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Guest Post: This Is Blowback
Submitted by John Aziz of Azizonomics
This Is Blowback
The YouTube video depicting Mohammed is nothing more than the straw that broke the camel’s back. This kind of violent uprising against American power and interests in the region has been a long time in the making. It is not just the continuation of drone strikes which often kill civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan, either. Nor is it the American invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nor is it the United States and the West’s support for various deeply unpopular regimes such as the monarchies in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (and formerly Iran). Nor is it that America has long favoured Israel over the Arab states, condemning, invading and fomenting revolution in Muslim nations for the pursuit of nuclear weapons while turning a blind eye to Israel’s nuclear weapons and its continued expansion into the West Bank.
Mark LeVine, Professor of Middle Eastern history at U.C. Irvine, writes:
Americans and Europeans are no doubt looking at the protests over the “film”, recalling the even more violent protests during the Danish cartoon affair, and shaking their heads one more at the seeming irrationality and backwardness of Muslims, who would let a work of “art”, particularly one as trivial as this, drive them to mass protests and violence.
Yet Muslims in Egypt, Libya and around the world equally look at American actions, from sanctions against and then an invasion of Iraq that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and sent the country back to the Stone Age, to unflinching support for Israel and all the Arab authoritarian regimes (secular and royal alike) and drone strikes that always seem to kill unintended civilians “by mistake”, and wonder with equal bewilderment how “we” can be so barbaric and uncivilised.
All of these things (and many more) have contributed to Muslim and Arab anger toward the United States and the West. Yet the underlying fact of all of these historical threads has been the United States’ oil-driven foreign policy. Very simply, the United States has for over half a century pursued a foreign policy in the region geared toward maintaining the flow of oil out of the region at any cost — even at the cost of inflaming the irrational and psychopathic religious elements that have long existed in the region.
This is not to defend the barbaric elements who resort to violence and aggression as a means of expressing their disappointment with U.S. foreign policy. It is merely to recognise that you do not stir the hornet’s nest and then expect not to get stung.
And the sad thing is that stirring the hornet’s nest is totally avoidable. There is plenty of oil and energy capacity in the world beyond the middle east. The United States is misallocating capital by spending time, resources, energy and manpower on occupying the middle east and playing world policeman. Every dollar taken out of the economy by the IRS to be spent drone striking the middle east into the stone age is a dollar of lost productivity for the private market. It is a dollar of productivity that the market could have been spent increasing American energy capacity and energy infrastructure in the United States — whether that is in oil, natural gas, solar, wind or hydroelectric.
And this effect can spiral; every dollar spent on arming and training bin Laden and his allies to fight the Soviet Union begot many more thousands of dollars of military spending when bin Laden’s mercenaries turned their firepower onto the United States, and the United States chose to spend over ten years and counting occupying Afghanistan (rightly known as the graveyard of empires). It is likely that the current uprisings will trigger even more U.S. interventionism in the region (indeed it already has as marines have already been dispatched to Yemen) costing billions or even trillions of dollars more money (especially if an invasion of Iran is the ultimate outcome). This in turn is likely to trigger even fiercer resistance to America from the Islamist elements, and so the spiral continues on.
The only way out of this money-sucking, resource-sucking, life-sucking trap that is very literally obliterating the American empire is to swallow pride and get out of the middle east, to stop misallocating American resources and productivity on unwinnable wars.
But neither major Presidential candidate is interested in such a policy. Perhaps it is because war is a great profit source for the military-industrial complex, the force to which both the Democratic and Republican parties are beholden?
In any case, we should expect to see much more of this:
Source: Reuters
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Exactly, Muslims lookin' rather mild in comparison, eh Spitz?
Weekly Jihad Report
Jihad Attacks:Sep . 01 - Sep. 07
43
Allahu Akbars*:5
Dead Bodies:155
Critically Injured:330
*Suicide AttacksFuckin' warmongering shill.
