In het
hieronder opgenomen artikel van Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge, vertelt
hij dat de boel op ‘oorlogscherp’ staat in de Oost-Chinese Zee dit over de claim op een paar eilandjes door China en Japan, t.w. de onbewoonde Senkaku-eilanden, ook aangeduid als Diaoyu-eilanden.
Uiteraard
moet de VS zich er weer mee bemoeien en als je het mij vraagt is het
vooral de VS die Japan opstookt deze eilandjes te claimen…….
Kortom
niet alleen in de Zuid-Chinese Zee (‘what’s in a word?’), maar ook in de Oost-Chinese Zee is
de VS uit op oorlog met China, immers de VS staat voor de veiligheid
van Japan, dit n.a.v. een veiligheidsverdrag gesloten in de 50er
jaren met Japan en dan m.n artikel 5 uit dat verdrag……
Om de
boel nog verder op scherp te zetten hebben de VS en Japan een grote
militaire oefening gepland, waarmee men oefent op ‘eventuele agressie’ van China….. (en als er nu één land op de wereld is dat uiterst agressief bezig is, is het de VS wel >> de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, nu verwikkeld in minstens 4 illegaal door deze vereniging van terreurstaten begonnen oorlogen…….) Er wordt zelfs overleg gevoerd tussen Japan en de VS over een militair antwoord op de ‘Chinese dreiging’ t.a.v. de Senkaku-eilanden……. De eerder genoemde grote militaire oefening van de VS en Japan kan je zien als voorbereiding daarop……..
Deze militaire oefening met de naam ‘Keen Sword’ (ha! ha! ha!) is volgens generaal en oorlogsmisdadiger William Seeley een aanvulling op de grote NAVO oefening Trident Juncture, die plaatsvindt in Noorwegen (en Oekraïne)……. (ik reken ook de grote luchtmachtoefening in Oekraïne toe aan die grote militaire oefening, immers daar wordt ook het zogenaamde raketschild in Polen en Roemenië bij betrokken, een schild waarvan de raketten in een mum van tijd van meerdere kernkoppen kunnen worden voorzien >> dit is een schending van het INF verdrag….. Dit terwijl het door een corrupte neonazi-junta geregeerd Oekraïne niet eens lid is van de NAVO….*)
Lees het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, zoals geplaatst op Zero Hedge:
“Flashpoint
For War”: U.S. And Japan Plan Military Response To Chinese
Incursions Of Disputed Islands
Things
are again rapidly heating up in the East China Sea amidst already
heightened tensions in a region where Washington is increasingly
asserting the right of navigation in international waters against
broad Chinese claims and seeking to defend the territorial
possessions of its allies.
According
to a bombshell new Reuters report
the tiny and rocky Senkaku Islands which lie between northern Taiwan
and the Japanese home islands are“rapidly
turning into a flashpoint for war”.
Alarmingly, Japanese government sources have been quoted as
saying Tokyo
and the United States are drawing up an operations plan for an allied
military response to Chinese threats to the disputed Senkaku
Islands.
The Senkaku
Islands, historically claimed by both Japan and China.
From
nearly the start of his entering the White House, President Trump has
said he’s committed to upholding Article 5 of the US-Japan security
treaty signed the post-war years of the mid-20th century: “We
are committed to the security of Japan and all areas under its
administrative control and to further strengthening our very crucial
alliance,”Trump
had promised from
the first official reception of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe back in February 2017, and since consistently maintained.
Japanese
government sources have told regional media that the joint plan of
response with the United States involves“how
to respond in the event of an emergency on or around the uninhabited
islands in the East China Sea”— which
is set to be completed by next march, according to the statements.
Beijing
claims the islands as part of its historical inheritance — as it
does neighbouring Taiwan, despite failing to seize the protectorate
during the Chinese Civil War.
Taiwan,
however, was a Japanese protectorate before World War II.
It’s
a messy historical scenario, thought resolved through United Nations
conventions and treaties established after the
conflict. — Reuters/news.com.au
The Japan
Times reports
that “The plan being drawn up assumes such
emergencies as armed Chinese fishermen landing on the islands,
and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces needing to be mobilized after the
situation exceeds the capacity of the police to respond.”
The
situation is now taking on a greater urgency as both the US and Japan
participate in the two nations’ largest
ever join war games,
which involves the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft
carrier. The exercise, called Keen Sword began on Monday and is set
to run through Thursday, and
involved a
combined force of 57,000 sailors, airmen and marines — with
Japan contributing 47,000 of those military personnel.
Canadian warships are also involved in the exercises.
Japan
is seeking greater direct commitment and resolve on the part of the
United States to defend its territorial claims against Chinese
encroachment, which Japan says is already beginning to happen through
informal provocative raids of fishing boats organized by
Beijing.
Reutersreports
that“ongoing
aggressive incursions by Chinese fishing boats — organised as a
state militia — and a freshly militarized coast guard has seen
tensions in the East China Sea flare.” And
the report further confirms: “The plan being drawn up assumes such
emergencies as armed Chinese fishermen landing on the islands, and
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces needing to be mobilized after the
situation exceeds the capacity of the police to respond.”
Though
the United States has in the past expressed deep reluctance on
outright defending claims to the Japan-administered islands
(indicating it will take no official position on the issue), which
China calls the Diaoyu, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces says
the focus of talks with the US has involved how
to incorporate the US military’s strike capabilities in any
potential Chinese invasion of the Senkaku Islands scenario.
One
Japanese military analyst was quoted
as saying:
“Given that military organizations always need to assume the worst
possible situation, it is natural for the two countries to work on
this kind of plan against China.”
The
two already have a framework for such talks based on recently created
2015 defense guidelines known ans the Bilateral Planning
Mechanism, or BPM. It
stipulates the US and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces will “conduct
bilateral operations to counter ground attacks against Japan by
ground, air, maritime, or amphibious forces”.
Currently there’s a similar contingency plan in place for a potential
emergency threat on the Korean peninsula.
Between
now and the spring – when the plan is set to be finalized and
agreed upon – China will likely ramp up its incursions on the
islands, or just seize them altogether before US commitments can be
firmed up, in which casethe
great unknown will be whether the United States actually steps up to
come to Japan’s aid while risking war with China— something
that up until now has been carefully avoided.
* Er is al langer sprake van een Pentagon verlangen voor een oorlog op meerdere fronten waar China en Rusland als een paar van de tegenstanders worden aangemerkt, deze militaire oefeningen zouden daar wel eens het bewijs voor kunnen zijn……… Eén ding is zeker: Trident Juncture is niet gericht op de bescherming van NAVO land Noorwegen, maar op een inval in Rusland op een noordelijk front……. Nogmaals: gezien de uitlatingen van Seeley is deze grootschalige oefening een voorloper op een oorlog met Rusland en China (waar men uiteraard ook Iran en Noord-Korea zal aanvallen…..)
James
Fetzer hoogleraar (en onderzoeker) aan de University of Minnesota
Duluth (UMD) stelt dat de VS en haar partner Israël de grootste
terreurgroepen zijn die de wereld ooit heeft gezien. Uiteraard ben ik
het daarmee oneens (ben niet voor niets een Azijnpisser), die
twijfelachtige eer valt toch mede toe aan Turkije (de Armeense genocide en de voortdurende terreur tegen de Koerdische bevolking in en buiten Turkije), nazi-Duitsland, het
fascistische Japan, het Pol Pot regime in Cambodja en de junta van Pinochet in Chili (door de VS in het zadel geholpen*) let wel: dan hebben we het alleen over de laatste 100
jaar………
Zonder
twijfel zijn Israël en de VS, samen met Turkije en Saoedi-Arabië de
grootste terreurstaten in het ‘huidige bestel’, waar de VS al lang
verreweg de grootste is. Dat geldt wat betreft de VS eigenlijk al
vanaf het begin van haar bestaan, neem de genocide (op de inheemse
volkeren in de VS, die samen met de genocide in wat nu Latijns Amerika wordt genoemd, de grootste genocide ooit is…)….. De VS werd alleen in de 20ste eeuw in een relatief korte tijd voorbij gestreefd door de eerder genoemde dictaturen van o.a. nazi-Duitsland, Japan en Turkije, al was zoals gezegd de genocide op de inheemse volkeren in de 3 Amerika’s de grootste ooit….
Fetzer
gaat o.a. in op de enorme militaire hulp die de VS aan Israël geeft** (middels belastinggeld) en hij stelt terecht dat dit geheel tegen de
VS wetgeving in is, immers Israël heeft ‘stiekem’ atoomwapens gemaakt
en weigert het non-proliferatie verdrag te tekenen. Bovendien is een
bedrag van 3,8 miljard dollar jaarlijks tegen de VS richtlijnen voor
buitenlandse hulp. Echter, volgens Fetzer zijn er senatoren in de VS
die dit bedrag in het geniep nog verder willen ophogen…….
Het voorgaande, ondanks de massamoorden die Israël keer op keer aanricht onder de Palestijnen en waar terreurstaat Israël het dagelijkse leven voor de Palestijnen onmogelijk maakt, met deze zaken voert Israël in feite een langzame etnische zuivering door….
Israël
en Amerika zijn grootste terreurgroeperingen die de wereld ooit
gekend heeft. Hoogleraar haalt hard uit
7
augustus 2018 12:00 u.
