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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 9, 2019 19:48:42 GMT 3
THE USA NEEDS A BIG WAR SOON, IS RUSSIA GAME? If smart moves were the staple of world-class politicians, the world wouldn't be such a mess, neither would history be that bloody. We will come to Soviet Admiral Vasili Arkhipov later. And we shall muse at his exploit during the Cuban Missile crisis, when JFKennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went for it, Mundu-khu-Mundu, or Mano-a-Mano. But First, we trace a few co-ordinates plotting a trajectory which, to all ends, will be bad. The administration of Donald Trump is really pushing it. There is something manic in it. Consider: Trump has now to all practical purposes, outlawed Iran. ### Secretary Kerry posed with his fellow E.U., P5+1, and Iranian counterparts at the Austria Centre in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2015, before the formal announcement of the agreement concluding the Iranian nuclear negotiations 1. FLASH POINT CRIMEABut before that, there was a regime change engineered in the Ukraine to the detriment of Russia, and an attempt to incorporate the Baltic states into NATO. That is sticking it to Putin. Recently, the failed tate Ukraine attempted to sail warships into the sea of Azov in total disregard of existing protocol. They were promptly thwarted by the Russian navy. The United States declared their ships will escort the Ukrainians next tim around. That is playing with fire. A very big one. In Syria, there was the death of Lieutenant General Valery Asapov. ISIS, they said, showed on that day an unusually and remarkable accuracy in rocketry. They killed a Russian General and two colonels. Other word was it was payback by the Americans, since Lieutenant General Asipov had been deployed to the East of Ukraine, Donetsk, and had put paid to Poroshenko's military drive to re-incorporate Novorussia. 2. RUSSIANS IN VENEZUELA Russia recently sent a plane load of military personnel and computer specialists to deworm the Venezuela dam systems. The national grid there has been repeatedly hit by a STUXNET-like computer attack. (Some will remember when the Iranian --nuclear--- centrifuges were hit and spun out of control. ) Anyway, as if ordering an orderly out of sight, the USA ordered Russian out of Venezuela! This is my yard, dog, keep off! Trump actually gave Putin the order as he sat with Fabiana Rosales Guaido at the white house Trump answered a reporter's question about Russia's actions in Venezuela as he stood next to Fabiana Rosales, the wife of opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Rosales came to Washington to drum up support for her husband, who declared himself Venezuela's interim president in late January. Putin only offered a smirk back at Trump. It was left to foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov to spill words on it. 3. TRADE WAR WITH CHINA, NO DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA Just as he was set to meet Xi Jinpin, the USA ordered Canada to detain a top Huawei executive. Just as he was about to meet North Korea's Kim in Vietnam, the CIA raided the North Korean offices in Spain, tied up the North Korean residents and stole stuff! KABOOM the sunshine smiles between North and South. 4. WITHDRAWAL FROM THE INF TREATY In February we had this 5. And then there has been, to date, the botched attempt in Venezuela to topple Maduro. The man the Vice President of the USA has appointed to replace Maduro, is the puppet Guaido, and he has been given control of up to $31 billion confiscated from Venezuela's oil operations in the USA. Some of that money belongs to Russia and China. 6. TEARING UP THE JCPOAIn May 2018, Donald Trump withdrew from the Iranian Nuclear deal painfully negotiated by the Obama administration. Trump trashed it all. ###FANNING THE FLAMES FURTHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST In the middle East, after gifting the occupied Golan Heights to the occupier, Israel, on of top earlier provocations like moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, Donald Trump now lights a fuse. A thought occurred to me and I grinned a bit: fancy Ababu Namwamba and Monicah Juma explaining Kenya's position on this spat! You know Kenya is the chief exporter of tea to the IRGC! Here is what I had in mind Hey, Nairobi, anybody home!? Not everything is Ruto-Raila!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 11, 2019 20:03:05 GMT 3
