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The “ISIS Rockefellers”: How Islamic State Oil Flows to Israel There was a Tanker full of Iraqi Oil that Kurds wanted to sell directly .. Tanker stayed off-shore Texas coast for a few months, US denying entry and proclaiming this Iraqi Oil (meaning "contraband") .. nobody touched that oil...

.............. National security experts back settling Syrian refugees WASHINGTON — Former top national security officials in Republican and Democratic administrations on Tuesday urged Congress to continue allowing the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the United States. "Refugees a...

Who was the first man on the moon. Who will be interested in this piece of information and what meaning will be ascribed to it 200 years from now? 2,000 years from now? 20,000 years from now? Christoper Columbus without the dead natives. Thank You VERY MUCH for your post, Doc. SECONDED!!!! Neil Arm...

One really has to wonder why America hasn't been able to persuade anyone that its glorious way of life (or its health care system!) is the better choice than Wahabbism and nationalized health care. :lol: Thank You Very Much for your post, Zack Morris....... Since you are here....... America seems t...

It is brutal, brutal, brutal. Though probably not the worst thing I've been apart of- that will always belong to this couple who hired me to write with/record for them. I have hours of them having very uncomfortable marital arguments and proselytizing me to become some sort of neopagan vegan. I cut...

yeh, nobody has really worked out what comes next after industrialisation, everyone is treading water and mumbling platitudes. Indeed. An opportunity for demagogues offering simplistic solutions to problems they don't understand. this whole debt based service economy doesnt seem to have much legs, ...

Not good. Turkey is a member of NATO, so if Russia responds militarily to this action, NATO will be required by treaty to support Turkey. This could dangerously escalate into a wider, regional conflict. Hope cool heads rule in the Kremlin. Thank You Very Much for your post, kmich, Not good. Hope co...

Compensation in the group ranges from 200k-1mm, so I'd say we're doing pretty well . Indeed! I'd say your team is composed of 1%ers or wannabees ;) What does it say about a country where even the 1%ers are bitter clingers? ;) Lousy place? or extremely accomodating? Thank You VERY MUCH for your post...

;) . . . I don't think so, HP. The social and political contexts is very different than in the past. We are in an era where the confidence in our political and social institutions have dangerously eroded. The idea of the public good or the “general welfare” as in our Constitution’s Preamble no longe...

. Trump : 'I want surveillance of certain mosques' Many young Europeans join Islamic State without ever having set foot in a mosque . Thank You very much for your post, Azari. Also from your second link...... To be sure, radical mosques have played a role in recruiting jihadis. In the small French ...

He's the candidate that the GOP establishment doesn't want. Maybe the Democratic establishment likes him. Same goes for Wall Street and Silicone Valley . Given his sponsorship of beauty pageants, I suppose that it sort of makes sense that he has the support of the San Fernando Valley . . . Thank Yo...

Thanks for your concern, but the kind of work I do isn't really susceptible to H1B training layoffs. My team was highly international from day 1 (very few local-born staff, and only one out of our 4 director-level people is American). Compensation in the group ranges from 200k-1mm, so I'd say we're...

A point of theology. Does she receive a reward of 72 studs in the hereafter? If not, then it seems rather unfair and hardly worth blowing oneself up over. An important, even crucial question, which did not escape the attention of Slate : Their husbands. The Quran itself describes little about the s...

This op is now looking to be run out of Belgium P. Close to home isn't it. So? It even is closer to where I live, in a village 5 km from here IS enthusiasts have residence. Thank You Very Much for your post, Parodite, in a village 5 km from here IS enthusiasts have residence. Sounds rather dangerou...

Republican governors refuse to accept Syrian refugees. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/16/alabama-refuses-syrian-refugees-paris-terror-attack/75857924/ Thank You very much for your post, Nonc Hilaire, A nuance........ That's not the whole story........ :idea: Or even the origina...

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US Cities Light Buildings the Color of France's Flag in Support of France..

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Thank You Very Much to the moderators for maintaining the Forum. Was on the news earlier...... Jihad John said to have been killed in Syria....... Jihadi John 'dead': MI5 on alert amid fears of Isil revenge attack - latest http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11994992/jihadi-john-...

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Hoping Alexis and his relatives and friends are well...........

i have mentioned before that pursuit of happyness somehow turned into expecting to hogtie it. To dead white guys pursuit of happiness meant right of private property. I get your idea and see how it can be reduced to that alone in its most concrete but it misses the insight of the phrase and what Lo...

Race and national origin don't matter, and in the long run neither does the poor education of the immigrants (their kids will be different). Culture does matter, however, and nearly all these immigrants are Muslim at a time when even "moderate" Islam is a pernicious, intolerant and reacti...

. A History of Racism at the University of Missouri Racist mockery has been something of a local sport for years Cynthia Frisby, a journalism professor, crystallized this history in the Missourian newspaper this week. In nearly 18 years at the university, she wrote, “I have been called the n-word t...

Back on track here. Ben Carson. Being an acclaimed surgeon like Carson places you in a bubble where people defer to you as a matter of protocol and NO ONE ever challenges you - ever . So, you are free to construct your own reality without interference outside of the operating room and those committ...

. This doping rubbish just "cheap" anti Russian PR .. all athletes dope, normal procedure. and Putin : US missile defense aimed at neutralizing Russia nukes, N. Korea & Iran just a cover US knows "Missile defense" rubbish .. only one missile needs to get through and BANG But...

. Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/opinion/sunday/the-dying-of-the-whites.html Now we know, thanks to a new paper from the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and his wife, Anne Case. And their findings, inevi...

SM, You've told us that you frequently give these guys money. To each his own. Based on your posts, I trust you have exceptionally good judgment and that you are a person of fine character. The kind of person I would like to have as a neighbor. As for me, I remember being poor, but luckily (?), sin...