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Throatwarbler posted:TL;DR Oman is awesome, go there. Agreed! I was there for several months in the mid-2000s. Would love to go back sometime!
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Herostratus posted:Meanwhile this has been shown on iranian television (disturbing footage warning): that strongly implies trump would die at his post. the fucker would run or scream out his bank account numbers or try to switch sides so loving fast if it all went to hell.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the fucker would run or scream out his bank account numbers or try to switch sides so loving fast if it all went to hell. that strongly implies trump would understand what's happening
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The British Ambassador to Iran might have gotten himself briefly arrested. https://twitter.com/ELINTNews/status/1216097253749874694?s=19
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Redgrendel2001 posted:The British Ambassador to Iran might have gotten himself briefly arrested. Widely reported in the UK media - got scooped up after taking photos of one of the protests over the plane downing and was released after an hour apparently
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216114135529902081?s=19 don't worry iranians we will liberate you soon
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Funion posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216114135529902081?s=19 he literally cannot stop himself from stirring the pot, it's incredible
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enraged_camel posted:he literally cannot stop himself from stirring the pot, it's incredible He didn't write that himself, the language is nothing like his. But imagine if eg. China tweeted their support to Occupy Wall Street...
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Nenonen posted:He didn't write that himself, the language is nothing like his. But imagine if eg. China tweeted their support to Occupy Wall Street... How is it not like him? It has a bunch of randomly-capitalized nouns, so it's either written by Trump, or a German person who is still learning English.
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Saladman posted:How is it not like him? It has a bunch of randomly-capitalized nouns, so it's either written by Trump, or a German person who is still learning English. a) he wouldn't flatter a bunch of dirty ragheads ('we are inspired by your courage' is as far from Trump lexicon as you can get) b) he would be on the offense, as in "use force against these protesters and we will bomb you", he doesn't use Twitter to talk to foreigners, he uses it to posture to his voters who don't give two fucks about democracy in Iran c) exclamation points!!!
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Nenonen posted:a) he wouldn't flatter a bunch of dirty ragheads ('we are inspired by your courage' is as far from Trump lexicon as you can get) Also he has a habit of ending his tweets with one or two words in all caps like SAD! or WITCH HUNT!
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Saladman posted:How is it not like him? It has a bunch of randomly-capitalized nouns, so it's either written by Trump, or a German person who is still learning English. one, they had the translation ready and on hand, which lets you know it was a staff tweet beyond all question. two, a cohesive thought is carried from start to finish, over the course of several lines. scavino has learned the art of random capitalizations to approximate his boss, but he has an attention span and also a brain not moth-eaten by dementia.
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Man the dominos are actually loving falling this time. Just remember we went against french and british suez crisis so we could secure pan arab oil interests.
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Please be aware that the D&D rules have been updated
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Nenonen posted:a) he wouldn't flatter a bunch of dirty ragheads ('we are inspired by your courage' is as far from Trump lexicon as you can get) Those are all good points.
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Saladman posted:How is it not like him? It has a bunch of randomly-capitalized nouns, so it's either written by Trump, or a German person who is still learning English. If by random nouns you mean 'Presidency' and 'Administration' those would normally be capitalised in most company communications, hence I believe it isn't a raw tweet
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https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1216054398138376192 The same week that Trump indicated American soldiers are mercenaries paid for by the Saudis, we had to kick out a bunch of Saudi servicemen for being extremists and pedophiles: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/politics/saudi-servicemen-expelled-december-air-force-base-shooting/index.html More than a dozen Saudi servicemen training at US military installations will be expelled from the United States after a review that followed the deadly shooting last month at a Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, multiple sources told CNN. The Saudis are not accused of aiding the 21-year-old Saudi Air Force second lieutenant who killed three American sailors in the December shooting, two sources said, but some are said to have connections to extremist movements, according to a person familiar with the situation. A number are also accused of possessing child pornography, according to a defense official and the person familiar with the situation. Spokespeople for the FBI and Justice Department declined to comment.
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that's good news at least. i'm suprised at how long this took to be honest, the fighting was really going no where. Haftar lost his gambit to take Tripoli more than six months ago. Really hard to predict where Libya goes from here. whoa whoa whoa, a D&D where the goal isn't to win arguments?!  never thought i'd see it with my own eyes.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629quote:U.S. Warns Iraq It Risks Losing Access to Key Bank Account if Troops Told to Leave Now why is the Iraqi oil revenue put on a US bank account? Was this scheme in place before 2003?
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Throatwarbler posted:All the gulf states are extraordinarily safe by world standards and Oman is extraordinarily safe even among the Gulf states, so it's laughable for Americans to be surprised that women can travel solo in complete safety, unless maybe they are lamenting the fact that huge swathes of most American cities are Bantu-stans that look like 1994 Grozny except with more sectarian militias and statistically more dangerous than most of Yemen.
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Cat Mattress posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629 The New York fed contains a substantial amount of the world's gold reserves (As showcased in the seminal documentary Die Hard with a Vengeance) and is a fairly important cog in international commerce.
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Cat Mattress posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629 Isn't oil the world over traded in USD? I don't think (but please, someone correct me) this would be Iraq losing access to dollars in a strictly literal sense, but losing access to a key part of the US and hence world financial system.
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Dominoes posted:I apologize for this derail, but there may be some value in this: I'm working on writing a browser plugin designed to make reading content on the internet easier. There are varying degrees of sophistication we could take, but the simplest is word replacement or removal. What was your thought process when choosing to add the words I highlighted in bold? Do you think the original intent of your post would be (mostly or fully) intact if those words were removed, and the remainder of the text left unaltered? If you remove "laughable", the sentence stops making grammatical sense. Count Roland posted:Isn't oil the world over traded in USD? I don't think (but please, someone correct me) this would be Iraq losing access to dollars in a strictly literal sense, but losing access to a key part of the US and hence world financial system. It's quite clearly said that Iraq has an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and that international oil sale revenue is stored on this account, giving Washington a handy way to steal all of Iraq's oil revenue whenever Uncle Sam feels like it. The question about whether it worked like this before 2003 is sincere, by the way.
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DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216356280933273600?s=20
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Jagged Jim posted:DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. More importantly...
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Jagged Jim posted:DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Just rough em up, that's an approved Donald J Trump method.
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Funion posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216114135529902081?s=19 Jagged Jim posted:DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. This is a pretty good side-by-side comparison for anyone is trying to figure out whether or not Trump is the one tweeting at any given time.
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Jagged Jim posted:DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Assad: Oh, DON’T kill them!  Gah, that’s where I went wrong!
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drat but this moves quickly. Anyone know how many coalition troops are left in Iraq? News are out that Canada, Croatia and Germany are withdrawing troops, both to the more stable kurdish areas in the north, and out of country completely!
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Cat Mattress posted:The question about whether it worked like this before 2003 is sincere, by the way. My guess would be probably not, but that would be due to US sanctions preventing Iraq from doing business in the first place more than anything else.
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Jagged Jim posted:DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. He loves Iranian reporters, at least.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:My guess would be probably not, but that would be due to US sanctions preventing Iraq from doing business in the first place more than anything else. I'm sure Iraq managed to get some oil revenue between 1991 and 2003.
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Cat Mattress posted:I'm sure Iraq managed to get some oil revenue between 1991 and 2003. well yeah but I'm pretty sure they weren't banking with the New York Federal Reserve during that period, which is the point I was getting at.
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Any idea what's going on here? What kind of deal would Haftar even make with the GNA? Or did Putin just tell him "we're pulling our support, you're hosed"?
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In Iranian news that doesn't have to do with assassinations or shooting down of civilian aircraft: Iran's sole female Olympic medalist says she's defectedquote:Iran's sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she's permanently left her country for Europe.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Any idea what's going on here? What kind of deal would Haftar even make with the GNA? Or did Putin just tell him "we're pulling our support, you're hosed"? Or haftar is a piece of the new libyan roadmap with a 75% turkey 25% russian sphere control share.
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NEWS Rockets hit Iraq military base hosting US troops: Reports https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...a8e-kG1efTtRLl8
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