User talk:Petri Krohn

Hi, Petri! Thanks for joining, no pressure to do anything, but pleasedo, or I'll jump out a window - first (ground) floor. I hear you have done wiki stuff before. When you get a chance, can you look over the witness pages and fix anything wrong, so I can see what it looks like not wrong? Thx. - CL

Must say, Petri, you've been kicking ass widely here, esp. on 'Houla.' Too many spots to note each with its due, so let me just say here thanks for your work! --Caustic Logic 21:18, 2 October 2012 (EST)

Tit Crisis hits Finland
Got back from Strasbourg. Took the taxi straight from the airport to the Finnish National Broadcasting Company studios. While we were away, the Tit Crisis had escalated to a new level.


 * Levels of international crises:
 * Finnish president Niinistö calls Putin to solve crisis.
 * Finnish president Niinistö meets Putin to solve crisis.
 * Putin cancels pre-planned meeting with Finnish president Niinistö because of crisis. ? We are now here.

At the TV headquarters my friend Dr. Bäckman gave a 5 minute interview outside the TV studios, while our taxi stood by waiting. Later in the evening it was splashed over half of the YLE.fi web page. The evenings news broadcast spent the first 5 minutes covering the latest twists of the story. Today, Friday the censorship was relaxed and the victim was finally allowed to have her say in the Finnish press. The stories covered a total of 7 pages in the two tabloids combined (front pages included). The leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat is now averaging two stories a day on the issue. The web-only newspaper Uusi Suomi even has my photo (second from left) on the top of front page. Luckily Turkey has just captured a Syrian passenger jet with Russians aboard. Russia will be angry at Turkey for the next few days.

Summa summarum: The Finnish government lost the media war 0-20. "Activists say" rulez! -- Petri Krohn 12:23, 13 October 2012 (EST)

Thanks, I had no idea, and still only have some idea. Tit crisis? Not the nipple-sucking Finnish doctor, I gather, but a child custody scandal (an area Russia has had some issues with, I hear), and specifically, I guess on your end, the attack on your colleague Dr. Bäckman for allegedly (per the government) misinforming the Russians. I see you there in one of those links, you handsome devil. But Finland (meaning the government?) seems to have lost? So you'll be dealing with a sore government then? Man, a whole world of things you're into I know little about - would be interested to hear more, wherever. --Caustic Logic 19:43, 13 October 2012 (EST)

Checked one of the Saturday tabloids, it has six pages on the crisis. Also gives good advise to the Finnish government: respond quickly, make accurate information available and accessible in Russian, before "activist say" rules. Good advise for Assad government too! Will fly to Moscow tomorrow morning. Will speak with "Putin", maybe things will cool down. -- Petri Krohn 09:37, 14 October 2012 (EST)

Lol! I think?--Caustic Logic 15:21, 14 October 2012 (EST)

Continued: Something happens in Luxembourg. My friend explains. (I have been in Moscow for the last two days, so I have lost track of the developments.) Putin calls Merkel, puts EU-Russia negations on Syria on hold until this urgent matter is resolved. Merkel sends Finnish foreign minister Tuomioja knocking on Lavrov's door. Some settlement is reached. Backman's academic nemesis in Finland accuses Tuomioja of compromising Finnish sovereignty. Tuomioja responds: Bullshit!

Top news in Finland at the moment (most read item on the #1 newspaper site): University of Finland revokes docent Bäckman's email access. -- Petri Krohn 07:32, 17 October 2012 (EST)

P.S.: ? The leading Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat in its English language edition compares the proportions of the crisis to that of the Note Crisis of 1961. (Featured article on German Wikipedia!) The difference is however, that president Kekkonen would have solved this issue in half-an-hour. The "Niinistö regime" shows its total incompetence.

P.P.S. ? Hmmm, this raises a question of notability: I guess having an article about you on Wikipedia does not make you notable. (About 50 of my Facebook friends have articles.) You are truly notable, when someone on Wikipedia writes a Featured Article on something you and your friends made up at your kitchen table. -- Petri Krohn 08:14, 17 October 2012 (EST)

P.P.P.S. ? Niinistö loyalist attempt to counter "Activist say" disinformation. Quote: "Meanwhile, in Moscow, Ambassador Hannu Himanen met a group of about a dozen Russian journalists at the press centre of the state-run news agency Ria Novosti." ? I was at the same press centre, spoke to "about" two dozen journalists + 6 TV cameras. I wonder how many cameras he had? -- Petri Krohn 08:45, 17 October 2012 (EST)

Boston terrorist bombing
Sorry guys for ignoring you for the last few days. It looks like my local terrorist cell blew up Boston. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:52, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I was curious what you and your network would have to say on this. Been following loosely. Not surprised to see a Kavkaz imprint here. Some news: Tamerlan got in a fight over a sermon at the local mosque for raging against Martin Luther King, was an extremist, and visited Chechnya last year. And some people are saying Chechnya is a country of its own - in a widespread Freudian slip? Should continue to prove an interesting story, but I'll keep following only loosely. --Caustic Logic (talk) 01:34, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * CNN beat me to this. (My network took too long in making the transcript.) I Wonder why the mainstream media never found this. The big story may however be here: Is this Tamerlan Tsarnaev? (Known as muazseyfullah on YouTube.) -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:12, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Rebels?
While the Western public is eager to believe the "evil tyrant" Assad "gassed his own people" it is equally difficult to believe the "freedom fighting" rebels would have murdered 1800 Syrian civilians. There are however at least four major reasons why the rebels would gain or benefit from the gas attack.

The first round of reporting on the incident has almost exclusively followed the rebel narrative and blamed the "Assad regime" for the attack.
 * 1) Blame Assad

This is no coincident, but follows a carefully rehearsed choreography – from the the al Bayda massacre in Cyrenaica, Libya on February 22, 2011 that triggered UNSC resolution 1970 on Fabruary 26, to the Houla massacre in Taldo Syria. Every time the Western led "international community" has accused "oppressive regimes" when the real culprits have been Islamist revolutionaries.

Ultimately the aim of the aim of the rebels is to get the West to intervene in the war on their side. If that fails, at least it boost their support among the Western audience. At a minimum it will lead to calls for a ceasefire – likely to be to the rebels advantage.


 * 2) Distract UN investigation.

It has always been known, or at least suspected, that al-Qaeda has a WMD program. The purported aim of such a program is to repeat 9/11, XX on a much larger scale. The War on Terror was launched precisely to prevent such an attack ever happening.
 * 3) Al-Qaeda WMD program

The ultimate outcome of such a program would be a set of DIY instructions that could be distributed by Inspire magazine and its sister publications. The plans need to be executable with normal garage tools from parts obtainable from any hardware store. The DIY rockets described by Brown Moses would satisfy this requirement.

The Syrian conflict has seen a gradual development of al-Qaeda CW capability, from initial demonstrations with rabits, posted on YouTube, to successful but small scale attacks, like the one in Khan Al-Asssal in March 2013, to confiscation of canisters of sarin from al-Qaeda operatives in Turkey and Syria.

If the numbers of 1600 killed are anywhere near the truth, then one must conclude that a rocket attack like this, fully executed, could kill 50,000 people in a heavily populated Western metropolis (twice the number if done al-Qaeda stule as a double attack), with little immediate risk to the perpetrators. For the WMD deterrence effect – or in this case, the terror effect – to work, the WMD capability has to be demonstrated in vivo.

The al-Qaeda affiliates al-Nusra and ISIS have become dominant in the rebel held territories in the north near the Turkish border, while rebel forces in the south are in much tighter US control. The attack might be an attempt by al-Qaeda to usurp leadership in the south by terrorizing other rebel groups and their supporters into subjugating to al-Qaeda rule.
 * 4) Rebel infighting

They may see it as a divine revenge to the people of Ghouta for failing the revolution and surrendering to Assad, like Hitler's orders to Albert Speer to destroy everything. Besides, in the end it does matter who gets killed, Allah will tell apart the righteous from the infidels.

Government
"Governments and armies do stupid things."
 * Stupidity
 * Sorry, Petri. Someone or something is making my internet extremely slow over here today. I've been trying for an hour to just leave any comment here. Had some text I found, but it won't re-load. At this link: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/uk-syria-crisis-idUKBRE97K0AJ20130823 U.S. says this was "the regime acting like a regime," needs changed, end of story. We've seen it many times. Very sad. Now I have to go to work. Sorry I can't do more. Hopefully tonight, or tomorrow? --Caustic Logic (talk) 22:57, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * internet extremely slow  – part of the information war :-( -- Petri Krohn (talk) 23:12, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Could be. That's what I was sure of for a minute. Wrote that in desperation, it's better now and I onlyabout now have to go. So the quote is not there, but a Google search says it is. I saw it last night, but the story was swapped or edited to show instead Obama's renewed reticence to go to war, thank God. This Iranian opposition page includes it. "Reuters news agency reported on Friday that a U.S. official familiar with initial intelligence assessments said the attack appeared to be the work of the Assad government. It was "the regime acting as a regime", the official said." And "regimes" kill needlessly and get changed. So basically, the motive seems to be evil regime death wish. Assad is like the husband who beats his wife in the next room just after the cops arrive, on a domestic abuse call he first put in. Now all the wife's incoherent counter-allegations are proven, right? --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:30, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

By the way, Petri, why here instead of the talk page? --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:30, 23 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I am just drafting it, but had to save it somewhere before going out. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 23:36, 23 August 2013 (UTC)