Oh! Netanyahu got Capone on tax evasion, not on crimes against humanity!
@LatuffCartoons
En dan is het maar de vraag of Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu, echt zal worden vervolgd voor o.a. omkoping en fraude……..
Author: Willem Wachtmeester
Zijlstra’s leugen is vervolgbaar onder de Neurenbergse principes……
De NAVO oorlogsagenda blootgelegd met de Nederlandse leugen over de agressie van Putin……
Op BBC
World Service radio werd vanmorgen in
‘News Hour Extra’ één grote anti-Rusland propaganda show
opgevoerd, uiteraard gecombineerd met het ophemelen van de VS en de
NAVO, plus een groot pleidooi voor meer geld naar defensie, uh
oorlogsvoering….. Dit met een aantal ‘deskundigen’ (allen anti-Rusland), waaronder Clingendael oorlogshitser en flapdrol de luxe Zandee……
De naam
van het programma werd eerder ter discussie gesteld, en naar aanleiding van inzendingen gedaan door luisteraars (dat moet je maar geloven) wordt de naam veranderd van ‘News
Hour Extra’ in ‘The Real Story…..’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Maak er maar ‘Propaganda Hour Extra’ van! Blijkbaar moet de nieuwe naam van te voren al aangeven dat je hier niet met nepnieuws te maken krijgt, belachelijk!!
Op
Information Clearing House bracht men (ook al vandaag) een artikel
over de leugen van Zijlstra, een leugen die volgens de schrijver Finian
Cunningham 2 jaar oud is, echter deze dateert niet alleen uit 2006, maar wordt sinds die tijd regelmatig aangehaald door Zijlstra (plus andere vooral VVD politici) en een aantal reguliere media organen!!
Volgens
Cunningham legt dit ten overvloede nog eens de NAVO oorlogsagenda
bloot. Zo werd de door de VS op poten gezette opstand die in de
Oekraïense coup resulteerde, omgedraaid in agressie en expansiedrift
van Rusland…… Uiteraard overgoten met de VS propagandamachine
leugens over een annexatie van De Krim en het binnenvallen van
Rusland in Oost-Oekraïne…….. Beiden flagrante leugens waar geen nanometer bewijs voor is!
Voorts
komt Cunningham met andere voorbeelden die dit beeld staven, al moet
ik zeggen dat er voorbeelden te over zijn, neem alleen al de expansie
van de NAVO richting Moskou, waar de NAVO nu, in tegenspraak met
gesloten overeenkomsten (met Gorbatsjov), voor een groot deel van de Russische
westgrens staat…….. Cunningham komt met de leugen van de voormalig minister van buitenlandse zaken in Polen, Sikorski: hij zou naar eigen zeggen persoonlijk hebben gehoord dat Rusland en Polen in een overleg Oekraïne onder elkaar verdeeld hadden………. Een leugen die na doorprikken naarstig werd ingetrokken door deze liegende hufter…… Sikorski is overigens een ‘christendemocraat’, die van zijn god blijkbaar keihard mag liegen en ophitsen tot oorlog…….
Terecht stelt Cunningham dat de Nederlandse regering de leugen gebruikt van de geheime diensten dat ze een aan de Russische regering gelieerde groep zou hebben gehackt en hebben gezien dat de Russen de Democraten in de VS hebben gehackt (zodat niet hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton, maar Trump de verkiezingen heeft gewonnen), iets waarvoor alweer geen flinter bewijs is geleverd…….. Een smerige leugen die wordt gebruikt voor het propageren van de ‘Sleepwet’ die hier ter discussie staat en waar volgende maand in een referendum, tegelijk met de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen, over gestemd kan worden.
Ondanks een kleine uitglijder (waar het echte feit het verhaal in feite
alleen nog meer ondersteunt), een prima analyse! Hierin stelt Cunningham onder meer dat de leugen van Zijlstra in feite aanzet tot oorlog en dat is strafbaar onder de ‘Neurenbergse principes…’
Dutch
Lies Over Putin’s ‘Aggression’ Expose NATO War Agenda
By
Finian Cunningham
February
15, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – Netherlands Prime Minister Mark
Rutte was this week forced to bear a parliamentary vote of no
confidence after his foreign minister finally came clean over a
dangerous lie he has been telling for two years concerning Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Halbe
Zijlstra quit in shame on Monday as the country’s foreign minister
after admitting that
a story he had peddled about personally hearing Putin plotting to
create a “greater Russia” was false. That then forced premier
Rutte to endure a “no confidence” motion from parliamentarians.
In the end, Rutte survived the
vote. If a majority had voted against his leadership, his coalition
government may have collapsed.
But
the deep damage done to the Dutch authorities will not be so easily
repaired by Rutte’s survival as premier. What has been exposed this
week is a senior member of government recklessly telling bare-faced
lies in an attempt to slander Russia, poison international relations,
and ratchet up already dangerous geopolitical tensions.
Zijlstra
had claimed two years ago, in 2016, that he had personally witnessed
Russian leader Vladimir Putin boasting about creating a “greater
Russia” which, it is claimed, would incorporate Ukraine, the Baltic
states, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
The
newly resigned Dutch top diplomat claimed he heard Putin making the
remarks while present with others at the Russian leader’s dacha
(summer house) back in 2006.
This
week, Zijlstra finally came clean and admitted before parliament that
he hadn’t in fact been present at the alleged gathering. He still
maintains, however, that a confidant who was among the guests at
Putin’s dacha informed him of the alleged “greater Russia”
plan. But how can we now trust the word of a self-confessed liar?
Zijlstra’s
boss, Prime Minister Rutte, also sought to downplay the debacle,
claiming that his foreign minister had made “a big mistake” –
but that “lying was not a deadly sin”.
Rutte
is in for a rude awakening due to his complacent thinking. For indeed
his government has been caught telling a very grave lie whose
ramifications concern issues of war and peace in Europe.
Disgraced
former minister Zijlstra stands accused of gross distortion of
Russia’s foreign policy.
Since
the US and European-backed illegal coup in Ukraine in early 2014,
geopolitical reality has been turned upside-down. American and
European corporate media have peddled relentless anti-Russia
propaganda accusing Moscow of “aggression” and “expansionism”
in Europe.
This
torrent of Russophobia spewed out by Washington, the Pentagon, NATO
and the European Union has created the worst crisis in relations with
Russia since the Cold War ended nearly three decades ago. There are
real fears that the mounting crisis could escalate into an all-out
war involving nuclear powers.
Zijlstra’s
offense therefore is not merely a “mistaken” lie. His flagrant
public distortion has contributed directly to the grave deterioration
in geopolitical relations. One could even argue such reprehensible
remarks amount to incitement of war, which is a cardinal crime under
Nuremberg legal principles.
Lamentably,
the mendacious senior Dutch politician is not an isolated case.
Recall how former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski was caught
out telling similar defamatory lies about Russia in 2014.
Sikorski,
who has been an ardent supporter of NATO force build-up against
Russia, reportedly claimed that he personally overheard Vladimir
Putin in 2008 plotting to annex Ukrainian territory in a covert plot.
Sikorski claimed that he heard Putin propositioning then Polish Prime
Minister Donald Tusk with a carve-up deal of Ukraine between Poland
and Russia.
Sikorski
was obliged to swiftly retract the
claims published in US media, and awkwardly admitting that he was not
present at the alleged meeting with Putin, and that his quoted
remarks were meant as a “surreal joke”.
But,
again, this is no joke or mistake. It is deadly serious
disinformation by senior government officials, which is recklessly
inciting war tensions with Russia. Sikorski is prominently associated
with pro-NATO think-tanks like the hawkish American Enterprise
Institute. He is married to Anne Applebaum who makes a living from
writing anti-Russian screeds for news outlets like the Washington
Post.
Zijlstra
and Sikorski join the ranks of Russophobia regurgitated by other
European foreign ministers like Britain’s Boris Johnson who issued
the outlandish claim earlier
this year that Russia is “targeting” British infrastructure; or
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian who has impugned Russia
for chemical weapons use in Syria – only for the French President
Emmanuel Macron to admit this
week that his government has actually no evidence about the use of
such weapons in Syria.
Macron
has made his own contribution to Russophobia by leveling
unsubstantiated allegations that his presidential election campaign
last year was “hacked” by Kremlin agents. He has since banned
Russian news media from attending his press conferences.
All
these senior government figures are irresponsibly fueling a climate
of demonization against Russia which is compounding other unhinged
claims made by politicians in Washington and the Baltic states.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, for example,
recently claimed that
Russian Iskander missiles based on Russian sovereign territory of
Kaliningrad were targeting half of Europe, an alarmist claim which
has been amplified by US secretary of defense James Mattis in the
Pentagon’s recent Nuclear
Posture Review.
The
climate of hysteria – based on false, fevered official claims –
is militating against normal political and diplomatic relations,
which is, in turn, exacerbating the war in Ukraine and leading to
wider war tensions with Russia across Europe.
A
good question is why the ousted Dutch minister decided to own up this
week to his lies about Putin.
The
answer may be related to the bigger credibility crisis of the Dutch
government and its NATO allies with regard to the whole Russophobia
propaganda war.
Next
month, the Netherlands is to hold a national referendum on
extending powers of Dutch state intelligence to monitor public
electronic communications. To convince the Dutch public to vote for
more snooping powers, the authorities are relying on the hackneyed
claims about Russian “meddling” and “interference”.
It
seems significant that Dutch media reported last
month that the country’s secret services allegedly “hacked into”
Russian state hackers who were allegedly penetrating the American
Democratic party’s databases during the US presidential elections
back in 2015-2016. As usual, no evidence was provided to support the
claims. We know from other credible reports that
the Democratic party was quite possibly not hacked at all, but rather
was leaked from inside by a Democrat staffer. So the Dutch intel
story smearing Russia is highly dubious.
But
it seems that the purported “good deed” performed by the Dutch
intelligence services was pitched in the media as a way to ingratiate
bona fides with the Netherlands public. The aim being to dispose the
public toward voting in the referendum next month to give the Dutch
state more intrusive powers over citizens to “protect” them from
“nefarious Russians”.
Now,
if the Dutch minister had held on to his office any longer there was
a risk that his lies may have become public embarrassingly close to
the March referendum, which could have resulted in the public
rejecting the authorities’ desire for more snooping powers.
Perhaps
then the decision was taken in high office for the minister to take
the fall now in order to get rid sooner of an embarrassing story
concerning his lies over Russia.
Whatever
the explanation about the timing, the admission of Dutch government
lying about Russian aggression in Europe is nevertheless an
illuminating and appalling insight into how Russophobia and war is
being fomented by the US and its European NATO allies.
Abominably,
European government officials are willing to risk plunging millions
of citizens into a war with Russia based on lies and warped,
self-serving prejudices.
This
article was originally published by “Strategic
Culture Foundation”
–
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Also –
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Democrats push $1 billion bill for election security
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Zie ook: ‘Zijlstra heeft gelogen, liegt en zal blijven liegen, al helemaal als het over Rusland gaat…….‘
en: ‘Zijlstra terecht afgetreden wegens anti-Russische propaganda, nu Rutte nog……..‘
en: ‘Zijlstra de VVD leugenaar wordt beweend, nu even de andere kant!‘ (cartoons en prenten)
Nederland terreurstaat……….
De zaak met de cokewitte ridder Marco Kroon maakte nogmaals duidelijk dat ook Nederland zich bedient van terreur. Al was het in dit geval ‘persoonlijke terreur’ van Kroon, houdt Nederland wel degelijk ook geheime militaire acties waarbij het de opzet is om ‘tegenstanders’ te doden………
Uiteraard gaat het dan altijd om verdachten en zoals onze ‘democratische wetgeving’ stelt: een verdachte heeft recht op verdediging en een eerlijke rechtsgang……… Met het vermoorden van verdachten maakt Nederland zich schuldig aan standrechtelijke executies, ofwel oorlogsmisdaden, ofwel grootschalige terreur…….. Zoals de VS middels drones het ene bloedbad na het andere aanricht, waarbij godbetert meer dan 90 % van de slachtoffers, niet eens verdacht is…….
Daar wij, het klootjesvolk, nooit iets te horen krijgen over geheime militaire missies, kan je concluderen dat er ook bij die missies niet verdachte personen worden uitgeschakeld….
Kortom: Nederland is net als de VS, andere NAVO lidstaten, Israël en Saoedi-Arabië een terreurstaat!!
‘Alweer iets waar we trots op kunnen zijn……’
Toevoeging na plaatsing bericht: dom, vergeet ik nog de illegale oorlogen van de VS te noemen, oorlogen waar ook Nederland keer op keer aan meedoet. Uiteraard zijn die illegale oorlogen wel de ultieme vorm van terreur……… (het gaat hierbij om de oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië)
Voor meer berichten over deze zaken, klik op het label Marco Kroon of drones, direct onder dit bericht.
Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..
Tijdens
de illegale oorlog tegen Syrië zijn meerdere pogingen gedaan het
Syrische bewind te beschuldigen van gifgasaanvallen tegen de eigen bevolking en ondanks dat deze aanvallen na onderzoek stuk voor stuk
werden toegewezen aan de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees door het westen
gesteunde psychopathische moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen),
houden de westerse reguliere media en het grootste deel van de
westerse politici vol dat Syrië ‘ofwel Assad’ de schuldige was…….
Uit
een groot aantal aanwijzingen zou volgens Moon of Alabama blijken dat
men o.a. samen met de White Helmets (onderdeel van Al Qaida Syrië dat door de VS van ‘de zwarte lijst’ is gehaald…) en CNN bezig
is een nieuwe ‘false flag’ operatie op touw te zetten, waarbij Syrië weer zal
worden aangewezen als dader van een gifgasaanval……
In het volgende artikel wordt o.a. uitgelegd dat chlorine amper slachtoffers maakt, terwijl men bij meerdere aanvallen met dit gas, sprak over het uiterst dodelijke sarin gas…….. Zoals men ook vorig jaar bij de aanval op Khan Sheikhoun, waarbij een voorraad chlorine van Al Qaida Syrië werd geraakt, stelde dat de Syrische luchtmacht sarin gas zou hebben ingezet, ook dit was alweer een leugen van enorme proporties…..
Een bericht eerder gepubliceerd op Moon of Alabama, zoals overgenomen op Information Clearing House 15 februari 2018:
Syria
– New ‘Chemical Weapons’ Fake Planned – Chlorine Though Will Not Do
By
Moon Of Alabama
February
15, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – During the seven years of
the war on Syria several accusations were made that the government
that it had used ‘chemical weapons’ against the attacking extremists.
The Syrian government denied to have ever released any chemicals. The
implausible to murky ‘evidence’ of such incidents always came from
foreign paid propaganda groups and extremists on the ground.
They were likely staged to incriminate the government and to thereby
induce military attacks by foreign states.
We
currently see several reports which in their combination look like
preparations for of another fake ‘chemical weapon’ incident.
On
February 13 the Russian
Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria noted a
warning of an upcoming false-flag ‘chemical attack’ incident:
“On
the evening of February 12, a resident from the Serakab settlement
located in the Idlib province called the Russian Center for
Reconciliaition to notify (the center) about a chemical weapons
attack that could be staged to provide footage for a foreign TV
channel,” the statement reads. “The caller said that
earlier on February 12, Jabhat al-Nusra members travelling in three
cars had brought more than 20
chlorine gas cylinders and
personal protective equipment to Serakab,” the Center added.
“According
to the caller, members of the local While Helmets branch wore
personal protective equipment while rehearsing first aid provision to
civilians suffering from chemical poisoning,” the Russian Center
said.
…
“The caller pointed out that all
the proceedings had been filmed by professional reporters who used a
mic with the CNN logo, while commenting on the actions being taken by
the White Helmets,”
the statement said, adding that in between takes, the reporters had
consulted with some people over a satellite telephone in English.
The White
Helmets are
a mostly British
funded propaganda
organization embedded with Hayat Tahreer Al-Sham, the current
incarnation of al-Qaeda in Syria which rules Idleb governorate. The
head of al-Qaeda in Syria, Abu Jaber Al-Sheikh, lauded
(video, alternative)
the White
Helmets as
the “hidden soldiers of our revolution”.
CNN is
currently embedded with al-Qaeda and is producing White
Helmets propaganda
in Idleb governorate:
CNN
Today @cnntoday – 12:23
AM – 14 Feb 2018
EXCLUSIVE
report from
@arwaCNN in #Idlib Syria and
@holmescnn has #TheBreakdown on more fighting in #Ghouta #Afrin
#DeirEzzor
The
Russian warning is not the only sign that another fake chemical
weapon attack is coming up.
The
Israeli government is pushing “top
secret” disinformation into the public which preemptively blames
the Syrian government for any upcoming incident. It is also attempts
to influence foreign governments on the issue:
According
to a “Top
secret” cable
sent to Israeli ambassadors earlier this week, Israel fears that the
Assad regime will use the chemical weapons it still has left in a way
which might spill over to Israeli territory. The contents of the
cable were shared
with me by senior Israeli officials.
…
[T]he
strategic division in the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs sent
the ‘Top Secret” cable to 15 Israeli embassies around the world,
including in Washington.
…
One of the more unusual
instructions in the cable was to
pass a strong message regarding the Israeli concern that the chemical
weapons left at the disposal of the Assad regime might be used
against rebel forces …
On
Tuesday the White
Helmets were
again trying to
get more foreign powers involved in fighting the Syrian government:
France
should stop talking about red lines and focus on real action to
persuade the main actors in Syria’s conflict to agree a ceasefire,
[Abdulrahman Almawwas], the vice-president of the Syria Civil
Defence, or “White Helmets”, said on Tuesday.
…
Speaking
after meeting senior French officials, including
Macron’s chief diplomatic adviser, Almawwas
said France needed to put pressure on the main protagonists, such as
pushing for a no-fly zone, even though he acknowledged France had few
options.
Only
hours after Abdulrahman Almawwas spoke with Macron’s chief
diplomatic adviser, the French president issued a
statement which set up a ‘red line’ trap:
“On
chemical weapons, I set a red line and I reaffirm that red line,”
Macron told reporters. “If we have proven
evidence that
chemical weapons proscribed in treaties are used, we
will strike the place where they are made.”
“Today, our
agencies, our armed forces have not established that chemical
weapons, as set out in treaties, have been used against the civilian
population.”
Setting
red lines is a trap for oneself as it includes an invitation to
others to break them. Anyone can release ‘chemical weapons’ in
insurgent controlled areas in Syria and blame the Syrian government –
thus potentially triggering the French ‘red line’. So far though
France has “not established” that a real chemical weapon
incident ever happened. Of note in Macron’s statement was also the
threat to strike at “the place where they are made”. That
place would likely be outside of Syria. The French Foreign Ministry
noted Macorn’s inconvenient choice of words, intervened and today
“clarified”
his remarks:
France’s
foreign minister on Wednesday sought to clarify his government’s
position on the use of chemical weapons in Syria saying that Paris
would only strike if the attacks were lethal and carried out by
government forces.
…
“(The
president) confirmed that he would proceed to military strikes
against regime installations if there was a new use of chemical
weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s forces when
these attacks are lethal and regime’s responsibility is proven,”
Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers.
Al-Qaeda
will have no problem to create a “lethal” chemical weapon
attack. They have killed ten-thousands of Syrian without any remorse.
To “prove” that the Syrian government did it will be the
task of the White Helmets and its CNN and Atlantic
Council collaborators.
Chlorine
though will not do.
Source: Chlorine
– Properties (vid)
– bigger
In
their last attempt to smear the Syrian government for using ‘chemical
weapons’ those organizations hyped
the remainsof
a few 107mmm rockets which allegedly carried chlorine gas and were
fired against the Takfiri held areas of east-Ghouta. (Unmentioned
were the thousands of grenades fired by
east-Ghouta Takfiris against civilians in Damascus.)
If
those rockets had held chlorine they would have had no effect on
anyone.
Chlorine
gas is hardly ever deadly. It is 2.5 times heavier than air with a
distinct yellow-green color and a strong bleach odor. Chlorine gas
will only kill those submerged in a high concentration cloud. If one
sees or smells it one simply walks away from the cloud and thereby
stays safe. Chlorine was used as the first chemical weapon in World
War I because it would creep downwards into deep enemy ditches. Even
then it was soon found to be ineffective as a weapon and replaced
with other chemicals.
That
a few rockets with a few pounds of chlorine would have no ‘lethal’
effect is also obvious from official
reportsduring
the U.S. occupation of Iraq:
The
first documented chlorine attack was Oct. 21, 2006, in Ramadi, a
Multinational Force Iraq spokeswoman said. In that attack, terrorists
drove a car bomb with 12 120 mm mortar shells and two
100-pound chlorine tanks.
The attack wounded three
Iraqi policemen and a civilian.
The
first attack that received media attention was at Taji, where
terrorists remotely detonated a 5-ton truck packed with 100 pounds of
high explosives and two
1-ton chlorine tanks.
The attack killed
one civilian and
wounded 114 others.
…
The most recent attack was June 3
against Forward Operating Base Warhorse, in Diyala province. Again, a
suicide car bomber launched the attack, and officials estimate it
included two
tanks of chlorine and
1,000 pounds of explosive. The cloud from the attack blew over
Warhorse and sickened 65
servicemembers, Multinational Force Iraq officials said. All
were examined and returned to duty.
…
A
Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said there are anecdotal reports
that while
the blasts from the attacks have killed, few have died solely from
the gas.
“We hear that an old man and some babies may have been killed, but
we can’t pin that down,” the spokesman said.
If
literally tons of chlorine were used in attacks in Iraq with no
deadly effect how could a few pounds on top of some small rockets
kill anyone?
On
February 2 the U.S. Secretary of Defense Mattis acknowledge the
practical uselessness of chlorine by putting it into a “separate
category” than other chemical weapons. He also noted that
he has no evidence of any such weapon use:
Q: Is there evidence of chlorine gas weapons used — evidence of chlorine gas weapons?
SEC. MATTIS: I think that’s, yes —
Q:
No, I know, I heard you.
SEC.
MATTIS: I think it’s been used repeatedly. And that’s, as you know, a
somewhat separate category,
which is why I broke out the sarin as another — yeah.
