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The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows "To Act Powerfully On All Fronts"

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Israel and Hezbollah are at war.  On top of everything else that is going on in the world, now we have a new war in the Middle East, and nobody is quite certain what is going to happen next.  Israel has been preparing for this moment for more than 8 years.  So has Hezbollah.  According to some reports, Hezbollah has amassed an arsenal of 50,000 rockets since the end of the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006.  If all-out warfare does erupt, we could potentially see tens of thousands of missiles rain down into an area not too much larger than the state of New Jersey.  And of course the Israeli military is also much more sophisticated and much more powerful than it was back in 2006.  If cooler heads do not prevail, we could be on the verge of witnessing a very bloody war.  But right now nobody seems to be in the mood to back down.  Hezbollah is absolutely fuming over an airstrike earlier this month that killed six fighters and a prominent Iranian general.  And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel is “prepared to act powerfully on all fronts” in response to a Hezbollah ambush that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seven.  Just such an incident is what sparked the war between the two sides back in 2006.  But this time, a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could spark a full-blown regional war.

Earlier this month, Israel launched a surprise assault against a group of Hezbollah fighters that Israel believed was planning to conduct terror attacks inside their borders.

But in addition to killing six Hezbollah fighters, a very important Iranian general was also killed.  Needless to say, Iran is furious

Iran has told the United States that Israel should expect consequences for an attack on the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights that killed an Iranian general, a senior official said on Tuesday.

 

Revolutionary Guards General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi died alongside six fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group in the January 18 attack on forces supporting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war.

And we didn’t have to wait too long for a response.  An IDF convoy was hit by anti-tank missiles near the Lebanon border.  Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded.  The following is how the Jerusalem Post described the attack.

The terrorists launched five or six anti-tank missiles from a distance of at least four kilometers from their targets, striking the vehicles as they drove two kilometers from the international border.

 

In the heavy Hezbollah ambush, a military D-Max vehicle containing a company commander and his driver from the Givati Brigade was the first vehicle hit.

 

This prompted all of those inside an IDF jeep behind it to quickly evacuate their vehicle before it, too, was hit and destroyed with missiles.

Just over an hour after that attack, mortar rounds struck an Israeli military position on Mt. Hermon.

In response to those strikes, the Israeli military hit back at Hezbollah positions on the other side of the Lebanese border…

Israel struck back with combined aerial and ground strikes on Hezbollah operational positions along the border, the military said.

 

At least 50 artillery shells were fired at the villages of Majidiyeh, Abbasiyeh and Kfar Chouba, according to Lebanese officials.

But Israel is probably not done.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promising a “disproportionate” response to the Hezbollah attacks, and he says that Hezbollah should consider what Israel recently did to Hamas before taking any more aggressive action…

“To all those trying to challenge us on the northern border, I suggest looking at what happened here, not far from the city of Sderot, in the Gaza strip.  Hamas absorbed the hardest blow since it was founded last summer, and the IDF is ready to act with force on any front.”

If things continue to escalate, we might not just be talking about another Hezbollah-Israel war.

In the south, tensions between Israel and Hamas remain near all-time highs.  In the event of a full-blown war, Hamas probably could be easily convinced to join the fray.  And if Hamas jumps in, the rest of the Palestinians might not be far behind.

In addition, ISIS now has territory near the border with Israel

Because of the strategic importance of the terrain, Iran and Hezbollah have been building infrastructure there for some time.  But their interest in the Golan skyrocketed in December.

 

The reason: ISIS gained a foothold there when the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade of the Free Syrian Army “defected” from the de facto alliance with the U.S.-Arab coalition against Assad, and declared its allegiance to ISIS.  The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade had been one of the most active rebel factions holding territory directly adjacent to the “area of separation” between Syria and Israel administered (in theory) by the UN.  In particular, it has held the southern line of confrontation with Syrian regime forces, in the transit corridor leading to the Quneitra border crossing.

Needless to say, ISIS would be extremely interested in any conflict with Israel.

And of course there are all of the other surrounding Islamic nations that are not too fond of Israel either.

The truth is that the Middle East is a perpetual tinderbox.  One spark could set the entire region on fire.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to do all that he can to undermine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The animosity between the two is well known, and now an “Obama army” of political operatives has been sent to Israel to help defeat Netanyahu in the upcoming elections.

