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OK, but I would give him the same credence as I would a Philip Morris flavor blending botanist. Who published a study that smoking doesn't cause cancer.

Yes that is very, very surprising. Seems as if trump wanted to deliberately stick it to Putin. The benefits, like that of the Baltic states. Flows solely to Montenegro. But it does provide that small country with protection from the sole aggressor state in the area, Russia. It weakens Russian political influence in their "near abroad" and brings Russia arch nemesis NATO closer to its borders. Hardly a Russian friendly move. Not only that but the timing is stupid. That is not how you deal with Putin if you are serious about Syria. Like trump could not wait a week. Russia is paranoid about NATO because Russia is really the founding adversary for the organization. Montenegro is a pipsqueak country but the treat that Russia perceives is the stationing of NATO troops in the border countries. Tillerson better put on the charm if he asks Russia for something.

I'll look at this one later but now your source is a West Virginia mining engineer from his 2006 website? Hmmmm...... "Monte Hieb is the author of several popular web pages skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming, serving as a evangelist for the viewpoint (he does not state his qualification in climatology or a related science). He is an employee at the West Virginia Office of Miner’s Health, Safety, and Training." West Virginia mining engineer he's a freaking coal miner!

AFAIK all the smaller airlines do that. Just as almost all airlines accommodate deadheading crew members from other companies. While taxiing out for takeoff, the Boeing 727 suddenly came to a stop. With the aircraft still on the taxiway, the flight attendant in the back began to lower the aft stairway. Behind the plane, a van with flashing lights came to a screeching halt and out jumped three deadheading pilots. They grabbed their bags and ran to the plane. As they ran up the stairs, the pilot in front continued running up the aisle shouting, “I can’t believe the stewardess got the plane this far. I didn’t know she even knew how to start the engines!” For a number of passengers it took quite some time before they realized they had been had by these jokers, you couldn’t believe the startled looks on their faces!

Yes that is very, very surprising. Seems as if trump wanted to deliberately stick it to Putin. The benefits, like that of the Baltic states. Flows solely to Montenegro. But it does provide that small country with protection from the sole aggressor state in the area, Russia.

Pfff, not like he said it during Passover or anything.... Wait.. I have to stand up for Sean. I've said it before. How in the hell do you go out every day to try to lie for trump. 60-70% of what trump says is a lie. Those journalists know their business. Assad does have concentration camps so to say. "Here’s how one former detainee described the terrifying beatings that those about to be hanged are made to endure: “We would hear a huge sound. From 10pm until 12, or from 11pm until 1am, we would hear screaming and yelling come from below us … This is a very important point. If you keep silent, you will get less beating at Saydnaya. But these people were screaming like they had lost their minds … It wasn’t a normal sound – it was not ordinary. It sounded like they were skinning them alive.” As for the hangings themselves, witnesses have described how they are carried out in the basement of a place called the White Building. After hours of beatings, groups of up to 50 blindfolded men at a time are taken to the execution site by white delivery trucks (called “meat fridges” by other prisoners) and made to stand on a metre-high platform. Here a noose is placed over their heads and they’re bundled to their deaths. Not all the hangings result in quick deaths. Some of the lighter men are still alive several minutes into the hangings, and two prison officials have the job of pulling on the bodies of those still alive to break their necks. One former detainee, Hamid (not his real name), told me how he could hear the sounds of the hangings as he and other prisoners slept on the floor of the rooms above: “There was a sound of something being pulled out – like a piece of wood, I’m not sure – and then you would hear the sound of them being strangled " https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/07/saydnaya-prison-assad-slaugterhouse-amnesty-report-torture-mass-hangings Assad, yeah he is the puppet leader of Putin's client state.

Why bother citing national bodies filled with scientists that review the studies of other scientists. Trying to pick holes in their methods,conclusions and data. Deniers have "whatsfakeit" to quote in reply.

