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G2000 wrote:At least two US airbases in Iraq hit by ballistic missiles in a direct attack from Iran

No reported casualties as of yet, but that may change. There's definitely going to be a retaliatory US strike on Iran proper this time.

That or Trump sinks half their navy like Reagan did via Opertion: Praying Mantis. I really thought that the Iranian mullahs were smarter then this. They are literally coming close to ending their regime and they're too stupid to know it.

It looks like Trump's really mad now.

Well, it appears that I was wrong when I said last night's attack would result in an inevitable US retaliatory strike. While he also announced further sanctions, called for greater NATO involvement in the ME, and has said the US is continuing to consider retaliatory actions, President Trump has announced that there were no US or Iraqi casualties and that Iran appears to be backing down, which alongside further comments about the potential for US-Iranian cooperation against ISIS and that the US is "ready to embrace peace" seems to indicate that he will not escalate the crisis further by retaliating at this time.

There's a lot of speculation that the lack of lives lost in last night's attack may have been intentional on Iran's part; their strikes on ARAMCO refineries in Saudi Arabia have proven that they can conduct cruise missile strikes with a high degree of accuracy, and their decision to not do so in this attack may have been motivated by a desire to satiate domestic demand for revenge (worth noting, Iranian government-controlled media continues to falsely claim that eighty or more US soldiers were killed) while at the same time not escalating the crisis into potentially uncontrollable levels. Similarly, President Trump focused on continued opposition to the Iranian nuclear program, the killing of Soleimani, and the lack of US lives lost to sort of spin it as a US victory. Seen a lot of comparisons to last year's India-Pakistan crisis, where both sides sort of spun a narrative that they were the real winners in the conflict while privately deescalating.

Mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, no American lives have been lost, Soleimani remains very dead, and the crisis seems to be over; on the other hand the decision to simply disregard an open attack on US military targets by another country, even if no lives were lost and little damage was done, makes me feel a bit eh - maybe I'm being irrational, I don't know - while the status of US troops in Iraq remains in question (whether they will be withdrawn/expelled or not, if Shiite militias might step up attacks against US targets, etc.)

Everyone is howling, "World War III" and other nonsense. Iran may be a "big wheel" in the Middle East, but outside of the region, they're no threat.

In smaller-scale news, our government is so fucking dumb:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds- ... spartandhp

US officials now believe the Ukrainian jet lost with all passengers over Tehran was accidentally shot down by an Iranian air defense unit

While it's probably premature to announce this while the investigation is still ongoing, it is worth noting that pictures of what seem to be debris from Tor missiles at the crash site have been circulating for days now and the Iranians have been very shady about certain aspects of the investigation (they are refusing to turn the blackbox over to the Ukrainians, as the above article notes)

UPDATE: Canada, which lost 63 citizens onboard the airliner, has concurred with the US assessment that an accidental shootdown took place and has called on the Iranians to cooperate with the investigation

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After days of denial Iran finally admits it accidentally shot down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752

Sultan Qaboos of Oman, the longest-ruling leader in the Arab world (since 1970), has died at age 79 with no known heir.

So Netflix is let Gwyneth Paltrow use their platform to sell her snake oil bullshit.
https://theconversation.com/gwyneth-pal ... ess-129674

kingkevzilla88 wrote:So Netflix is let Gwyneth Paltrow use their platform to sell her snake oil bullshit.
https://theconversation.com/gwyneth-pal ... ess-129674

Didn't she make a candle that "smells like her vagina"?

Breakdown wrote:

kingkevzilla88 wrote:So Netflix is let Gwyneth Paltrow use their platform to sell her snake oil bullshit.
https://theconversation.com/gwyneth-pal ... ess-129674

Didn't she make a candle that "smells like her vagina"?

Yes, and it coast 70 big ones!

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I'm pretty sure that we can all agree that this guy is a chugglord!
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-drags-ma ... 49261.html

Deaf man sues Pornhub over the site's features not including closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man- ... aptioning/

The One and Only wrote:Deaf man sues Pornhub over the site's features not including closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man- ... aptioning/

"A deaf man from Brooklyn is moaning that he can’t fully enjoy videos on Pornhub because they don’t provide closed captioning"

They did that on purpose.

G2000 wrote:A new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has emerged with over 200 cases in China after authorities initially downplayed the seriousness of the outbreak. There are also confirmed cases in Japan, Thailand, and South Korea. British scientists believe total number of infected may be greater, as many as 1,700. Three have died so far.

It's so fucking dumb how this would have all been easy to prevent if people just understood, and enforced basic food health and handling...

This sounds like the start of a bad horror movie.

https://www.livescience.com/amp/unknown ... acier.html

Tyrant_Lizard_King wrote:This sounds like the start of a bad horror movie.

https://www.livescience.com/amp/unknown ... acier.html

I take it you haven't watched V-WAR yet ? Because that's how we get a V-WAR.

The One and Only wrote:

Tyrant_Lizard_King wrote:This sounds like the start of a bad horror movie.

https://www.livescience.com/amp/unknown ... acier.html

I take it you haven't watched V-WAR yet ? Because that's how we get a V-WAR.

I remember hearing a while back a few people got sick and some even died in Russia because some ice holding an ancient disease thawed out due to climate change, it got in a river a town used resulting in the said sickness and deaths. This is what we have to look forward to with climate change, "new" ancient diseases we've never encountered before and have to research making new vaccines to fight which takes time.

In some more lighthearted news..unless you guys really like Planters.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/2020- ... 0-6472981/

Rest in Peace Mr.Peanut...Rest in Peace.

The thumbnail for the spot is so ridiculously teal and orange that even Michael Bay would have it re-graded.

More than three years after the historic Brexit referendum the United Kingdom has officially left the European Union

WHO and US government declare 2019-nCoV a global health emergency as cases reported in all Chinese provinces; death toll stands at 258 with nearly 10,000 cases reported

G2000 wrote:
WHO and US government declare 2019-nCoV a global health emergency as cases reported in all Chinese provinces; death toll stands at 258 with nearly 10,000 cases reported