OMG FACTS

[17 Moments of Spring]

1 hour ago, jj3 said:

New Chernobyl Drone Video

 

 

Quote

I just returned to the United States after being in Ukraine the past five days over Easter weekend. The purpose of this trip was to explore the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and surrounding areas -- Kyiv, Pripyat, the Red Forest, etc. Contrary to some initial beliefs, it was not an April Fools' Joke. Due to the great interest in Chernobyl among those interested in science and technology whether it be due to the fascination with nuclear power or finding Chernobyl popularized by video games, documentaries, and the like, I have published my collection of these photographs of Chernobyl showing what the area looks like in 2010 -- just days prior to the 24th anniversary of this catastrophic disaster -- along with some of my thoughts and information collected from this journey.

...

As some background information on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, it is located in Ukraine and just kilometers from the border with Belarus. The power plant is located around 110 kilometers (about 70 miles) north of Kyiv / Kiev, the capitol of Ukraine. Chernobyl was Ukraine's first nuclear power plant (but not the first for the Soviet Union) and its first reactor went into operation in 1977. Only four nuclear reactors were operational at the Chernobyl site, but an additional two nuclear reactors were being built at Chernobyl when the 1986 accident took place. I toured Chernobyl for two days on the 3rd and 4th of April. While most nuclear tourists spend only a day on the site, even when spending two days in the area you only begin to scratch the surface of this most severe nuclear accident the world has ever confronted. A week could easily be spent at Chernobyl simply touring the abandoned buildings.

 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chernobyl_2010

[17 Moments of Spring]

Quote

In a paper published late last year, the two Princeton economists drew on data from national surveys and discovered that from 1999 to 2013, death rates increased for white non-Hispanic middle-aged Americans, particularly those without college degrees. It was a stunning reversal of a decades-long decline in such rates. No other demographic group in America and no other rich country that the duo studied saw such a turnaround. In their paper, Case and Deaton—who are married, the latter a Nobel Prize winner—paint a picture of a quiet “epidemic” plaguing middle-aged white Americans. It can’t just be a matter of lower economic productivity or wage stagnation hurting their wallets, the economists argue, but instead points to an uptick in what they call “deaths of despair”—increases in mortality due to suicide; alcohol and drug use, particularly heroin and prescription opioids; and related diseases, including liver problems and cirrhosis.

...

Soon enough, the Washington Post reported a correlation between counties with high middle-age white death rates and support for Trump in the GOP primaries. And a paper published by Gallup in August found that lower incomes and exposure to trade and immigration—which pundits had assumed to be hallmarks of the pro-Trump crowd—aren’t predictive of support for him; death rates, however, are.

 

http://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2016/anne-case-angus-deaton

[jj3]

 

[jj3]

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

If just the 50% of it is true, that already interesting enough.

 

http://philosophyofmetrics.com/the-take-down-of-george-soros-has-begun/

[17 Moments of Spring]

Master of the Puppets

 

 

 

 

[jj3]

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

Quote

To start this conflict and then keep its fires burning the US and its Satellites have spent billions of dollars. It’s curious that the New York Times has recently uncovered the criminal role that the CIA played in the Syrian war, reporting that members of the Obama administration have told them that Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the absolute majority of overseas unannounced overseas wars, to keep the role played in them by Washington a secret. At times the US and Saudi Arabia would share their intelligence, while in some cases Riyadh just hand out large sums of money to CIA operatives, without asking any questions.

 

Back in 2013 the CIA and Riyadh have agreed on launching an operation under the code name the Timber Sycamore that is aimed at toppling Syria’s elected officials through the continuous  training and supported provided to all sorts of radical militants. Under the deal the Saudis contribute both weapons and large sums of money, and the CIA takes the lead in training the rebels on AK-47 assault rifles and tank-destroying missile. Moreover, Turkey, Jordan and Qatar have all been involved in this criminal design, even though exact amounts of money that the above mentioned states handed over to the CIA will always remain a secret. Still, the New York Times states that Saudi Arabia has been the major sponsor throughout all this time, allocating billions of dollars in a bid to bring down the government of Bashar al-Assad.

 

It’s been reported that ever since 2012 eight European countries have been selling large shipments of small arms to Saudi Arabia, the total worth of which has surpassed one billion euros. Most of these weapons end up in terrorist hands in Syria. At the same time, the US has been supervising these deliveries through its SOCOM operatives, since this Operations Command is charged with overseeing US operations overseas. American special forces have been shipping those weapons from Bulgaria and Romania to Turkish and Jordian ports. There’s reports that SOCOM has paid at least 27 million dollars to Bulgarian and 12 million dollars to Serbia for small weapons in the period from 2014 to 2016.