Mr. Dao received repeated instructions to leave the aircraft from the flight crew. Which was not shown on any video. Then he refused instructions to leave from the airport "cops". Again he refused. Lying to a flight crew is different than refusing to obey a lawful trespass order from a flight crew. Multiple requests to leave and multiple orders to leave. Mr. Dao was a convicted drug dealer. With multiple felony convictions for drug dealing, he was charged with 90 counts. Mr. Dao never served a single day in prison. Do you think a black kid convicted of narcotics trafficking would never see a day in prison? What about the black kid selling a couple joints on the street corner? Its been stated again and again that Mr. Dao was "beaten up". NO he was forceably removed from his seat. He struck his mouth on a armrest. Then he was dragged down the isle while he faked unconsciousness. I'll point out that his glasses were still on his face. After he struck his mouth. In fact the temples of his eyeglasses were still on his ears. That defines precisely how hard his mouth hit the armrest. I have been asked to move seats on a couple flights by flight crews. The three other passengers on the flight which did leave the flight went on their way to later flights. Mr. Dao learned several years ago that the laws that apply to others don't apply to him. He has also been the subject of multiple Kentucky Medical Association investigations for misconduct.Seperate convictions from his drug charges. He was refused reinstatement by the Kentucky board on his first reapplication for reinstatement of privileges.They found that he had not rehabilitated himself. Now Mr. Dao in enjoying his opportunity to stick it to United. He released a statement from "hospital" where he stated that "everything " was injured. Really, that sounds like a medical diagnosis from a professional poker player that knows how to play his hand. Play his hand to the limit, because he sees United blink. I'll leave this to the pundits. Who have never arrived at a hotel to find that their confirmed room reservation rented to another party. Never seen a drunk ejected from a restaurant for disturbing every patron there. Hopefully the next B777 that you fly on has 390 Mr. Dao's who think that customer service means coffee before takeoff. Means that ME, I, and the flight ticket that was purchased. Is a prescription to do, say and act anyway I want. Because after all, I'm a valuable customer.

CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say Washington (CNN)After a review of the same intelligence reports brought to light by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal, multiple sources in both parties tell CNN. Their private assessment contradicts President Donald Trump's allegations that former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice broke the law by requesting the "unmasking" of US individuals' identities. Trump had claimed the matter was a "massive story. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/intelligence-contradicts-nunes-unmasking-claims/ So trump Rice-unmasking accusation a lie. trump Obama-wiretap accusation a lie. trump 100% win, lies across the board. trump to Jared. War perhaps? Korea, Syria, Russia

Trump did drop a dime to Putin on the airstrikes. That must count for something.

I've had concussions before. I don't think that his sex, drug and subsequent conviction has a bearing. I don't think that the rent-a-cop v. real cops has a relevance. The entire affair reminds me of how road rage incidents come about. Two belligerent parties each unwilling to give an inch, Each prepared to escalate an obstinate attitude. Into confrontation. I've personally been at about 1/2 dozen auctions. All US domestic. All resolved for under $500. One where the gate attendant tried to bump me. I was headed for a scuba holiday and would have missed my departure if i was delayed. I gave the Delta employee a song and dance that it was a $20k a week charter with six crew, bla bla bla. and I was in the clear. All lies. Another case I was bumped. Got hotel, arrived about 9 hours later no big deal one way or another. I get it in bashing airlines. They destroyed a kiteboard on one trip, United. One time a bag got almost cut in half on some sort of conveyor belt ins some unknown airport. Never did get a cent over that one. Its traveling. I've also listened to the absolute BS from passengers at the gate. Yelling, screaming, threatening and cussing at the gate crew. No understanding of delays due to connecting flights, weather, or the mechanics of aircraft. Lots of defense of Mr Dao in that he bought a ticket. I've been involved in the purchase of a house where the proceeds of the sale was delayed week after week for six months. $400,000 worth of proceeds. Lots of defense of him for the massive beating that he endured. Sorry don't buy it. Certainly nothing wrong with his 69 year old lungs. With his inclination to take on three younger men in a physical confrontation. In the absence of Mr. Dao's conduct the AC would likely been off the ground in 1/2 hour vr. two hours. What about his inconvenience to the other passengers on that flight. Connecting flights, connecting passengers, etc. There has been several studies done on the social-psychological effects of average group rankings of compassion and outrage. In similar situations where equal and unequal parties conflict with each other. Then one gets injured. Instead of a average rank of cause, effect and injury. Individuals in groups tend to want to show "greater compassion" and "greater outrage". Than the next person. To show they are more compassionate and more outraged than the other person. IMO thats at work here. Mr. Dao was a little mentally unstable before this event. He should have left when trespassed by the flight crew. The pilots and good sense were absent from the United gate crew. Should have upped the money. The pilots should have made the decision as to what action to take when he refused to budge. I get a little more outraged when I hear or see video of a black kid getting roughed up by a cop. Just because he ran when he had a fattie in his pocket on his way to his girlfriends house. Mr. Dao's injuries, if any, certainly brought him together with a lawyer quick enough. Just imagine if airlines sued every passenger that caused flight disruptions. Heart attack diversion, well we need $80K from your insurer. What no insurer? Well that will be a second mortgage on your house. Thank you very much.

