Pt. 2: ISIS Went To Syria From It's Iraqi Birthplace. Rewriting History for Perception Management

  Read Pt. 1: ISIS Went To Syria From It’s Iraqi Birthplace - Rewriting History for Perception Management before tackling the info below:

Let’s travel further back on memory lane... to 2013

Keeping in mind that ISIS was already operating in eastern Syria- Just across the Iraqi border in  Raqqa for example. And attacking non ISIS rebel groups-

Wilson Centre: The Rise and Spread of Islamic State

August 2013: ISIS begins attacking rebel groups including Liwa al Tawhid, Ahrar al Sham, and the Nusra Front in Raqqa and Aleppo.

Out of eastern Syria comes a Chechen ISIS Leader

• November 2013: Meet the Rebel Commander in Syria That.... The Chechen Rebel Commander.

The one that came into Syria via Iraq, very obviously. Who was also, can't be a coincidence, trained in the Georgian army by the US. The Chechen rebel commander came from Syria’s eastern countryside.. to Aleppo,  In a tricked out rig covered in oil pipes (oil is in eastern Syria)

US Funded Military to ISIS leader

“Rebels had welded dozens of oil-drilling pipes to the sides of the armored personnel carrier, and packed it with four tons of high explosives”

“an ethnic Chechen whose warring skills, learned in the U.S.-funded Georgian army”

“The jihadi commander has recently emerged from obscurity to be the northern commander in Syria of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS)”

In June of 2014 we had the breathtaking fall of Mosul- To ISIS, of course. ISIS had already taken Fallujah.- See the map below. Fallujah had fallen. Moving north west to Mosul. ISIS already operating well into Syria's Aleppo province. Led by the US trained Chechen. See above.

The Fall of Mosul and Who Benefits

We could follow ISIS's path as it spread and takes territory in two countries...It was all breathlessly reported on. But not questioned near enough!

Questions, Observations and Excerpts:

    "What really happened? Why was the road so clear for all these mercenaries to march in?... How did the group reach the outskirts of the city, then its very heart, without having been at least intercepted by the armed forces? Why was air power not used to deter or to paralyse them, if not to eliminate them altogether?"

Just throwing it out there- Maliki is weak, Iraq is divided. This no doubt creates a problem for acting in much needed unified manner? Thinking about the control of some of the area by Kurdish groups? Considering that some of the more duplicitous players in Iraq, amongst the Kurds, may have cleared the way for ISIS. Keep in mind some of the Kurdish groups are very chummy and heavily involved with Israel.

IRAN'S JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI

"Despite the loud noise they make about the fight against terrorism, US and European governments not only meet Daesh terrorists, but they provide them with weapons and financial support... When the US and European governments fail to adopt a position on all these terrorist crimes committed in Iraq, it clearly shows that they support the terrorists and Daesh is their tool."

It is being said that U.S.-trained government troops have fled the city, many of them **stripping off their uniforms so as to not be identified.**

US Trained Government Troops stripped their uniforms off and fled...... as 2,000 prisoners who could become fighters were freed. Enabling the grabbing of an airbase

"the primary goal of ISIS may have been to free more than 2,000 prisoners being held by the government in Mosul"

 the insurgents have their sights set on Salahuddin, a province north of Bagdad. “They have already seized the Shergat air base in Salahuddin,”

                               
As luck would have it... the ISIS gang just happened to come across all necessary military equipment, fighters and cash In Iraq,  which they then transported into Syria... Well that’s quite a coincidence, wouldn’t you say? From a  link embedded in the 2014 post:

Link

“Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (Isis) insurgents are transporting US-supplied Humvees across the border into war-torn Syria after capturing Iraq's second city of Mosul.”

The capture of Mosul occurred after an overnight assault by hundreds of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) jihadists, bearing rocket-propelled grenades, sniper rifles and machine guns, on key local government, police and military headquarters.

The militants freed up to 1,000 inmates from Mosul's central prison, according to senior police officials. The group are now in control of Mosul airport and local television stations.   

As yours truly stated in 2014

 It was so good of the US to supply Shishani and ISIS with Humvees, no?

From there they could pass easier into Syria. They had Humvees. An airbase.  Arms Galore. A ready made fighting force and US trained leadership... Oh and they had cash! Lots of it.
Recall the reports of their bank heist at that time

"The provincial governor of Nineveh, Atheel al-Nujaifi, said that the radical Islamists had lifted additional millions from numerous banks across Mosul, as well as a “large quantity of gold bullion,” according to the International Business Times, which called ISIS the “World’s Richest Terror Force.”

There were conflicting reports about this theft. How much money was taken. Etc., Was it stolen from the banks? Or was it conveniently left somewhere for the thugs to pick up? What ever the case. We've got an armed military of thousands heading for Syria. They have humvees, guns, other modes of transportation and some cash. And then the "Yazidi Genocide" allegedly took place. I've had difficulty with this narrative for years and years now. Even then it seemed to be a cover for the transfer of ISIS fighters into Syria.  

• 2014: The Yazidi Narrative Strains Credulity

I’m going to be straight up- The Yazidi narrative? I don’t find it credible. I find it convenient. But, not credible. 

*Why on earth would the Yazidi’s who are Kurds, however that is defined, head up to some mountain top on the border of Syria, when Kurdish territory is heavily guarded and virtually untouched?

What seems more plausible under cover of a genocide narrative?

At that time was seemed more plausible was the supplying of mercenaries obscured by claims of a genocide.

 -We do know that the US dropped quite an amount of 'humanitarian aid' One drop had contained:

     The U.S. Defence Department said planes dropped 72 bundles of supplies, including 8,000 ready-to-eat meals and thousands of gallons of drinking water, for threatened civilians near Sinjar.

The UK Drop consisted of..

 “The first UK aid drop took place over Mount Sinjar last night, with the RAF delivering bundles that included 1,200 reusable water containers providing 6,000 litres in total and 240 solar lanterns that can also be used to recharge mobile phones.

Were arms dropped as well?   It’s possible. It’s entirely possible. In fact it's probable. It's likely. All things considered.

UK.gov- Air drops continue

At the time of this alleged humanitarian crisis the US released a video of their humanitarian aid being delivered.. Where are the 1000's and 1000's of so called refugees fleeing ISIS

Video from a comment left at that time : Humanitarian relief effort FMV 9 Aug 14/US Centcom




 Later reports claimed the alleged persons fleeing re entered Iraq at the Faysh Khabur/ Semalka crossing. Which tells us that ISIS had more then one way to enter Syria and exit Syria- safely. 

Link

Barbahari, who is in charge of the Fishkhabur crossing with Syria, told AFP: "The Kurdish peshmerga forces have succeeded in making 30,000 Yazidis who fled Mount Sinjar, most of them women and children, cross into Syria and return to Kurdistan.

Did you get any idea from the centcom video that there were 30,000 women and children receiving the 'humanitarian aid"?

To summarize:  ISIS came from Iraq.  Period

Aided by the US and UK in particular it moved itself full scale into Syria. That’s the history as it unfolded. That is the reality. As documented here. Using a myriad of sources.

No rewrite of history presented by the 5 eyes alt and msm through spook mouthpieces is going to/can change that reality. I've covered this area for a long, long time now and the rewrite of what really happened, is cause for concern. The moving along of your thinking to suit an elitist agenda doesn't serve you or I, it wasn't designed to. The agenda serves the regime changers/regional remakers. The shameless sycophants participate, initiate and spread the lies. 
From Brett McGurk, Lindsey Snell through to Zero Hedge and many others. 

UPDATE ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY AND LINKS FROM HUBRIS

HubrisNovember 21, 2019 at 11:39 AM 

Some links for you regarding Gen. David Petreaus and alleged "missing/lost" (lol) Bosnian weapons shipments. This stretches as far back as 2006.
Clearly those weapons were always intended to arm ISIS. Clearly ISIS was created by Petreaus to do exactly what it has been doing for the last decade in Iraq and Syria

https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/168/37106.html

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/06/usa.iraq

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/12/usa.iraq

Anyone claiming ISIS was "inadvertantly" created or supported by the US, or is the result of unforseen "blowback" is either ignorant of the facts, and therefore should be entirely ignored on this subject, or simply lying, and should be ignored on all subjects.

I read the links, it's yet more verification that ISIS was created and armed in Iraq. And no where else.

Pt. 1: ISIS Went To Syria From It’s Iraqi Birthplace- Rewriting History for Perception Management

  The 5 eyes alt media is up to tricks, as usual.What is meant by that statement is the 5 eyes alt media is re- presenting the 5 eyes mainstream media spin.  And rewriting history at the same time as well.   Yes, when the message, the main message is the same in the msm and alt despite their different windowdressing, we should ask ourselves a few questions.

1- Where is the real alternative media??  
2- Why is known and documented history as it unfolded being reconfigured? 
3- Is a specific empire friendly agenda being created?

 The newest message from the 5 eyes alt and msm is that Turkey created and succored ISIS. This defies everything known and stated about ISIS these past many years. Going back to 2006. The usual suspects have been presenting this mind control, which saw it’s debut, October 27/19, in a Washington Post oped written by Brett McGurk aka Lawrence of Kurdistan.  Mr McGurk came  right out and officially presented a connection between Turkey and ISIS, without offering any proof and the alternative media marched in lock step.

Brett McGurk’s spinfest of October 27 was covered in a report here October 28/2019

• Lawrence of Kurdistan Backstabs Turkey: NATO Allies? Baghdadi Buried At Sea. Psyop Laid To Rest

Commentary from yours truly:

The narrative gaining traction is a continuation of "bad Turkey" with a twist. Turkey was sheltering Baghdadi. There is no proof of that, other then aspersion and conjecture. Which is what Brett McGurk engages in all throughout his oped. Sadly that is good enough for most. Should be interesting to see how/who this spreads through the 'alternative' media.

Moon of Alabama flogged this horse little more then a week after McGurk’s oped. Not a coincidence, in my opinion
Nov. 06/2019: Turkey's continued Care for ISIS will end badly

And Zero Hedge is presenting this very same perception management as well. Secrets spilled by ISIS..

I certainly wouldn’t take the, in Kurdish custody, alleged ISIS fighter’s word at face value. Oh and the award winning “The Investigative Journal- Truth in Journalism ” whose work is being touted by Zero Hedge. Check it out for yourself. Cutting edge journalism from London, England?  Award winning? Or something else?
 On twitter Take some time go go through that twitter stream. Notice anything curious about it?
It’s seems like a mouthpiece for the PKK.  And worse a site obfuscating the remake agenda.
How very curious. Lindsey Snell had a report from Quandil... PKK territory. Curious and curiouser? It seems to miss Lindsey Snell is in thrall of the PKK. 
Check the website out: Investigativejournal. org  What do you think of their 'investigative journalism'?

→UPDATE Nov 21/2019:

Lindsey Snell. Why was  that such a  familiar name and individual? Somewhere here at the blog she was surely discussed. After more research it came back to me. Clearly Ms Snell was embedded with the fighters, though officially she claimed to have been kidnapped by them.  She asked them for a phone, they obliged her and she was able to document her kidnapping - Preposterous.  She was subsequently arrested by Turkish authorities as she was entering Turkey from Syria. Why was she entering Turkey? Who was she with?- Let's go back to when her absurd kidnapping story hit the news and her subsequent arrest in Turkey- immediately preceding the coup attempt. In my opinion this woman was most probably a spook masquerading as a journalist... Definitely not to be considered a trusted source.

Link-NBC - Including the facebook report on her kidnapping- Which was not ever verified and subsequently removed:

“Because of my unique situation, I was able to convince my captors to give me the use of a phone ... which ultimately let me plan my escape, but which also let me document much of my captivity in photos and videos. (And I bet "don't give prisoners phones!" will make it into the new Jabhat Fateh al Sham employee handbook.) It's a crazy story. A cave prison (the previous tenant of my cell had marked his days in residence in blood on the walls), masked villains, motorcycle escapes, and disguises. I can't wait to share the details.

What was her unique position? How did this unique position result in her "captors" providing her with phone to use?  I'd say she was friendly to the "kidnappers"

U.S. personnel were dispatched to the Turkey-Syria border to support Snell’s safe exit from the war-ravaged country but Snell was subsequently detained by Turkish authorities, the official said.

This Facebook post is no longer available. It may have been removed or the privacy settings of the post may have changed.

The veracity of the story could not be confirmed.

The Guardian 

Originally from Daytona, Florida, she was based in Istanbul, but left Turkey for Syria just before the failed coup attempt on 15 July.

Speaking to the Guardian on her flight to New York, Snell said her main concern now was with her husband, Suliman Wardak. 

Wardak, who is is from Afghanistan, traveled to Istanbul after Snell’s arrest to assist with her case, and was himself detained on 22 August. He has alleged that Turkish authorities accused him of being involved in the coup, and preventing him from leaving the country.

Turkish news reports portrayed Snell as a CIA spy, and Snell said she was frustrated that the US state department had not issued a statement saying she was a journalist.

 The State Department didn't want anymore attention on their spy then she'd already garnered.
In plain language Zero Hedge is promoting the work of an obvious spook, who is clearly advancing a specific agenda, as credible and serious. Sure. 

Below I’ll present the know history of ISIS. 
 
Including it’s roots and creation in Iraq covering the expansion into Syria via Iraq. 

We’ll start with Lavrov:

“The Russian foreign minister reminded that IS emerged "after an illegal intervention [by the US and its allies] in Iraq, after the Iraqi state was destroyed and extremists from prisons were released." "That's why to a certain extent, Americans eliminated someone for whose emergence they themselves were responsible, if this really did take place," Lavrov said.”   

Lavrov states clearly that ISIS came from Iraq. Birthed in and created in a US occupied Iraq.

In 2014- more then 5 years ago a series of posts were written here at PFYT's covering the creation, expansion, emergence of ISIS.  Each posts contains several external links. Take the time to read through all those events as they occurred. Because that history is being rewritten to give us a desired perception. Desired by the regional remakers that is.

 June 2014: ISIS- A US created "stay behind" using Iraqs plundered wealth

    - The roots of ISIS go back to Oct. 15, 2006, when what is known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) was established.

    -The group emerged in the ashes of the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)

ISIS was formed in Iraq- Emerging from the ashes of the US led invasion? Nice language. Romantic, evocative  language. But, what does it really mean? This tells me the US invaders birthed ISIS.

June 2014: Al Qaeda + "Awakening Councils" = ISIS

"After much haggling, the Americans managed to persuade Nuri al-Maliki's government to take over the Awakening program and to incorporate it into the newly established security and state structures"

Al Qaeda in other clothes... You see Al Qaeda was not subordinated in Iraq, they were simply infused/morphed/rebranded into the "Awakening Councils"
"After much haggling the Americans persuaded Maliki"? Haggling or threatening?

 August 2014: ISIS = Smoke & Mirrors. Giving cover now for strikes on Syria

We have to realize that ISIS is the smoke and mirrors to the ME reshape.
ISIS is the deception. The distraction. While we are spoon fed the ISIS soma, NATO headed by the US, in cahoots with Israel and the GCC nations reorder the globe to suit their agenda

ISIS = Smoke and Mirrors. Covering for the agenda that has been in the works for sometime now

And it's multifaceted. Kurdistan is being created with the cover of ISIS- Iraq is being further destroyed, it's elected government tossed out under cover of ISIS. Syria, is still struggling and is my focus today

Rereading these older posts jogged my memory on the fact that Syria had been previously blamed as the creator of ISIS too.... From all my reading and writing as is being reiterated here today and will be  in Part 2,  ISIS came from Iraq! From the arms of it's overlord (satanic?) creator (US/UK/Israel) to the rest of the region. As the regional remake that started so many years ago continues on....

This was getting very long so the rest will come in a second part- There's lots to read should you choose to avail yourself of all the older information. Stay tuned for part 2

Syrian SitRep- Israel Hits Damascus:Tishreen Dam Return: Israeli Settlments OK: Counterpunch, Still Servile.

9 diverse news article

 1- Israel Says Rockets From Golan, Resulting in “Retaliatory” Strikes on Damascus    Israel claims rockets were fired from Golan. So they attacked Damascus. You see the logic right?
What? You don’t? Nor do I.

2- The US Says Israeli Settlements are A-OK             

"President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo come through again."

Notice the heavy handed spin throughout the article? The manipulative emotional language. Ya just gotta have contempt for mind control!
                   
Counterpunch continues to demonstrate it’s servitude to the empire

3- Erdogan’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds is Still Happening

    Silence when the Usrael Kurds ethnically cleansed the area, but, now... we have our empire friendly ‘outrage’. Also notice the spinning of Rojova as something that exists vs the reality of it being annexed Syrian territory. Annexed and cleansed by the SDF/PKK/YPG with the help of the US?

"We know that Turkey’s pressure on the Kurds to leave Rojava"

Does Syria recognize Rojova?  Does Turkey? Iran? Russia? Rojova is Usrael construct. It exists in the language of the 5 eyes media. Does Assad recognize North Eastern Syria as Kurdish? No.
 In fact Assad say’s the North East of Syria  was majority Arab- Which it was as documented in very early reports covering the Syrian destabilization, until above mentioned and also documented ethnic cleansing, including the mass refugee outflow to Turkey took place.       

4-  Northern Syria is Arab, not Kurdish: Assad

“I would like to clarify that this area in northern and northeastern Syria is a majority Arab area. 70% of the residents are Arabs, not the other way around. Even the forces fighting there are a mixture of Kurds and Arabs," Assad said.

“The Americans, however, supported the Kurdish groups and gave them the leadership to create the image that the area is Kurdish to create a Kurdish rivalry with the other groups in Syria,” Assad claimed.

Notice how the 5 eyes alt media isn’t mentioning these Assad statements choosing instead to focus on Epstein, Baghdadi and Erdogan. Doesn't fit the agenda, I guess?
                       
5- YPG/PKK have attacked Russian military patrol as the patrolled with their Turkish compatriots

Russian Patrol attacked

Be sure to view the video available at the link. Looks well documented by a diverse number of people.

"Supporters of the YPG/PKK terror group on Monday assaulted Russian military vehicles conducting joint patrols with the Turkish military in northern Syria.

YPG/PKK terrorists tried to block armored vehicles with concrete blocks, pelting them with Molotov cocktails and stones as Anadolu Agency filmed the joint ground patrols conducted under a deal reached between Ankara and Moscow last month.

One of Russian vehicles was also targeted by Molotov cocktails, temporarily stopping before continuing on the patrol route"

 Again, be sure to watch the video at link # 5
                   

6- Turkey, Russia hold 8th round of joint patrol in N Syria

"Turkish and Russian troops held the eighth round of joint patrol in northern Syria under a deal reached last month for withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish fighters, said Turkey's Defense Ministry on Monday.

"Turkish and Russian units completed their eighth joint land patrol according to plan with the participation of UAVs in the east of the Euphrates. In the Ayn al-Arab region, where the land patrol was conducted, UAVs also took part and were accompanied by four vehicles from each side totalling eight," said a written statement by the ministry."

There are reports that Syria has control of the Tishreen Dam. Hope these reports are correct?  My hopes aside there are conflicting statements about this situation.  Tishreen has been held by Kurds for years now. They took it in 2015, conveniently, from ISIS.

7 -  2015 " Syrian Kurds take strategic Dam From ISIS" 

 The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a rebel alliance that includes the powerful YPG Kurdish militia and Arab rebel groups, wrested control of the strategic Tishreen Dam from "IS" on Saturday after making rapid advances south earlier this week, Kurdish media reported.

The Syrian Kurdish news agency ANHA reported that SDF forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes continued the offensive after crossing to the west of the dam, one of three major dams on the Euphrates that provides power to northern Syria and acts as a major transport line connecting "IS"-controlled areas of Aleppo province with their self-declared capital Raqqa.

Brett McGurk, the US special envoy for the anti-IS coalition, said on Twitter the assault was part of a broader offensive against IS, including an Iraqi army assault to take back Ramadi.

Lawrence of Kurdistan aka Brett McGurk

#ISIL terrorists on verge of losing primary supply line into #Raqqa at #Tishreen Dam. Dam also impacts Euphrates water flow into #Iraq. 2/3

— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) December 26, 2015

 By taking and holding the dam the Usrael Kurds have held vast swathes of Syria and her people hostage by denying electricity from the dam.

image from TASS

8-  TASS avoids mentioning which party has been holding the dam hostage. It was the Usrael Kurds.

"The Syrian government forces have taken control over the second-most powerful Tishrin hydroelectric rock-fill dam (Aleppo Province), spokesperson for the Russian command of the armed forces in Syria Boris Fomichev told reporters.

On November 18, the Russian military police will launch patrolling operations in the area surrounding this facility of strategic importance.

The Tishrin Dam is situated 90 km away from Aleppo and was built on the Euphrates jointly by Russian and Syrian engineers 20 years ago. As the civil war in the country erupted, it was captured by Islamic State militants who controlled the facility for a long time.
                                           
"Now, it [the dam] is liberated thanks to efforts and bravery of the Syrian people. The power plant was liberated as well as adjacent territories. It is now back up and running, it is supplying electricity to the Raqqa and Aleppo Provinces. People are working as normal, there is no terrorism here," Fomichev said.

The Aleppo Province’s electricity supply is of critical importance as its capital is an economic and industrial center of the country. The Syrian authorities are currently making every effort to restore it.

SDF acknowledges they've given the dam over but claim they are keeping their governmental structures in place and they have NO agreement with Damascus regarding the dam

9- Kurdistan 24

There was no political agreement with the Syrian government.

Hassan underlined that the institutions of the Kurdish-backed, multi-ethnic Self-Administration of North and East Syria would remain intact and continue working as before.

What the reality of this situation is....??  It's anyone’s guess.

Venice Floods: Earth Changes & Earth/ Moon Tidal Interaction

It's not a mystery why Venice has a flooding issue- It's not an unknown. It's not even a new occurrence. And the proof that this has a thing to do with "climate change" is non existent. Though the spin is always and ever present. In fact, the record high tide was set in 1966. Long before AGW was claimed to have been occurring.  Facts and reality have to reign over spin and perception management.


Another High Tide Hits Venice

Reeling from devastating floods this week, Venice suffered another exceptionally high tide on Sunday, with the water peaking at 150 centimeters (4.9 feet)

Though lower than the water peak of 187 centimeters on Tuesday - the highest level in 50 years, the third major flooding was still dangerous.

"Maximum attention for today's tide," Luigi Brugnaro, the Italian city's major, tweeted.

Water flooded St. Mark's Square and hundreds of voluntary workers were helping citizens cope with the emergency.

The city beloved around the world for its canals, historic architecture and art, was hit by the week's highest tide on Tuesday. That was just seven centimeters lower than the record 194 centimeters set in 1966 and caused the city's worst flooding in 50 years, submerging nearly 80 percent of the city.

In 1966 the tides hit a peak of 194 centimeters- higher then highest tidal wave that occurred last week.  The fact that Venice is pretty much a floating city built on many small islands and has been sinking for years (shifting plate tectonics) doesn't get mentioned in the indoctrination media.

How many Islands make up Venice?

The city of Venice is the capital and the administrative center of the Veneto region in northeastern Italy. It consists of 118 small islands linked by 400 bridges.

Venice Sinking as Tectonic Plates Shift

Venice's subsidence (the gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land) was recognized as a major issue decades ago, when scientists realized that pumping groundwater from beneath the city, combined with the ground's compaction from centuries of building, was causing the city to settle.

Still sinking

The team use data from 2000 to 2010 to track changes in the elevation of Venice and its surrounding lagoons and found that the city of Venice was subsiding on average about 1 to 2 millimeters a year (0.04 to 0.08 inches per year). The patches of land in Venice's lagoon (117 islands in all) are also sinking, with northern sections of the lagoon dropping at a rate of 2 to 3 mm (0.08 to 0.12 inches) per year, and the southern lagoon subsiding at 3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 inches) per year.

Venice has been sinking, slowly, for decades now.

"Our combined GPS and InSAR analysis clearly captured the movements over the last decade that neither GPS nor InSAR could sense alone," said study team member Shimon Wdowinski, associate research professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Miami.

And tilting

The team also found that the area was tilting a bit, about a millimeter or two eastward per year, something never noticed before. That means the western part — where the city of Venice is — is higher than the eastern sections.

What's causing the sinking?

The forces causing the subsidence now are likely natural ones that have been impacting the area for a long time, particularly plate tectonics. The Adriatic plate, on which Venice sits, is subducting beneath the Apennines Mountains and causing the city and its environs to drop slightly in elevation. The compaction of the sediments beneath Venice also remains a factor

The Moon and Tides

So simple even a child, including Greta Thunberg, can and should understand..

"Tides are really all about gravity, and when we're talking about the daily tides, it's the moon's gravity that's causing them.

“High tides and low tides are caused by the moon. The moon's gravitational pull generates something called the tidal force. The tidal force causes Earth—and its water—to bulge out on the side closest to the moon and the side farthest from the moon. These bulges of water are high tides.

As the Earth rotates, your region of Earth passes through both of these bulges each day. When you're in one of the bulges, you experience a high tide. When you're not in one of the bulges, you experience a low tide. This cycle of two high tides and two low tides occurs most days on most of the coastlines of the world. “

Greta says listen to the scientists. Are you? I certainly am.

The science says tides come in and go out. The science says the moon affects the Tides.

Venice is built on more then a hundred small islands, which are sinking due to plate tectonics. It's a shame that's for sure, but, it's the way of the earth and the larger system having zero to do with "climate change" as spun. Still the planet is not on fire. 

Could US Force Regime Change in Turkey? The Short Answer is Yes.

The longer answer is below. Bearing in mind this has been an ongoing process. 
 Pay attention to the fact that Istanbul's mayor is going to London to meet the banksters.  Recall my reporting here that there were anomalies in the Istanbul mayoral election? And that the candidate positively reeked of western backing. Called that one correctly. I'll relink to one previous mention.  And will highlight the upcoming meeting. Are we seeing the early seeds of a divided Turkey being planted? I'd say... YES.

The interview is with David L. Phillips, director of Columbia University’s Programme on Peace-building and Rights. It was featured originally on Ahval News (which is an American outfit masquerading as Turkish news- Always with a specific bias) The link here is to Arab weekly

Facts below- no spin

"The United States should initiate policy moves that could help oust Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said a former top US official."

This is the already mentioned David L Phillips:  Phillips served as a senior adviser at the US State Department under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

"Phillips outlined policy moves that would marginalise the Turkish government and potentially lead to a regime change.

First, the United Nations or other independent body should be urged to hold Erdogan to account."

If the UN or some other "independent" body is truly independent (free from influence) how then could they be "urged"(try earnestly or persistently to persuade (someone) to do something)  to hold Erdogan to account?  Urged would suggest the use of influence. Which suggests non independence.  Which makes Phillips statement blatantly contradictory. Or only believed by those suffering extreme cognitive dissonance. (mental discomfort experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs)

 "Second, the US Congress should move forward with measures against Turkey for its S-400 purchase under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act and a second sanctions bill for its Syria offensive.

A third step would be for the United States to get its nuclear weapons out of the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey"

“Losing Turkey is not such a big deal,” he said. “We’re prepared to bear that cost, in order to galvanise the public in Turkey in service of an alternate regime.”

Losing Turkey is a big deal and the US won't go that route unless they can galvanize the public in service of an alternative regime- Which they are working on present time.

"Might Turkey’s leader of more than 16 years be vulnerable? “His power at home is diminishing as new generations of Turks demand more freedoms and splinter groups from his own party are entering politics,” Asli Aydintasbas wrote in the Washington Post.

Erdogan and AKP are polling higher then ever.

Erdogan’s likeliest challenger, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, soon takes his first steps onto the world stage, visiting London November 20-21 to meet with top officials including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and executives from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Barclays and sitting down for a high-profile interview with Bloomberg News"

 July 2019

 Stated here in July and prior to that :  Yup, AKP is under pressure from the 'leftist' opposition that won the election in Istanbul who have been playing the divisive identity politics card.  Sowing the seeds of discontent. Perfect for destabilization.

Recall my writing about the opposition in Istanbul that looks to have some serious western backing?

Off the suspiciously western friendly mayor goes to London- to visit the bankers... what are the odds? Something is already afoot. Get it? The coup failed. Usrael is going to up it's game.

Last paragraph below:

“We’ve already lost Turkey and as long as Erdogan stays as head of government the prospect for US-Turkey relations to improve will remain limited,” said Phillips. “We need a regime change, not only in Turkey, but in the United States, to put this relationship back on track.”

Trump is no issue for the US. He's been a good servant to elite and Israeli interests. This is about Erdogan and Turkey, but it's been dressed up in Democrat friendly language.  Remaking the region. Creating the Israeli desired Greater Kurdistan. Balkanizing Iran. Weakening Russia and China. It's all right out in front of us. In plain sight. And it has been for years.

Kurdish Smuggling Of Oil From Syria has Been Supporting Global Terrorism & Israel

Saved in September of this year. More pertinent then ever in light of the fact that the US and their Kurdish proxies are intending to stay and continue stealing Syria's oil. Denying Damascus badly needed rebuilding revenue.

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This report is from the Syrian Network for Human Rights- For the purpose this post we're going to focus on one aspect of this report. That is the Kurdish smuggling of oil- with no accountability- Not including their sales to Damascus. Which I take issue with for entirely different reasons. Reasons such as- this is Syrian oil. Which should not be controlled by Usrael Kurds at all. It’s the sales elsewhere we’re going to deal with. It’s a subject I’ve delved into previously. Though I'd be remiss to not state that indeed the sales to Damascus are also funding Global Terrorism- SNHR is mostly concerned with the sales to Damascus as a source of terror funding. Which they are. But so are the sales to Israel and others. Because Syrian oil went many places... I maintain still that this oil belongs to Syria and all of the Syrian people and should be used by them for cooking, heating, transport and rebuilding. Not to fund PKK activities.

" SDF has used the financial gains from its operations without any accountability or transparency, with a large proportion of that money possibly reaching the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is classified as a terrorist organization. This implicates the SDF in supporting and financing global terrorism.

In this context, as the report states, in April 2019, several villages and towns in Deir Ez-Zour witnessed public outrage over poor service conditions; although this is an oil-rich region, its inhabitants have not witnessed the restoration of infrastructure or hospitals and have not been provided with basic services since the SDF took control of the region.

This report highlights the SDF’s control of Syria’s oil fields, and its accompanying failure to disclose any information or show any transparency in revealing where millions of dollars in oil and gas sales revenues have gone and where these funds have been disbursed.

As the report explains, the governorates of Raqqa, Hasaka and Deir Ez-Zour contain nearly 20 oil fields, 11 of which are under the control of Syrian Democratic Forces; these 11 fields have a productive capacity far larger than that of the fields under the control of Syrian Regime forces, meaning that Syrian Democratic Forces control 80 percent of Syria’s oil and gas production.

The report relies on investigative and statistical reports by specialist agencies specializing in energy, and compares oil productivity between 2010 and 2018, revealing that the SDF oil fields produce approximately 14,000 barrels of oil per day.

The report calls on the US government and the governments of countries participating in supporting the International Coalition against ISIS to open an immediate investigation into the involvement of Syrian Democratic Forces in oil-smuggling operations benefiting the Syrian regime, which is on US sanctions lists, to ensure disclosure of all the money it has received from selling oil and gas since 2012 to date, to provide a financial statement on where and how the money was spent, and to stop supporting the SDF and the PYD fully and immediately if it is proven that they are transferring funds from Syria’s oil and gas revenues to the terrorist PKK.

 “the involvement of Syrian Democratic Forces in oil-smuggling operations benefiting the Syrian regime, which is on US sanctions lists, to ensure disclosure of all the money it has received from selling oil and gas since 2012 to date”

       
Usrael Kurds PKK/YPG has been smuggling oil since 2012. I am way less concerned about what they’ve sold to Damascus- for the simple reason, already stated, though it funds terror,  this is Syria’s oil. Thanks to America, France, Israel etc., The Kurds have zero right to claim control of it, as they have. Additionally Damascus has used this oil to assist the rest of the residents of Syria- Providing them with much needed fuel.

 What I want to know is since 2012- how much oil and oil profits found there way from the SDF/PKK to the PKK at large. Enabling all sorts of benefits to accrue to a terrorist organization, of which the SDF is just a rebrand of.

 It's obvious that the smuggling would have enriched the PKK at large as America's terrorist hero. Mazloum Kobane,  is PKK

• Spectacular ISIS Attack On Western City "Just Around the Corner" Says PKK Mazloum Kobane- America's Hero, The Terrorist

Israel Buys Most Smuggled Syrian Oil......

“Kurdish and Turkish smugglers are transporting oil from ISIS controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and selling it to Israel, according to several reports in the Arab and Russian media. An estimated 20,000-40,000 barrels of oil are produced daily in ISIS controlled territory generating $1-1.5 million daily profit for the terrorist organization.

“Israel has in one way or another become the main marketer of ISIS oil. Without them, most ISIS-produced oil would have remained going between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Even the three companies would not receive the oil if they did not have a buyer in Israel,” an industry official told the newspaper "al-Araby al-Jadeed."

Let’s go back to 2015 when it was reported at PFYT’s the Kurds and ISIS were the oil smugglers

Crude Oil and ISIS

 I would love that everyone read the above linked pdf- But if you don’t wish to read all 16 pages please go to the conclusions drawn and read there. Pg 12 of 16

    “The authors of this paper would like to make it clear from the very beginning that this has not been the case of a ‘smoking gun’. The evidence  has been  inconclusive.  But even  if volumes of ISIS crude found their way, beyond any reasonable doubt, to the international crude oil  markets  via the Ceyhan  terminal,  this fact  would not conclusively  point  to collusion between the Turkish authorities and the shadow network of smugglers, let alone ISIS operatives"

 Who is shipping this oil from Iraq into Turkey- The Kurds

    Iraq has warned buyers of crude oil that any unauthorized oil purchases made from its territory could be used to fund activities by the extremist militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

    In a statement on Wednesday, Iraq’s Oil Ministry said: “International purchasers [of crude oil] and other market participants should be aware that any oil exports made without the authorization of the Ministry of Oil may contain crude oil originating from fields under the control of [ISIS]. The only seller of Iraqi crude oil authorized by the Ministry of Oil is [Iraq’s state-owned oil company] SOMO.”

     Speaking on condition of anonymity, an informed source told Asharq Al-Awsat that ISIS was indeed selling Iraqi crude from captured refineries and oilfields. He said the crude was being sold to Kurdish traders in the border regions straddling Iraq, Iran and Syria, and was being shipped to Pakistan where it was being sold “for less than half its original price.” He added that many oilfields and refineries in the country remained outside government control.

 Excerpt from FT's

     Since May, the Kurds have taken matters into their own hands and sold almost 40m barrels of oil to traders via the Turkish port of Ceyhan, all shipped via pipeline, providing Erbil with vital funds as they battle Islamist militants and shelter hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Syrian Kurds earning millions in Oil Revenue- stealing Syria's oil

    “Syrian Kurdistan has been exporting its oil from the Rmeilan refinery using a pipeline built by the Baath party government,” Iraqi Kurdish Rudaw news reported Monday.

    “[The oil is then] transferred to the Alyuka refinery in the [Iraqi Kurdish] Zumar area, from there to Fishkhabour, and then on to Turkey’s Ceyhan port.”

    A “well informed source” told the agency that “the revenue from importing this oil exceeds $10 million” a month, a massive boon for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) that has overseen a dramatic expansion of territory as Kurdish troops have rolled back ISIS in recent months.

Arab Weekly- Syria's Oil and Gas Wealth being Shared by Kurds and ISIS-
Yet more of that KurdIShIS symbiosis!

    Syria’s oil and gas wealth is being shared by ISIS and Kurdish armed groups, which heavily rely on it to finance war efforts.

    At least 60% of Syria’s oil installations are in the east and north-east, in the areas around Raqqa, the capital of ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate, Deir ez-Zor on the Iraqi border and the Kurdish-held area of Al-Hasakah. These have been exploited by Islamist opposition groups and Kurdish militias for two years now.

    Syria’s oil and gas wealth is being shared by ISIS and Kurdish armed groups, which heavily rely on it to finance war efforts, according to an oil worker in al-Hasakah who spoke to The Arab Weekly on condition of anonymity. “The Kurds control 274 fields, producing some 40,000 bar-rels of oil per day (bpd) in addition to 397,000 cubic metres of gas,” he said.

    ISIS tightened its grip on the fields in the southern part of al-Hasakah after evicting the Free Syrian Army and other Islamic opposition groups. Some of the largest oil and gas fields — Shadadi, Marcada and al- Hol — are in ISIS-controlled terri-tory.

    According to an oil employee who asked to be identified as JJ, some 419 oil fields producing more than 35,000 bpd and 67 gas fields with a daily production of 1 million cubic metres are controlled by ISIS.

• 2019 Another report covering SDF/PKK oil smuggling

    " The residents of the town of al-Hassin launched popular protests against SDF in Eastern Deir Ezzur by blocking the roads to SDF's oil tankers destined to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from Hasaka, the Arabic-language al-Youm reported."

 This was apparent in 2015. It was the PKK/ISIS shipping Syrian oil out- through Iraq’s Kurdish area by way of Northern Iraq through the Ceyhan pipeline- With it going onto Israel and elsewhere.- Check the external links in the years old post. Relinked, dated 2015, above.  It appears they are continuing to steal Syrian oil and exchange it for Usrael arms.

    "In a relevant development on Saturday, the US-backed Kurdish militants received state-of-the-art weapons and military equipment, including Israeli arms in Eastern Euphrates, the Arabic-language media reports said.

    It noted that the said military shipment included advanced missiles, US air defense systems, Israeli anti-Tank Spike missiles, shoulder-mounted surface-to-air Stinger missiles and drones.

• Raqqa’s Rockefellers              

Earlier today:

Wife Of White Helmet's Founder Can't Leave Turkey- Did She Want to Leave?

Wife Of White Helmet's Founder Can't Leave Turkey- Did She Want to Leave?

• White Helmets Founder/ British Army Intelligence/OBE Recipient James Le Mesurier Found Dead- Timing?

  Not sure where it was I read some comment that the wife was Turkish. And this was supposed to signify something or another..  Le Mesurier's wife is Swedish.  She is a Swedish citizen.

 The claim is that she can't leave Turkey while an investigation is ongoing.. Which does makes sense, for the most obvious reason that she's the only person who was known to be in the company of LeMesurier at the time of his death.

Did she want to leave Turkey? I don't know. 
Why would she if there are questions about her husband's death?

Emma Hedvig Christina Winberg, the wife of British army officer James Le Mesurier who co-founded the “White Helmets” volunteer organization in Syria, leaves after being questioned by Turkish police, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. The Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office said Tuesday an autopsy and other procedures were underway at Istanbul’s Forensic Medicine Institute to determine “the exact cause” of Le Mesurier’s death. (Associated Press)

Image from Washington Post

Anadolu Agency reports Thursday that James Le Mesurier’s Swedish wife, Emma Winberg, was questioned by police on Wednesday. Authorities imposed the travel ban in case she needs to be questioned again.

Le Mesurier was found dead outside his Istanbul home on Nov. 11. Police believe he fell to his death and are investigating the circumstances.

Private DHA news agency said police were examining the couple’s electronic devices.

Arabnews

ISTANBUL: Turkey has imposed a travel ban on Emma Winberg, the wife of James Le Mesurier, founder of the Mayday Rescue Foundation, who was found dead in Istanbul on Monday.
Speculation abounds over the circumstances of Le Mesurier’s death, with questions over whether the former British intelligence officer was murdered or committed suicide.
Though Turkish police sources believe Le Mesurier jumped to his death from his flat, his wife, 39, has not been allowed to return home because of Turkish law.

Le Mesurier had reportedly told his wife of suicidal thoughts two weeks before the incident. His wife notified the police that he was in a deteriorating psychological state and taking anti-depressants and medication for stress. His hospital records are also being examined.
Umur Yildirim, an attorney specialized in criminal justice, said that according to Turkish law, it was possible for Turkish authorities to impose a travel ban on people not of Turkish nationality of importance to an open investigation.  
Winberg will not be allowed to leave the country, as long as the investigation into her husband’s death continues.
Based on reports, Le Mesurier’s residence was only accessible via fingerprint, and in testimony released by Turkish authorities, Winberg claimed the pair had taken sleeping pills at around 4 a.m.the night before. She was woken by police after they were notified of a body lying outside the building.