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CNN Anchor Demands Americans "Stop Swooning Over Putin"

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We’ll just put this bluntly: when you, as a country, do something incredibly stupid from a foreign policy perspective, you open the door for your global critics and adversaries to i) call you out on it publicly, and ii) use your gross incompetence and general disregard for anything that even approximates common sense, to their geopolitical advantage. 

And make no mistake, in Syria, Washington, Riyadh, and Doha did something incredibly stupid.

They financed, armed, and trained a hodgepodge of Sunni extremists in Syria in an attempt to destabilize a regime that was deemed to be unfriendly to the interests of the West and its regional allies. 

Not to put too fine a point on it, but from the perspective of human suffering, the results have been simply horrific: hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced.

From a reputational perspective, the results have been equally catastrophic. Not only did the US, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have a hand in creating the group that ultimately morphed into what we never tire of characterizing as an insane band of white basketball shoe-wearing, black flag-waving, sword-wielding desert bandits bent on establishing a medieval caliphate, but subsequent efforts to arm and train “moderate” rebels were wildly unsuccessful, and the entire effort culminated in the embarrassing admission that the Pentagon’s latest “program” - designed to field 5,400 fighters by the end of the year - had only managed to produce “four or five” soldiers at a cost to the US taxpayer of $41 million.

Finally, the US just threw up its hands and resorted to paradropping hundreds of tons of ammo into the middle of nowhere and hoping the “right” people pick it up.

So one could be forgiven for being slightly enamored with the Russians at this juncture because in one extraordinarily elegant geopolitical chess move, Vladimir Putin has all at once i) exposed the fact that perhaps the US has ulterior motives for wanting to (gasp) keep ISIS around, ii) marked a triumphant return for Russia to the world stage, iii) strengthened Moscow’s relationship with Tehran ahead of the latter’s re-emergence as a force in the world of oil exporters, and iv) effectively restored Bashar al-Assad on the way to establishing a major Russian presence in the Mid-East. 

And that’s in the space of, oh, let’s just call it three weeks. 

This has been nothing short of a humiliation for Washington and just as Beijing simply instructed people not to sell when the SHCOMP rout embarrassed the Communist Party, the US wants you to know that it’s enough already with the Putin worship. Here’s CNN’s Fareed Zakaria: demanding that you to “Stop swooning over Putin”:

From a WaPo op-ed:

Vladimir Putin has the United States’ foreign policy establishment swooning.One columnist admires the “decisiveness” that has put him “in the driver’s seat” in the Middle East. A veteran diplomat notes gravely, “It’s the lowest ebb since World War II for U.S. influence and engagement in the region.” A sober-minded pundit declares, “Not since the end of the Cold War a quarter-century ago has Russia been as assertive or Washington as acquiescent.”

 

It’s true that it has been a quarter-century since Moscow has been so interventionist outside its borders. The last time it made these kinds of moves, in the late 1970s and 1980s, it invaded Afghanistan and interfered in several other countries as well. Back then, commentators similarly hailed those actions as signs that Moscow was winning the Cold War. How did that work out for the Soviet Union?

And now that we’ve given you a chance to thoroughly deride the American media for the anti-Putin line, we will once again prove that we are in fact fair and balanced. Here's what Zakaria gets right: 

Washington deposed Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq (Syria’s next-door neighbor, with many of the same tribes and sectarian divides). It did far more in Iraq than anyone is asking for in Syria, putting170,000 soldiers on the ground at the peak and spending nearly $2 trillion. And yet, a humanitarian catastrophe has ensued — with roughly 4 millioncivilians displaced and at least 150,000 killed. Washington deposed Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya but chose to leave nation-building to the locals. The result has been what the New Yorker calls “a battle-worn wasteland.” In Yemen, the United States supported regime change and new elections. The result: a civil war that is tearing the country apart.

Of course he then skips directly to this:

Those who are so righteous and certain that this next intervention would save lives should at least pause and ponder the humanitarian consequences of the last three.

To which we say: Fareed, you seem to have forgotten that it wasn't Russia who trained and armed the groups who plunged Syria into civil war, it was the US and its regional allies.

You might want to mention that next time before you go getting too "righteous and certain."

