Nikki Haley wordt in de VN vervangen door een blonde versie van Nikki Haley

Caitlin
Johnstone plaatste gisteren een artikel over de
keus van de Trump administratie voor VS ambassadeur bij de VN Veiligheidsraad, nu oorlogshitser, pathologische leugenaar en psychopaat Nikki Haley.

De keus is gevallen op Heather
Nauert, voormalig Fox presentator en huidig woordvoerder van het
VS ministerie van buitenlandse zaken. Een neoliberale ploert die niet
onderdoet voor haat- en angstzaaier Haley, zoals ze bij Fox en
in haar functie als buitenlandse zaken woordvoerder al voldoende
heeft laten zien.

Ongelofelijk,
de reacties op het vertrek van Haley, als betrof het een groot
bewindspersoon, i.p.v. een oorlogshoer, die ziel en zaligheid heeft
verkocht aan de duivel genaamd militair-industrieel complex, een
duivel die zoveel mogelijk oorlog en ellende wil zien op de wereld,
een duivel aan wie de VS jaarlijks honderden miljarden dollars
belastinggeld offert………..

Johnstone
gaat o.a. in op de kritiek als zou Nauert elke ervaring missen om te
fungeren als ambassadeur bij de VN, waar Johnsone betoogt dat Nauert
niet onderdoet voor leugenaar en oorlogshitser Haley.

Lees het
deels humoristisch relaas van Johnstone:

Nikki
Haley To Be Replaced By Blonde Version Of Nikki Haley

AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

DECEMBER
7, 2018

When
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced her upcoming resignation from the
position, establishment loyalists spent the day awash with grief that
the Trump administration was losing one of its remaining moderate
Republican voices.

Nikki
Haley, ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned, leaving the
administration with one less moderate Republican
voice,” 
tweeted the New
York Times, without defining what specifically is “moderate”
about relentlessly pushing for war and starvation sanctions at every
opportunity and adamantly defending the slaughter of unarmed
Palestinian protesters with sniper fire.

Too
bad Nikki Haley has resigned,” 
tweeted law
professor turned deranged Russia conspiracy theorist Laurence Tribe.
“She was one of the last members of Trumplandia with even a smidgen
of decency.”

Well
I’ve got some good news for those who lamented 
the
loss of a virulent psychopathic war whore

as UN ambassador, and bad news for any anti-interventionist Trump
voters who’ve been secretly hoping this administration would use
Haley’s vacancy to move in a less hawkish direction: you’re
getting another one just like her. According
to 
multiple sources,
Trump has confirmed early rumors and selected State Department
Spokeswoman and former Fox News pundit Heather Nauert as Haley’s
replacement.

HuffPost
@HuffPost

BREAKING: Former Fox News host Heather Nauert has been picked to replace outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley. http://huffp.st/HwpAHte

Trump To Appoint Heather Nauert As U.S. Ambassador To United Nations

The former Fox News host is Trump’s pick to replace Nikki Haley.

Ever
since rumors emerged of Nauert’s selection
 for
the job last month, the dominant criticisms have been that she lacks
“experience” and “qualifications” for the job of US
Ambassador to the United Nations. These criticisms have picked up
ever since these early rumors were confirmed, and they are
illegitimate for two reasons. The first is that a position as Fox
News propagandist is very much the sort of experience an American
needs to be a UN Ambassador, especially for this administration. The
second is that all the job requires is a willingness to sell one’s
soul for the promotion of US war agendas, and to occasionally help
kick Palestinian human rights further into the gutter than they
already are. No experience is required for this, and these are things
we already know Nauert could do in her sleep.

As
State Department Spokeswoman, Nauert’s messaging has already been
moving in lockstep with that of Haley anyway. She 
speaks
about Syria
 as
though it is the property of the United States, routinely warning the
Syrian government not to re-take its own land from the western-backed
terrorist factions that nearly overran the nation. She
regularly 
promotes the unrest in Iran that
the Trump administration has been deliberately attempting to foment
with 
starvation
sanctions
 and CIA
covert ops
,
and 
helps
sell
 the absolute
lie
 that
Iran is “the leading state sponsor of terrorism”. She
promotes 
anti-Venezuela
narratives
anti-Russia
narratives
anti-North
Korea narratives
anti-Houthi
narratives
,
and 
anti-Palestinian
narratives
.
She’s been at this job since April of last year, and her talking
points have consistently mirrored Haley’s.

Nauert
is perfectly qualified for the job of UN Ambassador, because all that
job requires is being a sociopathic war pig. She’s already been
doing that.

Embedded video

Anderson Cooper 360°
@AC360

“In terms of what we normally look for at the United Nations, her resume is very thin.”@David_Gergen reacts to reports that the President is expected to name Heather Nauert his new ambassador to the UN.

“This is a risky move for Trump,” adds @jrpsaki.https://cnn.it/2UlfIah 


618

3:41 AM – Dec 7, 2018

All
this fuss about Nauert’s “experience” highlights perfectly why
Trump’s ostensible opposition has been almost entirely worthless:
they don’t focus on any of the evil foreign policy decisions that
this administration is actually advancing, because they don’t
actually oppose those decisions. They aren’t concerned that Nauert
will promote senseless, psychotic acts of military mass murder, they
are concerned that she lacks the necessary qualifications to promote
it skillfully and professionally. On this matter, as with all
matters, Trump’s self-proclaimed “resistance” is perfectly
comfortable with the blood-spattered face of world-dominating
imperialism. They just want it to go back to smiling and saying
things politely.

The
problem with most of the opposition to Trump is that they’re not
interested in waking up, they’re interested in removing an annoying
wrinkle in their bedsheets so that they can go back to sleep. They
don’t care about the monstrous acts of violence that are inflicted
upon human beings on the other side of the globe in their name, so
they focus on irrelevant nonsense like whether or not Heather Nauert
is qualified to read from the same imperialist script that was read
by Haley, Samantha Power and Susan Rice.

Those
who care about reality don’t care about who’s reading from that
script. It is the script itself they seek to burn.

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In het Twitterbericht van Anderson Cooper (@AC360) is een video te zien die ik niet kan overnemen, hier de link naar het origineel.

Voor meer berichten met Haley en/of Nauert, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij

Fragmenten
van de geleide-bom die de schoolbus in Jemen raakte vorige week
donderdag, tonen aan dat deze bom van het type MK-82 is en
wordt geproduceerd in de VS……. Met die aanval werden minstens 50 kinderen vermoord……

De
hele smerige oorlog in Jemen, die tot een genocide heeft geleid op de
sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, is zonder meer aan de VS te danken, zonder
goedkeuring van de VS had Saoedi-Arabië het niet aangedurfd haar
terreur los te laten op Jemen…..

Daarnaast levert de VS, zoals je kon lezen, niet alleen munitie aan
de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië, maar ook wapens en
militaire hardware, dus rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig …..
Voorts helpt de VS S-A met de zeeblokkade van door Houthi’s beheerste
gebieden, doet het de regie over de bombardementen en tankt het
zelfs de bommenwerpers en straaljagers van de Saoedische
terreurcoalitie af in de lucht (zodat er ‘zo efficiënt mogelijk’ kan worden gebombardeerd….)…..

