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  China Joining Russia in the Syrian Conflict
Posted by: Grace - 10-27-2016, 11:17 AM - Forum: War, Peace and Inbetween - Replies (2)

A little over a year ago it was rumored that should it begin to appear as if Assad might fall that China would enter the fray in Syria. 

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/49453/...ddle-east/

However, later Russian analysts denied the rumor saying China would most likely not be involving themselves in the Syrian Conflict due to conflicting economic interests in the region.

http://rbth.com/international/2016/01/15...ria_559607

Now, a new story is coming out from RT from August of this year, (I had missed the story until now..) that China is definitely getting involved in Syria now. 

Quote: Beijing and Damascus have agreed that the Chinese military will provide humanitarian aid to Syria, a high-ranking People's Liberation Army officer said, adding that the training of Syrian personnel by Chinese instructors has also been discussed.

Director of the Office for International Military Cooperation of China's Central Military Commission, Guan Youfei, arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for talks with Syrian Defense Minister Fahad Jassim al-Freij, Chinese Xinhua news agency reported.
During the negotiation, Guan noted China’s consistent diplomatic efforts to find a political solution to the Syrian crisis, adding that Beijing is now seeking closer military ties with Damascus.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/356161-china-syr...-training/

Basically, the article states the Chinese are mainly going in for humanitarian purposes, but are planning some military training as well of the Syrian troops, (possibly jointly with Russia?) 

As far as stories that China is now becoming involved, RT is far from the only Russian source.. but all roads for this story lead back to Russian sources. I am curious if this story is true and not just Russian propaganda, as Russia is intimating that they are ready to go to war over Syria with the rest of the world if need be at current moment, so Russian propaganda is not out of the question.

Therefore, I am wondering if there are any Chinese sources that China is becoming involved in Syria, and to what extent that involvement might be? 

Does anyone here have any Chinese language who might be able to tell of Chinese involvement from the Chinese perspective? 

 I like to take things with a grain of salt until I feel as if there is confirmation, however if this RT story is true and China has decided to increase their support of the Syrian government it is a marked change in China's policy, and therefore, something to take seriously especially seeing how China changed their law in order to get involved in anti terrorism operations outside of China last December.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-...NE20151231

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  2 powerful quakes hit Italy near site of deadly August quake
Posted by: senona - 10-27-2016, 09:46 AM - Forum: Forces of Nature - Replies (1)

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Quote:Campi, Italy (CNN)

Two powerful earthquakes Wednesday struck central Italy about 50 miles north of the site of a deadly August quake that killed nearly 300 people, the US Geological Survey said.


The second quake -- with a magnitude of 6.1 -- was 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) north of Visso and 58 km (36 miles) from Perugia, the USGS reported.


Just a few hours earlier, a magnitude-5.5 quake struck the same region. The epicenter was about 9 kilometers away, south-southwest of the town of Visso. The first quake hit at 7 p.m. (1 p.m. ET) between Perugia and Macerata, according to ANSA.



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The Church of San Sebastiano stands amid damaged houses in Castelsantangelo sul Nera, Italy, following a pair of strong aftershocks that shook central Italy late Wednesday.



There have been no reports yet of injuries, although there was damage in Visso and another town, Campi, where the historic church, San Salvatore, was destroyed by the tremors -- the first severely damaged the 15th century structure and the second finished it off.


Quote:In Campi, hundreds of people were sleeping in their cars, with blankets covering the windows. The cars are parked everywhere -- streets, gas stations, parking lots. Some residents have taken their dogs with them in their cars.

Local media said one man had suffered a heart attack.

Residents were uncertain as to what might happen next, and expressed worry that another, bigger tremor, might cause even more damage.

The USGS said both earthquakes were shallow.

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I hope not many people were killed, but some of the buildings looked totally collapsed.
The buildings just crumbled.

Of course, the article said some buildings suffered damage from the Aug. EQ, so they were already unstable.


My thoughts and prayers once again go out to the people of Italy.

