Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, live on BBC Radio Scotland was able to purvey a number of important truths-in spite of the host interrupting and talking over Ford many times.
Some of the transcript:
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Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, live on BBC Radio Scotland was able to purvey a number of important truths-in spite of the host interrupting and talking over Ford many times.
Some of the transcript:
Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam)
Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) was formerly known as Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) and is a coalition of Salafist Islamist militant groups based in the Douma and Eastern Ghouta regions of the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Douma was the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack where up to 43 people were killed and it has been blamed on the Syrian regime.
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An Israeli sniper killed Yaser Murtaja, one of six Palestinian journalists shot that day during the Land Day protests.
An Israeli sniper killed Yaser Murtaja, one of six Palestinian journalists shot that day during the Land Day protests.
Take for example Likud spokesman Eli Hazan's claim that "all 30,000 [Gazan protesters] are legitimate targets."
Or Defense Minister Lieberman's claim that "there are no innocent people in Gaza".
Comment: See also:
- World outraged as Israeli Army murders unarmed protesters in Gaza
- Ireland: Dublin City Council votes for Israel boycott
- Israel's talking points on Gaza protest murders are indefensible
- UN warns Israel against "unjustified and unlawful" murder of Palestinians in military occupied Gaza is breach of Geneva conventions
- The Good Friday Massacre: World...We Are All Palestinians, Now!
In the post, Julie Marburger describes how parents "have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse."
See if you agree with it.
Comment: Given the state of today's youth, teachers have got it really tough. And the parents and administrative staff are just as bad. It won't be a surprise to see teacher shortages in the near future.
See also:
- Teacher placed on leave for questioning student walkouts for gun control
- Head teacher under fire over Millennial tirade
- Liberal Meltdown: Parents demand public apology after daughter's teacher...Misspells Hillary Clinton's name?
- Police handcuff 7-year-old boy in Florida school after allegedly attacking teacher
- Teacher gets assaulted and arrested by cop because she questioned superintendent's huge raise (VIDEO)
- Utah art teacher fired after showing classical nude paintings to his class
- Insanity: Teacher faces sack after mistakenly calling trans student 'girl', despite immediate apology (UPDATE)
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A photo taken from the town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017
A photo taken from the town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017
The Russian Defense Ministry held a press briefing on what the Western narrative describes as an alleged chemical attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. No evidence has been presented to support the claim. A Russian chemical corps commission that has been sent to Douma reported that no traces of chemical poisoning were found. On April 12, the US defense secretary acknowledged that the Pentagon had no evidence of chlorine or sarin use in Douma.
Speaking at the briefing, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the ministry has enough evidence that the planned provocation with chemical weapons was carried out in Syria's Douma on April 7.
Comment: Will the Empire finally be tripped up by its web of lies?
- Russia claims 'White Helmets' staged Douma chemical attack: Local doctors say 'not a single person' came in for treatment
- Lavrov: Intel services of 'a state' that promotes Russophobia behind 'staged' Douma chemical attack
- Russian MoD reveals expert analysis of Douma soil contains no traces of chemical substances
- Douma liberated, Russia guarantees impartial chemical attack investigation, OPCW agrees to check it out - all this makes US attack more likely
- OPCW welcomed in Syria, free to investigate alleged of chemical weapon attack
Grandparents of Tiantian win long legal battle for custody of frozen embryos left by his mother and father
The son of a Chinese couple who died more than four years ago has been born to a surrogate mother, according to Chinese media.
Shen Jie and Liu Xi had been married for two years when they decided to try in vitro fertilization. Five days before they were scheduled to transplant one of the fertilized embryos into Liu, the couple died in a car accident in March 2013 in the Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu.
For the next three years, the parents of Shen and Liu fought for the rights to four frozen embryos left by their late children in a complicated and unprecedented legal case in China, according to the Beijing News.
After several court battles, both sets of parents finally won custody of the embryos, and in January of 2017, with the help of an underground surrogacy agency, they drove to Laos to find a mother. Surrogacy is illegal in China.
Shen Jie and Liu Xi had been married for two years when they decided to try in vitro fertilization. Five days before they were scheduled to transplant one of the fertilized embryos into Liu, the couple died in a car accident in March 2013 in the Chinese coastal province of Jiangsu.
For the next three years, the parents of Shen and Liu fought for the rights to four frozen embryos left by their late children in a complicated and unprecedented legal case in China, according to the Beijing News.
After several court battles, both sets of parents finally won custody of the embryos, and in January of 2017, with the help of an underground surrogacy agency, they drove to Laos to find a mother. Surrogacy is illegal in China.
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Raqqa, after being retaken from Islamic State, last year
Raqqa, after being retaken from Islamic State, last year
"The epidemiological situation in Raqqa remains very grave. There are still thousands of corpses rotting underneath the debris," said Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov, during a press briefing in Moscow.
The official outlined the difference between the reconstruction efforts in cities taken back by government forces, such as Aleppo, where "schools, hospitals and markets have reopened" and those like Raqqa, which have largely been left to their own devices.
Comment: See also:
- 'Go back to Raqqa and bury the bodies': Putin calls for investigation into strikes on civilians in Syria
- 'Ghost town': Raqqa residents receive 'nothing at all' from the US and its allies for rebuilding
- Raqqa liberation from ISIS nears, but UN says U.S.-backed coalition left city in ruins, thousands dead from bombing
Fuck Democracy...
Fuck Parliament...
Fuck Congressional approval...
Let's just declare war by tweets.
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US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft
US Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft
A Twitter account of the Mil Radar, which tracks military aviation flights, has reported that seven US patrol planes have allegedly conducted reconnaissance missions in the Eastern Mediterranean over Syria's coast.
The six P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft and the EP-3E Aries II electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft reportedly flew over the area where Russia's Hmeymin Airbase and the logistics base of the Russian Navy in Tartus are located.
Comment: Update: Russian jets are highly active above Syria today, following reports of U.S. spy planes near the coastal provinces of Tartous and Latakia.
According to earlier reports, seven U.S. spy planes were flying along the Syrian coast, with some of the aircraft approaching the Hmaymim Military Airport in the southwestern part of Latakia.See also: US spy planes continue flights over Russian base on Syria's Mediterranean coasts
While Russian jets have been routinely flying along the coast since the U.S. President Donald Trump's threats, they have recently increased the number of flights over the last 12 hours.
Russian jets have also been cited in several places across Syria, including the Homs, Deir Ezzor, Hama, and Idlib governorates.
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Zuckerberg said that Facebook is a "platform for all ideas," but declined to give a "yes" or "no" answer. The problem is, this is not merely an academic distinction between words. Facebook's answer to the question could affect millions of users, and attract (or prevent) a lot of attention from federal regulators.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) states: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
This is a good provision. It means that, for example, if you run a blogging platform and someone posts a terrorist threat in the comments section, you're not treated as the person making the threat. Without Section 230, many social media networks could be functionally unable to operate.
In order to be protected by Section 230, companies like Facebook should be "neutral public forums." On the flip side, they should be considered to be a "publisher or speaker" of user content if they pick and choose what gets published or spoken.
Comment: More on Zuckerberg's Congressional hearing:
- 19 questions Mark Zuckerberg didn't answer during his Senate hearing
- Zuckerberg struggles to answer Sasse's plea to define hate speech during senate meeting
- Zuckerberg dodges Senate question about Facebook tracking users across the web
- Zuckerberg stumbles trying to name a single Facebook competitor
- Zuckerberg reveals his thinking at Congressional hearing - leaves notes on table in open view of photographers
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