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Another Middle East War Breaks Out: Saudis Begin Bombing Yemen, US Military Taking Action

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Update: *OBAMA AUTHORIZED LOGISTICAL AND INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO GULF, U.S. MILITARY TAKING MILITARY ACTION TO DEFEND SAUDI BORDER, TO DEFEND AGAINST HOUTHI VIOLENCE

 

John McCain & Lindsay Graham explain Obama's move...

U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today released the following statement on Saudi Arabia leading an international coalition conducting air strikes against Iranian-backed separatists in Yemen:

 

Saudi Arabia and our Arab partners deserve our support as they seek to restore order in Yemen, which has collapsed into civil war.

 

We understand why our Saudi and other Arab partners felt compelled to take action. The prospect of radical groups like Al-Qaeda, as well as Iranian-backed militants, finding safe haven on the border of Saudi Arabia was more than our Arab partners could withstand. Their action also stems from their perception of America's disengagement from the region and absence of U.S. leadership.

 

A country that President Obama recently praised as a model for U.S. counterterrorism has now become a sectarian conflict and a regional proxy war that threatens to engulf the Middle East. What's worse, while our Arab partners conduct air strikes to halt the offensive of Iranian proxies in Yemen, the United States is conducting air strikes to support the offensive of Iranian proxies in Tikrit. This is as bizarre as it is misguided – another tragic case of leading from behind.

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Earlier today we reported that, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, "raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict." In other words, Saudi Arabia was preparing for war.

Shortly thereafter, but before Yemen's president bravely fled the country over fears of the Houthi rebel advance, Yemen's foreign minister called for Arab military intervention against advancing Shiite rebels.

As we explicitly warned, "the conflict risked spiraling into a proxy war with Shi'ite Iran backing the Houthis, whose leaders adhere Shi'ite Islam, and Saudi Arabia and the other regional Sunni Muslim monarchies backing Hadi."

Moments ago all these warnings were borne out when Al-Arabiya reported that the latest middle-east war is now official after Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf States had launched a bombing campaign against Yemen.

More details:

This is just the beginning:

and now the US is involved:

And tanks are crossing the border:

From Al-Arabiya:

Saudi Arabia’s Royal Air Force bombed the positions of Yemen’s Houthi militia, Al Arabiya News Channel reported early on Thursday. 

 

Arab Gulf states had announced that they have decided to “repel Houthi aggression” in neighboring Yemen, following a request from the country’s President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

 

In their joint statement Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait said they "decided to repel Houthi militias, al-Qaeda and ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria] in the country.”

 

The Gulf states warned that the Houthi coup in Yemen represented a “major threat” to the region’s stability.

 

It also accused the Iranian-backed militia of conducting military drills on the border of Saudi Arabia, a leading member of the GCC, with “heavy weapons.”

 

In an apparent reference to Iran, the statement said the “Houthi militia is backed by regional powers in order for it be their base of influence.”

 

The Gulf states said they had monitored the situation and the Houthi coup in Yemen with “great pain” and accused the Shiite militia of failing to respond to warnings from the United Nations Security Council as well as the GCC.

 

The statement stressed that the Arab states had sought over the previous period to restore stability in Yemen, noting the last initiative to host peace talks under the auspices of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

As reported this morning, in a letter sent the U.N. Security Council and seen by Al Arabiya News, Hadi requested “immediate support for the legitimate authority with all means and necessary measures to protect Yemen and repel the aggression of the Houthi militia that is expected at any time on the city of Aden and the province of Taiz, Marib, al-Jouf [and] an-Baidah."

In his letter Hadi said such support was also needed to control “the missile capability that was looted” by the Houthi militias.

 

Hadi also told the Council that he had requested from the Arab Gulf states and the Arab League “immediate support with all means and necessary measures, including the military intervention to protect Yemen and its people from the ongoing Houthi aggression.”

To summarize: Saudi Arabia is now bombing a rebel force that has been armed by the US and is backed by Iran, even as the US is bombing an enemy of Iran in Iraq with the blessing of Saudi Arabia.

All in a day's work in the Middle East.

As for oil's reaction: after the algos initially appeared not to get the memo, they woke up...

 

As The Crude Curve flattens dramatically

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The action has begun...

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Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:57 | 5927666 Abbie Normal
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We armed some Arabs, bombed other Arabs, then armed them too.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:31 | 5928067 palmereldritch
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Arabic folks...sheesh

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 19:34 | 5931725 StychoKiller
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"And the Politicians say: 'Moar Bombing will solve everythang!'" -- "Ball of Confusion [paraphrase]"

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:00 | 5927461 NoDebt
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Well, it's good to see things aren't spiraling out of control in the ME or anything.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:03 | 5927480 Dr. Engali
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All is going as planned. The cash belonging to Corzine's clients won't be the only thing vaporized before this is done.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:06 | 5927501 espirit
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Who's left for the USSA to give, let steal, or abandon munitions?

