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How truth is manufactured in the West

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Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:27 PM

THGRRI


Russia’s TV talk shows smooth Putin’s way from crisis to crisis


“They invited about six Syrians — all pro Assad!” he said after the show, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Russian ally. “All praising Putin for ‘saving Syria.’ All thanking Putin for being the greatest president on Earth.”

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Sunday, December 13, 2015 3:01 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Oh, I forgot.....when you say it, it's Gospel. Forgive my ignorance..............
1000 apologies. Only you, in your infinite wisdom are able to discern truth, fact from fiction, a lie from solid evidence. Only you get the TRUTH from reliable and correct sources.

Listen, I know that us peons are unable to discern propaganda from the REAL news, so please have pity on us poor souls. After all, we does the best we can. Enlighten us Oh Guru of the absolute truth......gaze into your crystal ball and show us the righteous path.

Sorry, I slipped into Auraptor mode. I have to tell you though, I learned from the best in the business: James Aronson, he who founded the National Guardian, he who taught at Hunter College, he who in 1981 was invited to teach in China at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He who graduated from Harvard and the Columbia School of Journalism. One of the most respected professors at Hunter and a hell of a man, and a hell of an author and newsman.

Maybe I should shut up, because I have no desire to debate the issue any further. Suffice it to say that short of being there at the moment, and not even then because of our bias, the report will always be slanted one way or another. Of course, nothing is actually 100% true, as we all have our points of view. Although when common sense comes into play, anything goes.


SGG


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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KPO- on any day, son, I can read western media and find another whopper. And I just found one. Look, here it is, in Reuters:
Quote:

Islamic State militants have made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way to Turkey, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.
Because, yanno, US government officials would never lie!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-oil-idUSKBN
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-SIGNY

And you know this How, exactly!?
Let me see, a blanket statement that governments lie - Quelle surprise!
SGG



How do I know this?

Because, among other things, it is presented ENTIRELY WITHOUT EVIDENCE. You, like G, KPO, and THUGR, don't even have the good sense to notice when you're dealing with 'allegation" versus "evidence".

Now, I have read reports and seen pictures posted by others - aside from Russia- which details the number of oil tankers trucks going from Syria and Iraq to Turkey. The reporters have calculated the amount of oil, followed it to Turkish refiners and to Turkish ports, and watched ship-to-ship transfers offshore etc. There is nothing like that in this article which, internally, doesn't even make sense.

Here, let me analyze the article for you.

Quote:

Islamic State militants have made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way to Turkey, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.
Okay then. As it stand, this is a bald, and somewhat garbled, allegation. An accusation with NO PROOF.

First of all, how does he know the value of the oil being sold? He would have to know both the volume and the prices of the various markets that its being sold into. That would require deep knowledge of Syrian state finances, Turkish finances, and other prices on the illegal market - information that I doubt that he has.

But, taking his statement at face value, and assuming a 50% (or more) discount from legal per barrel prices... If illegal oil is being sold at

$20 a barrel (or less) that means
250,000,000 (or more) barrels of oil sold, or
131,000 (or more) tanker trucks of standard USA size (about 8000 gallons)
11,000 (or more) tanker trucks a month
370 (or more) tanker trucks a day

That's a lot of tanker trucks! That would be visible by drone, or even by satellite! Where are they all going?

"SOME" is going to Turkey.
A "SIGNIFICANT VOLUME" is supposedly going to the Syria government

Now, there are a few things to think about:

1) Where is THE REST going? The statement, in its face, doesn't account for what seems to be a rather large remainder.

2) How is the oil supposedly transported to Syrian government-controlled areas? There are only two paths that the oil can follow ... (a) either out of ISIL-controlled Syria thru a neighboring country (which one? Iraq? Turkey?) and back in thru port, which would reveal a significant line of trucks going out, and ships coming in, or (b) directly into Syrian government-controlled territory, again, creating a significant line of trucks from ISIL territory into Damascus or other areas.

And if not trucks... if pipeline ... don't they know where the oil is coming from and going to?

With all of this oil-traffic supposedly going into government-controlled territory, don't you find it strange that there are no photos of roadways and trucks, no coordinates of pumping stations and pipelines, or ANY OTHER evidence presented in favor of this allegation?

ALSO, don't you find it strange that the USA and its "partners" have somehow NOT NOTICED this oil traffic until JUST NOW? Not targeted it at any time in the previous 14 months of bombing???

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The United States, France, Britain and Russia have vowed to defeat Islamic State, which uses an extreme interpretation of Islam to justify attacks and brutality in large parts of Syria and Iraq that it controls.
Uh huh. What does this have to do with oil, especially oil to government-controlled Syria?

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A U.S.-led coalition is bombing the hardline Sunni group, as is Assad's only big-power supporter Russia, in an attempt to kill its leaders and cripple the oil wells which the group uses to finance its rule and attacks abroad.
Uh huh. The USA didn't start bombing ISIL's oil assets until Russia helpfully point them out in several forums such as the G20 and UN.

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In one of the most detailed public explanations of Islamic State's oil trade, U.S. Treasury Department official Adam Szubin
The same person that you have faith will stop terror financing networks

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said militants were selling as much as $40 million a month of oil at the installations which was then spirited on trucks across the battlelines of the Syrian civil war and sometimes further.
And again, he just noticed this now. And has no evidence for his characterization of where the oil is going. Allegation, no proof.

Quote:

"ISIL is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime," Szubin, acting under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence with the Treasury, told an audience at Chatham House in London.
Once again, a bald statement with no proof.

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"The two are trying to slaughter each other and they are still engaged in millions and millions of dollars of trade," Szubin said of Assad's government and Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
More bald statements, with no proof.

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The "far greater amount" of Islamic State oil ends up under Assad's control while some is consumed internally in Islamic State-controlled areas. Some ends up in Kurdish regions and some in Turkey, he said.
More bald statements, with no proof.

Quote:

"Some is coming across the border into Turkey," Szubin said when asked for details on the money trail.
More bald statements, with no proof.

Quote:

"Our sense is that ISIL is taking its profits basically at the wellhead
That is an impossibility. ISIL still has to sell the oil somewhere in order to realize that profit

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and so while you do have ISIL oil ending up in a variety of different places that's not really the pressure we want when it comes to stemming the flow of funding - it really comes down to taking down their infrastructure,"
In other words, bomb the oil wells, so that if the Syrian government retakes the oil-producing regions, it will have a big rebuilding job to do. (My speculation is that the USA is afraid that the Syrian government WILL prevail, and therefore is setting the stage for a "scorched earth" retreat. But that's just speculation so far. And I doubt they will be successful since Russia has basically just said they will shoot ANY unfriendly plane out of the sky.)

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Szubin said it was unclear whether the $40 million a month estimate could be multiplied over a year. But in remarks prepared for delivery, he said Islamic State had made more than $500 million from the oil trade, but did not give a more specific time period.
Szubin is behaving like a guy who really wants a permanent appointment: he's saying exactly what his boss wants him to say.

Quote:

After Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had intelligence that large amounts of oil and petroleum products were moving across the border from Islamic State territories to Turkey.

The son of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has denied Russian allegations that he and his family were profiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory.

"There is no question that better security, closing the Turkish border to flows is a key component right now and we are looking to the Turks to do more in that respect," Szubin said.

"It's not just a financial issue - it is about foreign terrorist flows, it's about weapons and it's about financing. I think securing that border would pay major dividends in terms of intensifying the pressure and also reducing the threat."

Here, he seems to be intent on saving Recep Erdogan's son, Balil, from being linked to terrorist oil flows. So while he acknowledges that the Turkish border allows fighters and weapons to flow into ISIL-controlled Syria and stolen antiquities, opium, and (been said) human transplant organs to flow OUT of ISIL-controlled areas, this activity all magically stops with oil.

Uh huh.

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In an attempt to cut militants' links to the global financial system, Szubin said the United States had worked with Iraq to close down dozens of bank branches in Islamic State-held territories. Szubin said militants had looted up to $1 billion from bank vaults in Syria and Iraq, but he said Islamic State's oil trade was the main target.
Because somehow $1 billion is less important than $500 million.

