Meanwhile, In Syria

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Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Stickyfinger said:
Saudis fight ?.......hahahahahahahahaha
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/07/saudi-arabia-sends-30000-troops-to-iraq-border

As well Saudi have an air force but you may remember this from TV a few years back:

A near neigbour to Saudi http://abcnews.go.com/International/meet-female-pi...

Not sure my sis could quite manage this, she prefers the kitchen.

Phil

Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Five years ago today, Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidibouzid Tunisia, sparking the Arab Spring.

(If any of you forget why he did this as it was all over our TV's at the time please go read).

FYI the former first lady of the Tunisian president Leila Ben Ali took 1.5 tonnes of gold from the central bank when she and her family fled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Arab Spring, which sought a better future for the Arab world through peaceful resistance, did not cause the chaos enveloping it today

It was the vicious reaction to the Arab Spring by the regimes which did everything they could to hold onto power that brought us here.

Those who died trying to change their countries for the better will not be forgotten. RIP all those brave revolutionaries.

Phil

Edited by Transmitter Man on Thursday 17th December 08:50


Edited by Transmitter Man on Thursday 17th December 09:27

scherzkeks

4,460 posts

134 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Transmitter Man said:
It was the vicious reaction to the Arab Spring by the regimes which did everything they could to hold onto power that brought us here.

Those who died trying to change their countries for the better will not be forgotten. RIP all those brave revolutionaries.

Phil

Edited by Transmitter Man on Thursday 17th December 08:50


Edited by Transmitter Man on Thursday 17th December 09:27
Some reading for you.
https://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-noam-...


"Chomsky: The main theme of modern post-war history is the domino effect: Cuba, Brazil, Vietnam… Henry Kissinger compared it to a virus that might spread contagion. When he and Nixon were planning the overthrow of the democratically elected Allende in Chile – we have all the internal materials now – Kissinger in particular said, the Chilean virus might affect countries as far as Europe. Actually, he and Brezhnev agreed on that, they were both afraid of democracy and Kissinger said, we have to wipe out this virus. And they did, they crushed it.

Today it's similar. Both Bush and Obama are terrified of the Arab spring. And there is a very sensible reason for that. They don't want democracies in the Arab world. If Arab public opinion had any influence on policy, the US and Britain had been tossed out of the Middle East. That's why they are terrified of democracies in the region."

Triumph Man

8,691 posts

168 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Pesty said:
Shouldn't find this amusing but I do.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/texas-plum...
I'd like to give them a Rover 75, just so I can win the prize for "where is the most surprising place to see a Rover 75" (from ages ago, the previous most surprising place was Libya)

Langweilig

4,328 posts

211 months

Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Wednesday 23rd December 2015
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Don't we live in a wonderful world.

"It must be true if the UN is too scared to go and verify

Radio Free Syria - 22 mins
UN representatives refuse to visit Moadamiyeh to see evidence of latest regime CW attack

?#?Moadamiyeh?, ?#?Damascus? province, 23-12-2015:
Activists at Moadamiyeh Media Office in Moadamiyeh have confirmed that they
phoned the UN office in Damascus to report the Assad regime's latest chemical weapons attack on the town on Tuesday night, to ask that representatives visit the scene in order to collect evidence.

The activists reported that the UN representatives refused point blank to do so.2



I'm sure quantum or Sherz will be along shortly to twist the above.

Edited by Transmitter Man on Wednesday 23 December 10:15

Driller

8,310 posts

278 months

Wednesday 23rd December 2015
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Transmitter Man said:
I'm sure quantum or Sherz will be along shortly to twist the above.

Edited by Transmitter Man on Wednesday 23 December 10:15
I'm sure it's twisted quite enough as it is.

Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Wednesday 23rd December 2015
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Driller said:
I'm sure it's twisted quite enough as it is.
About this specific incident what do you base that statement on?

Live footage is all over the media including the news agencies as well as social media on the ground.

Do you remember that the OPCW stated around a year ago that Syria had put out of action all it's CW manufacturing facilities.

I'm afraid your one line answer carries about as much credence as Yogi Bear.

Would you care to elucidate?

Phil

Driller

8,310 posts

278 months

Thursday 24th December 2015
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"About this specific incident"? So you admit a lot of what we read is twisted then?

Merry Christmas! smile

Transmitter Man

4,253 posts

224 months

Saturday 26th December 2015
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Driller said:
"About this specific incident"? So you admit a lot of what we read is twisted then?

Merry Christmas! smile
A Happy Christmas to you to.

Yes, this incident: UN representatives refuse to visit Moadamiyeh to see evidence of latest regime CW attack

Phil

deltaevo16

755 posts

171 months

Saturday 26th December 2015
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Transmitter Man said:
Driller said:
"About this specific incident"? So you admit a lot of what we read is twisted then?

Merry Christmas! smile
A Happy Christmas to you to.

Yes, this incident: UN representatives refuse to visit Moadamiyeh to see evidence of latest regime CW attack

Phil
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All the news about this incident seems to be eminating out of someone's front room. I cannot find one real piece of evidence that is verifiable about this attack.

Most of this appears to hearsay as usual. The more the Russians continue to pound anti government forces, the more these stories will come out.

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

217 months

Saturday 26th December 2015
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The
deltaevo16 said:
Transmitter Man said:
Driller said:
"About this specific incident"? So you admit a lot of what we read is twisted then?

Merry Christmas! smile
A Happy Christmas to you to.

Yes, this incident: UN representatives refuse to visit Moadamiyeh to see evidence of latest regime CW attack

Phil
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All the news about this incident seems to be eminating out of someone's front room. I cannot find one real piece of evidence that is verifiable about this attack.

Most of this appears to hearsay as usual. The more the Russians continue to pound anti government forces, the more these stories will come out.
This sounds much like the original "chemical weapon" attack, with those fundamentalist Islamist moderates the likely culprits, not Assad. Let us not forget the Saudi connection either, those well-known moderates.

All Assad's chemical weapons destroyed by the UN but now a chemical weapon attack? Not fishy at all.

I wonder if the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights managed to report this? Around his corner shop Christmas rush or does his unknown sponsors make the corner shop redundant.

It seems a Turkish MP has implicated Turkish "supporters" of supplying and preparing chemical weapons for the "moderate" Islamists, not entirely surprising considering the now widely known relationship with Turkey and oil, weapons and crazies training camps.

A very merry Christmas indeed.

Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Saturday 26th December 22:01

Budflicker

3,799 posts

184 months

Saturday 26th December 2015
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But but but , the Turrkish prime minister talked a jumper down from a bridge yesterday so he must be a good guy, at least that's what Sky and Bbc told me yesterday?


Still not too sure why that would be relevant news in the UK even if it wasn't a staged PR stunt?

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

217 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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An interesting story here, seems Qatar has been looking to buy Russian aircraft specific bomb from Poland, a little odd since Qatar use Mirage 2000s and these weapons will not fit.

What would Qatar want with Russian dumb bombs ? This could also be a clever piece of Information warfare by the Russians, but considering previous situations with Libyan weapons, the entire chemical weapon farce, Chinese MANPADS etc. there may just be something to this.

http://southfront.org/a-gift-from-qatar/

Edited by QuantumTokoloshi on Sunday 27th December 14:23

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

217 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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The confessions of an Islamist moderate Free Syrian Army , sorry ISIS fighter, trained in Turkey.

I did a double take about German news sources reporting ISIS having an office in Turkey, selling captured slaves, what a lovely bunch of moderates.

It must be the chemical weapons they use that makes them do it.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-26/confessio...

EskimoArapaho

5,135 posts

135 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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QuantumTokoloshi said:
blather
Oh, there you are. I'm still waiting on this...

EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
I have no particular love for Putin, Hu Jintao, Robert Mugabe or Assad, but at least they are honest about what and who they are.
Sources please.
Well I cannot provide peer reviewed sources that confirm my lack of love for Mugabe, Hu Jintao etc. I guess you will have to take my word for it.
(sigh) I want to see sources where those scumbags are honest about what and who they are.

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

217 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
blather
Oh, there you are. I'm still waiting on this...

EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
I have no particular love for Putin, Hu Jintao, Robert Mugabe or Assad, but at least they are honest about what and who they are.
Sources please.
Well I cannot provide peer reviewed sources that confirm my lack of love for Mugabe, Hu Jintao etc. I guess you will have to take my word for it.
(sigh) I want to see sources where those scumbags are honest about what and who they are.
Blather...

Please feel free to do your own sourcing, merely typing the words "sources please" does not magically compel me to do your bidding. Start adding to the thread would be a good starting point.



dudleybloke

19,834 posts

186 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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EskimoArapaho

5,135 posts

135 months

Sunday 27th December 2015
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QuantumTokoloshi said:
Blather...

Please feel free to do your own sourcing, merely typing the words "sources please" does not magically compel me to do your bidding. Start adding to the thread would be a good starting point.
Says the bloke who continually adds BS to the thread, and can't back it up.

QuantumTokoloshi

4,164 posts

217 months

Monday 28th December 2015
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EskimoArapaho said:
QuantumTokoloshi said:
Blather...

Please feel free to do your own sourcing, merely typing the words "sources please" does not magically compel me to do your bidding. Start adding to the thread would be a good starting point.
Says the bloke who continually adds BS to the thread, and can't back it up.
Sources please.