Might be where the next conflict will be.

OTOH, I see mushroom clouds over the ME.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:17 | 5927544 NoDebt
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Part of me thinks the entire middle east catching on fire is a distration from the real danger- Ukraine.  We and the Russians could run proxy wars and destabilize the ME indefinitely with manageable blow-back.  Ukraine is a different situation.  Russia won't tolerate western meddling there any more than we would put up with Russia if they starting fucking around inside Canada.  Its just not a negotiable point to them.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:39 | 5927616 Jack Burton
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Analysis of current NATO and Russian military moves on Russia's western borders seems to indicate that Russia is convinced that they will be forced to fight a war soon, a war to defend their borders. NATO, has been gathering forces on the border, and quickly building up reserves. NATO places great faith in it's anti missile systems to blunt any Russian nuclear launches. Because of that, Russia is moving to prepare it's nuclear forces across the globe, and to go to a hair trigger position.

This is all spinning into madness.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:37 | 5927769 Stumpy4516
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There is no risk of Russia's borders being violated by uniformed troops.

Russia might send troops into EUke prior to NATO getting firmly into Wuke but I doubt that.  If Russia wanted it to stop they could have stopped it long ago.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:05 | 5927848 Aaron Hillel
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If the lunatics in the state dept try the "disarming strike" scenario , thinking that the return volley will only affect europe and some will be stopped by the ABM scam...well, not even the Old Gods will help us then.

I dont believe in the conventional attack from NATO on Russia, with what? Four divisions from poland and germany?

Lukashenko alone could stop that.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:56 | 5928126 Wild tree
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No Jack, MAD was when it was almost under control, as in Mutual Assured Destruction. There seemed to be a rational understanding at how bad we could hurt ourselves if the crazies ever got hold of the nuclear button.

That was a long long time ago, in a land far away. I don't recognize our country any longer. We have joined the dark side, and maybe even could be considered the head of it. I do agree with you that self-decapitation is at hand.

Now where is that dang remote..............

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:00 | 5927463 Dr. Engali
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Give that man another peace prize. I will be forever amazed with the amount of shit the empire gets away with.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:18 | 5927552 GeezerGeek
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I wonder how the Peace Prize Winner loser will fare with his treaty process involving Iran. We're backing Sunnis, Iran's backing Shiites...yeah, Iran must be really happy. About that nuclear treaty, Barry...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:41 | 5927618 Jack Burton
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The fact that Obama is allowed to retain his Peace Prize makes the Nobel Institution a laughing stock of the world. And clearly shows it is now nothing by another Washington run propaganda operation. Really, Obama the Drone Warrior. His drones turned Yemen's people into enemies of America. Obama did that pretty much all alone by his killing spree using drones. And this man has a Nobel Peace Prize!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:01 | 5927676 atomp
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Revoke it. Seriously.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:33 | 5927760 IridiumRebel
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Next person to receive it should renounce it and make a statement. Seriously.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:55 | 5928218 Charming Anarchist
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All previous recipients alive should renounce their prizes and the money won. 

They should pool their previous winnings together and form their own "Nobel" prize committee much like how the crockonomists co-opted the name of the original Nobel committee. 

 

I am sure Dr. Kiss Inger would be down with my idea.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:10 | 5927857 lakecity55
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I heard Stalin and Pol Pot are up for posthumous awards next year!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:27 | 5927908 TheReplacement
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Correction:  The fact that the entire world did not object to the Nobel prize being awarded to the farce in the Whitehouse in the first place proves there are roughly 7B idiots on the planet. 

We can HOPE against war with Russia but that ain't gonna CHANGE a thing.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:00 | 5927466 Eo187
Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:02 | 5927472 Practical Cogitator
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Uncle is simply out of control everywhere and as a result even more hill-tribesmen and dirt-farmers will die.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:20 | 5927558 Aussiekiwi
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Well you just know those hill-tribesman and dirt-farmers can't wait to become terrorists, so its better if we exterminate them now before they get any weapons.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:03 | 5927482 henry chucho
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A 2% wipe-out in the Nasdaq today,and this afternoon,the bombs are falling all over the Middle East.I'd hate to see what happens if we ever get a 5% sell off..

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:09 | 5927855 lakecity55
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There will be another sell-off tomorrow except for MIC stawks and Oil will go up and up.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:05 | 5927493 Anybody
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Wait, Iran is the aggressor. Article is wrong.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:03 | 5927684 Caleb Abell
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No ... it's Putin ... it's always Putin.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:30 | 5927918 TNTARG
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No, it's Maduro! Whatever. Sickness paroxysm.

