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2017-04-11 at 4:04 AM UTC in Syria - Terrorism, Toxic Gas and Fusillade BonanzaFOREWARNING: Long and not properly edited
Another day, another war crimes accusation.
The accusations worked so well in Ghouta in 2013 the US has again accused the SAA of deploying chemical weapons, specifically SARIN, a potent nerve agent, on the local populace. Again, there has been no evidence presented to support such an accusation and again, popular western media is saturation-bombing public opinion without actually presenting any evidence.
The short of it is this - the SAA, Syrian government forces, have reversed virtually all gains made by the moderate jihadis in the last few months. They're on the doorstep of Homs, Al-Qaeda's last real stronghold in the country. Apparently, this position of strength was the perfect opportunity for Assad (yes, he personally dropped poison-gas canisters from a flying broomstick) to begin indiscriminantly bombing civilian neighbourhoods with potent nerve agents. After the gas attack in Ghouta, 2013, he surrendered all chemical weapons and precursors to the US for destruction, so he must've cooked up an entirely new arsenal and chosen this juncture to reveal it to the world. Donald Trump, hero that he's become, won't tolerate civilians being killed unless it's by US or Israeli warplanes and drones with precision munitions - he responded to the supposed gas attack by pre-empting any investigation into the matter with a barrage of Tomahawk missile strikes into a nearby Syrian airbase, destroying a number of Syrian jets and killing multiple civilians, but somehow leaving the runway intact. He'd apparently been kind enough to warn Russian command beforehand, so that they were able to evacuate personnel and hardware prior to the strike.
For those sane enough not to cheerlead military esclation that could indeed lead to a nuclear exchange, the version of events detailed above, which is more or less the mainstream media's 'official timeline of events', leaves more questions than answers.
The first point worthy of contention is of course, 'Assad used chemical weapons'. There would've been no strategic benefit for him to do so, and none has been suggested - the media tries not to discuss this point, but the official line seems to be 'to see if he could get away with it'. Thanks Nikki Haley - I didn't think the US could field a worse 'diplomat' than Sam Powers, but here we are. I only hope they were affirmative action hires.
This closely mirrors what happened in Ghouta in 2013 - there was a gas attack in a suburb of Damascus, and Assad was immediately blamed. The attack did not work to his advantage and there was no tactical benefit to using gas at all - such was stated at the time by the head of the UN's investigation team, Carla de Ponte. Her remarks and 'inconclusive' report were largely ignored, and the US pressed ahead in preparing direct military intervention. Thenkfully, Russia were able to strike a deal - the US would not invade if Assad surrendered all of his chemical weapons stocks to be destroyed. All weapons and precursors were reported destroyed on a US ship by a UN team in 2014. It's also worth mentioning that the sarin residue collected from the attack site was compared against samples from Assad's stockpiles and it was nowhere near a match - a completely different synthesis route was apparently used. This analysis was again ignored, reportedly because the samples were obtained through Russia and hence 'unreliable', though it was later revealed that MI6 performed their own independent analysis and came to the same conclusion.
If all of Assad's chemical weapons stores had been depleted, where did this current batch come from? Sarin is among the weapons that have been reported to be smuggled through Turkey to the Moderate Jihadis, but it would seem that project hasn't fared so well because it hasn't turned up on the battlefield. They likely dont have the facilities to safely handle or use it. That hasn't stopped them from synthesizing other chemical weapons - the process to produce mustard gas, the first 'modern' chemical weapon, is fairly straightforward and they've taken facilities capable of industrial-scale chlorine gas production, both of which have been documented as used sporadically by Jihadi groups in both Syria and Iraq. In one instance, the Al-Zinki Movement, US-certified 'Moderate Rebels' were caught firing mortar rounds loaded with chlorine gas into populated areas - when pressed on the matter, the US state department declined to remove them from the 'Moderate' list and stated 'one instance doesn't necessarily make them terrorists'.
It's through this lens that the gas attack begins to make more sense. The official Russian report of the incident, which has been buried by popular media, is that the SAAF carried out an airstrike on a rebel facility that they did not know at the time was a stockpile for those aforementioned chemical weapons. The resulting explosion, according to the report, released chlorine, mustard gas and base organophosphate compounds (implying they were attempting to synthesize nerve agents like sarin, but hadn't yet succeeded) into the local area.
