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The truth about Syria is being revealed by activist and blogger ‘Syrian Girl’ (Mimi Al-Laham) who spells out what others fear to think, let alone say. For example, everybody realizes that the Americans are arming al-Qaeda but few know that the Rothschild national banks are behind the attacks on Libya and Syria.
As soon as the Gaddafi government had been defeated the globalists put the Libyan national bank back under Rothschild control. It’s also what they are doing to Egypt which has been trapped into accepting USD 4.8 billion, at interest, from the International Monetary Fund. What a mistake by President Morsi! And since when have true Muslims agreed to pay riba? In either case, Libya or Egypt, the New World Order has no intention of allowing an Islamic national bank which would issue its own money at no interest.
When Iraq was invaded in 2003 one of the first things the Americans did was to issue the notorious Bremer Orders. Order 81 insisted that Iraqi farmers could not store their own seeds, developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they must buy Frankenstein seeds which have to be bought annually from Frankenstein corporations like Monsanto. These seeds have terminator genes which ensure that the seeds can only be used for one season.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, where more than 33,000 people have been killed in 19 months of conflict, issued a law on GM food Thursday to preserve human life, state-run SANA news agency reported.
Originally posted by Darkblade71
The use of chemical weapons is a threat to the world if the world turns a blind eye to it, no matter who is using them.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Except how is the UN going to handle it? They have no military forces except those of the member states, and any action can and probably will be vetoed by Russia. The UN can't handle finding their way out of a paper bag and needs to just go away already.
Originally posted by Darkblade71
The use of chemical weapons is a threat to the world if the world turns a blind eye to it, no matter who is using them.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
The UN needs to be replaced by something that one nation doesn't have the ability to unilaterally block any action. As it stands now, nothing can be done by anyone, because someone that doesn't agree has the right to veto any action. So what's the point?
Originally posted by Zaphod58
What makes dying by nuclear fire worse than shooting someone then? Dead is dead right?
Blowing something up at least has the potential to limit casualties, and you can target a small area. A chemical weapon, depending on how the wind blows has almost no limiting factor. Yes, both kill people, but a chemical weapon kills for miles where a 500 lb bomb blows up the building it hits, and damages the ones around it. A bomb requires landing near you, and if you're behind a wall, or in a shelter, then you can be protected. A chemical weapon doesn't care where you are, it will still kill you.
Originally posted by Xtrozero
As one Senator said, are chemical attacks over there a threat to American security? We should let the UN handle it all and stay out of it.
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans and/or cause great damage to man-made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere in general. The scope and application of the term has evolved and been disputed, often signifying more politically than technically. Coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives, it has come to distinguish large-scale weaponry of other technologies, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear. This differentiates the term from more technical ones such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons (CBRN).
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons. Its full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction. The agreement is administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is an independent organization based in the Hague, in the Netherlands. The main obligation under the convention is the prohibition of use and production of chemical weapons, as well as the destruction of all chemical weapons. The destruction activities are verified by the OPCW. As of January 2013, around 78% of the (declared) stockpile of chemical weapons has thus been destroyed.[5][6] The convention also has provisions for systematic evaluation of chemical and military plants, as well as for investigations of allegations of use and production of chemical weapons based on intelligence of other state parties. As of June 2013, 189 states are party to the CWC, and another two countries (Israel and Myanmar) have signed but not yet ratified the convention.[1]
Russia’s Security Council is reportedly considering a ban on supplying the US with powerful RD-180 rocket engines for military communications satellites as Russia focuses on building its own new space launch center, Vostochny, in the Far East.