In the past few years, the Syrian government has launched over 214 Chemical attacks against its own citizens, the latest being a few days ago in Douma, and precipitated the US to launch 106 missiles aimed at three sites that make and store Chemical Weapons. The Syrian government at first claimed to have shot down seven of the missiles, then revised that number to 71, to save face... Or, the Russians asked them to because they are the ones who sold Syria their missile defense system... Now comes the bravado and posturing from all parties involved. Iran is calling it a crime, yet makes no mention of Assad's use of chlorine gas. But Iran will pretty much sit this one out because Syria is merely a proxie for Iran, not an actual client state.
The weird part to this story is how the Russian propaganda network began to set up the smoke-works in March, saying that Syrian rebels were stockpiling chemical weapons, or Britain is importing chemical weapons (they had so much left over after poisoning the ex-Russian spy and his daughter...), or al-Qaeda is stockpiling chemicals, or the US is also importing chemical weapons
because they want to create a false flag argument and have a reason to bomb Syria... Of course, Russia is Syria's good friend, we were supposed to get rid of all stockpiles of chemical weapons, but we didn't; in fact, we probably sold more chemicals to Syria because we have warehouses full, and, as Britain can attest, we are just itching to use them...
So, will the Assad government stop gassing its own people, or will they wait until they think no-one is looking and do it again because they are dedicated to wiping out the Syrian people??? It's actions like this, along with casualties from bombings and drone strikes, that will forge the next generation of ISIS type organizations n the next few years. Culture and politics is going to be one global clusterfuck...
I didn't really want to write about this at all, because I find it unsettling. In much of the world there is no established age of consent for a girl to have a consensual relationship. If the girl is under the age of consent, if a guy has sex with her, it is considered rape. In the US, the age of consent is 18, in Germany, it is 14.
France has been having a national debate because of a court case brought by prosecutors against a 29 year old, married father of two children, who met an 11 year old girl in a park, and persuaded her to follow him to his apartment, where they had sex. Part of the debate, especially since the trial was postponed, is the girl to be considered a woman because she did it willingly, or is she a naïve child who only had a vague notion what sex was, getting her info from the Internet, movies, fashion, and porn...
Now France took the debate to its next step: at what age do we establish the age of consent? Granted, 11 is really too young, but they seriously debated having the age as 13, 14, or 15, before finally settling at the tender age of 15. There has been no debate as to what age a male should be considered a sexual predator, or if we have to elect him to Congress or let him become President... As goes France, can the rest of the world be far away?
