Almost EVERYTHING we have been told (and are still being told) are lies . . . the sooner that humanity admits that it has been duped, the sooner something gets done about it . . .
Ken
O'Keefe discusses "who is ISIS" and the absurdity of what the
mainstream media is telling us in this latest false flag manipulation
brought to you by the powers that be.
Medecins
Sans Frontieres UK director Vickie Hawkins' statement: "disgust" by
government statements justifying violence targeting Kunduz Hospital,
"admission of a war crime".
Afghan forces, not U.S. troops, requested that the U.S. bomb Doctors
Without Borders' hospital in Kunduz, according to the top U.S. general
in Afghanistan
on Monday about the early-morning strike that lasted over an hour —
burning to death patients in their beds and killing 12 Doctors Without
Borders medical staff members.
Expertly blaming someone else
for their crime when exposed is a typical sociopath response, albeit
old after fifteen years of that in the US-led assault on Afghans.
Internationally, rights groups condemn the U.S. for its assault.
Nationally, rights groups are mobilizing to protest at US hospitals.
Army Gen. John Campbell told reporters at a press conference Monday
that Afghan forces “advised that they were taking fire from enemy
positions and asked for air support from U.S. forces.” Campbell
clarified that his new story differed from initial reports that said
U.S. forces were under attack and called in the airstrikes on the
hospital for their defense.
“The initial statement that went out was that U.S. forces were under
direct fire contact,” said Campbell. “What I’m doing is correcting that
statement.”
Afghan officials now refuse to comment on the alleged war crime that Doctors Without Borders says was a U.S. war crime.
Abdul Qahar Aram, spokesman for Afghan army’s 209th Corps in northern
Afghanistan, said he could not comment on specifics of the hospital
bombing. A spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no immediate
comment about Campbell’s statements.
Officials' comments during the weekend differed to Campbell’s.
Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter stated Sunday that U.S. forces
were under attack.
“At some point in the course of the events there [they] did report
that they, themselves, were coming under attack. That much I think we
can safely say,” Carter told reporters.
Monday, Campbell confirmed that the aircraft that conducted the
attack was an AC-130 gunship, "a unique aircraft dedicated almost
entirely to support special operations forces," according to the
Washington Post. "While most jets streak across a target, moving quickly
and dropping either bombs or firing fixed weapons like cannons or
machine guns, the AC-130 essentially loiters over a target, flying
overhead in a circle and firing from weapon ports mounted on the
aircraft’s left side.
“It’s a visual acuity aircraft,” said a U.S. close-air support pilot
who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of his active duty
status. “An AC-130 finds the friendly force, then fires over their left
or right shoulder.”
An AC-130 does not enter enemy airspace and look for targets, he
added. It specifically has to be guided on to the target by a force on
the ground.
“It’s a very deliberate process,” he said.
For the attack to be a war crime, it must be proven that it was deliberate.
Physicians for Human Rights is the most recent organization to express horror about the attack.
"I'm sure you were as horrified as I was to learn that a U.S.
airstrike hit a Doctors without Borders clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan
killing at least 22 people this past Saturday," stated Donna McKay,
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) Executive Donna McKay. 'Collateral
damage' is not an acceptable excuse when health professionals and
patients are in the line of fire. Physicians for Human Rights is calling
for an independent investigation into the incident. We must work
together to ensure that such attacks on health do not become the new
normal in warfare."
Earlier Monday, the Norwegian Refugee Council issued a statement
explaining that the humanitarian crisis involves trapping people in
their homes, with no hospital nor food, water or other survival needs.
NRC's Secretary General on Twitter called urgently for a ceasefire.
Not one for words only, American national human rights leader David
Swanson has issued a statement about an action plan following the attack
of the Kunduz hospital. In an email, he reminded Americans that almost 6
years after President Obama's 2009 "surge," close to 10,000 U.S. troops
remain in Afghanistan, with the Pentagon campaigning to keep those
troops there and add more.
"Our friends at Voices for Creative Nonviolence are mobilizing
activists to gather in front of hospitals around the U.S. and elsewhere
in the world, under the messages, Dropping Bombs Here would be a War Crime! and The same is true in Afghanistan.
Former US General Wesley Clark went on MSNBC to promote detaining
domestic 'radicals' or people 'disloyal to the United States' in
internment camps for the duration of the war on terror.
The host asked Clark "How do we fix self-radicalized lone wolves, domestically?"
First, Clark cites people who lose a job or break up with a girlfriend
as being especially dangerous. Next he tells us what he'd do to those
who're disloyal to the U.S. during the war on terror.
"In World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of
the United States, we didn't say that was freedom of speech. We put them
in a camp," Clark continued, "They were prisoners of war."
"If these people are radicalized, and they don't support the United
States, and they're disloyal to the United States, as a matter of
principle, fine, that's their right, but it's our (the government's)
right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal community for
the duration of the conflict. And I think we're going to have to get
increasingly tough on this."
The original united states died and was buried over a century ago.
The new United States is run for the benefit of private interests.
Our
God given unalienable rights have been done away with and, as Wesley
Clark so eloquently stated, our bodies will be thrown into prison if we
don't comply with their every wish.
