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In the even bigger picture of things, 1 step back further, to see what’s going on with this Iran P5+1 agreement now supposedly signed/approved after years of pre-planning, some forums have noted that since they (international controllers) are of a psychopathic bent that prevents them ever doing any good deeds to anyone, there has to be an ulterior reason why they’ve now allowed Iran oil out, starting sometime 1/2 2016.
Of special note is the flurry of multinationals lined up to go back in & drill there.
So again the rumors of that freak superfield Ghawar in S.A. pumping since the 1930’s truly being on its last legs resurface again. This story recycles every 5-6 years I’ve noted. Its contribution to the total mentioned 34B bbl/year world consumption is tiny now, but the flatlining of total crude output including condensates, NGL liquids since 2005 is not a mirage.
Note this talks crude oil only, despite Iran having in the top 2 or 3 world gas reserves.
To note also is it now takes far more man-hours, drill depth, & dollars to find a barrel of oil than 40- 50 years ago–the EROEI just keeps dropping. All the easy pickings shallow pools are pretty much gone, except for the vast under-explored regions of a very few known oil-rich regions like…IRAN.
BTW, Oilprice is a known big oil mouthpiece.
http://www.safehaven.com/article/39999/10-trillion-investment-needed-to-avoid-massive-oil-price-spike-says-opec
At the same time, OPEC also issued a word of caution in its report. While oil markets experience oversupply in the short- to medium-term, massive investments in exploration and production are still needed to meet demand over the long-term. OPEC believes $10 trillion will be necessary over the next 25 years to ensure adequate oil supplies
with a 100 dollars per barell,a war would be very expensive,but wit 20 – 30/barell is less costly,particullary with the modern fully motorised armies of today – just think about that…
I noticed how the Golan Heights hang where the action is. In any action taking the heights is critical to survival. Taking the high road likewise.
To take the heights I have to have my feet planted deep in the earth. As above so below. As below so above in a holographic, multi-polar world.
When Israel’s luck runs out about the same time as Uncle Sam’s counterfeit money, it will be a sitting duck because it ducked this basic Golden Heights Rule by taking the low road of plunder.
Love will make all things right in her own time. It may be splendor and wonder for some and lightning and thunder for others.
The Golan Gamble is going to stumble when the cards turn and the bets burn.
latest Thug Life: Turkey
This clears the court docket so now the really serious cases can get underway, like all those (ex) journalists charged with dissing the fuhrer.
A Turkish court in Adana acquitted five Turkish suspects accused of procuring chemicals used in production of sarin gas, Zaman reported.
In May 2013, media reported that Turkish special service officers arrested members of Syrian opposition group who were in possession of two kilograms of sarin.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151230/1032514942/turkey-court-suspects-sarin-gas.html
Update different article now says they did manage to convict a Syrian!
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_court-sentences-syrian-in-sarin-gas-case-to-12-years-acquits-turkish-suspects_408229.html
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced in absentia a Syrian national accused of attempting to obtain chemicals used in the production of sarin gas to 12 years in jail and acquitted five Turkish suspects, bringing a two-and-a-half-year case that has stirred political controversy to a close.
Yes,they “managed” to convict a “Syrian” for that (but only one in absentia.) While turning loose the “Turks” involved in it. Wow,”gotta love the Turkish justice system”.
And in some other news. The “poor soul” Erdogan saved from committing “suicide” on the bridge is now revealed to be a Turkish security services man (i.e. secret police member). But “luckily” Erdogan was there to save him (along with a bunch of Turkish press cameramen to record in for the news channels).Seriously,how gullible are the Turkish people and the West that they would even think of falling for such a ridiculous stunt by Erdogan. Instead of a “Sultan”,he more resembles a “court jester”.
And Putin is conducting a “poll” among Crimeans,to see if they want Russia to continue to buy electricity from Ukraine. Since,yes,once again,the terrorists have blown up another electric pylon in Ukraine. Re-cutting off the electricity to Crimea. I have a feeling the poll results will say Crimeans (rightfully) say “hell no” to Ukraine.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151229/1032461807/erdogans-spotted-laundering-money-eu.html
The family of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transformed into a “carnivorous octopus” which has entangled the Turkish economy and politics, extending its tentacles far beyond the state, Czech-based freelance journalist and analyst Martin Berger emphasizes.
When and “if” Syrians are able to defeat the terrorists. And reclaim their country,whole again. The Syrians need to consider taking military action against those neighbors having aided the terrorists. Syria should “play the Pakistan” to Turkey’s playing Afghanistan. And Syria should arm,train,and fund,Kurds inside Turkey. And if Turkey tries to bomb them shoot them out of the sky. I don’t believe overlooking the 4 years of war,and hundreds of thousands of Syrians killed because of foreign aggression should even be an option.
