Located 1077 results from search term 'iran'
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Commented in White House says intelligence shows Russia is stirring unrest in Moldova
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure, an "intelligence official". You may remember me from such things as the Bay of Pigs, The JFK assassination, Project Mockingbird, Iran-Contra, WMDs in Iraq, Russian collusion, Nordstream, and censoring and "guiding" media narratives. You can totally believe and trust me when I say that Russians are going to be naughty and topple governments, which incidentally, we've never done and placed blame elsewhere."
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Commented in Iran says it 'unintentionally' shot down plane
Not like Iran Air Flight 655 eh? The captain of the Vincennes got a medal for that shot.
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Commented in The ‘Forgotten’ US Shootdown of Iranian Airliner Flight 655
It's not a mystery. In July 3, 1988, the Iran/Iraq War is at its height. The U.S. enters the war, killing Iran Air Flight 655. The war is over within a month. The rest of this melodramatic handwringing is willful ignorance. It's no murkier than the fate of the USS Stark the day the Tower Commission Report on the Iran/Contra scandal was supposed to be published. Or that of the USS Liberty for that matter.
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Commented in We need you back Jaco!
Something to do with this kind of thinking: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/def...-rebuke-of-top-british-general-on-iran-threat
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Commented in We need you back Jaco!
Since they are gearing up for a war with Iran, they may as well bring back the experts in fake news to help it along.
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Commented in How 5 Countries Could Become 14
By the same virtue you could also put Lebanon, Israel, the Shiite part of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Turkey and Iran there too. Notice though how there aren't wars there (all the time). Splitting those countries wouldn't really help. But it is fun to play country maker.
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Commented in Donald Trump Is An Accessory To Jamal Khashoggi's Murder
Agree, the Kingdom has been part of a geopolitical strategy of the US since ARAMCO. First for the oil and now again the old adversary, Russia via it's proxy Iran. Arab VS Persian historic rivalry being exploited by superpowers...and making a ton of military hardware loot as an extra. You could have Jack the Ripper running that place and it would be the harlot's fault for being unclean.
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Commented in Facebook finds disinformation campaigns run from Iran and Russia
Nice try, Comrade Putinovich. We're onto you, and your devious schemes to undermine our perfect, sublime, virginal democracy:
"This influence operation linked to Iran aims to promote political narratives in line with Iranian interests, including anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian themes," FireEye analyst Lee Foster said.
If you check their conspiracy diagram, you might be surprised.
If I were the user zobo right now, I'd be expecting a knock on the door. They always get their man, isn't that what they say?
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Commented in Trump: I have 'absolute right to pardon myself'
The Watergate or Iran-Contra article is interesting but this seems more like the Starr investigation.
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Commented in Roseanne cancelled: ABC scraps sitcom after star's racist tweets
Jarret was born in Iran, she's not Iranian, she's not Muslim and there is nothing to substantiate the statement....these kinds of memes and false quotes come from real shit hole sites. That you would even post something like this here disgusts me. That is hard to do.
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Commented in Gun control activists protest NRA's first annual meeting since Parkland
I'll defer to Charles Pierce, who says he's perfect for the job. If you need things put things into the wrong hands, you could do worse. The late, great Bob Parry would've strongly agreed. Plus, it sets him up for a higher office in yet an even darker basement room of the White House.
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Commented in PM presents 'conclusive proof' Iran lied 'big time' about nuclear weapons program
Netanyahu claiming Iran was illegally developing nuclear weapons? Old news but also the pot calling the kettle black? Israel has developed the bomb illegally and has never admitted it.
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Commented in Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit
You beat me to it :)
People say that weighing the influence of people by, say, intelligence, or level of education, is "undemocratic" and therefore evil. But apparently weighing by amount of money in the bank is perfectly OK.
Every regime, no matter how crazy, will pretend to be democratic just because it's good politics. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, and, yes, the US, are all "democracies". The only difference is how the votes are weighed.
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Commented in The Scalp-Taking of Gen. Flynn
Apparently someone’s downvoted this as misleading, clickbaity and/or sensationalized as well. That’s funny, only a little while ago another piece not entirely in accordance with the going McCarthyist hysteria also ticked someone off. Assuming there were actual reasons, what were they?
I mean, nobody at Snapzu would haul off and do something like that without being able to specify what stated facts or drawn conclusions may’ve mislead someone, would they?
Or if it was clickbaityness — you know, from this, the veteran investigative reporter who broke the Iran/Contra scandal, recipient of the George Polk Award and the I.F. Stone Medal — they should be able to point out exactly what it was that struck them as clickbaity, right?
Perhaps they made the decision to reflexively downvote this as somehow sensationalized. I’d like to know the precise reasoning behind that controversial decision on their part. Clearly any Snapzu user should be able to articulate why they elected to negatively curate, right?
Goodness, what would it say about them if they couldn’t cite any fathomable reason? That they’d acted without thinking? That they lost it? That they saw something that might’ve, gasp! informed them, so they knew what they had to do? I’d hate to think that was true, but I’ll face the possibility honestly. Something I wish they’d tried first, before going full chickenshit.
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Commented in Trump Tweets Rex Tillerson is 'wasting his time' trying to avoid nuclear war
Yeah, that's not what he said.
At all.
It's not even a sound inference to what he meant.
For those old enough to remember the middle and end of the cold war, the old Soviet Union negotiating strategy was "What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable."
Presidents going back at least as far back as Johnson thought it was possible to negotiate in good faith with them. We made concessions, they cheated.
It took until Reagan to put an end to that. It wasn't until we did a massive military build up,announced "Star Wars", put GLCMs in western Europe to counter their SRBMs and the media and the fainting couch crowd said he was a madman, and was going to destroy the world in nuclear fire because he would no longer "negotiate". And maybe that was going to make the Russians mad and they would start a war.
Clinton gave NK nuclear reactors, food, oil, and cash so they would abandon their nuke weapons program program. W gave them humanitarian aid. Who knows what Obama gave them considering he shipped pallets of cash to Iran. Yet here we are, they have nukes. Why would we even continue "negotiating" when all we are really doing is appeasing.?
When there is a bad man with a gun outside your door, you can give him your stuff, a little at a time so he doesn't come in, but what do you do when you run out of stuff? Shooting him is a possibility (as a last resort), and that is the only thing the media and the fainting couch crowd sees. Before you get there, you call your neighbors and see if they can help.
That's what Trump is doing. Witness: China is shutting down NK businesses and reducing exports/imports. Trump has suggested trade sanctions against countries who trade with NK. And it's the same refrain from the mid 80s. Rocket man is gonna get mad and it'll be our (Trump's) fault.
Appeasement does not work. It has never worked. You negotiate from strength. There is a non-zero (but low) chance that the end game results in war. That's entirely up to NK though, not us.
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Commented in Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive
Saudi Arabia is beginning to catch up to Iran now. A few more centuries and they should be on par.
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Commented in The Middle East's cold war, explained
Interesting but a very biased view. Talks about Suadi Arabia and Iran like they're somehow equal. Doesn't really talk about the asymmetry between the vast power and riches and weaponry and powerfull allies of Saudi Arabia as opposed to Iran which has been the subject of vicious trade sanctions. They keep talking about all the things Iran does and it may or may not be doing them, but it is clear that Saudi Arabia has been actively fighting in many countries and pouring money into the fights in others, has been funding people like the people behind 9-11 and has been exporting it's wahabist philosophies which are taking root in many Muslim countries around the world.
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Commented in Trey Gowdy poised to seize House Oversight gavel after Jason Chaffetz departs
Now before you get all up on your high horse and remind us the people deserve a House Oversight chair who’s secure in their asparagus, that’s Texas Rep. Gohmert, yet another one of the Republican House members that tarted up the bodies of American dead at Benghazi and then ran them around the House floor in a flag bunting-festooned GOP wheelbarrow long after the stink got hard to take.
Chaffetz, along with previous chair California Rep. Issa, never forgot it was supposed to be about the oversight. Gowdy’s strength as chair, presumably, will remain as it’s always been fundraising, but he keeps his head in the game and his eye on the ball too.
Grandstanding parasites like Gowdy could’ve gone after Clinton for any number of real crimes against humanity, but it was kayfabe, the bullshit animosity wrestlers have to maintain to keep up the drama in their rigged sport. Presidents, from Reagan with Iran Contra to Bush and Cheney using the Constitution to light their cigars to Obama doing the same thing but in an Armani pelt, have committed myriad impeachable offenses. Yet, there’s always some kayfabe reason to ignore ’light’ treason, and focus on disgusting farce. Welcome to the chairmanship, then, Rep. Gowdy.