So, since it has now been outed that the CIA/U.S. government is one
of the powers behind ISIS (besides Saudi intelligence and Mossad; and
the UK is also known to have lent a hand, by airlifting arms to them),
we should put the Obama administration and its appointments to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the upper echelons of the U.S. military in one of
those FEMA camps that the govt. has 'allotted' all over the country.
Right, Wesley? And perhaps you should put in your request for location
now, since things are hotting up in that War you're talking about, and
we're all to be considered 'combatants'???
Is this the same former 4-star general, who on 21 Sept 2001, discovered the Illuminati-Israeli plan? "-
- we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with
Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off,
Iran" was in place in the Pentagon, already, a couple days after 9-11.
More than likely, prior to 9-11. If this is the same man, and not
a CIA/MOSSAD “look-alike,” he has been offered the final choice:
capitulate or your family will be murdered before your eyes, and then,
you. Patriotism is not without a price. History proves it.
is this the same wesley clark who said this: I said, "We're going
to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don't know." He said, "I guess they
don't know what else to do." So I said, "Well, did they find some
information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says,
"There's nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war
with Iraq." He said, "I guess it's like we don't know what to do about
terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take
downGOVERNMENTS." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a
hammer, every problem has to look like a nail." So I came back to see
him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it's
worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of
paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" -- meaning the
Secretary of Defense's office -- "today." And he said, "This is a memo
that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five
years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said,
"Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or
so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show
you that memo! I didn't show it to you!
Torture
is a horrific topic and most minds will turn away from it because it can’t be
comprehended that humans can be motivated, or computer programs can be run to
do this to other sentient beings. Just when we believed we were
becoming more civilized as a culture, the technology for torture has advanced
more than a hundred fold in recent decades.
This
summary will get into ‘the minds of the dishonorable monsters’ of the
psychology of torture. Those like Dick Cheney who helped authorize it under
certain administrations and regimes of the U.S. government which have been
proven to be criminal under U.S. law, treaties, and the International Criminal
Court. There are many people involved in the conspiracy and cover-up including
General Hayden.
The
full report discloses the spectrum of techniques of interrogation and torture
used by the U.S. and its allies. The United States government will officially
deny the claims of this “no-touch torture report” but in time it will stand
firm.
The
technologies used are still classified as state secrets and will not be
discussed in this summary. The torture methods have been leaked through
thousands of American citizens who have survived the no-touch torture programs.
The research and testimony has been accumulated since 2002 and merely used as
examples but the names of the victims are withheld.
This
report will not use skewed, misleading language such as “enhanced
interrogation” to describe the torture techniques.
Why torture? The CIA claims it
works. The assumption is that it works to gain actionable intelligence. Torture
is often used for revenge, punishment, interrogation, and behavior
modification. In other terms torture is
used to remove the continuity of thought to confuse the target to reveal
information, erase brain patterns such as values and beliefs, or to break down
the human spirit to make them submit and obey their handlers.
The
downside of torture is that the countries that do it lose “moral soft power” in
world politics. Without due process, over 25% of those reported in the
Senate Torture Report were declared
innocent. Blowback is always a repercussion of torture. Torture often takes a
long time to affect the target from months to years. Torture has shown to be unreliable except for
getting false confessions and bad information but the U.S. and its allies are
improving on their tactics and techniques.
The
purpose of this report is to draw the parallels between physical torture
techniques and no-touch torture methods used in secret by governments who
possess the technologies that still go on today. This is a brief summary of offensive
psychological and information warfare methods using traditional methods and
modern cybernetic techniques while exploring hyper-game theory to walk the target to the desired path: leak
intelligence, commit assassinations, or change beliefs.
Numerated Torture Methods for
Interrogation and Behavior Modification
(A comparison between physical and no-touch torture tactics)
1. Induction of Depressive/Manic states
The idea is to shake
up the emotional states of the target because different information can be
accessed at each state. Making the
target feel despair and helplessness is the objective. This cycle of hope
building and then breaking is done in many ways. The techniques between the physical methods
and the no-touch technological methods are similar. Speech is very important
during this process of emotional manipulation. Such examples are, “We have
imprisoned you without due processes or hope of it. You are indefinitely
detained.” Hope building examples include, “Sorry. We have mistaken you for
someone else. You will be compensated for false imprisonment and torture.”
The main difference between the cybernetic
technology and physical is that emotional state clusters can be entrained into
the target mind which speeds up the process. The communication is done
differently but perceived as human speech. In the no-touch torture methods it
is helpful if the target is labeled with mental illness that is being created
for discrediting purposes so as not to draw human rights groups’ attention.
2. Memory Erasure
The military and CIA
have been researching memory erasing drugs for half a century. The focus of this summary report is on
interrogation. Memory erasure is an important technique during interrogation.
It is used in combination with sleep deprivation. There are many drugs that have been developed
for physical memory erasure. One such interrogation method requires acquiring
information from the target while on these drugs and recording the subject.
After a sleeping cycle, the interrogator claims that the target has confessed.
