I still think Trump has well meaning intentions, whether he keeps his head in US politics remains to be seen. He has managed to get rid of a few lunatics... At this time Putin, China and Mongolia are conducting military exercises in eastern Russia somewhere. In short Putin has 30,000 boots on the ground, backed by 900 Chinese tanks and other gear, as well as whatever Mongolia deployed... So don't worry Trump wont fire today (don't think so) but also today i read America is hoping the Greeks have short memories as America hopes to deploy forces in Greece to pressure the mad Turk...also I noted a mention that America is considering invading Venezuela, they are not happy with politics their e.g. communists maintaining control of the oil in that region. So don't worry Jenny
Did Assad use chemical weapons my answer would have to be NO, was chlorine used in the conflict my answer would be maybe, i dunno, were infants slapped, doused in water and otherwise grossly mistreated by American funded terrorists trying to topple Assads elected government my answer is YES....
Could WW3 break out in next day or two YES Is that likely YES
meanwhile: A new report gets dirty on the details of Israeli funding and weapons shipments to 12 anti-government extremist groups in Syria. Buried in the end of the piece is the revelation that Israel helped evacuate so-called “rebel commanders” as they also flew out members of the self-proclaimed “impartial” White Helmets organization.
In addition to providing weapons of war, the Jerusalem Post reported that Israel was providing extremists with massive amounts of supplies: 3,359,845 pounds of food (1,524 metric tons), 551,156 pounds of clothes (250 metric tons), 250,308 gallons of fuel (947,520 liters), 21 electrical generators and 24,900 palettes of medical equipment.
This is not the first time that the United States, Great Britain and France have cooked up a scheme for a chemical weapons incident. It happened earlier in the Damascus suburb of Douma, when these countries decided not to wait for the results of an international investigation and conducted a trilateral strike on Syria."
"However, the Syrian people manned up to and scoffed off that aggression," he added, referring to the joint U.S.-French-U.K. airstrikes against Syria in April. "They celebrated as they watched Syrian rockets down missiles launched by the aggressors."
I don't think so. There was an investigation carried out that cleared Assad, however there are strong allegations quite early in the conflict that he did use some chemicals, but that's strongly denied by Assad and by Russia. Having said that the then American controlled United Nations inquiry found Assad had.
Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his support for the Syrian government despite the release of postmortem results by Turkey that confirmed chemical weapons were used in an attack that killed at least 72 people in north Syria.
UN proves Assad regime dropped chemical bombs on civilians The report identified two incidents in which the Assad regime unleashed the gas in Idlib province on April 21, 2014 and March 16, 2015.
At least three children died and hundreds were admitted to hospital with breathing problems and burns after the attacks. While chlorine is not banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, its use as a weapon against civilians is.
(now we know for certain al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria, Nusra Front were in deed active) April 14, 2017 Assad claims Syria chemical attack was 'fabrication', in face of evidence
at the presidential palace in Damascus, Assad claimed the reported details of what happened were not credible because their source was al-Qaeda's former affiliate in Syria, Nusra Front. The entire incident was "fabricated" and "unconvincing," he claimed.
Moscow to press OPCW & UN to send experts to probe Idlib chemical incident in Syria – Lavrov Russia will call on both the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the UN to investigate, Lavrov said after meeting with his Qatari counterpart in Moscow. (they did investigate and cleared Assad)
Corbyn refuses to blame Assad for chemical attack in Syria and demands all sides work together on a ceasefire Jeremy Corbyn condemned the attack on civilians in Douma on Saturday But invited to do so he refused to assign blame to Syrian President Assad Dozens of civilians were killed in the suspected chemical weapons attack
What we do now know is the attacks were very likely fabricated e.g. Syria war: Chlorine possible at Douma 'attack' site - OPCW
(A baby image) Patients, including children, were hosed down with water to remove chemicals on their skin
The interim report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said "various chlorinated organic chemicals" had been found (in samples taken from two locations), but there was no evidence of nerve agents.
Medics say dozens of civilians were killed in the alleged attack by government forces on the rebel-held town in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus.
The Syrian government denies carrying out any chemical weapons attacks. Following the Douma incident, US, British and French warplanes launched strikes against government facilities they said were involved in chemical weapons development and storage.
