Sweden - Somali Rapes Sample

ꕤ Article SOURCE as marked Sweden - Somali Rapes Sample ------- Swedish to English Translated https://archive.is/0gm10 The woman died during the rape - he continued to rape anyway Published November 27, 2013 at 20:25 A 34-year old man from Somalia accused of raping a dying woman in a garage in Stockholm. According to the prosecutor the woman died during the rape, but the man chose to continue the abuse. Prosecution has also brought for breach griftefriden. It was early in the morning of 27 September, police received an alarm that the two men had intercourse with a completely eliminated woman on the floor of a parking garage under the Sheraton Hotel in Vasagatan in Stockholm. When police arrived, they found a 34 year old man from Somalia, who was in the throes of an anal intercourse with the woman. Police checked the woman's pulse and found that she was dead. The man was arrested by police and detained two days later by the Stockholm District Court on suspicion of rape. The prosecutor had requested his detention for the murder, but the district court found that the evidence for the suspicion was not strong enough. Now the 34-year-old accused of rape and crimes against griftefriden [precise definition unknown:  crime relates to mistreatment of corpse]. According to the indictment, the woman was alive, but totally helpless on the ground such as drug and alcohol influence when the man began a anal intercourse with her. The prosecutor alleges that the woman died during the [assault], and the man then proceeded to have sex with the dead body. '"[34 year old] has ... carried out sexual acts after [the woman] died and thus insult literally treated the body of [the woman]" "wrote prosecutor in the part of the criminal act relating griftefrid [precise definition unknown:  crime relates to mistreatment of corpse] crime. The accused man denies that he would have been guilty of rape. According to him, the issue of voluntary sexual intercourse between him and the woman. But that explanation does not hold, says the prosecutor indicted 34-year-old. - She is dying, and the influence of various products so I mean that she can not give consent to a voluntary intercourse. She is in a vulnerable situation in which this should be classified as a rape, says prosecutor Daniel Jonsson for free times. At autopsy found that the woman had, among other things, alcohol, traces of cocaine and various prescription medications in the body when she died. No signs of external violence is not, according to Daniel Jonsson, who explains that the cause of death is listed as "addiction-related accident" in the autopsy report. The woman may have died of a combination of drug influence and that she was in generally poor physical condition. The other man who witnesses saw at the site has been cleared of suspicion, because the prosecutor deems that there is [not?] enough evidence to charge him with any crime. 34-year-old prosecuted even for another, similar rape alleged to have occurred on 13 August. At that time, the man allegedly sexually assaulted a man under indictment were in a vulnerable position because of "sleep and drunkenness." ------- Swedish to English Translated https://archive.is/0gm10 Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/5wRtO Somali robber raped and Swedish death of woman anally expelled by the Court of Appeal A Swedish woman who was the influence of both the one and the other died during a rape of the married 34-year old Somali Abdi Hakim Ali, in a garage under the Hotel Sheraton in downtown Stockholm in late September. Somali sentenced even for an anal rape of a man. Penalty; five years in prison and though there would not be anyone so deported now Somali. One of the anal rapes were committed against a heavily drunk, sleeping man at a night shelter. The second rape, partly on the film, took place in a parking garage below the Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm. Hakim Ali, has been sentenced to more than 40 (!) Offense since arriving in Sweden in 2006. The Somalis should have life imprisonment without possibility of release. Stockholm District Court sentenced, and the Svea Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of: Abdi Hakim Ali, 781212, address this, Spånga (Rinkeby). Citizens of Somalia. Interpreter Buyers in Somali.    Case No. B 2654-13, B 129-14 Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/5wRtO Moving onto another Somali Rapist: Somali immigrant to Sweden rapes 12-year-old girl, sentenced to community service' By LU Staff July 3, 2015 An 18-year-old Somali immigrant to that Scandinavian country who violently raped a 12-year-old female has been punished with a mere 180 hours of community service. According to recently released court documents, translated by The Daily Caller News Foundation, on Nov. 10, 2014, Guled Mohamud, a Somali citizen who now resides in Sundsvall, lured to his home an unidentified girl who had just days before turned 12 years old. He apparently was able to draw her into his apartment by having a friend claim to possess intimate photographs of her. Once the girl was in his home, Mohamud violently raped the preteen, tearing her jacket off and holding her to the ground while repeatedly striking her face. He then forced the girl to perform oral sex on him, while repeatedly taunting her sexually. When the girl returned home, she was covered with blood and bruises. Mohamud tried to claim he had been in a three-month romantic relationship with the girl, and that she had claimed to be 16 years old, and that he therefore had only committed the lesser offense of sexually exploiting a minor (Sweden’s age of consent is 15). The girl denied ever dating Mohamud, and the court dismissed his defense as not credible, finding that he fully understood the girl had not consented and was under 15 years of age. He was convicted June 24. Even in famously lenient Sweden, the punishment for rape is supposed to be a minimum of two years and a maximum of six (the maximum is bumped up to ten years for aggravated rape). Mohamud, however, will spend no time in prison. Instead, the court used its power to impose non-prison punishments and sentenced him to 180 hours of supervised community service, the equivalent of about 22 days of unpaid work. He will also have to pay his victim damages of about $15,000 for physical and psychological suffering. The court justified Mohamud’s light punishment