The northern sickness.

http://sonichits.com/video/Paroxysm/The_Northern_Sickness

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:06 | 5927499 me or you
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It looks like the world is heading to a total chaos. Satan must be proud of what the world has become.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:07 | 5927502 samsara
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So, using OUR planes, they are blowing up $500 Million dollars worth of OUR equipment that just got captured?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:20 | 5927559 atomp
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Correct.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:25 | 5927577 Terminus C
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That's what you call a win win.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:20 | 5927730 IridiumRebel
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#winning

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:50 | 5928210 Charming Anarchist
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Cost of keeping oil stored in the ground for future use.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:28 | 5927574 layman_please
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this, ladies and gentleman, is called a win-win situation

edit: and somebody's late to the party

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:43 | 5927628 atomp
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Funny you both mention that.  Just turn the w upside down and the n sideways.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:33 | 5927595 Berspankme
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MIC with a mega boner

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:24 | 5927738 ThroxxOfVron
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"So, using OUR planes, they are blowing up $500 Million dollars worth of OUR equipment that just got captured? "

Don't worry, we are making more, always do and always will.  

We already have your credit card on file and drop zone 'Warabia' has already been cleared by our moderate friends.

Sit back and relax.

signed,

-The Military Industrial Congressional Complex.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:12 | 5927514 Millivanilli
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Kinetic action is not war- John Kohn Kerry

When Kerry was Kohn: The Jewish roots of John Kerry The new nominee for secretary of state only found out about his Jewish grandfather while running in the 2004 presidential election.

 

Is it too late for a BarMitzvah?  Oy Vey! 

.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:11 | 5927520 Salsipuedes
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They (Fortress Alps - OCTOGON) usually coordinate their genocide while they're pointing to their latest celebrity suicide or inexplicable plane crash. This little carpet bombing should be special!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:31 | 5927527 blindman
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is like wwIII in slow, real temporally,
motion. the experience only translated
in a virtual realm(hmm),
till it isn't.
(hmm)
..
.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:13 | 5927530 Oswald did it
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Israel is responsible for all of this.  The US is their bitch

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:48 | 5927643 Oswald did it
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Senator J. William Fulbright wrote in his book, THE PRICE OF EMPIRE that Zionists control U.S. foreign policy. This is evident-the U.S. has been carrying out the Zionist plan above FOR ISRAEL. The U.S. has destroyed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan; is backing terrorists trying to bring down the government in Syria; backs to the hilt Israeli savage attacks upon the Palestinians and Lebanese; and is gearing up to "obliterate" (Hillary Clinton's word) Iran. 

Zionist control of the U.S. has made it a pariah in the world-feared and hated, where once it was admired. These wars for Israel have cost $TRILLIONS, while Americans have lost homes, jobs, health care, education, and moral stature in the world. Not to mention the MILLIONS OF PEOPLE killed, maimed, and uprooted in these illegal heinous wars of conquest to fulfill Zionist imperial goals and lebensraum. 

When will "We, the People" stop this madness?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:28 | 5927872 Againstthelie
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'When will "We, the People" stop this madness?'

Can you name me one example in human history, where "we the people" when they had full stomachs and warm houses, stopped a government?

Can you name me one example, when a change took place, that was not orchestrated or induced by powers behind the scenes, guiding "we the people"?

So as long as obesity is a problem for us sheeple and not an empty stomach, the correct answer to your question is: NEVER.

The whole thesis Democracy is based upon, is a scam, a lie, based on the principle of legacy hunters: telling their victims how intelligent and clever and self determined they were knowing very well, that they need guidance and to guide them best, give them the illusion of being able to decide on their own.

Democracy is exploiting one of probably the biggest flaws of humans: the incapability to withstand sweet talk. The political legacy hunters know it.

Yes we can.

HAHAHA!

NO YOU CAN NOT!

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:35 | 5928190 gezley
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Austria 1955. Brazil 1961.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 04:18 | 5928364 Againstthelie
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What do you mean?

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 18:30 | 5931479 gezley
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"The people" of Austria managed to get the USSR to pull out peacefully in the mid-1950s, at the height of the Cold War when there was every reason to stay and none to leave. No explanation ever given. And "the people" managed to keep Communism out of Brazil in 1961.

Treat the following with an open mind, and be generous in your conclusions. I'm not here to proselytise. Thank you.

http://www.santorosario.net/power.htm

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:14 | 5927537 Alex DeLarge
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KSA, KSA, KSA!!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:23 | 5927539 mass1q
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Oil price will rise very soon? It depens on how long this war will go on

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:33 | 5927924 TheReplacement
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SA will go in and kick a lot of shia butt and leave.  Government will be restored.  ISIS/AQ will then swoop in on the carcass and clean up.

