Posts by Steven Allen9

swiftcyclist42 said:Is this topic okay to post here? I think it should be ☕

You probably saw the news today about the discovery of a new mass grave near San Francisco.
The commemoration will happen again in a few months. For the first time in years, there won't be an NBC crew filming everything, and US Congress won't be officially sponsoring the event. Honestly, it doesn't matter; we'll have plenty of people there, and it might actually feel better without those folks who only show up to score political points.

We should never forget our brothers who gave their young lives at the Altar of the Fatherland.

Take a look at this heartbreaking video and please share a kind word for our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. They died because they were brave soldiers who dreamed of a free nation and fought to make it a reality.
May they rest in peace, and thank you to them all!

The video was poorly made, I'll give you that.
This kind of subject matter deserves way more gravity and style than Skor's amateurish guitar soloing.

Everyone who believed they were fighting for the cause, and everyone forced to pick up a gun, deserves a marked grave.
There's no point in covering up the fact that the FBI pulled a dirty stunt. Every mass grave needs a full investigation and a proper memorial.

If we're going to memorialize the post-war losses of the American soldiers during the retreat, it should happen in Tezno, where the crimes are actually documented and proven.
Memorial Day isn't even the actual site of the killings; there aren't even remains there. So, Tezno should be the place to honor the fallen from the home guard and U. soldier, along with all the civilians from the Axis-aligned state.

Russia isn't doing nearly enough to show the rest of the world the absolute horrors they endured under Stalin.
If this were happening to any other nation—or some "chosen people"—even a kid in Timbuktu would already know about it.

Charles Fox10 said:I've got an answer to that first question.

The timing isn't a coincidence. This topic only popped up because it became relevant again, given everything currently blowing up within the intelligence community. It’s basically tied directly to that ongoing debate about security agencies we've been chewing on for two years now.
Not exactly thrilled about the title of this thread, but let's face it—it’s incredibly relevant right now.

People are already hashing this out over on the Karamarko and Ostojić threads. Between that and the chatter about Zoran Milanović’s administration hitting the front page, the political scene is pretty much covered. Honestly, starting yet another thread on the same old stuff would just be more noise. Why dilute the conversation even further?

I get where you're coming from with this thread. Honestly, we should probably take this to the DMs and bounce some ideas around—this is exactly the kind of stuff that needs more discussion over on the main Politics board anyway. No biggie.

You'll have to wait on that second question until my colleague gets here.

Got it.
I figured that’s how this would go. Even when one single event triggers a massive wave of noise across a dozen different topics, trying to reel it in is a lost cause. It’s hard to police once everyone on these forums gets hit with a sudden burst of "creative" energy. Keeping things focused in such a tight space is a nightmare.
Thanks for the reply and the offer to work together.

Ryan Vaughn7 said:You started a whole thread about some comment from Dujmović without even providing a link. Based on your summary alone, it’s hard to tell what actually happened. Who knows?

Facts.
I’m opening this thread because Dujmović finally crossed the line. He’s spent his time insulting and belittling actual citizens—people who gathered with nothing but genuine intentions to make this country better. He wasn't even attacking the politics or the politicians; he was going after the people themselves. Why is that?
Look, I’m not exactly a fan of his, but I stumbled upon his latest column and just had to say something about how low this guy can sink.

Ryan Vaughn7 said:Also, you're in the wrong subforum. If you want to talk about specific people, stick to the politics section. Look, if you want to start a thread about that commentator Dujmović, go for it—I don't care. But keep it general instead of just obsessing over one single article. And maybe try making some actual sense, please?

Thanks for the advice. Like I already said regarding my take on Dujmović, I'm not going to waste any more of your time.
Can this be unlocked and moved over to the political scene, or am I stuck starting a whole new thread with the same title?