Evidently he was not injured enough such that he missed any opportunity to retain council. "Also Tuesday, attorneys for Dao issued a statement on behalf of the doctor and his family. "The family of Dr. Dao wants the world to know that they are very appreciative of the outpouring of prayers, concern and support they have received. Currently, they are focused only on Dr. Dao's medical care and treatment," said Chicago attorney Stephen Golan of Golan Christie Taglia, adding that Dao's family has asked for privacy. Dao, who is being treated for his injuries at a Chicago hospital, is also represented by Chicago aviation attorney Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio. Videos of the incident went viral on social media and prompted Munoz to apologize for having to "re-accommodate" customers after a two-hour delay. The confrontation happened on a United Express flight operated by Republic Airways." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/11/united-ceo-munoz-apologizes-in-response-to-dragged-passenger.html As to the matter of if Mr Dao was injured or not. He returned to the cabin again after he was dragged from the aircraft. At 1:29 he states twice "Have to go home". Then he was removed from the cabin a second time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEw-GjTriIo Mr. Dao went from yelling, screaming and physically fighting with the three rent-a-cops. To complete unconsciousness as he was dragged down the isle. To re-entering the cabin after he was ejected with the reborn desire to "go home". Perhaps Mr. Dao's council should view that little section before they file a action in the courts. Be it macadamia nuts, Mr. Dao, or any number of other similar situations. Self interest seems to be the driving force in society today. Its me, its now. Fu#k everyone else. 1200 people a day get bumped in the US. Then Mr. Dao. bought a ticket. Yeah, United and their gate agents have some explaining to do as well.

I expected Spicer to be gone 6 weeks ago. Maybe no one else will accept the job? There isn't enough money in the Trump Dynasty to do that job but I would guess Steven Miller, aka Goebells. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgypWo0DCps trump in his wisdom has already planned for Spicers replacement. Why do you think he amended his EO to allow another nation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfAeMtcURg0

The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past. Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sexual favors. According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation. The board’s probe into the criminal charges found that Dao became sexually interested in a male patient, Brian Case, whom he gave a physical examination to, including a genital examination, and whom he eventually made his office manager. Case quit that job due to “inappropriate” remarks made by Dao, who then pursued him and arranged to give him prescription drugs in exchange for sexual acts, according to the documents, filed last year. In 2004, Dao was convicted on a slew of felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud or deceit and was later placed on five years of supervised probation, the newspaper reported.... Dao went to medical school in Vietnam in the 1970s before moving to the US, according to the Courier-Journal. Dao, who previously worked at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown and once owned a medical practice, is a grandfather and father of five, the Daily Mail reported. His wife, Teresa, who trained at Ho Chi Minh University in Saigon, is a pediatrician in Elizabethtown, according to the Daily Mail. Four of their five children are doctors. Dao’s player profile on the World Series of Poker website lists his total earnings as $234,664 since he joined the poker circuit in 2006. http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/doctor-dragged-off-flight-convicted-of-trading-drugs-for-sex/

Just goes to show how corrosive power is. Corrosive to ethics, ego, judgement and who is the modest minded president again?