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Commented in Poachers kill two rhinos at South Africa's Thula Thula orphanage
What is this... Iran?
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Commented in Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Already Harming American Science
I have an old friend from MIT who was just turned back to Iran. You see, Trump and his supporters don't give a shit about science. They're probably cheering that all those evil global warming conspirators are getting screwed. This is what they voted for.
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Commented in Hollywood sign altered to 'Hollyweed' in apparent NYE prank
First happened on January 1, 1976.
http://i.imgur.com/c2z9lGb.jpg
On Jan. 1, 1976, the same day California’s relaxed marijuana law took effect. Cal State Northridge student Danny Finegood altered the Hollywood sign to read Hollyweed by using $50 of curtains and a couple friends. Later in 1976 they had it read “Holywood” on Easter. In 1987, they protested Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North amid the Iran-Contra hearings with “Ollywood.” In 1990, it read “Oil War” in a protest of the Persian Gulf War.
Tired of what they saw as vandalism, city officials eventually beefed up security with a fence, alarms and eventually installed a closed-circuit surveillance system. With the increased security, Finegood said “it was clear they wanted to keep people away from the sign,” and decided to respect that by ceasing his alterations.
Several other versions of alterations may be seen here. These include Raffeysod (which no one seems to understand), Caltech, Perotwood, JollyGood and SaveThePeak.
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Commented in CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win election
Went sour? Those are the CIA at the height of their successes. If you want to look into their failures, as Congress has done maybe once or twice or perhaps thrice, you’ll find things you might rather you’d didn’t know. Certainly so if you’d prefer to believe secrecy somehow fosters honor, sacrifice and nobility of spirit. Something akin to believing that warm, dark, moist conditions foster, not fungus and bugs and gelatinous menaces, but disease cures and beautiful people. Or like believing the emporer’s new clothes must really be grand indeed, or why would the tailors’ve needed to be paid so handsomely for them?
So don’t turn the rock over unless you’re ready for what you’ll see.
Me, I think the giveaway that this latest “slam dunk” is perhaps less important than they’d have you believe, is that their explanations for why [Gasp, shock, horror!] someone might seek to influence foreign elections are typically asinine.
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Commented in CIA says Russia intervened to help Trump win election
This is the same CIA that claimed the Soviet Union was invulnerable and unstoppable for years after it'd completely collapsed? The same CIA that's failed in their analysis on every major event in world history since its founding, with a statistically unlikely preference for overhyping foreign threats and accumulating unchecked power? Bay of Pigs, Castro's cigar, politicized Wahabbi Salafist mujahedin, Iran/Contra, coke dealing, arms trafficking, playing Skinny Puppy at Noriega in a monastery, gang that couldn't shoot straight CIA? Who says what now?
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Commented in Iran’s Supreme Court confirms death sentence of billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani
Wow. They don't screw around with corruption in Iran.
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Commented in Capitalism in One Family
Atticus Finch, beloved American, figment of Harper Lee’s imagination and impossibly idealized father figure, tells us:
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Of course Drumpf is part of the whole decaying mass of the establishment. It’s as obvious as his mob ties, his manifest personality disorders, and his loathing for his fellow human beings. However, this line of thinking is harshing our buzz. So let’s try on our Appaloosa suits. Sure, he’s part of the establishment, but that’s not the same as being part of The Establishment. In the same way the West Coast is part of the country, but it’s not quite exactly the same country as the East Coast. You’ll have no problem recognizing that’s he’s a shock to the system, so it’s not too far a stretch to begin to perceive the ways he’s a wrench that’s been thrown into The Machine.
If Romney’d been elected, there can be little doubt his administration would’ve had American troops in Iran within a year. Maybe two. Once he’d been beaten by Team Obama, that whole hypothetical future fell away. You and I don’t need to compare notes on the Obama years to know he was more like Romney than not, but on at least that one thing there was a difference. Similarly, the election of this ridiculous homunculus means in this alternate timeline, the U.S. will probably not find itself in combat with Russian and Chinese troops before the next. He may be establishment, but not that Establishment. That’s, unless I’m much mistaken, the kind of distinction that Appaloosa’s on about.
It’s still a dystopian nightmare, it’s just more of a choose-your-own-adventure than it seemed a few weeks ago.