Post by jakaswanga on Jun 30, 2017 23:28:56 GMT 3
GRABBING QATARI GAS, SHUTTING UP AL-JAZEERA, WTF!
Do you believe in fairy tales!?
I do,
but with a caveat!
They have to be quaint, several millennia old, and thoroughly (ROM)antic. There ---my pu-zzyphilic heart can't be helped---- has to be a beautiful woman in it, and ----my loose morals can't be helped neither---- she mustn't be a 'titus' about sex. Yes, the heroine of my believable fairy tales must be of fairly elastic morals and endowed of other lascivious to debauched capabilities. That of course brings you to, for us Eurocentrists, classics like Eve of Eden and Hellene of Troy. I can think of more -like Jezebel or Nimfomane Kalypso, but I believe you already get the idea, dear reader.
I don't deny the classical versions though I abhor their virulent demonisation of hot women; in fact I always re-enforce the classics to convince my wife I have a deeply romantic heart. I proclaim with teary eyes, as if I only witnessed it yesterday with my own very eyes, how Paris and Hellen's gazes met in a stolen moment ordained by the goddess of the golden hips; how it was that miracle-thunderbolt-flash called love at first sight; how the slighted spouse, Menelaos of Argos, refused food and drink for 20 days of heartbreak until his brother, the King of Men Agamemnon, took alarm and promised if kid bro ate, they would bring the damsel back, cost what it cost in manpower and slaughter, and he could ravish her extraordinary, weeks on end, endless nights. (So did Menelaos quickly recover his pose and eat himself back to murderous competence, and off they set sail to the land of horse-nurturing pastures, to reclaim unmatchable pu-ssy .... And so the Trojan war was over the best lay of the two men's lives, the sons of Priamos and Atreus. ----There are women whose lips once you have kissed, and hips once have vetted, I insist, make of you a non repentant killer of the rival, no, a mass murderer of his whole lineage! A ready war criminal! That is love, passionate and pious and true, I tell my wife, so she might not think me a bio laboratory robot who thinks between female and male is only reproduction!
No, I don't mention the vital security interests of rising, expanding powers, nor the need to control sea routes and erect trade garrisons at commanding headlands. No, I don't mention a status quo determined to perpetuate its hegemony and thus tumbling into a Thucydide's trap, no less than the Suez war will be about trade routes and dying powers, nor the American-orchestrated Gulf wars about oil, 3 millennia from now.
But I am living in the time of the American Asia Pivot, The Africa Command, the upsurge of China, India, the new Russia, and now, the naval and air blockade over Qatar. This means I am kinda out of luck with my romantic heart, unless I can think double fast and concoct a hellish yarn with some hot pu-ssy in tow! You see there is no woman involved in this gulf thing that I know of, so I will be stuck on pure economics and finance, hard-nosed political economy without the tear-jerking boy-meet-girl bull of romantic poets! Ach, that much-derided laboratory robot because of his utilitarian pitch of females and males!
POOR RICH QATAR!
Qatar is sitting duck. She lays golden eggs. It has a gas bulb the size of the planet Jupiter, and the bulb recreates itself every millennium like some science fiction organism, or the limitless universe. Howbeit there are many a hungry pirate around the seas and globe. These are spoilers spoiling for a rich spoil. Qatar is a very rich spoil, like Kuwait was a very rich spoil for the greedy eye of Saddam Hussein then. Deficits O deficits! Imperial deficits! And dreams which need vast energies to fire!
Petit Qatar has been flaunting her full self around like a spoilt brat in the dangerous neighbourhood, she has been like unaware of just how nasty times can get. That Arab spring thing threatens more than Qatar has dared think. Its logical conclusion is the overthrow of the Al-Saud dynasty, the most reactionary powerhouse in the region.
DISBAND AL-JAZEERA, SAUDIS DEMAND
When you are a crown prince going places in a medieval Kingdom, you do well to do medieval things. Medieval Kingdoms in a not so medieval world are knife-edge spots. Money can buy a lot of fake friendships --like the prostitute mouths of useless Senegal, poor Mauritania and opportunistic Gabon, But these money for words African republics are just for the laughs. There are these interview videos of mercenary Senegalese troops captured by Houthis in Yemen, and they reveal a sorry, sorry Sahel country.
If tens of thousands of Senegalese Youth embark on open-boat (Kon-Tiki) expeditions to reach Europe for a better life, it is believable when a senegalese mercenary in Yemen explains $250/month plus what extras for one year after his death to his family, is a golden opportunity he couldn't miss.
It is the confession of a man, a boy really, accepting his death. But the Houthi staggers back. Shocked at the willing cheapness of this black African life. -'How much would you fetch in a current Libyan slave market, thanks to Obama?' a younger, nastier colleague of the elder Houthi asks.
