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Chaos In Yemen: Chinese Troops Arrive As US-Armed Rebels Set Sights On Central Bank

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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are now in control of the central Crater district in the key Yemeni port city of Aden despite a seventh consecutive day of bombing raids by the Saudi-led coalition which is keen on preventing the city from falling. Aden is the second largest city in the country with a population of some 800,000 and as noted by The Guardian, is “the last major holdout of fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.” Residents have reported the presence of tanks, sniper fire, and patrolling Houthi fighters as the militia moves closer to exerting complete control over the city. 

Via The Guardian:

Residents of Aden’s central Crater district said Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the neighbourhood by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.

 

It was the first time fighting on the ground had reached so deeply into central Aden. Crater is home to the local branch of Yemen’s central bank and many commercial businesses.

 

“People are afraid and terrified by the bombardment,” one resident, Farouq Abdu, told Reuters by telephone from Crater. “No one is on the streets - it’s like a curfew“.

 

Another resident said Houthi snipers had deployed on the mountain overlooking Crater and were firing on the streets below. Several houses were on fire after being struck by rockets, and messages relayed on loudspeakers urged residents to move out to safer parts of the city, he said.

As you can see from the map above, the local branch of Yemen's central bank is located in the area, which suggests the Houthis (and, as you'll see below, Al Qaeda) may be playing for a repeat of what occurred just 9 months ago when jihadis seized $400 million from the Mosul central bank in Iraq making ISIS the best funded islamic fundamentalist force in the world. Of course the tragically ridiculous part of the whole story is that the Houthi advance is very likely being aided by some of the $500 million worth of weapons the US "misplaced" in the country so in short, US-armed, Iranian-backed rebels have now overthrown a US puppet government, fought their way into the last important city still loosely under coalition control, and are now operating a few blocks from a branch of the Yemeni central bank.

The Crater district is also home to more than 75,000 Yemenis meaning the risk of civilian casualties from aerial bombardment is cause for concern and could make it more difficult for the Saudi raids to be effective especially given some ambiguity about who was ultimately responsible for the death of some 40 civilians at a refugee camp earlier this week. Here’s the Washington Post with more:

The rebels, who control Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, hope to find new defensive positions and open fresh supply channels by taking full control of Aden. The Saudi-led alliance, meanwhile, is trying to hang on to the city but is wary about carrying out airstrikes in populated areas for fear of civilian casualties…

 

It follows accounts by aid groups of increasing civilian deaths in the air campaign against the Houthis. Saudi Arabia and its partners want to reinstate President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled Yemen last week in the face of a rebel advance on his compound in Aden.

 

The city appeared closer to falling into rebel hands after Wednesday’s gains. Houthi fighters — joined by soldiers loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh — faced barrages from a warship while on a coastal road but managed to reach areas near the center of Aden with tanks and vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns. At least some of the rebel forces entered the vacated Russian Consulate, said Anis Mansour, editor of the Huna Aden news Web site…

 

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Asseri said forces are “doing everything they can” to avoid civilian casualties. But he said the rebels have increasingly shifted into residential areas to hide from airstrikes.

 

“They are inside the villages and towns as part of their strategy,” the spokesman said.

The fighting in Aden is creating unbearable psychological and physical conditions for the local population...

...and the Houthis have taken control of the Presidential palace:

  • SHIITE REBELS SEIZE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN ADEN, YEMEN: AP

Meanwhile, there were reports on Thursday morning that foreign troops had arrived in the city creating speculation that a Saudi ground incursion had begun. Interestingly the unidentified foreign troops turned out to be Chinese soldiers. Here's more from RT:

Dozens of unidentified foreign troops reported disembarking in the port of Aden turned out to be Chinese soldiers maintaining security as an unknown party opened fire on a vessel evacuating foreign citizens, a Yemeni official told Sputnik.

 

He added that Chinese soldiers have already left the port, though reportedly they did not manage to take with them all the people intended to evacuate, not all of the Chinese nationals.

The deeper the Houthis entrench themselves in densely populated areas, the greater the likelihood that ground troops will be necessary to expel them. The fighting in Aden comes as the conflict claimed its first Saudi soldier when border troops came under attack overnight:

Via AP

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said one of its guards along the border with Yemen was killed Wednesday night. It was the first known Saudi casualty since the airstrikes started.

 

A border post in the Asir region came under heavy fire from a mountainous area inside Yemen, followed by cross-border skirmishes, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Along with the Saudi guard who was killed, 10 other border guards were wounded, SPA said.

Finally, Al Qaeda militants led an assault on Mukalla where, after a firefight, the group freed some 300 militants being held in a local prison. Here’s more from WSJ:

Al Qaeda militants in Yemen stormed the coastal city of al Mukalla early Thursday, seized government buildings and freed at least 270 inmates from a prison, including many of its own operatives, Yemeni officials said.

 

The 2 a.m. attack on the eastern city, an important seaport, was a new setback for Saudi-backed government forces already fighting an uprising by Iranian-linked Houthi rebels. Al Qaeda’s incursion into al Mukalla was the latest sign that the extremist group is exploiting Yemen’s sectarian strife.

 

Until Thursday, al Makalla had been one of the few large Yemeni cities still controlled by government and tribal forces supportive of exiled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

 

Abdullah al Sharafi, a Yemeni defense ministry official, said about one-third of those freed in Thursday’s prison break were AQAP militants. Among them, he said, was Khaled Batarfi, who was AQAP’s leader in the southern province of Abyan until his arrest in 2011 and served in the organization’s Shariah council, which provides religious direction.

 

Extremist groups such as AQAP and Afghanistan’s Taliban have typically used prison breaks to free their own foot soldiers and force more secular inmates, detained for petty crimes, to join their ranks.

 

“Al Qaeda needs to recruit and [there’s] no better way to recruit from prison,” Mr. Sharafi said. “A few of the escapees were senior al Qaeda leaders, but among those who escaped were dozens of al Qaeda fighters and loyalists.”

 

In addition to the prison, AQAP overran key government offices, including the central bank, likely plundering its cash reserves, officials said.

Between the first Saudi casualty, the unfolding humanitarian crisis, the logistical difficulties inherent in carrying out bombing raids on heavily populated areas, the rebel advance on military installations near the Bab el-Mandeb, and finally, with militants set to raid the country's cash, it may become increasingly difficult for the Saudi-led coalition to support an assertion that air raids alone will be enough to debilitate the Houthis and bring the situation under control. 

 

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Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:56 | 5952346 Byte Me
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Hope, and Change.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:01 | 5952373 HedgeAccordingly
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the area is a disaster.. wall it off and let them duke it out.. 

United Nations: Over 25,000 Foreigners Joined Terrorist Groups Like ISIS, Al Qaeda

http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/04/united-nations-over-25000-foreigners...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:15 | 5952432 Herd Redirectio...
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Or we just continue to provide weapons and financing to both sides, employing the Goldilocks theorem (Don't want the war TOO HOT, or TOO COLD).

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:25 | 5952476 KnuckleDragger-X
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Only if we provide really big, nasty weapons and then walk away. Let Darwin take its course and improve the gene pool.....

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:31 | 5952508 remain calm
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US troops headed to CB to pick up useless barberic relic so they can sell it to the Chinese. Totally fucking perverted world, you can't dream up this level of psychopathology.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:37 | 5952534 Chief KnocAHoma
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Who told those fucking Chinks they could have the day off at the factory where they make walmart shit?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:52 | 5952592 Save_America1st
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I wonder how many tonnes of gold Yemen is going to be "liberated" of before this is over with.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:30 | 5952722 jbvtme
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how are the beaches in yemen?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:06 | 5952878 Socratic Dog
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Fucking awesome, if you like your terrain rugged and dry.  Fringing coral reefs.  Great diving/snorkelling, warm water, oases, huge unpopulated stretches of pristine white-sand beach.  No surf, unfortunately.

Yemen itself is a spectacular country, desert mountains, stark beauty.  Pre-christian era skyscrapers, built from unmortared stone.   People are hard as fucking nails, and honorable.  Not too many Walmarts over there.  Saudis are making a bad mistake, fighting them.  To me it's the Afghanistan of the peninsula.  Graveyard of empires.

To those who think we should wall it off and let natural selection take its course, or some shit like that, I refer you to Orlov's article that appeared on the Hedge a few days ago.  It's worth reflecting on.  This will likely end with the USSA walled off and natural selection taking its course within. It won't be pretty, you might wish you were in Yemen.  The empire has turned on its own.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/03/license-to-kill.html

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:36 | 5953005 SofaPapa
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At this point, the "US" is now the worst label any government can possibly have attached to it.  People around the world are awake now to the fact that the US is involved in just about every major conflict active on the planet.  Surprise, surprise... people (other than the oligarchs) are getting a little pissed off.  The Saudis are known to be attached to the US at the hip.  Hadi is also associated with the US.  The Saudis can send in all the weapons they want.  The battle for hearts and minds is becoming more and more solidified by the day, and the US is losing.  Given the distance from US shores, it's about time!  There's not enough lipstick for Hollywood to put on this pig.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:40 | 5953241 knukles
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Which US armed rebels?
They're all US armed rebels.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:49 | 5953269 DutchR
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They are Us

Are we Them

Being human was never this complicated when i grew up

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:01 | 5953316 macholatte
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Does the Soros Open Society have its finger prints on Yemen as well?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:41 | 5953453 negative rates
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Lets just bomb the central bank and clean the mess up later, a shorty twin tower event.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 18:57 | 5953864 whotookmyalias
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This new world order the progressives push so hard is really working out well.  

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 02:16 | 5954825 BellyBrain
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*Allegedly Iranian-backed (but actually US/CIA/Mossad backed) Houthi rebels are now in control of the central Crater district

(Fixed that for you)

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 02:20 | 5954829 Lore
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Wonder if the Chinese went in there to take delivery of the gold themselves, rather than wait for it to be melted, re-poured, re-numbered and re-sold to them...?  There is historical precedent, yes?  Considering the urgency demonstrated by all involved, one wonders if the Saudis feel somewhat vulnerable.  You don't see an American president holding hands and kissing Saudi royals anymore...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:12 | 5953340 balolalo
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World War 3 Update
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Active participants:


- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Ukraine
- Syria
- Lybia
- Egypt
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Sudan
- Nigeria
- Saudi Arabia
- Yemen
- Oman
- Iran
- Qatar
- U.A.E.
- Russia
- United States
- Pakistan
- Palestine / Israel
- NATO

- And now CHINA !

Umm... when do we call it a world war?   

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:14 | 5953357 mt paul
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the war on drugs...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 18:27 | 5953795 Thirst Mutilator
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- Palestine / Israel

 

I see what you did there...

 

But the answer to your question = As soon as the GERMANS bomb Pearl Harbor!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 18:57 | 5953865 whotookmyalias
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Everyone knows it's not a true world war until the French surrender to the Germans.  You must be a troll.  

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 01:32 | 5954772 Bahrainiac
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That was officially the best reply of all time!  You made my morning.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 22:58 | 5954426 ersatz007
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This isn't a war...these are focused military engagements. /s

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 00:26 | 5954646 ThirteenthFloor
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No these r US mafia-cia gold raids. Tax payer funded to boot. Proud to be 'Mercian ?

Time to clean house at home.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 00:58 | 5954705 Kobe Beef
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When do we call it a World War?

When you see reports in the NY Times of 6 million at risk. Not before then.

Sat, 04/04/2015 - 14:33 | 5958992 Citium
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We got ourselves a full on shit show!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 21:50 | 5954264 Antifaschistische
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$400 million?

It's just fiat....set it on fire, and reprint it later.

Sat, 04/04/2015 - 14:47 | 5959020 Citium
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That is akin to Krugmans broken window theory. It's broken money, we just gotta reprint it!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:00 | 5954003 richiebaby
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i wish it read

 

Armed Rebels Set Sights On US Central Bank
Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:38 | 5953017 Jack Burton
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Excellent article by Orlov. I doubt his level of analysis woill penetrate too deeply into the American skull. Thought is not this nation's long suit.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:44 | 5953466 mkkby
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Is there a more evil empire than saudi arabia?  I'm hoping ISIS, al quaeda and houthis invade saudi arabia and behead the king and all those shitty little princes.  Then burn down each and every wahabi "school".  The world will be a much better place afterwards.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:51 | 5953503 HowdyDoody
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Saudi is not an empire. Whatever it is, it is enabled by the US. As for evil - beheading versus shredding by 30 mm anti-tank canon shell? Beheading is a lot less messy.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 11:19 | 5955891 WOAR
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Beheading is also much less effective.

Now, if you wanted to start killing loads and loads of people indiscrimanately, I hear you might still get some Zyklon B from Johnson and Johnson. 

Genocide efficiently, today!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 23:23 | 5954495 DaveyJones
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Orlov is one of my favorites

Citizens of the US so desperately need to listen

to outsiders looking in

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:16 | 5953568 Augustus
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World has many wonderful places and people.

Then the fanatical death wish Muzzies show up to destroy the evidence of the past and the people of the present.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:06 | 5954018 usednabused
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I think that rather than muzzies showing up to destroy everything it was the zionists, and then they blame it on the muzzies. You are a zionist aren't you? Or just a regular POS?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:46 | 5954134 Augustus
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Neither Zionists or other Jewish people have encouraged the death wish muzzies.  They have been destroying civilization 1500 years.  At least for the last 1000 years they have been fighting among themselves.  Has nothing to do with any Zionism problem.

I guess you turned muzzie when you found that they would bless your membership in NAMBLA.  And you can also enjoy the nine year old girls with the goats as a bonus.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 21:18 | 5954202 usednabused
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You didn't answer my question, are you a zionist or aren't you?

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 06:27 | 5955028 Augustus
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I've never given Zionism much thought.

I'm just pro-prosperity and pro-life and a supporter of freedom of religion.

 

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 00:23 | 5954632 ILLILLILLI
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The Zios have been destroying the world far long than that...they're a fucking persistent infection.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:18 | 5953574 thecrud
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No surf, JFAC Smoke it.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 21:14 | 5954190 fencejumper
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"Pre-christian era skyscrapers, built from unmortared stone."

 

Those buildings are actually made from mud! Do a search: adobe buildings in yemen. Fantastic!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 21:32 | 5954234 Socratic Dog
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Nope, the ones I was in were stone.  Not to say there ain't no adobe, but I know stone when I bash my head against it.  Lots of very low doorways.  For defence, I guess, much easier to take a head off when it's ducked down to get through a 4-foot high doorway.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 21:47 | 5954259 fencejumper
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Are you sure those weren't simply stone lintels over the doorways? Yemen is famous for their multi-story adobe structures, mostly homes. Please check it out online when you have time, SD. Cheers.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 01:21 | 5954747 August
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Arabia felix, baby.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:54 | 5952595 Gazooks
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create chaos, '..a disaster.. wall it off and let them duke it out.' 

 

USSA foreign proxy policy over an iradiated, smouldering world

 


Fri, 04/03/2015 - 11:43 | 5955977 WOAR
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That's the plan.

Well...

What are you gonna do about it, Whitey? You just gonna stand there?

Of course, any group that makes a strong political statement of any kind, without any "Erm...uh...folks...ah..." thrown in, will immediately be treated like those guys were...

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 01:15 | 5954736 Ward no. 6
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racist fucker

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:36 | 5952526 philosophers bone
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Get the Canadiens involved. 

I'm talking about the Habs.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:30 | 5952725 Money Boo Boo
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saw George Laraque the other day, he looks to be weighing in at a cool 340 lbs, he'd get winded fighting my little sister at this point. 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:07 | 5952888 Global Hunter
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On the other end of the spectrum little Mats Naslund must be up around 165lbs now that he's an old man.  

(OT I have a personalized autographed pic of Mats framed on my wall from when I was a kid, I idolized him because I was on the small side too).

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:12 | 5953158 unrulian
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Haha laughing at the Habs talk on ZH i would have never guessed. Grew up watching them Satuday nights on CBC with my dad (or the french channel) I Loved Lafleur although i just caught the end of his career, bet he can still go to a mtl bar with that hair and pick up some french chicks 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:18 | 5953372 mvsjcl
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With me it was watching Jean Béliveau, Yvan Cournoyer and Serge Savard in Laval. I just missed the Rocket era.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:15 | 5953163 oudinot
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Naslund, scored around a point a game, great player.

Borje Salming paved the way for him; Borje was a Swedish Leaf and the Leafs are better than the Canadiens.

Right?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:59 | 5953521 Global Hunter
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thumbs up for the reference but hell no!  Salming was finishing up when I was a kid, looked like was sucking on a lemmon but he was respected, even Don Cherry respected him.

Sat, 04/04/2015 - 17:31 | 5953564 oudinot
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I don't know if you knew this but Salming had a big cocaine problem for a number of years while he was playing for the Leafs.

Shit, if I was playing for the Leafs, then or now,  I would be addicted to something too!

I and my two boys , father in law are big fans but they are sorry fuckling team since 1967 with a brief respite when Dougie Gilmour took them to the semis in 1993.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:51 | 5952823 gladih8r
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There is always opportunity in chaos.  And by chaos, I mean the middle-east, and by opportunity I mean for ISIS and Al Qaeda. 

Whether by design or colossal incompetence, the perpetual meddling in the middle east is feeding the beast like never before. 

Congrats to whoever is behind it.  It's a flawless execution of a plan to take what was (very slowly) becoming a relatively stable, civilized part of the world and turning it into a pile of garbage.

 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:49 | 5953056 Deathrips
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Destroy the home and family, recruit the kids......

 

Thats what African warlords do right?

 

RIPS

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:29 | 5954084 homme
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Sounds a lot like the American entertainment industry.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:46 | 5954130 flapdoodle
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You can directly thank Oded Yinon for the specific tactics of creating chaos amongst Israel's nearest neighbours, although the concept of "divide and conquer" is as old as man himself, and the British Empire were masters at keeping the locals at each others throats so the Crown could loot to heart's content.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:23 | 5952473 PGR88
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AND keep them out of the United States.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:25 | 5952477 Ignatius
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AND who do you think sends them?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:35 | 5953634 e_goldstein
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 We must arm them over there, so we can fight them over there.

or somthun

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:44 | 5952798 Kirk2NCC1701
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"And there will be theater  and rumors of theater, but that will not be the End."  For the Deception must continue. 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:01 | 5952374 Pheonyte
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"Crater" district? That's an ill-fated name if ever there was one.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:02 | 5952377 max2205
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Some great Yemen house deals on Zillow right now.  Get em while they are burning...I mean Hot.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:00 | 5952620 freewolf7
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Flip This Crater. Great views. Close to schools. Motivated seller.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:16 | 5953565 Never One Roach
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Needs some loving care but in the right hands it's an ideal fixer-upper!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:07 | 5952396 Crash Overide
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The only war we should be a part of right now:

 

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

 

Does anyone even believe in that stuff anymore?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:11 | 5952415 new game
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mic, dod, fucksticks killing brown people over oil rich land.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:06 | 5952644 Four chan
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i beleve there are too many people and the subhumans need to go.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:10 | 5952904 Socratic Dog
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Careful you don't get what you wish for.  To most of the world, the USSA is the subhumans.

Gay marriage anyone?  Industrial-scale abortion?  60% obesity rates?  Childhood diabetes?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:59 | 5953522 Money Boo Boo
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you forgot severe retardation disguised as jingoistic hubris and narcisissm

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:16 | 5953129 Sorry_about_Dresden
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We agree Four chan and thanks for volunteering for our subhuman euthanasia program!

We just need your address to complete the process!

Please provide an address where we can service your request.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:27 | 5953204 wet_nurse
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"Sorry_about_Dresden" is this a referrence to the band or just that whole Dresden thing? I did give you an upvote

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:46 | 5953259 Sorry_about_Dresden
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I saw the band's flyer stapled to a telephone pole, probably in the late 1990's, and the name stuck with me 'cause I am a huge history buff. 

I loved the name and use it for my avatar.

I had no idea the band was still around?

I suppose I should google that?

You are the first to make the connection, that I was aware of, with the band.

I never saw the band but, I boosted the name.

 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:25 | 5953602 wet_nurse
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I would be shocked if they were still togehter. They were just a small time band that my buddies and I liked....in the late 90's. 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 19:29 | 5953923 Sorry_about_Dresden
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I will give it a listen when I get a chance. I did see links on YouTube!

With a name like that they have to be great!

I am sure the band would be surprised to be memorialized here on zh?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:58 | 5953306 Benjamin123
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No such a program exists. All suggestions for genocidal maniacs to commit suicide are and have always been silly. It does not work like that. How can anyone suggest anyone else to commit suicide and expect to be taken seriously?

If genocide offends or scare you, say so plainly. Whats up with the ridiculous idea of suggesting anyone to kill themselves, is that what, a self defense tactic? Somones threating to kill you and suicide suggestions will keep them at bay?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:51 | 5953499 Realname
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1600 Pennsylvania Ave and the Capitol, in general (while Congress and the SCOTUS are in session).

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:27 | 5953463 tony wilson and...
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fourchan kill yourself then

 why not try suicide by cop.

 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:20 | 5952452 ShrNfr
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Pieces in our times.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:42 | 5952787 SDShack
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Yemen, the shining example of "success" that the 0zer0 group brags about.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:52 | 5952830 caconhma
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Is there any chance Obama will get a second Nobel Peace Prize for Yemen and the third one for Syria after having his 1st Nobel Prize in advance for this Afghanistan successes.

 

It is interesting that the "democratic" media is quiet about the Benghazi attack on US Embassy. The answer is very simple: US was running a secret torture-prison inside the US Embassy and Libyan fighters came to liberate them.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:20 | 5953176 oudinot
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I think not, the real secret was in  Benghazi the American embassy was taken the arms left over from the Libyan 'crisis' to arm 'moderate' anti-Assad forces in southern Sryia  which were what we call ISIS, or ISIL:  that's the real problem with Benghazi.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:11 | 5953352 mt paul
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2 questions

 

how much gold does Yemen own

where is/was this gold stored..

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:46 | 5953478 BeaverCream
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My thoughts as well, has it been liberated yet?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:25 | 5953392 sgt_doom
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Once again, an effing frigging American administration (this time Obama) is supporting the Sunnis and by extension, al Qaeda, in Yemen against the Shi'a.

Historically, this always leads to a 9/11 style event!

Just as, whether on purpose or inadvertently, the US gov't is supporting al Qaeda in Syria also!

Well, at least the FBI, awhile back, searched Robin Raphel's home for suspicions of espionage.

Pretty sure she was one of those responsible for the DIA's director (back then), Gen. Patrick Hughes, firing their intrepid intel analyst, Julie Sirrs, who was attempting to warn America of an impending terrorist attack on US soil (2000).

And then 9/11/01 occurred. . .

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:48 | 5953481 tony wilson and...
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Sunnis and by extension, al Qaeda, in Yemen against the Shi'a.

Historically, this always leads to a 9/11 style event!

 

i say you are talking shite

 

 

9/11-Israeli Job? Means,Motive,Opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tUV0cnyv8

 

 

Christopher Bollyn 2015 “Solving 911 Ends the War”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP_Ezjm7xDg

 
Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:16 | 5954045 usednabused
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Why of course he is talking Shite. Don't all good Zio's pin the tail on the muzzies? After all they were born deceivers and theives.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 06:35 | 5955037 Augustus
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The Muzzie mullahs actually endorse lying to the infidels.  All explained, condoned, and promoted.  A method of infiltration to be used until there is an opportunity to kill.  Kill just the men though.  Women and children are expected to become slaves.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:27 | 5953403 kchrisc
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CIA Hope & CIA Change

The banksters need to repay us.

 

"Is it real, or is it Zion?"

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 18:01 | 5953721 Dugald
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Chinese Troops arrive,

seems like a Chinese vessel evacuated some Chinese nationals....And you pricks make it an invasion,

you really are some kind of shit! You are as bad as MSM.....

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 06:39 | 5955042 Augustus
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Same form of misinformation related to "US armed Rebels."

Rebels were not given any arms by the US.  They gained control of the military material by fighting and capturing it.  But why miss an opportunity for distortion of US action?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 19:33 | 5953932 claytonmoore50
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This situation is probably a U.S. ploy to bait the Iranians in to a response that will "Justify" a U.S. attack on Iran.

The world has become a giant chess game to the megolomaniacs in the Military/Security Industrial complex and the Corporatocracy that is now running the world

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 22:03 | 5954293 thinkmoretalkless
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He got it half right

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 00:21 | 5954628 ThirteenthFloor
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Another US mafia-cia gold raid. Proud to be an 'Mercian (sic)

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:57 | 5952351 mtndds
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Transitory, BULLISH!!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:12 | 5952419 DonutBoy
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Very bullish - we're arming both sides

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:14 | 5952430 new game
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one way or another we got a mic dick in a hole...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:29 | 5952493 imapopulistnow
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So our side is bound to win...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:54 | 5953292 topshelfstuff
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Refreshing Memory often revealing...this is from Jan 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JIHmnd6XY

YEMEN: Connect the Dots...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:57 | 5952352 Truther
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"We Angered Some Folks"

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:21 | 5952456 videinfra
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Then we tortured them

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:21 | 5952458 videinfra
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Then we tortured them

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:22 | 5952464 videinfra
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sorry for the double, lagged

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:19 | 5952684 Billy the Poet
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That's OK. We tortured them more than once.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:55 | 5953295 DutchR
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Sorry,  bureaucracy

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:59 | 5952359 crash commando
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Age of Reason sent a memo to the Middle East, but they never read it.  "It was posted in the bathroom, guys, don't tell me you didn't read it!!!"

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:00 | 5952367 czarangelus
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Maybe they're tired of decades of being bombed, occupied, and under the thumb of US-backed dictators, you ignorant honkey.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:07 | 5952398 crash commando
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Multiple Religious Fundamentalist Military Groups converge to cluster fuck Yemen and it's the West's Fault, you tenured professor?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:16 | 5952429 czarangelus
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Yeah, darn those people who actually study shit and come to researched conclusions, instead of issuing forth a geyser of jingoistic effluvient of the same kind crammed into idiot heads by television, radio, public schools, and prevailing bigotry. If you knew anything about the history of Yemen, which you don't know and will refuse to learn, you'd know that the West is elbows deep in the decades of State oppression of the Houthis that led quite logically to this rebellion.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:28 | 5952489 LasVegasDave
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you said that just like Al Sharpcoon

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:25 | 5952706 Billy the Poet
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Find that Muslim under your bed yet?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 20:19 | 5954057 usednabused
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I'll lay odds he didn't, but I'd also bet he found a foul smelling Zio in it not under it.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:32 | 5952507 Global Hunter
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also if you go to a market in a Houthi town you will probably be able to find any kind of gun you want for sale, they are very open about it.  They don't need a second ammendment they just live it and when they were getting pushed around and bombed they fought back.

How can I not like them (or any true Patriotic American not respect them)?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:01 | 5952624 franciscopendergrass
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+100

I forgot if this country was founded on revolution. /sarc

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:47 | 5952570 crash commando
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Religious Fundamentalism

"It's the West's Fault, Honky!"

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:29 | 5952716 Billy the Poet
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The US and its allies funded the mujaheddin in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda in Libya, ISIS is Syria and Hamas in the West Bank. So of course it's not the West's fault. How could it be?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 14:58 | 5953104 IdiotsOutWalkin...
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It's the fault of Fundamentalist Christians in the USSA.

They love being washed in the blood. There's a whole bunch of them so they need a pretty big bloodbath for washing and immersion. When they drink blood in their ritualized cannibalism ceremonies or "communion" (sick f*cktards), it causes the remission of their sins.

Contemplate the USSA flag sitting on their altars along with their crosses. No man can serve two masters, according to their prophet, but still, they manage to murder millions of brown people for oil, while their prophet says "love one another."

Amazing delusions and imaginary playmates for all to revere. Always enjoy the Easter egg roll on the church lawn. Two imaginary beings vying for attention, one real, the other not.

Happy Easter!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:34 | 5953211 Billy the Poet
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I like most religious folk even though I'm an atheist. And I sure as hell would like to see them stand up against the homo lobby which has apparently taken control of America at all levels. Something odd about that. In any case, all of us who believe that individuals have a right to chose with whom they interact would be well served if the religious folks (and Muslims are on your side in this, Christians) would use their power to demand an end to this strange, dare I say "queer," new form of tyranny.

To the gay crowd (the original tea baggers!) I'd just like to say I have no problem with what you do as long as you don't demand that I or anyone else celebrate your personal choices.  The world is a diverse place.  We're here, we don't care if you're queer but don't want you to shove it in our faces, get used to it.

Now what's all this about Chinese troops in Yemen?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:41 | 5953246 TheGreatRecovery
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Fundamentalist JUDEOchristians, including Judaists, Catholics, and Protestants.

Fundamentalist SP500-CEO JUDEOchristians, including military, military contractors, press, television, and Hollywood, banksters, big agriculture, big everything.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 06:48 | 5955054 Augustus
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Lots of brown people murder each other for oil.

When they control that oil they sell it to people of any color who will pay them for it.

Your imaginary delusions of enjoying the mullah's blessings for your pedophilia have screwed up your values of life.

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 09:20 | 5955437 Billy the Poet
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Your belief that you know what others should value is a delusion. It must break your heart to know that there are seven billion people inhabiting the face of the Earth who don't live by your rules. How sad for you.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:29 | 5952453 farflungstar
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Funny that you call this person a tenured professor when you apparently don't know very much about the subject yourself.

There are fourth myths about Yemen that need to be sorted out:

1. The first myth is that this war represents yet a new front on a massive regional Sunni-Shiite struggle.

2. The second myth is that the Houthis represent the cutting edge of Iranian imperialism in Arabia -- as trumpeted by the Saudis.

3. The third myth is that Saudi Arabia is fighting to "preserve stability in the Arabian Peninsula.

4. The fourth myth is that the U.S. has support in Yemen.

One of the richest family-owned countries in the world, along with her Seven Oily Dwarves, share a peninsula with one of the world's poorest. And they are ganging up on Yemen to show how they feel about any sort of democratic movements in their neighborhood.  What a bunch of cunts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41426.htm

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:30 | 5952502 LasVegasDave
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the fifth myth is that americans actually care if a bunch of sand niggers kill each other.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:36 | 5952533 farflungstar
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LOL

awesome

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:31 | 5952729 Billy the Poet
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Yes, the pit of fire will be quite awesome.

 

"Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me."

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:45 | 5952569 czarangelus
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You sure seem to care enough to always be over there pulling shit.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:42 | 5952721 BigJim
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'TelAvivDave' only gets upset if some of those 'sand niggers' manage to kill some zionists.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:52 | 5953282 Benjamin123
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His point stands nevertheless. How many zerohedgers routinely call for sandniggers to kill each other as long as their precious taxes are not used?

Or call for them to be nuked, as a good use of their precious?

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:27 | 5953406 ebear
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Haters gotta hate.  

No different in here than it is out there.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:55 | 5953513 tony wilson and...
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benjaminny and las vega dave which one of you rabbis is the cock and which one is the rancid talmoodick kosher  hole

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:25 | 5953197 oudinot
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Nice language you fucking prick.

You are a moron.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:22 | 5953388 mt paul
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if you're not in the 1%......

 

 

we're all niggers 

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:30 | 5953418 ebear
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"we're all niggers "

Try that in South-Central and see how far you get...heh.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:24 | 5953577 oudinot
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yeah he is a big talker on the anonymous thread; I bet he is a real humble thing around real men.

What a pussy!

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 09:23 | 5955453 Billy the Poet
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So what's your name? Tell us or you're a pussy!

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 17:34 | 5953628 tony wilson and...
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oudinot

i gave you an up tick cos i pity the tavistock pscycho trauma of your talmoo dick circumscision  as a child

bless your corrupted satanick soul

moses please forgive my bad spelling

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 06:53 | 5955064 Augustus
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And they are ganging up on Yemen to show how they feel about any sort of democratic movements in their neighborhood.  

 

If you state that there is some muzzie approval of democratic and representative government then you are a demonstrated idiot.  It is not possible under Sharia law.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:12 | 5952417 Herd Redirectio...
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"Age of Reason" always reminds me of the scene from "Baron Munchausen's"!  Cannons, explosions, siege, people dying...

Aaah, medieval history.  So much like modern history.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:49 | 5953273 Benjamin123
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Ordinary people only want their sandwich and do not give a fuck about such arcane details. If the TV does not command them to get angry, they wont.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:59 | 5953519 tony wilson and...
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benjamin 123 369 666

it states on my screen that you have masturbated 2 times today without an erection

it states that you are a caanaanite yahudi who always upticks his owned zionist write hate.

not cool to wank pound your pudding meat while your stiffy is flaccid

kidnap a goy child maybe that will put some lead in your pencil old man

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:59 | 5952360 goldhedge
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Hold on tight.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 11:59 | 5952361 LawsofPhysics
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Wait what...?  Chinese troops?  Let's see the video...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:08 | 5952394 desirdavenir
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maybe my memory is failing me, but this is the first time ever I hear of chinese troops deployed outside of Asia, and even that was a long time ago...

edit: after checking, there were some deployments in Africa under the UN banner. But still...

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 12:32 | 5952510 imapopulistnow
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Appears they only went in to resuce Chinese nationals.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 13:58 | 5952848 atomp
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That's how it starts.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 15:46 | 5953258 Benjamin123
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All armies absoultely adore rescuing their nations civilians overseas but dont give a fuck if they get mowed down inside their own borders. All for show.

If people were serious about wanting to protect life they would devote 5% of the worlds GDP towards finding a cure for cancer and heart disease. I mean thats what will eventually kill you, no?

In Venezuela Chavez military made a huge show when it rescued tens of thousands of a katrina-style flood victims a decade ago. Heroes they said, yet they did nothing about the 300.000 that were gunned down later.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 16:54 | 5953509 mkkby
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There's already a cure for cancer and heart disease.  Just stop eating carbs.  No doctor will tell you that because they like hoovering up 19% of GDP with their bullshit remedies that leave you in ruins.

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