@ggersh
Or is it the MSM making shit up again? Maybe Putin did it! (That's snark, BTW. Regular readers know I'm not a fan of Putin but he seems to be a convenient goat for the MSM)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/death-liars-iran-protests-demand-...

First the headlines making it seem as if all hell has broken loose

"Death To Liars!" Iran Swept By Wave Of Protests Demanding Ayatollah Quit Over Airplane Downing

then the obligatory pic of many people in the street, they could be
there for any reason.

Students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran chant against Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei calking him a killer who can not lead. #IranPlaneCrash ✈️ pic.twitter.com/pbkqzBy5sn
— Negar Mortazavi (@NegarMortazavi) January 11, 2020

In a rarity, Iranian state media also acknowledged the new anti-government unrest fueled by news that it was Iran's Revolutionary Guards which shot down the passenger jet, and not "mechanical failure" as was initially claimed.

As Reuters describes of the semi-official Fars report:

The report said the demonstrators on the street also ripped up pictures of Qassem Soleimani, the prominent commander of the Guard’s Quds Force who was killed in a U.S. drone strike.

The agency, widely seen as close to the Guards, carried pictures of the gathering and a torn banner of Soleimani. It said the protesters numbered about 700 to 1,000 people.

Oh now for the reason why, plus affirming the great satan assassination is ok
w/these protesters. But then a little truth then comes out, it was only 700-1000
protesters

Video also showed moments where police rushed in to attempt to quash the growing protests, which could turn into bigger demonstrations Sunday.

Iranian forces lashing out at protestors again... pic.twitter.com/TfCqRST6uG
— Bessma Momani (@b_momani) January 11, 2020

Protests seem to be legal everywhere except against oil pipelines in the states,
and as usual good reporting cough cough assumes bigger protests coming soon to
a theater near you.

Then in the next paragraph comes the icing on the cake as well as you can't make this shit up

It also appears Iran's significant political opposition in exile is seizing on the dramatic events of this week, with exiled Persian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi issuing a statement on Saturday saying, "This is not human error. This is a crime against humanity."

He added in the Twitter statement: "He who has irresponsibly empowered his thugs to fire at will at innocents bears full responsibility. Enough is Enough. Khamenei and his regime must go."

Any how it goes on and on to tell us how can we possibly think that Iran is a rogue country.

But we couldn't have a propaganda piece w/out the Pompass weighing in could we.

The voice of the Iranian people is clear. They are fed up with the regime’s lies, corruption, ineptitude, and brutality of the IRGC under @khamenei_ir's kleptocracy. We stand with the Iranian people who deserve a better future. pic.twitter.com/tBOjv9XsIG
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 11, 2020

@Azazello

I agree with other commenters on your thread that you do consistently bring unusual insight to these discussions.

The interview with Maj. Danny Sjursen was uncommonly authentic, and for that reason intellectually stimulating. From his considerable experiences, he paints the picture for us of the lead up to the surprise attack and how the operation was rationalized in advance and afterward. He notes that there was very little context provided for this assassination, and so he fills it in to complete the picture.

Unfortunately, he didn't start at the very beginning of this event with the right question: "How, exactly, did this particular poisonous ball get put into motion?" America's failure to analyze the starting points of events that have slammed them all over the game board is a hallmark of all discussions and investigations that take place after illegal, transformational, self-inflicted catastrophes like these — from 9/11 to Benghazi and beyond.

Sjursen tells us he doesn't know the beginning here, but says in his experience US military threats against a foreign enemy all come from the same well: An antsy President who wants to send a strong military message or blow something up will tell his military advisors what he wants to do. They come back to him with three choices, one of which is their preference. The other two are horrible choices that they know the President will reject. He seems to imply that Trump picked one of the horrible choices.

This is not what happened.

He does demonstrate, however, how to successfully close the door that leads to that one moment and the real motive that send the country careening down a different path toward a different future.

