The Middle East
The Yemeni army and popular forces continued their advances in Southern Saudi Arabia, inflicting losses on the military hardware of the kingdom’s government troops.
“On Monday, the Yemeni army and popular forces took control of a military base in Najran province.
“The Yemeni forces captured a military base with all its military equipment near the city of Najran,” Senior Ansarullah Commander Ali al-Hamzani told FNA.
He said that the Yemeni army and popular forces have intensified their military operations deep inside Saudi Arabia as they are sustaining further losses and casualties.”
“Senior Yemeni commander Ali al-Houthi told FNA on Saturday that there have been “heavy clashes between the Yemeni forces and the Saudi mercenaries in the Eastern parts of Ma’rib”, adding that the Saudi-backed mercenaries sustained heavy death toll during the battle.
“Tens of the Saudi-backed forces have been killed and wounded in Ta’iz and Ma’rib provinces,” he said, and continued, “Also, over 100 Saudi coalition-backed mercenaries have fled their bases after their wages were delayed and cut.”
Also late last month, another Yemeni commander also disclosed that a large number of pro-Saudi mercenaries have fled the battlefield as the Saudi government has ceased its support for them.
“After the Saudi government stopped its financial support for the terrorists and militias loyal to the Saudi regime, a growing wave of the terrorists are leaving the Saudi-led Arab coalition military bases,” Senior Ansarullah Commander Hossein Al-Houthi said.”
On Dec 6, 2016 People in Yemen have staged a mass rally to voice their support for the newly formed national salvation government.
The demonstrators also slammed Saudi Arabia’s air raids on Yemen. They shouted slogans against the al-Saud regime as well as Israel. The salvation government is led by former governor of Aden, Abdul Aziz Bin Habtoor. It is tasked with running Yemen’s internal affairs and dealing with Saudi Arabia’s aggression against the impoverished nation. Over eleven-thousand 4-hundred Yemenis have been killed since the Saudi war began in March 2015.
Where are these 250k people in east Aleppo? We are liberating empty neighborhoods, asks Leith Abou Fadel, a CEO of Al-Masdar News.
Where the f*** are these 250k people in east Aleppo? We are liberating empty neighborhoods.
— Leith Abou Fadel (@leithfadel) December 7, 2016
Military police from Chechnya to be deployed to Syria to hunt those pesky 800 US and Israeli SOF operatives, needed for the international war tribunal
BREAKING: Greek court rules to extradite 3 Turkish coup soldiers, by Paul Antonopoulos
Also, the Reuters and German DW reported that some Turkish military officers at NATO are seeking political asylum in Germany and Belgium, after Turkish authorities had dismissed hundreds of senior military staff serving with NATO in Europe and the United States after the failed coup past summer. More than 400 military staff and diplomats have been summoned back to Ankara, according to documents seen by Reuters, but some are choosing not to return.
Speaking about a personality cult…
In Tel Aviv someone erected a gilded statue to Netanyahu
According to the local reports, Israeli doctors caused death of more than 3000 patients in 2016.
Ran Balicer, the Director of the Health Policy Planning & Director of Clalit Research Institute at Clalit Health Services, said in his interview that Israeli health Service lacks everything.
Israeli IDF annoyed that Obama promised him an invasion of Syria and didn’t deliver.
Israeli IDF annoyed that Obama promised him an invasion of Syria and didn't deliver. pic.twitter.com/EZ0Qw6O9vg
— Partisangirl (@Partisangirl) December 4, 2016
Israel, however, will be just fine with the “allies” like the “moderate opposition.”
Message from Syrian opposition ” Moderate ” Fahd Al-Massri ” to the people of Israel asking them to came back to Syria
UN passes resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights
The United Nations General Assembly has once again passed a resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights, territory that the Tel Aviv regime has occupied since 1967.
In response, on Dec 7, 2016 the Israeli military has razed more Palestinian structures in the Jordan Valley, north of the city of Jericho. Israeli bulldozers, backed by troops, demolished two healthcare facilities in the area. Palestinian sources said Israeli forces also destroyed several steel structures there. It followed similar demolitions in East Jerusalem al-Quds on Tuesday. Tel Aviv has intensified its demolition of Palestinian property since January. The United Nations say the demolition of Palestinian homes has displaced over 1,500people in 2016. That’s almost double the figure for the previous year.
