17 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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‘Alternative Arrangements’ to the Backstop Won’t Work, and the Government Is Beginning to Realise It
Day: September 17, 2019
Saudi Arabia/Iran News Links 17 September 2019
17 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Saudi oil attacks: Drones and missiles were launched from Iran – US officials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49733558
Trump is in no rush to jump into Saudi defence
https://indianpunchline.com/trump-is-in-no-rush-to-jump-into-saudi-defence/
Genetically-modified mosquito apocalypse plan BACKFIRES spectacularly in Brazil
to17 September 2019 — RT
File photo: © Pexels
An experimental trial to reduce the mosquito population in Brazil through the deliberate release of 450,000 genetically modified mosquitoes has failed miserably and may have even created a genetic hybrid super species.
Edward Snowden: Would he like to live and die in Paris?
17 September 2019 — InfoRos
US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has decided to seek asylum in France
By Sergey Sayenko, international observer
September 17 will see private international publishing company Macmillan Publishers Ltd release a book by former employee of the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden. Memoirs by the ex-NSA agent titled “Permanent Record” will hit the shelves in twenty countries, including the United States which he escaped more than six years ago.
On the ground, feeling the pulse of Protest Hong Kong by Pepe Escobar
17 September 2019 — The Saker
Protestors run past a fire during clashes with riot police in Hong Kong on Sunday, September 15. Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at hardcore pro-democracy protesters who were hurling rocks and petrol bombs on September 15, tipping the violence-plagued city back into chaos after a brief lull in clashes. Photo: AFP / Anthony Wallace
Fringe practicing wanton destruction for destruction’s sake surely have learned tactics from European black blocs
What’s going on deep down in Hong Kong? For a former resident with deep cultural and emotional ties to the Fragrant Harbor, it’s quite hard to take it all in just within the framework of cold geopolitical logic. Master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai once said that when he came up with the idea for Happy Together, he decided to shoot the story of his characters in Buenos Aires because that was as far away from Hong Kong as possible.
Death by a Thousand Trumps: The Logical End Point of Capitalism by William Hawes
17 September 2019 — Dissident Voice
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
— Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Ant-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972
There is a fairly typical and recurrent notion among many Americans that Donald Trump and his administration is some sort of aberration. As if his brutal, venal, racist, and bullying nature is something new, or different from previous leaders. For those not inclined to look at the historical record; one only has to look beyond our borders to view the authoritarian personality type that Trump represents in power all over the world: Modi, Orban, Erdogan, Jinping, Duterte, and Bolsonaro being the most obvious comparisons.
Stockholm Syndrome – Julian Assange And The Limits Of Guardian Dissent
17 September 2019 — Media Lens
Nothing happened on September 2 in central London. Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, did not initiate a protest outside the Home Office. He did not sing and play the Floyd classic ‘Wish You Were Here’, or say:
‘Julian Assange, we are with you. Free Julian Assange!’
Penniless and vulnerable disabled – ‘most now waiting a year’ as lives disintegrate and thousands die
17 September 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: The vulnerable, penniless and disabled are the very people any civilised country would ensure had at least the basics to survive and be comfortable. But while MP’s are looking the other way, these very same people are denied a benefit called Personal Independence Payment (PIP). It’s designed to keep them afloat, but now wait an average of 69 days just for an internal review by the Department for Work and Pensions and then a further seven months while they fight a system designed to deny them any assistance. Three-quarters then win tribunals while their lives disintegrate.
Boris Johnson gets short shrift from European Union leaders in Brexit talks By Richard Tyler
17 September 2019 — WSWS
Boris Johnson’s first visit to meet senior European Union (EU) figures since he took power in July ended with the UK prime minister sent packing without receiving any concessions on Brexit.
US Attorney General Barr invokes “state secrets” to cover up Saudi involvement in 9/11 By Barry Grey
17 September 2019 — WSWS
Last week, it was revealed that the Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to continue the 18-year cover-up of Saudi government involvement in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The 5G Electromagnetic “Mad Zone” Poised to Self-Destruct: The 5G “Dementors” Meet the 4G “Zombie Apocalypse”
14 September 2019 — Global Research
Incisive research and carefully documented analysis of the impacts of 5G Electromagnetic Radiation by Claire Edwards
The entities rolling out 5G are tormenting humanity and sucking their humanity from them by taking their minds and their health, while on the other side, you have the zombie apocalypse of all the people with their 4G cell phones, blindly going about destroying the world.
The 4G zombie apocalypse lot have to wake up. They need to wake up now before it is too late and time is of the essence.
Winners and losers from Saudi Aramco’s travails By M.K. Bhadrakumar
16 September 2019 — Indian Punchline
Benchmark oil futures jumped as much as US$11.73 a barrel to US$71.95 as market opened in Asia on Sept 16, 2019.
The US President Donald Trump’s tweet Sunday regarding the attack on two Saudi Aramco plants says as follows:
“Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked. There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!”
It’s a cleverly-worded tweet with multiple audiences in view. Trump took time to react. And he’s stopped short of blaming Iran. The US lacks hard evidence. Therefore, “verification” is needed and it is Riyadh’s call to estimate “the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed.”
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