"BREAKING BAD" NEWS: The Princess and the peeKing Duck the Truth.

  Targeted assassination of a journalist is now a crime?

Not to MBS. He witnessed many of the same targeted assassinations in Iraq against reporters who made the mistake of not being "embedded" with the troops. Who can blame him for not getting the rules Straight? Well, US media for one.

He is a dictator; that 's what they do. That's why we hire them, have been for decades:


                                                                  Baku to the Future.

Making America Great Again: Enlisting Saudi assassins in the fight for Russia's Caspian Basin Oil.

The murder and Breaking Bad-style dismemberment and disposal of Khashoggi, a kind of Khash and carry operation, seems to have caused quite a stir.

Whodda guessed? Given the level of murder as entertainment prevalent from TV, movies, and the Oval Office where the last administration used to hold Killing Tuesdays to decide what country's sovereignty they'd ignore and which target they'd pick for "elimination".

  BeHead of DeCapistan playing Gulf Golf.

 Is turning your victims into pink mist more aesthetically pleasing than sawing them to pieces? Even for a medieval regime that quite regularly chops off peoples' heads while they're still alive? Decapitation isn't what most westerners think, a clean guillotine-like severance of the head. It is a gruesome hacking away 'til the head falls off, usually of an innocent person, considering that it can be ordered against anyone for non-capital offenses. It is State-sponsored murder plain and simple, against those who think they have human rights ...  which, in Saudi Arabia, you don't.

Perhaps you've heard of Ms. Ghomgham, the well-known advocate of equal rights for Shiites, who faces accusations related to that activism. Perhaps #METOO has, and they simply don't care, it's so much more important to highlight a mentally disturbed white woman, who's got an apartment, a Life, a profession, and her freedom, than it is to lift a finger to save from a horrible fate a (shudder) Muslim, being tried in the kingdom’s Specialized Criminal Court, specifically set up, in homage to Guantanamo-style kangaroo courts, to try "terrorism" cases. Terrorism being,, thanks to the Sole World's SuperPower, whatever you want it to be, but mostly a mechanism to rid yourself of unwanted opposition.

 

The Three Stooges

Pictured above are three former US Secretaries of State:

The one in the middle sat in front of the entire World as he shoved GWMD's lies down its throat so as to enable the US military to attack and utterly destroy a sovereign nation. One sitting on vast oil reserves of such quantities they rivaled those of Saudi Arabia.

To his right sits Madeline Albright, what she has to say about the killing of half a million Iraqi children via sanctions is heartless enough, but she also likes MBS' attitude: "What's the point  of all this military (power) you're always bragging about if you don't use it?" (To bomb whoever, whatever and whenever you like? To "take the OIL").

And perhaps you recognize the notorious Mrs. Clinton, the wife of the President who presided over the pillaging of Russia, another country, coincidentally enough, sitting on huge reservoirs of petroleum. Taking Libya by storm, she cackled like a mad hen while clucking, "We came, we saw, he died," using braggadocio after presiding over the brutal murder of another country's leader, bombing
the bejesus out of yet another country with vast oil reserves.

Perhaps one can begin to see why the MBS is a tad confused: The "democracies" of  the west have engaged in serial Orgies of murder in order to quench the West's insatiable and inexorably growing thirst for oil. They have for decades engaged in killing spree that kept that flow from ebbing.

It has not gone unnoticed:

By "living freely" we MENA (sic) taking energy reserves from elsewhere when our own are depleted.


To accomplish this, modern "counterterrorism combat" has shifted away from traditional military objectives — such as destroying airfields, gun emplacements, or barracks — to killing specific individuals, largely reshaping war into organized assassinations.

But State-Organized assassinations are not "counterterrorism combat"; they are not combat at all. Those perpetrating them are murderers, not Warriors, in any normal sense of the world, unless you equate honor and murder. And include the drone-operators and sniper-murderers of person or persons, regardless of their status (even defenseless women and children, who are labelled "guilty" by association) without warning in your definition of "combatants". And counterterrorism is just whatever you want it to be, as evidenced by the now undeniable support the US has extended to terrorist operations in Syria, and, as suggested by their years of denial in this case, many other places where they simply haven't been reported, most notably in African nations. Oil-rich African nations, to be exact.

  "We got your back." 

So why the brouhaha? As mentioned at the outset of the Trump Presidency, contrary to popular mythology, it is not in the nature of businessmen to be either original or creative: they find an instance of success and then they copy it. The Template the Trump administration set out, unapologetically, though not specifically stated, is the GW Bush template: mouth support for lower oil prices so you don't get blamed when your policies result in their inexorable rise, for no fault of your own, of course, to nosebleed levels. As Wail St and the economy follows the path of GW, the escalating spike in oil prices will soon enough follow suit, this being just one mechanism by which that happens: no matter what the ruse used, however, with oil demand rapidly pulling north of the 100 million bbl/day burn rate, the ability of global economy to sustain the damages it wreaks on its infrastructure is most likely to come under severe strain. Yet, climate change catastrophes are the fuel Capitalism's craves to keep its unending growth paradigm growing (the rostrum of the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet has grown a tad tiresome, lately, don't you think?  One need only look at the growth on this same finite planet for at least the last 3.5 billion years to see that infinite growth on a finite plane is not only  possible its results are staring us right in the face ... we just don't know how to do it right, as we don't have any mechanism to uptake and recycle industrial or now, in our infinite wisdom, even natural, waste).

Severe and Pro-tech: "Policing" is now paid Thuggery ... with pension Benefits.

And as the world watches how the democracies have treated their citizens after they dissolved their savings like so much spring snow under the searing blasts of oil-constrained austerity, it becomes far more difficult for the non-western nations to keep from laughing out loud at the level of hypocrisy spilling ink all over Washington's Post-democratic institutions:

From "Rocket Man" to "In-His-Pocket Man".

And not to be left out of any game of spin the bottle, when kissing trillionaires is the prize, the TBTF criminals, are, imbued with more conviction of their own entitlement, as fawning as any of the pampered females in their entourage (Melania and Ivankavakava being only the American version: stepping into exalted positions of privilege by virtue of nothing more than their males' achievements: Dynamite). These soft, lady-like girly-men must prove their masculinity with the only tool left to them: Brutality.

The Bromance of Finance: Saudi Princess demurely awaits her Dimon Ring.

No wonder he thought he'd get away with it. Get away with what?

One last, "He brought it on himself", point. The release by Erdogan of the cleric for whose release the Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey, which release was claimed to have nothing to do with the Turkish accusations of murder and dismemberment leveled at the Saudi regime, and which, WH denials now being more of an indicator that whatever is being denied is in fact true, the release most certainly had EVERYthing to do with the Turks' exposing what would normally have been kept under wraps.

Fits of presidential pique that then impose extra-legal tariffs onto countries that are our allies, come with consequences that can't necessarily be ameliorated via military means, which, given the hubris and temperament of the tRump, are the only ones left. Such consequences may include the uncontrollable rise in the price of oil that everyone in the world knows is The Trump's Achilles' heel, his having, in his usual manner of playing with all his cards face up, broadcast it to them, is now facing at the very least a spate of volatility that need never have happened had Trumpelstiltskin not decided to pander to his Evangelical hordes to get a man, charged and convicted of crimes in another country, released. That is what the danger of pandering to the base means, and the result of doing so are more far-reaching and more convoluted than can ever be predicted. That is the reason such rash
decisions should never be the province of a single power-hungry avaricious private citizen with no ties nor respect for the institutions of government he lusts after taking the reins of for his own aggrandizement, which the Trump has never shown any indication whatsoever was not his only goal in seeking the Oval Office.