China Joins Russia In Warning Syria Strike Would Have "Catastrophic Consequences"
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Until now, the loudest and most material
opponent to a Syrian invasion by the "liberating" powers was Russia.
Moments ago, China joined the anti-western axis. BBC reports: "Russia
and China have stepped up their warnings against military intervention
in Syria, with Moscow saying any such action would have "catastrophic
consequences" for the region."
More:Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC an international military response to the suspected use of chemical weapons would be possible without the backing of the UN.
The UN Security Council is divided, with Russia and China opposing military intervention and the UK and France warning that the UN could be bypassed if there was "great humanitarian need".
In a column in The Times newspaper, former UK PM Tony Blair has written that if the West does not intervene to support freedom and democracy in Egypt and Syria, the Middle East will face catastrophe
The Periphery is Failing
The next big economic dislocation might be only weeks away
By Chris Martenson: For years we've preached the From the Outside In
principle of markets: When trouble starts, it nearly always does so out
in the weaker periphery before creeping towards the core.
We saw this in the run-up to the housing bubble collapse, as
sub-prime mortgages gave way before prime loans, and in Europe, as
smaller economies like Greece, Ireland, and Cyprus have fallen first and
hardest (so far). We see this today in accelerating food stamp use
among poorer U.S. households. In each case, the weaker economic parties
give way first before being followed, over time, by the stronger ones.
Using this framework, we can often get several weeks to several
months of advance notice before trouble erupts in the next ring closer
to the center.
Which makes today notable, as we're receiving a number of new warning signs. The periphery is giving way.
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Karen Hudes: We're Running Out of Time! We're Dealing with Whether We Can Continue as Humanity
Syrian Electronic Army takes down Zionist New York Times website, claims Twitter’s domains
RT: The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed access to a number of Twitter’s international domains shortly after bringing down the New York Times’ website. The attack was apparently made through Melbourne IT.
As a result of the attack the New York Times’ website has been disabled for the second time in under a month. The newspaper attributed the outage to a “malicious external attack” widely thought to have come from hackers affiliated with the Syrian Electronic Army.
“Many users are having difficulty accessing the New York Times online,” the paper wrote on its Facebook page.
Goldman Sucks Global Nepotism and "The Killing of Tony Blair" - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with MP George Galloway
The colonial stepping-stone to Syria comes into service.
We know how long the attack on Syria has been in the planning
‘…What very few people do for
starters is just look where the hell Cyprus is. As you can see from this
map, it is a long way east of Rhodes. That country it appears to be
pointing a finger at is Syria. Just after that comes Iraq and Iran. A
spit and a throw to the north is Erdogan-run Turkey. Every one of these
countries is in one form or another the victim (willing or otherwise) of
Islamist advance….I don’t think Barack Obama was in the region to talk
about peace. He was doing the “I’m here to remind you all that I’m
keeping a beady eye on this shit”.’
In the late hours of last night CET, Warplanes and military
transporters have begun arriving at Britain’s locally protested colonial Akrotiri airbase on
Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of
increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime
in Syria.
China and Japan REALLY Don’t Like Each Other
By Zheng Wang (汪铮）: Having friends in both China and Japan, I
have often been asked to explain both sides’ actions since the
Diaoyu/Senkakus crisis began in September 2012. For example, my Chinese
friends cannot understand why the Abe government is so “stubborn” and
isn’t willingly trying to repair relations with China, while my Japanese
friends wonder the same thing about the Chinese government.
A recent survey
of Chinese and Japanese citizens views of each other’s countries helps
shed light on these issues. The results of the survey could provide
answers to the questions of my friends.
This survey, which was commissioned by the Japanese think tank Genron NPO and China Daily, asked 1,805 Japanese citizens and 1,540 Chinese citizens about their views of the other country.
The survey found that 92.8 percent of Chinese respondents hold unfavorable views of Japan, a startling 28 percent rise from the year before. Similarly, 90.1 percent of respondents in Japan had an unfavorable or relatively unfavorable view of China, compared with 84.3 percent last year. For both countries, these figures were higher than in the previous nine annual surveys conducted.
A recent survey
of Chinese and Japanese citizens views of each other’s countries helps
shed light on these issues. The results of the survey could provide
answers to the questions of my friends.This survey, which was commissioned by the Japanese think tank Genron NPO and China Daily, asked 1,805 Japanese citizens and 1,540 Chinese citizens about their views of the other country.
The survey found that 92.8 percent of Chinese respondents hold unfavorable views of Japan, a startling 28 percent rise from the year before. Similarly, 90.1 percent of respondents in Japan had an unfavorable or relatively unfavorable view of China, compared with 84.3 percent last year. For both countries, these figures were higher than in the previous nine annual surveys conducted.
Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: One Of The Puppetmasters Behind The Syrian War
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Yesterday the Telegraph's Evans-Pritchard dug up a note that we had posted almost a month ago,
relating to the "secret" meeting between Saudi Arabia and Russia, in
which Saudi's influential intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan
met with Putin and regaled him with gifts, including a multi-billion
arms deal and a promise that Saudi is "ready to help Moscow play a
bigger role in the Middle East at a time when the United States is
disengaging from the region", if only Putin would agree to give up his
alliance with Syria's al-Assad and let Syria take over, ostensibly
including control of the country's all important natgas transit infrastructure.
What was not emphasized by the Telegraph is that Putin laughed at the
proposal and brushed aside the Saudi desperation by simply saying "nyet." However, what neither the Telegraph, nor we three weeks ago, picked up on, is what happened after Putin put Syria in its place. We now know, and it's a doozy.
Courtesy of As-Safir (translated here), we learn all the gritty details about what really happened at the meeting, instead of just the Syrian motives and the Russian conclusion, and most importantly what happened just as the meeting ended, unsuccessfully (at least to the Saudi). And by that we mean Saudi Arabia's threats toward Russia and Syria.
First, some less well-known observations on who it was that was supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt even as US support was fading fast: