Given the confirmation of chemical weapons being used in Syria, it seems this move from the US was inevitable.
Jesus! You must have a bad head for Assad to censor it.
My solution to this is to develop a way of running cars on radioactive oil.
Iâve been reading up on Syria lately and Iâm starting to wonder about this âchemical attackâ. Does the West actually have any evidence of Assadâs forces knowingly using chemical weapons against his own people?
Further, it doesnât make a shred of sense to me as to why he would all of the sudden use poison gas on his people. He was winning, ISIS and other terrorists groups are on the run, the US were leaving them alone somewhat. Iâve listened to Dr Ron Paul comment about this and he seems convinced that Assad wasnât responsible. Iâve also listened to an independent British journo who has lived there for 7 years and is married to a Syrian and his version of the events is that a military airstrike against a chemical weapons factory held by the rebels was the reason for the outbreak of gas.
Donât think I believe the Western media here.
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Even for those that doubt the âconspiracy theoryâ that it wasnât a deliberate gas leak, we sure as hell were informed by the media surprisingly quickly who done it.
WADA were comfortably satisfied that there was a chemical attack.
An interesting read.
A theocratic regime has made Shiites less observant: Few attend the ever-shrinking supply of functioning mosques. The numbers here are striking: Mr. Parsa relates that âa Revolutionary Guard commander, Zia Eddin Hozni, recently announced that about 3,000 of the countryâs 57,000 Shiite mosques, or only 5 percent, were fully operational during the year.â As of 2012, nearly half of them âlacked clerics and prayer leaders.â In a clerical state, fewer and fewer young men want to become clerics, Mr. Parsaâs statistics show. Young women from traditional families are declining to take mullahs as mates. (Even at the end of the Soviet Union, the communist elite never lost their cachet as marriage partners.) Clerics trying to tell citizens to behave properly have been beaten severely. Their desire to serve in parliament has waned, as has the peopleâs willingness to elect them. In 1980, 60.7% of the deputies in the Majlesâthe Iranian parliament that rubber-stamps the theocracyâwere clerics. After the 2016 elections, their number had declined to 5.5%.
Thatâs a good thing.
The only democracy in the Middle East heyâŚ
It actually is however this bill is troubling and not a good idea.
Religious apartheid eh.
Go Benny you lying, thieving, immoral carnt.
And this is the state, and the people, who claim to be constantly persecuted.
Democracy doesnât work in a theocracy.
Have a look at the USA for example.
Good point.
This bill passed the knesset today.
Makes you wonder where they would be today if that nutjob hadnât shot RabinâŚ
They were crazy to give ultra-orthodox Jews so much power and so few obligations. My understanding is that there are government handouts for them.
Pretty much the consequence of successive minority coalition governments buying votes, seats and power through promises/compromises made to ultra-orthodox partiesâŚ
Just like here, a right wing Party wins the democratic election.