The rest is just other stuff, interesting but not relevant. Basically, the article is just one long propaganda piece for which the USA has not even bothered to cook up the faintest shred of evidence, published on the well-founded faith that most readers will swallow the article whole.

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Sunday, December 13, 2015 3:55 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


BTW this is what I get when I click on the Staged Chem attack link:

Error 404
Page not found
This might be because:
— You have typed the web address incorrectly, or
— the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted.

Also, do you know who these guys are at Global Research? Never heard of them.

Now, the BBC I've heard of and have every confidence in their reporting integrity and skills.


SGG

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Sunday, December 13, 2015 7:12 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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How do I know this?

You don't.

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Because, among other things, it is presented ENTIRELY WITHOUT EVIDENCE.

Logic fail. That doesn't mean it's a lie. It means it's an unsubstantiated claim.

But all of this is tangential, because your point in this thread is not that Western governments lie, but that Western media lies.

Where is the lie in that Reuters article you quoted? Your quoted section again:

Islamic State militants have made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way to Turkey, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.

Well, is there anything factually incorrect there? Are you disputing that the US official DID say what Reuters reported?

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Sunday, December 13, 2015 10:04 AM

THGRRI


While many of Globalresearch's articles discuss legitimate humanitarian or environmental concerns, the site has a strong undercurrent of reality warping throughout its pages. Its view of science, the economy and geopolitics seems to be broadly conspiracist. It's no surprise then that the site has long become a magnet for radicals, fringe figures and whacko elements from the left in general.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Globalresearch


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Sunday, December 13, 2015 10:29 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.



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How do I know this? - SIGNY

You don't.= KPO

Because, among other things, it is presented ENTIRELY WITHOUT EVIDENCE.-SIGNY

Logic fail. That doesn't mean it's a lie. It means it's an unsubstantiated claim.- KPO

It should certainly be a BIG RED FLAG to anyone reading this - or similar - articles. Bald-faced lies tend to work rather well because then there is no detail to pick apart.

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But all of this is tangential, because your point in this thread is not that Western governments lie, but that Western media lies.
No. that's not my claim. Maybe you should go back to my original post, or perhaps just re-read the title of the thread. Here is my original post

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One of the ways that "truth" is made in the west is to use unreliable sources who helpfully stage convenient narratives for the media.., which dutifully passes on the disinformation. And sometimes, the media just makes shit up


Somewhere along the way (perhaps not in this thread) I made the very long point that nearly EVERYTHING you read in "the news" comes from one sort of "official release" or another ... from the white House (or in your case Downing Street) to your local animal shelter, universities to think tanks, and reporters behave like dutiful stenographers, writing all of it down. Sometimes participants STAGE events for in-field reporters. But real investigative reporting hardly even happens. I think I've been making the point that the responsibility for disinformation is SHARED.

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It's not personal. It's just war.
Only to you.

SO, btw, you claim that you could go back into Russian media and find a lie within the past week? I challenged that on the basis that you don't even READ Russian media, you make a POINT of not reading anything other than KPO-approved sites, so HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? Shall I put that particular claims onto the pile of baseless KPO claims, or are you going to back it up?

Here, try going to

www.rt.com
sputniknews.com
russia-insider.com



HOW TRUTH IS MANUFACTURED AT RT. Self=parody. Enjoy! And watch it all the way to the end, or you'll miss something.






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Sunday, December 13, 2015 2:46 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


... you claim that you could go back into Russian media and find a lie within the past week? I challenged that on the basis that you don't even READ Russian media, you make a POINT of not reading anything other than KPO-approved sites, so HOW WOULD YOU KNOW? Shall I put that particular claims onto the pile of baseless KPO claims, or are you going to back it up?

I think you should put it in the predictions thread. But that's assuming kpo understands the difference between claims and facts - something he seems completely unable to do.




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Sunday, December 13, 2015 8:00 PM

JAYNEZTOWN








what happens when tinfoil heads have more credibility than mainstream media?


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Monday, December 14, 2015 3:27 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


"from the white House (or in your case Downing Street) to your local animal shelter, universities to think tanks, and reporters behave like dutiful stenographers, writing all of it down. Sometimes participants STAGE events for in-field reporters. But real investigative reporting hardly even happens. I think I've been making the point that the responsibility for disinformation is SHARED."


So, basically you're saying that reporters get paid to "copy" what they're fed and move on to the next assignment. No checking or corroboration, no digging to get to the facts. By the way, investigative reporting takes months or years to come to fruition. It is very deep in scope and requires sound journalistic skills. Whereas with your statement, little is called for or required to merely "copy" or
regurgitate the "news" handed down for mass consumption.

If it is as you say, then investigative reporting would not be needed since the managing editor's only job would be to hand out steno pads. But I'm confused. You see, I recently was watching Meet The Press and Chuck Todd was interviewing Trump, and he asked him about his obviously "truthful" statement that he saw, with his own eyes, Muslims celebrating in Jersey City as the Twin Towers fell.

Did Todd need to investigate to fact check his statement? Here I'll help, NO. He did, however, check the facts of his brash statement. That didn't take months or years. I suspect that he already knew the answer, but a good reporter always checks the facts. He did not come out and say that Trump lied, that would be unprofessional. He did suggest that in his statement Trump may have gotten his bearings crossed up with something else, but ultimately Todd informed his audience that no film, video or report of such an occurrence was ever submitted. Now, did the western media deliberately erase such a report? Or did they conspire to make Trump out a liar? That could be possible. Then again, Russian news is controlled by Putin's Administration, yet you seem to believe every utterance. But, of course, they don't control the news in Russia or China, or Cuba for that matter.


SGG

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Monday, December 14, 2015 3:43 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


SGG

I've been witness to facts never showing up in US news, and facts which were 'disappeared' out of the news.

When I lived much closer to Canada I would get my international news from CBC radio in addition to US sources, so I had a good opportunity to 'compare and contrast'. At the time the US was not reporting anything about Angola, though it was reported daily by CBC, which characterized it as a 'war', and included news about US involvement. It turns out the CBC was accurate, and US news - not at all.

Historians and former diplomats who have studied the documents say they show conclusively that the United States intervened in Angola weeks before the arrival of any Cubans, not afterward as Washington claimed. Moreover, though a connection between Washington and South Africa, which was then ruled by a white government under the apartheid policy, was strongly denied at the time, the documents appear to demonstrate their broad collaboration.

''When the United States decided to launch the covert intervention, in June and July, not only were there no Cubans in Angola, but the U.S. government and the C.I.A. were not even thinking about any Cuban presence in Angola,'' said Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, who used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the documents. Similarly, cables of the time have now been published by the National Security Archive, a private research group.

''If you look at the C.I.A. reports which were done at the time, the Cubans were totally out of the picture,'' Dr. Gleijeses said. But in reports presented to the Senate in December 1975, ''what you find is really nothing less than the rewriting of history.''

Cuba eventually poured 50,000 troops into Angola in support of a Marxist independence group, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. The group held the capital in the months just before independence from Portugal, declared in August 1975.

But Dr. Gleijeses's research shows that the Cuban intervention came in response to a C.I.A.-financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire, now known as Congo, and South Africa's simultaneous drive on the capital, using troops who posed as Western mercenaries.


In another instance of news not showing up, there was a major power surge. It knocked radio and tv stations off the air for days, fried hospital and bank computers ... and also life-support equipment in intensive care units - that I PERSONALLY know of. You see, despite the fact that it affected a million people (going by the locations of the broadcasters that were silent), it was never reported, so I couldn't tell you the full extent of the event.

And, back in the days of pappy Bush and Iraq war part uno, as I was driving in to work I heard the tally of the vote of the Arab States to let the US in. I was only half-paying attention so the tally went past me. But it was SO startling I wanted to get the numbers. But after that broadcast they were nowhere to be found, no matter how hard I searched.



The whole issue of 'news reporters' simply relaying official information has been written about since the 50's (that I know of). In the early 70's I was introduced the the work of I.F. Stone, who made a point of never getting his news from a press release or news conference. (As I recall, he analyzed raw wire feeds from around the globe for his news.)