Lees
het volgende uitstekende artikel op Anti-Media van Tyler Durden, eerder geplaatst
op Zero Hedge, waarin 
hij dieper ingaat op de rol van de VS in de vuile oorlog tegen de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen. Durden wijst ook op de belachelijke toezegging
van VS Buitenlandse Zaken woordvoerder Nauert dat
Saoedi-Arabië de aanval op de schoolbus zal onderzoeken………. ha!
ha! ha! ha! Zoals je begrijpt zal de uitkomst van dat onderzoek S-A vrijspreken van
elke schuld, hooguit zal men nog proberen te stellen dat er
officieren van de Houthi’s in de bus hebben gezeten, of dat er ‘een
kleine vergissing’ is gemaakt…. Terwijl S-A na de aanval
pontificaal durfde te zeggen dat de aanval op de schoolbus een
vergelding was voor de dode die viel bij een ‘raket-aanval’ van de Houthi’s in Saoedi-Arabië………. Wat precies wil je na deze uitspraak nog onderzocht hebben…???


Guided
Bomb Fragments At Site Of Yemen Bus Airstrike Trace Back To Lockheed
Martin

August
12, 2018 at 10:36 pm

Written
by 
Tyler
Durden

(ZHE— A
prominent Yemeni journalist who throughout the war has been
instrumental in getting images and information out of the country
ahead of Western journalists has photographed and examined fragments
from one of the exploded missiles found at the site of
the US-Saudi coalition airstrike on a school bus in
Yemen, which left 
as
many as 50 people dead and 63 injured 

the
vast majority of which were children

The
image of the missile fragment, believed to be among those that scored
a direct hit on the bus full of children traveling
through Dahyan market in Saada province last Thursday, was
uploaded by Sanaa-based Hussain Albukhaiti and quickly spread online
over the weekend. 
It
appears to be a US-made MK-82 guided bomb produced by Lockheed
Martin.

Ben
Norton, an American journalist among the first to track down publicly
available government contract information showing the MK-82’s
likely origins, 
said
of the bomb fragment imagery
Yemeni
journalists found this fragment of the bomb Saudi Arabia dropped on a
school bus full of children in Yemen. 
It’s
a US-made MK-82 guided bomb, which has been used in previous attacks
on Yemeni civilians. The cage code on the bomb is Lockheed Martin’s.

Bomb
fragment said to have been photographed at the scene of Thursday’s
coalition strike on a school bus full of children.

The
MK-82 is a 500-pound air dropped guided bomb which US Air Force and
military publications 
previously
touted as
“causing
the least amount of collateral damage” 
— US
defense contractors have over the past few years 
sold
the MK-82 to Saudi Arabia under contracts worth tens of millions of
dollars
.

The CAGE
Code
,
or Commercial and Government Entity Code, is a number
assigned to suppliers of various government or defense agencies which
provides a standardize method to track military items to a given
facility at a specific location. According to one defense
contracting 
consultation
site
The
Department of Defense’s Defense Logistics Agency, (
DLA)
assigns the five-character ID and uses alpha numeric identifier is
assigned to entities located in the United States and its’
territories.

Ben
Norton says 
the
Cage Code on the fragment reportedly found at the site 
traces to
US government contractor Lockheed Martin
.

The
code on the panel fragment in the photograph reads: 
94271.

Ben
Norton further tracked down specific contracts through 2016 and 2017
showing that Lockheed Martin/General Dynamics is 
the key
supplier of the MK-82 500-pound bombs to the Saudi military
 (in
1997 General Dynamics acquired Lockheed’s Armament Systems and
Defense Systems productions divisions).

The
separate contracts are collectively worth over $60 million and were
approved by US Army Contracting Command.

Ben Norton


@BenjaminNorton

Replying to @BenjaminNorton

“Where are my brothers?” pleads a Yemeni child who survived the US-Saudi coalition airstrike school bus massacre

“How was this a military target? Why are children being killed?” tweeted Meritxell Relano, UNICEF’s resident representative in Yemen https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/brothers-pleads-yemen-school-bus-attack-survivor-180810053229821.html 

Ben Norton


@BenjaminNorton

Yemeni journalists found this fragment of the bomb Saudi Arabia dropped on a school bus full of children in Yemen https://twitter.com/HussainBukhaiti/status/1028310260262555648 

It’s a US-made MK-82 guided bomb, which has been used in previous attacks on Yemeni civilians

The cage code on the bomb is Lockheed Martin’s

Hussain Albukhaiti@HussainBukhaiti

Replying to @HussainBukhaiti

📸s by @karemo_5

The school bus children n #Saada hospital many of them in intensive care due 2 #Saudi #UAE direct strike hit on the bus n Dhahiaan market using #US #USA made laser guided bomb type MK82 (1st pic📸
👇)

51dead inc 40children

Can @nikkihaley @statedeptspox see this!

In
2016 the Saudi coalition, of which both the US and Britain play a
lead role, 
used
the US-made MK 82 guided bombs to attack a funeral in Sanaa
,
Yemen’s capital city, which killed over 140 and wounded at least
500 more.

At
that time 
The
Intercept 
identified
external bomb fragment markings
 found
in the debris to track it to the United States.

Hussain Albukhaiti@HussainBukhaiti

Replying to @HussainBukhaiti

NEWS

📸
👇of bomb used by strike on school bus

51killed inc 40children

Pentagon said 9th August:

doesn’t know if US-made bombs killed kids in Yemen

“We may never know if the munition [used] was one that the US sold to them,”

Now we know its made MK82 pic.twitter.com/LPDm9UW1i0

Hussain Albukhaiti@HussainBukhaiti

NEWS

A video has emerged of the school bus student on same day it was struck by strike using made bomb type MK82(c previous tweet4bomb fragments)

The video shows the kids laughing, joking&playing inside the bus, before made bomb burned them to death pic.twitter.com/0fpc3Fis9k

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During
the State Department’s daily press briefing at the end of last
week, spokesperson Heather Nauert was 
asked
point blank by Associated Press reporter Matt Lee
,
whether the US condemns the attack.

It
resulted in a drawn out testy exchange, but Matt Lee laid out
the case for direct US complicity in the attack on the bus packed
with children: “
The
Saudis obviously are the ones who conducted this, but they do that
with weapons supplied by the U.S., with training supplied by the
U.S., and with targeting information, targeting data, supplied by the
U.S. How can something like this happen?” 
he
said
.

Not
only did Nauert refuse to say the US condemned the attack,
but 
wouldn’t
so much as agree to simply call for an independent investigation into
the incident
 (she
called only for a Saudi-led inquiry) which 
killed
at least 29 children and has resulted in the United Nations
launching 
an
independent probe
.

Stephen Snyder


@StephenProducer

Evidence that a US-made bomb killed 30 kids on the Yemeni bus. Who will present this to US, Saudis and the UN?https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-08-11/civilians-say-time-say-no-war-after-dozens-yemeni-children-die-school-bus-attack 

Previously
last week, just before the horrendous attack on the school bus,
Nauert had 
unambiguously
stated
 the
Saudi coalition’s ongoing airstrikes on Yemen are legitimate
and justified
.

The
Saudis for their part 
called
the incident part of a
 legitimate military
operation” 
soon
after it happened, ultimately blaming Shia Houthi rebels who control
the region.

In
April of 2016, Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA officer and senior fellow
at the Brookings Institute, 
told
a conference audience
If
the United States and the United Kingdom, tonight, told King Salman
[of Saudi Arabia] ‘this war has to end,’ it would end tomorrow.
The Royal Saudi Air Force cannot operate without American and British
support.”


(Bij de volgende afbeelding hoort een video, die ik helaas niet kan overnemen, hier de link naar het origineel)

Louis Allday@Louis_Allday

Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institute: “if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight told King Salman that this war [on Yemen] has to end, it would end tomorrow because the Royal Saudi Air force cannot operate without American & British Support”.

Last
week’s coalition airstrike on the bus elicited rare bipartisan
outrage among a handful of congress members, including from Senator
Chris Murphy (D-Conn), 
who
said in a statement
The
Saudi/UAE/U.S. bombing campaign is getting more reckless, killing
more civilians, and strengthening terrorists inside Yemen. We need to
end this – NOW.”

