Nemtsov Murder: Anti-Putin False Flag!

 

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by Stephen Lendman

Overnight Friday, opposition politician/Putin antagonist Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed in central Moscow. 

Tass said he was "shot dead (by) four shots from a handgun from a car passing by him..."

He was RPR-Parnas party co-chair, a Yaroslavi Oblast regional parliament member, and Solidarnost co-founder/co-chair - modeled after CIA-financed anti-communist Lech Walesa's Polish Solidarnosc.

In the 1990s, he held various government posts - including first deputy prime minister and deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin. 

He served in Russia's lower house State Duma and upper house Federation Council. He ignored clear US responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. He lied calling Donbass "Vladimir Putin's war."

Before Washington's coup, he said "(w)e support Ukraine's course toward European integration...By supporting Ukraine, we support ourselves."

Along with Aleksey Navalny, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, and other Putin opponents, he had close Western ties.

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He got State Department funding through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It wages war on democracy worldwide. 

It advances US interests. Its board of directors includes a rogue's gallery of neocon extremists.

In 2009, Nemtsov and Kasparov met personally with Obama. They discussed anti-Putin tactics - regime change by any other name.

Nemtsov's killing was strategically timed - ahead of Sunday's Vesna (Russian Spring anti-government) opposition march. 

I'll now be a Nemtsov memorial rally - turning an anti-Putin/pro-Western opportunist/convenient stooge into an unjustifiable martyr. 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said "Putin has stressed that this brutal murder has all (the) signs of a contract murder and is extremely provocative."

"The president has expressed his deep condolences to the family of tragically deceased Nemtsov."

Serial-killer/unindicted war criminal Obama "condemn(ed) (his) brutal murder." 

He ludicrously called him "a tireless advocate for his country, seeking for his fellow Russian citizens the rights to which all people are entitled."  

"I admired Nemtsov's courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia and appreciated his willingness to share his candid views with me when we met in Moscow in 2009."

"(T)he Russian people...have lost one of the most dedicated and eloquent defenders of their rights."

John Kerry made similar duplicitous comments. Mikhail Gorbachev called his killing "an attempt to complicate the situation in the country, even to destabilize it by ratcheting up tensions between the government and the opposition."

Nemtsov was a Western financed self-serving opportunist. His killing has all the earmarks of a US-staged false flag. Cui bono remains most important.

Clearly Putin had nothing to gain. Rogue US elements have lots to benefit from trying to destabilize Russia.

If Putin wanted Nemtsov dead, it's inconceivable he'd order a Mafia-style contract killing. An "unfortunate" plane or car crash would have been more likely.

Perhaps cleverly poisoning him the way Obama murdered Chavez and Sharon killed Arafat.

Gunning him down in central Moscow automatically rules out Kremlin involvement. 

His demise has all the earmarks of a CIA-staged false flag. Expect no evidence whatever surfacing suggesting Putin's involvement.

Nemtsov's martyrdom is much more valuable to Washington than using him alive as an impotent opposition figure.

Despite challenging economic conditions, Putin's approval rating exceeds 85%. Nemtsov's party has less than 5%. He was no popular favorite. Most Russians disliked him.

Expect his hyped martyrdom to be fully exploited in the West. Does Washington plan more political assassinations to heighten the Nemtsov effect?

Expect Sunday's march to be nothing more than another US failed attempt to enlist anti-Putin support.

Russians aren't stupid. They know how Washington operates. How it vilifies their government. How neocon lunatics in charge are capable of anything.

They know Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions. How Putin goes all-out trying to resolve them diplomatically.

Obama wants war, not peace. He wants destabilizing regime change in Russia - perhaps by nuclear war if other methods fail.

Killing Nemtsov changes nothing. Expect Western anti-Putin propaganda to fall flat after a few days of suggesting his involvement.

The New York Times practically accused him of murder calling Nemtsov's killing "the highest-profile assassination in Russia during (his) tenure."

His death occurred "just days before he was to lead (an anti-Putin) rally to protest the war in Ukraine."

The Times absurdly claimed "doors are now closing on the vision of a pluralistic political system of the type (Nemtsov) said he wanted for Russia."

It quoted discredited (on corruption charges) Putin opposition figure Gennady Gudkov saying "(t)hey have started to kill 'enemies of the people.' Mr. Nemtsov is dead. Who is next?"

The Times called him a "dashing, handsome young politician..often touted as an heir apparent to (Boris) Yeltsin."

Neocon Washington Post editors called his murder "another dark sign for Russia."