2 schoften overrijp voor berechting door het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC)
De
militaire hulp die de Verenigde Staten ieder jaar aan Israël bieden
is in strijd met de Amerikaanse wet en bewijst dat deze twee
bondgenoten ’s werelds grootste terreurgroeperingen zijn. Dat zegt
een Amerikaanse onderzoeker.
In
de Amerikaanse begroting is 3,8 miljard dollar per jaar uitgetrokken
voor steun aan het land. Amerikaanse senatoren proberen dat bedrag nu
stilletjes op te schroeven.
“Alleen
al de idee dat de Amerikaanse Senaat de hulp aan Israël uitbreidt is
schandalig en in strijd met de richtlijnen voor buitenlandse hulp,”
zei emeritus hoogleraar James Fetzer van de University of Minnesota
Duluth in gesprek met Press TV.
Schrappen
De
VS mag namelijk volgens de wet geen hulp bieden aan landen die
niet-aangegeven kernwapens hebben.
“Het
is algemeen bekend dat Israël een groot arsenaal aan nucleaire,
chemische en biologische wapens heeft,” zei Fetzer.
Hij
vindt om die reden dat de Senaat de hulp moet schrappen in plaats van
uitbreiden.
Grootste
terreurgroepering
De
Amerikaanse militaire hulp aan Israël is in de afgelopen jaren flink
uitgebreid, terwijl het Israëlische leger in Gaza en elders de
mensenrechten schendt.
De
uitbreiding van de hulp zal het imago van Amerikaanse politici alleen
nog maar verder aantasten, aldus Fetzer.
“De
Senaat moet ophouden zichzelf te schande te maken door constant de
hielen te likken van Israël, dat samen met de VS de grootste
terreurgroepering is die de wereld ooit gekend heeft,” besloot hij.
[PressTV] (de basis voor het artikel op ‘9 for News’, daar is ook een korte video te zien)
===========================
* Er zijn uiteraard veel meer coups en oorlogen (de ultieme vormen van terreur) van de VS te noemen o.a. in Latijns-Amerika, zie daarvoor:
** Ook Nederland heeft Israël in het verleden meermaals financieel ondersteund onder ander middels grote wapenleveringen, zoals de VS die aan Israël doet toekomen…..
De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Andre Vltchek, heeft
een reis gemaakt naar Japan om daar het eiland Hashima (ook bekend
als Gunkanjima), in de buurt van Nagasaki te bezoeken.
Vltcheck
wilde met eigen ogen het eiland zien waar Japan duizenden Koreaanse
en Chinese gevangenen liet werken in de mijnen en op de scheepswerven
waar oorlogsschepen werden gebouwd. Het meest gruwelijk was wel het
lot van Chinese en Koreaanse vrouwen die daar als seksslaven te werk
werden gesteld…….
Vltcheck
beschrijft hoe je je als bezoeker moet onderwerpen aan de strakke regie van de
gidsen, die geen vragen wensen te beantwoorden die niet in het
Japanse straatje passen, dus geen vragen over de werkslaven en de
seksslaven. Van 1919 tot 1945 werd Korea bezet door Japanse troepen
en in die tijd werden naar schatting 60.000 Koreanen gedeporteerd naar Japan om daar als slaven te worden ingezet (op plekken als Hashima)…….
Het
eiland heeft intussen de status van werelderfgoed gekregen (van de
UNESCO), daarvoor heeft Japan beloofd aandacht te schenken aan de
slavernij op Hashima en nog een paar van dergelijke industriële terreinen. Je raadt het al: van die aandacht is niets te merken en
men wordt zelfs pissig als je ernaar durft te vragen…….
Japan
herschrijft haar geschiedenis en voor WOII heeft men amper plek in de
geschiedenisboeken, e.e.a. heeft alles te maken met het steeds
sterker wordend nationalisme, dat zoals je weet vaak de voorloper is
van fascisme en vooral gepaard gaat met een fascistische zienswijze op de geschiedenis……..
Men
zegt vaak dat we kunnen leren van de geschiedenis, echter dat geldt
duidelijk niet voor zaken als fascisme, of de vele uitwassen van het
kapitalisme waar zovelen, het dodelijke slachtoffer van
werden……… (het cliché: ‘van hard werken is nog nooit iemand doodgegaan’, is een smerige leugen, vooral gebezigd door welgestelden en neoliberale politici, zoals die van de VVD, CDA, D66 en de zogenaamde christelijke partijen CU en SGP, zelfs politici van de PvdA hebben deze leugen in het verleden gebezigd…….. Al duizenden jaren hebben mensen zich daadwerkelijk doodgewerkt, ‘niets nieuws onder de zon…..’)
Hashima
– Brutal History and the Most Haunted Island on Earth
By
Andre Vltchek
August
08, 2018 “Information
Clearing House” – Do
you want to see perhaps the spookiest island on earth – Hashima
(also known as Gunkanjima – the Battleship Island) – which is
located just 30 minutes by speedboat from the historic Japanese port
city of Nagasaki? Now you can. Just book online, pay the equivalent
of 40 American dollars, and then hop on one of those shiny sleek
vessels belonging to Gunkanjima Concierge or to some other company.
Do
it, and you will see the island which looks like an abandoned
monstrous wreck; like a sunken and haunted ship.
You
will sail around it. You will even be able to disembark and walk a
few hundred meters on a fenced path. Guides/minders will let you take
a few snapshots.
But
that is all. No stepping left or right off the path. No going ahead
of the group. No lagging behind. And please, no ‘provocative’
questions!
The
guides are well trained to ‘entertain you’, to tell you just how
‘haunted’ the island is and how ‘vibrant’ it used to be in
the past.
Sugary
smiles never leave their faces.
But
were you to defy their written and unwritten rules, they’d
immediately jump and appear next to you. They would even loudly scold
you. Suddenly they’d become very rude.
What
are they afraid of? What are they hiding? What really took place on
this island?
The
true horrors of the past will never be conveyed to you. It is all
about WWII, and Japan is still in denial.
A
Japanese tour guide (designated for the Japanese-speaking visitors)
as well as a carefully prepared electronic recording for the English
speakers, will recount countless details about the island’s
geography and uncontroversial chapters of history, but close to
nothing about the terror of the slave labor into which the Korean and
Chinese people were forced into, during World War II.
*
On
6 July 2015, The Guardian reported:
“Unesco
has decided to grant world heritage status to more than 20
old industrial sites in Japan after officials from the country agreed
to acknowledge that some of them used Korean forced labourers before
and during the second world war.
The
23 Meiji period (1868-1912) sites include coalmines and shipyards
that Japan says contributed to its transformation from
feudalism into a successful modern economy.
South
Korea, however, had opposed the application for world heritage status
unless clear reference was made to the use of an estimated 60,000
labourers forced to work at seven of the sites, including the island
coalmine Gunkanjima, during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule over
the Korean peninsula.”
Opposition
was also expressed by China (PRC).
The
issue of forced labor and Tokyo’s stubborn rejection to acknowledge
it, delayed the inscription of the sites by UNESCO. However, in 2015,
Japan yielded, and its delegation to UNESCO declared:
“Japan
is prepared to take measures that allow an understanding that there
were a large number of Koreans and others who were brought against
their will and forced to work under harsh conditions in the 1940s at
some of the sites”.
The
sites, including the notorious Hashima/Gunkanjima, eventually gained
world heritage status. In exchange, both South Korea and China
expected Japan to highlight the suffering of their people during the
occupation and WWII. The sites where forced laborers used to be held,
were supposed to carry clearly marked and detailed explanations. But
as in so many other cases related to its dark history, Japan did
close to nothing to keep its side of the bargain. With the world
heritage status, it got what it wanted, but gave almost nothing in
return.
*
In
May, I spent three days in Nagasaki, visiting my friend, a leading
left-wing Australian historian, Geoffrey Gunn.
For
many years, I have been coming to this city, searching for answers to
a myriad of questions related to Japan’s and Asia’s complex past.
The
past of Nagasaki has it all: great old Japanese culture, Christians
and their prosecution, the Dutch traders and their settlement, a
vibrant Chinese minority. Nagasaki was always one of the most ‘open’
cities in Japan, by choice or by force. But also, this is where the
military ships were built, where many slave laborers were brought to
from the occupied territories, and this is also where the second
A-bomb was exploded by the US at the end of WWII.
Seen
from the roof of the imposing Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, the
bay of the city is still dotted with WWII ‘relics’. Near the
water, there is a huge crane, another fragment of an industrial
UNESCO world heritage site. The crane belongs to the Mitsubishi
shipyards, which have been, for long decades, producing and repairing
Japan’s military vessels.
“Officially,
Japan does not have a military,” I said, sarcastically. “But
look, it is in possession of these huge battleships, docked at the
other side of the bay.”
“You
are lucky. They just arrived here,” said Geoff. “These docks
played an extremely important role in the past. Gunkanjima mines also
belonged to Mitsubishi. They were excavating coal there, and then
building some of the largest battleships here, in Nagasaki.”
For
the rest of the evening we discussed the bizarre refusal of the
Japanese governments and public to acknowledge the past. Even now,
more than 70 years after the end of the war, these issues are taboo:
the genocide committed against the Chinese people, and the terrible
crimes against the Koreans.