The
Pentagon has long tried to present its role in the conflict as
attempting to stave off humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, yet
as even NPR* confirmed while 
reporting
from inside the country
 earlier
this year the US military “has 
provided
targeting information, equipment and aircraft refueling to the Saudi
air campaign
,
which has been widely criticized for being indiscriminate and killing
civilians in places like hospitals, funerals and homes.”

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

===============================

* NPR: National Public Radio.

Zie ook:

Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was……

Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp……..

Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……

Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling……

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus

Hier de link naar een video van Jimmy Dore aangaande de MSNBC berichtgeving over deze barbaarse aanval op een schoolbus:

Voorts nog een aantal links over de genocide die de Saoedische coalitie onder VS en Britse leiding uitvoert onder de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen:

Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen

Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

Genocide Jemen: ‘eindelijk ontdekt’ door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU

8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..

Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of ‘verdwenen’ Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie……

Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……

Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………

Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)

Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen……

Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan…… Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd………‘            

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……

VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida…….

VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen…..

VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’

Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..

Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering ‘slimme munitie’ aan Saoedi-Arabië……

Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..

Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling……

Ondanks
dat Saoedi-Arabië heeft toegegeven dat de aanval op de schoolbus in
Jemen* (het dodental is opgelopen tot 50..) met opzet werd uitgevoerd, in reactie op een raketaanval van de
Houthi rebellen, is dat geen reden voor de VS deze enorme
oorlogsmisdaad te veroordelen…….

Niet
zo vreemd als je bedenkt dat de VS (en Groot-Brittannië) pal achter
de reli-fascistische Saoedische coalitie staan (S-A en VAE**), een coalitie die met
hulp van de VS en GB, een genocide uitvoert tegen de sjiitische
bevolking van Jemen…….

Wat
wellicht wel vreemd is aan deze enorme oorlogsmisdaad, is het feit
dat de reguliere (massa-) media in de VS nu wel kritiek hebben op
deze oorlogsmisdaad. E.e.a. bleek toen de woordvoerder van het
ministerie van buitenlandse zaken, Heather Nauert, onder vuur lag van deze media, daar
ze weigerde deze oorlogsmisdaad (in feite zelfs een misdaad tegen de
menselijkheid) te veroordelen. Dit in tegenstelling tot de reguliere
media hier, die zelfs amper aandacht schonken aan deze smerige
oorlogsmisdaad…….

Nauert durfde zelfs te zeggen dat Saoedi-Arabië van groot strategisch belang is voor de VS (en ach als dat tienduizenden doden kost, het zijn maar sjiitische Jemenieten, ja toch….???)

Vreemd
die reactie van de reguliere media in de VS, daar men normaal
gesproken achter de Saoedische coalitie staat, ook al voert die
coalitie overduidelijk een genocide uit in Jemen, een genocide die
intussen aan alleen al duizenden kinderen het leven heeft gekost……..

Het
meest vreemde aan deze zaak is wel de lauwe westerse ‘reactie’ op
het bewust vermoorden van kinderen, terwijl na een dergelijke (hypothetische) actie
van de Russen en/of het reguliere Syrische leger, de hele westerse wereld op de
kop zou hebben gestaan….. Sterker nog: de VS en anderen hebben Syrië en de
Russen meermaals beschuldigd van het vermoorden van kinderen,
dit gesteund door die reguliere (massa-) media, waarbij men inderdaad
totaal hysterisch reageert, ook al blijkt keer op keer dat er voor
die beschuldigingen geen schijn van bewijs kan worden geleverd…….. (dat is dan ook bijzonder moeilijk als er geen bewijzen zijn…)

Overigens
heb ik tot op heden nog niets gehoord over een veroordeling door de
Nederlandse regering of door de EU………

Schande!!!

Watch:
Reporters Slam US for Refusing to Condemn Bombing of School Bus in
Yemen

August
9, 2018 at 10:39 pm

Written
by 
Tyler
Durden

(ZHE— Just
as expected, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to
condemn Thursday’s coalition airstrike on a school bus in
Yemen, which left 
as
many as 50 people dead and 63 injured 

the
vast majority of which were children

As
we reported 
previously, Saudi-US/UK
coalition jets scored 
a
direct hit on the school bus packed with children as it drove
through a crowded market place 
in
Dahyan, in the rebel-held north of Yemen.

During
the State Department’s daily press briefing, 
Nauert
was asked point blank by journalists, starting with the AP’s Matt
Lee, whether the US condemns the attack
.

The
whole testy exchange on Yemen is worth watching, especially as Matt
Lee lays out the case for direct US complicity in the attack on the
bus packed with children from the start of his question: “
The
Saudis obviously are the ones who conducted this, but they do that
with weapons supplied by the U.S., with training supplied by the
U.S., and with targeting information, targeting data, supplied by the
U.S. How can something like this happen?” 
he
said.

Watch
the State Department’s response here
(voor de begeleidende video, ga naar het origineel) :

Walid@walid970721

State Dept’s Heather Nauert is not willing to condemn the Saudis for their airstrike on a schoolbus earlier today that killed over 50 children in Northern . She wants to wait for the Saudis to conduct their own investigation into the attack. Shameful.

Unbelievably,
Nauert tried to obfuscate the issue by simply saying “I can’t
confirm all the details because we are not there on the ground.”

Not
only did Nauert refuse to say the State Department condemned the
attack, but 
wouldn’t
so much as agree to simply call for an independent investigation into
the incident
 (she
called only for a Saudi-led inquiry).

CNN Breaking News


@cnnbrk

Dozens are dead after an airstrike hit a school bus carrying children in northern Yemen, humanitarian group says https://cnn.it/2OWBS03 

Nauert
drew random incredulous expressions of laughter from the press
pool by the end of the segment on Yemen when she was caught
struggling to acknowledge the long established fact that the US
supplies 
a
tremendous amount of weaponry and the data for targeting to the
Saudis”
 while
simultaneously touting that Washington provides
 a
tremendous amount of humanitarian assistance
.”

This
section of the exchange played out 
as
follows
:

MS
NAUERT:
 Look, we provide a tremendous amount of humanitarian
assistance in Yemen
to try to support civilians in Yemen and try to
mitigate against the devastation that’s taken place there in that
country. I don’t have anything more for you on that.

QUESTION: But
you also supply a tremendous amount of weaponry and the data for
targeting to the Saudis.

MS
NAUERT:
 Well, then – sorry.

QUESTION: Right?
No?

QUESTION: No.

QUESTION: Am
I wrong? Is that wrong?

QUESTION: That’s
not wrong.

MS
NAUERT:
 Sorry, these ladies over here are laughing. On that
I would refer you to the Department of Defense that is involved with
that, but as you know, Saudi Arabia is an important strategic partner
in the region to the United States.

Meanwhile
as 
Al
Masdar News 
reports
UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for an independent and
prompt investigation into the deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike
that hit the bus carrying children
,
United Nations deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said in a press release.

The
Secretary-General condemns the air strike today by the coalition
forces in Saada, which hit a busy market area in Majz District, and
impacted a bus carrying children from a summer camp,” Haq said on
Thursday. “He calls for an independent and prompt investigation
into this incident.”

Charles Shoebridge@ShoebridgeC

If a massacre of children on this scale was alleged of Russia or Assad, it would dominate US UK media for days. But as this is a real, verified massacre by a US UK ally, and using US UK arms, it’s receiving almost no US UK front page coverage at allhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/yemen-dozens-children-killed-wounded-school-bus-attack-180809085843444.html 


Yemen: Dozens of civilians killed in school bus attack

Many of the dead and wounded are children under 10, ICRC says, after air strike on a bus in Saada province.

aljazeera.com

According
to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), citing local
officials, a
total of 50 people died in the attack, while another 77 were injured
.

