Corrupt Crown Prosecution Service Advised Sweden NOT To Interview Assange in 5-Year No Charge Trumped Up Holding Case

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://m.espresso.repubblica.it/internazionale/2015/10/16/news/five-years-confined-new-foia-documents-shed-light-on-the-julian-assange-case-1.235129 Five years confined: New Foia documents shed light on the Julian Assange case The role of the Crown Prosecution Service lawyers in advising the Swedish prosecutors, their comments on the extradition case as not being handled as just another extradition request, the questioning in the embassy that never took place. Files obtained by l'Espresso under the Freedom of Information Act provide a five-year account of the Swedish case against the WikiLeaks founder  di Stefania Maurizi  19 ottobre 2015 The Scotland Yard agents encircling the embassy and guarding Julian Assange night and day have been removed.  But the police siege which is estimated to have cost 12 million pounds over the last three years is far from over, as the Metropolitan police admits in its press release: Scotland Yard «will make every effort to arrest him», deploying «a number of overt and covert tactics». He has been confined in the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge since June 19th, 2012.  Next December 7th will mark five years since the founder of WikiLeaks lost his freedom, ending up first under house arrest and then confined in the embassy in a roughly 20 square-meter room. «Despite the efforts of many people», wrote Scotland Yard last week, «there is no imminent prospect of a diplomatic or legal resolution to this issue». A clear admission that the judiciary case against Julian Assange has become a legal and diplomatic quagmire. L'Espresso has filed two comprehensive Freedom of Information Act (Foia) requests in Sweden and  Britain to access the Assange file and reconstruct the case. We have requested documents from the Swedish Prosecution Authority in Stockholm – which has been conducting a criminal investigation for the last five years on Assange, still in its preliminary phase - and from the "Crown Prosecution Service" in London, the principal prosecuting authority for England and Wales, which has provided support to the Swedish Prosecution Authority on the Assange case. While the British have rejected all of our Foia requests, the Swedish released 226 pages of documents to l'Espresso. Whether these pages represent a major portion of the Assange file or only a small set of documents is hard to say.  To our request on the exact number of pages held by the Swedish Prosecution Authority, the Swedish replied that it was impossible to say, as many documents only exist as individual electronic documents, requiring too many resources to count all the pages. Instead the Crown Prosecution Service replied that the task was not possible for the opposite reason: the information is voluminous and mostly held in paper format, hence ascertaining the exact number of pages would be too time-consuming and expensive. The files obtained under Foia reveal that from the very beginning, the "Crown Prosecution Service" in London advised the Swedish prosecutors against the investigative strategy that could have led to a quick closure of the preliminary investigation: questioning Assange in London – as he has requested on many occasions - rather than extraditing him to Stockholm, as the Swedish prosecutors have always tried to do. In January 2011, not even two months after Julian Assange had been arrested in London, a lawyer at the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr. Paul Close, strongly advised the Swedish magistrates against questioning the WikiLeaks' founder in London. According to Close, the appropriate strategy was to interview him «only on his surrender to Sweden and in accordance with Swedish law». Writing to the Swedish prosecutors, Mr. Close sustains that «it is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes seems like an industry. It is certainly non stop. Please do not think that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request». The documents also reveal that in April 2015 – a month after Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny had changed her mind and finally agreed, after almost five years of legal paralysis, to question Assange in London at the Ecuadorian embassy –WikiLeaks' founder promptly agreed to the questioning and to providing a DNA sample. The questioning was supposed to take place in London the 17th and 18th of June, as agreed upon by the parties, but the Swedish contacted the Ecuadorian authorities for permission and assistance only at the last minute, so the questioning, awaited  by Assange and the Swedish prosecutors for years, was ultimately aborted. Five months that shook the world  It all began in August 2010, less than a month after WikiLeaks had published the US secret documents on the Afghan War, infuriating the Pentagon and the US government. On August 20, 2010 the Swedish prosecutors opened an investigation on Julian Assange, requesting his arrest for the suspected rape and sexual molestation of two Swedish women. The case immediately collapsed, however: the Swedish prosecutor, Eva Finne, revoked the arrest and terminated the preliminary investigation on rape, whilst preserving the investigation on sexual molestation. Assange was questioned by the Swedish police about this episode the 31st of August. The next day a different prosecutor, Marianne Ny, reopened the rape investigation after Mr. Claes Borgström, the lawyer for the two women, asked Marianne Ny to review the case. On September 27, Assange flew for Berlin to meet, among other journalists, l'Espresso. Two weeks before Assange left Sweden, his Swedish lawyer at that time, Björn Hurtig, had asked Marianne Ny whether there were any problems with Assange leaving Sweden. «By telephone», writes Ny in a document handed over to l'Espresso, «Mr. Hurtig was informed that there were some investigative measures still outstanding before a new interview with Julian Assange would be relevant and that there was no arrest warrant issued for him». Since there was no hindrance, Assange left Sweden, flying to Berlin where he met l'Espresso the 27th of September, late in the evening. When he arrived at our appointment, he explained that his luggage had been lost in the direct flight from Stockholm: only his shoulder bag containing his laptop was left. As a matter of fact, he arrived at our appointment with only the shoulder bag, laptop and a clear plastic bag containing a t-shirt, a toothbrush, and some small bottles of soap, as l'Espresso immediately reported in an article. It was that 27th September that the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny ordered the arrest of Julian Assange in absentia. The preliminary investigation conducted by Marianne Ny focused on three alleged crimes: rape (less serious crime), unlawful coercion and sexual molestation. In the documents released to l'Espresso, Ny reconstructs the difficulties in interviewing Assange in 2010, when in five short months Assange and his organization were publishing a deluge of secret US documents never seen before. While Ny reconstructs these difficulties, Björn Hurtig reminds prosecutor Ny that he had suggested various dates for the questioning of his client: «Neither the times we had then suggested nor another occasion suggested were acceptable to you; on some occasions, our proposed times were too far in the future (a few weeks time); another occasion, one of your investigator was ill», Hurtig writes, adding that it seems «strange that a hearing could not take place because an investigator was ill». Marianne Ny forges ahead, ordering the detention of Julian Assange: «this measure is taken as it has been impossible to interview him during the investigation», writes the Swedish Prosecution Authority in its website. To execute the detention, Ny issues a European arrest warrant for Assange and on December 1st, 2010, an Interpol red notice makes him wanted all around the world. Six days later, Assange turns himself over to the police while in London, where he had just started publishing 251.287 cables of the US diplomacy in collaboration with the Guardian and with a team of international media. A few days after his arrest, Assange is granted bail, sent to Ellingham Hall under house arrest with an electronic bracelet tracking his every move. Since 2010, Julian Assange has always opposed the extradition to Sweden requested by Marianne Ny to perform an interview with him. Ny has always insisted that questioning him in the embassy «would lower the quality of the interview», whereas Assange has always fought extradition to Sweden, convinced that it paves the way to extradition to the US, where there is an ongoing investigation on the publication of the US secret documents by WikiLeaks. A special extradition? To put on paper that the extradition case of Julian Assange is not an ordinary extradition is a lawyer at the Crown Prosecution Service in London: Mr. Paul Close. In an email to the Swedish prosecutors dated 13 January 2011, Close writes: «It is simply amazing how much work this case is generating. It sometimes seems like an industry. It is certainly no stop. Please do not think that the case is being dealt with as just another extradition request». What makes the Assange case special? Mr. Close does not explain this. However, in his email exchange with the Swedish, he seems pleased that two days earlier, the 11th of January 2011, the extradition hearing at the Belmarsh Magistrates' Court was not exactly an exciting event for journalists: «It was all rather boring and technical, which of course is precisely what I wanted to happen». Two weeks after these comments, January 25th 2011, Paul Close is even more straightforward with the Swedish prosecutors: «My earlier advice remains, that in my view it would not be prudent for the Swedish authorities to try to interview the defendant in the UK». «Any attempt to interview him under strict Swedish law”, Close continues, «would invariably be fraught with problems». He therefore concludes: «Thus I suggest you interview him only on his surrender to Sweden and in accordance with the Swedish law. As we have discussed your prosecution is well based on the existing evidence and is sufficient to proceed to trial, which is the prosecution's intention». The following couple of paragraphs of this email were censored and not released under the Foia. Two things are interesting in this email exchange between the Crown Prosecution Service' lawyer and the Swedish prosecutors: Paul Close uses the word “defendant” in referring to Assange, a term which under English law indicates an individual who has already been charged with a crime, whereas in January 2011 the WikiLeaks' founder had not been charged, nor has he been charged with a crime in the last five years. In addition, Close claims that the Swedish prosecutors already intended to bring Julian Assange to trial, even before any questioning had taken place. It should be noted that just six days before this email, Marianne Ny had sent a letter to Mr. Paul Close explaining: «According to the Swedish law, a decision to prosecute may not be taken at the stage that the preliminary investigation is currently at. The decision concerning prosecution, i.e. legal proceedings, may not be made until the preliminary investigation has been concluded». L'Espresso filed a comprehensive Foia request to the Crown Prosecution Service asking for access to the entire Assange file, including the full correspondence, if any, with the US Department of Justice and with the US State Department. Our Foia has been rejected in full. To our request to acquire any correspondence with the US authorities, the Crown Prosecution Service replied: «we neither confirm nor deny whether we hold any relevant information». Whereas the Swedish Prosecution Authority and the Swedish Ministry of Justice replied that «there has been no correspondence between Sweden and the US regarding the Assange case». A diplomatic impasse that joins a judicial paralysis  From 2010 until March 2015, the Swedish investigation  remained at a standstill: Stockholm prosecutors have always insisted on extradition as the only solution to question Assange and decide whether or not to charge him once and for all. Assange has always opposed extradition tooth and nail, fighting it in the UK and Swedish courts without success. When, in June 2012, he exhausted all his legal options to resist extradition, he took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Knightsbridge, where Ecuador granted him political asylum, as the Ecuadorian authorities judged that the risk of Assange being extradited to the US and prosecuted for his journalistic work is well-founded. Since June 19, 2012, Assange is confined to the embassy in precarious conditions: he has no access to a garden or even to a small courtyard where he could enjoy a breath of fresh air and sunlight, so indispensable for his health. This turn of events has added a diplomatic impasse to the judicial paralysis, as the British authorities have always declared that under no conditions will they offer a safe passage to allow the WikiLeaks' founder to leave the embassy and enjoy asylum. Last week, Assange's lawyers and the Ecuadorian authorities denounced that the British are denying him safe passage to a hospital for an MRI scan to diagnose the causes of severe pain. As for Sweden, it has always rejected the idea that Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy because the risk of extradition to the US is real: Sweden considers his confinement in the embassy as a merely voluntary choice, which he could reverse any time. This diplomatic impasse seems as intractable as the judicial paralysis. In November 2012, as revealed by a document released to l'Espresso under Foia, a British diplomat tried to meet Marianne Ny. «I have no idea why the Brit Vice-Ambassador wants to meet with you," writes the Crown Prosecution Service's lawyer, Paul Close, to Marianne Ny, who apparently had asked him about the diplomat: «I can but assume that as you mix in those social circles it is hardly surprising!». The very long-awaited questioning  Only in March 2015, the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny agreed to question Assange in London, at the Ecuadorian embassy. What made Ny suddenly change her mind after almost five years? According to the Swedish Prosecution Authority, two facts made Ny accept this possibility: the incumbent statute of limitations for two of the alleged crimes – sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, due to expire in August 2015 – and the fact that in November 2014, the Stockholm Court of Appeal, while rejecting Assange's request to lift the arrest warrant, had criticized Marianne Ny for lack of progress in the criminal case, issuing a clear press release: «The Court of Appeal notes, however, that the investigation into the suspected crimes has come to a halt and considers that the failure of the prosecutors to examine alternative avenues is not in line with their obligation – in the interests of everyone concerned – to move the preliminary investigation forward». Asked by the Swedish prosecutors whether he consented to questioning in the embassy on the 16th of April 2015, Julian Assange confirms, through his current Swedish lawyers, Thomas Olsson and Per Samuelsson, that he agreed to be questioned in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and to provide a DNA sample. The parties agree that the questioning and the acquisition of DNA should take place the 17th and 18th of June. However, the documents released to us under Foia reveal that the Swedish authorities contacted the Ecuadorian ambassador in London, Juan Falconi Puig, at the very last minute to ask him for permission and assistance. The 12th of June, Marianne Ny realized that the Ecuadorian ambassador has not yet received «any communication from the Swedish authorities». As a matter of fact, the long waited interrogation aborted. Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelsson, explains to l'Espresso what he thinks made the questioning collapse: «One prosecutor travelled to London together with a police-officer. When they were in London Marianne Ny, their boss, cancelled the whole thing due to the fact that Sweden had not gotten the permission from Ecuador. Sweden applied way too late». The documents obtained by l'Espresso confirm that the Swedish investigative team sent to London did not get access to the embassy because the Ecuadorian authorities had been contacted by Sweden too late. «I am sure you are informed that a diplomatic procedure has to be followed. At this point I have to inform you that I am being transferred to a new post as Ambassador», Juan Falconi writes to Ny the 19th of June, adding: «Therefore, as from July this affair will be handled by the new Ambassador, Mr. Carlos Abad Ortiz». Last August, Marianne Ny discontinued the investigation on two of the alleged crimes: unlawful coercion and sexual molestation due to statute of limitations. On that occasion, the Swedish prosecutor declared: «Julian Assange, on his own accord, has evaded prosecution by seeking refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador», and adding: «Since the autumn of 2010, I have tried to gain permission to interview Julian Assange, but he has consistently refused to appear. When the statute of limitation approached, we chose to attempt to interview him in London. A request to interview him on the premises of the Embassy of Ecuador was submitted in the beginning of June, but a permission has yet to be received». No mention at all of the Swedish authorities’ tardiness in contacting Ecuador. With the statute of limitations, both the two Swedish women and Julian Assange lost any opportunity to obtain justice for two of the three alleged crimes under investigation since 2010. Under Swedish law, a person under investigation cannot oppose the statute of limitations, as the Swedish Prosecution Authority confirmed to l'Espresso. So the WikiLeaks' founder cannot reject the statute of limitations in an attempt to prove his innocence and clear his name. The Swedish preliminary investigation on Julian Assange is proceeding with respect to what Swedish law considers the less serious category of rape: Assange allegedly had unprotected sex with one of the two Swedish women while she was asleep. Apparently, they had had sexual intercourse before that episode and she had expressed wish that a condom be used. The statute of limitations for this alleged crime will expire in August 2020. Will Assange ever be questioned? http://m.espresso.repubblica.it/internazionale/2015/10/16/news/five-years-confined-new-foia-documents-shed-light-on-the-julian-assange-case-1.235129 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT At a hefty price-tag in the millions, along with the exceptions involved in this legal, diplomatic, political and media assault on Assange (who is held 5 years without charge), anyone can see that this isn't about a torn condom or sex without a rubber:  this is state and legal corruption aimed at POLITICAL PERSECUTION of a journalist who exposed state war crimes. What is more appalling (to me) than war crimes, illegal war abroad, torture, and millions of dead as a result of illegal war,  is that:  THERE IS NO JUSTICE in the Swedish or in the British homelands. Just as the governments are corrupt, the judicial system is corrupt also.  I think it's safe to say, that this corruption is most likely pervasive, long-standing and a feature of government and its institutions. So what is society such as this?  The societies we live in are just a lie and all our assumptions are false. We live in a corrupt world where psychopaths pull the strings, and might is right:  whether that be the might of a corrupt state's civil institutions, or the might of the corrupt state's enforcers, such as the police, military, and intelligence agencies (with their spies, infiltrators, and assassins), that all in unison (including the government and puppet politicians) serve interests of only the powerful elites. It all amounts to the same thing:  rule/control and maintenance of power over the people by deceit and force. So that would mean, anything in this world is permissible -- so long as you can get away with it. ------------------ *Therefore:  all government / power is corrupt (some more than others, I guess). ꕤ

The Lady of Shalott

ꕤ poem SOURCE https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lady-shalott The Lady of Shalott, 1888 John William Waterhouse (Tate Britain, London) ♖  The Lady of Shalott Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1809 - 1892 Part I   ♞ On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And through the field the road runs by To many-towered Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Through the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot. Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott. By the margin, willow-veiled, Slide the heavy barges trailed By slow horses; and unhailed The shallop flitteth silken-sailed Skimming down to Camelot: But who hath seen her wave her hand? Or at the casement seen her stand? Or is she known in all the land, The Lady of Shalott? Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot: And by the moon the reaper weary, Piling sheaves in uplands airy, Listening, whispers "‘Tis the fairy Lady of Shalott.” Part II There she weaves by night and day A magic web with colours gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott. And moving through a mirror clear That hangs before her all the year, Shadows of the world appear. There she sees the highway near Winding down to Camelot: There the river eddy whirls, And there the surly village-churls, And the red cloaks of market girls, Pass onward from Shalott. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, An abbot on an ambling pad, Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad, Or long-haired page in crimson clad, Goes by to towered Camelot; And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two: She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott. But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights, For often through the silent nights A funeral, with plumes and lights And music, went to Camelot: Or when the moon was overhead, Came two young lovers lately wed; “I am half sick of shadows," said The Lady of Shalott. Part III A bow-shot from her bower-eaves, He rode between the barley-sheaves, The sun came dazzling through the leaves, And flamed upon the brazen greaves Of bold Sir Lancelot. A red-cross knight for ever kneeled To a lady in his shield, That sparkled on the yellow field, Beside remote Shalott. The gemmy bridle glittered free, Like to some branch of stars we see Hung in the golden Galaxy. The bridle bells rang merrily As he rode down to Camelot: And from his blazoned baldric slung A mighty silver bugle hung, And as he rode his armour rung, Beside remote Shalott. All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot. As often through the purple night, Below the starry clusters bright, Some bearded meteor, trailing light, Moves over still Shalott. His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed; On burnished hooves his war-horse trode; From underneath his helmet flowed His coal-black curls as on he rode, As he rode down to Camelot. From the bank and from the river He flashed into the crystal mirror, “Tirra lirra," by the river Sang Sir Lancelot. She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; “The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott. Part IV In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were waning, The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low sky raining Over towered Camelot; Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott. And down the river’s dim expanse, Like some bold seër in a trance Seeing all his own mischance-- With a glassy countenance Did she look to Camelot. And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away, The Lady of Shalott. Lying, robed in snowy white That loosely flew to left and right-- The leaves upon her falling light-- Through the noises of the night She floated down to Camelot: And as the boat-head wound along The willowy hills and fields among, They heard her singing her last song, The Lady of Shalott. Heard a carol, mournful, holy, Chanted loudly, chanted lowly, Till her blood was frozen slowly, And her eyes were darkened wholly, Turned to towered Camelot. For ere she reached upon the tide The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott. Under tower and balcony, By garden-wall and gallery, A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale between the houses high, Silent into Camelot. Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name, The Lady of Shalott. Who is this? and what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they crossed themselves for fear, All the knights at Camelot: But Lancelot mused a little space; He said, “She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.” ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ꕤ

Video - German journalist Lars Schall talks with J. Michael Springmann - 'Is the Whole “War on Terror” a Fraud?'

ꕤ Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMfiGseUIc&feature=youtu.be Is the whole "War on Terror" a fraud? Published on Apr 15, 2015 "In this exclusive Foreign Policy Journal interview, German journalist Lars Schall talks with J. Michael Springmann, the former head of the U.S. visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and author of the book "Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World"." ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Is the Whole “War on Terror” a Fraud? by Lars Schall       April 15, 2015 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/04/15/is-the-whole-war-on-terror-a-fraud/ ꕤ

No Nuremberg for Anglo-American War Criminals

ꕤ Article SOURCE as indicated http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433878/Tony-Blair-Bush-Iraq-war- Bush, Blair plotted Iraq war 1 year before invasion had started: White House memo Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:54AM A damning White House memo has revealed details of the so-called “deal in blood” forged by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush over the Iraq war. The document, titled “Secret... Memorandum for the President”, was sent by then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President Bush on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas, Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Sunday. The sensational memo revealed that Blair had agreed to support the war a year before the invasion even started, while publicly the British prime minister was working to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The document also disclosed that Blair agreed to act as a spin doctor for Bush and convince a skeptical public that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, which actually did not exist. In response, Bush would flatter Blair and give the impression that London was not Washington’s poodle but an equal partner in the “special relationship.” Powell told Bush that Blair “will be with us” on the Iraq war, and assured the president that “"the UK will follow our lead in the Middle East."  In November 2002, US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell applaud at a summit in Prague. Between them is National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, to their right, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. (Reuters photo) Another sensational memo revealed how Bush used “spies” in the British Labour Party to help him to influence public opinion in the United Kingdom in favor of the Iraq war. Both documents were obtained and published by The Mail on Sunday. They are part of a number of classified emails stored on the private server of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which courts have forced her to reveal. Blair has always denied the claim that he and Bush signed a deal “in blood” at Crawford to launch a war against Iraq that began on March 20, 2003, that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. The Powell memo, however, showed how Blair and Bush secretly prepared the Iraq war plot behind closed doors at Crawford. Powell told Bush: “He will present to you the strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for our common cause.” The top US diplomatic official added that the UK premier has the presentational skills to “make a credible public case on current Iraqi threats to international peace.” Powell wrote that Blair will “stick with us on the big issues” but he needs to show the British public that “Britain and America are truly equal partners in the special relationship.”  In March 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding WMDs; but no such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq. More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion, and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored. The US war in Iraq cost American taxpayers $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, according to a study called Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433878/Tony-Blair-Bush-Iraq-war- http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-convicted-in-absentia-it-s-official-george-w-bush-is-a-war-criminal/30839 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. Bush Convicted in Absentia: IT’S OFFICIAL – George W Bush is a war criminal. By Yvonne Ridley Global Research, May 14, 2012 Foreign Policy Journal 14 May 2012 EXTRACT In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record. The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. FULL AT SOURCE http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-convicted-in-absentia-it-s-official-george-w-bush-is-a-war-criminal/30839 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty A war crimes tribunal in Malaysia offers a devastating critique of international criminal law institutions today. 28 Nov 2011 13:37 GMT Richard Falk Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies. He is also former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. EXTRACTS In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and genocide as a result of their roles in the Iraq War. The proceedings took place over a four-day period from November 19-22, and included an opportunity for court-appointed defense counsel to offer the tribunal arguments and evidence on behalf of the absent defendants. They had been invited to offer their own defense or send a representative, but declined to do so. ... Universal jurisdiction The KLWCT did not occur entirely in a jurisprudential vacuum. It has long been acknowledged that domestic criminal courts can exercise universal jurisdiction for crimes of state wherever these may occur, although usually only if the accused individuals are physically present in the court. The underlying legal theory is based on the recognition of the limited capacity of international criminal trials to impose accountability in a manner that is not entirely dictated by geopolitical priorities and reflective of a logic of impunity. In this regard, universal jurisdiction has the potential to treat equals equally, and is very threatening to the Kissingers and Rumsfelds of this world, who have curtailed their travel schedules. The United States and Israel have used their diplomatic leverage to roll back universal jurisdiction authority in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom and Belgium. "War must be outlawed. That will have to be our struggle for now. We must struggle for justice and freedom from oppression, from economic hegemony. But we must remove the threat of war first. With this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads we can never succeed in advancing the interests of our countries.  War must therefore be made illegal. The enforcement of this must be by multilateral forces under the control of the United Nations. No single nation should be allowed to police the world, least of all to decide what action to take, [and] when." Mahathir Mohamed anti-war speech of February 24, 2003 ... In his 2007 statement, Mahathir promised that a future KLWCT would not, in his words, be "like the 'kangaroo court' that tried Saddam". Truly, the courtroom proceedings against Saddam Hussein was a sham trial excluding much relevant evidence, disallowing any meaningful defense, and culminating in a grotesque and discrediting execution.  ... FULL AT SOURCE http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT When you don't know what's going on, the conviction for war crimes in absentia sounds vaguely amusing -- as if the Malaysians were off their heads and had gone rogue in deciding to convict such fine and upstanding Americans (and Blair) for war crimes. It's only down the track that you learn that, yes, there really is grounds for such an outlandish-sounding conviction, as there is a convention against torture and against waging wars of aggression. Yes, people were tortured and, yes, the Iraq invasion was illegal and was launched on false pretexts (WMDs). So these government representatives are totally bent and criminal in their actions. And, as time progresses, more information comes out supporting that ugly fact.  The latest is just more confirmation that these people and their governments really are criminals. Germans were tried by the victors at Nuremberg and hanged for war crimes. But there won't be any such trials for the Anglo-American war criminals. ________________ Wonder if those Clinton e-mails were meant to come out, to maybe influence elections.  As in, Bush is Republican and Clinton is Democrat.  So creating a situation (private server) where this information would be released could maybe have been deliberate to advantage the Democrats, I'm thinking. Of course, I could be completely wrong.  lol ꕤ

Mary Pinchot Meyer

ꕤ Video SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNIkwDgzKuQ&feature=youtu.be ❦ Mary Pinchot Meyer   Murdered b.   October 14, 1920 d.   October 12, 1964 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Ex-wife of Cord Meyer Cord Meyer CIA under:  Frank Wisner Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) OPC = mounting operations, rigging elections, controlling newspapers, swaying opinion Cord Meyer CIA:   Operation Mockingbird ie  CIA program to influence the mass media Cord Meyer "the creative genius behind convert operations" "By the early 1950s, Wisner had implemented his plan and 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS, and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all... Whether the journalists thought of themselves as helpers of the agency or merely as patriots, agreeing to run stories that would benefit their country." CIA Operation Mockingbird program Cord Meyer (MPM's former husband) James Jesus Angleton (CIA 'Israeli Desk') Ben Bradlee (brother-in-law) 1958 divorce filed January, 1962 Mary Pinchot Meyer sexual relationship with President John F. Kennedy April 1962 Mary Pinchot Meyer visiting Timothy Leary director of research projects at Harvard University professor of psychology / researcher advocate psychedelic drug use biography | here January, 1963 Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post at convention of American newspaper editors in Phoenix disclosed affair:  JFK & Mary Pinchot Meyer No newspaper reported this. November 22, 1963 JFK assassinated Days later intoxicated, fearful call from Mary Pinchot Meyer to Timothy Leary "They couldn't control him any more. He was changing too fast. They've covered everything up. I gotta come see you. I'm afraid." October 12, 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer shot dead one bullet to back of head one bullet to heart close range, possibly point blank Georgetown James Jesus Angleton, CIA (since 1951, managed 'Israeli Desk') seeks Mary Pinchot Meyer's diary Trial Press did not report: former husband, Cord Meyer, was with CIA victim's affair with JFK The Judge, Howard Corcoran (brother of Tommy Cocoran, a close friend of Lyndon B Johnson) RULED that the private life of Mary Pinchot Meyer "should not be mentioned in court." Ben Bradlee (brother-in-law, Washington Post crime reporter, press attaché in the American embassy in Paris, on staff of USIE embassy's propaganda arm, worked for Newsweek) did not inform the court that he found a diary that he had passed on to James Jesus Angleton. Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee Mary Pinchot Meyer's sister admitted there had been an affair with JFK Knowledge of diary denied by Bradlee & Angleton. 1992 - Leo Damore, journalist said a figure close to the CIA told him it was a professional "hit" & that Mary Pinchot Meyer targeted for "termination" by certain forces in US government Carol Delaney personal assistant to Cord Meyer: "... murder had all the markings of an in-house rubout." Cord Meyer terminal illness interview:  2001 those responsible: ""The same sons of bitches," he hissed, "that killed John F. Kennedy."" from widely researched article by:  John Simkin http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmeyerM.htm ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- When a U.S. president demanded inspections of a nuclear facility in the Middle East (and failed) Philip Weiss on July 27, 2015 "... Seymour Hersh reports that Kennedy was dead-set against Israel getting the bomb and frequently pressured David Ben-Gurion, Eshkol’s predecessor, to agree to inspections at Dimona. Kennedy even sold out his concerns about Palestinian refugees’ return in order to gain concessions on Dimona– much to the consternation of the State Department.  Hersh says that the Israelis misled American inspectors at the site, which had gone “critical” in 1962 with the help of the French.  And some members of Congress undercut Kennedy’s policy in private communications with the Israelis." http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/president-inspections-facility ꕤ

What A Wonderful World ...

