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By Dick Eastman
Exclusive To Rense.com
10-28-10
Items: Ocean Full of Oil
esophagus' desolving, hearts enlarging -=- Paul Craig Roberts:
War on Terror a fraud -=- Zionist Zelikow
Key Role in 9/11 falseflag Cover-Up -failures of defense systems
deliberate
These Items To Follow -
But first this announcement:
This is your e-mail messages from Dick Eastman. My messages will
appear on Rense or not at all. I am emptying my address book of
all of your names. Look for my articles, if any,
here: www.rense.com.
I figure that without rense.com -- after all of the other anti-Zionist
websites Jewish ops have taken down recently -- we will never again
have the chance to win the information war against Zionist-Masonic
world domination. This is my "Alamo" stand with Jeff
Rense - or is it Custer given the hair, etc.
Fighting the good fight depends on knowing when to risk everything in
a decisive battle.
So, Happy Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year -- and adios.
Dick Eastman (that's me) is discontinuing his mailings
indefinitely. From now on I will write exclusively for
Jeff Rense. This is not for any compensation. This is
not by prior arrangement with Rense. I have no understanding
that Rense will publish any of what I send him. Jeff is learning
of this with this letter.
I am not angry with anyone -- this is purely a tactical move in the
great battle against evil. I am declaring my side and my 100
percent commitment to my side.
Anyone who accepts Mark Glenn's accusations that Rense is anti-Islaam
and secretly Zionist and pro-Israel of course receives my full scorn
and rejection.
As I find out who you are I will block
you mail from my inbox. As for the rest -- if you
won't fight then it is folly for me to keep fighting to link up with
you. If you won't fight for what rense has done you certainly
can't have any attachment to my cause when the moment of testing
comes.
For the friends of humanity who need to be reminded of the pro-Islaam
articles, pro-Palestine, pro-Iraq and pro-Afghanistan letters of mine
that have appeared on rense.com -- here is just a sampling:
Who says Jeff Rense is anti-Islaam and an enemy of the faithful in
Islaam? Who says he is secretly working for the Zionists?
I challenge all of the Pro-Mark Glenn operatives and dupes to randomly
select for or six of the following partial list of my articles on
Rense. Or read them all. Or go to the
www.rense.com
search engine and find others.
Has hit man mole Mark Glenn told you about these articles of mine that
Rense put up and still maintains? This representative sampling
proves the falsity of all Glenn has been saying about rense.
http://www.rense.com/general91/unite.htm
http://www.rense.com/general84/boy.htm
http://www.rense.com/general78/juddp.htm
http://www.rense.com/general75/zzon.htm
http://www.rense.com/general18/USreleases.htm
http://www.rense.com/general77/zlies.htm
http://www.rense.com/rewer.htm
http://www.rense.com/general75/znst.htm
http://www.rense.com/general87/14_2.htm
http://www.rense.com/general74/newt.htm
http://www.rense.com/general86/justus.htm
http://www.rense.com/general81/goy.htm
http://www.rense.com/general88/aston.htm
http://www.rense.com/general89/rushworks.htm
http://www.rense.com/general92/populism.htm
http://www.rense.com/general84/diff.htm
http://www.rense.com/general54/lies.htm
http://www.rense.com/general50/edi.htm
http://www.rense.com/general86/theor.htm
http://www.rense.com/general76/PERISH.HTM
http://www.rense.com/general89/ez.htm
http://www.rense.com/general89/roth.htm
http://www.rense.com/general89/mssg.htm
http://www.rense.com/general83/d2s.htm
http://www.rense.com/general18/civilian.htm
http://www.rense.com/general34/reality.htm
http://www.rense.com/general84/bin.htm
http://www.rense.com/general54/hoaoxo.htm
http://www.rense.com/general78/intern.htm
http://www.rense.com/general13/koran666.htm
And now here are the News Items -
Riki Ott: 'People Now Dropping Dead' In the Gulf
"The people that did evacuate (the gulf) are glad they did"
And for good reason."
" I am dealing with about 3 -4 autopsies right nowŠ I know
of people who's esophagus' are de-solving, disintegratingŠ I
know of people with 4.75% of their lung capacity, with enlarged
heartsŠ All of these people have oil in their bodies."
http://theintelhub.com/2010/10/24/riki-ott-people-now-dropping-dead-in-the-gulf/
An Ocean Full of Oil
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21633
Zionism: A pretest for Genocide
http://www.rense.com/general78/zaain.htm
America's Gulf Crisis - Ongoing Coverup and Denial
http://www.rense.com/general92/debn.htm
Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker the Speaker Vowed, 'No
New Deficit Spending'
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/debt-has-increased-5-trillion-speaker-pe
30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Nervous About The State
Of The U.S. Economy
#1 Corporate insiders are selling off stock at a blinding pace and are
looking for the exits. Alan Newman, the editor of the
Crosscurrents newsletter, examined a number of the top performing
stocks in the market including Google, Apple and Target and found that
the ratio of corporate insider stock sold to corporate insider stock
purchased over the last six months for those companies was 3,177 to
1. At the group of firms that Newman looked at, corporate
insiders had purchased 38,000 shares of stock over the last six months
and yet had sold off over 120 million shares.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/30-reasons-why-people-should-be-getting-really-nervous-about-the-state-of-the-u-s-economy
Want to get away with murder? Become a bank.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/25/news/economy/foreclosures_big_banks.fortune/index.htm
Judeo-Pornographic Society Social Sabotage: Nine out of Ten
Chilren on the Net See Internet Pornography:
http://www.rense.com/general17/porn.htm
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the
freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in
power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - President James
Madison
"The enormous gap between what U.S.
leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are
doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant
political mythology." - Michael Parenti, political
scientist/author
Subject: (Frameup)
Paul Craig Roberts: The War on Terror is
a fraud
Zionist Zelikow's Key Role in 9/11 Inside Job Cover-Up
(they were not failures, they were deliberate)
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10152010.html
The War on Terror is a Fraud - Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
John Bursill
9/11 truth
War on Terror
Does anyone remember the "cakewalk war" that would last six
weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil
revenues?
Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was
fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost
as much as $200 billion?
Lindsey was fired for over-estimating the cost of a war that,
according to Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, has cost 15 times more
than Lindsey estimated. And the US still has 50,000 troops in
Iraq.
Does anyone remember that just prior to the US invasion of Iraq, the
US government declared victory over the Taliban in Afghanistan?
Does anyone remember that the reason Dubya gave for invading Iraq was
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, weapons that the US
government knew did not exist?
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Zelikow's Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbak9KOINgo
In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. int.
officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a
cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks
on Sep 11, 2001.
Appearing on the political talk show Freedom Watch, Lt. Col. Anthony
Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and the author
of Operation Dark Heart, a much-hyped new book on the war in
Afghanistan, spoke about his mid-Oct 2003 encounter with Dr. Philip
Zelikow, then executive director of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks upon the United States.
During a fact-finding mission to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan,
Zelikow's team was briefed by Shaffer on Able Danger, a DIA data
mining project that had allegedly identified Mohammed Atta as a threat
to the U.S. a year before 9/11.
Parenthetically, the "Mohammed Atta" identified by Able
Danger may have been an imposter operating under a stolen identity, as
occurred in the assassination of a senior Hamas official in Dubai. In
an interview with a German newspaper, reported by the Guardian,
Mohammed Atta's father claimed that his son had nothing to do with the
attacks and was still alive a year after 9/11.
Whichever Mohammed Atta was referred to by Shaffer in Bagram, Zelikow
reportedly "fell silent with shock at the news."
According to Shaffer, Zelikow came to him at the end of the meeting,
gave him his card, and said: "What you said today is critically
important, very important. Please come see me when you return to
Washington D.C."
On his return to Washington in Jan-2004, Shaffer immediately contacted
Zelikow's office and was told to "stand by." After a week
passed, Shaffer called again, and this time was told by Zelikow's
staff: "We don't need you to come in. We have all the information
on Able Danger we need. Thank you anyway."
None of the information provided by Shaffer appeared in the 9/11
Commission's
585-page report, however.
In Sept 2005, more than a year after the publication of the 9/11
report, Shaffer said he met with one of the 9/11 commissioners in
Philadelphia. Over lunch, he told the commissioner what he had told
Zelikow in Afghanistan. The commissioner said that "he had never
heard any of this," adding that, "had he heard of it, it
would have been something that was very much of interest to he [sic]
and the commission."
"So there's a lot of things that never made it in that 9/11
report?" asked Judge Andrew Napolitano, the host of Freedom
Watch.
"Things were either by negligence left out, or, and I believe, by
purpose left out," Shaffer replied.
Another guest on the show, Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin
Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, spoke of a similarly frustrating
experience with the 9/11 Commission staff director.
Describing the 9/11 Commission Report as "a whitewash, and a lie
from top to bottom," Scheuer said he provided Zelikow with over
400 pages of official government documents detailing intelligence
failures before 9/11.
"I never heard one word back from Zelikow," he said.
"They all seemed very interested in what you had to say,"
the former CIA officer added, referring to meetings he had with
Zelikow and his staff, "but at the end of the day, it didn't make
it into the report."
This is not the first time that questions have been raised about
Zelikow's handling of the 9/11 Commission.
In his 2009 book, The Commission, Philip Shenon, an investigative
reporter for the New York Times, wrote about "how tightly Zelikow
was able to control the flow of information on the commission,"
and that "everything" was "run through" him.
While Zelikow's tight control of the commission excluded disturbing
evidence from national security experts like Shaffer and Scheuer, a
dubious scholar like Laurie Mylroie was afforded ample opportunity to
promote the most spurious justification for the Iraq war. Mylroie,
whose major booster in government was Paul Wolfowitz, argued that Iraq
had been involved in every major terrorist attack against the United
States since the early 1990s, including 9/11. During commission
hearings on al-Qaeda, Zelikow, writes Shenon, "made sure that she
had a prominent place at the witness table."
And why wouldn't he? After all, Zelikow had an important role in, as
Shenon puts it, "developing the scholarly underpinnings for the
Iraq war." It was Zelikow who had authored a thirty-one-page
"preemptive war" doctrine which George W. Bush announced to
the world in 2002 as "The National Security Strategy of the
United States."
"Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against
us?" Zelikow asked an audience at the University of Virginia in
Sept 2002. In a rare moment of candour, Zelikow proceeded to explain
that the real reason for preemptive war against Iraq was "the
threat against Israel."
Read Full:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/10/maid...
http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_L_Williams_102510.mp3
Employment is WORSE than The Depression - now.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=170176
Aussie Trades Unionist Exposes 9/11 Cover-up --- good on
ya mate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE3pMPObcGU
Kevin Bracken, Australian trade unionist stands up for 9/11 truth -
PM discusses in Federal Parliament
http://inov8.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/kevin-bracken-911/
Zionism and Peace are Incompatible
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/zionism-and-peace-are-incompatable/
Pat Robertson quoted on Rense:
http://www.rense.com/general31/nazis.htm
Nexus of Evil:
http://www.rense.com/general31/nazis.htm
One more note from Dick Eastman:
Long Ago, I occasionally corresponded with Devvy Kidd -- she
received all of my postings and never complained about any of them
except two -- and they were had nothing to do with Islaam or the
faithful in Islaam. I have publically parted with her views --
and with Huffington who is her primary sponsor, whom I have always
viewed as "tea party" opposition even before there were such
stupid things as Tea Parties.
Nevertheless -- I can see why Rense has kept her on his website
--
consider:
Devvy Kidd has usually stuck with American politics, left and right.
Here is a list of her articles on rense, but first read this example
of early Devvy Kidd:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd33.htm
Devvy has written articles like this:
CHARGES OF ANTI-SEMITISM -
ARE THEY TRUE?
By: Devvy
February 28, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
The Passion of the Christ has created an amazing storm of accusations
of "anti-Semitism" since last year. The only special
interest group in America to hurl this hot button label has been
Abraham Foxman and his associates from the ADL (Anti Defamation
League); the pile on from Rabbi's didn't take long after that. This
defender of the Jewish religion disguised himself and snuck into a
showing of The Passion of the Christ before its official opening! This
is true and would be laughable if not for such a serious subject
matter as accusing someone of hating people of the Jewish
faith.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Foxman has applied his arsenal of hot button
labels to anyone who even questions the legality of the income tax!
Yes, this is a fact and one wonders what on earth being
"anti-Semitic" has to do with questioning the income tax? I
would like to ask Mr. Foxman this question to his face and actually
extended anolive branch to him regarding the recent WTP 2004
Convention outside Washington, DC, just so I could ask him.
Unfortunately, Mr. Foxman didn't even have the common business
courtesy to respond to my letter.
What is a Semite and what constitutes being
"anti-Semitic"?
This is a very important question that needs to be answered -
especially if pundits, journalists and religious leaders are going to
throw it around like confetti. Mr. Foxman and other Rabbi's who have
viciously attacked Mel Gibson's movie make the accusation that
Gibson is "anti-Semitic" and his movie will promote
"anti-Semitism." For some reason, this label was never flung
at Gibson until he made a "passion" movie that is very
serious about the subject matter.
What then is a Semite? After checking various dictionaries and
sources, this is the common definition:
1. A member of a group of Semitic speaking peoples of the Near East
and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians,
Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians.
2. A Jew.
3. Bible. A descendant of Shem. According to freedictionary.com:
Sem`itZic Noun1. Semitic - a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language
family
Afrasian, Afrasian language, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic
language, Hamito-Semitic - a large family of related languages spoken
both in Asia and Africa
Akkadian - an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
Amharic, Ethiopian language - the dominant and official language of
Ethiopia; a semitic language much influenced by the Cushitic language
with which Amhara people have been in close contact
Arabic, Arabic language - the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in
a variety of dialects
Aramaic - a Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but
still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia
Canaanitic, Canaanitic language - a group of Semitic languages
Adj.1.Semitic - of or relating to the group of Semitic languages;
"Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology"
2.Semitic - of or relating to or characteristic of Semites;
"Semite peoples"
According to the web site:
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/semites.htm, Semite means:
"Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group
includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians. In a Biblical
sense, Semites are peoples whose ancestry can be traced back to Shem,
Noah's eldest son. The ancient Semitic populations were pastoral
Nomads who several centuries before the Christian Era were migrating
in large numbers from Arabia to Mesopotamia, the coasts of the
Mediterranean Sea, and the Nile River delta. Jews and other Semites
settled in villages in Judea, southern Palestine.