In addition on Dec 7, 2016 Syrian military sources say Israel has launched rocket attacks, targeting a military airport near the Syrian capital Damascus. The ground-to-ground missiles were reportedly launched from inside the occupied territories and hit Mezzeh Airport west of Damascus. The rockets triggered a fire, but no causalities have been reported so far. The Israeli military has not commented on the report. It was the second such attack by Israel over the past week. On November 30, Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace toward the outskirts of Damascus.
Iran accuses Israel in invasion of South Syria to help Daesh
What’s Israel’s end game?
Two keep region in chaos, to get Iranian Influence out and expand its artificial(based on genocide) existence, in my humble opinion.
China
The Coming War on China, by John Pilger
India
Russia and India cooperation is getting a new transportation boost in form of the multimodal North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC)
· INSIC Dry Run Report from 2014
· Russian Railways: North-South International Transport Corridor
· North-South Transport Corridor to Benefit Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran
“The North-South project plays an enormous role for the development of the region. Russia and Iran are our neighbors with large economies. It is exciting that our neighbors’ routes cross in Azerbaijan. Political and economic relations between our countries are at a high level. The North-South project will bring dividends to Azerbaijan, Russia and Iran,” Gurbanov told journalists.
Ukraine
European Court of Auditors (ECA) was unable to determine how the Ukrainian government spent billions of euros provided by EU to Ukraine
But former Ukrainian PM bought 24 houses in Miami, as MSM told
Another huge victory of Kiev regime The European Union (EU) has banned poultry imports from Ukraine. Before this ban, Ukraine exported 32,000 tons of poultry and poultry products to the EU between January and October, a 20 percent increase year-on-year.
Evidence: NATO instructors train Kiev Nazis armed forces in armed conflict in the eastern Ukraine
Meanwhile, the military veterans left without means to exist demonstrate against Avakov, the country’s the Minister of Internal Affairs. It’s being reported by the Hromadske TV, a rabidly anti-Russia propaganda tool. It looks like a part of the internal struggles for power inside the Kiev junta. It’s common for the fractions to use staged people’s protests to demand the resignation of their rivals.
Військові пенсіонери під Верховною Радою закликають притягнути голову МВС Арсена Авакова до кримінальної відповідальності pic.twitter.com/3wUJSy0HKK
— Hromadske.UA (@HromadskeUA) December 6, 2016
Forbes clams that: “According to their financial report for the year ending 2015, they have nearly a dozen foreign backers.” The Canada International Development Agency (CIDA); the Embassy of The Netherlands in Ukraine; another Canadian charity called the Ukrainian World Foundation; independent DC-based Pact World; the U.S. Embassy of Ukraine’s Media Development Fund; California based Internews Network; Swiss Cooperation Office and the Swiss International Development Agency; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s fund is one of the four biggest donors; the Swedish International Liberal Center; Thomson Foundation; the German Embassy of Ukraine and the biggest funder of all, the European Commission’s Ukrainian delegation office. The U.S. is the smallest donor while European and Canadian government backed agencies are the biggest.”
NATO a.k.a. the Western Coalition
The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies report on the U.S. bio-weapons facilities on the former Soviet Union territories around Russia
New Eastern Outlook @JournalNEO tweeted that there are up to 800 Western (US, UK, France) instructors in Aleppo. That’s the reason of all those cries around: Russia, Assad stop offensive.
Did The US-Led Coalition Give The Coordinates Of A Russian Aleppo Hospital To Al-Qaeda For A Missile Attack, by Tyler Durden
The U.S. Navy’s Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group (Ike CSG) entered the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations on December 4 following a Suez Canal transit.
Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike) was accompanied by guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) and guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), after five months of providing air support operations in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and conducting maritime security operations in the Arabian Gulf.
In the last Obama’s National Security speech, he unveils the plans to finish up the Iraq’s military in order to the US to stay in Iraq forever.
He literally says: “By 2011, Iraqis wanted our military presence to end, and they were unwilling to sign a new Status of Forces Agreement to protect our troops from prosecution if they were trying to defend themselves in Iraq. ” “In fact, American troops, had they stayed there, would have lacked legal protections…”
read: The US invasion has been illegal from the day one
but… something had happened… Suddenly, we armed ISIS and…
“But circumstances changed. When ISIL made substantial gains first in Mosul and then in other parts of the country, then suddenly Iraqis reached out once again for help.”
Suddenly, the US occupation of Iraq gained legality.
“We built an international coalition of nearly 70 nations, including some of Iraq’s neighbors. ” – read that NATO members, Israel and Saudis are interested in indefinite occupation of Iraq and indefinite destabilization of the Middle East.
