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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | A voice of common sense at last. |
What's the opposite of common sense?
| Quote: | http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/syria-joel-rosenberg-damascus-countdown-magog
Oh Magog! Why End-Times Buffs Are Freaking Out About Syria
Novelist Joel Rosenberg has the ear of Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and the Heritage Foundation. He thinks conflict in Syria was foretold by the Old Testament.
Mother Jones.com. By Tim Murphy. Sep. 4, 2013
In early 2012, best-selling novelist Joel Rosenberg came to Capitol Hill for a meeting with an unidentified member of Congress to discuss the end of the world. "I thought the topic was going to be the possible coming war between Israel and Iran," Rosenberg explained on his website. "Instead, the official asked, 'What are your thoughts on Isaiah 17?'"
For the better part of an hour, Rosenberg says, the writer and the congressman went back forth on something called the "burden of Damascus," an Old Testament prophecy that posits that a war in the Middle East will leave Syria's capital city in ruins—and bring the world one step closer to Armageddon. As Rosenberg put it, "The innocent blood shed by the Assad regime is reprehensible and heart-breaking and is setting the stage for a terrible judgment."
But Rosenberg and his anonymous congressman aren't alone in viewing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's actions through a biblical lens. With Congress set to vote next week on the authorization to use military force in Syria, the Damascus prophecy has taken on a new significance among the nation's End Times industry—writers and pastors who believe the world is hurtling toward the return of Christ as forecasted in the Book of Revelation—and its adherents in the pews and in public life. On Saturday, Rosenberg will travel to Topeka, Kansas, at the invitation of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
The idea behind the prophecy is a fairly straightforward one. In Isaiah 17, the prophet explains that, in the run-up to Armageddon, "Damascus is about to be removed from being a city, and will become a fallen ruin." The implication is that it will be leveled by God on behalf of Israel as part of the last great struggle for mankind.
How exactly that will happen is a bit less clear. "The honest answer is that the Bible does not say," Rosenberg wrote on his blog last June. But in Rosenberg's Twelfth Imam series, he postulates that the emergence of the Mahdi, the Muslim messiah, leads to the rise of a new Islamic caliphate in the Middle East that prepares to decapitate Israel by launching nuclear warheads from Damascus. As the top-rated Amazon review for the final book in the series, Damascus Countdown puts it, "This is a great read for anyone interested not only in the prophetical future of Israel but for Iran and Syria as well…[It] makes one want to keep his or her eyes wide open on current day Middle East events, and see if they line up to eschatological Old Testament passages."
Rosenberg may seem like a fringe figure, but he has a large base of support and friends in high places. Damascus Countdown was, like the two preceding books in the series, Twelfth Imam and Tehran Initiative, a New York Times bestseller. He has been cited as an expert on nuclear policy by Fox News, where host Shannon Bream noted that he had been referred to as a "modern-day Nostradamus." Former (and future) Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum wrote a blurb for the hardcover edition of Damascus Countdown and brought the author onto his radio show, Patriot Voices, to discuss the book last spring.
In March, Rosenberg met privately with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Louie Gohmert in Austin. Gohmert was such a big fan of the novelist he brought a copy of Damascus Countdown as a gift to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011. (Because he's Louie Gohmert, the Texas congressman knocked over Netanyahu's coffee cup and bottled water in the process of handing over the book.) In April, he discussed Damascus Countdown at the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank. Rosenberg did not respond to a request to comment from Mother Jones.
Rosenberg is not the only Christian thinker making a buck off the burden of Damascus. Jan Markell, on whose End Times radio program Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has frequently appeared, blasted out an email to followers last summer warning that the Burden of Damascus may be close at hand. She reiterated that position in an interview with OneNewsNow last week. Walid Shoebat, a self-described "ex-terrorist" who is a frequent guest at right-wing confabs, told birther news site WorldNetDaily in August that while he wasn't sure the Burden of Damascus was imminent, "We can sense the beginning signs for the fulfillment of Isaiah 17's destruction of Damascus when we witness the influx of refugees from Syria to Jordan as predicted by the prophet Amos."