"Present day speakers of Semitic languages are as diverse in
physical, psychological, cultural, and sociological characteristics as
are speakers of Indo European languages. The most prominent Semites
today are Arabs and Jews. They are different in many ways, and they
have absorbed a variety of European traits through centuries of
migration and trade. The origin of Semitic languages, however, and
many similarities in the stories of Islam and Judaism reflect a common
ancient history."
Further research shows that about 12 percent of Muslims worldwide are
Arabs. As an example, there are more Muslims in Indonesia than in all
Arab countries combined. India, Iran, other parts of East Asia and
sub-Saharan Africa have large populations of Muslims. Islam has a
strong Arab flavor, though, as the religion's holiest places are in
the Middle East, and the Quran was originally written in Arabic. Islam
is the religion, a Muslim is a follower of the religion.
According to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia's web site:
"On September 23, 1932, the country was named the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia as an Islamic state, with Arabic designated as the
national language and the Holy Qur'an as its
constitution."
How about Ethiopia? They are part of the Semitic speaking peoples, yet
that country is quite diverse:
"The majority of Ethiopian believers are Christian, with a large
Muslim minority. There are still a few small Felasha Jewish
communities in Ethiopia, as well. Animists are rare in Ethiopia
today."www.imperialethiopia.org/religions.htm
Studying all these definitions, it appears that there are many races
who are 'Semitic speaking' peoples of different religions. Even though
Semites can be Arabs, the official designation of Saudi Arabia is an
Islamic State, not a Jewish state. Can one then conclude that if
you're "anti-Semitic" you're anti-Muslim?
Anti-Semitic means being against the 'Semitic speaking peoples' of the
Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans,
Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. One
thing about doing research on any subject, at least to this writer, is
that you learn and one web site that presents easy to understand facts
about the subject of Semitic speaking peoples is:
www.abyssiniagateway.net/in fo/bender.html. Everyone is encouraged to
visit that site to get a better grasp of this subject matter.
According to these credible reference sources, Semites are peoples who
speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews,
and many Ethiopians who may be of any religion they choose, they don't
have to be of the Jewish faith. So, can we conclude that being
"anti-Semitic" applies to anyone regardless of their
religion who is of the family of Semitic speaking peoples? If that is
the case, where are the representatives of other "Semitic
speaking peoples" and why aren't they all over the stupid tube
with the "anti-Semitic" chant against Gibson and his movie?
We have established that Semites are people who speak Semitic
languages. How then does that make someone a hater of one specific
religion, i.e. the Jewish faith an "anti-Semite" if the
definition refers to people who speak Semitic languages? Yet, to
listen to people like Mr. Foxman, one would be led to believe that
anti-Semitic means people who hate the Jewish race.
I checked many web sites on the question: Is being Jewish a race?
According to Lisa Katz:
"Being Jewish is not a race because Jews do not share one common
ancestry or biological distinction. People of many different races
have become Jewish people over the years. Is being Jewish a
nationality? Being Jewish is not a nationality because Jews have been
dispersed throughout the world for almost two thousand years. People
of many different nationalities are Jewish. Is being Jewish a
religious identity? Being Jewish means you are a part of a religious
movement."
Mr. Foxman, et al, have screeched for months that The Passion of the
Christ will incite "anti-Semitism" and violence against Jews.
According to all the dictionaries and credible source references that
I researched, this alleged future violence would also have to extend
to all people of the Semitic speaking languages, regardless of their
religion or race. When was the last time you heard of a rash of
violence against Christian Ethiopians in these united States? After
all, they are of the 'Semitic speaking languages' group.
What does the ADL fear about The Passion of the Christ?
There has been a moderate amount of publicity focusing on how many
individuals involved in the making of The Passion of the Christ
converted to Christianity as a result of the story of Jesus and his
sacrifice for all mankind. The message in this movie is about
forgiving and love and yes, that Jesus is the son of God. Apparently
some individuals on the set were so moved by the message, they became
Christians.
This message doesn't sit well with Mr. Foxman because those who
practice the Jewish faith maintain that Jesus was just another prophet
who came along and perished, end of story. This is and always has been
the rub between Christians and those of the Jewish faith. It hasn't
for this writer, because I believe everyone has the God-given right to
worship as they choose, it's none of my business nor do I gang up on
anyone for their beliefs. Each of us will know the truth on the day we
face God for our judgment.
Mr. Foxman should not fear the message of The Passion of the Christ.
Those who are true to the Jewish faith will remain Jewish and those
who are true to the teachings of Christ (Christians) will remain
faithful. Those of the Christian faiths, Catholic, Baptist and so
forth, are not going to view The Passion of the Christ and then run
out and do violence to anyone of the Jewish faith whether they are
Arab, Ethiopian or born right here in America.
There has been religious bigotry in America long before Gibson's movie
and unfortunately, there are stupid people out there who would engage
in it without The Passion of the Christ. There might be a few nut
cases out there who harass people of the Jewish faith following the
release of this move just because it's been so highly promoted as a
"maybe" and are looking for any excuse. I would recommend
Mr. Foxman conduct fund raising for the ADL against legitimate
agitators against people of the Jewish faith and stop smearing
Catholics.
Enough already
As for the puffed up peacocks who write for publications like the NY
Times of "all the news that's fit to fake" fame, take a
break why don't you? The same goes for the mouthy curmudgeon, Andy
Rooney, whose comments border on absurd silliness. I'm sure it must
irk them to no end that their constant tirades against the movie have
helped to make it a huge box office success and I'm certain that
privately, Mel Gibson says thank you!
The Passion of the Christ is a movie made by a very skilled and
successful Hollywood actor and director. Mel Gibson made and financed
a project he says came from his heart and was meant to be a message of
love and forgiveness. People from all religions ought to give Gibson
the benefit of the doubt instead of buying into the cheap and tawdry
fund raising tactics of Abe Foxman.
Is bigot the more appropriate label?
Bigotry is defined as "one who is strongly partial to one's own
group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who
differ."
This entire smear campaign smells of bigotry by Abraham Foxman. Gibson
is Catholic. Mr. Foxman has attacked me in the most putrid fashion
without any justification whatsoever; I am Catholic. Mr. Foxman has
attacked former IRS CID agent Joseph Banister in the same disgusting
fashion without any justification whatsoever; Joseph is Catholic.
While Mr. Foxman likes to mouth politically correct platitudes about
promoting harmony between Christians and Jews, from what I have seen,
I don't feel that his words come from the heart. What I see is a
pattern of hatred against individuals who are Catholic.