Just another brick in the wall.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:15 | 5927540 leftcoastfool
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It's on like donkey kong biatch...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8cckrJlVk

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:16 | 5927545 Chupacabra-322
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Putin's fault

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:33 | 5927928 TheReplacement
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Well duh.  The mystery is how he got all those NORKs to look like arabs.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:18 | 5927549 R19
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More war through weakness projected by Zero and his rocket quants in the District of Criminals.  They're so smart.

 

Now Germanwings pilot reported to be locked out of the cabin.  Two words:  WORKPLACE VIOLENCE.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:24 | 5927570 Zodiac
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Rock and roll Houthi coup!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:07 | 5927697 Global Hunter
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man I am going to be singing that for the rest of my life!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:57 | 5927989 MsCreant
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Lawdy Daddy, light my fuse.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:26 | 5927573 Fun Facts
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the big problem is going to be those shemaghas getting caught in the cockpit windows.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:26 | 5927580 The Bell Rang
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And in the end, there will be war's and rumor of war's.................tick tock

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:34 | 5927602 mtndds
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I was thinking the same thing.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:53 | 5928215 Kirk2NCC1701
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Looking at human history, that's like saying "And there shall be storms and rumors of storms"

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:27 | 5927584 banksouttacontrol
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Bom,bom,bomb... bom,bom Iran

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:33 | 5927590 Yen Cross
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     Keep BTFD until you see mushroom clouds in Tijuana.

   There's beer battered pork corn dogs, and kettle corn for everyone...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:35 | 5927601 WhyWait
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Yemen, population about 25 million, per capita GDP $2,200. Many subsisting on the land.

Saudi Arabia, population 30 million (half non-citizens), per capita GDP $53,000. (Median GDP much, much lower.)

Two nations, same peninsula, same language, separated by the modern history of Empire. 

If Saudi Arabia tries to occupy Yemen they may end up choking on it.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:20 | 5927732 Atomizer
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Another fine example of occupying a peripheral state. Then drain NET positive income zones into wealth redistribution by subsidizing equal wealth. Where have we watched this movie before?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:36 | 5927931 TheReplacement
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Better SA choking on it than us.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:34 | 5927603 papaswamp
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So US taxpayers pay for weapons that the 'badguys' have. Then Saudis buy US weapons to go bomb the bad guys with taxpayer paid for weapons....

 

So basically, invest in US arms manufacturers since this is an epic biz model.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 12:19 | 5929784 Just Another Truther
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"So basically, invest in US arms manufacturers since this is an epic biz model."

 

...where have you been for the last, oh, 5000 years?

 

Ask the Carlyle boys "how sweet it is" - another proxy war ? ... Sugar bear again???

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:37 | 5927611 Kelley
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Someone is going to have to sell a game-day program so that we can figure out who is on what side, sort of like in WWI where upteen countries started fighting with each other.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:37 | 5927936 TheReplacement
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See all those people dying?  They are us.

See all those people getting rich off of those people dying?  They are the enemy.

I hope that helps.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:03 | 5928012 ThroxxOfVron
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"See all those people dying?  They are us.

See all those people getting rich off of those people dying?  They are the enemy. "

 

...damn, and I only have one UP Vote to give to you...  

 

 

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 07:58 | 5928582 Snoopy the Economist
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Thanks for succinctly identifying the situation.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:42 | 5927624 banksouttacontrol
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Can't even start a war when the NYSE  is open. DARN Sunnies are front running again. SOMEBODY please call SOMEBODY and sue. 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:44 | 5927629 astatus
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NAI KALA! WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

THEY DO NOT WANT SOLUTIONS RIGHT NOW.

THEIR WAY IS GLOBALIZATION , ONE WORLD ! I WONDER WHY GOD DID NOT THINK ABOUT THAT????

THEY HAVE TO BRAKE EVERITHING VERY VERY VERY GOOD,

SO  THEY CAN FIX IT GOOD! 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:44 | 5927630 Alvin Fernald
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What is wrong with the RSS feed today?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:48 | 5927632 q99x2
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Q99X2 never bend over in front of men wearing dresses.

I'm voting for a white man in the next election.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:40 | 5927945 TheReplacement
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Here, you pick.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:45 | 5927634 Jack Burton
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Off Topic, but breaking news of great interest.

The German airliner story has just gone full on bizzare! The voice recordings reveal a pilot was locked out of the cockpit and was hammering the door trying to get back in, as the plane descended to it's crash. New York Times reports.

