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"A Night In Aleppo": Scenes From Syria's Most War-Torn City

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Back in October, we brought you “Syrian Showdown: Russia, Iran Rally Forces, US Rearms Rebels As ‘Promised’ Battle For Aleppo Begins,” in which we detailed Russia and Iran’s preparations for an push north towards Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city that’s held by a hodgepodge of militants, rebels, and jihadists (if one is inclined to differentiate between the three). 

As Reuters noted at the time, "the assault means the army is now pressing insurgents on several fronts near Syria's main cities in the west, control of which would secure President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power even if the east of the country is still held by Islamic State." 

In other words, we said, if Assad can secure Aleppo, Iran and Russia will have successfully restored his grip on the country for all intents and purposes. 

To give you an idea of how critical the battle truly is, Quds commander Qassem Soleimani personally called thousands of Shiite militiamen over from Iraq to fight alongside Hezbollah in the ground operation. In fact, Soleimani showed up on the frontlines to rally the troops and according to a number of reports, was injured two weeks ago while commanding his armies near the city (no one knows his current status). 

The fight for Aleppo rages on today and in the lead up to the assault we brought you a series of stark images from 2012 depicting the struggle facing those who remain trapped in the violence. Here are few representative samples:

We also highlighted the following image which shows nighttime light emissions before and after the war began:

Here’s a recent account from Reuters which summarizes where things stand in what has become a protracted, grinding offensive for Assad, Iran, and Russia:

Syrian government forces backed by Iranian troops edged closer to a major rebel-controlled highway south of Aleppo on Tuesday, pushing further into insurgent-held areas supported by heavy Russian air strikes.

 

After seizing a series of villages including Zitan, Humaira and Qalaajiya, the army said it had thrust to the outskirts of Zirba and encircled the town of Khan Touman, an advance rebels said had left them outgunned from the air and ground.

 

The aim of government forces appeared to be to cut the main Aleppo-Damascus highway that fighters use to transport supplies from rebel-held Idlib province to the north.

 

Two months of Russian air strikes twinned with army ground offensives backed by Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah forces have shored up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his western heartland. 

And here's an account from Newsweek which gives you an idea of how desperate the situation is in the city:

Dr. Rami Kalazi (a neurosurgeon) and his colleagues work in a building that, to most people, isn’t recognizable as a hospital. Seen in a photograph sent via messaging service WhatsApp, the hospital has worn metal bars covering two holes at the front of the beige three-story structure, where glass windows are supposed to be. Wires dangle down past exposed brick and around a dozen barrels containing concrete debris that are lined up outside. The sidewalk in front of the hospital has mostly been destroyed and the two-story clinic next door is in a similar state of disrepair.

 

It’s hard to imagine these buildings as places that could save someone’s life, yet this is the reality for the remaining hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, where roughly 80 doctors remain, down from 1,500 in 2010. Nearly all the doctors—95 percent—in the eastern part of the city have fled, been detained or been killed, according to a startling report from international humanitarian organization Physicians For Human Rights. 

It's against that rather depressing backdrop that we present the following photos (courtesy of Reuters) which depict "A night in Aleppo" (click on the images to enlarge and observe how clear the stars are in the absence of any and all light emissions from the city; the last two images are of graveyards):

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Congratulations, Washington. This is what "democratic regime change" looks like.

 

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Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:34 | 6924248 MrNosey
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Hell

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:36 | 6924253 Truther
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Payback to Obama will be a bitch.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:39 | 6924269 MarketAnarchist
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"We have made the Middle East safe for stargazers"

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:44 | 6924291 Tom Servo
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those top pix are fakies...

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:51 | 6924315 Ms No
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Is that Gary Indiana?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:13 | 6924340 The Juggernaut
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THIS is what Imam's use to radicalize the desperate and displaced Muslim's.  The disaster is caused by the M.I.C.  They don't attack you because you're Christian, free and prosperous.  The attacks are in response to destroying their lives.  The biggest sponsor of terror is the USA Military Industrial Complex and its about time American's woke up to the truth and change this.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."  - Plato 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:14 | 6924388 beemasters
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Most Americans just prefer not to know. But only when the refugees start pouring in, they will scream bloody murder. Tragic.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:33 | 6924453 The Juggernaut
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This happens when good people do nothing.  Here's your chance --> http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:40 | 6924473 Baby Bladeface
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And this is list of those will be hanged? (Except lady from Hawaii with sense talks.)

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 01:14 | 6924714 Tom Servo
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ok, all of you sheep that downvoted me, please explain where the blood on the woman in the second picture came from?  on her forehead?  on on the right side of her face?  If you think that is not a staged picture, go turn on MSNBC.... 

 

The third picture down is also staged.  Notice how they convieniently paint the bed of the truck bright red and brown.  Blood is NOT BRIGHT RED.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:52 | 6924829 chumbawamba
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Good God, are you for real, man?

Go get ass fucked by the Washington Monument you abject moron.

I am Chumbawamba.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 06:29 | 6924988 OldPhart
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In my experience, massive blood is bright red as it spurts from a wound, pools of it congeal pretty quickly into a darker red, resembling a scab forming.  Over a few minutes it IS a scab, the top of the pool of blood is a dried, crusty, brownish red.

Even when there is fresh blood flowing, the top layer starts to scab pretty quick, and it progressises depending on ambiant temperature. A bit slower when it's cold, faster when it's warm.

Either way, it's a bitch to clean off your shoes.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 14:57 | 6926823 TruxtonSpangler
Tue, 12/15/2015 - 03:40 | 6924863 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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All you need to know about colours and lighting.

http://expertenough.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Optical-Illusion.jpg

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:57 | 6925046 flysofree
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I agree that these photos are staged. This is probably form the beginning of the Aleppo insurrection. This is no different than the many photo ups in Gaza and the West Bank done for public consumption in the West.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:04 | 6925143 fallout11
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Haven't had any military service, I see. Or paramedic/first responder experience.
Fresh blood is bright red, brilliantly so.  
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Bleeding_finger.jpg

There are excellent videos on Youtube from the conflict in Donbass last year. Feel free to compare with them.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:56 | 6925595 1033eruth
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What is it with the concept that fresh blood which is bright red, doesn't stay that way for long?  

That means ALL of the blood in the bed of the truck should be dark red.  That most of the blood from the men in the bed of the truck should have been on the ground where they were shot.  

Do you really think that there were pallbearers, johnny on the spot, waiting, just standing there so that they could get the men into the bed of the truck and bleed out there?  REALLY?  That is was the most emergent, emergency necessary to have people standing by so that they can throw them in the back of a truck while still bleeding?  REALLY?

You haven't had any military experience either or you're just stupid.  Dead people are NOT emergencies not even for photo ops. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:10 | 6925157 Beowulf55
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I can tell you have never been deer hunting or even gutted one.............

 

Why don't you try getting out into the real world for a while.........

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:41 | 6924477 ThroxxOfVron
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Most americans too busy eating shrimp in front of the TV to be bothered....

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:00 | 6925142 newdoobie
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Eating frozen shrimp supports slavery

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:12 | 6925166 Beowulf55
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and increases your Corexit intake.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:51 | 6924506 Paveway IV
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Why would you expect the same sick-assed Israeli-firster treasonous neocon fucks that sat idly by while this happened to give a rat's ass what YOU or I think, Juggernaut? Nothing pisses me off more than people that pretend we're still a representative democracy. THE MACHINE IS BROKEN. It does not work. What in the FUCK don't you get about that? 

Next thing you'll be saying is go vote because voting actually matters. For God's sake, WAKE THE FUCK UP. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:37 | 6925473 my_nym
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Exactly.  And all these guys criticizing the freedumb fry eaters usually want them to "pay" for something.  Bull. Shit.  As if peasants shouldn't have a right to expect the leadership of their own country to have a little more dignity than being total cucks for foreign groups and "allies in the region". 

The people that should pay are members of the Tribe that have been demanding their pound of flesh and social/tribal justice to this day.  They want social/tribal justice, then give it to them.  Invade Saudi Arabia, they can pay.   Occupy Israel, they can pay.  But these guys won't focus on the people responsible.  Instead, they blame people for watching TV and relying on "their" media in a "democracy."  Is the TV informing them?  Shouldn't we blame the tribal people in charge of the programming first and not our fellow Americans that usually don't realize they're being cucked over?

 

Shorter:  "Stand with Israel first!  First!!  Dual citizens and Jewish pundits everywhere!"

But then: "Blame America first...  it's the TVs and stuff or somethin'.  Dang Americans!"      

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 20:16 | 6928185 Demdere
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While fully-agreeing with your assumptions about the source of our problems, nevertheless, VOTE.

It the last possible voice before guns, and we really should delay guns as long as possible.  They go on stealing our wealth, true, but the Israeli-Neocons are losing.  They are losing their wars, and the spending is about to stop.  Spending is the source of their power, those guns don't point so well when the $ doesn't flow.

We are winning in the court of public opinion, and we need to keep the heat on and keep talking to everyone. I just made another 9/11 convert today, maybe several.  People who know me to be sane, and so who agreed with me that watching the Architects and Engineers 9/11 Truth videos was the most important next thing they could do.

Either they get a lot of 9/11 crazies and know how to deal with them very smoothly, or I made converts.  We engineers sometimes have to think about that kind of thing, so hard to know.  Given the string of politicians we have selected, perhaps I am not alone.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:27 | 6924435 Normalcy Bias
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There is some wicked BAD karma headed our way.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:07 | 6924559 Chris Dakota
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42 Blackwater mercs vaporized in Yemen today.

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:59 | 6925610 1033eruth
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worthless without a link.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:38 | 6925483 my_nym
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Our way?  Who are we, supposedly?

 

Tell Karma to head to Tel Aviv...

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 03:08 | 6924841 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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This. Well put.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:22 | 6924414 G.O.O.D
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Congratulations, Washington. This is what "democratic regime change" looks like.

 

But look at all the loans soon to be made rebuilding this disgrace. All at non-payable interest with money created out of the vacuum.

 

This playbook is generations old.

 

Until the people refuse to do the bankers bidding and refuse to kill each other and blow up each others countries, cities, children then the show goes on.

 

The further we advance the more backwards we become.

Humans-don't ya just love em?

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:01 | 6924541 nosam
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But we did it too rescue the poor Syrians from their cruel dictator!!

Our bombs are humanitarian bombs.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:37 | 6924620 Chris Dakota
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They are the Obama love bombs, he makes a little heart with this hands, they all do it.

Plus they wear colored rubber bracelets.

Obama is a light-worker, or so they said in 2008.

He turned the lights out and they no longer work!

how about that?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:36 | 6924462 Paveway IV
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"...those top pix are fakies..."

Fakes? Looks like American-style freedom and democracy to me.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:48 | 6924497 Baby Bladeface
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"

Looks like American-style freedom and democracy to me."

Ask for it by name...

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9325/180230117.2/0_c9f5e_44566a4a_XXXL.jpg

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:44 | 6924292 Uchtdorf
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Unfortunately, there will be many Americans, by choice or otherwise, standing in between Obama and that payback who will feel the pain before he ever does. Lest we forget though, Obama's name can be replaced with the names of any of a dozen other world leaders who, acting like the good puppets they are, involved their militaries in this disgraceful action.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:57 | 6924327 logically possible
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My first thoughts exactly.  My same thoughts now since 2002  Well said.   +100

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:43 | 6924485 ThroxxOfVron
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IF the US Citizenry won't hang their criminal 'leaders' then many of the US Citizenry may hang FOR their criminal 'leaders'...

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:14 | 6924575 Chris Dakota
Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:03 | 6925145 Son of Captain Nemo
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Never seen that one before. And if indeed it's authentic -totally awesome!

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:14 | 6926067 Chris Dakota
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I'ts authentic, it came out a few days after he was killed.

Did you know he was in the Peace Corps then went to the War College.

you can't make this CIA shit up.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:31 | 6925025 Egao
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Why Americans are so focused on personal responsibility? As if it was only Obama himself. As if by removing an archvillain you'll destroy the evil system. It doesn't work like that. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:03 | 6925146 newdoobie
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Well... its a good place to start?

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:39 | 6924270 MrNosey
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Coming to a town/city near you very soon!

The agenda trundles on towards WW3......

 

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/the-fix-is-in-franc...

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:14 | 6924390 thinkmoretalkless
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Can anyone make any sense of this sh*t show? ISIS, ISIL, Syrian Rebels, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Kurds, Shia, Sunni.....on and on what the hell are we doing here? Protecting business interests? Promoting globalist agendas? I'm starting to think, borrowing a concept from the Republican primary campaign, it is time to for a pause in our involvement in Syria until we the people can figure out what the hell is going on over there and who is on what side and why. Because it is people like you and me who end up in the bed of those pickup trucks. And don't tell me we got to go half way around the world to "keep us safe" I have no intention of letting some whacked out fanatic walk into a public space I'm at and methodically mow down anybody without armed and fierce resistance and I hope others there will back me up. I'm tired of the politicians and the media portraying Americans as a bunch of helpless pussies. They obviously haven't spent anytime in my neighborhood.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:35 | 6924458 G.O.O.D
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Gunmen are easy to dispatch compared to car bombs. When the buses and trains and cars start exploding with secondary bombs set to kill the rescuers all the while under sniper and mortar fire, then you might get the picture of how these people are living.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 01:26 | 6924731 anti-republocrat
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what the hell are we doing here?

Selling weapons and ammunition.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:57 | 6925600 my_nym
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Jews.  Israel. 

Can anyone make any sense of this sh*t show? ISIS, ISIL, Syrian Rebels, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Kurds, Shia, Sunni.....on and on what the hell are we doing here? Protecting business interests? Promoting globalist agendas?

 

Seriously.  That's quite a list of names and factions.  It's all going to keep on looking very mysterious to you if you can't say the word Zionists, let alone Jew.  (Jews in the USSA, turning it into the USSR... for the same reasons that they did that behind a fake party/tribe.  Now they have "influence"/control over two parties!  That's why everyone is so worried about Trump possibly being independent of their influence, despite the fact that he's a total Judaizer and almost represents Likud factions.  Until they upset him.   And that's exactly why he's feared, as there's an absence of total control or influence.)   

Zerohedge is supposed to be like "fight club" or some Jew movie about white goys telling the "truth" as buildings collapse in the background? Didn't Arnon Milchan, a Mossad agent and arms dealer help the Tribe make that movie for the dumb white goys that can't quite put their finger on why they're the angry white guy vote year after year?

LOL.  You will have to say Jew in order to get closer to the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 

 

The rest of this is like the theatrical production of a half-truther movment led by Alex Jonestown. Just include lizard people and Nazi ghosts to the list as a possible factions (very confusing!), include everything and anyone (all elements of truth) but the actual Tribe sitting there right in front of us all in the American media and "financial system."    

They're right there operating the Fed and the media, day after day.  No conspiracy theories necessary.  Just turn on your TV and pay attention to the ethnic identities of those talking, the end credits listing the producers and directors of the show and ultimately, the owners of the "corporation."

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 12:23 | 6926103 Chris Dakota
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Jews are protected by the left because the Jews organize for them and vote for Dems.

Jews are protected by the Christian Zionist right because their faith has been infiltrated by Jews.

Dick Cheney types who profit off the wars the Jews start are happy with them too.

TV is so revolting to me I couldn't last 5 minutes, and all media/films/games/music controlled by Jews.

Jews are the problem, in every way.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:19 | 6924408 o r c k
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Someone needs to tidy up.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:51 | 6924508 Baby Bladeface
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"

Someone needs to tidy up."

And just such people I know of...

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9827/180230117.3/0_facb5_3a16412e_XXXL.jpg

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:38 | 6924263 Ignatius
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"Congratulations, Washington. This is what "democratic regime change" looks like."  --  TD

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:00 | 6924333 Truther
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This is the McCain/Baghdadi Democracy that was drawn up during their meeting on the turkish border.

MccCain should be hung dry for treason and genocide. He is one of the biggest culprits and destruction mastermind of the Middle East.

He practically sold his soul to the devil even before the USS Liberty massacre by the Zionists. His day will arrive soon enough.

 

FUCK YOU MCCAIN, GRAHAM, HITLARY AND OBOZO.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 05:29 | 6924944 Maxter
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Don't forget Sorro

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:38 | 6924268 TheBeatles
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All 1oz Silver coins are €12 @ EurGold

https://www.eurgold.de/silver/silver-coins/

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:47 | 6924301 Kirk2NCC1701
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That's equivalent to 3 "oil changes" in Athens.

Now that's "Change you can relieve in" -Kirk

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:53 | 6924298 Son of Captain Nemo
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Congratulations, Washington. This is what "democratic regime change" looks like.

Well said indeed!  Can't you just see John(s) Kerry and McCain carving the plum pudding congratulating themselves for the blood they've accumulated on their hands just this year alone raising a glass toasting their efforts in sowing the seeds of hell on this planet as a Xmas wish of blasphemy?!!!

Can't wait to see what Washington D.C. will look like in the not too distant as it fights Russia in Eastern Europe and of course Syria and Iraq while it simultaneously fights a civil war at home!

Keep telling yourselves that it won't happen to US HERE where freedom (to slaughter at will and without conscience) isn't free!!

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:04 | 6924345 Rakshas
Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:04 | 6924347 G.O.O.D
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McCain, Obama, Hilary, Kerry, Bush, Cheney, Johnson, Lincoln. Maybe what we have is a psychopathic problem? 

 

The quest for power is to murder and cause suffering and genocide.  The idiom of those seeking power are the least deserving of it comes forth in blood.

 

The human condition is now to the venue of not only discarding prosecution, but rather into applauding the slaughter and calling the murderers heroes.

 

The screw turns and the military meat grinder is now looking inward for fresh victims.

 

Get ready, steel yourselves, this shitshow is coming home. 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:57 | 6924529 Baby Bladeface
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"

The screw turns and the military meat grinder is now looking inward for fresh victims."

Democracy delivers.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6832/180230117.3/0_11891d_4e3731a_XXXL.jpg

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:48 | 6924306 Whoa Dammit
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I will never understand how people can do this to each other for something as fleeting as money and power.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:26 | 6924416 The Juggernaut
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It happens when good people do nothing.  Here's your chance  --> http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:57 | 6924531 G.O.O.D
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Great idea.

Bitch at your representive, get your form letter and put on the terrorist watch list for your efforts.

 

Brilliant.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:08 | 6924563 G.O.O.D
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Oh did I hurt somebodies feelers.. too fvking bad asshole, Face it, they rule us, we are toast. We now are at their mercy and they don't give a shit about you.

 

Why do you think these players can do what ever the fvk they want without giving it a second thought?

 

Because they own everything. every t h in g

 

They own all the good land, businesses,money printing press, media printing press, they have the cops, judges feds and military in their back pockets and you think that YOU are going to sway them and tell them YOU are their boss?

 

Forgive for a minute but I think i have pissed myself a little bit while in uncontrollable laughter.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:42 | 6925037 bunnyswanson
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Power of a mob of angry people is why China has a million man army.

Pitchforks Stand at Angry Mob gathering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCii4Q_-bLA

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:26 | 6924433 Rakshas
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Well like an onion the more layers you peel back ........  I hardly remember what it was like before 9-11 effectively boot stuffed the red pill down my throat, seems a lifetime ago now........ I can't even remember what it was like to be able to watch the evening news without the mental taste of vomit pervading my senses.......... as Mike Ruppert commented in 2002 - the criminality of this regime is overt,  they are not even trying to hide it any more.  

The following presentation from James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds, Wayne Madsen and Peter Collins is a good explanation of the total loss of  our societal senses when it comes to our criminal governments; Pedophilia, Treason, Corruption and so so so much more; and nobody gives a fuck ........  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1MtaSIePk

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:41 | 6924635 Chris Dakota
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It's demonic, when you understand that it all makes perfect sense.

Everything is inverted, hate is love, pain is pleasure, war is peace.

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:16 | 6924788 Usura
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Good for you.  The only way to understand this is to approach the problem from the viewpoint of the psychopath.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:59 | 6925051 css1971
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To a psychopath you're not a real person. You're a thing. A thing to be used.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:49 | 6924309 Bill of Rights
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A fucken disgrace and for what.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:15 | 6924396 BiPolarFrenchman
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Winning that 'War on Terror' one bullet at a time

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:56 | 6924324 Usurious
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the saudi freaks really want assad gone....they must really be worried ....................................................................
Saudi FM Says Assad Must Go, Kerry Says Saudi Talks on Syria ...
Haaretz-Dec 10, 2015 [Video] Assad must go or be forced out - Saudi
GhanaWeb-Dec 10, 2015 Syria's Al Assad must leave or be forced out: Saudi FM
gulfnews.com-Dec 10, 2015 Syrian insurgents pull out of opposition talks, highlight rifts
Opinion-swissinfo.ch-Dec 10, 2015 Saudi FM says Assad must leave peacefully or be forced out of power
In-Depth-CTV News-Dec 10, 2015
Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:09 | 6924366 Truther
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Fuck anyone whose last name is Bin Saud.

Nuff said.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 22:58 | 6924329 PoasterToaster
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We should vote and put a stop to this US Government meddling.  Which is the anti-war party again?

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:09 | 6924364 G.O.O.D
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Yes vote them all out.. It has worked so well in the past. I bet they are hiding under their desks shitting  themselves with scissors at the thought of the voters uprising and demanding accountability.

 

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:36 | 6924461 Baby Bladeface
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"

Which is the anti-war party again?"

Is not the party in US of A.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:19 | 6924384 V for ...
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This is a stain on all humankind. Moneychangers (Rothschild, Rockefeller, Cheney, Bush tribe, MIC) want the resources on land and sea owned by Syria, and the City of London led Rothschilds and Rockefellers lead the USA into battle for that with other little nazionists in Britain and Europe forcing their people to do the same.

It is shameful. Lies.

I look forward to the Fed and City of London to be  bust this week, and all its horrid insolvency.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:31 | 6924439 o r c k
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I've always figured that after the first hundred million or so I'd kick back, play with the kids and pursue some hobbies. But no. These guys have to go kill hundreds of thousands of human beings for zero good reason. Apparently when you're a psychopath your lack of conscience allows you to sleep just fine. The World is controlled by psychopaths in other words. (and look what happens to our soldiers that HAVE a conscience-tragic suicides)

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:37 | 6924807 Benjamin123
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Theres plenty of reason.

You see, you DNA will never be safe in this world just because you piled a few hundred million FRNs. The other side can still nuke you our your descendants 6 generations from now.

Besides, it takes a lot of money to keep the money they made. They have to bribe and hire whole armies to avoid being Romanov'ed, they cant just take some cash and retire.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:43 | 6925515 J Jason Djfmam
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Just following the Georgia Guidestones.

They've only just begun. Target: World Population 500 Million.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:13 | 6924387 nmewn
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Arab Spring.

Sooo, ummm, any comment from Hillary! or Obama? Maybe some enterprising reporter can catch The Won before jets off to Hawaii...to save the fucking world.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:18 | 6924392 V for ...
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O'bomber, CIA brat child, chosen by psychopath Soros (Schwartz) who admits being a Nazi in his youth, stealing from other jews in Hungary.

The world is run by psychopaths and sociopaths, it seems.

Up next: Tramp, Hitlery and Rubio-bot, all shills.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:20 | 6924419 Duc888
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Makes ya kinda proud to be a "Murican, doesn't it?

 

 

Not.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:29 | 6924441 G.O.O.D
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All sins can be traced to the number one sin of pride. Pride is the rulers number one weapon to wield on the proletariat.

 

Think about it..

 

Keep a handle on pride and you will be harder to manipulate.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:57 | 6925047 css1971
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Vanity.

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:45 | 6924471 Flying Wombat
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The Saker analysis:

Week Ten of the Russian Intervention in Syria: the “Assad must go” policy leads to war with Russia, Iran and Hezbollah

http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=562721

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:43 | 6924472 onmail1
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<-- America & the west

Abomination that causes desolation

Obomination that causes desolation

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:46 | 6924493 FranSix
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This is not the Stone Age you were seeking. /JEDI mind trick

Mon, 12/14/2015 - 23:56 | 6924527 HoserF16
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Boy, it's a goothing the US Military took-out the Civilian Powerplant in Aleppo. The civilians were really causing a problem for Turkeythe Pentagon...

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:06 | 6924557 Baby Bladeface
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Amateur astronomy free from light pollution A Human Right© and US military forcibly brings that freedom to oppressed people Aleppo.

US is unmatched standing for star gaze rights.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:00 | 6924539 Chris Dakota
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They are waking up!

2013  on facebook

Most Talked About Topics in the U.S.
1. Super Bowl
2. Government Shutdown
3. Boston Marathon
4. Syria Crisis
5. Harlem Shake
6. Pope Francis
7. George Zimmerman
8. Royal Baby
9. Nelson Mandela
10. Presidential Inauguration
11. NBA Finals
12. Kim Kardashian
13. Miley Cyrus
14. James Gandolfini
15. Meteor Sighting

 

2015 facebook most talked about

  1. 2016 United States presidential election
  2. Nov. 13 attacks in Paris
  3. Syrian war and refugee crisis
  4. Nepal earthquakes
  5. Greek debt crisis
  6. Marriage equality
  7. Fight against the Islamic State group
  8. Charlie Hebdo attack
  9. Baltimore protests
  10. Charleston shooting and Confederate flag debate
Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:03 | 6924549 One And Only
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Bashar al-Assad.

When I look at this entire conflict in it's scope and magnitude the last thing I think of is "Bashar al-Assad".

Bashar al-Assad is not leading forces. He is not running the country. In fact I'd be remiss to note that Bashar al-Assad isn't doing anything. He's in quite simple terms....just a thing.

This is Russia and Iran taking control of a situation the West created by giving the craziest people in the world weapons and money which led to acts of genocide against the Yazid's and others.

Iran is Shiite and not fond of Sunni's. However, all extremest attacks have been from Sunni's....Al Qaeda sunni, Boko Haram sunni, ISIS sunni, al nusra sunni. All of these come from Saudi Arabia which is sunni.

Shia don't like Israel. But Shia aren't doing this crazy shit like the sunnis all over the world raping 6 year olds and trying to commit genocide.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:42 | 6924565 Chris Dakota
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Bashar al-Assad is us.

Don't decide anything, told we have to go, unable to stop the destruction.

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 03:02 | 6924818 Paveway IV
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Saudi Arabia is not Sunni according to other Sunnis. Americans inappropriately call Saudis Sunni (which is insulting as hell to real Sunnis). The planet's billion or so Sunnis would argue that Saudi Wahabbism is a nutjob control tool of the house of Saud and is about as far removed from the theology of Sunni Islam as the United States is to a representative democracy. That one claims to be the other does not make it fact. Wahabbiism existed as an obscure, nearly-forgotten fork of an untra-conservative Salafist version of Sunni Islam. The only reason it exists today is because the House of Saud found it to be an excellent psychological control tool to keep their subjects obedient. The founders of Wahabbism probably wouldn't even recognize the bastardized Saudi version that exits today. 

Real Sunnis don't even call Wahabbis 'Sunnis', they call them Saudis because the nutjob version of Islam has always been associated with the House of Saud, not with Sunni Islam.

Iran and has absolutely no problem with mainstream Sunnis and vice versa. Iranian Shia do not hate Sunnis, they hate Saudi Wahabbi nutjobs, and the Saudi Wahabbi nutjobs hate them back. Don't gin up a fake religious war where none exists. Shia and Sunni alike hate Saudi Wahabbis. (<-- read that again and again until you understand it).

It has nothing to do with 'flavors' of Islam and nothing to do with a mere 'extremist' variant of Sunni Islam. It has everything to do with the Saudi royals bastardizing a fringe Islamic cult as a control tool for the peons they lord over, and exporting the brainwashed zombies (per U.S./Israeli orders) to steal land and resources or overthrow governments of countries they don't like.

The biggest mortal 'enemy' of Wahabbis are Iranian Shia. Why doesn't Saudi Arabia send them over there to overthrow Iran? Because they would get their head-chopping asses kicked there, then the Iranians would level Saudi Arabia in retaliation. Head-choppers are only useful when you send them in AFTER creating social chaos in weaker countries AND ZATO is backing their cowardly ass. They would never be able to accomplish anything by themselves.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 03:17 | 6924852 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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+10

Right on.

That goes a long way to explaining to the west why Israelis are flying Saudi jets as well as deals like this.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 05:42 | 6924954 dogismycopilot
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Paveway, 

This is the first post I have ever seen of yours that I disagree on.

As the Islam is about 85% Sunni, I do find them to be less tolerant of Shias then vice versa.

In Yemen you have Saudis, UAE, Qatar, Morocco and a few other countries (plus the Academi mercs) fightng the Shia/Iran in a mano y mano fight.

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/government/martyred-uae-and-saudi-officers-...

I do sense the rift between Sunni/Shia coming to the surface again and the entire GCC hates most the Iranian government with a passion few people see - so you will see them all unite against Iran with the Saudis leading the charge.

The Saudi Minister of Defense as you know is a very young hothead....I hear he is also quite persuasive. 

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 14:05 | 6926537 Paveway IV
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"...This is the first post I have ever seen of yours that I disagree on..."

Infidel! I will have you beheaded!

If I was a Martian and landed in your back yard in Northern Ireland after studying your people for a decade or two, how would you convince me that all Catholics and Protestants everywhere on Earth generally don't want to kill each other? Are Catholics more tolerant of Protestants or is the opposite true? Are all Christians violent, homicidal maniacs because the two main branches of thier religion have had many wars over the years? There are many references to violence in Christian scripture. Even if they don't act out on that violence, there MUST be an eternal simmering hatred for each other just beneath the surface. 

See what a mess that would be to explain to someone who has observed many historical and contemporary instances of war, violence and hatred between the two branches of Christianity? It would take an hour just to explain all the nuances of Northern Ireland to a Martian to convince them it wasn't just a Catholic/Protestant religious war. After which the Martian would observe you are fundamentally wrong because what about [insert any previous Catholic/Protestant war here]. All you could do is shrug your shoulders in resignation and say, "Well, that's not what each branch is about and all Catholics and Protestants don't want to kill each other today."

"...I do sense the rift between Sunni/Shia coming to the surface again and the entire GCC hates most the Iranian government with a passion few people see - so you will see them all unite against Iran with the Saudis leading the charge..."

Same thing in Northern Ireland. I see a war simmering just beneath the surface where all Protestants of the U.K. want to smack down those nasty Irish Catholics once and for all! See? Christianity is a violent religion and Catholics and Protestants want to kill each other! Thank God David Cameron isn't a hothead like the Saudi Prince.

You can't reduce a couple thousand years and many dimensions of animosity on many levels between the GCC states and Iran to a simple Shia/Sunni conflict. Yes, both branches of Islam are more intertwined with the respective states and their leaders than Americans may be use to today, but that's not the fundamental reason for their animosity. In fact, it's not even a major reason. Shia and Sunni do not battle to the death every year during hajj. And aside from the unfortunate stampede, the couple of hundred thousand Iranians were not summarily slaughtered by the Sunni in this year's Hajj.

Sunni and Shia Islam are more ALIKE than different. Wahabbism isn't like either branch of Islam - it's a Saudi control cult.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:27 | 6924604 luna_man
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Well, this is what happens when you leave it to other's to fight your battles.

 

coming to a country near you...fight or flee? 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:45 | 6924646 onmail1
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If you dont have nuclear weapons

You are the next

& your gold will go to west

-----

Moral : Get nuclear weapons fast 

or better align with a nuclear power such as Russia

Get nuclear umbrella

Time has come

or get crushed by west

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 00:56 | 6924677 IronForge
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Here are some more Youtube Footage regarding SYR.

Cities are totally trashed; and my heart goes out to the victims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utr-D3XoaCc

Search Query
https://www.youtube.com/results?lclk=month&search_query=syria+combat+foo...

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 01:08 | 6924709 Benjamin123
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Second pix from the top is fake. Not photoshop, just staged in a super obvious way. I thought i would never see that picture again, Tayler recycles it as much as the imminent hamburguer making robot articles.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 01:30 | 6924737 Benjamin123
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Those are not wounds. These are red paint lines. Dont look at all like wounds.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:08 | 6924779 dsty
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they are not fake, look at her bashed eyebrow

do you see the blood on the guys hand infront of her face?

Really, do you guys really have to call everything fake?

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:19 | 6924789 Benjamin123
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These are 100% fake. The blood starts pouring out of nowhere. You look what you want to look. The red lines are almost geometrical, start out of nowhere and then suddenly end. 

Look at the ones on her forehead and right eye, these are far more obvious.

Her left eye does not look bashed at all. These lines were painted one minute before the photo was taken.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 05:47 | 6924961 ---------
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no benjamin    perhaps it not her blood(?)   maybe her husband was bleeding, maybe her child and she just had some contact with them.

but its true that it is easy to fake something like that for propaganda purposes.

just paint some cute children and woman red color in th face and take a photo.

i still doubt its a fake in this case

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 02:41 | 6924816 Fuku Ben
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The sad reality is the same people chanting USA USA don't understanding or care what the effects are on the millions of civilians caused by their own government partnered with corporations and paid for by their taxes. The people in the EU are seeing some of it first hand and are rightfully pissed off for a lot of reasons.

In turn these same USA chanters will be the ones expecting sympathy and support when the mysterious metastasizing ISIS are suddenly unleashed into their own neighborhoods and start killing them and their families. This will enable the next step towards Martial Law since they can't seem to disarm everyone fast enough for their schedule now. These fraudulently scripted events like San Bernadino are having decreasing impacts just like the repeated rounds of FED QE fraud have had on the failing economy. So expect ISIS attacks. Soon. Not only in the US but EU too.