 

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Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:46 | 6682735 nevertheless
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And that is really saying something in America. 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 14:57 | 6682466 Joe Tierney
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Fareed can kiss my pasty white ass - he's nothing but a mindless anti-Putin hack who 'wears the blue dress' for the government and MSM establishment in order to keep his position and his paycheck.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:01 | 6682473 IndianaJohn
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Why would I pay attention to a nigger?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:18 | 6682519 Monetas
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"I fareed the niggahs ?" A. Lincoln 1865

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:58 | 6682916 Berspankme
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what is this dude anyways? looks like a Paki

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:01 | 6682475 knuppel
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this foreigner Zakaria = CFR

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:31 | 6682547 Chris Dakota
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all the foreigners are uppity lately, every damn one of them.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:05 | 6682488 truth vs fraud
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It is crystal clear that the U.S. has been using Isis, al quida, and many other horrific terrorists to destroy Syria and take it from the Syrians to get a Qatar pipepline in, cutting off Russia.  This kind of support for pure evil makes the establishmant the worst kind of criminals and they all should be tried and put in jail and God willing they will along with this lying reporter.  Obama should be in jail along with the bush.  And Putin, though far from perfect, is cleaning up these criminal's crimes.  The rest of the world knows this and is disgusted with it.  If Americans don't start demanding law and order the rest of the world will and it won't be pretty

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:06 | 6682490 ChargingHandle
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I am not a Putin supporter but fuggoff pal  your opinion is your opinion. Stop pushing narrative  

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:45 | 6682734 nevertheless
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Putin started locking up the zionist olygarchs, he is not perfect, but he is far beter than Bush or Obama, AND CLINTON! I would certainly vote for a Putin before I would Clinton (or another Bush).

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:14 | 6683634 Savyindallas
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No one is perfect  -but Putin is as close to perfect I have seen. 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:10 | 6682497 Pullmyfinger
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Here of course, is what this article is really all about:

"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press....They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.

"An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/believe_new_world_order.htm

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:09 | 6682637 iAmerican
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Come the Apocalypse!

Death for Treason

Morgan is Rothschild is the Roman Anti-Christ Gog/Babylon Talmud/papist "engine for enslaving mankind" we came in express covenant with God to America, the true and prophesied "Israel," to escape.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:15 | 6682504 InnVestuhrr
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My two points:

1. Only imbeciles watch CNN, which has become at best just reality-TV based upon disaster events, eg airplane crashes, shootings, etc, so who gives a shit what those bozos say about anything. I have been watching CCTV and AlJazeera for years to get a real news program vs just tabloid TV.

2. The ultimate goal in Syria was not just to depose the Assad regime but to also destroy the society/country so that it could never again be a threat to Israel. I don't care one gnat turd about israel and israelis, but I also do NOT object to destroying any islamic cult society/country for any reason, because they all deserve it, however the execution by obozo was a pathetic incompetent failure.

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:19 | 6682508 Monetas
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Justice is a Palestinian rock thrower .... "donating" kidneys .... to save IDF soldiers ?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:20 | 6682521 Well Hungarian
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Wonder who wrote that for the plagiarizer?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:20 | 6682522 Well Hungarian
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Wonder who wrote that for the plagiarizer?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:30 | 6682545 Polymarkos
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Fareed Zakaria? What kind of CNN anchor is he? More like a Islamotrash propagandist.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:44 | 6682558 Joe A
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Cable Network Nonsense -who still watches that? And especially this Fareed dude on his high horse. Another stooge is Amanpour.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:38 | 6682576 pupdog1
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Fa-roosh frequently tells Americans what they should do.

He comes from a country where the national sport is gang raping women on crowded buses.

He needs to just shut his fucking mouth.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:38 | 6682578 stonehands
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I'm rootin for Putin. I have had enough of this government and its faggotry.

and dont tell me to move elsewhere, you fuckin sissies.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:45 | 6682593 Bill of Rights
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The appropriate response is fuck u

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:46 | 6682597 frankly scarlet
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who gives a fuck what FZ thinks or says anyway as he is just another MSM presstitute hired by the fascist American oligarchy to spout their far right claptrap. Hate Putin, love the TPP AND tipp, hate Clinton and her stalking horse Sanders (with good reason) but love Jeb Bush etcetera.....tomorrow he'll say the opposite if paid and instrcted to do so.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:53 | 6682610 bluez
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I hereby inaugurate the Putin for President Party!

Putin WILL be elected President of the United States on Tuesday, November 8, 2016!

Yeah, our raped despoiled "constitution" may not like it. but too bad. It's just another second-hand piece of toilet paper. Who obeys it? 90% of what the government does simply mocks it utterly! Enough!!