The OPCW sent a Fact-Finding Mission team to Douma about a week later, but inspectors did not visit any sites of interest until 21 April. Correction 23 July 2018: An earlier version of this article inaccurately summarised the findings of the OPCW's report. It has since been amended to clarify that their report suggests that chlorine may have been
UK agrees to take Syrian asylum seekers and White Helmet workers following Israel rescue HUNDREDS of Syrians, including White Helmet rescue workers, have been evacuated from the Golan Heights and the UK, Germany and Canada have agreed to take them in, it has been confirmed. Britain, Germany and Canada have agreed to take the White Helemts – who dig people out from rubble after airstrikes – within three months.
Syria July 23rd Israel evacuates Syrian White Helmet rescue workers from border area
The evacuees, who were hemmed in from one side by advancing hostile Syrian troops and from another by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, were transported to Jordan, from where they are expected to be resettled in Europe and Canada in the coming weeks.
Big surprise: Israel evacuates al-Qaeda's White Helmets from Syria to Jordan - to send to Canada, UK, Germany
Earlier, Al-Kayed said that Jordan had granted the request on purely humanitarian grounds after Britain, Canada and Germany each reportedly pledged to take in a share of the White Helmets fleeing what they describe as potential persecution by Damascus.
Emmanuel Nahshon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, had confirmed on Twitter that “Israel has completed a humanitarian effort to rescue members of a Syrian civil organization (“the White Helmets”) and families.” He chose not to disclose further details, adding only that the evacuees have been brought “to a neighboring country.”
and
Reportedly, UK Prime Minister Theresa May personally interceded on the White Helmets' behalf during Trump's visit to the UK, a day after the summit.
On Friday, CBS News reported that the operation was to be launched "very quickly" and proceed in accordance with a joint plan, thrashed out by the US, the UK and Canada.
OTTAWA—Canada has offered to accept dozens of White Helmets and their families from Syria following a dramatic rescue over the weekend that was orchestrated by the Israeli military and personally encouraged by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
on second thought but only because your probably unable to access international news in china, here is a few of links in addition to the one posted already on this page I reality to best of my knowledge Israel only extracted 126 White Helmet scum the rest got left behind. So some of what is reported is utter crap
White Helmets "Rescued" By Israel Via Golan Heights In Overnight Operation un, 07/22/2018 - 11:45
Overnight Saturday Israel evacuated 800 White Helmets members and their families from southern Syria in an operation that took them briefly into Israeli territory and then on to Jordan, where they are expected to be resettled in Britain, Canada, and Germany, according to officials in Amman.
your quite right The Western chemical-weapons alarm was a transparent ruse. The same dramatic formula was deployed earlier this year in April when an alleged toxic incident in Douma near Damascus was attributed in Western media to the Syrian Army, resulting in a barrage of over 100 missile attacks by the US, Britain, and France on Syria. It turned out, however, that the incident was a propaganda stunt orchestrated by the Western-backed White Helmets, which have time and again liaised with terrorist groups for information warfare.
I'm surprise Theresa May is continuing to lie, included in today's attempt to white wash her past lies about poisoning in this mornings news here she again is also blaming Putin for MH17 when clearly it was the West Ukraine government who were 100% responsible for its downing. The West Ukraine government while the plane was still in Polish airspace West Ukraine gov directed MH17 to lower its ceiling and fly outside the internationally recognized safe air corridor, it was ordered instead to fly hundreds km inside the war zone straight to Russian backed eastern resistance missile system that had been shooting down west Ukraine government military aircraft. By W K own admission the missile system had been parked alongside a roundabout (they (the west Ukraine gov) had produced image of that system) they had known for at least three days, the system was parked there. West Ukraine Government directed MH17 to fly straight to that missile system, a transcript of the pilots concerns between =pilot and Malaysian officials was posted online and in these forums maps and other information was posted within minutes and hours of the event. That then Australian Prime Minister Abbott as well as UK PM, still maintain their lie's about those events is disgusting, even a government minister here has been abusing relatives of children killed (38 Australians killed on MH17) a government minister has been abusing parents of deceased children killed on that flight just three weeks ago.
and if i may a P.S. Israel recently extracted 120 odd Al Qaeda white hermit who had been slapping, pouring water over chemically effected kids on our tv's not Assad or the Russians no no the Al Qaeda white hermits most of whom have been given refugee status in CANADA, perhaps that's why Trump had a spat with your countries head gigolo
They are supporting Sunni who are attempting to overthrow the elected Syrian Ba'ath Party Assad is a Alawite a syncretic sect of the Twelver branch of Shia Islam
Jenny it is the US that backs the users of the chemicals, its not the Russians and its not Assad. It is Saudi Arabia, America and Israel that supporting the Al Qaeda white hermit that have been using chemicals in an attempt to discredit Russia and the democratically elected Syrian government. AMERICA
Hopefully Donald has countered Al Qaeda white hermit exercise e.g. Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that the so-called White Helmets had delivered a large shipment of toxic substances to local armed militant groups that have been plotting to stage a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib.