by noting that he was 17 years old at the time, had no prior convictions, and had “some trouble with anxiety and sleep problems” for which he took medication. Based on this, the court ruled him fit for community service rather than prison. While the court’s judgment would almost certainly appal Americans, it was not considered unusual even by Mohamud’s prosecutor, Christina Edlund Nilsson. “There is nothing shocking or surprising [about this],” Nilsson told the Fria Tider, a Swedish newspaper. She said the ruling reflected precedent for how the country treats juvenile offenders. Punishments that are shockingly lenient by American standards are a modern Scandinavian tradition. Even Anders Breivik, the Norwegian who butchered 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree in 2011, received a maximum sentence of 21 years, and will be eligible for parole after a mere 10. This report, by Geoffrey Ingersoll, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation. ------- http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/07/03/somali-immigrant-to-sweden-rapes-12-year-old-girl-gets-community-service/ ------- http://www.nyatider.nu/gruppvaldtakt-pa-finlandsfarja/ Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/KtgYg Amorella Nya Tider reveals: The four "Swedes" who have been detained for gang rape are Somali nationals Blazing headlines in Aftonbladet, Expressen and other media proclaimed that "six Swedes", later "eight Swedes" had been arrested for a rough gang rape of a Finnish ferry. Nya Tider is now the first newspaper to reveal that not even nödlögnen that the arrested Somalis are "Swedish citizens' right - all the detainees are Somali citizens, and all suspects have only a Swedish citizenship. Published: February 6, 2015 14:43 It was the night between Friday and Saturday last week that the suspected rape took place on the Finnish ferry Viking Amorella, which was on the route between Stockholm and Turku. A 45-year-old woman should have been tricked in a cabin of one of the perpetrators, and then gang-raped when more penetrated the cabin. Media, which tends to be overzealous in their eagerness to follow the point in the "press ethics" that explains that you should not emphasize the person's ethnic origin or nationality if it "has no significance in this context and is disrespectful" made rapidly interpretation that it was important to emphasize the arrested rapist be Swedish. "Six Swedish men raped the woman in the cab," declared Aftonbladet. "Six Swedes arrested for the rape of ferry" trumpeted Expressen. Metro had the same title but with "finland ferry" instead of just "ferry". "Many Swedish men suspected of raping Finnish ferry," read DN's heading. While the TT was meant by "Six Swedes were arrested for ferry rape". It seems that the original proposition, that there were six Swedes who were arrested, were not the Swedish media figment, but stemmed from statements made ​​by the Finnish police made ​​the Ilta-Sanomat. Soon, however, it became clear that there were few ethnic Swedes who were arrested. In social media came up data from the Swedes, who has been on the cruise that the perpetrators were of Somali origin. This did not, however, continued to shout from the rooftops perpetrators' nationality. "Six Swedes" became "eight Swedes" when more suspects were arrested when the ferry came back to Sweden. "One informant stated Aftonbladet that the woman should have been tricked by the cab of one of the offender. Once in the cab joined several men who pushed her down on her back and pulled her clothes. Then raped her, according to the woman's information. "So wrote Aftonbladet Richard Aschberg and Victor Stenquist February 2nd. "Already during the weekend arrested a total of eight Swedish men suspected of involvement in the gang rape," they wrote in the same article. At this point, it was already known to readers of alternative media, or nätfora as Flashback, that the alleged perpetrators had names like Mohamed, Ahmed and Abdullahi. Still adopted, however, the majority of the Swedish media have not lied straight out, but had simply failed to write ethnicity but wrote their proper, formal nationality - they were Somalis with Swedish citizenship. Nya Tider can now reveal that this too is a lie. All four men currently detained, on probable cause suspected of aggravated rape, have Somali citizenship. Declaration by the old media? Nya Tider has sought [comment of] Aftonbladet and Expressen editorial managers, news directors and the Aftonbladet head of the newsroom, but to arrive. TT's editorial director Mats Johansson succeeded, however, we receive answers from, but he explained while he himself is poorly versed in this specific case. Disco Aluminum, Amorella Rapists made overtures towards the Swedish woman, but when she turned down those they raped her. NYT: First, you wrote "Six Swedes were arrested for ferry rape". Since it emerged in social media and in other ways that these men were not Swedes, but Somalis. As it says in the next article: "Once detained for ferry rape" and he described as a "man" of a certain age. Why it was [this] considered more relevant [than] to state nationality when it was assumed to be Swedish? - I can not know the details of that, but perhaps we can say that it was a ferry between Sweden and Finland. Typically, the well much swedes and a large part pimples. NYT: I was ready to buy that argument on at least some level about ed of Swedish citizens, but it does it's not. Is not it just as important for a collection Somali citizen commits a gang rape on a ferry between Sweden and Finland? - I do not know what information we had at the beginning, so I can not answer that. NYT: Now is the detention hearing against three of the suspects today. Will you indicate nationality when you write about it? - I'm in other meetings today, so I really do not know. I have not been directly involved in that. We ask Mats Johansson, who in this case we should turn to our questions, and he promises to call back later. At this writing, we still hope that he will deliver on his promise. When Aschberg and Stenquist published his article in Aftonbladet had, as I said already emerged in the social media that the perpetrators were Somalis. It is hard to escape the suspicion of an attempt at "damage control" when the two writers instead began to emphasize men allegedly Swedish citizenship. They went so far as to falsify what authority