If Mr. Foxman wants to accuse The Passion of the Christ as being
anti-Jewish, he should just come out and say so with the proper label
instead of flinging "anti-Semitic" as the one size fits all
for anyone of the Christian faith who Foxman apparently hates -
especially Catholics.
© 2004 Devvy Kidd - All Rights Reserved
Devvy has appeared on Rense for many years -- back when even I read
Devvy -- because her views on Islaam were never revealed in her
writings!!! Devvy has been a regular fixture on Rense --
his readers expect Devvy on Rense -- of course Rense is too busy to
read the Devvy articles -- he merely trusted her. But when
she slipped in her "Pat Robertson" and everyone attacked
Rense for it -- Rense refused to attack this (wrongheaded) woman
out of pride and loyalty
-- after all she was his guest on the site -- an unpaid contributor
over all these years -- views on Islam Look at
Devvy's archive and see how many articles are about Islaam or the
Moslem world:
Devvy Kid Archive
(Obviously Anti-Islam has not been a regular theme -- she had
never written such an attack before!!!!)
Uniting All The 'Alternative' Parties Into One 5-3-05
Should Officials of the FDIC be Prosecuted? 4-19-05
An Important Factor For 2008 Elections 4-12-05
78% Income Tax Rate Hike? 4-8-05
Mean Justice 4-1-05
Terri Schiavo's Doctors & The Hippocratic Oath 3-23-05
The Ten Commandments and America's laws 3-17-05
What's Really Behind Privatizing Social Security? 3-10-05
Utah State Legislature to Congress: No on
FTAA 3-2-05
Is America headed towards Fascism? 2-27-05
The Marxist Influence 2-18-05
Bush's Budget Means Nothing 2-8-05
Will Bush Demand Putin Release American Hostages? 2-3-05
Excuses 1-24-05
Klamath Falls Farmers Destroyed by Illegal Species Listing 1-14-05
The Hubris of William Rehnquist 1-6-05
Chemtrails News Item: More Information, Please 12-25-04
Christians Charged in Philadelphia Should Sue The Prosecutor &
State 12-18-04
Civil Disobedience And The National ID 12-13-04
Don't Like What Hollywood is Selling? Don't Buy 12-9-04
What's it All About....Alfie? 11-29-04
More Information on Push For NY Grand Jury Over 9/11 11-22-04
Urgent Alert - Vote Coming Forced Mental Health Screening 11-19-04
How Dare Families & Survivors of 9-11 Question Government Version!
11-15-04
Christmas for Our Troops And Veterans 11-11-04
Why Are Democrats Upset Over The Elections? 11-8-04
American Electorate Rewards Lying, Anti-American Congress 11-4-04
Electoral College Votes Already Committed? 11-1-04
Vote Fraud: What They Aren't Telling You 10-22-04
9-11 Bombshell 10-15-04
States Must Take Lead in Stopping Identity Theft 10-11-04
Is the White House shutting down the people's right to know?
10-7-04
Are You Getting a Rebate on Your Property Taxes? 10-2-04
Ignore DANGER Signs of The Coming Financial Catastrophe - Part 2,
9-28-04
Ignore DANGER Signs of The Coming Financial Catastrophe - Part 1,
9-28-04
National ID Hidden in Proposed Legislation 9-21-04
Forced Mental Health Screening for Your Children 9-19-04
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From our friend Gajendra Singh
Wikileaks Confirm Western Culture of Torture & Lies
Gen Taguba's Abu Ghraib Report & US Franchised Torture
Revisited.
Part I
http://tarafits.blogspot.com/2010/10/wikileaks-confirm-western-culture-of.html
'It would be a good idea.' Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about his
views on western culture.
Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of
freedom, justice and peace in the world : Preamble, Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
"As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the
promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power
against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries,
the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they
were the victims." -- Robert Fisk on Wikileaks in 'Independent
'
Hosting by WikiLeaks on its website some 391,832 US military messages
documenting actions and reports on Iraq over the period 2004-2009,can
be divided in five heads:
Reliance on private contractors aka mercenaries ; the so-called
"surge" of 30,000 additional US troops; the deaths of Iraqi
civilians - killed mostly by other Iraqis, but also by the US; a
litany of prisoner abuse by Iraqis - which US officials ignored - even
more lurid than the infamous photographs of torture from Abu Ghraib
prison in 2004; and the so called "aggressive" intervention
of Iran's military providing "weapons, training and sanctuary"
to Shia combatants.
Robert Fisk highlights the main points as follows
Prisoners abused, raped and murdered; Hundreds of incidents of abuse
and torture of prisoners by "collaborationist" Iraqi
security services, up to and including rape and murder. Since these
are itemised in US reports, American authorities now face accusations
of failing to investigate them. UN leaders and campaigners are calling
for an official investigation.
Civilian death toll cover-up; Coalition leaders have always said
"we don't do death tolls", but the documents reveal many
deaths were logged. Respected British group Iraq Body Count says that,
after preliminary examination of a sample of the documents, there are
an estimated 15,000 extra civilian deaths, raising their total to
122,000.
The shooting of men trying to surrender; In February 2007, an Apache
helicopter killed two Iraqis, suspected of firing mortars, as they
tried to surrender. A military lawyer is quoted as saying: "They
cannot surrender to aircraft and are still valid targets."
Private security firm abuses; Britain's Bureau of Investigative
Journalism says it found documents detailing new cases of alleged
wrongful killings of civilians involving Blackwater, since renamed Xe
Services. Despite this, Xe retains extensive US contracts in
Afghanistan.
Al-Qa'ida's use of children and "mentally handicapped" for
bombing ;A teenage boy with Down's syndrome who killed six and injured
34 in a suicide attack in Diyala was said to be an example of an
ongoing al-Qa'ida strategy to recruit those with learning
difficulties. A doctor is alleged to have sold a list of female
patients with learning difficulties to insurgents.
Hundreds of civilians killed at check points; Out of the 832 deaths
recorded at checkpoints in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, analysis by the
Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggests 681 were civilians. Fifty
families were shot at and 30 children killed. Only 120 insurgents were
killed in checkpoint incidents.
Iranian influence; Reports detail US concerns that Iranian agents had
trained, armed and directed militants in Iraq. In one document, the US
military warns a militia commander believed to be behind the deaths of
US troops and kidnapping of Iraqi officials was trained by Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
But the WikiLeaks give little information on the mistreatment of
prisoners in US-run detention facilities, or in CIA franchised torture
centers in east Europe and elsewhere, worse than Abu Gharib and
Guantanamo ,while chilling details of abuse of Iraqis by Iraq's own
army and police.
[ On abuse of Iraqis by US, (Gen Taguba's report) and US franchised
torture see below] .
Reaction to the Leaks
The Wihileaks have unleashed bickering among Iraqi politicians. For
example, a senior member of the Iraqiya bloc led by former Iraqi prime
minister Iyad Allawi called for an investigation into possible
connections between torture operations in Iraqi prisons and Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
US Defense Department ; Geoff Morrell, the US Defense Department press
secretary, strongly condemned both WikiLeaks and the release of the
Iraq documents.