They flat-out lied saying he "was a courageous Russian politician who never gave up on the dream that the country could make the transition from dictatorship to liberal democracy."

They tried turning a nobody into a political icon. Ludicrously claiming he "be(came) one of the most enduring political figures of the post-Soviet era."

Disgracefully saying "he was by no means the first Putin opponent to be murdered in brazen fashion." Practically accusing Putin of ordering his killing.

Claiming he's "unwilling to tolerate opposition of any kind." Ignoring his overwhelming popularity. His opposition does a good job of rendering itself irrelevant.

Neocon Wall Street Journal editors proved true to form. They outrageously said "(i)n the gangster state that is Vladimir Putin's Russia, we may never learn who shot Boris Nemtsov in Moscow late Friday night."

They absurdly claimed "he might have steered Russia toward a decent future had he been given a chance."

"Instead, he was fated to become a courageous voice for democracy and human rights who risked his life to alert an indifferent West to the dangers of doing business with the man in the Kremlin."

Journal and like-minded editorials and commentaries repeated one Big Lie after another. Irresponsible Putin bashing substitutes for honest reporting and analysis.

Nemtsov's killing is Washington's latest attempt to destabilize Russia. It's part of its longstanding regime change strategy.

It bears repeating. Russians are too smart to fall for thinly veiled US schemes. 

Their overwhelming support for Putin shows flat rejection of what Washington neocons have in mind for their country. 

Stephen Lendman

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  

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USA: Through rough ways to the wars

By Francis Boyle

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Historically, this latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898.  Then the Republican administration of President  William McKinley stole their colonial empire from Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; inflicted a near genocidal war against the Filipino people; while at the same time illegally annexing the Kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the Native Hawaiian people (who call themselves the Kanaka Maoli) to near genocidal conditions.  Additionally, McKinley's military and colonial expansion into the Pacific was also designed to secure America's economic exploitation of China pursuant to the euphemistic rubric of the "open door" policy.   But over the next four decades America's aggressive presence, policies, and practices in the "Pacific" would ineluctably pave the way for Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 194l, and thus America's precipitation into the ongoing Second World War. Today a century later the serial imperial aggressions launched and menaced by the Republican Bush Jr. administration and now the Democratic Obama administration  are  threatening to set off World War III.

By shamelessly exploiting the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, the Bush Jr. administration set forth to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states and peoples living in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf and Africa  under the bogus pretexts of (1) fighting a war against international terrorism; and/or (2) eliminating weapons of mass destruction; and/or (3) the promotion of democracy; and/or (4) self-styled "humanitarian intervention"/responsibility to protect.  Only this time the geopolitical stakes are infinitely greater than they were a century ago:  control and domination of two-thirds of the world's hydrocarbon resources and thus the very fundament and energizer of the global economic system - oil and gas.  The Bush Jr./ Obama  administrations  have  already targeted the remaining hydrocarbon reserves of Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia for further conquest or domination, together with the strategic choke-points at sea and on land required for their transportation.  In this regard, the Bush Jr. administration  announced the establishment of the U.S. Pentagon's Africa Command (AFRICOM) in order to better control, dominate, and exploit both the natural resources and the variegated peoples of the continent of Africa, the very cradle of our human species.  Libya and the Libyans became the first victims to succumb to AFRICOM under the Obama administration. They will not be the last.

This current bout of U.S. imperialism is what my teacher, mentor and friend  Hans Morgenthau denominated "unlimited imperialism" in his seminal work Politics Among Nations (4th ed. 1968, at 52-53): 

"The outstanding historic examples of unlimited imperialism are the expansionist policies of Alexander the Great, Rome, the Arabs in the seventh and eighth centuries, Napoleon I, and Hitler. They all have in common an urge toward expansion which knows no rational limits, feeds on its own successes and, if not stopped by a superior force, will go on to the confines of the political world. This urge will not be satisfied so long as there remains anywhere a possible object of domination-a politically organized group of men which by its very independence challenges the conqueror's lust for power. It is, as we shall see, exactly the lack of moderation, the aspiration to conquer all that lends itself to conquest, characteristic of unlimited imperialism, which in the past has been the undoing of the imperialistic policies of this kind... "

It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy. The factual circumstances surrounding the outbreaks of both the First World War and the Second World War currently hover like twin  Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity.

Francis Boyle

Scientist of politics, professor of international law

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Washington destroys trust between nuclear powers, raising specter of war

By Paul Craig Roberts

Ambassador Jack Matlock made an important speech at the National Press Club on February 11.  Matlock served as US ambassador to the Soviet Union during 1987-91.In his speech he describes how President Reagan won the trust of the Soviet leadership in order to bring to an end the Cold War and its risk of nuclear Armageddon.   