Media taken at the attack site seems to corroborate this - 'White Helmets' and other first-responders tended to the dead and dying wearing only gas masks; sarin persists for some time in an environment and can be absorbed through the skin, necessitating full-body NBC protection for rescue crews. Many of the dead were shown to be foaming at the mouth, a symptom not associated with nerve-agent deaths. Photos and videos of the plume used as 'evidence' prove the opposite - Sarin is heavier than air and rapidly falls into fog the same way that cropdusted pesticides do.
At first glance it seems as though the response, 53 cruise missiles launched from the USS Porter and USS Ross into the Al-Shayrat airbase to the southwest of Homs, is typically rash US foreign policy. On closer inspection, though, it makes a lot less sense.
First, Russia was forewarned of the attack - roughly two hours before the actual strike they received communications through low-level military channels indicating that they should remove hardware and personnel from the base. The fact that they were forewarned at all is strange enough, but the fact that the warning came through military channels rather than standard political ones indicates that it may not have been officially sanctioned by the US authorities. Further, damage to the airbase was surprisingly minimal - 53 cruise missiles were launched but only half made it to their targets, mostly destroying munitions containers (claimed to be chemical weapons stocks) and several disabled aircraft awaiting maintenance. The core facilities of the airbase including the runways were largely undamaged, and the base was restored to be able to support aircraft on the same day.
Such a high number of missile failures is far outside of reasonable expectations - the US has fielded Tomahawk missiles since the 80s and they have an excellent track record for reliability and accuracy. A 50% failure rate could potentially be attributed to old or faulty missiles, but debris recovered from the base indicates that the majority (if not all) of the missiles were manufactured between 2014-2015. The simplest answer would be interception by the Russian S300/S400 systems stationed at Tartus and Latakia, but there have been no reported interceptor launches and no witnesses describe midair explosions. Assuming they weren't intercepted, the next most likely culprit (though nowhere near as well documented and shrouded in rumour) is Russian ECM/ECW technology.
It's difficult to know exactly what Russian ECM/ECW units are capable of - their specific capabilites are highly classified in Russia and the US is ostensibly being very quiet about the matter. Several months ago there was an incident where two SU-22s with ECM pods swooped, strafed and circled the USS Donald Cook - the US chastised Russia for 'unsafe and provocative maneuvres', but rumours abound that large numbers of sailors were either transferred or discharged due to stress. The SU-22s were apparently able to disable all of the ship's electronic targeting systems leaving it defenceless while they performed simulated attacks. There have been several unverified reports of Israeli warplanes having to vacate Syrian airspace because their FCS had been shut off, and the recent simultaneous maintenance on all 12 of the US' active duty aircraft carriers was reportedly to replace much of their copper wiring with fibre optics in an effort to defeat Russian ECM.
Russian military manufacturer KRET CONCERN specialises in electronic warfare. Specifically, their KRASUKHA series is designed to counter AWACS and low-orbit satellites - the latest models claim to be able to fry standard radio receivers within the 200km range, and Russian-language advertising media hints at the capability to interfere with or even override cruise missile control systems.
Assuming those capabilities are true, we can then assume that KRASUKHA-4 systems were able to steer away any missiles that were meant to hit critical infrastructure, perhaps by fooling their terrain contouring system into thinking there was a mountain ridge running the length of the runway or similar. It's all conjecture at this point, but it would go a long way to explaining the dud missiles and the lack of real damage.
If all of the above assumptions are correct, the timeline is as follows:
The US, knowing the target is a chemical weapons plant, feeds Russian/Syrian military intelligence on a rebel installation, not warning them of what it is (the missile attack would need to be pre-planned; there was not enough time for it to be spontaneously launched after the chemical attack). The SAA strikes the target, releasing chemical agents into the surrounding area. The US pre-empts any investigation, blaming Assad as usual, and means to level Al-Shayrat airbase in an effort to halt the SAA's advance against Al Qaeda in Homs (this serves the dual purpose of giving their 'moderate terrorists' time to regroup and significantly slowing the operation, giving the US a better chance of taking Raqqa before the SAA gets there). Russia unexpectedly interferes with the attack, stopping critical damage from occurring.
