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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Capitalism White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on us domestic kommies

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Posted by: badanov || 12/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The bombing and destruction will commence very soon. Tourists are already carefully making their way off of the summit of the monument.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/25/2015 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Cause the collapsed Soviet Union revealed an ecological paradise in its ruin. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/25/2015 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Please let us know where this is published to avoid driving traffic to Salon.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 12/25/2015 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Posted by: Matt || 12/25/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#5  All of their points about the "white men" left out the fact they were Democrats, the party of slavery.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/25/2015 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Please let us know where this is published to avoid driving traffic to Salon.

A legitimate point, whitecollar redneck. badanov had originally presented the entire editorial with the in-lines it cries out for; unfortunately, I revealed a hitherto unsuspected bug in the current iteration of the Rantburg program when I Page 49'd it, which deleted the text.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/25/2015 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  They lost me after the first paragraph. But it is chilling to think there really are people who believe this crap.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/25/2015 15:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Actually, I'm hoping for 500 more years.
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/25/2015 15:44 Comments || Top||

#9  A very good point almostanonymous,

I was raised democrat but was in college during part of the civil rights movement. When I realized that all of the governors, police chiefs, etc., that were standing on the steps of the colleges and siccing the dogs on the marchers were DEMOCRATS, I left the party and vowed never to EVER vote for one again.

The current theme of the democrats has done nothing since offer any temptation of returning to their fold.

I turned 21 in 1966 and my first vote in a Presidential election was for Richard Nixon.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 12/25/2015 20:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Soooooo IIUC, one more PCoorect-Deniable reason among several already as to why-n-how Humanity won't be exploring or colonizing Deep Space in righteous Anti-Solar, Anti-GWCC, etc. indignation???

You know, THE REASON WHY "OWG" + "GLOBAL GOVT." IS AKA "SPACE GOVT-ORDER".

[FAMILY GUY'S GREAT IRISHMAN PETE GRIFFITH STARING ANGRILY/MENACINGLY AT THE SUN, THE SAME "FEELING ALL HAUGHTY + SAFE-N-SECURE UP THERE", here].

Oh yes, Sun, you will surrender like France to Peter + Earth, oh yes you will!

I don't have to bring up Guam Taotamonas 1960'S-1970'S = 2014 "EDGE OF TOMORROW" and
"INTERSTELLAR" do I???


Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/25/2015 22:27 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Opinion:Kuntar Was Not a Hero nor Was Hezbollah Ever a Resistance
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Syrian tragedy is truly unique and cannot be compared to others; it had revealed masks exposing truths covered up and hidden beneath the Arab stage of politics.

Moreover, Syria's battlefield was the place where a Hezbollah paramount was taken down quietly without creating a buzz or a sign of national or international care. It was only Hezbollah that arranged a funeral represented by memorial ceremony service followed with dubbing it's, previously honored for Israeli imprisonment, commander a martyr.

Those who exclusively eulogized their "Martyr" are active members of Hezbollah specially employed for the sake of making announcements that comprise of details on the party's deaths "deaders", which now are seen as reports that had lost the interest of them being circled around and published.

Hezbollah latest eulogy: "Kuntar has been killed by Israel", an unconvincing statement with no logic standing behind it, because there is no apparent motif pushing Israel to kill someone that is fighting far off their borders all the way in Damascus. Others explain the incident as a result of a mistake by Russian Arclight Arclight airstrike; some also went all the way to interpreting that Russia has stabbed Hezbollah in the back.

The sole credible explanation remaining is the Syrian Opposition claim of perpetrating the operation of attacking the six story building, burying Kuntar under rubble.

No one was concerned with who killed Kuntar, since he was killed in his fight for Iran, Assad's regime, and Hezbollah.

This mass indifference might finally raise Hezbollah and other organizations' alarm on the fact that no one buys the lie they are portraying under the bleak comical impression of them defending Lebanese -Syrian- Paleostinian grounds.

The role they have long portrayed for themselves has been brought to an end, despite a fair majority of Arabs and Lebanese people buying into it, there were always the southern families that saw into it after being the first to pay up with dear blood, and were the closest to the reality of the battlefield.

The Syrian crisis and the regime's foul play against millions of Arabs has revealed their truth, shook the historical pillars they are based on and exposed their rallying cry and holy sacrament.

The public now asks if the heroes were truly "heroes", or were they mere merchants and proxies for foreign plans?

Was there any truth to what they have been told over the past decades, or was it all piled up superstitions?

Does Samir Kuntar deserve to be dubbed a hero for killing a three member Israeli family, or is he a criminal for participating in the death of 300 thousand Syrians?

Syria today altered all conviction and apprehension; people in addition to Hezbollah's society are forced to relook into the past with today's unfolding knowledge.

Supporters claiming that times have changed, and that today is a different story unlike the past, that had represented times of resistance and strife for ethics and glorified cause, renouncing all their present actions, must pause for a second and reconsider.

If we look back over past decades it is evident that they reflect mere chapters in a book that writes off its conclusion with what is happening in Syria today. Hezbollah's "resistance" is a title to a crime fiction, in which we can read about covering up evidence and falsifying facts, the connotation "resistance" itself was intended for taking over the Lebanese government and using it to cancel out any defiance, laying down the foundation for an opposing front like the alliance with Tehran in order to control the region.

News is read separately, but if we were to read it out as a whole we can conclude that those who killed a third of a million Syrians are the same people behind the tens of assassinated Lebanese citizens. They carried out an agenda based on eliminating any opposition, which was manifested in Rafic Hariri, Gebran Tueni, and George Hawi along with many others; in addition to their previous attempt on assassinating the late prince of Kuwait alongside targeting Arab and gulf airlines and touristic companies.

Moreover this is how we can truly interpret the story after tracing it back to its start point in the 80's, back when Iran along with Syria decided on interfering in the fight against Israel as an excuse for keeping their foot put down on Lebanese soil, holding up arms, and kidnapping foreigners; after they managed to get rid of the Paleostine Liberation Organization that was also giving the two powers a run for Leb.

Israel invaded Leb and eliminated the PLO; despite the perpetrator of the attempt on assassinating the Israeli ambassador in London was an affiliate of Assad's regime, Israel still used it as an excuse for the invasion.

In turn, Iran and Syria were the greatest benefactors of Hezbollah's "resistance", and by adopting the project that founded it, thus affixed Leb's occupation threatening the world through organizations run by them.

In the name of Paleostine, they were able to dominate the entire country, erecting training camps for Arabs to fight other Arab citizens in Iraq, Gulf, Yemen, and Syria.

We can no longer fall into the trap of superstition and false excuses, like "the defense against Israel". I do not know if Iran, Hezbollah, and Assad realize that the monstrous slaughter happening in Syria today, has written down a new page in history that cannot be overlooked nor forgotten.

The "story" of resistance and defense were never true, not for a second over the past years. Their days of taking advantage of the Paleostinian cause are over.

Posted by: Fred || 12/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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