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Panama Papers a PSYOP?

Screwing the Pooch

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | July 28, 2015

Did the U.S. ‘Screw the Pooch‘ by its bloody warmongering across the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine? Despite millions of casualties, the U.S. has not succeeded in intimidating Russia or China but rather put them both on high alert. Interesting that after the failed U.S. putsch to install U.S.-backed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, former U.S. ally Egypt is now also fully awake to the ‘Realpolitik’ tactics of the Empire of Chaos. Who –other than the U.S. Media– could miss the mass-murder and suffering created by the U.S. slogging its way through the Middle East and North Africa, destabilizing and wrecking Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; none of whom are national security threats and have done nothing to threaten the U.S. in any way. And now a pivot to Asia? What madness! Russia and China wanted to be arms-length partners with the U.S. but U.S. military planners would have none of it. Now the U.S. has driven these two former rivals closer together to build a financial and security counterbalance against murderous U.S. global hegemony. The NWO must be crapping in their pants. We live in interesting times. Russia, China and others realize that the NWO represents an existential threat to the idea of the ‘Nation-State’ and to most of humanity; including the American people. Most Americans have yet to wake up to see who their real enemies are; hint: It’s not Russia or China. According to Catherine Austin Fitts, the Western Banks have stolen at least $40 trillion from their citizens, so these money masters still have plenty of juice to cause some global havoc advancing their mission. While Americans struggle under the tyranny emanating daily from their masters in D.C., will they finally wake from their slumber in time to identify the real villains in this geopolitical drama for world domination? Americans have been robbed, raped, pillaged and plundered, yet they remain loyal to the illusion that their vote still actually counts and America is a beacon of freedom for the world. Even after the U.S. Congress handed over the keys to America’s sovereignty to international bankers and corporations (all done in secret) with TPP, Americans are none the wiser. This soft coup d’état of America has already taken place, yet Americans still live clueless in their walled-garden of propaganda constructed by their masters.

In the article below, Pepe Escobar details Russia and China’s reaction to U.S. aggression, driven by a rabid U.S. desire for ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’. If Russia and China are successful, this does not bode well for the masters of the Angelo-American Establishment who use America as a military enforcement appliance.

BRICS, China, Iran, P5+1, Russia, US Empire
The Seeds of Eurasia; A vision manifests, by Pepe Escobar
July 26, 2015

Countering the neo-Cold Warriors
by Wayne Madsen
Voltaire Network | Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 18 July 2015

Counting the Dead in Iraq

A Reporter Said “Screw the Pooch” on Face the Nation. Where Does That Phrase Come From?

What will the death of Abdullah mean?

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Crown Prince Salman

Following the death of King Abdullah, the relatively young Crown Prince Salman age 79 is named Saudi King. Some say the new ailing king is feeble; may have dementia and may not last long so there will be another accession soon. In the meantime, what secret alliances will be created in the house of Saud; and what will this mean to Saudi – USA – Russian relations? Despite an estimated 80 – 200 executions annually; including be-headings, stoning and firing squads; many of whom are young women including Christians and their children for presumably trumped-up charges of killing their husbands, employers or “chewing qat”, a leaf containing a mild drug from Yemen … despite all this killing, amazingly, Abdullah was seen as a reformer stuck in the Saudi legal system of Islam’s Sharia law. Will the killings increase or decrease under Salman and under his soon to be successor?

For some good ‘inside baseball’ on this succession and those soon to follow, Pepe Escobar wrote the following insightful article below two days before the death of King Abdullah:

House of Saud

That dysfunctional marriage:

“As if this was not messy enough, the crucial succession of the House of Saud is propelled to the forefront. King Abdullah, 91, was diagnosed with pneumonia, hospitalized in Riyadh on New Year’s Eve, and was breathing with a tube. He may – or may not, this being the secretive House of Saud – have lung cancer. He won’t last long. The fact that he is hailed as a “progressive reformer” tells everything one needs to know about Saudi Arabia. “Freedom of expression”? You must be joking.

So who’ll be next? The first in the line of succession should be Crown Prince Salman, 79, also defense minister. He was governor of Riyadh province for a hefty 48 years. It was this certified falcon who supervised the wealth of private “donations” to the Afghan mujahedeen in the 1980s jihad, in tandem with hardcore Wahhabi preachers. Salman’s sons include the governor of Medina, Prince Faisal. Needless to add, the Salman family controls virtually all of Saudi media.

To get to the Holy Grail Salman must be proven fit. That’s not a given; and on top of it Abdullah, a tough nut to crack, already survived two of his crown princes, Sultan and Nayef. Salman’s prospects look bleak; he has had spinal surgery, a stroke and may be suffering from – how appropriate – dementia.

It also does not bode well that when Salman was promoted to Deputy Defense Minister, soon enough he was shown the door – as he got himself mixed up with Bandar Bush’s atrocious jihadi game in Syria.

Anyway, Salman already has a successor; second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Muqrin, former governor of Medina province and then head of Saudi intelligence. Muqrin is very, very close to Abdullah. Muqrin seems to be the last “capable” son of Ibn Saud; “capable” here is a figure of speech. The real problem though starts when Muqrin becomes Crown Prince. Because then the next in line will be picked from the grandsons of Ibn Saud.

Enter the so-called third generation princes – a pretty nasty bunch. Chief among them is none other than Mitab bin Abdullah, 62, the son of the king; cries of nepotism do proceed. Like a warlord, Mitab controls his own posse in the National Guard. Sources told me Riyadh is awash in rumors that Abdullah and Muqrin have made a deal: Abdullah gets Muqrin to become king, and Muqrin makes Mitab crown prince. Once again, this being the “secretive” House of Saud, the Hollywood mantra applies: no one knows anything.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.(Reuters / Brendan Smialowski)Left: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.(Reuters / Brendan Smialowski)

Abdullah’s sons are all over the place; governor of Mecca, deputy governor of Riyadh, deputy foreign minister, president of the Saudi Red Crescent. Same for Salman’s sons. But then there’s Muhammad bin Nayif, son of the late Crown Prince Nayif, who became Interior Minister in 2012, in charge of ultra-sensitive internal security, as in cracking down on virtually anything. He is the top competitor against Mitab among the third-generation princes.

So forget about family “unity” when such juicy loot as an oil hacienda impersonating a whole country is in play. And yet whoever inherits the loot will have to face the abyss, and the same litany of distress; rising unemployment; abysmal inequality; horrendous sectarian divide; jihadism in all its forms – not least the fake Ibrahim Caliphate in “Syraq”, already threatening to march towards Mecca and Medina; the unspeakably medieval Council of Ulemas (the lashing/amputating/beheading-loving bunch); total dependency on oil; unbounded paranoia towards Iran; and a wobbly relationship with His Masters Voice, the US.”

Read the complete article by Pepe Escobar below …

What Game is the House of Saud Playing?

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