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Chaos In Yemen: Chinese Troops Arrive As US-Armed Rebels Set Sights On Central Bank
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are now in control of the central Crater district in the key Yemeni port city of Aden despite a seventh consecutive day of bombing raids by the Saudi-led coalition which is keen on preventing the city from falling. Aden is the second largest city in the country with a population of some 800,000 and as noted by The Guardian, is “the last major holdout of fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.” Residents have reported the presence of tanks, sniper fire, and patrolling Houthi fighters as the militia moves closer to exerting complete control over the city.
Via The Guardian:
Residents of Aden’s central Crater district said Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the neighbourhood by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.
It was the first time fighting on the ground had reached so deeply into central Aden. Crater is home to the local branch of Yemen’s central bank and many commercial businesses.
“People are afraid and terrified by the bombardment,” one resident, Farouq Abdu, told Reuters by telephone from Crater. “No one is on the streets - it’s like a curfew“.
Another resident said Houthi snipers had deployed on the mountain overlooking Crater and were firing on the streets below. Several houses were on fire after being struck by rockets, and messages relayed on loudspeakers urged residents to move out to safer parts of the city, he said.
As you can see from the map above, the local branch of Yemen's central bank is located in the area, which suggests the Houthis (and, as you'll see below, Al Qaeda) may be playing for a repeat of what occurred just 9 months ago when jihadis seized $400 million from the Mosul central bank in Iraq making ISIS the best funded islamic fundamentalist force in the world. Of course the tragically ridiculous part of the whole story is that the Houthi advance is very likely being aided by some of the $500 million worth of weapons the US "misplaced" in the country so in short, US-armed, Iranian-backed rebels have now overthrown a US puppet government, fought their way into the last important city still loosely under coalition control, and are now operating a few blocks from a branch of the Yemeni central bank.
The Crater district is also home to more than 75,000 Yemenis meaning the risk of civilian casualties from aerial bombardment is cause for concern and could make it more difficult for the Saudi raids to be effective especially given some ambiguity about who was ultimately responsible for the death of some 40 civilians at a refugee camp earlier this week. Here’s the Washington Post with more:
The rebels, who control Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, hope to find new defensive positions and open fresh supply channels by taking full control of Aden. The Saudi-led alliance, meanwhile, is trying to hang on to the city but is wary about carrying out airstrikes in populated areas for fear of civilian casualties…
It follows accounts by aid groups of increasing civilian deaths in the air campaign against the Houthis. Saudi Arabia and its partners want to reinstate President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled Yemen last week in the face of a rebel advance on his compound in Aden.
The city appeared closer to falling into rebel hands after Wednesday’s gains. Houthi fighters — joined by soldiers loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — faced barrages from a warship while on a coastal road but managed to reach areas near the center of Aden with tanks and vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns. At least some of the rebel forces entered the vacated Russian Consulate, said Anis Mansour, editor of the Huna Aden news Web site…
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Asseri said forces are “doing everything they can” to avoid civilian casualties. But he said the rebels have increasingly shifted into residential areas to hide from airstrikes.
“They are inside the villages and towns as part of their strategy,” the spokesman said.
The fighting in Aden is creating unbearable psychological and physical conditions for the local population...
Family in Aden #Yemen now: "No electricity, extremely hot/humid, no gas, no water, homes randomly shelled" Oh God! pic.twitter.com/9GWTEKrrlN
— Hisham Al-Omeisy (@omeisy) April 2, 2015
Houthies and pro-president Saleh penetrate deep in #Aden and reach Kreater according to residents pic.twitter.com/qLRViH7ZQz
— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) April 2, 2015
#Yemen: City of #Aden has turned into battlefield http://t.co/D4m2u2aBe6 (photos c/o @_RK_88_) pic.twitter.com/mtY7tiKVvW
— RT (@RT_com) April 2, 2015
...and the Houthis have taken control of the Presidential palace:
- SHIITE REBELS SEIZE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN ADEN, YEMEN: AP
Meanwhile, there were reports on Thursday morning that foreign troops had arrived in the city creating speculation that a Saudi ground incursion had begun. Interestingly the unidentified foreign troops turned out to be Chinese soldiers. Here's more from RT:
Dozens of unidentified foreign troops reported disembarking in the port of Aden turned out to be Chinese soldiers maintaining security as an unknown party opened fire on a vessel evacuating foreign citizens, a Yemeni official told Sputnik.
