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YouTuber PewDiePie. YouTube/PewDiePie

Outrage after controversial YouTube star PewDiePie uses the N-word in latest video

It’s not the first time he has been accused of being racist.

YOUTUBE’S MOST WATCHED blogger PewDiePie was in hot water again today after using a racial slur while playing a livestreamed video game, just a few months after losing contracts over anti-Semitic remarks.

In a video clip available online since Sunday, the 27-year-old Swede, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, can be heard using the N-word in an expletive-laden tirade at his opponent.

PewDiePie is known for posting humorous clips and testing video games for his more than 57 million followers on YouTube, making him the site’s most watched blogger.

One game developer said he was going to file a complaint to prevent the Swede from playing his games online.

“He’s worse than a closeted racist: he’s a propagator of despicable garbage that does real damage to the culture around this industry,” developer Sean Vanaman tweeted.

On Twitter, some users recalled that PewDiePie has “already been a racist memelord”.

Kjellberg, who has yet to comment on the affair, in February lost contracts with YouTube and Disney after he posted several videos containing anti-Semitic and Nazi remarks.

And in September 2016, he was temporarily blocked on Twitter after making a joke about the Islamic State group.

© – AFP 2017

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:59 AM

    Some of these ‘rebels’ are not just affiliated with Al Quaida, Al Quaida have actually DISASSOCIATED themselves from them due to their actions e.g. random beheadings of civilians.

    Anyone that still thinks this fight is about bringing Freedom(tm) to the Syrian people needs their heads examined

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:05 AM

    If ya still got a head…. That is

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:18 AM

    Yet nobody has been able to prove their claim that the majority of the rebels are jihadists. Funny that.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:15 PM

    Jason, how do you go about proving such a claim in a civil war situation. Head count? Get them all in a stadium and ask the non-jihadists to raise their hands? Guy with a clipboard knocking on the tents saying he’s from the census board?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:16 PM

    Have you been able to disprove it?While a majority of the Rebel/Terrorist groups may not be foreign Jihadists.A clear majority of them have an Islamist ethos and are agitating for an Islamic State under Sharia law.Foreign Jihadist/Domestic Jihadist it makes no difference really.They all want to send Syria back to the seventh century.Savages.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:52 AM

    The only thing I am certain of is that most them are religious extremists that belong in medieval times, not the modern world. Leave them at it.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:03 AM

    If they all want to help us with our austerity payments for the next 40 years I think I could find a way to help them too
    My family is suffering and it by a foreign oppressor . Germans are still considered as foreigners right?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:54 AM

    You forgot to mention the CIA.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:55 PM

    Joe,

    The article kinda did…the SMC is backed by Western powers like the US.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:07 AM

    The Syrian Government needs a clean up and then our support.

    It is not in our interests as genuinely free people (as opposed to the Free Syrian Army’s interpretation) to have another Mohammedan Terror Group running a country.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:20 AM

    And a dictator who would rather see his country ripped apart than stand up to free elections is someone who deserves our support? A man who had his grunts shoot unarmed civilians, shell housing estates with heavy artillery and likely gassed his own people? Charming chap that Assad.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:34 AM

    Re Jason.

    Open your eyes. Turn off corporate media. President Assad has been part of an awe inspiring defence of Syria and all with the intention of keeping civilian casualties(his own country people) to minimum.

    The Syrian ‘rebels’ have no respect for the rules of law, this has been documented repeatedly, and some civilians have been killed as a result of actions such as placing anti aircraft weapons on the tops of civilian buildings. It is a war.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:40 AM

    So using Sarin gas on civilian areas, using Napalm on primary schools, using Barrel bombs on residential housing, letting Hezbulallah run free through the county side. That’s all to keep civilians safe? I would hate to see what he would do if he was trying to kill civilians.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:48 AM

    If the defence of Syria has been so awe-inspiring, why are areas of Damascus still controlled by rebel faction nearly 3 years on?