Reagan's meeting with Gorbachev did not rely on position papers written by staff.  It relied on a hand-written memo by Reagan himself that stressed respect for the Soviet leadership and a clear realization that negotiation must not expect the Soviet leaders to do something that is not in the true interest of their country. The way to end the conflict, Reagan wrote, is to cooperate toward a common goal.  Matlock said that Reagan refused to personalize disagreements or to speak derogatorily of any Soviet leader.

Matlock makes the point that Reagan's successors have done a thorough job of destroying this trust.  In the last two years the destruction of trust has been total. 
How can the Russian government trust Washington when Washington violates the word of President George H.W. Bush and takes NATO into Eastern Europe and places military bases on Russia's border?

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How can the Russian government trust Washington when Washington pulls out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and places Anti-Ballistic Missiles on Russia's border?

How can the Russian government trust Washington when Washington overthrows in a coup the elected government of Ukraine and installs a puppet regime that immediately expresses hostility toward Russia and the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine anddestroys Soviet war memorials commemorating the Red Army's liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Germany?

How can the Russian government trust Washington when the President of Russia is called every name in the book, including "the new Hitler," and gratuitously accused of every sort of crime and personal failing?

Washington forced Europe to impose economic sanctions on Russia

Washington and its neoconservative monsters have destroyed trust with demonization and blame of Russia for violence in Ukraine for which Washington is responsible.

Washington has forced Europe to impose economic sanctions on Russia that are based entirely on lies and false accusations.  The Russians know this.  They recognize the blatant hostility, the blatant lies, the never-ending crude propaganda, the hypocritical double-standards, the push toward war.

Simultaneously China is experiencing  hostile encirclement with Washington's "pivot to Asia."

By destroying trust, Washington has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon. Washington's destruction of trust between nuclear powers is the crime of the century. 

On February 24, I held accountable Alexander J. Motyl and the Council on Foreign Relations for publishing on February 5 a large collection of blatant lies in order to create a false reality with which to demonize the Russian government.  

I observed that the publication of ignorant nonsense in what is supposed to be a respectable foreign policy journal indicated the degradation of the Western political and media elite.

I did not think things could get any worse, but one day later I came across Andrew S. Weiss' article in the Wall Street Journal.    

Weiss' article is the most amazing collection of misrepresentations imaginable.  It is impossible to believe that the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment could possible be so totally misinformed.  The false reality that Weiss creates precludes any diplomatic resolution of the conflict that Washington has created with Russia. 

What is the explanation for Weiss' misrepresentations of Putin, the origin of the conflict and the cause of its continuation?  

Recalling the confession of Udo Ulfkotte, an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that he published under his name articles handed to him by the CIA and that the entire European press does the same, was Weiss handed the disinformation by the CIA, or by Victoria Nuland, or is the answer simply that Weiss worked on Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council, the State Department and the Defense Department and is one of Washington's propaganda operatives currently operating out of a think-tank?

The more important question is:  What is the purpose behind Washington's cause and misrepresentation of the conflict?  Was the destruction of trust between nuclear powers intentional or a consequence of other purposes?  Is Washington simply using its ability to control explanations in order to cover up its involvement in the overthrow of a democratically elected government, an outcome that has gone bad?  Or is the answer merely that Washington is peeved that it failed to get its hands on Russia's Black Sea naval base in Crimea and has had to give up, at least for now, on getting Russia out of the Mediterranean and out of the Russian naval base at Tartus, Syria? 

As I explained today to an international conference hosted by institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony requires the prevention of "the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere" with sufficient resources and power to be able to serve as a check on unilateral action by Washington. 

When Russian diplomacy blocked Washington's planned invasion of Syria and planned bombing of Iran, the neoconservatives realized that they had failed in their "first objective" and were now faced with a check on unilateral action. The attack on Russia instantly began.  The $5 billion Washington had spent funding NGOs in Ukraine and cultivating Ukrainian politicians produced the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government.  Washington imposed a puppet government that instantly employed violent words and deeds against the Russian population, resulting in the secession of Crimea and the formation of other break-away provinces.  

With English as the world language and the compliant media or presstitutes in Washington's service, Washington has been able to control the explanation, blame Putin for the crisis, and force Europe to breakup its economic and political relations with Russia by imposing economic sanctions.