He added that Chinese soldiers have already left the port, though reportedly they did not manage to take with them all the people intended to evacuate, not all of the Chinese nationals.
The deeper the Houthis entrench themselves in densely populated areas, the greater the likelihood that ground troops will be necessary to expel them. The fighting in Aden comes as the conflict claimed its first Saudi soldier when border troops came under attack overnight:
Via AP:
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said one of its guards along the border with Yemen was killed Wednesday night. It was the first known Saudi casualty since the airstrikes started.
A border post in the Asir region came under heavy fire from a mountainous area inside Yemen, followed by cross-border skirmishes, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Along with the Saudi guard who was killed, 10 other border guards were wounded, SPA said.
Finally, Al Qaeda militants led an assault on Mukalla where, after a firefight, the group freed some 300 militants being held in a local prison. Here’s more from WSJ:
Al Qaeda militants in Yemen stormed the coastal city of al Mukalla early Thursday, seized government buildings and freed at least 270 inmates from a prison, including many of its own operatives, Yemeni officials said.
The 2 a.m. attack on the eastern city, an important seaport, was a new setback for Saudi-backed government forces already fighting an uprising by Iranian-linked Houthi rebels. Al Qaeda’s incursion into al Mukalla was the latest sign that the extremist group is exploiting Yemen’s sectarian strife.
Until Thursday, al Makalla had been one of the few large Yemeni cities still controlled by government and tribal forces supportive of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Abdullah al Sharafi, a Yemeni defense ministry official, said about one-third of those freed in Thursday’s prison break were AQAP militants. Among them, he said, was Khaled Batarfi, who was AQAP’s leader in the southern province of Abyan until his arrest in 2011 and served in the organization’s Shariah council, which provides religious direction.
Extremist groups such as AQAP and Afghanistan’s Taliban have typically used prison breaks to free their own foot soldiers and force more secular inmates, detained for petty crimes, to join their ranks.
“Al Qaeda needs to recruit and [there’s] no better way to recruit from prison,” Mr. Sharafi said. “A few of the escapees were senior al Qaeda leaders, but among those who escaped were dozens of al Qaeda fighters and loyalists.”
In addition to the prison, AQAP overran key government offices, including the central bank, likely plundering its cash reserves, officials said.
Between the first Saudi casualty, the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the logistical difficulties inherent in carrying out bombing raids on heavily populated areas, the rebel advance on military installations near the Bab el-Mandeb, and finally, with militants set to raid the country's cash, it may become increasingly difficult for the Saudi-led coalition to support an assertion that air raids alone will be enough to debilitate the Houthis and bring the situation under control.
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I sincerely doubt the Chinese want to get involved in this cluster fu*k. If anything, they went in to save some of their people and get out asap like any sane-minded peeples would.
They are building an army base in Zimbabwe. Discussing a naval port with Namibia. And building a peace keeping force with South Africa.
It is chinese americans with jersey accent...
speaking Mandarin
with a Jersey accent...
LawsofPhysics - Yes the Chinese. Part of the privalage of reserve currency is being global policeman. Expect to see a lot more of this over the next few decades. Global security arrangements are shifting toward that reality. I post this over and over so you dont waste time with propoganda. The world works the way it works. The time saved can be spent making money and investing it for posterity. Long Chinese defense contractors.
No shit sherlock, the recent decison to help PetroBras is brilliant IMO.
