Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Posted on May 7, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Toch
altijd weer leuk als de VS op haar eigen duivelse gevorkte staart gaat staan
en daarmee ten overvloede nog eens aantoont dat we hier met een
terreurentiteit te maken hebben van gigantische proporties, die niets
maar dan ook helemaal niets uit de weg gaat om haar smerige doelen te
bereiken…..

Zo dook
er enige tijd geleden een folder van de CIA op waarin staat te lezen
hoe je als oppositie je land naar de knoppen kan helpen om zo het
volk tot opstand te dwingen tegen het land van keuze, in dit geval was dat land Nicaragua…….*

The Grayzone
wist de hand te leggen op een lijst met gevolgen van ingrijpen in
Venezuela, door het VS ministerie van BuZa op de site gezet en daarna weer verwijderd, niet voor niets verwijderd, immers het gaat hier om dezelfde soort informatie die je op WikiLeaks kan vinden en waarvoor Julian Assange wordt vervolgd……

Duidelijk
is dat de VS zich ziet als organisator van de niet eindigende
couppoging in Venezuela, waar de VS de voor de Venezolanen tot dan
onbekende fascist Guaidó als interim-president heeft geparachuteerd,
waarbij men de leugen lanceerde dat Guaidó de oppositieleider is
van Venezuela….. (terwijl hij de voorzitter is van een kleine, onbeduidende partij…)

Voorts
wordt er opgeschept over de zaken die Guaidó, de totaal lamme en illegale ‘interim-president’ van Venezuela, al voor elkaar heeft
gekregen…… Onzinnige zaken, waar in werkelijkheid het Venezolaanse volk onder
regie van de VS wordt bestolen van haar tegoeden in het buitenland en
waar men trots vertelt dat de oliewinning met een enorm aantal vaten
is gedaald, daar Venezuela van terreurentiteit VS geen olie mag
verkopen……. Met deze zaken begaat de VS een zware overtreding van artikel 33 van het Verdrag van Genève……

De olievoorraad van Venezuela zou de op één na grootste ter aarde zijn, deze olievoorraad is dan ook de belangrijkste reden voor de VS om haar marionet Guaidó op de plaats van Maduro te willen zetten….. (voorts heeft Venezuela grote voorraden Coltan, een belangrijke grondstof voor smartphones….) Guaidó heeft al beloofd dat wanneer hij president zal zijn, de Venezolaanse olie voor de VS oliemaffia zal worden gereserveerd…..** (waarin hij het woord ‘maffia’ uiteraard niet noemde)

De VS is
er zelfs trots op dat het de economie van Venezuela naar de kloten
heeft geholpen, waarmee deze vereniging van terreurstaten nog eens
fijntjes aangeeft waarom het economisch zo slecht gaat in Venezuela
>> de terreursancties van de VS…… Weet je wat de reguliere media ons
al jaren laten geloven? Maduro heeft de economie om zeep geholpen, je
weet wel van die media die keer op keer de bek open hebben over fake
news (nepnieuws) en manipulatie….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Beste
bezoeker, weet niet of je al meerdere berichten van mij over
Venezuela hebt gelezen, die je wellicht ziet als overdreven, lees
het volgende artikel van Anya Parampil, eerder gepubliceerd op The Grayzone en laat je ogen openen (en zegt het voort, er
moet een eind komen aan het lijden van het Venezolaanse volk door
de grootschalige terreur van de VS, met hulp van o.a. de EU en dus zogenaamd
namens ons allen……):

US
State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list
boasting of economic ruin

The
Grayzone has obtained a list of “key outcomes” on Venezuela
deleted out of apparent embarrassment by the State Department. It
boasts of wrecking the nation’s economy, destabilizing its
military, and puppeteering its political opposition.

By
Anya Parampil

On
April 24, six days before self-proclaimed Venezuelan “interim
president” Juan Guaido’s attempt to violently overthrow
Venezuela’s democratically elected government alongside a handful
of military defectors, the U.S. State Department published a fact
sheet that boasted of Washington’s central role in the ongoing coup
attempt. After realizing the incriminating nature of its error, the
State Department quickly acted to remove the page.

The
Grayzone has obtained a
full copy of the expunged report.
The deleted page puts to bed any claims of Guaido’s independence
from Washington, as the State Department emphasizes the fact that he
“announced his interim presidency… in January” at the the top
of a section dedicated to breaking down “key outcomes” of U.S.
efforts with regard to Venezuela.

U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kimberly
Breier recently took to Twitter to
claim that “since he became acting president, Juan Guaido has given
tangible results to the people of Venezuela.” Her tweet was
accompanied with an infographic detailing alleged accomplishments of
the powerless coup administration based on data compiled by the
legally defunct National Assembly, the only governing body actually
controlled by Guaido.

But
the Venezuela fact sheet posted and then deleted days earlier by the
State Department told a dramatically different story.

Read
the entire expunged fact sheet here [PDF]
and at the end of this article.

The
State Department’s economic hit list

Entitled
“U.S. Actions on Venezuela,” the document boasted that U.S.
policy had effectively prevented the Venezuelan government from
participating in the international market and has led to the freezing
of its overseas assets. It read like a sadistic celebration of
Washington’s retribution against the Venezuelan population as a
whole, the kind of collective punishment which is illegal according
to Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions.

The
State Department gloated in the deleted fact sheet that its policy
had ensured that the Maduro government “cannot rely on the U.S.
financial system” to conduct business, noting “key outcomes” of
U.S. actions include the fact that “roughly $3.2 billion of
Venezuela’s overseas are frozen.” It went on to boast that
“Venezuela’s oil production fell to 736,000 barrels per day in
March… substantially reducing” government revenue.

“If
I were the State Department I wouldn’t brag about causing a cut in
oil production to 763,000 barrels per day — which is a 36 percent
drop, in just the two months of February and March this year,” Mark
Weisbrot, Co-Director at the Center For Economic and Policy Research (CEPR),
told The Grayzone. “This means even more premature deaths than the
tens of thousands that resulted from sanctions last year.”

Weisbrot
recently co-authored a bracing
report which
found that 40,000 Venezuelans died between 2017 and 2018 as a direct
result of U.S. sanctions. The State Department patted itself on the
back for announcing its preparedness “to provide an additional $20
million in initial humanitarian assistance” to Venezuela, however,
the CEPR report concluded that Trump Administration sanctions
implemented in August 2017 resulted in “a loss of $6 billion in oil
revenue over the ensuing year” alone.

While
the State Department praised the opposition for “providing medical
and hygiene attention to over 6,000” Venezuelans, those numbers
dwarf in comparison to the 300,000 people CEPR “estimated to be at
risk because of lack of access to medicines or treatment…
[including] 80,000 people with HIV who have not had antiretroviral
treatment since 2017, 16,000 people who need dialysis, 16,000 people
with cancer, and 4 million with diabetes and hypertension.”

In
other words, the supposed “Venezuela Crisis Response Assistance”
touted by the State Department is not even a band-aid over the gaping
wound that US unilateral coercive measures have inflicted on the
country.

In
Weisbrot’s view, the “policy” and “outcomes” promoted by
the State Department in the disappeared document will merely lead to
“more cuts in imports of medicine, food, medical equipment, and
inputs necessary to maintain water, health, and sanitation
infrastructure.”

Having
denied the Venezuelan government the ability to provide for its own
population, the U.S. has essentially promised that thousands more
deaths will occur.

The
State Department did not respond to The Grayzone’s request for a
comment on the fact sheet it deleted.

“A
list of confessions”

In
a recent
interview with The Grayzone,
Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada
characterized the deleted State Department fact sheet as “a list of
confessions.”

“Imagine
if any other country says… it’s proud of saying that we are
destroying the economy of our neighbor; we are proud that we
destroyed the political system of our neighbor; we are proud that
they are suffering. They are saying we are waging war against
Venezuela,” Moncada emphasized.

The
ambassador went on to accuse the U.S. of engaging in “bullying”
rather than international diplomacy.

The
State Department’s own fact sheet appears to support this
accusation, as it asserts “diplomatic pressure resulted in fewer
markets for Venezuelan gold.” The document further highlighted
U.S. actions that have supposedly led “more than 1,000 members of
the military [to recognize] Juan Guaido as interim President” and
defect to Colombia, as well as stranding “an estimated 25 crude oil
tankers with 12 million barrels” off Venezuela’s coast.

“They
[say] it’s our ‘key’ achievements,” Moncada commented. “They
are saying that they are causing trouble in our military and inducing
a military coup, [which] so far they haven’t achieved, but they are
working towards.”

“If
any other person says that themselves,” the ambassador concluded,
“and you take that confession to court, they would be in prison.”

The
State Department’s fact sheet even frames recent decisions by the
Organization of American States, Lima Group, Inter-American
Development Bank, and European Union to either recognize or support
Guaido’s shadow administration as a U.S. achievement, highlighting
Washington’s outsized influence within each of these supposedly
international governing bodies. The decision to mention the E.U. and
Lima Group is particularly noteworthy considering the United States
is not a member of either organization.

“They
are so far out of any normal parameters of decency, morality,
legality, reason, that really they are dangerous,” Moncada said of
the Trump administration. “They are a real threat to international
peace, and they are a real threat to my people.”

US
Department of State Deleted Venezuela Hit List by Max
Blumenthal on
Scribd

(Om de documenten te kunnen lezen, zie het origineel)

Anya
Parampil

Anya
Parampil is a Washington, DC based journalist. She previously hosted
a daily progressive afternoon news program called In Question on RT
America. She has produced and reported several documentaries,
including on the ground reports from the Korean peninsula and
Palestine.

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* Hier de link naar een PDF met een CIA sabotage handleiding.

** Zie: ‘VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘

Zie ook:

‘Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt‘

‘Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties‘

‘Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence‘

‘Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen‘

‘Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd‘

‘Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda‘

‘Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland‘

‘Venezuela: vicepresident van de VS, Mike Pence, belooft militairen extra’s als ze overlopen naar kamp Guaidó‘

‘Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….‘

‘Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt‘ (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht, anders dan de al hier weergegeven links)

‘Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers‘

‘VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk…….‘

‘The Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order‘ (een artikel van CounterPunch)

‘Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval‘

‘VS legt nog meer sancties op aan de bevolking van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua‘

‘Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS‘

‘Venezolaanse regering treft nieuwe regeling voor hulpgoederen van het Rode Kruis, ‘onafhankelijk NOS’ brengt alweer fake news‘

‘Venezuela: onafhankelijke journalisten ontmaskeren leugens over dit land bij presentatie voor de VN‘

‘Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet‘

‘Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’

‘Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië‘

‘Venezuela Aid Live >> Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) terecht tegen benefietconcert‘

‘Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven‘

‘Jill Stein (US Green Party): de VS maakt zich druk over armoede in Venezuela terwijl de armen thuis kunnen doodvallen….‘

‘Venezuela: Abrams vindt een meerderheid in de VN Veiligheidsraad genoeg voor een gedwongen regeringswisseling‘

‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten‘

‘Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘ (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)

‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘

‘Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela‘

‘BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

‘Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok‘

‘Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia‘

‘Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie‘

‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘

‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘

Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers

Posted on April 29, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde een artikel op haar site n.a.v. een studie
gedaan door het Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), waaruit de
conclusie is getrokken dat rond de 40.000 Venezolanen zijn omgekomen
door de sancties van de Trump administratie. Een beetje te snel door
de bocht, als je het mij vraagt, daar onder Obama al een geheime
economische oorlog werd gevoerd tegen het regime van Maduro…..* Alles bij elkaar, dus inclusief de
periode dat Obama aan het bewind was, zijn er heel wat meer slachtoffers gevallen dan de genoemde 40.000…..