I. F. Stone's Weekly

Although Stone had been a mainstream journalist in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on shows like Meet the Press[13] (then a radio show), in 1950 he found himself blacklisted and unable to get work possibly because Stone publicly admitted to his "fellow traveler" tendencies.[14] In 1953, inspired by the example of the muckraking journalist George Seldes and his political weekly, In Fact, Stone decided to start his own independent newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly. Over the next few years, Stone's newsletter campaigned against McCarthyism and racial discrimination in the United States.

In 1964, using evidence drawn from a close reading and analysis of published accounts, Stone was the only American journalist to challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson's account of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. During the 1960s, Stone continued to criticize the Vietnam War. At its peak in the 1960s, the Weekly only had a circulation of 70,000, but it was regarded as very influential.[15]

Hundreds of articles originally published in the Weekly were later republished in The I. F. Stone's Weekly Reader (1973), and in three volumes of a six-volume compendium of Stone's writings called A Noncomformist History of Our Times (1989).


Now, tptb have gotten together and homogenized the official narrative we're supposed to believe. Unless you go far, and dig deep, you'll no longer be able to compare and contrast the news from one country with the news from another, like I did with the CBC and US news. They're now reading from the same script.

And the news of course is no longer the news, because news - real news, with independent reporters on the ground and investigative journalists forensically digging out the facts - is expensive. It used to be a tally-sheet loss for its purveyors, who took the 'news' business hit out of, I believe, a sense of public duty.

But now it's INFOTAINMENT, put together as cheaply as possible, and designed to draw an audience in order to create expensive ad time to sell. (I wish I could remember the name of the book I read that had the text of a speech a network owner gave to a journalists' conference, where he said exactly that, at length. And not with regret, but setting them straight: telling them their ideals were fantasy and giving them their marching orders.) And then, we now have the hybrid government/ media offspring called embedded reporters, in a perfect fusion of propaganda. (And about a year ago I read the story of a former AP? German bureau chief who admitted they directly broadcast stories handed to them by the CIA, State Department and other vested US government interests, which, of course I can't find again.)

I'm curious if you REALLY believe you're getting THE news.



And finally - just for your own interest - next time you read the news, or watch it on TV - note how many times they say - a unnamed source in the (police, pentagon, administration, ...); how many times a (jobs report, unemployment report, report released by ...); or a press release from ...; or a news conference at ...; or a speech by ...; ... is quoted AS NEWS. And, hopefully, you'll already understand that this is the story someone wants you to believe, and which the press is only too happy to funnel your way.

ALWAYS require solid evidence before you accept something as fact. ALWAYS think of information as provisional - and be ready to change your mind when more complete information comes along. And hardest of all, try to keep in mind the topics that were the hot button of the day, and have gone silent.




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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:00 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


I have to admit, there are some points you bring up that were part of Professor Aronson's teachings. How to dissect a news story and how to present one. Also the near extinction of the investigative reporter and solid news story. It is a thing of the distant past. Last I remember of an investigative report came around at the
time of Bush lite's "victory" in 2000.

Greg Palast, The Guardian, reported on the cheating uproar during the 2000 election. Voter fraud and voter "spoilage" (as he termed it) and vote counting contributed greatly to that presidential race, that he claims Al Gore won. Spoiled votes goes something like this:

While investigating the 2000 ballot count in Florida for BBC Television, I saw firsthand how the spoilage game was played -- with black voters the predetermined losers. Florida's Gadsden County has the highest percentage of black voters in the state -- and the highest spoilage rate. One in 8 votes cast there in 2000 was never counted. Many voters wrote in "Al Gore." Optical reading machines rejected these because "Al" is a "stray mark."

By contrast, in neighboring Tallahassee, the capital, vote spoilage was nearly zip; every vote counted. The difference? In Tallahassee's white- majority county, voters placed their ballots directly into optical scanners. If they added a stray mark, they received another ballot with instructions to correct it.

Palast had uncovered many such discrepancies that would make the hanging chad look like a children's fairy tale. But suffice it to say that he is a dying breed of news reporter. When I worked briefly at CNN (just as it went to 24-hour news service) I would collect the teletype news feed and bring it to the managing editor
and, depending upon the headline, to Mary Alice Williams (who was 1000 times better than Katy Couric, even on her worst day). And it turned out to be either Reuter's or Associated Press. So yes, this is a feed that is disseminated throughout the country, as just about every news outlet gets the same feed.

You mention TPTB and you are correct again. There are forces at work to homogenize the news so as to take control, thereby controlling the consumers in mass quantities. Many stories go un-reported, such as the commandos that raided an ISIS stronghold, along with Pesh Merga fighters, and rescued over 60 Kurd prisoners.
I heard it on MSNBC the same night that:

"Buried deep among the Bullshit Follies (Benghazi Trial) was a story regarding a Delta Force commando squad assisting the Peshmerga in Northern Iraq, freeing 70 Kurd hostages and capturing 5 ISIS soldiers slated for execution."

But the MSM did not report on it until 2 or 3 days later.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
SGG

I've been witness to facts never showing up in US news, and facts which were 'disappeared' out of the news.

When I lived much closer to Canada I would get my international news from CBC radio in addition to US sources, so I had a good opportunity to 'compare and contrast'. At the time the US was not reporting anything about Angola, though it was reported daily by CBC, which characterized it as a 'war', and included news about US involvement. It turns out the CBC was accurate, and US news - not at all.

Historians and former diplomats who have studied the documents say they show conclusively that the United States intervened in Angola weeks before the arrival of any Cubans, not afterward as Washington claimed. Moreover, though a connection between Washington and South Africa, which was then ruled by a white government under the apartheid policy, was strongly denied at the time, the documents appear to demonstrate their broad collaboration.

''When the United States decided to launch the covert intervention, in June and July, not only were there no Cubans in Angola, but the U.S. government and the C.I.A. were not even thinking about any Cuban presence in Angola,'' said Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, who used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover the documents. Similarly, cables of the time have now been published by the National Security Archive, a private research group.

''If you look at the C.I.A. reports which were done at the time, the Cubans were totally out of the picture,'' Dr. Gleijeses said. But in reports presented to the Senate in December 1975, ''what you find is really nothing less than the rewriting of history.''

Cuba eventually poured 50,000 troops into Angola in support of a Marxist independence group, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. The group held the capital in the months just before independence from Portugal, declared in August 1975.

But Dr. Gleijeses's research shows that the Cuban intervention came in response to a C.I.A.-financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire, now known as Congo, and South Africa's simultaneous drive on the capital, using troops who posed as Western mercenaries.


In another instance of news not showing up, there was a major power surge. It knocked radio and tv stations off the air for days, fried hospital and bank computers ... and also life-support equipment in intensive care units - that I PERSONALLY know of. You see, despite the fact that it affected a million people (going by the locations of the broadcasters that were silent), it was never reported, so I couldn't tell you the full extent of the event.

And, back in the days of pappy Bush and Iraq war part uno, as I was driving in to work I heard the tally of the vote of the Arab States to let the US in. I was only half-paying attention so the tally went past me. But it was SO startling I wanted to get the numbers. But after that broadcast they were nowhere to be found, no matter how hard I searched.



The whole issue of 'news reporters' simply relaying official information has been written about since the 50's (that I know of). In the early 70's I was introduced the the work of I.F. Stone, who made a point of never getting his news from a press release or news conference. (As I recall, he analyzed raw wire feeds from around the globe for his news.)

I. F. Stone's Weekly

Although Stone had been a mainstream journalist in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on shows like Meet the Press[13] (then a radio show), in 1950 he found himself blacklisted and unable to get work possibly because Stone publicly admitted to his "fellow traveler" tendencies.[14] In 1953, inspired by the example of the muckraking journalist George Seldes and his political weekly, In Fact, Stone decided to start his own independent newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly. Over the next few years, Stone's newsletter campaigned against McCarthyism and racial discrimination in the United States.