and therefore hopefully the US Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Newport News armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles that entered the port of Gibraltar crew will just be getting themselves a suntan
i don't use Kaspersky I think however it is probably still the most comprehensive anti virus program available
Former Secretary of State John Kerry paid tribute to Sen. John McCain Kerry and McCain had a largely shared sense of the national interest. They both arrived in the Senate in the mid 1980s, quickly bonding over their shared war records. Vietnam brought them even closer together in the 1990s, when they spent years working intensely to normalize relations between Washington and Hanoi.
I'm a bit surprised Kerry didn't express a view on the untimely death of the 137 members of USA armed forces that died on the aircraft carrier. No did he make much comment on this
I just read that, yeah McCain was a first class rat
Obama attended a meeting in Laos, following a mention made in these forums about a high ranging Vietnamese Office captured by the Chinese during one of the wars Vietnam and China fought subsequent our Vietnam War. I have reason to believe Obama raised concern about the high ranging Vietnamese prisoner, and the Chinese soon after released the Vietnamese Officer.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the drills will involve 26 warships from the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea Fleets and the Caspian Flotilla, including two submarines, and 34 long-distance, military transport and naval aircraft. The Northern Fleet's Slava-class Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser will lead the naval task force participating in the drills.
The exercises will also involve Tu-160 strategic bombers, Tu-142 and Il-38 anti-submarine warfare planes, as well as Su-33 and Su-30SM fighter jets, according to Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Adm. Vladimir Korolev.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the US, UK and France of preparing to conduct an attack on Syria under the pretext of the use of chemical weapons planned by militants in Idlib.
For his part, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on August 30 that the White Helmets had kidnapped 44 children to stage an incident with chemical weapons in Syria's Idlib.
The United States' Nuclear Posture Review, released in January 2018, indicated that "great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security," US Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a speech introducing the document, Reuters reported. He indicated specifically Russia and China as adversaries, which he called "revisionist powers" that "seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models."
"Objectively the purpose of the large military drills by China and Russia is self-evident. Some hegemonic powers target China and Russia as their biggest threats, giving heavy blows to the two countries in political, economic and military areas. Such actions have severely threatened regional and even global peace and stability. Therefore, China-Russia alliance is a reasonable stance against the hegemonic impulse and for safeguarding peace and stability of the region and the world."
This coming October, Norway, on Russia's western border, is scheduled to host the largest NATO drills in decades, Sputnik reported. From October 25 to November 7, 35,000 NATO soldiers will carry out the Trident Juncture exercises.
China's Xian H-6K bombers, which have been patrolling the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, will participate in the International Army Games on July 28 in southern Russia and parts of the Caucasus for the first time, according to a spokesman from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force on Thursday. China will join Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Iran in the war games.
"The landing of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft in April will end our obligations under the contract with NASA related to the transportation of American astronauts to the ISS and return from the station," Borisov said in the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation at the opening of a meeting on prospects of manned spaceflights.
Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that the so-called White Helmets had delivered a large shipment of toxic substances to local armed militant groups that have been plotting to stage a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib.
The US Navy's Los Angeles-class submarine USS Newport News armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles has entered the port of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar Chronicle reported.
To that end, the destroyer USS The Sullivans armed with 56 cruise missiles arrived in the Persian Gulf a couple of days ago, while a US ?-1? bomber carrying 24 air-to-surface AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles had been deployed to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
Last Sunday, Konashenkov warned that militants from the Tahrir al-Sham group were preparing to stage a provocation in Idlib province in order to accuse Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons against civilians.
you get quite few those on here, 30 year old thinks your good looking etc etc
Used to be few ladies on here, some partnered, others given up, its a singles site, I wouldn't call it a dating site, quite few of us posts in the forums, follow world affairs whatever. Others in blogs all the subjects under the sun in both forums and blogs. I got scammed a couple times, bleeding heart stories, few odd balls but most long term folks different but good folks
China will soon take part in unprecedented joint military exercises in Russia, sending 30 aircraft, 900 tanks, and 3,200 personnel to its neighbor’s far east.
Russia’s drills, held every four years, are the largest since the early 1980s, and the inclusion of Chinese troops, a first, is seen as a major geopolitical shift. Moscow and Beijing each want to send a signal to Washington with military cooperation—though it’s China, not Russia, that the US now considers its main threat.
