What the hell?? Qatar dustup. Now, Saudi Game of Thrones "red wedding", and that little shit Jared Kushner

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SIGNYM

Monday, June 5, 2017 11:56 AM

Qatar is ISIS' main funding source, in competition with Saudi Arabia's al Qaeda.

But for some strange reason....

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, & Bahrain Cut Diplomatic Ties, Shut All Borders With Qatar

Just days after president Trump left the region, a geopolitical earthquake is taking place in the Middle East tonight as the rift between Qatar and other members of the (likely extinct) Gulf Cooperation Council explodes with Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt cutting all diplomatic ties with Qatar accusing it of "speading chaos," by funding terrorism and supporting Iran.

The dispute between Qatar and the Gulf's Arab countries started over a purported hack of Qatar's state-run news agency. It has spiraled since, and appears to be climaxing now... just days after President Trump left the region.

As Al Arabiya reports, Bahrain has announced it is cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar, according to a statement carried on Bahrain News Agency.

The statement on Monday morning said Bahrain decided to sever ties with its neighbor “on the insistence of the State of Qatar to continue destabilizing the security and stability of the Kingdom of Bahrain and to intervene in its affairs”.

The statement also said Qatar’s incitement of the media and supporting of terrorist activities and financing groups linked to Iran were reasons behind the decision.

“(Qatar has) spread chaos in Bahrain in flagrant violation of all agreements and covenants and principles of international law Without regard to values, law or morals or consideration of the principles of good neighborliness or commitment to the constants of Gulf relations and the denial of all previous commitments,” the statement read.

Qatari citizens have 14 days to leave Bahraini territories while Qatari diplomats were given 48 hours to leave the country after being expelled. Meanwhile, Bahrain has also banned all of its citizens from visiting or residing in Qatar after the severance of ties.

Additionally, Bahrain has has closed both air and sea borders with Qatar.

Saudi Arabia then confirmed the same - cutting ties and shutting down all sea, airspace, and land crossings with Qatar as well as dissolving Qatar's role in the Saudi-led coalition fighting against Yemen. Emirates, Etihad, Saudia, Gulf Air, and Egypt Air are no longer allowed to fly to Qatar and Saudi Arabia is providinhg facilities, services to Qatari pilgrims

Egypt then followed, confirming it was cutting diplomatic ties with

Then UAE confirmed it would cut ties, shut down all sky, water, and land crossings, and expel all Qataris within 48 hours.

The Maldives also just cut diplomatic ties with Qatar.

All of this happens within 24 hours of Iran calling out 'The West' for ignoring the real sponsors of terrorism around the world and UK's Labor party leader outright name-shaming Sauid Arabia's funding of terrorism.

Qatari officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As a reminder, documents obtained by Middle East Eye show strategic alliance includes pledge by Ankara to protect Gulf state from external threats...

In December 2015, Turkey announced, to the surprise of many, that it planned to establish a military base in Qatar. Behind the scenes, the agreement was about forming a major strategic alliance.

After a 100-year hiatus, Turkey is militarily back in the Gulf and ramping up its presence overseas. In January, Ankara announced that it would also establish a military base in Somalia.

Specific details about the Qatar agreement, which Turkey described as an alliance in the face of "common enemies", remain scant, but Middle East Eye has acquired copies of the agreements, as well as further details, which include a secret pledge by Ankara to protect Qatar from external threats.

Did Qatar just get scapegoated in the 'war on terror'? One thing seems clear, support for a Syrian gas pipeline will be dwindling and with it the need for a Syrian war.

Notably, this ra

SIGNYM

Monday, June 5, 2017 10:23 PM

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Saudi Arabia, which has played a greater role than Qatar in spreading the extremist ideology that terrorism feeds upon, is accusing Doha of harboring terrorism: that is the result of double standards we live with, political analysts told RT.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the UAE, and Yemen have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar while Saudi Arabia and Bahrain also closed their borders with the country. The five Arab nations accuse Doha of supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal affairs of Arab states.

RT asked Middle East analyst, Marwa Osman what is behind these accusations and why are they surfacing now.

“They started surfacing, to begin with, in 2011… But I think people who are harboring terrorism are now accusing other people who are also harboring terrorism of harboring terrorism. That should be a punch line of a very serious joke, but it is not. It is very risky, challenging for the entire region. We started feeling the heat between Qatar and Saudi Arabia three month ago when the affiliates that are being funded by both states started bickering and fighting each other in Syria.

ISIS and its offshoots versus al Qaeda and its offshoots, currently Jbhat al Nusra, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or whatever the f>ck they're calling themselves now ...

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That was the first mark that started a war of words between them which concluded in what happened today. But they surfaced at the beginning of the so-called Arab uprisings, and Arab Spring in 2011, that had a historical background. It did show that they challenged one another since the 2011 uprisings to take control of the MENA region – who funds which group in which state starting from Tunisia ending up in Syria passing through Libya, obviously.

The competition in terms of who could send more planeloads of arms (through Turkish airports) to jihadists in Libya

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But it all started in the 1950’s. The main bickering of Saudi Arabia and Qatar started with the Saudi support for the Muslim Brotherhood and started from the Gulf War being enemies,” she said.

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly been accused of sponsoring terrorism alongside Qatar. WikiLeaks leaked Clinton's 2014 email where she says both Qatar and Saudi Arabia support ISIS.

Hmmm... my impression is that al Qaeda is a Saudi Project and ISIS is a Qatari project. Maybe not so cleanly divided.

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RT asked Osman whether this current dispute is a bid to shift the focus to Doha.

“Yes, but to back this with more evidence, you could look at the terrorism report that was banned from being released in the UK just yesterday because it spoke directly against Saudi Arabia and pinpointed Saudi Arabia to be a funding and supporting force for terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere. That is one piece of the evidence. Yes, they are trying to pinpoint Qatar for being the sole terrorist harboring nation in the Middle East, but that is not true,” she said.

Ali Rizk, Middle East affairs expert, described the current dispute as an example of double standards.

“Saudi Arabia, way more than Qatar, has played in propagating and spreading the extremist ideology which terrorism feeds upon,” he told RT. “It’s been documented time and again that it’s Saudi Arabia which is the one behind the Wahhabi ideology.”

