"Mr. Abdullah, tear down this wall!"

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 11:04 | 5673567 SoilMyselfRotten
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Halliburton gonna build it?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 18:21 | 5674733 GMadScientist
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Twice. Maybe three times depending on who gets elected.

Mon, 01/19/2015 - 01:49 | 5678825 TruxtonSpangler
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War with Iran will not start. There is too much in profit to be missed in natural resources if war starts. Why do you think the P5+1 includes Russia, China and Germany? Hint: Its the gas, stupid.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 04:03 | 5673278 Ayreos
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I hope you're just drunk, but if so, why does what you wrote sound so right?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 06:03 | 5673342 Paveway IV
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10,000 U.S. soldiers and a million Iraqis were killed to clear the way for the Blood-for-Oil Pipeline, otherwise known as the Kirkuk - Mosel - Haifa pipeline. When the U.S. put in the psychopathic serial-killer Maliki and he started his Sunni ethnic cleansing retribution in Anbar, the plans for ever securing that pipeline went to hell. They can't get Iraqis to be docile pipeline guards if they're busy killing or being killed by other Iraqis or fake ISIS. They're still working on that pipeline around the clock, but it's never going to carry oil until they figure out how they're going to put ISIS back in the bottle (and they can't).

Oman always wanated a new TransArabian Pipeline for their gas, but the Saudis were against more/new pipelines in the north. At least they were a few decades ago. I think they warmed up to the idea of upgrading the Iraqi border pipeline to Jordan now so they can still unload oil/gas if the Straits of Hormuz are closed. Like when they start a war with Iran. 

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 06:09 | 5673345 Your guess is a...
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Only 10,000 rednecks? Cheap at twice the rpice.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:50 | 5672809 eXMachina
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Yes the irony is not lost on anyone.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 18:19 | 5674728 GMadScientist
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If you've been to Juarez, you've seen real terror.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:43 | 5672793 Blano
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I predict ISIS will conduct a raid from the Persian Gulf, thus revealing the existence of a navy.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:36 | 5672915 Nexus789
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Or ISIS will 'emerge' from within Saudi....disaffected youth rise up.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:20 | 5672594 Miffed Microbio...
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Mr Miffed claimed he was using supreme protection. The results of which just graduated from college.

Miffed

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:43 | 5672649 RafterManFMJ
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Stupidity.

All an ISIS agent has to do is cross the border from Mexico into the USA, get an Obamaphone, and then book a Priceline flight into Riyadh.

If they have time, they can drop by Langley for lunch.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:53 | 5672682 Miffed Microbio...
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Oh dear. Someone is stating factual reality when this wall was created to instill the illusion of safety.

It seems appearances are all that matters now. One cursory glance at history shows the results of such foolishness but I'm sure someone made money on constructing this farce.

Miffed

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:25 | 5672894 TheReplacement
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You do realize this is less about IS attacking SA than about just accepting the legitimacy of IS?  SA is saying IS is here to stay.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:46 | 5672661 shovelhead
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My wife still goes with the concertina wire.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:30 | 5673044 shovelhead
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My wife still goes with the concertina wire.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:30 | 5673045 shovelhead
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My wife still goes with the concertina wire.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:14 | 5672726 Uber Vandal
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@ NoDecaf:

And Hadrian's Wall, the Atlantic Wall, Berlin Wall, the Wall of China......

In short, building walls is generally a sign of failure.

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:49 | 5672801 Tall Tom
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Worked well for the French and their Maginot line.

 

 

But there is nothing like the Ardennes Forest in Kuwait.

 

The Kuwiaiti Government must certainly love the fact that their Nation is to be transformed into a future Battlespace, with the subsequent destruction of infrastructure...AGAIN.

 

If I were leading Kuwait I would cut off America from Oil in response...

 

Wait...There is a glut?

 

Oil Prices are collapsing?

 

Nevermind.