Now another great mystery of airliners.

Notice! The Cockpit Voice Recording is already going Public. While recordings of MH-17 are still held in secret in the United Kingdom and major NATO nation. All these months and it is claimed they are still recovering information? Like hell!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:53 | 5927652 Kelley
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What are the chances that the remaining pilot's last name wasn't Smith or Jones?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:15 | 5927719 TeethVillage88s
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The hell of it is Regs probably require locking the cockpit door, but in an Emergency, Severe Computer Dive, the pilot can't open the Door to allow help in.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:26 | 5927745 Freddie
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I say BS.  The flight was from Spain to Germany?   Fairly short flight and at that point over the Alps.  No way the pilot left to go to the bathroom.  They rarely leave the cockpit on 3 hour flights.  

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:32 | 5927758 Usurious
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who says he was peeing? The MSM?.......dont tell me you listen to that crap.........jeez fred........

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:41 | 5927951 TheReplacement
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Peeing, screwing, whatever... the man has a point.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:29 | 5927754 Atomizer
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Jack,

 

Pilot is entitled to earn his mile high club points.

http://www.milehighclub.com/

 

/sarc

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:34 | 5927925 Againstthelie
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Thanks for the info!

I think it's time to post my comment at the "First Images of Germanwings Crash"-thread again:

No need for a public statement, since their services are working together closely anyway. This would be done in secrecy. "Do you have anything?" "No, we have no indications. Nothing."

But how would YOU tell the German government, to make sure they understand the message? It could be exactly that way.

The motive? Well Friedman from Stratfor a month or so ago openly said, that for more than 200 years US politics was to avoid German technology and efficiency and Russian resources coming together and forming an unbeatable combination.

Who knows, maybe Merkel needed a slight reminder what the "appropriate" approach torwards Russia via Ukraine is?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:46 | 5927638 Prober
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JOYOUSLY HAPPY THE FACTIONS OF ISLAMIC-CULT WORSHIPING PRIMITIVES ARE KILLING EACH OTHER - YIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!

I AM ORDERING CASES OF CHAMPAGNE FOR A CELEBRATION PARTY AT MY VILLA ... SO HAPPY I CAN HARDLY BREATHE FROM LAUGHING TO EXHAUSTION !!!!!!!!!!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:06 | 5927695 IridiumRebel
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Excitement from people dying speaks volumes to your psychopathy. 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:15 | 5927714 Prober
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islamic cult-worshiping vermin are not "people", they are very dangerous pathogenic organisms and must be eradicated like any other dangerous pathogenic organisms

obviously ignorant more-mouth-than-brains you do not know what their cult handbook says about non-believers

idiots like you should be scooped up and dumped in isil territory

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:17 | 5927723 IridiumRebel
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I didn't say they weren't pieces of shit. I said that you show signs of psychopathy from enjoyment of others killing each other. You have such a hard on, get in there tough guy.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:10 | 5928034 Prober
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I am, I take my share of coup

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:46 | 5927790 TeethVillage88s
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Dip shit. You never heard of Christian Cults in your Advanced Christian Studies.

The Winner of Wars writes history.

You feel like a winner, so I guess you feel like you can chose what is a cult or what is a Religion.

Nice Asshole. I guess you are not familiar with the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution... They seem like good work to me. You should sober up, stop self stimming and take a look.

- US Constitution Declares the Right to Religion
- Does that mean anything to your G.I. Ass
- You are so bought off that no real Journalist would even address you directly
- You are so greedy for a Government Job, a Contract Job, a Guarantee of Employment that you almost would change sexuality

You have to go Cold Turkey.

You have to pick a time and leave government service or government contracts... we all understand you want to get a retirement or get a nest egg... that is understood...

But in the End will you chose Independence from Contracts from the Government that Raise the National Debt??

In the End would you chose to take care of family business and just go off and die instead of suck off the Government tit, to keep your empire, to keep your office, to keep your position as government supervisor...?

Look the seduction is working for Federal Govt. or Federal Contracts... well and Big Corporations. These days that often means US Security and Military Outfits.

The seduction is having a career paid by Federal Government for spying on civilians or for performing MIC Functions.

Don't you see this shift to the Right in the Country?

The Whole USA is shifting as a result of a Strategy of Tension or Friction. Look it up in Wikipedia. Probably has changed by government force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension

Social Engineer is about change... it doesn't really say what politics are behind the change. Where are we going? A little Communism, a little Socialism, a little Fascism?

- Technocracy, Rule by Scientist, Rule by Elites, Rule by Global Elites??

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:08 | 5928026 Prober
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I did not write anything about the christian cult, you shit-for-brains islamic-cult-worshiping vermin.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 02:34 | 5928298 Deathrips
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Hey Slave!

