tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post4944616726934088731..comments2024-03-28T03:47:46.544-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Kurdish troops are making moderate gains against Islamic State. Kurdish women join the fight taking up arms on Iraq-Syria border. RT's Paula Slier reports from the areaDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84573950958260720592014-10-08T05:42:12.182-04:002014-10-08T05:42:12.182-04:00Sam comes in from the morgue-ish cold.
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Sam comes in from the morgue-ish cold.<br /><br />;)<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38611976590543900322014-10-08T05:40:08.506-04:002014-10-08T05:40:08.506-04:00>>>>Dr Parnia said that the findings o...>>>>Dr Parnia said that the findings of the study as a whole suggested that “the recalled experience surrounding death now merits further genuine investigation without prejudice”.<<<<<br /><br />Heh, :) this is humorous.<br /><br />Old Sam is finally switching !<br /><br />"without prejudice" --- Heh, I should hope so, Sam. But Sam, it's already been done, you just weren't listening 'without prejudice'.<br /><br />:)<br /><br />hardeharharAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79090693686334802442014-10-08T05:36:51.830-04:002014-10-08T05:36:51.830-04:00about evidence, not by evidenceabout evidence, not by evidenceAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33503333261297673012014-10-08T05:35:46.084-04:002014-10-08T05:35:46.084-04:00Heh, now after reading the article from the headli...Heh, now after reading the article from the headline I posted by evidence of live after death on Drudge, I see that old Sam Parnia is about ready to switch. This is humorous to those of us cognizant of the discussions in this field.<br /><br />Here is the article:<br /><br /><br /><br />There is scientific evidence to suggest that life can continue after death, according to the largest ever medical study carried out on the subject.<br /><br />A team based in the UK has spent the last four years seeking out cardiac arrest patients to analyse their experiences, and found that almost 40 per cent of survivors described having some form of “awareness” at a time when they were declared clinically dead.<br /><br />Experts currently believe that the brain shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds of the heart stopping beating – and that it is not possible to be aware of anything at all once that has happened.<br /><br />But scientists in the new study heard said they heard compelling evidence that patients experienced real events for up to three minutes after this had happened – and could recall them accurately once they had been resuscitated.<br /><br />Dr Sam Parnia, an assistant professor at the State University of New York and a former research fellow at the University of Southampton who led the research, said that he previously(believed) that patients who described near-death experiences were only relating hallucinatory events.<br /><br />One man, however, gave a “very credible” account of what was going on while doctors and nurses tried to bring him back to life – and says that he felt he was observing his resuscitation from the corner of the room.<br /><br />Speaking to The Telegraph about the evidence provided by a 57-year-old social worker Southampton, Dr Parnia said: “We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating.<br /><br />“But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes.<br /><br />“The man described everything that had happened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long the experienced lasted for.<br /><br />“He seemed very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually happened.”<br /><br />Dr Parnia’s study involved 2,060 patients from 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria, and has been published in the journal Resuscitation.<br /><br />Of those who survived, 46 per cent experienced a broad range of mental recollections, nine per cent had experiences compatible with traditional definitions of a near-death experience and two per cent exhibited full awareness with explicit recall of “seeing” and “hearing” events – or out-of-body experiences.<br /><br />Dr Parnia said that the findings of the study as a whole suggested that “the recalled experience surrounding death now merits further genuine investigation without prejudice”.<br /><br />Dr Jerry Nolan, editor-in-chief of the journal which published the research, said: “The researchers are to be congratulated on the completion of a fascinating study that will open the door to more extensive research into what happens when we die.”Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22070330058949455582014-10-08T03:19:09.740-04:002014-10-08T03:19:09.740-04:00Process more ethanol, just ask Rufus.
The numbers ...Process more ethanol, just ask Rufus.<br />The numbers are great, agricultural production would increase and the existing biomass better utilized.<br /><br />With every gallon of ethanol that replaces a fossil fuel, overall carbon emissions will average lower. <br /><br />There are those amongst our contriutors that have advocated against this course ...<br />Those self same contributors tend to echo the sentiments of our Bard of Murdock.<br /><br />Murdock - kind of a pyscho character, could fly anything with wings, nerves of steel, but ...<br />Colonel Hannibal Smith counted on him, more than once.<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84611480213155378622014-10-08T03:12:19.315-04:002014-10-08T03:12:19.315-04:00ot "Strange" not at all.
Been telling yo... ot "Strange" not at all.<br />Been telling you all that from the get go.<br /><br />Sorry, but it has been a well known reality, easy to see, if you pay attention to detail.<br /><br />Some of us do, and most of US don't.<br /><br />Quirk calls his crew, "Sheeple"Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56108976219537603822014-10-08T02:52:00.109-04:002014-10-08T02:52:00.109-04:00Get out of the Middle East. Consume less oil. Is i...Get out of the Middle East. Consume less oil. Is it really all that hard to figure out?The Bard of Murdocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40881065986390740572014-10-08T02:44:04.969-04:002014-10-08T02:44:04.969-04:00The day here is nearly done.