 

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:11 | 5672568 Publicus
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Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:16 | 5672734 ejmoosa
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They do not have to do environmental impact studies like we do.

So, NO!

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 11:56 | 5673698 FireBrander
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Walls are a waste of money. If you want to stop people from crossing some imaginary line, REMOVE THE REASON WHY THEY WISH TO CROSS IT!

In the USA, that means no work and no welfare for illegal immigrants. You come here illegally, we strip you of whatever wealth you brought and send you back home.

PS> Jailing the execs of companies that hire illegals would also be a good deterent.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 18:25 | 5674739 GMadScientist
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You know that "stripped wealth" wouldn't even cover the gas to get them home, yes?

You're on the right track with punishing the people who benefit most from the arrangement though.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 12:19 | 5673769 Tzanchan
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Yeah,, but then it would be an Apartheid wall, just like the Israelis built to stop sex starved teen Moslems from blowing themselves in in pizza parlora

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:07 | 5672975 Bush Baby
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Anybody missing Saddam Hussein yet? Maybe we shouldn't have been so quick with the noose, in retrospect the man was a rockstar.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 22:11 | 5673340 StychoKiller
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[quote]

I believe that the recent drop in oil prices puts the current leadership in Saudi Arabia under a significantly higher threat of “regime change” over the next several years.

[/quote]

Hmm, fences can keep people in as well!  Which side of the fence is the enemy really on?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:16 | 5672584 TeethVillage88s
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Yeah, 600 miles. They are going to have hundreds of thousands of UN-Patriots behind the Wall.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:21 | 5672798 Normalcy Bias
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Have no fear, President JEB will have American soldiers reinstalling the solid-gold plumbing fixtures very shortly after any invasion...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:00 | 5672549 booboo
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Out of all of the Arab countries Saudi Arabia has to take the prize for the most uncivilized, dirty, filthy minded nest of ass cheese dripping cave dwelling beast that has ever lived and the west has D.C.

Winning

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:10 | 5672565 Usurious
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we went to war with the wrong countries (Afghan/Iraq)........we shouda nuked Isreal/SArabia

coulda solved alot of problems.....

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:43 | 5672643 knukles
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I got a better idea.

We pack up all our folks, declare victory and go home.

I guarantee you that within a few short weeks, they'll have all but forgotten about us and be back to killing their own kin and kind for shits n' grins and which lineage gets to claim ascendency from the prophet or some such shit, fight over the goats, whatever....

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:18 | 5672741 Usurious
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I agree...lets close down the empire

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:35 | 5672914 BlindMonkey
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It will happen voluntarily or involuntarily.

It will be less painful when we dictate the terms.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 18:13 | 5674715 GMadScientist
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Well-played, Lawrence, well-played.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:59 | 5672550 JLee2027
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I guess it never occured to anyone that ISIS could attack through Kuwait.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:12 | 5672577 effendi
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The fuckers wouldn't dare go around an inpenetrable barrier through Kuwait. Next you will be suggesting a blitzkrieg through Belgium to avoid the Maginot Line. Oh wait...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:14 | 5672578 MidwestJester
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Yeah, that way they can pickup that gear that we've been storing in Kuwait on the way! Maybe it's more like a road sign instead if a deterrent?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:33 | 5672620 Never One Roach
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The Floggings will continue until the morale improves.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:51 | 5672811 MontgomeryScott
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Remove the peasant females' clitorises, and the peasant males' testicles, IMMEDIATELY!

THAT IS ALL.

H. Kissinger, G. Soros, et.al.

(On behalf of the Saudi Bin Laden Construction Group)

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:28 | 5672901 847328_3527
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I bet the uber-wealthy shieks don't look too closely at the diverse collection of gals in their harem, whther or not they have that little Magic Button some call a clitoris.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:23 | 5672600 post turtle saver
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Kuwait... the new Belgium

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:51 | 5673233 JuliaS
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They don't need no education.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:47 | 5672513 Pool Shark
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Maginot much?