Your butthole's leaking.

Better go die so your master can keep eating caviar.

 

Odd. I think i said something like this before.

 

RIPS

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:05 | 5927844 Icelandicsaga.....
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Always good for a laught hey Francis pycho Sawyer .. either washed out of the military or is on some serious meds living in his mothers basement.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:47 | 5928112 tony wilson and...
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prober nice name for a child abusing rabbi.

talmud interesting views about the goy yes no?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSy6ENVAJlY

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:27 | 5927736 TeethVillage88s
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You are full of shit. You are not only a Greedy Brain washed Shit... you probably Brain wash your own kids and wife.

- Celebrate the US Assassination Culture
- Embrace the Rejection of Geneva Conventions
- Embrace US Dirty Wars in the Middle East, Balkans, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Cone of South America, Whatever
- Celebrate the US Nuclear Tradition in Japan
- Celebrate the Adoption of German Management, German Military, German Intelligence, and German Family Traditions

- Everyman Theme is that we are all Military, all Torturers, all Kidnappers, all Assassins, all users of Napalm and Chemical Weapons, all hiders of Radiation Causing Bombs and weapons

- We are all General Eric Shinseki type government managers, we all want a new career and a new inside job supporting the President

Life is good, life is wise, life is spirit, life is career.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:46 | 5927791 Shitgum Suicide
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Life is pain. Anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:52 | 5927810 Seek_Truth
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You’re_doing_it_wrong.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:08 | 5928022 jldpc
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the only really good thing about muslims is, even without any help from us, they kill each other, and beleive it is right and just - all the mullas say so. any liberal western judeo-christian standard applied to them -like they are people too - is seriously psychotic self-delusion.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:50 | 5927644 Atomizer
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UAE can sell camel robot jockey technology to Saudi. Yeman will think the entire Saudi calvary arrived.

 

Camel Racing with ROBOT JOCKEYS

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:51 | 5927645 TrulyStupid
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I can't understand this unless we have a bad guy with a name.... I need a name dammit.. something cool like abama bin laden, or gadam it ali or Hoo Flung Poo.

And a suitable bad guy bio.... quick so I can understand the need to stamp out this incarnation of Evil.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:02 | 5927835 lakecity55
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Ali Baba Bimbama

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 09:47 | 5929182 TrulyStupid
Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:53 | 5927653 Atomizer
Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:53 | 5927655 Loup Kib
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Saddam Hussein did the same with Koweit.  Wasn't backed by Us.. ( but was smoothly prodded into it by Auntie Sam for the kick off )

We're engaged in the war of all against all.  Hard to follow?  Time to study Chaos Theory.  Free crash course.  Concentrate.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:31 | 5927757 cornfritter
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I don't think I'm experiencing chaos at all, and pretty darn sure there is not much that can be done regarding these events.  Pieces are in motion, and whether you or I like it, is mostly irrelevant.  There are some badasses running the show, and it is given to them to do that, so...

Near time to plant tomatoes, peppers, cucs, etc... for those who forgot.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:54 | 5927657 TeethVillage88s
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Yemen petroleum production represents around 25% of GDP and 63% of the government's revenue.[277]

Agriculture: A big problem in Yemen is the cultivation of Qat, a mild narcotic plant that releases a stimulant when chewed, and accounts for up to 40 percent of the water drawn from the Sana'a Basin each year, and that figure is rising.

aluminum products, commercial ship repair, cement, and natural gas production. It also has large proven reserves of natural gas.[281] Yemen's first liquified natural gas plant began production in October 2009.

So, Anglo-America probably won't allow bombing of Industry.

Someone could go after the Gold: Yemen had reserves of foreign exchange and gold of around $5.538 billion in 2013.

Beginning in the mid-1950s, the Soviet Union and China provided large-scale assistance. For example, China and the United States are involved with the expansion of the Sana'a International Airport. In the south, pre-independence economic activity was overwhelmingly concentrated in the port city of Aden. The seaborne transit trade, which the port relied upon, collapsed with the closure of the Suez Canal and Britain's withdrawal from Aden in 1967.

Ah ha. Here is the UK-EU-USA Interest other than opposing the China and Soviet Interests:

Since the conclusion of the war, the government made an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to implement a structural adjustment program. Phase one of the program included major financial and monetary reforms, including floating the currency, reducing the budget deficit, and cutting subsidies. Phase two will address structural issues such as civil service reform.

In early 1995, the government of Yemen launched an economic, financial, and administrative reform program (EFARP) with the support of the World Bank and the IMF, as well as international donors.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:45 | 5927787 lakecity55
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Let's get some Khat in Cutter!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:14 | 5927866 TeethVillage88s
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WTH man do we drink beers too or vodka?