Of course the target remembers nothing of their conversation. The interrogator
will play samples of the subject’s conversation back to them making the subject
believe that the interrogator knows more than they do. Similar techniques are used in the wireless,
no-touch torture and interrogation programs. The cybernetic methods of memory
erasure have additional purposes. The
memory erasure can be used on the cybernetic target to make the target believe
people have broken in and moved their belongings. While physical black bag jobs
do occur, it is a way to make the target more paranoid.
3. Electricity and Shocks
Pain
and fear of death are common tactics during interrogation. Shocking by
electricity is a traditional method of torture and exposed in the CIA’s secret
prisons. Shocking the testicles and
nipples are the most common due to their sensitivity. Interestingly, the thousand
of interviews of no-touch torture involves “stings” and “shocks” to various
parts of their bodies over long durations.
4. Fear and Terror
There
are many techniques to induce extreme fear in the target. In physical renditions dogs, power drills,
guns, insects, mutilation, blow torches, water boarding, suffocation, mock
burials, and mock executions are just a few the United States government have
used. Remember that many targets of
torture die from the physical effects. It is torture to death.
Let
us compare the no-touch torture methods used to inflict the same terror and
mental anguish. In several of these
techniques the target needs to hear their handler’s voice. This report does not describe the
technologies used to broadcast voices to the target at a distance. While the
subject can be broadcast mental images to their mind using hypnosis and other
suggestions as well as visual entrainments, the more invasive controls of the
brain manipulation technologies can be used to entrained the brain’s autonomic nervous
systems such as not breathing causing the target to not be able to sleep from
fear of suffocation equivalent to water boarding. The neural linguistic
programming can add fears such as heart attack, stroke, and cancer threats. Even
motor cortex mapping can cause twitches in any part of the body. One example
used a swift neck movement with a voice transmission, “We are trying to break
your neck.” Directed energy effects such as Active Denial System can make the
target feel that they are on fire indefinitely without the target dying from
burns. Maximum pain and torture weapons have been evolving. Every drug effect
can be artificially induced into the target mind including those of poisons.
5. Imprisonment and Isolation
Isolation
is commonly used as punishment in prisons. Many whistleblowers like Bradley
Manning suffer this condition. In soft interrogation it is used to get the
target to talk to their interrogator since humans have the need for
companionship. In no-touch torture the target is driven from their friends and
family using different techniques in order to isolate them so that the
electronic mind control has more effect on their psyche. Like in Guantanamo, the target becomes
isolated losing their job and medical care. Part of the method involves slander
in their community. They end up on the most part in poverty and paranoid about
doctors and other people from false correlations that are purposefully induced
into their lives. Isolation is also a form of sensory deprivation which will be
discussed later. Days and weeks lose their meaning.
6. Sexually Disturbing Tailored Pornography
The
Summary of the Senate Torture Report
disclosed the disgusting revelations that in the secret torture prisons the
targets were forced to perform homosexual acts on each other against their will
and religion in order not to be beaten or killed. This is a common break down tactic
of belief systems and the human will. In no-touch torture the techniques are
more psychologically specialized for each target. Most common examples include
homosexual targets that are forced with voices that are derogatory to their
lifestyle and similar mental images. Almost all targets are forced to view
child pornography in their minds. And vice versa is true, that heterosexual
targets are forced to view homosexual sexual acts like in the secret U.S.
torture prisons.
7. Mutilation
Also
mentioned in the declassified report on torture was mutilation of the human.
Cutting the naked target’s penis and scrotum, pulling nails or teeth is
common. In no-touch torture mutilation
is done by trickery. Let us look at a
couple examples. There have been several targets who believed that the
microwave hearing effect and other voice induction methods were done by
microchips implanted in their teeth or ears. They had all their teeth pulled
because they believed it was a technology called bone conductance. Others have
poked out their ear drums in the belief they had micro implants in their ears.
There are many more examples of trickery used to make the targets mutilate
themselves.
8. Personal and Spiritual Defamation
In
physical torture the CIA and other groups use propaganda and defamation of
character for those they oppose. For detainees they try to disenfranchise the
target from their religion. They will defecate on their Bible or Koran for
example. They might say, “Why is your God not saving you?” In no touch torture and behavior modification
they might try to make an atheist believe in god. It is just a mechanism to
alter belief systems for control and experimentation. Perhaps the target may
wish to confess their secrets to a “voice of god weapon”. Information warfare
covers the gamut of electronic communication as well. The government training
exercise uses language like “befriend”, “infiltrate”, “mask/mimic”, “ruse”, “set-up”, “disrupt”,
“create cognitive stress”, “use deception”, “ruin business
relationships”, and “post
negative information on appropriate forums” - in a malicious effort
to target bloggers, activists, journalists, social event
organizers and anyone else deemed to be a ‘emerging
leader’ or voice in the public sphere.
9. Psychological Intimidation
This
is a topic for a target at the beginning of the trials and programs. Physical
break-ins are common even if the target has an alarm system. The NSA has used
stalking of foreign officials in the past for economic gain. The FBI does black
bag jobs to invade a home without a warrant. The point is to let the target
know they are being watched and to increase their paranoia. The NSA easily
hacks all computer systems and causes harm to the victim’s intellectual
property and their relationships from that endpoint. In the no touch torture
false correlations between pain and a neighbor coming home can be induced.
