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Al-Saqr posted:Qassem suleimani is a really incredible commander on the field when he's not busy overseeing mass civilian genocides. Which genocides?
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Al-Saqr posted:Hold on to your assholes everyone, We're going nuclear! This isn't really a new development? SA wants to be like ~25% nuclear powered by 2025. There are a ton of SA foreign students in my Nuke-E department here in the states; for all their faults it seems like the Saudis at least see the writing on the wall w/r/t oil. Whether they'll be able to accomplish that is another thing. But they're at least attempting to train a shitload of engineers towards that task.
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Count Roland posted:Which genocides? He oversaw the survival of assads genocidal regime in Syria, oversaw the Iraqi death squads and bragged about conquering four Arab capitals. The Protagonist posted:This isn't really a new development? SA wants to be like ~25% nuclear powered by 2025. There are a ton of SA foreign students in my Nuke-E department here in the states; for all their faults it seems like the Saudis at least see the writing on the wall w/r/t oil. Whether they'll be able to accomplish that is another thing. But they're at least attempting to train a shitload of engineers towards that task. I'm just laughing at the idea of it. We don't have any kind of industrial, scientific or engineering capacity to make a home grown nuclear programe so at best those students are just gonna be project managers of a french nuclear reactor. Speaking of infuriating, have a propaganda video they just shat on my twitter timeline:- https://twitter.com/diraalwatan/status/924879948514582528
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Lol here comes exported nuclear loving terrorism from sauds. I feel its inevitable that NYC is gong to be ficking nuked and it fucks with me evrry now and again.
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Duckbox posted:The KDP Peshmerga upped stakes and ran when IS moved on Sinjar while the PKK stayed to protect civilians from genocide. The Peshmerga look pretty good when they get to play offense, but they haven't been very impressive at defending their gains. A lot of people thought they were playing possum at the time, or just didn't care about fighting for the Yezidi, especially since they were about to secure Kirkuk around the same time, but yeah they were probably dramatically overrated as fighters because of their US training. The hopelessness of their cause definitely didn't help either though; even a heroic stand probably wouldn't have done much good against a war hardened Iraqi army and militias.
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Cat Mattress posted:Yes, but Erdogan rolled all of it back when the Kurds didn't vote for him in the legislative. Then he had to start the elections over from scratch after putting all the HDP people in jail and sending the army to randomly destroy some of the Kurdish villages where he got the least votes. No, Erdogan did not roll any legislation back and Kurds did continue to vote for his party as well as HDP and BDP. And the Turkish security forces most certainly did not "randomly destroy some of the Kurdish villages where he got the lest votes", nor has the Turkish security forces "randomly destroyed some Kurdish villages" at all. Is there some alternate timeline and dimension those took place and I'm not aware of? Some of the posters here are so clueless that I end up finding myself in the weird position of having to defend Erdogan. almighty fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Panzeh posted:The KDP and PUK are the bourgeois parties, and the PKK is the party of the people, and it shows. Not at all. PUK and KDP have popular support behind them in Northern Iraq and even outside of Northern Iraq. One thing KCK/PKK absolutely does not enjoy is mass, popular support. They don't have it in Southeast Turkey and they most certainly don't have it in Northern Iraq. KCK/PKK once tried to establish a puppet political party in Northern Iraq for running in KRG elections, and it failed so miserably in gaining voters that KCK/PKK later shut it down. Local Kurds almost exclusively view PKK as a fringe, far-left, extremist cult of personality.
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Market Friendly Islam is here and the Dow Jones had better brace itself for impact! lollontee fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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Nov 1, 2017 01:55
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https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/925490616879816704 He does have a point here.
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Nov 1, 2017 05:24
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The obviously solution is that Iran let US set up bases inside Iran to avoid sticking out like sore thumb.
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lollontee posted:Market Friendly Islam is here and the Dow Jones had better brace itself for impact! Buy your certified Mecca Holy Site stone while the stocks last!
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viral spiral posted:https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/925490616879816704 What point? First, he's being dishonest, because he counts things like this as current military bases. Secondly, here's another infographic: 
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https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/04/04EECD5C76FCA0E4F98E122FE127F5AA_Windows_Logon_Sound.wav That feeling when someone is being intentionally obtuse.
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Nov 1, 2017 19:16
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loving Christmas morning at the FDD.
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Nov 1, 2017 19:57
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lol remember when all america had to do was get bin laden and things would go back to normal? What? Geo-Hell nightmare future instead? welp.
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Hassan Hassan is cracking into OBL's journal. Big thread. https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/925784658465427457 Back in the day, Saudi Arabia used to recruit Muslim Brotherhood teachers from Egypt to come and run schools in the country. Osama went to one of those schools. Kind of funny history considering the state of Saudi/MB relations today. Volkerball fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/aronlund/status/925850590344810497
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Nov 1, 2017 23:41
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It's pretty crazy that Loose Change is one of the movies that was on bin Laden's hard drive.
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Sinteres posted:It's pretty crazy that Loose Change is one of the movies that was on bin Laden's hard drive. He just wanted to know who did 9/11. He was getting too close to the truth, which is why Obama had him killed. 
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Cat Mattress posted:What point? I usually see maps like this shared in response to some statement about Iran being a threat to the US, implying its the other way around.
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Count Roland posted:I usually see maps like this shared in response to some statement about Iran being a threat to the US, implying its the other way around. Map or no map, it's objectively true that we're far more of a threat to them than they are to us. Even as someone who doesn't want a war, and would favor better relations if possible, I think it's reasonable for Americans to want it to stay that way of course--we could annihilate them, and I'd prefer for them not to have the option to do the same to us. I do think a less threatening posture by the US at some point in the past (though perhaps not today) could have led to better outcomes with both Iran and North Korea though.
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El Disco posted:He just wanted to know who did 9/11. "I know I didn't do this, so who could it have been?? Hmm maybe this movie will explain it to me."
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This video is pretty convincing, what if I didn't actually do 9/11 
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Apparently Bin Laden was a Naruto fan. Also happy 100th birthday Balfour Declaration!  
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The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction released their quarterly report on the state of the Afghan conflict two days ago. The war has not been going particularly well for the United States. From the report: quote:The UN Secretary-General conducted a strategic review of the UN’s mission in Afghanistan this quarter. A key conclusion was that Afghanistan’s declining security situation continues to hamper institution building and development, and threatens to erode what gains have been achieved. The review stated that in recent years the conflict has become an “eroding stalemate in which the Taliban have increased the territory they are able to contest and, in some areas, have begun to consolidate their hold.” I can't imagine the mental gymnastics necessary to invent the phrase "eroding stalemate."
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Squalid posted:The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction released their quarterly report on the state of the Afghan conflict two days ago. The war has not been going particularly well for the United States. From the report: That is genuinely depressing. 
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TyroneGoldstein posted:That is genuinely depressing. And all the more reason to engage in diplomatic talks with the Taliban, especially so that Afghanistan can focus more on the threat of IS-K in Nangarhar. The insurgency will continue forever otherwise.
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Nov 2, 2017 12:47
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/archaeolgists-discover-mysterious-void-deep-within-great-pyramid-of-giza "Archaeologists discover mysterious void deep within Great Pyramid of Giza"
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The Intercept has a very good piece looking at the issues facing human rights violation investigators and documenters thanks to censorship on social media platforms. It's a big issue I'm spending a lot of my time working on with groups like the ICC and Syrian documentation groups, and the article explains the how situation very well. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/war-crimes-youtube-facebook-syria-rohingya/
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Jippa posted:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/archaeolgists-discover-mysterious-void-deep-within-great-pyramid-of-giza That's probably where they used to store the grain.
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Chadderbox posted:That's probably where they used to store the grain.
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Grouchio posted:Why would they seal grain in a giant maesoleum intended to be sealed to outsiders? I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be a reference to when Ben Carson said that he believed they used to store grain in the pyramids.
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Grouchio posted:Why would they seal grain in a giant maesoleum intended to be sealed to outsiders? Was supposed to be a remark on Ben Carson, head of USA's Housing and Urban Development, saying he believes that the pyramids were used to store grain. An example of just because you a brilliant in one field(brain surgery) doesn't make you qualified in others.
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Ben Carson just played too much Civilization when he was younger. (I believe it's Civilization 2 that gives you free granaries in your cities when you build the Pyramids)
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It's a remark about how our government is run by total loving idiots who lack knowledge of basic facts at the grade school level.
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It's been a foregone conclusion for a while but: https://twitter.com/SaadAbedine/status/926338766591074304 "#Assad army, #Hezbollah & their allies have taken full control of #Syria's Deir Ezzor city from #ISIS "
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Bohemian Nights posted:It's been a foregone conclusion for a while but: Crazy how just over two years ago, the caliphate stretched from the Turkish border all the way to Fallujah and the outskirts of western Baghdad at Abu Ghraib. Guess declaring war on basically every nation didn't pan out too well.
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Laurenz posted:Crazy how just over two years ago, the caliphate stretched from the Turkish border all the way to Fallujah and the outskirts of western Baghdad at Abu Ghraib. Their Paradox BadBoy™ score was off the charts. It was inevitable they'd be attacked from all sides really.
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Ikasuhito posted:I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be a reference to when Ben Carson said that he believed they used to store grain in the pyramids. It's from a medieval attempt at shoehorning the pyramids into the bible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34741010 Ben Carson being a person who strongly adheres to medieval religious beliefs, he embraced that legend as a "theory".
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