"We deplore WikiLeaks for inducing individuals to break the law,
leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret
information with the world, including our enemies," he said.
Iran's Press TV declared, "Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has
released documents suggesting that the Pentagon instructed US-led
forces to 'secretly' torture detainees in Iraq."
Robert Fisk in London's 'Independent'
The western leadership and subservient corporate media pretend not to
know. They countered every claim, every allegation against the
Americans or British with some general - that " ghastly US
military spokesman Mark Kimmitt and the awful chairman of the Joint
Chiefs, Peter Pace, come to mind - to ring-fence us with lies. Find
a man who'd been tortured and you'd be told it was terrorist
propaganda; discover a house full of children killed by an American
air strike and that, too, would be terrorist propaganda, or
"collateral damage", or a simple phrase: We have nothing on
that."
Those who went around torturing the Iraqis were undisciplined gunmen
aka mercenaries, many recruited from criminal elements , so that they
could be shown as outside the US armed forces and also military
discipline under international law. Veritable outlaws ,a gang of
criminals , well paid , with license to torture and kill ;they
murdered their way around the cities of Iraq ,apart from protecting
diplomats and generals. Though written in bleak militarese ,this
material can be used by lawyers in courts ,continued Fisk.
But it always happens like this. In Kuwait, after the 1991 liberation
, US troops heard Palestinians being tortured by Kuwaitis in police
stations with a Kuwaiti royal family member involved. US forces did
nothing. They just complained to the royal family. Soldiers are always
being told not to intervene. But then the Israeli army was told in
September 1982 that Israel's Phalangist allies had just murdered some
women and children? "We know, it's not to our liking, and don't
interfere," said battalion commander about the criminal
enterprise of Sabra and Chatila refugee camp massacres.
Throughout history compared to the invaders and the rulers from the
East, the Western culture and rule has been based on Cartesian
material outlook on life .The Nazi crematoriums was an acme of western
economic optimization of using even human resources ( Jewish and other
bodies )to the last bone and the drop of blood.
What else to expect from the people of USA whose history is a
narrative of landmarks like the Massacre at Wounded Knee, who have
morphed from savagery to high-tech savagery and gave to the last
generation, Mai Lai massacre, and during brutal occupation of Iraq ,
Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, Falluja. Nevertheless, instead of looking at
themselves, they pontificate to the rest of the humanity, with their
uncivilized discourse.
Americans at home
In America, African Americans have been deprived of the most basic
rights and opportunities. This was especially true in the southern
states, which were once a byword for poverty and backwardness among
people of all races. For a long time US refused to act at a national
level to stop lynching, often arguing that it was a local problem thus
everyone suffered the consequences of shutting off a huge segment of
the population from equality and justice.
Lynching were barred quite late in last century .But in New
Orleans and the region, white America's putrid underbelly one can see
the reality. How American Africans were treated and are still being
treated .Those who visited the region at the time of September , 2005
Katrina disaster say that there has been no change in the pitiable
conditions of the Blacks and poor in USA for the last two
centuries.
London's Observer on Katrina;
London's Observer noted "Perhaps nothing else so encapsulates the
endless paradoxes of being black in America. Never have blacks had so
much legal freedom, yet there are record numbers in jail.
Traditional black neighborhoods have collapsed into drug-ridden crime
strongholds, even as the black middle class is the biggest in
history.
"It is now 40 years since the Voting Rights Act that secured the
black vote. [In Florida 2000!] It is 10 years since hundreds of
thousands of blacks came to Washington in the Million Man March to
demand a way out of poverty. It is a single month since Hurricane
Katrina exposed the racial fault lines that fracture the big
cities.
"Almost four decades after King was killed, there are still two
Americas. One is largely white and wealthy, one largely black and
poor. They live cheek by jowl in the same country yet in separate
worlds. The shocking thing about the TV pictures from New Orleans was
not black poverty; it was the reaction of whites. 'Most whites were
shocked about the amount of poverty in New Orleans, but black media
have talked about poverty for the past 20 years,' said David Canton,
professor of history at Connecticut College.
"Bare statistics tell the story. Black life expectancy is six
years shorter than that of whites. Black unemployment is twice as
high. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to die from disease,
accident or murder at every stage of their lives. About 24 per cent of
black families live below the poverty line, compared with 8 per cent
of the white population."
Following the Katrina hurricane, when the truth could not be hidden,
US corporate news networks soon started a cover up, with boring repeat
visits of the President and statements. However, it has fooled no one
except the usual suspects, info-challenged US population.
Below is an article on abuse by US troops and interrogators in
report by US Gen Antonio Taguba
The author had met with and heard the testimony of the victims of Abu
Gharaib and Guantmano at the hearings of the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal on
War Trials in October , 2009 .
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Gajendra Singh 26 Octobeer, 2010,Delhi
Gen Taguba Unveils Abu Ghraib, US Gulag
27 June, 2007
"The abused are only Iraqis," a US Gen to Gen Taguba
by K Gajendra Singh
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m34046&hd=&size=1&l=e
"From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty,
honor, integrity, and selfless service. And yet when we get to the
senior-officer level we forget those values."US Gen Antonio
Taguba.
A senior US General in Iraq to Gen Taguba --" the abused
detainees were 'only Iraqis.'"
"US Soldier Sodomised Female Iraqi Detainee". Former British
Ambassador Craig Murray's blog headline.
"--we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib. We
violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own
principles and we violated the core of our military values. I believe,
even today, that those civilian and military leaders responsible
should be held accountable." Gen Taguba.
"It must always be remembered that whatever is happening in Iraq
is the responsibility of US which led the illegal invasion of Iraq and
continues forced occupation against the will of its people, acquiesced
in by an impotent and dying United Nations under Sec Gen -What is
his name !"-Author
Seymour Hersh , the well known US investigative journalist has done it
again -methodically chipping away at United State administration's
blatant lies and spins to further unveil the torture and abuse of
Iraqis at US created 'Gulag' at Abu Ghraib and US Administrations
effort to muzzle an honest US voice .
In an interview with Hersh in New Yorker , Major General Antonio
Taguba who led the first military investigation in 2004 into human
rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the
integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld,
suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior
knowledge of what had happened. Gen Taguba also claimed in the
interview that President George Bush also "had to be aware"
of the atrocities despite saying at the time of the scandal that he
had been out of the loop until he saw images in the US media.
As usual the White House denied it and -"the President said
over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on
the television," added Scott Stanzel, a spokesman.
There has been little reaction in US main line media ie corporate
controlled ' be the first ' purveyors of spins and lies. Or among
honourable members of the US Congress who had sanctioned the illegal
invasion of Iraq opening up the gates of hell on hapless Iraqis. As if
the well documented US ugliness belongs to some one else . Even the US
electorate's demand last November to bring back US troops home from
Iraq has been totally ignored. Some government of the people this!