If the goal was to create a pretext to cripple the SAA advance on Homs, it makes no sense that the Russians were given forewarning at all. Given that it didn't come through official channels it's possible there was a leak, but the operation would've only been discussed in the highest levels of government and military; even the ships meant to launch the attack would not have been made aware until it was commenced.
Donald Trump came to power largely on a platform of co-operation with Russia and general isolationism, reducing international military interference and focusing on improving domestic infrastructure rather than pouring funds on foreign interventions - it's extremely strange that he's completely turned that policy around, especially given the now-famous tweets he sent advising Obama not to do exactly what he's doing now. The fact that he didn't even call for an investigation into the chemical attack prior to the missile strike is more typical Neoconservative establishment policy than his own.
Which makes sense. Trump was genuinely idealistic coming into the presidency, but has been wholly unprepared for how little power the president truly has over the jackals surrounding him. The one person who could've really spearheaded the changes he promised was Michael Flynn, and the establishment forced him to throw Flynn away. He didn't even fight it; he accepted Flynn's resignation based on ridiculous charges instead of mediating between Flynn and Pence and now he has no capability to make the change he wanted. As a result, he's become little more than a rebellious face for the establishment - like Obama, he promised change but can't (or in Obama's case, won't) deliver.
It's been rumoured that Trump was goaded into authorising the strike explicitly to leave him open to impeachment for entering into a war without congressional approval - it seems to me that it was more forceful than that, and that Trump was unable to stop it from happening. He may have even leaked plans at the last minute to prevent an international catastrophe, even though he could, and may be prosecuted for treason.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-10 at 3:23 PM UTC in You know what's also a chemical weapons attack?So let's get this straight, assad is already fighting against rebels, turkroaches and isis and yet he for whatever reason wants to stir the pot against people that already want him dead in the first place, sounds real smart doesn't it?
People forget that this guy is a dictator and dictators aren't fucking stupid, they're not gonna step on a mine just to kill a few ants.
And everyone forgets that the place was inspected and cleared way back, no chemical weapons, so either the inspection team fucked up or the us is lying which I'm more inclined to believe with the antirussia shit that's still ongoing.
Next he's gonna commit suicide by two bullets to the back of the head.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-10 at 2:05 AM UTC in Reverse DNS lookup.DNS lookup maps FQDNs to IP addresses, reverse lookup just does the reverse, it reports the FQDNs that point to an IP addresses. Because domains work sorta like pointers, multiple FDQNs can point to the same IP address these lookups aren't symmetric, lookup produces on IP while reverse lookup can produce zero or more domains.
The place I assume it would be relevant to email systems is in terms of verifying the authenticity of a message. In SMTP the sender of a message is self-reported, it's part of the data sent. You could initiate an SMTP session with, say, yahoo and assert you're sending an email from trump@whitehouse.gov and that's valid within the confines of SMTP. Of course this isn't really desirable, so the first line check against this kind of fraud is to verify that the actor initiating an SMTP session is doing so from an address that is pointed to by that domain. You can kind of "derive" authority to send messages from given senders from DNS ownership, which is pretty reasonable.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-10 at 2:03 AM UTC in Reverse DNS lookup.reverse DNS refers to a PTR record.
normally when you want to visit a website, you request www.blackonblackcrime.com, your request hits a DNS server and you get the IP address to connect to back.
PTR records work the opposite way - you send an IP address to the DNS server and it responds with the domain that IP address has registered to it.
in relation to email, typically it's a feature used to avoid forgery. when you send an email, the sending mailserver is included in the header data. the receiving mailserver will usually first check the MX record (ie. if you're sending from soph@niggasin.space, it will check the MX record for niggasin.space to make sure that the server's IP address is in the list - that it's allowed to send mail on the domain's behalf), then the PTR record (will query the mailserver's IP address to make sure it's actually registered to the niggasin.space domain).
there's a lot of other stuff you need to know if you're deploying mailservers but that's the most basic reasoningThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-10 at 12:39 AM UTC in What's upThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-10 at 12:17 AM UTC in What's upThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-09 at 8:28 PM UTC in Anybody who "hates the police" is either retarded or a total fucking poserpeople wonder why the media are constantly fear mongering. i don't. its all part of the system to control the masses. fear monger the population with threats they are unable to control themselves. the threats are usually vastly exaggerated and even made up. the op and the general population will then do everyrhing they are told, pay taxes and hero worship the authorities in return for their faux security, without question. thats how you control a population.