In the competition f...The day here is nearly done.<br /><br />In the competition for Best Comment of the Day Quirk's "You are bat shit crazy, rat" has been overtaken by the extended comment by anon above concerning prayer requests for brother rat, in this voter's view.<br /><br />Time to begin preparing myself for the dormatorio......been a long eventful day.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66443750215696846552014-10-08T02:38:08.277-04:002014-10-08T02:38:08.277-04:00This, from the same article, is a strange comment ...This, from the same article, is a strange comment if true ( I believe it is true):<br /><br /><i>The Turks were not alone in abandoning Kobani to the Islamic militants. The US was careful not have any direct liaison with Kurdish fighters on the ground though local intelligence should have made their air strikes more effective and might have stopped the Isis advance. Over the past 24 hours, these strikes have increased in number but may come too late as Isis militants fight street to street.</i><br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8123149818370583852014-10-08T02:34:59.721-04:002014-10-08T02:34:59.721-04:00{...}
The US campaign against Isis is weakened not...{...}<br />The US campaign against Isis is weakened not so much by lack ‘boots on the ground’, but by seeking to hold at arm’s-length those who are actually fighting Isis while embracing those such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey who are not. There is a similar situation in Iraq, where most of the fighting against Isis is by the Shia militias from which the US keeps its distance.<br /><br />As Isis closes in on Kobani, the city’s defenders have been abandoned. They may have hoped for assistance from the Syrian government, with whom they have a truce, but there are no reports of Syrian aircraft in action at Kobani though bombing Isis there would have been keeping with Mr Assad’s claim to be defending Syrians from Isis.<br /><br />Kobani: A brief history<br /><br />Kobani started out in 1912 as a stop on the Konya-Baghdad railway and was populated by Armenian refugees fleeing the forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The name “Kobani” may be a corruption of the word “company”, although in Arabic the town is called Ayn al-Arab or “the spring of the Arabs”.<br /><br />Kurds and other groups also moved into the town, which was developed under French rule in Syria after the end of the Ottoman Empire. Most of the population was Kurdish but also included Turkmen, Arabs and Armenians. The 2004 census gave Kobani’s population as 45,000, but the outlying districts were home to hundreds of thousands of people in villages. In 2012, Kurdish People’s Protection Units took over control of the own and other Kurdish areas from the Damascus government, in what was seen as a deal between Kurds and the Assad regime. As the war continued, Kobani became a haven for those escaping the fighting. Some reports say 160,000 people have left Kobani for Turkey recently.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55924152228890530552014-10-08T02:34:10.366-04:002014-10-08T02:34:10.366-04:00This is why, folks, as anon above insisted, we sho...This is why, folks, as anon above insisted, we should all pray fervently for the liar rat to change his ways.<br /><br />Because there is another side, and nothing is forgotten (all is retained....Walt Whitman)..........it's called carryover.......<br /><br />It is however, and finally, up to liar rat himself.<br /><br />The prognosis is grim, grim as a reaper........Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50459537874034647102014-10-08T02:34:03.815-04:002014-10-08T02:34:03.815-04:00{...}
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made ...{...}<br />Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made very clear where he stood during a visit to a refugee camp at Gazantep, saying “Kobani is about to fall”. He explained that the Turkish price for rescuing Kobani and acting against Isis would have been three measures aimed, not at Isis, but at displacing President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Erdogan said: “We asked for three things: one, for a no-fly zone to be created; two for a secure zone parallel to the region to be declared; and for the moderate opposition in Syria and Iraq to be trained and equipped.” In effect, he was saying that given a choice between Isis and Assad, he would chose the former.<br /><br />In a further sign of the Turkish government’s lack of sympathy for the Syrian Kurds, some 200 of whom fled from Kobani into Turkey this week and were detained and questioned about their links with the YPG, the Kurdish militia defending the town. Turkey is deeply suspicious of the YPG and its political counterpart the PYD because they are the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which has fought for Kurdish self-rule in Turkey since 1984.<br /><br />The refusal by the Turkish government to help the Syrian Kurds in their hour of need immediately provoked demonstrations by Kurds across Turkey. There have been protests, often violent, in the Kurdish south-east and wherever there are Kurdish minorities, such as Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Bursa. In Varto, a man was killed and in Istanbul a prominent human rights lawyer, Tamer Dogan, was shot in the head. His friends say he may have been targeted. Smoke was rising over many towns where demonstrators had lit fires in the streets and police used tear gas and water cannon.<br /><br />Turks may react angrily to reports that a bust of Ataturk was burned by a crowd in Van province. The General Staff in Ankara put out a report that the Turkish flag had also been set alight. An office of the Kurdish political party, the HDP, was surrounded in one Istanbul district by a crowd shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’.<br /><br /><br />{...}Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46669344600228669142014-10-08T02:32:38.719-04:002014-10-08T02:32:38.719-04:00The Independent agrees:
A man died and dozens o...<b>The Independent agrees:</b><br /><br /><br /><br />A man died and dozens of people were wounded in demonstrations across Turkey today as Kurds vented their fury at the Turkish government for standing by as Isis fighters looked poised to take the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in view of the Turkish border and the watching Turkish army.<br /><br />Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who burnt cars and tyres as they took to the streets mainly in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish eastern and southeastern provinces, although clashes erupted in the nation’s biggest city, Istanbul, and the capital Ankara as well.<br /><br />The likely fall of Kobani may mark an irrevocable breach between Turks and Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Many of the 30 million Kurds in the region believe that, if Kobani falls, it will be because Turkey refused to help its defenders as they faced repeated Isis assaults and cut them off from reinforcements and fresh supplies of weapons and ammunition. “We are besieged by Turkey, it is not something new,” said Ismet Sheikh Hassan, the Kurdish Defence Chief for the Kobani region.<br /><br />The already faltering peace process between the Turkish government and its Kurdish minority could be a long-term casualty of Kobani, particularly if its capture is accompanied by ritual massacres of surviving defenders by Isis.<br /><br />The capture of Kobani by Isis may be a turning point in the present crisis in Iraq and Syria because it marks the failure of the US plan to contain Isis using air power alone. President Obama promised less than a month ago “to degrade and destroy” the fundamentalists with air power, but Isis is still expanding and winning victories.<br /><br />{...}Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86987791284450197612014-10-08T02:30:14.671-04:002014-10-08T02:30:14.671-04:00Old News Category:
>>>>Life after de...Old News Category:<br /><br /><br />>>>>Life after death?<br /><br />Largest-ever study provides evidence that 'out of body' and 'near-death' experiences may be real................drudge<<<<<br /><br />Nothing new here, folks, to those awake......Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15908303990144226932014-10-08T02:28:18.916-04:002014-10-08T02:28:18.916-04:00Turkey abandoning the Kurds as they have at Kobane...Turkey abandoning the Kurds as they have at Kobane all but guarantees that the Kurds will get their own country. The Kurds will come to the same conclusion as the Jews have, that they can only trust themselves to watch out for their own interests. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38950856750839642722014-10-08T02:27:03.796-04:002014-10-08T02:27:03.796-04:00BREAKING !!
CDC pledges 'rat virus' won&#...BREAKING !!<br /><br />CDC pledges 'rat virus' won't be allowed to go airborne........No Fly List designation deemed permanent.........SmudgeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57240136243858939582014-10-08T02:24:25.747-04:002014-10-08T02:24:25.747-04:00The 'rat virus' can't go airborne........The 'rat virus' can't go airborne........it's on the No Fly List........smudgeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65285383175621798042014-10-08T02:22:14.229-04:002014-10-08T02:22:14.229-04:00Fear mongering by the Federals, the Obama Administ...Fear mongering by the Federals, the Obama Administration ...<br /><br />Has a boobie babbling.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43876270695394477572014-10-08T02:20:44.633-04:002014-10-08T02:20:44.633-04:00Oh, that Bibi fella, he's in Mr Obama's ur...Oh, that Bibi fella, he's in Mr Obama's urinal, too.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27441533110378821242014-10-08T02:20:31.000-04:002014-10-08T02:20:31.000-04:00Experts worry virus may spread more easily than as...Experts worry virus may spread more easily than assumed...<br /><br />CDC: Airborne possible.....................drudgeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38689831289399006492014-10-08T02:19:49.231-04:002014-10-08T02:19:49.231-04:00I POSTED A BBC VIDEO UPDATE.
It looks as if ISIS ...I POSTED A BBC VIDEO UPDATE.<br /><br />It looks as if ISIS reached its high water mark. I screened a video of dead ISIS fighters posted by the Kurds. Most of them with Turkish passports. I’ll put that video at the bottom on the post.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88643380572757005702014-10-08T02:18:31.263-04:002014-10-08T02:18:31.263-04:00Looks more like Mr Obama is pissing on the pessimi...Looks more like Mr Obama is pissing on the pessimistic, and those with anti-US sentiments, folks like Robert Peterson.<br /><br />On Target, just a tad late, but maybe not ...<br />Time will tell.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2278115165415882014-10-08T02:13:59.591-04:002014-10-08T02:13:59.591-04:00Great news, first Communication is establsihed, so...Great news, first Communication is establsihed, soon ...<br />Coordination may occur.<br /><br />If it does, then the Coalition would have obtained an :Active Partner" in Syria, a local military force it can support.<br />A military force that is allied with the Assad regime.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84010411361318222592014-10-08T02:13:28.099-04:002014-10-08T02:13:28.099-04:00We should protect the Kurds with whatever division...We should protect the Kurds with whatever division you wish.<br /><br />We should use B52s to blast ISIS off the hill outside of Kobane, for starters.<br /><br />It is an historical opportunity of the first order to create a new friend in the region, and do some real good for some deserving people.<br /><br />At the very least we should be arming the Kurds up big time.<br /><br />Since it is such a wonderful opportunity, Obama will piss it away.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68228765664058644762014-10-08T02:10:39.471-04:002014-10-08T02:10:39.471-04:00As concerns the Syrian Kurds that are not part of ...As concerns the Syrian Kurds that are not part of the anti-Assad faction of the Civil War combatants.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.com