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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

5000 years. They'll get it right some day.

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT



what does this even mean

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Something something anchor babies? Who knows what a retarded Tea Party cartoonist meant.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Made a little modification. Hope it makes sense now.

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.

Otto Skorzeny posted:

Sed contra, the Brits called it Palestine because that's what the Romans called the region in the time before your ancestors "sought death in the error of their life" en masse at Masada:

The Romans called it Palestine because they (or the Greeks) botched the pronounciation of 'Fillistina'. The Phillistines were dead and gone before the Roman Republic existed. Let's just quote Wikipedia:

quote:

During the Byzantine period, the entire region (Syria Palestine, Samaria, and the Galilee) was named Palaestina, subdivided into provinces Palaestina I and II. The Byzantines also renamed an area of land including the Negev, Sinai, and the west coast of the Arabian Peninsula as Palaestina Salutaris, sometimes called Palaestina III. The Arabic word for Palestine is فلسطين (commonly transcribed in English as Filistin, Filastin, or Falastin). Moshe Sharon writes that when the Arabs took over Greater Syria in the 7th century, place names that were in use by the Byzantine administration before them, generally continued to be used. Hence, he traces the emergence of the Arabic form Filastin to this adoption, with Arabic inflection, of Roman and Hebrew (Semitic) names. Jacob Lassner and Selwyn Ilan Troen offer a different view, writing that Jund Filastin, the full name for the administrative province under the rule of the Arab caliphates, was traced by Muslim geographers back to the Philistines of the Bible. The use of the name "Palestine" in English became more common after the European renaissance. It was officially revived by the British after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and applied to the territory that was placed under the Palestine Mandate.

Emphasis mine. The Ottomans split the land between mustaffarates or whatever of Beirut and Jerusalem, and before that it was all part of Damascus.

I'd have to dig around in physical books to find the tale of shenanigans that led to the Brits calling it Palestine, but you can get an idea of the poo poo flying around if you trawl history between Sykes-Picot and the Treaty of Lausanne, especially the bits splitting off Transjordan.

E: I mean seriously the Romans mangled Y'shua into 'Jesus' somehow

Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jul 17, 2014

Blotto Skorzany
Nov 7, 2008

He's a PSoC, loose and runnin'
came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with
the bad ADC on his chip
bad ADC on his chiiiiip
I and everyone else in the world knows the Romans didn't make up the term Palestine out of whole cloth (and if you'd bothered to read that fragment of Ovid's Fasti, you'd realize the Ottomans weren't the first to use the term for a wider geographical region); regardless, that's the proximate place the Brits got the word from. You were wrong in assuming they were making their own pun about the Philistines to spite the Jews.

Wrt. "Jesus", the Romans aren't the ones to blame for that - "IESV" and its various declensions as pronounced by a first century speaker of vulgar Latin isn't pronounced much differently than the original Aramaic. The "J" sound and the vowel changes came about due to the same Tudor sound shift in English that rendered the tetragammaton as "Jehovah".

krispykremessuck
Jul 22, 2005

unlike most veterans and SA members $10 is not a meaningful expenditure for me

I'm gonna have me a swag Bar-B-Q

Otto Skorzeny posted:

I and everyone else in the world knows the Romans didn't make up the term Palestine out of whole cloth (and if you'd bothered to read that fragment of Ovid's Fasti, you'd realize the Ottomans weren't the first to use the term for a wider geographical region); regardless, that's the proximate place the Brits got the word from. You were wrong in assuming they were making their own pun about the Philistines to spite the Jews.

Wrt. "Jesus", the Romans aren't the ones to blame for that - "IESV" and its various declensions as pronounced by a first century speaker of vulgar Latin isn't pronounced much differently than the original Aramaic. The "J" sound and the vowel changes came about due to the same Tudor sound shift in English that rendered the tetragammaton as "Jehovah".

well according to Snowdens Secret the "administration" is currently being outwardly and overtly hostile toward Israel and jews so I mean I don't think it's a major leap of logic here to assume that anything he posts re: israel/the jews/palestine is disingenuous at best


anyway i/p poo poo is gay let's talk about something cooler

e: otherwise I'm gonna turn on the lights in here and watch the jews skitter away like cockroaches

pyf yahweh

Snowdens Secret
Dec 29, 2008
Someone got you a obnoxiously racist av.
Fine fine



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...s-backyard.html

quote:

Russia has struck a deal with its old communist ally Cuba to reopen a Cold War-era listening post that was once its largest spy outpost just 150 miles from the US mainland. The agreement, a further sign of deteriorating relations between Moscow and the US, was reached during a visit to Havana by Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, military sources told the newspaper Kommersant.

At its peak, the base was manned by 3,000 Soviet military and intelligence personnel, whose task was to intercept US communications and provide intelligence to Moscow's ships and submarines in the Western hemisphere. The listening post in the Havana suburb of Lourdes was closed in late-2001, partly due to Russia's financial problems but also under pressure from Washington at a time of improving cooperation between the two countries.