10. Rape
Rape
is a common practice in torture. It causes much psychological trauma. In the
United States methods of rape in their military and CIA secret prisons it is
often relabeled. It is commonly done by prods but “rectal rehydration” is the
more common misnomer. Often they call it forced feeding through the rectum but
it is meant to induce psychological scaring and trauma. Several have died from
the technique due to rectal bleeding. In
no-touch torture the psychological trauma of simulated rape takes on different
forms. Using technique often called EEG-heterodyning the targets will receive
molestation effects of their genitals. In men this can be the anus and
genitals. Similarly women can be wirelessly raped by the analogous function of
perception.
11. Dietary Manipulation, Forced Weakness and Sickness
The
idea behind dietary manipulation is to weaken the target. This is easily done
in a physical setting but in no-touch the hunger trigger needs to be
suppressed. Sometimes a false correlation between eating food and sickness is
induced to make the target believe they are being poisoned. However, poisoning
is common in physical renditions too.
12. Repetition
Verbal
breakdown is most important during interrogations and torture. Obviously
speaking the language of the target is necessary. This is why there are
interrogators in all languages. Repetition is an important neural linguistic
programming interrogation tactic to influence the target mind. During the breakdown process, threats to kill
and to torture the target’s family or friends are common. Repetitious
questioning and breakdown phrases are automated in both the physical and
no-touch versions of torture. An interesting technology that is used for
no-touch torture is called chatter bots.
Chatter bots, an artificial
intelligence program, automate much of the repetition so that the interrogators
don’t drive themselves crazy during the neural linguistic torture and
programming phases. Let us not forget the Chinese Water Torture, a single drop
of water on the forehead of the detainee for months. Repetition is a form of
torture.
13. Sensitization of Pain Impulses
While
the reverse can be obtained, optimizing perceived pain and misery is the
objective in torture. Each trauma adds to the overall misery throughout
life. Optimization of pain has been
studied by the military and intelligence agencies. In the past the CIA has used drugs such as LSD
to enhance fear and terror in the subject. Other methods such as hypnosis can increase
perceived pain and the power of suggestion such as telling the subject his
pinky finger is going to be cut off before it is done. In no-touch torture the
same psychological manipulations are exerted. Subliminal and overt suggested
are often told to the subject before the directed energy or EEG heterodyning
pain inductions in order to maximize their effectiveness.
14. Sensory Overload and Deprivation
Again,
this technique of overloading or depriving the human of sensory stimulus is
ubiquitous in torture around the world not just in U.S. secret prisons. Torture
subjects in the United States have reported the use of repetitive bad music and
noise campaigns. An unusual torture technique used in the U.S. secret prisons
was of a use of a plastic suit filled with ice while they beat the target. Ultra bright lights for days on end in the
prison and hot/cold temperature changes in the environment are frequent. In
no-touch torture, the target’s brain is forced to release dopamine which causes
pupil dilatation. This acts as a sensory overload. For example the non-lethal microwave
weapons research done by a professor in University of Nevada has shown this
capability. Body metabolism can be altered with these weapons causing cold and
hot flashes. Targets of no-touch torture
often hear endless tinnitus.
15. Sexual Humiliation and Lack of Privacy
Often
used in common prisons is a lack of privacy. It is both necessity for security
and a form of sexual humiliation. Also in prison many people are raped.
No-touch torture offers the same sexual humiliation and lack of privacy by
using through wall radar, cameras, and EEG visual cloning to let the target know
they are being watched. Degrading comments are often used on the no-touch
torture subjects while they are naked or in the bathroom.
16. Maximum Sensory Pain Techniques
Basic
torture involves brutalization, i.e. physical strikes, kicks in the groin,
pepper spray or tear gas, etc. Anything that involves maximum pain is the
objective. Amazingly, these same basic tortures can be done wirelessly into the
human mind. All forms of sickness have been reported without any real illness
behind the suffering. All suffering can
be entrained into the minds of no-touch torture subjects.
17. Sleep Deprivation
This
is the number one torture method along with the popularity in the press of
water boarding. This is done in every
country that uses torture. The United States is number one in torture since
they are currently the world’s only superpower. A repetitive sleep deprivation cycle is generally done 180 hrs/7.5 days
at a time in the physical renditions, or in no-touch torture five days awake
and two days of sleep. Sleep deprivation
accomplishes the objective of memory loss during interrogation and induces
hallucinations which help with the interrogation process. In behavior
modification and programming it is necessary too.
18. Stress Positions
Keeping
detainees handcuffed above their head and to walls so that they must stand for
days is a common ploy in torture. These types of poses are called stress
positions. They can be mimicked in no-touch torture. An example of one such
trick requires the target to believe they can deflect radar energy using pots
or pans and that it is directional. The target is being given an ample amount
of pain until their hands and arms are spread apart holding the pans trying to
block the signals. They must maintain that position in order to get any relief
from the torture signals. However the stress position itself is physical
torture. Often accompanying this technique are voices saying to the target,
“You are doing it to yourself.”
We will finish off this summary of U.S.
and its allies’ torture, interrogation, and behavior modification
experimentation with ideas of why they are done to the general public and
falsely accused detainees. Anyone can be
put into these programs. Justice and rule of law does not exist at the highest
levels of government. Treaties are worthless because the #1 agreement in the rules
of war, a ban against torture, is not obeyed. This creates a more brutal and
barbaric society lead by example.