The “leader” of this “Obama army” is Jeremy Bird, who was the national field director for Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign.  But he has plenty of company.  Just check out the following list that was compiled by WND

Besides Bird, the 270 Strategies team includes the following former Obama staffers:

  • Mitch Steward, a 270 Strategies founding partner who helped the Obama campaign build what the U.K. Guardian called “a historic ground operation that will provide the model for political campaigns in America and around the world for years to come.”
  • Mark Beatty, a founding partner who served as deputy battleground states director for the Obama campaign. He had primary responsibility for Obama’s election plans for the battleground states.
  • Marlon Marshall, a founding partner at 270 Strategies who joins the team after holding several key positions in national Democratic politics, most recently as deputy national field director for the 2012 Obama campaign.
  • Betsy Hoover, a founding partner who served as director of digital organizing on the Obama campaign.
  • Meg Ansara, who served as national regional director for Obama for America where she was responsible for overseeing the 2012 programs in the Midwest and southern states.
  • Bridget Halligan, who served as the engagement program manager on the digital team of the 2012 Obama campaign.
  • Kate Catherall, who served as Florida deputy field director for Obama’s re-election campaign.
  • Alex Lofton, who most recently served as the GOTV director of Cleveland, Ohio, for the 2012 Obama campaign.
  • Martha Patzer, the firm’s vice president who served as deputy email director at Obama for America.
  • Jesse Boateng, who served as the Florida voter registration director for Obama’s re-election campaign.
  • Ashley Bryant, who served most recently as the Ohio digital director for the 2012 Obama campaign.
  • Max Clermont, who formerly served as a regional field director in Florida for Obama’s re-election campaign.
  • Max Wood, who served as a deputy data director in Florida for the 2012 Obama campaign.

As the first month of 2015 wraps up, our world is becoming increasingly unstable.

In addition to the oil crash, the collapse of the euro, looming stock market troubles, civil war in Ukraine, tensions with Russia, an economic slowdown in China and imploding economies all over South America, now we have more war in the Middle East.

And if lots of missiles start flying back and forth between Israel and Hezbollah, it could potentially spark the bloodiest war in that region that any of us have ever seen.

 

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Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:04 | 5723407 Bangalore Torpedo
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Here we go...this should bring out the best that ZH has to offer in short order...like gnats to Yen Cross's turdpiles.

 

Jew ...oops "Zionist" haters of the world UNITE!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:04 | 5723416 Haywood Jablowme
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BOOM BITCHEZ!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:19 | 5723485 Publicus
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Suitcase nukes and airborne Ebola to be unleashed by both sides?

The age of innocence has ended.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:32 | 5723559 JuliaS
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Can't spell Hezbollah without Ebola.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:52 | 5723619 NidStyles
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I'm confused, so Israel is fighting war against itself now?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:02 | 5723642 UnpatrioticHoarder
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Correct. Israel has been aiding ISIS in order to grab Syrian energy resources

http://wearechange.org/us-army-reportisis-israel-working-together-counter-assad-cement-israels-energy-grab/

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:28 | 5723916 NidStyles
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Gah, those Israeli's are idiots. What do they think will happen when those extremists find out they are being duped?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 10:08 | 5724641 MSimon
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Conversion to Islam? Well that would be an improvement wouldn't it?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:07 | 5723789 TheSecondLaw
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It ended with the 1st World War.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:57 | 5724313 Watauga
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It ended in Eden.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:18 | 5723499 forexskin
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Jew ...oops "Zionist" haters of the world UNITE!

is that sufficient to invoke hasbara's law?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:33 | 5723564 F0ster
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You know what, I'm starting to back the Isreali's at this point. I mean I wish they could back off on the global domination through banker controlled slavery shit, but I'd rather have a beer with a Jew than Musliim any day of the week...

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:55 | 5723625 Otrader
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Another conquered soul has spoken.  Drink up douchebag!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:31 | 5723927 noben
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You trying to be funny or are you naturally ignorant?

Muslims don't drink beer. Or alcohol.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 03:42 | 5723999 RichardP
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I think that was the point.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 03:59 | 5724021 Rakshas
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I think muslims not drinking only applies to the tragically pious Semitic set of the ME ....................turn em loose in Singapore though......

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 04:30 | 5724053 Muh Raf
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Er, I think you mean are not supposed to drink alcohol. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:22 | 5724244 Mullky
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Last night at Winghouse I drank a few pitchers with a Muslim friend of mine.

He still refuses to eat pork though. Funny how the Jews and Muslims agree on that one.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:36 | 5724263 monkeyboy
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It's hard trust anyone that doesn't like bacon...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:30 | 5724256 msamour
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Sure they do. I know a guy used to suggle single malt Scotch into Kuwait during the Kuwait war in 91. His main customers where according to all apearances hard core muslims.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:57 | 5723630 riot-police
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Because this article is about the Jews, I seriously had to read your login name twice. I thought it read foreskin.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:01 | 5723650 Otrader
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Talmudic Quote:
When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it.
 