Such things were to be expected after an invasion launched to grab
Iraqi oil . The men should be impeached and tried for misleading the
world and the American people .The naked ugly truth is being slowly
but relentlessly being exposed .Libby's conviction , illegal doings of
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. and a Vice President who even
claims immunity from the law of the land . Verily USA has created a
lawless jungle abroad and at home too.
The New Yorker interview has only amplified what was partially known
.Gen Taguba, who investigated Abu Ghraib, confirms details of the
abuse not previously known thus publicly giving them official
authority . It also confirms that the torture was sanctioned from the
top.
Not part of the interview , but General Janis Karpinski has testified
that she saw a memorandum on "Interrogation techniques"
pinned to the wall by military intelligence at Abu Ghraib, signed by
Defence Secretary Rumsfeld himself. Karpinski was at the top of the
line of command of the guards - the military police - but not the
interrogators. Doubtless more of the details of the war crimes at Abu
Ghraib, and of extraordinary rendition and Guantanamo, will continue
to emerge in the next few months as the war party in Washington
becomes totally discredited.
Sexual aggression is not really about sex or gender, but about power:
the powerful humiliating the powerless.
The General's 53-page report, first written in February 2004 , had
found Iraqi detainees in a cellblock of the notorious Abu Ghraib
prison outside Baghdad subjected to "sadistic, blatant, and
wanton criminal abuses" at the hands of their U.S. jailers. The
abuses included sodomizing of prisoners, pouring cold water and
chemicals on naked bodies, threatening detainees with rape and dog
attacks, hitting them with chairs and broomsticks and locking them in
isolation without food, water or a toilet for three days. The report
also found a virtual collapse of the command structure in Abu Ghraib
with Army reservists being urged by military intelligence and CIA
employees to "set physical and mental conditions for favorable
interrogation of witnesses."
Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff Gen Richard Myers had then
denied the contents to the media but gave conflicting answers . And
when pressed, he acknowledged that he had not even read the
report.
Gen Taguba noted that Rumsfeld not only denied advance knowledge, but
even denied afterwards having seen Taguba's report or knowing what had
happened. Rumsfeld testified before Congress that he had no idea of
the extent of the abuse.
"He's trying to acquit himself and a lot of people who are lying
to protect themselves," the magazine quoted Taguba as saying,
referring to Rumsfeld's May 7, 2004 testimony in the Congress.
Taguba affirmed , "There was no doubt in my mind that this
stuff"-the explicit images-"was gravitating upward. It
was standard operating procedure to assume that this had to go higher.
The President had to be aware of this." He said that Rumsfeld,
his senior aides, and the high-ranking generals and admirals who stood
with him as he misrepresented in the Congress what he( Rumsfeld) knew
about Abu Ghraib had failed the nation.
The photographs that became public at the time of enquiry and created
worldwide reprehension, revulsion and condemnation - showed US jailers
humiliating inmates who were naked, hooded, on leashes or piled into a
human pyramid.
Gen Taguba said that other material not yet public or mentioned in
trials included a video showing "a male American soldier in
uniform sodomising a female detainee". The first wave of images
also included images of sexual humiliation between a father and his
son.
Gen Taguba also added he was ordered to limit his inquiry into the
conduct of military police at the jail even as he became convinced
they had a green light from higher up. "Somebody was giving them
guidance but I was legally prevented from further investigation into
higher authority. I was limited to a box." He declares
,"Even today ... those civilian and military leaders responsible
should be held accountable."
Gen Taguba was victimized for doing his duty as he was subsequently
forced to retire early. His conclusion was that he was being punished
for honest investigation. "They always shoot the messenger,"
Gen Taguba told Seymour Hersh. "To be accused of being
overzealous and disloyal - that cuts deep into me. I was being
ostracised for doing what I was asked to do." And he did that as
an honest and upright officer and as a decent human being .
The politicians in the Congress could not care less. A Quinnipiac
University poll this month found Congress with an approval rating of
just 23 percent. "People voted for change. But they don't think
they got it," said Peter Brown, an assistant director of the
poll. A Gallup poll last month had put Congress's approval rating at
29 percent. The number had fallen to 21 percent last December, just
when Republicans were sent packing by the electorate.
Some extracts from the New Yorker interview ;
"Here . . . comes . . . that famous General Taguba-of the
Taguba report!" Rumsfeld declared, in a mocking voice. The
meeting was attended by Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's deputy; Stephen
Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; General
Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( J.C.S.); and
General Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, along with Craddock
and other officials. Taguba, describing the moment nearly three years
later, said, sadly, "I thought they wanted to know. I assumed
they wanted to know. I was ignorant of the setting."
In the meeting, the officials professed ignorance about Abu Ghraib.
"Could you tell us what happened?" Wolfowitz asked. Someone
else asked, "Is it abuse or torture?" At that point, Taguba
recalled, "I described a naked detainee lying on the wet floor,
handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum, and
said, 'That's not abuse. That's torture.' There was quiet."
Rumsfeld was particularly concerned about how the classified report
had become public. "General," he asked, "who do you
think leaked the report?" Taguba responded that perhaps a senior
military leader who knew about the investigation had done so. "It
was just my speculation," he recalled. "Rumsfeld didn't say
anything."
Rumsfeld also complained about not being given the information he
needed. "Here I am," Taguba recalled Rumsfeld saying,
"just a Secretary of Defense, and we have not seen a copy of your
report. I have not seen the photographs, and I have to testify to
Congress tomorrow and talk about this." As Rumsfeld spoke, Taguba
said, "He's looking at me. It was a statement."
At best, Taguba said, "Rumsfeld was in denial." Taguba had
submitted more than a dozen copies of his report through several
channels at the Pentagon and to the Central Command headquarters, in
Tampa, Florida, which ran the war in Iraq. By the time he walked into
Rumsfeld's conference room, he had spent weeks briefing senior
military leaders on the report, but he received no indication that any
of them, with the exception of General Schoomaker, had actually read
it. (Schoomaker later sent Taguba a note praising his honesty and
leadership.) When Taguba urged one lieutenant general to look at the
photographs, he rebuffed him, saying, "I don't want to get
involved by looking, because what do you do with that information,
once you know what they show?"--
On January 20th, the chief of staff at Central Command sent another
e-mail to Admiral Keating, copied to General Craddock and Lieutenant
General Ricardo Sanchez, the Army commander in Iraq. The chief of
staff wrote, "Sir: update on alleged detainee abuse per our
discussion. DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? Yes, currently have 4 confessions
implicating perhaps 10 soldiers. DO PHOTOS EXIST? Yes. A CD with
approx 100 photos and a video-CID has these in their
possession."
In subsequent testimony, General Myers, the J.C.S. chairman,
acknowledged, without mentioning the e-mails, that in January
information about the photographs had been given "to me and the
Secretary up through the chain of command. . . . And the general
nature of the photos, about nudity, some mock sexual acts and other
abuse, was described."
Nevertheless, Rumsfeld, in his appearances before the Senate and the
House Armed Services Committees on May 7th, claimed to have had no
idea of the extensive abuse. "It breaks our hearts that in fact
someone didn't say, 'Wait, look, this is terrible. We need to do
something,' " Rumsfeld told the congressmen. "I wish we had
known more, sooner, and been able to tell you more sooner, but we
didn't."