No-touch
torture uses the same interrogation tactics as physical interrogations but with
some new twists. Techniques such as “Jeff and Mutt” a.k.a. “Good Cop Bad Cop”
are used. The bad cop tortures the target and the good cop tries to gain their
trust. In mind control, trust games are commonly employed to manipulate the
beliefs of the target. Creating hatred
of groups through false correlations and deception is a common CIA method of
trickery.
In the CIA programs, the target is
put through these phases as written in the documentation, “Disorient and
confuse the target. Use them for our purposes, and then dispose of them in any
way possible.” We can only surmise by our sample set of a thousand people what
“dispose” means: prison, suicide, or perhaps a mental hospital. Coercing and torturing people to suicide is
very common. Both tactics in physical or no-touch torture involves plausible
deniability.
The no-touch interrogations are
better than physical rendition techniques for exposing support networks.
Traditional NSA tracking of email and phones calls are useful but if the
targets are taken into a secret prison they can’t contact their networks. In
no-touch torture, the target will contact everyone who might help them. Then
those relationships can be destroyed to isolate the target. All these
techniques rely on the target having a fear of death and pain.
Deception is very important during
interrogation. In physical interrogations the targets are often drugged. This
creates the confusion necessary to pull off certain trickery. In terrorist
interrogations, for example, the CIA uses fake newspapers to make the target
believe whatever event they were suspected of plotting had already happened,
obviously looking for a confession. Sometimes the government in charge of the torture is looking for a
political gain through a false confession. None-the-less false flag operations
are commonly used in both forms of torture and interrogation. The trick is to make the target believe
another foreign country is doing it to them. In no-touch torture the trick is
to make them believe someone related to them is behind their suffering.
Voice transformation and morphing
is an interesting technology also used in both physical and wireless
interrogations. It is a form of deception used against a target to trick them
into believing that they are speaking to real people that they know. It has
been used in war to trick generals. Obviously spoofing email and other identities
on internet forums can be used in this manner too.
Finally, the topic of human experimentation
for improving weapons, torture, interrogation, and social disruption methods will
be breached. Most of the techniques
mentioned above work most effectively if the target has no SERE training
(Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) or psychological understanding of
the methods to influence the human mind. Unfortunately, every sample point in
the world’s society needs to be studied to improve the weapons systems. This is
why many random people are put into the torture and mind control experiments.
There are some devious uses of a secret army of remote controlled assassins in
every country in the world. The samples must include different education,
language, culture, and economic factors. Obviously, silencing dissidents, oppositions of
political parties, and whistleblowers are included in the lists of
applications. The most disturbing of the trends in torture is testing and
improving it. No-touch torture is much more complex than physical torture.
Testing design flaws and weaknesses of the signal intelligence is one reason
why it is necessary to test on innocent targets. Often the subject will be
taunted by the statement, “Try to stop us.” This statement forces the torture
subject to try to figure out shielding and jamming techniques to stop the
wireless torture and helps the weapons designers to improve on the system.
However, the psychological and
perceived physical pain is only half the story with no-touch torture. It also
involves a set of scripts, mind games if you will, to walk the target to murder
and/or suicide. This is called “Hyper Game Theory”. It is used in war games to determine how to
control your enemies and targets. Game
Theory can be used on governments, individuals, or for determining propaganda
to alter cultures. The experiments on the public provide a means to test the
efficacy of these scripts and determine under what circumstances to use them.
One last comment on why “We must
guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military industrial complex” as President Eisenhower warned. During
these torture programs run by the United States and its allies, accurate
“truth” data points need to be used to judge the efficiency of the interrogation
methods. This is why there is a dispute between the CIA and Senate Intelligence
Committee reports about the usefulness of torture. Subterfuge by the CIA
hacking into the senate oversight committee’s computers is a big deal; a rogue
agency has been formed. Data fusion centers, Homeland Security Data Fusion
Centers, NSA, and FBI collect data on Americans. This data in turn is used
during torture and interrogation of Americans in no-touch torture.
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western
states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for
those paid to keep the record straight
By John Pilger
A baby in a Baghdad hospital in July
2003. 'Half
a million Iraqi infants died
as a result of sanctions, according
to Unicef.' Photograph: Joseph
Barrak/AFP/Getty Images
There were weeks of absurd negotiation at Broadcasting
House about ways of "countering" us and whether or not
we could be allowed to speak without interruption from
Today's establishment choristers. What this brief
insurrection demonstrated was the fear of a reckoning.
The crimes of western states like Britain have made
accessories of those in the media who suppress or
minimise the carnage.
The Faustian pacts that contrived a world war a century
ago resonate today across the Middle East and Asia, from
Syria to Japan. Then, as now, cover-up was the principal
weapon. In 1917 David Lloyd George, the British prime
minister, declared: "If people knew the truth, the war
would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know
and can't know."
On
Harvey's Today programme I referred to a poll conducted
by ComRes last year that asked people in Britain how
many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the 2003
invasion.
A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been
killed: a figure so shockingly low it was a profanity.