1. CAN EUROPE (KSA & ISRAEL) SURVIVE A US DESTRUCTION OF IRAN?KSA is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. US deploys aircraft carrier, bombers to 'send message' to Iran May 0 2019. With the stupid white men (Michael Moore) or *ucking morons ( Rex Tillerson) in the white house bent on war with Iran, this question must now be asked. 1. Can the European Union survive this Armageddon? 2. Can the state of Israel, and the King of Saudi Arabia? 3. Can a pragmatic Russia and a cynical China afford to let it happen?The Islamic republic of Iran is the only small state who is no vassal of some other power. States of comparable population and size, even if economically far better faring ---Japan, the UK, The EU twins Germany and France---- are easily American vassals. Their economies are so intertwined with that of the US, they have no options when push comes to shove. And that is where the conflict in the middle east is slowly maturing to. The Eurovassals will forego their longterm interests of their peoples and, deep sigh, act in accordance with imperial American diktat. This servility is the reason the political elites of the big EU powers are so out of step with their peoples. The popularity of populist nationalists has risen. The shine on the ----jobwise figures--- competent Iron lady Merkel nosedived. QUICK HOT WAR, ENDLESS CHAOSMilitarily, the war will be over in a couple of days I think. But what a bang!? to prevent a missile scorch-earth of Israel, Washington and Tel Aviv will be forced to strike Iran with tactical nuclear weapons This --- Hiroshima and Nagasaki rerun---- is the only way to totally disable a country of 80 million people mobilised for war, and no sitting duck. IR-Iran, since she can not hit mainland USA, will empty all her military might on Israel and American assets in the gulf. So in the first few minutes, all Saudi oil infrastructure will be up in flames; Qatar, where the airbase is, will be up in smoke, so too any American asset within 1000km. It is understood when the neocon loonie twins around Trump, Pompeo and Bolton, have their favourite war in the middle east, then will hitherto canonised absolute depths horror like the Shoa of Europe be reduced to historical kalongolongos in the scales of human depravity. After those few days of an incinerated middle east, the world will exploded into rival camps and, immediately, low intensity conflict beyond diplomacy. In many Muslim countries, white people will be persona non grata. Vengeance will be taken anyhow. White nationalism in Europe will be forced to react. The popular best would be declaring non whites and Muslims fair game in the continent. Time to revisit concentration camps. Nearly every country will go state of emergency to try to put a lid on the mass hysteria. What will Russia and China do? What can Russia and China do? The best is to be neutral of course. That is strategically stand by and watch the West and Iran collapse themselves. (That is like Winston Churchill who wanted the USA and the USSR to go war over continental Europe, leaving Britain unscathed and once again emerging as a world power!) NB: Here is some interesting detail on the follies of mentally MOU between two powers for a monopoly of atomic information, a breakthrough which had happened in a LABORATORY far from both! Nuclear fission, the mother of all atomic information, was a NAZI-GERMANY scientific breakthrough! The two Berlin-based scientist were Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann What a pity to Roosevelt and Churchill that American and British scientist do not monopolise cutting inventions, and all the wherewithal necessary to PROJECT SUPER POWERDOM! The attempt at monopoly to intimidate others, triggered PROLIFERATION to deter or achieve parity. It went into history as THE ARMS RACE! No, when you plot domination, you are plotting war, and sowing the seeds of parity if not your own defeat. We never learn, do we, O human beings. POSTDAM Some will also remember how an Indian state project called SMILING BUDHA spooked Pakistan. So much so that the Pakis went 'Manhattan' too! Just like, well, just about anywhere else .... ..... the North Koreans. Which fool doesn't know!? Now 2019: Israel 150 atomic weapons, Iran zero! Only the destruction of Iran and the evaporation of the dignity of the Persians can maintain the above imbalance. Why pretend about these disingenuous blurbs called JCPOA? The USA already killed it. So back to this: What will Russia and China do? What can Russia and China do?What can they do to prevent a SHOAx6 on Persian? The answer is not nothing, but of course THEY CAN CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING. --who said it is Putin and Xi Jinpin's brief to save the world from a Samsonite Washington DC? Tic Toc, Tic Toc. Any adults in the room!? Sorry, PLANET!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 9, 2019 12:46:27 GMT 3
