The Trump administration has been taking care of assorted business at a frantic pace in the past two months. All sorts of unfinished affairs are being dealt with and positions that had been previously kept off the table because they would offend and upset all sorts of establishment figures are being put back on it.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been handling all sorts of unfinished business from Taiwan to the Middle East. And one of those is finally designating the Houthis, a Shiite Jihadist group that took over much of Yemen, as a terrorist organization.
This should be a no brainer.
1. The Houthis are Jihadis backed by Iran.
2. The Houthis attacked the USS Mason.
3. The Houthi motto is, ” Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.”
But since Qatar seems to control our media via Al Jazeera and the Washington Post, which has acted as a Qatari front in the Khashoggi case, controls much of Congress, and since Qatar is allied with Iran, we’ve been served up a steady diet of propaganda which falsely claims that fighting the Houthis is causing a deadly famine in Yemen.
The truth is that the Houthis cause the famine by stealing food from the people who need it. Aid organizations go in, deal with the Houthis, pass out food, and it doesn’t get to the people who need it. (This is a familiar pattern and scam in Africa and the Middle East.)
Last year, the AP and even CNN broke the embargo and reported the truth.
In the northern province of Saada, a Houthi stronghold, international aid groups estimate that 445,000 people need food assistance. Some months the U.N. has sent enough food to feed twice that many people. Yet the latest figures from the U.N. and other relief organizations show that 65 percent of residents are facing severe food shortages, including at least 7,000 people who are in pockets of outright famine.
The Houthis, a Zaidi-Shiite religious movement turned rebel militia, control an expanse of northern and western Yemen that is home to more than 70 percent of the country’s population. In these areas, officials and relief workers say, Houthi rebels have moved aggressively to control the flow of food aid, putting pressure on international relief workers with threats of arrest or exile and setting up checkpoints that demand payments of “customs taxes” as trucks carrying aid try to move across rebel territory.
“Since the Houthis came to power, looting has been on a large scale,” said Abdullah al-Hamidi, who served as acting education minister in the Houthi-run government in the north before defecting to the coalition side earlier this year. “This is why the poor get nothing. What really arrives to people is very little.”
Each month in Sanaa, he said, at least 15,000 food baskets that the education ministry was supposed to provide to hungry families were instead diverted to the black market or used to feed Houthi militiamen serving on the front lines.
Sending food to Yemen just puts it in the hands of terrorists and the people end up starving.
But now that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo moved to designate the Houthis as a terrorist group, Congress is up in arms, echoing Qatari-Iranian agitprop via the media which is full-time agitprop.
A call the State Department held this morning to brief House and Senate committee staff on the Yemen move devolved into a shouting match and left staffers from both parties shocked by the apparent lack of a plan to ensure that food and aid continue to reach Yemeni civilians, millions of whom are already on the verge of famine.
There’s no plan here because the Houthis control the territory. If you send them food, they take it and people starve. If they’re defeated, things will get better.
“The staff on both sides were just flabbergasted that some basic questions on how we were going to protect the people of Yemen were not answered. It almost felt as though they weren’t planning to answer it. I don’t want to say they don’t care, but it was just very troubling,” the aide adds, noting that the briefers also struggled to provide a national security rationale for the move.
Seriously. A national security reason for designating the Yemeni Shiite version of ISIS which attacked a US vessel as a terrorist group?
We’re in Pravda territory here.
Meanwhile Republican House and Senate members have decided to get all worked up about this because it’s not like there’s anything critical going on in America for them to worry about.
Spiro says
Unless there is a change in the U S
Mind set then it going to be business as usual
Biden is just another establishment
Operative who will only make things worse while the media tells us how good things are now
leftist education system
Corrupt government
Corrupt labor unions
Religion being attacked
Open borders
Stolen elections
Etc
And all we hear from media is orange man bad
mortimer says
Washington politicians have lost their due sense of reality. The nation’s capital seems to be gripped by a mass hysteria.
They take actions based on emotion, rather than facts and reason. The hysteria informs them on everything.
The notions of sober thought, sound reasoning and long-term consequence are being swept aside in an emotional rush of false conclusions.
God save us all.
spiro says
Well put
gravenimage says
Agreed, Mortimer.
CogitoErgoSum says
What do you make of this? (I should warn you that Salty Cracker uses salty language.)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ez71SYnxHRjn/
Keith O says
Not surprised by this in any way.
We only have to look at what happened in that other Islamic paradise, Somalia.
The warlords took the food and other aid straight off the aid agencies and the population suffered through one of the worst famines in modern times.
This is the sort of information that really needs to be shoved in the faces of the general population of the once united states.
The traitors like Omar, Pelosi and their ilk need to be put on the spot to openly condemn these groups.
katherine says
A Laser spot is perfectly appropriate.
Walter Sieruk says
Well better late than never, for with the knowledge and wisdom of the Trump administration,under the Secretary of State Pompeo is starting to take appropriate action against that dangerous vicious jihad entity, Houthis .
It’s likewise important and necessary be relentless is this action stated to do the things needed to oppose and defeat and destroy that that violent and malicious jihad entity..
To do so will take much constant steadfastness and fortitude.
As Thomas. Jefferson had so wisely declared “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.”
somehistory says
It’s just another day in the hood…a.k.a. congress.
It has long been the case that when food, medical supplies, clothing, etc. is sent in to feed, clothe, and take care of the civilian population of these very poorly-run countries, the dictator and/or criminal gangs take it, sell it, or let it rot where it is unloaded from the ships carrying it in.
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon or rocket scientist to figure out that the food won’t be delivered to those who need it. All it does take is for the person to be honest, have some morals, some ethics…true ones, not the “my truth” sort…and common sense.
That moslim guy over in Israel…takes the money meant to pull the people out of poverty, which they may have suffered years ago…and puts it in his pockets, in the pockets of terrorists, and in the pockets of terrorist’s families.
They are all of a kind….they don’t give one iota for the people who are starving, freezing, are sick and dying…all they care about is their evil goals and their own hunger and well-being.
We even saw similar behavior in PR during the hurricane…Maria, wasn’t it?….a few years ago, when a local pol…a woman wearing a t-shirt that lied…was not seeing to the distribution of food, meds, clothing and other supplies, but spent her time complaining….”people are dying,” while she had photo ops.
Who would even think of suspecting better behavior from moslim terrorists?
It’s about time that the moslim gangs who murder, rape, steal, extort, are all recognized and labeled as terrorists. Because that is what they are.
gravenimage says
Some Congressmen Finally Willing to Fight… for Islamic Terrorists Who Call for Death to America
……………….
Just appalling–but given the current political climate, who can be surprised?
truthout says
How about we stop sending money overseas and take care of our own for a change.I am tired of taking care of the rest of the world.Heres an idea put your big boy pants on and feed clothe shelter and protect your own and stop stealing out tax money to do so.