Q: So
there’s credible evidence out there that both sarin and chlorine —
SEC.
MATTIS: No,
I have not got the evidence, not specifically. I don’t have the
evidence.
What
I’m saying is that other — that groups
on the ground, NGOs, fighters on the ground have said that sarin has
been used.
So we are looking for evidence. I
don’t have evidence, credible or uncredible.
NGOs
and “fighters on the ground” claimed to have evidence of
chemical weapon attacks. But just like the French agencies and armed
forces Macron mentioned, Mattis and the DoD have none.
The
Takfiris of al-Qaeda, the White
Helmets propaganda
shop and its media acolytes may well prepare, as the Russians report,
another fake chemical attack stunt. The Israeli government is busy
preparing the public relations ground. But the French government,
having trapped itself with ‘red line’ nonsense, then set the mark
higher at ‘lethal’ attacks.
Chlorine
is, as shown above, hardly ever lethal. But al-Qaeda will have no
qualms about coming up with a few corpses to prove the ‘lethality’ of
a fake incident.
We
also have seen how, with some outside help, a harmless chlorine
release can be faked in an allegedly deadly sarin attack. Such
happened in April 2017 in the Khan Sheikhun incident.
Multiple
early on-the-ground reports by local witnesses and Turkish
officials spoke
of chlorine release and
chlorine affected patients. Only a day later were these claims turned
into an alleged “sarin attack”. Real evidence was never
obtained from the al-Qaeda ruled grounds where that incident
happened.
A discredited
investigation was
inconclusive. It claimed some “sarin-like substance” may
have been involved but it could
not even explain why
more than 50 casualties of the claimed incident arrived at far away
hospitals BEFORE it had happened at all:
The
admission times of the [hospital] records range between 0600 and 1600
hours. Analysis of the aforementioned medical records revealed
that in
57 cases, patients were admitted in five hospitals before the
incident in Khan Shaykhun (at
0600, 0620 and 0640 hours).
One
has to agree with Secretary of Defense Mattis on this – some corpses
shown to CNN by “NGOs” and “fighters on the ground”
are not real evidence. Neither are discredited investigations. If the
al-Qaeda Takfiris and its supporters want to come up with some
believable fake they must set their standard much higher.
This
article was originally published by “Moon
Of Alabama”
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Zie ook: ‘Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………‘
en: ‘Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..‘
en: ‘Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!‘
en: ‘Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida‘
en: ‘Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS‘
en: ‘CNN en andere media met doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda tegen de Syrische regering‘
en: Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)‘
en: ‘John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren‘
en: ‘Rusland heeft geen aanval uitgevoerd op VS troepen in Syrië…..‘
en: ‘Hondsdolle VS valt Russische tank aan in poging de Russen te provoceren……‘
en: ‘VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!‘
en: ‘Syrië: VS en Israëlische agressie dreigt de wereld in een oorlog te storten……‘
en: ‘Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld‘
en: ‘Rusland voorspelde ‘de gifgasaanval’ in Oost-Ghouta en de reactie daarop van de VS…..‘
en: ‘Rusland beschuldigd GB van het regisseren gifgasaanval Douma en zegt daar bewijzen voor te hebben‘
en: ‘In Douma vond geen gifgasaanval plaats aldus gelauwerd journalist Robert Fisk…..‘
en: ‘De OPCW inspecteurs en hun werk in Douma n.a.v. ‘gifgasaanval…’‘
en: ‘The Guardian met propaganda over Syrië, die zo uit Orwells 1984 zou kunnen komen……‘
en: ‘Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!‘
en: ‘US Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint‘
en: ‘Syrian ‘Rebels’ Used Sarin Nerve Gas Sold By Britain‘
en: ‘‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘
en: ‘Nieuwe ‘as van kwaad’: VS, GB en Frankrijk uit op oorlog met Syrië en Noord-Korea……..‘
Voor meer berichten met gifgas, sarin gas, chlorine of false flag operaties, klik op de betreffende labels, direct onder dit bericht.
Hondsdolle VS valt Russische tank aan in poging de Russen te provoceren……
Anti-Media
bracht gisteren het ANTIWAR bericht dat het uiterst agressieve VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, met een drone een Russische T-72 tank in Syrië heeft uitgeschakeld, waarbij drie militairen omkwamen…… Dit nadat de VS vorige week in Syrië, naar het zich laat aanzien 100 Russische militaire adviseurs heeft vermoord…..
Voor
beide zaken kwam de VS met het excuus dat dit uit zelfverdediging
was. De schrijver van het artikel, Jason Ditz stelt terecht het
uiterst vreemd te vinden dat bij ‘een aanval’ op aan de VS gelieerde
terreurgroepen, 100 strijders aan Russische kant werden uitgeschakeld, zonder dat er ook
maar één dode ‘aan VS kant’ is gevallen, ofwel: die strijders werden willens en
wetens aangevallen door de VS.
De
drone zou de tank hebben aangevallen, daar deze een gevaar vormde
voor de drone…… ha! ha! ha! ha! Zo’n drone kan vanaf grote
afstand een tank, ander voertuig of gebouw vernietigen, prettige
wedstrijd als je met een tank zo’n drone wilt uitschakelen…….
Deze
zaken duiden erop dat de VS bezig is een oorlog uit te lokken met
Rusland (zie ook de doorlopende NAVO oefeningen langs de Russische
grens, waarbij onlangs straaljagers van de VS hun transponders hebben
uitgezet…..)
Hoelang
blijven de westerse regeringen de psychopathische massamoordenaar VS
steunen en dat wat betreft Nederland gvd met ons belastinggeld!!!
US
Drone Destroys Russian Tank in Syria, Killing Three
February
14, 2018 at 6:17 am
Written
by Jason
Ditz
(ANTIWAR.COM) — As
details continue to emerge of last week’s US attacks on pro-Syrian
forces, it appears that dozens,
or by some accounts scores,
of the slain were actually Russian military contractors working for
the Syrian government. The raises the stakes about US attacks in
Syria fueling a direct conflict with Russia.
Over
the weekend, the US struck again, with officials now confirmed that a
US MQ-9 Reaper drone attacked and destroyed a Russian T-72 tank in
Eastern Syria, in what US
officials are claiming was an act of “self-defense.”
Lt.
Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian says the drone saw the tank “that took a
shot at us,” and that he believes the US rules of engagement
allowed for the tank to be destroyed in self-defense to protect the
drone. Three people within were killed.
As
to who they killed, US officials are no more forthcoming than they
ever are, with Lt. Gen. Harrigian saying the US is “not going to
speculate” on who they killed, and that they flat out don’t know
whose tank it was, or who was driving it.
Which
isn’t a great excuse because tanks are usually well-marked as to
their owners/operators, and while both Russia and Syria are two of
the top three extent operators of such tanks, there are massively
different ramifications for the US to have destroyed a Syrian tank of
Russian origin or to have deliberately attacked and destroyed a
Russian tank.
While
the US has claimed all of its recent attacks on pro-Syrian forces in
the country as “self-defense,” the claim rings hollow since
they’ve killed in excess of 100 people while sustaining no
casualties of their own, and doubly so in this latest case because
they were defending a drone by killing three soldiers of unknown
origin.
By Jason
Ditz /
Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report
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Zie ook: ‘Rusland heeft geen aanval uitgevoerd op VS troepen in Syrië…..‘
en: ‘Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..‘
en: ‘VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!‘
en: ‘Syrië: VS en Israëlische agressie dreigt de wereld in een oorlog te storten……‘
Zijlstra de VVD leugenaar wordt beweend, nu even de andere kant!
Hier een aantal prenten, cartoons van Links_huftertje, die ik je niet wil onthouden:
Ook in alle gemeenteraden dadelijk………..
Bij de VVD wordt nooit gelogen.
Integriteit ?
Onze man in Moskou……….vol #HalbeWaarheden
Alternatieve feiten en Halbe waarheden
Zie ook: ‘Zijlstra heeft gelogen, liegt en zal blijven liegen, al helemaal als het over Rusland gaat…….‘
en: ‘Zijlstra terecht afgetreden wegens anti-Russische propaganda, nu Rutte nog……..‘
en: ‘Zijlstra’s leugen is vervolgbaar onder de Neurenbergse principes……‘
Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie
Na
alle moeite die de VS zich al 20 jaar getroost om een eind te maken
aan het democratisch gekozen socialistisch bewind van Venezuela,
wijst alles erop dat de VS bezig is met Peru, Colombia en Brazilië, van wie de laatste twee landen grenzen aan Venezuela, een invasie voor te bereiden in dat land……..
Er
hebben in 2017 al vier grote militaire oefeningen plaats gevonden in Latijns Amerika en
zelfs de NAVO schijnt nu een militaire basis te hebben in
Brazilië, waarschijnlijk dezelfde als de ‘tijdelijke’ militaire VS basis in Brazilië, in de buurt waar Venezuela, Brazilië en Colombia aan elkaar grenzen…… Zoals gezegd: vorig jaar hebben er maar liefst 4 grote militaire oefeningen plaatsgevonden, met deelname van Colombia, Brazilië en Peru, alles o.l.v. de VS….. Eén van die oefeningen, ‘Operation: America United’ was zelfs de grootste militaire oefening ooit gehouden in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika (Latijns Amerika)………
Overigens heeft de VS al militaire bases in Colombia en het Caraïbisch gebied, onderhoudt daarnaast innige banden met andere landen in de buurt van Venezuela, wat dat betreft is Venezuela al omsingeld met VS militaire bases (uiteraard speelt ook Nederland weer ‘een mooie rol’ in deze…)
De
VS is al meer dan 18 jaar bezig met een economische oorlog tegen
Venezuela, al heeft deze tot nu toe weinig of niets opgeleverd wat betreft ‘regime change’. Al
onder ‘vredesduif’ Obama heeft de VS deze oorlog verscherpt en VS
bedrijven ‘dringend aangeraden’ hun supermarktketens in Venezuela
niet langer te bevoorraden. Hetzelfde deed de VS met buitenlandse
investeerders en je weet het waarschijnlijk wel, als de VS dreigt, gehoorzamen de bedrijven en instellingen, daar ze het anders wel
kunnen vergeten als bedrijf of instelling……..
Als gevolg van deze boycot is er niet alleen een groot tekort aan levensmiddelen, maar bijvoorbeeld ook aan medicijnen. Daarmee kan de VS ten overvloede nog eens worden aangewezen als een terreurstaat, die schijt heeft aan ellende onder de gewone bevolking en aan mensenrechten, zoals dit gestolen land al zo vaak elders heeft laten zien, maar zeker in Zuid- en Midden-Amerika…….
De gewelddadige demonstraties in Venezuela van vorig jaar, werden ook al door de VS georganiseerd, waar zelfs gewapende groepen uit het buitenland werden ingezet tegen politie en leger van Venezuela……
In 2002 heeft er al een militaire coup plaatsgevonden in Venezuela, die met hulp van de (arme) bevolking de kop werd ingedrukt, een coup die zoals gewoonlijk werd geregisseerd door de CIA…….
Een
militaire coup nu lijkt zeer onwaarschijnlijk ,daar het leger voor het
overgrote deel achter de socialistische regering Maduro staat.
Lees
het volgend uitstekende en sterk onderbouwde artikel dat duidelijk maakt waar de VS mee bezig is
t.a.v. Venezuela, een artikel van Kevin Zeese en Maragaret Flowers, door
Anti-Media overgenomen van Consortium News:
US
Regime Change Fails in Venezuela: Military Coup or Invasion Next?
February
14, 2018 at 10:27 am
Written
by Consortium
News
(CN) — Several
signals point to a possible military strike on Venezuela, with
high-ranking officials and influential politicians making clear that
it is a distinct possibility.
Speaking
at his alma mater, the University of Texas, on February 1, Secretary
of State Tillerson suggested a
potential military coup in in the country. Tillerson
then visited
allied Latin American countries urging
regime change and more economic sanctions on Venezuela. Tillerson is
also reportedly considering banning the processing or sale of
Venezuelan oil in the United States and is discouraging other
countries from buying Venezuelan oil.
In
a series of tweets, Senator Marco
Rubio,
the Republican from Florida, where many Venezuelan oligarchs live,
openly called for a military coup in Venezuela. “The world would
support the Armed Forces in #Venezuela if
they decide to protect the people & restore democracy by removing
a dictator,” the former presidential candidate tweeted.
How
absurd — remove an elected president with a military coup to
restore democracy? Does that pass the straight face test? This
refrain of Rubio and Tillerson seems to be the nonsensical public
position of U.S. policy.
The
U.S. has been seeking
regime change in
Venezuela since Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998. Trump joined
Presidents Obama and Bush before
him in continuing efforts to change the government and put in place a
U.S.-friendly oligarch government.
They
came closest in 2002
when a military coup removed Chavez. The
Commander-in-Chief of the Venezuelan military announced Chavez had
resigned and Pedro
Carmona,
of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, became interim president.
Carmona dissolved the National Assembly and Supreme Court and
declared the Constitution void. The people surrounded the
presidential palace and seized television stations, Carmona resigned
and fled to Colombia. Within 47 hours, civilians and the military
restored Chavez to the presidency. The
coup was a turning point that
strengthened the Bolivarian Revolution, showed people could defeat a
coup and exposed the US and oligarchs.
U.S.
Regime Change Tactics Have Failed In Venezuela
The
U.S. and oligarchs continue their efforts to reverse the Bolivarian
Revolution. The United States has a long history of regime change
around the world and has tried all of its regime change tools in
Venezuela. So far they have failed.
Economic
War
Destroying
the Venezuelan economy has been an ongoing campaign by the US and
oligarchs. It is reminiscent
of the US coup in Chile which
ended the presidency of Salvador Allende. To create the environment
for the Chilean coup, President Nixon ordered the CIA to “make
the economy scream.”
Henry
Kissinger devised the coup noting a billion dollars of investment
were at stake. He also feared the “the insidious model effect” of
the example of Chile leading to other countries breaking from the
United States and capitalism. Kissinger’s top deputy at the
National Security Council, Viron Vaky, opposed the coup saying,
“What we propose is patently a violation of our own principles and
policy tenets .… If these principles have any meaning, we normally
depart from them only to meet the gravest threat … our survival.”
These
objections hold true regarding recent US coups, including in
Venezuela and Honduras, Ukraine and Brazil, among others. Allende
died in the coup and wrote
his last words to the people of Chile,
especially the workers, “Long live the people! Long live the
workers!” He was replaced by Augusto Pinochet, a
brutal and violent dictator.
For
decades the US
has been fighting an economic war,
“making the economy scream,” in Venezuela.
