https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzFGn2RJjE
The Watchman On The Wall
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Russia Will Retaliate, Россия будет тиражировать Rossiya budet tirazhirovat'
Russia threatened to retaliate against
new sanctions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, saying they made it
all but impossible to achieve the Trump administration’s goal of improved
relations.
The measures push U.S.-Russia ties into uncharted
territory and “don’t leave room for the normalization of relations” in the
foreseeable future, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said
Wednesday.
Hope “is dying” for improved relations
because the scale of “the anti-Russian consensus in Congress makes dialogue
impossible and for a long time,” Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the
international affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said. Russia should prepare a response to the sanctions that’s “painful for
the Americans,” he said.
The bill passed by a vote of 419-3 on
Tuesday strengthens sanctions against Russia less than three weeks after
President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held their
first official meeting at the Group of 20 summit. The measure, which now goes
to the Senate, requires Trump to seek congressional approval before easing
sanctions imposed under the Obama administration for Russian meddling in the 2016
presidential elections and its support for separatists in Ukraine. The White
House has sent mixed signals about whether Trump will sign the bill.
‘Anti-Russian
Hysteria’
Trump will sign the law because “he’s a
prisoner of Congress and anti-Russian hysteria,” Alexei Pushkov, a senator in
Russia’s upper house of parliament said. The sanctions are “a new
stage of confrontation,” he said. McDonald’s restaurants in Russia aren’t
“a sacred cow” and should face “sanitary sanctions,” Pushkov said in a separate
tweet. The fast food chain’s press office in Russia declined to comment
immediately. The largest McDonald’s in Russia was shuttered for three months in
2014 amid about 250 safety probes of the company’s restaurants by officials
after the U.S. imposed sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Russia has prepared “economic and
political measures that will be adopted if the Senate and Trump support the
bill,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy chairman of the international affairs
committee in the upper house said. Relations
with the U.S. “are at such a low level that we have nothing to lose” by
retaliating, he said.
Putin said after the
meeting in Hamburg that he believed Trump accepted his denial that Russia interfered in the
election. Congressional committees and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are
examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which Trump
has dismissed as a “witch hunt.”
The House vote adds
to deepening Russian gloom over prospects for a breakthrough in relations with
Trump, six months after he took office pledging to improve ties with Putin.
Russia threatened last week to expel U.S. diplomats and seize embassy property
in Moscow, after Ryabkov failed to gain agreement at talks in Washington
for the return of Russian diplomatic compounds taken by the Obama
administration in December in response to the election hacking.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Iraq Seeks A Larger Russian Presence
Above, Putin and al Maliki, Iraqi vice president meet in Moscow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo1nVHzcP1E
Weissmann Is A Big Time Swamper!
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller has just added probably the most dangerous New York prosecutor to his ratpack of GetTrumpers, Andrew Weissmann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLjN1p43wc
Who Attacked John McAfee?
Go to the 5 minute 39 second mark on the video; McAfee has said he has developed an alternative to privacy invasive Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKX4jKoIZus
Whom the gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad!
Watchman: Doesn't it seem like our citizens are going mad?
Pat
Buchanan wrote this article.
"One knowledgeable official estimates that the
CIA-backed fighters may have killed or wounded 100,000 Syrian soldiers and
their allies," writes columnist David Ignatius.
Given that Syria's prewar population was not 10 percent of ours, this is the equivalent of a million dead and wounded Americans. What justifies America's participation in this slaughter?
Columnist Eric Margolis summarizes the successes of the six-year civil war to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
"The result of the western-engendered carnage in Syria was horrendous: at least 475,000 dead, 5 million Syrian refugees driven into exile in neighboring states (Turkey alone hosts three million), and another 6 million internally displaced. ... 11 million Syrians ... driven from their homes into wretched living conditions and near famine.
"Two of Syria's greatest and oldest cities, Damascus and Aleppo, have been pounded into ruins. Jihadist massacres and Russian and American air strikes have ravaged once beautiful, relatively prosperous Syria. Its ancient Christian peoples are fleeing for their lives before US and Saudi takfiri religious fanatics."
Realizing the futility of U.S. policy, President Trump is cutting aid to the rebels. And the War Party is beside itself. Says The Lame Stream Wall Street Journal:
"The only way to reach an acceptable diplomatic solution is if Iran and Russia feel they are paying too high a price for their Syria sojourn. This means more support for Mr. Assad's enemies, not cutting them off without notice. And it means building up a Middle East coalition willing to fight Islamic State and resist Iran. The U.S. should also consider enforcing 'safe zones' in Syria for anti-Assad forces."
Yet, fighting ISIS and al-Qaida in Syria, while bleeding the Assad-Iran-Russia-Hezbollah victors, is a formula for endless war and unending terrors visited upon the Syrian people.
What injury did the Assad regime, in power for half a century and having never attacked us, inflict to justify what we have helped to do to that country?
Is this war moral by our own standards?
Given that Syria's prewar population was not 10 percent of ours, this is the equivalent of a million dead and wounded Americans. What justifies America's participation in this slaughter?
Columnist Eric Margolis summarizes the successes of the six-year civil war to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
"The result of the western-engendered carnage in Syria was horrendous: at least 475,000 dead, 5 million Syrian refugees driven into exile in neighboring states (Turkey alone hosts three million), and another 6 million internally displaced. ... 11 million Syrians ... driven from their homes into wretched living conditions and near famine.
