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03-24-2016, 05:33 PM
"The National Interest magazine is hiring a defense blogger (based in Washington DC). Any of you folks interested?"
That would be an interesting job. Maybe I will.
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03-28-2016, 02:50 PM
Quote: (03-26-2016 02:08 PM)RaccoonFace Wrote:
I wish this was satire but it probably isn't.
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03-30-2016, 02:24 AM
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016...ervention/
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Newly disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s intervention.
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But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.
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The same intelligence email from Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well-known theme of Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East: the contradiction of special forces training militias that are simultaneously suspected of links to Al Qaeda.
Blumenthal relates that “an extremely sensitive source” confirmed that British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in Benghazi suburbs.
While analysts have long speculated as to the “when and where” of Western ground troop presence in the Libyan War, this email serves as definitive proof that special forces were on the ground only within a month of the earliest protests which broke out in the middle to end of February 2011 in Benghazi.
By March 27 of what was commonly assumed a simple “popular uprising” external special operatives were already “overseeing the transfer of weapons and supplies to the rebels” including “a seemingly endless supply of AK47 assault rifles and ammunition.”
Yet only a few paragraphs after this admission, caution is voiced about the very militias these Western special forces were training because of concern that, “radical/terrorist groups such as the Libyan Fighting Groups and Al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are infiltrating the NLC and its military command.”
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The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”
Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this “confidential” explanation of what was really driving the war [emphasis mine]:
This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
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Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media.
It seemed no matter how bizarre the conspiracy theory, as long as it painted Gaddafi and his supporters as monsters, and so long as it served the cause of prolonged military action in Libya, it was deemed credible by network news.
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04-01-2016, 07:57 PM
Quote: (03-31-2016 01:41 PM)RaccoonFace Wrote:
Why was this guy, Gerald Ford, such a forgettable president? I literally can't associate anything with his name. I can tell a couple of things about every single president after World War II but I seriously can't name anything he did, positive or negative...
Didn't he have something to do with the Vietnam War? Wasn't he the one who returned the troops from Vietnam? Outside of that, I can't name anything.
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Chevy Chase did a mean impression, and Gerald fell down a few airplane ramps.
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04-01-2016, 08:33 PM
On the topic of Trump and politics and war but kind of off topic:
I was in class today and the instructor mentioned a video that I had used for my presentation on the country earlier this term. Its a 4th year course but I got in even though I am in my first year. A space needed to be filled. So lucky me. The class she was talking about was one of the first year courses she is the instructor for.
If you haven't seen the video I recommend it if you are interested in the Czech Republic. It is a speech by the Czech President. My instructor said that she showed the video to her students in her class. According to her there were people that after awhile stopped watching, a couple that could see why the Czech President was saying such things, and apparently several that thought the speech was like one by Trump and as such it was too right wing and thus 'wrong'.
I got a good mark on the presentation I mentioned. A-. I wanted to show something on topic, interesting, and to do with my case study. It did have an effect and I am hoping some got visibly annoyed or pissed off by the content.
I hope some of you will like the speech the Czech President made.
You mention Trump on campus and any anti migrant leader or show their speeches and you get knee-jerk reactions in the current university system where I am at. Being Right wing and against mass migration= bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FBTpR_uSE0
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04-06-2016, 02:01 PM
^^ The downside to this type of automation is that we won't get to see as many youtube videos of 200lb mammies throwing tantrums at MickeyD's employees and wrasslin' matches on the floor or fist fights with various patrons.
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04-07-2016, 02:34 PM
The pieces of Islam...
http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/artic...ordet.html
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Nazimuddin Samad wrote what he thought. The student and committed bloggers from Bangladesh had never hidden his criticism of religious extremism. "I have no religion" emblazoned openly under his Facebook profile. That was his death sentence. Against 21:00 on Wednesday night three unknowns had hacked the 28-year-olds on the street in pieces.
Samad had been on his way home from Jagannath University, where he studied law. At a busy intersection in the old part of the capital Dhaka he were cut off with a bike on his path and had then gone off with machetes on him. Recently, to make sure that he was really dead, they had shot him in the head. Eyewitnesses later, the attacker would have in all this aloud "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is great) chanted. Police have no suspects, and to date has still not certain Islamist group known to fact. But the bloggers who write in Bangladesh against fanaticism, have many enemies.
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