Often,
when the past is mentioned, the famously polite Japanese people
suddenly become defensive, even aggressive.
*
In
2015, Japan began literally blackmailing UNESCO, temporarily
withdrawing its payment dues, after the United Nations Education,
Science and Culture Agency listed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre documents
in its “Memory of the World” program. The funds were eventually
released, but the message was sent, clearly and patently.
This
stubborn refusal to deal with the horrors of the past is bringing
Japan closer and closer to the deadly embrace of the West,
particularly the United States, and further and further away from
potentially friendly relations with the rest of north Asia,
particularly China.
After
WWII, the so-called Tokyo Trial supervised by the US (also known as
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE))
was clearly designed to punish just a few individuals, while
preserving the Japanese industrial, business and political system in
its original form, so it could serve the interests of the West. After
the trial, Japan was allowed to rebuild and to join the West in its
aggressive policy towards the Asia Pacific. It played a significant
role in the brutal Korean War, during which the West massacred
millions of Korean citizens.
“Modern
Japan has no foreign policy,” I was once told by the Irish academic
and political analyst David McNeal, who is based in Tokyo. “It is
strictly following the US dictate. The same goes for the media
coverage of the international events.”
David
has no illusions about the Japanese take on its history:
“They
are rewriting text books; they skip through WWII, dedicating to it
only eight pages… Nationalism is rising… There is so much
self-censorship in Japanese media, now. And the government is issuing
‘guidelines’, the so-called ‘Orange Book’, for instance: how
to treat anything that is ‘contagious’… or anything related to
history. There are instructions to writers and translators. For
instance: ‘never use words like Nanking Massacre, except when you
quote foreign experts’. Or ‘Yasukuni Shrine – never use word
“controversial” in connection to it.’ We cannot write about
‘sexual slaves’ from WWII.”
The
more ignorant about its past Japan gets, the more it seems to
strongly dislike its former victims – China and Korea. According to
a Pew Research Center poll (2017), 83% of the Japanese people have an
unfavorable view of China. Korea does not fare much better. Both
countries (PRC and ROK) are now clearly leaving Japan behind, when it
comes to the economy and in the case of South Korea, the standard of
living. The reaction of Tokyo: moving closer and closer towards the
West, while adopting an increasingly aggressive policy towards two
communist nations: China and North Korea.
*
But
back to the Battleship Island… You pay, and you get onboard. Right
from the beginning, even before the vessel departs from Nagasaki, you
get bombarded by outrageous propaganda: about that “samurai spirit”
of Japan and the entire Nagasaki area.
There
is continuous control, right from the start. You get up from your
seat, and immediately someone approaches you: Where are you going? Do
you want to change seat? No, you cannot sit here…” Guides (or
call them minders) sound extremely rude: their English is primitive,
while their obsession with all sorts of rules and regulations is
fundamentalist.
An
old dude who is here clearly in order to play the role of the main
propagandist, is continuously clarifying things into the microphone.
His voice is amplified, and his performance soon turns into an
annoying and uninterrupted flow of verbal diarrhea. There is no space
for reflection – no time to feel and to pause or let alone to ask
some serious questions.
Whenever
he stops, some cheaply-made video begins playing on the screen. Then
advertisements of Kirin Beer are beamed.
The
yacht is sailing towards the place that held thousands of people as
slave laborers, where many died, where women were turned into sexual
slaves. But the circus goes on. No reflection and no repentance.
On
the island, I refuse to follow the group. I lag behind, trying to
avoid loud noise and the herd of people. Of course, I soon get
confronted by two “guides”, trying to push me back towards the
flock.
I
ignore them, keep filming.
They
become aggressive. One shouts: “This is Japan. Follow our rules!”
I
keep filming.
I
did not come here to be loved. The reason for my journey was simple:
to determine whether the Japanese government sticks to the deal it
made with UNESCO, Korea and China – whether it marks and
commemorates the sites where forced laborers were pushed into an
inhuman existence and work, and where some of them, died.
I
found nothing of that kind: no information, no commemoration!
Back
in Nagasaki, I asked for brochures explaining the past. There were no
such brochures. The organizers of the island visits had no idea what
I was asking about.
Later,
the next day, professor Gunn took me to a small private museum
managed by local Koreans, commemorating the terror which Japan
committed against the Korean and Chinese people.
At
least this is where the truth about ‘the most haunted island’ on
Earth can be found. If one could find that tiny museum…
Gunkanjima
– a ghost island which resembles, at least from a distance, a
mighty destroyer; an island dotted with tall buildings now lacking
windows and doors. An island where thousands of miners used to go
down into deep shafts, some voluntarily, some by force. An island –
Gunkanjima – where many people used to live, and many died. A place
so mysterious and so unique, beautiful in its own way, but also both
symbolic and horrifying.
Andre
Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative
journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries.
Three of his latest books are Revolutionary
Optimism, Western Nihilism, a
revolutionary novel “Aurora”and
a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing
Lies Of The Empire”.
View his other books here.
Watch Rwanda
Gambit,
his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his
film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On
Western Terrorism”.
Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and
continues to work around the world. He can be reached through
his websiteand
his Twitter.
PS: Als je het artikel van Vltcheck leest, zou je kunnen denken dat de tweede atoombom die de VS afwierp op Nagasaki ook Hashima trof, echter dat is niet waar, wel werd Nagasaki afgeschilderd als doel met grote militaire aanwezigheid en militaire bedrijvigheid…… Al had de VS met een atoomaanval op Hashima de duizenden werkslaven daar getroffen. De VS gebruikte de leugen over ‘het militaire karakter van Nagasaki’ om de atoomaanval op die stad ‘te verantwoorden……….’ (en ja ook de VS overheid is expert in geschiedvervalsing……) Wel werden veel dwangarbeiders in de stad Nagasaki zelf getroffen door de tweede atoombom die de VS op Japan afwierp (in feite was de aanval op burgerdoel Nagasaki, zoals die op Hiroshima, ook een test zodat men de gevolgen van zo’n laffe schoftenaanval nog beter kon bestuderen….)……
Overlevenden
van de atoomaanval op Hiroshima (hibakusha) hebben gisteren de herdenking van de atoomaanval op die stad, 73 jaar geleden, gebruikt om de wereld op
te roepen een verbod in te stellen op kernwapens.
De
burgemeester van Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui stelde volkomen
terecht dat de kans op een atoomramp groot is gezien de toestand in
de wereld, zeker als je het aantal van 14.000 kernkoppen (!!
knettergek!) over de wereld in gedachten houdt……….
Matsui
riep zijn regering op om het verdrag tot de ban van kernwapens te
tekenen, dit verdrag werd vorig jaar door een aantal VN leden getekend. De International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN), heeft voor haar inzet de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede
ontvangen……
Let
op, hier gaat Nederland weer ‘een mooie rol spelen’: Nederland heeft
dit verdrag niet getekend, onthield zich niet van stemming, maar
stemde als enige tegen, de VS kernwapens zouden nodig zijn voor ozne
veiligheid…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hier de tekst die
daarover te vinden is op de site van ICAN: The
Netherlands, which hosts US nuclear weapons on its
territory, participated in the negotiation of the UN Treaty on
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons but voted against its adoption on
7 July 2017. It was the only nation to do so. It claims that US
nuclear weapons are essential for its security.
Kortom
voor de zoveelste keer staan we publiekelijk voor paal en dan durven
de Nederlandse reguliere media Rutte de hemel in te prijzen als een
geweldig staatsman…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!*
Lees
het volgende artikel van Jessica Corbett, waarin ondermeer de redenen
te lezen zijn die de hibakusha geven om als de donder deze
massavernietigingswapens te verbieden:
Hiroshima
Survivors Call for Nuclear Weapons Ban 73 Years After US Bombing
(CD) — While
European and Iranian leaders work
to salvage the
Iran nuclear deal after President Donald Trump withdrew the
United States in May and reimposed his
first round of sanctions on Monday, activists, surviviors, and
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui marked the 73rd anniversary of the U.S.
dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city by calling for the total
elimination of the world’s nuclear weapons.
“Today,
with more than 14,000 nuclear warheads remaining, the likelihood is
growing that what we saw in Hiroshima after the explosion that day
will return, by intent or accident, plunging people into agony,”
Matsui warned in a “moving” peace
declarationdelivered
at a “somber”
ceremony in Japan on Monday.
Sharing
statements from hibakusha,
or those who survived the American bombing in 1945, the mayor
continued:
The hibakusha,
based on their intimate knowledge of the terror of nuclear weapons,
are ringing an alarm against the temptation to possess them. Year by
year, as hibakusha decrease
in number, listening to them grows ever more crucial.
One hibakusha who
was 20 says, “If nuclear weapons are used, every living thing will
be annihilated. Our beautiful Earth will be left in ruins. World
leaders should gather in the A-bombed cities, encounter our tragedy,
and, at a minimum, set a course toward freedom from nuclear weapons.
I want human beings to become good stewards of creation capable of
abolishing nuclear weapons.”
[…]
Another hibakusha who
was 20 makes this appeal: “I hope no such tragedy ever happens
again. We must never allow ours to fade into the forgotten past. I
hope from the bottom of my heart that humanity will apply our wisdom
to making our entire Earth peaceful.” If the human family forgets
history or stops confronting it, we could again commit a terrible
error. That is precisely why we must continue talking about
Hiroshima. Efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons must continue based
on intelligent actions by leaders around the world.
