Comment by Dioxine
In the immortal words of Jim Morrison “riders on the storm, into this house we’re born, into this world we’re thrown…” But what causes the appalling scarcity of intelligent discourse? I blame the lack of education, coupled with delusions about one’s place in the world… The West has created a world where everyone is supposed to feel like a millionaire, just temporarily down on luck. A super-predator looking at it from a different angle. Predators have little to discuss with their victims (if one considers himself a prime predator, they cannot escape considering everyone else a potential prey).
It would be helpful to have those who put their faith in “intolerant” religions say what they think about Voltaire’s words. I think his case for tolerance rests on fallibilism. Many adherents of “intolerant” religions are remarkably tolerant of those who disagree with them, but can that be other than a tolerance that is in actuality polite contempt for poor souls who know not?
New Orders in from Israel: https://www.rt.com/usa/329240-us-sanctions-iran-ballistic/
America’s Zionist overlords demand that the US authorities continue to make decisions that go against the interests of America. Who are we fooling when we pretend that The US exerts an control over Israel? Isn’t it about time we accept that it is the opposite that is true?????
..and by the way the Obama Administration decided to increase the amount of yearly Military Assistance Israel to a whopping $5 billion up from $3billion to compensate for arriving at a deal with Tehran with the JCPOA:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/11/09/us-security-aid-to-israel-may-increase-to-5-billion-a-year.html
That works out to approximately $14 per day for Israel. All that while Congress cut money intended for lunch in American schools…….
My bad – that is $14 million daily. To my knowledge, no other relationship yielded/yield this amount of ”tribute” in the annals of human history! Please inform me If you know of any that surpasses this. But you have to bear in mind that this is being done voluntarily by the elected representatives of the country paying the tribute.
And do you guys notice that the US presidential candidates all speak with one voice on the topic of Israel? Although at times they try to out grovel each other with who is more obsequious. There was a skit done for Saturday Night live in2013 during the Chuck Hagel’s Senate Confirmation Hearing in it Senator John McCain challenges Chuck Hagel to agree to fellate a donkey on the orders of Benjamin Netanyahu for the security of Israel – the skit was never aired because Abe Foxman ant other Israeli agents had it blocked:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b13_1360784725&comments=1
Go figure!!!
breaking news–I smell a horse named Mr. Ed here working some kind of backroom sabotage.
US imposes sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile program
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/17/446175/US-imposes-new-sanctions-Iran/
Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:16PM
The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program.
The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted.
The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network of companies based in the United Arab Emirates and China were added to a US blacklist.
The network “obfuscated the end user of sensitive goods for missile proliferation by using front companies in third countries to deceive foreign suppliers,” the statement said, adding that the five people had “worked to procure ballistic missile components for Iran.”
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I suspect it has to do with how well those Iran missiles are working in the Yemen south front war.
I hate to admit it, but he really deserves a 4H Club blue ribbon for stringing along the Iranians so long.
https://darrellcreswell.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/mr-ed.jpg
a forum comment (not this one):
n German there is a word ” rumeiern “,
meaning something like a shilly-shally
tactic.
Iran let them tow on the nose with sanctions
like a dancing-bear
by their arch-enemies, what a foolish thing.
A headline even I could have predicted.
http://www.todayszaman.com/business_presidential-expenditures-up-nearly-100-pct-in-2015_409857.html
Expenses racked up by the Presidency jumped nearly 100 percent from TL 244 million in 2014 to TL 471 million last year, according to figures from the Finance Ministry released on Thursday.
Expenses ranged from TL 100-180 million annually between 2010 and 2013, when Abdullah Gül was president, but have surged during Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidency.
The annual presidential budget, which was TL 199.5 million in the last year of Gül’s presidency, was upped to TL 397 million in the first year of Erdoğan’s ascension to the top spot. However, even the approximate 100 percent increase has not been enough to finance the costs of Erdoğan’s expenses in 2015, as the Finance Ministry has had to allocate an extra TL 148.9 million to the presidential coffers, taking the total budget to TL 545.9 million. This figure is higher than the previous presidency’s envisaged budget for 2017, which was TL 464 million.