‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

False Flag operaties ofwel terreur, dit is het moedwillig schade toebrengen aan eigen zaken dan wel zaken als het vermoorden van eigen burgers of burgers elders, met de opzet een tegenstander de schuld te geven, worden afgedaan als samenzweringstheorieën of complottheorieën. Echter een groot aantal feiten en bekentenissen bewijzen dat deze terreur wel degelijk bestaat en dat al heel lang………

In feite werd dit al duidelijk uit de Vault 7 en Vault 8 documenten op Wikileaks, waaruit bleek, dat de CIA en NSA over een groot aantal ‘instrumenten’ beschikken, waarmee men via het internet zaken kan manipuleren door te hacken en de schuld daarvoor in de schoenen van een ‘vijandige’ staat kan schuiven. in feite een ‘false flag’ operatie………

VS Generaal H.R. McMaster zei gisteren dat de vijanden van de VS, Rusland en China, plus extreem rechtse en linkse activisten vitriool spuien op het internet om het volk aan het twijfelen te brengen over de maatschappij waarin zij leven…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! E.e.a. werd een uur geleden gemeld op BBC World Service (rond 12.09 u. CET), ook al kan McMaster niet één bewezen feit opnoemen (zoals gewoonlijk in dit soort angst- en haatzaaierij)……. Als er nu één ‘land’ is dat zich wel bewezen met dergelijke zaken bezighoudt, is het de VS zelf wel!!

Van een aantal zaken was ik wel op de hoogte en toch verbaasde mij het enorme aantal ‘false flag operaties’, die niet zelden tot een enorm aantal moorden, nou zeg maar gerust ‘massamoorden’ hebben geleid, neem de aanleiding voor de illegale oorlogen die de VS voerde tegen Noord-Vietnam (plus tegelijkertijd in het geheim tegen andere landen in de regio) en Irak…..

Ook terreuraanslagen in Europa waren niet zelden ‘false flag operaties’, ofwel ‘false flag terreur…’

Overigens niets nieuws onder de zon, er bestaan al meer dan 2.000 jaar van dit soort operaties.

Het volgende artikel vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, het origineel komt van Newsweek (een regulier nieuwsmedium*), van Houcke nam het over van WashingtonsBlog. Lezen mensen en geeft het door, je weet niet wat je leest!! Hiermee maken wat mij betreft de uitdragers van ‘Russische manipulaties’ in de VS presidentsverkiezingen en manipulaties in EU landen, zich voorgoed totaal ongeloofwaardig (al waren deze beweringen al langer bewezen lariekoek).

There
Are Now So Many Admissions by Government Officials of False Flag
Terror that Only the Willfully Ignorant Still Doubt the Reality
of the Concept

← Newsweek: “U.S. Government Planned False Flag Attacks to Start War”

Posted
on
 December
17, 2017
 by WashingtonsBlog

Presidents,
Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police
ADMIT to False Flag Terror

Scores
of government officials throughout the world have 
admitted (either
orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos) to carrying out
– or seriously proposing – false flag attacks:

  1. Japanese
    troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and
    falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of
    Manchuria. This is 
    known
    as
     the
    “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo
    International Military Tribunal 
    found:
    “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a
    high-ranking Japanese army officer], 
    have
    on various occasions 
    admitted their
    part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’
    was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the
    Kwantung Army ….” And see 
    this,
    this and this.

(2)
A major with the Nazi SS 
admitted at
the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the
Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked several attacks
on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to
justify the invasion of Poland. The staged attacks 
included:

  • The
    German radio station at Gleiwitz [details below]

  • The
    strategic railway at Jabłonków Pass, located on the border between
    Poland and Czechoslovakia

  • The
    German customs station at Hochlinden

  • The
    forest service station in Pitschen

  • The
    communications station at Neubersteich

  • The
    railroad station in Alt-Eiche

  • A
    woman and her companion in Katowice

The
details of the Gleiwitz radio station incident 
include:

On
the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives
dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz
station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources
vary on the content of the message). The Germans’ goal was to make
the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish
saboteurs.

To
make the attack seem more convincing, the Germans used human corpses
to pass them off as Polish attackers. They murdered Franciszek
Honiok, a 43-year-old unmarried German Silesian Catholic farmer known
for sympathizing with the Poles. He had been arrested the previous
day by the Gestapo. He was dressed to look like a saboteur, then
killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at
the scene so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the
station. His corpse was subsequently presented to the police and
press as proof of the attack.

  1. The
    minutes of the high command of the Italian government –
    subsequently approved by Mussolini himself – 
    admitted that
    violence on the Greek-Albanian border was carried out by Italians
    and falsely blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy’s 1940
    invasion of Greece.

  1. Nazi
    general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that
    Nazi leader Hermann Goering 
    admitted to
    setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then
    falsely blaming the communists for the arson.

  1. Soviet
    leader Nikita Khrushchev 
    admitted in
    writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian
    village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland –
    as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland.
    Russian president Boris Yeltsin 
    agreed that
    Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.

  1. The
    Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former
    Soviet leader Gorbachev all 
    admit that
    Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute
    22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely
    blamed it on the Nazis.

  1. The
    British government 
    admits that
    – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews who
    were Holocaust survivors attempting to flee to safety in Palestine
    right after World War II, set up a fake group called “Defenders of
    Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim
    responsibility for the bombings (and see 
    thisthis and this).

  1. Israel admits that
    in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs
    in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then
    left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits
    (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to
    identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed)
    (and see 
    this and this).

The
U.S. Army does not believe this is an isolated incident. For example,
the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies 
said of
Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service):

Ruthless
and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make
it look like a Palestinian/Arab act
.”

And
former Israeli Prime Moshe Minister 
admitted in
his diary:

I
have been meditating on the long chain of 
false
incidents and hostilities we have invented
,
and on the many clashes we have provoked which cost us so much blood
….

  1. The
    CIA 
    admits that
    it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage
    bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its
    democratically-elected prime minister.

(10)
The Turkish Prime Minister 
admitted that
the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish
consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the
founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose
of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.

The
Economist 
notes:

Starting
in the 1950s Turkey’s deep state sponsored killings, engineered
riots, colluded with drug traffickers, staged “false flag”
attacks and organised massacres of trade unionists. Thousands died in
the chaos it fomented.

  1. The
    British Prime Minister 
    admitted to
    his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight
    Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and
    blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.

  1. The
    former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the 
    former
    head of Italian counterintelligence
     admit
    that 
    NATO,
    with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings
    in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s
    and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for
    their governments in Europe in their fight against communism
    .

(13)
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: 
“You
had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people,
unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was
quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian
public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security”
 … so
that “a state of emergency could be declared, so people would
willingly trade part of their freedom for the security”
 (and
see 
this)
(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign
had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch 
this
BBC special
.
They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in 
France,
Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
the UK
,
and other countries.

The
CIA also stressed to the head of the Italian program that Italy
needed to use the program to 
control internal uprisings.

False
flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way
of example only:

    In
    1960, American Senator George Smathers 
    suggested that
    the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would
    give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then
    give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]”.

  1. Official
    State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint
    Chiefs and other high-level officials 
    discussed blowing
    up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an
    invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they
    were all discussed as serious proposals.

(15)
As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents
show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a
plan to 
blow
up AMERICAN airplanes
 (using
an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also
to 
commit
terrorist acts on American soil
,
and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of
Cuba. See the following 
ABC
news report
the
official documents
;
and watch 
this
interview 
with
the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News
Tonight with Peter Jennings. This plan was
subsequently 
admitted again
in other declassified government documents.

Provocations
considered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff 
included:

Sink
ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock-victims ….

***

3.
A “Remember the Maine” incident could be arranged in several
forms:

a.
We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.

b.
We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban
waters. We could arrange to cause such incident in the vicinity of
Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of Cuban attack from the
air or sea, or both. The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely
investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling
evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The nearness to Havana
or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that
might have heard the blast or have seen the fire. The US could follow
up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to
“evacuate” remaining members of the non-existent crew. Casualty
lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation.

4.
We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area,
in other Florida cities and even in Washington.

The terror
campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the
United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida
(real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban
refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in
instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few plastic bombs in
carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of
prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be
helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.

***

6.
Use of MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional
provocation. Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping and
destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type planes would be
useful as complementary actions. An F-86 properly painted would
convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the
pilot of the transport were to announce such fact. The primary
drawback to this suggestion appears to be the security risk inherent
in obtaining or modifying an aircraft. However, reasonable copies of
the MIG could be produced from US resources in about three months.

***

8.
it is possible to create an incident which will
demonstrate
convincingly that a Cuban-aircraft has attacked and
shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States
to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be
chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba, The
passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or
any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering
a non-scheduled flight.

a.
An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact
duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA
proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the
duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and
would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under
carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be
converted to a drone.

b.
Take off times of the drone aircraft and the actual aircraft will be
scheduled to allow a rendezvous south of Florida. From the rendezvous
point the passenger-carrying aircraft will descend to minimum
altitude and go directly into an auxiliary field at Eglin AFB where
arrangements will have been made to evacuate the passengers and
return the aircraft to its original status. The drone aircraft
meanwhile will continue to fly the filed flight plan. When over Cuba
the drone will being transmitting on the inter-national distress
frequency a “MAY DAY” message stating he is under attack by Cuban
MIG aircraft. The transmission will be interrupted by destruction of
the aircraft which will be triggered by radio signal. This will allow
ICAO radio stations in the Western Hemisphere to “tell” the US
what has happened to the aircraft instead of the US trying to “sell”
the incident.

9.
It is possible to create an incident which will make it appear that
Communist Cuban MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over
international waters in an unprovoked attack.

a.
Approximately 4 or 5 F-101 aircraft-will be dispatched in trail from
Homestead AFB, Florida, to the vicinity of Cuba. Their mission will
be to reverse course and simulate fakir aircraft for an air defense
exercise in southern Florida. These aircraft would conduct variations
of these flights at frequent intervals. Crews would be briefed to
remain at least 12 miles off the Cuban coast; however, they would be
required to carry live ammunition in the event that hostile actions
were taken by the Cuban MiGs.

b.
On One such flight, a pre-briefed pilot would fly tail-end Charley at
considerable interval between aircraft. While near the Cuban Island
this pilot would broadcast that he had been Jumped by MIGs and was
going down. No other calls would be made. The pilot would then fly
directly west at extremely low altitude and land at a secure base, an
Eglin auxiliary. The aircraft would be met by the proper people,
quickly stored and given a new tail number. The pilot who had
performed the mission under an alias, would resume his proper
identity and return to his normal place of business. The pilot and
aircraft would then have disappeared.

c.
At precisely the same time that the aircraft was presumably shot down
a submarine or small surface craft would disburse F-101 parts,
parachute, etc., at approximately 15 to 20 miles off the Cuban coast
and depart.

U.S.
government documents declassified in October 2017 
admitted that
a very high-level 1962 meeting of U.S. government officials –
separate from the Joint Chiefs of Staff – also discussed:

The
possibility of 
U.S.
manufacture or acquisition of 
Soviet aircraft ….
There is a possibility that such aircraft could be used in a
deception operation designed to confuse enemy planes in the air, to
launch a surprise attack against enemy installations or in
 a
provocation operation in which Soviet aircraft would appear to attack
U.S. or friendly installations in order to provide an excuse for U.S.
intervention
.

And see
this
.

  1. In
    1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper 
    promoting attacks
    on nations within the Organization of American States – such as
    Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on
    Cuba.

  1. The
    U.S. Department of Defense also 
    suggested covertly
    paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United
    States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be
    to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an
    attack on Guantanamo.”

  1. A
    U.S. Congressional committee 
    admitted that
    – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had
    used 
    many provocateurs
    in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely
    blame them on political activists.

  1. top Turkish
    general 
    admitted that
    Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and
    blamed it on their enemy. He 
    explained:
    “In Special War, certain 
    acts
    of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy
     to
    increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt
    down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s
    incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.

(20)
declassified 1973
CIA document 
reveals a
program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby
traps, pretending that they were training them on how
to 
investigate terrorist
acts:

The
Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign
police/security organizations through its field stations ….

[CIA
provides training sessions as follows:]

a.
Providing trainees with 
basic
knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and
incendiaries
 as
they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.

b.
Introducing the trainees to 
commercially
available materials and home laboratory techniques
,
likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries
by terrorists or saboteurs.

c.
Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of 
target
analysis and operational planning
 that
a saboteur or terrorist must employ.

d.
Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques
giving
 practical
experience
 with
both manufactured and improvised devices 
through
actual fabrication
.

***

The
program provides the trainees with 
ample
opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through
handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges,
incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques
.

  1. The
    German government 
    admitted (and see
    this
    )
    that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the
    outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner
    – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service
    wished to frame the bombing on.

  1. A
    Mossad agent 
    admits that,
    in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound
    in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions
    recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist
    supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.

  1. The
    South African Truth and Reconciliation Council 
    found that,
    in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South
    African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him
    “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the
    African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the
    investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the
    ANC for the bombing.