I agree, but rescheduling at short time intervals for flight crews happens more often than some think. I think the actions of the man screaming like a stuck pig and being dragged down the isle in rigor strikes me as equally indefensible. The policy at United is to keep upping the offer till a taker comes forward. Furthermore pilots have huge discretion for anything that occurs on-board their aircraft. I think this was actually a Republic Airlines flight. There is a bit of debate as to whether the passenger was "boarded" or not. But under the contract and law. The passenger..er.."guest" can be removed at any time. Although presumably not while in flight. In defense of the flight crew this may have been entirely the actions of the United gate agents.There is a jumpseat, was it already occupied by the last minute crew? Delta has offered $1500 or more to free up seats(plus acc.). United has issued a statement that they offered $1000 at the gate. But according to a passenger interview he heard only $800 in the AC. In a couple weeks this will all settle down. The quants at UAL will provide new analysis that an additional .03% overbook on routes 372 and 692, etc. will add $34,000 more to the bottom line on a monthly basis. The COO will rubber stamp the plan. Because as everyone knows. Quants run airlines.

A perfect example of why I prefer to drive in almost any circumstance. I'd refer to the psychology experiments where rats are confined in small spaces until they always start fighting with each other. Then ultimately kill each other. Another reason why passengers can't have guns on flights.

Its not real money but can be used on future United flights. IMO the first mistake was allowing the passengers to board. Usually those auctions take place in the waiting lounge and someone always takes it. The idiot United employees who needed to get on the flight must have been late to the gate. The pilot/crew should have offered more United dollars. It was the statement of another passenger that they only offered $800. "If your delay is more than two hours or if the airline doesn't make alternate travel arrangements for you, your compensation doubles again If the airline doesn't rebook you or books you on another flight that gets in to your domestic destination two hours after your original arrival time (four hours for international destinations), you are entitled to 400% of your one-way fare, up to $1,300." http://www.businessinsider.com/what-youre-entitled-to-if-you-get-bumped-off-a-flight-2015-6 The cops that removed the passenger were real cops. So the flight crew asked the passenger to leave and under the law thats a lawful order. Then the cops asked him to leave and trespassed him. He refused again, resisted the cops and started a fight with them in the cabin. Be it Alec Baldwin, or the "nut rage" incident: "A former Korean Air vice president was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for ordering a plane in New York to return to its gate after becoming furious over how her macadamia nuts were served. Heather Cho, who also goes by her Korean name of Cho Hyun-ah, ordered the Dec. 5 Seoul-bound flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport to let off the flight’s purser, whom she said had served her macadamia nuts in a sealed package instead of on a plate. Cho was seated in first class and argued that serving the nuts in their package was a violation of company service practices." I would throw the book at this idiot for fighting with the cops. Everyone is blaming United and they have some blame. The pilot should have authorized $1300 United cash and then $1500 actual cash. But after the cops are in the equation its their purview. What if that idiots fight had injured another passenger? A cabin is not the place to fight with the cops. The cops should have been able to use better persuasion. But in the end LE typically doesn't say to someone who refuses a lawful order that they will just forget it.Then leave. Alec Baldwin: http://blogs.findlaw.com/celebrity_justice/2011/12/alec-baldwin-american-airlines-in-war-over-words-with-friends-on-plane.html Nut rage http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-south-korea-nut-rage-case-20150212-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVUkeBUiXoE At 46 seconds story starts on the headline of a Moscow newspaper: "We Believed in You Comrade Donald trump" The Donald disappointing voters, people and women all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJQnu72Nec After being forcefully removed he returned to the AC. Stupid people, passengers and airline personnel. Two hour delay. Pilot gives passenger trespass warning. Passenger doesn't leave. Get police. No passengers want to leave, offer two flights. No results three flights, then four flights. Probably a good idea not to overboard the aircraft. Apart from assault, a passenger who gets in the way of a crewmember's ability to perform his or her job can be fined by the Federal Aviation Administration or even prosecuted on criminal charges, depending on the severity of the interference. Flight crew interference incidents can result in up to 20 years' imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Potential Civil Consequences Acts of interference that don't quite rise to the level of criminal conduct can still warrant hefty fines by the FAA. In fact, the FAA can propose up to $25,000 per violation for unruly passenger cases. One incident can result in multiple violations, according to the FAA's website. http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/11/what-happens-if-you-disobey-a-flight-attendant.html

