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Invitation to US “friendship” party from the UN ambassador.
So who gets to come to the party as official friends of America ?


The invite list includes seven countries, mainly on Pacific islands and in Central America, plus one in Africa, that joined the U.S. and Israel in voting “no.” That’s not necessarily the set of guests one would expect at an American influence party, since America’s main treaty allies in Europe and Asia didn’t vote with Washington.

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The vote, in other words, may say more about Israel’s global standing than America’s.

funny article

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9th Circuit says
Trump's third travel ban is illegal


A federal appeals court decided unanimously Friday that President Trump’s latest travel ban violates the law, but the ruling will not take effect until the Supreme Court reviews a likely appeal.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Trump had exceeded his authority in ordering that more than 150 million nationals of predominantly Muslim countries be barred from entering the United States.

The court faulted the president for failing to make a “legally sufficient” finding that entry of those barred would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

Trump’s order “nullified” a federal immigration law passed by Congress and overrode “broad swaths of immigration laws that Congress has used its considered judgment to enact,” the court said.


Seattle Judge Lifts Ban On
Refugees With Close U.S. Ties


U.S. District Judge James Robart on December 23 ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Jewish Family Service (JFS) after they argued the policy prevented people from some Muslim-majority countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States.

The judge ordered the federal government to process certain refugee applications but said the ruling only applied to people who have a "bona fide relationship" to a person or entity in the United States, so-called "follow-to-join" refugees.

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U.S. has much to gain by warming up to Iran

.. history has created for them a sphere of influence stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the gates of China.
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U.S. Image Suffers
Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership



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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


U.S. Image Suffers
Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership



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Simple Minded wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


U.S. Image Suffers
Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership



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Socrates time, there no such "job" as "Politician".

"Politician" position was invented to address what Socrates was talking about .. namely, make Joe believe he decides things .. Joe just played .. politics art of foolin Joe .. the illiterate and naive Joe, the easier Politician's job, the smoother things run.

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Backfires



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A closer look, however, reveals the opposite.

Rather than the Iranian-manufactured Qiam-1 missiles Haley and the Saudi Arabian government claimed, the debris presented by Haley were of a modified Soviet-manufactured SCUD-B missile; the airframe and engine are original Soviet-made components, and many of the smaller parts on display bear Cyrillic (i.e., Russian) markings.

The transformation to the Burkhan 2-H design required the Houthi engineers to increase the size of the fuel and oxidizer tanks, and lengthen the airframe accordingly. This is done by cutting the airframe, and welding in place the appropriate segments (this also required that the fuel supply pipe, which passes through the oxidizer tank, be similarly lengthened.) The difference in quality between the factory welds and the new welds is readily discernable. The increased fuel supply permits a longer engine burn, which in turn increases the range of the missile. The Burkhan 2-H uses a smaller warhead than the SCUD B; as such, the guidance and control section had been reconfigured to a smaller diameter, and an inter-stage section added to connect the warhead/guidance section with the main airframe.

The warhead of the Burkhan 2-H, unlike the SCUD-B, is designed to separate from the main body of the missile during the final phase of its descent; this aids in accuracy and survivability, since most anti-missile radars (such as that used by the Patriot system used by Saudi Arabia) cannot readily distinguish between the smaller warhead and the larger mass of the airframe, sending the interceptors to the latter while the former falls unimpeded to its target. The bottle-nose shape produced by this smaller warhead, however, increases the missile’s overall drag coefficient, which reduced its range. To compensate for this, the Burkhan 2-H eliminates the tail fins found on the SCUD-B missile. This, however, creates stability and trajectory control issues at launch, for which the Burkhan-2 adjusts for by incorporating a more sensitive and responsive guidance and control system, which in turn is linked to similarly responsive actuators controlling the SCUD-B style jet vanes that steer the missile via thrust vectoring.
If a relatively unsophisticated foe such as the Houthi, using Iranian-modified Soviet and North Korean missiles derived from 40-year-old technology, can evade an enemy force using the most modern combat aircraft backed up by the most sophisticated intelligence gathering systems available, and successfully launch ballistic missiles that threaten the political and economic infrastructure of the targeted state, what does that say about the prospects of any U.S.-led coalition taking on the far more advanced mobile missile threats that exist in North Korea and Iran today ?

The fact of the matter is that no military anywhere has shown the ability to successfully interdict in any meaningful way a determined opponent armed with mobile ballistic missile capability.