In a vain and failed attempt to keep the US as the Uni-power capable of dictating to the world, the neoconservatives have recklessly and irresponsibly resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon.  The neoconservative dominance of US foreign policy makes impossible any restoration of trust.  Washington's propaganda is driving the situation toward war.  As neither Washington nor the Russian/Chinese alliance can afford to lose the war, the war will be nuclear.  Any survivors will be doomed by nuclear winter.

The entire world must quickly become aware of the danger and confront the evil regime that the neoconservatives--the Sauron of our world--have created in Washington.  To do otherwise is to risk life on earth.

Paul Craig Roberts 

www.paulcraigroberts.org

Viktor Yanukovych makes it all clear to Washington

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Social psychology: Psycho-hygiene

Projects are under way in Germany and in Madrid, Spain, to set up psychological screening programs aiming to monitor development from childhood onwards, with a view to identifying risk factors and preventing them from becoming pathological, causing enormous social expense downstream.

Anthony X. kicked his great-aunt to death when he was eighteen years old, because she had just received her monthly pension and refused to give him the 300 dollars he needed to pay off his debts to his crack cocaine dealer and buy his next fix. When he was fifteen, he assaulted an old lady as she was paying for her groceries, stole her purse and was arrested. Three years earlier, he had been arrested for stealing the funds from his school charity box. At age eleven, he had kicked a neighbor's cat to death, at seven he had roasted his sister's hamster in the microwave. At age 4 he was drawing pictures of women colored red and orange with huge staring eyes. At age two he was witnessing his drug-using and alcoholic father abusing his mother sexually and physically.

When he was eighteen he was called a monster, a son of a bitch and a waste of time and space. His name is Anthony X.

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Suppose someone had sat down with Anthony when he was four and had started drawing pictures of women colored red and orange with staring, terrified eyes, and had started asking him some questions? Suppose someone had asked him how he felt when he witnessed the scenes of violence and terror in the place he had considered a home, suppose someone had asked him how he felt when he was confronted with a violation of his own personal security, carried out by persons he had trusted until then, persons more powerful than him?

Nobody can call the four-year-old that draws pictures of women colored red and orange with wide, staring eyes, a monster. Ten years later, he has already murdered a cat and a hamster, probably has also gone to school with his pockets full of spiders, has stuffed a snake down the back of a three-year-old girl causing her psychological damage which she has to live with for the rest of her days.

Ivan K. has to get up at three thirty every morning so as to arrive in his bank at 8.00 in central Moscow. The journey takes him 45 minutes by Metro. So why does he need four and a half hours? Because he has to wash his hands 127 times, has to wash his feet in hot and cold water 46 times before breakfast, has to say a growing series of prayers every time he steps over a threshold in his home, and has to touch and lick the windows in every room of his house seventeen times, before going out and closing the door, then locking it and unlocking it numerous times, with his eyes closed, until he sees a cross.

Nobody at work knows this happens, although his attention starts to decrease in mid-afternoon and Ivan starts to get agitated as he starts to feel he has to blink twenty-three times before he gets up from his chair.

Hilarious? Funny? Maybe for callous members of society reading this piece who have never been there. Most have, in varying degrees. These are the people who spread the notion that psycho therapy equals madness, these are the people who refuse therapy for their daughter because "she isn't mad".

Usually for every case of obsessive and compulsive behavior there is a motor which is anxiety.

And this motor has tentacles in drug use, in alcohol abuse, in sociopathic and psychopathic behavior. Those girls who travelled to Syria to be the wives of a Jihadi, those boys who joined Islamic State because they wanted to get back at the non-believers who had made them fail... that young man who kicks an old lady to death, that teenager who rapes a pensioner, that thirty-year-old father of five who downloads images of children being sexually abused, that forty-year-old who travels to northern (wherever) to receive a five-year-old girl in his hotel room to abuse, rented out by her own parents, that fifty-year-old who abuses schoolboys in public toilets...

Monsters?

Trace back along the tail to the head, and see where the story started. Identify the starting point, and start therapy before the tendency or threat becomes a pathological behavior.

Psycho-hygiene. Can we start the debate?

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

 

*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.

 

 

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Lee Eun Hye Sweet Summer

Model Lee Eun Hye’s HD outdoor photoshoot in a cute mini dress in summer 2014.

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Handling Islamic State

Islamic State is not just a threat to the West, it is a threat to Humankind. Its radicalism depends on the perversion of Islam, the manipulation of the message of Allah through Mohammed, the dessecration of the Holy Book, the Qu'ran, blasphemy against Islam and the spreading of hatred to engender violence. Handle IS like you handle a snake.