Wealthy
Venezuelans have been conducting economic sabotage aided by the US
with sanctions and other tactics. This includes hoarding
food, supplies and other necessities in
warehouses or in Colombia while Venezuelan markets are bare. The
scarcity is used to fuel protests, e.g. “The March of the Empty
Pots,” a carbon copy of marches in Chile before the September 11,
1973 coup. Economic warfare has escalated through
Obama and under
Trump,
with Tillerson now urging economic sanctions on oil.
President
Maduro recognized the economic hardship but also said sanctions
open up the opportunity for a new era of independence and
“begins the stage of post-domination by the United States, with
Venezuela again at the center of this struggle for dignity and
liberation.” The second-in-command of the Socialist Party, Diosdado
Cabello, said, “[if
they] apply sanctions, we will apply elections.”
Opposition
Protests
Another
common US regime change tool is supporting opposition protests.
The Trump
administration renewed regime change operations in
Venezuela and the anti-Maduro protests, which began under Obama, grew
more violent. The opposition protests included barricades,
snipers and murders as well as widespread injuries. When police
arrested those using violence, the US claimed Venezuela opposed free
speech and protests.
The
opposition tried to use the crack down against violence to achieve
the U.S. tactic of dividing the military. The U.S.
and western media ignored opposition violence and
blamed the Venezuelan government instead. Violence became so extreme
it looked like the opposition
was pushing Venezuela into a Syrian-type civil war.
Instead, opposition violence backfired on them.
Violent
protests are part of U.S. regime change repertoire. This was
demonstrated in the U.S.
coup in Ukraine,
where the U.S. spent $5 billion to organize government opposition
including U.S.
and EU funding violent protesters.
This tactic was used in early US coups like the 1953
Iran coup of
Prime Minister Mossadegh. The
U.S. has admitted organizing
this coup
that ended Iran’s brief experience with democracy.
Like Venezuela, a key reason for the Iran coup was control of the
nation’s oil.
Funding
Opposition
There
has been massive
U.S. investment in creating opposition to the Venezuelan
government.
Tens of millions of dollars have been openly spent through USAID, the
National Endowment for Democracy and other related US regime change
agencies. It is unknown how much the CIA has spent from its secret
budget, but the CIA
has also been involved in Venezuela. Current
CIA director, Mike Pompeo,
said
he is “hopeful there can be a transition in Venezuela.”
The United
States has also educated leaders of opposition movements,
e.g. Leopoldo
López was
educated at private schools in the US, including the CIA-associated
Kenyon College. He was groomed at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government and made repeated visits to the regime change agency, the
National Republican Institute.
Elections
While
the US calls Venezuela a dictatorship, it is in fact a strong
democracy with an excellent voting system. Election observers monitor
every election.
In
2016, the economic crisis led to the opposition winning a majority in
the National Assembly. One of their first acts was to pass
an amnesty law.
The law described 17 years of crimes including violent felonies and
terrorism committed by the opposition. It was an admission of crimes
back to the 2002 coup and through 2016. The law demonstrated violent
treason against Venezuela. One month later, the Supreme Court of
Venezuela ruled
the amnesty law was unconstitutional.
U.S. media, regime change advocates and anti-Venezuela human rights
groups attacked
the Supreme Court decision,
showing their alliance with the admitted criminals.
Years
of violent protests and regime change attempts, and then admitting
their crimes in an amnesty bill, have caused those opposed to the
Bolivarian Revolution to lose power and become unpopular. In
three recent elections Maduro’s party won
regional, local and
the Constituent
Assembly elections.
The
electoral commission announced the presidential
election will be held on April 22.
Maduro will run for re-election with the United Socialist Party.
Opposition leaders such as Henry Ramos and Henri Falcon have
expressed interest in running, but the opposition
has not decided whether to participate. Henrique
Capriles, who narrowly lost to Maduro in the last election, was
banned from running for office
because of irregularities in his campaign, including taking foreign
donations. Capriles has
been a leader of the violent protests. When his ban was announced he
called for protests to remove Maduro from office. Also banned
was Leopoldo
Lopez,
another leader of the violent protests who is under house
arrest serving
a thirteen year sentence for inciting violence.
Now,
the United States says it will not recognize the presidential
election and urges a military coup. For two years, the opposition
demanded presidential elections, but now it is unclear whether they
will participate. They know they are unpopular and Maduro is likely
to be re-elected.
Is
War Against Venezuela Coming?
A
military coup faces challenges in Venezuela as the people, including
the military, are well educated about US imperialism. Tillerson
openly urging a military coup makes it more difficult.
The
government and opposition recently negotiated a peace settlement
entitled “Democratic Coexistence Agreement for Venezuela.”
They agreed
on all of the issues including
ending economic sanctions, scheduling elections and more. They
agreed on the date of the next presidential election. It
was originally planned for March, but in a concession to the
opposition, it was rescheduled for the end of April. Maduro
signed the agreement even
though the opposition
did not attend the
signing ceremony. They backed out after Colombian President Santos,
who was meeting with Secretary Tillerson, called and told them not to
sign. Maduro
will now make the agreement a public issue by
allowing the people of Venezuela to sign it.
Not
recognizing elections and urging a military coup are bad enough, but
more disconcerting is that Admiral
Kurt Tidd, head of Southcom, held a closed door meeting in
Colombia after
Tillerson’s visit. The topic was “regional destabilization” and
Venezuela was a focus.
A
military attack on Venezuela from its Colombian and Brazilian borders
is not far fetched. In January, the
NY Times asked,
“Should the US military invade Venezuela?” President Trump
said the US is considering US military force against
Venezuela. His chief of staff, John Kelly, was formerly the general
in charge of Southcom. Tidd
has claimed the crisis,
created in large part by the economic war against Venezuela, requires
military action for humanitarian reasons.
War
preparations are already underway in
Colombia, which plays the role of Israel for the US in Latin America.
The coup government in Brazil, increased
its military budget 36 percent,
and participated in Operation:
America United,
the largest joint military exercise in Latin American history. It
was one
of four military exercises by the US with
Brazil, Colombia and Peru in
Latin America in 2017. The US Congress
ordered the Pentagon to develop military contingencies for
Venezuela in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.
While
there is opposition
to US military bases, James
Patrick Jordan explains, on our radio show, the
US has military bases in Colombia and the Caribbean and military
agreements with countries in the region; and therefore, Venezuela is
already surrounded.
The
United States is targeting Venezuela because the Bolivarian
Revolution provides an example against U.S. imperialism. An
invasion of Venezuela will become another war-quagmire that kills
innocent Venezuelans, U.S. soldiers and others over control of oil.
People in the United States who support the self-determination of
countries should show solidarity with Venezuelans, expose the U.S.
agenda and publicly denounce regime change. We need to educate people
about what is really happening in Venezuela to overcome the false
media coverage.
Kevin
Zeese and Margaret Flowers co-direct Popular
Resistance.
[This article originally appeared
at https://popularresistance.org and
is republished with authors’ permission.]
By Kevin
Zeese and Margaret Flowers /
Republished with permission / Consortium
News / Report
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Ter herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en: ‘List of wars involving the United States‘
Zie ook:
‘Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘
‘VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..‘
‘VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….‘
‘VS zet Latijns-Amerikaanse landen tegen elkaar op en is bezig met voorbereiding invasie Venezuela‘
‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘
‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare‘
‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘
‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘
‘VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………‘
‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote‘
‘10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela‘
‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly‘
‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)
‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)
‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………‘
‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………‘
‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………‘
‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)
Wetenschappers ‘ontdekken’ verborgen onder het oerwoud een oude Mayastad voor 10 miljoen mensen!