List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 30 Days
Date Country City Killed Injured Description 2012.09.14 Thailand Pattani 1 2 Muslim 'separatists' shoot a villager in the head in front of his wife and 7-year-old daughter. 2012.09.13 Pakistan Quetta 3 4 A 2-year-old is among the casualties when Sunnis spray a car carrying Shias with automatic weapons fire. 2012.09.13 Pakistan Akkakhel 4 2 Two children are among four members of a family crushed in their own home by a Lashkar-e-Islam rocket. 2012.09.12 Somalia Mogadishu 8 10 Eight people are turned into 'pieces of meat' by a suicide bombing at a hotel. 2012.09.11 Yemen Sanaa 12 12 Twelve people bleed out in the aftermath of a suspected al-Qaeda blast. 2012.09.10 Iraq Bayaa 8 32 Eight people at a coffee shop are blown to bits by a Mujahid car bomb. 2012.09.10 Syria Aleppo 17 40 The FSA claims a bombing outside a hospital and school that leaves seventeen civilians dead. 2012.09.10 Afghanistan Kunduz 21 15 A Holy Warrior blows himself up at a demonstration, sending twenty-one other souls to Allah. 2012.09.10 Pakistan Parachinar 14 45 Sunnis murder fourteen members of the minority Shiite sect with a car bomb that rips through a packed market. 2012.09.10 Iraq Mussayib 3 2 Sunni bombers take down three Shiites near their shrine. 2012.09.10 Syria Aleppo 20 0 Video surfaces of the Salman al-Farisi members executing twenty captured prisoners in cold blood while praising Allah. 2012.09.10 India Baramulla 1 0 Islamic terrorists shoot a village head to death. 2012.09.10 Iraq Hillah 2 3 Two civilians are taken down by Jihadi bombers. 2012.09.10 Mali Gao 0 5 Five cousins have their hands and feet cut off by Islamists citing the Quran. 2012.09.09 Iraq Maysan 5 40 Five Shiites are blown to bits outside their own mosque by Sunni bombers. 2012.09.09 Iraq Baghdad 7 21 A Mujahideen bomb targeting a market seven dead bodies. 2012.09.09 Iraq Kirkuk 8 17 al-Qaeda car bombers slaughter eight oil company employees. 2012.09.09 Iraq Dujail 11 7 A Shahid suicide bomber sends seven Iraqis to Allah. 2012.09.09 Iraq Amara 16 100 Dedicated Sunni car bombers massacre sixteen Shiites outside their shrine. 2012.09.09 Iraq Kirkuk 7 70 Two Islamic Army of Iraq bombs tear apart seven people outside of a police station. 2012.09.09 Iraq Nasiriyah 2 3 Mujahideen bomb a hotel, killing at least two. 2012.09.09 Thailand Narathiwat 2 1 Two men are killed and a 9-year-old boy loses his leg to Muslim 'rebels'. 2012.09.09 Afghanistan Mula Khel 6 0 Religion of Peace extremists pull six civilians out of a vehicle and execute them. 2012.09.09 Iraq Basra 3 24 A vicious bombing along a city street kills three. 2012.09.09 Iraq uz Khormato 4 41 Four shoppers at a market are flattened by an al-Qaeda blast. 2012.09.09 Syria Homs 4 24 Sunni terrorists are suspected in a bus bombing that leaves four dead. 2012.09.09 Iraq Baghdad 5 21 A restaurant blast by the Islamic Army of Iraq kills five patrons. 2012.09.09 Iraq Baghdad 3 14 Holy warriors detonate a bomb outside a pet market, killing three people. 2012.09.09 Iraq Tal Afar 2 7 al-Qaeda bombers take down two innocents. 2012.09.09 Afghanistan Farah 1 16 A 12-year-old boy is disassembled by a Taliban bomb. 2012.09.08 Iraq Qaim 1 0 A 5-year-old girl is killed instantly by an FSA rocket. 2012.09.08 Afghanistan Kabul 6 4 Six civilians, mostly children, are torn to shreds by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 2012.09.08 Afghanistan Kajaki 5 2 Five Afghans are taken down by Taliban roadside bombers. 2012.09.08 Pakistan Shalobar 2 0 A Religion of Peace blast sends two highway patrolmen to the morque. 2012.09.07 Libya Rajma 3 3 Three people are killed when Islamic fundamentalists attempt to blow up a rival shrine. 2012.09.07 Afghanistan Kabul 0 3 Three actresses are stabbed by religious hardliners for appearing with 'immodest' outfits. 2012.09.07 Lebanon Ain al-Hilweh 1 0 Jund al-Sham terrorists are accused of assassinating a local official. 2012.09.07 Syria Damascus 5 6 Five security personnel are killed by a bomb blast as they leave a mosque. 2012.09.07 Iraq Kirkuk 9 80 Sunni bombers take out nine Shias near their mosque. 2012.09.07 Philippines Sumisip 1 35 Seven Abu Sayyaf fire into a crowd of plantation workers on their lunch break, killing one. 2012.09.07 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 A policeman investigating Sunni sectarian killings is sprayed with bullets. 2012.09.07 Lebanon Damour 1 0 A man is stabbed merely for belonging to the 'wrong' religious sect. 2012.09.06 Iraq al-Sharqat 1 1 The leader of an Iraqi anti-terror unit is killed by a bomb. 2012.09.06 Pakistan Sipah 3 8 A child is among three crushed to death by a Lashkar-e-Islam mortar shell slamming into their home. 2012.09.06 Nigeria Yobe 16 0 Boko Haram Islamists murder sixteen people in a series of attacks. 2012.09.06 Pakistan Gulistan Colony 1 0 An Ahmadi schoolteacher is gunned down in a targeted attack. 2012.09.05 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 A Shia doctor is murdered in his clinic by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 2012.09.05 Pakistan Karachi 2 0 A 75-year-old Shiite is murdered along with his 17-year-old grandson in a targeted shooting by Sunnis. 2012.09.05 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 A Shiite dentist is taken out in a Sunni drive-by. 2012.09.05 Iraq Khalis 1 8 Jihadis kill one person with a car bomb blast near a clinic. 2012.09.05 Iraq Tikrit 2 0 Two Sunnis are ambushed and killed by al-Qaeda gunmen. 2012.09.05 India Kerala 1 0 A Hindu activist dies from a stabbing attack by Muslim 'activists' at a university campus two months earlier. 2012.09.05 Ingushetia Datykh 6 1 Mujahideen ambush and kill six Russians. 