XI' THREE DAY VISIT TO RUSSIA, JUNE 2019The Eurasian pivotFOR those in the West's newsfeed, the choice helpings were all about Donald Trump's twitter wars over the paralysed Britain he was visiting cuncurrently as Xi did Russia. There in the isles of our former colonial masters did the man from DC pour more oil into the fire of Brexit as he made a grand entrance. He also traded insults with the mayor of London, Sadikh Khan. --The Paki Khan isn't exactly the right colour nor religion Trump rather have as London's first citizen, just as Ilhan Omar isn't really the kind of all American girl his good old white nationalist fantasies run amok for, bent over Congress seats in Washington DC. But he as POTUS gotta live with them somehow, even if in hate. London booed him all the way even as the house of Windsor rolled out the ritual red carpet. And then it was off to the D-Day pictoresque, Normandy commemorations. But the engines of the New World were revving elsewhere: XI JINPIN WAS IN RUSSIA.The emperor of China has to make a run. He has been criticised for having misjudged Trump. He threw caution to the winds and is now reaping the price of his folly. He has to break an Icarus fall at home. While Sergei Lavrov has openly stated American is agreement incapable, Xi appeared to have believed Trump was rational enough to do what is best in a grave situation: avoid a trade war between the two leading economies of the world. Trump's nuclear bomb at Huawei, the goose of the golden egg, the Chinese High Tech business card to the world, has sobered him up and returned him to Deng Hsiao Ping's, Daedalus caution of yonder: crossing the river by feeling the stones under. He has now reached the conclusion it wont work. The hegemon, or top dog, will not peacefully allow the challenger to send it under without being confronted with no option left but capitulation. And it is perhaps an Armageddon situation. In any case diplomacy is out. So Chairman Xi thought must take a detour. The LONG MARCH OPTION. And so this Early June 2019, Xi JinPin's visit to Russia was different. It was commitment. It also reflect the comments made recently by China's first soldier. The General said Taiwan is an indispensable part of China. China has reached the state Russia reached when all agreements and reassurance given to Boris Yeltsin were negated and NATO moved into the Baltic states, 15 seconds away by missile strike to St Petersburg, and less than half a minute to Moscow. And down in the Caucus, Georgia too, and Ukraine invited ---Sevastopol, a NATO base. A direct existential threat. Putin, a spy and not yet president, sat up bolt right. Russian nationalism surged with him. And the world has not been the same since. (remember terms like a 'resurgent' Russia, and Obama's notorious qualification: 'revisionist power'. ) HINT From THE RAND CORPORATION: Well, comrade Xi, that is how things are done. I mean Trump has signed it, any company which does business with Huawei, wont do business with America!It is a total quarantine like the one Trump issued on Iran: any company doing business with Iran will face specified heavy penalties from the United States. Result: even as the meek Europeans dissent, all european cEuropean have ceased business with the Islamic republic! Now, even if Big China is no small Iran, and the peoples republic non Islamic, the writing on the wall is clear and loud: China must be kept down and under, contained in subservience. Comrade Xi has been advised by the politburo he chairs to break out, or he will be broken in, and booted out. This is the background to the purposeful calm pose that marked the event in St. Petersburg. POST SCRIPTS THE STING IN THE TAIL NB: Patrick Njoroge and his CBK whiz-kids spend two years studying the Indian demonitisation before taking a leap of faith with the Kenya shilling note of 1k. The same team had earlier taken all their time looking over their shoulders before they kind of applied for Kenya to join the list of associate members to the CHINA-LED Asia Industrial and Infrastructure Bank, AIIB. Now there is a new homework arrived on the table: QUESTION: how long before we ditch the dollar in our bilateral trade with Kenya's leading creditor, and PUTIN'S BEST FRIEND, uncle Xi? No, that is not really the lead question, that is 1b. Here is A, because charity should start at home. How long will it take US before ALL Inter East and Intra Central African trade, where the Kenya shilling is the dollar according CBK data, is conducted in local currency only.With the 'trade in gold' ---see Wetangula's non issue quip--- between Kenya and Congo topping $400M/month I would say a Kenyan shilling backed by gold is a walk in the park! Now, Opus Dei Boy, lets go for your legacy. This is your last term you know! I will be back.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 13, 2019 8:25:15 GMT 3
WAITING FOR A WAR, where will the big-bang be!?
This posting will be a middle east special, chapter Iran and Trump.
JCPOA TANKING, SUNK TO THE BOTTOM
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in short, the Iran NUCLEAR DEAL of Obama.
IN any case, the administration of Donald Trump, The Obama-successor POTUS, blew it up long ago, ie in 2018. Great Britain, yes, I said 'GREAT', seems to have lost her head. And I am not hinting at Teresa May's departure. The rest of the disheveled, motley signatories have been keeping up quixotic appearances, riding a wooden horse, pretending otherwise.
Except Iran.
Pushed to the wall, the Islamic republic has no more room to retreat. Iran has to break out. And she is hard at it, the best she can, short of capitulation. Some will remember the words of Ayatollah Khomeini on July 20th 1988.