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:51 | 5672524 wee-weed up
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Some people never learn from history.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:04 | 5672557 toady
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Exactly. I'm looking at both ends of the line and laughing. Do they really think the Jordanians or Kuwaitis are gonna cover the flank?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:31 | 5672616 Yen Cross
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 I called the Pussification of Europe months ago?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:48 | 5673232 wee-weed up
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 I called the Pussification of AmeriKa decades ago!

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:50 | 5672521 NoDebt
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Maybe we could get the Saudis to build something similar along our southern border while they're at it.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:00 | 5672544 Buckaroo Banzai
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Sorry. That exotic technology is only known to sand niggers and ragheads. And they don't share it.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:27 | 5672610 Overfed
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I have an even better idea: end the drug war and take away the entitlement programs. Way cheaper, way easier, no iron fisted fascism required.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:46 | 5672659 RafterManFMJ
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Put down the pipe and back away, man! You're in danger of never coming back!

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:53 | 5672681 Colonel Klink
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And by sand niggers and ragheads, you mean Israel, right?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:40 | 5672787 MontgomeryScott
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Light-skinned Jigs, and towlies, Klink. And... Kikes.

Get your terminology straight.

Seems to me that no one has brought up the 'Great Wall Of China' in the discussion. It was built to keep out Ghengis Kahn and his hordes, wasn't it? Another empire, and another time, and another set of Ashkenazim and Khazarim hordes to be denied access to an empire of greedy and evil motherfuckers who instituted a clan system that put SOME animals in a place more WORTHY than others; and treated the lower 'castes' like human garbage... kind of like 'Saudi' Arabia does...

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:42 | 5672645 Matt
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It would be easier to occupy down to  Honduras and build a wall there. If each of the cartels has $10 billion in cash sitting in their palaces, once you take in fractional reserve banking, there is about $1 trillion to cover the cost of the operation.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:39 | 5672925 BlindMonkey
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That's some out of the box shit right there. Well done.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:52 | 5672527 are we there yet
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Have any mexicans joind ISIS?  They know how to turn borders into a joke.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:11 | 5672573 Richard Chesler
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That only happens in banana republics where they can become "undocumented citizens".

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:22 | 5672598 nmewn
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Or Furgeson where they become "undocumented shoppers" ;-)

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:13 | 5672575 Lumberjack
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XE used contractors from central america before.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:52 | 5672529 ExploitedCitizen
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This was part of the deal John Kerry hashed with them.  Flood the market with oil, we'll keep ISIS off your back.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:45 | 5672655 knukles
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Bullshit.
A flooded oil market kills the producers first, of which guess who is one of the largest?

Kerry's biggest action as Secretary of Pussificaiton was taking James Taylor to Paris to sing "I love the Frogs"

Fucking mind-numbing

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:22 | 5672882 Tall Tom
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You are mistaken...(unless I am mistaken...and know nothing...which is probably the case.)

 

It is Todd Rundgren, was wriiten for Cannes Musical Festival, and the song is titled "Frogs". The French were not pleased.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmORNIEDRHw

 

Enjoy.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 09:14 | 5673425 Charming Anarchist
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Perhaps you are thinking of "You Have Got a Friend" in Paris? which is mind-numbing too. I call it Amateur Hour at my local watering hole but for some strange reason, the place is decorated in bright colors.  If I did not know the back story, I would have guessed this was a clip from the 4th of July and nothing more special than that. 

I have a naive admiration for James Taylor solely for the fact that I like his pop music.  I have profound respect for aging musicians who still have the inclination to perform their same chart-toppers over and over.  It is not easy for a musician to be able to paly the same hits throughout their careers.  Fans want that but for a musician, it can be difficult to maintain enthusiasm.  So, I want to respect him.   However, this performance was HORRIBLE from an optical standpoint.  The video looks like a Tuesday night open stage at my local coffee house! 