    Time to switch off the Russian state media there yourself.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:01 PM

    @ Mick :, Jason @ Declan Please examine following three links and let me know if you are really supporting and defending real hard working , tax paying American people or a completely corrupt government. Kennedy was killed for his stance against these thugs, and you all support them.
    http://planet.infowars.com/economics/syrian-conflict-all-about-gas-pipeline
    http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/
    http://thegic.org/video/all-wars-are-bankers-wars

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:07 PM

    This war is a slaughter and there is brutality on both sides,which has been pretty much the case in every war throughout human history.But any sane person who has been following this war knows that Assad is a far better option than the head-chopping, liver eating Wahabi savages sent from hell.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:20 PM

    @ Mick, Jason @ Declan Please examine following three links and see if you are supporting and defending real hard working , tax paying American citizens, then reply to me in a positive manner. Alternative is you support a completely corrupt government. Kennedy was killed for his stance against these thugs, and you all still support them.
    http://planet.infowars.com/economics/syrian-conflict-all-about-gas-pipeline
    http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/
    http://thegic.org/video/all-wars-are-bankers-wars

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:27 PM

    @ mick. Its now known that the US government lied in relation to the sarin gas. They knew but failed to disclose that the syrian army was not the only force there t have access to sarin. It is still inconclusive who used it, but a story in relation to KSA labelled hazmat suits being found in tunnels under the site of the attack was supressed.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:33 PM

    @ Mick, Jason @ Declan Please examine following three links and if you are supporting and defending real hard working , tax paying American citizens, then reply to me in a positive manner. Alternative is you support a completely corrupt government. Kennedy was killed for his stance against these thugs, and you all support them.
    http://planet.infowars.com/economics/syrian-conflict-all-about-gas-pipeline
    http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/
    http://thegic.org/video/all-wars-are-bankers-wars

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:36 PM

    @ Mick, Jason @ Declan Please examine following three links and if you are supporting and defending real hard working , tax paying American citizens, then reply to me in a positive manner. Alternative is you support a completely corrupt government. Kennedy was killed for his stance against these thugs, and you all support them.
    http://planet.infowars.com/economics/syrian-conflict-all-about-gas-pipeline
    http://www.nofrackingway.us/2013/09/07/gas-pipeline-war-in-syria/

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:39 PM

    @ Mick : and even more important. http://thegic.org/video/all-wars-are-bankers-wars
    You are not doing normal American people a favour.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:40 PM

    Werejamming. The UN inspectors report stated the the gas was delivered by rockets. Now has I have asked many many times and still have never gotten an answer to is, How the Syrian Army troops surrounding these areas in some places only 100 yards apart were not affected by the Gas? Not one single Syrian Soldier was affected. Are they super soldiers that can breath in poison gas? Or more likely were they already wearing their NBC Suits and masks? And if it was a Rebel attack how did the Syrian Army know to put on those suits before the attack?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:42 PM

    Padraic. Infowars??? Please give me a break.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:47 PM

    Good posts Padraic….

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:53 PM

    You’ve a load of questions mick, but i notice that you also don’t have any of the answers.

    Why did the Obama admin neglect to tell the UN that other parties also had access to Sarin?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:00 PM

    Re Steven.

    Yes Padraic is the type that is needed in a healthy democracy. I might not always agree with what he states but I admire him greatly for his trojan work.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:05 PM

    Werejammin they wouldn’t be questions if I had the answers now would they? But why don’t you try answering some of them. You seem to think that the Rebels carried out the attack. If so can you answer the questions I have asked?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:25 PM

    @Shamen
    Neither of them are very good options.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:30 PM

    Neither of us have the answers mick.

    Difference is, I don’t know the answers and say its inconclusive, you don’t know the answers but can somehow state who did it.