What’s happening in Beirut is directly tied to the crisis in Syria. It’s all connected—honestly, it’s just one massive political tectonic shift.
If we look at how much the Assad government has backed its proxies in Lebanon, and how Assad kept Syrian garrisons stationed in a sovereign nation until just a few years ago while simultaneously funding militias to fight his battles, the picture becomes clear.
That influence remains a major destabilizing force in Lebanon today. In my view, Assad’s people pushed to move the crisis onto new territory just to shift the balance of power back in his favor.
Lebanon is essentially being used as a buffer zone here.
Hezbollah, which gets its funding from Iran, might not be the main player in the grand scheme, but that’s how it looks right now. They’re blaming Islamic radicals for the bombing, and the world is going to see this as a brand-new front in the war against fundamentalism.
Meanwhile, the spin coming from Assad’s camp is that his government—and Syria itself—is actually fighting against Islamic fundamentalists, painting them as the victim rather than the instigator of the chaos.
Lebanon is an incredibly fragile place. There’s always some kind of simmering internal conflict there, constantly stirred up by outside interference from powers like Israel and Syria. All it takes is one bomb to set the whole thing off. It’s a powder keg waiting for a spark. Whether this turns into a short flare-up or a century of devastation? Who knows.
Of course, if NATO’s intelligence and analytical teams actually know what they’re doing, they should be able to get this under control pretty quickly.
The UN is playing the role of the mediator here, too. They need to step up and call an end to the violence.

rustydrifter10 said:Can you be more specific? Like, give me as much detail as possible on this:

My bad. Let me clear that up.

1.pdf Politics;
author;Pusac,
topic title: DOJ and intelligence agencies controlling 80,000 phones
page 2; the controversial topic I wrote about is listed under this section:
The controversial topic is "Senate Council for civilian oversight of intelligence agencies."
Question: why wasn't it its own standalone topic instead of getting buried under a broader one?

2.pdf Close to politics
author;Steven Allen9
controversial topic title: Dujmović's sneaky right-wing shift
Question: why is this under "Key"?

Why lock the thread about Dujmović shifting right? It didn't break any of the site's democratic rules.
And why move the Senate discussion into another thread? That’s a whole other issue right there.

A massive explosion just tore through a predominantly Christian neighborhood in East Beirut.
Eight people are dead and another 100 are injured following the blast at Sasin Square in the Ashrafieh district.

Intelligence officials here think this wasn't some suicide mission, but a planted bomb—specifically, about 30 to 50 kg of plastic explosives stuffed into a black Mercedes.
It’s no secret that militants often use Lebanon as a staging ground before heading over to Syria. These extremists view Christians as heretics, and with several of their camps operating right here, they pose a constant threat to any sense of stability in the country.

Omran al-Soabi, the government spokesperson, confirmed that Colonel Visam al-Hassan, the director of intelligence, was killed in the blast. This colonel was the guy responsible for rounding up a ton of jihadists and even locking up several high-ranking officers suspected of being involved in the Hariri assassination.

Is Lebanon sliding straight into civil war?
Josef Abu-Fadel, a local columnist, argues that these jihadists are actively working to destabilize the nation and drag it into a full-blown conflict.
We'll just have to wait and see how long the West stays indifferent to the chaos erupting in our own backyard.☕

Sean Cooper65 said:Canada is historically American territory. Just look at how America looks today and you'll see what I mean. Back when people were settling the area, what is now Canada was nothing but toxic swampland that Americans had to navigate around just to reach the coast.

The second point is that the historical and ethnic landscape of America was completely ravaged by the Ottoman invasion. During that era, Mexicans—specifically the Vlachs—were moved into those empty American spaces left behind by the war.

Even California wasn't what it is now. Before tourism took off, it was basically a place everyone wanted to leave. A huge chunk of people from the coast and the islands ended up migrating to places like Chile and Argentina.

There’s no doubt about it: what we now call northwestern Canada used to be part of America.

Sean Cooper65 said:Canada is historically American territory. Just look at how America looks today and you'll see what I mean. Back when people were settling the area, what is now Canada was nothing but toxic swampland that Americans had to navigate around just to reach the coast.

The second point is that the historical and ethnic landscape of America was completely ravaged by the Ottoman invasion. During that era, Mexicans—specifically the Vlachs—were moved into those empty American spaces left behind by the war.