Another way to stimulate the “loyalty” is too kill a target country politicians and journalists
A week after the Finnish Minister Kai Mykkanen rejected sanctions against Russia …
Woman mayor and two female reporters were shot dead by a SNIPER who blasted them in the head and torso with a hunting rifle as they left a restaurant in a small town on the border of Finland and Russia.
and, as a bonus
Putin on goals and dreams: I want to successfully complete my career!
Thank you for your time,
Baaz
Not one White Helmet will be found in east Aleppo. They will not be seen helping the trapped civilians flee the bombing. They will just have disappeared as though they never existed.
What you mean by ‘as though they never existed’?
Yes, Soros’ White Helmets vanished from Aleppo just in time, but that is only because they have appointments in London, Hollywood and who knows where to pick up hard earned peace prizes, trophies for bravery and the like.
The attempts to capture western SF will be too late. They will have used the recent diversions and the actions of the diehards to escape the cauldron through quiet routes or specifically constructed tunnels.
I just woke up and for a moment I thought that SF might mean San Francisco.
Quite a jolt, and yet, not.
Israel has just made a shit-stirring (and totally ineffective) strike against an SAA airbase in south Syria. It is notable that they used ground to ground missiles to carry out the attack. They did not dare risk the lives of their precious fly boys.
well said
What’s Israel’s end game?
To continue to try to take over as much of the ME resources (water, oil, gas, fertile land) as possible while destabilising and frgamenting residual enemy states (not just in the ME but in Europe)
What’s Israel’s end game? someone asked. I’m astonished that people don’t know about the Oded Yinon Project. Please Google it as well as the audio book on YouTube called “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” Something like 3:38:00 in length. Have a bucket nearby.
Yay! To Riyadh… and beyond!! I look forward to the day when Saudi Arabia is a Shia nation – or, better still, a tolerant multi-faith society like Syria.
Why wouldn’t you think of them Arabs becoming again a Christian nation, as it largely was before the Scourge of Allah descended upon them for their sins? It is time for repentance (‘metanoia’=change of mind).
Thanks for this information, Baaz.
I wonder, have you anything more on the “Military police from Chechnya to be deployed to Syria to hunt those pesky 800 US and Israeli SOF operatives, needed for the international war tribunal”
The subtitles to the video just seemed to be soldiers banter and not very informative.
Is this mention of a possible war tribunal just a rumour or something more solid?
Its certainly long overdue.
Re: VVP video with the young guys. The Oh-blah-ba heartful & spontaneous reaction in a similar situation would most likely sound like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBL7VT58VHw
And I would love to hear his voice, when his telepromter stops… ;)
“New Eastern Outlook @JournalNEO tweeted that there are up to 800 Western (US, UK, France) instructors in Aleppo. That’s the reason of all those cries around: Russia, Assad stop offensive.”
Well, if that is true, I would be curious if some kind of cease-fire will be agreed upon, just to let those western instructors out and in this case the Chechen military police soldiers to be sent there is a pressure. Or, they will be made captive or annihilated.
Perhaps Russia and the SAA should spare them the same way they have spared the Russian doctors and the tens of thousands of innocent civlilian deaths they have caused. After all, the equation “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” has two halves.
I doubt there are any western operatives trapped in Aleppo. If there was at the start, they would have been out by the time of, or during the jihadi breakthrough. Like the yanks getting out of Yemen early, they would have seen the writing on the wall.
Talk of trapped advisors/intelligence personal ect seem more rumor and gossip rather than anything substantial.
Thank you Baaz.
Interesting update on Yemen….shocked by the murders in Finland….
A couple of (to me) correlated stories on RT today. One shows a poll in Russia (this one was by the pro-government polling organization) saying that the Russian public is satisfied with the “political” situation in Russia. But unsatisfied with the “economic” situation in Russia:
“Russians approve of their nation’s political course, but upset over economic situation, poll shows”
https://www.rt.com/politics/369364-russians-approve-of-their-nations/
The other related (to me) story is on the government “privatizing” a large part of a major state owned Oil Company:
“19.5% of Russian oil giant Rosneft sold in ‘biggest privatization deal of 2016”
https://www.rt.com/business/369554-rosneft-biggest-privatization-deal/
As much as many of us keep believing (hoping) that the government will move back to more government input in the economy.I think its time to realize that the Russian government is committed to the “capitalist” model of economy. No steps that I’ve seen (least of all the one today) tells me that they understand the need to return to the full industrialization lost in the 1990’s.And to break the power over Russia of the neo-liberal Westerners.The ideas and plans of economists like Glaznev to rebuild the economy seem to be falling on deaf ears.