I
compared this with scientific estimates of "up to a
million men, women and children [who] had died in the
inferno lit by Britain and the US". In fact, academic
estimates range from less than half a million to more
than a million.
John Tirman, the principal research scientist at the
MIT Centre for International Studies, has examined all
the credible estimates; he told me that an average
figure "suggests roughly 700,000". Tirman pointed out
that this excluded deaths among the millions of
displaced Iraqis, up to 20% of the population.
The day after the Harvey programme, Today "countered"
with
Toby Dodge of the LSE – a former adviser to General
Petraeus, one of the architects of the disasters in both
Iraq and Afghanistan – along with
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a former Iraqi "national
security adviser" in the occupation regime, and the man
who led Saddam Hussein to his lynching.
These BBC-accredited "experts" rubbished, without
evidence, the studies and reduced the number of dead by
hundreds of thousands. The interviewer, Mishal Husain,
offered no challenge to their propaganda. They then
"debated" who was responsible. Lloyd George's dictum
held; culpability was diverted.
But for how long? There is no question that the epic
crime committed in Iraq has burrowed into the public
consciousness. Many recall that
"shock and awe" was the extension of a murderous
blockade imposed for 13 years by Britain and the US
and suppressed by much of the mainstream media,
including the BBC. Half a million Iraqi infants
died as a result of sanctions, according to Unicef.
I watched children dying in hospitals, denied basic
painkillers.
Ten years later, in New York, I met the senior British
official responsible for these "sanctions". He is
Carne Ross,
once known in the UN as "Mr Iraq". He is now a
truth-teller. I read to him a
statement he had made to a parliamentary select
committee in 2007: "The weight of evidence clearly
indicates that sanctions caused massive human suffering
among ordinary Iraqis, particularly children. We, the US
and UK governments, were the primary engineers and
offenders of sanctions and were well aware of the
evidence at the time but we largely ignored it and
blamed it on the Saddam government … effectively denying
the entire population the means to live."
I
said to him: "That's a shocking admission."
"Yes, I agree," he replied. "I feel ashamed about it
..." He described how the Foreign Office manipulated a
willing media. "We would control access to the foreign
secretary as a form of reward to journalists. If they
were critical, we would not give them the goodies of
trips around the world. We would feed them factoids of
sanitised intelligence, or we'd freeze them out."
The truth about the criminal bloodbath in Iraq cannot be
"countered" indefinitely. Neither can the truth about
our support for the medievalists in Saudi Arabia, the
nuclear-armed predators in Israel, the new military
fascists in Egypt and the jihadist "liberators" of
Syria, whose propaganda is now BBC news. There will be a
reckoning – not just for the Blairs, Straws and
Campbells, but for those paid to keep the record
straight.
George W.
Bush
George W. Bush Presidential Center
PO Box 560887
Dallas, Texas, 57356
Dear Mr.
Bush:
January 03, 2014 "Information
Clearing House-A few days ago I
received a personalized letter from your Presidential
Center which included a solicitation card for donations that
actually provided words for my reply. They included “I’m honored
to help tell the story of the Bush Presidency” and “I’m thrilled
that the Bush Institute is advancing timeless principles and
practical solutions to the challenges facing our world.” (Below
were categories of “tax-deductible contributions” starting with
$25 and going upward.)
Did you
mean the “timeless principles” that drove you and Mr. Cheney to
invade the country of Iraq which, contrary to your fabrications,
deceptions and cover-ups, never threatened the United States?
Nor could Iraq [under its dictator and his dilapidated military]
threaten its far more powerful neighbors, even if the Iraqi
regime wanted to do so.
Today,
Iraq remains a country (roughly the size and population of
Texas) you destroyed, a country where over a million Iraqis,
including many children and infants (remember Fallujah?) lost
their lives, millions more were sickened or injured, and
millions more were forced to become refugees, including most of
the Iraqi Christians. Iraq is a country rife with sectarian
strife that your prolonged invasion provoked into what is now
open warfare. Iraq is a country where al-Qaeda is spreading with
explosions taking 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60 lives per day. Just this
week, it was reported that the U.S. has sent Hellfire
air-to-ground missiles to Iraq’s air force to be used against
encampments of “the country’s branch of al-Qaeda.” There was no
al-Qaeda in Iraq before your invasion. Al-Qaeda and Saddam
Hussein were mortal enemies.
The
Bush/Cheney sociocide of Iraq, together with the loss of tens of
thousands of U.S. soldiers’ lives, countless injuries and
illnesses, registers, with the passage of time, no recognition
by you that you did anything wrong nor have you accepted
responsibility for the illegality of your military actions
without a Congressional declaration of war. You even turned your
back on Iraqis who worked with U.S. military occupation forces
as drivers, translators etc. at great risk to themselves and
their families and were desperately requesting visas to the
U.S., often with the backing of U.S. military personnel. Your
administration allowed fewer Iraqis into the U.S. than did
Sweden in that same period and far, far fewer than Vietnamese
refugees coming to the U.S. during the nineteen seventies.
When you
were a candidate, I called you a corporation running for the
Presidency masquerading as a human being. In time you turned a
metaphor into a reality. As a corporation, you express no
remorse, no shame, no compassion and a resistance to admit
anything other than that you have done nothing wrong.
