Now this is funny shit. We’re actually supposed to fear these numbskulls? Do you really think these nitwits are on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb? Really?
Watch Iran’s $40m oil rig disappear into the deep
WHAT weighs 1850000kg, costs $40m, took 30 months to build and disappeared in just 10 seconds?
An Iranian engineering structure.
And this isn’t a bad joke. It actually happened.
A structure in Iran’s South Pars gas field sank into the Persian Gulf in mere seconds, while workers were still on it.
The accident happened on Wednesday but the footage has only just made its way online.
Thankfully none of the workers seen trying to swim to safety were injured, according to local media.
The structure belonged to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the country is now calling for foreign aid to help recover the gas platform which sank 80m to the seabed, according to Mehr news.
How’s that for irony?
Eddie says:
I left Iran off my list of places not to get your teeth worked on. Their dentstry sucks too. (But it is very affordable.)
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7th February 2013 at 2:08 pm
Anonymous says:
You are mistaken. This was a plan to test their VLFH-technology (Very Large Fog Horn) which is an integral part of their national defense system against incoming Israeli bomber aircraft.
It worked brilliantly.
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7th February 2013 at 2:14 pm
Administrator says:
Anon
Would you just come back? You miss us and we miss you. It’s like a morgue around here.
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7th February 2013 at 2:19 pm
Stucky says:
Okey dokey. I have been outed!
The Joo VLFH-techology.
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7th February 2013 at 2:22 pm
Bostonbob says:
Yeah. Stucky is back. Thank Jeebus.
Thank you,
Bob.
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7th February 2013 at 2:58 pm
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Bostonbob driving home from work tomorrow
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7th February 2013 at 3:13 pm
Jeebus, Son of God says:
Blessed art thou Bostonbob amongst TBPers. The fruit in thy loins shall increase.
Only you and my beloved LaQuisha understand the truth.
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7th February 2013 at 3:21 pm
cahuitabeachbound says:
Wonderful couple…..Everyone go watch “End of Watch”. Superb movie. I realize I live a sheltered life in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis. I can’t even begin to really comprehend what parts of Los Angeles are like, or for that matter Houston, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly etc. Minneapolis has bad neighborhoods but we don’t really have block after block ghettos.
http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1009883/391/Putrid-home-leads-to-neglect-charges-for-Maplewood-couple-
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7th February 2013 at 4:05 pm
flash says:
If you can read Morgolis’ excellent book on how the Mulsim/Western cultural impasse came to be and not feel sympathy for the domination via colonization , torture ,intimidation , reprisals, war , resource theft and general deprivation inflicted on the Iranian and other Muslim peoples by Western powers since 1900, you have neither heart nor humanity.
And, the reasons Iran needs nukes is covered as well.
Hint:For the same damn reason Israel need them.
American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]
Eric Margolis (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/American-Raj-Liberation-Domination-Resolving/dp/B003RCJRJI
Fury at the American Raj
by Eric Margolis
Recently by Eric Margolis: Murder in Benghazi
The killing of the US ambassador to Libya and angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a tacky anti-Islamic hate video have produced the usual flood of wrong-headed commentary from our so-called foreign affairs experts and assorted media propagandists.
Across the land comes the cry, “why do they hate us?” That any Americans can in this day and age can still be surprised their nation is hated by many people from Morocco to Indonesia to Nigeria is by far the biggest surprise. We have learned little from 9/11.
Those angry Muslims are not rioting and burning because they hate Christianity, fast food, America’s consumer society, democracy, or feminism, as we are endlessly misinformed by politicians and media.
The fury does not come because Muslims are somehow irrational, primitive, violent beings.
Nor is the hate video, which was actually seen by only a limited number of the world’s one billion Muslims, the real cause of the violence we have been witnessing: it is merely the spark that ignited the combustible haze of anti-Americanism that overlies over much of the Muslim world.
Many Americans believe they are innocent bystanders in the Muslim world, or involved there on an altruistic “mission” to uplift the benighted natives, to selflessly shoulder the heavy burden of policing the unruly globe, or abroad to wage an unending struggle against the dark forces of what we call “terrorism.” What they do not at all understand is that the American imperium’s goal is to advance its own strategic, economic and political goals and keep much of the planet under its sway.
