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Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government
Post Date: 2020-01-13 07:18:42 by BTP Holdings
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Understanding Why Iranians Bash the US Government Written by Jacob G. Hornberger Wednesday February 13, 2019 Two days ago, the New York Times carried an article by Times’ journalist Thomas Erdbrink entitled, “For Iran, a Grand Occasion to Bash the US,” which was about Iran’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of its revolution in 1979. The article included the following sentence, “And like some evil doppelgänger, the United States was omnipresent, despite having broken all ties with Iran in 1981.” Unfortunately, Erdbrink failed to point out two things: One, it is understandable why the Iranian people bash the US government, and, two, while the US ...
US announces new sanctions on Iran after missile strikes
Post Date: 2020-01-13 07:04:06 by BTP Holdings
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US announces new sanctions on Iran after missile strikes January 10, 2020 1 of 3 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin brief reporters about additional sanctions placed on Iran, at the White House, Friday, Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday announced a new wave of sanctions on Iran following this week’s missile strikes by the Islamic Republic on U.S. bases in Iraq. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the new sanctions will target eight senior Iranian officials involved in “destabilizing” activities in the Middle East as well ...
Ron Paul: US Wants To "Own Iran" Like It Did When The Shah Was In Power
Post Date: 2020-01-13 01:21:21 by Horse
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We want to own Iran like we owned it when we had the Shah in power, and nobody’s going to be happy until that happens..."
Photographer Catches 'Devil Horns' Rising Off Coast of Iran
Post Date: 2020-01-12 21:30:06 by BTP Holdings
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Photographer Catches 'Devil Horns' Rising Off Coast of Iran By Jared Harris Published January 12, 2020 at 12:47am Shortly before a confrontation between the United States and Iran put the world on edge, a photographer captured a freaky sight rising above the Islamic Republic. Elias Chasiotis took photos of the eclipsed sunrise, which appeared as a giant pair of glowing red horns thanks to the lighting and angle. According to Chasiotis, the pictures were taken on Dec. 26, a little over a week before Iran would make headline news for a strike on one of its leading military commanders. From his location in Qatar, the rising partial eclipse in the east would put it near Iran, ...
Food for Thought
Post Date: 2020-01-12 13:13:23 by Horse
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"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." -- John Wesley
Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar
Post Date: 2020-01-12 11:52:10 by BTP Holdings
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Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar Written by Alex Newman Friday, 11 November 2011 It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated. Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi’s fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the ...
Macron Abandons Plan To Raise Retirement Age As Rock-Throwing Protesters Get Tear-Gassed
Post Date: 2020-01-12 09:25:47 by Horse
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A "dishonest" negotiating tactic...
How the US Runs Iraq
Post Date: 2020-01-12 08:47:15 by Ada
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What ever happened to Iraq? Is it not an independent country with a democratic government thanks to the 2003 US invasion? So says Washington. The murder of senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani suddenly shone a strobe light on ‘independent’ Iraq, and what we saw was not pretty. Welcome to the new Imperialism 101. Iraq’s population is estimated around 39 million. The pre-war Iraq of 2003 was broken into three parts by the US-British invasion: the Shia majority; Kurds in the north; and Sunnis, with scatterings of other ethnicities. Iraq remains fragmented into hostile groups. Its Shia are confusingly allied to the US and Iran. The killing of Maj. Gen. ...
"If The US Does That, It'll Lose Iraq Forever" - Trump Threatened To Cut Off Baghdad's Access To Its NY Fed Cash
Post Date: 2020-01-11 20:36:29 by Horse
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After rejecting Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's request to begin talks on the withdrawal of American troops, there are now more signs of the eroding ties between the two countries. The Wall Street Journal reports that according to Iraqi officials (yes, Iraq has anonymous sources too), the Trump administration warned Iraq this week that it risks losing access to a critical government bank account if Baghdad kicks out American forces. We are sure, to Schiff et al., that sounds a lot like 'quid pro quo', but how will they balance the need to hammer the president with their neocon/establishment desire to keep boots on the ground, whatever it takes? The warning regarding ...
[DS]/MSM Begins Projecting, Huber, Durham & Barr Prepare Facts & Evidence - Episode 2067b
Post Date: 2020-01-11 17:13:32 by BTP Holdings
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Get economic collapse news throughout the day visit x22report.com Report date: 01.10.2020 The [DS] has already started to project, the MSM is now putting out articles to control the narrative that HRC did nothing wrong, this will fail. NP decided to handover the articles of impeachment next week. The Ukraine plane crash in Iran is being looked into and Iran will not hand over the blackbox. The patriots have trapped the [DS] on all fronts the [DS] players are now in a state of emergency.