(ook hier: voor de begeleidende video, ga naar het origineel)

Leader
of the Yemen’s rebel Supreme Revolutionary Committee Mohammed
Houthi on Thursday 
urged
Russia, China and France to hold an emergency United Nations Security
Council meeting over the attack of the Saudi-led coalition
,
local media reported.

According
to the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, the committee’s leader said that
the coalition’s attack confirmed that the coalition rejects peace
in the region.

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

=====================================

* Zie: ‘Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……



** VAE: de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten.

Vanmorgen was correspondent Lyse Doucet op BBC World Service radio te horen over de beschieting van de schoolbus. Ten eerste stelde ze dat de vechtende partijen, dus de Houthi’s en de Saoedische terreurcoalitie, gelijkwaardige partijen zijn, terwijl de Houthi’s niet eens beschikken over een luchtmacht. Ten tweede durfde ze de leugen te herhalen dat Iran de Houthi’s van wapens voorziet, zoals al vaker op de ze plek verzucht, daar is geen nanometer bewijs voor! De BBC blijft keer op keer de Houthi’s criminaliseren, dit is in het belang van de broodheer van de BBC, de Britse regering, die het ene na het andere enorme wapencontract t.b.v. de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië tekent, contracten voor wapens, munitie en militaire hardware, dus rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig……. Let wel: de BBC zou een onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde zijn…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Zie ook:

Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was……

Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen

Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus

Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……

Genocide Jemen: ‘eindelijk ontdekt’ door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU

Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..

Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of ‘verdwenen’ Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie……

Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……

Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………

Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)

Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen……

Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan…… Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd………‘            

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……

VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida…….

VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen…..

VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’

Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering ‘slimme munitie’ aan Saoedi-Arabië……

Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..

Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

VS beschuldigt Syrië van expansie en dreigt met (nog meer) geweld…..

Volgens
de VS is Syrië bezig met expansie, nee niet buiten haar grenzen, maar
binnen haar eigen grenzen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe
godvergeten gestoord moet je zijn om iets dergelijks te beweren??!!!

De VS bedreigt Syrië met geweld als het zal proberen gebied in het zuiden van het land te heroveren, gebied dat wordt bezet door psychopathische moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen, je weet wel volk waarbij het VS leger zich goed thuis voelt….. en dit niet alleen vanwege het moorden en martelen, zaken die geen land op onze kleine aarde beter beheerst dan de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al dik meer dan 2 miljoen moorden op haar naam heeft staan en een ontelbaar aantal gevallen van marteling, zowel in Guantanamo Bay, maar ook in geheime CIA gevangenissen in het buitenland…….

Let wel: nog steeds is de VS volkomen illegaal op Syrisch grondgebied aanwezig en dan het soevereine Syrië (waar haar grenzen internationaal en door de VN worden erkend) de wacht aan durven zeggen als het de wet wil handhaven tegen terreurtroepen, die in de VS en de rest van het westen ‘gematigde rebellen’ worden genoemd >> te zot voor woorden!

Uiteraard wijst de VS op een eerder gesloten wapenstilstand, echter de enige die zich daar enigszins aan heeft gehouden is het Syrische leger en haar coalitie met o.a. Rusland en Iran……

Sterker nog: Syrië heeft zelfs de plicht om een eind aan de terreur tegen haar burgers te maken!!

Lees het volgende korte maar bondige relaas van Tyler Durden, zoals geplaatst op Zero Hedge:

US
Threatens Syria With “Firm And Appropriate Measures” After
New Airstrikes

Profile picture for user Tyler Durden     by Tyler
Durden

                 Sat,
05/26/2018 – 17:35

Washington
is once again concerned about Syrian government expansion inside…
wait for it… 
Syria.

The
United States threatened to take 
“firm
and appropriate measures” against Syrian government forces
,
claiming repeat “ceasefire violations” and concerned over
reports that the Syrian Army may be poised for a new military
operation to retake Deraa in the country’s south.

State
Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert 
said
late Friday
,
“As a guarantor of this de-escalation area with Russia and Jordan,
the United States will take firm and appropriate measures in response
to Assad regime violations.”

The
newly built US forces base in Manbij, Syria. Image source: TRT
World via Reuters

Nauert
referenced the thus far tenuously-holding 
deal
between the US, Russia, and Jordan
 struck
last November which among other stipulations proposed efforts
for “the reduction, and ultimate elimination
of foreign forces and foreign fighters from the area
to ensure a more sustainable peace.” This was
widely 
interpreted
at the time
 as
calling for 
an
“Iran-free” zone in southern Syria
,
as Israel has long threatened to go to war should Iranian troops be
present near its border.

The
State Department warnings come at the end of a week in which Syrian
state media claimed 
US
fighter jets attacked Syrian Army positions in the eastern desert
near the Iraq border overnight Wednesday
,
which reportedly 
killed
12 pro-government fighters.

The
US, however, 
has
denied any involvement
:
“We have no operational reporting of a U.S.-led coalition strike
against pro-Syrian regime targets or forces,” CENTCOM spokesman
Captain Bill Urban 
said
in a statement
.
And a separate Pentagon spokesman 
said“These
reports are false
,
the coalition did not strike any Syrian army positions in eastern
Syria.”

And
less than 24 hours later, another airstrike 
on
a base in central Syria
 is
widely reported to have involved Israel, believed to have targeted a
Hezbollah weapons depot. 

Notably,
Reuters report acknowledges
the US warning issued late Friday comes as
 1)
Syrian government forces have 
cleaned
out the last ISIS pockets in the country’s south
;
and 2) Damascus is now 
“in
its strongest position since the early months of the war in 2011”
.
Reuters notes further that the government has “recaptured
all remaining insurgent areas near Damascus in recent weeks,
including the densely populated eastern Ghouta area, as well as big
enclaves in central Syria.” 

So
essentially while warning against “Assad regime violations”
and expansion, the State Department is reasserting 
the
US position that Syria cannot “expand” 
within
its own sovereign borders
 (borders
obviously long recognized internationally and by the United Nations).

The
Syrian Army is making preparations to move deeper into the southern
province of Deraa where fighting began during the opening months the
war starting in 2011. Syrian state media has reported that government
planes are dropping leaflets over towns in the region, warning
anti-Assad forces that they must disarm or face military attack. 

* *
*

Meanwhile,
the 
New
York Times 
has
published what 
purports
to be a detailed account
 of
a February 7th major clash between pro-government forces and Russian
allies and pro-US forces, which 
we
explained at the time
 was
cause for “an acute international crisis” as it left 
up
to hundreds on the pro-government and Russian side dead
,
and may have controversially included Russian mercenaries. 


The
NYT description of what took place paints a glowing picture of US
special forces successfully holding off a massive assault by hundreds
of pro-government fighters, based on multiple interviews and
documents given to the Times. 
Business
Insider 
summarizes
the NYT revelation as follows
 :

  • Roughly
    40 US commandos held off about 500 forces loyal to the Syrian
    government — including Russian mercenaries — in an intense
    firefight in early February, 
    The
    New York Times reports
    .

  • No
    US troops were harmed, but hundreds of pro-government forces were
    killed, according to The Times.

  • The
    firefight took place at an outpost next to a Conoco gas station in
    eastern Syria on February 7.

The New
York Times 
sources described
the outcome as follows
:

In
the end, 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters were killed. The others
retreated under merciless airstrikes from the United States,
returning later to retrieve their battlefield dead. None of the
Americans at the small outpost in eastern Syria — about 40 by the
end of the firefight — were harmed.

And
further:


The
firefight was described by the Pentagon as an act of self-defense
against a unit of pro-Syrian government forces. In interviews, United
States military officials said they had watched — with dread —
hundreds of approaching rival troops, vehicles and artillery pieces
in the week leading up to the attack.