After the truth about the beginning is discovered — and it will be — it won't matter. The nation will not turn back. Just as the truth that we were lied into war in Iraq didn't matter after we were engaged in our endless slaughter in the Middle East. The US always 'stays the course' to protect its war criminals and to spread the blame. It never goes back to correct the beginnings, legally or even historically.

This, then, is the 'nobel cause' that the nation's sons and daughters die for.

My point is irrelevant already. Learning how the US chain got yanked once more and the progress of the nation got derailed again won't change anything at this point. I am posting this in support of persistent curiosity and in support of new skeptics who are honing their skills and boldly questioning authority.

And thanks for the links , Lookout.
Here's a couple more that are worth a look.
Jimmy Dore sat in for Jesse Ventura on his RT show.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbkLcjxdZpg width:500 height:300]
RJ Eskow with Maj. Danny Sjursen:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v96eqH96aqo width:500 height:300]

@jakkalbessie
Interference as truth. Some commenters accepting as Gospel that Rusiia hacked voting machines to throw the election to Trump.

Bad as it is, can you imagine the wars we would be in with Her Heinous as POTUS?

I STILL say the lesser evil won.

EDIT: Obviously Russia has been hacking my keyboard! Sorry for all the typos, folks.
Eyes are getting worse. A little snow blindness doesn't help.
Just installed a new 27" monitor to replace the 22". Helps a lot. Text is big but still blurry.

Thanks as usual even if the news is not hopeful or uplifting. It is amazing watching the "news" on one of the major networks and see how much is being said with no reliable resources cited. Have been in TV land where what is reported there is taken as fact with no questioning.

Jimmy Dore did a good job of summing up the new endless war cycle we are entering and not just from Iran but from places all over the world.

Did have a wonderful time in Hawaii. Spent most of the time on the beach or the front porch of my friends visiting and just enjoying the trade winds. In my yoga class, our teacher has asked us to come up with a word to live our life by this year instead of focusing on the negative. Hard to do but my word is "positivity."

Well must be off to do some of my chores on this beautiful sunshiny day. Thanks again for the Weekly watch.

@Steven D
They are locals. Let them fight among themselves. They have for millennia.
But US, Europeans, Russia, Asia - out!

Iran was the grownup in the room that prevented war. Yes, they fired some missiles in retaliation for the assassination of their General, but they made certain those missiles were targets at locations on that airbase the US was least likely to have personnel, and they fired ballistic missiles they knew the US had the capability of tracking from the moment they were fired, giving US troops plenty of time to bunker down to protect themselves. Then the Iranian government announced this strike concluded their military response, unless we attacked them again.

Luckily, someone advised Trump that this was a signal they did not want an escalation, and talked him out of doing something stupid.

Iran could have chosen to attack that US base with proxy forces, Shia militias in Ieaq, and with weapons that would not have been detected in time to prevent casualties. Yet, how often was the Iranian government's restraint mentioned in the US media, versus the number of statements made justifying an illegal act of war against a state with whom the US was not at war? I's say the media spent more time disparaging the character of the Iranian general than the efforts of Iran to avoid a larger conflict.

Our media spent more time justifying a crime our government committed than anything else they said about the situation. And no one on the media spoke about the fact that our presence in Iraq, and elsewhere in the ME has destabilized the region and increased sectarian strife. Instead, I saw many, many pundits arguing our military presence in the ME is a force for good. That is the Big Lie they continue to promote, even as they now have turned against Trump for acting "hastily" or without consulting Congress.

The best thing for the ME would be a negotiated withdrawal of all foreign forces from the region: US, Russian, Turkish and jihadists funded by Saudi Arabia. But that won;t happen because the MIC needs these wars to justify the obscene amounts of money we are spending on weapons systems. So, we are told this Big Lie that we have to stay in these countries in violation of International Law to protect the region and, of course our own citizens.

And they will keep repeating this lie because the media is just a mouthpiece for those in government who want to maintain the status quo. The oil must flow, and our oil companies must be ensured of making profits.