Very good posts Geoff of Perth. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/10/decisive-shift-power-balance-occurred-paul-craig-roberts/
Yes there has been a decisive shift in power and Germany and France look like joining Russia and China because the world is sick of the USA which is controlled by central bankers that have destroyed the world economy with money printing via debt.

We are in far worse shape than before the Great Depression. Many people were paid in cash and a lot of our money was thus created debt free. Also the West had real jobs in manufacturing and many people lived on farms being self sufficient. Now most of us live in cities earning a living through servant industries. Many of these jobs are not necessary for survival and will evaporate when the world debt that is more than 3 times world GDP and the gambling derivative market 21 times world GDP,implode. When this happens as in the past, our Central Bankers always take us to war.

Russia and China via the BRICS are trying to avert war and have development with new technologies to alleviate poverty. It is the debt money creation system that is the very source of poverty on our planet. Only money that already exits should have debt attached. Inflationary money created as debt,eventually enslaves all our economies.

So let's see now:

* ISIS is a creation of the US; or of Israel; or both, of course;

* ISIS will do a deal with the Russians, and with Assad;

So, nobody is really going to go to war against ISIS, not really. But what if Iraq and Iran don't play along, and have this crazy notion to fight ISIS ? Will their old and new allies try to talk them out of it ? And if ISIS knows this is the game, what's to stop them re-locating their main forces against Iraq ?

So all we need is some evidence that Iraq, Iran and ISIS are not really fighting each other, that they have done some sort of deal, like everybody else, like their allies.

Right.

Yes indeed, fiction is more fascinating than fact.

Joe

What exactly has Bashar-al Assad been convicted of?

On what justifiable grounds based on what conclusive evidence according to the US, does Assad "have to go"?

There is need for peace and prosperity.

Armchair,
Don't get too excited about the Golan Heights oil find.

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-how-seriously-should-we-take-the-golan-oil-find-1001072026

A billion barrels sound a lot but it is only just over 10 days world
consumption.

Talking of "Massive Oil Find" is a technique to boost the share value
and improve chances of better funding interest rates.
It will be very useful for Israel as it might produce a good fraction
of their consumption.

Bazz you should be talking things up instead of downgrading it all.

JFA
Assad is an ally of Russia and the US would rather Syria was an ally of the US. Syria has been a bugbear for the US for decades. Russia also has a naval base in Syria as well. That is Assad's crime.

Doog said;
Bazz you should be talking things up instead of downgrading it all.

Ahh well doog, just call it realism !
There has never been an announcement like this'

The Optimus Oil Company announced a small oil show at its drilling
just a few hundred miles from Woop Woop.
It may produce at 100 barrel a day if we are lucky.

The company invites investors to take part in funding the further
development of the field.