people would have said to them. "She will now request that the matter be investigated in Sweden when both the victim and the alleged perpetrators are Swedish citizens," they wrote about the prosecutor Elisabeth Brandt. Prosecutor: Aftonbladet lying, rapists are not Swedish citizens - Yes you do, it will account for Aftonbladet in that case, said prosecutor Brandt as Nya Tider asks if she really said so, given that the men not at all Swedish nationals, with the exception of one of the suspects who have already been released. NYT: You do not recognize that you would have said then? - No, what I said in that case that they are resident in Sweden. Neither Lars Andersson, group manager at the City Police's sexual crime group - Aftonbladet also referred to for preparing the Somalis as Swedish citizens - recognize that he would have said so, but he's not as confident as Brandt that he could not have said wrong. Update: In one case, uncertainty arose as to the nationality, as the Tax unlike arrest petition stated that Somali became a Swedish citizen in 2010. In the other three cases, the Swedish Tax Agency and arrest request unanimous: they are Somali citizens. Continued in the next paper edition of Nya Tider. http://www.nyatider.nu/gruppvaldtakt-pa-finlandsfarja/ ------- Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/KtgYg ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT A random sample of Somali rapes in Sweden. Somali Rape - A - Hakim Ali - Dead Woman | & Passed Out Man We have a drug impaired woman that's died during sexual assault No. 2 (of two), during anal rape by Somali, who continues to rape a dead body and is caught in the act by police (after police were called by passer-by who witnessed two perps assaulting woman on floor of undercover parking lot). Perpetrator has extensive criminal history in Sweden, including sexual assaults history.  History of deportation from South Africa (according to other source).  Given over 40 crimes perpetrated in Sweden since 2006, Swedish authorities appear negligent for not deporting this criminal well before this renewed round of rapes. The first perpetrator in that assault scenario took off and it appears the Swedish police couldn't manage to find anything to prosecute him for, but it doesn't sound like they tried too hard when (a) he surely would have left DNA and (b) when the dead woman being screwed in the underground car-park in Stockholm was, clearly, in no position to give consent owing to the high level of intoxication, drug & alcohol. Nonetheless, Swedish authorities don't even make anything stick re Somali anal rapist perp No. 2 (as I understand) ... but they got him on a rape of a male victim, who was anally raped at a shelter, while vulnerable:  drunk and passed out.  Anyone see a pattern here?    Sentence for anally raping a drunk, passed out guy in Sweden is:  5 years of cosseting in a Swedish prison. Somali Rape - B - Minor (12 years old) 17 year old Somali male lures 12 year old victim to his residence and violently sexually assaults victim: -- violent rape / sexual humiliation -- tearing clothes -- holding down to ground -- repeatedly striking face -- forced oral sex -- victim covered with blood & bruises Said Somali rapist attempted to lie his way out, but the authorities don't buy his lies. Nonetheless, Somali violent rapist of Swedish minor (a mere 12 year old), is given the equivalent of 18 hours (22 days) community service as a sentence for violent rapes:  ostensibly, because he's had insomnia and has no prior convictions.  But, hey, it's early days:  he's 17. Somali Gang Rape -  C - (Finnish Ferry - 'Viking Amorella') Six to 8 gang Somali gang rape of 45 year old woman on ferry, who was lured and attacked, having declined earlier advances. Swedish media portrays this as a gang rape by 'Swedish' men although it was soon discovered via social media / alternate media that the perpetrators were not Swedes and, as I read this translation, although the perpetrators were not even Swedish citizens (not that this would excuse what amounts to misleading to the public, given that 'citizenship' is a mere legal formality totally divorced of facts that are vital to making informed decisions re (a) safety (b) criminality (c) policy (d) and much more). The Swedish politicians that allow this to be committed against unsuspecting Swedes (and probably other Europeans, given the Shengen open borders arrangement) are negligent pigs. ꕤ

Yemen re Iran - False Accusations, False Testimony, False Reports, Fake News & Iran Vilification

ꕤ Article SOURCE Gareth Porter Independent Investigative Journalist / Historian US National Security Policy Link | Source "How False Stories of Iran Arming the Houthis Were Used to Justify War in Yemen" Thursday, 31 December 2015 10:42 By Gareth Porter, Truthout | News Analysis Independent Investigative Journalist / Historian US National Security Policy Link | Source Summary March 2015 Bombing campaign initiated by Saudi Arabia + Gulf allies + US support Rationale for Saudi-led war on Yemen: Houthis portrayed as merely proxies of Iran Houthis allegedly armed by Iran (for years) allegations repeatedly echoed in press allegation not proven yet allegation REINFORCED by UN experts report UNSC PANEL OF EXPERTS - REPORT REPORT UN Security Council from:  Panel of Experts established  pursuant to Security Council resolution 1929 (2010) Link | UNSC Panel of Experts Report Report dated:  1 June 2015 Salomé  Zourabichvili (Coordinator Panel Experts) Mowaffaq al-Refai (Expert) Jonathan Brewer (Expert) Christian Kessler (Expert) Chunjie Li (Expert) Thomas Mazet (Expert) Kazuto Suzuki (Expert) Elena Vodopolavoa (Expert) RESULTS REPORT -- concluded Iran shipping arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen -- allegedly by sea, since at least 2009 HOWEVER -- investigation of x2 main allegations re arms by Yemen govt -- & cited by expert panel -- shows both allegations "CRUDELY CONSTRUCTED RUSES" -- President Saleh govt of Yemen -- claimed vessel (Mahan 1) seized Yemen waters Oct 2009 -- & that weapons found on-board (& Iran crew x5 convicted) WIKILEAKS CABLES 2010 -- (from US Embassy in Yemen) REVEALS -- 'arms onboard' was concocted by Yemen government -- US cable of 11 Nov. 2009 reported to WA that: -- Yemen govt failed to substantiate public claims -- cable stated:  'sensitive reporting' -- (ie US intelligence reports) -- convey that SHIP WAS CARRYING NO WEAPONS AT ALL -- given