If
both this week’s reported foreign air assaults and last month’s
massive US coalition strikes on Damascus are any indication, such
direct clashes between Syria and the US forces will likely occur
again. The only question that remains is the degree to which things
will escalate in any future confrontation as the stakes are now even
higher with Damascus feeling itself in a more comfortable security
position compared to last year, and has a new confidence to respond
militarily. 

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Zie ook: ‘Iran houdt zich aan de nucleaire deal dit in tegenstelling tot de VS……..

       en: ‘Israël laat alweer haar ware terreur gezicht zien: IS kan tijdelijke ‘geallieerde worden’ in de strijd tegen Iran en Hezbollah………

       en: ‘Rex Tillerson (VS BuZA) geeft toe dat de VS een staatsgreep wil uitvoeren in Iran…….. Het is nog ‘iets te rustig’ in dat gebied……..

       en: ‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..

       en: ‘Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….

       en: ‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

       en: ‘Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………

       en: ‘De VS gaf meer dan 1 miljoen dollar uit om protesten tegen Iraans bewind uit te buiten (en te organiseren)

       en: ‘Het verborgen motief achter de Israëlische agressie tegen Iran en Syrië

       en: ‘VS bewandelt dezelfde weg richting Iran, als die voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak in 2003, aldus één van de verantwoordelijken voor die oorlog……..

       en: ‘Netanyahu vergelijkt Iran met nazi-Duitsland en stelt dat Iran een bedreiging is voor de wereldvrede….. ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Washington uit op oorlog met Iran……

       en: ‘Oliemaatschappijen weigeren n.a.v. VS sancties de jet van Iraanse minister af te tanken

       en: ‘Israël bezig met voorbereiding op meerdere fronten oorlog…….. (met hulp van de VS)

       en: ‘John Bolton heeft beloofd dat Iran voor 2019 onder een ander regime zal leven…….

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

       en: ‘VS rechter gelast Iran miljarden te betalen aan de families van 911 slachtoffers…..

       en: ‘VS ambtenaren: Israël zoekt steun VS voor oorlog tegen Iran…….

       en: ‘Israël laat er geen twijfel over bestaan: met het uit de Iran-deal stappen van de VS is definitief de oorlog verklaard aan Iran………

       en: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren

       en: ‘VS, de werelddictator: Iran-deal is van nul en generlei waarde (op basis van leugens en achterklap)…….

       en: ‘Israël voert vergelding uit voor zelf uitgelokte beschieting (middels meer dan 100 bombardementen…….)

      en: ‘Iran-deal: de echte reden waarom Trump deze deal de nek heeft omgedraaid

      en: ‘Trump beloofde geen extra oorlog in het Midden-Oosten >> toch heeft hij het pad vrijgemaakt voor oorlog tegen Iran……

      en: ‘VS ‘laat zien op vrede uit te zijn’ door dreiging Iran te vermorzelen……

      en: ‘Iran: wanneer heeft dit land voor het laatst een ander land aangevallen? 200 jaar geleden…..

      en: Chinese marine troeft VS af in Zuid-Chinese Zee‘ (o.a. over ‘expansie’ van de VS)

      en: Bang voor Amerika

Voor meer berichten over Syrië, VS buitenlands beleid, ISIS of Iran, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

PS: vergeten bij plaatsing van dit bericht: als er één land is dat zich schuldig maakt aan expansie is het de VS wel met haar 800 militaire bases over de wereld, waar het ook nog eens een flink aantal regeringen in haar zak heeft…….

VS stelt Duitsland een ultimatum (chantage): geen Russisch gas via NS2 anders volgt een handelsoorlog…..

De
grote drijfveer achter de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert is
fossiele brandstof. Om dat nog eens te onderstrepen wenst de VS dat
de EU verder afziet van Russisch gasimport, om te beginnen moet de aanleg van
Nord Stream 2 (NS2) worden afgeblazen…… De VS heeft bedrijven die
hieraan meewerken gedreigd met boetes en sancties…… Echter dit project kan juridisch gezien niet meer afgeblazen worden, daar alle contracten allang getekend zijn en men al is begonnen met de aanleg…..

De
VS heeft een overschot aan gas en dat moet de EU overnemen, uiteraard
tegen een hele berg geld en een fikse verhoging van de gasprijs voor
de grootste gebruiker van gas: de EU burger….. Van gas LNG maken is
al een kostbaar en milieuvervuilend project, waar bovenop dan nog eens het vervoer
over de Atlantische Oceaan komt……..

Intussen
heeft Trump Merkel gewaarschuwd voor het Nord Stream 2 (NS2) project: als
dit project wordt doorgezet, zal de VS een handelsoorlog tegen de EU en m.n. Duitsland beginnen…… M.a.w.: de VS chanteert Duitsland en de EU! Ach zo vreemd is dat
niet, als je ziet dat de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde is
en alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 2 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord in
illegale oorlogen, standrechtelijke executies (o.a. middels drones),
geheime militaire CIA missies, blokkades/sancties (zoals die van de
sjiitische gebieden in Jemen, waar de Saoedische coalitie onder regie
en met hulp van de VS een genocide uitvoert…), georganiseerde
opstanden en staatsgrepen…..

Tyler
Durden schreef over de VS chantage op Zero Hedge, hier de versie
zoals die op Anti-Media verscheen:

US
Gives Germany an Ultimatum: Drop Russian Gas Pipeline or Trade War
Begins

May
18, 2018 at 12:20 pm

Written by Tyler
Durden

(ZHE— It
became clear just how important it is to the US for Russia’s Nord
Stream 2 gas pipeline project to fail two months ago when, as we
described in “
US
Threatens Sanctions For European Firms Participating In Russian Gas
Pipeline Project
,
the U.S. State Department warned European corporations that they will
likely face penalties and sanctions if they participate in the
construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 on the grounds that “the
project undermines energy security in Europe”, when in reality
Russia has for decades been a quasi-monopolist on European energy
supplies and thus has unprecedented leverage over European politics,
at least behind the scenes.

As
many people know, we oppose the Nord Stream 2 project, the US
government does
,”
State Department spokeswoman, Heather Nauert said during a late March
press briefing adding that “the Nord Stream 2 project would
undermine Europe’s overall energy security and stability. It would
provide Russia [with] another tool to pressure European countries,
especially countries such as Ukraine.” And speaking of Ukraine,
recall that in 2014, shortly after the US State Department
facilitated the presidential coup in Ukraine, 
Joe
Biden’s son Hunter joined the board 
of
directors of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest oil and gas company. Surely
that was merely a coincidence.

Nauert
also said that Washington may introduce punitive measures against
participants in the pipeline project – which could be implemented
using a provision in the 
Countering
America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 
(CAATSA).

Fast
forward to today, when the dreadfully named CAATSA act just made a
repeat appearance; around the time Europe made it clear it 
would
openly defy Trump’s Iran sanctions
,
the 
WSJ
reported 
that Trump
told Merkel that if she wants to avoid a trans-Atlantic trade war,
the price would be to pull the break on Nord Stream 2, 
according
to German, U.S. and European sources.

The
officials said Mr. Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in
April that Germany should drop support for Nord Stream 2, an offshore
pipeline that would bring gas directly from Russia via the Baltic
Sea. 
This
would be in exchange for the U.S. starting talks with the European
Union on a new trade deal.”

While
it had long been suspected that Trump would push hard to dismantle
Nord Stream 2 just so US nat gas exporters could grab a slice of the
European market pie, the aggressive push comes as a surprise, and as
the WSJ notes, “
the
White House pressure reflects its hard ball tactics on trade, moves
that have contributed to rising tensions between Europe and the U.S.
and raised fears in export-dependent Germany of a tit-for-tat on
tariffs that could engulf its car industry
.”