On, “if and when”, what looks like a significant development: This terrorist leader named Zahran Alloush got killed by Syrian air force bombs. Seems he was a fairly major guy and may have been involved in the false-flag poison gas attacks. Might leave something of a power vacuum and some confusion in Jaish al-Islam.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/31/syria-rebel-leaders-assassination-a-major-blow-to-us-agenda/
As to messing with Turkey, I suspect they’ll need to spend some time getting the country back on its feet before they do too much of that, but I understand the motivation.
Erdogan’s a fool. He could have made the Kurd problem go away and had a positive legacy, but he decided to be expansionist and destabilize the government of the country next door with Kurds of its own, while simultaneously double-crossing his own Kurds.
I’m a Canadian. In Canada, we have Quebec, and the francophone Quebecois had their grievances and were considering separation. They really aren’t any more–the separatist political party is still there, but increasingly they’re about as separatist as Francois Hollande is Socialist. Nobody cares any more. Why? Simple. Their grievances were addressed. Francophones with a strong cultural agenda got elected to provincial government, and they dealt with the problems–made sure the French language was safeguarded, French education dominated, French cultural institutions were powerful. Now there’s no Anglo elite controlling Quebec, nothing like a second-class status for Quebec Francophones, and so there’s nothing to gripe about except the usual which-province-is-getting-the-most-federal-dollars grumbles every province mutters about.
If Erdogan had just said “OK, we’ll let you guys have school in your own language and get government services in majority Kurdish areas to give service in Kurdish and generally stop trying to dominate and marginalize you guys and have the secret services lay off you,” bingo he would have had peace and the Turkish Kurds would have little need to separate. Would have taken a while for temperatures to cool, but in 15, 20 years the younger Kurds would be all “What is it with the old people and their separation thing?”
There are two factors that can cause a people to put any serious effort into a program of separation. The first is, they’re getting stepped on. Stop stepping on them and it goes away. The Turks, and many others actually, have been historically unwilling to learn this lesson because they want cultural homogeneity (and because they’re racist). My own Canada has had its share of this kind of thing; the Residential Schools were explicitly intended to wipe out indigenous culture.
The second, which has only appeared recently, is the central government is letting neoliberalism cream the country real bad, particularly outlying areas, and people think maybe if they could run things themselves they could do better. That’s what we’re seeing in Catalonia and Scotland, for instance. They are likely to often be wrong unless the political movement in question really understands the issues and there’s a really big groundswell of the public who know what they’re up against and are determined to beat international control.
There is a third, but it’s fake–foreigners stirring the pot. Colour revolutions and all that.
” When and “if” Syrians are able to defeat the terrorists”
This has never been even a question. Ever since Russia entered the scene, NATO’s synthetic mercenary armies stand no chance whatsoever. Zero. The only open question is: Will NATO do something colossally stupid and reckless?
I don’t think so, but considering the fact that the empire is sinking and its elites are somewhat in a frenzy, nothing can be ruled out.
Secret Docs: Reagan Prepared for Soviet Nuclear Talks With Fiction Novel
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151230/1032514580/reagan-prepared-for-cold-war-talks-with-fiction-novel.html
“According to an account of a phone call between Reagan and Thatcher just after the talks in Iceland, the president “strongly commended” the prime minister to read the novel Red Storm Rising, written by author Tom Clancy.
The memo, marked secret and written by Mrs Thatcher’s private secretary and foreign policy advisor, described how Reagan thought the fiction novel was an “excellent” account of Moscow’s intentions during the talks.
“The President strongly commended to the Prime Minister a new book by the author of ‘Red October’ called (I think) ‘Red Storm Rising’. It gave an excellent picture of the Soviet Union’s intentions and strategy. He had clearly been much impressed by the book,” the memo read.
The story’s plot details a war fought to the brink of a nuclear battle between NATO and the Moscow-headed Warsaw Pact, and how Soviet forces would offer Washington a generous negotiation offer while secretly planning for war.
While the novel’s author, Tom Clancy, has been credited as being an astute observer of the Cold War, the writer later admitted that his primary source for information into NATO military strategies didn’t come from classified material, but from a freely accessible naval warfare board game.”
OK, that settles all the speculation, raygun was a closet gay… ;D
Several missile stories, this first one event really happened even caught on video:
First, there was a Bahraini fighter that went down in flames past 24 hours over S.A., so either A/A or a ground missile unknown, or a rare severe malfunction, or maybe accidentally shot down by a Patriot missile.
http://en.farsnews.com/player.aspx?nn=13941009001393
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India test-fires Barak-8 long range missile
Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:40PM
India has successfully test-fired a new long-range surface-to-air missile (LR SAM), which New Delhi says, is capable of countering aerial threats at extended ranges.