Overigens
is de verwachting dat het aantal doden verder zal stijgen, daar de
Trump administratie de sancties tegen Venezuela in januari dit jaar
heeft vergroot……..

In een
aantal punten geeft Johnstone weer hoe de situatie door de VS
sancties is verslechtert voor de bevolking in Venezuela en dat de
sancties niet doen waar ze zogenaamd voor bedoeld waren: de top van
de Venezolaanse regering en het leger treffen, de groepen die wel
worden getroffen zijn de zwakste in de bevolking van Venezuela,
waarvoor Johnstone een aantal groepen aanwijst…..

Volkomen
terecht concludeert Johnstone dat deze, in feite oorlogsvoering tegen
de bevolking van Venezuela, ingaat tegen het Verdrag van Genève en het Verdrag van
Den Haag, waar dit soort sancties worden gezien als een ernstige
oorlogsmisdaad, beide verdragen zijn door de VS ondertekend……

Zoals je ongetwijfeld weet is dit soort oorlogsvoering door de VS erop gericht de bevolking ontevreden te maken en dat men in dit geval het aftreden van Maduro zal eisen, deze opzet is gelukkig niet geslaagd, zoals deze ook in Syrië niet heeft gewerkt. Schandelijk dat dit VS spel in beide gevallen tot een enorm aantal doden heeft geleid…….

Johnstone
vergelijkt e.e.a. met de oorlog tegen Libië en die tegen de
sjiitische bevolking van Jemen, oorlogen waarvoor de VS in feite
verantwoordelijk is. In Libië is dit al lang duidelijk, maar wat
betreft Jemen beseffen velen niet dat de VS de genocide in Jemen
vandaag nog kan beëindigen, een genocide waarvoor de Saoedische
terreurcoalitie verantwoordelijk is, echter dat is tegen de wil van
Trump, die zijn veto heeft uitgesproken over het stoppen van de militaire hulp en wapenleveringen** aan de reli-fascistische Saoedische dictatuur……

Het
artikel van Johnstone heb ik overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Trump
Has Murdered Over 40,000 Venezuelans With Sanctions: Study

April
25, 2019 at 6:09 pm

Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) —
A new study
from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
has found that tens of thousands of Venezuelans have died as a direct
result of Trump administration sanctions put into effect in August
2017, and that tens of thousands more are expected to die as a result
of additional sanctions put into place in January of this year.

Some
noteworthy points:

The
sanctions are “depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines,
medical equipment, food, and other essential imports.”
The
sanctions “reduced the public’s caloric intake, increased
disease and mortality (for both adults and infants), and displaced
millions of Venezuelans who fled the country as a result of the
worsening economic depression and hyperinflation.”
The
sanctions “have inflicted, and continue to inflict, very serious
harm to human life and health, including an estimated more than
40,000 deaths from 2017–2018.”
That
means 2019 deaths haven’t been added to this estimate. The year’s
nearly half over, and more aggressive sanctions went into effect
this past January.
Because
of the sanctions, “some 22,000 doctors — about one third of
the total — have left the country.”
“The
loss of so many billions of dollars of foreign exchange and
government revenues was very likely the main shock that pushed the
economy from its high inflation, when the August 2017 sanctions were
implemented, into the hyperinflation that followed.”
The
massive number of already highly at-risk Venezuelans hurting from
the 2017 sanctions “virtually guarantee that the current
sanctions, which are much more severe than those implemented before
this year, are a death sentence for tens of thousands of
Venezuelans. This is especially true if the projected 67 percent
drop in oil revenue materializes in 2019.”
“The
United Nations finds that the groups most vulnerable to the
accelerating crisis include children and adolescents (including many
who can no longer attend school); people who are in poverty or
extreme poverty; pregnant and nursing women; older persons;
indigenous people; people in need of protection; women and
adolescent girls at risk; people with disabilities; and people who
identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex.”
The
sanctions “would fit the definition of collective punishment of
the civilian population as described in both the Geneva and Hague
international conventions, to which the US is a signatory.”

Aaron Maté

✔@aaronjmate

This should be the biggest story in the country right now:

Dan Cohen

✔@dancohen3000

Important new @ceprdc study: US sanctions killed 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017-2018 and the sanctions announced in January will kill tens of thousands more if they are not reversed. http://cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/report-finds-us-sanctions-on-venezuela-are-responsible-for-tens-of-thousands-of-deaths …

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5:48 PM – Apr 25, 2019

To
be clear, this unforgivable atrocity rests predominantly on the
shoulders of the Trump administration. It is true that Venezuela has
had deep economic troubles for years due to declining oil prices and
other issues, and it is true that the sanctions in question follow
a longstanding
agenda of previous administrations and
were built on the foundation of an Obama policy declaring the
Venezuelan government an “extraordinary threat to national
security”. But the report is clear in its assessment that what took
the nation’s economy from a state of high inflation to
hyperinflation was the August 2017 sanctions, and that’s what’s
been causing these high numbers of deaths which will get even worse
due to the January 2019 sanctions.

To
put this in perspective for Trump supporters, 40,000 is also the
number of people estimated
to have died as a result of the disastrous Obama/Clinton
interventionism in Libya. And, again, that number only covers 2017
and 2018, and death tolls are predicted to accelerate this year.

This
would be the same President Trump, by the way, who recently
vetoed a congressional bill to
end the role of the United States in facilitating Saudi Arabia’s
war crimes in Yemen. Research from the Armed Conflict Location and
Event Data Project indicates
that up to 80,000 people had been killed in
this war as of the end of last year. This number applies to deaths by
military violence only, not to the other untold tens of thousands who
have died of starvation and cholera as a result of Saudi Arabia’s
inhuman blockades on imports and its deliberate
targeting of
farms, fishing boats, marketplaces, food storage sites and cholera
treatment centers with
airstrikes. Just for children under the age of five, the death toll
due to starvation alone is
believed to be over 85,000.

Is
America great yet?

CODEPINK

✔@codepink

“These sanctions would fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population as described in both the Geneva and Hague international conventions.” @ceprdc

Sanctions are a form of warfare! #HandsOffVenezuela http://cepr.net/publications/reports/economic-sanctions-as-collective-punishment-the-case-of-venezuela …

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8:38 PM – Apr 25, 2019

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Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela | Reports | CEPR

This paper looks at some of the most important impacts of the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US government since August of 2017.

cepr.net

Sanctions
are the only form of warfare where it’s considered perfectly
acceptable and legitimate to deliberately target a nation’s
civilian population with lethal force. The human corpses it creates
are just as dead as the human corpses created by overt military
violence, but because this form of violence happens in slow motion
it’s not treated like the same kind of horrific assault as if Trump
had ordered the carpet bombing of Caracas. The distinction makes no
difference to the dead and no difference to their loved ones, but it
makes all the difference in the world when it comes to manufacturing
public consent for murderous acts of interventionism.

The
way sanctions are discussed by the western political/media class,
they can even get away with blaming the deaths on the government
being targeted. They’ll say things like, “Maduro is starving his
people by not stepping down.” That tactic would never work with
other forms of lethal force. Imagine if Trump deployed a barrage of
Tomahawk missiles onto the most impoverished parts of a densely
populated city in Venezuela, then hearing anyone say “Well Maduro
actually exploded those people, because he wouldn’t do what we told
him to do.”

It
doesn’t work. Sanctions are a slower and more gruelling weapon of
war than bombs and missiles, but they’re vastly superior when it
comes to the matter of keeping the public asleep through depraved
acts of mass slaughter. Which is why everyone’s yammering about Joe
Biden’s presidential campaign announcement right now instead of
talking about this new CEPR report.

To
this day I still run into defenders of Trump’s Venezuela
interventionism (easily the most obnoxious and intellectually
dishonest political group I’ve ever encountered, for the record)
who insist that the sanctions are laser-targeted only at Venezuela’s
elites, having no impact on the suffering of the Venezuelan people.
This is exactly as stupid as believing that American bombs only kill
bad guys. Attacking an economy hurts the people who depend on that
economy to feed themselves and their children.

Sanctions
are an act of war which kill civilians just as dead as any other, and
this latest report helps make that a stark and undeniable reality for
us all.

Support
Caitlin’s work on Patreon or Paypal.

Opinion
by Caitlin
Johnstone /
Republished with permission / Medium / Report
a typo

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* Een geheime economische oorlog: door winkelketens voor levensmiddelen
uit de VS onder druk te zetten hun winkels in Venezuela zo min
mogelijk of helemaal niet te bevoorraden. Hetzelfde deed de Obama
administratie met de grote farmaceuten, ook zij werden onder druk
gezet zo min mogelijk de voorraden voor Venezuela aan te vullen……
Onlangs nog werd bekend gemaakt dat de Trump administratie 5 miljard
dollar van Venezuela, voor aankopen van medicijnen in de VS, heeft geconfisqueerd….. Zie: ‘VS heeft beslag gelegd op 5 miljard dollar van Venezuela voor medicijnaankopen‘ (en dan durft de VS het bewind Maduro te verwijten dat er geen medicijnen te krijgen zijn in Venezuela, overigens alweer een enorme leugen van de terroristische Trump administratie!)

** Wapenleveringen, daaronder versta ik naast wapens en munitie, ook de levering van rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig.

Zie ook:

‘Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda‘

‘Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland‘

‘Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges‘

‘Venezuela: vicepresident van de VS, Mike Pence, belooft militairen extra’s als ze overlopen naar kamp Guaidó‘

‘Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk‘

‘Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….‘

‘Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt‘

‘VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk…….‘

‘The Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order‘ (een artikel van CounterPunch)

‘Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval‘

‘VS legt nog meer sancties op aan de bevolking van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua‘

‘Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS‘

‘Venezolaanse regering treft nieuwe regeling voor hulpgoederen van het Rode Kruis, ‘onafhankelijk NOS’ brengt alweer fake news‘

‘Venezuela: onafhankelijke journalisten ontmaskeren leugens over dit land bij presentatie voor de VN‘

‘Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet‘

‘Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’

‘Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië‘

‘Venezuela Aid Live >> Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) terecht tegen benefietconcert‘

‘Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven‘

‘Jill Stein (US Green Party): de VS maakt zich druk over armoede in Venezuela terwijl de armen thuis kunnen doodvallen….‘

‘Venezuela: Abrams vindt een meerderheid in de VN Veiligheidsraad genoeg voor een gedwongen regeringswisseling‘

‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten‘

‘Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘ (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)

‘Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra‘

‘Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela‘

‘BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

‘Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok‘

‘Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia‘

‘Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie‘

‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘

‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘

‘VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘

Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela

(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onderdoet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)

‘Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘

‘Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela‘

‘VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..‘

‘Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela‘

‘Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……‘

‘VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….‘

‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie‘

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘

‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

‘Rex Tillerson waarschuwt Venezuela voor een coup en beschuldigt China van imperialisme…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..‘

‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………‘

Twee Palestijnse kinderen komen om door brand >> Israëlische militairen blokkeerden brandweer

Posted on March 9, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Het
zoveelste staaltje beestachtige wreedheid van het Israëlische leger en zoals zo
vaak op de illegaal door Israël bezette West Bank……. In het oude
centrum van Hebron raakte een huis in brand, waarin zich nog twee
kinderen bevonden…… De brandweer werd de doorgang ontzegt door militairen bij een wegversperring,
waardoor 1 van de jongetjes ‘s nachts overleed en de andere de
volgende morgen in het ziekenhuis…… Een derde broertje ligt in
het ziekenhuis op de intensive care met brandwonden…….