President Barack Obama recently warned against exaggerating the threat posed by Islamic State. This is a mistake. Islamic State may be on the defensive in Iraq and Syria but it has just abducted 91 Syrian Christians and in the last year has murdered over ten thousand civilians, as it proceeds to commit ethnic and religious cleansing. Islamic State is also taking advantage of the chaos in Libya and is today opening fronts in other regions. Next stop, Pakistan.

Islamic State has perpetrated massacres of men, women and children as it destroys whole communities which are not Sunni Moslem in Iraq and Syria - the Turkmen, Shabaks, Christians, Yezidi, Sabaeans, Kaka'e, Faili Kurds, Shi'a. Nine months after Islamic State marched into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the massacres continue. The UN High Commission for Human Rights claims that the outrages may amount to counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Nikolai Mladenov, UN Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, states that "We have done a number of these reports (since Mosul) and we continue to register day after day horrible, horrible atrrocities". Among these is the murder of small children for "religious crimes".

Where to begin?

As with any crisis, there is a tendency to draw the time line at the point from which you aim to begin. Drawing it when the Islamic Caliphate of Iraq was proclaimed in 2006 is a mistake. Drawing it when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi founded the Organization of Monotheism and Jihad, Jama'at al-Tawhid wa-al-Jihad in 1999 is also wrong. We must draw the line in Iraq at a point marked by March 19, 2003, when the US-UK led alliance invaded a country with such a complex ethnic and religious composition, outside the auspices of the UN Security Council, without understanding what they were doing. It was an invasion based upon lies, hypocrisy and stupidity, it was an invasion in which the West committed war crime after war crime, left swathes of territory contaminated by Depleted Uranium, murdered Iraqi families and destroyed civilian structures with military equipment.

We must draw the line in Libya on March 19, 2011, then the FUKUS coalition (France, UK, US), launched a military operation against the Jamahiriya, committed more war crimes and totally destabilized the country, and we must draw the line in Syria in early 2011 when the West started to fund, arm, aid and abet (mainly through its allies in the Gulf) groups which destabilized the Government of President Bashar al-Assad.

And into the void stepped Islamic State.

Where is Islamic State coming from?

I get where Islamic State is coming from. I have seen some recruitment videos and I understand the logistics of such organizations. At the top you have the leadership who sow the seeds of a cause to garner support and make a very comfortable living out of the benefits reaped (easily) through the dissemination of lawlessness. More than a regular terrorist organization, Islamic State has the hallmarks of a State in the areas it controls, implementing Sharia Law while its foot soldiers wield total power over the citizens unfortunate enough to be caught up in this nightmare.

I also get where the Jihadis are coming from, the boys and girls sitting in their bedrooms, looking for some glamor and some glory in the drab life the market-based economy has visited upon them, living in an eternal web of austerity probably with no studies, jobs or futures. These recruits are not your go-getters who work double shifts to get more money, who take extra classes to gain skills. They are your couch-potato, easily-led, no-lifers looking for an easy option and waiting for someone to sell them a dream.

Islamic State, the dream-seller

And up pops Islamic State, the dream seller.

But there are dreams and nightmares. Nowhere in the Qu'ran does it state that it is legitimate to murder people simply because they are not Sunni Moslems and indeed, the entire philosophy of Islamic State is based around hatred at the humiliation meted out by non-believers. The strategy is exactly the same as those who encourage sects to form and then commit collective suicide because some space ship hiding in the tail of a comet is going to take them to another planet, or the Mormons who start their visit with carefully chosen quotes from the Bible.

What I do not get, at all, is how people can be so cruel and how youngsters can throw in their lot which what can only be a bunch of psychopaths who have crawled out from under rocks in the darkest corners of Hell. Suppose Islamic State showed in its recruitment videos what it really does, so instead of showing young men running along a beach and then sitting looking defiantly at the camera with stupid expressions on their faces as their leader screams diatribes aimed at engendering hatred through evoking some imagined shared experience, why doesn't Islamic State show videos of its foot soldiers shooting a woman in the head because she was wearing a red jacket, why doesn't Islamic State show video footage of the boys it murdered because they were not Sunni Moslems, why does Islamic State not show its "Jihadis" raping Yazidi girls or forcing nine-year-olds to have sex with them?