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156
Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:41 | 5723857 Oh regional Indian
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Try this for size, very well researched, writted and explained...

http://holywar.org/jewishtr/04usury.htm

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:57 | 5724314 AetosAeros
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ORI,

 

I rarely post anymore, but I read daily, and to be fair to the rules of FC, I must admit that there have been times that I truly disagree with what you've posted and the slant of your observations, but I respect your ability to cognizantly and coherently provide us with your views. 

With that said....Thank you for the link, as it has become a 'Quick Facts' link that I will refer to often when I am asked why I am so passionate in the beliefs I expound in relation to  daring to critisive those who rule us.

 

AA.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:34 | 5723933 noben
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That sounds like everyday business, American style.

Aka 'American Free Enterprise'. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:14 | 5724080 y3maxx
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That Talmudic quote is also found, word for word" in the Mormon bible.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:34 | 5725149 Creeps
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I've read the Mormon bible but don't remember this quote.  Link?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:25 | 5724246 hot sauce technician
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This is your translation of the original I assume, yes?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:35 | 5726319 BigJim
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Feel free to give us a better translation, Hasbara. Or don't you read the Talmud?

Why not? It's only ~7000 pages long.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:59 | 5724315 tok1
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amm I dont like to write on this type of topic, but since I am Jewish and have actually studied the Tulmid and Torah for many years, (I agree all religion is rubbish) but you miss understand how it works... 

The Torah is like what you Christians read as the bible.. with some small differences. (ie the 5 books of Moese ect).

The Tulmud has two parts Mishna (Oral law thats origianlly was handed down orally.. and the Gemara (written law ) which kind of goes through the bilble and explains it.

In the end what it is are Rabbi positions that have been written down over the years (literally more than 1000ys) 

So for instance one Rabbi might refer to a passage in the bible that discusses abortion and he might explain based on whats written in the bible his opinion. Then   another Rabbie living at the same time on hundreads of years later, will write that he agrees or disagrees and if he disagrees why.. ect  and so the debate goes on with different opinions (no fixed solution like current precedent law that keeps changing as new cases opinions evolve.

 So still today some times but more in olden times if someone went to a Rabbie and said they had a problem/dispute, the Rabbie would use the Talmud and the various Rabbies opinions to make his decision on the issue...

In regard to loans Wiki has a peace on it... which does say that loans to jews cannot be charged interest but loans to non jews will charge interest (so yes in the 14-15th century they did that) but obviously their not following  that rule today, just as theres no death for being gay or adultry ect..... One main rlue is that a Jew living in a foreign country must follow that countries law and the countries law takes precident over Jewish law...always.

But in any case current Rabbi position will be that loans are charge to all people equally (regardless of religion)..

So if you pull out one Rabbies opinion from the 15th century it doesnt mean that is the law, it means that is his opinion  and you need to read the full debat that would have taken place over the hundreads of years and then go

to a Rabbie if you want a current decision. And even then every Rabbie prob has a slightly different opinion (like judges),

So your way off..and above is just to give some people an idea of what Judaism is really.. ie precent type law that evolves..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:37 | 5726343 BigJim
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Interesting. But is there no 'final' decision at the end of each debate? You state that "One main rlue is that a Jew living in a foreign country must follow that countries law and the countries law takes precident over Jewish law...always." - but presumably there were earlier Rabbis who said otherwise? How do we know what the 'definitive' opinion is?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 20:04 | 5727540 tok1
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The rule about following the law comes from the bible itself I think .
So like say the 10 commandments thy shall no kill is a rule.
But then in the Talmud they discuss but what if it's in self defense ( someone is trying to kill you). and then over the years Rabbi have written that you are obliged to defend yourself. But again they debate different situations.

Brlow is link on the following of foreign countries law. Again there will be a debate ( ie what about the Germsn situation if the Govt wants to kill you should you follow ) ie their will be exceptions, it's debated over hundreds of years

Like I said in the first note there is no final decision, Rabbis like judges use
the debates in the Talmud to form their decisions, and like a judge different Rabbis form different decisions on the same topic .

The perspectives are constantly changing depending on new information and social acceptance ( although slowly).

This is where the western legal system comes from, judges make decisions based on old cases but also factor in new social perspective.

I was just commenting because people pull our prob miss translated passages from Talmud saying its a law when it's just a Rabbis opinion from the 15th century. which is not valid today ( and was probably disregarded at the time as well ).

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:10 | 5724333 tok1
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I should get a few up votes for the explination

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:41 | 5726349 BigJim
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You have.

But begging for upvotes (or whining about getting downvoted) earns you a downvote.

Edit: in fact, even mentioning downvotes almost always makes a post downvote-worthy. In honour of this magnificent ZH tradition, I have, of course, downvoted my own post.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:07 | 5724337 Fun Facts
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“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were in point of fact not the original Protocols at all, but a compressed extract of the same. Of the 70 Elders of Zion, in the matter of origin and of the existence of the original Protocols, there are only ten men in the entire world who know. I participated with Dr. Herzl in the first Zionist Congress which was held in Basle in 1897. Herzl was the most prominent figure at the Jewish World Congress. Herzl foresaw, twenty years before we experienced them, the revolution which brought the Great War, and he prepared us for that which was to happen. He foresaw the splitting up of Turkey, that England would obtain control of Palestine. We may expect important developments in the world.” —(Dr. Ehrenpreis, Chief Rabbi of Sweden, 1924)

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:16 | 5723480 falconflight
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Yeah, the Goebbels-Mohammedan call to cyber-spoon is a powerful force @ ZH.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:18 | 5723487 Bangalore Torpedo
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NOW THAT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is fuckin funny!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:51 | 5723618 Otrader
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If it wasn't for the goy money and blood, the POS stolen land known as Israel would not exist. Fuck*n cowards!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:17 | 5723687 kito
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otrader, exactly which land on this planet hasnt been conquered, stolen, invaded, reallocated? eh? you live in america? how bout that native american blood? 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:20 | 5723691 pickupthatcan
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Admit it Otrader.  A Jew stole your girlfriend, didn't he pencil dick.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:40 | 5723843 X-defiler
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Why of course. The Jews steal everything else, why not his girfriend. In all seriousness it isn't the Jewish people. Its the Zionist. The mother fucking Russian/Georgian Jews with blond hair and blue eyes that follow the Talmud are the ones that belong 6 feet under not the Jewsish people or their faith. I mean imagine that monster, A Russian Jew that believes in satan. Thats who we need to fear. But these monsters have gotten people focussed on the peaceful Jews that don't even support Isreal. If your gonna be a bigot make sure you know who your hating.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:39 | 5724217 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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In fact Askhnazi "Jews" hate pretty much Sephardi or Orthodox Jews.

The first need to be neutralized the second need to be protected.

And guess what Muslims an Christians don't have any problem with second type of Jews.

Hint: Iran were you can find a mosque, a church and a synagogue side by side without any problem. Ask an Iranian Jew what he think about the modern day Israel...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:12 | 5724348 Fun Facts
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The interesting part is that it's now proven [as of 2013] by DNA testing that Ashkenazi Jews are not semites [instead Khazars origin modern day Ukraine],

but the Sephardi Jews [the ones they call the n word in Israel] and the palestinians ARE semites.

So the semites are getting wiped out by Netanyahu and his anti semitic government. Fact.

Go figure.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:17 | 5724374 hot sauce technician
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Interesting that you don't provide a link, because ironically almost all genetic research proves the opposite of your claim. Or are you just a neonazi?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:54 | 5724563 Benjamin123
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Bogus cherry picked studies. Jews are mixed race everywhere. Mostly european in europe, mostly arab in the ME. In north america they are WASPing their dna as we speak.

There is no jewish race. Back in the day they would even get offended at the very concept of a jewish race, very Hitleresque sounding. Instead they insisted they were just Europeans of a different religion...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 10:45 | 5724866 hot sauce technician
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Historically they were referred to as the Hebrews.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:49 | 5724544 Benjamin123
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Semites is a made up racial group. A berber jew from morocco is not a farsi jew from Iran nor a niggered jew from Yemen.

Idem for all arabs. As mixed as they get.

DNA studies are always political and never done seriously.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:19 | 5723504 tarsubil
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If you can't see how fucking crazy Israel's leadership is, as much or more than any muslim boogeyman, when it comes to bloodlust, you are willfully blind.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 06:58 | 5724143 new game
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If you can't see how fucking crazy Americas leadership is, as much or more than any christian boogeyman, when it comes to bloodlust, you are willfully blind.

just tryin to help clarify the situation round the globe...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:06 | 5724222 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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America Christian ? Thank for the good laugh !

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:58 | 5723776 Eahudimac
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I just bangalore torpedoed the toilet. 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11:43 | 5725198 BraveSirRobin
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That was probably the most useful information posted on this entire thread.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:01 | 5724319 hot sauce technician
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True that. A lot of these "fringe" type weirdos frequent this joint - middle aged men who probably live by themselves and get all their information about the world at large off the internet. They come on here drunk looking for an opportunity to rant and rave about how the Joos stole their money via fractional reserve banking and manipulating the media and politics.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:47 | 5726389 BigJim
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I find it amusing that someone who works at Nando's applying Periperi sauce to chicken giblets believes he is in a position to criticise other people's lives.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:37 | 5724471 drendebe10
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More terrific foreign policy from the corrupt incompetent divisive despicable arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief fudgepacker.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 10:57 | 5724933 redd_green
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Ah, we've been reaading Human Events again, have we!?!   The world according to profiteering war mongers.    

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:04 | 5723412 FreeSlave
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here we go... Greather Israel is being created...

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:09 | 5723438 Bangalore Torpedo
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As it should.  The 1922 Palestinian borders should be the new negotiated treaty.  One tiny country for Jews, the rest of the FUCKING middle east for Maulims.   Can anyone really negotiate anything less?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:22 | 5723498 Yen Cross
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 How would you, in all you're caugh* caugh* wisdom define those borders?

   I'm all ears? Perhaps we've stumbled across a young prodigy that rivals the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Rembrandt, with a touch of Beethoven and Brahms, for "good measure"?

  Are you musically inclined Master. Bangalore? Are you ordinance defusing eardrums still intact?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:22 | 5723508 Bangalore Torpedo
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The borders defined in the oldest history of the jewish peeps!  Book of Joshua...cept they take Sanai and half of jordan...you OK with that?  I sure am!!!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:24 | 5723520 Yen Cross
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  Were you hatched from an egg?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:27 | 5723536 FreeShitter
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Nah, that one should have been swallowed.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:30 | 5723554 Yen Cross
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 I can't stop laughing. Jordan is NATO without the stamp! Jordan is landlocked, and has NO recently discovered, natural resources.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:44 | 5723597 Money Boo Boo
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yes they do ! American wives

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:47 | 5723608 Yen Cross
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 I stand corrected. My appologies.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:01 | 5723651 adeptish
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Jordan is not land-locked, Aqaba is a major Jordanian port on the Red Sea.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:29 | 5723701 Yen Cross
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 The Red Sea is landlocked. You're scratching at straws. Jordan

 Jordan doesn't have direct access to the Mediterranean Sea. Who was your "common core" geography teacher?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:13 | 5723802 BraveSirRobin
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Oh my gosh. The red Sea is NOT land locked. This is a basic fact. It has dirrect access the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. It also has access to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal. Don't insult people when you are the one who has no idea what they are talking about.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:06 | 5724076 Romney Wordsworth
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Part of that depends on your time reference... The Suez Canal was created by man...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:36 | 5724264 N2OJoe
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So it depends on what your definition of "is" is?

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 07:57 | 5724208 Benjamin123
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The red sea goes from Akaba and Eilat to the horn of africa. Before suez there was no path to the mediterranean, but there was to the indian ocean.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:29 | 5724432 Romney Wordsworth
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I was only talking about the SUEZ [Hence, the use of the word "part"]...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 04:34 | 5724046 Element
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Ask yourself, if Jordan has a GDP as low as this;

$33.6 billion USD in 2013

How did it afford to buy and maintain and train, plus operate an air force like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Jordanian_Air_Force

That tells you all you need to know.

Jordan serves as a strategic buffer for another country, to its immediate left on the map. It's the maneuver room and strategic depth which the other state does not possess.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:55 | 5723759 Eahudimac
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The best part of him ran down his mamas leg.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:12 | 5724351 kingstukie
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“Strictly speaking it is INCORRECT to call an Ancient Israelite a Jew or to call a contemporary [modern] Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.” (1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3)

H.G. Wells states – “… the Idumeans (Edomites) were made Jews, and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia, The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea” (The Outline of History, 3rd Edition., p 494)

“The {MODERN} Jewish religion is from the Pharisees. The Talmud is the most important member of that literature.” – Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 8, page 474

“from then on Edomites constituted a part of the jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”, The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, 1966 Doubleday & Company, Inc , Garden City, New York, Pg. 592.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 14:49 | 5726404 BigJim
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 The borders defined in the oldest history of the jewish peeps!  Book of Joshua...cept they take Sanai and half of jordan...you OK with that?  I sure am!!!

My understanding is that the Philistines (Palestinians) were there first. So why don't we just give it all back to them?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:31 | 5723557 VATICANT
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Turd-pile indeed

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:24 | 5724089 RadioactiveRant
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If the Jews wanted it so much they shouldn't have left.

Israels legitimacy as a member of the UN is no greater than the Islamic States.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 09:20 | 5724380 Fun Facts
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"here we go... Greather Israel is being created..."

From the Tigress to the Euphrates as per Douglas Feith, Richard Perle in "Securing the Realm", a policy paper written in 1996 for Netanyahu.

The 911 PNAC New Pearl Harbor manufactured the consent for this agenda, as US sovereignty was lost on that day to the ZWO soft coup.