He said Qatar is not very supportive of the anti-Iran agenda voiced during the Trump-led Islamic summit in Saudi Arabia as, among other reasons, it doesn’t want a rise of sectarian tensions.

“Qatar wasn’t very enthusiastic for what took place during Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia. We saw Trump going heavily into the Saudi camp, and we saw the unprecedented hostility in language which is used by Saudi King Salman toward Iran,” he told RT.

There are many reasons behind that lack of enthusiasm over that “outright hostile anti-Iran agenda” with “one of them being a natural gas field which is shared by Iran and Qatar.”

Also, “maybe Qatar is more calculated when it comes to regional tensions, it doe

THGRRI

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 4:49 AM

OK SIG since you're to dimwitted to see it, Trump just took sides in a holy war between the Sunni and Shia. Guess what side SIG.

You spent a year suggesting Clinton would start WW111 when Clinton was the candidate who knew how to avoid it. You're such a loser, and once again clueless.

THGRRI

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 6:52 PM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
OK SIG since you're to dimwitted to see it, Trump just took sides in a holy war between the Sunni and Shia. Guess what side SIG.

You spent a year suggesting Clinton would start WW111 when Clinton was the candidate who knew how to avoid it. You're such a loser, and once again clueless.

Nothing to say SIG? Your guy just picked sides in a holy war. That's what happened during his trip to Saudi Arabia and what prompted what's happening in the Middle East now. Trump placed us on the Sunni side of the Sunni Shia war. Your subjective posts in this thread show you have no idea what is going on. All you can do is cut and paste comments that dance around what an asinine move this is.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:42 PM

One version of the story; from the Financial Times. Unfortunately, they're behind a paywall so you'll have to get your news from elsewhere

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A ransom payment of up to $1 billion to Iranian and Al Qaeda-linked forces in Syria may have been the tipping point for Qatari-Gulf Arab relations, Financial Times reported Monday.

Qatar paid out the hefty ransom to secure the release of 26 members of a falconry party, some of whom were members of Qatar's royal family who had been hunting in southern Iraq, "commanders of militant groups and government officials in the region" told Financial Times.

The news of Qatar's ransom comes after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Yemen, and a powerful military leader in Libya all severed ties with Doha on Monday.

SPA, a Saudi state news agency, said the kingdom cut ties because Qatar "embraces multiple terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and Al Qaeda, and promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media [ al Jazeera?] constantly," according to Reuters.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain represent the most prominent of the Gulf Arab states and premier powers in the Sunni world, which rivals Iran and its Shia influence in the Middle East.

Qatar and the other Gulf Arab states have in the past sparred over Qatar's softer stance on Iran and support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist organization founded in Egypt, but a source told Financial Times that "the ransom payments are the straw that broke the camel's back."

http://www.businessinsider.com/qatar-ransom-al-qaeda-iran-falconry-201
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The Shocking Trigger Behind Today's Gulf Scandal: Qatar Paid Al-Qaeda, Iran $1BN In Hostage Deal

The FT has unveiled what its believes is the key trigger behind the shocking overnight collapse in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. According to the FT, the catalyst that forced the Saudis and their allies to unveil the cut in diplomatic and economic ties, is that Qatar allegedly paid up to $1 billion to Iran and al-Qaeda affiliates "to release members of the Gulf state’s royal family who were kidnapped in Iraq while on a hunting trip, according to people involved in the hostage deal"; the secret deal was allegedly one of the triggers behind Gulf states’ dramatic decision to cut ties with Doha.

The details of the payoff: "around $700m was paid both to Iranian figures and the regional Shia militias they support, according to regional government officials. They added that $200m to $300m went to Islamist groups in Syria, most of that to Tahrir al-Sham, a group with links to al-Qaeda."

A regional Arab official said the total paid to jihadi groups was closer to $300m. “So, if you add that up to the other $700m they paid to Iran and its proxies, that means Qatar actually spent about a billion dollars on this crazy deal,” he said.

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The Iraqi Shia militia commanders in Iraq, all from hardline Iranian-backed groups, said that, to their knowledge, Iran had obtained around $400m after giving them a payment they would not disclose. They agreed to share some details because they were unhappy about their share of the payment.

“They [the Iranians] took the lion’s share,” said a member of one of the Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq. “That’s caused some of us to be frustrated, because that was not the deal.”

The "ransom payments are the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said one Gulf observer.

Not to be confused with the Obama administration secretly airlifting crates full of $1.7 billion in cash to Tehran to release five US hostages held by Iran, the FT writes that commanders of militant groups and government officials in the region told the Financial Times that "Doha spent the money in a transaction that secured the release of 26 members of a Qatari hunting party in southern Iraq and about 5

THGRRI

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:06 PM

Trump puts US on Sunni Muslim side of war

It was crude stuff. President Trump called on 55 Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to drive out terrorism from their countries. He identified Iran as a despotic state and came near to calling for regime change, though Iran held a presidential election generally regarded as fair only two days previously.

He denounced Hezbollah and lined up the US squarely on the side of the Sunni against the Shia in the sectarian proxy war that is tearing apart the Middle East.

Almost all of the 55 Muslim rulers and leaders in the vast hall in Riyadh will have breathed a little easier on hearing Mr Trump’s repeated call “to drive out terrorism”, since they have always described anybody who opposes their authority as “terrorists”.

This will be a green-light to people like Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to go on imprisoning and torturing Muslim Brotherhood members. American pressure on the ruling Sunni minority in Bahrain to stop persecuting the Shia majority was always tame, but Mr Trump’s praise for the island’s rulers may make the situation even worse.

Mr Trump’s failure to refer to human rights’ abuses was criticized by some observers, but more serious than his words was his presence in Riyadh before an audience of autocrats.

Saudi leaders will be pleased by Mr Trump’s condemnation of Iran as the fountainhead of terrorism. This was the most substantive part of speech and is the one most likely to increase conflict.

