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Post by missouriboy on Feb 24, 2018 22:47:04 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 25, 2018 11:42:11 GMT
Don't mess with Mad Dog Mattis when Trump has taken him off the leash. 2 Mattis Quotes: "Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night." "I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years."
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Post by blustnmtn on Feb 25, 2018 15:34:38 GMT
Don't mess with Mad Dog Mattis when Trump has taken him off the leash. 2 Mattis Quotes: "Nothing keeps me awake at night. I keep other people awake at night." "I’m going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years." I posted it before and everyone has seen it but I have to once again.... “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”- General James (Mad Dog) Mattis
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 25, 2018 16:09:07 GMT
The sad thing about the Syria event is it happened IN Syria. Syria is trying to regain its oil fields. We are there trying to KEEP them from regaining their oil fields.
We have declared war on Syria, but it is a "soft war". Soft wars do NOT end well, if they EVER end!
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 25, 2018 18:30:57 GMT
The sad thing about the Syria event is it happened IN Syria. Syria is trying to regain its oil fields. We are there trying to KEEP them from regaining their oil fields. We have declared war on Syria, but it is a "soft war". Soft wars do NOT end well, if they EVER end! We seem to have decided that the Kurds are our ethnic group of choice as a wedge between the Shia's of the west and the Shia's of the east ... and the neo-Ottomans of the north.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 25, 2018 19:57:25 GMT
The sad thing about the Syria event is it happened IN Syria. Syria is trying to regain its oil fields. We are there trying to KEEP them from regaining their oil fields. We have declared war on Syria, but it is a "soft war". Soft wars do NOT end well, if they EVER end! We seem to have decided that the Kurds are our ethnic group of choice as a wedge between the Shia's of the west and the Shia's of the east ... and the neo-Ottomans of the north. It is all a hangover from 'The Great Game' and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (the Caliphate) after the First World War. France and Britain wished to ensure that there was no chance of the new countries wielding power. So country boundaries were defined that cut across ethnic boundaries so Kurdistan disappeared and was part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It also led to the definition of Palestine (now Jordan) and a place for the Jews with the Balfour declaration.
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 25, 2018 20:07:00 GMT
We seem to have decided that the Kurds are our ethnic group of choice as a wedge between the Shia's of the west and the Shia's of the east ... and the neo-Ottomans of the north. It is all a hangover from 'The Great Game' and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (the Caliphate) after the First World War. France and Britain wished to ensure that there was no chance of the new countries wielding power. So country boundaries were defined that cut across ethnic boundaries so Kurdistan disappeared and was part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It also led to the definition of Palestine (now Jordan) and a place for the Jews with the Balfour declaration. Nautonnier: Palestine has been used to describe an area for 100's of years. The Balfour declaration is recent.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 25, 2018 20:12:59 GMT
It is all a hangover from 'The Great Game' and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (the Caliphate) after the First World War. France and Britain wished to ensure that there was no chance of the new countries wielding power. So country boundaries were defined that cut across ethnic boundaries so Kurdistan disappeared and was part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It also led to the definition of Palestine (now Jordan) and a place for the Jews with the Balfour declaration. Nautonnier: Palestine has been used to describe an area for 100's of years. The Balfour declaration is recent. Well 1917 - I suppose that is recent to some. But the declaration defined precise borders to what had been a less well defined area. It also added an area for Jews to settle which was the root of the problems we see today.
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 25, 2018 21:59:48 GMT
Nautonnier: Palestine has been used to describe an area for 100's of years. The Balfour declaration is recent. Well 1917 - I suppose that is recent to some. But the declaration defined precise borders to what had been a less well defined area. It also added an area for Jews to settle which was the root of the problems we see today. Way before 1917. The Greeks wrote about Palestine. The idea this area is something new, or called something rather new is not accurate at all. I equate it with Global Warmers stats abilities.
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 25, 2018 23:40:04 GMT
Well 1917 - I suppose that is recent to some. But the declaration defined precise borders to what had been a less well defined area. It also added an area for Jews to settle which was the root of the problems we see today. Way before 1917. The Greeks wrote about Palestine. The idea this area is something new, or called something rather new is not accurate at all. I equate it with Global Warmers stats abilities. Philistine, one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century BCE, about the time of the arrival of the Israelites. According to biblical tradition (Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4), the Philistines came from Caphtor (possibly Crete, although there is no archaeological evidence of a Philistine occupation of the island). The first records of the Philistines are inscriptions and reliefs in the mortuary temple of Ramses III at Madinat Habu, where they appear under the name prst, as one of the Sea Peoples that invaded Egypt about 1190 BCE after ravaging Anatolia, Cyprus, and Syria. After being repulsed by the Egyptians, they settled—possibly with Egypt’s permission—on the coastal plain of Palestine from Joppa (modern Tel Aviv–Yafo) southward to Gaza. The area contained the five cities (the Pentapolis) of the Philistine confederacy (Gaza, Ashkelon [Ascalon], Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron) and was known as Philistia, or the Land of the Philistines. It was from this designation that the whole of the country was later called Palestine by the Greeks. www.britannica.com/topic/Philistine-people Goliath was a Philistine. David used a stone. Today they use F16s.
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Post by Ratty on Feb 27, 2018 6:50:23 GMT
Fake tweet?
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 27, 2018 6:52:49 GMT
Hadn't noticed that one, but President Trump might be correct again!
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 27, 2018 11:10:38 GMT
Hadn't noticed that one, but President Trump might be correct again! Will it "play" in Quebec?
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 2, 2018 11:42:53 GMT
There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During The 1990s www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-01/there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990sWe have 'censorship' by clickbait. The 24 hour news cycle and internet news have made instant dissemination of news easier so what used to be called 'penny bloods' get far more publicity than they did in the 1990's (when I was on the internet but not many were then). The websites have found what was known in the 19th century - there is a demand for the 'dreadful' but that doesn't mean that there are more dreadful things happening.
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Post by blustnmtn on Mar 2, 2018 15:01:29 GMT
There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During The 1990s www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-01/there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990sWe have 'censorship' by clickbait. The 24 hour news cycle and internet news have made instant dissemination of news easier so what used to be called 'penny bloods' get far more publicity than they did in the 1990's (when I was on the internet but not many were then). The websites have found what was known in the 19th century - there is a demand for the 'dreadful' but that doesn't mean that there are more dreadful things happening. ”If it bleeds it leads” Naut! Same with weather, every snow storm is an event to go wall to wall with in the media. The Talking Head Industry has to move product. I am particularly disgusted with how social media and the MSM have melded to form a cyclical synergy that fuels a mob of know nothing’s.
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