    Whos position is the most credible?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:42 PM

    @Mick, Declan & Jason: please do not miss this. It is extremely important when regarding the thousands of lives lost in Syria.
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/former-french-foreign-minister-the-war-against-syria-was-planned-two-years-before-the-arab-spring/5339112

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:04 PM

    Then lets look at the probability of one side of the debate versus the the other.
    What do we know.
    We know a Sarin Gas attack took place. That is beyond dispute.
    We know civilians in a Rebel held area were killed.
    We know that Russian made rockets were used to deliver the Gas.
    We know that not one single Syrian Soldier was injured other affected by the Gas even though they were well within range of its affects.
    We know that the Syrian Army base overlooking these areas was the HQ of the Syrian Armies Chemical Warfare unit.
    We know that a Syrian government Official made a call to one of his superiors about the attack and was told to mind his own business.
    We know that the UN inspectors were refused entry into the affected areas for over a week and were only permitted entry after the UN were forced to agree not to point the blame of any findings.
    We know that the Syrians made no reports of rockets being fired by rebels from Syrian Government controlled areas and have not produced any evidence that said rockets were fired by the rebels under their noses.
    And we know that Syria has huge stockpiles of nerve gas.
    On the other side we know that the rebels had very limited stocks of Gas. And according to the UN inspectors it would have taken several gallons per rocket to create the devastation it did.
    So going on the probabilities of what we know as fact. Who do you think the most likely suspect?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:14 PM

    @ Avina
    It’s a no brainer Assad is the better option.Especially if you happen to be Christian,Druze,Alawite,Atheist etc.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:16 PM

    http://rt.com/news/study-challenges-syria-chemical-attack-681/

    There you go Mick, have a read of this, and don’t bother going oh thats from RT can’t be credible, the full report/study is there linked to the article.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:20 PM

    Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence in the Damascus Nerve Agent Attack of August 21, 2013
    by
    Richard Lloyd (Former UN Weapons Inspector) & Theodore A. Postol (Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, MIT)

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1006045/possible-implications-of-bad-intelligence.pdf

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:21 PM

    ‘Least bad option’ still doesn’t mean he’s a good option Shamen.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 3:30 PM

    Jesus mock you simply believe any news headline you see or read…blindly

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    Feb 8th 2014, 4:35 PM

    Gone quiet now Mick….did ya read the report?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:15 PM

    I was watching the rugby. Now to answer your question. Yes I did and that is one report that goes against all other reports.
    Now maybe you can answer my question. Why was not one single Syrian soldier killed or even affected by the gas? They in places only 100 meters apart well within range of the gas effects? Explain that?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:36 PM

    What other reports have you read Michael, can you link them please?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:46 PM

    Maybe everyone who thinks Assad is a good option would like to try living in Syria for a while.

    We in the west take our freedoms for granted far too often.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:57 PM

    Correct Jason…sorta like Saddam no?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 6:01 PM

    What about my question golden. I have asked it 3 times so far on this thread and yet nobody will answer it.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 6:14 PM

    Ok ill try and answer yours, if you show me the reports you read that says the Syrian Army was so close to these attacks, but you won’t, because what your saying is part of your imagination, I’ve yet to read a report that says this is fact, so if you can kindly oblige me with some links please.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 6:50 PM

    The irony of Golden demanding links!
    :-D

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    Feb 8th 2014, 7:29 PM

    Ssshhhh now Mick, ssshhhh.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 8:18 PM

    Are you for real ?

    You’re actually quoting infowars.com.

    My God all hope is lost. Just an expression people.

    I don’t particularly adhere to sky daddy belief systems but I reserve the right to use the expression from time to time.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 8:31 PM

    Why do you keep trying to avoid answering the question Golden? Why not just answer it? Why is it so difficult you, Padraic or foxy to answer? You support the Assad regime and regulars come to its defence. So defend it now by giving me a logical answer.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 8:55 PM

    I haven’t avoided answering it, I’m calling it pure bullshit Michael, now show me a report that shows troops were in the area…it’s a figment of your imagination, you won’t post a report that says so because you can’t, no report states that now shut up saying the Syrians gassed their own people, you haven’t a clue son.
    There’s a former UN Weapons inspector and a professor of science technology and US foreign policy telling you that from the UNs own report it was physically impossible that it was launched from government territory and you still gonna go on lol, keep goin I love your replies, can’t wait hear more from ya, I posted up a report, asked you for one and you just doing what you’re accusing me of doing avoided giving a reasonable response, classic troll behaviour nitey nite Mick xx

