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happy enough with safari that I'm not going to down load chrome just for the occasion when I want to see something on American media... It's not going to happen very often is it!?

happy enough with safari

Cool, lots of options exist for you then: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?q=youtube%20proxy%20safari#q=youtube+proxy+safari

fucking hell.

http://road.cc/content/news/127128-driver-looking-photos-phone-hits-cyclist-%E2%80%93-then-snaps-fatally-injured-victim

Christ. Hope the driver gets a long sentence for that.

https://newmatilda.com/2014/08/19/outraged-coffee-shop-owners-racism-aussies-respond-well-racism

'straya.

jesus fucking cunting christ. how do you even get to a point in your life where you're able to do this to another human being. abysmal.

Religion. The most effective (but not only) way so far discovered for getting people to act counter to their innate humanity and encouraging the psychopathy of the few that are born without any.

dear america ,

http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-03/iceland-grieves-after-police-kill-man-first-time-its-history

dear america ,

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/13/justice/florida-movie-theater-shooting/index.html

blimey - that's some serious 'falling down' shit right there. y'know, like from the movie?

I'm not sure if EdwardZ is being racist, although certainly he is a hardline zionist. Just because there's pretty universal disagreement with his views on this thread (and in general I think), does it not set a dubious precedent to ban someone because no one likes his views? If it's for another comment I haven't seen, then I apologize.

So, after reading a descriptive transcript of the James Foley video on the Grauniad, something didnt seem right to me, so I went and looked at it.
It wasnt easy to find, but its out there if you try.

Is it just me... or does anyone else think it's a fake? By that I mean, the kidnapping is real, and it's genuinely James Foley, but there isn't a murder in that video.

I mean - why would ISIS themselves fade the actual cutting incident to black? I would understand why news organisations would do it, but the original video has been censored with the beheading itself not in there. It's not as if ISIS particularly care about the sensitivities of the watching public, is it?

And then, when James Foley's decapitated corpse is on the ground, you don't see his head. That could be any dead body put into an orange jumpsuit. Why would they not show his head cut off, when other ISIS videos and photos have had no issue in the past holding up the severed heads of their enemies?

It just doesn't add up. I dont want to to get all conspiracy theory on it, but wouldnt it make more sense for them to hold him for another year or two... and then get some ransom money quietly further on down the line?
As a propaganda video for the here and now it has done its job...

I'm not sure if EdwardZ is being racist, although certainly he is a hardline zionist. Just because there's pretty universal disagreement with his views on this thread (and in general I think), does it not set a dubious precedent to ban someone because no one likes his views? If it's for another comment I haven't seen, then I apologize.

He has posted a series of long, rambling pro–Israel posts full of alot of unverified facts mingled with opinions, and the consistent anti-Palestine, and sometimes anti-Arab bias has pissed off alot of people. The post that got him the ban was relatively quite short and inoffensive. Main problem for me was the lack of any sources for his statements about Quatari involvement. Personally I agree the ban was harsh. There is far worse nastiness from both sides on this debate, all over the internet, but I understand Velocio wanting to keep it out of here.

Apparently the geezer running ISIS is a Mossad/CIA/MI6 trained operative called Simon Elliot.
Best to have an identifiable leader put in place to attract all the loons from around the world. That way at least you know where your enemies are.

Ah, the internet, a quick search reveals it's not just me who thinks it either.
The web is great, it can validate any opinion you might have.

Copy & pasted from reddit:

1) Zero fear and zero emotion on the part of the victim and the aggressor. He doesn't look or sound like he's about to get a knife zigzagging through his esophagus. When he "blames" his brother, there's zero emotion. No way anyone would be able to just read those lines so casually. At 3:00, when he says "I died that day John", with the pauses and everything... he sounds more like an actor trying hard to persuade the viewer rather than someone who is speaking their last words to their family. Watch it and think about it. And the british gentleman terrorist is coming across like they're on the 7th take of this video. No allah akbar. No highly charged vocal timber, which is 100% the norm in all other beheadings ive seen since Nick Berg.

2) Incredible sound engineering: Both the victim and the gentleman terrorist are miked, and the sound is really well produced. This is professional audio engineering. No other video out of syria and iraq comes near the video/audio quality of this vid. And there are a LOT of videos coming out of Syria and Iraq.

3) No other terrorists around? If there were others around, as is ALWAYS the case in beheading videos, they would be all be shouting "Allahu Akbar" the SECOND the knife touched the throat. Notice the dead silence, which to me implies that they're alone, which to me implies that there is no fucking way he wouldn't fight the gentleman terrorist with small knife. (small by beheading standards).

3) Where's the blood? Not only is there no blood after 6 or 7 saws against the neck when blood almost ALWAYS gushes immediately after 1-2 saws. Also, in the final shot, the blood on the ground is a mere trickle compared to the giant 3-foot in diameter pool of blood almost ALWAYS visible around the gaping neckwound. Another thing: At the very end, when the gentleman terrorist is showing off the next victim, his hands are perfectly clean, like he just got back from a manicure. No blood from the beheading he presumably just performed.

5) They leave out the best part??? The most terrifying part of a beheading video is the part completely left out of this video. I know why. Because it's also the hardest part to fake. And this video is 100% fake. Fake fake fake. And, in comparison to the many dozens of videos Ive seen since Nick Berg, is wildly different from all of them.

Sorry if this is a little grim for 9:30 in the morning, but something is definitely amiss with that video.

^^^ this is what you get when you have an entire generation weaned on CSI, GTA and, well, Reddit. Wholly depressing.

Quite often the most obvious answer is the right one. i.e. it's real and they had their own reasons for not showing the full decapitation. Maybe it didn't go well and they didn't want to be show to be inept.

I don't have massive faith in our (or the 'merican's) intelligence services, but I'd just about accept their view of this ahead of the internet tin-foilers.

because occam's razor.

called Simon Elliot.

I know someone who came over from Ireland to have an abortion. When she got back, she had no access to follow up care at home. I can't imagine how unpleasant it all was.

@greenhell
I've never watched CSI (I dont have a TV), never played GTA, and that's the second time I've ever looked at reddit, previous occasion was for the "All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling" GSYBE tape. I'm perfectly capable of thinking for myself.

i was referring to the fuckwit referenced in the C&P job. simmer down.

does it not set a dubious precedent to ban someone because no one likes his views?

It sets a very bad precedent which is why I didn't do it sooner.

The thing is, I have banned people for taking the opposing position in a hardline way on the basis that it was anti-Semitic. The issue I struggled with is why pro-Israel views were acceptable and yet pro-Palestine views were not, or to re-phrase why anti-Islamic views were accepted but anti-Semitic were not.

I kept on deferring and choosing not to do anything. But it increasingly felt to me that doing nothing was doing something... I was approving a pro-Israel/anti-Islamic position and yet cracking down on pro-Palestine/anti-Semitic positions.

I had hoped (foolishly) that I wouldn't need to make that call, that the temporary peace would enable the issue to go away. The traditional head-in-the-sand approach. But as you point out, EdwardZ is pretty hardline and as such he didn't go away.

I figured I'd put the decision off way too long, and without yet having the controls that allow people to ignore others making a decision increased in importance.

I chose to act the same way for both extremes. Any reasonable debate is fine on any topic, but when people are taking extreme positions and pissing others off in the process and causing disruption (trolling), then I'm going to crack down equally hard no matter which extreme was being taken.

It was wrong of me to have not made that decision sooner than I did.