The West removed the people who were standing up against this scourge and having done so, created the space for something of this nature to appear. The West stands shoulder to shoulder with powers in the Middle East who have used Islamic State to wave the flag of Sunni Islam against the influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Shi'a) in the region. This does not, however, give Islamic State the right to wage war against innocent citizens going about their lives in Western countries any more than it gives them the right to perpetrate Satanic acts against civilians in Iraq, Syria and now, Libya.

How to deal with Islamic State?

History teaches us that sooner or later, extremist groups such as terrorist movements lose the flame of their cause as dialogue takes place and acts of violence are exchanged for a place on the political stage. These days, eavesdropping technology has rendered the use of hi-tech telecommunication meaningless, so the only communications which cannot be intercepted are those written on pieces of brown paper with pencils and carried by a boy riding a donkey or a bicycle. History teaches us that the population at large does not bow down in fear and cease performing its daily activities. People become more watchful and vigilant, people report suspicious packages to the authorities and probably if a Jihadi suicide bomber is caught by the public, (s)he will get kicked to death on the street before a police officer can come to the rescue.

The net is today closing around those funding or arming Islamic State, the territories it controls will be assaulted by air, land and sea as special operations take place behind the lines. If Islamic State were a viable alternative, creating a viable and sustainable means of living, upholding human rights and implementing the very noble lifestyle described in the Qu'ran, a beautiful book, upholding the precepts of Islam, which is a peaceful religion, then it would have its place on a political stage as a socio-economic movement which had something to offer. But it doesn't. Murdering and raping children is Satanic, period. And it is not Islamic.

Therefore my advice to those who have meddled and interfered in complex societies overseas, is don't. My advice to the leaders of Islamic State is to stop ruining people's lives, stop spreading hatred, stop murdering little boys, stop raping little girls, stop enticing young people away from their families by selling them a dream which does not exist. Start reading the Qu'ran, from cover to cover, start realizing that Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace. And practise Islam.

The type of society which Islamic State professes has no place in a globalized world of common values and basic human rights. True, the West has collectively acted like a pariah over the centuries and has done nothing in the 21st century to change its image. But this does not mean that setting up a Medieval society based upon principles of barbarity and butchery is any better.

The way to handle Islamic State is to treat it like a snake: ensnare the head.

Timofei BELOV

Pravda.Ru

 

 

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Our languages, our heritage, our culture

Lose a language, lose a culture and a collective history. Lose thousands of languages, and the world's wonderful cultural diversity becomes impoverished. This is precisely what is happening - globalization has played its part in placing under threat around half of the world's current seven thousand languages. For UNESCO, the loss of a language goes deeper: "Opportunities, traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking and expression - valuable resources for ensuring a better future - are also lost".

Saturday February 21 was International Mother Language Day, observed since 1999 and named after the same day in 1952 when demonstrators calling for Bangla to be accepted as a second official language in Pakistan, alongside Urdu, were attacked and murdered by the police.

The dangers of cultural impoverishment

According to UNESCO, around half of the seven thousand languages currently spoken will die out before the end of the century. 96 per cent of these languages are spoken by only 44 per cent of the world's population - some of them by a few dozen people, others by fewer than ten and a few, by only one person. To demonstrate the fragility of these languages, fewer than one hundred languages are used digitally and only a few hundred are taught in education systems.

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Around 230 languages have become extinct since 1950, these languages representing unique cultures and holding the secrets of the history of a people. The UNESCO Language Atlas aims to support languages at risk. The latest edition of the Atlas dates from 2010 and is available in English, French and Spanish. It shows around 2,500 languages of the existing 6,000 and lends credence to the generally accepted notion that around half of these - namely, 3,000 - are endangered.

The Atlas categorizes languages as safe (57% of the total, spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted); vulnerable (10% - most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home); definitely endangered (11% - children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home); severely endangered (9% - spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves); critically endangered (10% - the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently); extinct (no speakers alive).

India, USA, Brazil - the top three in terms of endangered languages

Around 200 languages worldwide are spoken by fewer than ten people, these being part of the 43% of the world's languages that are endangered. Top of the list is India, with 198 endangered languages, followed by the United States of America (191) and Brazil (190).

There are now 2,473 languages in danger, according to UNESCO, which classifies the loss of a language as follows: "A lost language is not only lost cultural heritage, it is also lost traditional knowledge, such as precious knowledge about medicinal herbs or local species or environment. Thus, with each language that disappears, humanity is impoverished in manifold ways".

Rights

For Elena Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, "Every girl and boy, every woman and man must have the tools to participate fully in the lives of their societies - this is a basic human right and it is a force for the sustainability of all development." Education in the mother tongue is for Ms. Bokova "an essential part" in achieving this goal.