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:39 PM

    Still avoiding the question Golden.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:49 PM

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:16-tube_multiple_launch_rocket.JPG
    These were the Rockets used in the Attack. With a range of 9.4 km.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:56 PM

    Wtf is this lol, are you joking?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:06 PM

    The UN Report say this was the rocket used . A little longer range that 2km that your report claims. So somebody got their figures wrong.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:11 PM

    The Rocket is a BM 14 made in the old Soviet Union. Syria has 206 of these launchers. Each Rocket has a Range of 9.4km and can carry a chemical payload of 12 ltrs.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:19 PM

    You can’t even read can you? And which report states that Syrian troops were in the immediate vicinity of the attacks, keep digging the hole Mick

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:57 PM

    Padraic, he hasn’t been foreign minister since 1993. The article you post is all hearsay.

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:01 AM

    Golden, this article mentions MIT. That’s the Massachusetts institute of technology but you don’t believe anything that the Americans say. So why believe them now?

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:10 AM

    Padraic, I read one of the reports and the one lined paragraph at the end sticks out for me- the Russians have built up their naval presence there- interesting don’t you think?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:08 AM

    What about the Judean People’s Front and the People’s Front of Judea?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:14 PM

    Splitters!!

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:51 AM

    Well the article has confirmed what many have been saying
    It’s alCIAda the Cia’s proxy army

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:23 AM

    It hasn’t confirmed anything, other than the Syrian rebels have never actually been one faction which can be branded like so many people have. They’re not all jihadists, they’re not all freedom fighters. Hardly news to anyone who actually paid attention to the war.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:33 AM

    Foxy, you are wearing that phrase out. Can you not come with something original or even truthful.
    Regarding the people fighting in Syria and your claim that the CIA is behind it all. Just remember this- “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” meaning People, like horses, will only do what they have a mind to do.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:34 AM

    Jason
    They have been confirmed as alCIAda loooong before this article

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:44 AM

    Is that so Foxy? The please do share with the world the concrete proof. I’ll wait.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:54 AM

    Jason
    I’m still waiting on you to prove Assad was behind that chemical attack

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:08 PM

    Foxy explain a couple of things to me and the rest of us here how Syrian soldiers only a few hundred yards away from the gas attack were not affected by it? Surely if it was a rebel attack they would have had no warning and would have died along with the civilians!
    How did the rebels get into position set up the rockets, fire them and dismantle the launchers and completely disappear with leaving a trace that they were there, all the while doing so in the middle of government controlled areas?

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:19 AM

    Foxy, why did Assad give up his chemical weapons to the west to destroy?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:47 AM

    Ah yes, the great Syrian ‘rebels’. I have been saying for almost three years or more that the Syrian ‘rebels’ were mainly foreign Islamic jihadis to intent on imposing Sharia law. I have also repeatedly said that they have been trained and armed by the West in Turkey and financed.

    The Syrian revolution stated four days after Syria defied the West by agreeing the construction of a new pipeline with Iran and Iraq. This is a proxy invasion of Syria by the West.

    The Syrian government and state security forces have done a great job of defending their homeland. They also managed to do it long enough for the Western corporate media lies re Syria to be exposed. I’m afraid Western journalists are really little more than prostitutes, willing to sell themselves to the highest bidder.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:51 AM

    Ah yes, the great bull shi**er Horgay also known as b Lowe and seoirse- fan of Assad and dictators around the world.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:57 AM

    I started reading horgay’s comment and said it won’t be long till noonan replys to it and low and behold their he is
    Deco are you and horgay the same person
    If I’m wrong sorry horgay

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:01 AM

    Foxy, do you really want to defend Horgay?
    Once again, my name and pic are real. I’m not hiding behind a false name and pic like yourself and Horgay. What are you afraid of?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:08 AM

    Horgay does not need my defending
    He/she is well able for you

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:20 AM

    So you are defending him.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:21 AM

    Once again, the claim that the rebels are only jihadists which has never been backed up with proof. You’re really full of it.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:24 AM

    Re Foxys.

    Horgay is in no way connected to Declan.
    Horgay is a he.

    If I remember correctly Declan you have been saying that the Syrian ‘rebels’ were honest folk intent on overthrowing their evil President(who by the way enjoys over 80% approval according to latest NATO polls).

    Well Declan, they say time does tell and I’m afraid yiu have come off rather badly. Yourself and all the other ‘experts’ have been proven wrong and while I have not been proven right in everything I said Re Syria it is a lot better than your dribble. It’s such a pity I value debate and honour opinions, otherwise I could resort to your negative below the belt comments.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:26 AM

    Horgay, that’s a lie. I’ve never said that the rebels are honest folk. I’ve barely defended them. I have been critical of Assad. Simple!

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:27 AM

    Declan’s biggest issue is that deep down he knows that his beloved American government have been exposed as the war mongering totalitarian police state it really is and this really gets up his skirt
    I spent half my life in and around the northeast Declan I can accept it why can’t you my American born friends accept it but you live in wonderland
    It’s time to wake up Alice and stop lying to yourself

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:28 AM

    Foxy, have you read horgays comment below? He sees himself in the third person. Weird don’t you think?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:32 AM

    I don’t agree with everything that horgay says
    But he hits on some valid points which you completely dismiss

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:35 AM

    Horgay.
    The extreme islamists did not enter the fight in any large numbers in Syria until the Western powers let it be know that they were not going to get involved. And only then did the see their chance to “Come to the Aid of their Sunni Brethren”. Syria is in the mess its in because of NATO’s/Obama’s refusal to assist in the rebels in the original stages of the uprising for fear of upsetting the Russians. The Obama administration has show itself spineless time and time again when it comes to foreign affairs.
    Now in Syria it has become almost a Stalemate where neither side can gain outright victory.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:39 AM

    Foxy, where am I blindly accepting the US? Where?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:39 AM

    Re Jason.

    Really now Jason?

    Even the NY Times has come out this week stating that there is no such thing.

    They have said the Syrian ‘rebels’ are Islamic jihadists , plain and simple. That they have not been able to locate any Syrian ‘rebels’ who are not.
    Now if the NY Times is coming out with that then the lies well and truly cannot be defended anymore.

    It’s time you do some research Jason.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:40 AM

    Mick
    Why should America assist either side it’s nothing to do with them

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:41 AM

    Foxy, you have preconceived notions of me because I live in the US. Your thinking of me is flawed.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:43 AM

    Declan
    For one you won’t accept they Were involved in false flags
    You have been giving proof & examples time and time again on here

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:45 AM

    Where you live does not come into it
    The comments you make and complete denial of the truth and the way you insult those who speak it is were I get my notions from

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:47 AM

    Foxy, you don’t agree with everything he says but you completely disagree with everything I say?!
    So you’ve lived in the US and you have family here but that makes you a expert on the subject? I could walk outside my door and talk to neighbors about this and anything else and the viewpoints could be very diverse. So how can you claim to be speaking on behalf of all Americans.
    Did you not listen and learn while you lived here. Or are you just relying on the old stereotypes of Americans being not informed?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:49 AM

    Declan
    If you come out with something I agree with I will back you on it if memory serves me I did that last week

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:59 AM

    Foxy same could be said for Russia.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:00 PM

    OMG Mick are you really that naive. Do you really think America is not involved? Obama said America was not getting involved on the surface to keep people like you (who would swallow anything) on his side. Seriously, wake up…..

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:09 PM

    Factual proof Stephen. And don’t give me something from landwars, Infowars, SyriaReport or some other rag. Actual hard proof from a recognized mainstream source.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:26 PM

    That’s the problem, “mainstream”

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:39 PM

    Horgay you have continually been parroting the Assad propaganda line that those fighting against him are “mainly foreign jihadists”. I and several others have repeatedly challenged you to back this claim up – something you have been unable to do.

    This article confirms that foreign fighters are on the ground (nobody has ever disputed that) but are still in the minority compared to native Syrian fighters.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 3:00 PM

    “Mainstream” Fox news . Bill O:Reilly etc . I actually think Mick is getting serious here . We should then listen to “The real news’ maybe ?? Most newspapers today are Corperate controlled Mick

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    Feb 8th 2014, 5:25 PM

    As opposed to what Infowars? You might as well quote the National Enquirer as Infowars or Land destroyer

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:22 AM

    Foxy, Horgay is always critical of SOHR. He calls it a one man operation out of a house in England. Do you not see the irony in Horgay being a one man operation himself?

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:41 AM

    http://www.npr.org/2011/05/11/136214343/a-look-back-at-syrias-1982-crackdown

    Horgay and your groupies- Assad learnt from his father!

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    Feb 9th 2014, 3:38 PM

    Horgay and company
    Residents Stream Out Of Aleppo, ‘City Of Ghosts,’ As Deadly Bombardment Escalates
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09/aleppo-bombing_n_4754336.html

    That includes you golden and foxy

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    Feb 8th 2014, 9:48 AM

    What a Arab mess

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:26 PM

    I would recommend people read “Confessions of an economic hitman” and “Hoodwinked” by John Perkins. Anyone who thinks the allegations about the CIA involvement are unfounded might be surprised. This problem in Syria is a three stage process this is the second stage of the process, destabilisation. The third stage is war. America has gotten away with it with Iraq and Afghanistan but Syria is supported by China, Russia, Iran. If anyone can sell a war to the people, Obama can……..

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:01 PM

    Re Steven.

    Confessions of an economic hitman is great. I presume you’ve read W Blum

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:24 PM
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    Feb 8th 2014, 3:17 PM

    Its on the list now horgay ;)

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    Feb 8th 2014, 3:20 PM

    Nice one golden!!!!

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    Feb 8th 2014, 3:24 PM

    *He’s on the list I mean

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:22 AM

    Lots of the rebel soldiers are “Europeans” who are returning to their ethnic homeland in the Middle East to fight jihad. And some Leftists will still insist multiculturalism is a good thing!!!

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:55 AM

    Al Qaeda, initially created and funded by the US in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden, then called Mujahedin , later Taliban. But always under the leadership of one man until he was killed some months ago. They were always regarded as the greatest treat to the Governments of Iraq and Libya and were never present in these countries prior to their US implementation. The Christian community who have lived in harmony with the Jewish and Muslim community’s for over a thousand years have been forced out of Iraq and Libya, and face a similar fate in Syria if the USA backed rebels gain the upper hand. Today still on the payroll of the CIA in Syria, Iraq, Libya etc they have managed with US, Saudi and Qatari funding and support to become a real treat to our much cherished democracy. Their main source of income at the moment is, in collaboration with the CIA, the opium trade in Afghanistan which has spiraled in volume to record levels since the invasion. See New York Times :Opium from Afghanastan. See also : ” The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a “Just War”, a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate “Islamic terrorism” and instate Western style democracy. The economic dimensions of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) are rarely mentioned. The post 9/11 “counter-terrorism campaign” has served to obfuscate the real objectives of the US-NATO war.
    The war on Afghanistan is part of a profit driven agenda: a war of economic conquest and plunder, ”a resource war”.
    While Afghanistan is acknowledged as a strategic hub in Central Asia, bordering on the former Soviet Union, China and Iran, at the crossroads of pipeline routes and major oil and gas reserves, its huge mineral wealth as well as its untapped natural gas reserves have remained, until June 2010, totally unknown to the American public.
    According to a joint report by the Pentagon, the US Geological Survey (USGS) and USAID, Afghanistan is now said to possess “previously unknown” and untapped mineral reserves, estimated authoritatively to be of the order of one trillion dollars (New York Times, U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com, June 14, 2010, See also BBC, 14 June 2010). deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.
    Afghanistan is a land bridge. The 2001 U.S. led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has been anallised by critics of US foreign policy as a means to securing control over the strategic trans-Afghan transport corridor which links the Caspian sea basin to the Arabian sea.
    Several trans-Afghan oil and gas pipeline projects have been contemplated including the planned $8.0 billion TAPI pipeline project (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) of 1900 km., which would transport Turkmen natural gas across Afghanistan in what is described as a “crucial transit corridor”. (See Gary Olson, Afghanistan has never been the ‘good and necessary’ war; it’s about control of oil, The Morning Call, October 1, 2009). Military escalation under the extended Af-Pak war bears a relationship to TAPI. Turkmenistan possesses third largest natural gas reserves after Russia and Iran. Strategic control over the transport routes out of Turkmenistan have been part of Washington’s agenda since the collapse of the Soviet union in 1991.
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    1. The Golden Crescent trade in opiates constitutes, at present, the centerpiece of Afghanistan’s export economy. The heroin trade, instated at the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979 and protected by the CIA, generates cash earnings in Western markets in excess of $200 billion dollars a year. Since the 2001 invasion, narcotics production in Afghanistan has increased more than 35 times. In 2009, opium production stood at 6900 tons, compared to less than 200 tons in 2001. In this regard, the multibillion dollar earnings resulting from the Afghan opium production largely occur outside Afghanistan. According to United Nations data, the revenues of the drug trade accruing to the local economy are of the order of 2-3 billion annually. In contrast with the Worldwide sales of heroin resulting from the trade in Afghan opiates, in excess of $200 billion. (See Michel Chossudovsky, America’s War on Terrorism”, Global Research, Montreal, 2005)
    “ Today this USA invention serves a dual purpose. Firstly to portray them as a threat to our freedom, thus curbing long fought for civil liberties, and so creating a docile, fearful and increasingly naive American society who are paying dearly for all of this insanity with their hard earned tax money. Secondly as in Afghanistan they are readily available to recruit as mercenaries world wide. A Frankenstein created in the USA . Our only hope remains that young intelligent people in the US and will wake up some day.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:21 AM

