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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Showing posts with label Arrest of Bradley Manning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arrest of Bradley Manning. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

14 December - Plausible Deniability as Statecraft

Portrait of the fallen Cpl Patrick Tillman, a ...Image via Wikipedia

Amazing Speech about Terrorism- You Tube

JB Campbell: Anti-American

The leakers are being called “anti-American.”

Castro, along with every other Communist leader in the world, was put in power by the US government. Then our government exploited the “threat” presented by Communism to justify “defense spending” and lucrative no-win wars. Today, the Chicoms, those ultimate Communists, are our business partners and we have arranged for the anti-Communist Moslems to be our new worst enemies.

The more I studied US history over the next few years, the more I came to hate everything this country stands for, or pretends to stand for. American history turns out to be one gigantic lie, as phony as a Hollywood movie. In fact, all we have come to believe about ourselves has pretty much come from Hollywood. This is no exaggeration. 

Eisenhower speaks with U.S. paratroops of the ...Image via WikipediaThe whole American experience is based on mass murder and land-grabs and lies (broken treaties). Not one treaty made by the US Army with the Indians was left unbroken. The buffalo were exterminated just to cripple the Plains Indians. To punish the Nez Perce for resisting another broken treaty, the army slaughtered thousands of their Appaloosa horses. The army put the Nez Perce in boxcars in the winter of ’77 and shipped them to Ft. Leavenworth. This is the actual American way.

Upon war’s end, Eisenhower put the plan into effect with his order to starve to death all captured German PoWs. This is documented in James Bacque’s Other Losses. Over a million German prisoners died eating grass and bugs out in open fields in the American starvation program from May to December, 1945.Then, Ike starved millions more German civilians throughout that period ‘til 1947, when the Cold War started and America needed Germany to pretend to fight our erstwhile ally, Stalin. This merciless starvation program is documented also by Bacque in his Crimes & Mercies. Naïve people have doubted this crime against humanity.

Bacque estimates that between nine and thirteen million Germans were slaughtered in Eisenhower’s starvation and forced exposure operation in two years. American Propaganda during the Cold War.Image via Wikipedia

The hysterical beast, Josef Stalin, who fled Moscow at the approach of the German army, gave the order that any Red Army soldier who surrendered was to be shot when the war was over. This was well-known. Nevertheless, Dwight Eisenhower broke all international laws regarding treatment of captured enemy forces and ordered the rounding up and handing over of these men and their families. Approximately five million of them were forced into boxcars by US Army soldiers at bayonet point and sent east to Hungary, where they were taken off the trains and either shot by the tracks or sent to the Gulag Archipelago to be worked to death over the next year. This was documented also by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his monumental record of Soviet/American bestiality. I have interviewed veterans who participated in this unimaginable betrayal of humanity.

Reportedly, the only photo on Ike’s Oval Office desk was one of Josef Stalin—autographed.

Did you know that Ho Chi Minh was a US intelligence agent during World War II? He made his reports to the OSS at the Texaco office in Hanoi. Did you know that the American OSS installed Ho Chi Minh in power in the northern half of Indochina in 1945?
Football star and millionaire Pat Tillman fell for the 9/11 legend and joined the Army Rangers to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. But then he and his brother were sent to Iraq, which puzzled them both. Why Iraq? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (but neither did Osama or Afghanistan). Pat Tillman signed his own death warrant with his questions and complaints about invading Iraq. So he was sent back to Afghanistan to be silenced.

My old man was a marine in the first World War. I said to him, Man, you made the world safe for Democracy! He just looked at me, like, very funny.

It is not safe to shoot your mouth off these days and hasn’t been for a long time. The military is not making it any safer, in fact, just the opposite. The US military is breaking the law wholesale by acting as “law enforcement,” in complete violation of the law (Posse Comitatus). But shut my mouth, because there is no law anymore. We’re under the law of the gun, or Deuteronomy, which is the same thing.

