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Instrumenting Kosovo in the ‘arc of crisis’ and the ‘global zone of percolating violence’ By Zahir Ebrahim
Part-3: Observation in Letter to BRussells Tribunal: Introducing NATO Peace Keeping Forces March 02, 2011
‘This theme repeats over and over again with variations. Sometimes, the preferred military dictator brought about with a coup, is replaced by a hand-picked malleable corrupt bastard under the facade of elections, leaving a wake of public discontent in either case, and then musical chairs begin again as the society is led by its nose towards more orchestrated chaos and insecurity. The same deadly “music” is perhaps being played in Egypt and Tunisia. With “militant” Islam poised to take hold of both nations – as per the natural aspirations of the peoples after decades of oppressive secular rule – it is rather transparent that the ‘arc of crisis’ is being primed for radicalization.’
To fully comprehend this agenda, one has to penetratingly understand what transpired in Kosovo in the 1990s, and what was the end result. The internationalization of the United Nations and NATO “peace keeping” forces in order to maintain peace and stability among a fractious people unable to govern themselves like civilized human beings. Kosovo set the legal, and UN sanctioned precedent for how the World Order of one-world government is to be principally governed. That agenda is not new. It has been amply discussed by others. It is also frequently referenced in the many publicly available strategy documents and books of empire.
That very end result in the case of Middle East, throughout the ‘arc of crisis’ in the ‘global zone of percolating violence’, is evidently being sought through these manufactured “revolutions” which only seed chaos, civil war, Muslim on Muslim ethnic/religious/political violence, all leading to the demoralization and disintegration of the cohesive social fabric under the auspices of 4th, 5th, 6th, … generation warfare methods designed to destroy nations and societies from within. Just as was done to Serbia.As was narrated by Sun Tzu in The Art of War, the oldest and still most effective military treatise in the world which principally underlies all significant political planning in the “temples”, i.e., think-tanks, of modernity:
- All warfare is based on deception;
- Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple [before] the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose;
- Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
War on Terrorism and Full Spectrum Dominance in the Barbarism of the New American Century
B.C. lawsuit challenges solitary confinement rules
Federal law and protocols for managing prisons that enable prisoners to be held in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day over extended periods of time violate Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says.
In an effort to put an end to the practice of indefinite, long-term solitary confinement, the association filed a lawsuit late Friday on behalf of Bobby Lee Ann Worm, a 24-year old aboriginal woman from Saskatchewan, currently incarcerated in B.C.’s Fraser Valley Institution.
Security in Prisons
Rather than locking up more and more people in worse and worse conditions, we should lock up fewer and treat them better. The probable result of that is less cost and harm to society, along with a chance at genuine rehabilitation for those who do commit crimes.
Corrections to release file of N.B. teen suicide
Smith, who was known to be suicidal, was in solitary confinement — and on suicide watch — when she strangled herself with a piece of cloth and died of asphyxia at the Grand Valley Institute for Women, a federal prison near Kitchener, Ont.Guards who watched her death on a surveillance camera had been ordered not to enter her cell unless she stopped breathing.
Smith's case prompted a probe by New Brunswick's ombudsman and federal correctional investigator Howard Sapers. It also drew widespread criticism about how young people suffering from mental illness or severe behavioural disorders are dealt with by the prison system.
Stay out of jail clean
ONE was an intravenous drug user who had slept outdoors on a trampoline. Another was a wife and mother who started drinking at 14 and turned to meth at 49. A third was a college graduate and licensed pilot who left home for months on end. All are felons. Along with five others, at a graduation ceremony in the sanctuary of a Baptist church in north Georgia recently, all received praise and a hug from Judge Jason Deal and handshakes from both prosecution and defence lawyers.They are among the 358 people who have “graduated” from the drug court in Hall County—one of 28 such courts across the state and roughly 2,500 around the country. Courts differ in whom they accept. Hall County’s participants cannot have more than one felony conviction, while most participants in Fulton County’s (Atlanta) drug court have committed a number. But they operate similarly.
Participants undergo intensive treatment instead of prison. Judges receive special training. Rather than simply resolving a case and sentencing the offender, they preside over teams that include prosecutors and defence lawyers, police, treatment and job-training counsellors and case workers. Participants are drug-tested often, and appear regularly before a judge, who sanctions or rewards them for their behaviour.
Canada warned not to follow U.S. tough-on-crime ‘mistakes’
The man who headed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency under U.S. president George W. Bush says Canada should avoid the mistakes that caused incarceration rates to soar in his country.Asa Hutchinson, a Republican who represented Arkansas in the U.S. Congress and a former prosecutor who advocated a tough approach to crime, has joined other high-profile members of his party in advocating a revision of harsh American justice policies.
“We have made some mistakes and I hope you can learn from those mistakes,” Mr. Hutchinson told the Commons public safety committee on Thursday.
“I am here,” he said, “because I signed on to a Right On Crime initiative, which is an initiative led by a group of conservatives in the United States who support a re-evaluation of our nation’s incarceration policies.”
Mano a Mano.
I have noticed something about people who've been in a few real fights, who've been injured and fought back: They tend not to see violence as a ready solution to problems. They've tried it, or had it tried on them, and they know its costs and its limitations.
I think that's a really valuable perspective for a person to have.Unfortunately, people with this perspective are much more likely to end up selling magazines door-to-door rather than, say, determining our nation's foreign policy. They rarely govern states or run for President, or write editorial columns for the New York Times or the Washington Post, or get interviewed by Charlie Rose. Which is a shame, because it means that the people who do make policy and write editorials and get interviewed on national television tend to skew heavily toward the perspective that violence is easy, cheap, morally defensible, and loads of fun.
Ministers’ ‘national dialogue’ on obesity falls short for health advocates
Health ministers from across Canada have announced a national dialogue in the battle against obesity – but some experts say it’s time to stop talking about weight and go about actually fixing unhealthy lifestyles.More than a year after U.S. first lady Michelle Obama launched a high-profile anti-obesity campaign aimed at children south of the border, health ministers from across Canada announced on Monday an attempt to tackle the issue here.
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- The Canadian initiative is being called a “national dialogue” that will solicit feedback from the public, non-governmental organizations, industry and other groups to help figure out what actions to take to combat childhood obesity.
The majority of Canadians are overweight or obese, a serious public health problem leading to predictions of countless new cases of chronic disease that, if left unchecked, could overwhelm the health-care system.
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