Middels een aangepaste techniek hebben wetenschappers in Guatemala een Mayastad ontdekt, waar naar schatting 10 miljoen mensen moeten hebben gewoond! Overigens was deze stad al bekend, men had deze echter veel kleiner ingeschat.
Middels de aangepaste Lidar ‘mapping techniek’ ontdekte men dat de stad onder het oerwoud veel groter was dan eerder verondersteld. De stad moet bewoond zijn geweest van 1.000 jaar voor onze jaartelling tot 900 jaar daarna.
Bij mijn weten was er nergens anders ter wereld een stad zo groot in die tijd en men heeft al ontdekt hoe men een dergelijke bevolking kon voeden en dat was voor die tijd een huzarenstuk.
Niet verder geluld, lees het verhaal over de hoogwaardige cultuur die een dergelijke stad bouwde en haar bewoners goed moet hebben weten te dienen:
Scientists
Discover Ancient Mayan City of 10 Million People Hidden Under Jungle
February
9, 2018 at 8:06 am
Written
by Amanda
Froelich
(TMU) —The
Earth is so vast, archaeologists are still finding
remnants of lost civilizations. Most recently, researchers discovered
a Mayan city, hidden in the Guatemalan jungle, which is estimated to
have been home to approximately 10 million citizens.
The
Guardian reports
that the researchers used a high-tech aerial mapping technique to
find tens of thousands of hidden structures. They include Mayan
houses, buildings, defense works, pyramids, an industrial-sized
agricultural field and irrigation canals. At least four major Mayan
ceremonial centers with plazas were also detected by the mapping
technique.
News
of the lost city, which was hidden in the jungle of Guatemala’s
Peten region, was announced on Thursday by an alliance of US,
European and Guatemalan archaeologists who have been working in
conjunction with Guatemala’s Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation.
To
supply the 10 million Mayan residents, massive food production would
have been essential. Marcello A Canuto, a professor of anthropology
at Tulane University, commented on this when he said, “That
is two to three times more [inhabitants] than people were saying
there were.”
The
mapping technique is called Lidar, which stands for light detection
and ranging. Contours hidden by dense foliage are found as the
technology bounces pulsed laser light off the ground. The resulting
images revealed that the Mayans altered the landscape in a drastic
way. In some areas, 95 percent of the land was cultivated.
Said
Francisco Estrada-Belli, a research assistant professor at Tulane
University, “Their
agriculture is much more intensive and therefore sustainable than we
thought, and they were cultivating every inch of the
land.” Estrada-Belli
added that the ancient Mayas partly drained swampy road that hasn’t
been farmed since.
Researchers
suggest the civilization had a highly organized workforce. They
predicted this based on the extensive defensive fences,
ditch-and-rampart systems, and the constructed irrigation canals.
This
unprocessed image of the jungle reveals the groundworks and buildings
beneath the dense foliage. Credit: Depositphotos
As The
Guardian reports,
the mapping — which revealed 810 square miles (or 2,100 square
kilometers) of hidden civilization — expands the area that was
intensively occupied by the Maya. The culture flourished between
roughly 1,000 BC and 900 AD. Many descendants still inhabit the
region.
Thomas
Garrison, assistant professor of anthropology at Ithaca College in
New York, used the Lidar data to look for one of the roads.
“I
found it, but if I had not had the Lidar and known that that’s what
it was, I would have walked right over it, because of how dense the
jungle is.”
Tikal.
The ancient ruins are located in the rainforests of Guatemala.
Credit: DepositPhotos
Garrison
noted that the jungle grew over the abandoned Maya field and
structures, rather than destroyed them. This is unlike some other
ancient cities, whose fields, roads and outbuildings have been all
but destroyed by the elements.
“The
jungle, which has hindered us in our discovery efforts for so long,
has actually worked as this great preservative tool of the impact the
culture had across the
landscape,” noted
Garrison. The assistant professor says the finding “can’t be
called anything other than a Maya fortress.”
To
the researchers’ surprise, the structures were hiding in plain
sight. “As
soon as we saw this we all felt a little sheepish,” said
Canuto, “because
these were things that we had been walking over all the time.”
What
else might be discovered with the Lidar technology? Only time will
tell!
By Amanda
Froelich /
Republished with permission / The
Mind Unleashed / Report
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Rutte’s verbazing over de ophef rond de liegende VVD’er Zijlstra……
Hij snapt niks van al die opwinding want hij liegt zelf al jaren en blijft rustig zitten. #Halbewaarheden
Zie ook: ‘Zijlstra heeft gelogen, liegt en zal blijven liegen, al helemaal als het over Rusland gaat…….‘
en: ‘Zijlstra terecht afgetreden wegens anti-Russische propaganda, nu Rutte nog……..‘
Als de VS niet de VS was, zou de Verenigde Staten dit gestolen land bombarderen………
Zoals op deze pek al veelvuldig gesteld: de VS is de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, het middels de grootste genocide ooit* gestolen land dat alleen al vanaf WOII meer dan 22 miljoen mensen vermoordde……………..
Gisteren kwam Anti-Media met een artikel onder de titel: ‘If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It’. Hoewel ik de opzet van deze zin begrijp, klopt deze toch niet helemaal. Immers de VS laat andere terreurstaten gewoon hun gang gaan, zolang ze maar de VS steunen…. Neem Israël en Saoedi-Arabië, die zelfs door de VS worden gesteund in de terreur die ze brengen, en door diezelfde VS worden ontzien in de VN Veiligheidsraad, als het om resoluties tegen de smerige, bloederige praktijken gaat waar deze 2 landen zich keer op keer schuldig aan maken……
Maar geen gezeik: zeker niet als je ziet dat de VS haar illegale oorlogen verdedigt door te stellen dat het voor de verdrukte volkeren opkomt en democratie wil brengen**.
Darius Shahtahmasebi schreef het artikel n.a.v. een opiniestuk van voormalig VS regeringsadviseur Edward Luttwak. Deze oorlogshitser stelde in de kop dat het tijd is voor de VS om Noord-Korea te bombarderen.
Lullig genoeg voor Luttwak, gebruikte hij argumenten die nu juist van toepassing zijn op de wandel en handel van de VS… Zo geeft Shahtahmasebi een aantal voorbeelden, zoals het gebruik van atoombommen door de VS tegen Hiroshima en Nagasaki, terwijl deze aanvallen totaal onnodig waren zoals o.a. de hoge VS militairen Nimitz en Halsey destijds betoogden.
Lees het volgende artikel van Shahtahmasebi en oordeel zelf:
If
America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It
February
12, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On
January 8, 2018, former government advisor Edward Luttwak wrote
an opinion
piece for Foreign
Policy titled
“It’s Time to Bomb North Korea.”
Luttwak’s
thesis is relatively straightforward. There is a government out there
that may very soon acquire nuclear-weapons capabilities, and this
country cannot be trusted to responsibly handle such a stockpile. The
responsibility to protect the world from a rogue nation cannot be
argued with, and we understandably have a duty to ensure the future
of humanity.
However,
there is one rogue nation that continues to hold the world ransom
with its nuclear weapons supply. It is decimating non-compliant
states left, right, and center. This country must be stopped dead in
its tracks before anyone turns to the issue of North Korea.
In
August of 1945, this rogue nation dropped two atomic bombs on
civilian targets, not military targets, completely
obliterating between 135,000
and 300,000 Japanese civilians in just these two acts alone. Prior to
this event, this country killed even more civilians in the infamous
firebombing of
Tokyo and other areas of Japan, dropping close to 500,000 cylinders
of napalm and petroleum jelly on some of Japan’s most densely
populated areas.
