[bruce goose]

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/328.html

It surprised me a little that the CIA even wasted their time publishing anything to the public now that they have the corporate mainstream media(MSM) parroting whatever propaganda the CIA seeks to disseminate. Anyhow, the information in the link is appalling yet very educational, and you can see where Yemen ranks, compared to other countries that the CIA monitors, if you simply scroll down alphabetically until you get near the bottom of the list. While it's good that the report admits that the official Yemeni government(i.e., the Saudi puppet regime that's endorsed by the UN) does NOT make an honest effort to combat sex trafficking, what the CIA doesn't tell you is that they have funded(that is, delivered the funding as couriers, of sorts), trained and armed the very same terrorists--and their governmental enablers--who are openly conducting that sex trafficking.

While nobody expects honesty from the pathological liars at the CIA, the MSM often sticks its chest out in a phony show of moral outrage when challenging the politics of Boris Johnson or Donald Trump. In the end, though, the MSM serves as a hand-socket puppet act for the wealthy, psychotic, Wahhabist regimes that have invested so heavily in those very media agencies

 

[bruce goose]

https://www.ecoi.net/en/document/2010742.html

This report was issued by an organization called European Country of Origin Information Network. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see that they claim to be run by the Austrian Red Cross--which sounds benevolent enough--but, if you keep reading, you'll find that they are backed by the United Nations and that the source of their information is the U.S. Dept. of State(USDOS)--which gets its "facts" on crisis situations from CIA reports:facepalm:. You would hope that the USDOS could hire independent, neutral investigators to determine if the CIA is telling the truth(don't hold your breath on THAT ever happening) before choosing to bomb or invade a sovereign nation, yet that might delay billions in earnings for the Military Industrial Complex whose former directors often SERVE in the USDOS. The CIA report in last week's post is mostly matter-of-fact, probably b/c the CIA realizes that nobody with any common sense trusts them, so there's no point in wasting much of their time trying to gloss over the ugly invasion of Yemen for the citizenry.

The ECOI/USDOS statements in the link above, though, are fully loaded with BS excuses and misinformation that are intended to make the Saudi/U.K./U.S.-led Coalition look like the "good guys" who are willing to risk the enablement of terrorists and sex traffickers in a sincere attempt to 'spread democracy' to Yemen. It really looks almost exactly like the newspaper articles or TV news programs put out by the cowards in the corporate mainstream media(MSM)...which means that ECOI PR staff have promising, high-paying careers waiting for them in the MSM's so-called journalism

 

[bruce goose]

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/yemen-travel-advisory.html

This report reminded me of that crappy 2007 movie Vacancy where the hotel manager, played by Frank Whaley, conspired to murder and rob guests staying in his remote establishment. Imagine Whaley's character's giving a vague, general warning to incoming guests about potential thievery and violence, as that would be roughly equivalent to the USDOS advisory above. Of course, the corporate mainstream news media(MSM) writes its cue cards and programs teleprompters according to the obvious BS from the USDOS or CIA reports, so the lingo used above should look very familiar.

What they SHOULD say(in the 1st paragraph) is, "...terrorists emboldened, funded, trained and armed by OUR government and our allies may pose a threat to you...and beware of kidnapping because young white girls and boys are of high value on the sex-slave market that OUR allies' leaders participate in while we turn a blind eye to it in order to obtain cheaper petroleum..."

For the 2nd paragraph, they could say, "...there is heavy military conflict that WE fomented in order to stengthen a Saudi puppet regime that's hated by the populace..."

In the 3rd paragraph, "...the world's largest cholera outbreak exists because U.S. fighter planes and laser-guided targeting have deliberately bombed water-supply(AND food distribution) facilities in order to starve civilians and bring the population to its knees so they won't resist us..."

In the 4th, "...no part of Yemen is immune to violence because our terrorist comrades have bribed and armed local criminal gangs and used them as militia everywhere..."

And finally, in the 5th paragraph, they could say, "...U.S. embassy staff got the fuck out of there in Feb. 2015 because--though we've formed alliances of convenience with the POSes in the Saudi regime and their terroristic trainees--we're not stupid enough to trust those maniacs to launch an attack w/o accidentally hitting us as collateral damage..."

Whatever name the Brits,French and Israelis give their own State Department, the press releases are surely the same as the fork-tongued deception in the link above...and their MSM spew the same government-enabling garbage and pretend that the sex-slave trade is just some stroke of bad luck that randomly popped up.

 

[bruce goose]

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/islamic-state-sex-slaves-auctioned-off-in-ukus-ally-saudi-arabia

The link above is from an independent British media source from more than 3 years ago. I probably missed it back then because my searches were focused more narrowly on al-Qaeda while the article above deals more with ISIL. Still, the clientele and the financial backers for each group's sex-slave trade are the very same lowlifes.

You'll notice how stubbornly the U.K. gov't. blocked inquiries back then, and nothing has changed since then--in the U.K. or the U.S. and France. Saudi oil money instills cowardice in Western so-called leaders on the diplomatic front while huge Saudi, Emirati and Qatari investors in the corporate mainstream media agencies guarantee silence on the journalistic front amongst well-known outlets.

 

[bruce goose]

https://geopoliticsalert.com/sudan-troops-yemen

As you can read in the article, the U.S. is now arming and funding the military of a nation, Sudan, that its State Department classifies as a terrorist state; in fact, the U.S. has them under heavy sanctions. You can easily learn more about the sickening human rights violations that Sudanese soldiers are trained to participate in. For those of you who want to argue semantics b/c the article only mentions rape of women and children and not sexual slavery, take a look at this:

https://africanarguments.org/2016/01/18/coming-to-terms-with-sudans-legacy-of-slavery-2/

Of course, just because a narco lord sold billions of dollars worth of opium or cocaine over several decades doesn't empirically prove that he's doing it THIS year, but anyone who thinks that the Sudanese soldiers aren't profiting with al-Qaeda from the already-intact slave trade in Yemen is as gullible as the sheep who watch the cowardly corporate mainstream news media and believe that they're actually being told the truth about the U.K. and U.S.' regime-change wars of invasion.

 

[bruce goose]

https://geopoliticsalert.com/geopolitics-alert-editor-at-un-history-of-human-rights-in-the-gulf-video

The article and video above are from less then 2 months ago, and they offer a relatively-updated summary of the human rights violations inflicted on the Yemeni people by the U.K./U.S./Saudi/U.A.E-led Coalition. As for the secret, illegal U.A.E.-run prisons that randomly incarcerate civilians, we learned at the end of last year that some detainees disappear into thin air, either sold onto the sex-slave market or killed and thrown into a ditch somewhere.

The council that is reporting to the UN is, thankfully, independent of that sycophantic body, so that allows them to remain more objective. We constantly hear the UN call for 'all sides' to stop the fighting, but that is as asinine as the police arriving on the scene and yelling, "Okay, all of you folks start behaving nicely" when a team of thugs has surrounded and begun firing at a house of law-abiding people and the residents are only firing back in self-defense to preserve their lives.

The cowards in the mainstream news media(MSM) and the UN are in the same boat. Both have made alliances with their wealthy investors who are the clear aggressors in this war of invasion, so they have to pretend that the factions fighting to defend their country are 'bad guys', too, since even many idiots can figure out that the Saudi and UAE invaders are scum.

 

[bruce goose]

https://citizentruth.org/gender-based-violence-plagues-yemen-women-all-sides-are-guilty/?fbclid=IwAR0sO8_OCWpuSE7TyzRy6lq6to_QPrU75VagWzIJmbbx3Mnt3RUrwLKYvRw

Reading about the kinds of abuses mentioned in the article foments a strong desire to see the abusers receive agonizing punishment that is equivalent to the suffering they have inflicted upon others. The writer cites 2006 as the year when this increasing trend of sexual assaults, including enslavement, first kicked into high gear, and that was largely thanks to the late former president Saleh who welcomed terroristic groups into Yemen to serve as a sort of police force to quash anti-corruption, populist movements among the citizenry.

The writer maintains an even-handed approach in conceding that even members of the Yemeni Resistance are probably guilty of some of the abuses detailed above, but sexual abuse of women and children is FAR more common among Wahhabist factions, and that extreme, apostate version of Islam was IMPORTED from Saudi Arabia(KSA), primarily. The various UN departments do an okay job of verbally denouncing the human rights violations--yet that's as far as it goes. Because of the millions of dollars the KSA contributes to the UN and the petroleum they sell to Security Council leaders, the U.K. and U.S., there ultimately won't be any ACTIONS taken against the KSA or the imperialistic Coalition it belongs to.

I suppose the UN's empty posturing at least offers SOMEwhat of a forum to raise these issues, which is a hell of a lot better than the non-effort that the cowards in the corporate mainstream media put forth. They'd rather spend 24/7 blabbering about Trump's phone calls than exposing the slave trade of women and children that his regime has enabled with blanket support for the KSA

 

[bruce goose]

https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/03.20.2018_louise_shelley_testimony.pdf

This is an interesting look into the transnational networks of terrorism, drug & sex trafficking and organized crime organizations. Because it's in pdf format, there are lots of footnotes at the bottom of the pages and it's the kind of academic work that you can read through in less than 10 minutes. Page 1 and the top two lines of Page 2 describe the various elements and the roles they play. In the top paragraph of Page 3, we see al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula(AQAP) named for its crimes against Yemen.

One of the saddest aspects to all of this is that the corporate mainstream news media will only (rarely) comment on the flagrantly-criminal actors in this drama. They're too gutless to tell you that this nonstop crime spree flourishes because the legislators and executive leaders of western democracies are the #1 political facilitators of the black market detailed above.

 

[bruce goose]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's True Legacy | RealClearWorld

he legacy that the deceased Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left differs greatly from the one he aspired to. Al-Baghdadi oversaw the widening of a rift in the jihadist movement...

www.realclearworld.com

There is some amateurish journalism in the article above. What stands out to me is:
1. The absurd claim that ISIL is practically finished when they are being discreetly funded and armed by the U.S. in Syria RIGHT NOW as we speak.
2. The notion that ISIL and al-Qaeda were constantly fighting each other over ideological differences when, in fact, distinctions were mostly cosmetic, as with the differences between militant communism and fascism. Most ALL of the fighting between the groups was based on greed and desire to control a territory, and they have often behaved well with each other as long as each group gets what it expects from its benefactors.
3. The idea that ISIL somehow exceeded al-Qaeda in sexual depravity or ruthlessness towards its victims when, basically, you could almost flip a coin to decide who would violate you more brutally.

Having said that, the anecdotal evidence in the article about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's viciousness and complicity in the sex-slave trade and various OTHER war crimes has been backed up by numerous reliable sources, and the U.K. and U.S. BOTH knew all about him before they ever started funding him to help with the invasion of Yemen--another fact omitted by the article. Actually, they funded him indirectly via the UAE and Qatar, but that was enough to raise al-Baghdadi's curiosity in an interview with an INDEPENDENT media journalist a few months before his death. He wondered, "Why does the U.S. keep me on its terrorist list when they are supporting my operation in Yemen?".....I could have answered that question for him: It's the same pure B.S. hypocrisy that exists in the corporate mainstream media AND the so-called defenders of democracy in Western governments.

 

[bruce goose]

We learned about the despicable (thankfully-deceased) Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi in this thread's previous post. The less-than-six-minute video above offers direct testimony from a young man who was mesmerized, at first, by the false promise of spiritual revival and unity. Here, he remorsefully testifies about the horrific things he had to witness which still give him nightmares to this day.

The events described took place in Syria, but al-Baghdadi had a powerful stronghold in Yemen as well. You'll have to pardon me for assuming that al-Baghdadi didn't have some sort of divine epiphany on how to treat human beings in Yemen, because there is a mountain of proof as to how his hordes brutalized civilians there while serving under him. Again, the corporate mainstream media cowards will only tell you that al-Baghdadi was on the U.S. and U.K. terrorist watch list before he died. They WON'T tell you about the significant financial support he received from those 2 nations, indirectly, via Qatar and the UAE.

 

[bruce goose]

Even after all the brutality I've seen in photos and live video from Yemen, the 3-minute clip above is even gruesome for me. Although the knowledge of this situation is readily available, the cowards in the corporate mainstream media pretend that the evil misdeeds detailed above are just random, chaotic criminal violence, no different than gypsy children discreetly stealing tourists' wallets from their pockets. The TRUTH is that the evildoers mentioned in the narrative are low-level foot soldiers for an operation that goes to the highest levels of the Saudi government and the royal family--with the full awareness, AND tacit approval, of the British and American intelligence and diplomatic communities.

 

[bruce goose]

Yemenis Use New Air Defense Tech to Shoot Down Apache, Drone [VIDEO]

Sana’a (GPA) – Yemen’s military media has released video from two defensive operations this weekend. Using new domestically produced air defense equipment, Yemeni forces successfully shot down an Apache helicopter and unmanned reconnaissance drone. Both aircraft belonged to the US-backed...

geopoliticsalert.com

For the 'Christmas episode' of this thread, I wanted to focus on something positive, thus you have a story above that is vaguely similar to what transpired in Vietnam, where a far more militarily advanced nation ultimately failed in its efforts to imperialize over a country that had far less wealth and weapons technology.

In keeping with this thread's theme, the cowards in the corporate mainstream media continually refuse to expose the nature of human rights violations in Yemen, but there MAY be additional hope for Yemenis if the new southern leadership council in Yemen--led by the UAE--that hashed out a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia will allow civilian refugees from the north find safer haven in the south.

 

[bruce goose]

This is a continuation of the theme addresed 2 weeks ago, and maybe it was wrong of me to 'take a break' from this for Christmas Week but it's hard for even well-intentioned people to be bombarded with such sadness.

One small change is that this report comes from Al Jazeera and not the AP, so I'd like to clarify that Al Jazeera often kisses the ass of the Saudi government, at least to some extent. Whether that's because the Islamic holy capital of Mecca is located there OR if there are any influential Saudi investors in Al Jazeera(or BOTH factors), I can't say but it's highly questionable--even a little suspicious--to suggest that migrating to Saudi Arabia is the ONLY hope of a better life for Africans.

While admitting that government officials often take bribes to look the other way, the report doesn't mention the abundant evidence that this slave trade(for sex slaves or otherwise) is systemic and goes to the very top of the Saudi-puppet gov't. in Yemen and, naturally, the Saudi regime itself. However, given the near-absolute silence of the cowards in the Western corporate media, I suppose we should be somewhat thankful that there is any exposure of the truth at all.

 

[bruce goose]

This short video focuses quite a bit on one specific family that has been victimized by the human trafficking that is conducted in Yemen yet is directed from Saudi Arabia(KSA) and other large markets for slaves. The young boy, the son of the featured man who disappeared, wisely pleads with other would-be immigrants to forsake the false promises of a better life in the KSA by simply staying in their home nations and making the best of things. Common sense--and previously-shown proof--tells us that many of the children seen in this video are targeted primarily as sex slaves.

Again, it must be pointed out that the KSA and UAE have many wealthy investors in the corporate mainstream news agencies so--even if the programs or news outlets had the spine to offend close allies of the U.K. and U.S. regimes--their 'diplomatic' obligation to placate the agency's financial backers leads them into the most cowardly of silence with regard to the Coalition's human rights abuses in Yemen.