šŸ‡¾šŸ‡Ŗ Don't mention Yemen

ITV News has been bang on this the last couple of nights. Bravo.

How the fuck can you think of Yemen on a night like this?

Absolutely disgraceful isnā€™t it. The richest country in the world bombing the shit out of the poorest. With the help of their allies, The US,UK, France and Israel.

ā€œIt may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accust the United States and itā€™s allies of genocide?ā€ - Physicians For Social Responsibility.

They calculate the body count of the Iraq war at about 1.3 million, and possibly as many as 2 million. The actual death toll could reach as high as 4 million if one includes not just those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the victims of the sanctions against Iraq, which left about 1.7 million more dead, half of them children, according to figures from the United Nations.

The numbers are mind numbing. No amount of blaming the victims, ie, Muslims, can change the facts, Muslims are being killed, unmercifully, and Anti-Muslim narrative is ā€œblame the victimsā€. The stench of hypocrisy is overpowering. Assad is the elected leader of Syria, fighting against terrorists unleashed by NATO, whereas our allies, the Saudis, are fascists slaughtering the people of a sovereign state. And people in this country throw their arms up in the air in shock and outrage when we get a rare blowback and bombs go off in our cities, or someone in a lorry mows down pedestrians. Of course these people hate us, why on earth wouldnā€™t they? This is all being done in our name, like it or not, Of course our governments are not stupid, they know very well the laws of cause and effect, atrocities in our countries are factored in. For all their outrage and faux horror when it happens, the harsh reality is that, for them, it is a price worth paying. And the arms sellers are rubbing their hands with excitement. Every missile fired, every bomb dropped has to be replaced.

And Theresa May will go to church this Sunday as usual. How does that work?

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The house of Saud on bbc2 tonight was worth watching.

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A friend of mine who was always morally really judgemental. An Irish catholic, has been travelling for last 10 years. China, and now heā€™s teaching Saudi Pilots communication and I donā€™t know what it is. Itā€™s tax free, and heā€™s training people to bomb women and kids in Yemen.

Sorry iā€™m tired :lou_facepalm_2:

Itā€™s a humanitarian crisis that isnā€™t being reported.

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It is being reported. Just not by the Western media.

That tweet is ā€œoddā€, considering how close the UAE and Saudi actually are at every level, and their current combined anti-Iran and ā€œQatarā€ positions.

Sometimes you have to wonder what the fuck is the matter with these people. What actual threat to Saudi is the Yemen? What have they done to you, that you havenā€™t funded other murderous bastards to do to others?

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I suspect itā€™s about geopolitical issues. See where Yemen is on a mapā€¦

I mentioned on Goaty Gadgets thread that my latest best app is flight Radar 24.

There are no flights in Yemen / where planes have their transponders on. All commercial flights skip the regionā€¦

Mind you, there appear to be only two flights a week in North Koreaā€¦

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The rebranding of ISIS

Relocation to Yemen (and Egypt & Afghanistan) - a local piece so re-posting it

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At least 40 missing on the Island of Socotra. Saudi have sent troops to help.

Storm has hit the Oman Coast near Salalah as a Cat 2 Hurricane killing one 2 year old child.

Heading inland nd expecting to veer North West away from us, Air locally today is ā€œheavyā€ and we have overcast conditions too much wind for the beach but not causing any blowing dust (yet)

We have caught the tail end of Cyclones a couple of times in my 25 years. So nothing ā€œnewā€ they build up with the mix of air between the desert here and the Monsoon Air in India.

Salalah is an interesting region - a huge ā€œlocalā€ tourist centre in the summer months as it is seen as a respite fromo the never ending heat of here, with a great deal of greenery. Itā€™s about a 10 hour drive and one of those ā€œmust go sometimeā€ that we never do