The
Nord Stream II (or NS2) project was started in 2015 is a joint
venture between Russia’s Gazprom and European partners, including
German Uniper, Austria’s OMV, France’s Engie, Wintershall and the
British-Dutch multinational Royal Dutch Shell. The pipeline is set to
run from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea – doubling the
existing pipeline’s capacity of 55 cubic meters per year, and is
therefore critical for Europe’s future energy needs.

NS2
is the second phase of an existing pipeline that already channels
smaller amount of gas from Russia to Germany. Construction for the
second phase started this week in Germany
,
after investors committed €5 billion ($5.9 billion) to the venture.

Trump
has publicly criticized the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, saying at a
meeting with Baltic State leaders at the White House this year that
“Germany hooks up a pipeline into Russia, where Germany is going to
be paying billions of dollars for energy into Russia…That’s not
right.”

Donald
Trump is a deal maker…there is a deal to be made if someone (in
Germany) stood up and said ‘Help us protect our auto industry a
little bit more, because we’re great at it and we’re going to
help you on Nord Stream 2’,” said one U.S. official, who was
present at the April meeting between Ms. Merkel and Mr. Trump.

Raising
the pressure further, Sandra Oudkirk, a senior U.S. diplomat, told
journalists in Berlin on Thursday that as a Russian energy project
the pipeline could face U.S. sanctions, putting any company
participating in it at risk.

* *
*

The
Kremlin shot back immediately as spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the
U.S. efforts “a crude effort to hinder an international energy
project that has an important role in energy security.”

The
Americans are simply trying crudely to promote their own gas
producers,” 
he
said.

He
is, of course, right, even if the official explanation is
that 
Washington
opposes the pipeline because it would make Ukraine—currently the
main transit route for Russian gas headed west—and other U.S.
allies in the EU more vulnerable to Russian pressure. 
German
officials also say the U.S. is eager to displace Russia as a provider
of gas to Europe, hence confirming with the Russian said.

Of
course, in the end it’s all a question of leverage, and who has
more, and right now Trump believes that by threatening European auto
exports hostage, he has all of it.

* *
*

Still,
that Trump thinks he can interject after three years of trade
negotiations with an abrupt demand while providing no alternatives,
is rather stunning, but understandable. As Alex Gorka of
the 
Strategic
Culture Foundation
 wrote,
on March 15, a bipartisan group of 39 senators led by John Barrasso
(R-WY) sent a 
letter to
the Treasury Department.

They
oppose NS2 and are calling on the administration to bury it.
Why? 
They
don’t want Russia to be in a position to influence Europe, which
would be “detrimental,” as they put it.  
And,
as Gorka wrote, their preferred tool to implement this obstructionist
policy is the use of sanctions, precisely what we are seeing
currently.

To
be sure, 39 out of 100 is a number no president can ignore as
powerful pressure emanating from US corporations and lobbies was
being applied on the administration. Even before the senators wrote
their letter, Kurt Volker, the US envoy to Ukraine, had claimed that
NS2 
was
a purely political
,
not commercial, project.

As
we said in March, “
No
doubt other steps to ratchet up the pressure on Europe will follow
.”
Little did we know that less than 2 months later, the US and Europe
would be embroiled in a bruising trade war in which the fate of NS2
is suddenly the key variable.

* *
*

So
will Trump win, and will US LNG replace Russian exports?

While
Merkel hasn’t yet dropped her support for the pipeline, she said on
Thursday the EU had agreed at a summit Wednesday night 
to
offer the U.S. “closer cooperation” in the field of gas in
exchange for a permanent exemption from the steel and aluminum
tariffs, 
suggesting
that Nord Stream 2 may soon be a trade war casualty.

Should
Europe fold, it should expect a surge in energy inflation: Liquefied
gas from the U.S. needs to be shipped over the Atlantic 
and
would be considerably more expensive than Russian gas delivered via
pipelines. 
A
senior EU official working on energy regulation said Russian gas
would be at least 20% cheaper.

Trump’s
strategy seems to be to force us to buy their more expensive gas, but
as long as LNG is not competitive, Europe will not agree to some sort
of racket and pay extortionate prices,” an EU official said.

Which,
amusingly, is precisely what Trump’s brute trade overture is: an
global racket.

Germany’s
pipeline plan has long been controversial with Ukraine, as well as
several EU countries on the bloc’s eastern edge who fear it gives
Russian President Vladimir Putin power over gas deliveries—which
Berlin has so far largely ignored.

Trump
has been pushing for better access for U.S. companies to an EU market
he has criticized as over-protected. Barring an EU offer to address
Mr. Trump’s grievances, the U.S. will hit Europe with punitive
steel and aluminum tariffs on June 1. The EU has promised retaliatory
tariffs.

* *
*

So
now that the ball is in Merkel’s court, how will she respond? 
On Friday, the German chancellor is traveling to Russia on Friday to
meet Vladimir Putin in hopes of brokering a compromise that would
satisfy the U.S. and her European partners.

She
will ask Mr. Putin for a deal that would preserve the lucrative
transit trade—Ukraine gets a fee for letting Russian gas through
its territory on the way to eastern Europe—even after Nord Stream 2
comes online in 2019, a German official said.

Meanwhile,
German government officials say that since all the permits for Nord
Stream 2 have been issued, the WSJ notes that 
there
is no legal way to stop the project, which is run by Gazprom , the
Russian energy giant, under financing agreements with international
companies such as Engie, OMV, Shell, Uniper and Wintershall
.

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

VS burgers zijn gewaarschuwd: Rusland kan hun hersenen hacken en laten geloven dat Joe Biden niet geschikt is als president

Nieuwe Russische hack samenzweringstheorie t.a.v. Joe Biden ‘schokt’ VS Democraten‘ 

Hunter Biden zit in de Oekraïense ‘witwas val’

Joe Biden heeft al lang toegegeven dat hij Oekraïne onder druk zette een openbaar aanklager te ontslaan die zijn zoon vervolgde

Snowden vindt het ongelofelijk dat de media VS politici niet aanspreken op totaal verschillende reacties n.a.v. ‘klokkenluiden’

Joe Biden (ex-vicepresident VS) heeft zichzelf fiks in de Oekraïense staart gebeten

Oekraïne, een mislukte, corrupte en fascistische staat……..‘ (o.a. met aandacht voor Biden en zijn zoon)

Donald
‘Darth Vader’ Trump verklaart ruimte tot oorlogsgebied en laat
Duitsland en haar bedrijven weten dat men zich heeft te schikken naar de
VS wensen

VS – Duitse verhouding dreigt te exploderen

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat‘ (zie ook de labels in dat bericht)

Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………

De
protesten in Iran worden met grote graagte door de westerse media en
politici uitgedragen als een welkome opstand tegen de
fundamentalistische heersers, zonder rekening te houden met de
huidige gematigde regering. Iran is fout punt uit!

Door
deze eenzijdige reactie van het westen, krijgen juist de
fundamentalistische heersers op de achtergrond de wind in de zeilen,
immers het westen is allesbehalve een vriend van Iran of haar
burgers. De roep om ingrijpen in Iran klinkt al jaren keihard, niet
bepaald in de laatste plaats door de VS en het grootste deel van de
NAVO leden. Daar deed de handreiking van Obama weinig aan af, een
handreiking die intussen al weer is teruggedraaid door de Trump
administratie……

De VS heeft trouwens al veel langer gewelddadige activisten in Iran gesteund, dit om de regering ten val te brengen (waarin ook Nederland een rol speelde) en reken maar dat de CIA zelf ook actief is in Iran……..

