A remarkable,sometimes horrible, year has come to an end.
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So long, 2016!
So long, 2016!
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Submitted by ikosmos on December 31, 2016 - 7:55pm.
Top 3 Leaders of the 2016 resistance
Interesting piece, but what I like best is this ...
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What’s more, he has now become the first Arab leader since the towering Nasser, to resist western attempts at regime change. The Battle of Aleppo has become the Stalingrad of regime change and even though the western mainstream media will never admit this, everyone can see that whilst Assad’s European and American detractors have gone, Assad has stayed.
Oh, yeah. The good guys won again.
ooh rah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by ikosmos on December 31, 2016 - 8:03pm.
The sun has pretty well set on all of Canada now for 2016. Speak now or ....
Submitted by Edzell on December 31, 2016 - 9:26pm.
ikosmos wrote:
The sun has pretty well set on all of Canada now for 2016.
Are you promoting separation of the western half of the country? Or just don't know it exists? Your year may be dead but we still have 6.5+ hours.
Submitted by ikosmos on December 31, 2016 - 9:51pm.
No, I just watched the sunset. Literally. It's darkness here on the left coast.
Submitted by Unionist on December 31, 2016 - 11:20pm.
If we forget the left coast, there'll be no coast left. Right?
Submitted by Mr. Magoo on January 1, 2017 - 12:14am.
So babble is starting 2017 with a Russian thread in 'body and soul' masquerading as good cheer?
I'm old enough to remember when we'd have said "So long, old year, and welcome the New".
Submitted by 6079_Smith_W on January 1, 2017 - 8:25am.
From the heart.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19i5ehy-f54
That's what I feel about having new years hijacked by some cheering section for those three, and their atrocities.
Submitted by josh on January 1, 2017 - 9:03am.
Good riddance. To the year and this thread.
Submitted by oldgoat on January 1, 2017 - 12:25pm.
I want to set fire to my 2016 calender and send it to hell where it belongs. Ironically, I recall saying to me wife a year ago that 2016 couldn't be as bad as 2015.
Submitted by Edzell on January 1, 2017 - 2:27pm.
ikosmos wrote:
No, I just watched the sunset. Literally. It's darkness here on the left coast.
Ah, there I go again; sloppy reading - sorry.
Submitted by Edzell on January 1, 2017 - 2:28pm.
Edzell wrote:
ikosmos wrote:No, I just watched the sunset. Literally. It's darkness here on the left coast.
Ah, there I go again; sloppy reading. Assumed a metaphor when it was meant literally - sorry.
Submitted by ikosmos on January 1, 2017 - 4:11pm.
lagatta4 wrote:
Praising the butcher Assad?
Yeah, that's how it reads i guess. The failure of Western-sponsored butchery, mass murder and the most heinous crime in world history short of genocide - making war - is what I was more aiming at.
I don't really care if Syrians decide tomorrow to dump Assad. As long as it's Syrians and not the terrorists who get to decide.
The US regime has, since the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, carried out an unrelenting sequence of barbaric atrocities and wars on sovereign countries all over the world; Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and so on (leaving out the Color "Revolutions" and other, assorted atrocities) . The result of this is millions dead and displaced, billions - nay trillions - in destruction, etc., etc., the disgusting looting of all sorts of treasuries of one of the birthplaces of humanity (the Tigris and Euphrates delta) , the bringing into being of the most horrific, medieval barbarity, lovingly sponsored, richly funded, in Takfiri Salafists ... and 2016 stopped this Yanqui-funded evil in its tracks.
Yes, that is worth celebrating and I won't be bullied into silence about it.
Submitted by 6079_Smith_W on January 1, 2017 - 5:06pm.
Bullied? At least that's something to laugh about. You mean because even new years eve has to be turned into a militaristic rant, and cheers for Donald fucking trump? Like you don't have threads all over the place and you haven't already whooped it up about Aleppo being pounded into dust.
It is the decision of this site that you have the freedom to trash this place to your hearts content. But we have the same freedom to tell you how ignorant it is, and I have no intention of sitting by and saying nothing.
Submitted by lagatta4 on January 1, 2017 - 5:10pm.
ikosmos, I know someone who was jailed and tortured for many years by Assad. He isn't an "Islamist terrorist"; he is a secularl leftist. You seem to think that all popular revolts are organised by US imperialism.
Submitted by kropotkin1951 on January 1, 2017 - 8:48pm.
lagatta4 wrote:
ikosmos, I know someone who was jailed and tortured for many years by Assad. He isn't an "Islamist terrorist"; he is a secularl leftist. You seem to think that all popular revolts are organised by US imperialism.
Indeed the Syrian governments terror state ranks right up there with the Saudi's and Israel's and the Egyptians. You don't hear too much but I understand that Jordan is no shrinking violet either.
I would not want to see any of those countries destabilized the way that Iraq and Libya have been. The answer is not a foreign intervention that leaves the majority of the population in a far worse situation than living in a dictatorship. The people of Syria voted on a new constitution and freer elections and the foreign backed opposition insisted on regime change instead of a transition. The biggest problem for you and others is that despite being a dictator in a free and fair election he will win after the civil war ends. I want to see the terrorists defeated and then see the Syrian government eventually change hands in an election. I don't want to see utter chaos like in Libya nor do I want to see a Western backed puppet regime installed.
Submitted by lagatta4 on January 2, 2017 - 2:13am.
Neither do I. I'm nt particularly known as a supporter of either Israel or Saudi Arabia. But acting as if Assad is some great democrat or man of peace is obscene. We mobilised against the US/UK and coalition intervention in Iraq, but it wasn't out of any love for Saddam Hussein
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