I felt so embarrassed for James Taylor'S FAMILY!!  Imagine being his kid and having to point to your great father's performance whereby it looks like his is bending into his crotch! 

 

James Taylor serenading Europe again or sucking himself off for America?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:56 | 5672538 general ambivalent
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And they say a good man is hard to find...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:12 | 5672725 Pure Evil
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And some of the women say, a hard man is a good find.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:46 | 5672799 Miffed Microbio...
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Thanks for saying that. I was tempted but feared I'd be branded impiously wanton and lascivious. Not that it wouldn't be true... ;-)

Miffed

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 03:01 | 5673238 pgroup
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But all of the queers say it.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:56 | 5672541 surf0766
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Syria is gone and Jordan will fall. The evil root needs to be removed

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:19 | 5672591 franciscopendergrass
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So will the House of Fraud.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 20:58 | 5672542 philosophers bone
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Did the author imply that there were Saudi cavemen highjackers on 911?

FAIL.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:01 | 5672551 NOZZLE
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Odd, it's built by Airburst, can't the usa do the same, or is little affitmative action clown incapable.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:38 | 5672633 TeethVillage88s
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Money Talks, all others Walk.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:48 | 5672667 knukles
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Herr Dingleberry doesn't want a wall, FFS.  He wants an open border to bring in Democratic voters and more state dependency to break the system and cause a reset, a la Alinsky's Plan B from Frank Marshall's buddy in laws, Marx and Lenin

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:17 | 5672740 Pure Evil
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Let's not forget.

We're trying to build a North America Union here.

All the easier to shred the Bill of Rights.

 

(Note: I don't give a flying fuck about the Constitution only the Bill of Rights. The Constitution is the progenator of the evil monster that runs amok in D.C. Three branches of government my red devil ass, more like three ways to fuck you to Sunday.)

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 14:43 | 5674172 TeethVillage88s
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They got everything in place already.

NAFTA
CAFTA-DR
UNESCO
WTO, GATT

Complete Banking control with World CBs, and control over US Bank accounts & Retirements

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news http://pagesix.com/2015/01/16/senators-husband-stands-to-profit-from-gov...

Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done.

The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator’s husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.

Blum’s company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn’t notice that Blum is a member of CBRE’s board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.

This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein’s office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.

When the national debt is $18 trillion, a billion seems like small change.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:04 | 5672560 disabledvet
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Wonder what happens when their Wall meets up with Israel's wall?

 

This is starting to look like  Mad Max.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:07 | 5672563 homiegot
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Cowards.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:11 | 5672569 Lumberjack
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James Taylor sang a song about it../s

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:13 | 5672580 luckylogger
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Why cannot the US build this along our southern border??????

Sounds like they got it figured out.....

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:27 | 5672608 FeralSerf
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The Great Wall in China didn't work. Neither will this one.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:56 | 5672626 TeethVillage88s
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Augustine's Law. Military Inflation on Weapons.

Mis-Spent Federal funds for Military, Security, Spy Complex. Lobbying in the US is very Strong. Only the best Lobbyist win... these are frequently high cost weapons, new planes, new drones, new vehicles, new communications, new computers for the battle field... and the latest developments that need to be tested out are sexy and attract new money... that is why we cut soldiers... well and we hold back ear marked funds for Contractors.

Yes, Good Question, the US Camber of Commerce has been lobbying for Open Borders every year... and it works and it allows off shoring of US Jobs... since only the best will be chosen as winners or insiders in the "New US Economy".

- New US Economy, Less Jobs, More competition for both unskilled and skilled jobs... more demand for college advanced degrees
- High Labor Supply, with low Demand for Labor

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 05:48 | 5673336 Fractal Parasite
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Even with a coast-to-coast wall, Langley's agents will still find ways to get into Mexico.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:19 | 5672589 km4
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Protection you say?....Saudi Arabia Plunges into an Abyss

Last week, just before the Charlie Hebdo attack, ISIS sent a suicide team across the border into Saudi Arabia.  Here's what happened.