One attempt was recently stopped in Germany. But they were released shortly after they were caught. Go figure.

www.bild.de/regional/berlin/terrorismus/razzia-in-berlin-43562142.bild.html

The government doesn't smuggle large numbers of people in on cargo planes because they want to avoid the media. They own and control the media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNvm99U40SI

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:36 | 6925472 AriusArmenian
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There is just too much evidence pointing to many of the recent terrorists attacks being Gladio type operations.

The first big Gladio type operation was the Allen Dulles CIA assassination of JFK. We have lived in a coup regime ever since.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 04:13 | 6924891 OurManFlint
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Let them kill each other until one side gives up or no one is left standing.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 04:57 | 6924918 Fireman
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Mercans can be proud of the wanton carnage of their thugocracy for the benefit of their judaic parasite.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:27 | 6924972 ---------
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i feel absolutely no pity with muslims. not with their children nor with their woman. i dont care who they belong to or what color they are and where they are from.

they can all rot and burn alive.

 

the have proven me, that they are the worst virus to human society on daily basis

they are shit as people

they are shit as politicians and leaders

they are shit in nearly any point of view,. except of goat-fucking, rape, welfare abuse and incest. thats the only things they are good in.

all of their countries are shit, no matter if they are rich or poor

any society with muslims turn slowly into shit too

 

perhaps they should change the name of islam into shitlam

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:33 | 6925457 AriusArmenian
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Those Muslims that you call shit are the ones that are fighting and dying to liberate and protect Christians from the jihadi head choppers supported by the West.

The crud you dump on Muslims is an apt description of you.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 06:40 | 6924990 sidiji
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The ones responsible for this slaughter: 

Obama the self-confessed Sunni Muslim

Clinton, the secretary of state

The wahhabi Saudi sunnis and quataris and the other emirates

 

they all decided to launch a war of genocide against the Shiites, they started in libya, syria was next, to be followed by iran. US has no business giving the headchopers so many TOW missiles they can afford to use them as artillery, which is what they are doing from the videos.  I hope there is karma.  GW Bush was medacity mixed with incompetennce, Obama and Hilary are the same, only of a different flavor. 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:31 | 6925023 TradingTroll
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Take your psyops elsewhere.  On ZH people know Israel is at the top of this mess.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:38 | 6925033 flysofree
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Don't you think that the residents of Aleppo bear most of the responsibility for the carnage? Who took up arms against Assad at the beginning of Arab Spring revolution after Egypt fell to Muslim Brotherhood? While at first the residents took to the streets without turning to violence, the opposition to Assad regime quickly became violent. Aleppo quickly descended into civil war with the foreign jihadis quickly joining the fighting following the fall of Qaddafi.

It's the Arab's own fault, stop blaming others for the mess they themselves created. Look at the carnage in Sudan, Somalia, Yemen etc. Every single county in  North Africa, Middle East, Arabian Gulf and near Asia is in some kind of state of insurgency and that includes Iran and Israel.

Whose fault is this?

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 07:52 | 6925045 css1971
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America's

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:13 | 6925122 Chris Dakota
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The Arab spring was a color revolution designed to overthrow leaders.

This was a US operation like Ukraine, hell the Obama 08 campaign was a color revolution.

In the middle east they call Obama "the Magician" for this very reason.

They have to make this election now about gun control because they think they own that issue,

so it's already firing up. One problem they have is 54% of blacks think guns keep you safe

from crime, so this could backfire. They can not depend on blacks to vote for taking away their

guns. Many of their people are addicted to protest so they can feel in control.  For this reason they can, and do,  move them from one issue to another as long as it is not against Obama or his polices.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/wearorange?src=hash

 

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 10:27 | 6925429 AriusArmenian
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Yes, it was another glorius 'color revolution' engineered by the US/CIA with the assistance of France and the UK may they rot in hell.

We and other Orthodox Christians in the Middle East see the West for what it is, nothing but deceit and plunder.

The Syrian Arab Army of mostly young Muslim men is fighting and dying to liberate and protect Christians while the West aids and abets the jihadi head choppers and liver eaters.

The West is now nothing to us.

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 22:00 | 6928527 Chris Dakota
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I can't say that I blame you.

I am in the West, in the belly of the beast but now they turn on us too.

Im sorry please accept my apology as some small token. I never supported a war

my family has been in America since 1630. This was not the way America was dreamed of,

it is a nation under occupation now.

Be safe.

 

Chris

Tue, 12/15/2015 - 09:53 | 6925284 roadhazard
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Anybody who stay in that town must like it.

Wed, 12/16/2015 - 00:44 | 6928539 Chris Dakota
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Well in that town it is all very clear what is about to happen, because the artificial lights are off and you can see the truth.

Right now Pluto is at mid Capricorn and the unmasking begins, there will be no place to hide.

Dec/Jan they will still be aggressive and trying to start trouble, after that they will trying to cover

their nudity and hide but they will find no safe space anywhere.

Pluto gives enough rope and then he begins his all out destruction of disease.

A powerful force will expose all that is diseased in governments, institutions, elites.

So get ready, the great cleansing is on deck.

all accounts will be settled

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