RIP America.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:06 | 5723420 czarangelus
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The first rule of sticking your dick in a hornet's nest is... hey waitaminute

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:39 | 5723582 WOAR
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Don't stick your dick in crazy.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:40 | 5723587 czarangelus
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Yo dude. Millennial rebels represent.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:05 | 5723423 Prober
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I am SOOOOOO HAPPPPPY !

GO GO GO Israel - KILL ALL THE ISLAMIC CULT WORSHIPERS !!!!!!!!!!!!

YIPPEEEE !!!!!

I am havinga HUGE party this weekend to celebrate, many cases of beer, wine & champagne !

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:56 | 5723629 Carpenter1
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Oh look, it's the 750th dire warning of a huge middle east war, in the last 3 years.

 

Oh no, what ever shall I do? Yawn.......

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:07 | 5723426 Seize Mars
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Look, if there is another land-grab, then look for another extreme distraction elsewhere, such as Ukraine. This way the killing can go on unnoticed. That's how they seem to do this, over and over.

Can we please just throw the cards on the table? If you want someone's land, just pay for it, fair and square. And if they don't want to sell, you're out of luck. Is that so hard?

 

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:12 | 5723457 Bangalore Torpedo
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Tis like Monopoly...the board game.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:14 | 5723469 TheReplacement
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You are one of those people who believe the myth of civilization.  We are all either Vikings or victims.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:18 | 5723486 falconflight
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What a depressing thought, but I can't argue with it.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 04:36 | 5724061 Max Steel
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Hasbara cunt .

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:07 | 5724078 Romney Wordsworth
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@SM ~ Would 'Deflategate' & 'Beastmode' do?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:06 | 5723430 Latitude25
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Fuck the Jews and the Arabs and their never ending murderous insanity.  I've been watching this same shit my entire life.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:15 | 5723474 mtndds
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this has been going on cain and abel.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:23 | 5723515 TahoeBilly2012
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In modern time, only since House of Rothchild.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:28 | 5723549 stacking12321
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agreed, but only if we say fuck the christians, too.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:08 | 5723669 Ofelas
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zionists and arab nationalists/fundamtalists, Jews and Muslims do get along.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:35 | 5723719 nightwish
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The Jews and Arabs can mutually pound each other to dust as far as I'm concerned, and then God can scatter the wreck of their existence across the fucking universe. The rest of us finally will have peace.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:42 | 5723942 noben
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Arm both sides to the teeth, and sit back.

Just make sure that both sides get the "Sampson option".

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:06 | 5723433 SpasticGramps
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It's all a game of Pull my finger.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:45 | 5723602 Money Boo Boo
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pull my finger

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:07 | 5723434 fatlibertarian
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I guess I would expect an attack on the U.S. It won't actually be by Iran, but that's what the narrative will be. I feel we're going to be back into Iraq this year and then once the "event" happens, we'll creep into Iran. These globalists stop at nothing.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:11 | 5723448 Wahooo
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The tribe has a violent DNA. It will receive what it has sown. The world won't miss them.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 00:38 | 5723725 BoycottThatTribe
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Imagine a world without Judaism.

 

The Rabbi's will go first.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:29 | 5723924 TheGrandChessboard
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 1 less player on the board no one would care. And thats what most people dont get.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:29 | 5724251 hot sauce technician
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That's a world without the ten commandments, imbecile. Or without your god on a stick.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:40 | 5723851 serotonindumptruck
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The Tribe is completely insane.

If they can't control the world, they'll employ The Samson Option and destroy us all.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 03:23 | 5723983 Jack Burton
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The traitors in Washington DC supplied, along with French traitors, all the materials and technologies for a vast Israeli nuclear bomb plant to go into production. Washington actually gave material for bombs that they knew would be aimed at the USA and all of Europe. France gave material for bombs that years later would be targeted on France. Ask your self why Israel needed 200+ deliverable warheads, with a possible 300+ in reserve? Count the targets, all major cities in the Middle East and Europe plus a dozen or so for American cities. The entire world would die if this one small group decided our time was up.

Dual citizens in Washington are responsible for us living unde rthis nuclear threat. And they have promised to do it as well. But I hear Iran is the real threat to the world. CNN told me!

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:31 | 5724096 RadioactiveRant
Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:11 | 5723450 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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What a cluster fuck...

This will not end well. In 2006 Israel was kicked severely by Hezbollah in Liban.

Now they have Hamas, Hezbollah and even ISIS at them !

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:16 | 5723478 TheReplacement
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Israel treats ISIS wounded and acts as their air force. 

Next.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:23 | 5723514 trulz4lulz
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Oopsie! Someone forgot that ISIS is fighting the same Syrian government as Merikastan and Israel are! Must be a typo.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:12 | 5723453 czarangelus
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I see the Zionist nutcases are out in force tonight.

Islam is not a monolithic bloc. It's like assuming the US and Mexico are identical because they're right next door to each other and both "Christian" nations. For all the Muslim ethnicities - and there's dozens of them - they each hate Jewistan for different reasons, each 100% justifiable in its own way.

Chernozhopi Eastern European trailer trash calling itself Jewish has been stealing lands that have nothing to do with it for most of a century now. It's little wonder that they've made committed enemies. What's funny is the poor Sephardic bastards, the cousins of the Palestinians, have lived there for a millenium and a half without such a serious conflict. It's only when the Ashkenazi filth show up that there is a problem.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:13 | 5723465 Bangalore Torpedo
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"Islam is not a monolithic bloc."

Which verse of the Koran lead you to that conclusion?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:13 | 5723472 czarangelus
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Gee fucktard, it's because I know a Sufi from a Druze from a Salafist.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:15 | 5723482 Bangalore Torpedo
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LOL...sure you do, but learn the Koran by a real Muslim Apostate.  Then you might know something!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:18 | 5723493 czarangelus
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I read the Quran. It reads pretty much like the Bible. Some archaic nitwittery, some inscrutable cultural references that are meaningless today, some racism, and some awe-inspiring religious profundity. Like all holy books, what you interpret when you read it says a lot more about you than it says about the text itself.

One line in the Quran that stuck with me reads, "Allah will not be unjust to a single atom." Some people choose to ignore it, just like some people choose to ignore Jesus when he sardonically asked, "Is it not written that ye are gods?"

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:23 | 5723517 Bangalore Torpedo
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"I read the Quran. It reads pretty much like the Bible."

 

Pure unadulterated LIE.  You lost me on the first sentence...and you know why!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:53 | 5723605 Yen Cross
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 I call bullshit, on that claim. I read my ass off!

  I've yet to put a dent in the Bible or Quran, let alone decipher them. Personally, they're very boring unless you're terminal.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 04:31 | 5724052 Erudite Redneck
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A good recap of the whole Old Testament up until the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is Acts chapter 7.  Stephen the first Christian Martyr, gives a recap of all major Jewish history up until that current point.  It gives you a good overview to start with. 

You should then move over and read the Gospel of John and it gives you great insight as to who Jesus was, God in the Flesh. He came to his own, the Jews and they did not know him.  They rejected Jesus so now is the fulfilling of the times of the Gentiles.  God is not done with Israel though as "replacement theology" would argue that Christians have taken the place of the Jews.  But Israel is God's time piece and God will save a remnant of them again as he has done many times in the past.  Jesus will return to Israel and rule the world for a thousand years.

On the Quran, let me just say Jesus is not in a grave.  As far as I know Muhammed, Buddha, Gahndi, Joseph Smith, etc are still in their graves, awaiting the resurection on the last day.  So not much sense following dead people.  Jesus is the Resurection and the Life, the person who believes in Jesus will live even though they die.  John 11:25

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 07:15 | 5724155 mt paul
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Ann Barnhart

used bacon for bookmarks in her Quran ..

 

girl has a hard sense of humor..

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:23 | 5723519 Bangalore Torpedo
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"atom"...really liar?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:29 | 5723546 czarangelus
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I see we have a first rate fool on the stage tonight.

Yes, fool, the best translations attempt to relate to the concepts of the reader in their time and place.

Furthermore, atomic theory goes back to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, a field that the medieval Muslims were familiar with, unlike the illiterate Christians in unsanitary ghettos throughout medieval europe.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:43 | 5723596 trulz4lulz
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Druze arent Muslims or Chrisians though, kind of a mix of both, with a belief of reincarnation and thet dont  allow converts, you have to be born a Druze.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:57 | 5723639 czarangelus
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Ethnicity and religion are tied together in the Middle East even more profoundly than in the West. I mean, you know that Julio Rodriguez is likely to be Catholic and Olaf Anderson is likely to be protestant, even knowing nothing else about them. It's even more strictly proscribed in the Middle East.

Historically speaking, the Middle East is where just about everything clashed into everything else. There's still hill tribes like the Yazidi or Mandeans, tiny isolated communities that hold a mish-mash of everything that collided against itself in the ancient Levant.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 01:24 | 5723823 BraveSirRobin
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The actual quote is: "Indeed, Allah does not do injustice, [even] as much as an atom's weight; while if there is a good deed, He multiplies it and gives from Himself a great reward." 

However, you must understand that justice includes killing women for infidelity, and indeed, sex outside of marraige, the killing of infidels and apostates, and homosexuals, cutting off the hands of thieves, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

But if you are OK wiht all that....

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:17 | 5723484 TheReplacement
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A Sufi, a Druze, and a Salafist walk into a bar...

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:24 | 5723527 Bangalore Torpedo
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200 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

and the puchline...there's no friggen liquor!!!

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:19 | 5723502 falconflight
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Sufis still exist?  I thought they'd all but been extingished during the past few years.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:34 | 5724099 ebear
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"Sufis still exist?"

not only do they exist....

but they sing about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40XouYcJ3nM

Whoa!

Musilims, Hindus and Sikhs chillin' together?  What's that about? 

Some insight over here -->  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugni

one more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXobrhyqx8

 

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:41 | 5726638 ebear
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Alright!  Upvotes.

Here's some more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOAmCvPiFXo

(wish people would throw money at me!)

And here's an old Muslim standard, probably the most popular version today

But wait!  The lady singing is a Hindu.  Confusing, isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0g5m-oZb0

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 07:54 | 5724202 Benjamin123
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Most muslims dont read the koran. Its boring.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:27 | 5723539 falconflight
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But you mother liked it in her pooper you jizz sucking pig.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:17 | 5724083 Max Steel
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Hasbara suck your rabbi porky chops

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:26 | 5723540 froze25
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Can you go  into more detail about the diffrent types of Jews, European trash ones and middle eastern? I know nothing about it and would like to learn.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 08:38 | 5724273 hot sauce technician
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GET OFF THE INTERNET NOW.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:10 | 5723454 stant
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End of days

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 03:53 | 5724014 RichardP
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Fourth Blood Moon in a series coming up in September.  Lots written about the significance of that.  Israel will attack Iran then.  Or it won't.  Or something.  Probably won't be end of days.  Probably won't be end of speculation either.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:11 | 5723459 TheReplacement
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So Pats by 7 right?

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:37 | 5723580 astitchintime
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I'll take the 'Hawks by 3 :)

Hopefully, it's a good game and not a blowout by either team.

Full Disclosure:  I didn't junk ya ;)

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:26 | 5724092 Romney Wordsworth
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No fucking way it comes in 6 or less points either way...

 

The SQUARES have put 75% of the S/U bets on the PATRIOTS at PICK 'EM (so Vegas is gonna lose huge with a Patriots win cause there won't be enough sharp money to fill that gap)...

 

Jew owners are notorious for monkeying around the bookmaking lines [Carol Rosenbloom is the classic example & really set the standard back in 1969 when his heavily favored Colts took a dive and lost to the Jets ~ Rosenbloom made a fortune betting against his own team]. Robert Kraft has been known to do the same thing, but this time is a little different. I don't expect any collusion on this game.

 

Which takes us back to the Vegas line of 'PICK EM.

 

Most of the public think this will be a close game. Really ~ a close game should be anything whereby a score and and extra point could tie, but the public misconstrues a 'close game' to be something like a FG. From that perspective, [if you thought that way], a great bet would be to TEASE the Pats to Seattle [you'd be getting +6 on both teams].

 

Vegas has to absolutely bust up paying out teasers or it's gonna get killed. Somehow, someway, the final point differential will move beyond 6 or 7.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:58 | 5723635 Savyindallas
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Pats 20 Seahawks 19-  4th super bowl in a row with a safety

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 05:30 | 5724094 Romney Wordsworth
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^^^There were 23 'safeties' recorded in the NFL in 512 regular season games not including playoff games this season.

 

And you're betting your hard earned cash and only getting 5-1 odds on that?

 

CHUMP

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 02:54 | 5723955 August
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In New Zealand, the sporting press is billing this Super Bowl as "Good versus Evil"... though nobody really much cares.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:12 | 5723462 Dungholio
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I pooped today...

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 04:21 | 5724041 litemine
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So?     Go change your diapers.

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:12 | 5723464 falconflight
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I call bullshit.  There is No hot war between the two.  Read the information from the region.  Attacks against Israelis are as common as Fox Cable News "alerts."  When the UN troops (10,000) are told to leave their Hezbulla enclave along the Lebanese border, then war is at hand.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 03:49 | 5724007 Tompooz
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"Needless to say, ISIS would be extremely interested in any conflict with Israel."    Bullshit.  Both Israel and ISIS are fighting hizbullah. They are quiet allies.

Fri, 01/30/2015 - 06:31 | 5724134 HowdyDoody
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Attacks by Israelis are as common as Fox Cable News "alerts."

TFTFY

Thu, 01/29/2015 - 23:14 | 5723470 The Shape
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Goldman still got their sell on oil? Oh right, that's for our eyes.

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