De
huidige demonstranten zijn bepaald niet vreedzaam, zoals dit wel het geval was tijdens het grootste deel van de ‘Groene Revolutie’ in 2009, ze zijn gewapend en brengen grote vernielingen aan, zoals het in brand steken van gebouwen…… De aantallen
demonstranten zijn een stuk minder groot dan men aanneemt in het
westen. Politiebureaus en wapendepots zijn door demonstranten
overvallen om zo aan meer wapens te komen….

Zoals gezegd: de kans is weer levensgroot dat een deel van de demonstranten in Iran is
gekocht door de VS, die een reputatie hebben op het gebied van
opstanden organiseren, opstanden die dan moeten uitlopen in het afzetten van
een VS onwelgevallige regering……. Voorbeelden van het organiseren van dit soort opstanden door de VS (CIA), opstanden die in een coup moesten uitmonden en wat meestal lukt: Libië, Oekraïne, Syrië (in dit land mislukte de coup tegen Assad) en voor Zuid-Amerika Honduras, 
Brazilië en Venezuela (let wel: dit zijn de laatst bekende voorbeelden). In het volgende artikel kan u lezen dat Rex Tillerson, de VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, e.e.a. toegeeft wat betreft Iran, zo bleek uit een uitgelekt memorandum…..

Ook in het volgende artikel (van Darius Shahtahmasebi) o.a. de stelling dat de conservatieve krachten in Iran baat hebben bij deze protesten om zo de gematigde president Rohani onder druk te zetten…… Dat de VS zelfs deze krachten zou steunen is niets nieuws, als de VS een regering ten val wil brengen, schijnt alles geoorloofd te zijn (zelfs samenwerking met terreurgroepen als IS en Al Qaida…)……

Everything
the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Protests Rocking Iran Right
Now

January
2, 2018 at 12:53 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)  Over
the past week, Iran has been hit with
 series
of protests
,
reportedly in relation to the country’s current economic climate.
Where this particular narrative is headed is of major concern because
of the current atmosphere in the Middle East and its deadly dynamics.

Approximately
two weeks ago, the truth about U.S. foreign policy was revealed in a
leaked memo that purportedly coached Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
on how to use human rights as a pretense to attack America’s
adversaries

Allies
should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries.
Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer
allies,” 
stated the
memo, which was written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide,
Brian Hook. Approximately two weeks ago, the truth
about U.S. foreign policy was revealed in a leaked memo that
purportedly coached Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on how to use
human rights as a pretense to attack America’s adversaries

As
part of the U.S. foreign policy playbook, in June 2017, Tillerson
himself confirmed that official U.S. policy towards Iran included
a
 regime
change strategy
.
He said:

We
continually review the merits both from the standpoint of diplomatic
but also international consequences of designating the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard in its entirety as a terrorist organization. As
you know, we have designated the Quds [Force]. Our policy towards
Iran is to push back on this hegemony, contain their ability to
develop obviously nuclear weapons, and to work 
toward
support of those elements 
inside
of Iran that 
would lead to a peaceful
transition of that government.
 Those
elements are there, certainly as we know.” 
[emphasis
added]

Around
the same time, the Trump administration
 appointed Michael
D’Andrea, the CIA’s “Dark Prince,” to head the CIA’s “Iran
operations.”  Given the CIA
 overthrew Iran’s
democratically elected government in 1953,
 relying
almost completely
 on
one die-hard agent to do so, this program’s trajectory should be
clear.

Barely
days after D’Andrea’s appointment, Iran was
coincidentally
 rocked by
an ISIS-inspired attack. 
Republican
congressman
 Rep.
Dana Rohrabacher suggested the attack was “a good thing.”

In
December, CIA director Mike Pompeo
 admitted he
sent a letter to General Qassem Soleimani, a 
stalwart
leader
 of
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), saying he will hold
Iran and Soleimani “accountable” for any attacks on Washington’s
interests in Iraq. This is the same IRGC commander who 
announced Iran
would begin supporting Palestinian forces in the Gaza strip after
Trump’s infamous Jerusalem debacle.

Unsurprisingly,
U.S. intelligence agencies 
reportedly just
gave the green light to Israel to assassinate this commander, a clear
act of war.


The
timing of the current protests has
 coincided
with reports
 that
the U.S. and Israel formulated a joint plan to specifically target
Iran. This coincides with Nikki Haley’s grandiose anti-Iran
performance, which has been full of
 deceit
and hawkish propaganda
.
Further, Israel hopes these protests will be an opportunity to take
the Iranian government’s attention away from Israel, according to
a
 top
intelligence expert
.

Even
without Iranians taking to the streets, it is clear that the Trump
administration and its regional allies have been planning to take the
fight to Iran.

Discerning
the Truth About the Recent Protests

What
should we make of the recent protests sweeping the country?

Even
according to the mainstream media, the protests are not exactly what
they seem. Iran’s president 
acknowledged that
Iranians have a right to peaceful protest and that the protesters are
not necessarily guided by foreign elements as “
a
number of them are the people who came to the streets because of
their (economic) problems.”

Criticism
is different [from] violence and destroying public property,”
 he
also reportedly
 said.

According
to 
Haaretz
,
the protests were initially riled up by Iran’s
 conservative
hard-line opposition
 to
put pressure on the current Iranian president, who is considered a
moderate. The protesters are not necessarily the
democracy-seeking students the media has portrayed them as.

The
mainstream media further acknowledged that the Iranian authorities
are actively trying to avoid a massive crackdown.
 From Slate:

It
seems clear that Iranian leaders are trying to avoid a massive
crackdown of the 
surprisingly
large
 protests
for now, worried that any huge repression could lead to a crisis
similar to what took place in 2009.”

As
Reuters 
explained:


Iranian
moderates are appealing for caution even though some hardliners are
calling for an iron fist to crush one of the gravest threats to
Iran’s clerical leaders, who came to power in the 1979 Islamic
revolution.

Those
divisions are making it hard for the authorities to defuse
spontaneous demonstration, especially as there are no apparent
protest leaders who can be identified and rounded up.”

The
media is still treating the videos of anti-government protesters
shouting “Death to the dictator!” as “
unconfirmed,”
meaning they haven’t been properly verified. Or consider this
recent 
Reuters report,
which stated the following:

Mohsen
Nasj Hamadani, deputy security chief in Tehran province, said about
50 people had rallied in a square but most had left after being asked
to by police, while a few who refused were ‘temporarily detained,’
the ILNA news agency reported.”

Carl
Bildt, former Swedish prime minister and co-chair for the
European Council on Foreign Relations quickly 
took
to Twitter
 to
state that there were “
[r]eports
of signals of international satellite TV networks jammed in large
cities of Iran. Would be sign of regime fear of today’s protests
spreading.”
 However,
the only reports that can be found online of jammed international TV
networks are from at least five years prior to the current unrest.
Not surprisingly, Wikileaks cables 
suggested Bildt
served as a U.S. government informant when he was just 27 years old.

In
other words, it would pay to be overly meticulous when following the
reports on this intricate topic.

To
be clear, the protests are not nearly as concerned with Iran’s
foreign policy as much as some 
media
outlets are claiming 
they
are. As the 
Atlantic explained:

Unlike
what President Trump suggests, the protests aren’t about Iran’s
broader behaviour and foreign policy. And they’re not about the
regime’s support for terrorism…their main concern lies in the
price of day-to-day items and goods, such as poultry and eggs, as
well as unemployment and access to services.”

The death
toll
 in
the protests and the authorities’ inevitable response quickly grew
to at least 12 — a damning statistic for the Iranian government.
However, whether the following allegations are true or not,
the 
mainstream
media
 has
acknowledged that deaths occurred as a result of confrontation,
specifically, the claim that armed protesters began storming military
bases and police stations. Other government compounds were stormed,
as well, with
 protesters
lighting fires
 in
government offices.