Fighting back

UNESCO states that to implement the project and reverse the trend of dying languages, it will be necessary to implement revision of academic programmes and to create learning environments, including teacher training. Currently, 2.3 billion people, or forty per cent of the world's population, do not have access to education in their mother tongue.

The United Nations Organization has launched the initiative "Many languages, one world", to help highlight the importance of linguistic diversity, in which higher education students are asked to write an essay on the role of Multilingualism in a globalized world in one of the UNO's six official languages: Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The essays are to be written in a language different from the language in use in their institution.

Success stories

Ned Maddrell was from the Isle of Man in the British Isles. When he discovered he was the last surviving speaker of Manx, he took part in recording all he knew for later generations to be able to revive this ancient Celtic tongue. Other examples of revived languages are Livonian (Latvia), Yahgan (Chile), Hebrew (Israel), Welsh (Wales), Breton (France), Catalan (Spain), Andoa (Ecuador).

A sad example

On a trip to Luanda, I encountered a group of students from Southern Angola, where Umbundu is spoken. Addressing the group, I asked, in Umbundo: "Nhe ókaci lokulinga vepuluvi lilo?" (What are you doing right now?) There was a moment's silence, then raucous laughter as they replied, in Portuguese: "Isso é a língua dos velhos! Não leva a parte nenhuma!" (This is the language of the elderly. It doesn't get you anywhere).

That is exactly what happened to Manx in the nineteenth century. The loss of a language is an irrecoverable cultural tragedy.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

  

*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.

  

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Will Europe's ticking time bomb bomb Libya again?

Libya's former colonial power and one of the NATO criminals during the 2011 war smells blood - literally. And that isn't the only thing Italy smells. The steeling of Libya's oil and deposits in the imperialists banks turned out to be insufficient to boost the economy of the largely bankrupt European countries, of which Italy is one of the worst - actually worse than Greece. Time for someone, in this case Italy's defense (war) minister, to decide that drastic problems need drastic solutions.

In an attempt to avoid the impression of an obvious causal link, it was the day before the release of Italy's economic statistics, that the so-called Islamic State (IS/ISIS) on February 12 published photos of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian fishermen they allegedly had kidnapped in the Libyan city of Sirte, and whom they threatened to kill. On February 13 it became known that Italy's economy has only grown 4% since the euro was created sixteen years ago, that its economy is among the EU's worst in the fourth quarter of 2014 and that its debts are too big to be ignored. A Washington Post report calls Italy "Europe's ticking time bomb", stating the country is "crucified on a cross of euros".

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Only two days later, a video of the kidnapped Coptic Christians being marched along what is believed to be a Libyan beach before being beheaded by members of IS, went viral. As the world watched in disgust at the Mediterranean waves dyed red from the blood of the murdered men, Italian defense minister Roberta Pinotti called on for urgent international action "to halt Libya's slide into chaos", saying Italy is "ready to lead a multilateral effort to tackle the growing threat from jihadists in Libya and prevent 'a caliphate' forming across the sea from Europe's shores".

That same week the sudden hysteria over the effects of the Libyan crisis knocking on Europe's back door reached unprecedented heights, when one of the front-runners in anti-Jamahiriya propaganda, the British outlet Daily Mail, published an article headlined "ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon' in chilling echo of Gaddafi's prophecy that the Mediterranean 'will become a sea of chaos'."

As much as the mainstream admission that Gaddafi was right all along deserves a small celebration, the proclaimed awareness of the direct threat to European security of a terrorist haven on the shores of the Mediterranean, just a few hundred kilometers away from Italy, will not come to the rescue of the ordinary Libyan people who continue to suffer terribly as a result of the NATO overthrow of the Jamahiriya, as Libya was personally handed over to the so-called rebels, currently known as IS terrorists, by the NATO countries, not in the last place by Italy itself. Gaddafi again has proven to be right when he said that "It's Al Qaeda. It's not my people."

The black flag was already flying over Libya during the NATO aggression in 2011. IS did not recently come to Libya. It did not come to Libya at all; it sprouted from terrorist groups such as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that have been present in Libya since the 80s. It was NATO's war on Libya that finally gave them free rein, and Italy is well aware of this. The only problem for Italy is that they grew a bit too big for comfort, and came a bit too close for comfort as well.