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-puts-us-on-sunni-muslim-side-of-wa
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SIGNYM

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:08 PM

And yet another explanation. This article from ZH, which borrow heavily from Bloomberg (which is also linked mid-article) does a better job explaining than others so far

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"Forget Terrorism": The Real Reason Behind The Qatar Crisis Is Natural Gas

Jun 6, 2017 7:47 PM

According to the official narrative, the reason for the latest Gulf crisis in which a coalition of Saudi-led states cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, is because - to everyone's "stunned amazement" - Qatar was funding terrorists, and after Trump's recent visit to Saudi Arabia in which he urged a crackdown on financial support of terrorism, and also following the FT's report that Qatar has directly provided $1 billion in funding to Iran and al-Qaeda spinoffs, Saudi Arabia finally had had enough of its "rogue" neighbor, which in recent years had made ideologically unacceptable overtures toward both Shia Iran and Russia.

However, as often happens, the official narrative is traditionally a convenient smokescreen from the real underlying tensions.

The real reason behind the diplomatic fallout may be far simpler, and once again has to do with a long-running and controversial topic, namely Qatar's regional natural gas dominance.

Recall that many have speculated (with evidence going back as far back as 2012) that one of the reasons for the long-running Syria proxy war was nothing more complex than competing gas pipelines, with Qatar eager to pass its own pipeline, connecting Europe to its vast natural gas deposits, however as that would put Gazprom's monopoly of European LNG supply in jeopardy, Russia had been firmly, and violently, against this strategy from the beginning and explains Putin's firm support of the Assad regime and the Kremlin's desire to prevent the replacement of the Syrian government with a puppet regime.

Note the purple line which traces the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline and note that all of the countries highlighted in red are part of a new coalition hastily put together after Turkey finally (in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence on Erdogan’s politically-motivated war with the PKK) agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions against ISIS targets from Incirlik. Now note which country along the purple line is not highlighted in red. That’s because Bashar al-Assad didn’t support the pipeline and now we’re seeing what happens when you’re a Mid-East strongman and you decide not to support something the US and Saudi Arabia want to get done.

Now, in a separate analysis, Bloomberg also debunks the "official narrative" behind the Gulf crisis and suggests that Saudi Arabia’s isolation of Qatar, "and the dispute’s long past and likely lingering future are best explained by natural gas."

The reasons for nat gas as the source of discord are numerous and start in 1995 "when the tiny desert peninsula was about to make its first shipment of liquid natural gas from the world’s largest reservoir. The offshore North Field, which provides virtually all of Qatar’s gas, is shared with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s hated rival."

The result to Qatar's finances was similar to the windfall that Saudi Arabia reaped from its vast crude oil wealth.

The wealth that followed turned Qatar into not just the world’s richest nation, with an annual per-capita income of $130,000, but also the world’s largest LNG exporter. The focus on gas set it apart from its oil producing neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council and allowed it to break from domination by Saudi Arabia, which in Monday’s statement of complaint described Qataris as an “extension of their brethren in the Kingdom” as it cut off diplomatic relations and closed the border.

In short, over the past two decades, Qatar become the single biggest natural gas powerhous

THGRRI

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:40 PM

You reference zerohedge. They are trolls who hide behind reputable sources as they tweak and misrepresent what they report. SIG you know this yet you continue to quote them. That makes you a troll as well. You and your post is null and void.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And yet another explanation. This article from ZH, which borrow heavily from Bloomberg (which is also linked mid-article) does a better job explaining than others so far

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"Forget Terrorism": The Real Reason Behind The Qatar Crisis Is Natural Gas

Jun 6, 2017 7:47 PM

According to the official narrative, the reason for the latest Gulf crisis in which a coalition of Saudi-led states cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, is because - to everyone's "stunned amazement" - Qatar was funding terrorists, and after Trump's recent visit to Saudi Arabia in which he urged a crackdown on financial support of terrorism, and also following the FT's report that Qatar has directly provided $1 billion in funding to Iran and al-Qaeda spinoffs, Saudi Arabia finally had had enough of its "rogue" neighbor, which in recent years had made ideologically unacceptable overtures toward both Shia Iran and Russia.

However, as often happens, the official narrative is traditionally a convenient smokescreen from the real underlying tensions.

The real reason behind the diplomatic fallout may be far simpler, and once again has to do with a long-running and controversial topic, namely Qatar's regional natural gas dominance.

Recall that many have speculated (with evidence going back as far back as 2012) that one of the reasons for the long-running Syria proxy war was nothing more complex than competing gas pipelines, with Qatar eager to pass its own pipeline, connecting Europe to its vast natural gas deposits, however as that would put Gazprom's monopoly of European LNG supply in jeopardy, Russia had been firmly, and violently, against this strategy from the beginning and explains Putin's firm support of the Assad regime and the Kremlin's desire to prevent the replacement of the Syrian government with a puppet regime.

Note the purple line which traces the proposed Qatar-Turkey natural gas pipeline and note that all of the countries highlighted in red are part of a new coalition hastily put together after Turkey finally (in exchange for NATO’s acquiescence on Erdogan’s politically-motivated war with the PKK) agreed to allow the US to fly combat missions against ISIS targets from Incirlik. Now note which country along the purple line is not highlighted in red. That’s because Bashar al-Assad didn’t support the pipeline and now we’re seeing what happens when you’re a Mid-East strongman and you decide not to support something the US and Saudi Arabia want to get done.

Now, in a separate analysis, Bloomberg also debunks the "official narrative" behind the Gulf crisis and suggests that Saudi Arabia’s isolation of Qatar, "and the dispute’s long past and likely lingering future are best explained by natural gas."

The reasons for nat gas as the source of discord are numerous and start in 1995 "when the tiny desert peninsula was about to make its first shipment of liquid natural gas from the world’s largest reservoir. The offshore North Field, which provides virtually all of Qatar’s gas, is shared with Iran, Saudi Arabia’s hated rival."

The result to Qatar's finances was similar to the windfall that Saudi Arabia reaped from its vast crude oil wealth.

The wealth that followed turned Qatar into not just the world’s richest nation, with an annual per-capita income of $130,000, but also the world’s largest LNG exporter. The focus on gas set it apart from its oil producing neighbors in the Gulf Cooperation Council and allowed it to break from domination by Saudi Arabia, which in Monday’s statement of complaint described Qataris as an

SIGNYM

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 8:53 PM

Some serious shit going on ....