The attack was successful.  The team found and killed the Saudi general (Oudah al-Belawi) in charge of the country's nothern border zone at the outpost he was visiting (here's a pic of the state funeral for some of the men killed in the attack).

The target was significant.  General Oudah al-Belawi was in charge of the multi-billion dollar Saudi effort to secure the northern border against ISIS.  Not only has Saudi Arabia sent 30,000 additional troops to guard the northern border, it's building a highly automated 600-mi security wall to protect itself (lots of robots and sensors).  Here's a great graphic of the monstrosity from the Telegraph.  My take:  What a waste of time and effort.  

It demoralized the Saudi military.   This attack deeply undermines the morale of Saudi troops on the border.   If ISIS can kill a top general...

Saudi Arabia on the edge and Here why this attack is signficant. 

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2015/01/saudi-arabi...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:42 | 5672638 Captain Willard
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great post, thanks!

One wonders whether the Saudis are capable of handling a serious challenge. Also, it is consistent with the rumor going around that Obama wants to declare war against ISIS as a recognized state. 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:00 | 5672686 knukles
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Wonder?
They still fight over sloppy goat seconds, FFS

 

Tough?  You want tough?  I'll tell ya' who're fucking tough, make US SF, etc., look like pussies is the South Korean Marine SF, their Tiger troopies.
That's tough.

Round eye solders ask a Tiger what's a good line in Korean.
"Answer or I cut your tongue out."

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:06 | 5672708 TeethVillage88s
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Jimi Hendrix - Are you Experienced, Have you been Experienced??

LOL

Everyone in the Desert knows if you chose a Goat as your Bed-Mate you don't share...

oops some new edits above..

- Squads balancing on Motorcycles, Thai Qwon Do demonstrations in Kicking, living off the land, laying in ambush in the Cold Winter, serving at post on Korean Walls & Pill boxes in Winter

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:38 | 5672782 Sturm und Drang
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Charlie hated the ROKs because they were efficient killers of communists.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 08:02 | 5673383 Lumberjack
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Good point. In fact they were the most feared in VN because they were paid per kill. No kill no pay. Proof of a kill (body part required) to collect.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:04 | 5672850 Blano
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If true this is a pretty big story.  So why didn't I hear about it at all in any media?

I know I know, dumb question but still....if true, this is huge.

This would really put the Saudis in a bind.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:42 | 5673220 kareninca
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Another source (MSM, kind of):  http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-kills-high-ranking-saudi-border-o...

and another:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/saudi-arabia-anxiou...

It certainly didn't make CNN/Reuters/MSNBC as far as I saw at the time, funny that.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:31 | 5673143 Freddie
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Great post and good link.   I have been thinking for quite a while that things would be heading this way.   The House of Saud (rhymes with Fraud) is having a harder and harder time holding it together. 

Their oil fields are old and are dying.  Ghawar is the big one and it has been pumped to death since probably the 1950s or so.  The earth constantly makes oil due to the heat of the earth's core.  However, The saudi fields may be really be starting to fall off now.   I think a lot of this low price crap is less demand and the govt forcing less price manipulation upward, the way Wall street usually does plus the oil companies pushing prices higher. 

This is all designed to nuke Putin, Iran and to a lesser extent Venezuela.

The Saudi military will melt away or fragment once real shooting starts as the web site mentions.  

The Saudis are Sunni but there are many Shia in the "kingdom" who hate the House of Fraud.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 06:51 | 5673357 August
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Thanks.  A good read for those of us who don't follow Saudi security affairs in any detail.

The Kingdom does have a "ripe" smell about it....

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:21 | 5672595 Bill of Rights
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So umm ya about that ISIS Air Force ...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:23 | 5672601 The Shape
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And their solution to the ISIS sympathizers within their borders?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:51 | 5672673 The9thDoctor
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Give them in-state tuition.