...

However, militant training and arms supplies is not the only form of support that Washington has been providing to the anti-government forces. In recent months Western media sources have been stepping up their disinformation efforts to portray the efforts taken by Syria, Russia and Iran in their fight against radical terrorist as something utterly criminal. We are being said that the Aleppo operation allegedly leads to large numbers of civilian casualties, but not a single piece of evidence has been presented so far.

...

Moreover, now the US Army is sinking millions of dollars into private intelligence contractors, the The Daily Beast notes. This appears to be the first time the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged that private contractors are also playing a role in the fight inside Syria, and it’s one more signal that the US military is deepening its involvement in the fate of the country.The contract announcement said Six3 Intelligence Solutions—a private intelligence company recently acquired by CACI International—won a 10 million dollars no-bid Army contract to provide “intelligence analysis services” in Syria. Yet, military contracting and special operations experts say it is safe to assume that Six3 isn’t the first to get its boots on the Syrian ground.

 

http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/29/washingtons-secret-war-on-syria/

[17 Moments of Spring]

no comment

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/arrested-german-spy-was-a-onetime-gay-porn-actor--and-a-secret-islamist/2016/11/30/57c44f1e-e068-4307-8ddf-848fda772306_story.html

[jj3]

4 hours ago, 17 Moments of Spring said:

no comment

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/arrested-german-spy-was-a-onetime-gay-porn-actor--and-a-secret-islamist/2016/11/30/57c44f1e-e068-4307-8ddf-848fda772306_story.html

 

Epitome of paradox lol 

[frenchkiki]

That's mostly my life to find a apartment

 

 

 

 

[jj3]

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

not facts, still

 

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

Quote

US, Isreali, Turkish, Qatari and Saudi secret service officers are trapped in Eastern Aleppo, Al-Jafari says. He mentions names and nationalities.

 

 

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

 

[17 Moments of Spring]

Quote

"... the real strategic blunder was not that Barack Obama didn’t launch yet another war in Syria, but that he decided to go along with the ambitions of America's Sunni allies to create and arm a Syrian opposition army to overthrow the regime in the first place.
...
In fact, however, Iran regarded Syria as crucial to its ability to resupply Hezbollah, whose large arsenal of missiles was in turn a necessary element in Iran’s deterrent to an Israeli attack. “Syria had been Iran’s and Hezbollah’s security in depth,” the ex-official said, but Obama's advisers “didn’t have a clue” about Iran’s overriding national security interest in preventing Assad’s overthrow by the overwhelmingly Sunni opposition backed by a Sunni international coalition with US support.
...
In May 2013, Hezbollah troops from the Bekaa Valley intervened in support of a regime counteroffensive to retake the city – obviously at Iranian urging.
That Iranian-Hezbollah intervention resulted in the biggest defeat of rebel forces of the war up to that time.
But instead of questioning the soundness of the original decision to cooperate with the Sunni coalition’s regime change strategy, Obama’s national security team doubled down on its bet.
...
The Obama administration even agreed to the Sunni states’ provision of anti-tank weapons to an armed opposition now openly dominated by al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front.

That culminated in a Nusra Front-led command’s conquest of Idlib province and the subsequent Russian intervention, which the administration’s national security team obviously had not anticipated either.

Obama and his advisers blundered on Syria in thinking that they were not getting into a high-risk war situation.

 

But there is a deeper level of explanation for the willingness of Obama and his advisers to go along with the inherent risk of another regime change policy – even if Obama was half-hearted about it at best and limited direct US involvement in it.

The administration was unwilling to be at cross-purposes with its Sunni allies, the former official recalled, because of the direct US military interests at stake in its alliances with those three states: the Saudis effectively controlled US access to the naval base in Bahrain, Turkey controlled the airbase at Incirlik, and Qatar controlled land and air bases that had become central to US military operations in the region.

 

What was a disastrous blunder in terms of the consequences for the Syrian people, therefore, was the only choice acceptable to the powerful national security institutions that constitute what has become the US permanent war state.

Their first concern was to ensure that existing military and intelligence arrangements and relationships were not jeopardised."

 

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/behind-real-us-strategic-blunder-syria-2049258334

[17 Moments of Spring]

 

[Cult Icon]

 

Megyn Kelly looks a lot like OJ's murdered ex-wife.  Both very sexy women

[frenchkiki]

He killed them OMG FACTS^^

 

 

The real Syria story + in the OMG facts thread

 

this topic was great at first with all the facts about science or how many peas you have in a can -should be a fact!- it was funny and entertaining.

Now it's just propaganda & nationalism & politics.