I, ME, I will run for president!! blues for president!! And I will do exactly and everything Putin tells me to do.

I will appear until mid-November in front of the courthouse in Northampton Massachusetts, waving my Freedom Flag!!

Vote for me!! Or perish.

And get strategic simple score voting with no machines!!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:13 | 6684130 bluez
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What a bunch of lazy American cowards!

Go ahead! Vote for the lesser evil.

See where that gets you.

I would say that you will get what you deserve, but it's not true.

YOU LOSE! YOU WILL GET NOTHING!

Get strategic simple score voting, or get the "politically scientific" two-party.

You made your final deal; now your soul goes down.

Tue, 10/20/2015 - 02:53 | 6688429 bunnyswanson
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Are you expecting votes 24 hours after the article was published.  Wow, that is quite a damnation for a comment thread on a financial  web site.  And because you have 0 up votes, you go on concluding that above-described punishment is both warranted and justified by rational minds who rely on logic, cause and effect. 

World leaders understand the situation in the US of A.  People gossip.  But they are listening to everything.  Reading all computer content.  US mail is being screened.  All to fight terrorism and for what?  Iraq was said to be for Israel, to access airspace to Iran, place US troops in the region and siphon oil which was apparently done and sold to China rumor has it.  Black market oil.  US is at a battle with an army which shakes your hand and invites you to dinner, insists on it, and if you do not show up, you disappear.

But you know that.  So why did you write that scathing comment to no one?

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:54 | 6682612 Sparehead
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America Demands CNN "Stop Swooning Over Obama"
Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:54 | 6682613 SMC
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Putin for POTUS!

Unfortunately we can not afford to pay him what he is worth.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:36 | 6682704 nevertheless
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Honestly, they would JFK him if he got anywhere near position. The powers that be use blackmail, bribery and the REAL threat of harm, if you do not follow their will. I believe this whole hardheartedly. JFK was at odds with the Israeli government and their desire to have nuclear weapons and with the Federal Reserve, wishing to have America print its own money (Executive Order 11110). You will note in all the "conspiracy theories published or made into movies (Oliver Stone) they touch on everything but the Zionists, and that is NOT by accident, it is typical misdirection, and they are the masters of it. 

 

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:09 | 6683621 Savyindallas
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I bought Putin for president 2016 and "Putin Hope" t-shirts a year ago-re. As usual, I am 5 years ahead of the curve - 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:56 | 6682623 Baron von Bud
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Fareed Zakaria?  Hey, isn't that the CNN guy who pays Hillary $20k a year to belong to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)? He gets to share the stage with the great Bill Clinton to boost his career. How cool is that. Some suggest CGI isn't exactly a charity. Did Hillary use her state department position to solicit money from foreign governments for her foundation? I wonder if that's the real reason for that private email server.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/26/clinton-foundation-received-donati...

If Hillary is off limits then why doesn't Fareed spend some time doing real journalism like investigating Bills' actions on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Pedophile Island'? Curious how the major media in America (like CNN) ignore that story. Bill took many trips down there on a private jet. Also a certain British royal, a prominent lawyer and other notables.

http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio...

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-pedo...

I'm sure Bill went to the island to golf. Probably doesn't know a thing about that sordid stuff and if he ever testifies we should take him at his word. I mean the average guy would just figure the girls were young caddies or summer help. I refuse to believe Bill would be there for sex and won't believe it until CNN reports the story. That's tawdry talk so knock it off.  I believe Bill likes the island for its challenging water hazards - improves his golf game. Yeah, that's it. Why would a convicted pedophile own an island? Oh wait, islands are surrounded by water which makes it very private and hard to escape. You know, Fareed should clear the names of those influential people and set the world straight. He could maybe get reduced CGI dues.

And isn't Fareed a director of the Council of Foreign Relations?

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

Must be nice chumming with those connected corporatists and politicos. Yeah, that Fareed is a real objective journalist. It's good he advises us about that evil Putin. I'd prefer he'd do some real work closer to home. Vlad seems to be doing a pretty good job cleaning out the terrorist scum and hasn't bombed any wedding parties or hospitals like Obama.

 

 

 

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:59 | 6682629 Westcoastliberal
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Fuck you, CNN.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 15:59 | 6682631 iAmerican
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Zakaria believes he can come over here to shill for our FedScamming, Hitler-financing, Holohoaxing, Kennedy- and King-assassinating, 9/11-committing, Sandy Hook-staging satanic ruling false-elite and be regarded as a worthy "American" voice by the sovereign People. 
 