  1. An
    Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian
    army 
    admit that,
    in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian
    civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and
    see 
    this
    video
    ;
    and see Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, 
    French
    Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author
    ).

  1. In
    1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians. Official
    documents from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (i.e. the British
    government) 
    show that
    the mastermind of the bombing was a British agent, and that the
    bombing was designed to inflame sectarian tensions. And
    see 
    this and this.

  1. The
    United States Army’s 1994 publication 
    Special
    Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures
    for Special Forces
     –
    updated in 2004 – 
    recommends employing
    terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist
    regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried
    out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “
    Dirty
    Wars
    “.
    And 
    see
    this
    .

(27)
Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a
CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels 
noted the
value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr”
for the cause. The manual was 
authenticated by
the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from
Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that –
during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan
was 
confronted with
the following question on national television:

At
this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA
guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing,
which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the 
hiring
of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order
to create martyrs.

  1. A
    Rwandan government inquiry 
    admitted that
    the 1994 shootdown and murder of the Rwandan president, who was from
    the 
    Hutu tribe
    – a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival 
    Tutsi tribe,
    and which led to the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus –
    was committed by 
    Hutu soldiers
    and falsely blamed on the Tutis.

  1. An
    Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated violent riots
    which occurred in 1998, and determined that “
    elements
    of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were
    deliberately provoked
    ”.

  1. Senior
    Russian Senior military and intelligence officers 
    admit that
    the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely
    blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya
    (and see 
    this
    report
     and this
    discussion
    ).

  1. As
    reported by the 
    New
    York Times
    BBC and Associated
    Press
    ,
    Macedonian officials admit that in 2001, the government murdered 7
    innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al
    Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order
    to join the “war on terror”. They lured foreign migrants into
    the country, executed them in a staged gun battle, and then claimed
    they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent on attacking Western
    embassies”. Specifically, Macedonian authorities had lured the
    immigrants into the country, and then – after killing them –
    posed the victims with planted evidence – “bags of uniforms and
    semiautomatic weapons at their side” – to show Western
    diplomats.

  1. At
    the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs
    were 
    videotaped getting
    out of police cars, and were 
    seen by
    an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”.
    Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa 
    admitted that
    police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a
    police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a 
    violent
    crackdown
     against
    protesters.

  1. The
    U.S. 
    falsely
    blamed Iraq
     for
    playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a 
    memo
    from the defense secretary
     –
    as one of the 
    main
    justifications
     for
    launching the Iraq war.
    Even
    after the 9/11 Commission 
    admitted that
    there was no connection, Dick Cheney 
    said that
    the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship
    with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had
    information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was
    not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S.
    government officials now 
    admit that
    the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of
    mass destruction.

Despite
previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials
now 
say that
9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was 
not the
state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials
have 
allegedthat
9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S.
government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion.
The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when
it 
knew Iraq
had nothing to do with it.). 

(Additionally,
the 
same
judge who has shielded the Saudis
 for
any liability for funding 9/11 has awarded a default judgment against
Iran for 
$10.5
billion for carrying out 9/11
 …
even though no one seriously believes that Iran had any part in
9/11.)

  1. Although
    the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by
    one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says
    that the FBI was actually 
    told to
    blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House
    officials
     (remember
    what the anthrax letters 
    looked
    like
    ).
    Government officials also confirm that the white House 
    tried
    to link the anthrax to Iraq
     as
    a justification for regime change in that country. And 
    see
    this
    .

  1. According
    to the 
    Washington
    Post
    ,
    Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American
    teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan
    separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist
    organization.

  1. The
    well-respected former Indonesian president also 
    admits that
    the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.

  1. Police
    outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were
    filmed 
    planting
    Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester
    .

(38)
In 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Defense 
admitted that
interrogators were authorized to use the following method:

False
Flag: Convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other
than the United States are interrogating him.

While
not a traditional false flag 
attack,
this deception could lead to former detainees – 
many
of whom were tortured
 –
attacking the country falsely blamed for the interrogation and
torture.

  1. Former
    Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo 
    suggested in
    2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having
    “our intelligence agencies create a 
    false
    terrorist organization
    .
    It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps,
    and fundraising operations. It could 
    launch fake
    terrorist operations
     and
    claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion
    within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’
    identities and to question the validity of communications.”

  1. Similarly,
    in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School –
    a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept
    of ‘netwar’ – 
    called
    for
     western
    intelligence services to
     create
    new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups
    ,
    as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to
    Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s
    ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, 
    already
    being implemented
     by
    the Pentagon:

    Under
    Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would
    be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking
    to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons
    systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, 
    local
    citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or
    terrorists

The
new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it
calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can
be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. 
‘Do
you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the
former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the
military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early
nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he
said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want.
And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military
officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities,
said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”

(41)
United Press International 
reported in
June 2005:

U.S.
intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in
Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem
to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to
have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a
production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack
of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for
intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial
government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably
from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent
provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S.
authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of
the illegitimacy of the resistance.

  1. In
    2005, 
    British
    soldiers
     dressed
    as Arabs were caught by Iraqi police after a shootout against the
    police. The British soldiers shot two Iraqi policemen, 
    killing
    one
    .
    The soldiers apparently 
    possessed
    explosives
    ,
    and were 
    accused of
    attempting to 
    set
    off bombs
    .
    While none of the soldiers admitted that they were carrying out
    attacks, British soldiers and a column of 10 British tanks stormed
    the jail they were held in, 
    broke
    down a wall of the jail, and busted them out
    .
    The extreme measures used to free the soldiers – rather than have
    them face questions and potentially stand trial – could be
    considered an admission.

  1. Undercover
    Israeli soldiers 
    admitted in
    2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could
    blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful
    protests by the Palestinians.

  1. Quebec
    police 
    admitted that,
    in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually
    undercover Quebec police officers (and 
    see
    this
    ).

  1. A
    2008 US Army special operations field manual 
    recommends that
    the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as
    “paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political
    organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations,
    expatriates, 
    transnational
    terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism
    members
    ,
    black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’”
    The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations
    can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as
    “transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking,
    illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)

(46)
The former Italian 
Prime
Minister, President, and head of Secret Services
 (Francesco
Cossiga) 
advised the
2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests
from teachers and students:

He
should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … 
infiltrate
the movement with agents provocateurs
 inclined
to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained
population consent, … 
beat
them for blood and beat for blood
 also
those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the
elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.

  1. An
    undercover officer 
    admitted that
    he infiltrated environmental, leftwing and anti-fascist groups in 22
    countries. Germany’s federal police chief 
    admitted that
    – while the undercover officer worked for the German police – he
    acted illegally during a G8 protest in Germany in 2007 and committed
    arson by setting fire during a subsequent demonstration in Berlin.
    The undercover officer spent many years 
    living
    with
     violent
    “Black Bloc” anarchists.

  1. Denver
    police 
    admitted that
    uniformed officers deployed in 2008 to an area where alleged
    “anarchists” had planned to wreak havoc outside the Democratic
    National Convention ended up getting into a melee with two
    undercover policemen. The uniformed officers didn’t know the
    undercover officers were cops.

  1. At
    the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of
    parliament 
    saw plain
    clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.

  1. The
    oversight agency for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 
    admitted that
    – at the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 – undercover police
    officers were arrested with a group of protesters. Videos and photos
    (see 
    this and this,
    for example) show that violent protesters wore very similar boots
    and other gear as the police, and carried police batons. The Globe
    and Mail 
    reports that
    the undercover officers planned the targets for violent attack, and
    the police failed to stop the attacks.

  1. Egyptian
    politicians 
    admitted (and see
    this
    )
    that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts 2011 to
    try to discredit the protesters.

  1. Austin
    police 
    admit that
    3 officers infiltrated the Occupy protests in that city.
    Prosecutors 
    admit that
    one of the undercover officers purchased and constructed illegal
    “lock boxes” which ended up getting many protesters arrested.

  1. In
    2011, a Colombian colonel 
    admitted that
    he and his soldiers had lured 57 innocent civilians and killed them
    – after dressing many of them in uniforms – as part of a scheme
    to claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing terrorists. And 
    see
    this
    .

  1. Rioters
    who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the
    Mexican president in 2012 
    admitted that
    they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path.
    According to Wikipedia, photos also 
    show the
    vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.

  1. On
    November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by
    army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
    protests, as was 
    shown by
    videos and pictures distributed via social networks.

  1. The
    highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
    says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar –
    recently 
    admitted that
    the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.

(57) Two
members of the Turkish parliament
high-level
American sources
 and
others admitted that the Turkish government – a NATO country –
carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria and falsely blamed
them on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish
government 
admitted on
tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian
government.

  1. The
    former Director of the NSA and other American government
    officials 
    admit said
    that the U.S. is a huge supporter of terrorism. Jimmy Carter’s
    National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski 
    admitted on
    CNN that the U.S. 
    organized
    and supported Bin Laden and the other originators of “Al Qaeda”
    in the 1970s
     to
    fight the Soviets. The U.S. and its allies have been 
    supporting Al
    Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups for many decades, and
    providing them arms, money and logistical support
    in 
    LibyaSyriaMaliBosniaChechnyaIran,
    and 
    many
    other countries
    .
    U.S. allies are also directly responsible
    for 
    creating and supplying ISIS.

It’s
gotten so ridiculous that a U.S. Senator has introduced a “
Stop
Arming Terrorists Act”
,
and U.S. Congresswoman – who introduced a similar bill in the House
– 
says:
“For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant
groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist
groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian
government.”

  1. Government
    officials on 
    both
    sides
     of
    the conflict, as well as the snipers who actually pulled the
    trigger, all 
    admit that
    shots were fired on 
    both sides
    – killing both government officials and anti-government protesters
    in Ukraine – to create maximum chaos and destabilization.

  1. Speaking
    of snipers, in a secret recording, Venezuelan generals 
    admit that
    they will deploy snipers to shoot protesters, but keep the marksmen
    well-hidden from demonstrator and the reporters covering the events
    so others would be blamed for the deaths.

  1. Burmese
    government officials 
    admitted that
    Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false flag attacks against Muslim and
    Buddhist groups within the country to stir up hatred between the two
    groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.

  1. Israeli
    police were again 
    filmed in
    2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing stones, then turning over
    Palestinian protesters to Israeli soldiers.

  1. Britain’s
    spy agency has 
    admitted (and see
    this
    )
    that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on
    targets, 
    framing
    people
     by
    writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the
    target.

  1. The
    CIA has 
    admitted that
    it uses viruses and malware from Russia and other countries to carry
    out cyberattacks and blame other countries.

  1. U.S.
    soldiers have 
    admitted that
    if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop”
    automatic weapons near their body so they can 
    pretend they
    were militants.

  1. German
    prosecutors 
    admit that
    a German soldier disguised himself as a Syrian refugee and planned
    to shoot people so that the attack would be blamed on asylum
    seekers.

(67)
Police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The
practice is so well-known that the New York Times 
noted in
1981:

In
police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.

Newsweek reported in
1999:

Perez,
himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught
stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After
pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by
telling an appalling story of attempted murder and
“throwdown”–police
slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally
justifiable
.
Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed
18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then 
planted
a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that
Ovando had tried to shoot them
during
a stakeout.

Wikipedia notes:

As
part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from
the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing 
routinely beating
gang members,
 planting
evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked
shootings
.

(As
a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks –
police have been busted 
framing
innocent people in many other ways
,
as well.)

(68)
A former U.S. intelligence officer recently 
alleged:

Most
terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own
security services.

He
has himself 
admitted to
carrying out a false flag attack.

  1. The
    head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles
    office 
    said that
    most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags.

(70)
The 
Director of
Analytics at the interagency Global Engagement Center housed at the
U.S. Department of State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason
University, where he teaches the graduate course National Security
Challenges in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology,
a former branch chief in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, and an
intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security (J.D.
Maddox) 
notes:

Provocation
is one of the most basic, but confounding, aspects of
warfare. 
Despite
its sometimes obvious use, it has succeeded consistently against
audiences around the world, for millennia, to compel war
.
A well-constructed provocation narrative mutes even the most vocal
opposition.

***

The
culmination of a strategic provocation operation invariably reflects
a narrative of victimhood: we
are the victims of the enemy’s unforgivable atrocities.

***

In
the case of strategic provocation 
the
deaths of an aggressor’s own personnel are a core tactic of the
provocation
.

***

The
persistent use of strategic provocation over centuries – and its
apparent importance to war planners – begs the question of its
likely use by the US and other states in the near term.

(71)
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of
false flags to justify their political agenda:

Terrorism
is the best political weapon
 for
nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”.

Adolph
Hitler

Why
of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the
leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or
a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship
… Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to 
tell
them they are being attacked
,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Hermann
Goering, Nazi leader.