I like to have a party, but want to know I can drink too.

Travel is Great, Drinking is Great, Qat is... Great?

Do I have to watch my back, carry a weapon, keep it low down, keep my voice low... how is it a party?

- Kutter clubs or Kutter home parties for instance.

- They have Kutter Riots and Mobs against USA, so R they really okay to party with??

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:14 | 5928036 lakecity55
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Phat Khat

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 20:56 | 5927661 adr
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Well now we know what they talked about and planned at Davos. Here is your manufactured reason for $80 oil and $5 gasoline.

Hmm wonder how much gas will spike tomorrow. If I see $2.89 I wouldn't be surprised. Should be $1.69, but the world fuck you up the ass brigade still isn't done stretching you out. 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:00 | 5927673 max2205
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We can do 5 wars at the same time..?no biggie right?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:03 | 5927686 IridiumRebel
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WE ARE WAR.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:06 | 5927696 Yen Cross
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  Careful I.R., you're starting to sound like Robert Oppenheimer. ;-)

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:18 | 5927726 IridiumRebel
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...or McNamara or McCain or Graham or.......

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:05 | 5928140 TheReplacement
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War Incorportated

credit to:

Win, Lose, or Draw,

We Win,

The Bank

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:07 | 5927698 Baldrick
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if i were isis i would be going full bore for the saudi northern border now.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:13 | 5927713 NubianSundance
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That's why there are two Saudi tank brigades parked in Northern Jordan.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:11 | 5927703 NubianSundance
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I think it's time for the U.S. to bomb the UK. Not because there's any particular reason, it just seems appropriate.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:47 | 5927797 Escapedgoat
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You seem to forget, YOU SOLD us TRIDENT NUCLEAR SUBMARINES.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:06 | 5928144 TheReplacement
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Do those subs use network connected computers by any chance?

 

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 06:28 | 5928441 Lumberjack
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Sort of.  They come equipped with the same kill switch used cars (no money down/bad credit) are sold with. if they miss a payment...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:10 | 5927706 One And Only
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All we need is a picture of Mccain in Saudi Arabia and we can kiss the Middle East goodbye.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:43 | 5927785 lakecity55
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Haha, we need a mortar round to fall on Hanoi John while he's exhorting the fighters, hohoho!

Peace will ensue; Miss Lindsey will be heartbroken and alone on Brokeback Mountain as the snow falls...

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:09 | 5928149 TheReplacement
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Stop.  Just friggin' stop.  Stop already. 

You people.  You people and your visuals.  Enough.  You have me begging FEMA to come and save me from this hell.

Stop.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:18 | 5927722 John Wilmot
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Good

What have we been selling them all those weapons for anyway?

Let them demonstrate that they're perfectly capable of fighting pointless wars on their own.

Then we can GTFO.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:24 | 5928051 John Wilmot
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"Update: *OBAMA AUTHORIZED LOGISTICAL AND INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO GULF, U.S. MILITARY TAKING MILITARY ACTION TO DEFEND SAUDI BORDER, TO DEFEND AGAINST HOUTHI VIOLENCE"

Ahhh Fuck...

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:17 | 5928161 TheReplacement
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Do not be surprised if you see us someday fighting a greater Sunni alliance in tandem with Iran (would have to happen in the next 18 months).  Spoiler alert, China swoops in and gobbles up the oil thus leaving the US with no petro market controlling friends and no petro behind the petrodollar.

Not a prediction but would not be at all shocked either.

Admission:  Yeah, I'd really would be shocked in the way you would be if you woke up to find you won the lottery but it's reverse (used to call it polish or a pollack) lottery where you have to pay everyone else a dollar a week forever.

 

Edit:  Good thing dollars will be easy to come by, if you don't mind electronic transactions, when there is power.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:20 | 5927731 One Eyed Jack
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All of these wars occurring at the same and escalating, they seem less calculated and more of a violent flailing about of a wounded and desperate animal to free itself from a trap. The end is enevitble and inescapable. It is a hegemonic Hail Mary pass.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:24 | 5928174 TheReplacement
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It can get a lot worse.  These are the prelims to see which allies can be counted on for exactly what kind of support.  So far:

1.  US MIC + Sunni Arabs

against

2.  US Peace Prize + Iran

against

3.  US Congress + Israel

with

4.  US State Department + VP + Banks + Ukrainian Nazis

against Russia

5.  Screw it with this analogy.  There are just too many sides of US to keep track and if anyone needs more explanation then I don't think there could ever be enough.

 

 

 

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:28 | 5927751 Cautiously Pess...
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Our EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle Brigade will make quick work of the Hutus and Tutsis in this Yemeni kinetic military action.

