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Leaked Documents Expose Stunning Plan to Wage Financial War on Qatar - and Steal ....

Evilroddy

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Leaked documents expose a stunning plan by the UAE and tangentially Saudi Arabia to wage covert financial war on Qatar and to steal Qatar's turn to host the World Cup.

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/09/uae-qatar-oitaba-rowland-banque-havilland-world-cup/

A PLAN FOR the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba and subsequently obtained by The Intercept.

The economic warfare involved an attack on Qatar’s currency using bond and derivatives manipulation. The plan, laid out in a slide deck provided to The Intercept through the group Global Leaks, was aimed at tanking Qatar’s economy, according to documents drawn up by a bank outlining the strategy.

The lines between war and peace are blurring even more these days as nations like the UAE and Saudi Arabia (to name but two) covertly disrupt national, regional and global economies to meet their national interests. The great damage they do to the well being of hard working average women and men on the street is seemingly of no consequence to these potentates of oil and finance as they play macroeconomic chicken with their rich counterparts in Qatar and the greater Middle East. Meanwhile tens of thousands die and millions starve or succumb to disease in Yemen as the Saudis and the UAE tighten their blockade of that beleaguered country.

Is it time to create an economic and humanitarian Geneva Convention on Economic Warfare and peacetime military blockades? Is it time to constrain those who control capital from abusing that control by waging de facto economic warfare, unless a formal declaration of war exists between two states? Is it time to jail or hang the rich and those who manage and control great concentrations of capital if they abuse others through covert and hostile financial manipulation during peacetime?

With great power must come great responsibility, not majestic impunity.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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Somehow, this is Trump's fault.
 
Buried deep in that article is the REAL reason for all of this: “We’re having a dispute with Qatar — we’re supposed to say Qatar,” Trump said, mocking the pronunciation of the country’s name by varying the syllabic emphasis. “It’s Qatar, they prefer. I prefer that they don’t fund terrorism.”

Now...MY suspicion is that this plan was deliberately allowed to be leaked to make known to Qatar that something COULD happen to them if they don't shape up and toe the Middle East line.
 
Buried deep in that article is the REAL reason for all of this: “We’re having a dispute with Qatar — we’re supposed to say Qatar,” Trump said, mocking the pronunciation of the country’s name by varying the syllabic emphasis. “It’s Qatar, they prefer. I prefer that they don’t fund terrorism.”

Now...MY suspicion is that this plan was deliberately allowed to be leaked to make known to Qatar that something COULD happen to them if they don't shape up and toe the Middle East line.

Mycroft:

Banque Havilland, a private Luxembourg-based bank owned by the family of controversial British financier David Rowland, is the engineer of this scheme to undermine the Qatari economy. Should we allow private-bankers and their private-citizen-financiers to wage covert economic warfare against sovereign states with legal impunity? Or should Mr. Rowland and his coconspirators be prosecuted for their actions and if found guilty treated no differently than British citizens found guilty of fighting for ISIL or the YPG? Can citizens be allowed to wage private war, even on the down low?

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Mycroft:

Banque Havilland, a private Luxembourg-based bank owned by the family of controversial British financier David Rowland, is the engineer of this scheme to undermine the Qatari economy. Should we allow private-bankers and their private-citizen-financiers to wage covert economic warfare against sovereign states with legal impunity? Or should Mr. Rowland and his coconspirators be prosecuted for their actions and if found guilty treated no differently than British citizens found guilty of fighting for ISIL or the YPG? Can citizens be allowed to wage private war, even on the down low?

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

I see no evidence that anyone waged "covert economic warfare" against anyone. I do see evidence that someone concocted a "plan" to do so. Should someone be prosecuted for making a plan...but not executing it?

In any case, you've presented nothing to allay my suspicion.
 
Mycroft:

Conspiracy to commit an economic crime is a criminal offence in many legal jurisdictions including the United States, the UK and much of Europe. So yes, planning to commit a crime is a criminal act. If citizens, organisations and businesses planning and promoting an international and open BDS movement against Israeli economic interests is a crime in America, then why are bankers and financiers immune from legal liability for planning to undermine the Qatari economy covertly? It seems a double standard to me.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
Mycroft:

Banque Havilland, a private Luxembourg-based bank owned by the family of controversial British financier David Rowland, is the engineer of this scheme to undermine the Qatari economy. Should we allow private-bankers and their private-citizen-financiers to wage covert economic warfare against sovereign states with legal impunity? Or should Mr. Rowland and his coconspirators be prosecuted for their actions and if found guilty treated no differently than British citizens found guilty of fighting for ISIL or the YPG? Can citizens be allowed to wage private war, even on the down low?

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

If one has sufficient money, power and influence, one can pretty much do whatever one desires.

I think a better question might be: "can the little people actually do anything about that?" and the answer is a definite "no"
 
Same shot happens in this country all the time, its just that we call it business.
 
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