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17 February 2012

Pepe, PTaka

Pepe on Syria
The Arab League's Ministerial Committee had approved the report, with four votes in favor (Algeria, Egypt, Sudan and GCC member Oman) and only one against; guess who, Qatar - which is now presiding the Arab League because the emirate bought their (rotating) turn from the Palestinian Authority.

So the report was either ignored (by W\/Report_of_Arab_League_Observer_Missionestern corporate media) or mercilessly destroyed - by Arab media, virtually all of it financed by either the House of Saud or Qatar. It was not even discussed - because it was prevented by the GCC from being translated from Arabic into English and published in the Arab League's website.

Until it was leaked. Here it is, in full. columbia
The report is adamant. There was no organized, lethal repression by the Syrian government against peaceful protesters. Instead, the report points to shady armed gangs as responsible for hundreds of deaths among Syrian civilians, and over one thousand among the Syrian army, using lethal tactics such as bombing of civilian buses, bombing of trains carrying diesel oil, bombing of police buses and bombing of bridges and pipelines.

Once again, the official NATOGCC version of Syria is of a popular uprising smashed by bullets and tanks. Instead, BRICS members Russia and China, and large swathes of the developing world see it as the Syrian government fighting heavily armed foreign mercenaries. The report largely confirms these suspicions.
atimes

Keyboard warriors are calling for war
(Christopher R. Hill) " strikes on civilians(sic)" bad "NATO bombing of civilians" better

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PTaka on Libya
Fortunately, the Libyans recognize America’s now new found freedom fighters simply for what they are, radical extremist Islamists who have been handed the keys to government courtesy of the contradictory bourgeois thinking of dead beat intellects, the neoconservatives and their stooges like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Nicolas Sarkozy. Because Libyans are not cultural dopes they are in the process of launching a counterrevolution so that they may have subsidized housing, subsidized healthcare, and subsidized education that was all available free of charge from Moammar Kadhafi. You know the kinds of freedom people in Greece wished they possessed, or in Portugal, or Ireland, or Spain.
ptaka
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16 February 2012

he uncovered his polished bow of the horn of a wild ibex … of 16 palms; these the worker in horn had worked and fitted together, and smoothed the whole with care … This bow he set firmly against the ground, bent it, and strung it … Then he opened the lid of his quiver, and took out an arrow, a feathered arrow that had never been shot, loaded with dark pains and immediately he fitted the bitter arrow to the string … And he drew the bow, clutching at once the notched arrow and the string of ox’s sinew; the string he brought to his chest and to the bow the iron arrowhead. But when he had drawn the great bow into a curve, the bow twanged and the string sang aloud, and the sharp arrow leaped.
The bowman is Pandarus, son of Lycaon, the target is Menelaus, within easy range under a truce, Athena having induced the treacherous attack to ensure that there will be no peace settlement. The listener would have immediately recognised the weapon, not a simple wooden reflex bow but one of horn or with a horn belly to add compression energy. Only the weapon with which Odysseus kills the suitors in the other epic was a more powerful compound bow, with layers of dried horse tendon on the back to add tension to compression, but that weapon, a very rare import from the far steppe, could not be strung by bending against the ground because it is so powerful that it reverses itself when unstrung (Odysseus evidently knew how to pull in the horns with bastard strings, because he strung it while sitting down). But in the Iliad all bowmen are despised because they can attack from a distance, and treacherously too, as Pandarus did.
lrb
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Heike Monogatari struggles between the Taira (Heike) and Minamoto (Genji) houses...
ca 1131 - 1191

Gion Shõja no Kane no Koe
Shogyõ mujõ no Hibiki ari

‘The bell of Gion Temple recalls the impermanence of all things’

... next only to Murasaki Shikibu's Genji Monogatari
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Afghanistan...
? Do you form up a patrol and go after them? Do you periodically send harassing patrols after them? What do
you do?" As the interpreter conveyed my questions, the captain's head wheeled around abruptly
to look at the interpreter and then shot a look back to me with an incredulous look on his face
and literally laughed in my face, and said, "No! We don't go after them; that would be
dangerous!"
rollingstone
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American troops are reported to be staging and massing on Masirah and Socotra, one island located close to Hormuz and the other in the Indian Ocean. About 50,000 troops have been massed on the two islands, bringing boots on the ground to about 100,000 in the Persian Gulf region. ..This presages some sort of amphibious landing, because the United States will have to fight its way to Tehran to change its regime to prevent the collapse of arguably their greatest scam, the fiat petrodollar..


Masirah has some kind of airport (GoogleEarth) but Socotra has one dinky runway - hard to see where you'd put 50K troops

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c/o sparklepony
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tropical forests in America store around 118 billion tons of carbon, a fifth more than indicated by previous findings.
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Fukushima
Gee, all those old hot rods, ARE dangerous.... who knew?

: Rapidly dropping water level at Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 — Leak continues from Reactor Well/SFP/DS — Almost 3 times higher on Monday
February 3rd, 2012 at 9:48 am ET
enenews

The structural integrity of the damaged Unit 4 reactor building has long been a major concern among experts because a collapse of its spent fuel cooling pool could cause a disaster worse than the three reactor meltdowns. [
enenews

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Microscopic, sponge-like African fossils could be the earliest known animals—and possibly our earliest evolutionary ancestors,..
The creature, Otavia antiqua, was found in 760-million-year-old rock in Namibia and was as tiny as it may be important.
"The fossils are small, about the size of a grain of sand, and we have found many hundreds of them," Anthony Prave U St. Andrews
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ping pong planets - ejected after thousands of yers...
nationalgeographic


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