If the Saudi experience in Yemen is to teach us anything, it is that any military plan designed to confront nations such as North Korea, Iran and Russia that are armed with sophisticated mobile ballistic missiles had better count on those capabilities remaining intact throughout any anticipated period of hostility.

No amount of chest-thumping and empty rhetoric by American political and/or military leaders can offset this harsh reality.

This is the critical lesson of Yemen, and the United States would do well to heed it before it tries to foment a crisis based upon trumped-up charges.

Scott Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. He is the author of Deal of the Century: How Iran Blocked the West’s Road to War (Clarity Press, 2017).


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How did this happen ?
Why does it feel like Iran is the only winner ?
:lol:


After five administrations and 26 years, the United States paid a high price for what will have to pass as a “victory.” Some 4,500 American dead, hundreds of thousands killed on the Iraqi side, and $7.9 trillion taxpayer dollars spent.

Furthermore, the U.S. sacrificed its long-term alliance with the Kurds and their dreams of a homeland to avoid a rift with Baghdad; the dead-end of the Kurdish independence referendum vote this autumn became a handy date for historians to cite, but the Kurds were really done the day they were no longer needed to help us fight the Islamic State.

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The big winner, of course, is Iran. In 2017, Iran has no enemies on either major border (Afghanistan, to the east, thanks again to the United States, is unlikely to reconstitute as a national-level threat in anyone’s lifetime), and Iraq is now somewhere between a vassal state and a neutered puppet of Tehran.

As for Iran’s arch rivals in Saudi Arabia, again there is only good news for Iran. With the Sunnis in Iraq hanging on with the vitality of an abused shelter dog (and Iranian-supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad apparently to remain in power), Saudi influence is on the wane. In the broader regional picture, unlike the Saudi monarchs, Iran’s leaders do not rule in fear of an Islamic revolution. They already had one. With its victory in Iraq, stake in Syria, and friends in Lebanon, Iran has pieced together a land corridor to the Mediterranean at a very low cost.

If it was a stock, you’d want to buy Iran in 2018.

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In the longer view, the Iraq wars will be seen as a turning point in the American Empire. They began in 1991 as a war for oil, the battle to keep the pipelines in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia open to the United States’ hungry mouth. They ended in 2017 when Persian Gulf oil is no longer a centerpiece of American foreign policy. Once oil no longer really mattered, Iraq no longer really mattered.

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'Nothing but lies and deceit'
Trump launches attack on Pakistan



Pakistan’s foreign minister, Khawaja M. Asif :
“We will respond to President Trump’s tweet shortly inshallah
Will let the world know the truth .. difference between facts & fiction.




Pakistan was instrumental in all US policies in ME since Khomeini came to power, and now this . :lol:

Should be a lesson.

Pakistan, a 200+ nuclear bomb country with all sorts of missiles and F-16s to deliver them, is moving closer to our beloved Persia.

Turkey and Pakistan closing ranks with Iran :lol:

Icing on the cake is, MBS held in power only by Pakistani military .. same Pakistan military that now closing rank with Iran :lol:

Iran winning again, :) .. by default.

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Betting on the Wrong Horse

If the protests of recent days prove anything, it is that the nationalism fostered by the Guards and other arms of the government could well take off in unintended directions. That might unintentionally serve US policy goals – but it could also spark a much harsher crackdown and a solidifying of hardline power.

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Bannon:
‘They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV


Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”. .

Bannon :
2016 Trump Tower meeting was 'treasonous'



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 40391.html

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Trump says
Steve Bannon has 'lost his mind'
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


That thing hittin the fan, again :)

Looks to me, Bannon working for mad mullahs, now, focus is off our beloved Persia

What a disaster, what a disaster.

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Lol, looks like more fake news. You should really wait 48 hours on these things before swallowing whole.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 665f4d46c6
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?

A provocateur and media polemicist, Wolff has a penchant for stirring up an argument and pushing the facts as far as they’ll go, and sometimes further than they can tolerate, according to his critics. He has been accused of not just re-creating scenes in his books and columns, but of creating them wholesale.
Even Bezos isn't buying it.
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Lol, looks like more fake news. You should really wait 48 hours on these things before swallowing whole.

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True .. should have waited .. more and more smells like a "business stunt", to sell more books .. nobody had heard about this book .. now am sure a best seller "worldwide".



Changing the subject :

Pew Research Center
By 2040, Muslims will replace Jews as the nation’s second-largest religious group after Christians.


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The session left her and us
looking ridiculous.


Russia’s ambassador suggested the United Nations should have looked into our Occupy Wall Street clashes and how the Missouri cops handled Ferguson.

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Fifty years ago, 100 U.S. cities erupted in flames after Martin Luther King’s assassination. Federal troops were called in. In 1992, Los Angeles suffered the worst U.S. riot of the 20th century, after the LA cops who pummeled Rodney King were acquitted in Simi Valley.

Was our handling of these riots any business of the U.N. ?

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Thus has America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War.

This hubristic generation has kicked it all away.

Consider. Is Iran’s handling of these disorders more damnable than the thousands of extrajudicial killings of drug dealers attributed to our Filipino ally Rodrigo Duterte, whom the president says is doing an “unbelievable job” ?

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What a disaster .. what a disaster.

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US house of representatives votes 415 - 2 condemning Iranian government crack down on protesters

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-house-chee ... 00675.html
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Carnegie Endowment of International Peace

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Despite the Iran protests dominating the international news cycle, these slogans do not necessarily reflect the sentiments of Iranian society as a whole.

According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.

And only 31 percent believe Iran should not send military personnel to Syria to aid Assad in fighting the Syrian rebels and groups such as the Islamic State (IS).

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No pain, no gain .. here we come, Greater Persia


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Less Popular Across Voting Blocs.
See by How Much.


President Trump’s approval rating fell across a wide swath of demographic groups over his first year in office, including among those seen as important to his base, like white voters, evangelical Christians and those who live in rural areas.

Detailed graph .. must see


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Heracleum Persicum wrote:
According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.


The good news then is that still 18% of the Iranians haven't lost their minds completely.
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Parodite wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.


The good news then is that still 18% of the Iranians haven't lost their minds completely.


By Iranians, I assume you mean people who live in Iran. But what do the "Greater Pomegranates" (Iranians who don't live in Iran?) think?
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Simple Minded wrote:
Parodite wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.


The good news then is that still 18% of the Iranians haven't lost their minds completely.


By Iranians, I assume you mean people who live in Iran. But what do the "Greater Pomegranates" (Iranians who don't live in Iran?) think ?

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Obviously "poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July" was done within present Iran .. but .. that number (18%) probably even lower if poll among all "Farsi speakers" Greater Persia.


To better understand : "Suitable perception of two main characteristics of the Iranian and American cultures."


http://www.iranreview.org/content/Docum ... phobia.htm

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle- ... ptionalism

http://www.mei.edu/content/iranian-exceptionalism


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Parodite wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.


The good news then is that still 18% of the Iranians haven't lost their minds completely.


By Iranians, I assume you mean people who live in Iran. But what do the "Greater Pomegranates" (Iranians who don't live in Iran?) think?


Iranians, inside or outside of Iran, who dream of a Greater Persia don't think much, they dreamin'. And when they get into action it's more like sleep walking. ;)
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Simple Minded wrote:
Parodite wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:
According to a poll conducted by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) in July , only 18 percent of Iranians believe Iran should stop providing help to groups such as Hezbollah and the Assad government.


The good news then is that still 18% of the Iranians haven't lost their minds completely.


By Iranians, I assume you mean people who live in Iran. But what do the "Greater Pomegranates" (Iranians who don't live in Iran?) think ?

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Iranians, inside or outside of Iran, who dream of a Greater Persia don't think much, they dreamin'. And when they get into action it's more like sleep walking. ;)

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"Parodite", fora rule says, any statement must be backed by a source, article, link

Have you met any Iranian who contradicts what HP saying here ?

Why should Iranians be "dreaming" or cruising with "flying carpet" when they say aim is something similar to "European Union" .. "union of Persian family of Nations" .. why should that be a dream ? already happening .. Iran and Kavkaz have enacted free borders, similar to "Schengen", Afghanistan too and Tajikistan on the way (Saudi paying to stop that).

European nations backing the idea ..

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“There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country’s so innocent? Take a look at what we’ve done, too.” - Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
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Trump main asset is his "Brand" .. that is why he not showing his tax return ... he probably negative value in hard assets .. borrowed to eyeball from Deutsche bank and Chinese/Russian "investors".

If his name taken off the buildings, his "brand" is worthless .. he in reality was broke from begin .. all smoke and mirror.

Poor Joe

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