by Oui
Sat Dec 7th, 2024 at 11:55:54 AM EST
@hh Syrian "rebels"
Trained jihadists from global hot spots ... Khorasan, AfPak region, Chechnya, Tunisia ... funded and transported from Libya into Syria through Turkey, CIA with Gulf States UAE-KSA-Qatar ... imported Sunni/Shia divide ... major surge Islamic State of the Levant from Anbar region in Iraq ... new recruits trained by U.K.-US in Jordan at the border w Syria and Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo ... the Brzezinski doctrine ... Madeleine Albright
The assassination of Abu Baghdadi in Idlib
Death of al-Baghdadi: ISIS Grew Out of U.S. Invasion of Iraq. What Will Happen Next? | Democracy Now! |
Esper: Baghdadi Death Provides Warning to Terrorists | DoD - 29 Oct 2019 |
The Return of Prince Bandar: Saudi's New Spy Chief | Brookings - 23 July 2012 |
Prince Bandar bin Sultan served as ambassador to Washington for years. He helped Reagan defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. He helped Bush defeat Saddam in Kuwait.
He helped Clinton try to make peace between Israel and the Arabs. And he helped Bush fight al Qaeda. He is a master of clandestine diplomacy and secret deals. In 1989, he negotiated a secret missile deal with China that shocked Washington when it found the missiles were already deployed in secret bases in the Arabian desert.
He has been out of sight most of the last decade. But the king has used him for occasional top-secret missions. When the Arab Spring began and Mubarak fell, the king sent Bandar to Pakistan and China to make certain those two critical Saudi allies were still fully behind the royals.
Now the Saudis see an Arab world in transition from decades of lethargic stability to a chaotic future. The kingdom has intervened with force to stop a Shia revolt in Bahrain, used diplomacy to ease out Yemeni President Salih, and backed the revolts in Syria and Libya against old hated enemies. The Saudis hope the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad will deal a body blow to Iran and Hezbollah. The kingdom wants to make an alliance with the new regime in Egypt and just hosted a visit by President Morsi.
When the Arab Spring began and Mubarak fell, the king sent Bandar to Pakistan and China to make certain those two critical Saudi allies were still fully behind the royals.
At home, the Saudis face mounting unrest among their own Shia minority in the oil-rich Eastern Province. The al Qaeda threat remains deadly in Yemen.
Saudi intelligence is a vital U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda. Twice in the last two years, the Saudis foiled al Qaeda plots to attack American cities. Now it will be Bandar's job.
Bandar's first and most urgent task will be Syria. The Saudis want Asad gone sooner not later and Bandar will get the rebels more arms. Its deeply ironic since Bandar played an important role in helpng Bashar consolidate power when his father Hafez died in 2000. Bandar pressed Syria's generals then to accept the young man as tough enough for the job. Now he must be Bashar's undoing.
UAE Hired US Mercenaries for Assassinations in Yemen | 25 Dec 2018 |
Israeli-American Abraham Golan was hired by the UAE and Mohammed Dahlan, former head of Palestinian Preventive Security, to head a team of mercenaries tasked with killing a Yemeni Islamist leader.
Dahlan was in close contact with the CIA and Israel's Shin Bet security service and accumulated a personal fortune. He was accused of creaming off tax revenues into his bank account and is widely seen as corrupt.
The Neocons are on the roll once again ...
by Oui
Mon Dec 2nd, 2024 at 11:47:07 AM EST
The Brzezinski Doctrine [honorable mention Madeleine Albright] permeated in foreign policy of the Democratic party of America has led to fascist, Russophobic playground of the intelligence services across Five Eyes for decades now.
Zbigniew Brzezinski to the Mujahideen: "Your cause is right and God is on your side!"
Does remind me of the US and NATO allies designating Islamist fighters in Chechnya as "Freedom Fighters" in the civil war against the Russian Republic after 1990. As a result, EU countries have accepted up to 100,000 Chechen refugees or asylum seekers. More later.