Still, show me the video. The "interactions" between locals and Chinese troops will be very different. I can promise you that.
It what way will the interactions be different? Different from interactions with whom?
Here is an interesting note about this strong projection of power by China. sarc
They disembarked from Saudi and Egyptian ships
China had to get permission and ask for passage from the Saudi's.
The troops received light fire and had to withdraw prior to evacuating all who were waiting to go. The Saudi's refused to allow Russia to fly into Yemen until today when Russia will be shadowed and escorted by Saudi planes and personnel. The Saudi's bombed next to Russia's embassy causing damage and blowing out all the windows.
Messages are being sent as to who has influence and power. China has made moves investing in these countries but all this could be easily taken from them with regime change and proxy wars.
LawsofPhysics - Too bad you weren't posting the obvious in 2011 as I was fuckhead. Next time try not to be insulting and you wont look stupid. As for interactions, money talks. Only the most ignorant join the small opposition for direct weapaons testing as fodder.
So, same as it ever was then....
The Chinese are only there to safely evacuate their citizens.. just as the Indians were there to rescue theirs in a Globemaster....nothing else.
LoP agreed about the video. but as i read the article it struck me the 'troops' if chinese were similar to the air rescue of saigon, IOW, merely there to get their people out. i'll be interesting to see if the troops do anything more.
No video, but...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/31/c_134112479.htm
DJIBOUTI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- More than 500 Chinese evacuees from conflict-ridden Yemen have arrived at the Djibouti port as the situation continues to deteriorate in Yemen.
A People's Liberation Army Navy fleet, which had been carrying out escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters, was dispatched for the evacuation on Sunday, according to China's Ministry of National Defense.
The first group of 122 Chinese nationals were evacuated from the Yemeni city of Aden and arrived in Djibouti on Sunday night.
The remaining 449 Chinese nationals and six people of other nationalities left the Yemeni coastal city of Al-Hodayda on Monday and have arrived in Djibouti.
Security sharply deteriorated in Yemen since early March when conflicts erupted in several provinces in the country's southern regions.
The Shiite Houthi group launched attacks on Aden city, which President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi declared as temporary capital after he fled weeks of house arrest by the Houthis in Sanaa.
Last Thursday, a Saudi-led coalition started airstrikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa and other cities, saying the multinational action was to protect Hadi's legitimacy and force the Houthis to retreat from cities it seized since September 2014.
They did a small test of the Russian concept of "Polite green people" or, as I saw it several times already - the strategy of "Polite force".
Tits or GTFO
Yet another civilization killed by the USSA and replaced by warlordism and anarcho-tyranny.
Yemen is running out of oil and groundwater fast. I heard about that 10 years ago. Its interesting how it happened simultaneuously.
Yup, that's what the super crooks do. As the Wall Street psychos say, what you invest in grows, and Amerika is always investing in the criminal elements in foreign democracies to overthrow their countries.
Overthrow Zelaya, the democratically-elected president of Honduras, just because he wanted to raise their national minimum wage by a few pennies, and a few years later, after much turmoil and the privatization of cities in Honduras, thousands of Honduran children flood across Amerika's southern border.
Actions have consequences . . . at least for the little people!
Recommended reading:
Two Days in June, by Andrew Cohen
Open Secret, by Erin Arvedlund
"Actions have consequences . . . at least for the little people!"
And here is the key to it all. All consequences for the past 100 years have been borne by little people. TPTB have borne zero cost. As Radical Marijuana likes to point out, as long as this system is allowed to continue, it will only increase in amplitude until it exceeds the planetary survival specifications, at which point, we all go down, little and big alike. The stupidest part is that anyone thinks the big are smarter than the little. When it comes to long-term survival, they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction right along with that of those they rule over. Pure stupidity.
Warlordism and anarcho-tyranny has been the general way of existance in the middle east for several thousand years.