The
easiest way to gain control of a population is to 
carry
out
 acts
of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal
security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin

Postscript
1: It is not just “modern” nations which have launched false flag
attacks. For example, a Native American from one tribe (Pomunkey)
murdered a white Englishwoman living in Virginia in 1697 and then
falsely blamed it on 
second tribe
(Piscataway). But he later 
admitted in
court that he was not really Piscataway, and that he had been paid by
a provocateur from a 
third tribe
(Iroquois) to kill the woman as a way to start a war between the
English and the Piscataway, thus protecting the profitable Iroquois
monopoly in trade with the English.

Postscript
2: On multiple occasions, atrocities or warmongering are falsely
blamed on the enemy as a justification for war … when no
such event ever occurred
. This is more like a “fake flag”
than a “false flag”, as no actual terrorism occurred.

For
example:

  • The
    NSA 
    admits that
    it 
    lied about
    what really happened in the 
    Gulf
    of Tonkin incident
     in
    1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese
    boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for
    the Vietnam war

  • One
    of the central lies used to justify the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq
    after Iraq invaded Kuwait was the 
    false
    statement
     by
    a young Kuwaiti girl that 
    Iraqis
    murdered Kuwaiti babies
     in
    hospitals. Her statement was arranged by a Congressman who knew that
    she was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.
    – who was desperately trying to lobby the U.S. to enter the war –
    but the Congressman 
    hid
    that fact from the public and from Congress

  • nother
    central lie used to justify the Gulf War was the statement that 
    a
    quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with
    Saudi Arabia
     (see
    also
     this
    article
    )

  • Pulitzer
    prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind 
    reported that
    the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document
    falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 … and that
    the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the
    forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq. And
    see 
    this and this

  • Time
    magazine 
    points
    out
     that
    the claim by President Bush that Iraq was attempting to buy “yellow
    cake” Uranium from Niger:

had
been checked out — and debunked — by U.S. intelligence a year
before the President repeated it.

==========================================

* Op WashingtonBlog wordt ook verwezen naar een ander artikel op Newsweek:

MainstreamMedia Admits that False Flags Are Real

Last
month, Newsweek 
ran an
article headlined:

U.S. GOVERNMENT PLANNED FALSE FLAG ATTACKS TO START WAR WITH SOVIET UNION, JFK DOCUMENTS SHOW Zie wat deze link betreft ook: ‘Newsweek erkent ‘false flag’ operatie van de VS tegen de Sovjet Unie……

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Voorts zie ‘Onderbroekbom (25 december 2009) een enorm onzin verhaal, weer zijn we voorgelogen…….

WannaCry niet door Noord-Korea ‘gelanceerd!’

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld

Ghouta: een gifgas false flag en VS chef Guterres eist staakt het vuren van pro-Syrische strijdgroepen op Oost-Ghouta……

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

BBC World Service en BNR met ‘fake news’ over Ghouta……..

US Aggression in Syria – an Imperialist Blueprint

Foreign Ministry: Some Western officials are complicit in the crimes of terrorists against civilians in Damascus and its countryside

SOHR, het orgaan dat door de reguliere media wordt aangehaald i.z. Syrië, is gevestigd in Coventry

VS militair-industrieel complex houdt het ‘land’ in een wurggreep……..

Dat de VS zo goed als failliet is, gezien de enorme staatsschuld, is nog voor weinigen die het nieuws volgen een geheim. Het feit dat de dollar nog steeds wordt gebruikt als grootste internationaal betaalmiddel (zo wordt de olieprijs in dollars uitgedrukt) en het feit dat een land als China enorme voorraden dollars in het bezit heeft, zorgt ervoor dat de VS door kan gaan met enorme investeringen (op de pof) in de oorlogsindustrie, ofwel in het militair-industrieel complex……

Op 1 december jl, plaatste JP Sotille een artikel over het militair-industrieel complex (MIC) op Consortiumnews (CN), een artikel dat Anti-Media op 3 december publiceerde. In dit artikel legt Sotille uit  hoe het kan, dat de VS de ene (illegale) oorlog na de andere begint, terwijl een groot deel van het volk oorlogsmoe is……. Niet alleen het angstzaaien voor figuren als de Noord-Koreaanse dictator Kim Yung-un, maar ook ronduit oorlogshitsen door lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex, zijn de oorzaak voor het belachelijke budget dat de VS jaarlijks uittrekt voor ‘defensie’ (lees: oorlogsvoering)…..

Niet alleen het MIC lobbyt voor het opschroeven van het oorlogsbudget, maar ook politici als gouverneurs doen dat, daar het MIC voor werkgelegenheid zorgt…… Nog naast de vele politici die persoonlijk, of van wie familieleden/vrienden voordeel hebben bij een op volle toeren draaiend MIC……..

Verder wijst Sotille op het feit, dat er naast het officiële budget voor ‘defensie,’ enorme kapitalen gaan naar zaken die alles met het militair-industrieel complex te maken hebben, maar buiten dit budget worden gehouden…… (dit gebeurd overigens ook in Nederland…..)

Lees het gedegen en ontluisterende artikel van Sotille, over een vereniging van terreurstaten, die de weg totaal kwijt is en grote terreur uitoefent over een deel van de wereld, waar ze niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken hebben: 

The
Truth About America’s Military-Industrial Complex Addiction

December
3, 2017 at 10:11 am

Written
by 
JP
Sottile

Polls
show that Americans are tired of endless wars in faraway lands, but
many cheer President Trump’s showering money on the Pentagon and
its contractors, a paradox that President Eisenhower foresaw.

(CN) — The
Military-Industrial Complex has loomed over America ever since
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of its growing influence during
his prescient 
farewell
address
 on
Jan. 17, 1961. The Vietnam War followed shortly thereafter, and its
bloody consequences cemented the image of the Military-Industrial
Complex (MIC) as a faceless cadre of profit-seeking warmongers who’ve
wrested control of the foreign policy. That was certainly borne out
by the war’s utter senselessness … and by 
tales
of profiteering
 by
well-connected contractors like 
Brown
& Root
.

President
Dwight Eisenhower delivering his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961.

Over
five decades, four major wars and a dozen-odd interventions later, we
often talk about the Military-Industrial Complex as if we’re
referring to a nefarious, flag-draped Death Star floating just beyond
the reach of helpless Americans who’d generally prefer that war was
not, as the great 
Gen.
Smedley Darlington Butler
 aptly
put it, little more than a 
money-making
“racket
.”

The
feeling of powerlessness that the MIC engenders in “average
Americans” makes a lot of sense if you just follow the money coming
out of Capitol Hill. The Project on Government Oversight
(POGO) 
tabulated all
“defense-related spending” for both 2017 and 2018, and it hit
nearly $1.1 trillion for each of the two years. The “defense-related”
part is important because the annual 
National
Defense Authorization Act
,
a.k.a. the defense budget, doesn’t fully account for all the
various forms of national security spending that gets peppered around
a half-dozen agencies.

It’s
a phenomenon that noted Pentagon watchdog 
William
Hartung
 has
tracked for years. He 
recently
dissected
 it
into “no less than 10 categories of national security spending.”
Amazingly only one of those is the actual Pentagon budget. The others
include spending on wars, on homeland security, on military aid, on
intelligence, on nukes, on recruitment, on veterans, on interest
payments and on “other defense” — which includes “a number of
flows of defense-related funding that go to agencies other than the
Pentagon.”

Perhaps
most amazingly, Hartung 
noted
in TomDisptach
 that
the inflation-adjusted “base” defense budgets of the last couple
years is “
higher than
at the height of President Ronald Reagan’s massive buildup of the
1980s and is now nearing the post-World War II funding peak.” And
that’s just the “base” budget, meaning the roughly $600 billion
“defense-only” portion of the overall package. Like POGO, Hartung
puts an annual price tag of nearly $1.1 trillion on the whole
enchilada of military-related spending.

The
MIC’s ‘Swamp Creatures’

To
secure their share of this 
grandiloquent banquet,
the defense industry’s lobbyists stampede Capitol Hill like
well-heeled wildebeest, each jockeying for a plum position at the
trough. This year, a robust collection of 208 defense companies spent
$93,937,493 to deploy 728 “reported” lobbyists (apparently some
go unreported) to feed this year’s trumped-up, 
$700
billion
 defense-only
budget, 
according
to OpenSecrets.org
.
Last year they spent 
$128,845,198 to
secure their profitable pieces of the government pie.

And
this reliable yearly harvest, along with the revolving doors
connecting defense contractors with Capitol Hill, K Street and the
Pentagon, is why so many critics blame the masters of war behind the
MIC for turning war into a cash machine.

But
the cash machine is not confined to the Beltway. There are ATM
branches around the country. Much in the way it lavishes Congress
with lobbying largesse, the defense industry works hand-in-glove with
the Pentagon to spread the appropriations around the nation. This
“spread the wealth” strategy may be equally as important as the
“inside the Beltway” lobbying that garners so much of our
attention and disdain.

Just
go to U.S. Department of Defense’s contract announcement 
webpage on
any weekday to get a good sense of the “contracts valued at $7
million or more” that are “announced each business day at 5 p.m.”
A recent survey of these “awards” found the usual suspects like
Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. The MIC was
well-represented. But many millions of dollars were also “won” by
companies most Americans have never heard of … like this sampling
from 
one
day
 at
the end of October:

  • Longbow
    LLC, Orlando Florida, got $183,474,414 for radar electronic units
    with the stipulation that work will be performed in Orlando,
    Florida.

  • Gradkell
    Systems Inc., Huntsville, Alabama, got $75,000,000 for systems
    operations and maintenance at Fort Belvoir, Virginia

  • Dawson
    Federal Inc., San Antonio, Texas; and A&H-Ambica JV LLC,
    Livonia, Michigan; and Frontier Services Inc., Kansas City,
    Missouri, will share a $45,000,000 for repair and alternations for
    land ports of entry in North Dakota and Minnesota.

  • TRAX
    International Corp., Las Vegas, Nevada, got a $9,203,652 contract
    modification for non-personal test support services that will be
    performed in Yuma, Arizona, and Fort Greely, Alaska,

  • Railroad
    Construction Co. Inc., Paterson, New Jersey, got a $9,344,963
    contract modification for base operations support services to be
    performed in Colts Neck, New Jersey.

  • Belleville
    Shoe Co., Belleville, Illinois, got $63,973,889 for hot-weather
    combat boots that will be made in Illinois.

  • American
    Apparel Inc., Selma, Alabama, got $48,411,186 for combat utility
    uniforms that will be made in Alabama.

  • National
    Industries for the Blind, Alexandria, Virginia, got a $12,884,595
    contract modification to make and advanced combat helmet pad
    suspension system. The “locations of performance” are Virginia,
    Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

The
Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department, as viewed with
the Potomac River and Washington, D.C., in the background. (Defense
Department photo)

Sharing
the Largesse

Clearly,
the DoD* is large enough, and smart enough, to award contracts to
companies throughout the 50 states. Yes, it is a function of the
sheer size or, more forebodingly, the utter “pervasiveness” of
the military in American life. But it is also a strategy. And it’s
a tactic readily apparent in a contract 
recently
awarded
 to
Raytheon.

On
Oct. 31, 2017, they got a $29,455,672 contract modification for
missions systems equipment; computing environment hardware; and
software research, test and development. The modification stipulates
that the work will spread around the country to “Portsmouth, Rhode
Island (46 percent); Tewksbury, Massachusetts (36 percent); Marlboro,
Massachusetts (6 percent); Port Hueneme, California (5 percent); San
Diego, California (4 percent); and Bath, Maine (3 percent).”

Frankly,
it’s a brilliant move that began in the Cold War. The more
Congressional districts that got defense dollars, the more votes the
defense budget was likely to receive on Capitol Hill. Over time, it
evolved into its own underlying rationale for the budget.

As
veteran journalist William Greider 
wrote in
the Aug. 16, 1984 issue of Rolling Stone, “The entire political
system, including liberals as well as conservatives, is held hostage
by the politics of defense spending. Even the most well intentioned
are captive to it. And this is a fundamental reason why the Pentagon
budget is irrationally bloated and why America is mobilizing for war
in a time of peace.”

The
peace-time mobilization Greider referred to was the Reagan build-up
that, as William Hartung noted, is currently being surpassed by
America’s “War on Terror” binge. Then, as now … the US was at
peace at home, meddling around the world and running up a huge bill
in the process. And then, as now … the spending seems unstoppable.

And
as an unnamed “arms-control lobbyist” told Grieder, “It’s a
fact of life. I don’t see how you can ask members of Congress to
vote against their own districts. If I were a member of Congress, I
might vote that way, too.”

Essentially,
members of Congress act as secondary lobbyists for the defense
industry by making sure their constituents have a vested interest in
seeing the defense budget is both robust and untouchable.

But
they are not alone. Because the states also reap what the Pentagon
sows … and, in the wake of the massive post-9/11 splurge, they’ve
begun quantifying the impact of defense spending on their economies.
It helps them make their specific case for keeping the spigot open.

