'The evidence of chemical attack in Syria is questionable' - Marcello Ferrada de Noli. An independent organisation Swedish Doctors for Human Rights has claimed that the video shot by White Helmets …More
'The evidence of chemical attack in Syria is questionable' - Marcello Ferrada de Noli.
An independent organisation Swedish Doctors for Human Rights has claimed that the video shot by White Helmets group on the alleged chemical attack in Syria is fake. The Sweden-based research assosiation of medical doctors revealed that the life-saving procedures seen in the footage are incorrect. Moreover, according to the watchdog’s findings, children in the video were unconscious from an overdose of opiates, showing no sign of being a victim of a chemical attack. White Helmets are best known for their aid work in Syria, where they are said to have saved tens of thousands of people from ruins and battlefields. At the same time the group is notorious for the heavy criticism it has been facing over the recent years. In particular, some experts claim the White Helmets primarily as a propaganda tool for the Western countries. Others argue the White Helmets of sympathizing with jihadists and having links …More
An independent organisation Swedish Doctors for Human Rights has claimed that the video shot by White Helmets group on the alleged chemical attack in Syria is fake. The Sweden-based research assosiation of medical doctors revealed that the life-saving procedures seen in the footage are incorrect. Moreover, according to the watchdog’s findings, children in the video were unconscious from an overdose of opiates, showing no sign of being a victim of a chemical attack. White Helmets are best known for their aid work in Syria, where they are said to have saved tens of thousands of people from ruins and battlefields. At the same time the group is notorious for the heavy criticism it has been facing over the recent years. In particular, some experts claim the White Helmets primarily as a propaganda tool for the Western countries. Others argue the White Helmets of sympathizing with jihadists and having links …More
Shock Claim: Putin Now Says That Syrian Chemical Attack Was False Flag Staged by United States
At a Tuesday press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed last week’s chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province of Syria was a “false flag” – a phony operation staged by enemies of Russia and Syria to discredit them. He said more such false flag operations were on the way.
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Shock Claim: Putin Now Says That Syrian Chemical Attack Was False Flag Staged by United States
At a Tuesday press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed last week’s chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province of Syria was a “false flag” – a phony operation staged by enemies of Russia and Syria to discredit them. He said more such false flag operations were on the way.
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At a Tuesday press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed last week’s chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province of Syria was a “false flag” – a phony operation staged by enemies of Russia and Syria to discredit them. He said more such false flag operations were on the way.
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April 11, 2017
Syria: the President as a Man of Action
By Christopher Chantrill
I suppose it would be going too far to call President Trump a Man of Steel. But he certainly qualifies as a Man of Action in his quick and decisive response to the use of nerve gas in Syria.
But what does that make Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama?
Perfectly simple. Barack Obama is a Man of Activism. In other words,…More
April 11, 2017
Syria: the President as a Man of Action
By Christopher Chantrill
I suppose it would be going too far to call President Trump a Man of Steel. But he certainly qualifies as a Man of Action in his quick and decisive response to the use of nerve gas in Syria.
But what does that make Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama?
Perfectly simple. Barack Obama is a Man of Activism. In other words, his whole life is premised on the concept of striking ideological poses. His most notable pose was his 2004 convention speech where he posed as a moderate perfectly balanced on his satin toe-shoes between red states and blue states. Not. There have been other poses since. Some people call it virtue signaling.
Of course, nobody can know the unintended consequences of Trump’s Syria bombing. Will it make the bad actors think twice about badness, or will it just twirl the Middle East deeper into chaos?
That’s the thing about Men of Action. Once you sign on for the ride, you never know if you will be able to get off.
We know that Donald Trump has been a Man of Action all his life. This was the troubled kid that had to be sent off to military school. This was the young scion that went from a nice cozy outer-borough real-estate business to see if he could make it in Manhattan.
And Donald Trump has got through several bankruptcy proceedings. That is one way to divide the men from the boys.
Yes, but what was the point of the Syria bombing? To some analysts it looked just like the usual symbolic response to dying-children-in-the-TV-news. Maybe it was.
Or maybe it was getting out in front of the “Trump did nothing while children died” meme.
Or maybe it was sending Chinese President Xi a message as he waited for Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Or maybe it was sending Putin a message that we are not in Kansas anymore.
Or maybe it was twitting the Democratic Party Trump-Russia collusion meme.
That’s the point of a Man of Action. He likes to keep you guessing. The only way you can tell what the Man of Action is thinking is by analyzing his actions and trying to connect the dots.
But what about the Man of Activism? He is the complete opposite. He is forever telling you what he believes, and describing the arc of history in excruciating detail and descanting about justice and “who we are.” But he doesn’t actually do anything. ObamaCare? Nancy’s baby. Dodd-Frank? Er, something about banksters. Lobotomize the economy with climate change? Leave that to the bureaucrats; they know what to do.
All this is fine, but there is one thing missing. I want a Man of Action President who goes beyond Making America Great Again. I want him to tell a story of America: a narrative that tells us where we have been, where we have gone wrong and what we need to do to set it right.
The liberals are pretty good at this. They have a narrative about how America was born in slavery and in injustice to native Americans and workers and women and minorities. All in all, America is the worst thing to come along since organized religion and its endless religious wars. But there is hope. All we have to do is listen to the chants of principled peaceful protesters and shop for “In This House, We Believe” yard signs. And meanwhile climate scientists will save the planet.