2012.09.04 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 28-year-old Buddhist villager is slain by Muslim gunmen. 2012.09.04 Kenya Mombasa 2 0 Two more people are reported killed by rioters whipped into frenzy by a radical imam. 2012.09.04 Afghanistan Dor Baba 25 35 Over two dozen mourners at a funeral are blasted into bits by a Fedayeen suicide bomber. 2012.09.04 Iraq Tuz Khurmatu 6 2 Terrorists massacre six Iraqis with automatic weapons. 2012.09.04 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 Wahhabis shoot a Shia traffic cop three times in the head. 2012.09.04 Pakistan Pirabad 2 0 Sunnis shoot two Shiites to death. 2012.09.04 Iraq Fallujah 1 0 Suspected al-Qaeda members machine-gun a judge in his own home. 2012.09.04 Somalia Barawe 2 0 al-Shabaab Islamists tie two men to a pole and open up on them with automatic weapons. 2012.09.04 Iraq Kirkuk 1 0 A 16-year-old victim of 'insurgents' is found with his head, hands and feet cut off. 2012.09.04 Nigeria Gwange 4 0 Four people are shot and stabbed in their own homes by suspected Boko Haram. 2012.09.03 Nigeria New Marte 3 0 Two civilians and a cop are murdered by Boko Haram gunmen. 2012.09.03 Syria Jaramana 4 12 Sunni rebels are blamed for a car bomb blast in a residential neighborhood. 2012.09.03 Nigeria Maiduguri 2 0 A lecturer is among two people murdered by Islamist assassins. 2012.09.03 Pakistan Peshawar 2 25 Two civilians are killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a U.S. Consulate vehicle. 2012.09.02 Mali Gao 1 0 A kidnapped Algerian diplomat is executed in captivity by al-Qaeda. 2012.09.02 Pakistan Bazarak Khwar 1 4 Muslim radicals ambush a police vehicle and kill the driver. 2012.09.02 Pakistan Quetta 1 0 Another Shia minority dies from injuries suffered in a targeted attack by Sunni. 2012.09.01 Afghanistan Wardak 13 78 Twin suicide bombers incinerate over a dozen people including a child and two women. 2012.09.01 Pakistan Quetta 2 0 Two Shias walking along the side of the road are taken out by Sunnis on a motorbike. 2012.09.01 Pakistan Hazar Ganji 5 0 Sunnis pull five Shia vegetable seller off of a truck and calmly shoot them to death. 2012.09.01 Thailand Narathiwat 0 2 Muslim bombers tear off the legs of two plantation workers. 2012.09.01 Syria Deir al-Zour 1 2 A Shahid suicide bomber takes out one other person. 2012.09.01 Syria Damascus 15 3 A Sunni group is blamed for a car bomb attack near a rival mosque. 2012.09.01 Iraq Basra 1 1 Knife-wielding 'insurgents' stab a judge to death in this home. 2012.09.01 Iraq Baghdad 2 11 Terrorists set off a bomb outside a coffee shop, killing two patrons. 2012.09.01 Pakistan Quetta 2 10 Two demonstraters are killed when Sunnis fire on Shias protesting an earlier murder.But, but, but, don't say anything bad about Islam. That would be disrespectful.
To be honest, these are mostly vile crimes and murders with some terrorist acts.
In the US there are approximayely 20,000 murders /year.
I want you to start listing and briefly describing each one in the past month, I bet you'd have more pages than this list you just published.
those 1500* murders in the US are just as vile against men, women and children.
When you're done, list all the violent crimes in the US that resulted in injuries and assaults to people.
Get real!!
Hey dummy. You are comparing apples to corkscrews. The murders listed here are specifically due to ISLAM. Are you really that fucking stupid?
Hey retard, I am not religious at all, I don't give a fuck about religions but a murder is a murder, I don't care why that happened.
You dont have to be religious to see that a religion is causing the murder of thousands and thousands of people. So you are either stupid or a coward that won't call a spade a spade.
Fucktard
All of the other murders you are talking about still happen IN THESE COUNTRIES TOO. So the ISLAM specific murders are in addition to all the other murders that happenen as a result of crime and or non religious issues.
Okay, Spitzer-genius, what do you want to do about it? In what way would you take action that preserves our liberties and natural rights (if we still had them)?
Spitzer, the AIPAC volutary/clerk proposes, a.o.
- to gear up for a final battle against the enemies of democracy, freedom, Monsanto, Halliburton, Carlyle
- to follow the hollow "clash of civilization" propaganda
- to unconditionally support Israels radicals in their strive for a spiritually purifying nuclear world war
- to rehabilitate the neocons and see the positive aspects of a strategy of a sustained global destabilization
- to forget that it was safer to stroll any area in Bagdad or Damascus than any place in Detroit (e.g.) before we liberated them
- to ignore that the US in collaboration with the Saudis created Al-Quaida and the scale of islamist radicalism
- accept that the NSA is a benevolent organization caring for US citizens and non-US citizens alike
- to bomb Iran and Syria
- to declare Russia and China eternal enemies
- to enjoy CNN and its state sponsored news as information
- to regard it as a sign of superiority of our nation that 8 in 10 americans believe that angels are real
It was indeed written by a Muslim apologist. A YouTube video had noting to do with the attacks on our embassies. Islam demands that "infidels either submit to Islam, pay a tax, or die. The silly video was used as both a pretext for an attack as well as training for the west to say NOTHING against islam. This M.O will be used again and again to attack our Freedom of speech which the Muslim world despises and the U.N will eventually attempt to outlaw speech against islam thinking it can appease the Muslim world.