So someone should ask him how stable the these countries are since we helped oust the old regimes: - Afghanistan - Iraq - Libya The US; Doing the same thing over and over, but expecting a different result. The problem arises with IS, Al Qaeda, Taliban and other radical Islamic groups. Until this temporary Islamic radicalism runs its course and is exhausted. These groups should be denied safe countries and safe areas of countries to operate from.Because they will train, bomb and destabilize any weak governments around their area of operation. Its stupid for the US to do everything. But it takes leadership to put co-coalitions together together to "build states". Leadership which is absent now. France should be the leader in Libya with Egypt and Algeria assisting. If leadership steps aside then countries like Iran will do their best to cause trouble. With Russian assistance of course.

He probably got reassigned to influence the French election. Too funny, thats along the lines of what I was thinking. French, German elections. They just suffered heavy casualties in the programming dept: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39553250. Then all the TR and Russian bots need reprogramming because trump has betrayed President Putin. Such turmoil. He'll be lucky to even have time for a bowl of borsch.

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in "hacking" the US election, Spanish press reports have said. Pyotr Levashov, arrested on 7 April in Barcelona, has now been remanded in custody. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39553250 If he was smart he would ASK for extradition before Mr. Putin's friends get ahold of him.

60 Minutes on CBS had a good story on US immigration on Sunday. They mentioned the efforts that Brightbart used to attack an American business. All because the owner was a immigrant and Muslim. Breitbart and Donald Trump’s alt-right troll brigade attacked Chobani yogurt because its founder likes immigrants Death threats have been coming in from alt-righters believing Chobani yogurt wants to “drown the U.S. in Muslims" The yogurt company Chobani has in the past made news for really great reasons: Six weeks of paid parental leave for every employee, as well as shares worth up to 10 percent of the company for full-timers if and when the company goes public. But in recent months, the New York-based company has come under much more negative scrutiny from right-wing media outlets — leading to death threats for the company’s founder. Mobilized by the anti-immigration rhetoric that has propelled the presidential campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump, alt-right trolls have targeted Chobani for daring to hire resettled refugees in the midst of what the United Nations has called the largest refugee crisis since World War II. The New York Times’ David Gelles reported that 300 of the yogurt company’s 2,000 full-time employees are refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, and other countries. Chobani’s founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant of Kurdish descent, now faces death threats for employing immigrants in his New York and Twin Falls, Idaho, factories. In a January opinion piece for CNN Money, Ulukaya wrote about his advocacy efforts like creating the Tent foundation, an organization that aims to help the more than 65 million people who have fled armed conflict or persecution and now are displaced around the world, to motivate the private sector to help end the refugee crisis: The Tent Pledge asks companies all over the world to step up and do more. We’re asking them to provide refugees with job training, employment opportunities, and the kind of direct assistance that experts have identified as a priority — everything from blankets and water, to debit cards and Internet access. Shortly after the op-ed was published, the far-right website World Net Daily published a story titled, “American Yogurt Tycoon Vows to Choke U.S. With Muslims.” (The title has since been changed.) But Ulukaya’s column never mentioned Muslims. Ulukaya’s profile amongst right-wing hatemongers only exploded after he followed-up his column with an appearance at the Davos economic forum in January where he called on multinational corporations to hire more refugees. “The minute a refugee has a job, that’s the minute they stop being a refugee,” he told the global business leaders. And after the world’s largest yogurt factory announced plans to expand with a $100 million research and development center in the center of a small