Tag: ISIS

From the Slabbed foreign policy bureau: Making sense of Syria

Unless you believe our Military is run by a bunch of amateurs which I do not:

Viral Video Claims To Prove US Support Of ISIS In Iraq ~ Tyler Durden Zerohedge

After all, shouldn’t US warplanes have been doing for the past year what Putin’s air force has been busy with in the past 14 days?

One answer, and a rather provocative one as it goes counter to everything that US has publicly claimed, comes courtesy of Hayder al-Khoei, an associate fellow at Chatham House, who notes that “another ‘U.S. supports ISIS’ video is going viral in Iraq.” In the video US “parachutes & supply crates” are seen in the area of Iraq’s Baiji refinery, a site of recurring ISIS incursions and battles. He adds that “Vids like this & others of helos flying above Hashd/ISF positions towards ISIS-held areas reinforce narrative that US supports ISIS in #Iraq.”

When Putin and the Russians set up their operating base in Syria a month or so ago (Zerohedge reported on this well before the US Mainstream Media) my thoughts turned to the Netflix smash hit House of Cards. So while the right wing of the US main stream media paints the conflict as a religious conflict, fermenting hate towards Muslims in general and the left wing of the US Main Stream media shows the bodies of war refugee children washing ashore in Turkey focusing on the humanitarian disaster with both consistently parroting Israeli government propaganda, maybe folks this war is like the last few – over Oil and Natural Gas, specifically the Qatar-Turkey Pipeline that can’t be built without the approval of the Syrian Government, which Assad has steadfastly prevented in favor of one that runs from Iran through Iraq to Damascus Syria. These pipelines have been spun several different ways per my Google searches on this topic which is sure sign of a misinformation campaign but then Wikileaks published the State Department Cable Gate documents showing a US plan to destabilize Syria dating back to 2006 making the news last month in the process.

This war is about where Western Europe will gets its oil and gas. Maybe the US should find ways to extricate itself from the quagmire that is the Middle East instead of going in even deeper.

These moments of media insanity can be explained

There are large segments of the main stream media that simply do not get out enough, especially in the U.K.:

This Dildo Flag Was Mistaken For An “ISIS Flag” By CNN ~ David Mack

But it gets even better.  Mention intolerance and homosexuality in the same sentence and otherwise bright people become blithering idiots:

Star Wars ‘reeks of misogyny’: SJW satirist punks BBC World Service ~ Milo Yiannopoulos

Seems to me on these hot button social issues all you get are the extremes on both sides which is why I normally tune this sort of stuff out. But since I did this post, here are the two extremes with a bonus of the second link being used for analysis purposes in the CNN ISIS Dildo flag segment.

CNN International reporter Lucy Pawle Spots ‘ISIS Flag’ at London Gay Pride Parade ~ Youtube

ISIS throw man off tall building for being gay, crowd stones him to death ~ Youtube

Closer to home is our pesky state flag. I’m personally in favor of changing it.  A central Mississippi artist has published a few concept designs to twitter, the first one well over a year ago: Continue reading “These moments of media insanity can be explained”