Enter
the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which 
notes,
or touts, that the Department of Defense (DoD) “operates more than
420 military installations in the 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico.” Additionally, the NCSL
is 
understandably
impressed
 by
DoD
analysis
 that
found the department’s “$408 billion on payroll and contracts in
Fiscal Year 2015” translated into “approximately 2.3 percent of
U.S. gross domestic product (GDP).”

And
they’ve become a clearinghouse for state governments’ economic
impact studies of defense spending. Here’s a sampling of recent
data compiled on the 
NSCL
website
:

  • In
    2015, for example, military installations in 
    North
    Carolina
     supported
    578,000 jobs, $34 billion in personal income and $66 billion in
    gross state product. This amounts to roughly 10 percent of the
    state’s overall economy.

  • In
    2014, 
    Colorado lawmakers
    appropriated $300,000 in state funds to examine the comprehensive
    value of military activities across the state’s seven major
    installations. The state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
    released its study in May 2015, reporting a total economic impact of
    $27 billion.

  • Kentucky has
    also taken steps to measure military activity, releasing its fifth
    study in June 2016. The military spent approximately $12 billion in
    Kentucky during 2014-15. With 38,700 active duty and civilian
    employees, military employment exceeds the next largest state
    employer by more than 21,000 jobs.

  • In Michigan,
    for example, defense spending in Fiscal Year 2014 supported 105,000
    jobs, added more than $9 billion in gross state product and created
    nearly $10 billion in personal income. A 2016 study sponsored by the
    Michigan Defense Center presents a statewide strategy to preserve
    Army and Air National Guard facilities following a future Base
    Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round as well as to attract new
    missions. 

President
Trump speaking at a Cabinet meeting on Nov. 1, 2017, with Secretary
of State Rex Tillerson to Trump’s right and son-in-law Jared
Kushner seated in the background.

Electoral
Impact

But
that’s not all. According to the DoD study cited above, the biggest
recipients of DoD dollars are (in order): Virginia, California,
Texas, Maryland and Florida. And among the top 18 host states for
military bases, electorally important states like California, Florida
and Texas 
lead
the nation
.

And
that’s the real rub … this has an electoral impact. Because the
constituency for defense spending isn’t just the 1 percent percent
of Americans who actively serve in the military or 7 percent of
Americans who’ve served sometime in their lives, but it is also the
millions of Americans who directly or indirectly make a living off of
the “defense-related” largesse that passes through the Pentagon
like grass through a goose.

It’s
a dirty little secret that Donald Trump exploited throughout the 2016
presidential campaign.

Somehow,
he was able to criticize wasting money on foreign wars and the
neoconservative interventionism of the Bushes, the neoliberal
interventionism of Hillary Clinton, and, at the same time, moan
endlessly about the “depleted” military despite “
years
of record-high spending
.”
He went on to promise a massive increase in the defense budget, a
massive increase in naval construction and a huge nuclear arsenal.

And,
much to the approval of many Americans, he’s delivered. A 
Morning
Consult/Politico poll
 showed
increased defense spending was the most popular among a variety of
spending priorities presented to voters … even as voters express
trepidation about the coming of another war. A pair of NBC
News/Survey Monkey polls found that 
76
percent of Americans
 are
“worried” the United States “will become engaged in a major war
in the next four years” and 
only
25 percent
 want
America to become “more active” in world affairs.

More
to the point, only 
20
percent of Americans
 wanted
to increase the troop level in Afghanistan after Trump’s
stay-the-course speech in August, but 
Gallup’s
three decade-long tracking poll
 found
that the belief the U.S. spends “too little” on defense is at its
highest point (37 percent) since it spiked after 9/11 (41 percent).
The previous highpoint was 
51
percent in 1981
 when
Ronald Reagan was elected in no small part on the promise of a major
build-up.

So,
if Americans generally don’t support wars or engagement in the
world, why do they seem to reflexively support massive military
budgets?

Frankly,
look no further than Trump’s mantra of 
“jobs,
jobs, jobs
.”
He says it when he lords over the 
sale
of weapon systems
 to
foreign powers or he 
visits
a naval shipyard
 or
goes to one of his post-election rallies to 
proclaim to
“We’re building up our military like never before.” Frankly,
he’s giving the people what they want. Although they may be
war-weary, they’ve not tired of the dispersal system that Greider
wrote about during Reagan’s big spree.

Ultimately,
it means that the dreaded Military-Industrial Complex isn’t just a
shadowy cabal manipulating policies against the will of the American
people. Nor is the “racket” exclusive to an elite group of Deep
State swamp things. Instead, the military and the vast economic
network it feeds presents a far more “complex” issue that
involves millions of self-interested Americans in much the way
Eisenhower predicted, but few are willing to truly forsake.

* DoD: United States Department of Defense (ministerie van ‘Defensie’)

JP
Sottile is a freelance journalist, radio co-host, documentary
filmmaker and former broadcast news producer in Washington, D.C. He
blogs at 
Newsvandal.com or
you can follow him on 
Twitter.

Op-ed
by JP Sottile / Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News

==================================================

PS: het is ronduit een schandaal dat de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en het grootste deel van de westerse politiek buiten de VS, zo onbeschaamd durven te stellen dat de andere NAVO landen, zoals de VS meer moeten uitgeven aan defensie, terwijl zij dondersgoed weten, dat de VS zoveel uitgeeft aan defensie om haar belangen wereldwijd veilig te stellen. Het is als het pleiten voor enorme defensie uitgaven t.b.v. het koloniseren van landen die niet tot het westen behoren………. Waarbij je niet moet vergeten, dat de grootste EU landen, Frankrijk, Groot–Brittannië, Frankrijk, Duitsland en Italië al 3 keer meer uitgeven aan ‘defensie’ dan Rusland, dat volkomen onterecht als de grote agressor wordt voorgesteld……. Terwijl niet Rusland maar de VS alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen is begonnen en verantwoordelijk is voor de moord op meer dan 2 miljoen mensen……   

Bauer (commandant strijdkrachten): IS is wel verslagen maar we moeten wel in Irak blijven met onze F-16’s…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Bauer (nee, niet die van ’24’), de topgraaier met koperen fluit van verdienste voor de strijdkrachten, haalde afgelopen 27 november de media met een misplaatst praatje over Irak en Mali.

Volgens Bauer, die eerder al had laten weten dat de F-16’s van ellende bijna uit de lucht vallen, is IS dan wel verslagen, maar moeten onze F-16’s nog minstens een jaar dienst blijven doen in Irak…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Dezelfde Bauer die net als zijn voorgangers angst aanjaagt bij het volk en het ophitst meer uit te geven aan defensie (lees: oorlogsvoering), is er dus voor dat deze zinloze peperdure missie wordt voortgezet. Uiteraard met het lamme excuus dat het Pentagon aanvoert: om een wederopstanding van IS te voorkomen, alsof je dat met F-16’s kan doen……

Ook zal Nederland veel langer in Mali moeten blijven, daar noemde Bauer zelfs ‘de noodzaak’ voor nog minstens 20 jaar westerse militaire bemoeienis met dit land……

‘Uiteraard’ vraagt niemand aan Bauer hoe het komt dat we telkens weer meedoen aan illegale oorlogen, of aan het strijden tegen de gevolgen die illegale oorlogen veroorzaken, zoals in Mali…. Immers met de illegale oorlog van de VS en een aantal NAVO landen tegen Libië, waar ook Nederlandse F-16’s aan mee hebben gedaan, is het land niet alleen zo’n 60 jaar in tijd teruggebombardeerd*, maar is ook de ellende in Mali begonnen……

Hetzelfde geldt uiteraard voor Irak, door de illegale oorlog van die de VS in 2003 tegen dat land begon (waar Nederland godbetert aan de voorbereiding heeft meegedaan met een duikboot), werd dat land in een enorme chaos gedompeld….. (overigens heeft Nederland niet alleen die illegale oorlog politiek gesteund, dit door het kabinet Balkenende, maar heeft het ook al in het begin militair meegedaan aan die oorlog…) Met die illegale oorlog (ofwel: grootschalige terreur) werden in totaal meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen vermoord, uiteraard zijn er nabestaanden van die slachtoffers, die op de één of andere manier wraak zullen nemen……. Dit nog naast het feit dat de VS, Saoedi-Arabië en Israël IS op poten hebben gezet**, om zo ‘een wapen’ in hadden te hebben tegen Iran, Syrië en Hezbollah Libanon…… Nu wil Bauer dus dat Nederland haar F-16’s blijft inzetten om ‘een wederopstanding’ van IS te voorkomen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Nogmaals: figuren als Bauer hebben zich niet in de media te roeren, dat is de taak van de minister of staatssecretaris!!! Als ze al in de media te zien zijn met hun mening, zou dat zo moeten zijn op het moment wanneer ze in de Kamer moeten verschijnen om e.e.a. te verduidelijken……..

*  Niet alleen dat: Libië was het rijkste land in Afrika. Waar het grootste deel van de voorzieningen zo goed als gratis waren, zoals onderdak, scholing, gezondheidszorg en energie…… Zelfs studeren in het buitenland was gratis, inclusief leef- en verblijfkosten, voor zowel jonge mannen als vrouwen……….. Libië is door deze illegale oorlog afgezakt tot bijna het armste land van Afrika en het land is gedompeld in één grote gewelddadige chaos, waar de vrouw al haar rechten heeft verloren……… Het land waar nu zelfs slaven in het openbaar worden verhandeld…….

** Zie: ‘CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië ‘vecht tegen terreur’, die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd……..

Zie ook: ‘Israël laat alweer haar ware terreur gezicht zien: IS kan tijdelijke ‘geallieerde worden’ in de strijd tegen Iran en Hezbollah………

Wat betreft de F-16: klik ook op de labels F16 en JSF, direct onder dit bericht.

Mensen, dat was het voor deze dag, morgen meer berichten, maakt er een mooi weekeinde van!

Israelische officier met de koperen fluit waarschuwt voor Iraanse expansie…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

‘Iran
staat bekend om haar agressieve buitenlandpolitiek’, aldus de Israëlische topmilitair, ofwel Palestijnenslachter Gadi Eisenkot……* Zo voerde dit
land o.a. oorlog in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodja, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië, of vergis ik me nu…???

‘Geen
ruimte voor religieuze groepen in de regio’, aldus de psychopathische
moordenaar Eisenkot en dat durfde deze pathologische leugenaar in Saoedi-Arabië te zeggen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ten eerste claimt de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël het volste recht op haar grondgebied te hebben op basis van haar joodse religie…. Ten tweede: als er nu één land is dat continu met geloof bezig is, is het wel het soennitische Saoedi-Arabië dat zelfs een genocide uitvoert in buurland Jemen tegen de sjiitische bevolking……

Daarnaast zijn Saoedi-Arabië, Israël en de VS verantwoordelijk voor het ontstaan van IS >> hebben deze terreurorganisatie zelfs op poten gezet en voorzien van wapens en munitie!** Alsof IS een toeristenclub is en niet een soennitische terreurgroep, die dood en verderf zaait……

Voorts wil Iran het Midden-Oosten controleren aldus Eisenkot……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Er zijn een paar landen die het Midden-Oosten willen controleren en dat zijn de VS, Saoedi Arabië en Israël. De VS controleert in feite al een flink deel van het Midden-Oosten met haar illegale oorlogen en bezetting van landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft……. Zo gaf de VS aan voorlopig niet te willen vertrekken uit Syrië, terwijl het daar zou zijn vanwege de strijd tegen IS…….. Echter na het verslaan van IS, m.n. door Syrië met behulp van Rusland en Iran, stelt de VS niet te willen vertrekken uit Syrië, terwijl het daar zoals gezegd illegaal aanwezig is en intussen meerdere militaire bases heeft gebouwd……. 

Voorts heeft de VS in Afghanistan, Irak, Turkije, Saoedi-Arabië en Bahrein een flink aantal militaire bases…….

Laten we hopen dat de beslissing van het beest Trump, Jeruzalem tot hoofdstad van Israël uit te roepen en de VS ambassade daar te vestigen, een dikke wig zal slaan tussen de oorlogszuchtige staten Israël en Saoedi-Arabië. Immers als deze 2 met steun van de VS terroristisch tekeer zullen gaan, bijvoorbeeld tegen Iran (waar het nu op lijkt), zullen er tienduizenden of zelfs honderdduizenden dodelijke slachtoffers vallen…..

Je had waarschijnlijk al begrepen dat Eisenkot en zijn Saoedische vrienden in feite het tegenovergestelde bedoelen, van wat ze met veel goor lef durven te beweren, aan tactiek die vervolmaakt werd door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS……

Het volgende bericht werd op 16 november jl. op Anti-Media geplaatst.

Israeli
Military Chief Warns of Iran Takeover in Unprecedented Saudi
Interview

November
16, 2017 at 7:45 am

Written
by 
Middle
East Eye

(MEE) — Israel’s
military chief of staff said in an interview Thursday that his
country was prepared to cooperate with Saudi Arabia to face
Iran’s plans “to control the Middle East.”

In
an unprecedented interview with Saudi media, Gadi Eisenkot, a
lieutenant general, said that Iran wanted to create a “Shia
crescent from Lebanon to Iran and then from the Gulf to the Red Sea.”