He is sorely mistaken, as he is in league with Rothschild/Rockefeller lapdog and pede r ast Henry Kissinger.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:03 | 6682636 ken
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CNN’s PropaFareed Zakariaganda: 

He meant, "Stop tripping over...," right? Putin's kind of short, right?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:05 | 6682638 Barrack Chavez
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When the left wing extremists in the media fraudulently tell us they are objective journalists -- we are supposed to just let that slide.

When the left wing extremists like Zakaria swoon over Obama, fabricate more excuses for him than the White House press secretary, and accept behavior that they would never tolerate from Clinton or Bush I or Bush II or Reagan or Carter, etc...

I have to say Zakaria is in no position to complain about the alleged bias of the viewers who ultimately pay his salary.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:14 | 6682655 giggler321
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I guess Putin will have to stop doing all these things that people say ooh and arrh to

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:16 | 6682662 windcatcher
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Zakaria has been a long time butt-boy for the Council on Foreign Relations and speaks their same non-reality propaganda. Wouldn’t be wonderful if Putin and the rest of the world could bring the Fascist Washington Empire to Justice? The American citizens are helpless in bringing Traitor criminals in the CFR like Zakaria to Justice.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:29 | 6682687 nevertheless
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The Zionists just don't know what to do, no matter which "butt-boy" they wheel out to denounce Putin, no one believes them. The reality is, Zionists have done such a great job at destroying faith in the media (using confusion and distraction, all meant to disorient the US public), now that they need some control, it does not exist. 

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:40 | 6682717 Falling Down
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I wonder if the Russians have been able to figure out intimate details of the U.S. government's meddling in the ME from Snowden, and if it's being used to outsmart the U.S.?

Hitlery's rank hypocrisy re: Snowden:

https://reason.com/reasontv/2015/10/16/hillary-clinton-is-wrong-about-ed...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:55 | 6682751 Teh Finn
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They certainly got Chelsea Manning's bra size.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:20 | 6682810 Jack Oliver
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I really believed Snowden was a 'double agent' - I now believe Russia is using Snowden as a way of exposing the Zionist/US BULLSHIT - If this is true it's another masterstroke by Vladamir !

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:41 | 6682719 Bazza McKenzie
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There is an article in the WSJ http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-path-out-of-the-middle-east-collapse-14450... by Henry Kissinger that demonstrates the incompetence and wishful thinking of the current administration and in which he remarks "American policy has sought to straddle the motivations of all parties and is therefore on the verge of losing the ability to shape events."

Whatever you think of Kissinger and his past the comparison between the insight and sophisticated analysis of the matter and the intterests of the various parties that he presents, and that of Obama's team of clowns, is firghtening given that it is the team of clowns running the show.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:42 | 6682722 Berspankme
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I've always thought Barry had his eye on getting some Fareed. You know Fareed is a cakeboy too

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:44 | 6682731 Berspankme
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Wouldn't you just love 5 minutes alone with Fareed? Beat that fucker silly

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 16:52 | 6682747 Fred C Dobbs
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It's a good thing to see CFR/NWO/Deep State front men bothered.   

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:16 | 6682797 Hannibal
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The US lost the moral high ground a long time ago, so FUCK YOU CNN/CIA and those dancing their tune. GO PUTIN.!

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:31 | 6682847 Buster Cherry
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If Putin were running for President here he'd get my vote! The contrast betwen him and that idiotic, incompetent, trecherous faggot nigger we have now is something well worth swooning over.

I hope Putin reads ZH so he will know that there are people here that do not support our governments retarded foreign policy, that the majority would be happy to see some of those running the show here dangle from streetlamps.

 

Fareed Zakaria, you just made my shit list for when shit hits the fan....

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:00 | 6683592 Savyindallas
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The correct description is "treacherous gay African American". 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:07 | 6683790 Buster Cherry
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not from my point of view.

 

respectully yours,

 

buster cherrry

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:35 | 6682855 Buster Cherry
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Fareed, I challenge you to a duel:

 

Baseball bats at 3 paces.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:43 | 6682878 NubianSundance
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Interesting comment from another blog which may be pertinent...

