News Dump Tuesday: Isn't That interesting Edition

Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 6:15pm

China is planning to send troops to Syria to aid President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, according to the New Khaleej.
According to informed sources, the move comes as China becomes increasingly concerned with the presence of Islamic militants in the East Turkestan region, who have been sighted aiding opposition groups in Syria.
...This is not the first time Chinese troops have crossed into Syria; in 2015 the Syrian regime permitted some 5,000 soldiers to enter its territory as allied forces and stationed them in the Western region of Latakia. Chinese military advisors were also among the deployment, as well as naval and aerial assets.

Blackwater tortures Saudi princes

Saudi princes and businessman arrested on orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are being strung up by their feet and beaten by American private security contractors, claims a news report published in Daily Mail.
At least 11 princes and hundreds of businessmen and government officials were detained in Saudi Arabia over claims of corruption. The news report said that detained individuals went through rigorous 'interrogations', which were being carried out by American mercenaries, ‘Blackwater.’ “They are beating them, torturing them, slapping them, insulting them. They want to break them down,” a source told DailyMail.com

And this doesn't count mercenaries

According to the Defense Manpower Data Center's quarterly report from September, there were 1,720 American troops in Syria -- three times as many as the 503 troops in Syria that U.S. military spokesmen have told reporters. The Pentagon's personnel agency issues quarterly reports about how many American troops are serving in individual states and overseas countries.
The same report showed there were 8,992 American troops in Iraq, almost 3,500 more than the official Department of Defense tally of 5,262.
... As of Sept. 30, the DMDC reported there were 15,282 American military personnel in Afghanistan along with 1,202 Defense Department civilians.
However, the agency's previous quarterly report from June indicated there were already about 12,000 American troops in Afghanistan, a significantly higher number than the official U.S. tally of 8,400.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 1:55am

This is depressing

I can't understand how anyone can be so soullessly corrupt that they can inflict harm on someone else like people who torture others.

Or can make a decision to murder people by dropping bombs on them for no other reason than for money.

Hillary, Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy made a deliberate decision to destroy Libya, kill hundreds of thousands of people and make hundreds of thousands more become refugees. They lied to their citizens when they said that Gaddafi was bombing his citizens and giving his soldiers viagra. As for the boxes of Viagra that Gaddafi is supposed to have had distributed, they were found intact near tanks that were completely burnt out.

Hillary Clinton Turned a Stable, Developed Nation Into an ISIS Safe Haven. That’s the Real Benghazi Scandal

As a brave crusader for all women - especially for women living in countries that she desperately wants to bomb - then-Secretary Clinton argued that the United States had a moral duty to intervene in Libya, stating that she was “deeply concerned” that Muammar Gaddafi’s troops were using rape as a weapon. (She was parroting a rumor started by Al-Jazeera which claimed that Gaddafi was handing out free Viagra to his soldiers so that they could rape 24/7.)

Hillary Clinton turned a stable, developed nation into an ISIS safe haven using tactics that would have made even William Randolph Hearst a bit queasy.

What else has happened in Libya since we went in to it on the false pretenses of needing to protect people from their leader?

Libya “Chose” Freedom, Now It Has Slavery

But now, with the revelation that people are being sold as slaves in Libya (yes, you read that right. In 2017 the slave trade is alive and kicking Libya), the cataclysmic disaster to befall the country has been compounded to the point where it is hard to conceive of it ever being able to recover – and certainly not anywhere near its former status as a high development country, as the UN labelled Libya 2010 a year prior to the ‘revolution’.

Since Libya has been destroyed, it has become a haven for terrorists to plan and train for other terrorist events, Gaddafi's mass supply of weapons are being used in other African countries and terrorism has spread out from there.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 5:12am

Depressing is an understatement.

@snoopydawg
The inevitable collapse of our greed driven interventionist empire can't happen soon enough.

There is little reason to hope for a voluntary reversal of the pattern of genocide and violent regime changes the United States has inflicted on others around the world from its very beginning. It is deeply ingrained in our national psyche and integral to our "success" as a world power. It's what we do. It's who we are. It is also unsustainable.

Payback, when it comes, will be a bitch.

I can't understand how anyone can be so soullessly corrupt that they can inflict harm on someone else like people who torture others. Or can make a decision to murder people by dropping bombs on them for no other reason than for money. Hillary, Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy made a deliberate decision to destroy Libya, kill hundreds of thousands of people and make hundreds of thousands more become refugees. They lied to their citizens when they said that Gaddafi was bombing his citizens and giving his soldiers viagra. As for the boxes of Viagra that Gaddafi is supposed to have had distributed, they were found intact near tanks that were completely burnt out. Hillary Clinton Turned a Stable, Developed Nation Into an ISIS Safe Haven. That’s the Real Benghazi Scandal As a brave crusader for all women - especially for women living in countries that she desperately wants to bomb - then-Secretary Clinton argued that the United States had a moral duty to intervene in Libya, stating that she was “deeply concerned” that Muammar Gaddafi’s troops were using rape as a weapon. (She was parroting a rumor started by Al-Jazeera which claimed that Gaddafi was handing out free Viagra to his soldiers so that they could rape 24/7.) Hillary Clinton turned a stable, developed nation into an ISIS safe haven using tactics that would have made even William Randolph Hearst a bit queasy. What else has happened in Libya since we went in to it on the false pretenses of needing to protect people from their leader? Libya “Chose” Freedom, Now It Has Slavery But now, with the revelation that people are being sold as slaves in Libya (yes, you read that right. In 2017 the slave trade is alive and kicking Libya), the cataclysmic disaster to befall the country has been compounded to the point where it is hard to conceive of it ever being able to recover – and certainly not anywhere near its former status as a high development country, as the UN labelled Libya 2010 a year prior to the ‘revolution’. Since Libya has been destroyed, it has become a haven for terrorists to plan and train for other terrorist events, Gaddafi's mass supply of weapons are being used in other African countries and terrorism has spread out from there.

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Submitted by dervish on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 5:47am

Blackwater staff are war criminals

the idea that they can live freely among us is unacceptable.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

Submitted by riverlover on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 11:04am

Our government is now officially rogue

to us, the citizens of the US. And no clear path to go forward for citizens while the MSM is screaming. And dicing. Find the LCD and start to shove. I expect that to be children or grandchildren.

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Submitted by doh1304 on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 4:20pm

Who's that I see in syria?

Could it be Archduke Ferdinand?

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 5:01pm

This has definitely been blasting full volume

...from day one in in Afghanistan. That is, the obscene atrocities of the United States against humanity. Certainly it must have gone on for a very long time before, since it was the cause for the revenge attack of 9/11.

Assuming all Americans knew this reality then and now — it has never been a secret — do they suddenly care? Did I miss something?

Or is this still just a flounce for the tiny handful of US anti-war types that remain in existence, today? Our numbers shrink year after year. We lost so many to the new cold war against Russia. They folded like cheap suits over a new false flag delivered by the very same people who screwed up all their hopes for the future in 2001.

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Carry a burning candle and share the light.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 6:38pm

Sadly no, Pluto

@Pluto's Republic

Assuming all Americans knew this reality then and now — it has never been a secret — do they suddenly care? Did I miss something?

We've seen how the military is practically worshipped by too many people here. They believe that terrorists just picked our country out of the blue and destroyed the towers. Look at how many people agreed with Trump to go after ISIS and their families, but not knowing that this is why we are the most hated country on this planet.

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.