In 1964, using evidence drawn from a close reading and analysis of published accounts, Stone was the only American journalist to challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson's account of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. During the 1960s, Stone continued to criticize the Vietnam War. At its peak in the 1960s, the Weekly only had a circulation of 70,000, but it was regarded as very influential.[15]

Hundreds of articles originally published in the Weekly were later republished in The I. F. Stone's Weekly Reader (1973), and in three volumes of a six-volume compendium of Stone's writings called A Noncomformist History of Our Times (1989).


Now, tptb have gotten together and homogenized the official narrative we're supposed to believe. Unless you go far, and dig deep, you'll no longer be able to compare and contrast the news from one country with the news from another, like I did with the CBC and US news. They're now reading from the same script.

And the news of course is no longer the news, because news - real news, with independent reporters on the ground and investigative journalists forensically digging out the facts - is expensive. It used to be a tally-sheet loss for its purveyors, who took the 'news' business hit out of, I believe, a sense of public duty.

But now it's INFOTAINMENT, put together as cheaply as possible, and designed to draw an audience in order to create expensive ad time to sell. (I wish I could remember the name of the book I read that had the text of a speech a network owner gave to a journalists' conference, where he said exactly that, at length. And not with regret, but setting them straight: telling them their ideals were fantasy and giving them their marching orders.) And then, we now have the hybrid government/ media offspring called embedded reporters, in a perfect fusion of propaganda. (And about a year ago I read the story of a former AP? German bureau chief who admitted they directly broadcast stories handed to them by the CIA, State Department and other vested US government interests, which, of course I can't find again.)

I'm curious if you REALLY believe you're getting THE news.



And finally - just for your own interest - next time you read the news, or watch it on TV - note how many times they say - a unnamed source in the (police, pentagon, administration, ...); how many times a (jobs report, unemployment report, report released by ...); or a press release from ...; or a news conference at ...; or a speech by ...; ... is quoted AS NEWS. And, hopefully, you'll already understand that this is the story someone wants you to believe, and which the press is only too happy to funnel your way.

ALWAYS require solid evidence before you accept something as fact. ALWAYS think of information as provisional - and be ready to change your mind when more complete information comes along. And hardest of all, try to keep in mind the topics that were the hot button of the day, and have gone silent.




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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:26 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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There's KPO and his obsession again.

Why don't you check on your own anti-USA psychosis before you accuse anyone else of obsession. Which one of us posts photos of badly mutilated bodies of children to (unsuccessfully) make her point?

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It's like, when you get your ass handed to you in one thread

Lol, which thread was that? The thread where you suggested that Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland might have been democratic just like Crimea, or the thread where kiki got caught out lying and went into meltdown?

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It should certainly be a BIG RED FLAG to anyone reading this - or similar - articles. Bald-faced lies tend to work rather well because then there is no detail to pick apart.

Nonsense. Intelligence agencies from different countries make claims all the time, and people can then doubt them/take them at their word as they like. It is the media's job to report these quotes and correctly attribute them. Sometimes the agencies release evidence to back up their claims, satellite data etc, but not always. If you think spy agencies withholding the sources of their intelligence is damningly suspicious, it's because you don't understand how intelligence agencies work. Let's imagine you were in charge of media statements for one of these government agencies:

Signy: "Our source for this intel on ISIS was an undercover operative high up inside one of their Raqqa cells..."
--> spy is dead within a week. Nice work Signy!

Furthermore, we've seen lying governments like Russia make claims, and then bolster their claims with fabricated evidence - and then mugs like you swallow it whole, so... In short, believe or disbelieve any governments that you want, but don't believe them based on the 'evidence' they offer up in the form of shiny photo-shopped media presentations.

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KPO: But all of this is tangential, because your point in this thread is not that Western governments lie, but that Western media lies.
Signy: No. that's not my claim.



Yes it is, as everyone can see:

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Signy: KPO- on any day, son, I can read western media and find another whopper. And I just found one. Look, here it is, in Reuters:

So I ask again, where is the lie in that Reuters article?

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 4:48 PM

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Someone posting what they found on google about finding fair and honest news sources, means nothing if it is not what they practice. It is just another deflection from the truth of what they do. I am astounded just how easy it is to deflect some here.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:32 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"It is the media's job to report these quotes and correctly attribute them."

You mean they work for the government by distributing its propaganda? And the more accurate they are in relaying the government line, the better the job they're doing?? Why didn't you just say so?




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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:00 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


SGG..I truly appreciated your reply, your perspective and your own personal experience! THANKS !!!




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Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:04 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:


Greg Palast, The Guardian, reported on the cheating uproar during the 2000 election. Voter fraud and voter "spoilage" (as he termed it) and vote counting contributed greatly to that presidential race




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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:58 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"It is the media's job to report these quotes and correctly attribute them."

You mean they work for the government by distributing its propaganda? And the more accurate they are in relaying the government line, the better the job they're doing?? Why didn't you just say so?



It's not that hard kiki. It is the media's job to report the news. When a government makes a significant claim then that is news, and the media should report both the claim, and who said it. There is no propaganda in correctly reporting that important person X said Y.

Contrast this to Russian media, which broadcasts the Kremlin's invented conspiracy theories about the CIA being behind ISIS, the 'coup' to replace Yanukovich, and pretty much every evil in the world, as if they were established facts, and not very weakly substantiated claims.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 10:09 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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It's not that hard kiki. It is the media's job to report the news. When a government makes a significant claim then that is news , and the media should report both the claim, and who said it. There is no propaganda in correctly reporting that important person X said Y.
Yanno, I can get you to believe ANYTHING, and I don't have to fabricate anything. All I need to do is SELECT what you hear. Most propaganda is accomplished by selection, not by lies. So if on of the things I choose to report is a GOVERNMENT LIE, and I choose not to question it or to provide additional information, am I not participating in propaganda?

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Contrast this to Russian media, which broadcasts the Kremlin's invented conspiracy theories about the CIA being behind ISIS


Of course it is. The CIA has helped establish rat-lines (supply lines) to ISIL, al Qaida, and other terrorist affiliates into Libya and Syria through Turkey, just as they supplied al Qaida in Afghanistan earlier. Try doing a websearch on the topic, you will probably find Seymour Hirsch as a reference in addition to others. In another thread (which I will have to find again) someone said it was the Pentagon's (military) failure which led to the creation of ISIL, but personally I think the CIA and its "interventionist" arm is working sometimes at cross-purposes with the military and even with their own intelligence-gathering operation. I wonder if at this point we have a rogue portion of the CIA, stuffed full of neocons who are busy working on starting WWIII.

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the 'coup' to replace Yanukovich, and pretty much every evil in the world, as if they were established facts , and not very weakly substantiated claims/


Yanukovich fled because of violence. YOU call it a "revolution", I call it a "coup", Show me how it was NOT a coup, or revolution, or whatever it is you choose to call it, because as far as I can tell the only difference between a "revolution" and a "coup" is whether or not you approve of the resulting government. EXAMPLES: The "French Revolution" meets the definition of a coup, does it not? So does the "Russian Revolution" and the "American Revolution".

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So there you are, being dragged backwards, kicking and screaming, into the cold light of day. Instead of looking backwards, how about looking forwards .... there is a NEW and dangerous "reality" being manufactured in the western press right now, in regards to the Middle East. I'm not sure whether it will "take", but its certainly being floated. Can you tell what it is?




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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 12:33 PM

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SIG

Yanno, I can get you to believe ANYTHING, and I don't have to fabricate anything. All I need to do is SELECT what you hear. Most propaganda is accomplished by selection, not by lies.



I would say the fact that everyone but 1kiki constantly disagrees with you, shows you do not possess the intellect to change anyone’s mind about anything. Your point however does highlight your approach to posting. As I have said from day one. SUBJECTIVE....It was dumb of you to confirm that. Which proves my point about your intellect.


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SIG

So if on of the things I choose to report is a GOVERNMENT LIE, and I choose not to question it or to provide additional information, am I not participating in propaganda?





Yes, that is what we all recognize you doing as you promot Putin’s agenda.



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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 5:49 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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So if one of the things I choose to report is a GOVERNMENT LIE, and I choose not to question it or to provide additional information, am I not participating in propaganda?