These
are no longer students who are complaining about the price of eggs or
the right to dress in modern clothing (in a remarkable coincidence,
just before the protests erupted, Tehran’s police
 stated they
would no longer arrest women for violating the Islamic dress code).
Overrunning military bases and police stations with arms doesn’t
make you a protester, it makes you a militant
. As
journalist Ben Norton 
wrote on
his Facebook page, “
If
‘armed protesters’ (quite a phrase) tried to overrun military
bases and police stations in the US, it would declare martial law.”

Things
may not be so dire in Iran to require an armed uprising just yet
(just take a look at the 
thousands
of pro-government supporters
 who
have rallied the streets of Iran’s major cities). It would be
disingenuous to pay sole attention to the anti-government protesters
while ignoring the thousands of those who do support their
government. This is not to say that Iranians do not have genuine
cause to take to the streets and protest, but it certainly gives good
cause to the international community that perhaps — just this once
— it would do well to mind its own business.

Even
according to some of the biggest corporate media outlets, there is
likely foul play if people are taking arms against the Iranian
government in the current circumstances. As the 
New
York Magazine 
acknowledged:

As The
Guardian
 and New
York Times
 point
out, 
small
protests focused on economic issues are normal in Iran, but
politically charged protests across the country where people feel
safe chanting ‘death to the dictator’ — a knock on Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei — are not
.
The protests will undoubtedly be an important test for the relatively
moderate Rouhani, who has not been spared as a subject of chanting at
the rallies; in his remarks on Sunday, Rouhani was clearly trying to
walk a delicate line. 
There
is also apparently suspicion among members of his administration and
other reformers about what forces may be behind the
unrest.” 
[emphasis
added]

The
West’s Hypocrisy is Staggering

Despite
this, Donald Trump was quick to take to
 Twitter
to condemn
 Iran
and voice his support for the protesters. State Department
spokeswoman Heather Nauert also said in a
 statement that
the U.S. urged “
all
nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for
basic rights and an end to corruption.”

This
is the same administration that banned the Iranian people
 from
merely visiting
 the
United States.

Even
Hillary Clinton
 voiced
her support
 for
the Iranian people currently protesting against the government.
Apparently, Clinton has forgotten about the video of her where she
broke into 
hysterical
laughter
 while
talking about the U.S.’ desire to launch a war against Iran, which
would undoubtedly kill hundreds of thousands of ordinary Iranians.

We
would also do well to remember that after Donald Trump was elected
U.S. president at the end of 2016, America was inundated with
anti-Trump protests. Los Angeles police
 arrested at
least 462 people at the time. America’s NATO ally
Turkey
 arrested,
detained, suspended
, and
fired
 tens
of thousands
 of
teachers, lawyers, military officers, and court officials (with
at least 249 deaths in total) – and yet Donald Trump has
only
 appeared
to praise
 the
Turkish government’s crackdown.

America’s
Middle Eastern darling, Israel, has also been rocked by
 thousands
of protesters
 participating
in anti-corruption marches specifically targeting Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel also infamously
 locked
up a young teenage girl
 who
was brave enough to slap an Israeli soldier who had invaded her home.

For
the sake of argument, let’s all agree that Iran’s protests are
genuine. That fact alone isn’t grounds for an illegal 
regime
change
 operation
given the international standards the rest of the world has been
operating under for years. Allowing Trump to take the protests for a
ride to serve his own ludicrous foreign policy agenda also undermines
the intellect and history of Iran and its people, as
the 
Atlantic explains:

Iranians
aren’t ‘finally’ waking up and ‘getting wise,’ as Trump
suggests. Instead, Iran has a dynamic and active civil society, which
has created and embraced opportunities for reformation and progress
for decades…And many Iranians have paid for these ideals with their
lives.”

Don’t
buy into the hypocrisy. Donald Trump does not care about ordinary
Iranians, and he certainly doesn’t care about Iran’s access to
democracy. If Donald Trump cared about the Iranian people’s
economic concerns, the simple solution would be to stop unilaterally
slamming the country with 
economic
sanctions on a routine basis
.

In
the words of the Atlantic, Donald Trump “barely
understands the country he’s repeatedly demonized
.”

We’ve
been here before
.
The
 groundwork
is being laid
 for
a direct confrontation with Iran, and we are naïve at best if we
decide to take the bait. America’s footprint in the Middle East was
never rooted in any concerns for human rights, and believe it or not,
America’s interests and desires are
 always
rooted in money
.

The
last thing Iran needs right now in order to move towards a more
democratic and economically viable country is the direct interference
of the United States, a country that has reportedly 
killed
over one million Muslims
 since
the 9/11 attacks.

If
the Iranians want to exact change; they can and will do it
themselves. As
 stated by
the Tudeh Party of Iran, an Iranian communist party formed in 1941:

It
should be noted that under the critical conditions of the current
dangerous regional tensions, the regional reaction – supported by
the Trump administration in the US and the right-wing government of
Netanyahu in Israel – is seeking to distinctly impact the
developments in our country and to replace the current reactionary
regime with another reactionary regime.

The
support of these forces…for the Iranian monarchists and those
political groups whose agenda is to cooperate with the most
reactionary regimes of the region and to persuade the European states
to impose sanctions on Iran’s economy – thereby exacerbating the
misery for the destitute and disadvantaged people of our country –
and to encourage foreign states to interfere militarily in Iran,
leaves no room whatsoever for any optimism regarding the future
designs of such ‘opposition’…We should not let the past repeat
itself whereby the heroic struggle of the nation for freedom,
democracy and social justice is hijacked by a bunch of reactionary
opportunities who do not believe in the people’s rights or
democratic freedoms.”

Correction:
A previous version of this article stated the Trump administration
was behind the arrests of protesters in Los Angeles after his
election in November 2016. It has been corrected to reflect that
while police arrested protesters, they did not do so at the direction
of the Trump administration as he had not yet taken office.
Protesters at his inauguration, however, were arrested and have gone
on to 
face
charges
 this
year.

Op-ed
Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:  

Rutte
3 heeft begrip voor de moord op Soleimani en hoopt dat de VS zich niet
terugtrekt uit Irak, een soeverein land >> westerse
propaganda……
‘ 

KLM vliegt na ‘risicoanalyse’ niet meer in luchtruim van Iran en Irak‘ 

Oorlog tegen Iran: VS heeft lak aan democratie >> Irak wordt gedreigd met sancties en ‘herstelbetaling’

VS moord op Qasem Soleimani is een oorlogsverklaring aan adres van Iran…….

Iran stelt terecht dat het VS leger een terroristische organisatie is

Iraakse regering pissig over VS beschuldiging dat Iraanse bewind corrupt is


Trump volgt het scenario van deep state: oorlog met Iran ‘is onvermijdelijk….’

Rudy Giuliani viert het sterven van Iraniërs en stelt desondanks dat het Iraanse bewind door de VS geweldloos zal ondergaan…….

Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent) vindt Iran een gevaar voor het Midden-Oosten


Iraanse protesten gezien door de propaganda bril van de VS en de rest van het westen……..


Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël


Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….

Rudy Giuliani viert het sterven van Iraniërs en stelt desondanks dat het Iraanse bewind door de VS geweldloos zal ondergaan…….

US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria

Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen……‘ (klik ook op de links onder dat bericht)

VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..

Reagan middels manipulaties tot president gekozen; waarom de gijzelaars in Iran moesten wachten op hun vrijheid….

Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

Israelische officier met de koperen fluit waarschuwt voor Iraanse expansie…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…’


Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie

  en zie:

Warmonger Called Out on Live TV After Pretending to Care About Iranian Protesters