We
are ready to exchange experience with the moderate Arab countries and
exchange intelligence information to face Iran,” he told Elaph,
a Saudi-run news site.

Asked
whether information was shared with Saudi Arabia recently, he
said “we are ready to share information if necessary. There are
many common interests between us and them.”

He
pointed out Saudi Arabia and Israel had never been to war.

Israel
and Saudi Arabia have no official diplomatic ties and the
interview marks the first time a senior military officer was
interviewed by a media outlet in the kingdom.

Israel’s
army confirmed the contents of the interview.

Eisenkot
added that Israel had “no intention of initiating a conflict with
Hezbollah in Lebanon and reaching a war, but we cannot accept
strategic threats to Israel there.

I
am very happy with the calm on both sides of the border, which has
lasted 11 years. On the other hand, we see Iranian attempts to
escalate.”

Both
Israel and Saudi Arabia have long had close ties to Western
governments and were on the same side in the Cold War. Nevertheless,
support for the Palestinian cause and opposition to Israeli control
of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem has meant the two countries have
never had relations.

However,
the rising influence of Iran in the Middle East has alarmed Saudi
Arabia and led to much behind-the-scenes coordination, as well as a
few public signs of thawing relations.

In
June, Israel’s Channel 2 hosted a Saudi Arabian guest on their
channel for the first time.

The
interview with Abdulhameed Hakim, director of the Middle East
Research Institute in Jeddah, direct from Saudi, was a first for
Israeli television.

Hakim
discussed the breaking off of ties with Qatar, who Saudi and other
Gulf states have accused of supporting “terrorism” and moving
closer to Iran.

He
also said that there must be no space in the region for groups that
want to use religion to achieve political goals, specifically
mentioning Hamas.

By MEE
and agencies
 /
Republished with permission / 
Middle
East Eye
 / Report
a typo

========================================

* Waarom Eisenkot in het Nederlands ‘wordt vertaald’ als Eizenkot is me een totaal raadsel, klinkt het te Duits of zo??

** Zie: ‘CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië ‘vecht tegen terreur’, die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd……..

Zie ook: ‘Netanyahu: Israël heeft ‘meerdere dozijnen’ terreuraanslagen wereldwijd voorkomen…… Nu nog de heftigste terreur aanpakken: die van Israël tegen de Palestijnen!

        en: ‘Israël laat alweer haar ware terreur gezicht zien: IS kan tijdelijke ‘geallieerde worden’ in de strijd tegen Iran en Hezbollah………

       en: ‘IS verklaart Hamas de oorlog, opvallend kort nadat een Israëlische veiligheidsdienst IS als eventuele bondgenoot tegen Iran aanwees……..

       en: ‘Israël ondersteunt IS, aldus de Israëlische ex-minister van Defensie Ya’alon………….

       en: ‘The United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia Created and Funded ISIS

       en: ‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..

       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………

       en: ‘Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen……‘ (klik ook de links onder dat bericht)

       en: ‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

       en: ‘VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………

       en: ‘CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

       en: ‘Rutte en Koenders verantwoordelijk voor wapenleveranties aan IS!!

       en: ‘CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

       en: ‘Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ (intussen heeft de VS ‘Al Qaida Syrië’ van de zwarte lijst met terreurorganisaties gehaald!!)

       en: ‘Van Baalen (VVD EU topgraaier) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren‘ (klik op de links in dat bericht voor meer schrijven over de hypocriete propaganda tegen Iran)

       en: ‘Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…’

       en: ‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren

       en: ‘Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie

Trump administratie manipuleert de bevolking middels ‘fake news’ richting oorlog met Iran……………..

Het volgende artikel, geschreven door Adam Johnson Op ‘FAIR‘, ontving ik gisteren via Anti-Media.

Johnson betoogt dat het vreemd is te zien hoe de Trump administratie van uur tot uur via een slechte plot de reguliere (massa-) media manipuleert en hoe die media als een kip zonder kop een waanzinnig verhaal overnemen als was het de waarheid…… Kortom: alweer komt een fiks deel van de reguliere media met nepnieuws (of ‘fake news’ zo u wilt)………………….

De Trump administratie heeft ‘veiligheidsaanklagers’ van justitie opgedragen te zoeken naar alles wat maar stinkt in verband met Iran…… Dit daar de Trump administratie de sancties tegen Iran verder wil opvoeren, maar daar wel een reden voor moet hebben…… Ronduit schandalig natuurlijk, daar de aanklagers worden gebruikt voor een smerig politiek spel van Trump en z’n militaire junta, vandaar ook dat een paar klokkenluiders deze zaak naar buiten brachten.

Behoorlijk vreemd, zeker als je bedenkt dat de Trump administratie Iran zonder enig bewijs beschuldigde van het zich niet houden aan de eerder met Obama gesloten nucleaire deal (de zogenaamde: Iran Deal) en daarop opnieuw sancties instelde. Dit deed de VS zonder overleg te plegen met de andere partijen (zoals de EU) die meewerkten aan het tot stand komen van deze deal (Iran zou afzien van verrijking van uranium, als beloning daarvoor zouden de sancties tegen dat land worden opgeheven)….

En waar gaat hem om beste bezoeker? Wel simpel: men stelt o.a. dat een Iraanse man HBO en dan m.n. haar site van Game of Thrones heeft gehackt……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ‘Zo de waard is vertrouwt deze haar gasten’, zullen we maar denken, immers welk land zou zo gek zijn daadwerkelijk energie te steken in het hacken van een tv serie??? Juist: alleen de VS!!

Het is als met Noord-Korea dat Sony zou hebben gehackt, een zaak waarvoor nooit de bewijzen boven tafel zijn gekomen……

Zijne kwaadaardigheid Mike Pompeo die momenteel de CIA leidt was eerder al bezig om middels delen uit rapporten aan elkaar te plakken en zo te bewijzen dat Osama Bin Laden en Al Qaida een band hadden/hebben met Iran…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Bin Laden en ‘zijn’ Al Qaida zijn van soennitische huize en die geloofsrichting in de islam is de doodsvijand van de sjiieten en daarmee van het sjiitische Iran…….

Lullig genoeg geeft dit eens te meer aan dat de VS uit is op oorlog met Iran, daarin werkt de VS samen met de reli-fascistische dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië en de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël…… NB de 3 grote agressors in het Midden-Oosten, dit in tegenstelling tot Iran!

Lees het volgende ontluisterende verhaal en zie hoe de VS niet alleen het eigen volk bedondert, maar ook de rest van de westerse landen, die alles wat de VS doet en zegt, zelfs als de leugens er dik bovenop liggen, als zaligmakend overnemen:

Trump Administration
Plays Media Like Fiddle on Iran/HBO Hacking Story

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Trump Administration Plays Media Like Fiddle on Iran/HBO Hacking Story

Een beeld uit de serie Game of Thrones (waarvan het eerste seizoen ver achterblijft bij de kwaliteit van de latere seizoenen, ‘dit zal wel te danken zijn aan hacks van Putin….’)

ADAM
JOHNSON

NOVEMBER
24, 2017

It’s rare to see
evidence of an administration plot to manipulate the media unfolding
in real time, but such is the case this week—and thus far,
corporate media have taken the bait hook, line, and sinker.

The Washington
Post
 reported
Sunday (
11/19/17)
that the Trump Justice Department had been ordering national security
prosecutors to single out cases involving Iranian nationals to help
push for new sanctions on Iran. The 
Post’s
Devlin Barrett, citing Justice Department officials, laid out the
strategy (emphasis added):

Last month, national security prosecutors at the Justice Department were told to look at any ongoing investigations involving Iran or Iranian nationals with an eye toward making them public.


The push to announce Iran-related cases has caused internal alarm, these people said, with some law enforcement officials fearing that senior Justice Department officials want to reveal the cases because the Trump administration would like Congress to impose new sanctions on Iran. A series of criminal cases could increase pressure on lawmakers to act, these people said.


Some federal law enforcement officials have also voiced concerns that announcing the cases, rather than keeping them under seal, could imperil ongoing investigative work or make it harder to catch suspects who might travel out of Iran, according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing investigations.

Here we have several
insiders effectively whistleblowing on the Trump DoJ* that its
national security investigations are being politicized to advance a
hawkish policy agenda. Under a “normal” presidency, this would
likely be a major scandal, but under Scandal-a-Day Trump, it hardly
registered notice.

What’s perhaps more
shocking is that numerous major media outlets—either ignorant of or
indifferent to the Post’s revelations—took the bait,
reporting about an “Iranian” hack of HBO without
noting the Trump DoJ’s cynical motives:

  • LA
    Times 
    (11/21/17): “Iranian
    Man Charged With Hacking 
    HBO and
    Leaking 
    Game
    of Thrones
     Information”

  • BuzzFeed (11/21/17) “Let
    The Puns Begin: ‘Winter Has Come’ to the Iranian Who
    Pirated 
    HBO‘s Game
    of Thrones

  • Reuters (11/21/17):
    “US Prosecutors Charge Iranian in 
    Game
    of Thrones
     Hack”

  • New
    York 
    Daily
    News 
    (11/21/17):
    “Iranian Hacker Charged With Stealing 
    Game
    of Thrones
     Scripts
    to Extort 
    HBO for
    $6M in Bitcoin”

  • Guardian (11/21/17):
    “US Prosecutors Charge Iranian With 
    Game
    of Thrones
    Hack”

  • New
    York Times 
    (11/21/17):
    “Iranian Hacker Charged in 
    HBO Hacking
    That Included ‘Game of Thrones’ Script”

All
of these reports were 36–48 hours 
after the Post broke
the story that the targeting of Iranian nationals was a deliberate
political ploy by Trump to single out their alleged crimes for the
entirely unrelated purposes of stoking a war panic, imposing harsher
sanctions, and doing what the administration has long—and 
quite
openly
—wanted
to do: get out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise
known as the Iran Deal. But none of these reports mention this
crucial piece of context, context that would put the sensational
headlines about Iranians hijacking our precious pop culture assets
into proper perspective.

Most of the articles had
a throwaway line explaining that Justice wasn’t technically
implicating the Iranian government, but it was heavily implied they
were involved, with citations of the defendant’s “links” to the
Iranian military, and one or two paragraphs devoted to previous
Iranian and North Korean government hacks.

After noting the alleged
hacker had “previously worked as a hacker for the Iranian
military,“ and spending roughly 100 words on historical examples of
government’s hacking, LA Times’ Ryan Faughnder did
note in paragraph 11 that “the indictment did not say the Iranian
government was behind the HBO hack.”

The Daily
News 
skipped the caveat all together and strongly suggested
the defendant was working on behalf of the Iranian government,
writing he was a “member of the Iran-supported Turk Black Hat
Security team” and “had worked on behalf of the Iranian armed
forces to attack military and nuclear software systems, as well as
Israeli infrastructure.” The DoJ’s reluctant admission that he
had no connection to the government didn’t merit a mention.

One
outlet, 
NBC
News
 (11/21/17),
actually added the context of potential DoJ bias after initially
omitting it and hyping up the Iran connection, noting prosecutors
denied the allegations. (The archived version can be seen 
here.)

Clearly NBC editors
realized this context was crucial. How many other people around the
world have committed similar crimes? How many hacks of this nature
are currently under FBI investigation? If the number is 100 and the
Trump DoJ, under pressure from anti-Iran ideologues in the
administration, selectively highlighted this case to paint a broader
narrative, certainly this would put the story in a whole new light.

This
isn’t to necessarily blame specific journalists writing up the
DoJ’s press conference. It’s possible they missed the 
Washington
Post
’s
report on political corruption at the DoJ on Iran. Certainly, no
reporter can know all relevant reports all the time. But it does
speak to a much broader problem of the media taking FBI press
releases at face value, and declining to contextualize the broader
political implications. (As FAIR has noted
previously—
4/1/157/1/15—this
usually manifests in treating every manufactured “terror” plot as
the Lindbergh Baby case.) But to those who do know—and those
covering the case moving forward—certainly the blatant
politicization of Trump administration prosecutions should be put
front and center in any subsequent coverage.

Evidence
of anti-Iran positioning at Justice comes on the heels of Trump’s
CIA head Mike Pompeo 
cherry-picking
files
 
captured
at the assassination of Osama bin Laden in an effort to link Iran to
the terrorist mastermind and Al Qaeda to Iran—then giving the only
advance copy of this report to a partisan anti-Iran think tank, the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for 
heavy
spin
.
It was a highly unusual move that ex-Obama official and ex-CIA
analyst Ned Price argued on 
Twitter and
in an article in 
The
Atlantic
 (11/8/17)
was a clear attempt to undermine Obama’s Iran deal. “The ploy is
transparent despite the fact that the newly released documents don’t
tell us anything we didn’t already know,” Price said on social
media:

What’s not as transparent are the motives of Pompeo, the administration’s leading and most influential Iran hawk…. These moves suggest he’s reverting to the Bush administration’s playbook: Emphasize terrorist ties as a rationale for regime change.