/sarc

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:29 | 5672612 Yen Cross
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   Long,recycled comments

 

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:02 | 5672702 knukles
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What else one gonna use to describe "Long, recycled stupidity"?
I mean fuck all, O'pj's is in the process of asking for boots on ground to fight ISIS/L/Al's brother Keda or who the fuck ever we're at war with besides Russia, China, Norks, Canada, Venzuala, I mean next we'll really and truly have the Blue Light specter of holographic alien invaders and everybody'll think it's just a cool bug assed Ocular Rift thingamajiggie.  Like wow, man.

Oh Yen, my cynicism is blistering to the surface tonight.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:14 | 5672731 TeethVillage88s
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Hopefully we just go back to the Greek method of warfare.

- Your AI Weapons against our AI Weapons, in Space, in Air, in Sea, on Land, whatever, Send your psychic warriors to kill our goats...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:46 | 5672640 Son of Captain Nemo
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After almost 14 years I still wanna know how #1 could lose all it's air defenses the day "it happened" and lose more than 2,800 people and #2 or should I say #2(s) (the banking arm) and (the oil arm) never gets attacked like the U.S. since!

How embarrassing it's all been for the U.S. military since? And what they can look forward to in that Eastern European Country that both #2(s) will give no support to militarily whatsoever just like they always haven't when the time comes for Western Europe to take the biggest hit!

Certainly hope the Saudi Royal family and members of the Knesset are scouring the bottom of the sofa and car cushions to help fund our boys and girls and ISIS when the time comes!

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:45 | 5672651 Quus Ant
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keeping ISIS out or keeping Saudi rabble in when Ghawar runs dry? 

You can still slant drill under that fence, right?

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:47 | 5672654 Rootin' for Putin
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Mr Baghdadi, Tear down this wall.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:47 | 5672657 kchrisc
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The universal truth of all governmnet walls is: They are more to keep people in, not out, as the biggest threat to the ruling elites is loss of their draft animals, people, then the influx of possible threats.

The banksters need to repay us.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 21:46 | 5672658 Bunga Bunga
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Krugman's wet dream.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:12 | 5672719 Catullus
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Let's hope ISIS doesn't get artillery. *fingers crossed*

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:26 | 5672760 djsmps
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I always loved the Maginot Line.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 22:28 | 5672764 q99x2
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Won't stop the NWO. Won't stop China.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 23:02 | 5672849 Psquared
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Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is tricky and troublesome. If we try to intervene in their domestic affairs we risk destabilizing the House of Saud and potentially lose an ally in the region. On the other hand, how many times have we made allies of future enemies?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:19 | 5673027 Wild E Coyote
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One would have thought Allah would protect the faithful.
Hmmmm. I got it. Saudi's have no faith.
Too bad for them, ISIS is coming to bite the faithless ass.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:32 | 5673046 tumblemore
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In fact, it reminds me a lot of U.S. foreign policy.

 

 

option 1) build a protective wall first then stir up terrorism

option 2) stir up terrorism first then panic and build a protective wall

option 3) stir up terrorism but don't build a protective wall

 

Saudi policy is (2) U.S. policy is (3)

 


Sat, 01/17/2015 - 11:54 | 5673694 numapepi
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The "like" button doesn't work for this post...?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 13:44 | 5674000 BigRedRider
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Yeah, it works.  I just "like"d you...or was that an "unlike".  I confuse easily when I have to choose between an Apple.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:41 | 5673061 sidiji
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karma's a bitch...gonna be a fun day when the suicide bombers come home to roost.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:33 | 5673151 Schmuck Raker
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I thought Karma was a guys name.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 00:48 | 5673073 sidiji
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Saddam was a furry bunny rabbit compared to ISIS and whatever comes next...US helping to speed up the Darwinian process of creating the ultimate insane fanatic warriors...cool, we still got the ocean and the navy, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...bye bye, we'll wait til ISIS conquers you, then we'll nuke their ass and take your gas.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:00 | 5673095 dsty
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Obama want's them to come

He will use them later

I am not being sarcastic

you will see

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:32 | 5673141 Schmuck Raker
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How do I Print/Save just the title?

