What's Happening in Syria with Jeff Emde

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Jeff Emde is an author who has a bio on Amazon:

About the author

Before becoming a writer, I spent 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an Operations Officer where my job was to recruit spies and steal secrets. My path to the CIA was unusual; from the bar world to the spy world. After graduating college, I managed a bar, The Bum Steer in Tucson, AZ. While trying to decide what to do with my life and not wanting to be bored, I applied to the CIA and, by some miracle, got hired. I took advantage of my engineering background to focus on high technology counterproliferation issues to include nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; as well as advanced conventional weapons such as directed energy and rail guns. I was never bored, got to see the world, and truly loved my job. I only started writing as a hobby after my children left home. During some post-retirement work, I was fortunate enough to meet Don Mann, a decorated Navy SEAL veteran and best selling author. When he asked me to co-author Black Sun Rising with him, my hobby became a bit more. I reside in Tucson with Danna, my wife of 30+ years and our menagerie. I enjoy writing with a sense of both realism and humor, and hope you find these books entertaining.

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In the following video he is interviewed by attorney Todd Callender.

Intro begins at 12:54:


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God save us from religion.

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Jeff Emde is an author who has a bio on Amazon:



In the following video he is interviewed by attorney Todd Callender.

Intro begins at 12:54:


Source: https://rumble.com/v/v5vdu1z

I have a lot of problems with Jeff, he's not the kind of ex CIA guy that gives me any reason to think he's there to actually inform the viewer, but no need to get lost in the minutia.

IMO the essence of what he had to offer up until going into scripture, can be summed up by the following, beginning at around 29 minutes in:

The group that took Damascus, the main group, have said "Our enemies are the Assad regime, the Iranians, and Hezbollah, nobody else has to worry about us". And if they can push the Russians out quietly, that's all good for everybody.

How handy for the US, and it's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. What more could they have asked for? That's every enemy they have in the entire region, that's the resistance to total Western control!



And then there was just one more side note: Jeff never, ever, used the term "Al Qaida" to describe who now is in charge of Damascus. Only "rebels", and "Islamists". That's always a red flag, harkening right back to the old John McCain's infamous "moderate rebels".

God save us from religion.

Well, to me anyway it's not even really about religion, per say. It's about those who manipulate it and other things similar, as this spokesperson Dana Stroul for the perpetual security state lays out. The radical jihadis running around are just wind up toys set loose to do their thing by their masters, just as they were a decade ago and more:

[Emil El Zapato]

He's not confusing Libya and Syria; he's drawing an 'obvious' correlation between Putin's interference in the Middle East—i.e., Syria, Libya, Iran, and the other failing authoritarian haunts. Also obvious is that there is no correlation between Putin and the U.S. At least the West pretends that it is trying to feed the starving masses that have been victimized by global geographical hegemonies. E.G. The Red Cross, USAID, McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Feeding America, Action Against Hunger, Convoy of Hope, The Bread for the World Institute, Heifer Internationa (Which I subscribed to provide ongoing donations), and The Hunger Project.

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I think this video offers a good look at the situation.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgPx_lWy4o

[Emil El Zapato]

Dugin's The Fourth Political Theory is a critique of neo-conservatism/liberalism. Translated by Mark Sleboda, a stringent pro-Russian promoter.
‘Freedom from’ is the most disgusting formula of slavery, inasmuch as it tempts man to an insurrection against God, against traditional values, against the moral and spiritual foundations of his people and his culture … the metaphysical meaning of liberalism and its fateful victory becomes known in the right measure and the right proportions. Only tearing it out by its roots can defeat this evil, and I do not exclude that such a victory will necessitate erasing from the face of the Earth those spiritual and physical halos from which arose the global heresy, which insists that ‘man is the measure of all things’.

I really don't understand any American pro-Russian sentiment but ok. Is it confusion about Russia versus its leader Putin and his regime? Or is it the desire to be just like them.


Jamarl Thomas:

RT and Sputnik weren’t closed for getting it wrong. They were closed for getting it right.

For the last 5 years, I hosted Fault Lines, the flagship show of radio Sputnik in Washington DC, 105.5FM. Monday through Friday, from 7am to 10am, as Americans drove to work, ate breakfast, got in their morning workout - my voice slid into their ears and infected their minds with strange and subversive words that painted a tapestry of ideas that were internalized by a vulnerable public creating waves of social discontent that challenged the activities and narratives of the state. According to the US government, I am a dangerous man. So dangerous and subversive that last month, the Biden administration passed sanctions to force the network, under penalty of fines or imprisonment, to finally turn off the mics and shutter the doors.

[Emil El Zapato]

Too early to remove Syrian rebels from terror list - Starmer

George Wright & André Rhoden-Paul - BBC News

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says no decision has been made yet on whether the UK government could remove Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from a list of banned terrorist groups after the rebels led the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. HTS was proscribed as a terror organisation in the UK after being added as an alias of al-Qaeda in 2017, meaning the UK cannot have any communication with the group.

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden earlier told the BBC that the UK could remove HTS from the list. But Sir Keir said it was still "far too early" to consider a change of policy. Speaking in Saudi Arabia, the prime minister said "we have to work to make sure that this is a peaceful opportunity" for Syria. "We have all seen in other parts of history where we think there is a turning point - it turns out not necessarily to be the better future that we hope for," Sir Keir added. "We've got to make sure this is different."

Separately, Foreign Secretary David Lammy told the Commons that the UK "will judge HTS by their actions, monitoring closely how they and other parties to this conflict treat all civilians in areas they control". HTS and allied rebel factions seized control of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday after years of civil war. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, the home secretary may proscribe an organisation if they believe it commits or participates in, prepares for, promotes or encourages, or is otherwise concerned in terrorism, and if it is proportionate to do so. It is a criminal offence to join a group on the list. It is also against the law to arrange a meeting if it is to support the activities of a proscribed organisation.

HTS also faces sanctions from the US and UN due to its terror designation. HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who has now started using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, cut ties with al-Qaeda in 2016. He has recently pledged tolerance for different religious groups and communities.

Separately, the UK government announced an additional £11m of humanitarian aid to Syria. The money will help "meet the needs of the most vulnerable across the country, including the more than 370,000 people estimated to have been displaced by recent events", it said in a statement.

On Monday morning, Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden told the BBC the situation in Syria was "very fluid" and if that stabilised, any change in the ban would be a "relatively swift decision". When asked by BBC Radio 4's Today programme if a process to review HTS's designation as a terror group was under way, McFadden said: "Yes, obviously that's got to be considered. They've been proscribed for quite a long time now." "The leader of that group has distanced himself in a way from some of the things that have been said in the past. "He is saying some of the right things about the protection of minorities, about respecting people's rights. So we'll look at that in the days to come."

Former ex-head of MI6 Sir John Sawers told Sky News it would be "rather ridiculous" if the UK was unable to engage with HTS because of the ban. Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel called on the government to review the "security and defence implications as well as the terrorist risks" posed by the rebel groups. The UK closed its embassy in Damascus in 2013, two years after the Arab Spring protests began to be brutally suppressed there by the Assad regime. Even before that, relations were never as close as they are with, say, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states.

The UK and the US have a vital vested interest in preventing the resurgence of Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda in the sometimes lawless lands of northern Syria. British citizens, in some cases the wives and children of IS fighters, remain in Kurdish-run prison camps in the north. Meanwhile, the Home Office has paused decisions on Syrian asylum claims to the UK. It is an insight into the fluidity of the situation in Syria, the multiple implications and the difficult decisions it poses – and will continue to pose.

[Emil El Zapato]

It wasn't bad, just a little too much slant.