You're talking complete nonsense. When there are competing claims you report both of them. But if there is no immediate contradictory claim then there is no 'selection' is there? Here's an article about Putin's claims that Turkey is an accomplice to ISIS - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-putin-id
USKBN0TD1J420151124#AU067mw77C4qQB3t.97


It doesn't "provide any additional information", it just repeats the claims. So is Reuters "participating in propaganda" for the Russian government?

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Of course it is. The CIA has helped establish rat-lines (supply lines) to ISIL

Yawn.

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Yanukovich fled because of violence.

As always, you are just repeating the narrative of the Russian government. You cannot forcibly remove a national government by throwing rocks/Molotov cocktails at riot police, or by occupying a few government buildings. Yanukovich fled because his own party disowned and abandoned him, leaving him vulnerable to impeachment. Even Russian news reported it:

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The Party of Regions parliamentary faction said on Sunday it laid responsibility for the situation in Ukraine and the resulting fatalities on Viktor Yanukovych and his team.

"Now Ukraine is living through one of the most difficult and tragic periods in its history," the faction said in a statement. "The country finds itself deceived and robbed, but even this is nothing in comparison with the grief that dozens of Ukrainian families, who have lost their relatives, are feeling. Ukraine has been betrayed. Viktor Yanukovych and his team are responsible for this."

"We, the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and our party members, strongly condemn the criminal orders that led to human losses, to the depletion of the state treasury and the drastic debt increase that shamed the government in the eyes of Ukrainians and the rest of the world. As a result, our country found itself on the edge of a precipice, faced the threat of break-up and loss of national sovereignty. The president failed to heed our advise when it was given to him," the Party of Regions says.

...

"We condemn the cowardly flight of Viktor Yanukovych. We condemn the betrayal on his part. We condemn the criminal orders, which exposed common people, soldiers and officers to certain risks"


http://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/news/2014_02_23/Party-of-Regions-
faction-blames-Yanukovych-for-fatalities-in-Ukraine-events-5981
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EXAMPLES: The "French Revolution" meets the definition of a coup, does it not? So does the "Russian Revolution" and the "American Revolution".

Then give me examples of historians calling the French Revolution 'a coup'. Or the American Revolution? If not then don't complain when I call your use of the word 'coup' brainless.

EDIT: Oh, and you still haven't said what was the 'whopper' in that Reuters article?

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:47 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


its a mess



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Originally posted by kpo:
Then give me examples of historians calling the French Revolution 'a coup'. Or the American Revolution?



I wonder if you dig into those museums in British cities and archives in London, read how the nobles and Kings of British establishment wrote about the Americas and the 13 Colonies, dumping tea, wanting their own laws and own freedoms, doing rebelions and start wars how rude, how un-British? Loyalists loved Stamp acts and Sugar Acts and the King of England don't like no Rebels, protagonists (smugglers) as violating the 'rights' of colonists, tax evaders, trouble makers who started war against the King and Queen? Of course there was rivalry and competition from the colonial powers, the Empires of Europe the Spanish, French, English all did not see the world the same. French would be tempted by an opportunity to put French Navy ships to sea and to settle some old scores with the British...remember America was still kind of ungoverned, rebel cowboy free land, unconquered, it was still in a period of colonisation and French ships off New York suddenly knew how Island territory near Jamicia was worth more than the whole of America combined. Islands which might be today know as British Virgin Islands, Honduras, Jamaica and the Bahamas West Indies were worth a lot more to the British than the whole American mainland...later a British Empire would be damaged and British with virtually no serviceable ships left in American waters.... of course it would inspire the French to have their own internal struggle, in the USA a Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States it possibly later provides inspiration for the French revolutionaries of 1789, offering a new language of fredoom, brotherhood, free speech, liberty
...imagine for a second your a Spanish nobel man living in this time or imagine you are a British subject working on British ship....I never did write it from a complete Euro perspective

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Friday, December 18, 2015 5:06 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


I would like to add that, like in life, there are no absolutes despite commentary to the contrary. Again, as I stated above, China, Russia, Cuba and, I would imagine, others maintain control of the news within their respective countries. No one is immune to this control. They are known as TPTB.

The epitome of that philosophy would be the Nazis. I would go further that control dates back even further than that. In my travels and personal studies I have come across scholarly books regarding the early control of the monks and clergy that produced the early Bible.

Read: Misquoting Jesus, by Bart D. Ehrman


SGG

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Friday, December 18, 2015 10:30 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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You cannot forcibly remove a national government by throwing rocks/Molotov cocktails at riot police, or by occupying a few government buildings.

Or by shooting down 100 people in the street
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Yanukovich fled because his own party disowned and abandoned him, leaving him vulnerable to impeachment. Even Russian news reported it
Of course you can, that's the definition of a coup (d'etat).

coup d'état
(Merriam)
Quote:

a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics;
especially: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group



(wiki)
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the sudden and illegal seizure of a state,usually [but not always- SIGNY] instigated by a small group of the existing government establishment to depose the established regime and replace it with a new ruling body. A coup d'état is considered successful when the usurpers establish their dominance. If a coup fails, a civil war may ensue.


(Auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss)
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A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government. For the coup to be successful, the rank and file of the police and military have to be willing to take orders from the new government leaders once the coup is accomplished, so typically the organizers of successful coups have previously recruited important military and police commanders to their cause prior to going ahead with it. Most frequently, coups are initiated and led by high-ranking military officers. They are most apt to be successful in countries where both the general population's and the government bureaucracy's ideological dedication to upholding established constitutional procedures is relatively weak and consequently there is little danger of massive civilian resistance or non-cooperation by the rank and file of soldiers and other government employees.


The more I look into this, the more and more what happened in Ukraine meets the definition of a COUP. You would be hard-pressed to find any definition with supports any other interpretation, although I know you'll either argue your point ad infinitum or you'll completely ignore every possible dictionary definition that can be found.

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Then give me examples of historians calling the French Revolution 'a coup'. Or the American Revolution? If not then don't complain when I call your use of the word 'coup' brainless.


OTOH, the French Revolution was NOT initiated from within the government [aristocracy] but externally. Nor was it tightly organized. The French aristocracy and the French nation faced a number of challenges (bad harvests, foreign war deficits, examples of revolutions overseas) which made the Revolution more broadly-based. The American Revolution initially started with a small group, not terribly popular, of men who stood to gain financially by removing British control, but eventually grew to encompass most of the population. Ditto the Russian Revolution. One critical difference between "coup" and "revolution", I think during a revolution the NATURE of the government itself is changed. So for the French, Russian, and American Revolutions, in which the nature of the government itself was changed from monarchy to something else, YES - the term "revolution" more properly applies.




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Friday, December 18, 2015 10:45 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Yanno, I can get you to believe ANYTHING, and I don't have to fabricate anything. All I need to do is SELECT what you hear. Most propaganda is accomplished by selection, not by lies.- SIGNY

I would say the fact that everyone but 1kiki constantly disagrees with you, shows you do not possess the intellect to change anyone’s mind about anything. Your point however does highlight your approach to posting. As I have said from day one. SUBJECTIVE....It was dumb of you to confirm that. Which proves my point about your intellect. - THUGR



I would say that a billion flies eat shit, and that you're one of those flies.

I just provided three lies that were widely disseminated in western media, disproved later, and still believed to this day by a large portion of the western media-consumers (INCLUDING YOU) and instead of recognizing that there IS such as thing as "western propaganda", and that it works all you can manage to do is stick your head up your ass. The person who is the most thoroughly propagandized is the person who believes that he isn't. That's you.

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Sunday, December 20, 2015 2:36 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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Of course you can, that's the definition of a coup (d'etat).

Throwing Molotov cocktails at riot police is the definition of a coup? Let me get this straight, you think Yanukovich still had control of the police, the army, and a majority in parliament but the violence on the street left him no choice but to flee?

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The more I look into this, the more and more what happened in Ukraine meets the definition of a COUP

Ha, of course you do. Then you should have no problem giving evidence for this happening in Kiev on Feb 21st 2014:


"a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"

"the sudden and illegal seizure of a state,usually [but not always- SIGNY] instigated by a small group"

"A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government."