My Man of Action president’s narrative would go something like this: up until about 200 years life on this planet was nasty, brutish and short, even for kings and princes. But the last 200 years have been a Great Enrichment of unimaginable depth and scope, with ordinary people going from $1 income per day to the present $100 per day. This was driven by nobodies with crazy ideas about cheap textiles, oil from the ground, personal transportation, the magic of electricity, the wonders of computers and the internet. Not to mention the crazy idea that government should be limited and the servant of the people. But for the last 150 years there has been a movement to put a stop to all this. Economic Marxism, cultural Marxism, fascism, globalism, feminism, environmentalism, radical Islam: they all look alike and all want to put a stop to the Great Enrichment of ordinary people. But these naysayers are all wrong. My presidency, apart from Making America Great Again, will be nothing but bold, persistent action to put these naysayers back where the sun don’t shine.
Because, you see, what is important is not what I, the president do. What is important is what millions of you ordinary American Men and Women of Action do every day to make America Great Again for yourselves, your families, and your children.
Syria: the President as a Man of Action
By Christopher Chantrill
I suppose it would be going too far to call President Trump a Man of Steel. But he certainly qualifies as a Man of Action in his quick and decisive response to the use of nerve gas in Syria.
But what does that make Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama?
Perfectly simple. Barack Obama is a Man of Activism. In other words, his whole life is premised on the concept of striking ideological poses. His most notable pose was his 2004 convention speech where he posed as a moderate perfectly balanced on his satin toe-shoes between red states and blue states. Not. There have been other poses since. Some people call it virtue signaling.
Of course, nobody can know the unintended consequences of Trump’s Syria bombing. Will it make the bad actors think twice about badness, or will it just twirl the Middle East deeper into chaos?
That’s the thing about Men of Action. Once you sign on for the ride, you never know if you will be able to get off.
We know that Donald Trump has been a Man of Action all his life. This was the troubled kid that had to be sent off to military school. This was the young scion that went from a nice cozy outer-borough real-estate business to see if he could make it in Manhattan.
And Donald Trump has got through several bankruptcy proceedings. That is one way to divide the men from the boys.
Yes, but what was the point of the Syria bombing? To some analysts it looked just like the usual symbolic response to dying-children-in-the-TV-news. Maybe it was.
Or maybe it was getting out in front of the “Trump did nothing while children died” meme.
Or maybe it was sending Chinese President Xi a message as he waited for Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Or maybe it was sending Putin a message that we are not in Kansas anymore.
Or maybe it was twitting the Democratic Party Trump-Russia collusion meme.
That’s the point of a Man of Action. He likes to keep you guessing. The only way you can tell what the Man of Action is thinking is by analyzing his actions and trying to connect the dots.
But what about the Man of Activism? He is the complete opposite. He is forever telling you what he believes, and describing the arc of history in excruciating detail and descanting about justice and “who we are.” But he doesn’t actually do anything. ObamaCare? Nancy’s baby. Dodd-Frank? Er, something about banksters. Lobotomize the economy with climate change? Leave that to the bureaucrats; they know what to do.
All this is fine, but there is one thing missing. I want a Man of Action President who goes beyond Making America Great Again. I want him to tell a story of America: a narrative that tells us where we have been, where we have gone wrong and what we need to do to set it right.
The liberals are pretty good at this. They have a narrative about how America was born in slavery and in injustice to native Americans and workers and women and minorities. All in all, America is the worst thing to come along since organized religion and its endless religious wars. But there is hope. All we have to do is listen to the chants of principled peaceful protesters and shop for “In This House, We Believe” yard signs. And meanwhile climate scientists will save the planet.
My Man of Action president’s narrative would go something like this: up until about 200 years life on this planet was nasty, brutish and short, even for kings and princes. But the last 200 years have been a Great Enrichment of unimaginable depth and scope, with ordinary people going from $1 income per day to the present $100 per day. This was driven by nobodies with crazy ideas about cheap textiles, oil from the ground, personal transportation, the magic of electricity, the wonders of computers and the internet. Not to mention the crazy idea that government should be limited and the servant of the people. But for the last 150 years there has been a movement to put a stop to all this. Economic Marxism, cultural Marxism, fascism, globalism, feminism, environmentalism, radical Islam: they all look alike and all want to put a stop to the Great Enrichment of ordinary people. But these naysayers are all wrong. My presidency, apart from Making America Great Again, will be nothing but bold, persistent action to put these naysayers back where the sun don’t shine.
Because, you see, what is important is not what I, the president do. What is important is what millions of you ordinary American Men and Women of Action do every day to make America Great Again for yourselves, your families, and your children.
@aderito: You are a Catholic? Ask the bishops and the priests of Syria about what is going on in their country. They have not fallen into modernism. You can still trust the. They are deeply grateful for what Russia is doing for them. It is not surprising that Russia is hated by the abortion and anti-family regimes of the West who destroy their own population (cf. birth rate, immigration)
@Holy Cannoli: So if there is evidence of "Assad's attacks against his own people" the how about the scores of civilians and children which the U.S. army is currently killing in Mossul? Assad is fighting mercenaries. 80% of the population of Syria are under his control and if they would not support Assad, he could not survive for five minutes. Nobody in Syria (except ISIS and Al Qaida) wants the …More
@Holy Cannoli: So if there is evidence of "Assad's attacks against his own people" the how about the scores of civilians and children which the U.S. army is currently killing in Mossul? Assad is fighting mercenaries. 80% of the population of Syria are under his control and if they would not support Assad, he could not survive for five minutes. Nobody in Syria (except ISIS and Al Qaida) wants the U.S. to "help" them. They see what U.S. "help" is doing in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Bahrein, Afghanistan, you name it. I have many Christian friends from Syria. I don't need the propaganda of the New York Times.
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The title is misleading. Although there is ample evidence that Assad's attacks against his own people occurred, it is true that the "White Helmets" are largely a propaganda tool promoting western intervention against Syria.