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ISIS Is Just Miles Away From Assad's Presidential Palace In Damascus
Don’t look now but ISIS fighters are just a few short miles away from Bashar al-Assad’s Presidential Palace in Syria after taking control of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus where some 18,000 are trapped in what the UN calls a “beyond inhumane” situation. The camp, which has been under siege by the Assad regime for years came under attack by ISIS earlier this month who reports indicate may be working alongside al-Qaeda’s Syrian arm al-Nusra in what would be a break with recent precedent. Some Palestinian factions — who, alongside the Free Syria Army are battling ISIS for control of the camp — have reportedly agreed to acquiesce to an operation by the Assad regime which has offered to provide arms to the Palestinians if it means helping them expel ISIS from the area, although, as the BBC reports, the main Palestinian militia fighting ISIS, Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis (who pledge allegiance to Hamas and are also battling al-Nusra in Yarmouk) have agreed to no such thing. Meanwhile, the Assad government is allegedly using “indiscriminate” barrel bombing in an effort that’s ostensibly designed to weaken ISIS forces.
So summing that up, ISIS, possibly in conjunction with al-Qaeda, have taken control of a strategic refugee camp in Damascus, which was previously under siege by Assad and previously controlled by Hamas-linked militiamen who are not keen on cooperating with Assad, who is offering to arm the Palestinians while simultaneously bombing everyone. As Al Jazeera notes, this is a “siege within a siege”:
For the last remaining Palestinian residents of Yarmouk outside Damascus, this week’s takeover by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is a “siege within a siege.”
For almost two years, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been suffocating rebel-held Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee settlement turned residential neighborhood just 10 minutes from the heart of Damascus.
Water has been cut off, available only when aid groups sneak it in, and medical supplies and food are scarce. Yarmouk, once known as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora, has shrunk from a prewar population of 180,000 to just 18,000, with about 200 people starving to death since the regime blockade began in 2013, the United Nations says.
The camp’s plight worsened on April 1, when ISIL fighters surged into Yarmouk from their nearby stronghold of Hajr al-Aswad and swiftly overpowered its Palestinian defenders, Aknaf Beit Al-Maqdis, a Hamas-aligned militia. As of Thursday, ISIL had taken over 70 percent of the camp, assisted, sources said, by elements of Jabhat Al-Nusra (the Nusra Front) — Al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria and, normally, ISIL’s chief rival.
About 2,000 people managed to escape since ISIL infiltrated, but the rest "are now trapped in a siege within a siege,” said Salim Salamah, a Yarmouk native who left in 2012 and now heads the Palestinian League for Human Rights in Syria from Sweden.
Sources on the ground describe a terrifying scene. Farouq al-Rifai, an activist from Yarmouk who said he spoke from an "adjacent neighborhood" but is in contact with many in the camp, said that pitched street battles have broken out and that sniper fire from roofs has killed fighters and civilians alike. The last remaining relief workers in the camp have been forced to flee after several were killed and others were kidnapped by ISIL.
Meanwhile, regime warplanes add to the chaos by dropping barrel bombs “all over the camp — north, south, east and west,” Salamah said. People are running out of food, but “they can’t leave their houses to find it because they don’t know where clashes on the ground will take place.”
Though the situation on the ground is murky, with conflicting reports that Palestinian factions in the camp have conspired with the invasion, the broad consensus is that Yarmouk has fallen casualty to a turf war between ISIL and an array of disjointed rebel factions active in the area.
BBC has more on the “coalition” between the Assad regime and Yarmouk’s Palestinian factions:
It is unclear whether all Palestinian factions in the camp have agreed to Syrian government intervention.
Anti-government Palestinian militiamen and some Free Syrian Army fighters have been leading the fight against IS.
"The operation will be conducted in cooperation between the Palestinian groups in Syria and the Syrian government through a joint operation centre," Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official Ahmed Majdalani - who is heading a Palestinian delegation in Damascus - told the BBC.
Who exactly will do what in the operation, and how the plan will work, is far from clear, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Beirut.
The Aknaf, the main Palestinian force fighting the militants, was not involved in the agreement - it has been cooperating with Syrian rebels battling both government forces and Islamic State, our correspondent reports.
In the midst of it all, ISIS is doing what ISIS does: executing prisoners and posing Twitter pictures in various places around their newly-captured territory. Here’s The Independent:
Reports emerged yesterday of Isis militants beheading captives after taking over a large proportion of the camp. Mr Abdurrahman said two men were beheaded after the clashes broke out on Wednesday and five others were shot dead by militants.