Day after
day Iraqis, including children, continue to die or suffer
terribly. When the paraplegic, U.S. army veteran, Tomas Young,
wrote you last year seeking some kind of recognition that
many things went horribly criminal for many American soldiers
and Iraqis, you did not deign to reply, as you did not deign to
reply to Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son, Casey, in Iraq. As you
said, “the interesting thing about being the president” is that
you “don’t feel like [you] owe anybody an explanation.” As a
former President, nothing has changed as you make very lucrative
speeches before business groups and, remarkably, ask Americans
for money to support your “continued work in public service.”
Pollsters
have said that they believe a majority of Iraqis would say that
life today is worse for them than under the brutal dictatorship
of Saddam Hussein. They would also say George W. Bush left Iraq
worse off than when he entered it, despite the U.S. led
sanctions prior to 2003 that took so many lives of Iraqi
children and damaged the health of so many civilian families.
Your
national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, said publically in
2012 that while “the arc of history” may well turn out better
for post-invasion Iraq than the present day violent chaos, she
did “take personal responsibility” for the casualties and the
wreckage. Do you?
Can you,
at the very least, publically urge the federal government to
admit more civilian Iraqis, who served in the U.S. military
occupation, to this country to escape the retaliation that has
been visited on their similarly-situated colleagues? Isn’t that
the minimum you can do to very slightly lessen the
multiple, massive blowbacks that your reckless military policies
have caused? It was your own anti-terrorism White House adviser,
Richard Clarke, who wrote in his book, Against All Enemies:
Inside America’s War on Terror, soon after leaving his
post, that the U.S. played right into Osama bin Laden’s hands by
invading Iraq.
Are you
privately pondering what your invasion of Iraq did to the Iraqis
and American military families, the economy and to the spread of
al-Qaeda attacks in numerous countries?
Sincerely
yours,
Ralph
Nader
P.S. I am
enclosing as a contribution in kind to your presidential center
library the book Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and
the Failure of Good Intentions by Clyde Prestowitz (2003)
whom I’m sure you know. Note the positive remark on the back
cover by General Wesley Clark.
(many want to continue believing that WHEN drone strikes occur here, killing innocents, maybe a member of our own family, that someone in CONgress will care . . . )
By PopularResistance.org
Above: Nabila Rehman, left, 9, watches as her brother
Zubair reads a statement about the day their grandmother
was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, at a
hearing in Washington, Tuesday.Jason
Reed/Reuters
Alan
Grayson (D-FL) organized an historic hearing on US drone
strikes. It was the first time that drone strike victims told
their stories to U.S. elected officials at a hearing. The Rehman
family traveled halfway around the world from Pakistan to tell
the story of their families loss; the killing of the families
grandmother. Only five members of Congress bothered to show up.
What does this show about the United States political
leadership? It is shameful. Below are three articles
describing the scene and the families ordeal. We need to help them change the hearts and minds
of Americans especially our elected leadership. Please share
this with the White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call)
and your representatives in Congress.
Drone Survivors
Speak at Congressional Briefing
Drone
victims give US lawmakers first-hand account of attack
Nabila, a
shy girl with startling hazel eyes and red streaks in her dark
hair, along with her father Rafiq and 13-year-old brother Zubair
have told the story of the day when a drone fell from the sky in
their village in North Waziristan so many times that by Tuesday
morning the tale was rote — even if this particular retelling
was before U.S. lawmakers, at a briefing which was the first
opportunity for members of Congress to hear directly from
Pakistani victims of American drones.
It was
Oct. 24, 2012, the day before the Islamic holy day of
Eid-al-Adha in North Waziristan. Zubair, Nabila, their little
sister, five-year-old Asma and some of their cousins were all in
the fields beside their house as their grandmother, 67-year-old
Momina Bibi, showed them how to tell when the okra was ripe for
picking.
Zubair
knew the drones were circling overhead; he has known their
distinctive buzzing since he was even younger — a methodical zung,
zung, zung, he says.
“It’s
something that even a 2-year-old would know,” he said in Pashto,
speaking to Al Jazeera through a translator. “We hear the noise
24 hours a day.”
Before the
missile hit, he remembers hearing two clicks, like a trigger
being pulled. Suddenly, day seemed to turn to night as they were
enveloped in darkness and heat. Their grandmother, Momina Bibi,
was thrown 20 feet away and killed instantly.
Zubair,
Nabila and the other children wounded in the attack were taken
to a hospital. Zubair had shrapnel lodged in his leg — an injury
that would take expensive laser surgeries to heal — while Nabila
looked down to see her hand bleeding.
“I tried
to bandage my hand but the blood wouldn’t stop,” she said. “The
blood kept coming.”
Momina
Bibi’s wounds were so severe that neighbors would not allow her
sons to see the body, said Rafiq, a primary schoolteacher in
Pakistan who was in town buying school supplies and sweets when
the attack happened.
In the
days and weeks after, Rafiq said the newspapers reported that
militants had been killed in the strike. As far as he knows, his
mother was the sole fatality. He has never received an answer
from the Pakistani or U.S. governments about why she was
targeted or whether the strike was a mistake.