ꕤ comment Yesterday I thought I could see things from the Palestinian perspective ... and then I came across an article about a burnt down church in the West Bank: Terrorists Burn Down Bethlehem Church, Palestinian Authority Blames ‘Electrical Malfunction’ by Jordan Schachtel 28 Sep 2015 Islamic extremists set fire to the St. Charbel Monastery in Bethlehem over the weekend, and Christian leaders in Bethlehem—a Palestinian Authority-governed area of the West Bank—have demanded that the Palestinian government do more to prosecute the criminals responsible for the reported arson attack. Father Gabriel Naddaf, an Arab-Israeli Christian, blamed “Palestinian extremists” for burning down the church. MORE http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/28/terrorists-burn-bethlehem-church-palestinian-authority-blames-electrical-malfunction/ While I'm not religious, I find this kind of creepy and I'd consider it something of a 'red flag' if I were in the neighbourhood. ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Just as I've recoiled over the church burning in the West Bank, some other appalling item comes up on my twitter feed, that also has me recoiling in disgust: https://twitter.com/Palestinianism/status/654455444090540032 It says that it's an IDF (Israel Defence Forces) officer kicking and beating an elderly East Jerusalem Palestinian, that's getting evicted from his about to be demolished home. It's really sickening and it's wrong.  Probably one of the most indecent things I've seen the military do.  Don't they impart a sense of honour and dignity in the military in Israel? ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- I later turned my attention to Afghanistan ... and what do I find on the Afghanistan feed?  A US "Green Beret Cut from Army for Intervening on Behalf of Child Assault Victim in Afghanistan"  - here. Apparently, this is a Pashtun cultural problem - here. Judging by what I've read, the Taliban are almost the good guys ... give or take the bit of sharia limb severing punishment here or there.    This kind of puts all that nutty cultural relativism and 'refugees welcome' zealotry into perspective. It also makes it hard (for me) to care to any meaningful extent about what goes on in places that are so warped and uncivilised. ꕤ

CIA Propaganda - Selling War in Afghanistan

ꕤ Summary SOURCE WikiLeaks CIA PROPAGANDA EXPERTS SELLING THE AFGHAN WAR TO RELUCTANT PUBLIC IN ALLIED NATO COUNTRIES ‘ISAF Mission’ referred to in CIA propaganda strategy report  -- is basically NATO military intervention     & is therefore referred to as such in the summary below CIA strategic communication analysis -- ie amounts to a CIA Propaganda Assessment & Plan Dated:  11 March 2010 ___________________________________ The propaganda plan focuses on finding ways to sell NATO military intervention in Afghanistan to the French, German & other Western European publics ___________________________________  SUMMARY / COMMENTS NATO countries, in this case, primarily France & Germany count on PUBLIC APATHY to proceed with committing resources and troops to NATO military action in Afghanistan _______________ Oddly,  this ‘public apathy’ is  despite 80% *opposition* of German & French public polled in late 2009 So one would think that until such public opinion is translated into street demonstrations and the like, such opposition will be taken as ‘public apathy’ and ignored by politicians _______________ CIA warns that public hostility may be aroused by: *military casualties *civilian casualties NOTE:  Dutch (Netherlands) government fell due to troop commitment to Afghanistan CIA therefore also cautions that Dutch-style debate spill-over could result in the event of high casualties and could threaten other European maintenance/commitment to NATO military intervention in Afghanistan Article - Netherlands govt collapse Dutch government collapses after Labour withdrawal from coalition Row over extension of Dutch troops' tour of duty in Afghanistan forces Labour out of Jan Peter Balkenende's ruling coalition David Batty and agencies @David_Batty Sunday 21 February 2010 03.52 AEDT Last modified on Tuesday 20 May 2014 05.21 AEST The Dutch government has ­collapsed over disagreements on whether or not to extend troop deployment in Afghanistan. The prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, said the Labour party – the second-largest party in his ruling coalition – was quitting. He tendered his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix, the Dutch ceremonial head of state, in a telephone call. Balkenende has been weighing up a request from Nato for Dutch troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2010. Just under 2,000 Dutch personnel have been serving in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, where 21 Dutch soldiers have been killed. MORE http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/20/dutch-coalition-collapse-afghanistan _______________ Public Apathy Permits Politicians to Ignore Voters Afghan military intervention unimportant to the French and German public, therefore: =  French and German leaders could disregard what opposition there was =  could increase their troop contributions to NATO military intervention in Afghanistan Result of public apathy as at March 2010: -- Germany:  third highest troop level in Afghanistan -- France:  fourth highest troop level in Afghanistan *DESPITE OPPOSITION of 80% of German & French public polled in late 2009 _______________ That's a massive amount of opposition that the German and French governments are ignoring, presumably because it is not opposition mounted in the streets of those countries. _______________ Same 2009 poll showed German and French public: -- did not rank Afghanistan as a most urgent issue. -- did not rank stabilising Afghanistan as a high priority issue. -- did not see Afghanistan as a national problem. -- saw Afghanistan military intervention as waste of public funds. Therefore, propaganda must be tailored to EXPLOIT these public opinion factors. CIA propaganda advice memo indicates that the European public viewing the issue of Afghanistan as a 'not our problem' which is interpreted that the existing deployment of troops to Afghanistan is not on the public radar. CASUALTIES The CIA propagandist plan concern is that: Passive public opposition could be turned into active calls for withdrawal of troops if German troops, French troops or Afghanistan civilians are killed. _______________ Which probably explains why: 1) the military hides figures of civilian dead. 2) the government discourages media focus on military dead, bodybags etc. _______________ DOMESTIC POLITICS Ongoing support for NATO military intervention is at risk at ELECTION TIME. { Comment:  therefore, one would think, anti-war campaigners might wish to especially concentrate their efforts in the lead up to elections, as election time appears to be a critical time to turn public opinion and to perhaps leverage wanted results from politicians } CIA express concern re DOMINO EFFECT: ie if the Dutch pull out due to domestic opposition, the