" the russians fired 26 cruise missiles because the 26th president of america was theodore roosevelt. the name of a certain aircraft carrier located in the gulf. it has since moved. a nice succinct message from russia it seems? "

To spell it out :

1. The Russians fired 26 long range cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea.

2. The 26th president of the US was Theodore Roosevelt.

3. The only US aircraft carrier in the region is called the Theodore Roosevelt, it was positioned off the coast of Iran.

4. Seems like US analysts quickly understood the message and the Theodore Roosevelt is ordered out of the region.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 04:50 | 6684280 dreadnaught
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er, ah.....OK....

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 11:52 | 6685168 J Jason Djfmam
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There are 26 letters in the alphabet. Ooooooo.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:52 | 6682897 Never One Roach
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Indian domestic servant: Saudi employer 'cut off my arm'

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34490731

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:54 | 6682902 Zero_Hope
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Well, it certainly would be nice if CNN would stop kissing Hillary's huge fat a....

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:56 | 6682912 PoasterToaster
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If the oligarchs and their lickspittle media whores need to blame someone for the Putin lovefest, they can look in the mirror.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:57 | 6682913 bankonzhongguo
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Freak-azid is a known plagiarist and CFR operator.

http://theweek.com/articles/442125/three-major-publications-have-acknowl...

This guy truly represents the conniving interests of the 0.01% and the fundamental hypocrisy of CNN being a legitimate journalistic effort.

In both respects this sad elitist lapdog suffers from Stockholm Syndrome - he's been caged up for so long he actually is thankful for the suffering leveled upon himself and his identity.

The day anybody actually sees this kind of character doing manual labor or voicing a non-globalist agenda on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised - stop the presses.

CNN is as legitimate as Pravda, China Daily and Orwell's Ministry of Truth - it's a propagandist rag run by neocons that one merely reads as a perfect reverse barometer of reality.

I'm not a fan of Putin, but at least in this matter Russia cannot be found guilty of arming all sides and enabling chaos.

There's crazy in this world and then there's evil.

Unlike the Obama/US, you can't call Putin/Russia evil in ending the Syrian conflict and refugee tsunami.

The people's of Europe will actually cheer.

 

 

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 17:58 | 6682918 PoasterToaster
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Is Fareed an H1B baby?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:02 | 6682930 Jack Oliver
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The ME is loving Russia's intervention - Looks like Putin is going to liberate seven countries in seven months at this rate !

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:15 | 6684370 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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Only Shia in the ME are happy. But since the Sunni are as stupid, evil, and just as murdering as the Shia who actually gives a shit that their dream of Islam ruling the entire world is still mirred in the same fucking area as it was a thousand years ago. Only Allah and his prophet could come up contradictory explanations for a result such as that. Yeah were winning!!!!!

But as long as the tribe across the river can be called apostate then killing fellow believers in Allah is okay.Just ask the Mullah at the mosque.

Makes the killing of infidels, as the faithful must do, so much easier. Never mind all the killing that matters little.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:11 | 6682947 BubbaJones
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Globalist fascist stooge.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:27 | 6682983 earleflorida
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ya know that all the harvard & yale grad's are basically from wealth. that's their entry ticket, period!

what most colleges lack are their resourse libraries for higher education. both universities are the largest and bes'test libraries in the world respectively. believe me. i've been using them since tyme immortal indescriminately...

unfortunately, for these institutions a certain thingy called the 'internet' has made these behemoth guardian's of supreme knowledge available to anyone in the world [for a small fee].

higher education can be had by anyone having not a thought of leaving their homes. but, with only the drive to educate themselves without all the backwash bullshit classes preparing oneself for junk-ed higher institution fees-- and, a lifetyme of paying the debt back!?!

the 'MSM' is just the institution that proselytize these junk-ed supremo's (ivy league elitist that only money can buy,.. after all it takes money to make money? in the 'who's who bes`test' for the next neolib`con generation of inbreds) as the leaders of our future destiny. what a bunch of horseshit!

america's cable news are a travesty-- just today i looked at 'america's #1 seller by bill[asshole]o'riley, and this is his third or fourth best seller that people are reading and this fucking guy hasn't a clue! i mean WTF's goin on people?!?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:28 | 6683001 Lumberjack
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Pay no attention to CNN. Here are the ratings. 

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/10/09/cable-news-ratings-for-thurs...

 

Going down... I would even short CNN.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:52 | 6683108 TweedleDeeDooDah
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In the last forty-some years, the US has managed to turn Israel from a bunch of communists and socialists into essentially an american vassal state, and has even created leaders for it's Constitutional theocracy by grooming and funding them from America.