For those that say Islam deserves respect, I would ask why. Is it the fact that they compel others to submit to their religion under threat of death? Maybe its the how they treat women. I mean really who wouldn't stone a women to death that leaves her house without a burka or the company of a male relative. Maybe its how they treat the gay community (death). Maybe its their rationality; a Youtube video is a perfect reason to riot, destroy and embassy and sodomize a diplomat before you kill him. Maybe Islam deserves respect for the many creative ways they kill innocent people. Shoe bombs, underwear bombs, children suicide bombers. What a fantastic religion. Sign me up.
Fact is...some cultures are better than others. Cultures that promote freedom, education and personal responsibility (like immigrant asians) do well in bettering their standard of living. Other cultures like the "hip hop" culture are mired in economic disress. Those are two examples within America. Even easier to see is the difference between the values of America and the results it produces and the results Islamic values produce. Seems to me that those in the islamic world live in poverty because of their values and we are the richest most successful country in the history of the world becuase of our constitution and the freedoms it provides, or used to provide.
Only reason we are involved with these people at this point is the Petrodollar agreements.
We get involved over there cause we get barrels of oil for literally nothing (fiat paper).
Should have never been done. If they wanted to wipe each other out...or just sit in the desert and do nothing, that would have been fine.
We have had all the alternative methods to power our industries suppressed.
And we have wasted more resources than we should have.
The blame squarely goes to the people responsible for those last two items.
The government/industrial complex.
And the appeasement/ censorship begins!!!!!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-admin-asking-youtube-to-review-ant...
Extremists most definitely are bad.
What fuels extremism?
I count myself as a radical moderate extremist. Any of you bitchezz who are not dead-centre on the political spectrum are my sworn enemies. You're just lucky the only blood-curdling Jihad-cry we Canucks have is: "He shoots, he scooooores!!!"
Poor, honest and so hard done by Bettman and that commie NHPLA sorted their shit out then?
I thought this is what a 'blood-curdling' Canucker sounded like when he cries, no?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQDTMROL_vg
Go Hawks!!
"Islamists, islamic terrorists, muslism hijackers, muslim extremists..."
But somehow you chose to ignore that they lack the power of the Fed to monetize debt and bring peace and democracy to countries around the world like no tomorrow.
Wars cost 300,000 lives, $4 trillion: report"A report released by Brown University in conjunction with the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks has pegged the cost of the ensuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan at more than 300,000 lives lost and $4 trillion spent"
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-09-11/general/33751166_1_wars-terro...
The fact that [radical] Islam been getting pumped up to a status of a "new Hitler" is pretty obvious. It's on for years already, MSM keeps building that tension 24/7. So you sound like a zionist parrot, Spitz. That's too bad.
And I don't like either Obama or Islam, so you've got nothing on me, haha!
And who taught them extreme islam? Ah yes, the US government and our friends Saudi Arabia.
Get fucking real.
How to stop islamic extremism : CLOSE THE FUCKING RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDDLE-EAST.
"...But let's remember: the people we fight today we funded 20 years ago"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw
"...The United States had ... to be fair we created the problem we are now fighting"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97JapLe5nw&feature=related
The stuff you've got in MENA region right now is the consequence of the certain foreign policy actions. Like supporting islamists in Libya and helping them topple Gaddafi. So lolmao got it right - how can one scream from the top of their lungs WOLF! ISLAMISTS!! when you hang around with Qatars and Saudi Arabias of the world and keep funding terrorist crap around the world that strikes back on you eventually, huh?
You don't know your history my friend. The Barbary Pirates (they were Muslim) were asked why they attack us. Their response was because we are commanded to do so by the Koran.
To them we are infidels and infidels must either submit, pay at tax, or die.
They can't be appeased.
Really?
For starters - like I said "I don't like either Obama or Islam, so you've got nothing on me, haha!"
And talking about history, would you be so kind and tell me about native people - in both Americas?
They were "infidels" and pagans to the Christians who came from Europe, right? And those Christians couldn't be appeased, they wanted native folks to submit, die off or just GTFO off the land they set foot on.
From craddle to graveyard double standards all the way.
The world population was a fraction of what it is today and the Spanish Inquisition didn't have explosives to blow anything up.
That comparison fails. As for the rest. Why bother. The propaganda doesn't care to explain what this "crisis" is about anyway.
It doesn't fail at all you moron.
One human = One human when considering massacres and murders.
Here's a comparison that gets the point across:
1 US nuke killed more civilians in the blink of an eye than any Islamist suicide bomber or terrorist in the last century.
Your "massacre and murder" is their war and vice versa our "war" is their massacre and murder.
The motive for 9-11 “was to sway American sentiment toward Israel and away from Israel’s enemies – the Muslims, the Arabs and the Palestinians.”
The article Inside Job, a review of Christopher Bollyn’s book, "Solving 9-11, The Deception that Changed the World,” continues:
“The Likud party, which is an offshoot of the Irgun and Stern gangs that massacred the Palestinians on dozens of occasions since 1947, was the ‘antagonistic element opposed to any agreement that would allow the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state.’ Ariel Sharon, a prominent Likud-nik, was elected prime minister in February 2001 and ‘was committed to the rejection of the Oslo peace agreement.’ …
“The determination of these Likudniks was revealed ‘on March 28, 2001, at the Arab League meeting in Beirut, where twenty-two nations endorsed a resolution introduced by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. It offered Israel normal relations with all Arab states if Israel complied with UN Resolutions 194 and 242’ the latter requiring Israel to withdraw its armed forces from its illegally occupied territories, including the Golan Heights, Gaza, the Sinai, and the West Bank, including Jerusalem…
“[T]he next day, a massive Israeli military force surrounded and destroyed Yasir Arafat’s compound in Ramallah…
“As Bollyn sees it, ‘Israel is a nation which was founded by terrorists, ruthless men with histories of committing genocidal crimes and false-flag terror attacks. Israel was created in 1948 in Palestine on land that was “ethnically cleansed” of its indigenous Christian and Muslim inhabitants.’”
How many kids they've murdered,/
only God can say.
If I had a rocket launcher,
I'd make somebody pay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w
Hitler was christian-ish. its in mein kampf.
Hitler and his folks were just what they acted like--satanists--why do you think Rothschilds financed them? Duh.
http://stargods.org/Nazis_and_the_Occult.html
http://www.illuminati-news.com/hitler-occult.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3014581497309209211
While this is logically and certainly blowback for past misdeeds and support of the oligarchs and dictators, make no mistake that much of this is also financed and coordinated by Saudi Arabia, who works to forestall the possibility of any democracy sprouting up around them.
Still think it a coincidence that 15 of those 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis, with the others never being adequately identified?
Any religious cunt that needs to burn shit down because their imaginary friend got insulted, is fucked. Fucked fucked fucked. Allah snackbar
Have you got white knuckles yet clinging to your gun and Bible?
Are you actually as big a dick as you sound like you are?
When it comes to sacred cows, probably.
That reply came very easy... like your mum.
We're having a tangential conversation about divisive religious bigotry and this is your retort?
There are no conversations here. Bully pulpits dominate.
Do you feel good?
Oh, I have my sacred cows... make no mistake about that.
Anything you touch my sacred cows with, you will lose.
Another bullshit coming from fucking Azizoid. By the way, congratulations on your recommendation for selling Australian Dollar and Australian mining stocks. They are going through the roof as we speak. Mitt Romney has a credible energy independence program for America. This fucking loser, Azizoid, ignores this fact.
Mitt Romney has a credible.................i stopped reading your post at credible...............
Sure, he has. You, motherfuckers, will reelect Obama and will enjoy all consequences of Marxist State that you fully deserve.
I will leave the country and enjoy my retirement in Thailand.
You sound like the kinda guy who would love Thailand.
Well when it works it is great. When it doesn't............
You end up naked hanging in a closet with your junk in your hand.
pods
Not forgetting the gagball.
Why don't you move to Utah?
Utah is hetero. They frown on mutiple brother-wives.
Thailand, on the other hand...
well that escalated quickly
By the way, congratulations on your recommendation for selling Australian Dollar and Australian mining stocks. They are going through the roof as we speak.
Long-term call, not a trading recommendation for daytraders on margin.
You are stupid, ignorant, antisemitic loser. What is the "point" in your "long-term" recommendation? What long term? In the long term Australia is a very good bet.
You are trying too hard, and failing.
Iron ore bubble and Australian housing bubble. The next 5-10 years will bring plenty of pain to Australia. Currency is very overvalued. But feel free to disbelieve me. That's your choice.
By the way, I challenge you to find one single anti-semitic comment I have ever made.
Your Australia must be on a different Planet to the one I'm living on!
High AU$ crushing what's left of their Manufacturing Industries,
End of the Iron Ore bubble and pain therefrom (or haven't you noticed the "problems" with Fortescue Metals????)
State level cutbacks on employment - not 1000's but 10,000's of well paid Civil Service / Healthcare / Educations jobs going,
Resource buyers (i.e. China) with massive inventory, and scaling back on purchases / renegotiating contracts downward in volume and price.
Yeah, Aussie is DEFINITELY a GOOD BET . . . . . . .
You forgot the ruinous level of state debt in Queensland and New South Wales and the apparent inability to balance a budget and cut programs and whole departments and agencies that never should have existed in the first place.
But Australia is good bet longer-term, but who invests longer term these days, except miners, primary producers and PM buyers?
Mitt Ro-money has magic underwear.
I was in North Carolina reading the paper in the backyard with the guy that lives next door to us and it was the day, the news first broke from Iraq of this united Sunni and Shia joint uprising against the US-led occupation. Same day there was news of an African Union declaration condemning US foreign policy. And the guy next door said to me: "I will tell you this much about the United States we are sure bringing about world unity, cause the one thing that unites the entire planet: hatred of us. It is like you all became one big nation called the rest of the world. "
I said to him: "Well we actually did. In fact we’ve even got our own flag". He went: "Oh yeah what is it?" I said : "Same as yours but on fire".
- Robert Newman
great comment imo
Yeah, let's all just stick our headz in the sand and pretend it's just a big coincidence this rioting was triggered on 9/11. Fuck that. Heres the facts: Islam is an imperialist religion. They use these temper tantrums to hold the Western world hostage. Today its a video on YouTube. Tomorrow it will be because of a post on ZH. Its our rights they can't stand. And we will be increasingly beholden to them as they colonize the West. Wake up people.
From what I've read, there was war, torture, hatred, and oppression even before Islam EXISTED. Come to think of it, Islam wasn't a factor in either of our two "World Wars" so far.
How could this be, if they're the badguys and the rest of us are so great?
Declare an end to war operations and publically express the will of people, every country bring all their troops and military gear home. Put a moritorium on military spending. End foriegn aid immediately. Time to retrench and stop this fucking bullshit
They got the Col ... Damn those bastards to hell!!
