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I thin k we are all very shaken by the murders of the children in Connecticut, but what I am seeing is the tragedy being put to use by the media & the gov as a convienent distraction from all the other bad stuff we are neck deep into.

Last I hear it was approx 50,000, but that was over a week ago.

That's some funny shit.

Propaganda b.s! My family lives in Jaramana, Damascus,Suwayda & NOTHING is going on there. Its literally business as usual. The mall is open, the shops are open, people are going to work. I skyped with them literally three hours ago.

Palestinian refugee camp bombed IN Damascus?! No way. & what freaking point would there be?

This reeks of disinformation.

If you guys want real accurate news on Syria then here are your sources: Partisan Girl, who is in Damascus: [link to twitter.com (secure)]

& Lizzie Phelan, a journalist from the U.K: [link to lizzie-phelan.blogspot.com]

Very interesting. Can you give us more details about the situation there? Greek and Greek Orthodox community in Syria say that the situation that the MSM are describing is very far from the truth.

Last Edited by insertfunnyusername on 12/19/2012 11:55 AM

agreed, worse thing that could come out of this is sudden legislation out of emotion or a feeling of a need to do something drastic.

Then that leads to the obvious question:

What is the motivation for the MSM network news to post such info?

My guess? To prime the sheep for a military involvement.

My family says the military has been out in full force in the Damascus area, and with the exception of the car bombs that have taken place, there hasn't been much gunfire in those areas. Sometimes at night. Life is going on as usual, the kids are still in school, my cousins are still working, so are my aunts and uncles.

In rural Syria is where the problem is, its easy for the rebels to take over small towns and either push people out of their homes or take them hostage. They're coming in from Turkey so around the Syrian-Turk border there is a lot of conflict. Damascus is down south closer to Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel.

The threat is that they will flood into Damascus, and I fear for my family, but the Syrian army is doing a good job of keeping them at bay.

This crises has been going on for over a year and they have still not been able to seize Damascus and the surrounding area. It is not favoring well for the rebels, but they are wearing down the Army slowly. Of course, when you have the U.S feeding you $ and weapons they can probably last forever.


Bottom line is, there were legit protests in Syria that got hijacked and manipulated by Western media, but now....whether or not you were unhappy with Assad before they overwhelmingly support him- especially in this.

Even some western media is reporting it...I think it was ABC that put out a news report that said "over 70% of people in Aleppo are with the President" so why then are we over there?

At one moment we condemn Al qaeda...the next we're saying theyre in Syria and we support them.

The US has never been good at keeping a consistent story. Just like Iraq, Libya, & Egypt.

Thank you for info, i'm hearing similar things about the real situation on the ground, damn MSM are so powerful in mass opinion forming these days, it's unreal. All the best wishes to your family there.

Violence and death in the "Valley of the Christians": 150 thousand faithful in terror
[link to www.fides.org]

Armenians Fleeing Anew as Syria Erupts in Battle
[link to www.nytimes.com]

[link to www.youtube.com]

This video came out today.

Syrian Man Shoots Dead Russian Pro-Assad Wife.
[link to www.naharnet.com]

Russia endorses Iran’s 6-point proposal on Syria
[link to www.tehrantimes.com]

that's the way I see it. Our tax money is being used to fund the rebels....

I'm surprised this model wasn't covered.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I assume the ones in the vid are targeted by Russia from space and they could be the new border patrol as manned craft are being fired on.

Iran has home-grown versions along with hi-speed torpedoes.

When is the UN going to say they will entirely fund a large Russian peacekeeping force in Syria?

The French will have to pull out when their part in the STL starts being exposed on the stand. One question is all it would take. "Produce the results of the bomb blasts you did that were based on the assassination at the heart of the matter. There goes them having commandos inside Syria committing acts of war. Seems the US took one act as being the justification for a war that is 10 years long and still going on?
Any chance the UN will web-cast all world events (ICC especially) and open a forum like this to go along with them expanding their video collection and availability as they should be keeping archives of all vids that might be of interest to somebody, the closer they are to the ICC the better. (just in case utube loses their archives)
Just raw data that hasn't even been cleared by the courts yet but having viewers doing the filtering saves the 'staff' time and effort. Basically public opinion prevails before a court decision happens, knowing that is going to make some people nervous about doing something and knowing it will most likely be recorded by somebody. Say 15 seconds on each side of your vid would be telling in the sincerity of the speech giver. Do you think all the 'God is Great' is really said by people on site or is it dubbed in between recording and broadcast.
If live who is teaching these clowns, what ever happened to hand signals and coyote howls when infiltrating enemy territory?

Last Edited by MHz on 12/19/2012 02:21 PM