  ( What do you think the plan is for the USA ? )The old-time warrior--Nez Percé, c.1910. Nez P...Image via Wikipedia

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Interview With Gordon Duff: Wikileaks Debunked - Video

Collateral Murder

 

The WikiLeaks Revolution Will Be Twittered

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For anyone who has studied the craft of intelligence and of disinformation, a clear pattern emerges in the Wikileaks drama.
The focus is put on select US geopolitical targets, appearing as Hillary Clinton put it “to justify US sanctions against Iran.”
It is almost too perfectly-scripted to be true. A discontented 22-year old US Army soldier on duty in Baghdad, Bradley Manning, a low-grade US Army intelligence analyst, described as a loner, a gay in the military, a disgruntled “computer geek,” sifts through classified information at Forward Operating Base Hammer. He decides to secretly download US State Department email communications from the entire world over a period of eight months for hours a day, onto his blank CDs while pretending to be listening to Lady Gaga. In addition to diplomatic cables, Manning is believed to have provided WikiLeaks with helicopter gun camera video of an errant US attack in Baghdad on unarmed journalists, and with war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Manning then is supposed to have tracked down a notorious former US computer hacker to get his 250,000 pages of classified US State Department cables out in the Internet for the whole world to see. He allegedly told the US hacker that the documents he had contained “incredible, awful things that belonged in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington, DC.” The hacker turned him in to US authorities so the story goes. Manning is now incommunicado since months in US military confinement so we cannot ask him, conveniently. The Pentagon routinely hires the best hackers to design their security systems.
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An Obama foreign policy win in South Sudan

( Ezra Klein Tweeted this. My reaction ? Korea. Vietnam. Iraq. Palestine...etc.   Partition R US 

'The viability of a state 'established' by outside force is directly related to the constant punitive action applied by that force...with appropriate graft supplied' . Call that "John's Constant".

And the awfulness of Iran and North Korea ? Dear Me, Yes. Those warred on for decades are likely to have an attitude problem. Are they a risk outside their borders ? How  ? Kindly elucidate...at definite risk of smackdown by my referring directly to who actually has a ready supply of nuclear weaponry flaunted openly.  MADD only is proposed to work when the 'other' poses a viable threat. )

  (In)Justice Department Prepares for Ominous Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting Activists

Nonviolent First Amendment speech and advocacy "coordinated with" or "under the direction of" a foreign group listed by the Secretary of State as "terrorist" is a crime.

The search warrants and grand jury subpoenas make it clear that the federal prosecutors are intent on accusing public nonviolent political organizers, many of whom are affiliated with Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), of providing "material support" through their public advocacy for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Secretary of State has determined that both the PLFP and the FARC "threaten US national security, foreign policy or economic interests," a finding not reviewable by the courts, and listed both groups as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO).

Propaganda Alert! U.S. homeland security report: Facebook used by Al Qaeda to recruit terrorists and swap bomb recipes



Reports from international inspectors indicate that the Iranians are experimenting with advanced centrifuges, but have not installed them on an industrial scale, despite years of efforts. Those efforts have been slowed by sabotage, officials said.
“The U.S. and its allies are doing everything we can to try to make sure that we complicate matters for them,” Mr. Samore added.
( I wonder if anyone realized that is a candid admission that the USA is violating the NPT )

EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees

 New Congress plans to freeze climate change committee

News Corp’s “The Australian”. Think. Again. – Round Two!

Thursday the 25th of November, Julie Posetti tweeted a comment on climate change that was made by Asa Wahlquist, who was a member of one of the panels that were interviewed throughout the day. Wahlquist, who is a former rural reporter for “The Australian” was alleged by Posetti to have said “in the lead up to the election, the Ed(itor) in Chief was increasingly telling me what to write”.

Lo and behold a short time later, The Australian‘s Editor-in-Chief Chris Mitchell announced that he was going to pursue legal action against Posetti, who is a highly respected academic at the University of Canberra and journalist.

 Universe without end - or crop circles in the sky?