Israëlische
militairen bij de wegversperring werd gesmeekt de brandweerwagen snel doorgang
te verlenen, juist vanwege de kinderen…. Tevergeefs…..

Beste
bezoeker is het niet om doodziek van te worden?? Als je dacht dat dit
wel niet veel zal voorkomen, helaas: sinds 2015 heeft het Israëlisch
psychopatenleger 123 keer ambulances gestopt…… Dat was
het nog niet beste bezoeker: 386 keer zijn teams van de Rode
Halvemaan aangevallen door kolonisten en Israelsiche
militairen op de (nogmaals) illegaal door Israël bezette
gebieden van de West Bank……. Voorts zijn in diezelfde periode 105 ambulances
vernield, dan wel beschadigd…….

Afgelopen december schoten Israëlische psychopaten een kind neer in vluchtelingenkamp Al-Jalazun, waarna ze een toegesnelde ambulance verjaagden, pas een kwartier later werd een ambulance toegelaten, onderweg naar het ziekenhuis overleed het kind…….

Hoe kan de wereld dit aan blijven zien, zonder in te grijpen en dat al dik meer dan 70 jaar…….

Walgelijk!

Tot slot: ziek, als
je bij nazoeken van zaken op een pro-Israëlische site komt genaamd ‘Israellycool’, waar men bijvoorbeeld stelt dat er aanvankelijk werd gemeld dat
de twee kinderen in de brand waren omgekomen, terwijl later bleek dat
de ander ‘pas’ de volgende morgen in het ziekenhuis is overleden en vanwege dat feit de hele zaak afdoen als
anti-Israëlische propaganda…….. Misselijk
makend….. Hier de link naar de
site, waarop tevens reclame voor PayPal en P patron wordt gemaakt (via deze betaaldiensten kan je geld overmaken naar deze fascistische psychopaten website….)….

Hier het artikel over de brand in Hebron, eerder gepubliceerd op Middle East Monitor (MEMO):

Two
Palestinian Children Killed in Blaze After Israel Blocks Fire Brigade

March
6, 2019 at 9:03 pm

Written
by Middle
East Monitor

(MEMO) — Two
Palestinian children have been killed in a blaze at their home in
occupied Hebron after the Israeli authorities prevented the fire
brigade from reaching them in time.

The
two children – one of whom is believed to have been just 18-months
old – were burned to death in a fire at their home in the
Al-Salaymeh neighbourhood of Hebron’s Old City in the occupied West
Bank. One was reported dead late last night, while the second
succumbed to the burns received this morning after receiving
emergency treatment at the nearby Hebron government hospital. A third
child, thought to be the dead children’s brother, also suffered
severe burns in the incident and remains in intensive care, according
to hospital Director Dr Walid Zalloum.

The
names of the three children have not been released formally, but
Palestinian news site Palestine
Today named
the two who were killed as four-year-old Wael Al-Rajabi and his
18-month-old sister Malik. The local police spokesman, Colonel Loai
Arziqat, confirmed in
a press statement that two children had died, but did not offer
further information.

Though
the emergency services were called, the fire brigade was prevented
from reaching the scene by Israeli soldiers. In a video filmed last
night at 21:50 local time (19:50 GMT), the fire engine can be seen
trying to drive down a narrow street. The truck comes to a stop at a
road block obstructing the way, while local residents implore the
Israeli soldiers stationed there to “open the gate quickly, for the
children.”

The
Israeli soldiers, however, did not yield to the onlookers’ pleas,
delaying the emergency services’ response and preventing them from
reaching the property. The cause of the fire remains unknown.

Israel
is no stranger to restricting emergency services’ access to
Palestinians in need. According to Medical Aid for Palestinians
(MAP), citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society, since 2015 Israel
has prevented ambulances
from crossing checkpoints on 123 occasions. In addition, there were
386 attacks against Red Crescent teams across the occupied
Palestinian territories (oPt) during the same period, as well as 105
ambulances damaged.

In
December, Israeli soldiers shot a
Palestinian child then prevented him from receiving potentially
life-saving medical treatment; he died soon thereafter.
Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Nakhle was shot as Israeli forces
suppressed protests around Al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah, in
the occupied West Bank. A few minutes later, the soldiers chased off
a Palestinian ambulance, threatening the driver with their rifles and
not giving Nakhle first aid themselves.

Only
after a quarter of an hour did the soldiers allow an ambulance to be
summoned, but Nakhle died en route to hospital.

Palestinian children were killed in a blaze at their home after Israeli forces prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time in Hebron, West Bank

Palestinian
children were killed in a blaze at their home after Israeli forces
prevented the fire brigade from reaching them in time in Hebron, West
Bank

Under
international law, as the occupying power Israel is forbidden from
preventing access to medical care and emergency services to the
people living under its occupation. According to the Fourth
Geneva Convention,
“The occupying power must ensure sufficient hygiene and public
health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care
to the population under occupation.” In addition, “Personnel of
the International Red Crescent Movement must be allowed to carry out
their humanitarian activities.”

Israel,
however, continues to breach this and other articles of international
laws and conventions with impunity.

Creative
Commons / Middle
East Monitor / Report
a typo

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

Zie ook:

‘Israël bewijst nogmaals fascistisch te zijn >> journalist met kritiek wacht gevangenisstraf……‘

‘De UNHRC concludeert dat Israël met opzet kinderen en journalisten vermoordde over de grens met de Gazastrook‘

‘Groep gewapende Israëlische kolonisten vermoorden uiterst heldhaftig een ongewapende Palestijnse vader van 4 kinderen…..‘

‘Israël arresteert op grote schaal kinderen, de beelden liegen er niet om……‘

Crimes against Humanity: Israeli Snipers have shot down 45 Child Gaza Protesters

Goliath lives: Palestinian children at risk in school

Israel targets Gaza’s children, say witnesses

As Israel continues to kill children with impunity, urge lawmakers to support H.R. 4391

What ‘Israel’s right to exist’ means to Palestinians

‘Israël schiet alweer doelbewust op journalisten, westerse collega’s onverschillig‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Voor nog meer berichten over de zwaar ongelijke strijd van Israël tegen de machteloze Palestijnen, klik op één van deze twee labels, direct onder dit bericht. Let wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens herhaald, dan onder het laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op het gekozen label klikken, enz. enz.

Texas logopedist werd ontslagen voor weigeren eedaflegging geen boycotacties tegen Israël te steunen….

Posted on December 20, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

LET OP: DIT IS ‘EEN ANTISEMITISCH BERICHT!’

Weer
eens een gevalletje stapelgekke regels in een aantal VS staten: werkgevers kunnen daar van je eisen dat je niet zal deelnemen aan boycotacties tegen terreurstaat Israël, noch bewegingen te steunen die zich
verzetten tegen de staatsterreur van Israël……

Een
VS-Palestijnse vrouw, Bahia Amawi is al bijna 10 jaar werkzaam als
logopedist voor een ‘onafhankelijk schooldistrict’ in Texas. Bij de
verlenging van haar contract moest ze de bewuste eed ondertekenen,
wat ze volkomen logisch weigerde, niet alleen omdat dit een volkomen
zotte regel is die tegen elk ethisch besef ingaat, maar ook daar ze
familie heeft die in de door Israël illegaal bezette gebieden wonen
en dus dagelijks op de één of andere manier met Israëlische terreur
te maken krijgen, al was het op de West bank ‘alleen maar’ bij het grote aantal
wegblokkades, die het leven van de Palestijnen extra
bemoeilijkt……….

Dan
te bedenken dat men de VS een rechtstaat durft te noemen…… ha!
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! (en dan spreek ik niet eens over het aan de beurs genoteerde particuliere gevangenissysteem in de VS dat doorlopend nieuwe
gevangenen wil hebben en waar de gekleurde bevolking volkomen
onevenredig veel vaker gevangen zit dan de nu nog grote meerderheid van witte
burgers……) De VS, het land ook waar plea bargain wordt gebruikt, zodat je
beter kan bekennen ook al heb je de misdaad niet begaan, daar de
straf anders veel hoger uit kan vallen >> een dergelijke behandeling is ronduit misdadig…… Aan dat land levert ook
Nederland desnoods de eigen burgers uit…….. (ook dat laatste is wat mij betreft een misdaad van
formaat!)

Lees
het ongelofelijke verhaal van Bahia Amawi en geeft het door! De
hoogste tijd dat Israël echt wordt aangepakt voor haar massamoorden,
standrechtelijke executies, andere oorlogsmisdaden, martelingen, gijzeling van verdachten, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en ga nog maar even door….. En nee,
dit heeft niets te maken met antisemitisme, maar alles met de zaken
die ik juist hiervoor aanhaalde, zaken die geen enkel land zou mogen
flikken en waar het bewuste land voor gestraft zou moeten worden met minimaal een boycot!!

Texas
Educator Files Lawsuit After She Was Fired for Refusing to Sign an
Oath to Israel

Bahia Amawi | Israel Boycott

December
19, 2018 at 8:03 am

Written
by Randi
Nord

(MPN) —
A Texas speech pathologist has filed a lawsuit against the state of
Texas after she was reportedly fired for refusing to sign an oath
that she would not boycott the apartheid state of Israel.

A
U.S. citizen born in Austria and of Palestinian descent, Bahia Amawi
is a speech specialist in western Texas who works with autistic and
developmentally disabled people. The educator charges that the
district refused to renew her contract in August after she declined
to sign paperwork pledging that she “does not” and “will not”
participate in any kind of boycott or “otherwise tak[e] any action
that is intended to inflict economic harm” against the Israeli
state.

Speaking
to Democracy
Now!,
Amawi explained her firsthand struggle with oppression and the
reasoning behind her refusal to sign the oath:

“I
sent an email immediately, and I stopped even reading the additional
codes [referring to the additional paperwork she was asked to
sign in regards to Israel]. And I sent the email to my
speech coordinator telling her, ‘Listen, I cannot sign this. This
is against my principles, against my constitutional rights. And it’s
also against my moral and ethical values, considering that I am a
Palestinian American and I have family that actually live in the
Occupied Territories, so it affects me personally, as well.’ So, it
affects me in both ways — as an American citizen and as a
Palestinian American, too.”

A lawsuit
was filed in
federal court on Amawi’s behalf this week alleging that the
district’s refusal to renew her contract is a direct violation of
her First Amendment rights as a U.S. citizen. Amawi, who worked for
the Pflugerville Independent School District as a contractor for
nearly 10 years, says her renewal contract contained a special
document in August asking her to take an oath that she would not
boycott or inflict economic harm against Israel in any fashion.

This
may constitute the first direct challenge to new legislation aimed at
curbing support for the growing Boycott Divest Sanctions (BDS)
movement in the United States, which ultimately aims to end apartheid
in Palestinian and Israeli territories.

A
wave of anti-BDS laws

Texas
became the 20th state of what are now 26 to pass anti-BDS
legislation that infringes upon free speech by banning U.S. citizens
from participating in boycotts against the Israeli apartheid state in
various ways, such as refusing to renew a teacher’s contract.
Thirteen additional states have similar legislation pending.