Idaho town earlier this year, the company attracted the attention of Breitbart, the right-wing website whose former executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon is now running Trump’s presidential campaign. Idaho happens to be one of the five highest refugee-absorbing states per capita, due to its low cost of living and 3.9 percent unemployment rate, according to the Daily Beast. The state has welcomed about 30,000 refugees from more than 50 countries since the 1970s. And like he did with his New York factory, Ulukaya relied on a local refugee resettlement center to find new hires for his Idaho plant. The coverage from Breitbart attempted to smear the company with annual yogurt sales of about $1.5 billion as a menace to society and scourge on the local community. One Breitbart story suggested that Chobani’s hiring of refugees caused Idaho’s rise in tuberculosis with the headline, “TB spiked 500 percent in Twin Falls during 2012, as Chobani Yogurt Opened Plant.” Another titled “Twin Falls refugee rape special report: why are the refugees moving in,” attempted to link the company’s hiring of refugees with two sexual assault cases in the Idaho town. And a third article claimed Chobani has “deep ties” to a pro-Clinton advocacy group that imposed the refugee crisis in Twin Falls. In August, a white nationalist organization that endorsed Trump for president issued robocalls across Idaho claiming that the “nonwhite invasion of their state and all white areas constitutes white genocide.” As a result of Breitbart’s fearmongering, Shawn Barigar– the mayor of Twin Falls– and Ulukaya found themselves on the receiving end of racist epithets and death threats, the Times reported. “It got woven into a narrative that it’s all a cover-up, that we’re all trying to keep the refugees safe so that Chobani has its work force, that I personally am getting money from the Obama administration to help Chobani hire whoever they want, that it’s part of this Islamification of the United States,” Barigar told the Times. “It’s crazy.” According to Business Insider’s analysis of the hashtag “boycott Chobani” on Twitter, many of the threats are coming from supporters of Trump: https://twitter.com/ThomasSickler/status/772951206079725568 Breitbart editor-in-chief, Alex Marlow, defended the website’s coverage of Chobani. “Mr. Ulukaya hasn’t merely involved himself in this issue, he’s been one of the leaders in expanding refugee resettlement in the United States. Breitbart’s explosive growth is due in large measure to the mainstream media’s refusal to cover vital topics like this one,” Marlow said in a statement. Despite Trump’s army of alt-right trolls, however, Ulukaya stands as a perfect rebuke to those who want to scare the United States into shutting its doors to immigrants. “He’s the xenophobe’s nightmare,” Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, told the Times. “Here’s an immigrant who isn’t competing for jobs, but is creating jobs big time. It runs completely counter to the far-right narrative.” http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/breitbart-and-donald-trumps-alt-right-troll-brigade-attacked-chobani-yogurt-because-its-founder-likes-immigrants/ Two stories on the company the first a short 60 minutes one that mentions the threats and the second where the founder gave 10% of the company to employees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHVLq-KtFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m01zagmwB68

There are two websites that offer objective views on Syria, the war and refugees. 1. IamSyria, started by "Professor David Crane was appointed a professor of practice at Syracuse University College of Law in the summer of 2006. Prior to that time he was a distinguished visiting professor for the 2005 academic year. From 2002-2005 he was the founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, an international war crimes tribunal, appointed to that position by the Secretary General of the United Nations, http://www.iamsyria.org/about-us.html 2. Syria Deeply founded by a Canadian woman from Montreal who was on CNN, Fareed Zakaria, GPS today. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria IamSyria reported the death toll for March: - Government forces: 417 - Russian forces: 224 - ISIS: 129 - Armed opposition factions: 14 - International Coalition forces: 260 - Other Parties: 84 - Kurdish Forces: 11 Which illustrates Putin's involvement in the war. Naturally RT (Russian Television)doesn't report those figures. http://www.iamsyria.org/death-tolls.html