"Behold....". I love that shit.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:34 | 5673149 zen0
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This analysis is total horse poop. The Turks are the ones backing Isis. They are anti-Saudi and anti-Egyptian. The current leader of Egypt is anti-Obama.  Obama is pro Muslim Brotherhood, just like the Clintons, and Turkey.

 

The Ottoman Empire was the last Caliphate, and it has only had a small hiatus in the scope of things. The Turks want to re-establish it and so does the Muslim in Chief.

 

"No religion sanctions the killing of innocents" he said. Well, duh, according to his religion, the Charlie Hebdos were not innocents.

 

Ding Dong. This is your wake up call........

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 01:42 | 5673167 observer007
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#ISIS

The Pentagon announced that a mission to train the “moderate” Syrian opposition may involve over 1,000 US troops. The first soldiers may flow into the region in a month, while the trained fighters may return to Syria to “fight ISIS” by the end of 2015.

more:

http://tersee.com/#!q=isis&t=text

 

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:25 | 5673208 fel.temp.reparatio
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Oh those whacky Wahhabists... did they forget about the ISISTM training camps in Jordan?

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 02:38 | 5673224 Equality 7-25-1
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broke window 3.0

4 is incendiary

5 is kill the witnesses

HUAC was right, and should apprehend the surviving villians they missed when they were shut down by Israeli spies. 

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 04:33 | 5673295 ross81
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The Saudis are only doing this to try and tell the world "we have nothing to do with ISIS, they hate us too....now please look over here at this great big wall we're building to keep them out. Look at our wall!"

By the way, I would love to see the list of US, UK, French, Israeli, etc MIC contractors that are involved in building this thing. The War on Terror is the gift that just keeps on giving for these scumbags.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 05:23 | 5673323 Jano
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.........due to massive FX reveres, these reserves can go much faster than expected. Particularly when you need to consistently bribe your own citizenry and build enormous walls on your northern and southern borders.......... hm, they will lose it the same way, Kadafi/Lybia has lost the gold and wealth fund. A small crash in Eu first, few months latter in US and Japan to the end, will wipe out the FX reserves much faster, keeping it in the western banks and not handing it out to some Bedouins in the desert. The many will stay in the western banks, definitely.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 05:48 | 5673338 farmboy
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The picture of the wall is wrong. It must be reversed because it is needed to keep their people in like the gold old DDR.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 06:04 | 5673343 Satan
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Hire a few Mexican consultants...or simply go around.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 08:12 | 5673391 Last of the Mid...
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So when it comes down to them having to defend their own sand pile from the shitstorm they have supported for 20 years they suddenly want to build a wall. Too fucking funny. No one will ever try to go around the flanks of it. Great idea. Ever read history? just wondering.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 09:53 | 5673454 Mi Naem
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Hehe, that's what I was thinking.  Maginot line was a great success - the Germans never did get through it.  Bwaaaaaahahahahahahaha! 

Although, maybe if they painted the line red it would work better.  It'd be a shame to see the Saudis go down. 

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 10:05 | 5673478 sidiji
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ISIS has main battle tanks, courtesy of US Army....Saudis will need to put in a nice big minefield, tank traps and dug in garrison...chain link fence? lol.

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 09:51 | 5673452 falak pema
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the trouble with walls is that you sell it to keep the "barbarians" out.

But in reality its to keep the slave labour "within" and docile. 

Sat, 01/17/2015 - 10:04 | 5673475 'argar the 'orrible
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Anyone ever heard of parachutes, betcha isis has.

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