I have a friend in Damascus Syria, and his name is Tom Duggan.
If
you watched the two videos I put up earlier in the week here 1
2 you will now be acquainted with my friend in Syria who is covering the war from within the country. He has asked me/us for help in raising some funds for some equipment he desperately needs to continue doing what he is doing. His main priority is a video camera with spare battery and a pair of microphones made by Boya.
cash = no
A fund raiser with me sending him cash is off limits due to Syria being sanctioned, any money we send him is of no use as he has to pay 4 times the cost of goods in Syria compared to outside Syria.
It is almost impossible also to ship something to Syria, as even @lyndsaybowes found out, it simply does not arrive. So Tom has proposed we send the equipment to a friend of his and his friend will walk it over the border and into the country for him. He also needs bulletproof vests and medical equipment, though says they cost a lot of money so he will do as he has and wear non for now.
I have totalled up the cost of what he is asking for, and it is not a huge amount = BOYA BY-WM6 Wireless Microphone Audio Recorder for ENG EFP DSLR Camera/Camcorders - Black around $150 on amazon here & the video camera is a Sony FDR-AX53 Ultra HD 4K costing around $770 here.
I have no way of using-cashing or spending digital currency where I live, so sending me sbd is of no use, all I can do is- any donations to me, would be to work out the daily sbd price and put my own money into the equation or maybe send the sbd to one of you, which brings me nicely onto the next part.
YOU & teamwork
If it would be possible to raise this amount for him, he is willing to do a thank you video for STEEMIT and post it to his youtube, facebook and send me a copy for on here. Now here is where YOU come in, if you have the ability to cash crypto where you live, and you would be willing to do that, buy the equipment, and ship it to his friend this would make more sense, as I said before, I have no way to cash the tokens here. There are many many trusted steemians on here like @fulltimegeek @abh12345 @lyndsaybowes @hendrix22 and many many more, all of which I would be happy to take any donations sent to me, and give it to 1 of them to buy the equipment and send it, as we then have total transparency on this whole fund raiser, so for me the more the merrier, it is not about me.
Like me he also has no way of spending cryptos so sending him them is also a no no, and you have seen the news, the dimwits in suits are bombing the living daylights out of Damascus today, and as a glimmer of hope for my brave friend, I would hope for humanities sake we could do this 1 kind gesture.
Tom is unpaid for his journalism in Syria, and he is the only jouralist that seems to be telling the truth about this bogus war, that is full of false flag terror.
If there is by any miracle extra funds left over, I will get him some medical supplies ordered and find a country that will send it to him direct.
This was part inspired by lyndsaybowes - myself and due to a plea on facebook from the good man Tom himself.
Here is hoping, I leave it with you my fellow steemians, have a fantastic weekend 1 and all.
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Ok haha, I didn't know that you can't do anything with crypto, this complicates things a bit, but I'm still sending you SBD, we can figure out what to do with it once everyone has donated ok? First things first.
Sure thing, and thank you for helping you legend you, I am sure someone will step in and be able to cash them and send him the goodies, if not I will have to work it all out another way using my own cash, either way he will get sorted.
It will be sorted, thanks again for doing this, hopefully we can get him most of what he needs.
I am duty bound from the minute I told him I would, I must admit to being a bit nervous if it does not work out, either way I guess I can cove the cost of it for him, as he needs some hope after the retards sent in the bombs today courtesy of the USA UK and France, his home city Damascus is getting turned into rubble.
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I am being hounded by someone I do not even vote for lol, abh12345 is holding my votes, I proxied them to him.
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I hope the issue with how to convert the cryptos gets sorted out - until then I'll transfer some to you if that is okay - ? I have means to transfer steem into bitcoin but how to turn that bitcoin into US dollar is something I have never done.. I can look into it - if no one else steps up that is lol
Feel free to send, and thank you, even if I end up sending them back, we lose nothing on sending here at least, and I have set my good lady on a mission to find a way as she speaks the local lingo. Thanks for the support good lady.
You're welcome! Transferring some now :)
Superb thanks.
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You know, the upvotes are probably fine. It's the copypasta that is going to destroy your dream of a top 20 witness if you keep it up.
I'm not gonna bother flagging you--as long as you don't start spamming me!
Lots of others will.
You may prefer to rethink your strategy.
I am in total agreement with you, this was following me around all of last night.
In the meantime, we need to re-steem your stuff. I don't know if there is an algorithm, or bot, to have someone in a community take turns every day, for 7 days in a row, but it needs to happen. We can go old-school and do manually, I suppose.
Sounds perfect, and thanks for helping out, much appreciated.
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this is my take on the issue
and it feels even worse that i wrote this article 20 days ago
PS, no need to up vote it, it's 20 days old
I will give you my upvote here then.
:-) that indeed another option
It is not what a man says, it is what a man does, that counts, Daz proverb. :-)
yes. and actually doing things that is a challenge. When you do something, anything, then you put yourself out there, and at this point others hesitate.
Yet courage is contagious, so after a few attempts then others follow.