He really has no idea how cheap Senegalese young male life is!
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/world/africa/migrants-mediterranean-italy-libya-deaths.html
Dying for a death allowance of $250 remittance to the desolate villages of Senegal is thus a bargain! --2017 Africa!
But let us talk Qatar between two giant neighbours.
I think the most convincing reason why Qatar is under siege at the behest of Saudi Arabia is the good old reason why, for instance, Britain declared Kenya the Whiteman's Highlands, and the Boers saw in South Africa the promised land!
Saudi Arabia and Trump's America are out to grab Qatari gas. The gas fields are linked to Iran, and there is a pipeline in the pipeline, a joint exploitation ferrying all that gas to rising Asian powers far and beyond India. The other reasons are two bullsh!it to mention. Trump and his chum Bin Salman don't need to grab the gas directly of course, but they need must exert enough blackmail to coerce Qatar into periodic huge ransoms from its gas exploits. --Tribute. That is an effective loss of sovereignty. Vassal states are forms of colonies. (Greece's loss of sovereignty by the debt politics of the EU is another 'vassalisation' case to consider at a separate thread!)
If Qatar refused to pay tribute --to be vassalised softly, she will be annexed. Several millennia later, the best story about it will have nothing to do with gas profits nor geopolitics, nor super-power state deficits and big neighbour declining oil profits. May be the story will be something like: The Great King Donald Trump went to visit the young Crown Prince MBS in his Oil Kingdom. The American leader of the World carried along his beautiful wife and daughter, Ivanka and Melania. A rogue Emir from the neighbouring emirate gatecrushed the dinner, and as fate would have it, daughter Ivanka eloped with him. Worse was to come when Mother Melania too disappeared in the gas fields of romance, abandoning Great Washington with its White House for the delights of bedouin tents and starry-sky-roofed oases.
War became inevitable!
This surely is a better take than shut down Aljazeera because it is spreading terrorist propaganda and undermining stability in the region. The given reasons are surely too stupid even for the stupid Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to believe!
This is dangerous. But I am happy I saw a sexy girl from the State Department in Washington going as far as she could without her sexy smile evolving into something else seedier, declare between the lines, the case against Qatar is loco!
In other words, unlike Trump, Tillerson is saying MBS is next to loosing his senses, even as he gains a Kingdom!
NB: Wars are so common place in history, and gulf wars so everyday, it will be impossible to remember any particular gulf war unless it features Hellene of Troy like rattlesnakes!
FOOTNOTE:
Do you believe in fairy tales!?
I do,
but with a caveat!
They have to be quaint, several millennia old, and thoroughly (ROM)antic. There ---my pu-zzyphilic heart can't be helped---- has to be a beautiful woman in it, and ----my loose morals can't be helped neither---- she mustn't be a 'titus' about sex. Yes, the heroine of my believable fairy tales must be of fairly elastic morals and endowed of other lascivious to debauched capabilities. That of course brings you to, for us Eurocentrists, classics like Eve of Eden and Hellene of Troy. I can think of more -like Jezebel or Nimfomane Kalypso, but I believe you already get the idea, dear reader.
I don't deny the classical versions though I abhor their virulent demonisation of hot women; in fact I always re-enforce the classics to convince my wife I have a deeply romantic heart. I proclaim with teary eyes, as if I only witnessed it yesterday with my own very eyes, how Paris and Hellen's gazes met in a stolen moment ordained by the goddess of the golden hips; how it was that miracle-thunderbolt-flash called love at first sight; how the slighted spouse, Menelaos of Argos, refused food and drink for 20 days of heartbreak until his brother, the King of Men Agamemnon, took alarm and promised if kid bro ate, they would bring the damsel back, cost what it cost in manpower and slaughter, and he could ravish her extraordinary, weeks on end, endless nights. (So did Menelaos quickly recover his pose and eat himself back to murderous competence, and off they set sail to the land of horse-nurturing pastures, to reclaim unmatchable pu-ssy .... And so the Trojan war was over the best lay of the two men's lives, the sons of Priamos and Atreus. ----There are women whose lips once you have kissed, and hips once have vetted, I insist, make of you a non repentant killer of the rival, no, a mass murderer of his whole lineage! A ready war criminal! That is love, passionate and pious and true, I tell my wife, so she might not think me a bio laboratory robot who thinks between female and male is only reproduction!
No, I don't mention the vital security interests of rising, expanding powers, nor the need to control sea routes and erect trade garrisons at commanding headlands. No, I don't mention a status quo determined to perpetuate its hegemony and thus tumbling into a Thucydide's trap, no less than the Suez war will be about trade routes and dying powers, nor the American-orchestrated Gulf wars about oil, 3 millennia from now.
But I am living in the time of the American Asia Pivot, The Africa Command, the upsurge of China, India, the new Russia, and now, the naval and air blockade over Qatar. This means I am kinda out of luck with my romantic heart, unless I can think double fast and concoct a hellish yarn with some hot pu-ssy in tow! You see there is no woman involved in this gulf thing that I know of, so I will be stuck on pure economics and finance, hard-nosed political economy without the tear-jerking boy-meet-girl bull of romantic poets! Ach, that much-derided laboratory robot because of his utilitarian pitch of females and males!
POOR RICH QATAR!
Qatar is sitting duck. She lays golden eggs. It has a gas bulb the size of the planet Jupiter, and the bulb recreates itself every millennium like some science fiction organism, or the limitless universe. Howbeit there are many a hungry pirate around the seas and globe. These are spoilers spoiling for a rich spoil. Qatar is a very rich spoil, like Kuwait was a very rich spoil for the greedy eye of Saddam Hussein then. Deficits O deficits! Imperial deficits! And dreams which need vast energies to fire!
Petit Qatar has been flaunting her full self around like a spoilt brat in the dangerous neighbourhood, she has been like unaware of just how nasty times can get. That Arab spring thing threatens more than Qatar has dared think. Its logical conclusion is the overthrow of the Al-Saud dynasty, the most reactionary powerhouse in the region.
DISBAND AL-JAZEERA, SAUDIS DEMAND
When you are a crown prince going places in a medieval Kingdom, you do well to do medieval things. Medieval Kingdoms in a not so medieval world are knife-edge spots. Money can buy a lot of fake friendships --like the prostitute mouths of useless Senegal, poor Mauritania and opportunistic Gabon, But these money for words African republics are just for the laughs. There are these interview videos of mercenary Senegalese troops captured by Houthis in Yemen, and they reveal a sorry, sorry Sahel country.
Dreaming of Europe: the last young man left in a Senegalese village
Life is lonely and humiliating for Goundo Wandianga, 21, whose friends and twin brother have all gone to seek their fortunes
In the villages, there are just old people, women and children, he says. There are no young men because theres nothing to hold them there. Theres nothing a young man can do even to earn enough to buy a cup of tea, or a cigarette. And theres no family that wants its kids to stay.
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Many have gone to Europe, but many others only make it as far as their local urban centre, Kolda, where they hang around trying to find a way to earn a bit of money.
In fact, these villages spend more in cash and cows paying for the journeys to Europe and the protective prayers of local marabouts (holy men) than they get back in remittances. Many Senegalese migrants sit in Libya, waiting to make the crossing, or in Italy, waiting to get papers and a job. But despite this, the overwhelming feeling in Sare Bakary is that the best thing its working-age men can do is leave.
The road is so tough, but if they dont go, theyre seen as wimps, says Fatou Balde, Goundos aunt, trying not to look directly at Goundo sitting on the mat at her feet.
Life is lonely and humiliating for Goundo Wandianga, 21, whose friends and twin brother have all gone to seek their fortunes
In the villages, there are just old people, women and children, he says. There are no young men because theres nothing to hold them there. Theres nothing a young man can do even to earn enough to buy a cup of tea, or a cigarette. And theres no family that wants its kids to stay.
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Many have gone to Europe, but many others only make it as far as their local urban centre, Kolda, where they hang around trying to find a way to earn a bit of money.
In fact, these villages spend more in cash and cows paying for the journeys to Europe and the protective prayers of local marabouts (holy men) than they get back in remittances. Many Senegalese migrants sit in Libya, waiting to make the crossing, or in Italy, waiting to get papers and a job. But despite this, the overwhelming feeling in Sare Bakary is that the best thing its working-age men can do is leave.
The road is so tough, but if they dont go, theyre seen as wimps, says Fatou Balde, Goundos aunt, trying not to look directly at Goundo sitting on the mat at her feet.
If tens of thousands of Senegalese Youth embark on open-boat (Kon-Tiki) expeditions to reach Europe for a better life, it is believable when a senegalese mercenary in Yemen explains $250/month plus what extras for one year after his death to his family, is a golden opportunity he couldn't miss.
It is the confession of a man, a boy really, accepting his death. But the Houthi staggers back. Shocked at the willing cheapness of this black African life. -'How much would you fetch in a current Libyan slave market, thanks to Obama?' a younger, nastier colleague of the elder Houthi asks.
He really has no idea how cheap Senegalese young male life is!
Yet more people keep trying. As of Wednesday, nearly 72,000 migrants had made it to the shores of Italy a 28 percent increase compared with the same period last year, according to the migration organization.
The stormy sea is the last in a deadly series of obstacles to Europe. For migrants like the Anne brothers, the journey begins in packed buses that may topple over on bad roads patrolled by thieves. If they make it through the days-long desert crossing to Libya, the migrants are sometimes beaten, detained for weeks by smugglers and shaken down for yet more cash.
Late last month, 44 migrants, including children, died in the Sahara after their vehicle broke down and they ran out of water. More recently, a dinghy carrying 130 people capsized after rival smugglers stole the engine. Only four people aboard were rescued.
The stormy sea is the last in a deadly series of obstacles to Europe. For migrants like the Anne brothers, the journey begins in packed buses that may topple over on bad roads patrolled by thieves. If they make it through the days-long desert crossing to Libya, the migrants are sometimes beaten, detained for weeks by smugglers and shaken down for yet more cash.
Late last month, 44 migrants, including children, died in the Sahara after their vehicle broke down and they ran out of water. More recently, a dinghy carrying 130 people capsized after rival smugglers stole the engine. Only four people aboard were rescued.
www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/world/africa/migrants-mediterranean-italy-libya-deaths.html
I was standing right there, and I cried, his mother, Salmata Boullo Diallo, said near the family compound in a vast expanse of fallow peanut fields in this remote part of Senegal.
The loss did not end there. Mr. Annes younger brother Gibbe also tried to reach Italy. He, too, died at sea.
Their fates, sealed in journeys nearly two years ago, matched those of so many in this region, where young men often fall into three unforgiving categories: the ones who have made it to Europe, the ones who were blocked or deported along the way and the ones who died trying.
If they would have made it, it really would have changed things for us, Ms. Diallo said.
The same sea that swallowed the Anne brothers in their journeys on the Mediterranean has already claimed the lives of more than 2,100 migrants and refugees this year. Ninety-five percent of those deaths have occurred on the so-called central route between Libya and Italy, a passage used chiefly by sub-Saharan Africans that the International Organization for Migration calls the deadliest route migrants ply anywhere on Earth.
The loss did not end there. Mr. Annes younger brother Gibbe also tried to reach Italy. He, too, died at sea.
Their fates, sealed in journeys nearly two years ago, matched those of so many in this region, where young men often fall into three unforgiving categories: the ones who have made it to Europe, the ones who were blocked or deported along the way and the ones who died trying.
If they would have made it, it really would have changed things for us, Ms. Diallo said.
The same sea that swallowed the Anne brothers in their journeys on the Mediterranean has already claimed the lives of more than 2,100 migrants and refugees this year. Ninety-five percent of those deaths have occurred on the so-called central route between Libya and Italy, a passage used chiefly by sub-Saharan Africans that the International Organization for Migration calls the deadliest route migrants ply anywhere on Earth.
But let us talk Qatar between two giant neighbours.
I think the most convincing reason why Qatar is under siege at the behest of Saudi Arabia is the good old reason why, for instance, Britain declared Kenya the Whiteman's Highlands, and the Boers saw in South Africa the promised land!
Saudi Arabia and Trump's America are out to grab Qatari gas. The gas fields are linked to Iran, and there is a pipeline in the pipeline, a joint exploitation ferrying all that gas to rising Asian powers far and beyond India. The other reasons are two bullsh!it to mention. Trump and his chum Bin Salman don't need to grab the gas directly of course, but they need must exert enough blackmail to coerce Qatar into periodic huge ransoms from its gas exploits. --Tribute. That is an effective loss of sovereignty. Vassal states are forms of colonies. (Greece's loss of sovereignty by the debt politics of the EU is another 'vassalisation' case to consider at a separate thread!)
If Qatar refused to pay tribute --to be vassalised softly, she will be annexed. Several millennia later, the best story about it will have nothing to do with gas profits nor geopolitics, nor super-power state deficits and big neighbour declining oil profits. May be the story will be something like: The Great King Donald Trump went to visit the young Crown Prince MBS in his Oil Kingdom. The American leader of the World carried along his beautiful wife and daughter, Ivanka and Melania. A rogue Emir from the neighbouring emirate gatecrushed the dinner, and as fate would have it, daughter Ivanka eloped with him. Worse was to come when Mother Melania too disappeared in the gas fields of romance, abandoning Great Washington with its White House for the delights of bedouin tents and starry-sky-roofed oases.
War became inevitable!
This surely is a better take than shut down Aljazeera because it is spreading terrorist propaganda and undermining stability in the region. The given reasons are surely too stupid even for the stupid Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to believe!
This is dangerous. But I am happy I saw a sexy girl from the State Department in Washington going as far as she could without her sexy smile evolving into something else seedier, declare between the lines, the case against Qatar is loco!
In other words, unlike Trump, Tillerson is saying MBS is next to loosing his senses, even as he gains a Kingdom!
NB: Wars are so common place in history, and gulf wars so everyday, it will be impossible to remember any particular gulf war unless it features Hellene of Troy like rattlesnakes!
FOOTNOTE: