Just because there are a lot of them doesn't mean they're not fake. In fact, it's probably indicative that they really are faked and someone wants to make sure that you're horrified. Anyway my points still stand. No old people, no fasciculations. Look for fasciculation videos on youtube and you'll see why you'll never miss them once you've seen them.
1. Not a single old person. It's either children (poor babies! think of the children!) or young men of combat age. With the occasional young woman thrown in. I guess there are no elderly at all in Syrian "civilian areas"? There are real dead people mixed in with living people, that much I'll grant you. However this chemical agent is "curiously selective" of its victims, and the cause of death is unknown and debatable until someone does an autopsy.
2. No evidence of fasciculations. I see plenty of people having tonic clonic seizures that somehow permit them to still be aware of their environment and look at the camera-man (doesn't happen in a real seizure), or point their index finger in a religious sign to their God. Fasciculations however are involuntary. You can't fake them. They're a sign of lower motor neuron damage/blockade, the sort you'd expect with chemical weapons (especially organophospates and nerve agents like Sarin/Tabun and family). But since they can't be faked you won't see any.
3. The timing, as has been pointed out elsewhere, is highly suspicious.
That's my $0.02 worth. But most people will believe whatever they are fed. I mean there's video, so it has to be real, right? No one has ever faked a massacre before for the cameras, right?
You must ask yourself a honest question, is your life in any way meaningful enough for the surveillance state to spy on?
No, YOU must ask yourself how lucky you feel. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.". They just need to hold on to the "evidence" long enough and eventually they can put you away for something. That's not you being important, that's your government grabbing you by the balls. By the way that quote was from the Cardinal Richelieu - a well known French tyrant.
Of course they are keeping content as well as metadata. Several documents leaked by Snowden are quite specific about it. As is the empirical evidence - man tweets a joke about having a blast in LA, is stopped at the border the next day and sent back home because of it. Within 24 hours they had identified him, tracked him down to a certain flight schedule and flagged him. Or the pressure cooker/backpack incident, which I think the story about his work "reporting him" being some BS damage control. Hey when you can murder people around the world with drones with impunity, who's going to stop you snooping around in their IP packets?
The "force" is simple to understand. The tighter I tighten the screws, the more I can steal and get away with. That's what power is about. Doing what you want even when other people don't want you to do it. If you have power, they just can't stop you.
Especially when you start rounding up the people with signs and throwing them in jail for not being in a "free speech zone" or for being within 1 mile of a secret service officer.
Or you have a friend who is googling pressure cookers. Or a friend of a friend, because they go "3 deep". Besides, the claim is that they are collecting and storing the information on absolutely everybody. But they don't actually "look" at it unless they "suspect" something.
This reminds me of one night when I was on call at the hospital. There was a horrendous car accident and the paramedics were talking to me via the radio. First you must understand that I'm in the third world and most of the paramedics here are just glorified bus drivers. Anyway the guy on the radio informs me that one of the patients is breathing but not conscious. So I asked him for his Glasgow score. In medicine we use something called the Glasgow score to evaluate the severity of neurological damage. It's based on 3 separate metrics that are added together. Each metric has a score more or less from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum). So an awake, alert person scores 15, while an almost dead person scores a 3. The scale looks at the patients eyes (whether open spontaneously, whether the patient opens his eyes when asked to, or in the presence of painful stimulus, or doesn't open them at all, for example), motor ability and verbal ability. It easy to assess someone within a few seconds and give them a "score". And there's a general rule - "8 - intubate!". Anyway, the paramedic goes off the radio for a few moments and I can hear him conferring with his buddy. After a while he gets back to me and says "Doc, I'm sorry but we don't have a Glasgowmeter here with us..." It was a facepalm moment...
Anyway this device reminded me of that night and how those paramedics might have benefited from its use:)
The US is prepared to break its own laws. I don't see why they would abide by an international agreement all of a sudden. Ahh but the politicians will sell it to the sheep, and all will be forgiven and forgotten cos, you know, they said they won't do it anymore.
Except you're the one taking the government's word for it and spreading disinformation. You go try convincing local cops to get off their asses and go talk to someone over a google search and see how likely that is.
No that was the bullshit damage control. You know how I know? Don't you remember the guy in England who said he was going to "have a blast" (or something to that effect) in Los Angeles, and was turned around at the US border? They are reading everything. They just don't want you to think that they are.
So does the US. It also has literally mountains of oil shale and the oil sands of Canada
Yes, this argument again. It was even on TV. The US seems to think that Canadian oil belongs to it. You realize that Canada is not forced to sell it to you, right? The other component being that the oil sands operations are very remote, far from manufacturing centers. Yet they are also geographically close to each other. They are also very exposed. World War 2 proved exactly how easy it is to destroy refineries. How long do you think it would take to re-build the operation to current output?
As for shale oil - production is nowhere near the US daily consumption, and will not be for many, many years. It cannot be ramped up overnight.
No, the US has its strategic reserve of 200 days which can probably be stretched out further with rationing. The rest of the oil will be much, much harder to get to. Oil tankers are very big, very slow targets. If they can be interdicted by a bunch of Somali in light craft, I'm sure they can be found by Russian subs/aircraft/cruise missiles.
Reliance on obsolete tech is not very comforting. Why should I send a ship to do something that can easily be done with long range land based missiles nowadays? I can afford many, many missiles for the price of your one ship. And when your big toys are at the bottom of the ocean, a few destroyers can easily control the ocean.
Russia is a failed superpower, telling it's self what it wants to hear.
Yeah go tell the Georgians that Russia is a "failed superpower". They lost most of their army in what, a day or so? The US was covertly backing Georgia, btw. Another proxy war. You would do well to let the bear keep on sleeping. I'm not sure the US would survive a war with Russia, especially when middle eastern oil is interdicted. Russia on the other hand has plenty of oil...
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Just because there are a lot of them doesn't mean they're not fake. In fact, it's probably indicative that they really are faked and someone wants to make sure that you're horrified. Anyway my points still stand. No old people, no fasciculations. Look for fasciculation videos on youtube and you'll see why you'll never miss them once you've seen them.
1. Not a single old person. It's either children (poor babies! think of the children!) or young men of combat age. With the occasional young woman thrown in. I guess there are no elderly at all in Syrian "civilian areas"? There are real dead people mixed in with living people, that much I'll grant you. However this chemical agent is "curiously selective" of its victims, and the cause of death is unknown and debatable until someone does an autopsy.
2. No evidence of fasciculations. I see plenty of people having tonic clonic seizures that somehow permit them to still be aware of their environment and look at the camera-man (doesn't happen in a real seizure), or point their index finger in a religious sign to their God. Fasciculations however are involuntary. You can't fake them. They're a sign of lower motor neuron damage/blockade, the sort you'd expect with chemical weapons (especially organophospates and nerve agents like Sarin/Tabun and family). But since they can't be faked you won't see any.
3. The timing, as has been pointed out elsewhere, is highly suspicious.
That's my $0.02 worth. But most people will believe whatever they are fed. I mean there's video, so it has to be real, right? No one has ever faked a massacre before for the cameras, right?
Or eating their organs.
You must ask yourself a honest question, is your life in any way meaningful enough for the surveillance state to spy on?
No, YOU must ask yourself how lucky you feel. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.". They just need to hold on to the "evidence" long enough and eventually they can put you away for something. That's not you being important, that's your government grabbing you by the balls. By the way that quote was from the Cardinal Richelieu - a well known French tyrant.
Of course they are keeping content as well as metadata. Several documents leaked by Snowden are quite specific about it. As is the empirical evidence - man tweets a joke about having a blast in LA, is stopped at the border the next day and sent back home because of it. Within 24 hours they had identified him, tracked him down to a certain flight schedule and flagged him. Or the pressure cooker/backpack incident, which I think the story about his work "reporting him" being some BS damage control. Hey when you can murder people around the world with drones with impunity, who's going to stop you snooping around in their IP packets?
The "force" is simple to understand. The tighter I tighten the screws, the more I can steal and get away with. That's what power is about. Doing what you want even when other people don't want you to do it. If you have power, they just can't stop you.
Especially when you start rounding up the people with signs and throwing them in jail for not being in a "free speech zone" or for being within 1 mile of a secret service officer.
Or you have a friend who is googling pressure cookers. Or a friend of a friend, because they go "3 deep". Besides, the claim is that they are collecting and storing the information on absolutely everybody. But they don't actually "look" at it unless they "suspect" something.
This reminds me of one night when I was on call at the hospital. There was a horrendous car accident and the paramedics were talking to me via the radio. First you must understand that I'm in the third world and most of the paramedics here are just glorified bus drivers. Anyway the guy on the radio informs me that one of the patients is breathing but not conscious. So I asked him for his Glasgow score. In medicine we use something called the Glasgow score to evaluate the severity of neurological damage. It's based on 3 separate metrics that are added together. Each metric has a score more or less from 1 (minimum) to 5 (maximum). So an awake, alert person scores 15, while an almost dead person scores a 3. The scale looks at the patients eyes (whether open spontaneously, whether the patient opens his eyes when asked to, or in the presence of painful stimulus, or doesn't open them at all, for example), motor ability and verbal ability. It easy to assess someone within a few seconds and give them a "score". And there's a general rule - "8 - intubate!". Anyway, the paramedic goes off the radio for a few moments and I can hear him conferring with his buddy. After a while he gets back to me and says "Doc, I'm sorry but we don't have a Glasgowmeter here with us..." It was a facepalm moment...
Anyway this device reminded me of that night and how those paramedics might have benefited from its use :)
Spied on each other's military and industrial secrets. No KGB agent was reading about the new underwear I bought.
it would never consider violating the rights of foreigners.
Tell that to the parents of the kids killed by US drones.
The US is prepared to break its own laws. I don't see why they would abide by an international agreement all of a sudden. Ahh but the politicians will sell it to the sheep, and all will be forgiven and forgotten cos, you know, they said they won't do it anymore.
You wouldn't be suggesting making a public protest within 1 mile of a secret service agent, would you?
Not the wisdom of crowds but the wisdom of crud.
Except you're the one taking the government's word for it and spreading disinformation. You go try convincing local cops to get off their asses and go talk to someone over a google search and see how likely that is.
No that was the bullshit damage control. You know how I know? Don't you remember the guy in England who said he was going to "have a blast" (or something to that effect) in Los Angeles, and was turned around at the US border? They are reading everything. They just don't want you to think that they are.
You think Canada's air defense network is as complicated as Russia's?
So does the US. It also has literally mountains of oil shale and the oil sands of Canada
Yes, this argument again. It was even on TV. The US seems to think that Canadian oil belongs to it. You realize that Canada is not forced to sell it to you, right? The other component being that the oil sands operations are very remote, far from manufacturing centers. Yet they are also geographically close to each other. They are also very exposed. World War 2 proved exactly how easy it is to destroy refineries. How long do you think it would take to re-build the operation to current output?
As for shale oil - production is nowhere near the US daily consumption, and will not be for many, many years. It cannot be ramped up overnight.
No, the US has its strategic reserve of 200 days which can probably be stretched out further with rationing. The rest of the oil will be much, much harder to get to. Oil tankers are very big, very slow targets. If they can be interdicted by a bunch of Somali in light craft, I'm sure they can be found by Russian subs/aircraft/cruise missiles.
VTOL/STOL jets are more common nowadays. The Japanese are not expecting to have to land F-14s on the damned thing.
Reliance on obsolete tech is not very comforting. Why should I send a ship to do something that can easily be done with long range land based missiles nowadays? I can afford many, many missiles for the price of your one ship. And when your big toys are at the bottom of the ocean, a few destroyers can easily control the ocean.
Russia is a failed superpower, telling it's self what it wants to hear.
Yeah go tell the Georgians that Russia is a "failed superpower". They lost most of their army in what, a day or so? The US was covertly backing Georgia, btw. Another proxy war. You would do well to let the bear keep on sleeping. I'm not sure the US would survive a war with Russia, especially when middle eastern oil is interdicted. Russia on the other hand has plenty of oil...
The US never thinks twice about breaking treaties, why would it be different for the Japanese?
This was a decision by Xerox to get around ever being sued for copyright violations...
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." --Richelieu
I don't care who you are, if they want to hang you they will hang you.
Even if you swear you didn't eat corn...