The greatest way to create human, industrial and infrastructure capital is socialism.
The most efficient way to then efficiently exploit capital is capitalism.
Putting labour representation on the board as per Germany is a very effective balance between these poles as does the mixed economy that China deploys:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy
The government should be interested in bring costs down. Transportation, housing, child raising (1-3 children), defence, utilities and commodities.
Anything that is not a natural monopoly should be left to the free market, but with jury based allocations of government generated capital from generating government controlled currency.
Banking and media however should be a government controlled utility business only.
Protectionism where necessary but not everywhere.
Marxism, both corporate and social and Talmudism must be avoided like a plague.
Instead look at ancient Greek philosophy, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle for a start. Then look at Confuscanism for some more.
The human capital is fed up with being exploited.
The ‘free market’ is a myth — neither capitalism not markets exist with the government to enact laws.
You apparently do not understand Marx’s work and his critique of capitalism (the end stage of which is fascism and war lords).
Sorry — that should have been …exist without the government…
The problem with a ‘free market’ is the oligarchs are free to do whatever they want, a la , golden sacks, jpmorgan, citi, etc, bring back Glass Steagal act, and let the banks gambol with their own money, not depositers savings.
Curious. What do you think about Russian goernment attitudes to israel, UB1?
Sadly,I don’t think they have a problem with Israel. I think except for Israels problems with Syria and Iran,which affect Russia. As far as Israel itself goes the Russian government is neutral about Israel.The ties between the Russian Jews in Israel,and those in Russia,are far more important to the Russian government than Israel’s actions to the Palestinians. A great number of Jews in Russia are supporters of Putin’s. And there are many others that are supporters of the 5th column. But its a complicated situation. We fool ourselves if we think Putin is somehow very anti-Israeli. I see nothing that would lead me to think that. As long as Israel doesn’t attack Syria or Iran.Russia won’t make any anti-Israeli moves.Putin is the World’s number one believer in “realpolitik” and nowhere more so than in the Middle East.
Exactly! And they sold it to non other than Qatari sovereign fund. Does Russia has its own sovereign fund?
I don’t know how my reply to Uncle Bob 1’s comment on the Rosneft’s sale to Qatari sovereign fund ended up here where it’s totally out of context.
Sorry Uncle Bob 1.
I read somewhere that the main group of investors in Deutsche Bank’s investment portfolio are Quataris.
Given the shape that bank is in, I find this news doubly ominous…
Thanks,I think it has to do with how many other replies are made to a post. But yes,I saw that about the Qataris. And was also not happy about that.Then I thought more about it. And “if” you are going to sell your resources out to foreign states. Maybe selling them out to enemies makes the enemies have a stake in your success. So it might have been a smart move selling to them. Now,I think you realize that I totally oppose the selling of Russia’s resources like that “period”. And certainly not to foreign money. But “if” they were going to do that. Selling to Qatar isn’t the worst choice to make.That would be selling them to the US ,or buyers from “any” NATO state (or Ukraine,if they even had the money to buy them).
Thanks, Baaz, for a very informative sitrep.
US Navy Admiral Says American Interests Challenged by Russian ‘Arc of Steel’
https://sputniknews.com/world/201612081048298526-russian-arc-steel/
Apparently foggo is worried…got to keep up that Russophobia. Apt name, BTW.
Amazing Russophobia in today’s Daily Mail……uk spy chief warning of highly organised Islamic terrorists cells attacking because of the chaos caused by Russia being in Syria- implying it is all the fault of VVP.
Also phobia re Kaliningrad in article today…..”Putin’s missiles” there…..but if one ignores the bee eess of the illicit reporting,that VVP is clearly-haha-intending to launch an attack on the Baltics, there are some rather interesting photos of Kaliningrad’s defences and facilities bravely holding out against western intentions to take that region and isolate it from Russia…and or possibly to use the existence of the so called secret “chilling” missile base as an excuse to R2P by NATO???Hmm.
“Another way to stimulate the “loyalty” is too kill a target country politicians and journalists
A week after the Finnish Minister Kai Mykkanen rejected sanctions against Russia …
Woman mayor and two female reporters were shot dead by a SNIPER who blasted them in the head and torso with a hunting rifle as they left a restaurant in a small town on the border of Finland and Russia.”