US knowledge, Yemen govt began changing story -- (subsequent US cable notes) --  Yemen changed story to: --  ship empty, so arms must have been delivered -- Article says, Pres. Saleh, Yemen -- hoped to use Iran arms story to get political support of US -- for war against Houthis (planned 'Op Scorched Earth') YEMEN ARMS - MASSIVE MARKET -- local arms market massive -- directly from Yemen military itself -- would explain where Houthis get arms from 2013 - JIHAN 1 (SHIP) -- seized Jan 23, 2013 -- arms on-board (true) -- but story of arms shipment from Iran is false -- joint patrol: Yemen Coast Guard & US Navy -- intercepted Jihan 1 ship -- cargo:  portable SAM (& misc. multiple other) -- weeks later, UN expert panel inspects arms seized -- 'Ministry of Sepah' labels found on arms boxes -- ie of former Iranian military logistics ministry -- but no evidence connecting this to Iran -- all crew & businessmen who arranged shipment from Yemen -- no evidence for manufacture in Iran -- allegations centred on testimony of Yemen crew -- but GPS evidence not cited by panel -- (as match for crew story) -- panel claimed it had no info re location of loading of arms WEAPONS UNDER DIESEL FUEL TANKS -- weapons hidden under diesel fuel tanks -- weapons could only be accessed after tanks emptied -- report fails to discuss the significance of this fact -- ie points to Yemen origin of arms 2013 - REPORT UNSC MONITORING GROUP -- on Somalia & Eritrea -- says Jihan 1 crew divulged to diplomatic source: -- ship headed for SOMALIA -- confirmed by unnamed Yemen official -- not disclosed to UNSC expert panel -- (per UN Monitoring Report) SOMALIA -- destination Somalia -- Jihan 1 commercial smuggling / not politically motivated -- smuggling diesel fuel from Yemen to Somalia - lucrative -- long-standing combo smuggling arms / Yemen to Somalia -- Somalia outlawed fuel import b/c of arms smuggling -- UN Monitoring Group report -- reveals series of arms shipments to Somalia (late 2012) -- before Jihan 1 seized -- similar weapons main Jihan 1 shipment -- report from Somalia (& own UNSC Monitoring Group) -- Yemen = source of weapons -- key evidence:  Bulgaria govt to UN Monitoring Group -- stating rocket propelled grenade rounds + other -- seized in Somalia -- Bulgaria made & delivered to Yemen armed forces 2010 Going by info in UNSC Monitoring Group Report -- arms on Jihan 1 belong to Yemen arms smugglers -- Yemen govt exploited the situation, after transit busted -- Yemen govt concocted the Iran story -- Yemen govt had Yemen crew feed UN panel concocted story UNSC Monitoring Group Report -- re Somalia & Eritrea -- problematic re concocted anti-Iran story -- Yemen govt Western backers put a new spin on the story -- Reuters quoted 'Western diplomat' -- claimed Iran supplying al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia -- noted C-4 explosives -- (used by al-shabaab terrorist bombings but not Houthi MO) -- claim not credible b/c -- al-Shabaab = close ties to al-Qaeda (enemy of Iran) -- story only reported in pro-Saudi & pro-Israeli media Yemen govt concocted 'Iran arms' on Jihan 1 story +  recycled UNSC expert panel report =  key, widely accepted narrative re Iran in Middle East SOURCE Gareth Porter Independent Investigative Journalist / Historian US National Security Policy Link | Source ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT As the source states no reproduction without permission, I've tried to summarise the article rather than copy over & mark up, like I do. Not sure how I went with summary.  I'm sure I've covered everything, but it's probably not hugely different from the original. Anyway, there it is.  That means the bombing of Yemen and the vilification of Iran is based on false claims, fake testimony, fake reports, fake news stories and fake anti-Iran spin.  Wow. ꕤ

Transcript - Assange - Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money

ꕤ Video SOURCE Harry Fear TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTEQxR07Iw&feature=youtu.be JULIAN ASSANGE OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) ꕤ  Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- TRANSCRIPT [for quotation purposes, confirm audio] Julian Assange - OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Mass Assembly in London 10th anniversary of the Afghan war and the formation of the Stop the War Coalition Anas Altikriti Assembly chair Brothers & Sisters, Friends, Ladies & Gentlemen: Our next speaker is someone who changed the face of the landscape of news reporting, forever. Our next speaker struggled to get here today, because for 306 days he's been placed under house arrest, with no charge. Someone we all know. Someone we respect. Someone we admire for what he has done for the truth and for news around the world. Please welcome:  Julian Assange. [applause] Julian Assange Editor, WikiLeaks Thank you.  Thank you. Well, what a wonderful crowd. It's not a crowd that I often get to see. It's very heartening to see that so many people care about the values that I hold dear. And there's something I want to talk about. What can we do with our values?  What can we do at all, in relation to this war?  Because the reality is Margaret Thatcher had it right:  there is no society anymore. What there is, is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world, using your tax money. To combat that elite, we must not petition:  we must take it over. We must form our own networks of strength and mutual value, which can challenge those strengths and self-interested values of the warmongers in this country, and in others, that have formed, hand in hand, an alliance to take money from the United States -- from every NATO country, from Australia -- and:  launder it through Afghanistan; launder it through Iraq; launder it through Somalia; launder it through Yemen; launder it through Pakistan; and wash that money in peoples' blood. I don't need to tell you the depravity of war.  