Hal Lindsey, a Texas-based evangelist famous for his 1970 treatise, The Late Great Planet Earth, has been beating the Damascus drum for years. He addressed the subject head-on in a 2008 column at WorldNetDaily (where Santorum is also a columnist), inspired by fears that then-President-elect Obama might bring the world closer to a war between Israel and Iran.
As Lindsey explained, the prophesied ruination of Damascus did not mean the end for everyone else—it would just bring the world one step closer to the final confrontation. "[A]ccording to Bible prophecy, Iran survives the Israeli strike and plays a major role in the coming Russian-led Gog-Magog Alliance foretold by the Prophet Ezekiel," he wrote. "Israel also survives, since the Gog-Magog Alliance eventually marches against it."
After warning once more of the "burden of Damascus" throughout the spring and early Summer, Lindsey offered a more dire warning on his television program on Friday, the day before Obama announced he was taking his case to Congress.
"As I prepared for this weeks program, I was again struck by the speed with which events are moving into the scenario the prophets predicted for the end times," he told his audience. "I believe we're there. People on the street are talking about what all of these things mean. Folks that wouldn't go darken the door of a church or pick up a Bible are now very curious. This may be our greatest opportunity—maybe even our last opportunity—to share the gospel of Jesus Christ before we're silenced by political correctness."
Your move, Congress. |
Crazy 'Endtimes' sword rattlers and drumbangers manoeuvring for position in the self-fulfilling prophecy stakes?
| Quote: | Isaiah 17
17 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
King James Version (KJV) |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Several old threads combined into a Syria situation super-thread. P_M |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Posted: 16-09-2013 10:06 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What's the opposite of common sense? |
No sense whatsoever, just plain loony tunes.  |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 13:21 Post subject: |
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Evidence of fakery :
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180221.html
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180149.html
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In summary, US, British and French services are 100% certain that the Syrian Arab army gassed an unknown number of civilians:
- 1. For this they would have used a new kind of old sarin gas that does not affect women.
- 2. For four days, the United States observed the preparing of the crime without intervening.
- 3. The day before use, the magic gas killed children who were kidnapped by jihadists two weeks earlier and more than 200 miles away.
- 4. These events are known through authentic films made and sometimes posted in advance on YouTube.
- 5. They are confirmed by a telephone interception produced ??by the Israeli enemy.
- 6. Western secret services have a secret method for identifying sarin gas without having to culture human tissue.
- 7. As it would be the fifteenth such operation, the "régime" would have crossed a "red line " and should be "punished" by bombing it to deprive it of its means of defense. |
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180257.html
| Quote: | The manipulated videos of the Ghouta ’’massacre’’
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 16 SEPTEMBER 2013
The Institute, presided by Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, has listed the first videos of the massacre of Ghouta, and was able to ascertain the encoded hours of the videos as well as the time of posting on internet. The closer study of this material enables us to point out incoherences and manipulations :
- Ghouta is has been depopulated or some time now. The only people that are left are those who support the ’’rebels’’ and some elderly people who weren’t able to flee. The supporters of the rebels are almost all grown men or adolescents. Only few are women or children.
- On the videos, the victims are mostly children, some adults, but almost no women, while the United Medical Office of Ghouta speaks of a massive amount of deceased women.
- A woman is looking for her children, but she appears in videos filmed in five different localities, and finds her children in two of them.
- A witness describes his family’s reaction when they smelled the gas, when Sarin gas is odourless.
- A picture of the Egyptian revolution was posted as proof of the Ghouta massacre by the Revolutionary Committee of Masaken Barzeh.
- Two videos, one posted by the revolutionary Committee of Jobar and the other of The Revolutionary Committee of Hamouria, both show two incompatible scenarios of the death of the same child.
- The comparison of several videos suggest they were staged, since it seems difficult and absurd to move bodies in the same emergency room.
- While the ’’rebels’’ announce over 1466 deaths, the videos only show 8 burials.
The Chemical Attacks on East Ghouta to Justify Military Right to Protect Intervention in Syria, by Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross, International Institute for Peace, Justice and man rights, September 11th 2013, 43 pp. |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-09-2013 13:23 Post subject: |
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Evidence of fakery :
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180221.html
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180149.html
| Quote: | In summary, US, British and French services are 100% certain that the Syrian Arab army gassed an unknown number of civilians:
- 1. For this they would have used a new kind of old sarin gas that does not affect women.
- 2. For four days, the United States observed the preparing of the crime without intervening.
- 3. The day before use, the magic gas killed children who were kidnapped by jihadists two weeks earlier and more than 200 miles away.
- 4. These events are known through authentic films made and sometimes posted in advance on YouTube.
- 5. They are confirmed by a telephone interception produced ??by the Israeli enemy.
- 6. Western secret services have a secret method for identifying sarin gas without having to culture human tissue.
- 7. As it would be the fifteenth such operation, the "régime" would have crossed a "red line " and should be "punished" by bombing it to deprive it of its means of defense. |
http://www.voltairenet.org/article180257.html
| Quote: | The manipulated videos of the Ghouta ’’massacre’’
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 16 SEPTEMBER 2013
The Institute, presided by Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, has listed the first videos of the massacre of Ghouta, and was able to ascertain the encoded hours of the videos as well as the time of posting on internet. The closer study of this material enables us to point out incoherences and manipulations :
- Ghouta is has been depopulated or some time now. The only people that are left are those who support the ’’rebels’’ and some elderly people who weren’t able to flee. The supporters of the rebels are almost all grown men or adolescents. Only few are women or children.
- On the videos, the victims are mostly children, some adults, but almost no women, while the United Medical Office of Ghouta speaks of a massive amount of deceased women.
- A woman is looking for her children, but she appears in videos filmed in five different localities, and finds her children in two of them.
- A witness describes his family’s reaction when they smelled the gas, when Sarin gas is odourless.
- A picture of the Egyptian revolution was posted as proof of the Ghouta massacre by the Revolutionary Committee of Masaken Barzeh.
- Two videos, one posted by the revolutionary Committee of Jobar and the other of The Revolutionary Committee of Hamouria, both show two incompatible scenarios of the death of the same child.
- The comparison of several videos suggest they were staged, since it seems difficult and absurd to move bodies in the same emergency room.
- While the ’’rebels’’ announce over 1466 deaths, the videos only show 8 burials.
The Chemical Attacks on East Ghouta to Justify Military Right to Protect Intervention in Syria, by Mother Agnès-Mariam of the Cross, International Institute for Peace, Justice and man rights, September 11th 2013, 43 pp. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | | Crazy 'Endtimes' sword rattlers and drumbangers manoeuvring for position in the self-fulfilling prophecy stakes?... |
What these people don't seem to realise is that the original writers of these texts were themselves end-timers who believed they were already there - they were writing about their own times based on the events of those times, not some far flung future.
It's also worth pointing out that the Damascus of which the OT writers were talking is, I believe, something like 5 metres below the surface of the modern city. So this:
| Quote: | | Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. |
is old - in fact, very old - news. |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/silent-military-coup-took-over-washington
| Quote: | The silent military coup that took over Washington
This time it's Syria, last time it was Iraq. Obama chose to accept the entire Pentagon of the Bush era: its wars and war crimes
John Pilger
The Guardian, Tuesday 10 September 2013 19.15 BST
On my wall is the Daily Express front page of September 5 1945 and the words: "I write this as a warning to the world." So began Wilfred Burchett's report from Hiroshima. It was the scoop of the century. For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues. He warned that an act of premeditated mass murder on an epic scale had launched a new era of terror.
Almost every day now, he is vindicated. The intrinsic criminality of the atomic bombing is borne out in the US National Archives and by the subsequent decades of militarism camouflaged as democracy. The Syria psychodrama exemplifies this. Yet again we are held hostage by the prospect of a terrorism whose nature and history even the most liberal critics still deny. The great unmentionable is that humanity's most dangerous enemy resides across the Atlantic.
John Kerry's farce and Barack Obama's pirouettes are temporary. Russia's peace deal over chemical weapons will, in time, be treated with the contempt that all militarists reserve for diplomacy. With al-Qaida now among its allies, and US-armed coupmasters secure in Cairo, the US intends to crush the last independent states in the Middle East: Syria first, then Iran. "This operation [in Syria]," said the former French foreign minister Roland Dumas in June, "goes way back.It was prepared, pre-conceived and planned."
When the public is "psychologically scarred", as the Channel 4 reporter Jonathan Rugman described the British people's overwhelming hostility to an attack on Syria, suppressing the truth is made urgent. Whether or not Bashar al-Assad or the "rebels" used gas in the suburbs of Damascus, it is the US, not Syria, that is the world's most prolific user of these terrible weapons.
In 1970 the Senate reported: "The US has dumped on Vietnam a quantity of toxic chemical (dioxin) amounting to six pounds per head of population." This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe". I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities. John Kerry, with his own blood-soaked war record, will remember them. I have seen them in Iraq too, where the US used depleted uranium and white phosphorus, as did the Israelis in Gaza. No Obama "red line" for them. No showdown psychodrama for them.
The sterile repetitive debate about whether "we" should "take action" against selected dictators (ie cheer on the US and its acolytes in yet another aerial killing spree) is part of our brainwashing. Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law and UN special rapporteur on Palestine, describes it as "a self-righteous, one-way, legal/moral screen [with] positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted political violence". This "is so widely accepted as to be virtually unchallengeable".
It is the biggest lie: the product of "liberal realists" in Anglo-American politics, scholarship and media who ordain themselves as the world's crisis managers, rather than the cause of a crisis. Stripping humanity from the study of nations and congealing it with jargon that serves western power designs, they mark "failed", "rogue" or "evil" states for "humanitarian intervention".
An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans, co-chair of a "global centre" based in New York. Evans and his generously funded lobbyists play a vital propaganda role in urging the "international community" to attack countries where "the security council rejects a proposal or fails to deal with it in a reasonable time".
Evans has form. He appeared in my 1994 film Death of a Nation, which revealed the scale of genocide in East Timor. Canberra's smiling man is raising his champagne glass in a toast to his Indonesian equivalent as they fly over East Timor in an Australian aircraft, having signed a treaty to pirate the oil and gas of the stricken country where the tyrant Suharto killed or starved a third of the population.
Under the "weak" Obama, militarism has risen perhaps as never before. With not a single tank on the White House lawn, a military coup has taken place in Washington. In 2008, while his liberal devotees dried their eyes, Obama accepted the entire Pentagon of his predecessor, George Bush: its wars and war crimes. As the constitution is replaced by an emerging police state, those who destroyed Iraq with shock and awe, piled up the rubble in Afghanistan and reduced Libya to a Hobbesian nightmare, are ascendant across the US administration. Behind their beribboned facade, more former US soldiers are killing themselves than are dying on battlefields. Last year 6,500 veterans took their own lives. Put out more flags.
The historian Norman Pollack calls this "liberal fascism": "For goose-steppers substitute the seemingly more innocuous militarisation of the total culture. And for the bombastic leader, we have the reformer manqué, blithely at work, planning and executing assassination, smiling all the while." Every Tuesday the "humanitarian" Obama personally oversees a worldwide terror network of drones that "bugsplat" people, their rescuers and mourners. In the west's comfort zones, the first black leader of the land of slavery still feels good, as if his very existence represents a social advance, regardless of his trail of blood. This obeisance to a symbol has all but destroyed the US anti-war movement – Obama's singular achievement.
In Britain, the distractions of the fakery of image and identity politics have not quite succeeded. A stirring has begun, though people of conscience should hurry. The judges at Nuremberg were succinct: "Individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity." The ordinary people of Syria, and countless others, and our own self-respect, deserve nothing less now.
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
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| Quote: | | What these people don't seem to realise is that the original writers of these texts were themselves end-timers who believed they were already there - they were writing about their own times based on the events of those times, not some far flung future. |
Rather a long time ago now I brought that matter up with a born-again christian that I knew... his view was that the end times started when the crucifiction happened and have been going on ever since.
I suppose eventually the end times will have been going on longer than the times that weren't the end times. |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3923 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
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| OneWingedBird wrote: | Rather a long time ago now I brought that matter up with a born-again christian that I knew... his view was that the end times started when the crucifiction happened and have been going on ever since.
I suppose eventually the end times will have been going on longer than the times that weren't the end times. |
I wonder if that means that you get end-end timers? Or somewhere in the middle end timers? I suppose if there's such a thing as beginning end-timers then the end-times are going to go on for quite a long time - so maybe we shouldn't worry too much.
And if they're all nuts, and you had a mate from South Wales who was of that persuasion, would that make you a Bridgend round the bend end-end timers friend? |
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| Analis Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Total posts: 851 Gender: Unknown |
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| Spookdaddy wrote: | | OneWingedBird wrote: | Rather a long time ago now I brought that matter up with a born-again christian that I knew... his view was that the end times started when the crucifiction happened and have been going on ever since.
I suppose eventually the end times will have been going on longer than the times that weren't the end times. |
I wonder if that means that you get end-end timers? Or somewhere in the middle end timers? I suppose if there's such a thing as beginning end-timers then the end-times are going to go on for quite a long time - so maybe we shouldn't worry too much.
And if they're all nuts, and you had a mate from South Wales who was of that persuasion, would that make you a Bridgend round the bend end-end timers friend? |
But aren't these kinds of rationalization the same story related in When prophecy fails, the story started again and again each time a new religion based on apocaplyptic phrophecies emerges and fails to fulfill its prophecies ? |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Analis wrote: |
But aren't these kinds of rationalization the same story related in When prophecy fails, the story started again and again each time a new religion based on apocaplyptic phrophecies emerges and fails to fulfill its prophecies ? |
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| Jonfairway Great Old One Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Total posts: 1185 Gender: Unknown |
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its part of the way humans are, behave, its inherent in their make up.
they want to be there at the end.. the last... involved in the final take...
it makes them feel important, included....
have a part to play in the final say, the final play, it makes the humdrum reality of existence have meaning, have conclusion...
its what makes spree killers tick.... that wanting to be remembered, even in a bad way....
its better to go as a group.... everyone...
well that's my philosophical thoughts on it anyway... |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
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| Quote: | | And if they're all nuts, and you had a mate from South Wales who was of that persuasion, would that make you a Bridgend round the bend end-end timers friend? |
Or if he was sat on the toilet at the time, you'd be the Bridgend round the bend end-end timers over the u-bend friend? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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Covers more than just Syria, a lot about Iran as well.
| Quote: | Imperialism: More than Syria in its sights
There has been a dramatic change in the politics of the Middle East, writes Yassamine Mather
The events we are now witnessing in the Middle East, the “United States’ accidental diplomacy” regarding Syria1 and renewed talk of the resolution of Iran’s nuclear programme were unexpected a few weeks ago. Having declared that the use of chemical weapons was the “red line” the Syrian leadership should not cross, the US has now accepted Russian proposals for a ‘diplomatic solution’.
If the original decision to launch a ‘limited military strike’ was unpopular, retreating from it has proved as unpopular and, both in the US and beyond, critics claim that the climbdown is an expression of indecision, of weakness. Of course, there are no guarantees that the agreement between the US and Russian foreign ministers struck on September 14 will lead to any kind of the resolution. Disarmament is a conflicted process at the best of times, but in the midst of a civil war, with both sides accusing the other of unleashing chemical weapons, with the state and sections of the opposition unleashing gratuitous violence against civilians, it is unlikely that the current deal will be the end of the affair. ...
http://www.hopi-ireland.org/c/imperialism-more-syria-its-sight |
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