He said the beheaded men appeared to have been aged between 25 and 35, but he did not know the ages of the other men. These reports could not be independently confirmed.
#Syria: #IS #Damascus Province has released photos of its fighters posing in various locations in #Yarmouk. pic.twitter.com/eytPDsbUBz
— Charlie Winter (@charliewinter) April 7, 2015
Needless to say, this represents an absolutely horrific situation for the nearly 20,000 civilians that are trapped in the warzone, stuck between ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Assad who are all, in one way or another fighting each other. Perhaps UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon put it best when called the camp “the deepest circle of hell.”
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The world is also now waking up to the very real possibility that ISIS may move to topple the Assad regime and take control of Damascus, which we imagine would, in short order, be paraded out as the reason why a Syrian invasion has moved from the realm of the “possible,” to the “probable,” to the “necessary” and if there’s anything that would rally public support around such a move it’s the notion that the group which has been portrayed in the media as the greatest threat to human decency since the Third Reich has now gone from controlling a state they made up to an actual state which borders other, Western-friendly actual states in the region. And once the black flag-waving bogeymen (who at that juncture may begin to realize that they were nothing more than an unfortunate side-effect of failed foreign policy and had been shuffled around like pawns on a chessboard only to be promptly removed from the game once they served their purpose) are driven from the capital by some farce of a “coalition,” they’ll be replaced with someone more sensible who will likely be far less Putin-friendly than his predecessor and who will undoubtedly understand the utility of piping Qatari natural gas underneath his country all the way to end customers in Europe and it will be at exactly that point that we will say again that "conspiracy theory" has become "conspiracy fact," right down to the last detail.
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I really don't see the problem here
Thank Allah, we have a Muslim Pressyden and Peas Prize Winner,
otherwise, all hell might be breaking out in the Middle East.
And we're pumpin oil in between the challenges.
And now to the video tape to review the play. Team ISISIL or whatever they're called today, established, coached and funded by the Western Powers, is now on the cusp of wining the Big One for the Little Gipper, meaning that as soon as Assad is overthrown by the West's creation, they'll become the New Enemy, No Longer Being Moderate. Got it? Good and now for the next round in the Masters of the Universe Pipeline Extravaganza .....
Create, train, arm, and finance ISIS/AQ/al Nusra.
R2P.
Presto, its yours.
correction: I-CIA-SIS
and Al-CIA-da
Same shit they've pulled in nearly every other MENA country so far. It's all bullshit. All a scam. A M.I.C. coupe-de-tat against the entire fucking planet pretty much.
God I hope so, because otherwise it means the pentagram is just about fucking useless. How long have they been bombing ISIS? Six months? Now they don't even the ability to wage an effective air campaign? No wonder they're polishing up the ICBMs and moving back into Cheyenne. It's the only thing they have that works at this point.
They figured out how to dial the Stargate and send Snake Plissken in there with a nuke.
If Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) in bed with ISIS again then Barry should ask for our weapons back. Oh wait... this is Syria...
I'm all mixed up. I can't remember which ones are the good terrorists anymore.
That brunette at start of vid is sick hot. Wah-wah-wee-wah very nice !
This reminds me of that massacre in a Lebanese refugee camp in 1982, when the Israeli occupying forces (led by Ariel Sharon!) looked the other way and thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered by right wing Maronite groups led by Bashir Gemayel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
Does it remind you of any other massacre or just that one?
Don't over think it.
The good terrorists are the ones which are totally devastating the entire ME but don't attack Israel.
The bad terrorists are the ones which are totally devastating the entire ME but do attack Israel.
This. Very well put.
In both cases, the Palestinians are the ones who will bear the brunt of the misery as well. It shouldn't be difficult to understand why so many people in the world show a measure of solidarity with the Palestinian's plight, but to some, this apparently is very difficult to understand.
If you look carefully at the flags you can see the maker's logo - "Yalon False Flag Enterprises. Made in Israel."
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Dozens-of-Islamic-State-flags-found-in-...
Our globalist dual citizen ZioCon elite rulers are turning the world into bloody chaos...because that is their intent.
Nazareth is 85% arab. You actually think any of these bozos are working for israel you are a false flag. isreal is just a bee poker, keep it going and less to shoot later. But yoiu are blind.
