Evan Burton

Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and caused massive destruction in residential areas, striking homes, a mosque and a busy market, as well as medical facilities, in a pattern of attacks that show evidence of violations of international humanitarian law, said Amnesty International in a new briefing published today.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/syria-russias-shameful-failure-to-acknowledge-civilian-killings/

Russian bombers have “directly attacked” and killed at least 200 civilians in Syria and its campaign of air strikes could amount to war crimes, campaigners say.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/amnesty-report-russia-directly-targets-civilians-in-syria-killing-at-least-200-in-possible-war-a6783271.html

Hi Wade,

I've met you on other forums and want to congratulate you for your book. It takes a lot of effort and dedication to produce any publication of that size, and for that you deserve commending.

Cheers!

It would be neat to have a rover land near one the crash sites and do a photo shoot of the mess made during impact.

Or even just have a hi-res camera do a low flyby. I guess the whole physics of the impact is pretty much known but to see it would be.... fascinating.

I see that the old "Kubrick admits he faked the landings" meme is rearing its ugly head again:

https://youtu.be/T20DS4Bynt4

I can't remember if Jack White ever supported this (maybe it was Fetzer?) but it is easily disproven garbage. Despite how laughable this is, there are the weak minded who use it to support their beliefs without doing the most basic research on its authenticity. It reminds me of the mockumentry "Dark Side of the Moon" regarding Kubrick, where people were 'coming forward' to admit that it was faked: names like Rumsfeld, Kissinger, Haig... who all appeared in roles they never held or indeed for 'enemy' countries! (I think Rumsfeld appeared as a Russian spy or as the Soviet ambassador).

It really is an indictment on the credulity of some people these days: "it's on the internet so it MUST be true!".

Hi Norman, and welcome to the Forum. Can I ask what you did in the aerospace field? Machinist... making what sort of parts for which types of aircraft?

The crash site on the lunar surface of the Apollo 16 S-IV-B stage has been found in the LRO lunar satellite.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-crash-site-of-apollo-16-s-rocket-booster-has-been-spotted-on-the-moon

I don't think there is a deliberate effort at censorship by peer-review, government or otherwise. Just my opinion.

To bow to any corrupt system is to legitimize it and stunt your own thinking ability, especially when corruption in peer review is recurrent and proof of that is publicly available. When is this elitist charade going to be called out?

I won't be lead to ignore the human biases embedded in the peer review system that is deliberately used as a tool by dividers and conquerors of society from an intentionally academic vantage point to uphold authoritarianism and crush dissension with a pen. Not only has the internet made it easier for anyone to publish a non-peer-reviewed book, it has also made it easier for "the establishment's" peer review participants to exert their bias with no immediate repercussions for doing so (I only link proven examples, but there are thousands more proven examples if you seek them out).

Your constructs are very hard to follow. Do you really believe that all writings are of equal validity?

Excellent point.

If they were really serious, they'd team up the SF with the intel people and give them the green light to take out whoever was required to take ISIS down.

There'd be no headlines, no media releases, no big airstrikes, etc. There'd just be people disappearing and slowly ISIS would be a leaderless, uncoordinated, impotent and frightened bunch of idiots.

Hi Doug - welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the Forum, Roy!

Hi and welcome to the Forum. How do I address you? Roja?

As expected, it has been confirmed that it was a BUK SAM that brought down MH17. Now the question is: who fired it? That one will be much harder to answer.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/dutch-authorities-deliver-final-report-on-crashed-flight--mh17/6851490

When Vitaly Yegorov watched in awe as NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars three years ago, he never could have imagined his fascination with space would one day lead to the genesis of his own satellite — and a 1 million ruble campaign to dispel a popular Russian conspiracy theory that the U.S. moon landings were faked.

Yegorov, 33, a Moscow-based PR specialist, proposed building a satellite to go into lunar orbit and take high-resolution photographs of the moon’s surface to document evidence of the landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, as well as the Luna and Lunokhod Soviet-era space missions.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/news/article/russian-space-enthusiast-raises-1-million-rubles-to-prove-u-s-moon-landing/537264.html

Evan,

I have just contacted Paypal and both methods ought to have worked.

For Paypal the procedure is as follows.

1) Log into your Paypal account.

2) Click on Send and Request

3) Click sending money to friends and family.

4) Type in the EF email address:-

jamesgordonjamesg22014@Outlook.Com

5) Choose your amount and send.

If you follow that sequence it ought to work.

Hopefully this should have worked. Seems my Chrome didn't like PayPal and I had to use FireFox.

Ramon,

Are you still experiencing the same issue with the EF? We encourage people to link to Photobucket et al but you should still have ample space available to you to upload here.

I am presuming, based on the previous post, that it is not the uploader setting? In any case, Ramon: can you advise if you still have the problem? If so, I'll see if we can determine what is causing it and get it sorted.

Cheers!

Edited to add: I checked the uploader and it was correctly set to 'Default'. Thank you for the tip anyways.

Ramon,

Are you still experiencing the same issue with the EF? We encourage people to link to Photobucket et al but you should still have ample space available to you to upload here.

Wow - SETI! That must have been fun, to some degree. So the question: is there some type of life out 'there'? How much significance do you place on the discovery of water on Mars?

Cheers and welcome!

Short but sweet; welcome Dan!

There is overwhelming evidence that the three buildings were demolished with explosives. Some of these explosives we set to go off just as the plane hit but failed. Instead those explosive were detonated before the planes hit, killing and burning people

Nonsense.

Chris, thanks for telling Tom how to do that.

Hey Ken. I knew what the inference was and I understood Tom was frustrated. I've been on this forum since shortly after it's inception but I haven't been tempted to block anyone's comments yet. I want to hear everyones opinion, right, left, wrong, crazy and certifiable. I just won't sit with my back to the door.

Chris,

That is a commendable attitude. It is a shame that more people don't share it.

John,

I believe that you consider that - in general - the western media reporting on MH17 is either deliberate disinformation or misguided belief in false facts. You also believe that the Russian reporting on the incident is far more accurate and truthful.

I'm pretty much opposite though I don't know who fired the weapon; I think that it is likely that separatists fired the weapon. How they got it is anyones guess.

Is there anything that you believe would make you change your opinion on this?

Still dodging hard questions, eh Steven?

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Okay - thank you for that. It is only for State elections, not Federal. The State electoral commission didn't make it widely known.

Yep - there is no actual discussion with you. I'm just trying to have a conversation but it seems you are incapable of that.

There is no reasoning with you, is there?

Anyway, so you believe it is because those nations have some type of 'favoured' status? Or is it because those countries don't want any and the Western governments refuse to pressure them to do so because...?

Steven,

Are you able to simply put forward an opinion, statement or rebuttal without using large coloured font, without using a wall of text from another website, etc?

Or are you unable to frame your own opinions? Please, prove me wrong and just talk to me.