    Padraic, what’s all that got to do with Syria?

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:38 AM

    @ Declan because we are trying to explain the origin of Al Qaeda and the reason for the funding by US Saudi Arabia and Qatar . We cannot isolate the immergence and significance of Al Qaeda in Syria from their historical past and of course their financiers.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:57 AM

    Padraic. All way with the misinformation. Al Qeada was set up in Pashawar in Pakistan by Osama bin Ladin (and with the assistance of the ISI who also helped set up the Taliban) using his families money and money donated by other Saudi business men. Al Qeada’s numbers during the Afghan war were never more than several hundred and in now way influenced the outcome.
    And even in the Manning documents it showed what the Americans thought of OBL and AQ at the time. The said of him. He is only a financer and a modest one at that. And of AQ the said they were to small a group to be of any consequence.
    Not exactly the glowing support you seem to be attributing the US gave to them.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:51 PM

    Bill O’Reilly : Fox News

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    Feb 8th 2014, 8:35 PM

    Padraic. I would trust Bill O Reilly over infowars any day. At least he is accountable.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:08 AM

    What an absolute mess.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:31 PM

    Can I make a suggestion can all stop responding to the idiotic ravings of Mick Jordan and Declan Noonan a two year old child would have a better understanding of events in Syria than both of them combined (with apologies to all two year olds)

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:34 PM

    Lol well said bill

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    Feb 8th 2014, 2:29 PM

    Lol no Bill its too funny :)

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:15 AM

    Bill, it’s Horgay that’s guilty of idiotic ravings.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 12:03 PM

    I think most people now understand that this is not a revolution…This is terrorism at its best

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    Feb 8th 2014, 1:32 PM

    Agreed aslam, perpetrated by US backed CIA who are nothing more than a legalised terrorist organisation with an endless line of credit backed by the American taxpayers unbeknownst to most of them.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 10:41 AM

    Ate you the Islamic peoples front? NO, we’re the people’s front of Islam.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 11:09 AM
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    Feb 8th 2014, 4:33 PM

    Good read that, thanks Darren.

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    Feb 9th 2014, 12:48 PM

    @ Daren Lawlor : Thank you . A very enlightening article.

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    Feb 8th 2014, 7:12 PM

    Ohh Love the gun in the pic :)

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