There has been extensive study of background radiation from the initial burst of electromagnetic energy out of which which all that we can see and observe, and a good deal that we can't, came to be ( Big Bang ). NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite has been mapping this radiation for years. Now, a new study suggests that there are rings of cooler temperatures within this radiation, which suggest that our universe was not a unique one-time event.
V.G. Gurzadyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia) and Roger Penrose (Oxford University) have published an article which uses mathematical symbols that will be Greek to the non-astronomer. Penrose suggested, theoretically, that our universe is the result of "conformal cyclic cosmology." That means the an infinite series of universes, each within its own aeon, a new, fresh universe emerging from the end of the previous one.
He said if that were true, then there should be circular patterns of cooler temperatures in the data mapped by the satellite, reflecting collisions of super-massive black holes in the preceding aeon. Gurzadyan presents data from 7-year maps from WMAP satellite data which show such circular effects. The authors interpret them as "impulsive bursts of energy in the initial material in the universe," or in our aeon of a universe with no beginning and no end.
In a sense, the authors report, this data "actually allows us to 'see through' the big bang into the previous aeon."

NH: Christian parents want book banned for depiction of Jesus Christ

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed," refers to Christ* as a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist." "Nickel and Dimed" is a first-person account of author Barbara Ehrenreich's attempts to make ends meet while working minimum wage jobs in Florida, Maine and Minnesota. The book offers a realistic and powerful account of the economic struggle for America's working poor.

Ehrenreich correctly goes on to point out that Jesus wanted everyone to sell all their stuff and give all their money to the poor. Jesus advocated a radical redistribution of the weath. Jesus taught wealth was immoral. 

( *And for those who don't usually peruse 'Christian' writings, Jesus is routinely identified as 'Christ'  outside the Bible - a Greek term. To make putative sense of that requires a guided tour. )

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

5 December - Spin and Counterspin | Leaks & Propositions

Extraordinary Renditions allegedly have been c...Image via Wikipediathe Atlantic

Anti Bullying Laws and the Misguided Drive for Social Equality - Wendy Kaminer

Most PopularLogo used by WikileaksImage via Wikipedia

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The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
Assange may or may not be grandiose, paranoid and delusional - terms that might be fairly applied at one time or another  to most prominent investigative reporters of my acquaintance. But the fact that so many prominent old school journalists are attacking him with such unbridled force is a symptom of the failure of traditional reporting methods to penetrate a culture of official secrecy that has grown by leaps and bounds since 9/11, and threatens the functioning of a free press as a cornerstone of democracy.
The true importance of Wikileaks -- and the key to understanding the motivations and behavior of its founder -- lies not in the contents of the latest document dump but in the technology that made it possible, which has already shown itself to be a potent weapon to undermine official lies and defend human rights. Since 1997, Assange has devoted a great deal of his time to inventing encryption systems that make it possible for human rights workers and others to protect and upload sensitive data. The importance of Assange's efforts to human rights workers in the field were recognized last year by Amnesty International, which gave him its Media Award for the Wikileaks investigation The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances, which documented the killing and disappearance of 500 young men in Kenya by the police, with the apparent connivance of the country's political leadership.
Yet the difficulties of documenting official murder in Kenya pale next to the task of penetrating the secret world that threatens to swallow up informed public discourse in this country about America's wars.
( It's only a 'threat', then ? I doubt that very much. The idiots disrupting comment threads are everywhere - and it is naive indeed to think that accidental. )
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The Mystery of John McCain
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Must-Read: NYT-Wikileaks on China and Google
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Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks
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The Year in Cones: 2010's Biggest Ice Cream Trends
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30 Most Dynamic Cities in the World
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Orbital View: Crippling Snow in Britain
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How to Deal With a Crazy Dude Whose House is Full of Explosive Material
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John McCain: 'You Should Be Ashamed
 

KUHNER: Assassinate Assange

Web provocateur undermines war on terror, threatens American lives

( If he threatens the 'War on Terror' he is indeed priceless.  I wonder what the penalty is for inciting to murder ? ) 

