… Or else suffer US attack
Among today’s headlines:
“US Senate committee green-lights sanctions against (Russia’s) Nord
Stream 2 pipeline project”
Unfair competition USA
- Proponents: U.S. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
- Opponents: U.S. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky, Tom Udall of New Mexico
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eadline Recast:
U.S. Senators in another anti-Russia move vote 20 to 2 to impose sanctions against firms connected with “a natural gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Germany.”
From “leaders”
who govern by bicker and blame, by threat and demonization, lying about and stealing from other nations all the while lining their own pockets;
“leaders” whose character of lazy, self-centering self-important, corrupt “leadership” has chronically and deliberately failed to consider and fund innovation, new ideas, new economies and modes of employment from within; failed to prepare its population for the future
— this is the final straw (the epitome) in an egregious pattern of disgustingly reckless, belligerently unethical, unlawful, anti-internationalist (anti-universalist) abuse of one nation’s power.
This one nation of unchecked violators of the sovereignty and
self-determination (indeed the right to life) of global nations —
these same belligerent forces (public office holders and their partners) have at the same time criminally neglected U.S. domestic institutions, infrastructures, human rights and relations; thus accelerating the pell-mell plummet into a combat zone (as of U.S. leaders and their partners’ impact in the Americas (more generally), the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere) of unending chaos, disempowerment, division and decline.
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he current U.S. president, following on the heels of his predecessors
- ♦ Bullies (browbeats, intimidates, coerces) other nations to buy U.S. “liquefied natural gas” (and/or other products)
- ♦ Demonizes nations producing and offering the same commodity (i.e., practicing free enterprise) at a lower price (engaging legally in free trade and competition); and, failing the first two (or simultaneously, with partners)
- ♦ Commits violence (often claiming, dishonestly, to “Protect” with bombs, belligerence, and/or with economic sanctions) against nations, regions and peoples; and against the right to life, liberty, and self-determination.
U.S. Leaders v. Free Enterprise, Fair Competition
Owned by Russia’s Gazprom, “the Nord Stream 2 venture is based in
Switzerland, funded by five concerns including Germany’s BASF/Wintershall and the
Netherlands Shell, and is fronted by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.”The last reportedly has “accused American exporters of
- ♦ sourcing their LNG (Liquefied natural gas) from fracking and
- ♦ trying to undermine Nord Stream 2”
Europe, Schröder said, has “a basic interest in obtaining ‘extra
natural gas from Russia.’”
DW’s January report said at the time that this second Russian “natural
gas pipeline across the Baltic seabed to Germany” was “just months away from
completion” — despite purported concerns about “Europe’s energy security.”
Not among the U.S. leaders’ arguments against Nord Stream 2 (also in DW’s report)
was this nugget:
“Along its (Nord Stream 2's) trajectory, environmentalists including Germany’s Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) claim that seabed wildlife will be ‘irreparably damaged.’”
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hile exempting itself from the rule of law and free in its quest
for world domination, the United States through successive leaders, on a
variety a pretexts have applied force in the form of economic and financial sanctions
against nations and people.
It is noteworthy the nations and
people not on U.S. sanctions lists:
- Occupying Israel
- Dictatorships Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
U.S. Sanctions against Nations
Iran (1979, lifted 1981, reintroduced 1987
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North Korea (1950 - )
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Syria (1986- )
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Sudan (1993- )
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Cuba (1958- )
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Venezuela (2006- )
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U.S. Sanctions against Persons in Countries
Noteworthy on the list are
- Poor countries or countries with arrested basic development (clean and running water, electricity, enough food, sustainable income, proper permanent secure shelter)
- Countries being occupied and/or bombed by U.S. forces (Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, is being bombed by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia)
- Countries in disarray or conflict because of U.S. invasion, regime change, or other interference
- Countries the U.S. claims erroneously—none of these have threatened or bombed the United States — as enemies.
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hile the U.S. has intimidated, bombed, destabilized, and plundered
scores of countries—no economic or financial sanctions have been opposed against
the United States of America or its people. No war has been waged against this land that we love.
U.S. Sanctions against Persons in these Nations
Yugoslavia (the former)
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Belarus
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Belize
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Bolivia
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Burundi
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Central African Republic
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China
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Comoros
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Congo
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Equatorial Guinea
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Eritrea
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Gabon
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Iraq
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Laos
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Libya
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Mauritania
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Myanmar
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Nicaragua
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Papua New Guinea
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Russia
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Somalia
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South Sudan
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Turkmenistan
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Ukraine
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Russia
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Crimea
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Venezuela
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Yemen
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Zimbabwe
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hat is also noteworthy is that the United States is a nation of great
wealth—in its lands, in its people and in its founding documents; an enormously
rich nation. Yet the face, fact and act, the presence U.S. leaders extend to
the world is one of unending hostility.
Would men (women) fight less if oil were left in the ground, coal on
the mountaintop, and fuel in shale rock? I
expect not. Delusional men (women) would still persist in a fool’s quest to
conquer the mountain, and lord over all—
Faces lacking in graciousness, gratitude, respect, humility before the mountain…. Men/women bereft of the capacity to care beyond self!
What a pity.
Sources
RT “US Senate committee green-lights sanctions against Nord Stream 2
pipeline project” July 31, 2019 https://www.rt.com/news/465487-us-committee-nord-stream-sanctions/
DW “Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to open by November: Russian gas will be
piped direct to Germany from November despite the project’s detractors, a
project engineer has asserted. Critics have said Europe will be left vulnerable
and climate goals will be undermined.” January 29, 2019 https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-to-open-by-november/a-47277058
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