 

Go get'em boys!!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:36 | 5927761 ekm1
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Watch oil dumping now.

There is real war and there is oil price war.

 

Oil is going down, not up.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:09 | 5928031 ThroxxOfVron
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What charts are you watching?  Link, please!

Everything I see has oil up 3%+ since the announcement of the Saudi incursion:

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CL&p=m5

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:39 | 5927775 Shitgum Suicide
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If no one has heard the pilot of the germanwings plane was locked out of the cockpit. Notice how the NYT tries as hard as They can not to mention the dreaded word terrorism. Especially after the O'min said this definitely is not terrorism.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-cra...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:00 | 5927828 lakecity55
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How is it terrorism if he was locked out....unless...the co-pilot was....Muslim!

One black box is broken...the plot thickens...

Hmm, Bath House really jumped out front fast with the "No Terrorism" claim...

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:51 | 5928120 tony wilson and...
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hey lakecity

what if the pilot was a caananite saturn loving rabbinical satanist working for mossad kidron team?

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:32 | 5928182 TheReplacement
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lol @ tony wilson. 

Clarification:  Kazahk (sp) remote control.  Maybe a couple things explain the lack of 2nd pilot audio (unconcious from pressure loss, mic disabled, edited audio).  Decent by wire.  No FDR memory device installed (maintenance performed just the day before iirc).

Herr Merkel, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?  STOP MESSING WITH UKRAINE OR YOUR WHOLE COUNTRY WILL BECOME KNOWN AS GREATER POLAND'S AX WOUND!!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 23:16 | 5928038 mobtown
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American on board worked for Booz Allen. Charted 9/11 aftermath.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:34 | 5928187 TheReplacement
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Seems a long time has passed to be eliminating witnesses.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:41 | 5927780 Berspankme
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Monkey with a hand grenade

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:43 | 5927783 parker284
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Count em 5, yes 5 western military bases in Saudi Arabia.  Yemen is going to be annexed by Saudi Arabia(us), only the Iranian Shia dumping all of their money into her might suggest otherwise! And with the us/iran negotioations at a fever pitch as we speak... Hmmmm

My guess,... the us will allow annexation by the Saudi's For a tit for tat because of Ukraine!

THEN WHAT!!!!!!!!!!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:44 | 5927786 Wild Theories
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wait, a little background reading on Yemen says these Houthis are Yemeni locals and part of the dominant bloc that used to governed Yemen in older times, they are more of an ethnic bloc than a religious faction and they are certainly not friends of foreign jihadis.

so this is just a domestic power struggle, but everyone is using this as an excuse to invade the country... what a wonderful world we live in

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:56 | 5927814 lakecity55
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Yes, the Houthis are a small breakaway branch of Shia.

They should ahve stayed two separate countries, but noooo.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:36 | 5928192 TheReplacement
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What does that matter?  Don't they realize they are living on top of our oil/gas/shipping lane/port/base/drug growing field/smuggling route/path to world dominance?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:47 | 5927796 ShakaZulu
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If what I think has happened has happened then send your draft age children to Canada and stock up on water and food.

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 22:21 | 5927887 Omega_Man
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nah, they eat children in Canada.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:38 | 5928195 TheReplacement
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Darn moose and squirrel.  Time to invade Canada, eh hoser?

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 21:49 | 5927799 Stumpy4516
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Will Iran step up and show strength by countering this assault or will Iran show weakness and just supply small arms.

Too bad Putin cancelled the signed contract to sell Iran anti air missiles.  Watch Syria, when that one gets really busy it's on and Iran will be shortly.

Recently people have been posting about Iran have great capabilities to conduct war, having their own drone air force, being able to sink war ships and even having a new secret weapon that can disable the others systems easily.  Now we will see.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 00:44 | 5928200 TheReplacement
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It could be a lot simpler than that.  How about someone finally learning and adapting tactics.  The US has shown, fairly convincingly, that inertia in battle matters.  For that matter, so have the NovoRussians.  Ukraine might be a better study of ground combat but that is not the US' strength.  A real air defense system might do the job in protecting against US strength as signaled by Israel's Iron Dome defense.  It depends on what they have.  There is one significant exploit available to the Iranians - the tight confines of the Persian Gulf and large numbers of rockets, missiles, and small combat watercraft. Some US wargames have ended in virtual disaster when confronted with an actual thinking opponent playing Iran's part.

Saudi might need Yemen as a conduit to bypass the gulf. 

Theories are fun.

Thu, 03/26/2015 - 06:42 | 5928457 Sandmann
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Last time US went to Iran it looked like this.......Eagle Claw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg6Krggx3I

 

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