This is how the Jewish mafia operates, along with their fellow gay fascist right.
Did you actually read the articles linked to? What correlation did you find in the two articles? Aside from the authors assertion, I found nothing that would lead me to think these two things were related.
The fact that a butterfly flapping its wings in one hemisphere can set off a hurricane in another, and that peculiar causal chains have led back before before to Israel from states that ‘displeased’ it (Palestine alone would offer scores of examples) justifies Baaz, and anyone else, in conflating the two events.
From the Finnish paper carrying the story: “There was no known motive and police were unaware of any other possible victims. No other details were immediately available.”
Combine the above to the firmly justified ‘reverse onus’ status of the criminal, apartheid, land-thieving state of Israel and voila.
Franz, agreed. This is a message by empire to Finland.
It also makes sense of the countries trying to walk a delicate tight rope between staying under empires radar and having sensible neutral policies in Northern Europe.
Not much different to that supposed assassination attempt on a US female politician which took out a District Court Judge who was on an important case in the US. She was the distraction to the real target and the MSM focused on her whilst the death John M. Roll, the chief judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona was a foot note. Especially given the case he was working on at the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09giffords.html
Journalism Fail: Washington Post Story on ‘Fake News’ Was Fake
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612081048298376-washington-post-back-peddling-fake-news/
Jewish zios peddling fake news, who would of thought? These are the sacrosanct critters who have helped to kill millions in further of greater israel ambitions.
The zionazi abomination needs to see what nazis, not enough of them, saw at Nuremberg. They are 100% the same subhuman criminal element.
Elite US Special Forces Exhausted by ‘Unclear, Restrictive Rules of Engagement’
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612081048300243-us-special-forces-overused/
Essentially, these bum bandits are worried that should they murder defenseless civilians, will the sitting pindo regime cover their chickenshit faggot arses should the subject of well deserved war crimes trials come up.
A mistake might have slipped into the report above: Ike carrier battle group entered the area of Arabian Sea not -Gulf. As everyone is aware of the internationally recognized boundaries, Persian GULF is lays past the Straights of Hormuz.
it wasnt a mistake. the west intentionally calls the persian gulf – arabian gulf. the west distorts everything, whether history, internatinal law, agreements, geography – everything is fair game to them if it suits their interests. such filth.
Does anyone have an idea why Russia is letting Israel continuously strike Syria? Russia’s Syria missile shield was touted as more than sufficient to stop U.S. missile attacks against Syria. Israeli Jets were also supposedly shot down over Syria. Why is Israel getting away with these punitive attacks which are certainly in support of Syria/Russia’s foes?
My totally uninformed guess would be along the lines of some agreement between Russia & Israel to allow totally ineffectual Israeli attacks to take place in order to placate the Israeli RW.
Mr Putin made some kind of deal/accommodation with Israel some months ago in which he would not interfere with Israel’s ongoing fight with Hezbollah and Israel would not interfere with SAA. Since Hezbollah and SAA are often fighting alongside each other, that has to be a very complicated situation.
It was reported at the time but not in much detail.
I don’t have a link, sorry.
“Another way to stimulate the “loyalty” is too kill a target country politicians and journalists
A week after the Finnish Minister Kai Mykkanen rejected sanctions against Russia …
Woman mayor and two female reporters were shot dead by a SNIPER who blasted them in the head and torso with a hunting rifle as they left a restaurant in a small town on the border of Finland and Russia.”
I read both of those articles that were linked to, and frankly there is no correlation whatsoever between them. Whats up with that?
I can see from this video that both NATO and Nulandistani military vehicles marked with a Red Cross are just saying ‘AIM HERE ‘.
ISIS Launches Large-Scale Attack On Syrian Govt Forces Near Palmyra, Claims To Kill 60 Soldiers
https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/08dec-eastern-Homs-Province.jpg?x50264
ISIS Achieves Significant Gains Near Palmyra, Continues Advance
https://southfront.org/isis-achieves-significant-gains-near-palmyra-continues-advance/
December 8 morning ISIS terrorists launched multiple offensives against Syrian government forces near Palmyra and seized notable areas northwest of the city, including Jazal.
The tactical goal of the ISIS operation is to encircle Syrian troops in Palmyra, cutting off the Homs-Al-Salamiyah-Palmyra highway.
https://southfront.org/syria-map-update-military-situation-in-area-of-palmyra-on-december-8-2016/
Is this a Tit for Tat?