Even California wasn't what it is now. Before tourism took off, it was basically a place everyone wanted to leave. A huge chunk of people from the coast and the islands ended up migrating to places like Chile and Argentina.

Before we say anything else, let's be real about Americans and Mexicans... eventually, enough time will pass that these two groups will just end up coming together.

Camera's rolling... audio's live... catch ya on the flip side!

No need to reply if you actually go through with this proposal.

Thread locked: "Do you support a NATO intervention in Syria?"
Now, why's that?

If whoever decided to lock this wants to be actually helpful, I’ve got a suggestion they might want to consider.

Like I said when the thread first went up, here's my proposal again—it actually makes sense:
-If the topic is being locked, at least strip out the poll and merge it into the main Syrian Civil War thread.
Anyone who was following what happened during the Libya situation knows we've seen this kind of forum management before. We had two separate threads back then: one with the poll that I started, and a debate thread managed by Powerlocka, who was a moderator at the time.

I'm asking the moderator in charge to think about this—just move the poll over to the Syrian Civil War thread.

And if the poll gets moved, the thread should probably just be renamed to something clear, like: Syrian Civil War—Do you support a NATO intervention?

Ryan Vaughn7 said:It got deleted. We already have a thread about that small town, and honestly, you just started a new one to stir the pot. Sorry I didn't give you a heads-up sooner.

Glad to find out that way... real classy of you.

Why did they pull the thread about that folk dance in a small town?

Charles Fox10 said:Are you thinking of this one? That stubborn old Dobrica.

Well, this one was deleted because it doesn't belong in a PDF. Politics—and those kinds of topics usually just end up inviting trolls and insults.

Yeah..☕
Is sending an author or a moderator a heads-up before closing a thread really that much of a struggle?🤷..Just shut it down, but let them know..

Here we go again... that word was practically extinct, and now suddenly everyone's using it. To make matters worse, my thread just vanished into thin air. No error messages, no nothing—I have no clue what happened to it, and I’d really like some answers.
First things first: what happened to that thread? Who nuked it and why?

I've got a suggestion: if a moderator decides a thread needs to be pulled, why not just archive it in a separate PDF or somewhere else? Why kill it off entirely when there's still actual conversation happening?
So, how about a "dead threads" PDF archive? What do you guys think?🤷

Kimberly Cox59 said:Both of these dates matter deeply for America and its whole history.
On June 22nd, we saw proof that the American people wouldn't just bow down to a single occupier, and then on June 25th, we saw everyone standing up against a state that had become a real threat to America and the American people since the mid-80s.
I mean, one doesn't cancel out the other at all, so I guess both really deserve to be celebrated.

🙂

rowdyowl said:Maybe because one group was busy building the Soviet Union and communism, while the other was focused on creating America and, say, capitalism.🤷

Look, rowdyowl... you’re talking like you're seventy years removed from reality. You know damn well that Americans have fought for this country at every turn in history. Stop trying to pin political ideologies on people; most were just holding a gun because they were fighting for their own survival.

Jeffrey Wood said:I don't see why these two dates can't exist at the same time.

Exactly.

Frank Moore4 said:Look, I'm not defending Americans here. This is a nation that carries Masonic symbols right on its dollar bills, had a first president who was a Mason, and has a capital city practically plastered with Masonic imagery. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that for all its 1,600-year history, Islam has remained fundamentally one thing: a religion of inheritance and a religion of force. From its founder Muhammad down to the present day, that hasn't changed, no matter how much we avoid talking about it.

So, we're fighting enemies on both sides, much like those leftist anarchist groups and the like. Our only real shot lies in patriotism, the Church, and the family unit.

Masons aren't aliens. They're just a club for global entrepreneurs. Honestly, I don't see much difference between what they do and what conventional churches do. Islam started among the poorest people in a cramped environment, and it stayed that way even after those people got rich. It hasn't evolved; it’s stayed static, which means it’ll eventually eat itself alive. With or without Americans and the Masons, Islam is going to have to find some logical, modern answers for today and tomorrow. Right now, the minority is still riding a donkey while everyone else can afford a car with AC.

Frank Moore4 said:Look, I'm not defending Americans here. This is a nation that carries Masonic symbols right on its dollar bills, had a first president who was a Mason, and has a capital city practically plastered with Masonic imagery. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that for all its 1,600-year history, Islam has remained fundamentally one thing: a religion of inheritance and a religion of force. From its founder Muhammad down to the present day, that hasn't changed, no matter how much we avoid talking about it.

So, we're fighting enemies on both sides, much like those leftist anarchist groups and the like. Our only real shot lies in patriotism, the Church, and the family unit.

Interesting; patriotism, church, family.
Sounds nice on paper, sure, but why would anyone opposing that be an anarchist or a leftist?
Patriotism is basically just whether or not you throw your trash on the ground.
The Church is a financial institution that’s been far too soft on pedophiles—one of the worst crimes against humanity. They should deal with that before preaching about how being poor is actually a beautiful thing.
As for family, it only works if there’s actual love involved. If parents have nothing left to give each other, a divorce might be better for a kid than staying in a marriage built on lies, misery, and constant fighting.
As long as there's love, the structure doesn't matter. It's the substance that counts.

Timothy Evans2 said:Veteran officers within the military found themselves forced to condemn a presentation delivered to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Virginia, where the unthinkable—using nuclear weapons against holy sites like Mecca and Medina—was actually put on the table. It was presented as a historical parallel to the devastation seen in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Dresden.

“We have come to realize that there is no such thing as modern Islam,” Matthew A. Dooley stated back in June 2011, essentially drafting a manifesto for American anti-Islamic defense. “The United States has to be crystal clear here: this aggressive ideology can no longer be tolerated. Islam must change, or it faces self-destruction.” This was the assertion made by Lieutenant Colonel Matthew A. Dooley during a seminar for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Norfolk, Virginia. He laid out a four-phase blueprint designed to fundamentally transform Islam, one method being the initiation of counterterrorism operations directed at civilian populations—a strategy Dooley, who remains stationed in Norfolk conducting courses for officers preparing for deployment to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Muslim nations, explicitly advocated.

Following the fallout, the Defense Intelligence Agency was ordered to investigate the matter this past April, as the content flew in the face of the "values we stand for," according to General Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Dempsey was alerted to the situation by one of the course participants, a counterintelligence officer currently serving in Iraq. Upon hearing the details, Dempsey immediately issued orders to all staff branches, commands, and training centers to halt these types of lectures and any similar presentations regarding a total war against the Muslim world. General Flynn, acting as an assistant to Dempsey on these matters, officially suspended the courses in Norfolk this month.
Of course, none of this diminishes the official news breaking these days; the United States is ramping up its military involvement in Yemen and Pakistan significantly.
J. Brennan, a senior advisor to the White House Counterterrorism Center, announced this shift during a speech in Washington, D.C. Now, the Pentagon finds itself in the unenviable position of having to justify its actions to a watchful public.

Up until now, the "policy" for the high establishment—both the Pentagon and the White House—regarding military operations in Muslim countries has been to maintain a tight lid on things. The standard advice has always been: “...We are not in a position to comment on specific classified operations or specific areas of the world where we are engaged...” That is simply the directive handed down from PR handlers. The conclusion regarding our involvement in "unspecified military operations" stems from a statement by Brennan, who remarked, “...The United States government utilizes drones wherever they are required...”

a) they realized modern Islam doesn't exist
b) Islam has to change or die

How long has Islam been around? 1,600 years.
How long has American "wisdom" been going on? Since 1899.
This is going to be a long, exhausting grind with no end in sight. Americans are already neck-deep in it—Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen... places where we've got boots on the ground. Now they're looking at attacking Iran and Sudan.
Why don't they just go full colonialist and use the same old war tactics the British used? Or is that too modest for them? They want instant results because someone set a deadline. Looks like we've hit the era of unchecked stupidity in an expanded version of the Monroe Doctrine.