In the last century, such ambitions and behavior used to be called “imperialism,” a practice that became synonymous with the British Empire. At its apogee, Britain’s Empire ruled one quarter of the globe and most of the world’s seas and oceans. At the heart of this vast empire lay its “jewel,” India. Britain’s rule over India was known as the British Raj (raj meaning rule in Hindi).
In 2008, I published my second book, American Raj. I sought to distill my fifty years of experience in the Muslim world to explain to Americans what was really going on in the troubled region, why it was so violent and unstable, and our role in fostering this problem. I tried to show what a positive role America could play.
The more I examined the historical parallels between the British Empire and today’s American dominion over most of the Arab and greater Muslim world, the more I understood that the United States had inherited the British Empire in 1945 and was copying its highly successful techniques.
“American Raj” analyzed how the United States ruled the Arab world in a fashion very similar to the way the British Empire ruled India: divide and rule, using petty princes and potentates as surrogates, building armies of native troops known as “sepoys,” forcing the subcontinent into economic subservience and serving as captive markets.
That’s why I entitled my book, American Raj. In it, I examined the way Washington controlled most of the Arab world’s regimes, how it promoted dictatorship and its handmaiden, often corruption, and how the US used native armies to maintain control.
I warned that the Mideast was seething with anti-Americanism, fury over the plight of Palestinians, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and rage against the corrupt, brutal rulers imposed by the United States, Britain and France. In “Raj,” I urged the United States to practice the values it preaches and help build real democracy in the Arab world before it was too late. The first and major step, I asserted, was imposed a just settlement for Palestine – which I termed “sand in the eye of the Muslim world.”
Not a single American publisher would touch “American Raj.” It was simply too heretical in challenging the myths of benign American foreign policy or predicting an explosion was coming. My book was published in Canada and Europe, but not in my own country.
In December, 2010, two years after “Raj” came out, the Arab world began to erupt against dictatorship, corruption, and oppression. The revolt began in little Tunisia but soon spread to the bulwark of America’s Mideast Raj, Egypt, where the exceptionally brutal, corrupt US-backed dictatorship of Husni Mubarak was toppled. For 40 years, Washington had sustained military dictatorships in Egypt whose principal raison d’etre was making Israel comfortable and keeping the lid on a restive population.
We must understand that the angry demonstrations still flaring across the Muslim world are not a manifestation of some primitive Muslim fanaticism or free-form detestation of the West. They are a volcanic eruption of anger at America. They are not terrorism or religious fanaticism, though numbers of religious fanatics are indeed involved. They are anti-Americanism in full flame. As I tried to explain in “American Raj,” what we call “terrorism” is in many cases virulent anti-Americanism aroused by our domination of the Muslim world – which has been battling first Euopean, then American domination for the past two centuries.
The natives are fighting back, just as they did under the British Raj. As America’s wrings its hands over attacks by our Afghan “sepoys” on their American and British advisors (read “white officers”), those who know India’s history will recall the great 1857 Indian Mutiny in which native sepoy regiments turned on their British officers.
Is it any wonder the Muslim world is so angry? The agony of Palestine continues, with America’s politicians, led by Mitt Romney, adopting an openly anti-Palestinian policy. His cynical words about kicking the Palestinian question down the road echoed across the Muslim world, as had virulently anti-Muslim statements by Republican presidential challengers like Newt Gingrich, a socket puppet for pro-Israel casino billionaire, or the egregious Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Or the constant Muslim-bashing of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the Murdoch empire.
America’s armed forces and CIA are now waging military operations and assassinations in six Muslim nations: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Mali, and, most recently, Libya. US troops are heading into East and North Africa. Iraq has been destroyed as a society and functioning state.
There are nine million Palestinian refugees, two million Afghan refugees, two million Iraqi refugees, and now Syria is being torn apart by a US and Saudi-backed insurgency. Washington ardently supports some of the world’s most reactionary and odious regimes, notably medieval monarchies in Arabia and the sinister military regime that rules Algeria. Let’s not forget, either, the ugly little despots of Central Asia who are supported and financed by Washington.