Greg Abbott
✔@GregAbbott_TX

Texas stands with Israel. Period. #txlege https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/muslim-group-challenging-texas-no-boycott-of-israel-law/269-623807255 …

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7:15 PM – Dec 17, 2018

Muslim group challenging Texas’ ‘No Boycott of Israel’ law

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is planning to hold a news conference Monday at noon.

kvue.com

The
language in the oath Amawi was asked to sign would prohibit her from
refusing to purchase goods from both Israel and the occupied West
Bank. Furthermore, it could even ban her from expressing support for
boycotts against Israel, if her speech or actions are construed to
inflict financial harm on the apartheid state. Amawi explained:

“The
point of boycotting any product that supports Israel is to put
pressure on the Israeli government to change its treatment, the
inhumane treatment, of the Palestinian people. Having grown up as a
Palestinian, I know firsthand the oppression and the struggle that
Palestinians face on a daily basis.”

Amawi
refused to sign the oath because her family does not purchase goods
made in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank nor in the
occupying entity of Israel itself. Amawi was the only Arabic-speaking
speech specialist of her kind in the district, which boasts a growing
Arab population.

Israel
continues to construct illegal settlements in the West Bank and
Palestinian territory despite international legislation barring it
from doing so. According to the Fourth
Geneva Convention,
it is illegal for an occupying entity to transfer its people into the
occupied territory.

Furthermore,
Israel has recently carried out a brutal repression against unarmed
protesters in the Gaza Strip, protests that have taken place every
Friday since March after U.S. President Donald Trump announced
Washington would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.

Since
the protests began, 204
Palestinians have
lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces and more than 18,000
have sustained injuries.

Dubbed
the Great Return March, Palestinians seek to return to their homeland
in accordance with UN
Resolution 194,
which states that refugees have the right to return to their homes at
the earliest practical date.

By Randi
Nord / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
a typo

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PS: andere bronnen spreken van meer dan 220 vermoorde Palestijnen, die ongewapend werden neergeschoten door ‘heldhaftige’ Israëlische militairen bij de protesten i.h.k.v. de Great Return March….. 220 doden waaronder kinderen, invaliden, medische hulpverleners en journalisten (vreemd ook dat het vermoorden van journalisten niet tot grote verontwaardiging leidde bij de reguliere westerse media, waaraan je ten overvloede kan zien dat deze media braaf de westerse pro-Israëlische politiek volgen……..)

VS ontwikkelt nieuw biowapen: genetisch gemanipuleerde insecten

Posted on October 8, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Een
team van wetenschappers verbonden aan Science Policy Forum (in de VS)
luiden de noodklok over een ‘mysterieus’ overheidsprogramma om
virussen te verspreiden met insecten…….

Pentagons
Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
voert het programma uit en is niets anders dan, zoals gezegd, de
ontwikkeling van nieuwe biowapens waarmee de VS de oogsten
van haar onwelgevallige landen zou kunnen vernietigen en daarmee een
verandering van regime (‘regime change’) zou kunnen afdwingen zonder
één schot te lossen……. Dat er door dergelijke terreur een enorm aantal mensen zal overlijden, schijnt niemand in het Pentagon te deren………. (zoals gewoonlijk….)

Blijkbaar
is honger tegenwoordig in de VS een geaccepteerd middel om oorlog te
voeren, iets dat uitdrukkelijk als ernstige oorlogsmisdaad is
opgenomen in het Verdrag van Genève…….. Vandaar ook dat de VS
meehelpt aan de genocide die de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uitvoert
op de sjiieten in Jemen, een genocide die niet alleen met
grootschalige bombardementen op o.a. huizenblokken, ziekenhuizen, scholen (en schoolbussen), energiecentrales en waterbedrijven, gepaard gaat, maar ook met blokkades van
de gebieden die de opstandelingen in handen hebben, zodat er maar
mondjesmaat voedsel, water, medicijnen en andere humanitaire
hulpgoederen de hongerende bevolking bereiken…… De VS helpt op zee mee aan de blokkade van door de Houthi’s beheerste gebieden…………….

Honger
die in Jemen wordt aangevuld met een cholera en difterie uitbraak, opgeteld
met de smerige terreur van Saoedi-Arabië heeft dit geleid tot de
genocide die nu wordt uitgevoerd in Jemen…. Ofwel de VS, GB,
Saoedi-Arabië, de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten, Egypte en Marokko
gebruiken naast enorme militaire terreur, honger en ziekte om een
volk uit te roeien………

Terug
naar de genetische manipulatie van insecten: deze insecten kunnen ook
gebruikt worden om virussen onder de bevolking van andere landen te
verspreiden in een tempo dat nooit eerder is gezien…….. Helaas
gaat Tyler Durden daar in zijn artikel dat eerder op Zero Hedge verscheen niet op in….

Scientists
Sound Alarm Over Mysterious Gov’t Plan to Spread Viruses Using Bugs

October
5, 2018 at 9:38 pm

Written
by Tyler
Durden

(ZHE Op-ed) — A
team of scientists sound the alarm in a new Science
Policy Forum report about a
mysterious US government program that is developing genetically
modified viruses that would be dispersed into the environment using
insects. The
virus-infected or ‘Frankenstein’ insects are being developed as
countermeasures against potential natural and engineered threats to
the US food supply. The program is operated by the Pentagon’s Defense
Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
could be viewed as an attempt to develop an entirely new class of
bioweapons that would prompt other nations to seek similar weapons,
they cautioned.

The
researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
and the University of Freiburg both in Germany, and the University of
Montpellier in France suggest DARPA’s program could likely breach
the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament
treaty banning the development, production, and stockpiling of
biological and toxin weapons.

Dubbed
the “Insect Allies” program, DARPA
began modifying insects in 2017, with the plan to produce more
resilient crops to help farmers deal with climate change, drought,
frost, floods, salinity, and disease, said Gizmodo. The technology at
the center of the program is an entirely new method of genetically
modifying crops. Instead of modifying seeds in a lab, farmers would
send swarms of insects into their crops, where the genetically
modified bugs would infect plants with a virus that passes along the
new resilience genes, a process known as horizontal genetic
alteration. Hence the technology’s name—Horizontal Environmental
Genetic Alteration Agents (HEGAA).

For
HEGAA to work, Gizmodo explains
that DARPA labs develop a virus that is inserted into the chromosome
of a target organism. Scientists would use leafhoppers, whiteflies,
and aphids genetically altered in the lab using CRISPR, or a variant
of a gene-editing system, to carry the virus into crops. Each
plant would then be infected by the insect, triggering the intended
effects of protecting crops from natural and or human-made threats.

However, the lead author of the report, Richard Guy Reeves from the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, says DARPA’s Insect Allies program is disturbing and an example of dual-use research in which the US government, in addition to aiding farmers’ crops, is also developing a biological weapon.

Insect Allies is reportedly backed by $27 million of funding. According to Gizmodo, there are four academic research teams currently working on the project, including researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute in New York, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin. DARPA maintains that “all work is conducted inside closed laboratories, greenhouses, or other secured facilities,” and that the insects have built-in lifespans to limit their spread. By 2020 or 2021, DARPA is planning on testing the virus-infected insects on crops inside greenhouses at undisclosed locations.

Reeves
said the use of insects as a vehicle for genetic modification is a
horrible idea because they cannot be controlled and indicates that
traditional overhead sprays to deliver HEGAAs is the safest bet.
DARPA says insects are the only practical solution, as overhead
spraying of HEGAAs would require increased farming infrastructure —
something that is not available to all farmers.

The
report specifies how there is currently no global regulatory
framework to support this new way of transporting HEGAAs to crops,
which if not supervised correctly, could lead to potential mishaps.

The
scientists of the report interpret DARPA’s insect program as “an
intention to develop a means of delivery of HEGAAs for offensive
purposes,” such as conducting biological warfare.

These
genetically modified bugs could be implanted with a dangerous
plant-killing disease that the Trump adminstration could unleash over
farmland in Venezuela, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and or even
China, that would decimate the countries’ food supply.

The
introduction of this potentially dangerous technology, the scientists
argue, would usher in an entirely new class of biological,
insect-dispatched weapons that could be considered weapons of mass
destruction. Scientists warn that this technology would spur rival
nations to develop similar insect programs.

In
response to a Gizmodo question, a spokesperson for DARPA said it
welcomes academic dialogue about the Insect Allies program, but
criticizes the conclusion of the report, saying it is “misleading
and peppered with inaccuracies.”

Blake
Bextine, DARPA Program Manager for Insect Allies, rejects many of the
claims made by Reeves.

“DARPA
is not producing biological weapons, and we reject the hypothetical
scenario,” Bextine
told Gizmodo.

“We
accept and agree with concerns about potential dual use of
technology, an issue that comes up with virtually every new powerful
technology. Those concerns are precisely why we structured the Insect
Allies program the way we did, as a transparent, university-led,
fundamental research effort that benefits from the active
participation of regulators and ethicists and proactive communication
to policymakers,” said Bextine.

The
purpose of Insect Allies program, he states, is to prepare for a new
era of emerging threats to US agriculture. Brextine added that DARPA
is evaluating the potential environmental impacts of HEGAAs.

“DARPA
is extraordinarily sensitive to environmental risks and off-target
effects, and has structured the Insect Allies program to identify and
mitigate them,” he
said. “DARPA
has mandated multiple levels of biosafety and biosecurity at each
stage of the program.”

If
DARPA’s program succeeds, they will have developed gain-of-function
treatments that can be delivered to the “right plants” and the
“right tissue,” he said. In other words, DARPA wants precision
guided biological
weapon insects.

Jason
Delborne, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University,
an expert in genetic engineering, says the concerns seem
“appropriate.”

“The
social, ethical, political, and ecological implications of producing
HEGAAs are significant and worthy of the same level of attention as
exploring the science underpinning the potential
technology,” Delborne
told Gizmodo.

“The
authors argue persuasively that specifying insects as the preferred
delivery mechanism for HEGAAs is poorly justified by visions of
agricultural applications. The
infrastructure and expertise required for spraying agricultural
fields—at least in the U.S. context—is well established, and
this delivery mechanism would offer greater control over the
potential spread of a HEGAA.”

DARPA
could be on the cusp of obtaining a new biological weapon that would
most certainly be used against Venezuela, Syria, Iran, North Korea,
Russia, and or even China, to cripple the countries’ food supply
and lead to a regime change without firing a signal shot — this the
future of warfare.

By Tyler
Durden /
Republished with permission / Zero
Hedge / Report
a typo

Israël test nieuwe smerige technologie op demonstrerende Palestijnen

Posted on May 17, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Tijdens
de protesten i.h.k.v. The Great Return March in de Gazastrook, maar
ook bij ‘opstootjes’ op de West Bank, maakt Israël, naast het neerschieten van ongewapende Palestijnen, ook gebruik van 3
verschillende soorten drones die traangasgranaten boven mensenmassa’s afwerpen……

Traangas is een chemisch wapen >> verboden in oorlogen door de conventie van Genève….

Geen
noodzaak om te stellen dat gebruik van traangas op deze manier uiterst gevaarlijk is, niet alleen
vanwege de hoge concentraties traangas, maar ook vanwege het
neerkomen van deze granaten in mensenmassa’s……… (overigens, het gebruik van traangas is altijd gevaarlijk, met drones wordt dit gevaar nog verder vergroot….)

