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The Death Of Damascus: Images From Syria's War-Torn Capital
Last month, as the IRGC and Hezbollah rallied their ground troops to prepare for an assault on Aleppo, we brought you a series of stark images from a city deciminated by years of war. A week later, we highlighted new, high-def drone footage of Syria’s eerily desolate urban landscapes rendered barren by mortar fire, barrel bombs, and airstrikes.
If you follow the war closely, it’s easy to get swept up in the World War III, global conflict hysteria. After all, what’s more intriguing from a geopolitical perspective than the distinct possibility that Moscow and NATO may be headed for an armed conflict after Turkey became the first alliance member to engage a Russian or Soviet aircraft in some six decades. Throw in the fact that at the center of it all is a wealthy, brazen terrorist organization funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, whose mission is to rid the Arabian Peninsula of Iranian influence and you have the recipe not only for a renewal of Cold War hostilities, but also for an explosive sectarian conflict.
Lost in all of this is the human toll that five years of civil war has exerted upon Syria’s beleaguered populace. To be sure, the mass exodus from the Mid-East and subsequent flow of migrants into Germany, France, Sweden, and Austria (to name but a few) is representative of the struggle, but in the minds of many Europeans, the Paris attacks have served to turn a humanitarian crisis into a symbol of a dangerous and imminent Islamization of Western Europe. That, in turn, has to a certain extent dehumanized Syrian refugees. That’s not to say that terror groups have not sought to take advantage of the discord by embedding militants in the crowds of asylum seekers flooding into Europe. It’s just to say that thanks to the massacre in France, Syrian refugees have become more a symbol of terror than they have a symbol of suffering.
It’s with that in mind that we bring you the following images (via Reuters) from the Syrian capital and excerpts from “The Slow Death of Damascus”, by Thanassis Cambanis as originally published in Foreign Policy.
Few supporters of the government are switching sides to the opposition these days, but many are simply exhausted by the immense toll exacted by the war. Half the country’s people have been pushed from their original homes. The infrastructure is creaking. Even some supporters of Assad say they feel that government-held Syria is hollowing out, running on fumes.
Over the course of a recent 10-day visit, Damascus residents said they feel less embattled than they did a year ago, but the war is still an inescapable reality of everyday life. Every night, dozens of mortars still land in the city center, sending wounded and sometimes dead civilians to Damascus General Hospital. From the city’s still-busy cafés, clients can hear the thuds of outgoing government guns and the rolling explosions of the barrel bombs dropped on the rebel-held suburb of Daraya.
Army and militia checkpoints litter the city. In some central areas, cars are stopped and searched every two blocks. Still, rebels manage to smuggle car bombs into the city center. According to residents, explosions occur every two or three weeks, but are rarely reported in the state media.
“The government doesn’t care if people leave. It can’t stop them,” one middle-class Syrian, who has chosen so far to remain in Damascus, said of the exodus. “The war seems like it will go on forever. People see no future for their children. The only people who are staying are the ones who have it really good here or the ones who aren’t able to leave.”
The fight has become an integral part of daily life, directly affecting almost every family from every type of background. Throughout the coast, photographs of the war’s casualties adorn every block. Each neighborhood has a wall of martyrs, some of them featuring hundreds of dead — part of an effort to build a martyrdom culture not unlike that which sustains loyalists of Iran’s ayatollahs and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, both of which provide key support to the Syrian government.
“This is our destiny,” said Ahmed Bilal, an Alawite cleric who was circulating in a shiny white robe and chatting with the assembled families. A long line of fighters predating the establishment of modern Syria had resisted foreign invaders, he said, and gave inspiration to today’s soldiers.
“Even if we lose one-third of our young men, we will still have the rest to live,” Bilal said. “They died so that the others should have life.”
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usa and friends are fuckers and need punishment
Nothing short of a complete destruction of ZATO and a brutal end to all the assholes that pull strings there would make up for this.
And also for the MSM presstitute management that comprise the propaganda wing. None of this could happen without their active complicity.
We are raising to a ground a sovereign country where different cultures and religions got along peacefully and not a leaf is stirring in public outcry. But trying to get their hands on some of $2 toasters on special at Walmart, now that's worth serious fist fights and women pulling each other's hair out.
I am fucking disgusted, speechless and ashamed at this point, nothing more, nothing less.
District 12??
America, Fuck yea
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQaH3-LK54
Kind of looks like Detroit.
America's greatest exports: blue jeans, westerns jazz and armageddon
America ruins the world to rule it.