In short, there are a multitude of reasons for people in the Muslim world to be angry at America. And, of course, at themselves: youth unemployment and the economic, social and political backwardness of much of the Muslim world, endemic corruption and near total lack of real justice, powerlessness and hopelessness. Our so-called ally, Pakistan, offers an alarming example of a broken-down society ruled by thieving officials and above-the-law feudal landlords.
America can’t be blamed for many of these social and political problems, but it is not doing enough to alleviate them. Instead, Washington clings to its overseas empire with the same tenacity as Britain’s imperialists at a time when the United Kingdom’s postwar economy lay shattered and drowning in debt. Britain could no longer afford its globe-girding empire then, and America can no longer afford its global imperium today. Both Raj’s had feet of clay.
September 24, 2012
Eric Margolis [send him mail] is the author of War at the Top of the World and the new book, American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World. See his website.
Copyright © 2012 Eric Margolis
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7th February 2013 at 4:57 pm
flash says:
Stuck, I figured you’d drop out of doppleganger mode soon enough.
…just ain’t no glory in jankin’ incognito.
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7th February 2013 at 4:59 pm
AWD says:
Fuck Iran.
Federal law requires that to claim a minority status, you must be at least 1/8 of the descriptor or 12.5%.
Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side.
His father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.
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7th February 2013 at 5:11 pm
Bostonbob says:
Admin,
That looks like the Blizzard of 78, I attached a news sight with picured under All Is Well!!! Jeebus, that looks like Andrea Cabral the Suffolk county Sheriff here in Boston.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pictures+of+sheriff+andrea+cabral&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=u&biw=1034&bih=750&tbm=isch&source=univ&ei=tCgUUebXI4640QGQl4HIBg&ved=0CC0QsAQ
Sorry I could only provide a link, I will work on my picture postin abilities once I start drinking tonight.
Bob.
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7th February 2013 at 5:22 pm
Bostonbob says:
JESUS,
Look at my spelling, You would think I already started drinking.
Bob.
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7th February 2013 at 5:24 pm
flash says:
AWD- Fuck Iran. …His[Obamey's] father was officially classified as “Arab African” by the Kenyan government.
What in a blinding blue blazing shit storm does Obamey’s birth have to do with Iran?
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7th February 2013 at 6:12 pm
AWD says:
“What in a blinding blue blazing shit storm does Obamey’s birth have to do with Iran?”
Obama’s part Arab
Iran in an Arab country
Therefore Obama is Iranian
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7th February 2013 at 6:23 pm
flash says:
Very clever , Plato, but also very wrong.
Iran is not an Arab County. It is Persian or if you will Aryan.
Iranians have long considered Arabs ignorant bedouins.
Iranians and Arabs have been and are bitter enemies going back to sometime in the 600′s when Mohammed took the eternal dirt nap and his son-in-law (shia) sought a caliphate , but another asshole (Sunni) wanted the power too,,creating a feud that led to battle , that led to Mohammed’s son -in -law being killed by Sunni forces and thus the centuries old feud between Shia (persian) and Sunni (arabs began.
A feud BTW, that Israel and the US plays only too well , financing and fomenting one war after another between the two sects. The idea is to keep teh two factions divided thus weak, but all the war and division has come with a higher price per barrel and a trillion dollar sticker price.
The Shia/Sunni Cold War: A US Strategy and Saudi Illusion – Libertas
http://www.libertas.bham.ac.uk/…/The%20Shia-Sunni%20Cold%20War.pd...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – Quick View
States and Israel were deliberately stirring sectarian conflict between Shia and … against the Shia. … The US, in recognition of unease amongst its Sunni Allies, …
Git you some learning, doc , before you confuse yourself more.
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7th February 2013 at 7:08 pm
AWD says:
Thanks for the history lesson. So much for trying to be funny.
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7th February 2013 at 7:10 pm
howard in nyc says:
AWD said:
Obama’s part Arab
Iran in an Arab country
Therefore Obama is Iranian
_________
that is awesome!
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7th February 2013 at 7:12 pm
flash says:
Funny ,but I’d be willing to bet that a majority of Americana BoobUs do indeed believe that Iran is a Arab country.