This is why they went after the KFC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveBzGMD6zw&feature=fvst
Day b illin'...
~~~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbwlID1wRA
(just mindin my bidnez eatin food & finger likkin')
screw KFC, they burned the hardees....!
These animals need to be put down with extreme prejudice.
Drop a few daisy cutters on those mobs and see how quickly they bounce back.
You're like the child playing chess who starts indiscriminately taking pawns with his queen after the first couple moves
The Fed posts were yesterday. You're in the wrong thread.
How about "We" try this on "You" and see how quickly YOU "bounce back"?
Sounds like a cool Clinical Trial - equal number / yield thermobaric devices, similar population densities, results measured by degree of Internet blogosphere whingeing.
I'm safely betting the US will be up there first - after all you all still bleat on about "9/11" - which (if it WAS an externally organised "Terrorist action", a concept that now seems to be not so certain at all) was simply the start of "justified retribution" from everywere else you have sown the seeds of civil unrest for purely US financial and / or political gain.
There are PLENTY of "Other Countries" that have experienced US funded / condoned "terrorism", and the body count worldwide entirely due to American interventionalism, is far higher than YOUR isolated event.
If you CHOOSE to "do bad things to others", you must expect "others" to do "bad things to you too!"
The shady nature of the Muhammad video and the professionalism of the attack make me think there's much more to this story than an angry mob of religious extremists
From two Asia Times articles:
"It had both indirect and direct fire, and it had military maneuvers that were all part of this very organized attack. The British think-tank Quilliam reports that the assault consisted of two waves and was carried out by around 20 militants seeking to avenge the death of al-Qaeda's second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was assassinated in June. 24 hours before this attack, none other than the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a video on Jihadist forums to mark the anniversary of 9/11," writes Quilliam. "In this video, Zawahiri acknowledged the death of his second in command Abu Yahya and urged Libyans to avenge his killing."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NI15Ak01.html
Good summary by Pepe Escobar
Brindle702, thanks for the links to the Asia Times articles.
The RPGs are not typical of spontaneous demonstrations. Additionally, this was a coordinated two-pronged attack, as the safe house that Americans from the consulate building were taken to after the initial attack was subsequently attacked in the same coordinated manner. More here:
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/09/13/al-qaeda-and-possibly-infiltrators-in...
Thank you. Great link.
Always be asking: Cui Bono?
Quote:
Perhaps the single greatest beneficiary of the affair was the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. What better illustration of Assad's argument that he is fighting "terrorists" than this dramatic reverse in Libya, which many foreigners analysts had seen as a success story to be repeated in his country? While no evidence currently links the Syrian government to either the movie or the embassy attack, the motive is certainly in place. The argument for an international intervention against Assad just suffered a body blow.
Article:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NI14Ak03.html
Author: Victor Kotsev
It cannot be discounted that a "jewish property developer" put this out. WTF? Yep, he took it upon himself to single handedly take down Islam. You know, the truth and all. Except for not being truthful about who he really is.
Smells way fishy.
And it just so happens that this red meat bloodshed will enflame everyone while nobody ponders why the FED is backstopping holders of MBSs with fresh cash.
Always watch the other hand while the magician does his thing.
Maybe this was organic, but there sure as hell has been enough bottled up rage in the ME from 50+ years of forcing FRNs in the pockets of the ruling oligarchy while the others starve and see their oil sucked dry.
Nevermind anyone that thinks about taking anything other than FRNs for their oil is quickly made room temp.
pods
The Danish cartoon angle was probably authentic. This "movie" angle is so pathetically constructed it's like Bernanke dreamed it up. American "Pravda" MSM is reporting the angle on all channels. Wondering if Americans are still stupid enough to swallow the propaganda lies hook, line and sinker or if more and more Americans are finally getting the idea that they too are just being had like the Russians were all those years by the lies of their government.
If I remember correctly, the Danish cartoon anger took about a year or atleast few months to blow over. It was more like a test case.
Our policy may be misaligned but its one place we better have some hard ass US cops because money and oil = nuclear.
The "Religion of Peace" strikes again.
Hard to be "special friends" with the Arabs, while arming the Zionists to the teeth.
Even the sheep stealers can see through that.
Who the fuck wants to be friends with a bunch of goat hearding murderers.
US bankers and CIA?
I think there are some Muslims asking the same question about Westerners.
Someone with an empty gastank?
A friend in need . . . .
Therefore, were your view pulled inside out, the following would be true by your thinking:
Easier to be special friends with the Arabs while the US weakens Israel.
You actually believe this, which is the real trick. I would say you're stupid but I think it fair to say that you can't see past your own jack boots.
so mossad makes a video to stir up anti-American reaction for MSM so Isreal can have Iran resurfaced by the American military; what's their plan B if this does not work out
I tried to sit through a couple clips of what was on youtube and between the laughably bad highschool-students-in-a-basement production quality and unintelligible dialogue, it was tough to tell what was even going on. I would think if it were a mossad operation they would have been much clearer and more insulting.
it supposedly cost 5 million, not sure what they spent it on, re-dubbed it according to the actors/waiters. Maybe Iran did it to stir up anti-American sentiment. At least the US has the biggest cunt in the world on it, sorry Janet N - your not is Hillary's league
edit: there is a link further down about the real producer (not a joo) of that movie. The cost was reportedly ~ $250K
They should have commissioned the team that produced "Monsters" on a truly TINY budget, or maybe Neil Blomkamp (District 9) - at least the cinematography might have been worthwhile.
