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Topic: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood? (Read 78738 times)

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #150 –

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Reply #152 –
Useful review: The Mystery of ISIS

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #153 –
Constant bombing is not the answer as it is an adjunct to land troops which are wehere?? In actuality the IS is not declining at all and what should be happening is that the countries nearby should have foot soldiers in the mess. Just see how the Kurds have been so successful so why not a mass troops assault from the nearby world - not the West.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #155 –
Agreed, Jimbro! (Hope that doesn't ruin the piece for you… :) ) Thanks, jax: Knowing how little we understand is a big step forward…
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Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #156 –
It scares me a bit, Asswipe.

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Reply #157 –
Oh-oh! Belfrager's potty-mouth has migrated… :)
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!" - Richard Feynman
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Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #158 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL on
Oh-oh! Belfrager's potty-mouth has migrated…  :)

I doubt it very much.

Meanwhile, heads keeps on rolling.
A matter of attitude.

Re: What's going on in the Caliphate, and the affected neighbourhood?

Reply #159 –
It is high time the States in the Middle East got together and took on that damn lot of low lives in the IS. Bombing is all very well but is not the answer and recently the evil gits have made advancements in places. So why are those countries not encouraged to get together aided by the bombs?
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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BTW, Sweden tells refugees "Stay in Germany" as Ikea runs out of beds...

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Reply #163 –
I think that the German Chancellor has realised the difficulty of would-be principles when the practice lands you with something else that cannot be dealt with!
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #164 –
Quote from: krake on
BTW, Sweden tells refugees "Stay in Germany" as Ikea runs out of beds...

Germans sleeps upright... or upside down like vampires.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #165 –
Maybe that is why their brains do not function properly?
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Beijing vows justice as ISIS kills Chinese, Norwegian hostages
Quote from: CNN
Beijing has vowed to bring ISIS to justice after the group said it had executed two hostages, a Chinese and a Norwegian.

ISIS said it had killed the two men, identified as Chinese national Fan Jinghui and Norwegian citizen Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad in its English-language online magazine Dabiq.

President Xi Jinping "strongly condemned" ISIS for the killing of Fan, the first known Chinese national to be killed by the group, and the country's foreign ministry said the Chinese government would "definitely hold the perpetrators accountable."

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Reply #167 –
Quote from: jax on
President Xi Jinping "strongly condemned" ISIS for the killing of Fan, the first known Chinese national to be killed by the group, and the country's foreign ministry said the Chinese government would "definitely hold the perpetrators accountable."

Why strongly condemned is between comas? Why definitely hold the perpetrators accountable is also between comas?
Why f*cking idiot journalists relativizes what they are paid to inform? they aren't paid to state their personal opinions on the issue.
The media is the first enemy of populations. but that is a taboo discussion.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #168 –
Quote from: Belfrager on
Why strongly condemned is between comas?

Quotation marks. That's actually textbook how to use them, for quoting... There are other ways -  to distinguish terms, titles and such

(I usually try to use the 'singles' for those tho.) ;)

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Reply #169 –
Quote from: ensbb3 on

Quotation marks. That's actually textbook how to use them, for quoting... There are other ways -  to distinguish terms, titles and such
(I usually try to use the 'singles' for those tho.) ;)

English quotation mark usage is silly. Quotations are indistinguishable from scare quotes. I guess this is intended, in English...

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Reply #170 –
Quote from: ersi on
scare quotes.

I'm sure other languages have a symbol for this.

That use is a little silly... If that quote is all you care to read about it anyway. Media presentation habits are silly to me, but that was part of an interactive document.

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Reply #171 –
…how long do you think it has been, since "journalists" reported (to their readers) the actual news?
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Reply #172 –
Quote from: Belfrager on

Why f*cking idiot journalists relativizes what they are paid to inform? they aren't paid to state their personal opinions on the issue.

Don't be even more naive than a vampire sleeping "upside down".

Journalists are paid to state the opinions of their employer!
Money talks.

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Reply #173 –
Perhaps more cogently, we could say people are taught to view the world in a particular (perhaps a peculiar) way: By the "powers that be!"
Of course -you, being a socialist or fascist, consider anybody besides the Almighty State to be incapable of apprehending "reality"… :)
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts!" - Richard Feynman
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Reply #174 –
Quote from: krake on
Don't be even more naive than a vampire sleeping "upside down".

Journalists are paid to state the opinions of their employer!
Money talks.

Don't try to teach the Our Father to the priest...

I'm criticizing the usage of quotes by journalist as a way of criticizing, if not ridicularize, the ones quoted . Ersi used the term "scare quotes", that I never heard before, but found it meaningful.

Eça de Queirós, one of our greatest writers, called to journalists, already 150 years ago, the scoundrels of the newspapers.
Just imagine what they are today...
A matter of attitude.