Broads Thread on the Abroad

[senate]

[Dog]

The witnesses claimed that once or twice a week 20 to 50 people at a time were hanged after sham trials before a military court. Their bodies were taken to the nearby Tishreen military hospital where a cause of death was typically registered as a respiratory disorder or heart failure. They were buried on military land in Nahja, south of Damascus, and Qatana, a small town to the west.

The report’s author, Nicolette Waldman, said the estimate of the number of people hanged ranged from a minimum of 5,000 to a maximum of 13,000.

“There is no reason at all to expect that the hangings have stopped. We believe it is very likely that the executions are going on to this day and that many thousands more people have been killed,” she said.

“They came for them on a Monday. Before they were hanged, victims were condemned to death in a two- to three-minute hearing. The death sentence was signed by the minister of defence, who was deputised to sign by President Assad. It is inconceivable that all of the top officials did not know about it. This was a policy of extermination.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... SApp_Other

[Dr_Chimera]

How the US poured billions into Russian neoliberal policies of the 1990s and shaped the 1996 election: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/russ ... hareaholic

[Dr_Chimera]

US-backed famine in Yemen not worth the coverage.

[mayoradamwest]

anti Putin exile dead after accidentally crossing path with fired bullet.
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/ ... raine.html

[Dr_Chimera]

US continues to terrorize Iraq.

[Dr_Chimera]

Alec Luhn reports on being arrested at a Navalny protest in St. Petersburgh. With pictures at the protest and police station: https://twitter.com/ASLuhn

[Dr_Chimera]

Some factual errors, but still interesting.

[Dr_Chimera]

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's comments about Western perceptions of Putin are quite apt. She also succinctly explains why Russians are hesitant to overthrow Putin: http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capita ... -democrats

[Dr_Chimera]

[The Bytown Boozer]

[MP]

https://twitter.com/ottawasuncom/status/931644424106512385

And this is why you never pass out first...

[mayoradamwest]

You gotta take turns mp

[MP]

You gotta take turns mp

Take turns passing out or is it a communal eel? Do they make eel sized condoms?

[Shawnathan Horcoff]

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[chicpea]

I had a wife once.

[Dr_Chimera]

[PredsFan77]

[Dr_Chimera]

[PredsFan77]

well now yall know i was up to no good while traveling to new zealand:


WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday she was pregnant with her first child,

[PredsFan77]

Thank you. Despite lots of advice, we won't name our child Frodo

[Dr_Chimera]

More good stuff from #theresistance

[chicpea]

Chances are...one in a millian.


One in a Sergei Millian.


To be clear, it is very unlikely.

[chicpea]

The Putin Generation: Young Russians are Vladimir Putin’s biggest fans

“What the Russian soul demands,” says Yekaterina Mamay, “is that there be one strong politician in the country who resembles a czar.”

In Russia’s upcoming presidential election, the 20-year-old student, who knows that journalism in her country is not free, will nonetheless vote to reelect Vladimir Putin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... 7aa0eb4f74

[Shawnathan Horcoff]

With that said, how can anyone in their right mind give a shit that a spy got whacked? The daughter is a speck in the western bucket of collateral damage.

[PredsFan77]

=O

[chicpea]

The new Cold War seems to be freezing up rather rapidly.

The US accuses Russia of trying to destabilise Afghanistan by supporting the Taliban. Senior US officials have been saying for months that Moscow is even supplying the militants with weapons.

[Dr_Chimera]

American media's framing of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontations is sometimes stunning.

[chicpea]

"...fire back"

[Dr_Chimera]

The New York Times' extensive record of being shitty.

[Dr_Chimera]

"puts beyond doubt that it was highly likely"