Nuclear
deterrence and nuclear umbrellas flaunt the destructive power of
nuclear weapons and seek to maintain international order by
generating fear in rival countries. This approach to guaranteeing
long-term security is inherently unstable and extremely dangerous.
World leaders must have this reality etched in their hearts as they
negotiate in good faith the elimination of nuclear arsenals, which is
a legal obligation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Furthermore (NNPT), they must strive to make the Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) a milestone along the path to a
nuclear-weapon-free world.
Matsui
also urged the Japanese government to join the historic United
Nations treaty
to ban nuclear weapons,
which was adopted by dozens of nations last year and earned
the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) a Nobel
Peace Prize. Replicas of the award and diploma are
on display at
the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum until Monday, and next will be
sent to Nagasaki, the city the U.S. bombed three days later.
ICAN
turned to Twitter on Monday to share Matsui’s words and urge all
nations to join the U.N. treaty:
Mayor Matsui spoke of the hopes of #Hibakusha (survivors) for a nuclear-free world & the importance of memory: “If the human family forgets history or stops confronting it, we could again commit a terrible error. That is precisely why we must continue talking about Hiroshima.”
This Peace Declaration paints a painfully vivid image of the devastation of a nuclear bomb, but also reminds us that there is reason for hope: the #nuclearban provides a path to a world free of nuclear weapons, and all nations must join the Treaty → http://www.nuclearban.org
Paul
Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs at
the U.S.-based group Peace Action, said in a statement,
“Besides paying respect and commemorating the lives lost in the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking the anniversaries
offers the world an opportunity to reflect on the threat still posed
by nuclear weapons, and more importantly, an opportunity to organize
for their reduction and elimination.”
“As
the only country to ever use nuclear weapons in war,” Martin
continued, “and as a signatory to the Nonproliferation Treaty, the
United States has both a moral and legal obligation to negotiate in
good faith with other nuclear-armed nations for the reduction and
elimination of the world’s nuclear arsenals, including our own.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is instead moving forward
with plans to spend $1.7 trillion adjusted for inflation on nuclear
weapons over the next three decades.”
Several
other activists and anti-nuclear organizations used social media on
Monday to remember the bombing and demand that every nation work
toward outlawing such weapons:
Right now as you read this, men like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin threaten every city on Earth with nuclear weapons that’d make Hiroshima look like a campfire — and one day, sooner or later, these weapons will be used. Unless we eliminate all of them. Everywhere. #globalzero
Meanwhile,
students at Fukuyama Technical High School in Japan have unveiled a
virtual reality experience that enables users to see Hiroshima on the
day of the bombing. Their hope is that the VR project will discourage
future use of nuclear weapons.
“Even
without language, once you see the images, you understand,” Mei
Okada, one of the students working on the
project, told the Associated
Press.
“That is definitely one of the merits of this VR experience.”
Got to meet these amazing Japanese students during my latest trip to Hiroshima that are using VR to recreate Hiroshima atomic bombing to share a message of peace. (from @AP) https://apnews.com/91622445eac44e4fa59335a9cee2bd62 …
Hier nog een artikel met video’s gisteren gepubliceerd op Brasscheck TV, hierin wordt onder meer gesteld dat andere bombardementen, zoals die op Tokio, meer slachtoffers eisten, echter de gevolgen voor de overlevende slachtoffers na de aanvallen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki, waren (en zijn) voor de overlevenden vreselijk en onvergelijkbaar:
THE
HIROSHIMA LIE
THE
REAL REASON JAPAN SURRENDERED
WHAT
HAPPENED AFTER THE WAR
On
this day in 1945, the US military under the direction of President
Truman dropped a nuclear bomb on a civilian target killing over
80,000 people instantly.
Was
the attack on Hiroshima a military necessity?
No
and here’s why.
Two
facts:
1.
In terms of death and destruction, the Hiroshima nuclear attack
wasn’t the biggest attack on a Japanese city. The conventional
fire bombing of Tokyo killed far more.
2.
The Russians were poised to mount a massive invasion.
The
Imperial Family agreed to surrender because they were advised that
while the Japanese military might be able to hold off an American
invasion, it could not withstand a combined US and Russian attack.
By
the way, what was Japan fighting for?
To
line the pockets of the Imperial Family, the richest family in Japan.
That’s it.
They
planned the war, they ordered the war, they profited from it and they
were willing to sacrifice the civilian population to carry out their
goals.
For
example, billions of dollars worth of stolen gold and valuable art
(much of it scouted out years in advance) was shipped directly to the
Imperial compound in Tokyo. None of it has been returned.
As
a condition for surrender, the Imperial Family was allowed to remain
in power unpunished and they remain in power today.
Can
you imagine what would have happened to those murderous, thieving
bastards if the Russians had gotten to them first?
But
as always, the US government was ready to make a “deal” – in
this case to have a base to fight Communism.
After
the war, the US government also protected – and hired – veterans
of Japan’s Unit 731.
You’ve
heard of Nazi medical atrocities, but the Japanese program was
exponentially larger and its crimes were largely covered up with the
help of the US government which wanted access to the data and the
practitioners.
* Terzijde: zonder de kabinetten Rutte hadden we er veel beter voor gestaan, minder werklozen, geen giga huurverhogingen…. Huurverhogingen die ervoor hebben gezorgd dat nu een groot aantal mensen bijna continu in de financiële problemen zitten, enz. enz. (vanmorgen werd nog bekend gemaakt dat het leven duurder is geworden, de grootste oorzaken: de huurverhogingen per 1 juli jl. en de prijsverhoging van fossiele brandstoffen….)
Het is vandaag 73 jaar geleden dat de VS de eerste atoombom testte op de inwoners van de Japanse stad Hiroshima en een paar dagen later op de stad Nagasaki……..
Volkomen onnodig zoals zelfs VS generaals hebben gesteld, Japan stond op het punt de overgave te tekenen…. Volgens de VS wilden de Japanners als voorwaarde dat de keizer niet gestraft zou worden en kon aanblijven als keizer, iets waar de VS niet mee akkoord wilde gaan, althans niet voor het afwerpen van de 2 atoombommen, daarna was het plotsklaps geen punt meer voor de VS……..
73 jaar lang vreselijke fysieke en geestelijke ellende voor de laatste overlevenden van deze vreselijke massamoord…….
ZeroHedge
bracht gisteren (donderdag 26 juli) een artikel waarin het nieuws dat
er radioactieve straling afkomstig uit de rampencentrales van
Fukushima is terug gevonden in Californische wijn……
Overheden
en media hebben willens en wetens verzwegen dat de enorme
radioactieve vervuiling door de Fukushima kernramp in 2011, een flink deel van de landen aan de Stille Oceaan heeft bereikt en nog zal bereiken, nog steeds stromen er bij
tijd en wijle grote hoeveelheden radioactief water in zee……
Voorts is er besmetting via de lucht (radioactieve stoom enz…) en
zal er via verdamping van radioactief zeewater ook weer radioactiviteit in de
atmosfeer terechtkomen….
De
autoriteiten in de VS bagatelliseerden al van meet af aan de gevolgen
van de kernramp in het Japanse Fukushima en eerdere gemeten radioactiviteit zou
(zoals gewoonlijk) geen gevaar vormen voor de volksgezondheid, een
leugen van formaat zoals je begrijpt….. Ach ja, de kernenergie maffia heeft een uitermate sterke lobby en dat bepaald niet alleen in de VS of Japan…… Zelfs de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) stelt dat de gevonden hoeveelheid radioactieve straling geen gevaar is voor de volksgezondheid……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ik moet zeggen dat het me nog meevalt geen pleidooi voor kernenergie te horen van de WHO……..
Over Japan gesproken, daar is het helemaal bal, men is bezig om mensen weer in de
buurt van de rampencentrale van Fukushima te (her)huisvesten, een enorm
onverantwoordelijk beleid en dat alleen om aan te tonen, dat
radioactieve straling weinig kwaad kan….. Het kan zo weinig kwaad, dat relatief kort na de Fukushima ramp aan de westkust van Canada stralingszieke vis werd gevangen, letterlijk doodzieke vis…..
Op andere plekken in westelijk Canada werd na de ramp in Fukushima een toename van 300% in radioactieve straling gemeten…… Je raadt het al: geen gevaar voor de volksgezondheid….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Deze metingen werden verzwegen door de reguliere, zogenaamd onafhankelijke media, niet vreemd als je bedenkt dat de regeringen van de VS en Canada liever geen onrust stokerij zien over deze (en andere) kernrampen…… Overigens geldt dit ook voor de andere reguliere westerse media (en ik neem aan voor het grootste deel van de wereldwijde massamedia…..)…
Controle op wat er gebeurt in die kerncentrale van Fukushima is er niet, mensen die kritisch zijn op kernenergie worden niet getolereerd in de buurt van de centrale, noch op land, noch op zee…..
Fukushima
Radiation Was Just Discovered in California Wine
(ZHE) Following
the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan —
which left Japanese residents contending with toxic water
and radioactive
wild boars, World
Health Organization (WHO) officials said that particles of
radioactive fallout which made its way to the Western United States
and elsewhere was no biggie and didn’t pose a health risk.
