DefDog: Leaving Afghanistan – As Ignorant As When We Invaded

04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government
DefDog

What an IO goldmine for the Taliban……ending a war takes two just as a Tango does. By saying we are done it provides an opponent with victory. There is no other way to spin it. Now the questioning begins (as it should have. Lack of intelligence on Pashtu culture is the root cause of this war. If we had understood Pashtunwalli and the meaning of sanctuary we would have understood Omar's obligation to bin Laden. We didn't because it is not found in the classified enclaves of the intelligence
community….it is found on the many websites regarding Pashtuns and Afghanistan though.)

In Afghanistan, President Obama signals end to the war

WASHINGTON — Speaking to a war-weary nation from the epicenter of the fight against terrorism, President Obama signaled the end of what he called “a decade under the dark cloud of war.”

“This time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end,” Obama said before a backdrop of armored military vehicles and a draped U.S. flag at the Bagram air base.

Obama's address to the nation capped a surprise visit that coincided with the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, a mission that has become an unexpected focal point in his campaign for reelection.

PHOTOS: Obama makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota:  What DefDog forgets is that the Taliban offered to give up Bin Laden, but the Bush-Cheney regime refused that offer.  Below are a few headlines to that effect. In retrospect, we now realize that the Taliban's demand for proof was one that Cheney could not accept because Cheney knew with precision that 9/11 was a controlled false flag operation for which Bin Laden was a patsy.  Who would have thought we would one day consider the Taliban more honorable (at the time) than our own Administration?  The core point is valid: the US went into Afghanistan ignorant, and leaves Afghanistan just as ignorant.  The same was true of Viet-Nam.  The ideologues in policy dismissed the educated views of the intelligence community in both instances.  What we consider important is that between AF-IQ and Libya, this may well be the last tolerated invasion of any country by the US acting unilaterally.  Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela — and many others, are now not only in a position to slam down on US acting up, but highly motivated to do so.  The era of US carpetbagging is coming to an end, but the USG will be the last to realize this, and will destroy is domestic economy as a final desperate action.

See Also:

Al-Jazeera: Taliban offered to give up bin Laden before 9/11

Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over

US Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass

Book Reviews:

9-11 Truth Books & DVDs (38)

Empire, Sorrows, Hubris, Blowback (226)

Impeachment & Treason (123)

Marcus Aurelius: Polish Lid Comes Off Global Rendition-Torture Pot

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement
Marcus Aurelius
The New York Times

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March 27, 2012
By JOANNA BERENDT and

WARSAW — The former head of Poland’s intelligence service has been charged with aiding the Central Intelligence Agency in setting up a secret prison to detain suspected members of Al Qaeda, a leading newspaper here reported on Tuesday, the first high-profile case in which a former senior official of any government has been prosecuted in connection with the agency’s program.

The daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported that the former intelligence chief, Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, told the paper that he faced charges of violating international law by “unlawfully depriving prisoners of their liberty,” in connection with the secret C.I.A. prison where Qaeda suspects were subjected to brutal interrogation methods.

When President Obama took office in 2009, he said he wanted to “look forward, as opposed to looking backward” and rejected calls for a broad investigation of C.I.A. interrogations and other Bush administration counterterrorism programs. In sharp contrast, the Poles see the case as a crucial test for rule of law and the investigation by prosecutors here has reached the highest levels of Polish politics.

One of Poland’s prime ministers during the period when terrorism suspects were alleged to have been subjected to torture in Poland, Leszek Miller, could be charged before Poland’s State Tribunal, the newspaper said.

“We try to treat our Constitution seriously and try not to forget the fact that there was a manifest violation of the Polish Constitution within the country’s borders,” said Adam Bodnar, vice president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, based in Warsaw.

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota:  There is nothing honorable, patriotic, or even intelligent about rendition and torture (or the drone program managed by CIA)  All those US citizens who can be identified by foreign governments as participants in the rendition and torture programs or the drone programs would be well advised to avoid any foreign travel lest they be arrested and charged for crimes against humanity.  Poland–like Iceland against financial terrorism–is on the right path.

See Also:

Robert Steele: Waterboarding Morons — A Social Cancer

Bin Laden Show 59: Waterboarding for Morons Part II–Senator John McCain Gets Explicit “NO–N, O”

Bin Laden Show 55: Waterboarding for Morons

Journal: Chuck Spinney Sends–On Torture–While Obama Signs Law Blocking Release of Torture Photos

Former CIA Director, Former CIA Counterterrorism Director, 31 Other Intelligence Experts Announce Support for McCain Anti-Torture Amendment to Defense Bill

Mini-Me: Were Real Persons Murdered on 9/11?

07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media, Military
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

EXTRACT from second story:

Even after almost 9 years, there are still  NO remains for 1,123 of the victims who died at Ground Zero.

Were Real Persons Murdered on 9/11?