You are all too familiar with its images, with the refugees of war, with information that we have revealed showing the everyday squalor and barbarity of war. Information such as the individual deaths of over 130,000 people in Iraq. Individual deaths that were kept secret by the US military who denied that they ever counted the deaths of civilians. Instead, I want to tell you what I think is the way that wars come to be and that wars can be undone. In democracies, or the pseudo democracies that we are evolving into, wars are a result of lies. The Vietnam War and the push for US involvement was the result of the Gulf of Tonkin incident:  a lie. The Iraq War, famously, is a result of lies. Wars in Somalia are a result of lies. The Second World War and the German invasion of Poland was the result of carefully constructed lies. That is war by media. Let us ask ourselves of the complicit media -- which is the majority of the mainstream press -- what is the average death count attributed to each journalist? When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public, and the American public, and the publics all over Europe and other countries, then who are the war criminals? It is not just leaders, it is not just soldiers:  it is journalists. Journalists are war criminals. And while one might think that that should lead us to a state of despair, that the reality that is constructed around us is constructed by liars, is constructed by people who are close to those that they are meant to be policing:  it should lead us also to an optimistic understanding, because if wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth. [applause] So that is our task and it is your task. Go and get the truth. Get into the ballpark and get the ball, and give it to us and we'll spread it all over the world. [applause] Anas Altikriti Assembly chair Julian Assange. [applause] --- end 6:52 --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTEQxR07Iw&feature=youtu.be ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- McNamara admits:  It didn't happen Gulf of Tonkin Incident ꕤ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. The black art of news management John Pilger, Investigative Journalist 3 June 2010 EXTRACTS ONLY How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proof of North Vietnam’s aggression”. This followed a claim, also fake, that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had attacked an American warship in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964. “The CIA,” he said, “loaded up a junk, a North Vietnamese junk, with communist weapons - the Agency maintains communist arsenals in the United States and around the world. They floated this junk off the coast of central Vietnam. Then they shot it up and made it look like a fire fight had taken place, and they brought in the American press. Based on this evidence, two Marine landing teams went into Danang and a week after that the American air force began regular bombing of North Vietnam.” An invasion that took three million lives was under way. FULL @ SOURCE http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-black-art-of-news-management 30-year Anniversary:  Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon Thirty years ago, it all seemed very clear. “American Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers; Move Taken to Halt New Aggression”, announced a Washington Post headline on Aug. 5, 1964. That same day, the front page of the New York Times reported: “President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and ‘certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam’ after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.” But there was no “second attack” by North Vietnam — no “renewed attacks against American destroyers.” By reporting official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates for the bloody Vietnam War. A pattern took hold: continuous government lies passed on by pliant mass media…leading to over 50,000 American deaths and millions of Vietnamese casualties. EXTRACT ONLY - FULL AT SOURCE [scroll down at source] https://archive.is/injay POLITICAL PERSECUTION JULIAN ASSANGE Australian Journalist FAQ & Support https://justice4assange.com/ [Figure valid: early January 2016] the WORLD'S Most WANTED Publisher 5 YEARS DETAINED NO CHARGE COLLATERAL MURDER WikiLeaks VIDEO  |  IRAQ (2010) | here LATEST BOOK Assange, Co-Author: The WikiLeaks Files (2015) | here *Collateral Murder link updated. ꕤ

Hollywood Pimps World View Devoted to Control & Destruction

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-oscars-are-a-con Why the Oscars are a con 11 February 2010 - John Pilger Why are so many films so bad? This year's Oscar nominations are a parade of propaganda, stereotypes and downright dishonesty. The dominant theme is as old as Hollywood: America's divine right to invade other societies, steal their history and occupy our memory. When will directors and writers behave like artists and not pimps for a world-view devoted to control and destruction? I grew up on the movie myth of the Wild West, which was harmless enough unless you happened to be a Native American. The formula is unchanged. Self-regarding distortions present the nobility of the American colonial aggressor as a cover for massacre, from the Philippines to Iraq. I only fully understood the power of the con when I was sent to Vietnam as a war reporter. The Vietnamese were "gooks" and "Indians", whose industrial murder was preordained in John Wayne movies and left to Hollywood to glamourise or redeem. I use the word murder advisedly, because what Hollywood does brilliantly is suppress the truth about America's assaults. These are not wars, but the export of a gun-addicted, homicidal "culture". And when the notion of psychopaths as heroes wears thin, the bloodbath becomes an "American tragedy" with a soundtrack of pure angst. Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is in this tradition. A favourite for multiple Oscars, her film is "better than any documentary I've seen on the Iraq war. It's so real it's scary" (Paul Chambers, CNN). Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian reckons it has "unpretentious clarity" and is "about the long and painful endgame in Iraq", and that it "says more about the agony and wrong and tragedy of war than all those earnest well-meaning movies". What nonsense. This film offers a vicarious thrill through yet another standard-issue psychopath, high on violence in somebody else's country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion. The hype around Bigelow is that she may be the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director. How insulting that a woman is celebrated for a typically violent all-male war movie. The accolades echo those for The Deer Hunter (1978), which critics acclaimed as "the film that could purge a nation's guilt"! The Deer Hunter lauded those who had caused the deaths of more than three million Vietnamese, while reducing those who resisted to barbaric commie stick figures. In 2001, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down provided a similar, if less subtle, catharsis for another "noble failure" by the US, this time in Somalia, airbrushing the heroes' massacre of up to 10,000 Somalis. By contrast, the fate of an admirable American war film, Redacted, is instructive. Made in 2007 by Brian De Palma, the film is based on the true story of the gang rape of an Iraqi teenager and the murder of her family by US soldiers. There is no heroism, no purgative. The murderers are murderers, and De Palma ingeniously describes the complicity of Hollywood and the media in the epic crime of Iraq. The film ends with a series of photographs of Iraqi civilians who were killed. When it was ordered that their faces be blacked out "for legal reasons", De Palma said: "I think that's terrible because now we have not even given the dignity of faces to this suffering people. The great irony about Redacted is that it was redacted." After a limited release in the US, the film all but vanished. Non-American (or non-western) humanity is not deemed to have box-office appeal, dead or alive. They are the "other" who are allowed, at best, to be saved by "us". In Avatar, James Cameron's vast and violent money-printer, 3-D noble savages known as the Na'vi need a good-guy American soldier, Sergeant Jake Sully, to save them. This confirms they are "good". Natch. My Oscar for the worst of this year's nominees goes to Invictus, Clint Eastwood's unctuous insult to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Based on a hagiography of Mandela by a British journalist, John Carlin, the film might have been a product of apartheid propaganda. In promoting the racist, thuggish rugby culture as a panacea of the "rainbow nation", Eastwood gives barely a hint that many black South Africans were deeply embarrassed and hurt by Mandela's embrace of the hated springbok symbol of their suffering. He airbrushes white violence - but not black violence, which is ever present as a threat. As for the Boer racists, they have hearts of gold, because they "didn't really know". The subliminal theme is all too familiar: colonialism deserves forgiveness and accommodation, never justice. At first I thought Invictus could not be taken seriously, but then I looked around the cinema at young people and others for whom the horrors of apartheid have no reference, and I understood the damage such a slick travesty does to our memory and its moral lessons. Imagine Eastwood making a happy-Sambo equivalent in America's Deep South. He would not dare. The film most nominated for an Oscar and promoted by the critics is Up in the Air, which stars George Clooney as a man who travels the US sacking people and collecting frequent-flyer points. Before the triteness dissolves into sentimentality, every stereotype is summoned, especially of women. There is a bitch, a saint and a cheat. However, this is "a movie for our times", says the director, Jason Reitman, who boasts about having cast real sacked people. “We interviewed them about what it was like to lose their job in this economy," said he, "then we'd fire them on camera and ask them to respond the way they did when they lost their job . . . It was an incredible experience to watch these non-actors with 100 per cent realism." Wow, what a winner. SOURCE http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-oscars-are-a-con ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- IN SUMMARY What stood out for me re the above: Hollywood pimps world-view devoted to control & destruction Dominant theme: America's divine right to invade steal history  occupy memory  ['rewriting' history + exporting world view & culture, I guess] Self-regarding distortions nobility of the American colonial aggressor  cover for massacre, from:  Philippines - Iraq Hollywood: preordains industrial murder glamourises / redeems industrial murder / "American tragedy" suppresses truth exports gun-addicted, homicidal "culture" psychopaths portrayed as heroes bloodbath turns to "American tragedy" vicarious thrill  /  violence deaths of millions -  consigned to cinematic oblivion Vietnam = over 3-million Vietnamese killed Somalia =  massacre up to 10,000 Somalis Redacted (2007) Brian De Palma /  Iraq - gang rape + murder family - US soldiers *was* redacted Film:  Redacted (2007) Link  |  here Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here COMMENT Noticed this article while grabbing a link to another article, from the author's site. Interesting to see author's take on Hollywood big screen propaganda. I stopped watching movies years ago, so I haven't seen any of these films ... and I probably wouldn't have been attracted to war films, or American hero films, regardless.  Figured it was all propaganda years ago, but I'd never have been able to articulate why it's propaganda, as the author does. ꕤ

TRANSCRIPT - VIDEO - Refugee Crisis: What The Media Is Hiding | Syrian Girl

TRANSCRIPT [for quotation purposes, confirm audio] SOURCE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFnvFbThDE&feature=youtu.be VIDEO TITLE Refugee Crisis: What The Media Is Hiding SYRIAN GIRL This is Syrian Girl. The media is painting the refugee crisis as an acute issue, but the Syrian war and the refugees have been there for four years, and Aylan wasn't the first child refugee to drown. Last month, an 11 year old Syrian girl drowned off the coast of Egypt. So, why is there such a media push now? Well, it's just in time for when France, Britain and Australia were asked to join the US's war on Syria. In fact, the US asked Australia to join its coalition a week before Aylan died. So they're using sympathy for this child's death to drop bombs on more children, while crying crocodile tears over them as they run from those bombs. Just look at this headline from: The Sun Bomb Syria | For Aylan ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. [aside] ⟴ Why Murdoch Pushes for War⟴ by Craig Murray  on September 7, 2015 1:33 pm EXTRACT Given the disgraceful Sun front page and middle spread urging war on Syria, and the all-out propaganda on Sky News, it is important to understand why Murdoch is pushing so hard for war. I therefore reproduce my article from February 2013. It is important to note that the links are to industry publications: this is very genuine, hard information.  