California
wine lovers will get to test that theory, after researchers at the
French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) discovered
cesium-137 in several golden-state vintages. The
researchers tested 18 bottles of California rosé and cabernet
sauvignon from 2009 onward — finding increased levels of the
radioactive isotope in bottles produced after the Fukushima disaster.
The cabernets had double the radiation of the other wine, according
to the study.
“We
can measure some radioactive level that is much higher than the usual
level,” said Michael Pravikoff, a physicist at a French
research center who worked on the study.
“The
French research team has in recent years examined wines from around
the world, trying to correlate the level of radioactive material with
the date the wine grapes were picked.
“Wines
made around major nuclear events, including American and Soviet
nuclear tests during the Cold War and the Chernobyl accident, should
show higher levels of radioactive isotopes, called cesium-137,
according to the researchers. The man-made isotope cannot be
found in nature and would be present only at certain levels after the
nuclear events.” –NYT
While
ingesting cesium-137 elevates one’s risk of cancer, the
radioactive particles found in California wine “are not seen as a
health hazard” according to Pravikoff, who said: “These
levels are so low, way below the natural radioactivity that’s
everywhere in the world.”
“The
California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said Friday that it had not
previously heard of the study, but that there were no ‘health and
safety concerns to California residents.’
“’This
report does not change that,’ a department spokesman, Corey Egel,
said in an emailed statement.
“Mr.
Pravikoff said the California bottles had radioactive levels so low
that the researchers had to use a special technique to measure them:
burning the wine to ashes.
“In
other cases, where radiation is higher, the team’s equipment can
measure the radiation through the glass of the wine bottle, so the
bottle does not have to be opened.” –NYT
In
2016, AP reported
that “Radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster detected
on Oregon shores,” however officials claimed that the samples from
Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach were “at extremely low levels not
harmful to humans.”
That
said, as Whitney Webb of TrueActivist noted
at the time, Even if we can’t see the radiation itself, some
parts of North America’s western coast have been feeling the
effects for years. Not long after Fukushima, fish in
Canada began
bleeding from
their gills, mouths, and eyeballs. This “disease” has been
ignored by the government and has decimated native fish populations,
including the North Pacific herring. Elsewhere in Western Canada,
independent scientists have measured a 300%
increase in
the level of radiation. According to them, the amount of radiation in
the Pacific Ocean is increasing every year. Why is this being ignored
by the mainstream media? It might have something to do with the
fact that the US and Canadian governments have banned
their citizens from talking
about Fukushima so
“people don’t panic.”
Also
in 2016, Japanese officials admitted there was a cover-up,
and there was a concerted effort to downplay the significance of the
reactor meltdowns.
Multiple
reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant melted down after
50-foot a tsunami wave crashed through barriers and knocked out the
reactors’ backup generators. The disaster spewed radioactive
fallout into the air and water – sickening the crew of the
nearby USS
Ronald Reagan as
they provided support.
And
while the sailors were undoubtedly exposed to concentrated doses of
radioactive isotopes that are nowhere near the levels which have been
found along the West Coast – and now in California wine, it is
premature – and perhaps highly irresponsible, for officials to
claim that such small doses will have no effect, as radiation
exposure is cumulative and the Fukushima disaster was an
unprecedented event due to its massive release of
radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean.
Ongelofelijk maar waar: zonder dat het overgrote deel van de EU bevolking (inclusief mijzelf) het doorhad, heeft de EU onderhandeld met Japan over een vrijhandelsverdrag, dat gisteren werd getekend……. De politiek heeft deze onderhandelingen verborgen gehouden, onderhandelingen over een verdrag dat als TTIP en CETA zijn nu eenmaal niet het belang van het EU volk, maar van de grote bedrijven…….. Zelfs databescherming wordt met dit verdrag het kind van de rekening……
Blijkbaar was men bang voor nieuwe protesten. Gistermiddag hoorde ik op WDR voor het eerst over JAFTA, waarmee zelfs Japanse bedrijven hier waterbedrijven kunnen overnemen….. Dat laatste wordt door de EU ontkend, terwijl dezelfde EU stelt dat ook geprivatiseerde waterbedrijven zich aan de wet moeten houden……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Kortom Japanse bedrijven kunnen straks wel degelijk waterbedrijven overnemen!
Wat betreft het zich aan de wet houden: geprivatiseerde bedrijven als waterbedrijven geven alleen het hoogstnodige uit aan onderhoud van bijvoorbeeld de zuiveringsinstallaties en het leidingsstelsel, zoals we in diverse buitenlanden kunnen zien…… Bovendien kunnen deze bedrijven de waterprijs fiks opdrijven, zoals deze schoften zelfs in arme landen durven te doen, waar mensen die het geld niet hebben hun water weer uit gevaarlijke bron halen, dit met alle gevolgen voor de volksgezondheid en een stijging van kindersterfte in het bijzonder……
Met JAFTA krijgen bedrijven als met TTIP en CETA, macht over soevereine staten, waar ze wetten die het hun onmogelijk maken zaken te doen in EU lidstaten, door een geheime rechtbank (Investeerder-staatsarbitrage >> ISDS) teniet kunnen laten doen…… Let wel: het gaat hier o.a. om het beschermen van voedsel en water tegen bijvoorbeeld gifstoffen….. EU boeren mogen nog maar mondjesmaat gif gebruiken op hun gewassen, echter die regels gelden niet voor groente en fruit van buiten de EU…… Je zou de mensen de kost moeten geven, die niet op de hoogte zijn van de regels aangaande het voornoemde gebruik van gif…..* Je had al begrepen dat straks de slappe regelgeving in Japan ook hier haar intrede zal doen, regelgeving die o.a. onze voedselveiligheid zou moeten waarborgen…..
Kortom: ons is alweer een reuzen oor aangenaaid door het ondemocratische EU-instituut…..
Nexit, zo snel mogelijk! Terug naar de eerdere EEG, even effectief en veel meer in het belang van de burgers. Niets staat een douane unie in zo’n EEG 2.0 in de weg! De invoering van de euro is dan ook vooral gedaan om een uiteenvallen van de EU te voorkomen >> nog zo’n aangenaaid ‘reuzen oor….’
* Buiten de EU zijn veel boeren/tuinders uit de EU te vinden, daar gebruiken zij het gebrek aan regelgeving, neem rozen en bonen uit Afrikaanse landen als Kenia en Egypte….. Nog een voordeel: je mag arbeiders daar ‘gewoon’ uitbuiten en mensen van hun land gooien, na de autoriteiten te hebben omgekocht…..
Het Vierde Rijk timmert onder Trump nog harder aan de fascistische weg dan onder Obama en Bush….. E.e.a. blijkt bijvoorbeeld uit de barbaarse omgang met vluchtelingen, waar men zelfs kinderen van hun ouders afnam en deze samen met jongeren die op eigen gelegenheid dan wel onder begeleiding van een volwassene (veelal familie) opsloot in ‘jongerencentra’, ofwel gevangenissen die het best te vergelijken zijn met concentratiekampen (een uitvinding van de Britten)……
Bij concentratiekampen denkt men meteen aan de doodskampen van nazi-Duitsland, echter concentratiekampen werden al veel eerder gebruikt door westerse regeringen en zijn zoals gezegd een Britse uitvinding uit de 19de eeuw……. Door WOII spreekt men liever niet meer over concentratiekampen, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat ze niet meer bestaan, zo bewijst o.a. de VS weer……
Concentratiekampen in de VS zijn niets nieuws, zo sloot men tijdens WOII VS burgers van Japanse en Duitse afkomst op in concentratiekampen, iets waar Trump over zei dat hij zich wat betreft de Japanners wel voor kon stellen iets dergelijks te hebben gedaan, ‘oorlogen zijn nu eenmaal hard….’ (waar hem, zo te zien in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, niet de VS burgers van Duitse komaf werden voorgelegd als voorbeeld, deze komen in het artikel niet eens ter sprake)
Echter met de vinger naar Trump wijzen doet ons vergeten dat bijvoorbeeld Obama 3 miljoen immigranten
deporteerde… (hiervoor kreeg hij de naam: ‘deporter in chief’) Al onder Clinton werden de eerste aanzetten gedaan tot het beleid zoals we dat de laatste jaren hebben gezien…
Kinderen zullen niet meer worden afgenomen van ouders, zo sprak het beest Trump, maar verder verandert er weinig, de concentratiekampen blijven bestaan voor kinderen van wie de ouders niet in de VS zijn……. Zoals het zich laat aanzien krijgen deze kinderen geen rechtsbijstand en blijven ze opgesloten in wat concentratiekampen zijn…… De families die de VS binnenkomen en die worden gepakt, worden in het geheel opgesloten, inclusief peuters en baby’s…… Niet dat ze misdaden hebben begaan, maar omdat ze ‘illegaal’ het land zijn binnengekomen….. (hoe kan je als mens in godsnaam illegaal zijn op onze kleine aarde???)
In het volgende artikel van Elliot Gabriel wijst deze op de VS invloed in Mexico tijdens de 80er
en 90er jaren >> via de Wereldhandelsorganisatie (WTO) heeft de VS in feite de arbeidersbevolking aan de
bedelstaf gebracht……… Ook verdragen als NAFTA bracht het arme deel van bevolkingen in Midden- (en Zuid-) Amerika vooral veel financiële ellende, ellende waardoor velen uiteindelijk zelfs hun land ontvluchtten richting VS….