As it is (and allowing for the usually poor Youtube quality anyhow), the clip easily transcends the worst of the worst "B Movie" productions - maybe this should be C Movie (or better still "Junk Bond status Movie"??)
" there is a link further down about the real producer (not a joo) of that movie. The cost was reportedly ~ $250K"
I hope they spent it on great catering, because the acting sucked.
Wasn't the Mossad. Coptic Christian of all things. Who would have thunk? And yes, it is so bad that it makes Gilligan's Island shows look like "Citizen Cane" by comparison. Were some American intent on constantly forcing these bat-shit crazy lunatics in downtown Muslim cities into the streets foaming mad at the mouth and torching their own cities.....the US wouldn't have to land soldiers to take over the country: their own people would do the burning and killing for them. I mean, if I was really a sick and twisted troll I'd encourage regular Koran burning by some crack pot Baptist preacher somewhere down south.....and just watch the firecrackers go off in the distance. Boom goes Kabul, boom goes Cairo.....boom goes Islamabad......boom.....can't stop the booming....
Nope, not Mossad this time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9544253/Film-maker-behind-anti-Muslim-video-could-be-sent-back-to-jail.html
his picture bears an uncanny resemblance to Tricky Dick - *flashbacks*
thanks for the clickbait, dude sounds like a real opportunist tool. . .
Coming soon to every western city, well as soon as the EBT cards and ithings stop working anyway. Hedge accordingly.
So what are you worried about?
Got Milk?;)
In fact I do have some goats, and milk, and eggs, and soybeans, and cotton...
thought so. My eldest son convinced me of the need for a re-loading facility. Don't know who raised that kid;)
Personally, I don't think this wish of yours is going to come true--at least not anytime soon.
If something goes wrong with our "dollar distribution system," it'll be most riki-tik that gummit will be distributing supplies to those urban hordes you hate so much.
I'm sure it'll piss you off to no end to see all those fuckers getting free food delivered while the rural types are left to fend for themselves.
Brace for impact when world-views collide. It could get messy.
Wait a minute, wait a minute...doesn't Obama just have to call Nasa to cash in on all that goodwill and this mess is over?
Shit. Forgot all about that NASA reassignment...
just buy the new iphone and keep playing around with your apps, this way none of this will bother you
Where the fuck is this movie? I want to see now, with such a promotional campaign, wtf is this all about? Anyone has a clue?
Has this film ever really existed? Wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM
I saw it, it had a budget of $10 and a 6 pack of beer :)
Dont know what these fucking animals are so angry about
LOL
Saw it? I thought you wrote it.
YAWN,
Anything good on American TV tonight?
We obviously didnt apologize good enough.
What "unwinnable wars" are you referring to? These are peace keeping missions of goodwill. It's all part of being a good neighbor. These stupid fuckers need to wake up and smell the freedom, I mean good grief, look at how much we Americans sacrifice in order to free the shit out of them year after year after decade...........
Catching a little " faux pas News". How can Alan Combs, (Christopher Walkens) older brother/look alike, compare the Iran crisis to this event?
That was an Isolated event! This is an "Arab World" clusterfuck!
Somehow I don't think leaving north Africa and the Middle East rot away without our help will prevent these primitives from going apeshit every time someone offends their peace-loving perfectly reasonable prophet. They also terrorize among the various different Islamic factions within their own ranks after all, and they're not particularly friendly to e.g. the Christian minorities living next to them either.
Times like this I always feel sad for humanity, 2 million years of evolution and we're still stuck with violent religious zealots that seem to have missed everything about civilization and rationality. I dont't have a single good thing to say about it. My antitheism got a little stronger yet again.
With 'Americans' as a teachers, the sadness is ensured to last...
All those guys have a number of tricks to learn from 'Americans'...
Shut up and "build me a Toaster"!
here's your toaster dude:
http://rt.com/news/weapon-us-microwave-cannon-363/
Aluminium foil is an effective reflector of microwaves . . . . .
$120 million to produce, $10 (roll of Alcan foil) to counteract.
Power microwave amplifiers are particularly sensitive to SWR, so even a small proportion of the radiated energy returned to the source will lead to immediate thermal problems (and rapid failure).
Seems a "man sized thin flat aluminium sheet reflector" would be quite the effective countermeasure . . . . . .
Or knowing the wavelength, use the old WW2 strategy of "Foil Window"
Wonder what's their next "anti-crowd" superweapon??
nice to know my aluminium foil headdress will be effective ^^
as to next on their list of crowd control, let's see, they've used water (cannons), noise machines, bean bag guns, tasers, tanks, tear gas & pepper spray, and a quick wiki finds these,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_control#Research
no mention of tee vee or i-distractors. . . which control crowds more effectively than anything else I've witnessed. . .
Aluminium foil is an effective reflector of microwaves . . . . .
Not really, no. You have heard of RADIO, right?
The end of this video really needs some explanation, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWQJScA6Utc
Let's keep things separated ok? At least going for world domination, trying to control all resources, and enslaving your own people to protect the petrodollar complex makes sense at some level, if you're part of the happy few. Religious zealotry like this defies all forms of rationality.
Every been south of I-80 buddy? There's a huge cross waiting for you on I-76 'round Nashville. White Christians burning "Black churches"....that's logical ain't it?