French and the Germans may do likewise, citing the Dutch precedent. { Comment:  for anti-war campaigners, that would mean that if one country’s campaign is successful, there is a strong likelihood that such success may be followed up elsewhere, by setting of example for others to follow } _______________ Propaganda Pre-empting Opposition Between 2008 & 2010 (ie 2 year period) France + Germany took measures to pre-empt further opposition to Afghanistan military intervention _______________ FRANCE Following deaths of x10 French soldiers in late 2008, Sarkozy called for a National Assembly to give the appearance of debate & consent Sarkozy's government won the vote Sarkozy used that opportunity to then deploy a further 3,000 troops Due to regional elections coming up March 2010, Sarkozy's govt is at risk to any increase in casualties ______________ GERMANY Kunduz Airstrike 2009 American F-15E fighter jet struck two *beached* / *stranded* fuel tankers reportedly captured by Taliban insurgents, in response to German call. Over 90 civilians killed in US fighter attack. German Col. Georg Klein relying on intelligence officer relying on sole informant. Col. Georg Klein ordered that 500-pound GBU-38 bombs be dropped at 2:30am. June 2010 Germany announced it would pay $5,000 to each of the families of over 100 civilian victims, as an ex gratia payment without admitting liability. Former Afghan Commerce Minister Amin Farhang described the $5,000—equivalent to about 20,000 Afghanis—as a "laughable" sum. {Comment:  that sum’s an insult} Germany reclassified the Afghanistan deployment as an "armed conflict within the parameters of international law", allowing German forces to act without risk of prosecution under German law. [Wikipedia] ------------------ Article - Kunduz "Officially, the German deployment had been termed a "stabilization mission," which left many soldiers resentful that the full dangers of their mission were not appreciated back home." February 11, 2010 http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-world-from-berlin-new-evaluation-on-afghanistan-long-overdue-a-677289.html So the propaganda program was already in place in Germany, spinning the 'stabilisation mission' line for what is intensely contested occupation. ______________ Kunduz Airstrike of Sept 2009 killed high number of Afghan civilians is described by the CIA as a 'potential pressure' on the government Germany also has vulnerability:  May 2010 regional elections CIA advises on how the European public may be encouraged to swallow increased military casualties and/or increased civilian causalities: ie can be done by linking 'outcomes' in Afghanistan with the voters' own priorities Communication method to achieve this: *propaganda program across NATO troop contributing nations  *consistency  *repetition  *linking to key concerns for particular national audiences is the pre-emptive propaganda measure, to be relied upon to continue to support NATO military intervention in the event that the 2010 apathy concerning Afghanistan military intervention turns to active opposition & calls for withdrawal, as this propaganda will then shore up the politicians' ability to justify & support taxpayer expense and deployment of their nations' troops in Afghanistan. { Comment:  So it is propaganda to pave the way to giving politicians the excuse to carry on as they wish, even in the face of future opposition. } THE PLAN FRANCE Exploit concerns for civilians & refugees give examples of benefits to Afghan civilians / ie spin the Afghan civilian ‘benefits’ Choice of spin is based on results of public opinion polls. 2009 Public polls indicated: 1) those in support of Afghanistan military intervention, hold the view on basis that intervention is a 'help' to civilians; 2) those against Afghanistan military intervention, hold the view on the basis intervention is damaging to civilians. Going by the 2009 polls, the CIA propaganda experts conclude that contradicting the perception that Afghanistan military intervention does more harm than good is important in France, particularly given the Muslim minority in France. The plan is to cite a 2009 poll that indicates that a majority Afghans support foreign military intervention in their country. Reason for this tactic:  This is important because a good percentage of the German and French public that was polled (and in opposition to the military intervention in Afghanistan) also believed that the Afghan public is opposed to foreign military intervention in Afghanistan. Exploiting Public Guilt In addition, the French can dramatise the potentially negative consequences of NATO defeat for Afghan civilians Exploiting Cultural Differences re Status of Women eg by using the spectre of Taliban denying girls education this is supposed to trigger secular French indignation give the public reason to support French military intervention in Afghanistan -- ie  using propaganda to spin foreign military intervention in Afghanistan aims as a'good and necessary' cause so as to obtain public support, regardless of casualties ______________ COMMENT Explains all that incongruous emphasis on women's rights and anti-rape campaigns pushed by the UN, the British government, the US government, and like organisations -- where the ditzy Hollywood celebrities front the propaganda sideshow in a perverse entertainment-politics ‘marriage’ with bald-headed neocon warmonger politicians ______________ Exploit Testimonials  / Personalise Exploiting stories re the plight of refugees is highly recommended (given media controversy that was whipped up re 2009 expulsion of 12 Afghan refugees) { Comment:  the same could be said of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ currently drummed up by Merkel and the media and used by politicians in an attempt to justify attack on Syria } French were already involved in anti human trafficking efforts, so (according to the CIA propaganda memo), the French could be talked into supporting a NATO propaganda campaign along the lines that a NATO defeat could cause a refugee crisis. ______________ COMMENT  The irony is that military interventions are responsible for creating displacement and refugee problems, which Europe is currently awash with due to successive interventions of NATO and allies. ______________ GERMANY 2009 poll indicates German public opposition to war in Afghanistan was on the basis of: - financial/resources waste reasons - not a German issue - objection in principle {pacifist public} Ways to dampen German public opposition to NATO military intervention in Afghanistan - demonstrating ‘progress on the ground' - propaganda re consequences for Germany if NATO defeated in Afghanistan - propaganda re value of German 'partnership' in the NATO-led intervention - using propaganda about Afghanistan optimism re the military intervention's progress could challenge the waste of taxpayer money argument { Comment:  following government-associated broadcaster polls are never to be trusted (in my opinion) ...  } Background ARD ARD (broadcaster) joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters founded in 1950 in West Germany ARD - world's largest public broadcaster, with a budget of €6.3 billion & 23,000 employees budget comes primarily from the licence fees every household, every company and even every public institution ARD - operates many correspondents' offices in foreign cities, second only to BBC News {Comment:  BBC has been described as a ‘nest of spies’ by Iran, so it is not unreasonable to conclude ARD would be a like German organisation} Since 1960 it ARD been operated by the German federal government [Propaganda & Mass Persuasion, Cull, Cullbert & Welch - pg 333] ABC/BBC/ADR These polls *supposedly* indicated a high level of Afghan support for foreign military invasion in their country, on the basis of belief in pending improvement of conditions. {Comment:  lol ... anyone actually believe that?  Who did they poll, US payrolled dissidents? } Meanwhile, there were equally high levels of German pessimism re ‘stabilising Afghanistan’ Propaganda plan is to stress this 'high optimism' attributed to Afghanistan public To counter the 'not our problem' attitude of the German public, the following propaganda is called for: messaging that indicates NATO defeat in Afghanistan could equal exposure to terrorism, opium, refugees in Germany ______________ Irony This is the *exact* result of German *INTERVENTION* abroad -- it creates an explosion of displaced & therefore refugees, that Germany (& Europe) is now imposing on the German public. Currently Germany (& Europe) is hosting unprecedented levels of (unvetted) refugees and economic immigrants, passed off by the media as 'Syrian refugees' --  80% of whom are from countries other than Syria -- countries that have been targets of US & allied military destruction. Thus Germany has in fact opened itself up to ADDITIONAL financial burden; extensive, ongoing, and irreconcilable social burden; significant threat and likelihood of internal violence and terrorism; probable drug importation given the high probablility of internal links (refugee influx) to external sources of opium. All these ADDITIONAL costs of war to Germany are imposed on German taxpayers, alongside the refugee problem Germany has taken onboard on behalf of its imperialist American 'partner'. ______________ For Germany, propaganda strategy is to spin and emphasise NATO intervention's 'multilateral' and 'humanitarian' propaganda angles 1990s Germans supported NATO attack on Balkans as a show of 'commitment' to NATO allies German point of weakness is the desire to help / co-operate. The 'helping allies' rationale is the major reason for German public support of NATO military intervention in Afghanistan (in 2009 poll). European worry about European standing in Washington is EXPLOITED by Washington -- as leverage for maintaining European contributions to the NATO military interventions. eg.  Obama did not attend EU summit /  places Europe in 'lesser position' & results in European 'hand wringing' re this demotion For some bizarre reason, the French and the German publics are deemed to have confidence in Obama's ability to handle foreign affairs CIA indicates that this French & German public gullibility can be exploited by getting Obama to: a) spout propaganda about the importance of NATO military intervention in Afghanistan; & b) express disappointment in allies who do not help. ______________ LMAO ... ingenious.   That definitely hooks in the brainwashed Germans, who are all about goodness and light and hand-holding cooperation in the aftermath of decades of British and US subjugation and propaganda.  lol ______________ 2009 poll showed that when citing the Obama *personal* request for Afghanistan deployments, support increased as follows: =  4-15% French increase in support for 'yes' =  7-13% German increase in support for 'yes' ______________ CIA says that although the total percentages are small, there is a public sensitivity to disappointing the plutocratic puppet President of the American empire EXPLOITING AFGHAN WOMEN FOR WAR PROPAGANDA idea is to use Afghan women to 'humanise' NATO military intervention in Afghanistan / as the symbols of NATO's noble role in combating Taliban. Arrange media events conveying testimonials by Afghan women to broadcast to disproportionately female audiences. EXPLOIT *Afghan women speaking of experiences under Taliban *Afghan women speaking of aspirations for the future *Afghan women speaking of fears of Taliban victory Hook up Afghan women and the media Disseminate the pro Western/NATO intervention in Afghanistan propaganda via media to the French, German and other European women so as to get the women of Europe to come on-board with NATO military intervention in Afghanistan This is especially important as polls indicate that - 08% more French women than men are anti war - 22% more German women than men are anti war SOURCE WikiLeaks ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Propaganda 101 Obama will decorate an original French soldier for bravery in Afghanistan 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. Barack Obama will deliver in a month the Medal of Honor to Captain Florent Groberg, 32, a French-born US soldier who distinguished himself for his courage in fighting in Kunar province, Afghanistan. TRANSLATION Barack Obama will deliver in a month the Medal of Honor to Captain Florent Groberg, 32, a French-born US soldier who distinguished himself for his courage in fighting in Kunar province, Afghanistan. The "Medal of Honor", the highest American military award, distinguished, since 1863, an "act of heroism beyond duty." It is often awarded posthumously. Deployed in Kunar province in 2009 and again in 2012, Captain Groberg has shown 8 August 2012 in Asadabad. In an interview with Army Times magazine, Groberg captain told how he came face-to-face with a man about to commit a terrorist attack - suicide, an explosive device attached to the torso.  "The only thing I thought was: I must away from myself, I have to get him away from everybody," he recounted, explaining how he had then thrown to the ground. "At that time, he lands on the ground, I look at it, and it explodes, it explodes right before my feet." The blast left four people dead and many injured on the US side. But the intervention of Captain Groberg prevented the suicide bomber to activate his bomb when he had planned to do so and thus avoided a death toll much higher. Florent Groberg was born in Poissy, near Paris, May 8, 1983. US citizenship in 2001, he was educated at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda. Recounting the phone call from US President informing him that he would receive the prestigious medal, Florent Gorberg evoked unforgettable: "It's not every day that one of the most influential men in the world calls you on your mobile. " The discount will medal ceremony held November 12 at the White House. FRENCH SOURCE http://www.leparisien.fr/international/obama-va-decorer-un-soldat-d-origine-francaise-pour-son-courage-en-afghanistan-15-10-2015-5186039.php?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_term=Autofeed&link_time=1444864002#xtor=AD-1481423552 ꕤ