"Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have received covert support from Washington in the funneling of arms to the most virulent Islamist elements of the rebel movement, while Russia and Iran have supplied arms to Assad." -- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/13/1
"In May 2007, a presidential finding revealed that Bush had authorised CIA operations against Iran. Anti-Syria operations were also in full swing around this time as part of this covert programme, according to Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. A range of US government and intelligence sources told him that the Bush administration had "cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations" intended to weaken the Shi'ite Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria," wrote Hersh, "a byproduct" of which is "the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups" hostile to the United States and "sympathetic to al-Qaeda." He noted that "the Saudi government, with Washington's approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria," with a view to pressure him to be "more conciliatory and open to negotiations" with Israel. One faction receiving covert US "political and financial support" through the Saudis was the exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business", he told French television:
The rebels in Syria have been covertly funded by U.S. and NATO for the past four years via Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. So, no, I wouldn't put it past them either.
Sigh.
It's really disheartening when you know so much yet so little about geopolitics that you're able to predict the next move from the Elites. Just like Bush, Sr. said, "I don't need to read the news, I already know what's going to happen."
That's because in Japan police officers (etc.) are still seen as public servants. They are their to diffuse situations, not escalate them. Many U.S. police officers and border patrol *provoke* situations to the point where it takes a great deal of tolerance and patience to deflect the officers' provocations. Hell, even Ghandi would punch the pig fucker in his fat face.
You're right. But you know, no one in the U.S. cares because the U.S. mainstream media controls the narrative, and the mainstream media is controlled by the elites who also control the President and Congress. I just laid out what's going to happen in a timeline, and I have yet to be wrong once. Today, Obama announced the call for military action right after the U.N. inspectors left for Lebanon. Called that last week. Anyways, I'm not going to waste my breath. I'll leave everyone with a few articles and it's their duty to search for more and be informed.
Perhaps all the furtive speedy grabbing of items is what leads you to look suspicious?
At any rate, if this is your local grocery store, the smart thing to do is get to know the people that work there and let them get to know you. Perhaps you are just as prejudiced as they are, and there's no cure for prejudice like exposure to the truth.
That's a reasonable assumption, but no, they're just underpaid unintelligible extra-distrustful assholes. This is my local grocery store and I am doing the smart thing of getting to know them: they're entitled, underpaid, unintelligible, extra-distruful assholes. Even striking up a conversation with the cashier is suspicious. The front door should read: "Caution: Do not make eye contact, do not divert from grocery list, DO go at extra slow pace. All abnormalities are treated as hostile combatants."
It's a chain store in MX. What more can I expect? You must live in Narnia. Around here acting like a sincere human being is the stuff of fables.
You know, you talk big. I'd like to see what you'd do when you're ganged up on by six security guards with sticks while you speak in a shaky pre-pubescent voice, "I just want to know where the Cap'N Crunch is." Let's see how tough you are then, huh?
For the rent-a-cop, abnormalities are: black, brown, poor, disabled or disordered, etc.,... unprepared, or even intelligent. Being intelligent is just too suspicious. Can the robot do all that?
Everytime I visit the grocery store nearby, it's like a game of pacman. They have about six security guards per isle and they follow me around like dim-witted ghosts. I have to hurriedly snatch up my bread, coffee, and milk to make it safely to checkout.
Ridiculous, truly. We would have been delivering telegrams on bicycles with wings. The market evolved from government funding and warfare. Depressing truth, truly.
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
Tread carefully - there's pretty good evidence for commerce between Africa and South America in that time frame, and the Chinese mega-ships were almost that long ago.
... and then there is evidence of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Turks... the list goes on. It's not preposterous to speculate we've been traveling the Atlantic for *tens of thousands of years*. It's really striking to see such push-back on a thread that is seemingly embracing, how naively in this context, the pursuits of human empowerment and endeavor (if there's a will, there's a way) while denouncing our very ancestors' capabilities for the same thing (i.e. crazy to think we traveled the Atlantic thousand of years ago). How those two mentalities can co-exist is beyond me.
Oceans and Seas facilitated trade and capital, not inhibited it. But yeah, thanks for piping in. I always appreciate your posts.
There was a huge continent full of wealth and resources to be exploited at the other side of the Atlantic. If there wasn't, if America was let's say a bare desert wasteland, no one would remember Columbus today and his voyage would be meaningless and forgotten. So can you tell me what resources (i.e. profit) are there on Mars? Exploration voyages only make commerical sense is there is a potential for real profit, that means a flow of resources and wealth from the newly discovered areas. "Someone paying for the voyage" does not equal profit, that's just redistribution of existing wealth.
When the cost benefit of space travel and colonization is comparable to transatlantic travel and trade, then it's reasonable to consider a free-market sustainable enterprise. Until then...
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
What is stupid is comparing apples to oranges, and what's crazy is consistently using that argument to defend your ideology and ignorance.
You may want to research transatlantic travel. It's interesting stuff. I suspect you will continue to maintain and limit your world view to the past 500 years because it makes living in Texas more tolerable.
So was crossing the atlantic in a boat. So was heavier-than-air flight. So was getting into space in the first place. So was going to the toilet in the middle of the night 100 years ago.
It's expensive.
So was... well, you see where I'm going with this.
I see where you're going... you're regressing. None of your lousy irrational examples are even comparable to space exploration and colonization. Not to mention of even creating and sustaining a market out of it, which is his point. Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years.
Time to pretend like the president has any actual control over any of this!...The presidency does not exist to wield power. The presidency exists to distract attention away from the wielding of power.
Well, since Obama was personally (and unusually) involved in formulating a satellite acquisition proposal to Congress, I'd say the argument that he is a mere figurehead doesn't quite fly.
That's President Obama. Now, if you were to quote Senator Obama, your point would be valid. You want to know how much he is a pawn? Military action against Syria will happen between next Saturday night and Tuesday morning. He will take action, as Presidents before him have, while Congress is in recess. He has until the 9th. This will be the main focus of his Presidential Address on Sunday; justifying the legality and U.S. interest in doing so. He'll pull at liberal heart strings.
This has been planned for the past 15 years now just like the Iraq war was. U.S. and Britain (primarily) won't miss their chance even though there is more evidence to counter the claim Assad used chemical weapons. They're manufacturing evidence.
The Elites need the Syrian pipeline and this is their chance to take it.
(Did I mention the U.S. and NATO have been funding the destabilization of Syria for the past four years?)
They'll be finishing up a pipeline in Northern Iraq next month. I know they have been planning a pipeline from Iraq straight through Syria and the "international investors" are wanting to move on this. Which makes all the events in Syria convenient. Would you have any info on who the players are?
This has the US and its allies running scared and is driving their foreign policy - from the recent Georgian/Russian war, a complete failure for the US who was covertly backing Georgia
How is that a complete failure for the US [corporations]? They got the BTC pipeline. Which, coincidentally, the three main benefactors are U.S., Britain, and France. You know, the ones currently pushing for military action against Syria.
The hotel owners are the real bed bugs and cockroaches. They're taking up precious real estate; they will be driven into the ground. You just made everyone you couldn't file lawsuit against vindictive and will smash you like a fucking bug.
The hotel has just made the client more able to counter suit. The hotel broke the TOA and inflicted physical, emotional, and financial harm to *their* client. Client should counter with $500,000.
This is like taking your car to the shop and having it come back with a sledgehammer through a windshield.
Vinegar, really? To their credit, the "conspiracy theorists" don't make such radical claims nor do they contribute it to commercial airliners. A contrail is not the same as a chemtrail. I'll give the conspiracy theorists credit because the trails that are left behind are by federally deployed jets at high altitude. In California, they're deployed every two hours.
It's not ludicrous and it *is* scientifically sound. The research was done in the 1940s to help mitigate global warming.
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"Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have received covert support from Washington in the funneling of arms to the most virulent Islamist elements of the rebel movement, while Russia and Iran have supplied arms to Assad." -- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/may/13/1
"In May 2007, a presidential finding revealed that Bush had authorised CIA operations against Iran. Anti-Syria operations were also in full swing around this time as part of this covert programme, according to Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. A range of US government and intelligence sources told him that the Bush administration had "cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations" intended to weaken the Shi'ite Hezbollah in Lebanon. "The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria," wrote Hersh, "a byproduct" of which is "the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups" hostile to the United States and "sympathetic to al-Qaeda." He noted that "the Saudi government, with Washington's approval, would provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President Bashir Assad, of Syria," with a view to pressure him to be "more conciliatory and open to negotiations" with Israel. One faction receiving covert US "political and financial support" through the Saudis was the exiled Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
According to former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, Britain had planned covert action in Syria as early as 2009: "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business", he told French television:
"I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was preparing gunmen to invade Syria."" -- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines
"Politicians enraged that Britain gave export licenses to sell Syria 'nerve gas chemicals'" -- http://rt.com/news/britain-sold-nerve-chemicals-283/
And then there's this... Politicians enraged that Britain gave export licenses to sell Syria 'nerve gas chemicals'
The rebels in Syria have been covertly funded by U.S. and NATO for the past four years via Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. So, no, I wouldn't put it past them either.
Sigh.
It's really disheartening when you know so much yet so little about geopolitics that you're able to predict the next move from the Elites. Just like Bush, Sr. said, "I don't need to read the news, I already know what's going to happen."
That's because in Japan police officers (etc.) are still seen as public servants. They are their to diffuse situations, not escalate them. Many U.S. police officers and border patrol *provoke* situations to the point where it takes a great deal of tolerance and patience to deflect the officers' provocations. Hell, even Ghandi would punch the pig fucker in his fat face.
You're right. But you know, no one in the U.S. cares because the U.S. mainstream media controls the narrative, and the mainstream media is controlled by the elites who also control the President and Congress. I just laid out what's going to happen in a timeline, and I have yet to be wrong once. Today, Obama announced the call for military action right after the U.N. inspectors left for Lebanon. Called that last week. Anyways, I'm not going to waste my breath. I'll leave everyone with a few articles and it's their duty to search for more and be informed.
I live in Mexico City. Where the fuck do you live, man? It sounds like everyone where you live is already robots.
Intelligent doesn't imply smart.
Perhaps all the furtive speedy grabbing of items is what leads you to look suspicious?
At any rate, if this is your local grocery store, the smart thing to do is get to know the people that work there and let them get to know you. Perhaps you are just as prejudiced as they are, and there's no cure for prejudice like exposure to the truth.
That's a reasonable assumption, but no, they're just underpaid unintelligible extra-distrustful assholes. This is my local grocery store and I am doing the smart thing of getting to know them: they're entitled, underpaid, unintelligible, extra-distruful assholes. Even striking up a conversation with the cashier is suspicious. The front door should read: "Caution: Do not make eye contact, do not divert from grocery list, DO go at extra slow pace. All abnormalities are treated as hostile combatants."
It's a chain store in MX. What more can I expect? You must live in Narnia. Around here acting like a sincere human being is the stuff of fables.
You know, you talk big. I'd like to see what you'd do when you're ganged up on by six security guards with sticks while you speak in a shaky pre-pubescent voice, "I just want to know where the Cap'N Crunch is." Let's see how tough you are then, huh?
It's a hostile land, man. Let me tell you.
For the rent-a-cop, abnormalities are: black, brown, poor, disabled or disordered, etc., ... unprepared, or even intelligent. Being intelligent is just too suspicious. Can the robot do all that?
Everytime I visit the grocery store nearby, it's like a game of pacman. They have about six security guards per isle and they follow me around like dim-witted ghosts. I have to hurriedly snatch up my bread, coffee, and milk to make it safely to checkout.
Ridiculous, truly. We would have been delivering telegrams on bicycles with wings. The market evolved from government funding and warfare. Depressing truth, truly.
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
Tread carefully - there's pretty good evidence for commerce between Africa and South America in that time frame, and the Chinese mega-ships were almost that long ago.
... and then there is evidence of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Turks... the list goes on. It's not preposterous to speculate we've been traveling the Atlantic for *tens of thousands of years*. It's really striking to see such push-back on a thread that is seemingly embracing, how naively in this context, the pursuits of human empowerment and endeavor (if there's a will, there's a way) while denouncing our very ancestors' capabilities for the same thing (i.e. crazy to think we traveled the Atlantic thousand of years ago). How those two mentalities can co-exist is beyond me.