Stewart Ogilby

Veterans Today, 29 April 2012

The question is an absurd one except to those of us who have spent part of our lives exploring contradictions and mysteries posed by official narratives regarding events of that world-changing day. Increasingly, the question is becoming, “How many real persons died as a result of alleged events that occurred in connection with the destruction of buildings in New York City’s World Trade Center Complex on September 11, 2001?”

A logical tentative answer is provided by Mr. Simon Shack, the brilliant creator of SeptemberClues.info web site and supported by members of his CluesForum.info, two online resources that call into serious question reports of that day’s victims.

Shack’s sites initially postulated all alleged victims to be computer created fakes who never existed, based on absurdities of photoshopped and digitally morphed memorial images. Proofs presented on their Vicsim Report are overwhelmingly convincing when one takes sufficient time to carefully review its eighty pages.

Read rest of story.

Over 70 Body Parts from 9/11 Found on New York City Streets (Yes, in 2010)

Brian Romanoff     Nor Cal Truth     June 23, 2010

Another search for human remains from  the 9/11 attacks has yielded more evidence of an explosive death, coupled with a lack of forensic integrity.

. . . . . . .

Even after almost 9 years, there are still  NO remains for 1,123 of the victims who died at Ground Zero.

Many of the 20,000 body parts found so far are from the same people – as mentioned in the same story as the above quote:

Read full article, with video inserts and active links.

Phi Beta Iota:  There are three lines of thinking emergent on 9/11 that are gathering some momentum.  The first is that the mainstream media were fully engaged in showing manipulated video enhanced with some computer simulation — this has not been investigated to our knowledge.  The second is that the body count for 9/11 was fabricated.   We would add the likelihood that the same force that pulverized all the concrete was also responsible for pulverizing most of the bodies within the buildings.   The third, the most interesting, has actually begun to connect the dots among all the Zionists in NYC and neo-cons in Washington, D.C.  We have no direct knowledge.  We only know that the truth of the matter remains to be found.

See Also:

9-11 Truth Books & DVDs (38)

9/11 at Phi Beta Iota

James M. Wall: United Methodists To Boycott US Companies Selling to Israel in Support of Genocide and Atrocities Against Palestinians?

06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities
James M. Wall

Methodists Face Moment of Occupation Truth

28 Apr 12

by James M. Wall

The mainstream media does not know it, and far too many high steeple church folk do not want to know it.

But in Tampa, Florida, this week, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will make a decision.

They will spend the week writing and rewriting. Some, like  Alissa Bertsch Johnson, a campus minister at Washington State University (at right), will passionately state their case.

Before the gavel falls on the last session of the 2012 General Conference, the people called Methodists will have responded, one way or another, to the call from Palestinian Christians that they take one small step toward ending the Israeli Occupation.

They may vote to endorse a targeted divestment resolution.

Read full article.  Includes two videos featuring Jimmy Carter.

Phi Beta Iota:  Israel is the old South Africa, morally disengaged, committing genocide and atrocities against the Palestinian people.  Not only should everyone be boycotting companies whose services and equipment are being used to gheto-ize the Palestinians, but every US citizen should consider a tax boycott until such time as the US Government stops paying 20% of the Israeli budget with money borrowed in our name, and stops funding dictators who perpetuate societies of fear.  Ironically, both the US and Israel are now much closer to Nazi Germany they they are to either the Founding Fathers or the theology of Jesus Christ.  We note only have a crisis of Zionism, we have a crisis of neo-fascism on the right and neo-socialism on the left in the USA, both spawned by political and financial crime families.

See Also:

Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism (Times Books, 2012)

Christopher Lee Bollyn,  Solving 9-11: The (Zionist) Deception that Changed the World (Christopher Bollyn, 2012)

James M. Wall: United Methodists To Boycott US Companies Selling to Israel in Support of Genocide and Atrocities Against Palestinians?

Glen Yeadon and John Hawkins, The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century (Progressive Press, 2008)

James F. Simon, What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (Simon & Schuster, 2003

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Panetta Memo on Presidential Authorization of Bin Laden Hit

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), DoD, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call
Marcus Aurelius

As posted at http://cryptocomb.org/cia-memo-panetta.jpg.

Phi Beta Iota:  This may well be authentic, but it is highly suspect.  A signed Presidential finding is needed for such a project, one does not undertake such initiatives without that written document, nor accept a phone call from a lesser aide as a substitute–nor should JSOG be doing anything without that written finding, certainly not on the verbal word of the CIA Director.  We continue to believe that CIA created an Oswald situation, a patsy, for JSOG to kill and dump without credible forensic evidence.  There is uncertainty as to whether Obama actually authorized the mission–it may have been done against his wishes as the placeholder president.   We continue to believe that former Assistant Secretary of State Dr. Steve Pieczenik has it right — Bin Laden died in 2001.  Our only certainty is that the truth is quite distant from the “Bin Laden Story” as told to date.

Bean Laden

See Also:

Bin Laden Show 16: Over-Ruling the President

Bin Laden Show 14: Dr. Dr. Steve Pieczenik Nails It–Bin Laden Died of Marfan in 2001–Reiterates (Has Proof) 9/11 Was a Cheney-Led Stand-Down False Flag Operation. Indictment?