Turkey Fast-Tracks Bill Approving Troop Deployment To Qatar
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/turkey-fast-tracks-bill-appro
ving-troop-deployment-qatar

UAE Threatens 15 Years Jail Time For Publishing Statements Sympathetic To Qatar
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/uae-threatens-15-years-jail-t
ime-publishing-statements-sympathetic-qatar

Saudi Arabia Gives Qatar 24 Hour Ultimatum As Analysts Warn Of "Military Confrontation"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/saudi-arabia-gives-qatar-24-h
our-ultimatum-analysts-warn-military-confrontation

I may have to rethink my Qatar = ISIS (Sunni Wahhabist) assumption. Wahhabism is more closely connected with Saudi Arabia; I assumed that Qatar was simply funding ISIS as a competitor to al Qaeda.

I've known for a long time that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were regional competitors. Qatar didn't see eye-to-eye with Saudi Arabia (which used to make fun of Qatar as a nation of "300 people and a radio station [al Jazeera]). Egypt did not appreciate the activity of the Muslim Brotherhood (Sunni) within its borders. I didn't realize was that Qatar also funded Hamas (Palestinian Sunni) but at the same time apparently made gas extraction concessions to Iran.

Hmmm...

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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

THGRRI

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 9:16 PM

You reference zerohedge. They are trolls who hide behind reputable sources as they tweak and misrepresent what they report. SIG you know this yet you continue to quote them. That makes you a troll as well. You and your post is null and void.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Some serious shit going on ....

Turkey Fast-Tracks Bill Approving Troop Deployment To Qatar
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/turkey-fast-tracks-bill-appro
ving-troop-deployment-qatar

UAE Threatens 15 Years Jail Time For Publishing Statements Sympathetic To Qatar
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-07/uae-threatens-15-years-jail-t
ime-publishing-statements-sympathetic-qatar

Saudi Arabia Gives Qatar 24 Hour Ultimatum As Analysts Warn Of "Military Confrontation"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-06/saudi-arabia-gives-qatar-24-h
our-ultimatum-analysts-warn-military-confrontation

I may have to rethink my Qatar = ISIS (Sunni Wahhabist) assumption. Wahhabism is more closely connected with Saudi Arabia; I assumed that Qatar was simply funding ISIS as a competitor to al Qaeda.

I've known for a long time that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were regional competitors. Qatar didn't see eye-to-eye with Saudi Arabia (which used to make fun of Qatar as a nation of "300 people and a radio station [al Jazeera]). Egypt did not appreciate the activity of the Muslim Brotherhood (Sunni) within its borders. I didn't realize was that Qatar also funded Hamas (Palestinian Sunni) but at the same time apparently made gas extraction concessions to Iran.

Hmmm...

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

1KIKI

Friday, June 9, 2017 1:28 PM

This whole crisis is beyond baffling to me.

Things were going along and all of the sudden ... BAM !!

How did this happen? When did it start? What's the point? Who's behind it?

The only thing I get out of it is that I obviously didn't understand the nature of the previous quiescence.

Originally posted by G: "I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago." G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.
You have a very treasonous view of how justice in the US should work, THUGGER. In fact, you have many other treasonous views as well. You hate the election process and want to void it.

SIGNYM

Sunday, June 11, 2017 9:11 PM

A big fuss, and then .... we have entered the Cone of Silence.

In our last episode ... Saudi Arabia and other GCC nations imposed total sanctions on Qatar, blockaded all shipments (including food), and expelled Qataris. Saudi Arabia even threatened military action (What? In addition to their expen$ive war in Yemen?). And now, all of the sudden ... nothing.

Because in this episode .... Tillerson is urging a climb-down. Turkey has sent troops to Qatar to bolster its army. The Saudis have egg on their face. So does Trump, who has had to do a quick 180.

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Cool Qatar: Riyadh plan backfires after Trump flip-flop & Turkey ruse

Saudi Arabia’s standoff against Qatar was fraught with miscalculations and comically ill-conceived notions from the start. But now the crisis is becoming a threat to Riyadh’s own prominence and security in the Middle East.

“Almost all relationships begin and continue as mutual forms of exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be determined when one or both parties run out of goods.” - English-American writer, W. H. Auden.

This Ramadan will surely be remembered in the Middle East by Saudi Arabia’s inflated idea of a new zealous relationship formed with the US. Following Donald Trump’s ‘Arab Summit’ visit in May, Riyadh is reinvigorated with a new sense of importance and power, and has indulged itself on just how far warm sentiments from the Trump administration can take its new government and its struggle against Iran, an enemy of convenience that gives Saudi Arabia an important role in the region. But who needs the other more? The Saudis or the Americans?

In recent days, Saudi Arabia’s bold plan to isolate tiny Qatar in a bid to get it to agree to Riyadh’s geopolitics appears to be coming off the rails. But worse than merely suffering a modicum of humiliation when Riyadh inevitably climbs down and admits its zany plan didn’t come off, there are signs that the attempt to destabilize Qatar is going to backfire. Indeed, King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s new, inexperienced government has yet to recognize, let alone even understand an important maxim in politics: ‘When in a hole, stop digging’.

Although the cataclysmic errors of going ahead with such ill-conceived plans - like backing extremists groups in Syria - could be blamed on his predecessor, his brother King Abdullah who died in 2015, Salman must accept responsibility for other mistakes, like the beleaguered campaign in Yemen, which shows no signs of ending. And now Qatar.

It’s as though the Saudis are simply incapable both of effective military strategy or any form of sage diplomacy; blinded by delusional ideas of their own capabilities and power, they blunder ahead with scant regard of the consequences, even towards themselves.

“Most worrying is that Saudi Arabia and the UAE may repeat the mistakes that were made when the Saudi leadership decided to launch a war in Yemen,” said Yezid Sayigh, a Beirut-based senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “They had no clear political strategy, based their action on false assumptions, have incurred heavy financial costs and a growing human toll, and are probably now worse off in terms of their security,”according to Livemint.com

Indeed, the swift 180-degree turn by Trump, who started off entirely behind the Saudi move but ended on a more cautious note, must have really hit Riyadh hard. After the Pentagon more or less put Trump straight on Qatar and the implications of this tiny country going rogue, the architects of this foolhardy plan were confronted by a stark reality: ‘We’ve gone too far.’