To anyone paying
attention to the bigger picture, the trend is obvious.

Given
the Trump admin’s open and 
well-documented attempts
to undermine the Iran deal and build up tensions with Iran, any
gestures against the country should, at the very least, be
contextualized as part of this broader propaganda effort—especially
when confirmation of this effort is relayed by DoJ officials
themselves in real time. Thus far, the media is taking DoJ and CIA
moves at face value and not presenting these stories as what they
clearly are: marketing collateral in a broader PR push for sanctions
and potentially war against Iran.

* DoJ: Deaprtment of Justice.

LAT: Iranian man charged with hacking HBO and leaking 'Game of Thrones' information

Atlantic: Why Mike Pompeo Released More bin Laden Files

Zie ook: ‘‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..‘ (klik ook op de labels onder dat bericht)

Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………

BBC World Service radio kwam gistermiddag met ongezouten oorlogshitserij tegen Iran en de Houthi rebellen in Jemen……

Afgelopen zaterdag werd er gemeld dat de Houthi rebellen een raket hadden afgevuurd op Riyad. De raket zou in de lucht zijn vernietigd. Volgens Saoedi-Arabië, dat godbetert een genocide tegen de sjiitische bevolking uitvoert in Jemen, zou de raket vanuit Iran Jemen zijn binnengesmokkeld en daar in elkaar zijn gezet door Hezbollah en de Iraanse Nationale Garde……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De Iraanse Nationale Garde heeft Hezbollah niet nodig om een raket in elkaar te zetten, dat kan men prima zelf, trouwens de technologie voor een echte raket is te hoog gegrepen voor de mensen van Hezbollah…..

Nog vreemder was eigenlijk de aantijging van S-A dat de raket Jemen zou zijn binnengesmokkeld, immers S-A en de VS beschuldigen Iran ervan hele scheepsladingen met wapens naar Jemen te hebben getransporteerd…… Dat is vanwege de gecombineerde controle van de VS en S-A totaal onmogelijk, men heeft schepen uit Iran met humanitaire goederen tegengehouden en daarover gezegd dat ze afgeladen waren met wapens, zonder daar ook maar één nanometer bewijs voor te leveren, zoals er ook geen bewijs is voor de aanwezigheid van Iraanse Nationale Gardisten in Jemen……. Wel voeren S-A en de VS daar illegaal oorlog tegen de sjiitische bevolking…….

De uitleg op de NOS site is ook al ziekmakend gekleurd. Zo zouden de Houthi rebellen in opstand zijn gekomen tegen de legale regering van Jemen, zonder daar bij te vertellen, dat de ‘afgezette’ (zelf opgestapte) president IS en Al Qaida terroristen onderdak verleende in Jemen….. Terreurgroepen die daarop tekeer gingen tegen de sjiitische bevolking in Jemen, zelfs in moskeeën…… Bovendien stapte de president zelf op en maakte pas weer aanspraak op het presidentschap na druk van S-A, dat daarop ‘legaal’ kon ingrijpen in Jemen………

Het is duidelijk: men is op zoek naar een stok om de hond mee te slaan*, dit keer een ‘tweelinghond’, t.w.: Iran en Hezbollah in Libanon…….. Om dit ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk te maken, stelde S-A dat het dit afschieten van een raket als een oorlogsverklaring van Hezbollah en Iran aan haar eigen adres ziet……..

Uiteraard is de afgeschoten raket, een veredelde vuurpijl, zoals die vanuit de Gazastrook op Israël worden afgeschoten, raketten die nooit één direct slachtoffer maakten, anders dan oude mensen die er een hartaanval van opliepen……..

Iran heeft geen belang bij een oorlog met S-A en Iraanse raketten, als Iran die al zou leveren aan de Houthi’s en Hezbollah, treffen wel degelijk doel, daar de Iraanse rakettechnologie bepaald niet meer in de kinderschoenen staat…..

De verslaggever van BBC World Service, Jonathan Marcus lepelde de ‘feiten’  op, zoals die door Saoedi-Arabië werden aangereikt…… Dat S-A ondertussen bezig is met een genocide, werd uiteraard niet gemeld door Marcus, noch dat meer dan 100.000 kinderen honger lijden en op de rand van sterven verkeren……. Alles veroorzaakt door S-A dat zoals gezegd middels bombardementen en het blokkeren van Jemen voor humanitaire hulpgoederen, een genocide uitvoert in dat land, dit met hulp van de VS en een aantal arabische landen………

Deze verslaggeving van Marcus is van een ongelofelijk slecht niveau en kan beter worden getypeerd als Saoedische propaganda, of anders gezegd oorlogshitserij en is daarom niet voor niets totaal ongeloofwaardig! Hoewel gezegd moet worden, dat dit prima past in de afhankelijke, gekleurde berichtgeving waar de BBC zich al lange tijd schuldig aan maakt……….

Walgelijk!!!

* Zie: ‘Libanon: premier al-Hariri treedt af, ‘toevallig’ tijdens zijn bezoek aan Riyad……

Zie
ook
: ‘Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen…..

       en: ‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

       en: ‘Jemen,
de hel op aarde >> Saoedi-Arabië en de VS (plus hulp van GB)
plegen een genocide

       en:
Genocide
op Houthi’s in Jemen: daders Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en de Arabische
Emiraten………….


       en: ‘Media
Silent As Saudi Arabia Devastates Yemen Into Famine


       en: ‘Giro
555: honger en oorlog in Jemen: waarom worden Saoedi-Arabië, de VS
en GB niet aan de paal genageld wegens enorme oorlogsmisdaden??

       en:
Jemen:
hongersnood veroorzaakt door Saoedi-Arabië en VS >> weg de
aandacht van westerse reguliere media en politici………

       en:
Mad
dog Mattis stuurt nog meer VS militairen richting Jemen, zodat de
hongersnood daar nog ‘meer vruchten’ kan afwerpen……

       en:
Jemen:
elke 10 minuten sterft een kind onnodig >> verantwoordelijken:
Saoedi-Arabië, de VS en GB

       en:
Saoedische
coalitie vermoord met 2 bombardementen op Jemen, 9 vrouwen en 1
kind……… Aanvallen gesteund door het westen…….

 
 

       en:
Jemen
en Saoedi-Arabië: leugens van de ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS voor ‘het
goede doel……….’

 
      
en:
Ploumen
acht het mogelijk dat Nederlandse wapensystemen worden gebruikt door
S.A. in Jemen…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

 
      
en:
Saoedi-Arabië
bombardeert begrafenis ceremonie in Jemen, VS ‘heroverweegt’
wapenleveranties………

 
      
en:
Witte
Huis juristen waarschuwden Obama al in 2015 voor aanklachten wegens
oorlogsmisdaden

 
      
en:
(met mogelijkheid tot vertaling in ‘Dutch’): ‘
U.S.
and U.K. Continue to Participate in War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni
Civilians

 
      
en:
VS
heeft reden gefabriceerd om de Houthi rebellen in Jemen te
bombarderen…….

 
      
en:
Ali
Al Shihabi: Saoedi-Arabie begaat geen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen…….
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

 
      
en:
Merkel
verrader van haar seksegenoten in S-A en ondersteuner grootschalige
Saoedische terreur in Jemen…… Voorwaar een prestatie van
formaat!!

 
     
en:
Saoedi-Arabië
moordt eigen sjiitische burgers uit….. Tijd voor een
handelsdelegatie met Koenders, Rutte en W.A.!!

  

 
     
en:
Jemen
300.000 cholera patiënten en de valse berichtgeving door de westerse
reguliere media…….

 
     en: ‘BBC
met opmerkelijk nieuws uit Jemen: een openbare executie, maar geen
woord over de honger en de cholera veroorzaakt door S-A……..

 
     
en:
Trump
steunt Saoedi-Arabië verder in haar barbaarse terreur tegen het
verhongerende Jemenitische volk, o.a. met een enorme wapendeal……

       en:
BBC
leugens, ofwel ‘fake news’ over de smerige oorlog tegen het volk van
Jemen……

 
     
en:
Alan
Johnston (BBC): de cholera uitbraak in Jemen is te danken aan de
burgeroorlog…… AUW!!

 
     en: ‘Jemen:
EU moet wapenleveranties aan Saoedi-Arabië verbieden

 
     
en:
‘Een
lofzang op de grootsheid van gods eigen VS, haar wapens en het
goddelijk ingrijpen van S-A in Jemen!’

 
     en: ‘VS
zet nu officieel troepen in op de grond om te vechten in het door
oorlog, honger en cholera verscheurd Jemen, de Syrië truc op
herhaling………. 

 
     en: ‘Koenders
(PvdA) en wat hij liever niet wil dat u weet over Jemen,
Saoedi-Arabië en de VS………..

 


       en:
Koenders
nog steeds stil: Saoedi-Arabië bezig met etnische zuivering op eigen
bodem en nog steeds levert het westen wapens aan terreurstaat
S-A….


 
     
en:
Saoedi-Arabië
heeft terreur op Jemen verder opgevoerd, een toename van de
bombardementen en de wereld kijkt nog steeds weg………..


       en:
Saoedi-Arabië
onderzoekt eigen oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
ha! ha!

       en:
Koenders
eindelijk aan het werk! Saoedi-Arabië dreigt met economische
sancties, ofwel chantage!


       en:
De
reguliere media verzwijgen willens en wetens de verantwoordelijkheid
voor duizenden moorden in Jemen begaan door de VS en S-A……..


       en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië en VS nu ook verantwoordelijk voor difterie in Jemen, aandacht van media alleen voor ‘Houthi raketten……’

        en: ‘VS senator beschuldigt zijn ‘land’ van oorlogsmisdaden in Jemen…….

        en: ‘Saoedi-Arabië heeft oorlog nodig om grote tekorten te verdoezelen, de VS en GB helpen graag ‘een handje…’

NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen ‘een denkbeeldige vijand’, ofwel Rusland……….

DE NAVO is van 16 t/m 27 oktober bezig met een grootscheepse oefening in een aanval met nucleaire wapens tegen Rusland…….. Deze oefening heet ‘Steadfast Noon’ (ha! ha! ha!) en schijnt volgens ‘deskundigen’ eigenlijk elk jaar te worden gehouden……. Nooit van gehoord, dergelijke agressieve oefeningen, waarin het westen zich voorbereid op de vernietiging van de aarde zoals wij die kennen…….

Men zou dit jaar weinig aandacht aan deze oefening hebben willen geven, vanwege de te verwachten tegenstand van de bevolking aldus de Wall Street Journal……. De bevolking in de VS mag blij zijn, dat ze er nog iets over horen, hier kwam ik het toevallig op een buitenlandse site tegen en als ik me niet vergis op het blog van Stan van Houcke…… Ach ja, dergelijk nieuws past niet in de belachelijke pogingen om zoveel mogelijk positief nieuws te brengen, tja dan moet je mensen niet ongerust maken over dergelijke schandalige provocaties van de VS en haar oorlogshond NAVO aan het adres van Rusland……. (overigens doen ook Nederlandse F16’s mee aan deze waanzinnige oefening…..) En dan maar zeuren over het veel te kleine budget voor het zwaar geld verspillende ministerie van defensie, uh ik bedoel van nucleaire oorlog……

Trouwens die F16’s vielen toch met bossen uit de lucht? Daarvoor moesten we toch de peperdure JSF aanschaffen? De JSF een straalvliegtuig dat de aanduiding  ‘straaljager’ niet mag dragen, vanwege de vele tekortkomingen t.o.v. echte moderne straaljagers, het onding kan zich nog net met de A-10 Thunderbolt straaljager uit de 70er jaren meten……. Dit tegen een prijs van meer dan 4,5 miljard euro aan belastinggeld…….

In het eerste artikel van ‘EIR’ onder dit schrijven heeft men nog enigszins kritiek op deze oefening, hoewel daar onterecht kritiek wordt geuit op de Russische oefening Zapad 2017. Het artikel daaronder van The DRIVE is pas echt onvervalste oorlogshitserij en één grote lobby voor de VS, de NAVO en het militair-industrieel complex, kortom een berg leugens waar je koud van wordt……… Rusland is de kwaaie pier die ongelofelijk agressief tekeergaat in Oost-Europa……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Terwijl de NAVO de ene grootschalige militaire oefening na de andere houdt langs de Russische grens, een grens waar de NAVO, een agressieve oorlogszuchtige organisatie, ver van weg had moeten blijven, dit volgens de afspraak die in 1991 werd gesloten met de Russische (Sovjet) president Gorbatsjov……

De VS heeft een opstand en een coup gekocht (met 4,5 miljard dollar!!) en mogelijk gemaakt in Oekraïne, maar Rusland is agressief bezig…….. De VS en de EU vinden het prima dat een neonazi-junta o.l.v. de enorm corrupte Porosjenko de inwoners van Oost-Oekraïne belaagt met neonazi-bataljons, maar Rusland is agressief bezig…….. Als je de westerse reguliere media en het overgrote deel van de westerse politici hoort, zou Rusland haar leger hebben samengetrokken in Oost-Oekraïne….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als Rusland zich daar werkelijk had opgehouden en gevochten, waren de neonazi’s, inclusief de Porosjenko kliek allang het land uit gelazerd door de Russen!!