notice how quick pigs turn up to a store to arrest you for shoplifting, yet you report a burglary and they turn up 3 days later and say theres fuck all they can do. they're not interested in protecting you, they're just want to be your protector because there is great value in being a protector. its just a fucking big protection racket. people like the op are so taken in by the scare stories that they hero worship these fake fucks for selling fake security to not protect your scared faggoty little ass.
fact is the person who is in the best position to protect you is you. if only you could grow a pair.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-09 at 8:17 PM UTC in What even is...you'll find out in 5 yearsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-09 at 7:06 PM UTC in Trianglism Installment ▲oThe problem is, sploo, that you try to package your autistic ramblings as genius, and cite meaningless IQ tests and buzzwords as proof. None of this is intelligent. No one can debate with you or prove you wrong, because the whole thing is straight up nonsensical.
*cue an insult and another long schizo explanation as to why I just don't get it*The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-09 at 6:45 PM UTC in Palm SundayPalm Sunday celebrates when Jesus first pulled up in a drop top six. The rest of the week is to celebrate stuff he did before getting murdered on Good Friday.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-09 at 2:22 AM UTC in SpectraLYou literally never post anything remotely interesting or of substance. 100% of your posts are some gay retardation about how good totse was, how shit this site is, how everyone. On this site sucks.
That's true. This site is full of shitty users. But it also has some really good content and good contributors.
Either post something halfway worthwhile or shut the fuck up. You're only marginally better than tDR.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-08 at 10:48 PM UTC in Make shitpost/topicality rules and enforce them only in extreme cases
Originally posted by SCronaldo_J_Trump Yeah spectral rambles on about Bill Krozbys kids in every thread and team up with people posting pi and gay rape.. Oh wait…
I never get how you like spectral. You'd be like one of the very first people to get permabanned if he got what he wanted. You're like the self-loathing jedi phenomenon except for shitposters.
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2017-04-08 at 10:42 PM UTC in Make shitpost/topicality rules and enforce them only in extreme cases
Originally posted by -SpectraL Why the fuck would I do that? Would you plant a rose in a shitheap? You ain't gonna smell the flower over the shit smell anyways, so why bother? Oh, well, if you plant more roses in the shitheap, then that's bound to make the shitheap go away, or the increased number of roses will erase the smell of the shit. Not so. It doesn't work that way. First, remove the shitheap, then plant the roses. Try to do it cart before horse and it's useless. This is something I had been trying to get across to zok for years. What sense is building a mansion on a pile of sand? No matter how grand the house is, it won't matter, because the foundation is sand. The entire house will crumble in the more you try to "improve" it. I'm just sick of the backwards logic. The doubletalk. The inane excuses. If you want a really great BBS board, you have to have a solid plan, solid rules, solid organization, not just some anything-goes circus, where the children swing on the monkeybars all day and screech at the top of their lungs. Lanny is an ultra-Liberal, and ultra-Liberalism and successful BBS sites don't mix, but he refuses to admit that truth, even at this late date. I find that frustrating, in a way, but hey, nothing really phases me at all. I just ride along and observe the scenery.
So the truth behind your triggering comes out.
I disagree with Lanny politically, but that doesn't make him a shitty admin. This was your chance, Speckles, to say "Hey yeah, maybe I'm being a little bitchy. I'll try to stop being a hypocrite now," but instead you continue to be triggered. At a certain point you too will become spam, because you derail threads with the same shit over and over again. Please just stop.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-08 at 10:28 PM UTC in Make shitpost/topicality rules and enforce them only in extreme cases
Originally posted by -SpectraL I don't spam the same graphic across the entire forum, like spambots like Rodent do. People "like me" always bring at least something to the thread, unlike spammers like Rodent, who bring absolutely nothing. So keep on being a liberal lapdog for the kidiots, Dargo, but it's not like you're doing this place any favors or anything.
That is true, you're mostly just hated - not a spammer. It would be nice if you got back to the 'quality posting' you always lecture everyone about though. This whole 'I'm better than you' 'back in my day...' 'I know best' shit is what makes people want to murder you. -
2017-04-08 at 8:57 PM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?He literally just needs a hug.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-08 at 8:55 PM UTC in Would you go to church for a girl?