Daarnaast
is het maar de vraag of Israël aan het gebruikte traangas andere
stoffen hebben toegevoegd, immers Israël is een van de weinige
landen die nog steeds chemische wapens ontwikkelt……

Afgelopen maandag overleed een baby van 8 maanden na een aanval met traangas in de Gazastrook aan de grens met Israël, daarnaast zouden er bewijzen zijn dat meerdere Palestijnse mensen zijn overleden na aanvallen met traangas door het Israëlische leger………

Israël verkoopt haar drones ook aan andere landen, zoals Duitsland, Birma (daar worden ze gebruikt gebruikt in de strijd tegen de Rohingya) en het agressieve Zuid-Soedan, uiteraard wordt ook de truc met traangas (of een nog gevaarlijker gas) desgevraagd meegeleverd…….

Lees
het volgende verontrustende relaas van Daniel Hilton, eerder
geplaatst op Middle East Eye (MEE):

Drones
over Gaza: How Israel tested its latest technology on protesters

#Occupation

Tear
gas grenades dropped from above caused injuries, panic and death
during this week’s Gaza and West Bank’s protests

Tear
gas descends on Palestinian protesters from above in the Gaza Strip
(AFP)

Daniel
Hilton

Daniel Hilton's picture Wednesday
16 May 2018 14:51 UTC

Last
update:

Wednesday
16 May 2018 17:47 UTC

The
mismatch between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces has often
been likened to David and Goliath. Now, Goliath doesn’t even need
to enter the field of combat.

In
a new innovation, small drones have been used by Israel’s military
to drop tear gas on Palestinian protests along the Gaza Strip’s
border with Israel and in the occupied West Bank.

First
seen in early March, when Lebanon’s
Al-Mayadeen TV filmed
a group of protesters in Gaza as they were targeted by one, the
gas-carrying drones were used heavily in protests in the coastal
enclave and the occupied West Bank on Monday and Tuesday.

There
appear to be three types of drones being used to disperse the gas.

The
first, developed by Israeli company ISPRA and known as the “Cyclone
Riot Control Drone System”, is a small drone with rotas that
carries a box containing nine light aluminium cartridges which burn
up after they are released.

However,
two other models appear to have been used, which experts told MEE
have never been seen before.

One
is a drone that releases gas directly from the craft, like an
aerosol, dispersing a cloud on those below.

The
other, a potentially far more dangerous device, is a helicopter-style
drone which carries rubber bursting grenades with metal tops that
disperse gas as they fall.

(onderstaande video is niet behorend bij het twitterbericht daaronder, die ik niet weet over te nemen, wel is praktisch hetzelfde te zien)

Sharif Kouddous

✔@sharifkouddous

VIDEO: Israel has developed drones that deploy tear gas. In mid-March Israeli military officials said they had experimented with them in Gaza. They now seem operational.

6:07 PM – May 14, 2018

As
the Great March of Return protests came to a crescendo earlier this
week, the third type of drone became by far the most regularly used
of the three, according to experts spoken to by MEE.

An
Israeli drone drops tear gas canisters during clashes with
Palestinian protesters near the border east of Gaza City on May 15,
2018. (AFP)

This
drone does not appear to be a sophisticated device.

“It’s
more sophisticated [than a commercial drone] – it’s not something
that you would buy cheaply on Amazon, but I think it’s not far from
it,” Itay Mack, an Israeli human rights lawyer and activist who
tracks Israel’s military exports, told MEE.

The
drone appears to be fitted with a spring-loaded rack, which opens to
drop a number of tear gas grenades.

“I
think the pins are manually pulled from the grenades when they are
secured in the rack before takeoff,” James Bevan, executive
director of Conflict Armament Research, told MEE.

The
rack is then released once the drone is positioned over the area
where the controller wishes to disperse the gas.

“It
may be something as simple as a retracting pin attached to a
servomotor, which is wired into the drone’s circuits,” Bevan says.
“This is what Islamic State [IS] used in Iraq and Syria.”

According
to Bevan, IS is the only group for which there is physical evidence
of these small, helicopter-type drones’ use in combat situations,
mostly seen in Iraq’s Mosul and Syria’s Tal Afar.

“We
see drone use in other theatres, including by non-state groups, but
these have been military fixed-wing drones,” he said.

New
range, new danger

Monday’s
demonstrations in Gaza coincided with the ceremony marking the
official opening of the United States’ new embassy in Jerusalem
while Tuesday’s protests marked 70 years since the Palestinian Nakba
– or Catastrophe – when 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their
homes in historic Palestine in 1948.

Over
the two days, 62 Palestinians were killed by live fire or tear gas
inhalation, as Israeli forces attempted to quell the protests.

At
least 980 Palestinians were wounded by tear gas dropped on the
protests on Monday, Gaza’s health ministry said, including many
minors.

The
drones have given the Israeli forces new range. Previously, gas
canisters had only been fired into the Gaza Strip from vehicles on
the Israeli side of the divide.

The
large fence that separates the besieged enclave from Israel restricts
the military’s ability to fire gas across the border, unlike in the
West Bank where soldiers often fire the canisters from specially
equipped rifles.

Israeli
forces rarely make ground incursions into the Gaza Strip, which they
pulled out of in 2005, while they maintain a significant presence the
occupied West Bank.

This
new range has allowed the Israelis to target areas far from the
flashpoint border area, places more likely to be populated by
families, minors and the elderly.

Gas
a threat to the vulnerable

“The
problem with gas grenades is they are especially dangerous to small
children and elderly people,” Mack said.

The
gas can be fatal in two ways: suffocation and overdosing on the
chemicals used.

The
deaths of several Palestinians in the West Bank has been linked to
tear gas inhalation in recent years. In 2015 an eight-month-old
baby in
the village of Beit Fajjar died after soldiers fired tear gas into
his home

And
in 2014, Palestinian minister Ziad
Abu Ein died
from complications related to tear gas inhalation after attending a
protest near the village of Turmusaya.

A
report last year described the Aida refugee camp in the southern West
Bank as the “community most exposed to tear gas in the world”.

Reports
emerged on Tuesday that an eight-month-old baby, Leila al-Ghandour,
was also killed by tear gas in the Gaza Strip. She is said to have
been exposed to the gas while at a protest site far from the Israeli
separation fence, though at the time of publication this could not be
independently verified by MEE.

Indiscriminate
projectiles

Though
made of rubber, the gas grenades dropped from the drones are weighty
and have a metal top.

The
Israeli military has regulations banning firing such projectiles
directly at people. Gas canisters fired from specially fitted rifles
are particularly dangerous at short range.

The
long-range 40mm grenade launchers used by Israel are also considered
dangerous because they can be fired with only limited accuracy.

Palestinians
run to take cover as an Israeli drone fires tear gas grenades east of
Gaza City during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces, on
May 15, 2018. (AFP)

A
spokesman from Omega
Research Foundation (ORF Ltd), which researches the manufacture, trade in and use of, military,
security and police technologies, told MEE that drones can be used to
increase accuracy when dispersing tear gas.

“On
a purely technical level, the drones can hover at a safe height to
drop the grenades and target individuals that pose a threat,” the
spokesman, who wished to remain anonymous, said.

However,
video footage of this week’s protests appears to show the canisters
dropping from a considerable height, reducing accuracy and increasing
the risk of head injuries.

Not
a threat

Israel
has repeatedly accused the protesters in Gaza of attempting to cross
the border fence and lay explosives in Israeli territory. It says the
use of live fire and tear gas is justified by the threat protesters
pose by breaching the barrier.

Israeli
police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the AFP news agency previously
that the drones have “the capability of flying over certain zones
and certain areas and then letting go of tear gas in areas that we
want to prevent protesters from reaching”.

However,
MEE reporters in Gaza and the West Bank and videos emerging online
suggest Israeli forces targeted areas far from the border area and
people who did not appear to pose a threat.

(deze video is dezelfde als die in het daaronder staande twitterbericht wordt getoond)

CJ Werleman

✔@cjwerleman

Watch Israeli drones drop tear gas on journalists who were documenting Israel’s massacre in Gaza.

The entire Israeli enterprise is built on a war against truth. It not only spends hundreds of millions of dollars in propaganda (hasbara) but also deliberately targets journalists.

5:01 PM – May 15, 2018

On
Monday, an MEE reporter was gassed by a drone along with several
other members of the media. The area targeted was clearly populated
by many journalists, with vehicles prominently displaying “Press”.

Video
footage also showed a drone dropping gas on a communal tent full of
women and children, apparently more than metres from the border.

(de video behorend bij dit Twitterbericht weet ik niet over te nemen, hier de link naar het originele artikel)

Raf Sanchez

✔@rafsanchez

The Israelis keep dropping tear gas with a drone on this communal tent full of women and kids. We’re 500+ yards from the border and I can’t see anyone throwing stones nearby or any other justification. #Gaza

4:05 PM – May 15, 2018

The
deployment of gas grenades from above appears in some situations to
have sown confusion and fear among crowds, rather than dispersing
them to other locations.

In
a demonstration on Tuesday near the illegal Israeli settlement Beit
El in the West Bank at least four drones deployed gas directly onto
protesters.

A
20-year-old protester there, who wished to remain anonymous, told MEE
that “panic ensued” when the drones appeared in the sky.

“People
were running in all directions unsure of where to go as the drones
hovered above our heads waiting to drop tear gas,” the protester
told MEE.

“The
Israelis have only begun using these drones in the last few weeks.
They are indiscriminate, and show no mercy.”

According
to Gabriel Avner, an Israeli security consultant, Israel’s policy
in Gaza is a departure from its usual crowd-control methods.

“The
situation in Gaza right now is completely different to what is
happening anywhere else… they’re thinking of this as a
full-on conflict zone,” he told MEE.

“There
is some cause for concern because the rules of engagement are
hard-coded,” he said, adding that the Israeli military needed to
make sure soldiers were properly trained to understand the potential
consequences when new technology such as this is introduced.

‘Kite
terrorism’

The
use of drones is not limited to dispersing tear gas, however.

Some
Palestinians have been flying kites across the border, often
incendiary ones carrying burning coals with the objective of starting
bush fires in Israeli territory.

According
to Israeli daily Haaretz,
the Israeli military has enlisted amateur racer drones to intercept
the kites, using the rotas and fish hooks attached to the crafts to
cut their cords and send them off course.

An
Israeli army drone flies near a Palestinian kite along the border
between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City on May 14, 2018.
(AFP)

The
drones intercepting the kites are operated by hobbyists, and can
reach speeds of 110 metres per second, Haaretz reported.

One
of the kites that reached the Israeli side of the divide carried a
suspected remote-controlled bomb, the paper reported.

While
the device did not explode, and police sappers said it may have been
a dud or a fake, the paper speculated it could herald a new phase
along the border of what it called “kite terrorism”.

Many
of the kites are harmless, however, with protesters often using them
to fly the Palestinian flag.

If
not intercepted by drones, these kites are often shot down using live
fire.

Technology
to sell

Israel
is one of the world’s leading countries in drone technology.

It
has been using unmanned aerial vehicles since the late 1970s, when
they were used by the military for surveillance in south Lebanon, and
were widely deployed in Israel’s 1982 invasion of its neighbour to
the north.