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  114 Body Count of the Clintons. Video
Posted by: Jude - 10-27-2016, 05:09 AM - Forum: Election 2016 ! - Replies (3)

Watch. Learn, Discuss, Share.

Take it for what you want but I for one believe every instance.

And we all know they are guilty of....




Jude

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  Really???
Posted by: guohua - 10-26-2016, 10:33 PM - Forum: Humor, Jokes & Pranks - Replies (3)

Yes Really!
Look again, it’s INSECT REPELLENT                                              

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The only time you’ll drink from a urinal
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OK, well that narrows it down
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Not super enough for us

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A whole new kind of pooh sticks
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Well, if you’re drinking Urinal why not?
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You probably need a snack with your tea after all 
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They didn’t think it through
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Because that’s exactly why you need hand sanitiser[Image: nintchdbpict000277682679.jpg?w=611&strip=all]

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  Julian ASSANGE's Full Interview !
Posted by: Mystic Wanderer - 10-26-2016, 07:24 PM - Forum: Political News and more - Replies (2)

I just started watching, so I can't tell you what all is on here, but I'm sure it will be interesting to hear what he says.

Enjoy!   tinybiggrin 





https://youtu.be/zuZlBAwwOI4

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  Reports of strange lights in East Valley
Posted by: guohua - 10-26-2016, 07:06 PM - Forum: UFOs, Aliens and Universal Questions - Replies (2)

You'll have to click on the Source to see the video.

Quote:GILBERT, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) -
Some people have been messaging us saying they saw some strange lights in the East Valley on Tuesday.
Ashley Grayson posted on our Facebook page and said the objects she saw were flying from north to south, possibly from McKellips Road to about Warner Road and Val Vista Driver. She said that there were "airplanes being diverted."
Another guy named Todd posted on Twitter he was at the Queen Creek wash when he saw multiple lights in the sky. He posted a video that has explicit language.
There was also a reported sighting in Globe.
Phoenix Skyhawks said they had no planned jumps tonight.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said it didn't receive any crazy calls. 
We are working to find out what the lights were. We reached out to Phoenix Sky Harbor and Luke Air Force Base but haven't heard back yet.
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  Sanctuary city illegal immigrant sparks $61M fire in national forest
Posted by: guohua - 10-26-2016, 05:16 PM - Forum: Political News and more - Replies (1)

Yes at first they lied about it as the fire was raging over their heads and then of-course their finger prints were found on the vehicle.
Do you here the Out-Rage In California? No, of-course not, Plus not like your average citizen Who'd be forced to pay back the 61 million dollars or go to jail or both, No, They're illegals and have immunity under Obama's Regime!
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Quote:WOFFORD HEIGHTS, Calif. — Angel Gilberto Garcia-Avalos had been deported five times in just the past four years, yet each time he has managed to sneak from Mexico back into the U.S., where he ended up in more mischief: driving without a license, attempted burglary and felony weapons charges.


In August, he graduated to full-fledged mayhem, sparking a fire in the Sequoia National Forest that has already cost the government $61 million and left some of the country’s most beautiful landscape scarred for years to come.
Garcia, who pleaded guilty last month and faces 13 months in prison, had only recently been released from the Kern County Jail. He likely would have been deported again, but local authorities were unable to report him to immigration authorities because of California’s new sanctuary city law, which prohibited the sheriff from communicating with federal agents.
California, Sanctuary City Laws.
Quote:Federal agents now say they will kick Garcia out of the country once he serves his latest sentence, but the damage has already been done.
At a point along State Highway 155 through the Sequoia National Forest, the smell of cedar gives way to the stench of soot. Ash-blackened trees above and below the roadway show the path of the blaze.

Investigators determined that the spark came from a Nissan Maxima that Garcia was driving over a rough dirt trail near Cedar Creek. Garcia tried to drive over a berm and hit a tree. The hot muffler on his car ignited grass parched by years of drought, investigators said in an account filed in federal court.
Under Hillary's Regime, he'll be welcome back with open arms and flowers.
Quote:Ranchers rushing to the site of the fire saw Garcia who, despite the blaze raging over his shoulder, insisted he wasn’t aware of it much less responsible for it.
Investigators punctured his story by matching footprints from the car to those of Garcia and his son.