Nee. de VS is een geweldig land dat deze eeuw: -‘nog maar’ 4 illegale oorlogen is begonnen, -minstens 3 coups heeft georganiseerd en geregisseerd, -een onbekend aantal geheime (militaire) CIA missies heeft uitgevoerd in het buitenland, -een enorm aantal mensen standrechtelijk geëxecuteerd middels drones, waarbij voor meer dan 90% niet eens verdachte mensen, dus vooral vrouwen en kinderen, werden vermoord…. en tot slot -bijvoorbeeld een land als Venezuela financieel naar de knoppen heeft geholpen, d.m.v. een smerige economische oorlog (= zware terreur!!)……. In totaal heeft de VS (met NAVO hulp) deze eeuw al meer dan 2 miljoen mensen vermoord……… Ondanks dat Rusland dit soort enorme misdaden niet heeft begaan en qua doden zelfs niet in de schaduw kan staan van de VS, wordt Rusland als agressief aangewezen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Terug naar de nucleaire militaire oefening: vergeet daarbij niet, dat de VS vorig jaar heeft aangekondigd, dat het kernwapens niet langer als een afschrikkingswapen ziet, maar als een wapen waarmee een eerste aanval moet kunnen worden uitgevoerd…… Nadat hare kwaadaardigheid May medio vorig jaar aan het bewind kwam in Groot-Brittannië, stelde zij hetzelfde……… Daar was uiteraard amper aandacht voor in de reguliere westerse media en bij de neoliberale westerse politici*, maar toen Rusland een paar maanden na May als reactie hetzelfde durfde te zeggen, leek het wel of de doos van Pandora was opengetrokken, niet door de VS en GB, maar door Rusland, de media en politici gingen tekeer alsof Armageddon was aangebroken…..

Daarover gesproken: in het tweede artikel ook aandacht voor de Russische oefening Zapad 2017, die NB eens in de 4 jaar wordt gehouden. Voorafgaand aan die oefening sloegen de voornoemde media en politici op tilt. Deze oefening zou namelijk de opmaat zijn naar een Russische aanval op Oostelijk deel van de EU……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als u het niet heeft gevolgd, zal het u niet verbazen dat de reguliere media toen bomvol anti-Russische lulkoek stonden……. Lulkoek die u ook in het tweede artikel hieronder tegenkomt.

Nu oefent Nederland dus mee aan de vernietiging van onze aarde en dat van uw en mijn centen…………

Executive Intelligence Review(ha! ha! ha!)

NATO Conducts Nuclear Military Exercise in Semi-Secrecy

Oct. 18, 2017 (EIRNS)—NATO has begun its annual nuclear exercise, “Steadfast Noon,” if not in secret, certainly with a very low profile, since it was not loudly announced as NATO exercises usually are. The exercise began yesterday at the Kleine Brogel air base in Belgium and the Buchel air base in Germany, two of about a half-dozen air bases in Europe where the U.S. stores 150-200 B-61 nuclear bombs. During the exercise, crews with Belgian F-16s and German Tornados, and likely also from the U.S. and Italy, will practice conducting nuclear missions. Polish F-16s and Czech Air Force Gripens are also thought to be participating in support roles.

The low profile of the exercise, explains the Wall Street Journal, is that NATO’s nuclear drills are sensitive, due to the domestic politics of a number of participating countries. A NATO official told the Journal that nuclear exercises remain a “delicate balancing act among allies,” with some countries uncomfortable with public discussions and others wanting acknowledgment of the deterrent’s importance. The official said continuing these annual preparations are vital, especially as geopolitical concerns increase.

Hans Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, in a blog posting yesterday, notes NATO’s hypocrisy in refusing to openly acknowledge Steadfast Noon.

“The secrecy of the exercise is interesting because NATO only a few weeks ago complained that Russia was not being transparent about its Zapad exercise,” Kristensen writes. “Seems like both sides could do better.”

==============================================

Hier dezelfde aankondiging in ‘iets andere woorden’ van de site theDRIVE met de ‘pakkende ondertitel’: The WARZONE

NATO Members Train to Nuke a “Fictional” Enemy After Major Russian Drills

(U ziet het al in de kop van dit artikel, men liegt er niet om, dus geen verdediging tegen een aanval met kernwapens, maar ronduit een militaire oefening in het aanvallen van de vijand met kernwapens. Houdt u vast: smerige oorlogshitserij d.m.v. een hele berg leugens over Rusland, waar de NAVO en de VS ‘het onschuldige lam zijn……..’)

NATO
has quietly begun an annual exercise to practice how it might 
launch
a nuclear attack
 during
a crisis. The drills follow massive Russian war games along its
borders with the alliance, including a test of new 
nuclear
intercontinental ballistic missile
,
as well as increasing 
reports
of electronic
 and cyber
attacks
 likely
originating in Russia.

On
Oct. 16, 2017, NATO personnel in Belgium and Germany kicked off this
latest iteration of the alliance’s main nuclear deterrence
exercise, nicknamed Steadfast Noon. Publicly available U.S. military
documents describe its main goal simply as “operations plan
validation.” This year’s iteration involves operations at Kleine
Brogel Air Base in Belgium and Büchel Air Base in Germany, where the
United States maintains 
stores
of B61 nuclear bombs
.

The
North Atlantic bloc rarely highlights the event and generally omits
it from publicly available lists of upcoming exercises. The drills
involve an entirely “fictional scenario,” one anonymous NATO
official 
told The
Wall Street Journal
.

It’s
hard not to see the exercise in the context of the Kremlin’s
increasingly revanchist foreign policy, though. Since Russian troops
seized control Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014 and subsequently
began actively supporting separatists seeking to break away from the
central government in Kiev, NATO has adopted an increasingly more
militarized posture along its eastern and southern frontiers. A
proposed drawdown of American nuclear weapons on the continent has
effectively 
been
on indefinite hold
 ever
since.

In
September 2017, approximately 13,000 troops from Russia and Belarus,
conducted drills along the same borders as part of 
the
Zapad 2017 exercise
.
Zapad, which means “West,” occurs once every four years.
Officials in Moscow insist it is defensive in nature, but it focuses
on large scale, high intensity warfare, something that sounds a lot
like practicing for a conflict with the western alliance.

In
addition, the Russians followed up the massive conventional
demonstration with a show of nuclear force, including
intercontinental ballistic missile tests by its Strategic Missile
Forces. One of these involved a weapon with an 
all-new
warhead design
 that
seems intended to defeat ballistic missile shields such as the one
the NATO is presently developing. Though experts debate how 
serious
the danger is
,
there is a real concern that the Kremlin has adopted a doctrine of
escalating
to de-escalate
,”
as well, which could involve a limited nuclear strike, further
underscoring the continued importance of deterrence.

On
top of that, there have also been an increasing number of reported
incidents of 
electronic
and cyber harassment
 against
alliance members and their other European partners. These almost
certainly originate in Russia and highlight the tense nature of the
situation despite the lack of any active conflict.

We
don’t know what exactly goes into the actual Steadfast Noon drills,
regardless of whether the scenario is focused on Russian threats or
not, but the main goal is undoubtedly to run through what can only be
heavily regimented procedures. Since the end of the Cold War, the
United States has kept B61 nuclear gravity bombs at bases such as
Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium and Büchel Air Base in Germany.

There
are approximately 150 to 200 of the weapons spread out between those
bases, as well as additional locations in Italy, the Netherlands, and
Turkey, with the latter location 
becoming
increasingly controversial
.

The
bombs are technically “tactical nuclear weapons,” though experts
and advocates 
routinely
debate
 the validity
of this term
 and
whether any nuclear weapon can be seen as a limited, tactical tool.
Crews can set the tactical versions of the so-called 
“dial-a-yield”
B61
 to
explode with the force of anywhere from 0.3 to 170 kilotons of TNT,
that upper limit being more than eight times more powerful than
the 
Fat
Man bomb
 the
United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. The United States is
presently working on a new 
B61
Mod 12 version
 that
will be a dual-purpose, tactical and strategic design that
incorporates a GPS guidance system and a deep penetrating design.

As
well as keeping those weapons forward deployed, the U.S. government
maintained agreements with all of the hosts, save Turkey, to
potentially share those bombs in an emergency. After an American
commander released the weapons to those countries, Belgian and Dutch
F-16 fighter jets and German and Italian Tornado multi-role combat
aircraft – described as “dual-capable” conventional and nuclear
aircraft for treaty purposes – would deliver them onto the
specified targets. There are no American aircraft stationed at either
Kleine Brogel or Büchel.

For
the alliance to conduct a nuclear attack, American personnel at these
bases would need to receive and input the appropriate codes into the
B61’s 
Permissive
Action Link
,
a fail-safe device to prevent unauthorized use, before then signing
control of the weapons over to European crews. A simultaneous
authorization from the host country’s government is reportedly
necessary, too.

The
exercise likely has conventional components, as well, since any
nuclear-armed jets speeding toward their targets could need to refuel
on the way to and from their targets. Since the present European
dual-capable aircraft aren’t low-observable in design, other
elements would need to clear the way first, which could include
physically destroying enemy air defenses or launching coordinated
electronic or cyber attacks to disrupt those networks. NATO even has
a specific term for the aerial companion missions, 
SNOWCAT,
or Support of Nuclear Operations With Conventional Air Tactics.

But
the lack of fanfare surrounding Steadfast Noon, which by all accounts
should be a very visible signal to potential enemies, highlights the
alliance’s complicated relations with nuclear weapons. NATO has
long had to tempter its clear desire to present a strong deterrent to
potential opponents, especially an increasingly aggressive Russia,
with consistent domestic political and public opposition to the
presence of nuclear weapons in much of Europe.**

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*  Het overgrote deel van het voor het bedrijfsleven lobbyende politieke geteisem, zelfs ‘sociaaldemocraten’, voeren een inhumaan, ijskoud neoliberaal beleid………

** Voor de rest van het tweede artikel, en meer ongebreidelde anti-Russische propaganda, klik op deze link, daar
vindt u ook filmpjes en foto’s van vliegend militair NAVO tuig en massavernietigingswapens…… 

Zie ook:

VS zendt tegen wil van de bevolking in 1.500 militairen naar Duitsland, opbouw voor WOIII?

VS vergroot doelbewust de spanningen met Rusland: een enorme VS troepenopbouw langs de Russische grens……….

Rechtse denktank waarschuwt voor een groot risico op een kernoorlog met Rusland…..

VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een ‘cyberaanval…….’
Estland stopt militaire oefening na een ‘vergissing’ >> de lancering van een raket in het grensgebied met Rusland……

VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen…………..

VN chef Guterres geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat……

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De VS
op nucleair oorlogspad: B52 nucleaire bommenwerpers, voor ‘t eerst in 26
jaar, klok rond inzetbaar………
.

Om de
wereld nog eens te laten zien, dat de VS schijt heeft aan vrede en alle
ontwapeningsverdragen, vooral die voor nucleaire wapens*, heeft
het Pentagon na 26 jaar, met instemming van het 666 beest Trump, besloten met
atoomwapens geladen B52 bommenwerpers weer de klokrond ‘gemobiliseerd’ te houden……..

Als
reden geeft het Pentagon onder meer aan dat het nu eenmaal een
gevaarlijke wereld is…… ha! ha! ha! ha!ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Inderdaad
het is een gevaarlijke wereld en daar is maar een ‘land’
verantwoordelijk voor, de grootste terreurentiteit die de aarde ooit
zag: de VS!!!

De wapenindustrie en de aandeelhouders kunnen feestvieren met deze beslissing van het Pentagon en Trumps junta (gedomineerd door militairen…)………………

Lees het
volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, geplaatst op Zero Hedge (o.a.
verspreid via Anti-Media):

For
The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour
Alert

by Tyler
Durden

Oct
23, 2017 6:39 AM

The
unexpected decision by President Trump to 
amend
an emergency Sept 11 order signed 
by
George W Bush, allowing the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired
air force pilots to address what the Pentagon has decribed as “an
acute shortage of pilots” caught us by surprise. After all, this
was the first time we have heard of this particular labor shortage –
perhaps there was more to this executive order than meets the eye.
Indeed, a just released report may help explain the reasoning behind
this presidential decision.

According
to 
Defense
One, 
the
US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on
24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in
1991.

That
means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of Barksdale Air
Force Base’s 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree”
for their angular markings — could once again find several B-52s
parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a
moment’s notice
.

This
is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” 
Gen.
David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, told the publication in an
interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other U.S. Air
Force bases that support the nuclear mission. “
I
look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for
the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we
ensure we’re prepared going forward.”

Quoted
by Defense One, Goldfein and other senior defense officials stressed
that the alert order had not been given, but that preparations were
under way in anticipation that it might come. That decision would be
made by Gen. John Hyten, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or
Gen. Lori Robinson, the head of U.S. Northern Command. STRATCOM is in
charge of the military’s nuclear forces and NORTHCOM is in charge
of defending North America.

