Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama:
- December 31 – The MoA Year In Review
- December 30 – After U.S. Strike On Iraqi Forces Its Troops Will (Again) Have To Leave
- January 2 – What Will The Trump Administration Do When Iraq Asks U.S. Troops To Leave?
- January 3 – U.S. Will Come To Regret Its Assassination of Qassim Soleimani
- January 4 – The Revenge For The Assassination Of Qassem Soleimani
- January 5 – Iraqi Parliament Expels Foreign Militaries From Iraq
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Mohammad Ali Shabani @mashabani – 16:33 UTC · Jan 4, 2020
If you don’t think this is a literal dream of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis come true, you have no idea about #Iran, #Iraq or the ties that bind them.Sam @sonofnariman – 16:31 UTC · Jan 4, 2020
Mourners in Karbala welcome the bodies of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Suleimani this evening
Zahra Shafei 🇮🇷 @shafei_d – 16:09 UTC · Jan 4, 2020
Martyr Soleimani’s handwritten will: “My wife, I have chosen my burial place in the cemetery of the Martyrs of Kerman, Mahmoud knows it. I want my gravestone to be simple. Just write ‘Soldier Qassem Soleimani’ no more titles and phrases.”
- What comes next after the US Assassination of Qassem Soleimani? The Options. – Elijah Magnier
- It’s War – Abdel Bari Atwan, Raialyoum
Aerial videos (1, 2) of a gianormous crowd in Ahvaz, Iran, as the bodies of Soleimani and his comrades arrive. Ahvaz has a strong Sunni and Arab population which is not always supportive of the Islamic Republic. Soleimani’s funeral will probably be the biggest the world has ever seen. Live TV of the mourning can be seen here.
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Other issues:
Some dimwit of journalist at NPR let this ‘U.S. officials’ lie pass without any attempt to correct it:
Trump’s Push For Lofty Nuclear Treaty Sparks Worry Over Current Deal
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While it has far fewer nuclear weapons, China has been doing more testing than the rest of the world combined, U.S. officials have said.
For the record: Nuclear tests by country: U.S. 1032, USSR 727, UK 88, France 217, China 47.
Walrus is a volunteer firefighter in Australia. He writes:
The cause of these fires? Australian drought and the highly inflammable nature of the Eucalyptus tree – coupled with the forest management fantasies of inner city liberals who won’t allow anything like the levels of fire reduction burning as practiced by our Aborigines for thousands of years. The greenies can’t handle simple logic; Eucalyptus forests shed fuel all the time. You can have little “cool’ fires every five years to clean up the fuel or a big fire every few decades, but you eventually will get a fire. You do the maths.
While I recently visited my rural home region I heard similar language about ‘inner city liberals’ who had voted for re-introducing wolves in that and other areas. Two local sheep breeders I know have since given up their hobby because the wolves, despite high fences, killed most of their sheep. Local hunters lament that all other game is now gone. My brother’s children are told not to go into the woods in which I explored and played in throughout my own childhood. Dogs now have to be leashed during walks.
Our hundreds of years old family crest includes a wolf’s hook, a strong piece of metal used to trap wolves. Wolves have no natural enemies. They kill even when they are not hungry. They leave the cadavers behind to rot without taking even one bite. There were sound reasons for my forbears to extinguished them. ‘Green’ city dwellers seem unable to understand that those reasons still exist.
Use as open thread …
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