The Russian government under Yeltsin and later Putin destroyed much of Grozny to root out terror of separatism and defeat the Sunni Jihadists from across the Islamic world. Not the Shia forces of Iran, but the Sunni fighters trained in Afghanistan and elsewhere by Western allies under leadership of the CIA and US Armed Forces.
by gmoke
Thu Nov 28th, 2024 at 08:46:59 PM EST
These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global version of the local listings I did for about a decade (what I did and why I did it at http://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-do-and-why-i-do-it.html) until September 2020 and earlier for a few years in the 1990s (http://theworld.com/~gmoke/AList.index.html).
A more comprehensive global listing service could be developed if there were enough people interested in doing it, if it hasn't already been done.
If anyone knows of such a global listing of open energy, climate, and other events is available, please put me in contact.
Thanks for reading,
Solar IS Civil Defense,
George Mokray
gmoke@world.std.com
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More information on these events at http://hubevents.blogspot.com
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Networks: From Cross-Border Propaganda to Mutual Legitimation
December 2
Online
9am EST [3:00 - 4:30pm CET]
Online
RSVP at http://www.gmfus.org/event/russias-illiberal-networks-cross-border-propaganda-mutual-legitimation
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Using Facebook-Based Surveys to Assess Climate Concern and the Micro-Foundations of Climate Adaptation Governance in Small-Island Developing States
Monday, December 2
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Princeton, 300 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ
And online
RSVP at http://cpree.princeton.edu/events/2024/using-facebook-based-surveys-assess-climate-concern-and-micro
-foundations-climate
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Leveraging artificial intelligence to tackle climate change
Monday, December 2
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, D.C. 20036
And online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-tackle-climate-change/
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Zero Fuel Bias Energy Codes
Monday, December 2
3:30-5 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-zero-fuel-bias-energy-codes/
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Unlock 3 Keys to Resilience in a Changing Climate
Monday, December 2
8 - 9:30pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/unlock-3-keys-to-resilience-in-a-changing-climate-tickets-1082700138259
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Bridging Knowledge Systems: Co-Producing Sustainable Ocean Plans with Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge for Equitable Ocean Governance
Wednesday, December 4
09:00-10:30 EST [2:00 - 3:30pm GMT]
Online
RSVP at http://www.wri.org/events/2024/12/bridging-knowledge-systems-co-producing-sustainable-ocean-plans-in
digenous
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We Can't Get There from Here: Carbon, Climate and the Call to Wonder
44th Annual Schumacher Lecture with Paul Hawken and Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé
Wednesday, December 4
11am EST
Online
RSVP at http://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DVBXT_ljSdq0UVKQD4YZcg#/registration
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#Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support
Wednesday, December 4
12-1:30pm
Online at https:/www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5ooD8Ydk4vd83Ac8VNEoQ
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood (RSM Speaker Series)
Wednesday, December 4
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Online
RSVP at http://rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/politics-of-falsehood/
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Environments for Health and Happiness: A Seminar with Dr. Joe Allen
Wednesday, December 4
1 - 2 p.m.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, FXB G12, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston
RSVP at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-happiness/event/environments-for-health-and-happiness-a-seminar-w
ith-dr-joe-allen
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Democracy's next act: How to build resilience around the world
Wednesday, December 4
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Online
RSVP at http://www.brookings.edu/events/democracys-next-act-how-to-build-resilience-around-the-world/
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A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North
Wednesday December 4
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Online
RSVP at http://18308a.blackbaudhosting.com/18308a/A-Revolutionary-Woman-Elizabeth-Freeman-and-the-Abolition-
of-Slavery-in-the-North---Program
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How We Reclaim the Internet
Wednesday, December 4
7:30pm ET [5:30 PM PST]
The Commonwealth Club of California, 110 The Embarcadero, Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium, San Francisco, CA 94105
And online