Colonialism provided a few hundred years of relative peace. Now it is just back to normal for them with much increased killing power.
Russians and Chinese have until Sept/Oct of 2017.
To make their moves before a psychopath is unleashed.
Why that date?
K. Puckett
Jade Helm 17
May I just say, on behalf of everyone here, how your 'handle' continues to delight and intrigue, Mt Knoblunch, Knoblaunch?
chuck knoblauch was a baseball player
So was K puckett
Was he a catcher, or pitcher? :-D
I never trusted Houthi but never suspected his Blowfish!
the Saudis wont even pay the checkout bill, they will fold like a house of cards, some will die in the desert out of gas in a supercar with a trunk full of gold.
as they should fuck these people.
Haha this ought to be precious:
Bernanke Says Global Imbalances Bedevil the World Economy. Discuss"Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers are in the midst of a vigorous blog debate about why the world’s economy is so messed up and how it can be fixed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/upshot/bernanke-says-global-imbalances...
Bedevil...now there is an underutilized word...
Yes, imbalance, meaning some people have billions, and nothing to spend it on (as they already have a helicopter, yacht, 6 mansions, 12 cars, etc) and billions have nothing, but want to spend on basic necessities!
People are fighting to get in the bank to open a 0.01% yield savings account ... is that what Shalome is saying?
Larry Sumers!!!!
I remember that dood. He was forced to resign from Harvard due to former insider trading of Harvard Corporation beginning to receive public exposure.
Yup, and he was the dood involved with the firing of the first Black-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in math there, Iris Mack, because she questioned their position in credit derivatives.
Harvard ended up losing around $1 billion due to that position in derivatives, and had to end their hot breakfast for the student body during those chilly winter months.
Ben Bernanke? I forget who that was?
Was he anything special? Was he related to Monica Lewinski or Michele Bachmann?
I think Billie Joel needs to change the lyrics to that song "We Didn't Start The Fire"
Better warn the affiliates this ones gonna run over its estimated time slot...
Snipers must be taking some pretty long shots judging by the map. It looks like the minimum would be 1000 yards. Must be a scare tactic...unles one gets lucky...not that a 1000 yard shot can't be well placed.
Oops, looks like the Saudis stepped in some Shiite.
As usual Mr. Nobel Peace Prize backs the losing side. Worst. President. Ever.
"I'm from the government and here to help you."
Ask Dick Cheney what to do...LOL......
I wonder what the name of the demon was that spawned that Dick.
Iran backed rebels in Yemen close to securing one oil supply choke point while the Iranians can control one in the Strait of Hormuz. End of cheap oil is near? Major conflict in ME on the horizon? Iran's trump card in winning the negotiations on their nuclear programme?
Anything else, somebody?
Negotiations - lol. Oh you were serious
The world is but a stage. Just a game.
Actually, the world is more like a rave.
Iran and Russia are playing chess, Barry is playing checkers.
Or golf.
Oh lol, I only reported this like 9 hours ago.
Here let me pat you on the head and give you a animal cracker now go play in the street, "9 hours ago" was 3 in the fucking morning eastern time.
They need to change the insignia on the dollar to "chaos from order".
Too bad the Chinese don't have a global MSM channel like CNN to announce the arival of evacuation troops, like the Global heros have. HA! Hint to China, a little PR goes a long way when entering a war zone.
1000 yard shots? can Hillary do that? (LOL!)
Aye, with ping pong balls. As seen in the Phillipines!
Don't they need to determine this by a playoff system?
Al Qaeda vs. Houthi's to take on Obama's puppet for the grand prize?
It aint saudi first casualty . Rebels shot down saudi F-16 in yemen while conducting airstrikes . Heard ? Mighty american tech taken down by sand monkeys .
hey Euclid, those birds came out in the fuckin early 70's. It's not made of goddam admantium. Quit watching Avengers and baitin to magneto so much.
"foreign troops had arrived in the city creating speculation that a Saudi ground incursion had begun. Interestingly the unidentified foreign troops turned out to be Chinese soldiers"
how can one mistake asians with arabs is beyond me.
Well, they all do look alike.
Nobel Peace Prizes for everyone !!!!
You get a peace prize! You get a peace prize! Everybody gets a peace prize!
The Saudi's sent Putin a message by bombing close to Russia's embassy. "There is not a single intact window left". Then the Saudi's refused to allow Russia land a plane or even fly into the country to evacuate people. Today a flight will be allowed but must be escorted by Saudi war planes.
Did the Saudi's damage any other embassy's of the west? Not that I heard.
"Did the Saudi's damage any other embassy's of the west? Not that I heard"
At least they did not bomb the embassy itself, like for instance NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the "humanitarian" bombing of Yugoslavia.
That "accident" occurred because the Chins paid top number one lucky dollar for F117 wreckage. Which happened to be consumed in the subsequent fire.
Thank you! I was wondering who would be the first to make the most enlightening, accurate and illustrious comment!
Coup d'état in the Ukraine vs coup d'état in Yemen - sanctions in the case of former against non-intervening neighboring country Russia, no sanctions in the latter against intervening neighboring KSA & Co. If it is not a sign of extreme hypocrisy, I don't know what is.
Excellent point.
Mission Accomplished bitchez
Very interesting news.
Looks like Iran and the Saudi's are about to punch it out.
I think Obama likes this.
MINE MINE, ALL MINE!
evil man.
"some ambiguity about who was ultimately responsible for the death of some 40 civilians at a refugee camp earlier this week."
Utter bullshit. The primary purpose of aerial bombardment is to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure. It's just inconvenient this is known in polite circles as a "war crime." Damn those clever Houthis, putting a refugee camp under Saudi bombs.
Apparently the Saudis are enjoying their own little version of "shock and awe". No Yemeni air force to contend with. No worries, Australia, Canada, France, Britain and the US are covering Iraq and Syria while the Arabs are diverted to bombing Yemen.
In other news; Yemen soon to start buying US Treasury Debt-Bonds. wink/wink
Yemen is the new "Belgium?"
If RT says "american", then it must be true. Otherwise, anyone talking about green men in Crimeea and other parts of Ukraine being Russian soldiers is crazy, deluzional, suffering from acute moments of schizofrenia.
I'm sure Putin and his nuclear armed boys are laughing their asses off at the stupidity of Americans in front of his propaganda machine.
Thats what happens to the Central Bankers in Yemen when they've thown too many Seniors under the Bus.
Not to worry. The markets ar all in the green.
That is why they're "US-armed". Just like Libya. Every country must have a Red Shield CB.
how much gold does the Yemeni CB have in store?
1.56 tons
imagine the Bush treason captured by the truckload, Obama will end up running Halliburton
"Chinese troops arrive"
Cool, maybe now They can pay the cost to be the boss for awhile and that suits the hell out of me.
I have to say the thought of a central bank burning is a Smile Bringer..
seriously who can you really trust on short notice, to move a few million / billion. Does fed/ex do war zones, and can i get insurance with that ?
Come on man I need a receipt signed by somebody else besides Mickey Mouse
Go for the central bank, go for the little hole in the Death Star.
Air raids are wonderful for destroying factories that make weapons. Air raids are great for hitting pinpoint targets that reveal themselves. Air raids are great at softening up an enemy's fixed positions, armor, and artillery. Air raids have never conquered a country without boots on the ground.
How do they play with mud brick houses? Askin for a friend.
Another success story. Ripped apart by numerous warring factions while the infrastructure of the country is utterly destroyed and the population put into despair. Worked in Libya. Worked in Iraq. Worked in Syria. Now Yemen. Anybody see Yemen being put back together again? None of the other places have been.
Oded Yinon and the PNAC boys are very pleased with developments, I'm sure.
They've been on a roll since 9/11.
Arab states defined according to ethnical lines may stand a chance at stability. Ditto for african and european states.
That's a rayciss concept and the NWO won't stand for it.
You nailed it, Good Citizen!
Exactly what David Silverstein and company, over at Foundation in Defense of Democracies (PNAC, version 2.0), want.
David is the hubby of Alfreda Bikowsky Silverstein (CIA), who has been controlling the 9/11 script from start to finish!
Yemen is a former French colony. Do you really think that pro-government troops will continue fighting?
Try British.
"pro-government troops". Which ones are those?
Geez, Aden, now could that possibly be British?
Cause there ain't no party like a Yemeni party.
Note the difference here:
When shit goes down, China sends the military in to evacuate its citizens and does this FREE OF CHARGE. Offering to bring them home to China or drop them off along the way if they desire to go somewhere else.
When the US claims to do similar, they just arrange a charter jet and charge you crazy money. Dropping you off at the nearest "safe" location. Don't have a place to live or a job or funds to get back home? Tough shit for you... Now hurry up and pay that bill evacuation bill!
Seriously, fuck the US.
China sent their military in on Saudi ships after getting permission by the Saudi's. Then they withdrew without managing to evacuate all the people due to shots being fired.
They disembarked from Saudi and Egyptian ships
I suspect what you say about the US is accurate in some cases (maybe even most cases).
US embassies are not so useful in an emergency
U.S. Mission: Get the Effin GOLD!!
Chinese Mission: Ditto!!!
Who got the gold?
"Yes, 'Yemen.'...No the other little one...near Saudi Arabia...Well obviously its extremely vital if we are starting a war over it."
China should just take over...i betcha they'll do a better job than us
This might get good after all!
Do they have any rivers in Yemen, being a dried up dusty ass shithole of a wasteland that it is? If they do, and they're dumb enough to jack with the Hans, then I fully expect them to Huang Po the fuck out of those camel pumpers and plug it up.
IS WANGXI BRADY gonna HAVE TO CHOKE A RIVER?
I wonder how much gold is in he Yemeni central bank . . . and where it will be in a few weeks?
The whole Middle East is a catbox: You wait for it to stink then your sift out the clumps and smooth the sand. Wait for the smell to get bad again and repeat ad nauseum.
Dammitt- I was planning to vacation in Yemen this summer
But who done the shitting in the sandbox? Smells like ZIOshit to me
Russia will soon be ready to deal with NATO on more equal terms.
The latest Russian Navy Surface Warship is:
speaking about the new frigate "Admiral Grigorovich."
"I will not talk about its weapons, but believe me, the ship is equipped with the latest modern missile systems. The firing range of the main complex is such that from the Black sea it could easily hit targets in the Mediterranean region. And not accidentally the testing of such weapons is planned in the Northern fleet territory, where there is a large territorial expanse. Therefore, we expect the newest ship by fall, after the testing in the Northern fleet," said Krivorog.
Is Russia going to use the ship, its war capabilities?
No. So Americas Imperium will be here for another 100 years and the whole planet including Russia nd CHina will perish.
Or they two break America.
True. But it acts as a powerful defense, something that makes the Empire think before trying to kick Russia around. Believe me, I was in the Navy, and stuff that can sink you in an instant really does make a dent in morale and command decissions.
The new Russian Armata tank is hella sexy
Ships are both weapons platforms and targets. Many Small Craft with devastating power might be closer to a Guerrilla Strategy. But no one says I have expertise.
Problem we don't know what weapons are in Space. Maybe Large Ships are as vulnerable as Facilities & Ports.
Media announcements are Strategic Propaganda more than actual threats. saber Rattling.
I think China and Russia could share technology & Weapons and that is a threat and water under the bridge. China's stuff is brand new, but we wonder about Russian Maintenance of their Weapons. What was the Cold War 70 years long at least. We can expect they will want heavy investment on both sides for 20 more years. Bankers probably are looking for Investments, so 20 years of Investment prior to War Might Be the Plan. blah...
Jack,
What about the new rail gun technology that can hurl a chunk of metal mach 5?
These will slice through the hull of an AC like a hot knife through butter!
I have heard about the railgun since I was in the Navy. It sounds great on paper. But if you look deeper into it, the physics make it hard to turn it operational. That is why the USN was boasting of railgun warships in the 1980's and now in 2015 we still wait.
A rail gun would be a big ass capacitor??????? Navy has nuke reactors so electricity is not the issue. storing enough to produce the kinetic energy would be the threshold?
It's like living in a video game.
Will Iran face new sanctions when it helps Yemen?
Crater...soon to be very aptly named...
How awesome is this for Kenyanisans....burning cities
"Get on tha shrip, horeee fruk, they shootin at us!"
Chinese soliders????
and here we go
that central bank thing
any gold in it what what
that bank thing
the central one in the centre is it one of those khazar rothschild things
will the bbc be on hand like libya for the anal deaths of the leaders followed by a blackwater isis mossad gold and money heist
it is written in the talmoo so this shit must be saturn done.
the more swiss cern is open the more liquid child blood is needed
a real hollocaust with the goy as fuel
the rabbi is erasing histories init
and rounding up kids for the waiting lear jets
eyes wide sex parties and live organ trading
they store their gold in London and NY.
Ah. Well it's already gone then.
This is the US bringing down the "House of Saud" via a back-door (sic) mechanism. The Yemenese were attacked for no apparent reason and where is the UN Security Council "emergency meeting"? No where to be found because they are the planners and the Saudi Royal Family is about to know what the Langley boys are all about and it ain't friendship. Where is the cry of foul from Russia or China; no where it seems. I wonder if the East vs West is the same as Donkey vs Elephant? All have the same issue; too many people, so let's play good cop and bad cop and get them to kill themselves and we will nuke the rest till we have Agenda 21 in place and only 500 million people to deal with.
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No USD for black gold, then fetch this bone while we destroy your house.
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Now Iran; you want a nuclear program; how about you trade black gold in USD and we turn over the House of Saud to you; deal says Iran (finger crossed behind back) & deal says US/UN (fingers crossed and up there....). Civilians die "miserably ever after"..sad, but you will see this is true in time.
Backdoor Barry
Bath house politics.
Flitting from nation to nation.
Gay drama
In the coming years; sooner than we can imagine, the US military presence will be replaced by others to police the reshaping of what America has done to destroy the local fabric of Arab regions; all for their oil.
Who will it be? China?
in coming years...
My guess is 100 years
Hey which side is anyone on?
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb bomb.....
Who's on first because I'm lost here. This shit is giving me a mother fucking headache trying to follow who's on who's side. There'e one clear answer though, USA is behind every disaster in the world, which is their plan I'm sure.
WAR PROFITEERS are on first. Aligned with bankers. Normal.
See Prescott Bush, WWII and the Nazis.
Houthi rebels - Zaydi (5er Shiites) whose ritual worship is closer in line with Sunni's than Iranian style (12er) Shiites. Their guy Saleh, got the boot so they are pissed. Mountain fighters whose rep is great allies if fighting on your side, a pitbull hornet's nest for any group that choses to fight them. From 1972-80 Egypt lost 26,000 troops trying to take them out.
Sunni stooge Hadi's supporters - Obama's cutout, preferred by Sauds and the other beards on the gulf. Like Ukraine, chosen by Obunghole but not up to the task
Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula - Nihilistic dead enders who want Sharia in Yemen and overthrow of the Sauds. Must be the bad guys b/c unlike ISIS they don't get "mis dropped" weapons supply from Obama. They get wedding and funeral drones.
Saudi's - think they are better than the little mountain Arabs in Yemen. Saudi Exceptionalism ought to work out as well as American variant. First sign of casualties the Sauds always fold and head back to the baccarat tables in Europe.
Egypt - Since Obunghole can't even try for boots on the ground and since the Sauds farm out this sort of heavy lifting to their Arab niggers - The Egyptians get to be cannon fodder in actual fighting street fighting after the rubble is pounded rubblier
Pakistan - Said no thanks to doing Saudi dirty work
Israel - when goy fights goy, Jews prevail
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What is likely to happen is that Yemeni solidarity will trump Sunni-Shia divides. Saudi, Egypt will be seen as invaders. Houthis will consolidate gains and could take the fight across the border with soldier skirmishes or bombs going off in Saudi shopping malls and pizza joints. Way to go Obama. Another clusterfuck of r2p liberalism.
If this is a foreign policy success, maybe it's time to retire to the links and let Qtip play out the 18 months.
Where do you get your intel?
I thought all Shiite were 12ers?
So there is a schism amongst Shiite as well?
I like your point of view. Any good links would be appreciated.
Looks like you have AIPAC/ADL trollers here. Just typing the "J" word seems to produce an instantaneous down arrow? Do they have a web crawler algo now that sends a report to NSA? NSA to ADL, ADL to Indian subcontractor who then comes here and down arrows you? WTF?
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If you're MIC, there are no sides. These diverse peoples are simply known as Customers.
This would not be happening to Yemen if they renamed their country to Fremen...
Like in the Series "Dune".
But even Dune had Empires, Guilds, Royalty, Power, and different Classes of people... which seems to provide structure and organization, but disenfranchises people like the Fremen.
I guess the point is people of Fremen were Rebels, tough Rebels.
Yemen is full of worms, but not so spicy.
Just don't rename it Semen. Then our newly uncloseted military will have to invade it.
A few quotes from the founding fathers of America on the reason we should not keep a standing army as the military/industrial/congressional congress seems to think otherwise (full article at http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-biggest-threat-to-american-liberty/5440015):
James Madison: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”
Patrick Henry: “A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders? Will your mace-bearer be a match for a disciplined regiment?”
Henry St. George Tucker in Blackstone’s 1768 Commentaries on the Laws of England: “Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”
Commonwealth of Virginia in 1788: “… that standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.”
Pennsylvania Convention: “… as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military shall be kept under strict subordination to and be governed by the civil power.”
US State Department website: “Wrenching memories of the Old World lingered in the 13 original English colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America, giving rise to deep opposition to the maintenance of a standing army in time of peace. All too often the standing armies of Europe were regarded as, at best, a rationale for imposing high taxes, and, at worst, a means to control the civilian population and extort its wealth.”
USA Elite Require US to be Based on Trade and Cheap Labor, but with Huge, Deep, Foreign Policy, Imperial Policy:
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- Strong Central Government for Superpower Military Status
- Superpower Financial Status and Strong Financial Control
- Superpower Trade Status
- Secret Intelligence Agencies to harvest and push drugs as tool against foreign governments and Domestic Population
- Corporate Control over US Congress & Legislation
- Promotion of our Chosen Giant Corporations
- Control over Information & Free Press & UN Agenda (Counter Intelligence Operations on Populations)
- International Agendas to keep other nations weak in areas of advance weaponry
I like Quote like those above as they remind me of what the Dream of America was and still is in the minds of Main Street.
I for one am glad to see the Chinese inserting themselves into this mess.
Maybe the USA can finally take a break from fucking up other countries and pass that chore onto them.
Samalia is a worthless country. It has never produced anything for the world but pirates and cat lady crazy mullahs.
David Bowie's wife, the model Iman, is from Somalia. Does she count?
What’s wrong with Pirates and Vikings?
The Saudi-led alliance, meanwhile, is trying to hang on to the city but is wary about carrying out airstrikes in populated areas for fear of civilian casualties…
Israel will do it!!!! pick me, pick me!!!!
Time to buy oil contract ?