And they really have. In a matter of days, the reality has hit home: not only is Trump and Tillerman now calling for Saudi Arabia to back down on the siege, but it appears that the requisite premise of the entire idea – that the US would militarily defend the Kingdom’s huge borders – is also folly. Suddenly, the veiled threats of Saudi Arabia going further beyond just the blockade look disingenuous when any skirmishes that may result on Saudi’s

SIGNYM

Saturday, June 24, 2017 10:48 PM

After Rex Tillerson's attempted mediation, and proposed suggestion that Saudi Arabia and the other GCC states come up with a reasonable and actionable list of demands for Qatar, the Saudis and their allies came up with this list [= and its loose translation] as follows...

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Curb diplomatic ties with Iran and close its diplomatic missions there. Expel members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and cut off any joint military cooperation with Iran. Only trade and commerce with Iran that complies with US and international sanctions will be permitted. = No talking to Shia Muslims

Sever all ties to “terrorist organisations”, specifically the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic State, al-Qaida and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Formally declare those entities as terrorist groups. = Only Saudi-approved terrorists are allowed

Shut down al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations. = We don’t allow press freedom you can’t have it either. Especially one that criticises us. Shut down what is, for all its significant faults, one of the best media outlets in the world.

Shut down news outlets that Qatar funds, directly and indirectly, including Arabi21, Rassd, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Middle East Eye. = Only Saudi propaganda allowed. al-Jazeera was far too willing to report government repression during the Arab Spring. So close down all non Saudi controlled media.

Immediately terminate the Turkish military presence in Qatar and end any joint military cooperation with Turkey inside Qatar. = Qatar isn’t allowed its own diplomatic sovereignty.

Stop all means of funding for individuals, groups or organisations that have been designated as terrorists by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, the US and other countries.= Stop funding anyone who opposes Saudi or other undemocratic regimes in the ME. No democratic dissent allowed.

Hand over “terrorist figures” and wanted individuals from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain to their countries of origin. Freeze their assets, and provide any desired information about their residency, movements and finances. = Hand over to us all dissidents we want to imprison or behead.

End interference in sovereign countries’ internal affairs. Stop granting citizenship to wanted nationals from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain. Revoke Qatari citizenship for existing nationals where such citizenship violates those countries’ laws. = Hand over people we don’t like that have taken refuge in Qatar. We do the interfering (see this list of demands) not you.

Stop all contacts with the political opposition in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain. Hand over all files detailing Qatar’s prior contacts with and support for those opposition groups. = Help us oppress dissidents

Pay reparations and compensation for loss of life and other, financial losses caused by Qatar’s policies in recent years. The sum will be determined in coordination with Qatar; consent to monthly audits for the first year after agreeing to the demands, then once per quarter during the second year. For the following 10 years, Qatar would be monitored annually for compliance; Align itself with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as on economic matters, in line with an agreement reached with Saudi Arabia in 2014; Agree to all the demands within 10 days of it being submitted to Qatar, or the list becomes invalid.= Make yourself a vassal state of Saudi, pay us money, let us control your treasury and foreign policy and agree to all this NOW. Or else, Saudi, its minions, the US and Israel will try to paint you as part of a new axis of evil.

Oh and by the way oil rules! Not the gas you and Iran want to sell!

Thanks to
Thanks to The Guardian for the list of demands and to Zerohedge for their translations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/close-al-jazeera-saudi-a
rabia-issues-qatar-with-13-demands-to-end-blockade
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-23/saudi-hypocrisy-great-gas-war
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If we

SIGNYM

Saturday, June 24, 2017 11:09 PM

The gulf states have been able to blockade Qatar by blocking land routes thru Saudi Arabia and making inaccessible the big container ship ports in UAE.

However, Turkey has been airlifting supplies to Qatar and Iran has been shipping food in smaller ships.

Qatar's inevitable response

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Furious Qatar Balks At Saudi Ultimatum As UAE Warns Of "Parting Of Ways"

And don't forget, the USA's largest air base - from which all if its air missions in the ME originate - are in Qatar.

If there is indeed a "parting of the way, will Qatar shift its alliances? And if so, to whom?

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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, July 7, 2017 9:04 PM

World Cup cancelled?

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 23, 2017 2:52 AM

wiki article....not sure how accurate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

The Arab country of Qatar, bordered by Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, has been accused of allowing terror financiers to operate within its borders. The country has been called "the Club Med for Terrorists"[1] and "most two-faced nation in the world, backing the U.S.-led coalition against the militants of the Islamic State while providing a permissive environment", in the words of one top American official, "for terrorist financiers to operate with impunity".[2] Accusations come from a wide variety of sources including intelligence reports, government officials, and journalists. The Telegraph, a British newspaper, even started a "Stop the Funding of Terror" journalism campaign.[3]

At the official level, the Qatari government pledged support for Hamas, the Palestinian group regarded as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, Israel, Egypt and Canada.[4]

One of the leaked Podesta emails from August 2014, addressed to John Podesta, identifies Qatar and Saudi Arabia as providing "clandestine," "financial and logistic" aid to ISIL and other "radical Sunni groups." The email outlines a plan of action against ISIL, and urges putting pressure on Qatar and Saudi Arabia to end their alleged support for the group.[6][7][8][9] Whether the email was originally written by Hillary Clinton, her advisor Sidney Blumenthal, or another person is unclear.[10][11]

Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl was Osama bin Laden's former business agent. He defected to the United States in 1996. In testimony to the 9/11 Commission and Congress, Al-Fadl said that Bin Laden told him in 1993 that the Qatar Charitable Society (QCS), which was later renamed to Qatar Charity, was one of Bin Laden's main sources of funding.[27]

In 2003, The New York Times wrote:[28]

"Private support from prominent Qataris to Al Qaeda is a sensitive issue that is said to infuriate George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence. After the Sept. 11 attacks, another senior Qaeda operative, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who may have been the principal planner of the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, was said by Saudi intelligence officials to have spent two weeks in late 2001 hiding in Qatar, with the help of prominent patrons, after he escaped from Kuwait."

Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy and Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nuaymi are senior-level financiers of al-Qaeda. In 2014, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, David Cohen, announced that the two men were living freely in Qatar. Both men were on a worldwide terrorist blacklist. Al-Subaiy, as it turned out, had previously worked at the Qatar Central Bank.[3]

In response to Cohen's announcement and the release of the U.S. intelligence report, reporters from The Telegraph contacted Qatari officials. According to The Telegraph, "Qatar has refused to answer".[3]

At one time, Al-Nuaymi was the president of the Qatar Football Association. The U.S. report said that he sent more than 1.25 million British pounds per month to Al-Qaeda jihadist fighters in Iraq. He sent hundreds of thousands of pounds to fighters in Syria. The United States designated Al-Nuaymi as a terrorist in 2013. Britain sanctioned him in 2014.[3]

According to Swiss registration records, Al-Nuayimi is the founder of Alkarama, a human rights NGO based in Switzerland established in 2004 to serve as a bridge between human rights mechanisms and individuals victims of violations in the Arab World. Most of Al-Nuaymi's activities in support to al-Qaeda trace back to the time following the establishment of Alkarama, yet the charity's alleged ties with Al-Qaeda transcend Al-Nuaymi's activities.[29] Rachid Mesli, Alkarama's legal director, was arrested at the Swiss-Italian border in August 2015 due to a 2002 international warrant issued by the Algerian authorities.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:45 PM

Been following this in real time, but still trying to figure out what it means. bin Salman sacked a number of high-ranking royal Saudis, two princes were killed. Seems as if he did this in a kind of pre-emptive counter-coup. In addition, the resignation of Hariri, PM of Lebanon and dual Lebanese-Saudi citizen (How can you even have a dual-citizen prime minister? That's like us having a dual US-Israeli for President. Isn't there a conflict of interest there?) seems orchestrated with KSA.

Saudi Arabia has also stated that Lebanon has "declared war" on Saudi Arabia. Since Lebanon hasn't taken any hostile action against Saudi Arabia it's a ludicrous statement. It seems that bin Salman is trying to orchestrate a war with Iran by thumping war with Lebanon, and with Lebanese involvement that is designed to bring Israel - and ultimately the USA - into the conflict. Jared Kushner has been fingered as the USA rep who offered USA support. Kushner, BTW, represents Israel's interests as much as - or more than - USA interests. It's too bad Trump listens to him.

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Was Saturday a "Red Wedding" moment for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? As the plot thickens in Riyadh, here's a roundup of the chatter on the streets...

It started off with the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, a clearly orchestrated move produced and executed by his paymasters in Riyadh.

Hariri announced on a Saudi-owned channel from the Saudi capital that he was resigning his post in protest at [Iranian] foreign intervention in Lebanon's domestic affairs. The irony was lost on him.

The ostensible reason he gave, as he invoked his late father's name, was that he too is threatened with assassination.

As the day turned into evening, there were reports of explosions being heard close to the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It transpired that Houthi rebels (linked to Iran and allied with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is partially linked to the United Arab Emirates) had fired at least one ballistic missile from Yemen towards Riyadh. It put an exclamation point on the fact that the war in Yemen is far from over - more than two years since Saudi Arabia launched operation "Decisive Storm".

As the clock inched to midnight another bombshell was dropped, this time by the Saudis: A royal decree ordering the arrest of several princes, billionaires, and notable figures, as well as the sacking of senior government officials. Some were the sons of the late King Abdullah. One was the head of the Saudi National Guard.

All three of these developments will have seismic implications, not just in Saudi Arabia, but in the region and beyond.

The resignation of Hariri, or sacking by his Saudi sponsors, should sound the alarm bells for any government that doesn't want to see another war erupt in the region.

A lot of chatter involved Israel.

It's no secret that Israel has been conducting military exercises on its northern front for several months now. While Hezbollah has been busy helping prop up the Assad regime in Damascus, Tel Aviv has been developing its missile defence systems. Sooner or later, it will want to test those in real-life scenarios, as the logic would have it.

Forcing Hariri to quit the government would help Israel frame any aggression against Lebanon as an attack on Iranian proxies.

With Gaza politically neutralised for now, following Hamas' handover of power to the Palestinian Authority, Israel could very well see this as an optimal time to attack. Such an attack would also provide a perfect opportunity for the West to test the new Saudi leadership's "moderate" credentials: Would it cheer Israel on?

In Yemen, the war has cost the Saudi economy hundreds of millions of dollars. This war, launched by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to restore Sanaa's legitimate government and put Iran in check, has failed to do either. But it has succeeded in killing thousands of innocent people, displacing millions

SIGNYM

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 12:09 AM

YEP, Israel is at the heart of this ramp up to war between Lebanon (Iran) and KSA.

And I'll bet if you dig a bit more, you'll find that little worm, Jared Kushner, buried somewhere in that shitpile of miscreants. One of Trump's problems- he's loyal to family, and just doesn't know who to trust. Probably because his depth of knowledge is paper-thin.

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“Explosive” Leaked Secret Israeli Cable Confirms Israeli-Saudi Coordination To Provoke War

Early this morning, Israeli Channel 10 news published a leaked diplomatic cable which had been sent to all Israeli ambassadors throughout the world concerning the chaotic events that unfolded over the weekend in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which began with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s unexpected resignation after he was summoned to Riyadh by his Saudi-backers, and led to the Saudis announcing that Lebanon had “declared war” against the kingdom.

The classified embassy cable, written in Hebrew, constitutes the first formal evidence proving that the Saudis and Israelis are deliberately coordinating to escalate the situation in the Middle East.

The explosive classified Israeli cable reveals the following:

On Sunday, just after Lebanese PM Hariri’s shocking resignation, Israel sent a cable to all of its embassies with the request that its diplomats do everything possible to ramp up diplomatic pressure against Hezbollah and Iran.

The cable urged support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The cable stressed that Iran was engaged in “regional subversion”.
Israeli diplomats were urged to appeal to the “highest officials” within their host countries to attempt to expel Hezbollah from Lebanese government and politics.

As is already well-known, the Saudi and Israeli common cause ...

You will note that al Qaeda has never attacked Israel. Evidence that (1)al Qaeda is under control of the Saudis and (2) the Saudis and Israel share common interests in the Mideast

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... against perceived Iranian influence and expansion in places like Syria, Lebanon and Iraq of late has led the historic bitter enemies ...

Hmmm actually, KSA and Israel get along quite nicely and have for over 50 years

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... down a pragmatic path of unspoken cooperation as both seem to have placed the break up of the so-called “Shia crescent” as their primary policy goal in the region. For Israel, Hezbollah has long been its greatest foe..

I think Israel sees Iran as its greatest foe

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which Israeli leaders see as an extension of Iran’s territorial presence right up against the Jewish state’s northern border.

This is a EXPLOSIVE thread that proves how Saudi and Israel are deliberately coordinating to escalate the situation in the MidEast. https://t.co/dMe4PnkwTf — Trita Parsi (@tparsi) 6 November 2017]

The Israeli reporter who obtained the document is Barak Ravid, senior diplomatic correspondent for Channel 10 News. Ravid announced the following through Twitter yesterday:

I published on channel 10 a cable sent to Israeli diplomats asking to lobby for Saudis/Harir and against Hezbollah. The cable sent from the MFA in Jerusalem [Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs] to all Israeli embassies toes the Saudi line regarding the Hariri resignation.

The Israeli diplomats were instructed to demarch their host governments over the domestic political situation in Lebanon – a very rare move.

The cable said: “You need to stress that the Hariri resignation shows how dangerous Iran and Hezbollah are for Lebanon’s security.”

“Hariri’s resignation proves wrong the argument that Hezbollah participation in the government stabilizes Lebanon,” the cable added.

The cable instructed Israeli diplomats to support Saudi Arabia over its war with the Houthis in Yemen. The cable also stressed: “The missile launch by the Houthis towards Riyadh calls for applying more pressure on Iran & Hezbollah.”

1 \ I published on channel 10 a cable sent to Israeli diplomats

SIGNYM

Thursday, November 9, 2017 10:11 PM

While we're busy arguing about RUSSIA!!!, real life is sneaking up on us from behind ....

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Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens To Leave Lebanon Immediately

Of course, we could be tempted to think that this is just another squabble in a sandbox, but I have yet to see the USA not involve itself in the Mideast. If outright war breaks out between KSA and Lebanon (and BTW you will see Israel also involve itself) count on the deep state to insert us into the fight.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

SIGNYM

Saturday, November 11, 2017 5:26 PM

I linked a portion of this article in another thread, but I'm going to link it here too. It's about the ties between Bush and Obama and Hillary with the (now former, currently detained) movers and shakers of KSA.

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If I told you that Democratic Party lobbyist Tony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta chairs Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is a registered foreign agent on the Saudi government’s payroll, you’d probably think I was a Trump-thumping, conspiratorial nutcase. But it’s true.

The lobby firm created by both Tony and John Podesta in 1988 receives $140,000 a month from the Saudi government, a government that beheads nonviolent dissidents, uses torture to extract forced confessions, doesn’t allow women to drive, and bombs schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods in neighboring Yemen.

The Podesta Group’s March 2016 filing, required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, shows that Tony Podesta himself oversees the Saudi account. At the same time, Tony Podesta is also a top campaign contributor and bundler for Hillary Clinton. So while one brother runs the campaign, the other brother funds it with earnings that come, in part, from the Saudis.

Those familiar with the Citibank cabal that assigned Obama’s cabinet prior to his election would also recognize bin Talal’s name, for his and Citibank’s instrumental role the Obama administration’s decimation of the middle class.

Pam Martens warned us back in 2012, additional emphasis added:

Citigroup was showing serious strains in 2007 but the meltdown came the week of November 17, 2008. On Monday, the firm called a Town Hall meeting with employees and announced the sacking of 52,000 workers. On Tuesday, November 18, Citigroup announced it had lost 53 per cent of an internal hedge fund’s money in a month’s time and that it was bringing $17 billion of off-balance sheet assets back onto its balance sheet. The next day brought the unwelcome tidings that a law firm was alleging that Citigroup peddled the MAT Five Fund as “safe” and “secure” then watched it lose 80 per cent of its value. On Thursday, Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal, a major shareholder, stepped forward to reassure the public that Citigroup was “undervalued” and he was buying more shares. The next day the stock dropped another 20 percent to close at $3.77. All told, Citigroup lost 60 per cent of its market value that week and 87 percent for the year to date.

Now here is where you need to pay close attention. Just one month prior to the stock meltdown, the U.S. government through its Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) had injected $25 billion into Citigroup on October 28, 2008. With a market cap of $20.5 billion on Friday, November 21, 2008, the U.S. taxpayer effectively owned this company lock, stock and barrel.

The Treasury and the Fed knew exactly whose interests they were protecting. Just 11 months earlier, Citigroup had publicized a capital raising of $12.5 billion in convertible preferred stock in a private placement?—?meaning the full details were not released to the public. The press release said the investors included Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Sandy Weill and the Weill Family Foundation.

There's a lot more at https://medium.com/@zachhaller/saudi-royalty-arrests-rock-clinton-obama-regime-f230a548984a

All of this jibes with a description of bin Talal's holdings which BTW include TWITTER (majority shareholder) and Citigroup. Too bad for bin Talal that he's been arrested.

Also, remember Bandar "Bush" bin Sultan? The former Ambassador to USA, head of Saudi security services, handler of Saudi proxy terrorist forces who threatened Putin with terrorists at the Sochi Olympics?

Well, he's been arrested too.

It looks like a clean sweep of all of those close contacts with former USA-establishment politicians.

Obviously, the anti-Iranian / anti-Syrian/ terrorist-proxies gambit has gone tits-up, and Mohammed bin Salman has cleared the decks of competing princ

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 16, 2024 8:08 PM

As long as Qatar remains wealthy, eager for business, and a major non-NATO ally, the West is happy to turn a blind eye to Qatar’s exploitative economic model.

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1824444397271884101

The Ugly Truth About Qatari Money!

SIGNYM

Friday, August 16, 2024 11:51 PM

"... looking to replace American hegemony in the Middle East ..."

Well, at least someone finally admits it.

Here's a thought: If you don't want Qatar (or any other foreign nation) to buy up your landmarks, infrastructure, and farmland ... dont sell it to them.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, August 23, 2024 2:29 AM

'Modern WWIII is quite likely' warns counter-terror expert as Iran revenge 'inevitable'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/modern-wwiii-quite-likely-war
ns-33487582

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, December 13, 2024 5:52 PM

How did Qatar get so filthy rich?
Why are they spending the money on Islamist extremist groups in the Middle East, Europe and the USA?
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867315594631987487
And why are the pumping money into American universities?