RVSP at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2024-12-04/jeff-jarvis-how-we-reclaim-internet
Cost: $10 - $52
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Trees & Forests
Thursdays, December 5, 2024 - January 30, 2025
12 noon -or- 7 pm ET
Online
RSVP at http://bio4climate.org/course-offerings/trees-and-forests/registration/
Cost: $5 - $160
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Interrogative Design Symposium
Thursday, December 5 - Friday, December 6
MIT, Building E15-001, ACT Cube, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
RSVP at http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScK6PddR-9mg28UcCNrMQ2jOKT0lRgWT5tDfOUJsgH7Q8Ak9g/viewform
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Webinar - Accelerating Green Ammonia: Purpose and Priorities
Thursday, December 5
10am EST [8-9 a.m. MT]
Online
RSVP at http://rmi.org/event/webinar-accelerating-green-ammonia-purpose-and-priorities/
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Climate in the Roman World
Thursday, December 5
12 - 1PM
Tufts, Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room, 474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA
And online
RSVP at http://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TH3pwIRfSxm3C-ty07Fv0w#/registration
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Towards a theory of Sustainable African Urbanism: institutional hybridity and urban sustainability in Ghana
Thursday, December 5
12- 1pm EST
Yale, Burke Auditorium,m] 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT06511
And online
RSVP http://yale.zoom.us/j/92629487528?pwd=0qNSBhJ78GROBslW9v3hOhdlYCpxNO.1
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Russia-U.S. Relations in 2025: Can Arctic Science Diplomacy Mend Strategic Fences?
Thursday, December 5
12:00pm - 01:15pm
Harvard, Belfer Building - Belfer 322 Salata Conference Room, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA 02138
And online
RSVP at http://www.belfercenter.org/event/russia-us-relations-2025-can-arctic-science-diplomacy-mend-strateg
ic-fences
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Yale Forest Forum Fall 2024 Speaker Series - What's Next on Old Growth Policy: A Panel Discussion
Thursday, December 5
12 PM - 1:30 PM EST (GMT-5)
Online
RSVP at http://yaleconnect.yale.edu/tfs/rsvp_boot?id=2286326
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Reckless Abandonment? Assessing how agricultural legacies impact the ecological & social functions of land
Thursday, December 5
1 - 2pm
UCSB1414 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA
Online
RSVP at http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84499323441#success with passcode land
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Rapid adaptation across climates in a synchronozied long-term plant evolution experiment; and why this matters for global species conservation targets
Thursday, December 5
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Harvard, Northwest Building, B101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge
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Risks of destabilization of the carbon cycle
Thursday, December 5
4pm to 5pm
Boston College, 245 Beacon Street, Room 501 (Schiller Institute Convening Space) Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
http://forms.gle/pQMXvX3WvTawLD959
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Climate Change and Clean Energy
Thursday, December 5
4-6 PM
BU, Kilachand Center Eichenbaum Colloquium Room (Room 101), 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
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Security and Resilience Speaker Series: Climate Resilience Academy
Thursday, December 5
6:00 pm.
Northeastern, Renaissance_Park, 909, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston
RSVP at http://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=gcLuqKOqrk2sm5o5i5IV53F80AfBWgdCrlSTeI2yfzpURE1GU
1FOSTBWTDVCMDJMTzZIUEY1MkJXQy4u&route=shorturl
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SFI Seminar: When Do Firms Oversell or Undersell Their Environmental Sustainability? with Gaku Morio (Hitachi America) & Isabella Yoon (University of Otago)
Thursday, December 5
7pm EST [4pm to 5pm PT]
Online
RSVP at http://events.stanford.edu/event/sfi-seminar-morio-and-yoon
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Five Steps to a Sustainable and Peaceable Economy
Thursday, December 5
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST
Online
RSVP at http://masspeaceaction.org/event/five-steps-to-a-sustainable-and-peaceable-economy-2/
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Climate Mobilization Project: Tending the Seeds of Survival
Thursday, December 5
7-9pm EST [4-6pm Pacific PST]
Online
RSVP at http://secure.everyaction.com/_x-wqDomCkGwm9_hp6dldQ2?emci=a834ed8f-f9ac-ef11-88cf-6045bdfe8d29&
emdi=b234ed8f-f9ac-ef11-88cf-6045bdfe8d29&ceid=15533
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Climate, Biogeoscience, and Health: Transformative Science to Real-World Action
Friday, December 6
10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET
Networking Lunch--12:00 - 1:00 pm ET
Boston University, Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor). To access the upper floors, please use the elevators near Saxby's café.