Recently,
historians have become more open to the possibility that dropping the
atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not actually necessary to
end World War II. This has also been confirmed by those who actually
took part in it. As the Nation explained:
“Fleet
Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, stated
in a public address at the Washington Monument two months after the
bombings that ‘the
atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military
standpoint, in the defeat of Japan…’ Adm.
William “Bull” Halsey Jr., Commander of the US Third Fleet,
stated publicly in 1946 that ‘the
first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment…. It
was a mistake to ever drop it…. [the scientists] had this toy and
they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it…” [emphasis
added]
A
few months’ prior, this rogue country’s invasion of
the Japanese island of Okinawa also claimed at least one quarter of
Okinawa’s population. The Okinawan people have been protesting this
country’s military presence ever since. The most recent ongoing
protest has
lasted well over 5,000 days in
a row.
This
nation’s bloodlust continued well after the end of World War II.
Barely half a decade later, this country bombed North Korea into
complete oblivion, destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and eventually
killing off
as much as 20 percent of the country’s population. As the Asia
Pacific Journal has
noted, the assaulting country dropped so many bombs that they
eventually ran out of targets to hit, turning to bomb the irrigation
systems, instead:
“By
the fall of 1952, there were no effective
targets left for US planes to hit.
Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had
already been bombed. In the spring of 1953, the Air Force targeted
irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean
rice crop and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more
food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands
of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the
essential food source for millions of North Koreans.” [emphasis
added]
This
was just the beginning. Having successfully destroyed the future
North Korean state, this country moved on to the rest of East Asia
and Indo-China, too. As Rolling
Stone’s Matt
Taibbi has explained:
“We
[this loose cannon of a nation] dumped 20 million gallons of toxic
herbicide on Vietnam from the air, just to make the shooting easier
without all those trees, an insane plan to win ‘hearts and minds’
that has left about a million still disabled from defects and disease
– including about 100,000 children, even decades later, little kids
with misshapen heads, webbed hands and fused eyelids writhing on
cots, our real American legacy, well out of view, of course.”
This
mass murder led to the deaths of between 1.5 million and 3.8 million
people, according to
the Washington
Post.
More bombs were dropped on Vietnam than were unleashed during
the entire
conflict in World War II.
While this was going on, this same country was also secretly
bombing Laos
and Cambodia, too, where there are over 80
million unexploded bombs still
killing people to this day.
This
country also decided to bomb Yugoslavia, Panama,
and Grenada before
invading Iraq in the early 1990s***. Having successfully bombed Iraqi
infrastructure, this country then punished Iraq’s entire civilian
population with brutal sanctions. At the time, the
U.N. estimated that
approximately 1.7 million Iraqis had died as a result, including
500,000 to 600,000 children.
Some years later, a prominent medical journal attempted
to absolve the cause of
this infamous history by refuting the statistics involved despite the
fact that, when interviewed during the sanctions-era, Bill Clinton’s
secretary of state,
Madeleine
Albright, intimated that
to this rogue government, the deaths of half a million children were
“worth it” as the “price” Iraq needed to pay. In other words,
whether half a million children died or not was irrelevant to this
bloodthirsty nation, which barely blinked while carrying out this
murderous policy.
This
almighty superpower then invaded Iraq again in 2003 and plunged the
entire region
into chaos.
At the end of May 2017, the Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR) released a study concluding
that the death toll from this violent nation’s 2003 invasion of
Iraq had led to over one million deaths and that at least one-third
of them were caused directly by the invading force.
Not
to mention this country also invaded Afghanistan prior to the
invasion of Iraq (even though the militants plaguing
Afghanistan were
originally trained and financed by this warmongering nation). It
then went
on to bomb Yemen,
Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and the Philippines.
Libya famously had
one of the highest standards of living in the region. It had
state-assisted healthcare, education, transport, and affordable
housing. It is now a lawless war-zone rife
with extremism where
slaves are openly
traded like
commodities amid the power vacuum created as a direct result of the
2011 invasion.
In
2017, the commander-in-chief of this violent nation took the
monumental death and destruction to a new a level by removing
the restrictions on
delivering airstrikes, which resulted in thousands upon thousands of
civilian deaths. Before that, in the first six months of 2017, this
country dropped
over 20,650 bombs,
a monumental increase from the year that preceded it.
Despite
these statistics, all of the above conquests are mere child’s play
to this nation. The real prize lies in some of the more defiant and
more powerful states, which this country has already unleashed a
containment strategy upon. This country has deployed its own troops
all across the border
with Russia even
though it promised
in the early 1990s it
would do no such thing. It also has a specific policy of containing
Russia’s close ally, China, all
the while threatening China’s borders with talks of direct strikes
on North Korea (again, remember it already did so in the 1950s).
This
country also elected a president who not only believes it is okay
to embrace
this rampantly violent militarism but
who openly calls other
countries “shitholes”
– the very same term that aptly describes the way this country has
treated the rest of the world for decades on end. This same president
also reportedly once asked three
times in a meeting,
“If
we have nuclear weapons, why don’t we use them?”
and shortly after proposed a policy to remove
the constraints protecting
the world from his dangerous supply of advanced nuclear weaponry.
When
it isn’t directly bombing a country, it is also arming
radical insurgent groups,
creating instability, and directly overthrowing
governments through
its covert
operatives on
the ground.
If
we have any empathy for humanity, it is clear that this country must
be stopped. It cannot continue to act like this to the detriment of
the rest of the planet and the safety and security of the rest of us.
This country openly
talks about
using its nuclear weapons, has used them before, and has continued to
use all manner of weapons unabated in the years since while
threatening to expand the use of these weapons to other countries.
Seriously,
if North Korea seems like a threat, imagine how the rest of the world
feels while watching one country violently take on the rest of the
planet single-handedly, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake
and promising nothing less than a nuclear holocaust in the years to
come.
There
is only one country that has done and that continues to do the very
things North Korea is being accused of doing.
Take
as much time as you need for that to resonate.
Op-ed
/ Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo
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* De grootste genocide ooit werd uitgevoerd in Noord-, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika
** ‘Democratie brengen’, zelfs in landen waar NB een democratisch gekozen regering zat of zit, neem Syrië en Oekraïne (onder Janoekovytsj), waar de CIA eerst een opstand organiseerde, om deze te laten eindigen in een staatsgreep; deze zaak lukte wel in Oekraïne, maar niet in Syrië, waardoor deze landen wel in oorlog raakten en in chaos werden gestort……
*** De oorlog van de VS (NAVO) tegen Joegoslavië vond plaats nadat de VS op 17 januari 1991 onder de oude Bush-slachter (George H.W. Bush) de eerste VS oorlog tegen Irak begon, dit in tegenstelling tot wat Shahtahmasebi daar hierboven over heeft geschreven.
En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en: ‘List of wars involving the United States‘
Zie ook: ‘Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII……‘
en: ‘VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen…………..‘ (plus twee andere Engelstalige artikelen)
en: ‘VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een ‘cyberaanval…….’‘
en: ‘NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen ‘een denkbeeldige vijand’, ofwel Rusland……….‘ (de NAVO is in feite een organisatie van de VS en is daarmee een organisatie die dan ook precies doet wat de VS wil en de VS helpt in haar grootschalige terreur )
En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en: ‘List of wars involving the United States‘
Dan nog over het bedreigen van Noord-Korea door Trump met ‘Fire and Fury): ‘Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..‘ en: ‘Noord-Korea wil graag overleggen met de VS dat alweer de boot afhoudt………‘