This was on accepting the UN resolution 598 to end the Iran-Iraq War. Then, like the Trojan war, close to its tenth year.
'The United states, seething at the overthrow of its puppet regime under the Shah, Supreme King Reza Pahlavi, was firmly on Saddam Hussein's side that time. A host of coming imperial cynics in Washington DC were enthralled. There was young Dick Cheney, there was young Donald Rumsfeld, and there was of course the B-actor Ronald Reagan with his VP, the ex CIA Chief, George Bush senior. They were all jubilant at using Arabs (blood) to drain Persians (blood) while white Christians stoked the war emmers and enjoyed the watch: stage perfect. Theft oil flows cheap. The futures of these brown nations and their dark peoples distracted, thrown back, far back.
Conquerors are never really aware how deep the conquered study history to learn. (I think, off the cuff, that could easily have been Ho Chi Minh telling an inverse 'mother bed-bug story to his then young commander Vo Nguyen Giap. They were in a cave, late 1940's, bombed out of Hanoi by superior French airpower. The future never looked dimmer. Ho was impressing on the remnants of his politburo, that the French were no problem.
France was dead in IndoChina.
'Saviour Vo, believe me, it is the Americans whose big, big and super-size as.s you gonna have to kick and tear apart. Or we are toast! Americans are the coming colonial power over Vietnam, forget the French. France is passe. These bombs over Hanoi are her rigor mortis!'
And yet it was French planes and paratroopers who had driven them reds out of Hanoi. Young Vo didn't really think the Americans were his greatest problem. Ho grinned, a famous grin still found in many memorabilia,even T-shirts found in Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon. The grin of an older man who has seen a bit further, and knows the river of blood is yet to be crossed.
Reliving the moment over 60 years later, an aging Vo Giap would collapse in laughter! I thought uncle Ho was mad! Old and Mad! And then a thoughtful quip which revealed the uncertainty of that moment in the cave in his youth: there are moments a nation needs a mind to lead, a mind forged beyond all that is known as hard. We the people of Vietnam found that in Uncle Ho. He believed in our ability to defeat any invader, however powerful.
I think the Iranian supreme leader is not so far from such an Uncle Ho-Vo moment.
A TENACIOUS MULLAH
Ayatollah Khameini is putting up a remarkably controlled and careful response regime. But I think the sh!tstorm is out there, and coming. The United States is cornered. She can't handle the consequences she has wrought, by forcing China and Russia to gang up together in active opposition to her designs. That is the Eurasian axis which, howbeit now, a furtive Mordi's India is tentatively knocking to join, forced by her own peculiarities of interests, not least, economics. Somebody out there must pay for the disconcert of a receding power, the USA. And one with the greatest show-case of military prowess ever assembled in human history. That Trump Card must come to pass, even if to end an era, much like the British fiasco at Suez did her in, many decades ago.
NEXT: 300KG LIMIT SURPASS,
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 13, 2019 9:10:16 GMT 3
IRAN SPECIAL 1B. But first: AND THAT WAS THE 2019 G-20 IN OSAKA, JAPANFar away from the cameras which closes us up on the faces of the puppets acting out full-spectrum dominance, say the nominal leaders of the G-20 economic block as we count them heads of states, other raw events dictated by steely decisions take shape. This process or phenomenon is no less valid for the Kenyan political scene too, where, say the G-3, for Ouru Ruto and Raila, are, on the face of it, truly deities engaged in full-spectrum dominance. But behind the daily tedium of our political stars as obsessed over by the corporate mass media, is a world pregnant with other more significant events. Only one needs to wade through the deliberate obscurantism and obfuscation. Did oil prices feature a the recent G20 in Osaka, Japan? They did. In fact there was a huge bilateral breakthrough between Russia and Saudi Arabia. It left India weeping. And Iran hanging like OPEC. It is Pompeo of the USA to assure us of ADEQUATE OIL FLOW? The economic interests of Indian organised in a lobby-body looked at newly-elected Prime Minister Mordi, their eyelids gaping, their bellies churning. Did the size and precariousness of the world debt feature? I bet it did, which means the hottest topic in the G20 summit was war in the gulf, Trump versus Rouhani, and its effects on World's leading Banks. But neither the president of Iran nor the spiritual leader of the Islamic republic were at the table in Osaka, Tokyo. Yet two token tinnies, or Tom Thumbs, were there: Cyril Ramaphosa for South Africa and Justin Tradeau for Canada. It made me think of many things from the past, of world history. (Like Euro-colonial powers gathered in Berlin to carve up the destiny of Africa, not a single African at the table, 1870's!) It is always a dangerous folly in international politics where the powers of the status quo incorporate