Originally posted by Malice Sex is a terrible thing.
I remember a time when you had never tried smoking pot. You thought you were above such savage behavior. Now you're a pothead.
It's not hard to imagine you having a similar reaction to sex. There is a reason why the great civilizations of our ancestors celebrated sex.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-08 at 2:08 PM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshin
Originally posted by Lanny
The question was "what matters to you, and why?"
He writes "black lives matter" 100 times, saying nothing about why. So we've established that be cannot follow directions.
In explanation, he says“When I thought about why, I realized that the insistence on explaining the meaning of the hashtag is inherently problematic
How did he ever pass sixth grade if he refuses to explain his views because "insistence on explanation is problematic"? If I said "affirmative action is wrong" and when asked why I said "insistence on explanation is problematic" I'd get laughed at until the day I died.the ‘why’ is embodied in the words themselves,” Ahmed told CBS News in an email Wednesday.
So we've established that he doesn't know what a summary is.
Then it says "in 100 words or less."
He writes "black lives matter" 100 times.
So now we know he either can't read or can't count.
And he gets accepted. And that's not just some shitty community college either.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-04-08 at 5:44 AM UTC in Psycho's PsychoanalysisI promised Sophie a psychoanalysis a while back, but as with anything on this site, it didn't take priority and I kept putting it off. Here it is though:
*Some portions have been redacted upon request.*
Overall you're a decent fellow. No glaring flaws or deep seated issues that I've picked up on (not counting the pedo part). You pride yourself in your intelligence, and like being set apart from the crowd.
Your opinion regarding your intelligence can be a trigger sometimes. If someone criticizes you or calls you stupid, you're quick to shout dat fucker down and set 'em straight. If that doesn't work, or the person isn't very reputable, you brush them off as uneducated, unintelligent, triggered, jealous, etc. Overall, you come off a touch defensive, even though you do indeed appear to be intelligent. To go full on clique here, this is likely a result of not getting enough affirmation through life - [redacted]. People have fallen short, so you've learned you're on your own, and you have to go to bat as much to convince yourself as everyone else of what you're worth.
You do like to use emoticons and act...well, girlish isn't the quite the right word. Let's try bubbly instead. Some people figure this ties into you being a pedo, but I think it's more of a simple personality trait. I can see this as having developed from [redacted]. Which leads me to the next point:
You're quick to get upset and wall yourself off when someone is mean to you or betrays your 'rules' of friendship. This is probably because you experienced [redacted]. So, you're quick to close people off when things go south as a protection mechanism.
I don't really have much to say on the pedo piece. Chances are from what I've read it's part nature, part nurture. No one will probably ever know what triggered it.
You are awfully upfront about it though, online anyway. You remind people every now and then that you'd never actually do anything intentionally harmful, but you like to debate it and ruffle feathers by joking around and skirting the line a bit by saying what's on your mind. I bet you use it as a way of weeding people out. If they freak over you being a pedo, time to move on. Check the 'unfriend box' and wall yourself off emotionally from them. Obviously, you don't do this in real life, but you'd likely give it a try if it wouldn't ruin your career/reputation/etc. On the other hand, it could just as well be a bit of an ego thing. As stated before, you like to stand out from the crowd, and admitting to be a pedo is a great way to do so.
And that's it. If there's a specific trait I missed, or something you think I got wrong, I'd love feedback. -
2017-04-08 at 12:25 AM UTC in Jesus was't the only one that walked on water you know...please keep it on-topic-ish kthxbaiThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-04-07 at 5:26 AM UTC in ITT: Why I love everyone here so muchI don't know. I just do. I know all of you from a time in my life where I became completely undepressed and learned a whole new side of things. My gut, which has always been right, tells me that you are important, whether you believe it or not. Cringe all you want, but I'm fucking serious, I have a very keen eye for this stuff and I wouldn't just randomly like this community for this long if I didn't know of it's shadow potential and instincts. You guys are smart. You are funny. You are intuitive. You're not overly edgelording like the chan community. It's a very specific balance and though it's been reduced to this site it's still a thing.
As always, I disclude Jill the car from this because he's just a person who posts sex things and ruins threads. Reminds me of this retarded guy named Jon that I used to know that would do the same thing IRL,
But yeah. :LOVE YASThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