Het meest smerige is wel dat Trump, plus een groot deel van de republikeinen en democraten durven te zeggen dat de migranten VS burgers hun banen afnemen…… Terwijl nu juist de grote bedrijven hun fabrieken verplaatsten naar landen in Azië en Midden-Amerika (m.n. naar Mexico) en zij daarmee de verantwoordelijken zijn voor de grote werkloosheid onder het arme deel van de VS bevolking……
Arme mensen die nu bespeeld worden door fascisten als Trump met leugens die hen moeten opzetten tegen migranten, die godbetert maar al te vaak vluchten voor door de VS aangerichte ellende in hun thuisland (neem de totaal mislukte ‘War on Drugs’ die in Mexico bijkans een oorlog van de drugsmaffia tegen de bevolking heeft veroorzaakt….. Mensen die dat geweld ontvluchten zijn niet langer welkom, zo liet opperschoft Sessions afgelopen week weten*)
Trump gaat zover met zijn angst en haatzaaierij, dat hij migranten beesten noemt die de VS komen ruïneren…… Hitler en Goebbels zouden trots zijn geweest op zo’n ijverige leerling……..
Yes,
US Immigration Prisons Are Absolutely ‘Concentration Camps’
(MPN) —
The ongoing furor over a drastic increase in the mass confinement of
migrant families and children has forced people in the United States
to cast a hard look at the immigration enforcement regime that has
aggressively developed in recent years.
The
discussion is increasingly recasting immigrant detention centers as
U.S. concentration camps. This has brought questions
of justice, human and civil rights back into focus — in contrast to
the Trump administration’s narrow reliance on the question of
law-and-order.
Prisons
for detained migrants conform to the basic, literal meaning of a
concentration camp: these are security enclosures where masses of
people from a targeted community are isolated from the general
population and subject to confinement, usually for political
purposes. Deprived of liberty, legal protections, or medical care,
those incarcerated in such camps see their lives reduced to a basic
biological existence.
Sexual
abuse, physical punishment, psychological trauma and even the forced
injection of children with
drugs are the daily reality for those captured at the border by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection officers or abducted from their homes
and workplaces by the Department of Homeland Security – Immigration
and Customs Enforcement, or DHS-ICE.
While
the term concentrationcamp is often
dismissed as extreme or exaggerated given its connotation of
Nazi Konzentrationslager like Auschwitz or Dachau —
which could more accurately be called death camps or forced
enslavement camps — concentration camps were widely used
by Western governments throughout the early 20th century as a
means to cope with insurgent populations in the colonies and waves of
migrants fleeing war in Europe.
Now,
in the 21st century, the U.S. immigrant enforcement regime has
assumed monstrous proportions. The country is being progressively
enveloped in a steel-clad mesh of stringent bureaucracy and inhumane
facilities devoted to legalized violence toward immigrants —
naturally, this has come in the name of security, sovereignty, and
enforcing the law.
Euphemisms,
Lies, and Mass Confinement
Like
the fig-leaf covering Adam and Eve’s genitals in Renaissance
paintings, a euphemism is a word or phrase meant to hide the true
nature of something considered embarrassing or offensive. Euphemisms
are common in our social interactions: We’re sleeping together; I’m
visiting the water closet; he passed away; we’re downsizing the
staff.
For
politicians, euphemisms are the bread and butter of “talking-points”
(propaganda) and serve to shield the state from public scrutiny and
criticism. Authorities will describe repressive police state measures
as necessary to public
safety, while
the elimination of public services is called balancing
the budget. Likewise, militaries
will refer to a blatantly imperialist war as a “humanitarian
intervention,” while
an indiscriminate bombing campaign and
capture of enemy-held territory is an act of “liberation.”
In
the world of criminal justice, solitary confinement and total
isolation from human contact — a form of torture – takes place in
the Security Housing Unit (SHU), a phrase that almost sounds like a
type of condominium apartment.
Immigration-related
U.S. concentration camps come in different varieties, each with its
own preferred euphemisms: there are detention
centers for
adults,childcare
facilities for
young children ripped from their families; and for those incarcerated
migrant adults (usually women) fortunate enough to remain with their
children, there areFamily
Residential Centers –
a cheerful term that makes it sound as if families are having a
therapeutic retreat at Club Med rather than facing incarceration.
The
Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, provides a good
example of the concentration camps operated by the commercial prison
corporation, GEO Group. Immigrant detainees who went on hunger strike
last year describe the facility as riddled with filthy, exploitative
and abusive conditions. Incarcerated migrants are given cheap,
poor-quality food while being forced to wear soiled underwear.
Medical care access is restricted and often administered by
unqualified prison guards themselves; it’s not uncommon that
prisoners die from treatable diseases like staph infection,
pneumonia, or diabetes.
Those
confined to such camps “temporarily” spend much of their time
with no light at the end of the tunnel, as immigration court
proceedings face repeated delays without explanation. Forced to
languish in horrendous conditions for an indefinite period, prisoners
inevitably fall into a state of deep despondency that sometimes leads
to suicide. In other cases, prisoners who wage hunger strikes face
punitive detention and physical abuse. Prisoners are also expected to
take part in manual labor tasks, where they are paid $1 per hour to
take care of the upkeep of the facilities, drawing comparisons to
enslaved prison labor.
At
“childcare facilities,” young children ripped from their
families’ arms are kenneled in wire-cage compounds or encamped in
overcrowded former Wal-Marts where they are subject to 22-hour
lockdown and given only two hours of fresh air — effectively
amounting to conditions of punitive incarceration for children as
young as seven years old.
Even
toddlers under the age of five have been placed in
three so-called “tender
age shelters” located in Texas, with a fourth compound planned for
Houston at a former warehouse slated to be re-purposed into a
“permanent unaccompanied alien children program facility. ”During
the Second World War, the government vocabulary was riddled
with similarly clean, bureaucratic euphemisms that obscured the
persecution of a community seen as a hostile and inherently “alien”
minority: Japanese immigrants and Japanese-descended citizens of the
U.S.
The
Wartime Precedent: Japanese-American Incarceration
On
February 19, 1942, long-seething anti-Asian racism and the Imperial
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor culminated in the signing of
Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The order
gave xenophobia the seal of approval as official state policy and
decreed the “evacuation” or forced removal of 120,000 U.S.
residents of Japanese ancestry from their homes. Over two-thirds of
those impacted were U.S. citizens, including children.
The
mass incarceration of Japanese-descended families was justified on
the basis of a fear of sabotage by a yet-to-be-exposed “fifth
column,” as well as claims by military authorities that Justice
Department investigations were unable to keep pace with wartime
national-security needs. However, Depression-era white farmers also
saw Japanese Americans as a threat to their economic interests and
had clamored for stripping citizenship from the “Japs.”
apanese
immigrants and Japanese Americans were detained and placed in
assembly centers (temporary detention centers) and relocation
centers, which were at the time depicted as akin to “summer camps.”
In reality, these were concentration camps in the middle of harsh
desert climates, which were surrounded by guard towers and
barbed-wire fences, where Japanese-descended prisoners were overseen
and routinely abused by U.S. Army personnel equipped with machine
guns and even tanks.
By
January 2, 1945, the camps were closed; not a single incarcerated
Japanese had been successfully prosecuted as a spy or agent of the
Japanese government. Yet thousands of
Japanese
Americans incarcerated at the notorious Tule Lake Segregation Center
in California had already been coerced into renouncing their U.S.
citizenship, and were subsequently deported en masse back
to a Japan that was shattered by war.
Descendants
of incarcerated Japanese citizens and immigrants have struggled hard
in recent years to ensure that wartime mass-confinement is described
in terms that accurately reflect the unjust nature of their
experience. In 2013, the Japanese American Community League responded
to criticism over the use of the term “concentration camp,”
stating:
Misleading
government euphemisms like relocation camp, assembly center,
and internment camp should no longer be an insurmountable
obstacle to understanding. Ridiculous notions that we were being
protected or pampered will diminish.
Honest
terms like American concentration camp, incarceration camp,
illegal detention center, forced removal, and others, can now
truthfully tell a story: How the government used language to cover up
the denial of constitutional rights, the racism, forced removal,
incarceration, and oppressive conditions directed against 120,000
innocent people of Japanese ancestry.”
By
2015, Republican then-candidate Donald Trump began floating the idea
of a database of Muslim Americans to prevent, “until we are able to
determine and understand,” the alleged threat of “horrendous
attacks by people that believe only in Jihad.”
When
asked if he would have supported the wartime incarceration of
Japanese Americans, the former reality-TV star answered that it may
have been an option he would have favored. He also suggested that the
concentration camps may have played a role in the U.S. victory over
Japan. Trump explained:
I
would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a
proper answer … It’s a tough thing. It’s tough.. But you
know war is tough. And winning is tough. We don’t win anymore. We
don’t win wars anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We’re not a
strong country anymore. We’re just so off.”
‘90s
Roots: White “Nativist” Anxiety and the Neoliberal Offensive
Aside
from the deeply racist, white-supremacist roots of the United States
as a whole, Trump-style xenophobia and anti-immigrant racism became a
major phenomenon in the 1990s, when mass-media outlets and right-wing
politicians filled Americans’ heads with lurid tales of the threat
posed by brown-skinned foreigners. War and terrorism in the Middle
East flooded headlines as the Gulf War in Iraq and resistance to
Israel in Palestine and Lebanon raged.