Rumsfeld told the legislators that, when stories about the Taguba
report appeared, "it was not yet in the Pentagon, to my
knowledge." As for the photographs, Rumsfeld told the senators,
"I say no one in the Pentagon had seen them"; at the House
hearing, he said, "I didn't see them until last night at
7:30,"wen asked specifically when he had been made aware of the
photographs.
US Army - A veritable Mafia
Taguba got a different message, however, from other officers, among
them General John Abizaid, then the head of Central Command. A few
weeks after his report became public, Taguba, who was still in Kuwait,
was in the back seat of a Mercedes sedan with Abizaid. Abizaid's
driver and his interpreter, who also served as a bodyguard, were in
front. Abizaid turned to Taguba and issued a quiet warning: "You
and your report will be investigated."
"I wasn't angry about what he said but disappointed that he would
say that to me," Taguba said. "I'd been in the Army
thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I
was in the Mafia."
A former high-level Defense Department official said that, when the
Abu Ghraib scandal broke, Senator John Warner, then the chairman of
the Armed Services Committee, was warned "to back off" on
the investigation, because "it would spill over to more important
things." A spokesman for Warner acknowledged that there had been
pressure on the Senator, but said that Warner had stood up to
it-insisting on putting Rumsfeld under oath for his May 7th testimony,
for example, to the Secretary's great displeasure.---
In January of 2006, Taguba received a telephone call from General
Richard Cody, the Army's Vice-Chief of Staff. "This is your
Vice," he told Taguba. "I need you to retire by January of
2007." No pleasantries were exchanged, although the two generals
had known each other for years, and, Taguba said, "He offered no
reason." (A spokesperson for Cody said, "Conversations
regarding general officer management are considered private personnel
discussions. General Cody has great respect for Major General Taguba
as an officer, leader, and American patriot.")
Richard Armitage, a former Navy counter-insurgency officer who served
as Deputy Secretary of State in the first Bush term, recalled meeting
Taguba, then a lieutenant colonel, in South Korea in the early
nineteen-nineties. "I was told to keep an eye on this young
guy-'He's going to be a general,' " Armitage said. "Taguba
was discreet and low key-not a sprinter but a marathoner."
General Taguba is a slight man with a friendly demeanor and an
unfailingly polite correctness. "I came from a poor family and
had to work hard," he said. "It was always shine the shoes
on Saturday morning for church, and wash the car on Saturday for
church. And Saturday also for mowing the lawn and doing yard jobs for
church."
The Perfidious Brits are equally guilty in Iraq ;
The Brits too are very much in the business of torture ..The reserve
stiff upper lip keeps the ugliness under covers but too much has
happened and the world has seen enough .
Robert Fisk of 'The Independent who "had seen British military
brutality in Northern Ireland had hopes that things might have
improved but the heart wrenching case of Baha Mousa , who died of
abuse and torture , proved that the dark, sinister ways employed by
the British in the Irish conflict have continued . He concluded that
something had gone terribly wrong in the British Army in southern
Iraq.
British Playing football with human beings
Fisk went to see Kifah Taha, who was beaten so badly by British troops
in the presence of Baha Mousa with terrible wounds in the groin. Baha
Mousa, son of a policeman Daoud Mousa in Basra , British area of
occupation died from the brutal injuries he received in British
custody, was a young, decent man who worked as a receptionist in a
Basra hotel. Daoud Mousa and others will carry the grief of their
son's killings or rapes of their daughters with them for ever.
Fisk was told how "the soldiers would call their Iraqi prisoners
by the names of football stars - Beckham was one name they used -
before kicking them around the detention headquarters in Basra. There
were stories of Iraqi prisoners being forced to kneel on sharp stones,
of being kicked and punched in the groin, the kidneys, the back,
shoulders, forced to sit with their heads down lavatory
holes."
There's an old rule of thumb applied to armies in the field said Fisk.
"If you find out about one abuse, you can bet there were a
hundred others that will never be revealed. New stories of
"forced disappearances", hostage-taking and torture in
British custody are emerging from Basra. US troops are still being
questioned about unlawful killings and torture in Iraq. If one girl is
raped and murdered and her family slaughtered by a US unit south of
Baghdad - all of which is true - how many others have died in
circumstances we shall never discover?", added Fisk.
But there would be blow back too. Accounts would be settled.
American detainees in Iran
For Americans, it would be a surprise to see the word "detainee"
suddenly appear in a different country, in a different context , this
time to a group of Americans. After all, "detainee" is the
word the Bush administration coined to deal with suspected terrorist
captives who, they argued, should be subjected to extra-legal
treatment as part of the Global War on Terrorism. As feared the
terminology is, being turned against American citizens under detention
in Iran now.
The Iranian government currently holds in custody Haleh Esfandiari,
Kian Tajbakhsh, Parnaz Azima, and Ali Shakeri, Iranian-American
scholars and activists accused of being spies and/or employees of the
U.S. government intent on fomenting dissent and disruption within
Iran. (A fifth American, Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent engaged
in business of an unknown nature in Iran, disappeared on March 8th.)
The four are reportedly behind bars at Tehran's notorious Evin prison,
meant for political prisoners including human rights activists. The
Americans had abducted 6 Iranian diplomats in Kurdistan from the Irbil
Consulate arousing much anger and dismay in the Kurdish regional
government.
Any way who carries out US overt and covert policies of regime change
inside Iran , for which the Congress regularly apportions many tens of
millions of US dollars .
Sexual sadism of Western culture -In peace and war
At the time of hearings in May 2004 ,Katharine Viner wrote in 'The
Guardian' about 'The sexual sadism of our culture, in peace and in
war" She had received some horrific photographs from Iraq,
depicting " the sexual abuse of women by US servicemen. On some,
chadors were hitched up over the women's heads. On others, the women
were naked while they were raped by groups of men. ----- They make you
sick to your stomach. And they look strangely familiar - like the XXX
films in hotel rooms, like those "live rape!" emails sent to
internet users, like porn.
"--We know that such images exist, because a US government report
confirmed it. And we know that Iraqi women are being raped throughout
the country, because both Amal Kadham Swadi, the Iraqi lawyer, and the
US's own internal inquiry say that abuse is systemic and widespread.
We also know this because all wars feature the abuse of women as a
byproduct, or as a weapon. The ancient Greeks considered rape socially
acceptable; the Crusaders raped their way to Constantinople; the
English invaders raped Scottish women on Culloden Moor. The first
world war, the second world war, Bosnia, Bangladesh, Vietnam - where
the gang rape and murder of a peasant woman by US soldiers was
photographed in stages by one if its participants.
"The poses, the large numbers of men to one woman, the violence -
they have all the hallmarks of contemporary porn. Indeed, there is
suspicion that the photos are part of a gruesome new trend There's a
difference, of course, between the making of pornography for money and
the photographing of pornographic poses as war trophies: the consent
of the woman involved? But to the consumer of these images, there's no
way of knowing if there's been consent or not. They look the
same."