US Targeted Second Iran Commander On Day Of Soleimani Killing, Says Report
Post Date: 2020-01-11 16:18:48 by BTP Holdings
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World US Targeted Second Iran Commander On Day Of Soleimani Killing, Says Report By Unnikrishnan Nair @unnikrishnan 01/10/20 AT 5:50 PM KEY POINTS > U.S. tried to kill Abdul Reza Shahlai, a key commander an financier of the Quds Force > The strike was carried out in Yemen, said a report > Shahlai behind 2011 plot to kill Saudi ambassador to the U.S. The U.S. military tried to kill a second Iranian commander on the same night that they killed Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, a report said. The U.S. targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, a key commander an financier of the Quds Force, in Yemen, on the night of Jan. 2, the Washington Post reported quoting sources. ...
John Kerry: Diplomacy Was Working Until Trump Abandoned It
Post Date: 2020-01-11 15:22:31 by BTP Holdings
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John Kerry: Diplomacy Was Working Until Trump Abandoned It The president put us on a path toward conflict and turmoil with Iran. By John Kerry Mr. Kerry was secretary of state under President Barack Obama. Jan. 9, 2020 Credit... Al Drago for The New York Times President Trump says that on his watch, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. But if he had wanted to keep that promise, he should have left the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement in place. Instead, he pulled the United States out of the deal and pursued a reckless foreign policy that has put us on a path to armed conflict with Iran. After Mr. Trump authorized the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani last week, Iran ...
Satellite Images Reveal Damage Of Iranian Strike On Iraqi Air Base
Post Date: 2020-01-11 14:16:51 by BTP Holdings
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Satellite Images Reveal Damage Of Iranian Strike On Iraqi Air Base January 10, 2020 11:14 am > Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles Into Syria Against Terror Camps East Of Euphrates > New Russian S-500 ‘Prometheus’ To Hit Targets In Space, Claims Tech Chief National Public Radio (NPR) has published one of the first satellite images showing the damage from the Iranian missile strike at the Ain Assad Air Base located in Al Anbar Governorate of western Iraq, which hosts US and British troops. The images, taken by Planet Labs and shared with NPR via the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, show at least five sites on the base heavily damaged from the ...
Video Captures Moment Missile Strikes Boeing 737 Over Tehran
Post Date: 2020-01-11 13:57:30 by BTP Holdings
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Video Captures Moment Missile Strikes Boeing 737 Over Tehran January 10, 2020 13213 Update: The New York Times has verified the video which shows an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand, near Tehran’s airport, the area where a Ukrainian airliner stopped transmitting its signal before it crashed on Wednesday. * * * With the narrative surrounding the crashed Ukrainian Boeing 737 changing by the minute, shifting away from a initially proposed theory of a technical error and shifting toward speculation the plane was accidentally or not taken down by someone (Iranians? Israelis? CIA?) on the ground, “evidence” is suddenly starting to emerge to validate this latest ...
Tesla’s Success Is the Product of a Healthy Entrepreneurial Culture
Post Date: 2020-01-11 13:26:29 by BTP Holdings
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Tesla’s Success Is the Product of a Healthy Entrepreneurial Culture By Kevin D. Williamson January 9, 2020 1:57 PM Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk attends an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Malign Elon Musk all you want — his company’s growth reflects well on America’s business climate. A Quartz headline from 2017: “Republican’s [sic] tax reform bill is dimming the dream of electric cars for everyone.” A Reuters headline from yesterday: “Tesla’s market value eclipses GM and Ford — combined!” An exclamation point in a headline — Reuters is excited! ...
Australia echoes western leaders in alleging Iran accidentally downed Ukraine plane
Post Date: 2020-01-11 10:51:34 by BTP Holdings
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Australia echoes western leaders in alleging Iran accidentally downed Ukraine plane Ben Doherty 1 day ago Slide 4 of 50: TEHRAN, IRAN - JANUARY 10: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - "IRAN PRESS / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Head of Irans of Civil Aviation Organization Ali Abedzadeh holds a press conference on Iran plane crash in Tehran, Iran on January 10, 2020. (Photo by IRAN PRESS / HANDOUT/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) 1/50 SLIDES © Iran Press/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization Ali Abedzadeh holds a press conference on Iran plane crash in Tehran, ...
Bomb Hits Foreign Troops In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2020-01-11 09:06:02 by Horse
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Reuters has confirmed that a roadside bomb has hit a convoy of US troops on Saturday operating in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar. NATO spokesman and an Afghan government official said an assessment of the incident is underway, and there are no details on casualties. A senior Afghan military official said the Taliban have so far declared responsibility for the attack. The attack took place in the Dand District, situated in the center of Kandahar, when a device of some sort hit armored vehicles carrying US troops. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the blast killed all soldiers in one vehicle. Reuters notes that the Taliban usually inflate causality reports when ...