Indian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the Barak-8 missile system, jointly developed by India and Israel, was blasted off from the country’s warship INS Kolkata on Wednesday.
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3rd story again beware believing any of this missile hit news, since there’s never any attached proof from any drone, or info even on how/who is giving them this supposed blast damage from up to 100 miles away!
If the hits were really that accurate, there’d be so much confusion, damaged/clogged phone lines & censorship it would never be allowed out.
Same with those supposed 9 count now of the sunk by missiles Saudi patrol boats off Yemen.
Same goes for those reports past few days of missiles hitting the Aramco facilities in S.A. I suspect if even 1 was true, you’d see a big spike in crude price at least intraday.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Yemeni army and popular forces launched a fresh round of attacks on the Saudi forces’ positions in the province of Jizan in the Southern part of the kingdom with their upgraded ballistic missiles.
Yemen’s Qaher-I ballistic missile precisely hit Saudi Arabia’s military bases in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on them.
Tens of Saudi troops were killed and dozens more were injured in the missile attack.
Qaher-I is an updated version of a Russian-made surface-to-surface missile.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941009000820
pssst buddy, free mansion and all the sex you can eat in florida if you let us loot your country… please….
U.S. held secret communications with Syrian government; explored ways to encourage a military coup in 2011
American intelligence officials identified army officers belonging to Assad’s minority Alawite sect who could lead a coup, but they found few weak spots to exploit, the Journal said, citing interviews with more than two dozen people, including current and former U.S. officials.
“The White House’s policy in 2011 was to get to the point of a transition in Syria by finding cracks in the regime and offering incentives for people to abandon Assad,” a former senior administration official was quoted as saying.
http://govtslaves.info/u-s-held-secret-communications-with-syrian-government-explored-ways-to-encourage-a-military-coup-in-2011/
“But not this year. I’m not ashamed of being Russian-born,”
This year, instead of drawing the curtains so their Israeli neighbors won’t see the celebration, a group of young likeminded Russian-born Israelis have set up a website, Israeli Novy God, to match up Russian speakers with native-born Israelis curious about a new cultural experience.
Read more: http://forward.com/news/israel/328328/russians-come-out-in-open-to-celebrate-novi-god-on-new-years-in-israel/#ixzz3vtGMipZq
Maybe its a mistake but the FSA says this was a T72 and not a T90… Russian delivered T-90s were only deployed in southern Aleppo. this TOW ATGM miss is in northern Hama.
T90 fires flares and makes TOW go off target… Guess it works… Could be 3D17 (Visual/IR) discharged 2-3 s before impact.
Very Interesting video. Rebels TOW ATGM deviated by a white smoke. IR Smoke grenade?
Missile launched at 0:18, unidentified flash/explosion generate a white smoke at 0:29, missile goes down at 0:30 and explode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7Whq2j1Xo
Other than the goodies on the T90 how to tell them apart from far away??
Syria Iraqi Badr fighters with a recently delivered T-90, southern Aleppo.
https://twitter.com/green_lemonnn/status/682564519374270464
Badr fighter posing with an ex-Iranian T-72S
https://twitter.com/green_lemonnn/status/682565505463513088
Syria TOW vs TOW. Hezbollah fighter with an Iranian TOW (Toofan) ATGM in Aleppo.
https://twitter.com/green_lemonnn/status/682496740143042560
Amerikan mercenaries… Guess its not a big deal… Just Ruskies are bad…
https://twitter.com/APulkki/status/682552968076521472
Its all just one big illusion!
U.S. Accused Of Smuggling 2000 ISIS Fighters Out Of Ramadi
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/us-accused-of-smuggling-2000-isis_31.html
A NY Times Xmas Fairy Tale: Baghdad Has ISIS on The Run
Iraq’s Retaking of Ramadi was a Staged Photo Op; ISIS Barely Put Up a Fight.
http://russia-insider.com/en/pictures-exhibition/ri12026
extract from extensive article re NATO-KOSOVO
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/327531-british-mps-nato-kosovo/
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“Indeed, NATO-sponsored impunity has been a consistent theme amongst the new Kosovan elite. A report by Amnesty International published in August 2013 noted that “the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) singularly failed to investigate the abduction and murders of Kosovo Serbs in the aftermath of the 1998-1999 conflict” adding that “UNMIK’s failure to investigate what constituted a widespread, as well as a systematic, attack on a civilian population and, potentially, crimes against humanity, has contributed to the climate of impunity prevailing in Kosovo.” Marty’s report, too, noted the “faltering political will on the part of the international community to effectively prosecute the former leaders of the KLA”, and Carla del Ponte, former chief war crimes prosecutor at the Hague, stated that she was barred from prosecuting KLA leaders.”