RSVP at http://www.bu.edu/hic/climate-biogeoscience-and-health-transformative-science-to-real-world-action/
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Reimagine Buildings: Biomaterials
Friday, December 6
11:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. ET
Online
RSVP at http://events.ringcentral.com/events/reimagine-buildings-carbon-storgae-b3f44f40-d113-4d94-95f2-7707
5b92c892/registration
Cost: $49
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Bounty by Fire: The Anishinaabe Legacy of Human-Mediated Fire Regimes on Drummond Island, Michigan
Friday, December 6
4pm to 5:30pm
Online
RSVP at http://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvd-ihrDkuHdLsmsJDR_Som34oaHXivbMI#/registration
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by Oui
Tue Nov 26th, 2024 at 10:20:44 PM EST
No need to look further, Joe was the problem and no one had the nerve or conviction to make this clear to the egomaniac with a delusion of grandeur ... invincibility. A quite dangerous trait for the man in the Oval Office with the nuclear football within reach ... quite similar to 4 years ago ... best hide the doomsday monster.
Democrats' loss autopsy where did it go wrong
Editors' Note: Country Over Party
by Oui
Mon Nov 25th, 2024 at 12:53:18 PM EST
Wanted: ICC The Hague Issues Arrest Warrants
Both Netanyahu, defense minister Gallant, president Herzog and terror settler ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir (Kahane lives) caught in act with smoking gun. Even Hasbara denialism will not save this fascist war cabinet from the scourges of history.
Grace O'Sullivan Irish MEP appealed by one-sided position EU leader Ursula Von der Leyen
by Oui
Sat Nov 23rd, 2024 at 07:27:28 PM EST
A bad habit of lying, because she should know better having served as a scholar at the Dutch Labour party think tank, Wiardi Beckman Stichting, ... Ayaan herself entered Europe as an asylum seeker and lied in het applications for asylum in The Netherlands. Her anti-Islam stance was more opportunistic in Ihe rightwing conservative party of VVD leader Frits Bolkestein. Her colleagues were Rita Verdonk, Geert Wilders and a coming man from the JOVD Youth Group, Mark Rutte. Because she apparently was illegal, there was political pressure to give up her seat in Dutch parliament.
Telling stories, creating (and saving) her life. An analysis of the autobiography
of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Prey: A Panel Discussion on Europe, Islam, and Women's Rights
by Oui
Fri Nov 22nd, 2024 at 10:39:45 AM EST
Endless and sustained campaigns funded by tens, if not hundreds of million dollars to change narrative of Israel's war crimes to a humanitarian mission to promote peace in the Middle East. Lies and disinformation need to be exposed ... always.
Translation:
Shocking revelations by officials at [BZ] ministry Foreign Affairs. Request from the Ministry of Algemene Zaken [Office of PM Mark Rutte] to the Directorate of Legal Affairs at Foreign Affairs: "What can we say to make it seem as if Israel is not committing war crimes?"
Today's revelations for a Dutch parliament which invites Hasbara spokespersons from Netanyahu's PMO to bring parliament the latest update on Israel's humanitarian actions in Gaza, Judeo and Samaria and across Lebanon and Syria. What a farce the Dutch leadership is and has been during 14 years of the Mark Rutte cabal. So glad he is now @NATO 🤬. Destruction of Europe.