Putting
the B-52s back on alert is just one of many decisions facing the Air
Force as the U.S. military responds to a changing geopolitical
environment that includes North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear
arsenal, President Trump’s confrontational approach to Pyongyang,
and Russia’s increasingly potent and active armed forces.

Goldfein,
who is the Air Force’s top officer and a member of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, 
is
asking his force to think about new ways that nuclear weapons could
be used for deterrence, or even combat.

Quoted
by Def One, he said that “the world is a dangerous place and we’ve
got folks that are talking openly about use of nuclear weapons. It’s
no longer a bipolar world where it’s just us and the Soviet
Union. 
We’ve
got other players out there who have nuclear capability. It’s never
been more important to make sure that we get this mission
right.” 
During
his trip across the country last week, Goldfein encouraged airmen to
think beyond Cold War uses for ICBMs, bombers and nuclear cruise
missiles.

I’ve
challenged…Air Force Global Strike Command to help lead the dialog,
help with this discussion about ‘What does conventional conflict
look like with a nuclear element?’ and ‘Do we respond as a global
force if that were to occur?’ and ‘What are the options?’” he
said. “How do we think about it — how do we think about
deterrence in that environment?”


Asked
if placing B-52s back on alert — as they were for decades — would
help with deterrence, Goldfein said it’s hard to say.

Really
it depends on who, what kind of behavior are we talking about, and
whether they’re paying attention to our readiness status,” he
said
.

Meanwhile,
various improvements have already been made to prepare Barksdale —
home to the 2d Bomb Wing and Air Force Global Strike Command, which
oversees the service’s nuclear forces — 
to
return B-52s to an alert posture.
 Near
the alert pads, an old concrete building — where B-52 crews during
the Cold War would sleep, ready to run to their aircraft and take off
at a moment’s notice — is being renovated.

Inside,
beds are being installed for more than 100 crew members, more than
enough room for the crews that would man bombers positioned on the
nine alert pads outside. There’s a recreation room, with a pool
table, TVs and a shuffleboard table. Large paintings of the patches
for each squadron at Barksdale adorn the walls of a large stairway.

One
painting — a symbol of the Cold War — depicts a silhouette of a
B-52 with the words “Peace The Old Fashioned Way,” written
underneath. At the bottom of the stairwell, there is a Strategic Air
Command logo, yet another reminder of the Cold War days when American
B-52s sat at the ready on the runway outside.

Those
long-empty B-52 parking spaces will soon get visits by two nuclear
command planes, the E-4B Nightwatch and E-6B Mercury, both which will
occasionally sit alert there. During a nuclear war, the planes would
become the flying command posts of the defense secretary and STRATCOM
commander, respectively. If a strike order is given by the president,
the planes would be used to transmit launch codes to bombers, ICBMs
and submarines. At least one of the four nuclear-hardened E-4Bs —
formally called the National Airborne Operations Center, but commonly
known as the Doomsday Plane — is always on 24-hour alert.

Barksdale
and other bases with nuclear bombers are preparing to build storage
facilities for a new nuclear cruise missile that is under
development. During his trip, Goldfein received updates on the
preliminary work for a proposed replacement for the 400-plus
Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the new
long-range cruise missile.

Our
job is options,” Goldfein told Defense One’s Marcus Weisgerber. “We
provide best military advice and options for the commander and chief
and the secretary of defense. Should the STRATCOM commander require
or the NORTHCOM commander require us to [be on] a higher state of
readiness to defend the homeland, then we have to have a place to put
those forces.”

And
now that the US is preparing for immediate nuclear war readiness, all
it needs is a provocation, one which a world which has never been
more on edge over a stray tweet, may have little difficulty in
finding…

Tags:
Minuteman III
Reality

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* Al onder Obama is de VS begonnen haar nucleaire wapens te vernieuwen, nu uiteraard met grote instemming van Trump…….

Zie ook: ‘VS generaal steunt een preventieve aanval met kernwapens‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

VS zoekt stok om Iran te slaan: ‘Hezbollah beraamt aanslagen in VS…….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Alweer een ongelofelijk staaltje VS oorlogshitserij, dit keer van Nicholas Rasmussen, directeur van het National Counterterrorism Center. Volgens deze flapdrol is Hezbollah bezig met het beramen van aanslagen in de VS…….

Uiteraard wordt meteen de link gelegd met Iran dat, als je dit soort mislukte koekenbakkers moet geloven, wereldwijd terreur verspreidt en ‘de stabiliteit in het Midden-Oosten bedreigt’ ha! ha! ha! ha! Welke stabiliteit? Die van de 3 illegale oorlogen die de VS (met hulp van oorlogshond NAVO) in het Midden-Oosten voert? Waarbij ik Afghanistan tot het Midden-Oosten reken en de illegale oorlog van de VS (en de NAVO) tegen Libië buiten beschouwing laat…..

Uiteraard is Hezbollah niet van plan aanslagen te plegen in de VS, deze uitlating is dan ook niet anders dan een stok zoeken om Iran te slaan, immers dat land staat op de verlanglijst van illegale oorlogen die de VS nog van zins is te voeren……….

Het lulligst van deze zaak is wel dat de VS bij een aanval op Iran direct te maken krijgt met Rusland, een land dat laten we hopen, niet zal toestaan dat de VS het hele Midden-Oosten definitief in de fik zal steken (ook al zitten we daar nu al niet ver vanaf……)……….. Zo’n oorlog zal tot WOIII leiden……

De Israëlische fascist Lieberman, minister van Defensie in dat land, waarschuwt voor een volledige oorlog in het Midden-Oosten en zegt dat Israël er alles aan doet dit te voorkomen…… ha ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Oh vandaar dat Israël IS en andere terreurgroepen in Syrië o.a. met geweld tegen de democratische gekozen regering Assad steunt…..

Hier een bericht van Middle East Eye (MEE) dat afgelopen dinsdag werd gepubliceerd, zie verder ook het bericht van Information Clearing House, dat u via de link onder het uitstekende MEE artikel kan lezen:

Washington
says Hezbollah is plotting attacks inside the US

#InsideLebanon

US
offers multi-million dollar rewards for information leading to arrest
of two Hezbollah operatives

A
top US intelligence official warned on Tuesday of “continued
efforts” by Hezbollah to build an infrastructure for attacks
inside the United States.

“While
much of our work on the government since 9/11 has focused on al-Qaeda
and more recently ISIS [the Islamic State (IS) group], in the 20
years since Hezbollah’s designation as a terrorist organisation, we
have never taken our focus off of Hezbollah and the threat that it
represents to the homeland,” said Nicholas Rasmussen, the
director of the National Counterterrorism Center. 

Speaking
at a State Department briefing on Tuesday, Rasmussen said he
would not publicly discuss “specific or credible or imminent”
threats to US national security, but added that the intelligence
community is monitoring Hezbollah efforts to plot against the US.

He
referred to the arrest of two alleged Hezbollah 
operatives in
the United States in June.

Those
arrests serve as a stark reminder of Hezbollah’s global attack
infrastructure, as well as the group’s aspirations potentially to
carry attacks here on the homeland,” he said.

He
added that the group is “determined to give itself a potential
homeland option as a critical component of its terrorism playbook”.

Rasmussen
also announced multi-million-dollar rewards for information
leading to the capture of Hezbollah operatives Fuad Shukr and
Talal Hamiyah.

Amer
Zahr, an adjunct law professor at the University of Detroit-Mercy,
cast doubt over Ramussen’s assessment, saying that Hezbollah has
not threatened an attack on the US.

What
we do know is that the Trump administration has taken sides in the
Iran-vs-Saudi Arabia fight for power and hegemony and influence in
the Middle East,” Zahr told Middle East Eye.

This
is straight out of the Saudi Arabian playbook – riling up fear of
Iran and Iran’s subsidiaries, which is how Hezbollah is seen.”  

Zahr
added that intensifying the rhetoric against Hezbollah is linked to
Trump’s possible move to 
decertify the
Iran nuclear deal.

It
displays a really elementary and superficial understanding of the
Arab world and Muslim World. All these things are related: wanting to
decertify the Iran deal and pushing for some normalisation between
some Gulf states and Israel,” he said.

Hezbollah
chief Hassan Nasrallah recently warned Israel of “
heavy
losses

if it underestimates his organisation’s capabilities. Last month,
Israel held the largest 
military
exercise
 in
20 years along the Lebanese border in preparation for a possible war
with Hezbollah.

Meanwhile,
Israel’s Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned of an
all-out regional war in the case of a confrontation with Hezbollah.

The
next war in the north will not only be the Lebanese front, but rather
a united front made up of Syria and Lebanon,” Lieberman said. “The
Lebanese army has lost its independence and has become an integral
part of Hezbollah.”

He
added that Israel is trying to prevent the possibility of war, but
the scenario is not unlikely.

Although
Lieberman has blurred the line between Hezbollah and the Lebanese
Armed Forces, the Lebanese army has received $1.5bn in military
assistance from Washington since 2006.

Hier de link naar het originele bericht, met daarin een video (inclusief een bijzonder zwak geluid) die ik niet kan overnemen (een Twitterbericht van opperploert Tillerson over één van z’n maten in terreur t.w. Nicholas J. Rasmussen, de topgraaier van het Centrum voor Contraterrorisme, die zich zonder blikken of blozen de oren van het hoofd staat te liegen……)….

Zie ook: ‘Trump is Pulling a Libya on Iran‘ (Information Clearing House)

PAX blij met toekenning Nobelprijs voor de Vrede aan ICAN…………

Gisteren het nieuws dat de International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) de nobelprijs voor de Vrede heeft gewonnen, dit vanwege haar werk tegen nucleaire bewapening.

Met het schaamrood op de kaken moet ik toegeven dat ik niet heb opgeschreven, welke van ‘de vele’ landelijke radiozenders, dus Radio1 of BNR, dit onderwerp uitzond (en heb eerlijk gezegd geen zin dit uit te zoeken, tijd is schaars!). Op deze zender een woordvoerder van PAX, u weet wel het oude ‘Pax Christi’, deze man (dat was het volgens mij) fluisterde bijna nog luider dan Kiefer Sutherland in de flutserie ’24’.

De man liet weten, bijzonder blij te zijn met de Nobelprijs, waarom vraagt u zich af, wel PAX heeft het initiatief genomen voor ICAN………. Dat is te zeggen, met 467 zusterorganisaties…….. Wel zit PAX in de stuurgroep van ICAN samen met 8 andere partners.

PAX is vooral een organisatie die bekend is door oorlogshitser Mient Jan Faber, deze opperploert was NB voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak en daar staat hij, nu meer dan 1,5 miljoen doden verder, nog steeds achter!!! Mient Jan Faber, de grofgraaier die nu lobbyt voor het militair-industrieel complex, heeft nu spijt van de demo’s waar hij aan deel heeft genomen in de 80er jaren, o.a. die tegen de kruisraketten, dit daar hij nu stelt dat er geen betere garantie voor de wereldvrede is dan het kernwapen………. Terwijl een mafketel als Trump aan de knoppen zit te frummelen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Vergeet verder niet dat zowel de VS onder Obama en even later Hillary Clinton voorafgaand aan de presidentsverkiezingen, verklaarden het kernwapen niet langer als afschrikkingswapen te zien, maar als eerste aanvalswapen……. Na Clinton verklaarde de Britse premier, hare kwaadaardigheid May, vorig jaar zomer hetzelfde…….

Intussen is ook CDA leegbol Sterk toegetreden tot PAX (althans daar leek het ‘sterk’ op*), waarom mag god weten, maar zo was en is dat dat met al de functies die zij bekleedde en bekleedt……… Zo bracht ze onlangs, uit hoofde van haar ‘functie bij PAX’, een onversneden NAVO propagandapraatje tegen Assad……. Tja, blijkbaar is dat dan toch de huidige taak van PAXXXXXXXXXXX!!! Iets waarvoor je ‘uiteraard’ de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede behoort te krijgen ……. Zoals Obama, die de hele 2 termijnen oorlog heeft gevoerd en illegale oorlogen is begonnen…, -Henry Kissinger, een massamoordenaar, die verward wordt met een intellect……, -Aung San Suu Kyi, die achter de uiterst gewelddadige etnische zuiveringen in Birma staat en ga nog maar even door……….

Mensen: de wereld staat op z’n kop, wat ik je brom!!

* Zie: ‘Mirjam Sterk (CDA en PAX…) oorlog robots in handen van Assad zijn een grote bedreiging……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Zie ook: ‘Pax (Christie) niet te beroerd voor anti-Russische praatjes, in feite een oproep tot oorlog……..

       en: ‘Jeremy Corbyn krijgt echt belangrijke vredesprijs >> aandacht van de reguliere media: nul komma nada…

       en: ‘Bernhard Hammelburg veegt Nobelprijswinnaar Beatrice Fihn de mantel uit, zelfs voordat hij wist wat ze te berde bracht…….

PS: gelukkig werden de White Helmets, een terreurorganisatie verbonden aan Al Qaida, voor de tweede keer op rij niet de winnaar van de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede.