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With tensions rising in the Taiwan Straits, and a major crisis developing in Southwest Asia, a smallpox outbreak was confirmed by the CDC in Oklahoma City. ... An attack on the United States with biological weapons could threaten vital national security interests. Massive civilian ...
@tattered flag you bake the latest bread?
@Smiley Jared said he'd be announcing a peace agreement with Israel within the next couple of months.
Max Boot is going to get torched!
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@Smiley No not this latest bread but I did bake 5 loaves of a German Christmas bread and they came out of the oven just now. Coolin g on the wiore racks for a few hours then off to friends around town. How's it goin'?
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DARK WINTER
Fearing for the safety of their children, two parents embark on a dangerous mission against the council of Ashton Falls.
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COUNTRY: USA
DATE: MARCH 28, 2018
CATEGORY: FEATURE FILM
The White Helmets (Arabic: الخوذ البيضاء ,القبعات البيضاء al-Ḫawdh al-bayḍāʾ / al-Qubaʿāt al-Bayḍāʾ), officially known as Syria Civil Defence (SCD; Arabic: الدفاع المدني السوري ad-Difāʿ al-Madanī as-Sūrī), is a volunteer organisation that operates in parts of rebel-controlled Syria and in Turkey. Formed in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War, the majority of their activity in Syria consists of medical evacuation, urban search and rescue in response to bombing, evacuation of civilians from danger areas, and essential service delivery. As of April 2018, the organisation claimed to have saved over 114,000 lives, with 204 White Helmet volunteers losing their lives in the process. They claim impartiality in the Syrian conflict.[4]
White Helmets
الدفاع المدني السوري
Syrian Civil Defense logo.png
Abbreviation
SCD
Formation
2014; 4 years ago
Founder
James Le Mesurier[1][2][3]
Purpose
Civil defense
Region served
Syrian opposition-controlled areas
Head
Raed Saleh
Volunteers
3,000 (with monthly stipend)
Website
syriacivildefense.org
The organisation has been the target of a disinformation campaign by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia-sponsored media organisations such as RT, with false claims of close ties with terrorist activities and other conspiracy theories.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
The internet never forgets
The rescue teams that later became Syria Civil Defence emerged during the late 2012 escalation of the Syrian Civil War, as areas no longer under government control came under sustained attack by government forces. In response, in the absence of formal governmental structures, small groups of civilian volunteers from affected communities, particularly in Aleppo and Idlib, assembled to assist civilians injured in bombardment or trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings.[12][13] Training, funding and support was provided from international partners, including donations from governments in Western Europe, the US and Japan; the Turkish AKUT Search and Rescue Association; and a variety of NGOs, private individuals, public fundraising campaigns, and charities.[14][15] Primary support and training was provided by Mayday Rescue Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation established by former British Army officer James Le Mesurier,[16] and became a key factor in the development of the organisation.[17][1]
Local and provincial councils joined with Mayday Rescue Foundation and AKUT Search and Rescue Association to create the first training programmes in early 2013. ARK, an international contracting firm based in the United Arab Emirates,[6] would facilitate entry of volunteers to Turkey, where they would be trained by AKUT.[18][19][20][21][1][22][23] Early training courses included trauma care, command and control and crisis management.[24] Over the next two years, the number of independent civil defence teams grew to several dozen as graduates of the early trainings such as Raed Saleh established new centers; the national organisation of SCD was founded on 25 October 2014 at a conference of independent teams.[25]
SCD grew to be an organisation of over 3,000 volunteers operating from 111 local civil defence centres across 8 provincial directorates (Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Damascus Countryside, and Daraa). In October 2014, these self-organised teams came together and voted to form one national organisation: Syria Civil Defence. As of January 2017, the SCD claims to have rescued over 80,000 people since they began to keep count in 2014.[14] The White Helmets themselves have become targets of Syrian and Russian airstrikes.[26][27] According to The Economist, approximately one in six SCD have been killed or badly wounded, "many by 'double tap' Russian and Syrian airstrikes on the same site as they search for bodies."[14] Seven members were killed in August 2017 in an apparent assassination at their operations centre in Sarmin in Idlib Province.[28]
In May 2018, the United States Department of State announced that funding has been frozen for the White Helmets.
this is a good one
https://twitter.com/Spaceshot76/status/1076131906176065536?s=19
SCD is officially an impartial humanitarian NGO, with no affiliation to any political or military actor and a commitment to render services to anyone in need.[13] Like all NGOs operating in opposition-controlled areas, SCD negotiates humanitarian access with organisations such as local councils, provincial councils, and armed groups, with relationships varying widely from governorate to governorate.[12] It is nonetheless regarded as pro-opposition by National Public Radio[61] and Andolu Agency.[62]
SCD work in close partnership with the Netherlands-based NGO Mayday Rescue Foundation. Mayday Rescue's Program Manager for Syria is Farouq Habib,[63][64] who has also been described as the White Helmets' Head of International Relations.[65]
what in Gods green earth was ur last post about ???