What makes you think a have any kind of sympathy for other examples of religious zealotry?
Believing that you are one of the happy few who is protected by the petrodollar standard is an incredible leap of faith. On must be a religious zealot to believe that America has a right and a duty to destroy the lives of people all over the world in order to maintain a porcine standard of living.
It has less to do with religious zealotry than abject poverty and the fact that most of the people of MENA have lived under brutal tyrants for the last 75+ years. Plus it's hot, there isn't clean water, and food prices have been constantly on the increase since the chairsatan began QEing the world in the ass.
AnAnonymous wrote
"With 'Americans' as a teachers, the sadness is ensured to last...
All those guys have a number of tricks to learn from 'Americans'..."
Like a turd that just won't flush....
the United States has for over half a century pursued a foreign policy in the region geared toward maintaining the flow of oil out of the region at any cost...
This is such a pile of fraudulant propaganda! If the USSA stayed out of other countries and out of the business of others, every country that produces oil would be happy to sell their oil to the USSA at the same price as everyone else. This is nothing about being able to get oil, this is about the military industrial complex and large corporations bribing the US government to force those countries to permit western corporations to dominate drilling and other production.
Well if I were Aziz I would say that our foreign policy has been to maintain oil being priced in $, not flow.
I don't think I would go so far as to call it propaganda.
And if we did try to buy oil on an even footing with all these countries, our $$ policy might not be quite so inflationary, causing a bit of a problem with deficits at home.
Much easier if you may simply state that you poor Sandies will accept $$ for your oil and like it, from the deck of an aircraft carrier.
The fact the multinationals get the contracts is just gravy.
Dollar Hegemony is the game.
pods
I agree....
I was talking about "maintaining the flow of oil" (and implicitly the dollar-denomination) in terms of a policy objective.
It's a bullshit policy objective that actually causes the price of oil to rise (as we saw post-Iraq) and will ultimately hasten the end of the dollar's reign as reserve currency, but this is how the neocons see it. Sorry I wasn't clearer.
I got your point, and especially the any price part of it. I mean, when you print the currency, price matters little.
As long as your currency is accepted, and the commodity is priced in it, you are doing good. Big market for oil, all the better for demand for USDs, and lookee here, we have plenty of those going around.
I could see how someone could jump on it, but I did not take it that way at all.
pods
You have two choices. You can take dollars or you can take lead, tungsten, and depleted uranium.
I hear the new buzzword in the agency is "Kinetic Diplomacy."
pods
tungsten? so the mint is offering bribes in fake gold?
Kinetic bribes, you might say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_penetrator
Oil is fungible.
Currencies are fungible.
Even if a few places wouldn't sell directly to the USSA, most others would. And honestly, nobody gives a flying peanut shell whether they are paid in dollars, euros or pesos, because 10 minutes after the check clears they can convert to any currency they want... or if they have half a brain, to gold, silver, food, guns, ammo, etc.
And make no mistake, lots of neo-con-jobs imply, or claim outright, that we need to invade countries to have access to oil. That's a pure lie (propaganda). If the USSA removed all their military bases from around the world, and stopped killing and jerking people around, they would have just as much access to oil as they do now.
The truth is the neo-con-jobs, and the neo-libs too, don't want access to the foreign oil so much as they want control over the oil, ergo the need to invade. They definitely do not want someone that is not in their tribe selling oil too cheap and banking the money, especially if the money is in gold. This is the real reason Iran must be invaded. The nuclear bullshit is just the red herring excuse.
Big Oil does not want cheap energy. Big oil is largely Zionist controlled. That's where the money is.
Which is why Vacuum energy / Zero-Point energy gets NO funding, and researchers in this field are consistently denigrated as "whackos" and "Fringe" by the MSM (who know where THEIR secure funding comes from!).
ANY sign of "Free" energy on the horizon, and "Big Energy" gets quite upset - and we all know what happens when "those with influence" get upset.
If they''ll send me a couple of $100k a year I'll promise to donate my perpetual motion machine for the benefit of mankind.
Who needs zero-point energy? The earth is a freaking ball of super-hot magma with an extremely thin crust on top. There is plenty of energy available with existing proven technologies given investment of a small fraction of the price of a war like Iraq or Afganistan.
Ann, what all did JP Morgan hide that Tesla devised?
I don't remember off hand. Also, I never researched the story personally (for lack of time), so I wouldn't dare pretend to know whether there was anything to it or not.
Something even more cheap & viable: thorium reactors. The chinese are working hard to bring those bad boys online.
It has something to do w/it, Pods, sure, as a step. What about installing Rothschild central banks? What about having war just to have war, moving toward the NWO? What about the lost liberties here at home?
Lots of motives, more I'm missing, I'm sure.
They wouldn't sell their oil in USD.
No involvement, No oil in USD, no Bernanke promising Unicorns (and ponies).
Absolutely, positively.
Its about jobs.
i would bet that there isnt a 'movie'...the 13min youtube video is the whole thing. something about this really stinks...
Er, Muslims have been doing this to Americans since Thomas Jefferson was president and we had our first 'War on Terror'. It has nothing to do with drones or the US. It is how Muslims behave towards outsiders and in their own societies. The only thing that has really changed since the Barbary pirates is Muslims have more powerful explosives today than then.
Learn a lesson from the founders:
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbar, 1797
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.