Mack,
the human rights lawyer, noted that Israel has previously used
conflicts to showcase its weaponry with the intention of selling it
on.

Israel
sells its arms and technology to many countries. Last month
the German
Defence Ministry announced
its intention to sign a $1bn contract with Israel Aerospace
Industries to lease unmanned aerial vehicles.

Tel
Aviv has been criticised for selling
weaponry to
governments with poor human rights records, most
recently Myanmar,
which has reportedly bought Israeli military equipment as it conducts
an operation against the Rohingya minority. The Myanmar government’s
assault against Rohingya communities has been widely described as
ethnic cleansing.

Israeli
company Global
Group also
sold surveillance drones to the beleaguered and cash-strapped
government of South Sudan for millions of dollars in December.

The
South Sudanese government’s forces have been accused by the UN of
serious human rights abuses since its civil war broke out in 2013.

The
Israeli military’s use of drones to drop gas in Gaza and the West
Bank suggests that the models sold to South Sudan could equally be
adapted to release tear gas or other payloads.

“Larger
commercial drones … are designed to carry a range of payloads
(large cameras for sports events, crop-spraying attachments), so are
designed to operate payload functions remotely. This would be very
easy to configure,” Bevan said.

Kaamil
Ahmed, Tessa Fox and Hind Khoudary contributed to this report.

VS, GB en Frankrijk begaan enorme oorlogsmisdaad met aanval op Syrische doelen……

Posted on April 14, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

De aanval afgelopen nacht van de VS, Groot-Brittannie en Frankrijk op Syrische doelen is een enorme schending van de Geneefse conventies en het oorlogsrecht in het algemeen! Bovendien is dit de zoveelste schoffering van de VN, daar er geen resolutie lag en de VN nog met een onderzoek naar de vermeende gifgasaanval in Douma moet beginnen (het begin daarvan stond gepland voor morgen…….)……

Zonder enig bewijs voor een gifgasaanval en de schuld daarvoor, hebben de VS, GB en Frankrijk de wereld op de rand van een kernoorlog gebracht…….

Laten we hopen op het gezonde verstand van Rusland, zoals dit land de afgelopen jaren heeft laten zien en zich niet tot geweld heeft laten uitlokken bij meerdere false flag operaties, waarna grootschalige westerse terreur werd gebruikt, terreur waartoe ook de oorlogsmisdaad van afgelopen nacht behoort……

VS likker Rutte, de wanpresterend VVD premier van ons land had het gore lef te stellen dat hij begrip heeft voor deze terreuraanvallen op Syrische doelen, hij noemde deze “proportioneel en weloverwogen……” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dus zonder enig bewijs een ander land bombarderen, zoals gezegd een smerige oorlogsmisdaad, noemt ‘onze’ premier “proportioneel en weloverwogen….”

Hoe gek moet je zijn, of beter: hoe kan je het Nederlandse volk een nog groter rad voor de ogen draaien??? Hebben we dan niets geleerd van de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, NB een oorlog die tot nu toe 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost (ofwel die zijn mede met Nederlandse politieke en militaire steun vermoord……*), een oorlog die al even illegaal was als de aanval van afgelopen nacht en waarvoor ‘de reden’ ook was gebaseerd op keiharde leugens…….

Zal in komende berichten verder op deze zaak ingaan.

* Gisteren maakte het OM bekend dat tijdens 1.800 Nederlandse gevechtsmissies in Irak met F16’s en het gebruik van 2.000 bommen slechts bij 4 bombardementen burgerslachtoffers zijn gevallen……. Hoeveel weet men niet daar onderzoek onmogelijk is…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe kan men dan wel weten dat er maar in 4 van deze bombardementsvluchten burgerslachtoffers zijn gevallen??!!! Overigens had Nederland al onder Balkenende-1 militairen op de grond in Irak….. Let wel: volgens de luchtmacht leugenaars, tevens lobbyisten voor de JSF en daarmee Lockheed Martin, plus politici-lobbyisten voor diezelfde waardeloze JSF, de F16’s, die godbetert 1.800 bombardementen hebben uitgevoerd, van ellende uit de lucht vallen……. Volksverlakkerij van het hoogste niveau!

Zie ook:

‘White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht)

‘Aanval op Syrische doelen door VS, GB en Frankrijk op moment dat de beurs 2 dagen is gesloten….‘

‘De Hoop Scheffer (CDA en ex-NAVO) heeft geen spijt voor de steun aan de illegale Irakoorlog >> 1,5 miljoen vermoorde Irakezen verder……‘

‘Russische volk wordt geadviseerd zich voor te bereiden op een nucleaire oorlog…….‘

‘Gifgasaanval vooropgezet spel om VS actie te rechtvaardigen, waarbij GB de spelers opdracht gaf dit toneelspel snel uit te voeren…….. ‘False flag gelukt’: Syrië gebombardeerd zonder enig bewijs voor schuld…..‘

‘Rusland voorspelde ‘de gifgasaanval’ in Oost-Ghouta en de reactie daarop van de VS…..‘

‘Rusland beschuldigd GB van het regisseren gifgasaanval Douma en zegt daar bewijzen voor te hebben‘

‘In Douma vond geen gifgasaanval plaats aldus gelauwerd journalist Robert Fisk…..‘

‘De OPCW inspecteurs en hun werk in Douma n.a.v. ‘gifgasaanval…’‘

‘Wapenfabrikanten die de illegale raketbeschietingen op Syrië mogelijk maakten, zagen hun aandelen met 10 miljard stijgen………‘

‘VS en GB brengen propaganda die moet verdoezelen wat er echt gebeurt in Syrië……..

Door VS gebombardeerde ‘gifgasfabriek’ niet bestaand….‘

‘False flag operatie’ later toegevoegd, ook op 14 april 2018.

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

Posted on January 11, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Hoorde
gistermiddag op BBC World Service radio rond 15.20 u., John Wolfsthal
van de Nuclear Crisis Group (zie tweede toegevoegde artikel). Hij
waarschuwde de wereld voor het gemak waarop de Trump administratie en Noord-Korea spreken over
een nucleaire aanval op de ander

Wolfsthal
sprak niet alleen over het niet hebben van een restrictie op dit
gebruik, dus alleen kernwapens inzetten als een andere partij zo’n
wapen op de VS loslaat, maar ook over een nieuwe strategie t.a.v. kernwapengebruik. Zoals de regelmatige lezer intussen weet:
meermaals heb ik gesteld dat onder Obama het kernwapen de status
verloor van afschrikkingswapen, heel dom van mij, zo blijkt…… Het
ging er destijds bij Obama, de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar (ha!
ha!) om, juist die restrictie in te voeren, echter daar was de Obama administratie uiteindelijk toch tegen………

Wolfstahl
ziet grote problemen bij de nieuwe generatie kernwapens die de VS
laat fabriceren, daar zitten ‘kleine’ kernwapens tussen, die ‘alleen’
een stad verpulveren…… Vreemd trouwens dat hij zich zo gelaten
uitliet over deze op steden ‘gerichte’ kernwapens….. De Blockbusters
uit WOII waren al een schandalig wapen, immers erop gericht om
huizenblokken te vernielen…… (intussen een oorlogsmisdaad volgens het verdrag van Genève…..) Om
over de VS aanvallen met atoombommen op Hiroshima en Nagasaki maar te zwijgen….. Nu
doen ‘we’ het blijkbaar dunnetjes over met een Hiroshima 2.0
kernwapen……….. (‘uiteraard veel effectiever…..’)

Hoe is
het gvd mogelijk dat onze regering en de EU niet een keer de klep
opentrekken over alle kernwapens, de vernieuwing daarvan en het
zoeken naar ‘bruikbare kernwapens’, terwijl ze continu de vuilbek vol
hebben over Noord-Korea….. Noord-Korea probeert zich met hun zoektocht naar een kernwapen* te verdedigen tegen de ongebreidelde VS agressie >> zie hoeveel illegale
oorlogen deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde heeft
ontketend in de loop van haar bestaan……. Daarnaast: in 1953 had de VS
luchtmacht geen doelen meer over om te bombarderen in Noord-Korea,
die vooral daardoor een vijfde van haar bevolking verloor in de Koreaanse
Oorlog……….. Vergeet niet dat beloften van de VS niets waard zijn, zo heeft o.a. Khadaffi van Libië ondervonden, voordat hij barbaars werd vermoord…..

Blijkbaar
kan uw regering wel leven met het feit, dat wij voor het grootste
deel uitgeroeid zullen worden in een kernoorlog, zij kunnen immers
‘lekker ondergronds….’

Wat een
zootje mensen……..

Hieronder
een artikel van Jason Ditz, geplaatst op ANTIWAR en overgenomen van
Anti-Media. Hij schrijft over het gevaar kernwapengebruik aan te duiden als een mogelijke oorlogsvoering, dus middels een eerste aanval op een ‘tegenstander…’ In het Ditz-artikel o.a. de verduidelijking van het beleid t.a.v. het kernwapengebruik. Onder het Ditz-artikel nog een bericht over de
Nuclear Crisis Group van vorig jaar juni, gevonden op het net en afkomstig van Global
Zero, de initiatiefnemer voor de Nuclear Crisis Group. Daarin onder meer de doelstellingen van de groep
en de namen van een aantal leden, met hun uitspraken over
kernwapengebruik.

Mensen, we dansen weer eens op de rand van een (actieve) vulkaan:

US
to Greatly Loosen Constraints on the Use of Nuclear Weapons

January
10, 2018 at 6:11 am

Written
by Jason
Ditz

(ANTIWAR.COM) — With
the US forever investing more into their nuclear arsenal, ensuring
they have the world’s biggest collection of city destroying arms,
the fact that none have been used in over 70 years is a silver lining
to many, but within the administration, it may be a problem that
needs correcting.

Administration
officials are now said to both be hard at work acquiring smaller,
more “usable” nuclear weapons, and radically
changing the rules of engagement with respect to a US nuclear first
strike,
so that such attacks are more possible in the future.

While
some nuclear powers have ruled out ever launching a first strike, the
US has long refused to make such a position, with President Obama’s
brief consideration of such a pledge quickly panned as making the US
“look weak.”

Even
without the pledge, the current crop of arms are for all intents and
purposes unusable except in an extinction-level nuclear exchange.
Such a strike would simply be too big, and too much of a humanitarian
disaster to seriously contemplate.

Which
is where these smaller nuclear arms come in. Pentagon officials see
the introduction of more tactical nuclear arms as a way to build arms
that are usable at a much lower threshold, and seem to be shrugging
off concerns that this will effectively normalize nuclear warfare.