"Two of Syria's greatest and oldest cities, Damascus and Aleppo, have been pounded into ruins. Jihadist massacres and Russian and American air strikes have ravaged once beautiful, relatively prosperous Syria. Its ancient Christian peoples are fleeing for their lives before US and Saudi takfiri religious fanatics."
Realizing the futility of U.S. policy, President Trump is cutting aid to the rebels. And the War Party is beside itself. Says The Lame Stream Wall Street Journal:
"The only way to reach an acceptable diplomatic solution is if Iran and Russia feel they are paying too high a price for their Syria sojourn. This means more support for Mr. Assad's enemies, not cutting them off without notice. And it means building up a Middle East coalition willing to fight Islamic State and resist Iran. The U.S. should also consider enforcing 'safe zones' in Syria for anti-Assad forces."
Yet, fighting ISIS and al-Qaida in Syria, while bleeding the Assad-Iran-Russia-Hezbollah victors, is a formula for endless war and unending terrors visited upon the Syrian people.
What injury did the Assad regime, in power for half a century and having never attacked us, inflict to justify what we have helped to do to that country?
Is this war moral by our own standards?
We overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Moammar Gadhafi in
2012. Yet, the fighting, killing and dying in both countries have not ceased.
Estimates of the Iraq civilian and military dead run into the hundreds of
thousands.
Still, the worst humanitarian disaster may be unfolding in Yemen.
After the Houthis overthrew the Saudi-backed regime and took over the country, the Saudis in 2015 persuaded the United States to support its air strikes, invasion and blockade.
By January 2016, the U.N. estimated a Yemeni civilian death toll of 10,000, with 40,000 wounded. However, the blockade of Yemen, which imports 90 percent of its food, has caused a crisis of malnutrition and impending famine that threatens millions of the poorest people in the Arab world with starvation.
No matter how objectionable we found these dictators, what vital interests of ours were so imperiled by the continued rule of Saddam, Assad, Gadhafi and the Houthis that they would justify what we have done to the peoples of those countries?
"They make a desert and call it peace," Calgacus said of the Romans he fought in the first century. Will that be our epitaph?
Among the principles for a just war, it must be waged as a last resort, to address a wrong suffered, and by a legitimate authority. Deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.
The wars in Syria, Libya and Yemen were never authorized by Congress. The civilian dead, wounded and uprooted in Syria, and the malnourished millions in Yemen, represent a moral cost that seems far beyond any proportional moral gain from those conflicts.
In which of the countries we have attacked or invaded in this century — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen — are the people better off than they were before we came?
And we wonder why they hate us.
"Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return," wrote W. H. Auden in "September 1, 1939."
Still, the worst humanitarian disaster may be unfolding in Yemen.
After the Houthis overthrew the Saudi-backed regime and took over the country, the Saudis in 2015 persuaded the United States to support its air strikes, invasion and blockade.
By January 2016, the U.N. estimated a Yemeni civilian death toll of 10,000, with 40,000 wounded. However, the blockade of Yemen, which imports 90 percent of its food, has caused a crisis of malnutrition and impending famine that threatens millions of the poorest people in the Arab world with starvation.
No matter how objectionable we found these dictators, what vital interests of ours were so imperiled by the continued rule of Saddam, Assad, Gadhafi and the Houthis that they would justify what we have done to the peoples of those countries?
"They make a desert and call it peace," Calgacus said of the Romans he fought in the first century. Will that be our epitaph?
Among the principles for a just war, it must be waged as a last resort, to address a wrong suffered, and by a legitimate authority. Deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.
The wars in Syria, Libya and Yemen were never authorized by Congress. The civilian dead, wounded and uprooted in Syria, and the malnourished millions in Yemen, represent a moral cost that seems far beyond any proportional moral gain from those conflicts.
In which of the countries we have attacked or invaded in this century — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen — are the people better off than they were before we came?
And we wonder why they hate us.
"Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return," wrote W. H. Auden in "September 1, 1939."
As the
peoples of Syria and the other broken and bleeding countries of the Middle East
flee to Europe and America, will not some come with revenge on their minds and
hatred in their hearts?
Meanwhile, as the Americans bomb across the Middle East, China rises. She began the century with a GDP smaller than Italy's and now has an economy that rivals our own.
She has become the world's first manufacturing power, laid claim to the islands of the East and South China seas, and told America to keep her warships out of the Taiwan Strait.
Xi Jinping has launched a "One Belt, One Road" policy to finance trade ports and depots alongside the military and naval bases being established in Central and South Asia.
Meanwhile, the Americans, $20 trillion in debt, running $800 billion trade deficits, unable to fix their health care system, reform their tax code, or fund an infrastructure program, prepare to fight new Middle East war.
Whom the Gods would destroy...
Meanwhile, as the Americans bomb across the Middle East, China rises. She began the century with a GDP smaller than Italy's and now has an economy that rivals our own.
She has become the world's first manufacturing power, laid claim to the islands of the East and South China seas, and told America to keep her warships out of the Taiwan Strait.
Xi Jinping has launched a "One Belt, One Road" policy to finance trade ports and depots alongside the military and naval bases being established in Central and South Asia.
Meanwhile, the Americans, $20 trillion in debt, running $800 billion trade deficits, unable to fix their health care system, reform their tax code, or fund an infrastructure program, prepare to fight new Middle East war.
Whom the Gods would destroy...
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