Eight Years Later, Washington Post Still Defending The Saddam-Niger-Yellowcake Story

I’ve not seen the new film Fair Game, the story of how CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by the Bush administration by way of discrediting her husband Joe Wilson’s public contradiction of one of the administration’s multiple false claims on Iraqi WMD, so I can’t speak to how much it does or doesn’t play with the truth of what happened. This, however, from the Washington Post’s editorial “review” of the film, is pretty clearly dishonest: ..... It’s not as if the Post’s editors are a disinterested party here, having played a key role themselves in pushing the case for the Iraq war. Hilariously, the editors write that “the film’s reception illustrates a more troubling trend of political debates in Washington in which established facts are willfully ignored.” I quite agree, though I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect greater respect for those established facts from the Washington Post than from a Hollywood movie.  (  I have always been at least as interested in the fact that it irretrievably destroyed Brewster-Jennings' field operation collecting actual information for the CIA Middle East Nuclear Threat Desk which Val Plame { Wilson } ran. That is something to consider when evaluating the purported 'danger' posed by Iran today : the lies violating the Third Pillar of the NPT being an established scam that has run for decades. )

Sivan Kartha: Getting the facts right on KyotoHow to DealImage via Wikipedia

Climate change is caused not just by today’s carbon emissions, but by carbon accumulated in the atmosphere due to years of emissions.  If you gauge emissions on a historical basis, developed countries are responsible for more than 75 percent.

If we talk of countries’ capability with respect to solving the climate problem, it is clear that the great majority of financial and technological wherewithal resides in the North. The developed world controls approximately three-quarters of the world’s GDP. If one takes into account that a much higher fraction of GDP goes toward meeting very basic needs, such as food, shelter, and medical care, then the North controls more like six-sevenths of the world’s discretionary GDP.

( And we wonder why small countries ran for their lives at Copenhagen )

Climate, etc.

 Reversing the direction of the positive feedback loop

There has been a particularly toxic positive feedback loop between climate science and policy and politics, whose direction has arguably been reversed as result of Climategate.

International efforts to deal with the climate change problem were launched in 1992 with the UNFCCC treaty.

Wait a minute, what climate change problem?  In 1992, we had just completed the first IPCC assessment report, here was their conclusion:  “The size of this warming is broadly consistent with predictions of climate models, but it is also of the same magnitude as natural climate variability.  . . The unequivocal detection of the enhanced greenhouse effect from observations is not likely for a decade or more.” Nevertheless, the policy cart was put before the scientific horse, justified by the precautionary principle.  Once the UNFCCC treaty was a done deal, the IPCC and its scientific conclusions were set on a track to become a self fulfilling prophecy.
At the heart of the IPCC is a cadre of scientists whose careers have been made by the IPCC.  These scientists have used the IPCC to jump the normal meritocracy process by which scientists achieve influence over the politics of science and policy.  Not only has this brought some relatively unknown, inexperienced  and possibly dubious people into positions of influence, but these people become vested in protecting the IPCC, which has become central to their own career and legitimizes playing power politics with their expertise.

 Reporters Without Borders Internet censorship ...Image via WikipediaEducation versus indoctrination

The Wikipedia defines indoctrination as:
Indoctrination is the process of inculcating ideas, attitudes, cognitive strategies or a a professional methodology.   It is often distinguished from education  by the fact that the indoctrinated person is expected not to question or critically examine the doctrine they have learned.
No one out there seemed to be clued in to my entry behaviour. They seemed primarily involved in one of two things. First, disseminating not things that would help me think for myself, but convince me one way or the other. Second, things which I could perceived had educative value, but which were presented at too demanding a level. I was often referred to scienceofdoom, and all sides seemed to think that site is worthy. But it started at too high a level, and from my viewpoint rapidly went stratospheric. I needed something to bridge the gap between entry behaviour and that.
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