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from The Guardian: An Appology for hoping to keep the peace in The MiddleEast: Everything you need to know about what happened in the Saudi Arabia oil fields .....
My Comment : As the saying goes : "the deed has been done" meaning that now the two countries in the area can begin their waltz for the benefit of all "the watchers " audience. I was wondering why my Italian friend who has worked for the students of all countries was saying something particularly strange about Iran .... she was saying that it would make a delicious morsel for the big guys ? What on earth is that supposed to mean ? Iran as it is , is being strangled by sanctions and is humbled .... and now to start a war there is going to create even more refugees .... why not keep the peace and negotiate .... A peaceful Middle east is also where Israel (the baby) can finally learn to live in peace with it's neighbors and create a nation .... but i guess no one wants that to happen. I just hope and pray that every one will be wearing white T shirts with the message "Stay Calm and keep the peace for another fifty years! "
Trump says US response to oil attack depends on Saudi Arabia's assessment
Trump leaves it to Saudi government to confirm Iranian involvement in apparent bid to make monarchy take responsibility for any reprisal action
This image provided by the US government and DigitalGlobe shows damage to the infrastructure at at Saudi Aramco’s Kuirais oil field in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: maldonci/AP
Donald Trump has said the US response to the attack on Saudi oil facilities will depend on the assessment in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and downplayed US dependence on Middle East energy supplies.
Unnamed US officials were quoted in US media outlets as saying Iranian cruise missiles were used in Saturday’s attack on an oil field and processing plant. Estimates of the number of missiles used ranged from “nearly a dozen” to “over two dozen”.
Intelligence officials in the region said they believed drones or missiles were used in the attack, in what appeared to be a carefully aimed strike at the heart of the Saudi economy.
“There was hardly a more strategic target they could have hit,” said one official. “They’ve looked at the map and said: ‘Where could we cause most damage.’ These were the hubs of their production across the country. Those sending the drones well knew the address.”
In a tweet on Sunday, Trump declared the US was “locked and loaded”, but left it to the Saudi government to confirm Iranian involvement and the nature of the US reaction, in an apparent attempt to make the monarchy take full responsibility for any reprisal action.
Trump’s top foreign policy and national security officials were expected to meet at the White House on Monday to discuss US options.
The Saudi military spokesman for the Riyadh-led coalition fighting in Yemen blamed Iran for the attack on the oil field and processing facility, but said it was still not clear where it had been launched from.
“The investigation is continuing and all indications are that weapons used in both attacks came from Iran,” Col Turki al-Maliki told reporters in Riyadh, according to the French press agency, AFP. He said the attacks had not been launched from Yemen and there was an investigation into “from where they were fired”.
Iraqi officials say the US has confirmed that an attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure was not carried out from Iraqi soil and instead appeared to launched from neighbouring Iran.
Two aides to senior Iraqi leaders say the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, passed on to the claim in a phone call to the Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, in the early hours of Monday. The call allayed mounting fears in Baghdad that an Iranian proxy force comprised of Iraqis might have launched the drones believed to have carried out the devastating strike without the knowledge of the central government.
On Monday, Trump also played down the US national security interest in the Gulf, pointing to the fact that the US has become the world’s biggest energy producer.
“We don’t need Middle Eastern Oil & Gas, & in fact have very few tankers there, but will help our Allies!” the president tweeted.
A senior White House official – the vice-president’s chief of staff, Marc Short – argued that when the president said the US was “locked and loaded”, it was a reference to the country’s self sufficiency in energy.
“I think that ‘locked and loaded’ is a broad term and talks about the realities that we’re all far safer and more secure domestically from energy independence,” Short said.
The remarks seemed to be aimed at keeping the president’s options open on a response to the attack, which knocked out half Saudi production, 5% of global production and triggered a spike in oil prices. But the administration also showed determination that the world held Iran responsible.
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Short said Pompeo would be presenting evidence of Iranian involvement. In one of a salvo of morning tweets on a wide range of topics, Trump noted that Iran had lied in the past about its military operations. And the US energy secretary, Rick Perry, called for a global response.
“The United States wholeheartedly condemns Iran’s attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and we call on other nations to do the same,” Perry said. “This behavior is unacceptable and they must be held responsible.
Asked on CNBC what the response should be, Perry said: “I think there will be a coalition effort, both our friends in the Middle East that understand having a crazy neighbor is a real problem … [and] all those countries in that region should have the hair on the back of their necks standing up watching a country attack someone to manipulate the energy market.”
Speaking to the UN security council, Britain’s Karen Pierce said: “We are still assessing what happened and who is responsible for these attacks. Once this has been established, we will discuss with our allies and partners how to proceed in a responsible manner. We need a united international response to these despicable attacks.”
Comment: I once found a bag near a shopping Mall in Paris .... It looked like a girl owned it because it was full of makeup bits and pieces and there were a lot of cards in it , one of which belonged to a buisness school and this had her name on it. The student was from Madagascar and i was sighing to myself when i called the school and the receptionist wasnt helpful in finding the person i was looking for. I went to the consolate or Embassy one morning , spending money on a Taxi in order to give the bag to a safe person working there. The consolate reminded me of consolates or embassies representing very poor countries ... .... where is all the money and wealth going ? SAMBAVA, Madagascar — Bright moonlight reflected off broad banana leaves, but it was still hard to see the blue twine laced through the undergrowth, a tripwire meant to send the unwary tumbling to the ground. “This is the way the thieves come,” sai...
arti visive street & urban art A Verona lo street artist Cibo combatte il fascismo e il razzismo con i murales By Valentina Poli - 31 luglio 2018 QUANDO L’ARTE PUÒ DAVVERO FARE LA DIFFERENZA NELLE NOSTRE CITTÀ: CIBO È UNO STREET ARTIST VERONESE, CLASSE 1982, CHE CON IL SUO LAVORO PROVA A CANCELLARE LE SCRITTE E I SIMBOLI D’ODIO CHE AFFOLLANO I MURI COPRENDOLE CON FRAGOLE, ANGURIE, MUFFIN E ALTRE COSE DA MANGIARE. LA SUA STORIA Lavoro dello street artist Cibo “Non lasciare spazio all’odio” o “No al fascismo. Sì alla cultura” e ancora “Se ci metto la faccia è perché ho la speranza che altri mi seguano nel rendere le città libere dall’odio e dai fascismi, qualsiasi bandiera portino oggi. Scendete in strada e non abbiate paura! La cultura e l’amore vincerà sempre su queste persone insipide!”. Queste sono alcune frasi che si possono leggere sul profilo Facebook di Pier Paolo Spinazzè , in ...
Photo Booth Abigail Heyman’s Groundbreaking Images of Women’s Lives By Naomi Fry November 1, 2019 “Houma Teenage Beauty Contest,” 1971. Photographs by Abigail Heyman In a two-page spread featured early on in “ Growing up Female ,” a photography book by Abigail Heyman, from 1974, two black-and-white pictures are laid out side by side. The left-hand photo shows a reflection of a little girl, from the shoulders up, gazing at herself in a bathroom mirror. The child, who is perhaps four or five, with dark, wide-set eyes and a pixie haircut, is separated from her likeness by a counter, whose white-tiled expanse is littered with a variety of beauty products: perfume bottles, creams, and soaps. These quotidian markers of feminine routine are accompanied by an element of fantasy; gazing at herself, the little girl stretches a slinky into a makeshift tiara atop her head. Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innoce...
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