After the debacle of the Shah of Iran and the Iran-Iraq war, the US has shaken up Iraq, and in a way to "make up" for the hard feelings, basically turned it over to the Iranian sphere.

By working in and with Saudis, the US has if not helped create, at least helped operate ISIS, Wahabbist and Salafist idiots working for the Saudis in opposition to Shiites and Iran.

And now the US has threatend Syria, the stooge of the former USSR and friend to Russia, with Iran wanting to create Pipelines to the Mediterranea, ISIS claiming a state, Kurds claiming area in Syria, Iraq, and even Turkey. All while Israel threatens to take MORE of Syria...

So the US kicks back and grabs popcorn? Yup, the show is just beginning.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:30 | 6683269 bunnyswanson
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"ISRAEL has managed to turn USA into a bunch of communists and socialists - essentially a vassal state.."

You have that backwards.  Lobby group called AIPAC holds such distinguished status, The Lobby is how it is refered to.

How many politicians in Israel were laid to rest before their time thanks to assassins and coverups? 

WHO OWNS THE MEDIA?  It is not Americans.  Hollywood, music industry...all of it...zionist infiltration has destroying commerce in america, dismantled manufacturuing and sent it to hostile nations (along with tax revenue), destroying housing market (backbone of US wealth). 

You have a lot of nerve.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 18:58 | 6683130 JamaicaJim
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Fareed Zakaria.....FUCK YOU

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:08 | 6683181 bunnyswanson
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I demand MSM stop shoving the Kartrashians including extended family down our throats.  We are SICK of these women who appear to spend a great deal of the time preparing for a photo op, have no talent, personalities which are less than phenomenal and are, as beautiful women go, average.  Why the KarCrashians?  Pam Anderson was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen and the media searched long and hard for unflattering photos of this woman, and turned her into a joke.

Demands also include THE FUCKING TRUTH for a change.  Tell the American people they are faced with a tax debt which will turn the children into slaves, and place their homeland on an auction block.  Tell the citizens about the real situation in ISRAEL, the nation where laundry day is every day of the week, and how about 911 TRUTH YOU BASTARDS?  We all know that you know 911 was orchestrated by a handful of wealthy lowlifes, who then pilfered hundreds of millions of dollars from the cost of FIGHTING TERRORISM...

News Anchors...hah, anchor alright.  Ball and chain.  Fuck you MSM.  You are WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY. 

STOP LYING TO US.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 04:46 | 6684277 dreadnaught
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as The Simpsons landed in Israel, the cartoonists snuck in a WELCOME TO ISRAEL! banner at the entry gate, and in smaller print below "Your tax dollars at work"

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:31 | 6683280 honestann
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... it has been a quarter-century since Moscow has been so interventionist outside its borders.

Did he say "interventionist"?  Seriously?

So, if some big bad bully is beating up your brothers and sisters, and they scream "help" to you... it is "interventionist" for you to help them?

Hahaha.

Sadly, I guess most folks are such weak-minded fools that these kinds of Sith Mind Tricks are often effective.

However, maybe... just maybe (but probably not)... the neo-con-jobs, predators-that-be and central banksters have proven themselves so utterly corrupt and dishonest that more than 0.1% will realize they are in fact human predators.

Nah, that's wishing too much.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 19:43 | 6683323 Bay Area Guy
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Fared, what you don't get because you're such an Obama sycophant, is that people aren't swooning over Putin. They are admiring a person who seems to be trying to do what's in the best interest of his nation. In the US, we only see "leaders" who do what's best for themselves and their party. You can't, in all seriousness, tell me that the policies of the Red and Blue teams are, in any way, in the best interest of this country.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:08 | 6683395 mendolover
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Plagiarizing lap dog. Fugly to boot.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:18 | 6683425 Grandad Grumps
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"And make no mistake, in Syria, Washington, Riyadh, and Doha did something incredibly stupid.

They financed, armed, and trained a hodgepodge of Sunni extremists in Syria in an attempt to destabilize a regime that was deemed to be unfriendly to the interests of the West and its regional allies."

Let's not forget Tel Aviv's involvement.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:18 | 6683426 besnook
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it is only a matter of time before the msm trots out the meme that support for putin is antisemitic.

 

the zionazis are clearly freaking out. if the msm acknowledges the support for putin in the usa then it is much,much bigger than even zhers can fathom. the zionazis are on the run. shoot them in the back.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:27 | 6684140 dsty
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Right

and lets not forget Russia involvement in ME terror groups since the 60's

Oh thats right, ZH is having a hard case of denial.