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the French nation faced a number of challenges (bad harvests, foreign war deficits, examples of revolutions overseas) which made the Revolution more broadly-based. The American Revolution initially started with a small group, not terribly popular, of men who stood to gain financially by removing British control, but eventually grew to encompass most of the population. Ditto the Russian Revolution.

Well at least you have begun to think about this. The 2014 Ukrainian revolution had a great deal of popular support of course, with hundreds of thousands turning out on the street. By March 2014 it had the backing of the majority of the country. So by your own definitions of 'coup', each of which refers to 'a small group' - the word does not apply to EuroMaidan.


It's not personal. It's just war.

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Sunday, December 20, 2015 3:20 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


wow, he's on fire! Say what you like about Trump, he might be loud, impolite, non-PC

but he's one hell of a scrapper



Trump shatters the media matrix and really lays a smackdown on this guy?

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Sunday, December 20, 2015 7:09 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


" The 2014 Ukrainian revolution had a great deal of popular support of course."

Less than half, and those people were opposed to Yanukovych and his policies - a fact that could easily have been resolved in the next election - yanno - DEMOCRATICALLY. The fact that they didn't wait and unleashed violence directed at Yanukovych personally (by sending armed men to his official residence), makes me think they felt the election wasn't going to go their way.

But all speculation aside -

How do you PERSONALLY justify a violent coup when a democratic process was in place and early elections were already scheduled?




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Monday, December 21, 2015 4:12 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


This is Western media control? This guy is the epitome of Bully Behavior and we're all supposed to bow down and call him a genius, all because he can yell louder than a news anchor?

Well, whoop-de-fucking-do! This guy lies through his teeth and insults half the world and does the Ugly American bit, and we call him a genius!? A scrapper!? His behavior and demeanor are being applauded despite the fact that he hasn't a clue as to what a president means to this country and the world. If this what passes as presidential, then come get me and strapped me into the next rocket to the furthest reaches of the galaxy.

This guy does not represent me or mine! I could just picture it, Trump walks up to the podium at the UN and says "Who the fuck does this guy thinks he is? I'm Donald J. Trump motherfucker, I poled in Iowa at 39%,
how about you?"

"How's my wall doing in Mexico? Deport all non-whites back to wherever, starting with Obama, his wife and kids. It's gonna cost How much? Fuck it, we'll raise taxes. Why!? Because I'm the fucking president and I wrote the Art of the Deal."

"Whaddaya mean what does that have to do with anything!? I'm the fucking
president, you have to do what I say..........get that guy outta here.
Melania, bend over! I'm going to do to you what I'm doing to the country, only with you I'll use lube. Go get the presidential knee pads."

One thing's for sure, with Trump president I'll believe it when someone says the world is coming to an end.


SGG

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
wow, he's on fire! Say what you like about Trump, he might be loud, impolite, non-PC

but he's one hell of a scrapper



Trump shatters the media matrix and really lays a smackdown on this guy?


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Monday, December 21, 2015 8:59 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


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" The 2014 Ukrainian revolution had a great deal of popular support of course."

Less than half


Less than half to start with, but it grew in popularity as the tyranny and corruption of the government became clear. A classic example of an effective grassroots protest movement.

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a fact that could easily have been resolved in the next election - yanno - DEMOCRATICALLY.

I point this out to you every time and you conveniently forget it - Yanukovich RIGGED the last election, according to the OSCE. What expectation did the protesters have that any election he promised to hold would be fair? No, the only way DEMOCRATIC elections were going to be held was if Yanukovich was removed. And lo, that was exactly what happened.

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The fact that they didn't wait and unleashed violence directed at Yanukovych personally (by sending armed men to his official residence)

Aha! Finally something that sounds like a coup! Give us your evidence kiki!

*waits with excitement*


It's not personal. It's just war.

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Monday, December 21, 2015 2:41 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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I point this out to you every time and you conveniently forget it - Yanukovich RIGGED the last election, according to the OSCE.
How did he rig the last election?


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What expectation did the protesters have that any election he promised to hold would be fair?
Were the elections to be held under international observation?

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No, the only way DEMOCRATIC elections were going to be held was if Yanukovich was removed. And lo, that was exactly what happened.
Because to hell with elections, when violence and intimidation is so much more certain to get you the results you want! And the NEXT elections - which bypassed a significant number of Ukrainians .... were so much fairer!


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Monday, December 21, 2015 7:57 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Here we go again!

get your gear and start to spend here we go, here we go, here we go. As some sort of prototype I serve to be
you see tomorrow's dream has never been part of me

Everything you don't use will lose its value tomorrow consumed too much today, you can always borrow this paradigm's the best one since the day of creation
get your gear and shape up, this is the revelation


1 dead, Admiral Akbar attack part II? 37 injured after car plows into different groups of pedestrians on Las Vegas Strip
This to me seems like this was purposely done. Right outside the Miss universe contest and had to go through barriers to get to the people.

Witness's reporting that she aimed for the people and kept driving as people were bouncing off the hood of the car. 3 men rushed her car and tried to stop her and she pulled away. 3 year old in the back seat. At least Eye witness account Says she didnt even slow down.
News reporting counter terrorism is on the scene.
Young male was dragged as she drove away. Confirmed.
She sped up hit the first group, got back on the road sped up and hit a second group. She was aiming for people. Police say they're looking at it as intentional, says its not terrorism. Police confirm it happened at several locations . Suspect not from Nevada, drove a 1996 oldsmobile.
Yeah, well after hitting people on the sidewalk, this one turned around and went back to hit more people on the sidewalk. And accelerated. It's no accident. A lot of the victims were French-speaking. TV said something about maybe from Canada.
Take your bets here! Is it terrorism? Is it work place violence? Is it purely accidental?
Caitlyn Jenner confirmed in the area at time of incident...her penis was unhurt
We need stricter regulations on these assault car vehicles!!! Must be angry Southern white male? Ban drivers liscence or banning cars in certain States?
Local musing whether this was terrorism, Nooze or dinosaur mainstream news is waiting for them to fax the politically correct play book for news items.
Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police.




...anyways don't sound like no accident IMO

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Monday, December 21, 2015 8:32 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


quoted to prevent post-editing
Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Here we go again!

get your gear and start to spend here we go, here we go, here we go. As some sort of prototype I serve to be
you see tomorrow's dream has never been part of me

Everything you don't use will lose its value tomorrow consumed too much today, you can always borrow this paradigm's the best one since the day of creation
get your gear and shape up, this is the revelation


1 dead, Admiral Akbar attack part II? 37 injured after car plows into different groups of pedestrians on Las Vegas Strip
This to me seems like this was purposely done. Right outside the Miss universe contest and had to go through barriers to get to the people.

Witness's reporting that she aimed for the people and kept driving as people were bouncing off the hood of the car. 3 men rushed her car and tried to stop her and she pulled away. 3 year old in the back seat. At least Eye witness account Says she didnt even slow down.
News reporting counter terrorism is on the scene.
Young male was dragged as she drove away. Confirmed.
She sped up hit the first group, got back on the road sped up and hit a second group. She was aiming for people. Police say they're looking at it as intentional, says its not terrorism. Police confirm it happened at several locations . Suspect not from Nevada, drove a 1996 oldsmobile.
Yeah, well after hitting people on the sidewalk, this one turned around and went back to hit more people on the sidewalk. And accelerated. It's no accident. A lot of the victims were French-speaking. TV said something about maybe from Canada.
Take your bets here! Is it terrorism? Is it work place violence? Is it purely accidental?
Caitlyn Jenner confirmed in the area at time of incident...her penis was unhurt
We need stricter regulations on these assault car vehicles!!! Must be angry Southern white male? Ban drivers liscence or banning cars in certain States?
Local musing whether this was terrorism, Nooze or dinosaur mainstream news is waiting for them to fax the politically correct play book for news items.
Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police.




...anyways don't sound like no accident IMO






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Monday, December 21, 2015 9:52 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


those charts again



says nothing about using your vehicle or car as a weapon...the poor media of Las Vegas will have to figure out this one by themselves

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Monday, December 21, 2015 10:09 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


quoted to avoid post-editing (removal)

Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
those charts again



says nothing about using your vehicle or car as a weapon...the poor media of Las Vegas will have to figure out this one by themselves






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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 6:37 AM

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"Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Because all terrorists bring along their 3 year old kid whenever they're
going out on a rampage.


