Explosions at Brussels airport

[RocketMan]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m ... ions-heard

Passengers are being evacuated from Brussels airport, where two loud explosions have been heard.

Smoke was seen rising from a terminal building and Belgian media reported that several people were injured in a departure hall. The cause of the blasts is unclear.

[Nordic]

Sounds pretty bad. RT now reporting 17 dead and more injured. Near the American Airlines counter.

[kool maudit]

It's going to be a long hot summer in Europe I fear.

[RocketMan]

It's going to be a long hot summer in Europe I fear.

The bad old days are back.

The Years of Lead...

[MacCruiskeen]

It`s "Belgium`s 9/11", don`t you know. Every self-respecting European nation gets one, eventually.

There will be no end to this torrent of murderous bullshit until "progressives"* everywhere bite the bullet and face up to that original Enabling Act. Until then, we`re stuck in post-reality, with all its real & bloody consequences.

*How I hate that cant term.

[MacCruiskeen]

Not OT:

[kool maudit]

Neoconservative foreign policy is a Lebensraum directive for wandering imperial mercenaries. It is the great evil of our time.

[Harvey]

[seemslikeadream]

thank you george bush....thank you dick cheney .....thank you neocons .......this is your baby and everyone let you get away with it...... we will all live with this for the rest of ours lives...the rest of our children's children's lives

[Luther Blissett]

Still no one accepting responsibility, is that correct?

[IanEye]

“I strongly condemn this morning's terrorist attack on a pedestrian avenue in central Istanbul, yet another terrorist outrage targeting innocent civilians and our Ally Turkey.
My deepest sympathies go out to the families of the victims, and to the people of Turkey. My thoughts are also with all those who have been injured.
There can be no justification for terrorism. NATO Allies stand with Turkey, united in our determination to fight terrorism in all its forms.” - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg March 19th 2016

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“All along there’s always been the idea that Turkey was supporting ISIS in some way.
Someone’s buying that oil that ISIS is selling, it’s going through somewhere, it looks to me like it’s probably going through Turkey, but the Turks haven't acknowledged that.
Let’s be very clear: ISIS is not just a terrorist organization, it is a Sunni terrorist organization.
It means it blocks and targets Shia, and that means it’s serving the interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia even as it poses a threat to them.
There’s no good guy in this, this is a power struggle for the future of the Middle East.” - General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) 1997-2000

What is the role of NATO now?

We feel in Libya full satisfaction that we had done our duty towards the struggle of the Liberation movement.
These Liberation movements which relied on the support of the world Libyan revolution are now victorious and in power in their respective countries.

The Libyan revolution proved its international character, and did its international role and duty, towards peoples of the world fighting to achieve Liberation and independence under the banner of the World Mathaba.

What is the benefit for these people from this victory?

What is the programme of these movements for the future?

What did they do?

Their programmes before the victory was clear of course it was aimed at achieving freedom and reach power.

There must be an answer to these questions. Members of the World Mathaba should think them over.

The need arises for a wider meeting at a summit level.

Time has changed since the days of the armed liberation struggle, great and rapid developments happened in the world that changed so many standards, ideas and methods.

What is the role of the World Mathaba in the future in line with these new changes, (Globalization).

One of the world reality is the Mathaba. Also NATO. It was meant to be against Warsaw Pact. Now there is no Warsaw Pact after the collapse of the Soviet Union... What is the role of NATO now? They are looking for a new role to the NATO according to the new changes of the world... new objectives, they are trying to expand it, they are not retreating. They find reasons to make it even bigger. They are trying to justify the role of NATO.

What is the role of the American Sixth Fleet in the Mediterrannean Sea?

After the end of the Soviet Union there is no need for the American fleet to remain there any longer.

Africa and Europe cooperate together now. The long historic battle ended with the defeat of the colonial Europe in light of this the World Mathaba is a world fact on world stage, and it is looking for reasons to stay on... We should not declare the end of it. We must find a new role for it. It should carry on we must see if it is good and beneficial for us. If it has a role to play internationally we must support it and encourage it. We must make full analysis, and find a role for our Mathaba to maintain world peace, security, progress and freedom.

We hope that in the next summit meeting we have answers for these questions and new conceptions for the Mathaba in this new stage of world history.

- Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi 2000

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[MacCruiskeen]

Prediction: Surveillance video cameras -- which are all over the airport and the subway stations -- will turn out to have been (unfortunately, shit happens) "out of order", "down for maintenance", etc., so we'll see nothing of the bombings or what immediately preceded them, and we'll just have to rely entirely on what the authorities tell us.

[Luther Blissett]

Doesn't this honestly feel like a continuation of Brabant, aside from the fact that it doubles (or almost double) the entire casualty count from all of the massacres.

…Edmonds mentions an interesting fact regarding the FBI: they keep tabs on all countries (their diplomatic arms) through monitoring (i.e. wiretapping) except four. These four countries are 1) Turkey 2) Azerbaijan 3) United Kingdom and 4) Belgium, the seat of NATO. The Cold War within the context of a "war over resources" didn't end. The ultimate prize, as Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in The Grand Chessboard, is Central Asia.…

[Grizzly]

*Roll eyes* ... *


Not that real people "may" have died, but I believe we're in a reality that it's possible Noone died, but the old terrah terrah terrah, gig keeps the game moving, along. Of course, we have killed so many people by p"oking sticks in hornets nests" that anger and retaliation could be of benefit, too.

[semper occultus]

Prediction: Surveillance video cameras -- which are all over the airport and the subway stations -- will turn out to have been (unfortunately, shit happens) "out of order", "down for maintenance", etc., so we'll see nothing of the bombings or what immediately preceded them, and we'll just have to rely entirely on what the authorities tell us.

....well ......except who actually believes anything they see on video these days...