But it needs a few successful results.
Doing the right thing takes a lot of courage. since the one who actually does something is the one who pays the price.
And there you need respect for the energy you have put in.
And in todays world you need to earn respect.
Where the original humane way is that you HAVE respect and you can only loose it. And nowadays everyone seems to have lost respect because you need to earn it?
So that respect is a bit of a long road. hehe And sometimes healthy paranoia forces a few clumsy actions on the bumpy road. :-)
You lost me a bit towards the bottom, anyway I am putting everything I earn from now on in the kitty until I have this paid for, I am finishing what I started, and that includes any post after this second in time.
We need to think of ways to get the most out of this.
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LOL
I don't think I have seen any spam quite as annoying as this.
Thanks for demonstrating why I don't want to vote for your witness =p
My bot went haywire. My deepest apologies. It wasn't intended to leave any comments at all, only vote one post per day to the supporters of my witnesses, and send them a memo saying thanks for your support. It ended up getting confused and upvoted every post and comment. and left the memo in the messages area. If my intention was to spam i'd hardly need a witness server setup for that. It'd also be impractical to target my witness voters with said spam. To each his own but, why don't you want to vote for my witness again? I'm a developer, things happen... Intent is everything.. In this particular case the intent was indeed a positive gesture. It just executed incorrectly and thanks to friends who like positive things, I was able to catch it and eliminate the bug. I also made a formal apology on behalf of myself and my malfunctioning software. If you knew what it is that I represent, you probably wouldn't have made this comment which was kinda harsh imo
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@deliberator you should reach out to Glennon Doyle she is an amazing activist and has a team on the ground helpng out Syrians. They get things done without waiting for anyone. They will be delivering meds, food etc within 24 hours and could help you deliver to your friend.
[email protected]
Please let me know how it goes.
I will send them his two email addresses and send him theirs, thank you so much, you are a super star.
You are the precious one for making us aware of Tom. I am learning the truth about this conflict thanks to his videos and I'm sharing them on social media.
This is Glennon's partner organization on the grounds in Syria, in case you wish to reach out to them as well.
https://preemptivelove.org/contact/
I was just talking to Tom and he is in a meeting with the house of lords delegation and baroness cox who ever she is.
He mentioned them in one of his videos. They are Brits who support Assad, they are on the Syrian's side.
The more connections Tom has, the better I think to get the truth out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cox,_Baroness_Cox#Syria_controversy
Superb, I am trying to get in touch with him tonight, to see how it all went. He also sent emails to the first email address you sent this morning.
Wonderful, pls let me know how it goes.
@teamsteem is there anything our QC team can do to make this go viral?
this is the website https://togetherrising.org/request-help/
I have sent him their email and them his 2.
Thank you for the information. Upvote and Resteeem done.
Thank you very much, most appreciated.
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Wow my friend that was fantastic performance, and superb song, I will listen to it again later with some headphones on that is for sure, thank you for posting that.
you're welcome . :-)
Just seems crazy how difficult it is to get things to someone who really needs it. Had a similar situation when we donated a whole lot of equipment for a friend who needed it in Africa and was charged huge amounts of duty at the border. You try and help and there is always something or someone to block you.
Yes indeed, and even worse when every other country has sanctions against you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cox%2C_Baroness_Cox
This appears to be the Baroness.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
How is she related to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Cox
I see the Baroness is also a link to one of our Dutch Ministers who has strong opinions on Syria.
Syria controversy
Cox has been a supporter of Syria's President Bashar Assad. She visited him during the Syrian Civil War, during the siege of Aleppo, along with Michael Nazir-Ali, fellow crossbench peer Lord Hylton, and Andrew Ashdown, an Anglican vicar.
according to wikipedia...
Yes and she was there again last night, I am waiting to hear from Tom how it went, he is making a thank you video to steemit as we speak.
He has a lot of courage to stay there while Corporate America is dumping its tax money on innocent people and the tax payer has no say about it.
Just posted link to his 'wake up' call video on Gab.
Not sure what the gab is, but if you think it will help, in you I trust, so thank you.
Check it out
gab.ai
okay.
I'm new to steem and just noticed that by googling why steem doesn't accept Syrian numbers lol
I'm ready to offer your friend what he needs , in bitcoin or in cash and I can transfer it to him directly to Damascus
also if he has any trouble converting crypto to cash I can help him as well
it's so beautiful to see people coming to Syria and cover what actually happenings since the western media is spreading lies about the country
please sir let me know in case he wants anything or if he still need the money I will be more than happy to help @deliberator
Great @tomduggan now has a steemit page.
The deliberator has sold this account.
You can reach him at @shepz1 now.
But he is currently on vacation until next week.
thanks mate , appreciated
Wonderful post ..thanks for sharing...Best of luck friend ✫
Did you read the post? it is a fund raiser.
Clearly the Deep State is using AI to spam you to death.
XD
lol I doubt I am that important.
Wonderful post ..thanks for sharing...Best of luck friend ✫