SGG



Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
quoted to prevent post-editing
Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Here we go again!

get your gear and start to spend here we go, here we go, here we go. As some sort of prototype I serve to be
you see tomorrow's dream has never been part of me

Everything you don't use will lose its value tomorrow consumed too much today, you can always borrow this paradigm's the best one since the day of creation
get your gear and shape up, this is the revelation


1 dead, Admiral Akbar attack part II? 37 injured after car plows into different groups of pedestrians on Las Vegas Strip
This to me seems like this was purposely done. Right outside the Miss universe contest and had to go through barriers to get to the people.

Witness's reporting that she aimed for the people and kept driving as people were bouncing off the hood of the car. 3 men rushed her car and tried to stop her and she pulled away. 3 year old in the back seat. At least Eye witness account Says she didnt even slow down.
News reporting counter terrorism is on the scene.
Young male was dragged as she drove away. Confirmed.
She sped up hit the first group, got back on the road sped up and hit a second group. She was aiming for people. Police say they're looking at it as intentional, says its not terrorism. Police confirm it happened at several locations . Suspect not from Nevada, drove a 1996 oldsmobile.
Yeah, well after hitting people on the sidewalk, this one turned around and went back to hit more people on the sidewalk. And accelerated. It's no accident. A lot of the victims were French-speaking. TV said something about maybe from Canada.
Take your bets here! Is it terrorism? Is it work place violence? Is it purely accidental?
Caitlyn Jenner confirmed in the area at time of incident...her penis was unhurt
We need stricter regulations on these assault car vehicles!!! Must be angry Southern white male? Ban drivers liscence or banning cars in certain States?
Local musing whether this was terrorism, Nooze or dinosaur mainstream news is waiting for them to fax the politically correct play book for news items.
Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police.




...anyways don't sound like no accident IMO






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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 6:40 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


A perfect example of manufactured "truth" from the West.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
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Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
those charts again



says nothing about using your vehicle or car as a weapon...the poor media of Las Vegas will have to figure out this one by themselves






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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 12:29 PM

THGRRI


And then we have the way they control the Media in the East.



Journalistic death toll in Putin's Russia


"In 2011, three journalists dead (including newspaper editor Khadzhimurad Kamalov, shot 14 times as he left his office).

In 2010, two killed; in 2009, five more (including a young reporter from Novaya Gazeta, caught in a hail of bullets). Add four for 2008, one in 2007 and then 2006 as Anna Politkovskaya, the most famous victim of them all, is murdered.

But she wouldn't forget Yevgeny Gerasimenko – found in his Saratov flat with a plastic bag pulled over his head and computer missing – and nor should we.

Two Russian journalists died in 2005, and three in both 2004 and 2003; but 2002 was a wicked year, with eight lost (including Valery Ivanov, battling editor, shot in the head) and 2001 added another victim.

Putin's reign of power in 2000 began with six dead reporters and editors: a grim portent, looking back, of bad things to come."

Preston concludes: "He is elected time and again. Yet a free press seems to mean pitifully little to him. You investigate? You report? You die, unavenged."

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-saf
ety-vladimir-putin




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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:32 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Quote:

How did he rig the last election?

You set up a thread to discuss the Syrian and Ukrainian elections not one month ago. I guess discussion on Yanukovich rigging elections wasn't what you wanted to hear. Let me post it for you again:

Quote:

KPO:

"Compare that with Yanukovich's track record of holding elections - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20120888

The OSCE said the elections "were marked by the abuse of state resources, lack of transparency of campaign and party financing and the lack of balanced media coverage", and were a backwards step for democracy after the 2010 election held by the previous pro-Western government that was recognised as free and fair. "



Quote:

Were the elections to be held under international observation?

The 2012 elections were held under international observation, it didn't stop Yanukovich rigging them.

Quote:

And the NEXT elections - which bypassed a significant number of Ukrainians .... were so much fairer!

Yes that's right, the OSCE said exactly that! But you're right to condemn the Russians and the separatists for thwarting democratic elections in the areas they occupied. The human rights situations in those eastern territories is very bleak by all accounts, including the UN's.


Now, back to the evidence you can't provide:

Signy: Where is the evidence for this happening in Kiev on Feb 21st 2014:


"a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"

"the sudden and illegal seizure of a state,usually [but not always- SIGNY] instigated by a small group"

"A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government."



And kiki, didn't you have evidence of a coup as well? Armed men storming Yanukovich's residence?

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:36 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20120888

The OSCE said the elections "were marked by the abuse of state resources, lack of transparency of campaign and party financing and the lack of balanced media coverage", and were a backwards step for democracy after the 2010 election held by the previous pro-Western government that was recognised as free and fair. "


The article goes on to say
Two international observer missions gave much more positive assessments than the OSCE's.
The 56 members of the European Academy for Elections Observation, most of whom are European Parliament members, said the vote was held "in compliance with democratic norms". They called it "a good election, not perfect but clearly acceptable".
Observers from the ex-Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) called the election "transparent and democratic".


Now, none of these reports is linked in the article (for SHAME!! BBC, it's the easiest thing in the world to do given your resources and that reporting the news IS YOUR JOB).

OSCE: http://www.osce.org/odihr/96675?download=true
EAEO: http://www.eaeo.eu/francais/wordpress/?p=160
CIS: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/82911864/cis-emo-finds-ukra
ines-parliamentary-elections-transparent


it didn't stop Yanukovich rigging them.

And here's where you - yet AGAIN! - cherry pick the small bit out of the article you yourself reference, and exclude the OTHER facts that it ALSO contained that would disprove your argument: for example, that two other international observer missions called it a good election.



And kiki, didn't you have evidence of a coup as well? Armed men storming Yanukovich's residence?

Actually, I didn't say 'STORMING'. So nice of you to put words in my mouth - AGAIN!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-28/ukraine-minister-accuses-russia-
of-armed-invasion/5291986

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10657109/Vikt
or-Yanukovych-leaves-behind-palace-monument-to-greed-and-corruption.html


So, back to the question at hand - with a democratic process in place and early elections scheduled - how do you justify a violent NON-DEMOCRATIC coup?




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Saturday, December 26, 2015 11:02 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


KPO, since you manage to drag UKRAINE AND RUSSIA - YOUR FAVORITE OBSESSIONS OF THE MOMENT - INTO EVERY SINGLE THREAD THAT YOU POST IN, mostly irrelevantly, I copied it to a thread that is more in line with YOUR topic;
It's here:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=60263&p=1#1
006262


When I have more time, I'll get around to discussing it with you, THERE. Right now, I have other topics that I'm pursuing.

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Saturday, December 26, 2015 9:31 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Link to a post that's more appropriate here.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=60002&mid=1
006277#1006277





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Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:27 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


ANOTHER way to manufacture some semblance of "the truth" is to get previously-embedded NGOs - like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International- to thump your propaganda for you.

Since American NGOs have the gloss of independence, and their revolving-door relationships to the State Department, CIA, high-level politicians, banks, and international corporations is hidden from view, they can publish all sorts of lies with a veneer of objectivity and authority.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an organization that I've looked at closely. They were instrumental in drumming up support for the destruction of Libya, by "reporting" that Qaddafi was massacring peaceful protesters when he wasn't.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/02/20/libya-governments-should-demand-en
d-unlawful-killings


HRW also thumped that Assad has gassed his own people with Sarin, when he hadn't, nearly prompting a full-scale bombing by the USA.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/10/syria-government-likely-culprit-ch
emical-attack


HRW has also supported CIA rendition and torture. All of this should be enough to obliterate its reputation of honesty, independence, and objectivity ... if only people knew about it.

This came up in a thread where some NGOs are accusing Russia cluster bombs and other "war crimes" in Syria. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=60278&mid=1
006297#1006297






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There is a difference between THUGR is a genius., and THUGR is a "genius". And everyone knows it except THUGR, who is a "genius".