Hey, lets just blame Israel

pretty pat answer in the land of denial.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 02:50 | 6684194 bunnyswanson
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http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-mafia.htm

"The Miami gangster, Ludwig Fainberg, was really gloating when he explained to Friedman the difference between the Jewish situation in Russia and the American situation and what the Jewish gangsters have in mind for America. The Jews of Russia are cunning predators, he explained. That's the way they have survived the hard conditions there for centuries. But the Americans are soft and trusting, like sheep ready to be fleeced and slaughtered. American laws were made only to be broken by the Jews."

" Jewish Mafiya does not operate in a vacuum. It operates within the Jewish community as a whole. It operates with the support of the Jewish establishment, from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to Hollywood and the New York Times. It also operates with the support of the Christian establishment, from Billy Graham up to the Pope. These support groups won't put up a fuss if the FBI arrests a Jewish contract killer or a Jewish extortionist or two now and then, but any realistic effort to stamp out the whole kehillah will have all of the support groups screaming bloody murder. To use other words, what we must deal with is not a criminal problem but a Jewish problem. The problem will be solved only after this fact is generally understood. Meanwhile, the American sheep had better resign themselves to a good fleecing."

Coy ploy.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 04:42 | 6684274 dreadnaught
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They are guilty of GENOCIDE ya dimwit-but Hey "were only protecting ourselves"   ROFLBS

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:02 | 6684357 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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And America forced USSR to invade Afghanistan. The USSR would not had killed hundred of thousands of Muslim faithful in that country unless someone made them do it.

And how many Jihadist got their start during Mother Russias first,most successful, and popular war against Islam? All of them got their start in Afganistan. But Russians have no responsibility for this reaction to their invasion. 

Lets see how the second Russian War against Islam affects Allahs faithful.

Now if you a Shia its all good. Hell the Sunni have been winning so its only fair the Shia get some time on top.

But what neither Shia or Sunni understand is cannon fodder. Cannon fodder Cannon Fodder. Putin he got cannon fodder down.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:20 | 6684373 smacker
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"[...] lets not forget Russia involvement in ME terror groups since the 60's"

 

That was the Soviet Union, not Russia.

How long does it take for some people to understand that Putin is not the re-born Soviet Union and has no known desire to recreate it.

Recognising that is the huge problem that Washington and its crony allies have. It dictates their thinking out of political convenience.

Unlike our Western "leaders" who advocate accountable government, free markets, freedom & liberty before they get elected, only to abandon them once elected, Putin actually practices them in office and is working to improve the lives of Russian people. This is what differentiates Putin from the likes of Obola and Cameron, both of whom are systematically betraying the people they purport to represent.

Fareed Zakaria should reflect on this to understand why so many people in the West support Putin over their own traitorous "leaders".

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:24 | 6683451 are we there yet
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Forest Gump quote: stupid is as stupid does. Obama is a stupid excuse for a puppet even if he had been born here. It is so lame now, that Putin looks like the only adult in the room. I miss the days when the deep state and lobbiests did not elect their sock puppets.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 20:40 | 6683503 homiegot
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What do you expect from a foreigner?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 21:09 | 6683620 BendGuyhere
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Fuck you Faweed. CFR cocksucker. Take Henry Kissinger's dick out of your mouth. And John McStain's...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:01 | 6683774 KIPPY KAPPSLOCK
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Last I checked this greasy little fucking faggot has about 15 viewers. Who gives a toss what this gutter scum has to say about anything?

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 22:48 | 6683910 dreadnaught
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This FZ guy has some serious mental problems...

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 23:05 | 6683950 gfmucci1
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Fareed's perspective will always be as an advocate for Islam since he is a Islamic apologist Muslim.  I wouldn't trust what he has to say as far as I could toss him.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 00:20 | 6684075 onmail1
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CNN == CIA News Network

DW == Death Works

Total Soviet Style Propaganda

Lies & moar lies

of greedy west

 

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:24 | 6684137 dsty
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OH come on Fareed

there is no Putin worship at ZH!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 01:45 | 6684156 bunnyswanson
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Have you taken a look at comment sections in ... oh...all web sites that provide a comment section?  Either 50 thousand propagandists have been hired and are hard at work destroying the reputation of the USA or the USA has been deemed the thorn in the side of World peace.  That they accuse America for every misery in the world and wish nothing but dreadfully awful things for the country of 300 million (including refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, S. America and nearly every fucking place on the planet aside from the original settlers).