their eternity in the agreements, secret or public 1920 Huh, safeguard territorial integrity and political independence of member states, again huh!? Pray Tell! how does the world look like in 1920, in terms of member states and their political integrity!? I checked the map! But wont bother to paste! For One, the whole Indian subcontinent is the private estate of the English ruling class. The proposed clauses of the league of nations on territorial integrity would maintain that feature: the colonial status of India under the UK. Then China, then: It would appear neither did the nationalist sensitivities of China matter to the drafters of the clauses in Paris, 1920. One can bother to learn lessons from the past. But there is really no need, since life if only ever too ready to teach them again! Next: THE BIG THREE IN 1920, TAKING CARE OF WORLD BUSINESS.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 13, 2019 14:17:48 GMT 3
IRAN SPECIAL: 1C. ONCE UPON A TIME AT THE TOP OF THE WORLDA lot of peopless were locked out of an international deal ---of peace, security and prosperity! They had their cake and ate it at the same time! Nearly. Interestingly in Paris, on that 1920 day, there were strident voices tried to hinder the " Big Three," from eating their cake and pretending to keep it whole. The Big Three were Woodrow Wilson of the USA, Georges Clemenceau of France and David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom. One of those 'irritating distractors' was a young man from Vietnam. He was a nobody, but his heart harboured a dream the history, and future of his long-suffering people. This then unknown character would later be the notorious Ai Quoc. Uncle Ho to his ace Generals and hardened Commanders. In the next half a century Uncle Ho would pull off a military feat which would not be done justice by a David and Goliath narrative. Nguyen-Ai-Quoc (the later known as Ho Chi Minh) speaking at the foundational congress of the French Communist Party in December 1920. Michael Goebel The broad reactions were, this was a loony, a coolie scumbag full of sh!t, red sh!t! But fast forward to SEPTEMBER 02 1945 But there were other non-Asian nationalist sensitivities too, unminded in Paris by the powers that were To their folly. Berlin was not as far from Paris as Beijin, Hanoi or Nairobi, .... but .... But Gustav Stressman and the government he represented were by this time irrelevant. German Politics had moved on past the league of nations, far past the big three and their fix. Therefore, reading this clause of the league of nations as warranted by the Big Three one would laugh in retrospect, were it not that in 1939, the sh!t would hit the fan as they say. The league of nations fix at the behest of the Big Three had ignored one of the primordial, terrifying passions which lurk beneath the human breast: the sense of dignity, freedom and integrity. The seethe against daily, and national humiliation. Because I like to thumb through history books to awe myself at the blindness of world leaders intoxicated by the trappings of power, every new high event where contemporary world leaders meet to run the world always moves me to introspect who is absent at the table, and why. And it is always amazing how much of a fit contemporary fixes are a match to the same old colonial template of ignoring the true wishes of all mankind, freedom peace and prosperity, and punishing the independents. (the so-hyped inalienable rights of all being born equal continue to be fairy tales, bullsh!t to the powers that be! that is why there is the spectre of a war out there, haunting!) Truly I ask: what must happen for Iran to be present and treated with equality, respect and dignity? That British act of international piracy around Gibraltar, hijacking an Iranian tanker and its crude, is the kind of arrogance and insolence which, history be read, is not Brittania ruling the waves, but proof of an empty-headed London. As if the Brexit chaos were not enough proof of elite incompetence. No, the internal contradictions of the UK can no longer be exported.So Osaka 2019 G20. I couldn't help noticing the absence### of the beards from Teheran. And checking Iran's economic potential against other attendee's. Another name for G20 is Go To Hell Iran I think. And did the G20 2019 discuss the Palestinian plight, did they? No, but they discussed Terrorism! ###ABSENCE: Chinua Achebe always told this anecdote: he was looking for his Igbo people in 'colonial' literature and only came across an absence. Yet the Igbos were so present in the world to him. So he decided to write about them himself, give them a presence in whatever literature! ---I always paraphrase him thus in class: it is like having a kok and using it several times a day for whatever purpose, some of them too dirty to mention but too sweet to abandon, yet being told by your master you are cockless and a cu.nt! Then you might feel to drive your kok up the master's arsehole just to make the argument a bit more heartfelt! NEXT: WHO IS AFRAID OF ANOTHER GULF WAR?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 13, 2019 15:10:24 GMT 3
IRAN SPECIAL: 1D. WHO IS AFRAID OF ANOTHER GULF WAR?