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Sunday, December 27, 2015 10:19 AM

THGRRI


SIG quotation marks are a signal to the reader about the true meaning of the sentence. So when one reads your sentence and even the rest of the quote, it is obvious what you meant to say. It is your opinion that Turkey invaded Iraq. You would needed to add the words (did not) and then "invade" in quotes, for it to mean what you now claim it to mean.

To late for that.

Quote:



SIG

Meanwhile, Turkey is stationing its military in Qatar, and has "invaded" Iraq. ITs troops are now using tanks and troops to sanitize its own Kurdish regions, as the Kurdish leaders visit Moscow. Can you say "civil war"? Sure you can!.







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Sunday, December 27, 2015 10:30 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by THGRRI:
SIG quotation marks are a signal to the reader about the true meaning of the sentence.

If quotation marks are to denote the "true meaning" of a sentence, then EVERY sincerely-meant sentence and EVERY sincerely written word should have quotation marks around them, should they not?

And if every sincerely-meant sentence, and if every truly-meant word - which should be almost every word, post, and sentence on this forum - DON'T have quotation marks around them ... what does that mean?

Select to view spoiler:


It means that you're wrong about the intended use of quotation marks



Quote:

So when one reads the sentence and even the rest of the quote, it is obvious what you meant to say.
It is obvious to everybody EXCEPT YOU. If I call you a "genius", does that mean I'm sincerely saying that you're a genius? If I say that the United States is a "peacemaker" does that mean that I really think that the USA is a peacemaker? If I write that Turkey "invaded" Iraq, does that really mean that I think Turkey invaded Iraq???

Quote:

It is your opinion
No, it is YOUR opinion

Quote:

that Turkey invaded Iraq. You would needed to add the words (did not) and then "invade" in quotes, for it to mean what you now claim it to mean.

Only in your fervid imagination.

This is directly what I wrote:
Quote:

Meanwhile, Turkey is stationing its military in Qatar, and has "invaded" Iraq. ITs troops are now using tanks and troops to sanitize its own Kurdish regions, as the Kurdish leaders visit Moscow. Can you say "civil war"? Sure you can!.


THUGR, I can't make up for your lack of English skills and failure to comprehend. If you don't believe ME then please, for the love of god, look up the use of quotation marks to denote irony, and stop making a fool of yourself. Even in conversation, people make little quotation marks in the air with their fingers to denote that they disbelieve a certain word or phrase. If any of your friends here on the board caught just a whiff of you being right on this one, they'd be all over it like white on rice. Instead, they seem to be keeping a careful distance from this particular cliff that you're intent on jumping from. That should give you pause for thought. (But I'm sure it won't.)

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There is a difference between THUGR is a genius., and THUGR is a "genius". And everyone knows it except THUGR, who is a "genius".

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Sunday, December 27, 2015 11:07 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

There is a difference between THUGR is a genius., and THUGR is a "genius". And everyone knows it except THUGR, who is a "genius".

With great lack of perceiving sarcasm comes great lack of responsibility.

There is a comic that covers this situation, approximately. It's title is “Undefeated” and is at http://abstrusegoose.com/558


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 9:01 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.


Quote:

The article goes on to say
Two international observer missions gave much more positive assessments than the OSCE's. The 56 members of the European Academy for Elections Observation, most of whom are European Parliament members


Err, who is this group?? Never heard of them, but a quick google search casts doubt on their credibility. Apparently they commented positively on Azerbaijan's 2013 and 2015 elections, which is frankly laughable. This article gives a good description of how corrupt and extremist MEPs become election monitors on behalf of undemocratic regimes, which may be what's at play here: http://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-goes-soft-on-flawed
-azerbaijan-election
/

Quote:

Observers from the ex-Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) called the election "transparent and democratic".

Haha even better, officials from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan conducting election monitoring. Perfect

Quote:

it didn't stop Yanukovich rigging them.

And here's where you - yet AGAIN! - cherry pick the small bit out of the article...


Blah blah blah. Yanukovich rigged those elections, the OSCE said so. Get over it.

Quote:

And kiki, didn't you have evidence of a coup as well? Armed men storming Yanukovich's residence?

Actually, I didn't say 'STORMING'. So nice of you to put words in my mouth


I'm sorry, you've talked so much and so fervently about a 'coup', I'm just waiting for some evidence that remotely resembles one. So what did you actually say... You talked about "armed men" being sent to Yanukovich's residence and unleashing "violence directed at Yanukovych personally". So Where is your evidence for this?!?! You gave two links but neither one of them provided ANY evidence to back up this assertion. Unless you count the unsubstantiated claims of a corrupt, pro-Russian ex-president as 'evidence'. But no, seriously, what evidence do you have?


You too Signy. I'm still waiting for your evidence for this happening in Kiev on Feb 21st 2014:


"a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"

"the sudden and illegal seizure of a state, usually instigated by a small group"

"A quick and decisive extra-legal seizure of governmental power by a relatively small but highly organized group of political or military leaders, typically by means of the unexpected arrest or assassination of the incumbent chief executive and his principal supporters within the government."


It's not personal. It's just war.

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Monday, January 11, 2016 6:29 AM

JAYNEZTOWN





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Monday, January 11, 2016 3:31 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-lasvegas-crash-idUSKBN0U40X120151223

Lakeisha N. Holloway is still not a Muslim terrorist.


Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Here we go again!

get your gear and start to spend here we go, here we go, here we go. As some sort of prototype I serve to be
you see tomorrow's dream has never been part of me

Everything you don't use will lose its value tomorrow consumed too much today, you can always borrow this paradigm's the best one since the day of creation
get your gear and shape up, this is the revelation


1 dead, Admiral Akbar attack part II? 37 injured after car plows into different groups of pedestrians on Las Vegas Strip
This to me seems like this was purposely done. Right outside the Miss universe contest and had to go through barriers to get to the people.

Witness's reporting that she aimed for the people and kept driving as people were bouncing off the hood of the car. 3 men rushed her car and tried to stop her and she pulled away. 3 year old in the back seat. At least Eye witness account Says she didnt even slow down.
News reporting counter terrorism is on the scene.
Young male was dragged as she drove away. Confirmed.
She sped up hit the first group, got back on the road sped up and hit a second group. She was aiming for people. Police say they're looking at it as intentional, says its not terrorism. Police confirm it happened at several locations . Suspect not from Nevada, drove a 1996 oldsmobile.
Yeah, well after hitting people on the sidewalk, this one turned around and went back to hit more people on the sidewalk. And accelerated. It's no accident. A lot of the victims were French-speaking. TV said something about maybe from Canada.
Take your bets here! Is it terrorism? Is it work place violence? Is it purely accidental?
Caitlyn Jenner confirmed in the area at time of incident...her penis was unhurt
We need stricter regulations on these assault car vehicles!!! Must be angry Southern white male? Ban drivers liscence or banning cars in certain States?
Local musing whether this was terrorism, Nooze or dinosaur mainstream news is waiting for them to fax the politically correct play book for news items.
Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police.




...anyways don't sound like no accident IMO






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Monday, January 11, 2016 3:59 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:


Lakeisha N. Holloway is still not a Muslim terrorist.



I never said she was, at the very least she is an insane, violent freak who attempted mass murder...for whatever reason the medias head spun chasing its own tail
and for some reason the Cops went a bit hush hush, ....the Vegas Cops refused to mention her motive...Sheriff Joe Lombardo said he knew what she said but didn't want to release that information...again more Police refused to share information not comfortable disclosing what driver said about why she crashed into so many people on Las Vegas Strip...The sheriff said Holloway was stoic when police arrived but declined to elaborate on what she said....
...something seemed a bit funny about the reporting

but then again that's Lame-stream news for you

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Monday, January 11, 2016 4:53 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


No, you didn't SAY it, exactly - just kept on pointing out the possibility - repeatedly. Nowhere did you mention what turned out to be the case - Holloway was a woman who got stressed in a psychologically fragile place who just ... broke.


Admiral Akbar attack part II ... News reporting counter terrorism is on the scene. ... Local musing whether this was terrorism, Nooze or dinosaur mainstream news is waiting for them to fax the politically correct play book for news items.
Police say its not terrorism because shes a woman? Weird thought process from the police.




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I agree with everything you said, but don't tell anyone I said that
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