The base was reduced in scale after the collapse of the Soviet Union and closed in 2001. But, in the words of a military source cited by Kommersant, the US "did not appreciate our gesture of goodwill".

I have to assume this is almost entirely symbolic these days, unless there's a lot more planned than it sounds like.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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I'm sort of surprised the Cubans went along with it, this could set their relations with the US back decades.

edit: also lol Edward Snowden is being sheltered by these people

Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jul 17, 2014

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

So apparently a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 either crashed or was just shot down in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. No real confirmation yet, but it's looking bad.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



http://www.businessinsider.com.au/malaysian-plane-crash-russia-border-2014-7

Video. Yeah, this is, uh, not good.

edit:

@Reuters: #BREAKING: Malaysian plane was brought down by a ground-to-air missile: Interior Ministry adviser, quoted by Interfax

@MAS: Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.

@BBCBreaking: Malaysia Airlines confirms it has lost contact with flight MH17 from Amsterdam - last known position over Ukraine http://t.co/NXOfKDfvrW

Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jul 17, 2014

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-malaysian-plane-shot-down-over-ukraine

quote:

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — An adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister says a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 295 people has been shot down over a town in the east of the country.

Anton Gerashenko says on his Facebook page the plane was flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit Thursday by a missile fired from a Buk launcher.

A similar launcher was seen by Associated Press journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday.

FIDEL CASHFLOW
Oct 13, 2009
Note to self, never fly on Malaysian Airlines.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Heartache is powerful, but democracy is *subtle*.

FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:

Note to self, never fly on Malaysian Airlines.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

Ba-dam ba-DUMMMMMM

Meanwhile, CNN is probably salivating because they've got another missing Malaysian plane that someone will eventually find, and they can reuse all those snazzy graphics they had during the MH370 search.

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
Well...it's not exactly missing this time.
Though, CNN will still be salivating over the prospective reporting over whatever the gently caress it is that happened to it.

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
drat.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Where's the video? Also the 777 has a great safety record...

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country
:doh: Aw poo poo, this isn't gonna have a happy ending.

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
holy poo poo

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
SHould we report on Ukraine or should we report on that missing plane?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk

Blotto Skorzany
Nov 7, 2008

He's a PSoC, loose and runnin'
came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with
the bad ADC on his chip
bad ADC on his chiiiiip

Godholio posted:

Where's the video? Also the 777 has a great safety record...

Airbus is sure to make hay of Boeing's failure to equip the 777 with chaff and flares :v:

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
What the hell is a Malaysian Airlines flight doing over Ukraine?

Just asking questions.

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

holocaust bloopers posted:

What the hell is a Malaysian Airlines flight doing over Ukraine?

Just asking questions.

Flying to Amsterdam

seriously

Helldump Immunity.
Aug 2, 2013

Fuck you
One source saying it was a Buk SAM that took it

mobile SAMs :argh:

Helldump Immunity. fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 17, 2014

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!

Booblord Zagats posted:

Flying to Amsterdam

seriously

Is this a UN false flag?
How likely is this a UN false flag?

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

It's a setup. They waited for the Flight 370 news to die down before bringing it out of a secret airstrip so it could be used for a false flag operation. :tinfoil:

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
Does anyone have any news on how many Israelis were on the jet? This is important.

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

holocaust bloopers posted:

Is this a UN false flag?
How likely is this a UN false flag?
Could this be anything but a UN false flag?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

holocaust bloopers posted:

Is this a UN false flag?
How likely is this a UN false flag?

Anywhere from zero chance to an excellent chance.

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

holocaust bloopers posted:

Does anyone have any news on how many Israelis were on the jet? This is important.

The highjackers take off their masks before crashing the plane and are revealed as...Ultra Orthodox Jews!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g

bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
This is exactly what the UN needs to impose heavy sanctions on Russia while pandering to the Zionist fighters. A masterstroke of stoking the flames.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Heartache is powerful, but democracy is *subtle*.

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

The highjackers take off their masks before crashing the plane and are revealed as...Ultra Orthodox Jews!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g

Space Jews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo

Craptacular
Jul 11, 2004

holocaust bloopers posted:

What the hell is a Malaysian Airlines flight doing over Ukraine?

Just asking questions.

Draw a great circle route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and it goes over Ukraine.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


bloops
Dec 31, 2010

Thanks Ape Pussy!
RIP Pilot Parker

Helldump Immunity.
Aug 2, 2013

Fuck you

holocaust bloopers posted:

RIP Pilot Parker

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Pilot Parker was actually a jihadist

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Heartache is powerful, but democracy is *subtle*.
Setting themselves up for a pretty big liability suit there letting a teddy bear fly.

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EBB
Feb 15, 2005

He couldn't bear life anymore, and augered the plane in.

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