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 3:24 PM

a new type of human mouse trap

bribed by Aircraft?

We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1922063401041203303

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, June 20, 2025 3:36 PM

the lands may change again?

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, June 23, 2025 9:27 PM

US embassy in Qatar issues "shelter in place" warning.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-citizens-qatar-given-shelter-place-warning
-2089278

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 8:54 PM

Israel bombs Hamas leaders in Qatar: Furious Doha condemns 'cowardly strike' as Middle East powder keg threatens to explode

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15080817/Blasts-heard-Doha-Is
raels-IDF-claims-responsibility-strike-targeting-senior-leadership-Hamas-Qatar.html

Israel Bombs Hamas Leaders In Doha As They Discuss Trump Ceasefire Proposal

https://lovinmalta.com/international/israel-bombs-hamas-leaders-in-doh
a-as-they-discuss-trump-ceasefire-proposal/

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 5:38 PM

Qatar denies they were pre-warned about the Israeli strike.
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1965490654257316029

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, September 15, 2025 6:05 PM

London Rapper Pimp used to drive a Bus

Ex-London bus driver runs degrading sex-trade ring in Dubai's glamorous neighbourhoods
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r9y3kxy9o

""There's this one client, he poops on girls. He poops and he tells them to eat the shit," she explained quietly.

Another woman we are calling Lexi, who says she was tricked by a different network, echoed Mia's story, saying "porta potty" requests were frequent.

...

some Arab guy literally craps on you?

...

We put this allegation to the Dubai police and they did not reply."

sick, abuse, slavery, this is just sad and degrading

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, September 21, 2025 6:32 PM

So Israel blew up its own Kushner Abraham Accords

Oil guy threats to Dump the Dollar people if 911 exposed...the Saudis were already expected to have muzzie links inside the Pakistani Army

more Nukes in the Middle East not just Israeli secret programs...Pakistan can now deploy missiles in Saudi Arabia, expanding the potential for a retaliatory strike?

Pakistan will receive historic defense pact of $100b with Arab

https://x.com/FT/status/1968385701960892543

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, October 10, 2025 1:12 AM

Jared Kushner’s Net Worth Surges as He Joins Exclusive Club With Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-joins-billionaire-club-donald-t
rump-2131421

IDF to retain control over 53% of Gaza after ceasefire agreement: Report
https://www.firstpost.com/world/idf-to-retain-control-over-53-of-gaza-
after-ceasefire-agreement-report-13940782.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, October 13, 2025 12:18 AM

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1977028027587662022#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, November 22, 2025 4:38 PM

Trump attacks reporter over Jamal Khashoggi and Epstein questions

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 7:02 PM

Major Gulf markets retreat as Saudi and UAE clash over Yemen

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/major-gulf-markets-retreat-s
audi-uae-clash-over-yemen-2025-12-30/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 3, 2026 4:06 PM

UAE calls for restraint amid rapidly moving Yemen crisis

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-calls-restraint-amid-rap
idly-moving-yemen-crisis-2026-01-03/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 31, 2026 6:21 PM

EU fires senior official Hololei after probe linked to Qatar gifts

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-finds-senior-official-he
nrik-hololei-breached-rules/

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, March 2, 2026 4:39 PM

Why Attack Iran Now? Key Trump Aides Blame Iranian ‘Games, Tricks and Stall Tactics’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-attack-iran-now-key-233150054.
html

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, March 19, 2026 7:29 PM

Green and Aussie

Labor seeks to prevent people from fleeing places like Iran
https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/labor-seeks-prevent-people-fl
eeing-places-iran

Economics are Painful?

Analysis: Iran war becomes a contest of who can take the most pain
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/analysis-iran-war-becomes-a-c
ontest-of-who-can-22070198.php

Explosions

Tehran intensifies attacks on Gulf energy facilities after Israel hits Iranian gas field
https://japantoday.com/category/world/tehran-intensifies-attacks-on-gu
lf-energy-facilities-after-israel-hits-iranian-gas-field#comments

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, March 29, 2026 6:22 PM

Trump says U.S., Iran hold 'productive' talks; refutes Iran's denial

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4567276-trump-says-us-iran-hold-producti
ve-talks-delays-strikes-for-five-days

Oil, China, and the Euro American empire

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/03/16/oil-china-euro-american-emp
ire/

The American Empire is Finally Colliding with Reality

https://www.military-stuff.org/the-american-empire-is-finally-collidin
g-with-reality/

The "Hollywood Empire" is running out of script. In this episode

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 9:31 PM

UAE tells ceasefire not enough for Iran war solution, says 'no trust' in Tehran regime

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/07/uae-tells-euronews-ceasefire-not-e
nough-for-iran-war-solution-says-no-trust-in-tehran-regi

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, April 19, 2026 5:35 PM

Trump Left JD Vance Out of Key Iran Meeting—but Invited Jared Kushner

https://newrepublic.com/post/208741/donald-trump-jd-vance-jared-kushne
r-iran-war-meeting

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 2:44 PM

There was an OPEC discussion somewhere

United Arab Emirates says it will leave OPEC amid energy turmoil

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/04/28/uaes_shock_opec_exit_6982
48.html

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, June 7, 2026 3:54 PM

Jared Kushner-linked development project in Albania faces growing resistance
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kushner-development-albania-tensions-9.7
224360

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, June 14, 2026 3:53 PM

Albanians rally in Tirana against Kushner-linked tourism project

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, July 12, 2026 2:11 PM

Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/businessman-who-sold-land-kushner
-resort-albania-suspected-faking-deeds-2026-07-11/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 7:49 PM

Trump Rage Erupts Over Iran as Aides Leak Embarrassing Truth: He Lost

https://newrepublic.com/article/214443/trump-rage-erupts-iran-aides-le
ak-embarrassing-truth-lost

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 23, 2026 6:25 PM

Jared Kushner Actually Said This, and the Reason Is Shocking

Tucker Carlson Network

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 23, 2026 6:30 PM

Qatar cuts state spending at home and abroad as war shrinks economy

https://www.ft.com/content/efe10069-cbe3-4071-a091-26afa74fb4b3?syn-25
a6b1a6=1