but note ref to Syria…………..”In a final twist to NATO’s ‘success story’, Kosovo has now become the largest per-capita provider of fighters for regime change in Syria. The official figure is 300 but more reliable estimates suggests the true figure is more than 1000 (from a population of 2 million), including one of the top ten ISIS commanders, Lavdrim Muhaxheri. As state education, along with most other social provision, has collapsed since 1999, Saudi-sponsored Madrasas have filled the gap, providing an extreme Wahhabi sectarian education now feeding its first generation of impoverished graduates into NATO’s new Syrian battlefields. No surprise, then, that Kosovan government’s efforts to prevent this have been “superficial and ineffective”, according to David Philips in the Huffington Post.
The ‘lesson’ of Kosovo, then, is not that “airpower works” or any other such nonsense. The real lesson is what it reveals about NATO’s formula for the destruction of independent regional powers – relying on a combination of aerial bombardment alongside the empowerment of local sectarian death squads, who come to dominate the political scene in the aftermath, obliterating the rule of law and guaranteeing a dysfunctional state incapable of providing either dignity or security to its citizens. This was the same formula that was used on Libya in 2011 and currently being attempted in Syria today. Of course, for NATO, all of this is indeed a success: Yugoslavia dismembered; its resources plundered at the expense of its desperate and impoverished people; and Kosovo turned into a provider of shock troops for regime change in Syria, and transit hub for heroin and organ trafficking. If this is what NATO calls a success, we must all pray for failure”
I want to draw your attention to this article on debka: Saudi and Egyptian marines capture Iran-held island at Red Sea chokepoint .
It is already old news – from 11 december – and the capture of Greater Hanish Island has been discussed here too. But what is interesting is that according to this article the island played a major role in Iranian support for the Houthi’s.
Captured by Yemeni rebels last May, the island was converted by Iranian officers into an armed base and one of Tehran’s largest depots for the supply of arms to its forces and proxies in the region. A fleet of small boats and fishing vessels kept the Yemeni Houthis amply armed for fending off the Saudi-led Arab coalition fighting to restore the exiled Yemeni government.
The Hanish island base also provided Iran with a commanding position for spreading its influence in Ethiopia and Eritrea on the eastern African seaboard.
Iran maintained on Greater Hanish Island advanced radar and electronic tracking stations for keeping an eye on military movements on the southern Saudi border with northern Yemen. They could also shadow oil tanker and other shipping passing through the Red Sea, and stake out Israel’s south- and east-bound sea traffic as it passed through the Gulf of Aqaba.
last month, Iran won a permit to establish an air and sea base in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa nation opposite the Gulf of Aden’s entrance to the Red Sea.
Of course this doesn’t have to be true. In fact it sounds rather improbable to me: why would the Saudi’s keep such clear evidence of Iranian involvement secret? It could certainly help them to win international diplomatic support.
But if this isn’t true it would be Israeli propaganda. And that would raise the question what kind of game Israel is playing…
debka sure is overreaching here.. maybe they are running out of material.. I saw some pics of the island and it seemed to be a fishing village. They killed a lot of fishermen.
When you get an infestation, smacking the hornets nest is the worst thing you can do. Especially when you have no idea where the nest is and you take a broom and smack anything and everything you think is causing you problems. Problems you yourself cause by stomping around on nests to show you will on the pests…
This has been going on for so long I think they have realized long ago that large organized resistance would be quickly put down. And not seeing any large organization, those who have such infrastructure thinks they are very strong.. until the ants get into your body armor.. after which the itch just becomes unbearable..
Also dont forget the US had been arming Yemen for years, the place is full of all kinds of weapons. They dont need more weapons, they just need techs to fix and modernize the stuff they already have. Which is what I see them doing now. IF iran is helping that is how they are doing it.
Everyone asks where is China in all of this, Right here! China’s plans to open a military facility in Djibouti have been giving US pundits the chills, with commentators suggesting that Beijing may be attempting to “edge out Western influence” in Africa and the Middle East. Russian experts suggest that the base is, more than anything, a sign that China is ready to emerge as a great naval power
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151130/1030992194/china-djibouti-great-naval-power.html
And Iran is stepping up it’s missile program in light of US sanctions threat…..
Syrian victory over invader’s well nigh complete. As the US keeps providing cover for ISIS in Iraq their liberation will be next.
Happy New Year.
RR