Israel Grants Oil Rights in Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild Israel has granted oil exploration rights inside Syria, in the occupied Golan Heights, to Genie Energy. Major shareholders of Genie Energy – which also has interests in shale gas in the United States and shale oil in Israel – include Rupert Murdoch and Lord Jacob Rothschild.  FULL AT SOURCE https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/09/why-murdoch-pushes-for-war/ note:  article is not referred to in video | it is addition to this post [transcript] You'd think they'd make themselves less obvious. This is the city that Aylan comes from. The area was bombed to smithereens by the US. Rupert Murdoch couldn't even wait for Aylan's body to go cold before he started exploiting it for more war in Syria. Turkey's also causing the refugee crisis to push for the creation of a buffer zone in Syria, as part of their continued attempt at regime change. So, before you wave "Refugees Welcome" while letting your government get away with murder there are a few things you need to know. 1:20 The whole Syrian war and refugees were caused in the first place because the US and NATO backed Islamist rebels in Syria in 2011. In spite of this, politicians and the mass media are blaming the Syrian president, Assad, for Europe's entire refugee crisis and using that to convince people that there needs to be a war in Syria. But how can Assad be blamed for the entire refugee crisis, when the majority of the refugees aren't even Syrian, but either: poor immigrant workers, or refugees from other wars, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Libya. All the other places that have suffered US interventions in the recent years, yet the media labels them all Syrian, anyway, to convince Europeans that that this problem can be solved by intervention in Syria. They even go as far as to label Sub-Saharan Africans as Syrian because they believe their viewers are too ignorant to notice the difference. How racist do you have to be to confuse Asia with Africa. [cut to video footage] MALE NARRATOR Romania's coast guard rescued 70 migrants, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, packed onto a small fishing boat that was in danger of sinking, as they attempted to make the crossing to Europe in stormy seas on Saturday. SYRIAN GIRL The number of Syrian refugees is also being falsely conflated, because other immigrants and refugees are simply claiming to be Syrian and throwing their original passports away. Pakistani and Bangladeshi passports are being found discarded near border crossings. [CUT TO VIDEO FOOTAGE] MALE [... On our boat ... ] 29 persons FEMALE We're just four Syrian people -- MALE [interjects] We're just four Syrian people -- [cross-talk] MALE [interjects] -- 25 in Iraq.  [ie 25 from Iraq] ENGLISH SPEAKING WOMAN All the rest of them are Iraqi? FEMALES They said: I don't have a passport [cross-talk] I don't have anything to say who I am. So I am Syrian. Where's your passport? I don't have because the government in Germany allows everything for the Syrian people. You get a house, you get money, you get food. ENGLISH SPEAKING WOMAN So it pays to be a 'Syrian'? FEMALE "Yes." SYRIAN GIRL And some European politicians are exploiting the war in Syria, to push for an open border immigration policy. So, was it the Syrian government that caused these refugees, or was it these same politicians and their liberal interventions that are now crying over the refugees deaths? People like Angelina Jolie, ironically, the Ambassador of the UN Refugee program, caused these African refugees to drown off the coast of Libya, because she supported the Libyan rebels who ethnically cleansed them. It was also Amnesty International who claimed Gaddafi was using black immigrants as mercenaries, which resulted in their ethnic cleansing. Now, Amnesty International are raking in the donations over their deaths. It was these same liberal interventionists who, in 2011, supported al-Qaeda affiliated rebels in Syria, and they dare yell: "Shame, shame, shame!", for not letting in the Syrian refugees. How about shame on you, for ruining our beautiful country? The refugee crisis didn't start when Syrians tried to cross into Europe, but when Europeans tried to cross into Syria to join ISIS. Syrians are being pushed out their country while a multinational Islamic State moves in from all over the world. But the so-called 'coalition' on ISIS is a lie. The US and its allies actually have no intention of defeating ISIS. Instead of working with the Syrian army, the only force capable of fighting ISIS on the ground, they are preventing the Syrian army from doing their job. Only four years ago, Syria was a well off and prosperous country, that even accepted 2 million Iraqi refugees. Now, we've become the refugees. Syrian refugees want your help, yes. But to get back home to their own country. Almost half of Syria's population are refugees: 3 million outside of Syria; and 7 million of them are internally displaced, inside Syria. Shouting 'Refugees Welcome!," while well-meaning, is not enough. You're not going to be able to airlift 10 million Syrians into Europe. Displacing them further from their country is not ideal for anyone. The refugees want to come home. Hear them out for yourself. MALE [speaking Arabic] "My dream is for Syria to return to what it used to be. I will be one of the first people to return, because there is no place like Syria. FEMALE [Speaking English, with accent] Er, my name is Rena. I wish to come back to the lovely country when the war will end. MALE - MINOR [Speaking English, with accent] I like to - the war to be end. Just I can go to see my friends and my family in Syria. MALE [Speaking Arabic] This terrorism is done via eternal conspiracy with external financing. But we are alive, and we are returning, we are returning, we are returning! FEMALE #1 [Speaking English, with accent] What happening now, happening by, by -- by foreign hands. FEMALE #2 [Speaking English, with accent] [cross-talk] This is not freedom. This is not-- FEMALE #2 [Speaking English, with accent] The Syrian we are a good people, and we want to complete our life in Syria. [CUT TO] FEMALE #3 [Speaking Arabic] I miss everything. Everything. Our neighbourhood, our house, our family, our gatherings. [CUT TO] MALE - MINOR [Speaking English, with accent] You just stop the war. We don't want to go to Europe. SYRIAN GIRL To help them come home, you need to: pressure your government to stop the war in Syria, by: stopping the US's Saudi Arabian, Qatari and Turkish allies from funding and facilitating ISIS: by ending the political support for al-Quaeda linked rebels and by preventing your government from entering a war against Syria. end the sanctions on Syria. Aylan Kurdi's dad's infected teeth pushed him to try and get to Europe and fix them. Sanctions on Syria, prevented his family from sending the $14,000 required to fix them. If there were no sanctions on Syria, he would have got medical care at home, and Aylan would still be alive. Before the war, medical care in Syria was free. Sanctions prevent from rebuilding and fighting ISIS off itself. Rebuild Syria for refugees to return. Concentrate on donating to organisations that help refugees inside of Syria. This will decrease the pressure on refugee institutions inside of Syria, and help external refugees return, instead of getting on a creaky[?] boat and drowning on the way to Europe. Here are two such organisations: WafaRelief Fund; and http://wafarelief.org.uk/donate/ the Syrian Red Crescent; http://sarc.sy/ The Syrian government wants refugees to return and have put forward a plan to do so. They have asked for help in implementing that plan. Blaming the refugees themselves for the wars NATO creates is not the solution. Suddenly, so many people are disrespecting Syrians, but those people never noticed Syrians in their country when we were inventing the iphone, not to mention all of Western civilisation. There are forces that want to estrange people from their homeland dissolve national identities altogether. Obama and other criminals are trying to make Syrians a people without a nation. A people without a nation suffer the worst humiliation. Look at what happened to the Palestinian people. One day, it could happen to you. So, defending your nationality doesn't mean disrespecting the nationality of others. By demonising Syrian refugees, right-wing nationalist are handing liberal interventionists moral victory on a silver platter. People are sympathetic to that boy and his family and any group that demonises them, comes off as being sociopaths and alienate everyone. For example, this UKIP politician had to apologise for his statement, "The little Syrian boy was well-clothed and well-fed. He died because his parents were greedy for the good life in Europe." Syrians had the good life before the UK government interfered. GROUP OF YOUNG FEMALES & MATURE MALE FEMALE [Speaking English - with accent] Nothing. I don't have a home. FEMALE [English accent] And what happened to your business in Aleppo, does it exist anymore? FEMALE [Speaking English - with accent] No it's not exist anymore FEMALE [English accent] Everything gone? FEMALE [Speaking English - with accent] Mmmm ... MALE [Speaking Arabic] I used to produce these. Now you just give me this. [Holding, wash cloth or napkin?] [Group Laughter] FEMALE INTERVIEWER [Speaking Arabic] Um Gasem, what was your life like four years ago? FEMALE RESPONDS I can't ... once I start thinking about my life four years ago ... [Distressed] We had a safe life. [CUT TO RT NEWS FOOTAGE] NANCY KASEM SYRIAN REFUGEE Yes, in Syria I had my own car. It's like a car you can drive. Not -- it's really hard to drive in this car. We still don't have a good job to buying [sic] a good car, like in Syria. CUT TO FEMALE FEMALE [Speaking Arabic] We were comfortably off. I was a housewife and my husband had work, thanks to God. We moved to the village, because the villages were safe. And then the war came to the villages. Islamists came and kidnapped him for a month. They broke his jaw. CUT TO REFUGEE TENT SITE SCENE FEMALE [Speaking Arabic] Sometimes we reminisce together about our home. Yes, we talk about things like that. So that our children continue to love their homeland, so they don't forget. Particularly here, I have children with me. SYRIAN GIRL People ask me, why don't the Syrians stay in Turkey. Well, Syrians who are used to a high standard of living get tired of three years in a tent in Turkey, with no prospects of a future. Numbers are very high -- in the million -- and conditions are bad. Turkey won't improve these conditions, but want to continue sending terrorists to Syria. People are also asking, why aren't Syrians being helped by other Muslim countries? Well, Turkey and Jordan have taken 1 million each. What these people are really asking is, why aren't the rich, Gulf Arab astates accepting Syrian refugees. Because, in the worlds of this Kuwaiti politician -- [CUT TO MALE IN TRADITIONAL ARAB GARB, ON TV, GESTURING] -- we Syrians have a different culture and ethnicity to Arabs. They don't see Syrians as Arab, and they don't accept them as their kin. Since when have the Gulf lifted a finger to help the Palestinians, anyway? While it is true the people of the Levant have as little in common culturally with Arabs as they do with West Europe, this doesn't change the fact that it is the Gulf Arab states that caused the Syrian problem, by backing terrorists. They won't invest in helping Syrian refugees, because they are busy spending the money on ISIS and buying golden toilets. But, why doesn't Israel take any refugees. After all, it's in Syria's border and it's in the Levant, Syrian people's historical land. Israel has greyed out this image, as if it doesn't even warrant consideration. I guess, Israel is the only country in the world that's allowed to be racist. It's funny to hear Zionists talk about how Europe needs to accept Syrian refugees, when they won't even let Palestinian refugees return to their own homes and villages. I've also heard: Why Germany, not Greece? Well, I'll let this Syrian refugee tell you. CUT TO MALE - STREET SCENE [Speaking Arabic] I didn't stay in Greece because it doesn't offer any benefits or work. It can't help its own people let alone help us. SYRIAN GIRL The most honourable are the Syrians still in Syria fighting for their country. But how can one blame those that run, if they themselves aren't fighting with a gun in their hand. It's time to point that finger inward. Save your nation, and stop these governments from starting these wars. --- 13:24 end --- ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Assange Transnational Security Elite, Carving Up the World Using Your Tax Money London  OCT8 Antiwar Mass Assembly (2011) Link  |  here ꕤ