No, nobody!
Well, the Lord works in strange ways, but stupidity is always clear. We will have our world war some time. Though by new definitions and technological developments, there are arguments the war is already on. For instance there is a hot cyber war already. The war fought with smart algorithms.
But the rest of the world is still very old fashioned. The world is full of Old World weapons, you know, nuclear bombs, missiles and rockets, air-craft carriers, spears and matchetes, bows, arrows, rifles and tanks. The usual paraphernalia of mass murder. And since rights are too scarce to be afforded all humanity, wherefore social liberty, dignity and peaceful prosperity is the privilege of a minor, mostly hereditary aristocracy, things will only get hotter and more Old Worldish.
The world powers of today behave as if they think people like .... the Iranians and Palestinians are untermenschen. A subhuman species.
NB: The British (under the lifeless mummy Teresa May) who were the first to confiscate Venezuela's gold on the pretext it belonged to the American puppet Guaido, are the same who have buccaneered an Iranian Oil tanker headed to Syria, off Gibraltar. It is the medieval gunboat diplomacy that buttressed colonial plunder and imperial piracy. But well, there has been a development. At least the Brits are honest enough to admit they were just obeying orders, From Trump. (Initially they said they were enforcing EU sanctions on Syria. When they heard, Juncker and Tusk who were at yet another EU banquet where portfolios are wheeled and dealed, froze their whiskey glasses in mid air: which sanctions!?)
So is the deadly farce of contemporary international politics. A dead-end game for many.
WHAT IS PEACE, WHAT IS WAR IN THE DIGITAL ERA?
2019 Osaka Japan; So the G20 sat there in their imperial robes. Of course some more regal than others. Howbeit there was an air of impotence they oozed. Ever since the financial crisis from 2008, followed by the forced public bailout of Big PRIVATE Banks, under the slogan TOO BIG TO FAIL, it is like a mask has been torn-off these gatherings of political heavyweights. Everytime a politician speaks, one has to mind the puppet master working the strings or, as we say in Dholuo, wagging the tongue of the dog. Politicians are in power officially, and formally, but do they make the decisions they pledge to carry out on behalf of the people?
There are two instruments of the international status quo worth considering in this G20-game. One is the monthly BIS, the other is the DAVOS Annual. Both are Alpine, Swiss events.
And it matters to find out whether the two are Afraid of a war in the Gulf today.
NEXT: WHAT IS THE BIS, WHAT IS DAVOS? Both Swiss.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 14, 2019 14:39:16 GMT 3
IRAN E. WHAT IS THE BIS, WHAT IS DAVOS? Both Swiss.
Sorry, Central Bank of China. Knock Knock who is there!? I can just picture the look on the face of Deng Hsiao Ping as his best economists explain the BiZ to him. Moving toward the OPEN-DOOR policy!
NB: Since the above was compiled for Harper's magazine, one or two goalposts have moved. Today, who holds the world's largest horde of PURE GOLD is arguable. The whispers are it is Beijin. The neutrality of Switzerland is also circumspect. The European Union is invading the alpine paradise, enacting tribute.
And Okay, Dr. Patrick CBK Njoroge, symbolism is important nowadays, say pictures of inclusivity for the purposes of propaganda: so, when is the last time thee, our own CBK man, attended this exclusive club for whatever reason!? May be as a token observer then, as in tokens, Njoroge, tokens, when were you last at the Biz in Basel!? thee twice African Central Banker of the year.
2. DAVOS, WHAT IS DAVOS And importantly
so, what is the DAVOS consensus on JCPOA? JCPOA is The Obama Iran thing I mean. The one now smithereened by Trump, setting the world yet again for another war in the middle east.
But here is an interesting FOOTNOTE FIRST: Anand G.
NEXT: A journeyman turned foe!? ----The author Anand Giridharadas
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 17, 2019 20:16:24 GMT 3
FOOTNOTE: A journeyman turned foe!? A peek by the journalist-author Anand Giridharadas HISTORICAL CAUTION: ON whether parliaments amount to much, Frederich Engels scoffed thus! CRETINISM Well, it is that era in history; we seem still stuck with obscurantist cretinism. It is too early for GLASNOST in history. Like cannon fodder to their mass grave, like herds of beef to the abbatoir, the whip of history hurries us on, Ha!IRAN E. WHAT IS THE BIS, WHAT IS DAVOS? Both Swiss. Sorry, Central Bank of China. Knock Knock who is there!? I can just picture the look on the face of Deng Hsiao Ping as his best economists explain the BiZ to him. Moving toward the OPEN-DOOR policy! NB: Since the above was compiled for Harper's magazine, one or two goalposts have moved. Today, who holds the world's largest horde of PURE GOLD is arguable. The whispers are it is Beijin. The neutrality of Switzerland is also circumspect. The European Union is invading the alpine paradise, enacting tribute. And Okay, Dr. Patrick CBK Njoroge, symbolism is important nowadays, say pictures of inclusivity for the purposes of propaganda: so, when is the last time thee, our own CBK man, attended this exclusive club for whatever reason!? May be as a token observer then, as in tokens, Njoroge, tokens, when were you last at the Biz in Basel!? thee twice African Central Banker of the year. 2. DAVOS, WHAT IS DAVOS And importantly so, what is the DAVOS consensus on JCPOA? JCPOA is The Obama Iran thing I mean. The one now smithereened by Trump, setting the world yet again for another war in the middle east. But here is an interesting FOOTNOTE FIRST: Anand G. NEXT: A journeyman turned foe!? ----The author Anand Giridharadas
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 17, 2019 20:28:37 GMT 3
IRAN F: THE CYBER WAR IS ON, HAS BEEN ONAccording to Donald Trump, American bomber-planes were ten minutes to payload-offload when he leashed them back. They were on their way to cut some hair off the bushy faces of the Mullah's of Tehran. Then, listening to projections, Trump realised giving the Ayatollah's that beard-shave was a blood debt, 150 Iranians dead. That was when the kindly heart of the POTUS rebelled. He found a lot of warmth for the Persians therein, wherefore he stood down the mother of all bomb runs. For such was the fire-and-fury he intended to let burst over the Iranian caves at the mouth of the straight. It was from those caves the Iranians shot down ---after repeated warnings----- an unmanned American drone, over $120M worths of it. The men who had piloted the drone to deliberately trespass on Iranian airspace had calculated they locked Trump down with the Iranian shot. ---Alas, they had failed to consider the Persia-philic heart of the former real estate magnate. Just like Joe Biden too, had not held reckons with Trump's love for the little rocket man of Korea. When Trump met Kim at the demilitarised zone between the two Korea's, Obama's former VP was left fuming, wrong-footed. But, romantics aside, why didn't those American planes rise to the task? and even if they half rose, why did they abandon the sting? WHAT FORCED TRUMP TO STAND DOWN THE PLANES The answer is simple enough: self-preservation. The high risk was the world economy would blow up. It is sluggish, precarious, delicate and far from shock proof. The sudden rise in the price of oil, past a certain threshold per barrel, predicted a total global meltdown. Trump would win the military war, but the victory would be a Greek term: pyrrhic. Iran seems to have informed both Russia and China to do what was in their best interests, but Iran would respond to the USA attack with full might at the USA assets in the gulf. Putin may have offered Trump an offer he couldn't refuse, the way he had Obama when Obama had foolishly drawn a line in the sand over Syria's chemical weapons. (####see footnote###)So Trump ordered a cyber attack instead. Again like his predecessor, Obama. Remember the infamous Olympic games of Netanyahu and Obama? And the Nitro-Zeus project? Behind the scenes Trump does not mind copying Obama. Anyway, Iran quietly reported her cyber defence teams had rebuffed the latest joint Israeli-American hack effort. Trump and Netanyahu's attempts to disable Iran's powergrid and, consequently, render her defence capabilities blind, had failed. Howbeit a few months earlier, in the operation replace Chavista Maduro with the puppet Guaido, the CIA cyber operations department had used Venezuela as a guinea pig in this area. It is likely due to unforeseen interconnectivity, this dry-run spilled over into a momentary, total blackout in the whole of South America. It is the future of things to come for the undefended. So that is where we are today in this world, putting poison in one another's wells. No protocols on Bio-Chemical warfare, sorry, the War of the Algorithms. Given the scale of these attacks, I think we already have heard the starting shots to our war of the worlds. NEXT: how about an international treaty to regulate the race to the algorithmic Armageddon? And TOWARD A WORLD SHUT DOWN, A DIGITAL WIPEOUT
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