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The Economist, which has toed a pro-Thaksin line for years, eagerly penned, " Political crisis in Thailand: You go your way, I’ll go mine ," which claimed: Indeed, many red shirts say Bangkok is already lost.
I received several emails regarding my post on Risk-Free Banking and Fractional Reserve Lending that I would like to share.
Defeated NATO Dangerously Desperate in Syria Did the West Gas Thousands to Rescue Failed Syrian War? August 25, 2013 – (Tony Cartalucci) As far back as 2007, it was a documented fact that the West, including the United States and its allies Saudi Arabia and Israel, conspired to use terrorists drawn from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda in an attempt to overthrow the governments of Iran and Syria. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007 New Yorker article, " The Redirection ," stated (emphasis added): "To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran
and the dreaded Disputed Suffice it to say, they were strongly in line with what Cook, et al, have come up with, but not nearly so well done. Also those early bunnies were querulous, something that Eli has never, never been accused of. Now some, not Eli to be sure, have been trying to trash Cook, et al., which has just been published as open access, even before it appeared. The recursive fury has been something to see
See original article: CONFIRMED: US Shipping Weapons to Syria – Al Nusra’s "Mystery" Sponsors Revealed
More: Israeli Attack: Desperate Bid to Save Failed Syrian Campaign
Rerunning the frog and the scorpion , Tony Watts rolls out the AR5 draft and Andy Revkin is shocked as are some of the usual players. Why Eli asks, given the way in which the draft was made available to anyone who asked, would anyone be surprised that one of the scorpions would take a shot?
See the article here: As Israel-Gaza Charade Concludes, West Pivots Back to Syria
