Posted on 10/13/2019 4:51:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
October 13th, 2019
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad. Panel: Jason Riley; Donna Brazile; Guy Benson; Charles Lane.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Sec. of Defense and author James Mattis (“Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead”). Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), Panel: Cornell Belcher; Peggy Noonan; Ashley Parker; Michael Schmidt.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sec. of Defense Mark Esper. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank). Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). Political polling: Anthony Salvanto. Panel: Toluse Olorunnipa, the Washington Post; Gerald Seib, the Wall Street Journal; Amy Walter, Cook Political Report.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) *NOPE; Rep. Jim Himes (D-Con.); Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.). Panel: Rick Klein; Rachael Bade, the Washington Post; Stephanie Brown James; Jonah Goldberg.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-South Bend, Ind.), *NOPE; Former Gov. and author John Kasich (R-Ohio). Panel: Rep. Anthony Brown (D-Md.); Scott Jennings; Xochitl Hinojosa, DNC; Linda Chavez, Becoming American Initiative.
SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): ?
*NOPE = “Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever”
This was plan B if Russia fell apart. The whole coup was to stop them from investigating the Ukraine DNC money laundry.
Pelosi is involved with it and should resign yesterday. You know Dumb Shif was getting a taste too.
Ukraine was the money laundry for Russian bribes.
She was right. I didn’t have time to edit yesterday since I was late for a meeting.
The big news this morning is that Hunter Biden quit that Chinese company.
Wonder if they will mention this on the Sunday talk shows?
This is practically an admission that there was wrong-doing going on.
Soon ole Joe will drop out.
You will never see an American flag on a Tesla.
Second straight week Himes is on. Why is this nutcase on again? Hope he’ll be upset in 2020.
There is no tougher league than the SEC and the Pac is down, but the 4 team playoff is a joke.
Breaking: Mark Ryan, exDirector of Australia's Underwater Acoustic Intelligence Agency, and Alexander Downer’s former chief of staff, was meeting with Joseph Mifsud a couple weeks before he drops the “info” on me! Looks like Mifsud was in on it with Aust. Bad news for Australia!
James Comey and Mifsud were in Australia the second week in March 2016 only a few days before your arranged meeting with Misfud in Rome! Clapper was in Australia 2 weeks later.
Chilling to hear X22’s last comments that all the DS has left is an “event”, then goes on to name the event as an assassination attempt.
He is only quitting until Slow Joe withdraws from the race and then he is back. Loved the little comment about not doing foreign business if his dad is elected President. what a sacrifice since he will make a fortune right here.
Of course, my FRiend!
Don’t tempt me. Do your job.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 8, 2019
Hated by the Left.
Did you see that Congresswoman Omar was at the Trump protest with her daughter and the guy banging her this week? Are congressmen supposed to be at violent protests protesting Presidential rallies?
Too funny!
Thank you for the most excellent post!!
Living in the YUGEST Ponderosa Pine forest makes this very dear to my heart.
When are the people going to wake up and realize they have been played for fools?
We need to start by stating that there is no such thing as “the Kurds.” There are Syrian Kurds, Turkish Kurds, Iraqi Kurds, Iranian Kurds and others as well. There are well over 100 Kurdish tribes throughout Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East alone. There are Kurds who speak Kurmanji, Sorani, Pehlewani, Gorani and a number of other languages and various regional dialects. There are Sunni Kurds, Shiite Kurds, Jewish Kurds and Yazidi Kurds.
The media likes to repeat the line that the Kurds are the world’s largest stateless nation, and while it is impossible to get a precise number, most sources estimate there are between 29 million and 35 million of them. There are two problems with this. First, the Tamils, who live mostly in India and Sri Lanka, might have something to say about the idea that the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world, as there are almost 80 million Tamils. But the second and more fundamental problem is that it is an overly simplistic way of looking at a diverse group of people who share a number of things in common but who are also very different from each other.
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This is reflected in the current political divisions in the Kurdish world today. The situation is immensely complicated in Iraq, where the KRG is in a state of paralysis for two reasons. First, current President Massoud Barzani refuses to step down from his position. Second, the financial situation in the KRG is awful, and Barzani’s “government” increasingly lacks the necessary funds to sustain the various patronage networks that make the KRG function. There are two main political parties in the KRG: Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). These two factions fought a civil war in Iraq in the mid-1990s, and Barzani and the KDP even called in Saddam Hussein – the same man who oversaw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Kurds at the hands of his Iraqi army in the late 1980s and early 1990s – to help the KDP defeat the PUK. The two sides aren’t at war now, but that is about the most that can be said. They still fiercely compete for political control in the KRG.
Meanwhile, Syria’s Kurds, led by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia, have much more in common with their Kurdish cousins residing in Turkey (to whom they are more closely related) than with the various clans and tribes that support Barzani and the KDP. As a result, Syria’s Kurds fight IS in Syria, the KRG’s peshmerga fight IS in Iraq, and the two Kurdish groups now also compete against each other for control of terrain in the areas around the old Syrian-Iraqi border, which has become a fluid border between different strains of Kurdish political and military control. Looming over all of this is Turkey, which has the largest Kurdish population in the world by far. Turkey has been fighting a sporadic Kurdish insurgency within its own borders for decades now, in part because Turkey has no interest in granting these areas further autonomy, let alone independence. And yet Turkey maintains an excellent relationship with the KRG, which relies on Turkey for investment and access to land routes to export KRG oil to the world when Baghdad is not cooperating. The KRG has also invited Turkish troops into northern Iraq outside Mosul, much to the chagrin of the Iraqi government.
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Its key to know what the “Kurds” really are.They are a diverse union of tribes Christians, Muslims,near communists, almost any and every description of mid east peoples apply in the kurdish nation.No matter whose side you take with the kurds yo will piss another sect of it off,the kurds are a no win situation which is typical of the mideast.
which side united with the deep state we may never know but allying with the deep state automatically put them o our
sh!t list.to the point where we had to do something and Trump did and did it as fairly and effectively as humanly possible. .. So when you hear Chris van Hollen now on with Wall ass claiming that the kurds "our allies" are being killed right now!! We need to do something. Remember he didn't say which kurds and which ones are our allies and which ones are not,very importatnt when you deal with the kurds.
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