The
Rehmans traveled halfway across the world, from their remote
village of Tappi, to tell their story and to urge lawmakers to
put an end to the covert CIA program of “targeted killings” in
Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. They also participated in an Amnesty
International report about casualties of drones and a
documentary by filmmaker Robert Greenwald, called Unmanned. According
to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 376
total strikes have taken place in Pakistan, killing up to 926
civilians and as many as 200 children.
Since they
arrived in Washington last weekend — their first time outside of
Pakistan — the Rehmans have patiently sat for hours of
interviews with dozens of media outlets in a dogged effort to
change hearts and minds, with only a few breaks to go see the
sights in the U.S. capital.
The Obama
administration, for its part, until recently did not even
acknowledge the existence of the program. Now, officials say
drone warfare is a precise and effective means to neutralize
enemies in remote regions of the world where capturing
terrorists is difficult and that civilian casualties are
minimal.
That
rationale holds little solace for Rafiq and his family.
Opponents
of the United States have pointed out, beyond the legal and
moral implications, that the U.S. policy engenders hatred of
America and breeds extremism.
But even
after what his family has been through, Rafiq Rehman said he
does not resent the United States. In fact, even after
witnessing his first Halloween weekend in the States, he does
not believe all that much separates him from Americans.
“It’s very
peaceful here. For the most part, there’s a lot of freedom and
people get along with each other. They’re nice, they respect
each other, and I appreciate that,” Rafiq told Al Jazeera.
“We’re all
human beings,” he said. “I knew that Americans would have a
heart, that they would be sympathetic to me. That’s why I came
here — I thought if they heard my story, they would want to
listen to me and influence their politicians.”
Rafiq,
like so many fathers, wants his children to have peaceful lives
and the best education possible. He hopes Zubair grows up to be
a doctor and that Nabila is a lawyer.
“(The
drone attack) created a disruption in our lives,” he said. “Our
children live in fear. They don’t want to go to school. They
don’t want to play outside.”
Ultimately, only five members of Congress arrived at the
briefing to hear their testimony Tuesday morning: Rep. Alan
Grayson of Florida, who organized the briefing, along with Reps.
Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Rush Holt, D-N.J., John Conyers, D-Mich.,
and Rick Nolan, D-Minn.
What
compelling interest did the U.S. government have in murdering a
grandmother of nine and a midwife who helped deliver babies in
the village, Rehman asked them. How can he reassure his children
that the drones will not come back?
“I no
longer love blue skies,” Zubair said. “In fact, I now prefer
gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”
Grayson
said the briefing, held a full decade after the first drone
strikes in Yemen by the Bush administration, was a promising
start and dismissed the seemingly low attendance, noting that
five members showed “a fair amount of interest.” Grayson
doubted, however, that a full committee hearing with members of
Congress would be called anytime soon.
“The
appropriate committees generally are staffed by people, if I may
say this, who are friends of the military industrial complex,
not even enemies, or even skeptics of it,” he said.
Still,
Zubair Rehman remained hopeful.
“I hope I
can return home with a message,” he said. “I hope I can tell my
community that Americans listened.”
September 13, 2013 "Information Clearing House -
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has categorically refused
in defiance of its own mandate to share evidence uncovered in
Iraq that US military use of Depleted Uranium and other weapons
have not
only killed many civilians, but continue to result in
the birth of deformed babies.
This issue
was first brought to light in 2004 in a WHO expert report “on
the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population resulting
from depleted uranium (DU) weapons”. This earlier report was
“held secret”, namely suppressed by the WHO:
The
study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that
children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in
dust containing DU, which is radioactive and chemically
toxic. But it was blocked from publication by the World
Health Organization (WHO), which employed the main author,
Dr Keith Baverstock, as a senior radiation advisor. He
alleges that it was deliberately suppressed, though this is
denied by WHO. (See Rob Edwards, WHO ‘Suppressed’ Scientific
Study Into Depleted Uranium Cancer Fears in Iraq,
The Sunday Herald,
February 24, 2004)
Almost
nine years later, a joint WHO- Iraqi Ministry of Health Report
on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was to be released in
November 2012. “It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no
release date whatsoever.”
To this
date the WHO study remains “classified”.
According
to Hans von Sponeck,
former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations,
This
tragedy in Iraq reminds one of US Chemical Weapons used in
Vietnam. And that the US has failed to acknowledge or pay
compensation or provide medical assistance to thousands of
deformed children born and still being born due to American
military use of Agent Orange throughout the country.
The
millions of gallons of this chemical dumped on rural Vietnam
were eagerly manufactured and sold to the Pentagon by companies
Dupont, Monsanto and others greedy for huge profits.
Given the
US record of failing to acknowledge its atrocities in warfare, I
fear those mothers in Najaf and other Iraqi cities and towns
advised not to attempt the birth of more children will never
receive solace or help.
A United
Nations that is no longer corrupted by the five Permanent
Members of the Security Council is what is needed.
Denis Halliday - Former UN
Assistant Secretary-General, was the United Nations Humanitarian
Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998. He is
Irish and holds an M.A. in Economics, Geography and Public
Administration from Trinity College, Dublin.
The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.
Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.
