When Facts Stand In The Way

The Impossible Rehab of Colin Powell

by Ray McGovern

Powell writes he was “less concerned” about chemical exposures. He should have been more concerned, not less. As the hostilities ended, U.S. Army engineers blew up chemical agents at a large Iraqi storage site near Kamasiyah. About 100,000 U.S. troops were downwind.

Many of those troops are now among the 210,000 veterans suffering from nervous and other diseases — and FINALLY now receiving disability payments for what came to be known as Gulf War Syndrome.

Far from his pre-war posture of “just blame me,” Powell joined Pentagon and CIA efforts to cover up this tragedy. When reports of the horrible fiasco at Kamasiyah hit the media, he erupted in macho outrage saying that, were he still on active duty, he would “rape and pillage” throughout the government to find those responsible.  Of course, Kamasiyah happened during his watch. Typically, the FCM reported his macho remark, and then gave him a pass.

Despite numerous veterans’ pleas for support, Powell, in effect, went AWOL on the issue of Gulf War illnesses, never acknowledging that he shared any of the responsibility.

He took no interest and, in effect, made a huge contribution to the unconscionable delay in recognizing Gulf War illnesses for what they are. One out of every four troops deployed to the Gulf in 1991 are now receiving the benefits to which they have long been entitled — no thanks to Gen. Powell.

You didn’t know that? Thank the FCM and its persistent romance with Gen. Powell. Sorry for the digression; just had to get that off my chest.

“‘Why did we go into Iraq with so few people?’ Baker asked. … ‘Colin just exploded at that point,’ [former Secretary of Defense William] Perry recalled later. ‘He unloaded,’ [former White House Chief of Staff and now CIA Director Leon] Panetta added, ‘He was angry. He was mad as hell.’… Powell left [the Iraq Study Group meeting].

“Baker turned to Panetta and said solemnly. ‘He’s the only guy who could have perhaps prevented this from happening.’”

…Whether he could have stopped the war or not, the truth is that Colin Powell didn’t even try. He would not risk his reputation for all those victims – Iraqi and American – who have died or suffered horribly from an unnecessary war. The blot on his record was self-inflicted; the FCM is likely to run out of Clorox trying to remove the stain.

Ray McGovern was an Army officer and CIA analyst for almost 30 year. He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is a contributor to Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (Verso). He can be reached at: rrmcgovern@aol.com

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern05292009.html

Richard Gage : 9/11 Controlled Demolition at the WTC Local TV News Interview

The Pentagon is planning to establish a cybercommand to manage its future offensive and defensive conduct in the cyberspace.

The cybercommand will combine its efforts with already-in-place civilian attempts to better protect US computer networks against cyber attacks, allegedly posed by hackers and sometimes by governments.

The US President Barack Obama on Friday informed both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council of the White House’s plans for the creation of a cyber office.

“Cyberspace is real and so are the risks that come with it,” Obama said. He is expected to name a cybersecurity official soon.

Plans are under review to bring together the National Security Agency and the US defense department to jointly set cyberstandards that would ward off thousands of cyberattacks mounted against the United States.

The US president, however, also said that his administration would not impose cybersecurity standards for private companies.

Despite claims made by the US about cyberattacks on its networks, officials decline to describe the potential offensive response they have against these alleged threats, but say they now view cyberspace as comparable to more traditional battlefields.

“We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain,” said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, according to The New York Times.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96398&sectionid=3510203

US military recruiting ‘hacker soldiers’
Military companies in the US are considering plans to employ cyber soldiers as the Pentagon moves to establish a cybercommand to manage future cyberwars.

Blogs by people claiming to be former  MI-5 and MI-6 agents paint a sordid picture of state terrorism, rape, torture, mind control, murder and pedophilia in the service of the Illuminati.

The main blog is called “Richard Tomlinson and the Russians” but there are a dozen more listed. Taken together with Comments by insiders, they tell a hair-raising tale of mayhem perpetrated by these deranged Illuminati agencies.

Here are some highlights:

+The world’s Intelligence agencies are infiltrated and controlled by “Royal Arch” Freemasons who owe their loyalty not to the State but to Illuminati (Masonic) bankers, posing as the “Crown” or “Monarchy.” Most agents are tortured, i.e. trauma brainwashed and mind controlled using trigger words from texts like “Alice in Wonderland.”

MI-5 Chief Manningham-Buller told recruits they serve “the ‘real’ communism, …the ‘Guardianship’ by those who were ‘born to rule’. They were the self-elected custodians of British society who could decide what was in their people’s best interests.”

“This tarantula-like Masonic organization …has been strangling the world since the last days of the British Empire. Those within British Intelligence who were not Royal Arch Freemasons, had no real idea of what was going on at all. If they did manage to catch a ‘Russian spy’ within their midst, it was because the Royal Arch Freemasons had deemed this person expendable and had then fed him or her to the fishes. Think Burgess, Maclean etc and you will get the picture. [Anthony] Blunt escaped such censorship and hounding. He was a ‘master’ of Royal Arch Freemasonry.”

+”Vladimir Putin has a long history as a Royal Arch Freemason. He is “a puppet – always has been. You only have to look into his vacuous eyes to see that. – how much ECT does it take to run a Puppet-President? Quite a bit, I would imagine.” He also was a cross dresser & boy toy to current MI-6 Director John Scarlett.”

+”Putin was chosen as a DNA sperm donor within this Royal ‘zygote’ project and had then been ordered by the Masonic body to copulate with various British female agents, whilst in Berlin. The zygotes were then ‘collected’ and the young woman involved, was subsequently murdered. Stephen Daldry [the film Director] had organized various victims to be sent to Berlin for exactly this purpose. He has also boasted of listening to them (bugged rooms) being murdered, during this period. Cameras were also placed in the TV sets for the Royal Arch Freemasons to view afterward – in essence, ’snuff movies’. By 1993, the Royal Arch Freemasons had no further use for Mr Putin in terms of information or DNA and therefore, he was expendable – Royal Arch Freemason or not.”

+”Putin’s mother was Jewish but converted to Russian Orthodoxy. In Poland, he decided to go back to his roots and because his mother was Jewish he didn’t have to go through a full conversion.

There is some difference among the posters about whether Putin broke from the Illuminati and deprogrammed himself when he was betrayed by MI-6.

http://waronyou.com/topics/crazed-mi-5-and-mi-6-wreak-havoc-for-the-illuminati/

Ron Paul On A Career In Politics: Ballou High School in Washington, D.C.

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Royal Dutch Shell is due in court on Wednesday this week to face charges of being complicit in the execution of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 14 years ago.

The Anglo-Dutch petrochemicals giant will be accused of asking Nigeria’s military dictatorship to silence Mr Saro-Wiwa and other activists campaigning against ecological damage allegedly brought about by oil extraction.

Mr Saro-Wiwa and eight other campaigners were executed by hanging in November 1995 after being found guilty of what were widely seen as trumped up murder charges.

http://waronyou.com/topics/royal-dutch-shell-played-role-in-activist-executions/

Torturing the Rule of Law
by Congressman Dr. Ron Paul

While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that?

“Enhanced interrogation” as some prefer to call it, has been used throughout history, usually by despotic governments, to cruelly punish or to extract politically useful statements from prisoners. Governments that do these things invariably bring shame on themselves.

In addition, information obtained under duress is incredibly unreliable, which is why it is not admissible in a court of law. Legally valid information is freely given by someone of sound mind and body. Someone in excruciating pain, or brought close to death by some horrific procedure is not in any state of mind to give reliable information, and certainly no actions should be taken solely based upon it. 

For these reasons, it is illegal in the United States and illegal under Geneva Conventions. Simulated drowning, or water boarding, was not considered an exception to these laws when it was used by the Japanese against US soldiers in World War II. In fact, we hanged Japanese officers for war crimes in 1945 for water boarding. Its status as torture has already been decided by our own courts under this precedent. To look the other way now, when Americans do it, is the very definition of hypocrisy.

Matthew Alexander, author of “How to Break a Terrorist” used non-torture methods of interrogation in Iraq with much success. In fact, one cooperative jihadist told him, “I thought you would torture me, and when you didn’t, I decided that everything I was told about Americans was wrong. That’s why I decided to cooperate.” Alexander also found that in Iraq “the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq.” Alexander’s experiences unequivocally demonstrate that losing our humanity is not beneficial or necessary in fighting terror.

The current administration has reversed its position on releasing evidence of torture by the previous administration and we must ask why. A great and moral nation would have the courage to face the truth so it could abide by the rule of law. To look the other way necessarily implicates all of us and would of course further radicalize people against our troops on the ground. Instead, we have the chance to limit culpability for torture to those who were truly responsible for these crimes against humanity.

Not everyone who was given illegal orders obeyed them. Many FBI agents understood that an illegal order must be disobeyed and they did so. The others must be held accountable, so that all of us are not targeted for blowback for the complicity of some.

The government’s own actions and operations in torturing people, and in acting on illegally obtained and unreliable information to kill and capture, are the most radicalizing forces at work today, not any religion, nor the fact that we are rich and free. The fact that our government engages in evil behavior under the auspices of the American people is what poses the greatest threat to the American people, and it must not be allowed to stand.

Posted by Ron Paul (05-25-2009, 01:35 PM) filed under Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy

US Senate keeps IMF financing in war funding bill

The US Senate on Thursday voted to preserve $108 billion dollars in financing for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help it deal with the global economic crisis, as part of a war funding bill.Senators rejected on a 64-30 vote an amendment proposed by Republican Senator Jim DeMint to strip the IMF funding from a supplemental 91.3 billion dollar defense bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

The final vote on the defense bill, which provides additional spending for the current 2009 fiscal year that ends on September 30, was expected later Thursday.

The legislation’s provisions for the IMF include 100 billion dollars for the New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), a credit instrument providing the multilateral institution with additional resources to deal with exceptional risks to the stability of the international monetary system.