Distracting us from the REAL culprit is, of course, the goal.   MAIN FEIN MEDIA seems to do just the opposite while they attempt to substantiate why the "West" should be involved in the Middle East.   Dick Cheney, the murdering bastard who cashed in on millions of dead, including innocent people, said it himself:  "War in the middle east would lead to destabilization and havoc." 

The US is split between Pro Israel (pro monopolize and pro apartheid) and Pro americans (leave us alone so we can live). 

Main Stream Media should be taken to court for misleading a nation after mergers/acquisitions/strategic investments (designed to destroy) ended in SIX corporations owning what was once a FREE PRESS.

Same candidates in US politics as any outside would blow wide open the UNFETTERED FRAUD.

DO acting classes go with your job, Fareed?

Putin is a respected because he doesn't dance for the camera, stands by his people, not CORPORATIONS who sell out art, science, education and the environment to live in the lap of luxury..  when they should be in prison, being pounded by ugly men with a bad attitude.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 04:40 | 6684271 dreadnaught
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Israel=pro GENOCIDE-funny-they didnt learn their lesson in WW ll-so they are doomed to repeat it-and its coming

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 06:49 | 6684341 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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Lets pray that Allah and his followers do something about that.

I personally hope they all get fucking killed in the attempt.

But when god is on your side and you got a book which tells you stupid shit like killing others is the right thing and followers gleefully cause others to die it proves that most of the faithful are simply nuts.

Check out that funny little round hat bunch who claimed that god said a piece of dirt was theirs and everyone knew it was lie, to see what beliefs such as these create.

Watching Muslims act just as stupd, racist, immoral and simply non-human as those shit birds is kinda funny.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 02:22 | 6684181 J Mahoney
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Fareed Zakaria--

Dont you like non muslim leaders (Putin, not Obama) who has a favorability rating of 89% (Putin, not Obama) that has decreased the number of his people living in poverty (Putin, not Obama) that has reduced the murder rate per 100,000 statistic since he came to office (Putin, not Obama) and has made his people richer since he took office  (Putin, not Obama) and has a kick ass attitude dealing with Islamic Extremists (Putin, not Obama) and is openly supportive of gay mariage and gays leading the military (Obama, not Putin-making sure we are all careful readers)

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 03:10 | 6684203 nah
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Russia wins cold war

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 06:35 | 6684332 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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Does not count.

Unless there is a loss of a few million countrtymen as a result of listening to the Czar, Stalin, or now Putin, the citizens of Russian do not feel like they have won unless they happen to wake in a pigsty and it feels like daddy was in their ass that night. Then they feel like winners.

 

BTW only a Russian would believe the loss of significant terriority was a win. Oh thats right President for Life Putin is gonna get that shit back.

Cause you know every child in Russia learns that ISIS was responsible for WWII. And Stalin was a good man. And Putin never rapes little boys, them kids were asking for it.

As a reminder, the Russian is unique in the world. Their perspective, understanding of reality, is so unlike the rest of the world that they have sayings which unless your are Russian you cannot understand. Which might be indicative of limited language ability to most, but to the Russian this is a point pride.

Which is why they decry other nations who act based upon hydrocarbon economics as oil stealing imperialists.

When they do the same its because they other guy made me me do it.

Hydrocarbons are meaningless in Russia. We got bears and other stuff. Oil is for evil capitalist.

Hell if they had control over such an important and profitable resource such as hydrocarbons the average Russian would not feel abondoned and utterly powerless in his or her own country.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:30 | 6684383 DragonWings
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I know that war is no laughing matter, but this seems appropriate for the article:

https://www.facebook.com/71253357381/photos/a.86463527381.97072.71253357...

 

:-D

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:35 | 6684388 Last of the Mid...
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Stop swooning over putin?  Have you taken a look at the brown clown lately? It's called leadership and masculinity, even if it is our enemy. Damn how fucking stupid.

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 07:58 | 6684431 Mike Masr
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Putin is the loyal, Col. Orthodox Tsar of Russia. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria can go GFY!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 08:19 | 6684462 Nico Bellik
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liar, liar, pants on fire!

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 12:30 | 6685350 GardenWeasel
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Here's a deal - the US media stops slurpin' Obummer's sac and we stop boosting Putin. Fair enough?

Mon, 10/19/2015 - 17:38 | 6686839 monad
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Fareed Z has always been a lying POS.

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