Author Topic: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster (Read 1303791 times)

Tripon · « **Reply #9360 on:** August 04, 2020, 01:52:09 PM »

Wasn't that the mercenary thing in April 2020?

shosta · « **Reply #9361 on:** August 04, 2020, 01:55:07 PM »

He's talking about when we were collecting defectors and putting them up in a Colombian hotel. The coup never happened and Iván Duque told them to get a job

Nintex · « **Reply #9362 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:07:05 PM »

https://twitter.com/ChadBlue_/status/1290677485550673920

Another angle of that Beirut thing. Holy shit.

Nintex · « **Reply #9363 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:20:33 PM »

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/1290711076733169666

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/1290713640614666240

Holy fuck

shosta · « **Reply #9364 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:21:34 PM »

Since Lebanon is a failed state now I doubt we'll ever know what happened

Nintex · « **Reply #9365 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:29:47 PM »

https://twitter.com/Rowaida_Abdel/status/1290692039877828608

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9366 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:37:09 PM »

Quote from: shosta on August 04, 2020, 02:21:34 PM

Since Lebanon is a failed state now I doubt we'll ever know what happened

The boring answer, and also the most likely, is a random fire at the port got to some tanks of flammable materials and caused them to explode. This very thing happened just a few years ago at a port in China.

Boredfrom · « **Reply #9367 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:39:09 PM »

I heard that port was essential for the city supplies, so is not exactly surprising that people are breaking in despair.

team filler · « **Reply #9368 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:40:01 PM »

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1290694199319252996

shosta · « **Reply #9369 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:41:48 PM »

conspiracy shit goes in the conspiracy thread

team filler · « **Reply #9370 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:48:34 PM »

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1290684460556365826

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1290685969453088770

shosta · « **Reply #9371 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:52:39 PM »

filler!!! you fuck!!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9372 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:52:55 PM »

No way, people on Twitter using a tragedy to push their agendas with no evidence at all? I'm shocked!

team filler · « **Reply #9373 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:58:16 PM »

https://twitter.com/Leila_MA/status/1290667278246326278

https://twitter.com/Leila_MA/status/1290722116929835008

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1290722644916965377

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9374 on:** August 04, 2020, 02:59:58 PM »

Absolutely horrible.

Tripon · « **Reply #9375 on:** August 04, 2020, 03:08:44 PM »

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1290703853441224714

team filler · « **Reply #9376 on:** August 04, 2020, 04:37:57 PM »

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1290733534685134848

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1045381532851064834

Transhuman · « **Reply #9377 on:** August 04, 2020, 06:14:01 PM »

Quote from: filler on August 04, 2020, 04:37:57 PM

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1290733534685134848

How about allowing Palestinians access to drinking water while you're at it

shosta · « **Reply #9378 on:** August 04, 2020, 06:41:01 PM »

https://twitter.com/BillNeelyNBC/status/1290761746291007489

Nintex · « **Reply #9379 on:** August 04, 2020, 06:43:18 PM »

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2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for 6 years in a warehouse

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9380 on:** August 04, 2020, 06:54:13 PM »

Quote from: Nintex on August 04, 2020, 06:43:18 PM

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2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for 6 years in a warehouse

zomgee · « **Reply #9381 on:** August 04, 2020, 07:58:57 PM »

I mean

Where else are you going to put it

It's amazing it took 6 years.

shosta · « **Reply #9382 on:** August 05, 2020, 01:59:30 AM »

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1290661085662642179

here we go again

Kara · « **Reply #9383 on:** August 05, 2020, 03:24:47 AM »

They're 100% going to fuck with Nicaragua's 2021 election.

Personally I'm looking forward to a COVID-19 election delay being treated as a legitimacy crisis while Bolovia still hasn't had its replacement election.

shosta · « **Reply #9384 on:** August 05, 2020, 03:27:32 AM »

Biden? A Democrat? No way...

team filler · « **Reply #9385 on:** August 05, 2020, 03:35:32 AM »

Nintex · « **Reply #9386 on:** August 05, 2020, 05:13:57 AM »

I love how they've made a job ad on LinkedIn for the regime change transition

Nintex · « **Reply #9387 on:** August 05, 2020, 07:36:06 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 04, 2020, 06:54:13 PM

Quote from: Nintex on August 04, 2020, 06:43:18 PM
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2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unsecured for 6 years in a warehouse

Just heard on the news, quarter of a million people homeless because of this blast.

100 deaths / 4000 wounded and lots of people still missing.

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #9388 on:** August 05, 2020, 12:09:59 PM »

Tripon · « **Reply #9389 on:** August 05, 2020, 03:28:01 PM »

Crash Dummy · « **Reply #9390 on:** August 06, 2020, 03:13:17 AM »

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"I never envisaged Boris as a sleeping partner,"

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/sex-party-company-future-fund/index.html

VomKriege · « **Reply #9391 on:** August 06, 2020, 03:16:17 AM »

Quote from: Crash Dummy on August 06, 2020, 03:13:17 AM

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"I never envisaged Boris as a sleeping partner,"
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/sex-party-company-future-fund/index.html

team filler · « **Reply #9392 on:** August 06, 2020, 03:26:10 AM »

https://twitter.com/jennineak/status/1291270247358402560

https://twitter.com/jennineak/status/1291272459597963265

Pissy F Benny · « **Reply #9393 on:** August 06, 2020, 11:59:28 AM »

isreal? more like is he for real?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #9394 on:** August 06, 2020, 01:14:21 PM »

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-saudi-crown-prince-sent-hit-squad-to-canada-exiled-spy-chief-alleges/

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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince dispatched a hit squad to Toronto in an attempt to murder a former high-ranking intelligence officer, an effort made shortly after the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, according to allegations contained in court documents filed in Washington.

The target was Saad Aljabri, 61, who held a senior intelligence post under deposed crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef. He has been keeping a low profile and under private security protection in Toronto since 2017.

Mr. Aljabri alleges in newly filed court documents that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tracked him in both the United States, where he owns property, and later in Canada because he possessed “damning information,” including recordings he has made in case he is one day killed. The filings do not explain how Mr. Aljabri obtained the information on which his allegations are based.

“On or around October 15, 2018 – less than two weeks after the extrajudicial killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi ... another team of Saudi nationals traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from Saudi Arabia to Canada, where Dr. Saad lives in exile, with the intention of killing Dr. Saad,” the court documents allege.

Mr. Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was an outspoken critic of Crown Prince bin Salman, the de facto leader of the oil-rich kingdom who’s known by the initials MBS. Mr. Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered by a 15-member team of Saudi assassins on October 2, 2018, during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Mr. Aljabri alleges the Crown Prince, “deployed a network of Saudi agents” in the U.S. to hunt him while he was living in Boston in 2017. When he fled the United States to Canada later that year, he says the Saudis dispatched an assassination team known as the Tiger Squad to Toronto.

Members of the Tiger Squad, who are loyal to the Crown Prince, obtained Canadian tourist visas in May, 2018, five months before their trip, the documents say.

They carried two bags of forensic tools and had personnel experienced in the cleanup of crime scenes – including one who worked in the same department as the man who dismembered Mr. Khashoggi with a bone saw. They were intercepted at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, where they tried to “avert the detection of Canadian border security by entering through separate kiosks.”

According to the court filing, Canadian border agents “quickly became suspicious” of the arrivals and quizzed the Saudis, who are named in the documents. They denied knowing one another, but the CBSA found a photo of some of the men together and refused to let them into the country, except for one who was allowed to enter with a diplomatic passport.

In the court filing, Mr. Aljabri accuses the Crown Prince of attempted extrajudicial killing in violation of the U.S. Torture Victim Protection Act and in breach of international law. Mr. Aljabri cites the United States’s Alien Tort Statute that protects foreign nationals from flagrant human-rights violations.

One of the lawyers acting for Mr. Aljabri in the filing is David Pressman, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who was once nominated by then-president Barack Obama to serve as ambassador for the United States at the United Nations Security Council. He has also previously served as director for war crimes and atrocities on the National Security Council at the White House.

Mr. Aljabri said in the court filing that he believes the Crown Prince has not given up on killing him, noting a recent fatwa issued by Saudi religious leaders urging followers to murder him.

“Following the failure of the October 2018 Tiger Squad plot in Canada, upon information and belief, Defendant bin Salman now plans to send agents directly through the United States to enter Canada by land and, once and for all eliminate Dr. Saad.”

Mr. Aljabri, who the filings say has been granted permanent-resident status in Canada, managed to get all but two of his eight children out of Saudi Arabia. In mid-March, authorities imprisoned Omar, 21, and Sara, 20, in what was widely considered an effort to force his return from exile.

Mr. Aljabri has vast counter-terrorism experience and deep knowledge of some of Saudi Arabia’s most sensitive information including the foreign bank accounts and financial assets of senior Saudi Royal Family members. This knowledge, he alleges, is why the Crown Prince wants him dead.

“Dr. Saad was privy to sensitive information about defendant bin Salman’s covert political scheming within the Royal Court, corrupt business dealings, and creation of a team of personal mercenaries that defendant bin Salman would later use to carry out the extrajudicial of Jamal Khashoggi, among others.”

The court documents say Mr. Aljabri has saved thousands of American lives, including providing key intelligence that prevented a terrorist plot targeting synagogues in Chicago. He alleges in the court filing that MBS believes Mr. Aljabri is responsible for the CIA’s conclusion that MBS ordered the killing of Mr. Khashoggi. The Crown Prince has denied that he ordered the killing.

The Globe and Mail reported in July that the Saudis tried to have Mr. Aljabri arrested through an Interpol warrant in late 2017 and later asked Canada to extradite him in the fall of 2019, even though Ottawa does not have an extradition treaty with Riyadh.

Mr. Aljabri intervened in 2012 on Canada’s behalf to commute the public beheading of Saudi-Canadian Mohamed Kohail, who was accused of murdering a man during a schoolyard brawl. A sentence of 200 lashes for his brother, Sultan, was also commuted.

Before he came to Canada, Mr. Aljabri had been teaching at Harvard University but decided to move to Toronto because he was worried President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner were too close to the Crown Prince and may not guarantee his safety, sources say.

Mr. Aljabri has reason to fear the Crown Prince.

In the court filing, Mr. Aljabri said the Crown Prince has sought to eliminate anyone who had a “direct line to senior U.S. intelligence officials and a wealth of potential harmful knowledge about” him. He alleges MBS uses his personal charitable organization, the MiSK Foundation, to fund the Tiger Squad and other covert activities abroad.

The court filing lists the names of key figures in the foundation and alleges they cultivated a “network of covert agents whom he [MBS] has deployed to target individuals who undermine defendant bin Salman in the United States.”

Relations between Canada and Saudi Arabia have been strained since August, 2018, when then-foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland tweeted that Saudi Arabia should “immediately release” imprisoned rights activists.

The Saudis were enraged and recalled Ambassador Naif bin Bandar al-Sudairi, expelled Canadian ambassador Dennis Horak, halted the state-owned airline from flying to Toronto and ordered thousands of Saudi students studying in Canada to return home.

Sources say Canada’s refusal to send Mr. Aljabri back was a contributing factor to the Saudi diplomatic reaction, as well as the inability of Ambassador al-Sudairi to get any high-level meeting with Canadian foreign-affairs officials.

Nintex · « **Reply #9395 on:** August 06, 2020, 01:23:03 PM »

Don't worry Lebanon, Macron is here to help you
https://twitter.com/aleeharissi/status/1291327356343287808

VomKriege · « **Reply #9396 on:** August 06, 2020, 01:40:16 PM »

New Reality TV Show : Swap heads of state for a week.

Yeti · « **Reply #9397 on:** August 06, 2020, 10:36:52 PM »

Quote from: VomKriege on August 06, 2020, 01:40:16 PM

New Reality TV Show : Swap heads of state for a week.

“ Which Country is Getting the Best Head?”

Nintex · « **Reply #9398 on:** August 07, 2020, 04:16:22 AM »

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1291369143195914240

Tripon · « **Reply #9399 on:** August 07, 2020, 02:29:43 PM »

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Ryu Ho-jeong said: ‘What I am currently going through is what other women are also undergoing at their own workplace.’ Photo: HandoutRyu Ho-jeong said: ‘What I am currently going through is what other women are also undergoing at their own workplace.’ Photo: Handout
Ryu Ho-jeong said: ‘What I am currently going through is what other women are also undergoing at their own workplace.’ Photo: Handout
A South Korean lawmaker who wore a short red dress to parliament has become a target of misogynistic abuse online, prompting debate about sexism and the country’s patriarchal taboos.
Photos of Ryu Ho-jeong, 28, walking down an aisle during a plenary parliamentary session Tuesday in a red wrap dress appeared online. Ryu, who is a member of the progressive minor Justice Party and the country’s youngest lawmaker, drew criticism online but also support for her willingness to challenge an outdated norm.
One Facebook poster asked: “Is this a bar hostess who came to parliament to collect overdue charges for drinks?” Another asked: “Are you doing an escort service?”

team filler · « **Reply #9400 on:** August 07, 2020, 02:38:35 PM »

Kara · « **Reply #9401 on:** August 07, 2020, 04:11:16 PM »

Loving the "neither something to be proud nor ashamed of" plurality in all the countries where decolonization took place in living memory.

team filler · « **Reply #9402 on:** August 07, 2020, 08:11:08 PM »

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1291738878227779584

https://twitter.com/soureh_design/status/1291329335257968640

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9403 on:** August 07, 2020, 08:50:31 PM »

It's one thing to have a healthy suspicion, it's another to ignore all available evidence so you can push your pet narrative.

Rufus · « **Reply #9404 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:16:04 PM »

Don't ascribe to gross negligence what you can ascribe to an evil outside influence.

team filler · « **Reply #9405 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:19:25 PM »

sure, let's not look at the country next door that has been bombing, threatening to bomb and regularly attacks it's neighbors. same country also said they would be attacking infrastructure as well

who could it be

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #9406 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:25:21 PM »

Quote from: Esch on August 07, 2020, 03:56:50 PM

snip

supplementary data for a deeper dive

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/z7uxxko71z/YouGov%20-%20British%20empire%20attitudes.pdf

Rufus · « **Reply #9407 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:36:14 PM »

Nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate haphazardly stored and forgotten about for years finally explodes, after which the man in charge makes ominous claims about the possibility of an attack, in a region where Israel is blamed for all strife.

This dude is throwing a smokescreen to distract from the fact that they fucked up big time.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #9408 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:54:01 PM »

Quote from: filler on August 07, 2020, 10:19:25 PM

sure, let's not look at the country next door that has been bombing, threatening to bomb and regularly attacks it's neighbors. same country also said they would be attacking infrastructure as well who could it be

You didn't use the Kermit drinking tea emote so I don't trust any of the information in this post.

team filler · « **Reply #9409 on:** August 07, 2020, 10:59:17 PM »

https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/1291927098504941569

they know what they did

Tripon · « **Reply #9410 on:** August 08, 2020, 12:20:26 AM »

https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1289609019842113541

Nintex · « **Reply #9411 on:** August 08, 2020, 04:58:37 AM »

Quote from: Rufus on August 07, 2020, 10:36:14 PM

Nearly 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate haphazardly stored and forgotten about for years finally explodes, after which the man in charge makes ominous claims about the possibility of an attack, in a region where Israel is blamed for all strife.

This dude is throwing a smokescreen to distract from the fact that they fucked up big time.

Besides it was probably Macron

shosta · « **Reply #9412 on:** August 08, 2020, 04:06:24 PM »

Getting major anxiety over what the Bolivian government is going to do in response to the roadblocks.

Kara · « **Reply #9413 on:** August 08, 2020, 05:06:22 PM »

It sounds like they've been good about letting essential items and people through so far.

The dipshit president has called for talks on Sunday.

team filler · « **Reply #9414 on:** August 08, 2020, 06:43:14 PM »

https://twitter.com/Rozb7aleeb/status/1292151773935947785

team filler · « **Reply #9415 on:** August 08, 2020, 09:49:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/ReutersIndia/status/1292271895547645952

https://twitter.com/adxtrjuseniorit/status/1292276332274036742

team filler · « **Reply #9416 on:** August 08, 2020, 10:44:32 PM »

https://twitter.com/timand2037/status/1292242265822224384

team filler · « **Reply #9417 on:** August 09, 2020, 12:38:30 AM »

https://twitter.com/News_In__Brief/status/1291738274558611458

Nintex · « **Reply #9418 on:** August 09, 2020, 12:22:06 PM »

Lukashenko lost but will he concede?

https://twitter.com/AlexandreKrausz/status/1292489923933675524

https://twitter.com/OnlinerBY/status/1292449258793246721

Nintex · « **Reply #9419 on:** August 09, 2020, 04:41:53 PM »

Welp, Lukashenko rigged it. Completely falsified the outcome (oppo came in at 7% lol)

https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1292539654449790977

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1292555515776634880

Time to simp bois let's use the power of the internet to get that fat fuck out of office

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