[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... did well by putting the record straight and calling things by their names. It officially announced, through its ambassador to Moscow, its true position towards the Iranian occupation of Syria, by considering that Iran has "legitimate" interests in Syria and supporting Tehran’s quest to maintain those interests; and that the "Syrian regime, which oppressed its opponents, is responsible for allowing for international and regional foreign intervention, which should not be blamed on others."
This is only part of a new chapter of the Qatari contradictions that the region and the world have witnessed for more than two decades. On one hand, Doha supports Lion of Islam groups fighting Bashir al-Assad’s regime and its Iranian ally on Syrian territory, and on the other hand, it stands with Iran in its occupation of Syrian territory and legitimizes its presence; hence supporting two conflicting parties at the same time.
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I didn't think an illegitimate government like Iran's could have any legitimate interests.
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[forum.nasaspaceflight] jpo234: What happens when SpaceX's Starship succeeds?
I don't expect this thread to have a long life. It easily derails and will probably end in a shouting match. But maybe there can be some fruitful discussion.
We are now seeing real Starship hardware and it seems Elon is convinced that they have solved the major engineering problems. SpaceX targets next year for the first orbital launch of Starship.
There are a number of high profile programs that would, IMHO, become immediately obsolete when Starship comes close to its goals:
* SLS: $1bn per launch? No way...
* LOP-G: A small multi billion dollar outpost while MZ cruises around the moon with a bunch of artists? No way...
* Mars sample return: Multiple billion dollar missions to collect a few pounds of rocks while SpaceX geologists scout the surface? No way...
So, what will happen?
Full discussion at the title link.
Now the politically nasty comment. If one assumes that the SpaceX big rockets work then SLS, LOP-G & Mars sample return would be places Prez Trump could mine for money for THE WALL!
SIDE ISSUE. A high school kid in Brownsville TX did a Go Fund Me on equipment and ran off to photograph and report on the rocket being built in Boca Chica. He knew there was a border control checkpoint on the highway there so he stopped and chatted with the border officers for a hour or so. They stop and check all trucks so they know everything going up/down the road and told him everything he wanted to know. More then even competitors of SpaceX know. They even told him where to launch his UAVs that SpaceX couldn't stop him. Lots of stuff. Those agents are a OpSec problem. The kid is on twitter. Nothing should happen to him but the border control folks need a lecture from somebody... They told him when the pad would be poured, how many trucks, where to watch them stage, when the real raptors would come and be put in and where to photograph the same, when the fuel tank pieces would arrive... to much ..
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