Bum ‘em cuz’ they hate US fer our freedom! Absurd I know, but I hear it from stupid GOPpers all the time.
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7th February 2013 at 7:23 pm
sangell says:
If you believe the Iranians to be inept engineers then the nuclear bomb is not the true issue. It is the nuclear power plant everyone knows they do have. As Chernobyl and Fukushima have revealed a nuclear power plant can be more dangerous than a primitive fission bomb.
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7th February 2013 at 7:59 pm
flash says:
Sangell , go blow that smoke over at the Mossad site ,IOTW , that puffery BS don’t float around here.
If Iran did aquire a nuke, what good would it do them. Israel has 200 and the USA surrounds them with tactical nuke , on the ground, in the air and at sea.
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7th February 2013 at 8:05 pm
sangell says:
The Russians ( with international help) were able to contain Chernobyl. The Japanese, with all their resources were barely able to get control of Fukushima ( and if the spent fuel pool in one of those ruined buildings collapse they game is over) and you sit their with your ridiculous comment about the Mossad as if that gives you any credibility and pretend that Iran having a nuclear power plant is not grave danger. What happens if they have a meltdown? This whole goddamned thread is predicated on the notion that they can’t build an oil platform and yet when I pose the far more serious corollary to that notion you, that they are operating a nuclear power plant, you seem to be too stupid to see the danger of that.
As to the numbers game so far as I know, though I’m sure you are vastly more familiar with the issue than I, no nation has ever built one nuclear device and then stopped. South Africa had 7 before anyone knew they had one!
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7th February 2013 at 8:19 pm
crazyivan says:
Flash,
Sangell said simply that nuclear power plants are dangerous, citing Fuchushima and Chernobyl.
Yer gettin a little uppity there fuckwad.
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7th February 2013 at 8:36 pm
flash says:
Sangell, If every county that had an industrial accident where banned from further industry in all dangerous fields due to prior accident then their would be no industry permitted in the entire world.
That said , even after 2700 snap IAEA inspections there has been no proof that Iran is attempting weaponize uranium and due the presence of heavy metals in their uranium they may not even be able to enrich it further than 20% .Weapons grade is somewhere in excess of 80%.
Beside who the fuck died and left the USA and Israel as the keepers of Iran and deciders of their mode of self defense or source enegery production?
Iran has not attacked invaded any country in over a 200 years.Can the same be said of the USA or Israel?
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7th February 2013 at 8:37 pm
crazyivan says:
I was a little late there Sangell.
Kick him in the balls
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7th February 2013 at 8:40 pm
olga says:
I think Iranians self-identify as Persians, not Arabs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people
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7th February 2013 at 8:40 pm
sensetti says:
I don’t care what ethnic origin Obama descended from. I dislike the bastard with a passion.
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7th February 2013 at 8:42 pm
flash says:
Suck my ass, Ivan .I know what Sangell was implying .Has Iran been the only country to lose a oil platform?
BTW, North Korea has 4 nukes, but no oil.
I guess the oil factor makes Iran more dangerous than kim jong? eh…
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7th February 2013 at 8:47 pm
flash says:
suck it , Ivan and Sangell
ALERT* Another Oil Rig Sinks In The Gulf Of Mexico … – YouTube
► 2:46► 2:46
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Flaming oil rig sinks in Gulf of Mexico – Los Angeles Times
articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/23/nation/la-na-oil-rig-20100423
Apr 23, 2010 – Flaming oil rig sinks in Gulf of Mexico … Another possible environmental threat was the 700,000 gallons of diesel oil stored in the rig.
One body found after oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico as …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/One-body-oil-platform-explosion-Gulf-Mex...
Nov 18, 2012 – Divers hired by the owner of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that caught … than burning for more than a day and causing the rig to collapse and sink. … ‘This is yet another reminder that our work on oil drilling safety is not …
Burning Oil Rig Sinks In Gulf Of Mexico; 11 Still Missing : The Two …
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo…/burning_oil_rig_sinks_in_gulf.html
Apr 22, 2010 – The burning off-shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, according to reports. The rig experienced an explosion …
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7th February 2013 at 8:54 pm
crazyivan says:
flash- take a pill
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7th February 2013 at 8:55 pm
sangell says:
North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is of grave concern. It may not lead US news broadcasts every night but it does in South Korean and Japan! How large an arsenal is can depend on what type of bombs you are trying to build.
As you note Iran would have a problem launching a nuclear bomb on one of its missiles at Israel. Its fingerprints would be on it and they will have hell to pay whether the bomb works or not or the missile lands on target or not. Losing Tehran and all of your military capability to a dud in the Negev desert would not be very smart. North Korea faces the same problem. Iran does, however, have proxy forces with Hezbollah and Hamas who could, breach Israeli lines long enough to get a suicide team into Israel with a tactical nuke or two. Would and could North Korean do the same to the South or Japan. Who knows? Who wants to find out?
Like guns, atomic weapons are only as dangerous as the person or nation who possesses them. I don’t lose any sleep over British or French nuclear bombs and not much over Russian or Chinese arsenals because these are mature countries with rational motives. Countries governed by hereditary tyrannies or Islamic fundamentalists are another matter.
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7th February 2013 at 9:13 pm
SSS says:
“BTW, North Korea has 4 nukes, but no oil.”
—-flash
Uh, no one knows for sure that North Korea has ANY nukes. There is some circumstantial evidence that it may have tested 2 nuclear bombs undergound in 2005 and 2009, but there has never been VERIFICATION of any credibility.
Now you, flash, knower and seer of all things right and wrong in the world, come up with the figure of exactly 4 nukes in North Korea. I call total bullshit. Prove me wrong.
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7th February 2013 at 12:25 am
SSS says:
Israel has been jumping up and down about a nuclear Iran for about 20 years now, hoping to draw the U.S. into doing something about it, with the warning that Iran is going to have the bomb in just a short time.
What the fuck is Israel’s definition of “just a short time”? Israel has already twice shown, in Iraq and Syria, that it will not tolerate a nuclear-armed enemy bent on destroying its country or threatening its national security. It has the capability, as I have discussed previously, to do it again in Iran. Here is the ONLY rational U.S. response to Israel’s concern about a nuclear Iran.
“Do what you have to do.”
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7th February 2013 at 1:00 am
flash says:
Sangell- I don’t lose any sleep over British or French nuclear bombs and not much over Russian or Chinese arsenals because these are mature countries with rational motives. Countries governed by hereditary tyrannies or Islamic fundamentalists are another matter.
Iran actually has a Parliament and president elected by free elections unlike so many other oil rich puppet states..
Iran has been under siege by the west for 3 decades.They’ve had 1.5 million killed in the Irag war leaving another army of widow and orphans in the US /Iraq proxy war,, not counting the death by deprivation from malnourishment , disease and other maladies associated with being denied the essential necessities of life.
If you nation, people and family had been under attack you’d likely develop a mad dog attitude as well.
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7th February 2013 at 5:29 am
flash says:
SSS , in American Raj: , Margolis makes the claim NK has 4 nukes and here below he is using an estimate.Regardless,bluff or not ,NK has now attained big dog status and that;s enough to keep the MIC hounds at bay.
http://ericmargolis.com/2012/03/obama-says-no-to-the-lobby/
Netanyahu’s claim raises an interesting question. Since many Americans think it’s essential to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities – even though US intelligence denies Iran is even working on nuclear weapons – then what about North Korea?
Why shouldn’t Japan and its big brother ally, the United States, attack North Korea’s nuclear infrastructure? Unlike Iran, North Korea actually has an estimated four operational nuclear weapons and some 800 short and medium-ranged missiles that can strike US bases in South Korea and Japan.
The North’s new Taepodong missile can cover much of Japan. It is unknown if North Korea has yet developed nuclear warheads, but Pyongyang certainly has chemical and biological ones. The North has routinely threatened to turn South Korea and Japan into a “sea of fire.” That’s even more fevered than Iranian rhetoric.
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7th February 2013 at 5:35 am
Gubmint cheese says:
Iranian trial run to practice blocking the shipping lanes in the Straight of Hormuz.
What does the Revolutionary Guard have to do with an “oil platform” anyway?
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