Nazareth is 85% arab. You actually think any of these bozos are working for israel you are a false flag. isreal is just a bee poker, keep it going and less to shoot later. But yoiu are blind.
Dafuq? Nazareth is a palestinian city.
I have such admirable respect for the Palestinians. The Egyptians try to kill them off, the Syrians, the Saudis, even those pesky evil joows, but in it all they still manage to double and quadruple their population with a 'just in time' inventory of refugees - and paradable victims for camera time...
Basically the formula is : You can have either PEACE or PEOPLE in the middle east but you can only have one..
Its because reporters and human rights activists dont have the balls to report from Sudan or Tijuana. Its easy to fight for human rights and harass israeli soldiers whom are far less likely to shoot arab loving euro trash faketivists than drugged Congolese militiamen. Its becoming a rite of passage for Scandinavian teenagers to take as many selfies as possible with dark skinned opressed peoples as they can find, yell at the opressors and chill at the beach later. Though it doesnt always work like that as Rachel Corey learned.
So the media ends up saturated with Israel-Palestine stories. Its the chepest, safest way to be a fake human rights activist.
Element, alternative simplification:
The good terrorists are the ones which are totally devastating the entire ME for the purpose of having a pipeline built to european customers, for €€€.
The bad terrorists are the ones which are totally devastating the entire ME so that Russian NatGas continues to get €€€.
oh, and "Fuck the EU". Never forget to "fuck the EU". It must mean something, I guess
Is this really the essence of the conflict according to you ?
Personnaly I doubt it. It smacks of a desire from your side to further involve the EU in the ME conflicts.
I will lay down a few reasonable conditions :
End of the petrodollar.
Removal of all US troops from European soil.
One-state solution for Israel/Palestine.
the essence of this conflict? in a short blog comment? no way. as ZH showed with tables, this conflict has something like 17 fronts in the ME alone
I think I did write "alternative... simplification". further, why does it smack of a "desire from my side..."?
are your first and third reasonable conditions anything that would make Uncle Sam and his allies in the ME say they are reasonable?
would your second reasonable condition not mean that NATO would effectively lose it's US partner? and so give cause to have more EU military spending?
wake up. EU countries like the UK and France never really left the ME. France is still bound to Syria, the UK is still entertaining client/protection relations with various ME Kingdoms
"I think I did write "alternative... simplification". "
A simplification should contain something of the essence, yes. Not something tangential to the essence. Then it becomes a misrepresentation, not a simplification. I am not even sure what the essence of that conflict is, but it is not not what you hint at.
"further, why does it smack of a "desire from my side..."?"
That is my interpretation of your seemingly deliberate misrepresentation. ( and taking into account everything I read from you ).
"are your first and third reasonable conditions anything that would make Uncle Sam and his allies in the ME say they are reasonable?"
If they think the conditions are not reasonable, the EU should stand back as far as I am concerned.
"would your second reasonable condition not mean that NATO would effectively lose it's US partner?
NATO can be disbanded over time.
and so give cause to have more EU military spending?"
possibly
"wake up. EU countries like the UK and France never really left the ME"
Individual EU countries are not the EU. How France is still bound to Syria is unclear/unknown to me.
piratepiet, I can't follow your logic
my simplification does contain part of the essence, imo. pipelines are very important, in this mess. but if you prefer to see my point as a misrepresentation, well, suit yourself
the rest of what you wrote, I don't even know where to start
I think what you rather clearly seemed to suggest with pipelines to european customers ( namely that Europe is somehow one of the major driving forces in this conflict ) is not even part of the essence.
"I don't even know where to start"
Let's leave it at that then.
Have a good weekend.
The palis could have been assimilated 20 years ago. The people that could not defeat Israel kept the palis in the camps to provide cannon fodder. By their muz brothers,.
And the blood will not have dried before halliburton, kbr, and the the whole subcontractor gang rolls in to build that big ass pipeline towards Europe *just* to try to destabilize Russia some more by under-cutting their gas sales to Europe. There will be *some* jobs in Syria, basically guarding the pipeline and shooting any Syrian civilian that oppose it.
Sounds pretty good. Good plan everyone? Alright then. Let's do this.
The good terrorists are the dead terrorists.
I am so very worried about the safety of Senator John McCain. Please tell me he is ok. This is opposite day right?
If Mr John's safety is unknown, how about his sodomite amigo Lindsay Graham? The country needs to know.
You appear to have the same thougt as me. Lindsay Graham is obviously SO gay...
I hope John Boy is happy about all the murder and mayhem in Syria after he invested so much of our tax money in ISIS weapons and all those fancy Toyotas for his serial killer ISIS friends. Why doesn't he go over and thank them in person (again) for outsmarting the coalition forces. Again.
It's not like they would turn on him and the American taxpayers that feed them like pirañas or anything. Yet.
Taxpayers have to chose. I am about the age of McCaine but if I have to fight somebody for tax money, I want timmay mano-e-douchebag.
"How long have they been bombing ISIS?"
What part of "wag the dog" don't you understand?
They pretend to bomb ISIS.
And if Hezbollah just happens to attack ISIS, Israel sends some planes in to attack those who attack ISIS.
Wait, those bombs have parachutes, and look curiously similar to supply crates...
Can't forget the team from Tel Aviv, the ZIONISTS. They're probably the MASTERMINDS behind this production (just like in Hollywood), then they have their dumbed down minions, whether that be arabs or Americans, do the dirty work.
Exact;y, how many Americans and Jews has ISIS killed? zero?
Someone is probably preparing false-flag atrocity videos as we speak.
"The DC US was at war with ISIS: therefore the DC US had always been at war with ISIS. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."
The banksters need to repay us.
I was going to substitute Zion for Oceania, but Zion is never at war with anyone, only at plunder.
Zion is at war with anyone who isn't a vassal.
Once Syria falls ISIS will be repurposed towards Iran.
That is the reason for the acceptance of negotiations with Iran. That is the reason Russia pushing so hard to get all the spent fuel and other nuclear materials removed from Iran ASAP. Just as Russia removed the chemical weapons from Iraq, and then Syria (and voted for santions against Libya), just as Putin refused to honor a fully signed contract to sell anti air missiles to Iran and Syria - Russia makes these countries vulnerable and then sits back and watches the US/NATO/Israel destroy their "allies".
Where are all the ZH posters who over and over and over claimed Russia would never let Syria fall. Oh yes, they also said Iran would never let Syria fall.
The agreement will be accepted by the west and the the "Supreme Leader/Imam" (did I get that right?) will likely be foolish enough to sign it. Then when Russia removes the items that worry the west the inspector/spys will claim violations or WMD and ISIS will be supported as it moves to Iran. Maybe large scale bombing like Iraq but with ISIS being he ground troops.
We have seen this show before.
Interesting Stumpy but then why have Assad hold out so long and how do the Russians replace latakia?
sometimes you win sometimes you lose.
russia is losing in syria but they fought the good fight. the quesiton now is about how things proceed. i'm fairly certain it's going to be at least 5-10 years before the war on iran commences in earnest. until then more time buying like isreali bombings of their nuclear faciltiies or something liek that.
the question for isis is what happens with assad. i don't see assad getting to negotiate out. he's getting the hussein or gaddafi treatment murdered by noose or in the streets with disgrace.
do the russians get to keep their naval base---NOT A CHANCE.
do the HIZBOLLAH GET TO KEEP CONTROL OVER LEBANON. ----NOPE.
ISIS is almost certainly , if at all, more likely to invade lebanon than it is iran, just because lebnon is simply a few hours walk from damasacas it's less than 50 miles damascus to beirut. lebanon is in fact part of the syrian conflict and the question is how does the civili war against hizbollah proceed where israel is obviously invested against hizbollah.
i don't see hizbollah being allowed by the saudi leadership to just 'join' isis even if hizboolllah were willing to turn its back on iran. hizbollahs power derives from its posoition juxtaposed to u.s. israeli hegemony in the region .
that said---isis is notoriously anti-christian and the lebanese anti-hizbollah faction is christian. that seems like an outward problem but is in fact a perfect setup for the united states to keep funding isis while calling isis the enemy.
once the deals are signed for pipelines to be built through syria. russia is going to be in a world of hurt. and the ruble will most certainly stop strengthenning if not crash again. it will be years before their pipelines to the chinese are complete. and in the interim their expected profits on european energy supply will plummet along with ruble.
i dont think you appreciate the hizbollah movement. They are not mercenaries, they are not motivated by conquest. They are thoroughly entrenched and network oriented. Their islamic majority is not intolerant of other religions so long as the nationalism and defence of the Lebanese State is the priority. Hizbolla even has christian, druze and maronite politicians.
If isis were foolish enough to have a go at them they would have their ass handed to them on a plate the way israel has the last 2 times it tried an incursion.
ISIS has looser rules of engagement than the IDF, and even when fighting the IDF the Hezbo losers hide in schools and behind blue helmeted UN troops. Thats not going to deter ISIS now is it? Works fine against the IDF.
Calm,
What is the best way to completly destroy the culture, cohesion, infrastructure, family ties, education system, independence of the people - by quickly letting the leader be overrun or by facilitating a continual, long term war? The needed destruction sounds like it is well enough accomplished that the wish to speed things up to get to Iran and possibly get a pipeline moving is more pressing than continued destruction.
Maybe Russia is allowed to keep Latakia, maybe not, maybe Russia really does not care.
It aint a mystery when you know Ruskies are bought into the big Team NWo, playng the role. Putin is positioned by TPTB. Anyone who doubts is a sucker. Go GLD.
Good point, justifying a full-blown invasion. That way the pipelines can be built in a few years.
This was already on Debka file (Mossad) a few days ago. So basically everybody just copies the story, but slightly rewrites it in order to make it look unique.
http://www.debka.com/article/24521/Assad-looses-ISIS-against-Palestinian...
Full of grammar/spelling mistakes, as usual...
The big difference with the Al Jazeera article is that Debka suggests that Assad made a deal with ISIS and gave them unhindered access to this refugee camp.
"Syrian troops were actually directed by Assad to open the roads to Damascus and give the Islamists a free path to their Palestinian victims. This saved ISIS the need to detach substantial strength from other fronts for its Yarmouk operation.
ISIS is winning its cheapest victory yet as a result of a secret understanding reached by the Syrian president with the Islamists’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which evolved from their covert partnership in the oil and gas fields of eastern Syria."
No wonder they all have to have 5 kids in each family. The extra ones get shot or run over by tank treads and stuff, so you have to make sure you have a couple extra - just cause jihad is a multi-generational thing.
Not sure whether they actually crossed Obama's red line.
The Messiah will send us a Tweet,
if he deems us worthy.
soon as the assad gone then its green light to move in and get that pipeline laid to fuck putin, the plan all along, just took an extre year and a half. all good, cause it's just brown peoples over there.
The peace loving supporters of democracy and apple pie from the US and Israel decry the evil, aggresive Russians for sticking up for Assad. Now this mysterious outfit ISIS is poised to knock out Syria and Assad?
Norman Swatzkopf would be proud of these mother fuckers. They can do amazing military feats with weapons they just find laying around...and...have time for the occasional youtube video chopping atrocity @ #ibelieveanythingyeahright
If we had a Muslim prez, they'd be attacking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Dumkopf!
Pack my bags and gold and start the helicopter
Murder, theft, arson...nope, I see no problems here either.
I'd be more okay with it if our leaders would stop lying about what it is, though.
Don't call it a regime change in a foreign country, just call it what it is: colonialism via MIC.
Broiler you Dumb Ass. ISIS can do anything with direct CIA/Pentagon help!
OK, you win the inhumane game
so proud
I see the problem (government), but I don't give a fuck. It cannot be stopped. Delayed, perhaps (take it up with your demon spawn), but stopped? History says no.
Sweet Dreams.
The Fail is strong with these ones. Stupid they are. Kill each other they must.
If these fuckers ever got organized.
Right when one of these wacked factions is about to get wiped out, they trip over a 1/2 billion in arms, or a misplaced supply drop falls on their camp.
And STILL Israel has not suffered 1 attack in the midst of all this hate..
What luck...
Being smart hasn't hurt them.
So, downarrower, are you saying the Israelis are diabolical, yet dumb? (Ergo merely "lucky", or alternatively, gifted with friends in high places, the Highest places even?) Compare and contrast with the activities of the Five Armies of the Pedophile Prophet. The FAotPP for short, Piss Be Upon Them.
Apoligies for misleading you to believe this was an attack on your post.
Simply stating facts and pointing out coincidences, just as you did with this post..
Except I didn't DV you.
Being smart hasn't hurt them.
They're NOT smart, clever maybe. But they sure as hell are duplicitous, evil, muthafukas that's for sure . . . .
Assad actually protected the Christians in Syria. We've already seen what happens to them when Isis comes in.
Since Barry's been baptized and all, you'd think he'd be more concerned.
There is, of course evidence of his "baptism" on his birth certificate, right? College transcripts? High School? HAM radio license? Bueller?
That is a Strategy of Tension in play when your proxies kill Christians, but actually we have seen this for a number of years in the Middle East.
Kill Christians and watch the US Protestants and Catholics get upset and add to the war rhetoric and call for strong military and military action.
Plays right into Neocon hands.
ISIS for Nobel Peace Prize is next I guess....
Obama has practically allied with Isis to remove Assad.
Mmm, actually 95% of the weapons being used in Syria were made in Russia and China. And most of the rest in places like eastern Europe, Packistan, SA, and NK. I realize that may come as a shock to the rabidly pro-Russia crowd here at ZH. (It continues to amaze me how the ultra-nationalist Russa crowd can rationalize being negative on Western authoritarian oligarchies, but somehow the Russian version is awesome.)
(It continues to amaze me how the ultra-nationalist Russa crowd can rationalize being negative on Western authoritarian oligarchies, but somehow the Russian version is awesome.)
Puutie has Paid Puppies doing the posting. Assad must be a great dictator since he is also on the Puutie payroll.
The CIA has a large warehouse of Soviet arms in Texas, ready to be shipped out to its buddies such as ISIS.
Share where? Might be useful info in times of need
Are you able to understand such a thing as, "World Balance of Power" ?
People here on ZH aren't pro-Russia because they love Russia's oligarchy.
But Russia's oligarchy helps to offset the rampant Anglospherists who have, in case you failed to noticed, created massive worldwide shit during the past 15 years.
The Anglos have too much unchecked power, and it's getting a lot of people killed.
If Putin were causing as much massive worldwide shit as our local beloved PTB, we'd want somebody to go offset him.
Once the Anglospherists are cut down to size, we can pay more attention to the Russians, Chinese, and other lesser fry.
First things first. Take it from the top.
The real question is where were all the Putin haters prior to a US tax payer funded coup of a corrupt, bankrupt country which has cost how many lives? please... anti-Putin crowd, shouldn't you be more worried about our $$ ROI?
Do you have any idea how much the USG and Military and CIA spend on Russian made weapons? Billions every year. The USA arms it's allies in the Middle East with Russian made weapons that the USG purchased. WHY?
Two reasons. 1. Russian weapons are cheaper, easier to use and maintain.
2. If the US arms terrorists with Russian weapons, people like you can post on ZH claiming Russia did it.
If you research this subject, you will find the American wepaon of choice going all the way back to the Soviet Afghan war were Russian made weapons. Syrian rebels are armed by the USA with Russian made infantry weapons.
this may well be the case, but in fact-------the u.s. is making sure their arms dealers are getting the saudis and gulf states those russian and soviet weaponry one way or another, and if not, it's u.s. made. if the americans are going to send weapons, perhaps the russians and chinese realize they may as well make money on both sides jsut as the american weapons contractors attempt to do.
winning is about strategic weaopnry. and most assuredly israel has exploded every atttempt by russia to install sophisticated radar in assad's arsenal.
no strategic russian or chinese weaponry is going to isis, just a bunch of generic commodified small arms and other bullshit. , if much or any at all.
The most common anti-tank missile right now is the good old made in Amerruca TOW, at least judged from "moderate" rebel videos. The 23mm AA guns are ex-Yugo and the pickups are from Texas (at least for one plumber!). The $$$ are also American, by way of Riyad!
'Mericans drink Bud Light.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
We armed some folks and watched them fight each other...
you forgot - halliburton. Dick's gotta pay for that heart transplant somehow.
Democracy Now..... Fuck, Hope and Change too.
How about a representative republic with highly circumscribed and carefully divided and limited powers?
TBT or not TBT: " How about a representative republic with highly circumscribed and carefully divided and limited powers? "
" But who would pay for the government ? " - Abraham Lincoln
It used to get by charging import tariffs and crap like that.
Then the progressives came along and we got income tax and the federal reserve. Oh and prohibition.
Grimaldus
Flat income tax (no more than 20 %) no death tax, no estate taxes.
Private property absolute, all taxes capped (no more than let's say 25% of your annual income) and enshrined in a (new) constitution.
Can't be changed with a 99 % majority vote (women excluded: too much statist and want others (men in majority) pay for their feminist shit).
That would be a good start and motivate young men to produce (and reproduce) support the society again, while waiting that, back to video games...
Fuck 20%, 8% is plenty if GDP numbers were real 15T x.2 is plenty...
Fuck 20%, 8% is plenty if GDP numbers were real 15T x.08 is plenty...
you should have started with brackets, then used parentheses.
Thanks, but I'll pass. We tried that shit and our elected leaders turned on us.
This is more complicated than the Lord of the Rings
No shite. I can pretty much keep up with Game of Thrones - but even there you get a sense it's moving to some conclusion. The ME - not so much
All you have to remember is "hide the sausage."
At least, that's what Wenchly tells me.
OK, so what's the official position of the liberal MSM on all this?
It isn't a thing at all because narrarative.
It's the same as it always was - outsource genocide.
If you can't find anyone willing to do the job, then create them.
Once those 'problems' are taken care of, it's the Arabs turn. Then, the Turks. Then Egypt. Then some other guys.
It's all about Israel's popularity. If you kill everyone who hates you, then everyone left will love and obey you.
Genocide - Breakfast of Champions.
Israel's ongoing solution for the goys: Financial Genocide and enslavement
(obviously, this is cyclic. you gotta let some live to work the fields for you once your have emptied their coffers)
I got this Coach. Headline from the Jew Yawk Times.
WORLD TO END TOMORROW.
Poor and minorities most affected.
The conclusion is to get rid of Iran. They said it 15 years ago.
The Battle of the Five Pedophile Prophet Armies?
time to migrate our global energy infrastructure off this burning oil & gas platform...
Ya'd think that ISIS would be marching on Jerusalem & Tel Aviv by now... But NO! (That must be part of the 'Double Secret Probation' plan)
If they didn't teach you the brothers' hand shake,
you'll never know the secret squirrel stuff.
These guys are locked in a civil war amonst themselves, jerusalem is at war with all of them.
Oh is that it?... Kinda like how the 'Carpetbaggers' were the first ones on the scene to HELP the South rebuild after the American Civil War.
Where's my 40 acres & goddamned flying mule?
OK - a siege within a siege is going on. I'm sorry but WTF. I can't keep up with who is who more or less who is 'good' or 'bad'. Just get us the fuk out. Yea I know - won't happen but this is just ridiculous if it weren't so tragic.
That's what happens when you build a lake on people land and politely ask them to migrate to other (more fertile) grounds, they roam until it's time to take their (country) land back, looks like it's time, every year a new arab spring, each one more potent than the one before, but we're only the JV team, wait until the varsity players hit the field, you aint seen nothin yet.
and you thought your taxes were complicated!
They all retain the AMT. "Alternative Motherfucking Terrorist" designation depending on how badly we need another enemy of the state.
Booo!
Sacramento can top that complexity: California has its own AMT nested within the federal one. TurboTax Knows whats going on in there.
Well....there goes the neighborhood! You just can't have nice things anymore with these ISIS clowns running around....geeeezzzz!
What nice things? It's a refugee camp under siege.
Ohhhh....you meant nice things, like your head. Got it. Disregard inquiry.
The US is going to let Syria fall into chaos and then will use it as a reason to attack and depose assad.
let Syria? PUHLEEZE! if there was any doubt the us is behind isis before there isn't any now.
Which would be "just another day" in US foreign policy were it not for Russia's red line. The insanity of those behind this aggression against Syria is beyond belief; then again, Jewish lebensraum was never sane to begin with. In the not too distant future we could very well witness the prophet Isaiah's ancient prophecy about Damascus flattened to the ground coming true.
And that's a price Jewry is happy to pay for extra legroom.
They should enjoy it while it lasts. The world will not long put up with these so-called Jews putting its survival at risk. What goes up must come down. Jewry, you have been warned.
And Russia will do fuck all. [sigh]
I wish they would, but they won't. Too chickenshit. [sigh]
Besides... they don't have Beijing approval or consensus.
Chickenshit? Hang on a second here - do you think the Russians should go all out gung-ho to militarily intervene in Syria and start World War III? Do you think they are actually **insane** like other nations we won't mention by name?
Russia is currently preparing itself militarily should the need arise to defend itself. That 10-year modernisation project was announced in 2010 and thus won't be complete for at least another few years. There is not one Siberian snowball's chance in Hell Russia with a military at only 50-60% strength will do what you want and fall into the very trap NATO wants it to fall into.
That doesn't mean they won't resolutely support Syria by proxy, which I suspect they're doing. (Hence the failure of the Israelis and Anglo-Americans to "succeed" with their pet project there. Finishing off a Syrian army supported by Russia isn't quite as easy as finishing off Libya.)
Will any of those self-professed enemies of Israel ever actually attack Israel, or are they too busy attacking their 'allies'?
Seriously, what are they waiting for? At least give us that.
Yom Kippur?
So-called Islamic terrorism was a creation of the Israel-UK-US Axis of Evil the same way Irish Republicanism was a creation of Britain and her minions in Ireland, and the purpose was exactly the same: keep them fighting each other while the Crown hoovers up the goodies.
Or perhaps you have a better explanation why not a single founder of Irish Republicanism was actually Irish and Catholic.
Didn't think so.
The likelihood of SAS and CIA operatives, currently in Syria masquerading as balaclava-wearing "Islamic terrorists" (with English accents, funnily enough), attacking their friends Israel is exactly nil.
OK - probably going to hate myself for getting sucked in but here goes. Michael Collins - leading Irish Republican - I'm going with Irish - Cork no less and Catholic.
The key word was "founders" of Irish Republicanism. Not the foot soldiers, who kept violent Irish Republicanism going once the wheels had been set in motion.
The fighters have nearly all been Catholic and Irish. Deluded fools in other words who fell into the trap laid for them by the "preachers" of Irish Republicanism - Tone, Emmet, McCracken, Tandy, Butt, Parnell, Pearse, de Valera, all of whom were either Anglo, Dublin or Belfast Presbyterian, or, in the case of de Valera, quite possibly Marrano Jews. There were also many Jews who supported the Easter Rising of 1916, including some who were close to de Valera.
Ever wonder why the British never executed de Valera for his part in the Rising? That's right: they don't shoot their own.
No Irishman will ever refer to Collins as a foot soldier. Not only was he the military commander - he led the entire movement during the critical years as Dev was off to the U.S.
Dev had his death sentence commuted because of his US citizenship. No one wanted to drags the Yanks in to it. Every party involved wanted the Yanks to stand off for one reason or another. To your point - certainly the Brits didn't want the U.S. to start siding openly with the rebels. At the same time - the majority of the funds to the rebels came from the US which was what Dev was doing there for those critical years.
Those 'deluded fools' (what the Irish celebrate as heroes) failed in 1916 - but without that rising, there, by most knowledgeable opinions, would never have been the 1921 independence. A classic loss of a battle but they eventually won the war.
I could give you a list of other Irish Catholic leaders but your point is not inaccurate. That being said - the motivations for those you list are more complex than what you attribute IMHO. But then again - who knows?
Yes you're absolutely right: mine was a simplification. But i tend to do that to offset the prevailing orthodoxies.
Well worth it - I think it's an interesting take and admit that that take is a new one to me. Food for thought - cheers
hey man don't bite the hand that feeds ya
While their activities may yet prove premature, the fact that these varous groups are now fighting for control of territories and populations rather than focusing their efforts on finishing the Mad Dentist of Damascus tells you much about what they think their ultimate chances of victory are.
Likewise the fact that So-Sad is willing to provide arms and ammunition to people who will eventually turn those guns back in his direction also tells you a lot about what he thinks his chances of ultimate survival are.
He may beat the odds yet again but the point spread continues to rise.
"So-Sad" "The Mad Dentis"? wow, you really ARE working hard for your shill pay. Your supervisor will be proud.
Religion-O-Peace vs. Religion-O-Peace. Each side gleefully sending a lot of fellow Religion-O-Peacenicks to get 72 their virgins.
And all because there are JOOOOooossssss in the world somewhere.
Altogether now, "visualize whirled peas!" Ooooooohhhhmmmmme.
(that shit never did work)
Assad wants them all in one spot to burn them all alive.
That Qatari Nat Gas pipeline to Europe, thereby removing Europe's dependency Russia Nat Gas, will be built on top of the corpses of the innocent. Trouble is,
this is probably the way thing have always been and always will be.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is the neocons watched Shooter and decided to implement the plot in the real world - Thanks Vicky!
I bet she sleeps like a baby at night.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose mes amis.
Whoop! There it is! Whoop, there it is! Whoop, there it is. (he he)
Is it going to be days or weeks before Assad is in exile? His time is up. Turkey is going to be happy, more ISIS oil for them to launder.
We always know exactly where they are yet somehow can never stop them........
That young reporter woman is beautiful. She has sadness in her eyes, though.
How different that is from seeing American reporters. All you usually see in their eyes is emptiness . . . or dollar signs.
SMOKIN.
We coulda done without the juxtaposed wailing muzzie mother pic though. Seriously.