ISIS (Islamic State) Discussion Thread

[uo111 5,282]

Omg people trying to find their reasons in this thread

They just want to use fear and intimidation to control the population and gain power.

That's like trying to find out what bible verse the Mexican gangs are using to justify beheading teenagers.

These people don't have any noble intentions, please stop pretending like they do.

[craig 680]

same thing i was thinking this morning. almost made a thread about it because it comes off as propaganda but decided to avoid the flames

The Holocaust would have have sounded like Allied anti-Nazi propaganda too. Until they liberated the death camps.

 

ISIS is now crucifying people and targeting educated women.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918799/IS-executing-educated-women-new-wave-horror-says-UN.html

[Luiz 4,253]

The Holocaust would have have sounded like Allied anti-Nazi propaganda too. Until they liberated the death camps.

 

ISIS is now crucifying people and targeting educated women.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918799/IS-executing-educated-women-new-wave-horror-says-UN.html

yeah i get that but it still looks suspicious especially the one about bird keepers being executed. doesnt really matter though since you dont need propaganda to make me think isis is crazy but the average fox news loving american might be bunching them all together

 

btw i'm not saying that executions arent happening but the reasons for the executions the news articles report feel like they're just going with whatever sounds craziest to grab attention and views to keep the fear growing and the money coming in.....heh the loony conspiracy theorist side of me is alive and well :air:

[Luiz 4,253]

Fuck the islamic state

 

ISIS Suffers Heaviest Defeat in Iraq in a Single Day

 

Over the last 24 hours, ISIS has been defeated in every front in Iraq in unprecedented way. From Mosul to the north to Anbar to the west and Diyala to the east, Iraqi government forces, Shiite militias, Sunni tribes and Kurdish forces were all victorious in battle.

Since the start of the U.S.-led air campaign, ISIS has lost its momentum in Iraq and lost some of the cities and towns that it captured in June 2014. It still controls the provincial capitals Mosul and Tikrit as well as the city of Fallujah west of Baghdad, and many other small towns throughout.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-suffers-heaviest-defeat-iraq-101500786.html?soc_src=copy

[theMonster5 74]

This is a briefing of one of the Japanese man: "But a report by the news agency Reuters in August portrayed him as a lost soul, who went to the Middle East searching for a purpose after losing his wife, his business and his home over the previous decade."

 

Not only did he lost his soul, now he will lose his head! Ouch! Stay away from Syria and Iraq if possible.

[Redstreak 6,653]

The iconic Doomsday Clock, considered a metaphor for the dangers faced by the world, was pushed ahead by two minutes over concerns about worsening climate change and the world's failure to reduce nuclear weapons, a trans-Atlantic group of prominent scientists announced.

 

Every year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists a--lyzes international threats, particularly nuclear arsenals and climate change, and decides where the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock should rest. The closer it is to midnight, the closer the world is to doom.

 

The last time the clock moved was in 2012 when the Board set the minute hand at 11:55 p.m. over concerns about the state of nuclear arsenals around the world. It also was concerned about the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the outbreak of H5N1 flu. It hasn't moved this much since 2007, when the Board warned that "the world stands on the brink of a second nuclear age." It also cited climate change which it called "a dire challenge to humanity."

 

Those two issues again took center stage as the Board announced it would bump the clock two minutes ahead, to 11:57 p.m.

 

"Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, told reporters. "And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of leadership endanger every person on Earth."

 

The Board was especially critical of world leaders for failing to take the actions necessary to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over what they were in preindustrial times, which most scientists contend would avert the worst impacts of climate change, such as widespread droughts, heat waves and flooding.

 

World leaders are set to meet later this year in Paris to ink a deal to combat climate change beginning in 2020. But many critics argue it comes too late and won't have the teeth necessary to facilitate a shift away from fossil fuels that are blamed for much of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

 

"Steps seen as bold in light of today's extremely daunting political opposition to climate action do not even match the expectations of five years ago, to say nothing of the scientific necessity," said Sivan Kartha, a member of the Board and a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

 

"The results are unsurprising. Global greenhouse gas emission rates are now 50 percent higher than they were in 1990," he said. "Emission rates have risen since 2000 by more than in the previous three decades combined. Investments have continued to pour into fossil fuel infrastructure at a rate that exceeds $1 trillion per year, with additional hundreds of billions of dollars in continued fossil fuel subsidies. We can and must turn this around."

 

The Board also said the United States and Russia weren't doing enough to reduce their nuclear arsenals, while warning that other countries not part of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons such as India, Pakistan, Israel, are expanding or modernizing theirs.

 

"Since the end of the Cold War, there has been cautious optimism about the ability of nuclear weapon states to keep the nuclear arms race in check and to walk back slowly from the precipice of nuclear destruction," said Sharon Squassoni, a Board member and director and senior fellow at the Proliferation Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. "That optimism has essentially evaporated in the face of two trends: sweeping nuclear weapons modernization programs and a disarmament machinery that has ground to a halt."

 

The Board called on the world cap to greenhouse gas emissions, dramatically reduce proposed spending on nuclear weapons modernization programs, re-energize the disarmament process and deal with nuclear waste.

 

"We are not saying its too late to take action but the window for action is closing rapidly," Benedict said. "The world needs to be awakened from its lethargy and start making changes. We move the clock hand today to inspire action and move that process along."

 

The Doomsday Clock is the invention of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a publication started by some of the researchers who worked on the atomic bomb. The wife of one of these researchers, Martyl Langsdorf, was a painter. In 1947, she illustrated the first Bulletin cover to feature the Doomsday Clock set at that point at 11:53 p.m.

 

Langsdorf died in March 2013, but her creation keeps on ticking.

 

The closest the Doomsday Clock has ever come to midnight was in 1953, when the minute hand ticked to 11:58 p.m. after the first test of the hydrogen bomb. It was at its most optimistic in 1991, when the Bulletin board set the time at 17 minutes to midnight as the Cold War ended.

 

Since 1991, however, the clock has been ticking gradually toward doom, as it became clear that total nuclear disarmament would not be happening.

 

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doomsday-clock-moves-two-minutes-closer-to-midnight/

 

 

How terrifying...

[Ursula Buffay 73]

It will only impact our great great grand children, to be honest I don't give a fukc, I know it's selfish but I think if our great great grand parents had something to do for us, they would rather not do it. :air:

[Memo 176]

Yaaaaas destroy the earth humans slay

[Koreku 2,387]

Two minutes less to pop mah pu5sy before doom.   :emo:

[Spock 20,292]

What kind of Watchmen realness

[BlondeKingOfGGD 2,054]

What is this im getting scared someone explain omg

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

It will only impact our great great grand children, to be honest I don't give a fukc, I know it's selfish but I think if our great great grand parents had something to do for us, they would rather not do it. :air:

That is so ignorant I just cannot

 

 

Hopefully this will push some more to get people to do something, especially those who can do something.

[ChasingGhosts 726]

The earth is in a horrible state and its only getting worse, we're really destroying the only home we have and not doing all that much to help. 

[MJHolland 12,725]

The Board also said the United States and Russia weren't doing enough to reduce their nuclear arsenals

Okay but what's the point of the US reducing our nuclear weapons reserve? We are still by faaarrrr the world's largest and most funded military in the world. What is the difference between 200 nuclear warheads and 100? If a single one of them is fired, the world would plunge into nuclear chaos either way.

 

The only reason the US retains nuclear weapon is in the case that we are attacked by another country with nuclear weapons as well. In such a situation, it is the job of our nuclear weaponry to flatten the attacking country before they flatten us. If you don't want you country flattened, don't attack the US with a nuclear bomb. It's that simple. I fail to see how the US having nuclear capability is a threat to any country not making a threat against the US. We don't plan to use them anytime soon unless necessary .

[Azor Ahai 18,861]

OMG GIANT CLOCK SO MIDNGIHT AND EARTH GO BOOM BOOM?????????