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  1. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    here's ~4 videos of the FSA mentioning or appear to be using sarin gas http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-sho...uLVzbr0S517LUT Also Two phone calls affirm the use of chemical weapons in Homs by terrorists
  2. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    all they got was a tiny piece of it, ossetia.
  3. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    Published on Jun 14, 2013 "why the red line, what's the strategic goal, that's what is so baffling"
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    War with Syria

    Arab League Rejects Attack Against Syria CAIRO - The leaders of the Arab world on Tuesday blamed the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people last week, but declined to back a retaliatory military strike, leaving President Obama without the broad regional...
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    WW2 vet survived Nazi's only to be beaten to death by two teenagers

    they have to justify their gun ban vs crime problem with constant nudging bias it borders on propaganda.
  6. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    It's a major power if you JUST measure their economic capability, the only current super power(empire)is the US and it's currently declining. However it's still part of a small group of world killing capable countries China/Russia/US(West) they are kinda like the weakest of a triumvirate.
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    War with Syria

    Chuck Todd: Obama Avoiding Congress Because Isolationists May Block Attack on Syria You know what, congress kinda likes this too because they don't have to put their names on anything and or face a tough decision like facing many angry voters. Only ~9% of Americans support war as it...
  8. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    The NY Times, Twitter and HuffPo UK Appear to Have Been Stolen by the Syrian Electronic Army Unlike the typical Distributed Denial of Service attacks, (or DDoS), the SEA has actually taken over a handful of domains and is redirecting servers through their own properties at the moment. The...
  9. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    Russian Deputy Premier Calls West 'Monkey With Hand Grenade Rogozin, who used to head a popular nationalist political party and now oversees Russia's military industrial complex, has previouslylambasted on Twitter the alleged plans of "Anglo-Saxons"to attack Syrian government forces.
  10. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    Yeah I wouldn't call Russia a super power, it's a major power, with some superpower legacy benefits. it's population recently stabalized from the collapse after the fall of the soviet union, last I heard Europe is like 1.5 total fertility rate, Russia is around 1.7(rebounded from 1.2) and...
  11. fanaskin

    The NSA watches you poop.

    better trained on what to think and how to do specific tasks, NOT better educated on how to think, even 100 years ago the generic population that could read was alot better read on classical education. just because more people CAN read does not mean they are reading better books or reading...
  12. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    or even what was discussed, maybe they just said "the rebels used sarin gas", I know people who play stupid word games like that. I linked an article about it before, it was an anonymous ex israeli intelligence who is making that claim, do you trust that claim? Reuters: Only 9% of...
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    The Video Thread

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    War with Syria

    Syria: US Asks Greece for Military Base Access According to reports, the US authorities are reluctant to use Turkish military bases because of Ankara's strong support for the Assad opposition. A buildup of warplanes and military transporters has been reported at the British airbase at...
  15. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    Russia isn't an empire anymore, and lost 1/2 it's population but it can still kill the world with nuclear icbm's, it's still a major power through the shear glutton of natural resources and military technology it has, Pakistan has no such ICBM world killing ability, resources and technical...
  16. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    From what i've heard/read If we didn't fuck up iraq and destabalize it, Iraq would be highly agitated and would have probably threatened war by now or soon with turkey over a major turkish power project that includesatleast 22 dams upstream of the tigris and euphrates river, they have no love...
  17. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    Chemical experts doubt the truth of mass gas attacks in Syria. You have to sign up to see article, full text in spoiler Western experts on chemical warfare who have examined at least part of the footage are skeptical that weapons-grade chemical substances were used, although they all...
  18. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    This was back in june The Turkish media reported earlier that the Turkish intelligence seized 12 persons from Jabhatal-Nusrawith links to al-Qaeda in Adana city in southern Turkey andconfiscated 2 kg of toxic sarin gas, ammunition, several documents and digital information were in their...
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    War with Syria

    Mapped: 35 Places In Syria Likely to Get Hit With a U.S. Cruise Missile
  20. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    syria is Irans major client state, the sanctions on Iran haven't broken Iran yet. Iran's economic stake in Syria Syria and Iran cementing long-term economic ties via oil whatever think tank is supplying the script for the show, american hegemonic strategy seems to rely on getting at...
  21. fanaskin

    The Astronomy Thread

    i'm sure more money was spent on pork for back home too, the point is there was alot of money thrown around both military and social and nasa didn't get any.
  22. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    'IDF intercepted Syrian regime chatter on chemical attack' "According to the report Saturday in Focus magazine, a squad specializing in wire-tapping within the IDF's prestigious 8200 intelligence unit intercepted a conversation between high-ranking regime officials regarding the use of...
  23. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    It's not everyday you see people acting like north koreans
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    War with Syria

    Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria right click and view in "incognito" mode if you hit a paywall on this one. Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria The Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a "dramatic turn" in Syria. Mr Putin...
  25. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    I dunno i'm starting to hear this phrase more when I watch political shows across the spectrum of viewpoints some variant of "and even though obama has carried out most of the same foreign policy decisions as bush." I honestly think obama is sometimes partly a bystander to events around him...
  26. fanaskin

    The Current State of Vodka (or if you prefer all vodka comes from three distilleries)

    we should all buy land in detroit. the chinese are buying up all the land there, they'll make something of it eventually, we can buy and create our own socialist rerolled paradise in detroit though.
  27. fanaskin

    WW2 vet survived Nazi's only to be beaten to death by two teenagers

    yeahhhhh no, statistics and history are against you. before the gun was even invented the murder rate was atleast 4x higher, why? without the GREAT EQUALIZER, the strong dominate the weak, history shows where ever guns became cheap and available to the common person, crime, especially violent...
  28. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    well we know they existed at some point because we made them, then sold them to Iraq.
  29. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    so that would make the chemical weapons like a Benny hill skit, they keep crossing borders while america chases them ineffectively? where are they gonna go next? Iran then take a plane to north Korea, hit up Brazil on the way back home?
  30. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    yes same reason the b-2 spirit costs like 1 billion dollars per plane, that's factoring in the R & D costs as well, but because the plane is not suitable for mass production it drives the individual cost per unit up, because R & D is more or less a fixed cost once you've finished. that was...
  31. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    this is "mass produced" Messerschmitt Bf 109: --- 34,852 Focke-Wulf Fw 190: --- 20,051 Ilyushin Il-2: ----- 36,183 ----- F-16: ----- >4,500 ----- f-22: ----- 195 see the difference? the f22 is way too...
  32. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    need the knowledge and technology to stay ahead of everyone else even if you don't use it. f22 is more like a proof of concept than a mass production fighter. airforce has to move onto drones though, f22 reaches the limits a human pilot can endure.
  33. fanaskin

    War with Syria

    nah syria's anti air defense network is alot more substantial than libya's was especially after receiving russian anti air defense missles. it's formidable, not invincable, but we would have to commit to a major air war to take it out. Syria's Air-Defense Arsenal
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    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    excusing personal choice and personal behavoir. thinking of people as things with no self respect, you can spout all kinds of high minded shepardism but one truism that stands the test of time is that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
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    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    now you're talking about economics and the bigger pressure crushing the population economically is the federal reserve which is causing inflation.
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    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    try explaining gini co efficients with these people, there's a certain window after your FORMATIVE years that, you've been doing crazy shit like this for say 30 years, that is who you are. After your formative years and as you get older, it takes increasingly alot more personal growth and mental...
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    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    that's a rather pessimistic viewpoint of individuals. alternate viewpoint: if they weren't literally encouraged to do the wrong thing with money and incentives, they physically wouldn't be able to sustain this culture. government intervention has become a problem at this point, subsidizing...
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    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    they don't take advantage of the opportunity around them nearly enough, thug culture is causing a feedback loop to entrench itself, it encourages men not to raise their children and be anti education. the thug culture is repressing their economic opportunity, by providing them a bad framework of...
  39. fanaskin

    Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

    have you ever watched television news?
  40. fanaskin

    The Video Thread

    not in every state, no.