Decades to recover
John Chatel, an endangered species specialist who led the Forest Service’s evaluation team after the fire, said it wasn’t the most damaging burn he has seen but added that the effects could last for years.
Of the 29,000 acres that were touched by fire, more than half sustained moderate or high-intensity burns. Communities were evacuated in two counties, and a handful of cabins and outbuildings were scorched.
It took six weeks to fully contain the fire. Officials warned at the beginning of October that hot spots could persist until the first snows blanket the area and snuff out the last vestiges.
The fire didn’t spread to Sequoia National Park to the north of the forest, which is home to groves of the majestic trees.
But it took more than $60 million to contain and extinguish the blaze. Mr. Chatel submitted an emergency restoration plan at a cost of $500,000. That doesn’t include long-term restoration of campsites, cattle-grazing areas and long-term revegetation.
Mr. Chatel said the drought, now in its fifth year, probably will make it tougher for the forest to recover.
“It’s got to be really challenging — not impossible, but challenging — for a lot of the forest that was there historically to come back in a reasonable amount of time,” he said. “It’s going to take decades and decades from a conifer standpoint to get back what you lost.”
Destroying the landscape

Garcia
 has admitted to his role in the fire but shows little remorse.

Court documents say he got testy with the ranchers when they accused him. “How am I going to start that fire?” he said. “Does it look like I would do that?”
At one point while Garcia was talking with the ranchers, a glass methamphetamine pipe fell out of his pocket and he quickly moved to conceal it, Forest Service Special Agent Brian A. Adams wrote.
Garcia claimed the Nissan Maxima, which belonged to his girlfriend’s mother, was stolen when he and his son went to get some water — though there is no water source anywhere in the vicinity, the agent said.

Fires sparked by illegal immigrants are more common — and more controversial — along the border.
The federal government’s main fire information center tracks whether blazes were sparked by humans but doesn’t record their nationality or legal status.
In 2011, after a series of blazes in southern Arizona, Sen. John McCain blamed illegal immigrants. He was resoundingly rebuked by immigrant rights groups that said the Arizona Republican was speculating, scapegoating and spreading “hate and fear.”
Immigrates do have some rights, That's LEGAL Immigrates, Not Illegals!
Quote:Garcia’s record

Garcia’s case illustrates the ongoing problem with the U.S.-Mexico border. Although less active than it was a decade ago, the border remains porous enough for bad elements to sneak across with apparent ease. That enabled Garcia to come back to his 4-year-old son, identified in court papers only by the initials G.G.
Garcia has a long criminal record that includes auto theft, burglary and firearms charges. Nabbed last year after failing to appear in court to face felony charges, he was sentenced to more than a year in jail and was released for good behavior after serving 194 days.

In the past, Kern County would have reported him to federal immigration agents and his criminal record and repeated deportations would have made him a priority case. But California’s Trust Act, signed into law last year by Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, put an end to that cooperation.

“We didn’t hold him because he did not meet the Trust Act,” Sheriff Youngblood said.
Now that he is in federal prison, ICE will have better luck when he is released upon completion of a 13-month sentence to which he agreed in his plea bargain.
But given his proficiency at sneaking back into the U.S., there is little sense that he will be deterred.
Source
If you are a sanctuary city, county or state and an illegal burns down your forest, don't ask anyone for help putting it out. When you welcome doom to your door, it is YOUR fault. Actions have consequences. If you vote for The Crooked Hillary and you are in the Bread Line Next Year, well you get what you deserve.

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  Philippines: ‘Go ahead, pack your bags’
Posted by: 727Sky - 10-26-2016, 09:41 AM - Forum: Asian Affairs - Replies (3)

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016/10/p...sinessmen/

Quote:Philippines: ‘Go ahead, pack your bags’, Duterte tells US businessmen
By Asian Correspondent Staff
 
MANILA: -- PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday fired yet another salvo against the United States, this time telling the long-time ally’s investors and businessmen that they can opt to pack up and leave the Philippines if his vulgar and scathing remarks have caused unease among the business community.
 
Responding to visiting U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Daniel Russel’s assertion that conflicting statements by Duterte were creating a “climate of uncertainty”, Duterte said he was not worried about U.S. businesses leaving the Philippines.
 
“Go ahead. Pack your bags. We will sacrifice. We will recover, I assure you,” he said before boarding a flight to Japan for a three-day official visit to Tokyo, as quoted by The Philippine Star.
http://newsletter.thaivisa.com/l/jzQgFpy...TuMSnatT1w

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  One of aviation's greatest has passed Bob Hoover
Posted by: 727Sky - 10-26-2016, 07:30 AM - Forum: Aviation Developments - Replies (2)

There are probably many of the younger generation who do not even know who Bob Hoover was.. He was a gentleman who.... those of us who flew airplanes (especially on the aerobatic circuit) always enjoyed his stories and his fantastic air shows. @ 94 RIP Bob

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Hoover’s flying career began when he was a teenager. He soon enlisted and flew in World War II as a fighter pilot. After being shot down over Italy and spending 16 months in a German POW camp, he famously escaped by stealing a Fw190 fighter and flying it to the Netherlands.
He went on to become a U.S. Air Force test pilot alongside Chuck Yeager and later revolutionized aerobatics with his airshow routines in his instantly recognizable green and white Shrike Commander and yellow P-51 Mustang. The movie Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project recounts his entire storied career in detail.

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Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project
Bob Hoover, right, with Harrison Ford, who was featured in Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project.
In addition to being one of the most accomplished pilots who ever lived, Hoover was also universally beloved by pilots and aviation enthusiasts. As news of his death broke this morning, the aviation world took to social media to mourn, share memories and wish one of the greatest aviators of all time blue skies.
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  Illegal immigrants go door-to-door on behalf of Hillary
Posted by: guohua - 10-26-2016, 06:52 AM - Forum: Election 2016 ! - Replies (1)

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California and New Mexico Already Are.

Quote:In 2012 the Obama Administration granted temporary legal status to close to 750,000 illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.Now they are going door-to-door campaigning on behalf of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
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Quote:The Washington Post followed the campaign activities in Norther Virginia, a crucial purple region that could very well determine the outcome in Virginia and, possibly the national electoral college results:
Quote:“All DACA recipients should take this on as an added responsibility, to change the power structure,” said Luis Angel Aguilar, 28, who received his protected status in 2013 and is helping to coordinate the effort. “Our voices need to be heard,” he said.
Four years after the DACA program was launched, many of the beneficiaries are still in a kind of limbo, unsure about whether their status would be renewed under a President Trump and concerned that their family members could be deported.
The uncertainty was underscored earlier this year when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a federal court injunction against an expanded version of DACA and Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, which could benefit an additional 4 million people.
“The only way to resolve this is through the election,” said Kim Propeack, political director of CASA In Action. “There’s been a recent uptick of despair and energy around that 4-4 vote.”
The Post story features anecdotes of the CASA activists working in tandem with the SEIU, the government employees union and long-time Democratic Party community organizing arm. CASA and the SEIU are using their resources to knock on doors in Virginia and Pennsylvania and plan to expand their operations into Arizona and other battleground states.
They are also focusing well beyond the presidential campaign. The illegal immigrant activists featured in the Post article were also working on behalf of Democrat LuAnn Bennett, who is locked in a tight race against incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock.
Quote:“Did you know Barbara Comstock compared immigrants to FedEx packages?” Nayely Lopez, 29, asked a voter in Herndon, referring to a statement that the congresswoman made about a desire for tougher immigration laws while campaigning two years ago. “Just put a label on us so they can track us.”
The voter said she had not heard about the statement, and she took a Bennett flyer.
As Democrats scream at the top of their lungs about Russia trying to interfere with the American election it’s ironic to see them actively working with non-citizens to alter the results of that very same election.
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