Iran Might Have Shot Down a Ukrainian Airliner, But Pete Buttigieg Blames America
Post Date: 2020-01-11 08:38:15 by BTP Holdings
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Iran Might Have Shot Down a Ukrainian Airliner, But Pete Buttigieg Blames America January 10, 2020 Conservative America Today We’re less than two weeks into 2020, but we already have a statement that definitively sums up the current state of the Democratic Party. There is now evidence that the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Tehran on Tuesday was shot down by a Russian-built surface-to-air missile, such as those used by Iran’s anti-aircraft system. And guess whose fault that is, according to Mayor Pete? A candidate for president of the United States just blamed the United States for Iran shooting down a commercial airliner and killing dozens of civilians. Buttigieg ...
Iran Admits That They Accidentally Shot Down the Passenger Jet!
Post Date: 2020-01-11 08:36:55 by Ada
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I definitely did not call this one correctly. Well, I did call the part where I said that it couldn’t possibly be a coincidence, and had to be related to tensions in the region, but I legitimately did not think that Iran was so incompetent that they would shoot down a passenger jet by accident. I guess props to Iran for being forthcoming in admitting the mistake. POLITICO: Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran ...
Did Pompeo Dupe Trump Into the Soleimani Hit??
Post Date: 2020-01-11 08:20:51 by Ada
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Donald Trump is under the illusion that the fracas with Iran is over. He thinks that Iran’s pinprick missile strikes on US bases in Iraq have assuaged Tehran’s thirst for revenge. But he’s wrong. The missile strikes were merely the first salvo in an epic cage match between Iran’s Axis of Resistance and its 70 year-long nemesis, the United States. As Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Wednesday, the missile attacks were not sufficient payback for the assassination of Iran’s most decorated military hero, Qassem Soleimani. They were just “a slap”, just Round One in what will surely be a long and bloody campaign aimed at driving the US out of the Middle ...
There’s No Evidence Iran Is Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of Americans
Post Date: 2020-01-11 08:01:59 by Ada
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The assertions being repeated today seem based on apparently groundless claims from twelve years ago by the same people who said Iraq possessed weapons, weapons programs, and weapons systems that were such a grave threat that they ignited the U.S.-Iraq war. The skepticism expressed by some leading Democrats and the mainstream media regarding the U.S. assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani has been refreshing, after decades of bipartisan support for disastrous U.S. policies in the region. These critiques, not unreasonably, have acknowledged Soleimani’s nefarious role in advancing Iran’s geostrategic reach in the Middle East supporting extremist militia, exacerbating ...
When did it become acceptable to kill a top leader of a country we aren’t even at war with?
Post Date: 2020-01-11 07:33:30 by Ada
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Jim Webb, a Democrat from Virginia, served in the U.S. Senate from 2007 to 2013 and was secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan from 1987 to 1988. Strongly held views are unlikely to change regarding the morality and tactical wisdom of President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani as he traveled on a road outside the Baghdad airport after having arrived on a commercial flight. But the debate regarding the long-term impact of this act on America’s place in the world, and the potential vulnerability of U.S. government officials to similar reprisals, has just begun. How did it become acceptable to assassinate one of the top military officers of ...
US Destroyer Issues 'Warning Blasts' After Russian Warship's "Aggressive Approach" In Arabian Sea
Post Date: 2020-01-10 22:59:19 by Horse
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Close call: dramatic video shows a near collision outside the Persian Gulf... Poster Comment:Just letting Americans know they are not welcome in the Persian Gulf.
Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67
Post Date: 2020-01-10 22:14:03 by Bill D Berger
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Rolling Stone – by Brian Hiatt Neil Peart, the virtuoso drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California, at age 67, according to Elliot Mintz, a family spokesperson. The cause was brain cancer, which Peart had been quietly battling for three-and-a-half years. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Peart was one of rock’s greatest drummers, with a flamboyant yet precise style that paid homage to his hero, the Who’s Keith Moon, while expanding the technical and imaginative possibilities of his instrument. He joined singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson in Rush in 1974, and his musicianship and ...
UK Outlet Runs Pictures of Grinning Bill Clinton with Sex Slave and Epstein's Pimp on 'Lolita Express'
Post Date: 2020-01-10 21:02:09 by BTP Holdings
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UK Outlet Runs Pictures of Grinning Bill Clinton with Sex Slave and Epstein's Pimp on 'Lolita Express' Volume 90% By C. Douglas Golden Published January 10, 2020 at 8:19am In the process of doing research for a 2003 piece on Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair writer Vicky Ward had two women who were willing to go on record accusing the financier of having victimized them. They weren’t printed in the eventual article because Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter either believed Epstein or didn’t feel the accusations met the magazine’s editorial standards, depending on whose account you have more faith in. Even still, the strange piece that emerged from ...
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