Oceans and Seas facilitated trade and capital, not inhibited it. But yeah, thanks for piping in. I always appreciate your posts.
Just not in the U.S. They offered me a position last week.... in Mexico.
But go on, wax poetic on free-market capitalism.
Sorry for responding to my own post but I RTFA... This is a non-story. They cut redundancies after an acquisition. Happens all the time.
And they're have at least 675 available positions.
Just not in the U.S. They offered me a position last week.... in Mexico.
But go on, wax poetic on free-market capitalism.
On a side note, Salesforce is hiring in Mexico. I am sure it is totaly unrelated.
So was crossing the atlantic in a boat.
There was a huge continent full of wealth and resources to be exploited at the other side of the Atlantic. If there wasn't, if America was let's say a bare desert wasteland, no one would remember Columbus today and his voyage would be meaningless and forgotten. So can you tell me what resources (i.e. profit) are there on Mars? Exploration voyages only make commerical sense is there is a potential for real profit, that means a flow of resources and wealth from the newly discovered areas. "Someone paying for the voyage" does not equal profit, that's just redistribution of existing wealth.
When the cost benefit of space travel and colonization is comparable to transatlantic travel and trade, then it's reasonable to consider a free-market sustainable enterprise. Until then...
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
What is stupid is comparing apples to oranges, and what's crazy is consistently using that argument to defend your ideology and ignorance.
You may want to research transatlantic travel. It's interesting stuff. I suspect you will continue to maintain and limit your world view to the past 500 years because it makes living in Texas more tolerable.
It's not possible. Space is dangerous.
So was crossing the atlantic in a boat. So was heavier-than-air flight. So was getting into space in the first place. So was going to the toilet in the middle of the night 100 years ago.
It's expensive.
So was... well, you see where I'm going with this.
I see where you're going... you're regressing. None of your lousy irrational examples are even comparable to space exploration and colonization. Not to mention of even creating and sustaining a market out of it, which is his point. Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years.
That's President Obama. Now, if you were to quote Senator Obama, your point would be valid. You want to know how much he is a pawn? Military action against Syria will happen between next Saturday night and Tuesday morning. He will take action, as Presidents before him have, while Congress is in recess. He has until the 9th. This will be the main focus of his Presidential Address on Sunday; justifying the legality and U.S. interest in doing so. He'll pull at liberal heart strings.
This has been planned for the past 15 years now just like the Iraq war was. U.S. and Britain (primarily) won't miss their chance even though there is more evidence to counter the claim Assad used chemical weapons. They're manufacturing evidence.
The Elites need the Syrian pipeline and this is their chance to take it.
(Did I mention the U.S. and NATO have been funding the destabilization of Syria for the past four years?)
Next stop: Iran
They'll be finishing up a pipeline in Northern Iraq next month. I know they have been planning a pipeline from Iraq straight through Syria and the "international investors" are wanting to move on this. Which makes all the events in Syria convenient. Would you have any info on who the players are?
How is that a complete failure for the US [corporations]? They got the BTC pipeline. Which, coincidentally, the three main benefactors are U.S., Britain, and France. You know, the ones currently pushing for military action against Syria.
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Forests perhaps, but Native Americans were more skilled in controlled burnings. They were the ones who taught us how to do it.
The hotel owners are the real bed bugs and cockroaches. They're taking up precious real estate; they will be driven into the ground. You just made everyone you couldn't file lawsuit against vindictive and will smash you like a fucking bug.
The hotel has just made the client more able to counter suit. The hotel broke the TOA and inflicted physical, emotional, and financial harm to *their* client. Client should counter with $500,000.
This is like taking your car to the shop and having it come back with a sledgehammer through a windshield.
The conference calls are very real. NSA has since released the following intelligence:
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Vinegar, really? To their credit, the "conspiracy theorists" don't make such radical claims nor do they contribute it to commercial airliners. A contrail is not the same as a chemtrail. I'll give the conspiracy theorists credit because the trails that are left behind are by federally deployed jets at high altitude. In California, they're deployed every two hours.
It's not ludicrous and it *is* scientifically sound. The research was done in the 1940s to help mitigate global warming.
Oh, The Washington Times. How quickly the country forgets real controversies.
Are the mods this stupid? All the posts modded up are worthless.