Bin Laden Show 08: History from 2001 Updated

Bin Laden Show: Entries 01-79 UPDATED 24 March 2012

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Owl: Eugenics Of, By, For the Elite – Velvet Lies, Catastrophic Plans

06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence
Who? Who?

When it comes the the elites' population reduction/eugenics agenda, the beat just keeps going on. More news related to this agenda seems to be coming out every week. Is there something in the air? Are the elite and their scientist shills panicking, even if ever so slightly?

The UN Agenda 21 calls for an 85% reduction in human population in the near future, a figure unobtainable by contraceptives and attrition, even with massive levels of abortion and euthanasia. “Obamacare” is a really a “softkill” program that openly intends to deny the elderly medical services to increase mortality rates.

But that will not be enough. Elitists will starve, poison, infect, and outright murder billions more to eliminate us. The elite, the royal families and billionaires, do not need massive labor forces or military ranks in this modern age of computers and robotics. They see “We the People” as a overhead to be written off, an obsolete management problem. They can meet their needs with a much smaller cadre of technological servants and robots. They don’t need to worry about managing billions of people’s wants and needs if we are dead. And when we are gone, they can have the whole planet to themselves with vast nature preserves and parks to enjoy. They envision living in a Star Trek world where elite families live in high tech luxury with great power on a low population planet where slave camps are conveniently out of sight, and the ground is filled with bones! This is the Royal Society goal!”

Elite Eugenicists Call For Mass Depopulation, Drastic Reduction In Energy Consumption

Royal Society study yields unsurprising results, Ecoscience co-author calls for “move to population shrinkage as humanely and as rapidly as possible”

Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com, April 27, 2012

The Royal Society, an organisation made up of renowned eco-fascists and depopulation fanatics, has released a “major report” calling for the “stabilization” of global population and reductions in consumption in developed countries.

The report is the unsurprising result of a 21 month “objective” study on human population growth and its implications for social and economic development.

Read full article with many links — a name by name expose.

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Phi Beta Iota:  In the absence of intelligence with integrity, governments promote what they are paid to promote, mindful that they only could what they are paid personally in bribes, not the fact that the public is funding the government.  A massive global tax revolt is inevitable.  What is being done in our name is unaffordable, unethical, and down-right criminally negligent.  The five billion poor have five billion brains, and that is the one inexhaustible resource on the planet.  INTEGRITY is the path to self-governed population control, not eugenics, war, and plagues such as both Israel and North Korea have been working on.  The secret US solutions for wiping out “dead” cities full of “useless eaters” (we do not make these terms up)  can only be imagined in the context of a nightmare.

See Also:

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

CULTURE | A Call to Arms from the Author of ‘The Open-Source Everything Manifesto’

David Swanson: 1939 Essay Predicted Hitler, Predicts US Dictatorship

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War
David Swanson

The Global War on Terror, in the Original German

By David Swanson

In 1939, Sebastian Haffner sat down and wrote a pre-history of Nazism.

Nazism had not been inevitable. It had not progressed steadily without setbacks. But it had been growing for many years, even before the name for it existed. It had been coming since the end of the Great War.

By the late 1920s, according to Haffner, “Berlin became quite an international city. Admittedly, the sinister Nazi types already lurked in the wings, as ‘we' could not fail to notice with deep disgust. They spoke of ‘Eastern vermin' with murder in their eyes and sneeringly of ‘Americanization.' Whereas ‘we,' a segment of the younger generation difficult to define but instantly and mutually recognizable, were not only friendly toward foreigners, but enthusiastic about them.”

The Stresemann Era, 1924-1929, saw Gustav Stresemann serve as Foreign Minister. He made peace with France, joined the League of Nations, won a Nobel Peace Prize, wandered the streets of Berlin unarmed and unguarded, and his signature is first at the bottom of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Who studies him today? His spirit is far more powerful in Germany now than Hitler's, so powerful as to go unnoticed.

But Hitler was coming. When Stresemann died in 1929, “we were seized with icy terror. . . . The era of peace was at an end. So long as Stresemann had been there, we had not quite believed it. Now we knew.”

In 1930, Heinrich Bruning became chancellor, ushering in what we would today call “bipartisan austerity” or “fiscal responsibility,” something the United States and its allies helped to impose on Germany, just as the United States and Germany now help to impose it on Greece or Spain. Bruning cut salaries, pensions, social benefits, wages, interest rates, freedom to travel, freedom of the press, and the powers of the parliament. “Yet, paradoxically, his actions were rooted in the conviction that he was defending the republic. Understandably, the republicans began to ask themselves whether there was anything left to defend.”

Haffner makes an interesting observation at this point in his reminiscences: “To my knowledge, the Bruning regime was the first essay and model of a form of government that has since been copied in many European countries: the semi-dictatorship in the name, and in defense, of democracy against fully fledged dictatorship.”

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