Meanwhile,
at the southern U.S. border, tens of thousands of Mexican migrants
poured through as a result of the desperate conditions and economic
chaos unleashed by the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994
and previous neoliberal policies foisted on pliant Mexican
governments by the World Trade Organization (WTO). NAFTA led to a
major influx of investment in Mexico by Canadian and U.S.-based
multinationals, yet the net effect was the plundering of the
country’s resources and wealth, the devastation of its agricultural
sector and rural regions, and a huge uptick in unemployment and
poverty in the country.
As
scholar Richard D. Vogel wrote in his 2007
meticulously-researched essay, Transient
Servitude:
U.S.
financial and political intervention in the national life of Mexico
during the 1980s and 1990s, often carried out through the WTO, has
pauperized the Mexican working class. It is they who have had to
suffer the brunt of the mandatory austerity programs, strict debt
restructuring, and privatization initiatives that were imposed on
Mexico in the 1980s after the credit binge of the Mexican bourgeoisie
during the previous decade. The result of this foreign intervention
has been widespread unemployment and displacement from the land that
has produced onerous hardship and sparked internal migration from the
interior of Mexico to the industrialized border region and to the
United States.”
Unauthorized
migration from Mexico became a driving force for nativist resentment
and racism among white workers, resulting in a push for
anti-immigrant laws like California’s Proposition 187 ballot
initiative in 1994. White workers found convenient scapegoats in the
Mexican undocumented workforce, despite the fact that it was U.S.
capitalism as a whole that had undercut their jobs and living
standards through the search for cheap labor in Mexico and other
offshore locations.
The
U.S. responded to the nativist clamor by militarizing the U.S. border
— resulting in the deaths of thousands of border-crossers who died
in the harsh frontier climate — and by conducting showy Border
Patrol operations and raids such as 1993’s Hold the Line in
San Diego and 1995’s Operation Gatekeeper in El
Paso, which did little to stem the flow of migrants.
However,
the generally lax open border policy provided employers and
corporations with access to a huge pool of cheap labor to tap into,
handsomely benefiting a then-booming U.S. economy. By 2005, about 12
million undocumented migrants — over half of whom were Mexican —
resided in the United States.
The
2006 implementation of the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA, now CAFTA-DR) had a similarly negative impact on development
in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, and Nicaragua, whose governments each signed. Rural
migrants were displaced and found no employment in cities, fueling
the growth of organized crime and acting as a sharp push factor for
migration to Mexico and the United States.
Subsequent
administrations’ security agreements with right-wing governments
and imperialist meddling — such as the Obama-Clinton State
Department’s success in overthrowing left-populist Honduran
President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009 — further exacerbated the
instability and misery plaguing Central America, creating
an inexorable
current that
continues to tens of thousands of desperate migrants to the doorstep
of the southern U.S. border in their life-or-death bid for asylum.
“Fortress
America” and the Bipartisan Construction of DHS-ICE
The
double standards inherent in U.S. partisan politics have led some to
believe that concentration camps were reintroduced on such a broad
scale under Trump, when in fact the mass confinement of
asylum-seekers and non-citizens was a daily reality under the
administrations of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who both
oversaw the expansion of the sprawling DHS machinery.
Indeed,
ever since the Clinton administration’s 1996 Immigration Act, minor
misdemeanor convictions are enough reason for even legal permanent
residents to be deported.
This
history is often ignored by liberal critics of the Trump regime,
owing in no small part to his absolute disregard for the
multicultural sensitivities of his predecessors who built the
immigration enforcement apparatus. The president has no qualms about
resorting to blatantly dehumanizing rhetoric when describing whole
categories of asylum-seekers as “animals” that are “infesting”
the United States, drawing comparisons between the right-wing U.S.
leader’s political ideology and that of Nazi Germany.
Yet
Trump is merely picking up the baton that was passed to him, albeit
with a relish that appears to be both calculating and visceral.
After
September 11, 2001, the U.S. was pushed over the brink by hysteria
over the fear of another spectacular terrorist attack. Muslim
Americans and immigrant communities from Asia, Africa and the Middle
East became the target not only of racist attacks on the streets, but
also of anti-terrorism bills like the USA PATRIOT Act. The act
significantly widened the ability of immigration agents to conduct
mass-detention sweeps of terrorism suspects, while allowing for the
mandatory detention of non-citizens suspected of terrorism for up to
48 hours after arrest.
In
2003, the PATRIOT Act was followed by the establishment of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which consisted of three
separate bureaus: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs
and Border Protection (CBP), and Citizen and Immigration Services
(CIS). ICE began to extend its facilities, field offices and subfield
offices across the country.
In
June, 2003, ICE introduced its 10-year strategic enforcement plan,
Operation ENDGAME. The plan called
for information
sharing across government agencies while also explicitly calling for
the forcible removal of the entire unauthorized migrant population of
12 million people from the United States by 2014. In a memorandum
describing the program, ICE Office of Detention and Removal
Operations (DRO) director Anthony Tangemann stated:
DRO
provides the endgame to immigration enforcement and that is the
removal of all removable aliens. This is also the essence of our
mission statement and the ‘golden measure’ to our successes …
We must strive for 100% removal rate.”
Obviously,
the plan was never fulfilled, yet the Obama administration stubbornly
pushed forward in the fortification of ICE as a highly-funded,
fully-staffed and largely unaccountable organization with facilities
and contracted privately-operated concentration camps dotting the
entire country.
While
supporters of Obama will quickly point to his 2013 granting of
temporary relief to non-prioritized unauthorized migrant youth, in
the form of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),
immigration-rights advocates will be just as quick to point to his
introduction of Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify
and Remove Criminal Aliens (SCOMM).
SCOMM,
which was guided by the goals stipulated in Operation Endgame,
cleared the way for ICE to deport hundreds of thousands of
unauthorized migrants through biometric data-sharing between federal
immigration authorities and thousands of local jails — leading to
the deportation of people convicted of minor crimes such as driving
under the influence or the possession of small amounts of drugs.
SCOMM
was eventually phased out by Obama owing to public pressure, only to
be revived by
the Trump administration. Obama’s campaign promises to reform the
U.S. immigration enforcement regime were never fulfilled and instead,
around three million were deported on his watch – earning the
former president the ignominious title “Deporter-In-Chief.”
The
Danger of Ignoring Homeland Security State Cruelty
Amid
the exponential growth of the federal government’s need for jails,
encampments, and kennels for migrant families, immigration-related
concentration camps are increasingly being normalized by an unashamed
Republican Party with Trump as its capo and ideological lodestar.
Even mainstream news hosts like Laura Ingraham of FOX News have
audaciously described incarceration facilities for children as
“essentially summer camps.”
And
on Wednesday — lost in the fanfare of his apparent
family-separation feint — Trump issued an executive order extending
the ability of ICE to incarcerate unauthorized migrants from 20 days
to an indefinite period.
The
United States government has long maintained the largest and most
technologically advanced system of mass confinement in human history.
Over time, a growing component of this system has consisted of new
migrant concentration camp.
It’s
about time that we recognize what led the U.S. to this point and
where that path may lead. Even the most superficial reading of
history reveals how in times of crisis, legal rights taken for
granted as permanent or foundational vanish like a puff of smoke when
security threats and a push to restore “law and order” casts a
dragnet into civilian populations.
In
1973, constitutional scholar Alexander Bickel offered a prescient
criticism of the concept of “citizenship as the tie that binds the
individual to government and [serves] as the source of his rights,”
noting that the right to citizenship can easily be revoked at the
will of the state:
A
relationship between government and the governed that turns on
citizenship can always be dissolved or denied … No matter what
safeguards it may be equipped with, it is at best something that was
given, and given to some and not to others, and it can be taken away.
It has always been easier, it always will be easier, to think of
someone as a noncitizen than to decide that he is a nonperson.”
As
history teaches us, threats to the nation — both external or
internal — can suddenly or gradually change. Today’s
flash-in-the-pan monster at our door might be migrant “animals”
from Latin America, but tomorrow it may take the form of anyone
or any group who threatens or disrupts social order — be
it a religious group, a national minority, the swelling homeless
population, the politically non-compliant or any other class of
people criminalized by a government that exclusively caters to the
needs of capital.
Disoriented
by sensationalist propaganda presented as objective news or informed
commentary, U.S. citizens gripped by anxiety and fear eagerly cheer
on the promise of misery for the “alien” as a means to ensure
fortune and safety for the “native.” Blinded by the false pride
found in white supremacy and the nostalgic idyll peddled by Trump and
his cohort, “conservatives” applaud as new walls, “residential
centers” and open-air penitentiaries for “illegals” are
constructed in their hometowns.
Trapped
in a daze of patriotic fervor, supporters of the punitive immigrant
policy regime under Trump remain oblivious to the consequences of
their faith in state violence guided by policies of official bigotry.
And
as for the rest of us, wringing our hands and expressing outrage
alone will get us nowhere in terms of preventing systematic cruelty
and state terror. Instead, we should continue to develop a serious
analysis of the overall situation and organize to defend our basic
rights before the windows of opportunity are bolted shut.