In February,2004 US soldiers were accused of raping more than 112
colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan --- seem to have to prove that they
are one of the guys by sexually humiliating the only people less
important than they are: Iraqi prisoners, of whatever sex. It's a
chilling lesson, that women can be sexual sadists just as well as men.
Just give them the right conditions - and someone weaker to kick. It's
proof that sexual aggression is not really about sex or gender, but
about power: the powerful humiliating the powerless.?
==appear on pornographic websites. They will be used for sexual
gratification.-- Of course we are horrified by these images. But we
should be horrified too by their familiarity, and how much they tell
us about our own societies."
Pornography is worth tens of billions dollars business in USA .Is this
the civilization the rest of the world in envious of as US leaders
constantly proclaim ie superiority of their civilization .
Conclusions ;
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche , 19th cent German philosopher , inspired
by Plato's Utopia aka Republic , in turn inspired the evil genius and
20th Century political philosopher Leo Strauss , at whose
feet sat the still influential Neo-Cons and Zeo-cons , had stated that
Christian love and piety was an outcome of fear. The fear of the
strongly built neighbour or the fear of a criminal from a police man
.
Nietzsche believed that it was not possible that a man could genuinely
feel universal love, perhaps because of his self-created halo of a
'noble' man . That was perhaps meant for two combatants or knights
matching their valour on level ground, not like F-16 bombers against
kids armed with slingshots or rudimentary guns .
Many in the West are not even ashamed describing the US "victory"
over Iraq in 2003 an example of military valour when US defence
expenditure was S$ 450 billion vs Iraq's 2.5 billion after US-UK
implemented sanctions had decayed Iraqi defences .The sanctions also
killed half a million children of malnutrition according to UN
reports. .
Kemal Ataturk , the great strategician ,would have laughed his head
off at this spurious claim. Even Montgomery who believed that 4 to one
superiority was enough when attacking .Only ignoble deeds by ignoble
men shine in the US led West .The so called western 'noble' is now
likely to be a poor American from rural areas, a high tech brute
ensconced in his armour afraid to come out of his humvee against
motivated bombers with just their body to sacrifice against all odds .
Would Nietzsche have called the bombers 'noble'!
The noble martial combat was over after the second siege of Vienna in
late 16th century , when high tech killing started taking over from
Janissaries valour. The final result now is the complete take over of
the US by consumerist Military Industry complex , which gobbles up as
much in 'defence ' expenditure as the rest of the world put together
,of which the generals and soldiers are consumers paid for by the
people of America and now of the world with an iniquitous economic
order where in US just prints greenbacks . US power has morphed into
world financed-techno-barbarian brute.
In his book on what Bertrand Russell calls history of Western
Philosophy ( West has generally produced linear thought , its real
philosophers are ridiculed ) he quotes from Shakespeare's King Lear ,
on the verge of madness
"I will do such things -
What they are yet I know not - but they shall be
The terror of the earth.
( Exactly what the top US leadership has achieved in Iraq and
threatens doing more of the same. )
This is Nietzsche's philosophy in nutshell. Donald Rumsfeld's unknown
unknowns or Bush's all options including tactical weapons when there
is no danger of an Iranian nuke in near future .No wonder a worried
and wizened El Bardai in Vienna called for a control on 'crazies 'in
USA.
Russell says there are two sorts of saints, saints by nature and
saints by fear. The first have spontaneous love of mankind. Because to
do so gives him happiness and the second , a frightened man afraid of
fear. ( Western leaders like Henry Kissinger , Dick Cheney ,Tony Blair
would fit the bill )
It is existential fear of Jesus Christ's saying turned devilshly on
its head .Do not do unto others what you would not like done unto you
. The fear what Iran would do after 5 years or ten years .What Iraqis
would do . Would Assassins emerge from the Middle East and Asia or
Muslim citizens in Europe and Black Muslims in USA . What north Korea
with nukes and missiles threatened to do to stop a menacing US. Humans
and the world has now been reduced by USA to lawless jungle.
Leo Strauss was an admirer of the British Empire and Winston Churchill
as an example of the will-driven statesman. Recent Churchill admirers
are ; the extinguished poodle Tony Blair and lame duck George Bush .
After being part of killing of over 666,000 Iraqis Blair said history
will judge him. He has been judged and the Brits would pay the price
.If the Brits could not remove Blair early enough ,then why blame poor
Iraqis for not removing late President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , and
why .Whom , now faced with acute security deficit and instability
Iraqis miss , even Shias. And perhaps in their hearts the Americans
too. Certainly before March 2003 USA was a hyper power , a phrase
rarely used now for a degenerated ogre .
The use of deception and manipulation in current US policies flow
directly from the doctrines of the Leo Strauss (1899-1973). His
disciples including Paul Wolfowitz and other Neo-conservatives who
have driven much of the political agenda of the Bush administration.
Wolfowitz, acknowledged that the evidence used to justify the war was
"murky" and added that weapons of mass destruction weren't
the crucial issue anyway. Grabbing Iraqi oil for nothing was !He had
told US Congress that Iraq's development would be financed by Iraq oil
revenues ( which US is trying to gift to US multinationals ). Paul
also tried to finance his love nest from the World Bank funds and
refused to resign when caught with his hand in the till or where ever
it should not have been.
Another Neo-Con Douglas Feith recently told one Wolf Blitzer last year
if he had no car accident did not mean that he should not take out car
insurance this year .So "operation Iraqi freedom" was an
insurance policy ! Some Straussian reasoning . On mere suspicions one
could attack another country .Suppose some one is reading a book on
fundamentals of nuclear Physics. Attack his country according to
Straussian or Feith logic . Even Taimur lung , in those lawless days
,attacked only if sure of a threat building up, not on suspicions
alone .Wolf the Blitzer was so easily convinced . These are West's top
journalists!
Did the US system reach its zenith of power and now lie exposed an
abyss of cheating, chicanery , corruption ,hypocrisy and total
lawlessness .
The current direction of US led Western civilization , if you can call
it so, is hurtling along retrograde evolution of human animal ; away
from the divine and spiritual moorings and identity as all religions
discovered intuitively over millennia to a world of heedless and
headless consumerism like an unerring laser to wards self destruction,
Nuclear bombs and cold nights or climate atastrophes and
apocalypse. Bucharest (Romania) 28 June,
2007.
To Hell With Rothschild Usury
http://gnosticliberationfront.com/to_hell_with_rothschild_international.htm
Huey Long, The Populist
http://gnosticliberationfront.com/huey_long.htm
The Greater Pledge (Pat Tilman)
http://gnosticliberationfront.com/greater_pledge.htm
.The Present Situation Made Simple
http://www.rense.com/general76/simple.htm
Why the Zionists Killed George S Patton
http://www.rense.com/general75/allies.htm
http://www.rense.com/general75/warned.htm
The Myth of German Culpability
http://www.rense.com/general83/dett.htm
Goebbles and Hydreich
http://www.rense.com/general84/gob.htm
Hitler Army Diversity
http://www.rense.com/general88/divers.htm
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