Oh i checked back on a post i made few months ago and was surprised my post had disappeared, gone, so perhaps someone hacks into your threads or something thanks for letting me know
UK Navy Vows to Protect New Aircraft Carrier From "Frightening" Russians
The 71,650-ton Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is the biggest warship ever to be built in Britain, and has been undergoing sea trials since setting sail from Scotland's Rosyth dockyard in June 2017.
Commodore Andrew Betton, commander of the UK Carrier Strike Group, said that other Royal Navy warships in the task group will protect the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier from the so-called "Russian threat" during the carrier's upcoming sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean.
"Russian submarines are more active in the North Atlantic than they have been since the Cold War and we take that very seriously, the ship will be well protected as she makes her transit across the Atlantic," Betton was quoted by the UK news network ITV as saying.
LDR just been listening to Australian SBS Insight TV program interviewing four couples who dated online. Australian guys, three Chinese lady partners and one Vietnamese lady partner. The program organizer interviewed each couple about dating experience, how they met and how down the track (five / six years) the relationships were working.
Got real laugh from one couple, the lady engaged dating agency, her instructions were simple really as sought a partner she could trust and he didn't gamble.. The lady had her online dating agency manager, happily chatting with the potential Australia partner as if it was her that was communicating with him. In other words, the guy the whole time believed he was chatting with his potential partner. However actually all the while he was making arrangements, creating relationship including right up until he actually met the lady on his arrival in China. Even then he had no idea she hadn't communicated one single word with him. He knows now but didn't have a clue hahaha six years later quite happy together...
SHE is the crowning jewel of the British fleet and is soon to set sail with the Royal Navy for the first time - but the £3.1 billion vessel has already faced a massive setback.
Here, we examine everything there is to know about the UK's most expensive ever warship - HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Was HMS Queen Elizabeth leaking?
The Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier had a leak so serious it may need to go back into dry dock at Rosyth — for repairs that will cost millions.
On return from the initial OST and helicopter certification work, further work was undertaken to prepare the ship for operation of fixed-wing aircraft, in conjunction with regular maintenance and installation of her final weapons fit. On 18 August 2018, Queen Elizabeth sailed for the United States where flying trials of the F-35B will begin; during this period, the ship will also pay its first foreign port visit to New York.
A "full operational capability" is predicted for 2020
Australian government been crapping on that they will be sailing with HMS Queen Elizabeth in freedom of passage exercise in south china sea, however they failed to mention she won't be commissioned until 2020 some time
though still perceived by mind the minds nature is often described as clear light, perhaps that's what been referred to, I think likely mimiart could explain does getting home mean engaging in clear light meditation?
Entering Bardo one experiences clear like. Some Sages sit in the Bardo clear light state for months. The point being unlike your every day religious beleiver there are other people engaged in philosophies using a logical rational investigation examining sentient experience
There is not even the slightest possibility of a one god a one creator. Utterly impossible, to understand why you should seek a qualified guild and study emptiness. Our nature is moving energy, all sentient beings have been migrating from life to life since beginingless time. For a 3000 year old utterly flawed religions to crap on about interpretations of voices in there head and others passing along teaching self interest is ridiculous. People have been promoting a load of rubbish causing harm to others while ignoring 20,000 year old recorded interpretations of the nature of self is ignored in this day and age with world wide communications is completely ridiculous. I've raised this view with OP Chris numinous times.
Even if people continue to hold onto foolish teachings of carpenters or babbling idiots who had been wandering in the desert listing to voices in their heads. While we have this short temporary human rebirth endowed with an ability to engage thought process using logic and reasons to at least once in ones life should check up.
China is printing foreign currencies on a massive scale, according to a new report
printing notes in China saved the Nepalese central bank $5.17 million.
Today, notes from Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Brazil, and Poland are also being produced for foreign clients.
The international money-printing market has been dominated by Western countries for over 100 countries, but evidently China is catching up.
It’s part of Beijing’s ambitious ongoing plan to be a major global power, and sit at the centre of international trade and global economic relationships.
The Belt and Road Initiative is a trillion-dollar project seeking to connect countries across continents on trade, with China at its centre.
The BRI focuses on improving connectivity and cooperation among Asian countries, Africa, China and Europe. China says over 60 countries have signed up for BRI investments. The BRI includes the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a project over which India has protested as it traverses through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The 'China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation', headquartered in Beijing, describes itself as the world's largest money printer by scale. With more than 18,000 employees, it runs more than 10 strictly guarded facilities for the production of paper notes and coins, the paper said.
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