Hier nog een video van Brasscheck TV met dezelfde strekking:
CONCENTRATION
CAMPS FOR CHILDREN IN THE US
SOME
SIMPLE FACTS YOU ARE NOT BEING TOLD
THIS
IS A BUSINESS OPERATION
Seeking
asylum in the US is not a crime. It’s an administrative process.
After the hearings, the US can always no to the application.
There’s
absolutely no legal basis to take the children of asylum seekers
from their parents.
People
who cross the border illegally and are found not to have criminal
records used to be returned to the border they crossed. Now they are
being jailed for six months – at taxpayer expense – and having
their children taken from them.
The
revenues for these interments are going to the shareholders of
PRIVATELY owned prisons.
Privately
owned Prison companies like GEO and CoreCivic donated nearly
$500,000 to support Trump’s election campaign and underwrite his
inauguration.
The
Trump administration has no procedure in place for reuniting
children with the parents they have been taken from.
7.
The government will not disclose where the children they have seized
are being held. Nor will they allow Congressman or the news media to
enter these facilities.
Gisteren ontving ik een petitie van Alex B., lid van het Care2 Petiton Team, een petitie tegen de komende slachting die Japan wil uitvoeren op walvissen, e.e.a. ook naar aanleiding van World Oceans Week (WOW), die dit jaar van 4 tot 12 juni duurt.
Japan voert deze jaarlijkse slachting uit onder het mom van wetenschappelijk onderzoek, terwijl dit wetenschappelijk bewezen kul is, voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek op walvissen hoef je deze mooie en intelligente dieren niet te vermoorden……
Vorig jaar vermoordde Japan maar liefst 120 zwangere Antarctische dwergvinvissen, van de in totaal 333 vermoordde dwergvinvissen…….. Van de honderden walvissen die Japan vorig jaar vermoordde, waren er meer dan 180 van het vrouwelijk geslacht en 70% van hen was zwanger….. (het is maar zeer de vraag of deze cijfers kloppen, immers ze worden aangevoerd door Japan…)
Sea Shepherd, de organisatie die zich jarenlang actief verzette tegen de Japanse slachtingen, heeft vorig jaar de handdoek in de ring gegooid, daar de Japanse walvisvloot met militaire zaken de boel zo had versterkt en beveiligd dat Sea Shepherd niets meer kan uitrichten.
Die aanpassingen zijn door de Japanse overheid gesubsidieerd, zoals ook de hele walvisjacht wordt gesubsidieerd door de Japanse overheid. De consumptie van walvisvlees is sterk teruggelopen in Japan, waardoor de diepvriespakhuizen voor walvisvlees volkomen uit hun voegen barsten……..
De hoogste tijd dat de Japanse regering internationaal aan de paal wordt genageld voor de barbarij……
Boycot Japanse producten en onderneem geen vakanties naar dat land!
Hier de tekst van het Care2 team en de links naar de petitie, lees en teken de petitie ajb en geeft het door!
Action
for World Oceans Week: Stop the Summer Whale Slaughter
Last
year, the government of Japan harpooned 333 Antarctic minke whales to
death. 120
of these whales were expecting mothers.
The
Japanese government conducts this annual whale hunt every summer in
the name of scientific research. But non-lethal surveys have been
shown to be just as effective for “biological sampling.” In
reality, many of the whales are ending up at the dinner table.
Japan
plans to slaughter at least 4,000 whales over the next decade. But
according to a 2014 ruling by the International Court of Justice,
Japan is breaking the law by continuing their Antarctic whaling
program.
Imagine
this, you are out in the ocean, swimming along with your friends and
family. The sky is blue, the water is the perfect temperature. Life
couldn’t be better. Then
all of a sudden a grenade-tipped harpoon plows into your chest.. It
explodes. Your friends look on in horror as you are dragged to your
death by a whaling ship.
This
is what happens hundreds of times a year all thanks to the horrific
Japanese whaling industry.The
country is one of only a handful of nations that continues to harvest
the cetaceans. Officials defend the practice in the name of science.
They say the whales are harvested in order to conduct “biological
sampling.” However, according to many experts, non-lethal
surveys have been shown to be just as fruitful.
Science
though is only an excuse, in reality, the 333 minke Antarctic whales
that were killedlast
year likely ended up at the dinner table.
Of
the hundreds of whales that were taken in 2017 more than 180 of those
were female and of those, nearly 70% were pregnant making the hunt
even more tragic.
If
the world cannot convince Japan to abandon its whaling program the
bloodshed will continue since the country says they intend to kill at
least 4000 whales over the next decade.
According
to a 2014 ruling by the International Court of Justice, Japan is
breaking the law by continuing their Antarctic whaling
program.Countries
like Australia and animal rights organizations around the world have
urged Japan to stop to no avail. But we can’t give up. Each and every
one of our signatures let Japan know that we are against this
horrible practice. Together, by speaking up, we can send a strong
message.
Please
sign the petition and urge Japan to end their whaling program and
stop this barbaric hunt.
Beste bezoeker, je had het al begrepen, de kop klopt niet helemaal, Haspel heeft (waarschijnlijk) niet zelf mensen gemarteld, maar e.e.a. gebeurde onder haar verantwoordelijkheid, zij was o.a. directeur van een geheime CIA gevangenis in Thailand….. Deze helleveeg staat op het punt officieel benoemd te worden tot chef CIA en dat geeft nogal wat deining binnen en buiten de VS….. (Haspel vervult deze functie al vanaf 26 april jl.)
Beetje vreemd wel, immers het is bekend dat de CIA haar gewillige geheime diensten in het buitenland traint hoe het best te martelen, ofwel de CIA onderwijst martelmethoden……
Gistermiddag op Radio Nova Scotia* ex-CIA chef en oud-generaal Michael Hayden over de aanstelling van Haspel.(na 13.30 CET).
Voordat Hayden aan het woord kwam, was CIA ‘klokkenluider’ John Kiriakou aan het woord, hij mocht relatief kort zijn mening laten horen over Haspel. Kiriakou was overigens de eerste die openbaar maakte dat de CIA mensen martelde middels waterboarding…………
Onder Bush noemde men deze vorm van marteling (en nog wat smerige andere martelingen) ‘enhanced interrogation’ (vrij vertaald: versterkte ondervraging). Uitermate vreemd aldus Kiriakou daar de VS in 1946 nog Japanners ter dood heeft veroordeeld en geëxecuteerd voor het martelen van VS militairen juist middels dit ‘waterboarding……’ Uiteraard stelde Kiriakou dat oorlogsmisdadiger Haspel, met haar smerige verleden, nooit chef van de CIA zou mogen worden….. (ach, de hele CIA zou als misdadige terreurorganisatie internationaal moeten worden vervolgd…..)
Snel werd Kiriakou daarna afgekapt en schakelde men over naar Hayden, die uiteraard geen goed woord overhad voor Kiriakou (“John had troubles with the law….”), maar niet op bijvoorbeeld de door Kiraikou genoemde executies inging…….
Volgens Hayden was alles volgens de wet en is Haspel juist de aangewezen persoon om chef van de CIA te worden, de enorme schoft durfde zelfs te stellen dat de smerige helleveeg Haspel zelfs tegen Trump in zal gaan als deze de CIA zou gebieden gevangenen te martelen……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ook als alles volgens de wet gaat heb je je te houden aan internationale regels die marteling verbieden en ben je ten allen tijde verantwoordelijk als je dit wel doet, ook al is het in opdracht…… Bovendien als alles wettig was, waarom heeft Haspel dan aantoonbaar geprobeerd alle dossiers over martelen te vernietigen???
Overigens heeft Trump al kort na zijn aantreden gezegd dat de VS het recht heeft om mensen te martelen als dit ‘in het belang van de nationale veiligheid is’ (en dat is alles in de VS!) gegarandeerd dat er al lang weer gemarteld wordt door de CIA en andere geheime diensten van de VS…. Vraag me zelfs af of dit ooit is gestopt, ook al is uit wetenschappelijk onderzoek aangetoond dat martelen geen bruikbare informatie oplevert!!
‘Het mooie van dit alles’ is het feit dat onder Haydens directeurschap van de CIA er nog steeds werd gemarteld door die geheime dienst……
‘Mooi ook’ dat de presentator die in gesprek was met Hayden dit niet voorlegde aan deze barbaarse ploert. Overigens werden de meeste zaken die ik aanhaalde niet door haar genoemd in dit gesprek…….. Ach ja, het schijnt de taak van de reguliere westerse media te zijn om de VS door dik en dun te steunen, men durft nog net commentaar te leveren als Trump weer eens een gigantisch domme of lullige uitspraak doet….. Echter als het om oorlog gaat staat men achter de VS en geeft men ofwel geen commentaar op het martelen door of in opdracht van de VS, of sputtert wat in de marge over mensenrechten (in het gunstigste geval….)…..
Overigens heeft ook CDA idioot Balkenende al eens opgemerkt geen probleem te hebben met waterboarding, destijds volgens hem geen marteling……….. (al zal deze hufter daar nu misschien op zeggen: ‘Met de kennis die we nu hebben was dit geen verstandige constatering…..”)
* Een BBC station dat als ik het goed begrepen heb, nu zelfstandig opereert, al nemen ze af en toe nog wel BBC radioprogramma’s over.