By Jason
Ditz /
Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report
a typo

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NUCLEAR
CRISIS GROUP URGES STEPS TO PREVENT NUCLEAR CONFLICT

Former
Officials, Experts From 10 Countries Review Nuclear Flashpoints,
Propose Urgent Plan To Head Off Nuclear Use

28
June 2017

FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

CONTACT:
Anna Zuccaro | 914-523-9145 | anna@unbendablemedia.com

WASHINGTON,
D.C. — Today,
Global Zero’s Nuclear Crisis Group (NCG), a newly-formed team of
seasoned diplomats, military leaders and national security experts
from nuclear-armed and allied countries, released a set of urgent
recommendations to avoid the use of nuclear weapons and called on
national leaders to act now to reduce the unacceptably high risk of
nuclear conflict. The report comes as U.S. President Donald Trump
meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington to
discuss, among other things, the escalating crisis on the Korean
Peninsula. Specifically:

The
Nuclear Crisis Group calls for the United States and North Korea to
begin immediate discussions, without any preconditions, to reduce
the risk of conflict. Full denuclearization through the “Six
Party” process,
including a freeze on nuclear and missile tests, production of
nuclear materials, suspensions of military exercises, and
negotiation of a formal peace regime will take time, but must not be
allowed to prevent urgently needed discussions to avoid escalation
of nuclear risk.
The
Nuclear Crisis Group welcomes the decision by the United States and
Russia to resume serious strategic stability talks, which have yet
to begin, and urges
both governments to fully utilize existing mechanisms for diplomatic
and military-to-military dialogues. Both parties should move
immediately to extend the New START agreement and resolve violations
of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and fully implement
agreements to establish nuclear risk reduction and data exchange
centers. Further
steps to avoid and manage military incidents in the air and at sea
are critical to avoiding nuclear risks, and all parties should
reaffirm their desire to avoid nuclear use and refrain from making
nuclear threats.
In
South Asia, the Nuclear Crisis Group calls on India and Pakistan
to resume
real risk reduction and strategic stability dialogues, declare their
mutual desire to avoid nuclear weapons use, to keep battlefield
nuclear weapons in storage only and to not deploy land-mobile
nuclear systems. The
two parties should establish nuclear risk reduction centers,
possibly using third-party satellite data, and discuss a bilateral
or multilateral nuclear test moratorium.
The
Nuclear Crisis Group concludes
the risks of nuclear escalation between the United States and China
remains real and urges the states to fully implement existing
accident-avoidance agreements, to avoid steps that could lead to
military incidents, including
medium-altitude reconnaissance flights and militarization of
newly-formed islands in the South China sea, and to expand
military-to-military and diplomatic talks to include nuclear
doctrine and transparency.

View
the full set of recommendations here: http://bit.ly/NCGreport

The
Group, co-chaired by Amb. Richard Burt, Gen. (ret.) James E.
Cartwright and Amb. Thomas Pickering, met last month in Vienna,
Austria to review specific nuclear flashpoints and developed
recommendations that can help prevent conflicts from escalating to
nuclear weapons use.

“We
were fortunate to avoid the use of nuclear weapons during the Cold
War. The danger that one of several local conflicts could grow
quickly to the nuclear level is very real,” said
Ambassador Richard Burt, co-chair of Global Zero’s Nuclear Crisis
Group.

“We
must prevent a serious problem from becoming catastrophic. Any use of
nuclear weapons anywhere would have global disastrous
consequences,” added
Ambassador Thomas Pickering, co-chair of Global Zero’s Nuclear
Crisis Group.

“We
continue to rely too heavily on nuclear weapons, and accept too much
risk, believing we can control escalation,” explained
former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs James Cartwright (USMC,
Ret.), co-chair of Global Zero’s Nuclear Crisis Group. “The
norm of non-use is at risk and we are not paying enough attention to
those risks.”

“The
frozen Korean conflict could go hot at any minute and we have no
proven way to avoid escalation with North Korea,” said
Jon Wolfsthal, former special assistant to President Obama and senior
advisor to Global Zero. “We
have to address these risks before it is too late.”

The
Nuclear Crisis Group will continue to closely monitor nuclear
flashpoints and update its recommendations as international
developments unfold.

A
full list of NCG members can be found here: http://bit.ly/NCGlist.

For
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* Het is maar de vraag of Noord-Korea daadwerkelijk een atoombom heeft, daar de gebruikelijke bovengrondse nucleaire straling, na een ondergrondse kernproef, door niemand werd gemeld…. (terwijl er genoeg satellieten over N-Korea gaan, waarmee men die straling kan meten……) Ofwel: het is goed mogelijk dat Noord-Korea een potje blufpoker speelt….

Zie ook: ‘VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een ‘cyberaanval…….’‘

en: ‘Trumps atoomknop is groter dan die van Kim Yung-un, bovendien werkt de VS knop wel……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

en: ‘Trumps uitlating over de atoomknop en de onverschilligheid bij zijn achterban, een dictatuur waardig………‘

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

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

en: ‘Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII……‘

en: ‘Trumps beleid t.a.v. kernwapens brengt de VS staatsveiligheid in gevaar (en die van de rest van de wereld)‘

Dan nog over het bedreigen van Noord-Korea door Trump met ‘Fire and Fury): ‘Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon……..‘

En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt: ‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘ en: ‘List of wars involving the United States‘

Over de zogenaamde Russische dreiging: ‘NAVO uitbreiding in Oost-Europa is bewezen tegen gesloten overeenkomst met Rusland…….‘

Mosul >> VS vermoordde daar met bombardementen meer dan 40.000 burgers, Irak deed het na de ‘bevrijding’ dunnetjes over met 10.000 moorden…….

Posted on December 6, 2017June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Bij de bloedige ‘bevrijding’ van West-Mosul, werden meer dan 40.000 inwoners vermoord, vooral middels bombardementen van de VS (dat was al overigens al het geval voor de uiteindelijke ‘bevrijding’ het geval…)…

Ondanks oproepen aan de VS van onder meer de VN te stoppen met bombardementen op het Iraakse West-Mosul, daar in de oude stad de huizen zo dicht op elkaar staan en waardoor de burgers in levensgevaar werden gebracht, ging de VS ‘gewoon’ door met de bombardementen…….. Vergelijk dat eens met de bevrijding van het Syrische Oost-Aleppo, waar het reguliere Syrische leger en de Russen al 2 maanden voor de uiteindelijke bevrijding besloten te stoppen met bombardementen, dit juist om burgerslachtoffers zoveel mogelijk te voorkomen……..

Gezien dat laatste moeten er dan ook in de paar maanden voor de bevrijding van West-Mosul een enorm aantal burgers zijn vermoord…… Om negatief nieuws met een enorm aantal vermoorde burgers te voorkomen, heeft het Iraakse leger na de ‘bevrijding’ hele huizenblokken gebulldozerd en daarmee de lijken die zich daar nog in bevonden, begraven onder het puin……. Overigens is het bombarderen van huizenblokken al een enorme oorlogsmisdaad, vastgelegd in het Verdrag van Genève……

De westerse massamedia en de meeste westerse politici houden desondanks vol, dat Syrië en Rusland enorme oorlogsmisdaden begingen in Oost-Aleppo, ook al was en is daarvoor geen flinter echt bewijs……. Waar diezelfde media en politici liever niet lullen over de enorme oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de Iraakse coalitie (o.l.v. de VS) in steden als Mosul………

Na de bevrijding van West-Mosul beging de Iraakse-coalitie tegen IS, de ene oorlogsmisdaad na de andere. Mannen en jongens van boven de 14 jaar werden gescheiden van de vrouwen gevangen gezet, waar velen van hen werden gemarteld en/of vermoord, ook al had men geen juridisch bewijs voor deelname aan terreurgroep IS……. Een wond was genoeg om de psychopaten te overtuigen dat men met IS leden te maken had, wat vrijwel altijd een zekere dood betekende voor deze verdachten, een aantal van hen werd zelfs van gebouwen gegooid……. Dit alles onder goedkeuring en toezicht van de VS……

Soldaten kregen van officieren het advies IS-verdachten te vermoorden: als men ‘overtuigd was’ met een IS strijder te maken te hebben……. Na de ‘bevrijding’ van West-Mosul zijn er naar schatting 10.000 mannen en jongens vermoord door het Iraakse leger……..

Lees het ontluisterende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi zoals geplaatst op Anti-Media:

‘Orgy
of Killing’: US-Backed ‘Liberation’ of Mosul Left 10,000
Civilians Dead

December
4, 2017 at 3:33 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — After
the United States and its proxy armies “liberated” the Iraqi city
of Mosul earlier this year, the world’s superpower
unsurprisingly turned a
blind eye to a massacre that took place soon after. As
the Guardian aptly
phrased it, the aftermath was an “orgy” of killing.

The Guardian explains
that it was the brutal conduct of the Iraqi Armed Forces that enabled
Iraq to successfully liberate Mosul from ISIS’ dominance, stating:

“One
of the factors that had aided Isis’s takeover of Mosul was the
conduct of the Iraqi army and security forces stationed in the city,
who behaved like sectarian occupation forces, mistreating and
detaining the population at will. In the early stages of the battle
for Mosul, the Iraqi army and police, keen to change their prevailing
image, had taken care to preserve the lives of civilians. Soldiers
and officers used their vehicles to help people evacuate their homes,
and offered water and medical help. But the Old City was seen as the
last refuge of Isis, and almost every inhabitant was treated as a
suspect. Fighting-age men from other parts of the city, and those
with injuries, were detained on the spot. The rest were sent to
detention centres, where their identity would be checked.”

According to
the non-partisan monitoring group Airwars, the civilian death toll in
Mosul may have exceeded 10,000. Those who were fortunate enough to
survive coalition bombings were apparently treated as suspected ISIS
members, and the result was a host of crimes that should make The
Hague cringe.

The Guardian explains:

“Locals,
keen to exact revenge on those they held responsible for the miseries
and destruction of the last three years, started denouncing not only
members of Isis and their families who had tried to blend in with
fleeing civilians, but also any man of fighting
age who came from a different city, bore the marks of injury, or
simply looked suspicious.” [emphasis
added]

Kate
Allen, the director of Amnesty International, has already called for
an independent
inquiry into
these crimes. Allen stated:

“Deliberately
killing fighters who have surrendered or who have been captured is
absolutely prohibited under international law. Needless to say,
killing civilians in these circumstances is also utterly unlawful –
a war crime.”

The
Iraqi military’s behavior during and after this liberation campaign
is no secret to the U.S. or the mainstream media. Iraqi soldiers were
allegedly throwing
captured ISIS
fighters off buildings as far back as July of this year.
The Guardian also
details one example of a suspected ISIS operative who vehemently
claimed he was a medic, only to be beaten, thrown out of a window,
and gunned down on the street below. As one Iraqi military officer
explained:

“He
is my fifth [killing] since the start of [the battle of] Mosul…
Al-Qaida have one good principle: if they suspect someone, or have
the tiniest evidence against him, they execute him. They say that if
he was guilty, he deserved it, and if he was innocent, his blood will
be purged and later he will go to heaven. I follow the same
principle.”

Never
mind that thousands
of civilians died
in the aerial campaign during the first few months of Trump’s
presidency. Once the city was formally liberated,
the Guardian explains,
the real “orgy” of killing began:

“Night
after night, in ruined houses, makeshift cells and the dark streets
of Mosul, those identified as members of Isis were tortured and
executed. Jubilant Iraqi soldiers filmed themselves beating and
shooting prisoners.”

The
United States has barely given this issue a passing mention, even as
it attempts to denigrate Syria for allegedly doing the same thing.
One thing is certain, however — the United States has brought chaos
to Iraq and the large city of Mosul, and liberation may, in fact, be
the wrong word to describe the results.

From
the Guardian:

“‘Sometimes
we do things and we know we are breaking the law,’ the commander
told me one afternoon as he sat sipping his tea. He lit a cigarette
and continued: ‘My general tells me: ‘Don’t bring me any
prisoners – if you know they are Daesh, then deal with them from
your end.’ My soldiers call me and say: ‘We have found a man’,
and I tell them: ‘Kill him.’”

Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

‘Mosul, 18 maanden na ‘de bevrijding’‘

‘The massacre of Mosul: 40,000 feared dead in battle to take back city from Isis as scale of civilian casualties revealed‘

‘Iraakse strijdmacht gaf grif toe dat tot hun orders voor West-Mosul ook het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen behoorde……..‘

‘Mosul: minstens 40.000 gedode burgers in 9 maanden tijd, ofwel VS terreur op grote schaal…..‘

‘Mosul, stad van lijken: vele honderden doden onder het puin‘

‘Mosul verwoest door VS………‘

‘Mosul, het verschil in berichtgeving vergeleken met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo………..‘

‘Raqqa, een strijd als om West-Mosul, echter met geheel andere media aandacht……….‘

‘Bombarderen was een probleem in Mosul, maar niet bij het nieuwe Iraakse/VS offensief…….‘

‘Mosul ‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’‘ (een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

‘VS vermoordde met bombardementen in augustus 433 burgers in Raqqa………. Westerse media alweer stil…….‘

‘Hennis-Plasschaert hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou gebruiken……..‘

‘Honderden burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel grootschalige terreur……‘

‘Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

‘After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

‘Mosul (bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC‘

‘Mosul ‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….‘

‘Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………‘

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

Posted on December 6, 2017June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Seriemoordenaar en psychopaat Pompeo heeft afgelopen zaterdag toegegeven dat Israël en Saoedi-Arabië nauw ‘samenwerken in de strijd tegen terreur……’ Let wel terreur die op poten werd gezet door diezelfde landen in samenwerking met de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, waarvan zoals je begrijpt, Pompeo een vertegenwoordiger is…….

Pompeo herhaalde uiteraard alle leugens die door de CIA en NSA zijn gefabriceerd, zoals die over ‘het gevaarlijke Iran….’ Iran valt geen andere landen aan, omdat ze daar niet sjiitisch zijn, Iran valt geen landen aan zoals de VS om de oliebelangen veilig te stellen……. Iran valt geen landen aan om daar de regering tot afdwingen te dwingen…… Noch organiseert Iran opstanden in andere landen, om via die weg een staatsgreep te plegen (onder regie en financiering van de VS)…….

Al die zaken zijn wel van toepassing op de VS en dat op een enorme schaal…… Ook zijn die zaken wel van toepassing op Saoedi-Arabië, nu bezig met een genocide op de sjiieten in Jemen, hetzelfde S-A dat zelfs in Europa de jihad laat preken (al is dat niet nodig, gezien de barbaarse terreur die de VS, veelal met hulp van NAVO landen, her en der breng, plus dezelfde terreur-inzet van Israël, dat creëert op zich al een heel leger ‘terroristen…’)

Dat Israël enorme terreur uitoefent op de Palestijnen, mag intussen als algemeen bekend worden geacht, hoe de reguliere westerse media ook hun best doen dit keer op keer te ontkennen…….. Ook de aanvallen van Israël tegen Syrië zijn zonder meer enorme terreurdaden, die volgens het verdrag van Genève worden aangemerkt als oorlogsmisdaden…….. Dezelfde reguliere westerse (massa-) media komen zelfs niet met één letter van kritiek op deze smerige oorlogsmisdaden, terwijl elke scheet die Putin en Assad laten, breed worden uitgemeten door die media en dat in een dikke brij van (aantoonbare) leugens…….

Je zou bijna zeggen, dat het een zegen is dat Trump Jeruzalem als hoofdstad ziet van Israël, later vandaag zal hij dan ook bekend maken dat de VS haar ambassade van Tel Aviv zal verhuizen naar Jeruzalem. Immers deze zet zal een fikse wig drijven in deze coalitie van psychopathische moordenaars en pathologische leugenaars…….

Hier een artikel over de uitlatingen van Pompeo met daaronder een al wat ouder artikel van Jonas E. Alexis, over het organiseren van IS terreur door Israël, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS:

CIA
Director Admits Saudi Arabia Is Working Directly With Israel to
‘Fight Terror’

December
5, 2017 at 7:36 am

Written
by Anti-Media
News Desk

(MEMO) —
Israel
is working directly with Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations in the
fight against terrorism, CIA Director Mike Pompeo said on
Saturday, according to
the Jerusalem
Post.

The
comments were made at the Reagan National Defense Forum in
California, where Pompeo cited the danger Iran posed not just to the
US, but to other states in the region, as a unifying factor.

“We’ve
seen them [Saudi Arabia] work with the Israelis to push back against
terrorism throughout the Middle East, to the extent we can continue
to develop those relationships and work alongside them – the Gulf
states and broader Middle East will likely be more secure,” Pompeo
told the audience.

Former
CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was also a
speaker at the event and took his speech as an opportunity to call on
Arab countries to form a coalition with Israel, the US and Turkey,
and even to run a joint military operations center.

“It
is incredibly important that in the Middle East, where we have failed
states, where you have ISIS [Daesh], where you have Iran, that we
have got to develop a stronger coalition of countries that are
willing to work together to confront these challenges,” he said.

“I
think with a joint military headquarters, that can… target the
terrorists in that region, that can basically work together to try to
provide stability where is necessary in these countries,” Panetta
concluded.

Rumors
of Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel were brought to the
fore once again last month after Israeli Energy Minister Yuval
Steinitz confessed that
Tel Aviv had covert contacts with Riyadh amid common concerns over
Iran.

Just
days before, Saudi news agency Elaph, which
is close to the decision-making circles in Riyadh, published
an interview
with the Israeli army chief of staff,
Gadi Eisenkot; a step described by Israeli sources as a move to bring
Saudi and Israeli relations into the public sphere.

The
reports reignited the controversy in September when whistleblower
Mujtahidd leaked reports stating the alleged desire of the Kingdom to
accept Israel “as
a brotherly state.”

The
Saudi public have strongly
rejected any
attempts at normalizing relations with Israel in the past, and such
reports prompted concern among many.

Saudi
officials have maintained that
any relations with Israel hinge on Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands
captured in the 1967 Middle East war, territory Palestinians seek for
a future state. However, rumors of existing cooperation persist,
including alleged Saudi backing for the US proposed Israel-Palestine
peace plan to be released next year.

By MEMO
Staff / Creative
Commons / Middle
East Monitor / Report
a typo

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

The United States, Israel, and Saudi Arabia Created and Funded ISIS

By Jonas E. Alexis

November 4, 2017

“Western-backed militants are in retreat, Bashar al-Assad remains president, Hezbollah has stretched its wings regionally, Israeli power is in decline, and Iran is on the rise. Not a pretty result for Washington’s multi-billion dollar investment in the Syrian conflict, especially if it was intended to change the map of the region to favor U.S. interests.”

Mark
Dankof nailed it again. In his recent interview with Press
TV,
he said unflinchingly:

“The CIA needs to spend more time investigating terrorists and a lot less time recruiting them and financing them. The United States and Israel, and secondarily Saudi Arabia, have created the very monsters that they are decrying.”

This is just brute facts, and no reputable or serious scholar would put his credibility on the line denying this. (I am excluding the Neoconservative ideologues and New World Order agents here because I don’t think they are serious about truth.)

One can call the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia “the axis of evil” when it comes to perpetual wars, creating terrorist organs in the Middle East, and torturing civilians.[1]And if you want concrete evidence, consider the fact that George W. Bush himself trained MEK right in the United States!

Noted journalist Seymour Hersh was one of the first individuals to document that the Bush administration trained terrorist organizations such as the MEK in America, most specifically in Nevada.[2]

A few years ago, Hersh went even deeper. He declared that American journalism has been captured by a powerful force, one which seeks to destroy serious reporting. Hersh has actually gone deep into the dark thoughts and psychology that permeate the Zionist subconscious and came back with a glooming result: “Fire 90% of the editors and promote ones you can’t control.”[3]

By making this stunning statement, Hersh has literally tarnished the reputation of the Zionist media, New World Order agents and ethnic cleansers like Bill Kristol and Jonah Goldberg. He moved on to argue that news outlets like the New York Times have been sheltering the powers that be for a long time.

Hersh blew the whistle back in 2004 when he declared that children were literally sodomized in front of women at Abu Ghraib—and the Pentagon had the tape!

“This is at Abu Ghraib … The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what’s happened’ and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It’s going to come out.”

“I can tell you some of the personal stories by some of the people who were in these units witnessed this. I can also tell you written complaints were made to the highest officers and so we’re dealing with an enormous massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there and higher, and we have to get to it and we will. We will.”[4]

The evidence seemed to suggest that the “women who witnessed these young boys being raped were actually their mothers… Other stories at the London Guardian also talked of young Iraqi detainees getting violently raped by US soldiers.”[5]

Sodomy at Abu Ghraib notwithstanding, the Israelis and the United States continue to support diabolical activities in the Middle East. Hersh wrote a long article in the London Review of Books arguing that the United States knew very well that they were arming ISIS in Syria. That’s not all. Hersh moved on to say that the United States knew perfectly well that if Assad were removed from power, then terrorist cells would have invaded the region, like vampires ready to strike innocent preys.

Hersh quoted one individual who said that the administration “did not want to hear the truth.”[6] Well, the administration did not want to hear the truth because they embraced the Israeli ideology which basically says that truth is what they can perpetuate and get away with. Hersh did not help Satanists and New World Order agents when he said that the Israelis fabricated the so-called evidence that Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people.[7]

As we have pointed out in the past, the Israelis wanted to overthrow the Assad government since the beginning of time,[8] and any dumb excuse will do, including supporting terrorist cells in the region. That’s why even the Wall Street Journal itself reluctantly pointed out that Israel has been supporting the bad guys in Syria.[9]

Dankof was correct: the United States needs to stop supporting “Wahhabi-inspired extremist groups” in the Middle East. Dankof said:

“The Unites States that can essentially pull the rug out of the extremist groups and stopping the supporting for them logistically, militarily and financially supporting stable governments in the Middle East, getting out of the regime change business, getting out of the arms-selling business and first and foremost insisting that Netanyahu has to come to a legitimate agreement with the Palestinians as a prelude to any significant peace.

“Until Trump does those things, and leads the American government and the American people in that direction, there is going to be nothing but death and destruction ahead keeping in mind once again that the United States has created the very monster of now claims to be destroyed.”

The Israelis obviously fear that much of the world is no longer taking orders from them, despite the fact that they continue to exert an enormously powerful influence on the West. As Middle East analyst Sharmine Narwani has pointed out,

[1] For scholarly studies on similar issues, see Rebecca Gordon, Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014); Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014); Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998); Douglas Valentine, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2016); David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (New York: Harper Perennial, 2015).
[2] Seymour Hersh, “Our Men in Iran?,” New Yorker, April 5, 2012.
[3] “Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘Pathetic’ American Media,” Guardian, September 27, 2013.
[4] Geraldine Sealey, “Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape,” Salon, July 16, 2004.
[5] See Julian Borger, “US general linked to Abu Ghraib abuse,” Guardian, May 22, 2004.
[6] Seymour M. Hersh, “Military to Military,” London Review of Books, January 2016, Vol. 38, NO 1.
[7] Seymour M. Hersh, “Whose Sarin?,” London Review of Books, December 8, 2013.
[8] Herb Keinon, “Israel wanted Assad gone since start of Syria civil war,” Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2013.
[9] “Israel Gives Secret Aid to Syrian Rebels,” Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2017.