Do not forget cheap propaganda. The US is king of it.
Good example is this article. The author misrepresents the situation in a typical US way.
Funny. Barrel bomb is the cheap propaganda giveaway. When you see this term you may quite assured rest that the author is telling cheap US propaganda. Barrel bomb is just a simple bomb. It has outer case made of a barrel and is dropped from helicopter. No more destructive than US bombs designed to explode people at weddings and funerals.
Dropped from the air would subsume it under the category airstrikes, so why depict it differently? Cheap US propaganda.
Again a distinction without reason, except the US propaganda style guide tells to always bring up barrel bombs.
This article is so much dishonest in this regard it can only outline how duplicity is the US trademark.
Aye, I thought the same.
http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html
14c covers this article.
And the best export product is MULTICULTURALIZATION:
http://www.thepornster.net/video/479/black-ho-gets-redneck-cocks-up-the-...
The most honest understanding of barrel bombs I've read yet. Sick of it being bandied about like some new horror weapon or being completely denied by one side or the other. Yes, they use them. They are just inexpensive bombs. N
Now, about those 7 million AK-47 magazines the US.Mil req'ed a couple of years ago...
Lets be truthful about this situation only about 1 % of Americans know about the killing done in all these country's the other 99% do not give a fuck because it does not affect them. So how is the situation ever going to change.
Impending economic collapse will jolt the sheeples into action, he says, crossing fingers
Heart wrenching. When these Syrians turn refugees, they are turned away, called names, spat on and treated less than human. What kind of life is that when you are fucked both ways.
When the economy collapse totally and they are heading to fema camps which I never thought could happen but now the way things are moving they have to take us to war they don't have a choice
According to the right-wing, these very same people, whose lives are being utterly destroyed by neo-conservative Western foreign policy, are the same ones that Western citizens now ought to shun and fear, simply because a handful of deranged lunatics might be travelling among them.
The same lunatics whom these people are fleeing from, I might add.
Magnus, the Zato West never should have started destroying Syria. If the Zato West would stop destroying Syria, everyone can go home.
This is really idiotic and incoherent.
The us is supporting regime change ops and terror proxy ops all over so it's racist for swedes not to want to become outnumbered by Libyans, Syrians, Iraqis and afghans in their own homeland?
I mean - are you a fucking idiot, for real?
You are also conflating syrians with 'the refugees' which is a larger and more diverse set. And they are not escaping the war by waiting nearby, no they want to be given all sorts of what you lefties call "free" things, taken from others, with utter disregard as to their will or consent.
You are a cryptofascist hypocritical twat.
Printed money can buy a lot of people to do their dirty work.
@ Max UK -- agreed.
Media concubines are even worse because they promote such a proper image, as the bringers of truth. They are supreme actors and nothing more. They do not have a grasp on the most rudimentary facts of Middle Eastern history.
Most of them can't even qualify for the title of liar because they can't tell the difference between a lie and the truth since they have no historical baseline information to distinguish.
At least McCain knows he's a paid state jackass. The media morons truly believe themselves to be informed and intelligent. That makes them worse.
maybe some of the junior reporters, but the old hands, and management, they know exactly what they are doing.
They know their job is to deceive. They are consummate professionals. They do it with straight face, guile, sleight of hand, and with the confidence of knowing that everybody else in the entire MSM infrastructure has their backs. There is no opportunity for dissenting or incredulous voices to challenge them, except on blogs like this. MSM comment sections are heavily censored.
The US needs a revolution to overthrow the Satanists running things right now. One can hope.
And replace it with what exactly?
The majority are corrupt.
We are capable of better.
eforce - a valid and often overlooked point.
Iran will be next.
Hopefully Syria prevails and they don't get the chance Bob.
Syria will prevail if Russia prevails. Coalition raises, Russia calls - coalition just raised by shooting down planes...What will Russia do? Call or raise? Probably not fold. A raise mean Russia is for real. A call means thet they are not sure yet.
Call = introducing nasty weapons to theater (check)
Raise = using them on coalition (coalition is not isis)
Whats next?
There's more to it than this. There are cracks in NATO.
Notice that neither Turkey nor the US has flown a single mission since Russia turned on their S400s. France is still flying and cosying up to Russia.
I'm not sure the French have forgiven the US for making them forfeit the sale of the Mistrals (a massive loss to France: financially, economically and geopolitically). So perhaps Russia is playing on this by not lighting up the French jets and promoting that image of a close working relationship with them.
All Russia needs is one of the central NATO partners on their side and they win - be it France, Germany or England.
Nice. Then the chess player over there kills 2 birds - very big birds - with one stone.
NATO functionally reeling for the forseeable future AND no open rights to Syrian politics/land for Saudi/Qatar and "friends".
Guess they are playing more than poker over there.
I havebeen angry for a while that the US has gotten wrapped up in this situation - not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our politicians have all formed quite a firewall to keep those of us who care from having a voice in this.
Check out this link - John Wells in the first part of this articulates the scenario very well in his opening comments...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-RqsVR3rk
Who exactly are the terrorists?
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. Isaiah 17:1
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html
Curious how people acting like something is inevitable- trnd to make it inevitable, no?
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
Whoever was the author of the information at that first link did not possess the background to understand scripture. That is not uncommon since the Bible is not simple or understandable on a superficial level.There are multiple levels of meaning. Reading the Bible in the same way as one would read People magazine would be enough to make ones head spin.
Luckily, numerous Bible scholars have posted their teachings and sermons on the internet for anybody who wishes to take the time and effort to seek understanding. The Calvary Chapels teach their through the Bible series in addition to their Sunday sermons. I don't fully agree with everything they teach (mostly their focus on a pre-tribulation rapture), but I do consider their teachings as wonderful resources.
http://twft.com/?page=c2000
http://ccmodesto.com/media
"Curious how people acting like something is inevitable- trnd to make it inevitable, no?"
Help us follow your logic. Are you saying:
1. That because some guy with a website said that Isaiah 17:1 hasn't been fulfilled yet, it makes it impossible that it's being fulfilled now, even as it's being fulfilled?
2. Because Israel has a plan to destroy Damascus, in fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1, that this, by some unknown mechanism, makes it impossible for that prophecy to be fulfilled?
or
3. that one ZH commenter and 3 upvoters have the power to make Isaiah 17:1's fulfillment "inevitable" by the sheer power of their belief alone?
Think carefully before posting. If you suggest that Bible prophecy tends to be wrong, you will be humbled very quickly. History demonstrates that you're wiser to bet with the Bible than against.
I find it disturbing that this comment can muster so many up votes when it proposes to dish out retribution on even those who find their countries policies appalling.
Please be clear that it is the psychopaths in charge, and not the average dude and dudette, that are due punishment.
This is what the Russians did after WWII when they marched into towns in eastern Germany and slaughtered the locals just for being German. Most of those towns folk hated the Nazis. (As per my father and his siblings)
I also hate it when the word "we" is used when speaking of some topics. I am an individual, as are the rest of you. "We" is being used as a socialistic catch all to slander an entire culture when the vast majority of us, when enlightened, are opposed to the crimes being committed on our behalf.
They should thank Obama and his "let them kill each other" policy for war of attrition between Syria and ISIS.
They should thank Obama for instructing stupid Erdogan to shoot down the Russian plane.
From a Syrian's point of view, this was a turning point. Now for the Russians, it's personal. ZATO will lose this war, this is now baked in the cake. The issue is as to how brutal the finale will be for civilians, but the tide has turned for them. They can now see an end, and have hope.
I'm not fully convinced that the Erdogan family needs anyone to instruct them to behave in a greedy or arrogant manner.
Syria AA downed the Cold War relic Turkish F4 previously. In that instance, there was a second, more advanced aircraft trailing it like in the Russian example.
These are border skirmishes to test AA capability of the opposing side.
I note that neither Turkey nor the US has flown a mission since the S400 systems were turned on. Somehow I doubt they really want to "test AA capabilities" of the opposing side.
There is more at work here. The question, as always, is Qui Bono? How does shooting down the Russians help Turkey? How does it help the Erdogen family?
It doesn't. Turkey, and Erdogen, were making tons of money off the back of ISIS oil routes and arms supplies. Now both Russia and France are going hell-for-leather to destroy both for good. This was a logical retaliation.
I don't have the answer to it, but I keep reminding myself that it is London (in particular her great banking families) that actually rules the world. And it looks as though London is slowly abandoning her tools. The US is in economic peril, Saudi Arabia is worse off and is slowing being exposed in the Western press. Turkey is being set up for utter destruction.
Maybe there's no plan to it, no order and just chaos. But my intuition tells me there's something else at play.
Any scenarios worth sharing?
This might have something to do with it.
"EDF Energy has reached an agreement with China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) for a nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point, Somerset.
...
Meanwhile, from January, the government is planning to run a pilot scheme that will allow Chinese tourists to get a two-year tourist visa for £85 - these currently cost £324.
...
The Treasury hopes that within 10 years China will be Britain's second biggest trading partner.
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Following talks at Downing Street, he [Xi Jinping] will visit Chinese communications firm Huawei's UK offices before a banquet hosted by the City of London at the Guildhall [=Bankster HQ].
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Steve Hilton, a former policy adviser to David Cameron, told BBC Newsnight ... "This is one of the worst national humiliations we've seen since we went cap in hand to the IMF in the 1970s," said Mr Hilton, who left Downing Street in 2012."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34587650
Excellenr analysis.
They should also thank Putin for his "let them kill each other" policy. The same policy Putn has in EUke. (In fact, Putin wants them to kill each other in Uke so much he forced the EUke's to cease fire and let the trapped WUke army safely withdraw (TWICE!!).
I sleep well all nights knowing that you and your friends are dead men walking.
All of the .gov trolls and NATO apologists don't seem to realize that apart from a small handful of psychos the only people fighting and dying for their side do so either for a paycheck or due to some misguided youthful vision of honour. That fades away in NATO armies fucking quickly these days by the looks of suicide rates, murder rates, drug use, and general displeasure and protest against command.
The people that have had their lives forever fucked up and countries constantly threatened by NATO won't be fighting for paychecks or due to some Hollywood fantasies.
.gov trolls and NATO apologists should ask themselves would they die for their cause?
All the people of the world against them would.
It's a lost war.
Meanwhile many people are waking up to refuse to accept tyranny in their name with the benefits to a few, so NATO might corrupt internally anyway.
Observe here maidanjumping ukrobot attempt at duplicity.
Tactics follow typical fifth column/sixth column format. Fifth columnist pretends to dutiful Russian be and tells that "No! Putin should not interfere! Putin acting like Hitler! He making everything more worse for all!"
Sixth columnist pretends to dutiful Russian be and tells that "No! Putin leaked! Putin merged! Putin is the pussy! Needs to send all tanks on invasion and drop atom bomb!"
All just Ukrainian svidomite rubbish.
More and more convinced that svidomist is like a subculture emo, only the central theme emo is death or crying, svidomist - subculture finishing butthurt.
The Pentagon
General: Soldier, we need you to deliver these weapons to our allies in Ukraine.
Captain America: Sir, Yes Sir! Consider it done, General.
Later that day....
Corporal: Sir, Captain America on line one.....he sounds pissed.
General: Why do you say that Corporal?
Corporal: He's swearing sir.
Silly morning star
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide-for-gchq-ns...
This one doesnt make any sense at all!
Putin sat back and watched as the people of Syria were slaughtered. He purposefully allowed Syria's men to be expended in unnecessary deaths or driven out of Syria. He never provided the contracted for S300 (contracted for in 2007) to make Syria an easy target. Putin wanted the deaths, watched without acting and did so because it served his purpose.
Once Syria was so expended to almost be finished and unable to of independence he moved. Iran should be cautious of Putin/Russia. Please note - Putin (despite his threats to do so) has not supplied the S300 to Iran although contracted to do so in 2007.
If only US policy genuinely was as impartial as you suggest. Instead the US instigates and funds these wars then steps in to save the day through "regime change".
I was referring to recent article which I can't find now which stated that Obama was cultivating ISIS just for that role and that those plans got derailed by Russia joining the fight. (I would appreciate help if anyone can find it.)
Knowing the amount of money and weapons invested by US propping anti-Assad factions and giving ISIS a pass, thought of US "impartiality" wouldn't cross any sane person's mind.
Brought to you by NATO, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, NWO/ZWO, Soros and the zoligarchs.
If March Against Monsanto could attract millions across the globe, why isn't one organized against the world's warlord nations? Maybe there's little/no money to be made in peace?
Looks like USA 20 years from now
Detroit and other cities are already there.
Francis Marx, Looks like USA 20 years from now
Really?
And who will cause these types of damages to the US?
I mean, type of war damages like the pictures.
Well, I'm sure that if the Southern states try again to exercise their democratic and constitutional right to secede from the union, that it will be done with back-slapping bonhomie with Washington. Not at all like last time.
That doesn't happen all at once, it starts like this .
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/american-gestapo-agency-he...
And proceeds in steps through full-scale operations, just like in Afghanistan or Iraq.
In a rich country like the US, there are very many more sources of things that can hurt than in any 3rd world country. Our advanced militaries cannot win there, what makes anyone think they can win here?
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/why-patriots-can-win/
The US will do this to itself. Without a major war the American economic system will implode causing civil war; meanwhile, the US cannot win a major war. It can only pretend it could win one and hope other countries fall for its bluff.
It's allies don't believe in its cause. They are there only until the option of fucking over the USA has smaller consequences than fighting a ajor war alongside it. Consider 90% of NATO a farce. Countries putting up with Uncle Sam until he is the worse deal. When that happens who will fight for the neocon agenda? Look around you, if you are AMerican. You think these people will fight a major war? The US gov fucked itself by fucking its people and making its people braindead soulless selfish consumerists that while seemingly agree to the infotainment propaganda they see on tv are actually far removed from realities and would never have the passion or morale for truly fighting anyone.
Maybe a rather more realistic preview of what would happen in case of a major disruption to the "US Normal" lifestyle would be the film "The Purge: Anarchy".
A self-interested, self-absorbed, very heavily-armed population with plentiful grievances / "scores to settle" / "axes to grind", suddenly faced with the opportunity to "get even", without the risk of apprehension / legal proceedings.
The more cohesive smaller (rural) Communities should do OK, but being in any metropolitan area might be a death sentence in VERY short order.
Damascus Syria at Christmas.
Note the huge Christmas tree.
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201012248449/Entertainment/open...
The Syrians respect all faiths and it was a peaceful country before NATO, Turkey, and the Gulf States started their proxy genocide.
Yes it was with well educated people who lived in harmony. Who gave the order to overthrow a duly elected government and why. Its a Crime against Humanity. For what is all this death and destruction worth. Someone must be brought to account.
Their phones told them to do it.
Technology will destroy the world, didn't the unibomber say that?
he was the only one that was not a false flag.
Technology/liberals
Just the latest secular middle eastern government targeted for destruction. Ho hum. Lost in the shuffle of course, is the fact that the Middle East is being systematically cleansed of all non-muslims. Fifty years ago, across the region there were significant minority populations of Christians, Jews, Druze, and other religions, all protected by their secular governments. Now, these people have been killed or driven out, the governments have been replaced with Islamic fundamentalist regimes, and the populations are virtually 100% Muslim.
Obama has singlehandedly driven much of this "progress" in the last seven years, although it has been an ongoing process since Jimmy Carter sat on his thumbs while the Islamics took over Iran in 1979.
The Islamics took over Iran because of the brutal, corrupt puppet govt that was installed by the US.
Iran is a MUCH better place now. It is a much better place than Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others.
Libya was even better than Iran.
Just setting the stage for Israel's sunbathing of the middle East.
"To understand today’s crises in Iraq, Syria, and Iran one must grasp their shared Lebanese connection. This assertion may seem odd. After all, what’s the big deal about Lebanon? That little country hasn’t had top headlines since Israel deigned to bomb and invade it in 2006. Yet, to a large extent, the roots of the bloody tangle now enmeshing the Middle East lie in Lebanon: or to be more precise, in the Lebanon policy of Israel."
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
Youre always confusing to read. Do you not get that the crazy islamic terrorisrs have killed mostly muslims and caused millions to flee to europe, where antisemitic feeling will rise, leading for calls by likud for europe's jews to flee to safety in Greater Israel. Bibi's dream
The Wahhabists are murdering the Muslims is more accurate.
That they are "all Muslims" is facile and beside the point. The Muslims are mostly fleeing fanatical sects of mostly foreign Islamofascists who are being supported by the Saudis, turks, israelis, and us.
How can you read these articles and comments on this site week after week and still have the level of Potemkin understanding of what is going on imparted by Fox News and the NY Times?
The magician wants you to look at the hand showing you the eeeevil muslims. Always waving that hand in your line of sight.
Always look at the other hand, mate.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-fuels-the-syrian-crisis-with-aid-to-...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
Syrian children at Christmas.
http://mediaassets.redding.com/photo/2014/03/14/Mideast_Syria_Christm_Jo...
F you Obola, McCain, Bibi, Saudis, Soros, Qatar and The Pentagram.
The jew world order.
Again with the barrel bombs,who gives a fuck its about survival.Who gives a fuck how you kill the the animals who are fireing motars in to a pupulated area.
Thats right hybib...go down allah highway until you get to the bomb in road, then hang a left on MLK Blvd.
The neocoon Oblowme never lets go,this fucken asshole has no mercy for anybody.
https://www.rt.com/usa/323744-obama-ndaa-ukraine-syria/
The GOP-e and The Pentagram go right along with Obola. Free Republic.com hero Ted Cruz supports and voted for ObolaTrade aka TPP and TPA. Free Republic also is filled with Bibi/Jonathan Pollard lovers too.
The Saudi's day is coming.
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/yemeni-forces-seize-saudi-military-b...
I'd like to see those fat ass Princes of Saudi Arabia, the ones with dresses on, out in the public square with their heads on the block.
Me too, but they are US allies. The question is what exactly do they have to do for the US to drop these people with tea towels on their heads. And why is Germany allowed to sell them weapons.
Good news. Yemen is another place where genocide is occuring. The Saudis are so corrupt and evil. They could not fight their way out of Harrods or a Ferrari dealership. The little cowards have a rent a army.
I have huge admiration for the Syrian army and military fighting to defend their country. The same goes for the Houthi in Yemen fighting these Saudi dirtbags.
God speed to the Yemenis.
My Thanksgiving this year included listening to people praising Ted Cruz, W, and Cheney and still thinking Saddam had weapons that threatened us. Imdid my best to explain our banker government, ISIS creation, uniparty sleight of hand. They were shocked when I said America is evil and must perish for there to be peace in this world.
I almost pucked when I read the article. Nearly a billion dollars to Ukraine and the "moderate rebels" in Syria, another dose of fuel to stoke up the conflicts. When will the dollar f*cking crash to put an end to this madness.
So this is what a revolution for freedom driven by moderate rebels looks like?
amerikan expectionalism courtesy of our tribal strategists!
McCain and Soros need punishment
Obama and Hillary were right with McCain cooking up the color revolution that started all of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ELAa02TUY
destroying one of of the oldest cities in the world
all for systems that wont last much longer
Hillary R. Clinton can use her Charitable Trust to aid the dislocated and POTUS can move all Syrians who want to leave to Hawaai. I wonder if these two murderers even think about the destruction their foreign policies has wrought.
They're just the puppets.
After watching the demonic Hitlery cackle over Qaddafi's death, I imagine they suck up the violence and blood not any different from vampires.
I think for utterly evil people of that type, the blood and death is what confirms their power.
I believe she licked his blood right off the floor.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
The axiom "what goes around, comes around" comes immediately to mind.
It is very sad to see the ruins of that once beautiful city, Damascus. I have visited that city many times going back decades. I recall the Syrians to be a very cultured and hospitable people. Even when conditions were tense and officially the Syrians were not giving visas to US citizens outside of the US, I always found that by going directly to the Syrian immigration post on the Beirut -Damascus highway, that I could get an entry visa after a very short wait. I had a friend in Damascus, a Muslim, who took me on walking tours of the old city, pointing out various groups, Christians, living in harmony. I do not wish to whitewash the Syrian government, for sure it was a dictatorship, but it was a secular state and I do not ever recall seeing women in veils.
Thanks for the level headed post
Beirut Lebanon was once the same, till the Jihadist cranked it up
Much support for that came from the Syria and Iran area
So what goes around comes around
I am sorry to see it destroyed too
But it is only a part of what is about to happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JElx0Eg2iZs
christian Pro Hezbollah Lebanese Singer Julia Butross in a concert of Honorhttp://www.christianpost.com/news/they-accept-us-as-we-are-christians-jo...
'They Accept Us as We Are;' Christians Join Forces With Muslim Group Hezbollah to Fight ISIS in LebanonRead more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/they-accept-us-as-we-are-christians-jo...
Citing Lebanese sources, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin says Christian villages in the Bekaa Valley area of Lebanon are forming militias to join Hezbollah fighters already engaging ISIS and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nursa Front in the Syrian Qalamoun mountains opposite villages in central and eastern Bekaa.
Rifit Nasrallah, a Catholic businessman who is part of the militias fighting ISIS in Ras Baalbek, discussed the alliance with Hezbollah in an International Business Times report last month.
"We're in a very dangerous situation," he said. "The only people who are protecting us are the resistance of Hezbollah. The only one standing with the army is Hezbollah. Let's not hide it anymore."
Nasrallah said Hezbollah does not expect its allies to convert to Islam or create an allegiance to the group's ideals.
"They accept us as we are," he said. "They do not impose on us anything. When there's an occasion, they come to our children's birthdays. The people here accept that Hezbollah comes and helps."
Hezbollah has been fighting in Syria to protect ALL Syrians including Syrian Christians. Who is it that really hates Hezbollah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=754AT7o5qx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4tc08B-jlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe65-nF3FQ
Israel destroyed a great deal of Beirut at least 3 times. And no, they werent 'defending themselves' they were defending their occupation of Palestine and trying to take Lebanon to the Litani.
Most of the death and chaos is attributed to Zionist pigs, not 'jihadis.'
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/06/17/top-ten-myths-about-the-i...
On which note, a reminder of the real but undeclared reasons why Assad was targeted.
Any noble and totally commendable humanitarian selfless Israeli intentions to bomb or sabotage Iranian interests, somehow seemed to trigger a hail of rockets from the dastardly Lebanon based Hezbolla. So the mighty IDF went into Lebanon to teach the upstarts a lesson, but the massively superior IDF were instead taught the lesson, and had to swallow comprehensive defeat and retreat at the hands of the subhuman rag-heads. Learning that to defeat Hezbolla, they had to first close their supply routes and alleged sponsors, the target then became Assad. So, to attack Iran, target one is Syria. This then opens up target 2, being Hezbolla. This then frees Israel or it's US bitch to attack the principal target, Iran.
Aside from that, Syria
1) had the temerity to decline the opportunity to be a US vassal state.
2) had no central bank.
3) had the wrong pipeline intentions.
Did I miss anything?
'tis all about the greater israel map. All else is noise created to distract from the ultimate truth. All non jews in the territory they designate as greater israel are to be purged. Fact.
I don't think it is only that. If there were a peaceful way for Israhell to guarantee its security, good neighbourly relations, acquisition of a considerable buffer zone, and unilateral muslim disarmament, then where is the military industrial profit? Where is the banker commission? And what can they then whine about?
Who told you Israel wants "peace" rather than expansion?
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
Ultra zionists and Jewish findamentalists dont want peace - they want Greater Ersatz Israel.
And that includes nuts like Sheldon Adelson.
And Benjamin "Netanyahu."
http://youtu.be/i4OXmO3T2vc
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
Jewish Fundamentalism is profoundly ethnocentric, supremacist and xenophobic - yet we never hear of it.
http://www.hangthebankers.com/israeli-jailed-6-months-for-burning-baby-a...
I was not only agreeing with you that they don't want peace, I was mooting that the bankers and ziocons actually crave the killing.
Bless you Oldrepublic! You speak the truth and it's very refreshing after all the ill educated, ill traveled rhetoric of people trying to be "cool" or trollish. To have Syria desrtoyed is akin to destroying national parks and monuments. My heart literally aches for the people.
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
They will be doing this to USA someday. They hate many of the subcultures that are holding up their World Order. First they'll Balkanize it.
And our "leaders" say, " we didn't do nutin'. Errrrrrrrr, duhhhhhh".
To those folks who think all the folks leaving there are looking for a handout up north...
Please fuck off.
I would not want the invasion either if I was Europe, but this is not easy.
I sometimes see old film clips from France after it was liberated. The good loyal French people rounded up the colaborators and comfort women and did some kicking, punching and head shaving.
I wonder why the good honest refugees arent doing the same with the bad elements in their midst?
Who exactly are the terrorists?
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraqi-forces-cut-last-isil-supply-li...
Iraqi Forces Cut Last ISIL Supply Line into Ramadi by Retaking BridgeWhat the USA, NATO, The Pentagram and the West plus Saudis did to Iraq is sickening. I hope Russia can help the Iraqis put their country back together.
Don't buy into this.
Obama, George W are both guilty as are many more. To start they need to be arrested for war crimes. If American can't or won't do it, next time they go visiting another country maybe they will.
The world won't change until someone has the guts to stop this
There is almost no difference between the Bushes, Clintons and Obola.
They are all See Eye Aye shills. The Clintons and Bushes are close friends.
They are all deeply involved in drug trafficking going back to Mena, AR and before Mena.
Clinton is the only one who does not have obvious See Eye Aye connections except going to the USSR when he is at Oxford and also his involvement with drug running through Mena.
No one really knows who Obola is or who his real parents are. He is even more hidden and covered up by unknown forces than Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oswald was a Marine in Signal Intelligence in Japan who defects to the USSR then comes back to America and is closely connected to See Eye Aye and former FBI types in New Orleans. All very normal and explainable.
There are pictures of potentially more than one Lee Harvey Oswald who was either the greatest sniper in history or a sheep dipped patsy who thought he was serving his country "protecting" America and the President.
They zio Mafia made sure to shut him up quickly.
I think Russia should blow Turkey off the map and see if NATO thinks having 10,000 ICBM's launch all at once is worth a response or not.
But then are Turkey's civilians evil? Or just more poor bastards ruled by assholes? The US game of crush kill and destroy to maintain/advance itself is going to hit some serious roadblocks soon i'm afraid. And don't forget one of the psychopath's most infamous traits........if we're going down, everyone's going down.
A good portion of Turkey's civilians would have us all under sharia law. That country is about as similar to NAZI Germany as we'll find.
Regardless that I do it myself, we ought not be too quick to stereotype.
Some of my favourite people are even chosenites by dint of birth.
Turkey is a diverse country, and the least religious in the middle east. Their reputed culture of state force and brutality is rooted in their Imperial past. I hear that Istanbul has such a sizeable Kurdish minority, that it might even be the biggest ethnic group there. I know personally just one ethnic Turk, and he is a very decent guy, and a brilliant mathematical intellect. When Russia sorted out Georgia, there was a massive and spiteful propaganda campaign against Russia here in the UK, but one of Russia's staunchest and most brilliant defenders on the blog I read, was a nationalist Turk who called himself Turgut Reis, and his support for Russia was so powerful that it was like a nuclear bomb made from words. He was banned of course, but his work was done. I was amazed to see such support from somebody who really did seem to be a Turkish nationalist.
My view on Turkey in this situation is generic to us all. We are all stuck with leaders who are corrupt, or clueless, or traitors, or weak, or all of those things. I have heard Bulgarians on ZH state that Bulgaria is totally with Russia over this Syria thing, and I am sure that Greece is too, but they are hostages to their leaders and are stuck in NATO. They are duty bound to go to war against Russia if called upon, regardless they consider Russia an ally.
We are all stuck with traitors and fools to lead us. You have Obama, and you might get Hitlery next. Turks are the same, they are stuck with stupid Erdogan. 'But they voted him in.' - sure, and you voted in Bush and Obama. The choice is rigged from the start.
Putin is smart, and will likely try to deal with Turkey in a way that will not burn bridges with Turkey's people, or its next president. That way, the recent trouble-making by ZATO to split Turkey and Russia, will be a pyrrhic victory.
My best wishes to all people everywhere who want to live in peace, and not least the ones suffering in the front lines generated by the psychopaths in power.
Shame on you human's shame on you!
All because of some sick chopped dick fantasy map.
In the name of Jesus?
This is not a civil war Tyler. This is an attack on Syria ordered by non-Syrians and executed by provocateurs bussed into the country by US, UK and Israeli secret services.
Excellent point abd to be literally accurate we should a oid 'civil war' for 'proxy war on syria'
It seems as if we're living within the War of the Gods. Martyrs (of any religion) are simply dead tools of fools who lied to them. The fools know better; that's why they don't go themselves. The fools use these tools to try to demonstrate that THEIR GOD is better. The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims don't worship the same god, and neither do their members. If within this small blue speck of a planet, if we're ever going to survive as humans, we need to respect all 6+ billion interpretations of god. To hell with love thy neighbor, which is just as bad as telling everyone they were born in sin. Talk about manipulation. I don't love my neighbor; I don't even like my neighbor; but I respect my neighbor, just as long as the respect is mutual. It should have been the word "respect", not "love." You don't lie-to, steal-from or murder someone you respect. That's how the manipulators win; they get you to disrespect everyone. That way, no one respects you. With everyone fighting, the sociopaths who manipulated the situation wins.
I was offered a job in Syria about 7 years ago. Damascus was on its way to becoming a great city again. Then all of this shit started.
A good parallel is with Leningrad as discussed by Sputnik http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151127/1030842805/syria-turkish-attack...
Also, I would highly recommend the book by the Saker to help you understand how the US is using ISIS has a battering ram to effect change through chaos in the world. Brilliant really. Can't believe I never read his writing before: http://thesaker.is/the-essential-saker-book-is-now-out-in-hardcover-and-...
This is isiah 17 prophecy about Damascus right before our eyes most of these western leaders are luciferians occultist devil worshippers who are following the the bible to usher in their end time luciferian world government
What, pray tell, is a 'luciferian?'
http://youtu.be/NDqL6AJP9v8
Fuck the terrorist USSA and IzraHELL !
US need war every 4 years to survive economically and Israel need distraction from Palestinian conflict and to continue expansion. What you see on these pictures is the cost. So dear thanksgiving morons, enjoy your cheap TV on sale and your stupid turkey.