But it isn't all doom and gloom for the warmongering country. The presence of IS at the gates of Europe does not only reboot the War on Terror, it will also boost the economies of the countries that decide to wage war against the terrorist group. Economists stated last week that the Italian economy needs to start growing more than 0.25% a year - a lot more. Now the most lucrative thing that can happen to the economy of a Capitalist country is war, for it forces the country to borrow even more money from the bank, at interest.

Will Europe's ticking time bomb bomb Libya again, like it did in both 1911 and 2011? One thing is for sure: the NATO countries continue to take the "quod me nutrit me destruit" to a whole new level, as they keep nourishing the destructors of their own creation for the sake of nourishing their economies - through destruction and war. And of course, like always, under the guise of protecting civilians.

Linda Housman

 

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App of The Week: Kids Coding With The Foos

When President Obama tells us we need to get our kids into coding, the only reply is: Yes We Can!

President Obama is saying it.** Bill Gates is saying it. And even Snoop Dogg is saying it!

Kids learn to learn how to code, and they need to learn young!

But how do you go about getting a five-year-old into coding? Luckily, there’s an app for that!
 

The Good Bits: The Foos: Hour of Code is an engaging, simple and fun app that teaches the basics of programming via a fun Pac-Man style game.

Set in a cute street scene, with really funny and sweet characters, the environment is immediately appealing. The music is fun, but not annoying, and the characters don’t talk, so no cheesy American accents to watch out for!

Using simple drag and drop commands kids ‘program’ the Foos to navigate their way around obstacles and collects stars and coins. The simplicity of the interface is what makes this app so excellent and what makes learning to code so easy.  

When it comes down to it, coding is based around creating commands and solving problems – this app teaches this to kids in the simplest way possible.


The Not So Good Bits: We’re really hard pressed to say anything negative about a free app that’s been designed so well….seriously…still can’t think of anything…


We Love: While this app is advised for kids aged between 6 – 8 years, the interface is so simple and so intuitive, we think it could be suitable for kids as young as four.

Kids get immediate feedback on their coding, by seeing how the way that they dragged and dropped the command buttons made their character move – they know immediately if something doesn’t work.

 
What It Teaches: The app is based on curriculum from MIT and Exploring Computer Science at UCLA. Kids will learn pattern recognition, problem solving, sequencing, spatial visualization, algorithmic thinking, how to debug programs, loops and conditionals. Kids also become more persistent and creative in their pursuit of solutions.


Most Suitable Age Range: While the app is recommended for kids aged between 6 – 8 years, we think even a four year-old could have a go (with a little help) with the easier levels.


Tech Info: iOS and Android 


How Much: FREE

Source : nickjrparents[dot]com[dot]au

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Kim Ha Yul Seoul Auto Salon 2014

Model Kim Ha Yul at Seoul Auto Salon in July 2014 with HANDS, a Korean alloy wheels manufacturer which also runs a racing team.

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Why does Britain have a problem with Russia?

In recent days, the hyperbole has risen to hysteria level with senior members of the British government outdoing each other to make the most infantile, irresponsible, insolent and insulting remarks against Russia and its President, Vladimir Putin. What is Britain's problem with Russia, the country that shed rivers of blood to free Europe from Fascism?

Only last week, Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was insinuating that Britain might get involved in Ukraine because he would not allow Ukraine's military forces to collapse, while his boss, Prime Minister Cameron, rudely referred to Russia's President as "Putin". Today, we have the Defense Secretary Michael Fallon warning that Russia might use military force against its neighbors, while the British Bullshit Corporation and Lies on Sky ratchet up the anti-Russia hype calling its President a despot, calling Russia's government "desperate" and insinuating that Moscow might suddenly send the tanks rolling across the frontiers.

Two questions: Is the British public really so gullible that it will swallow that nonsense, or are the purveyors of lies as truth yet again a decade or so behind the times? The answer to the first question is no and the answer to the second is yes.

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Everybody knows that Russia and Britain (and France and the USA, among others, including Serbia) stood together just over half a century ago to defeat the worst scourge Europe has seen since the days of Genghis Khan - Adolf Hitler's Nazi Third Reich. It was a war in which Russia, as part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, lost over 26 million souls freeing Europe from tyranny, racism, homophobia, intolerance and Fascism. Around ninety per cent of  the Wehrmacht losses were incurred on the Eastern Front.

Serbia soon found out that its loyalty and courage meant nothing to the West once it had started meddling in the Balkans to take public attention away from President Clinton's midriff and to intrude once again in the internal affairs of sovereign states, as the West has been doing for centuries.

Everybody knows by now that Afghanistan was about energy, not 9/11; everybody knows that the Kosovo affair was about supporting Albanian terrorists who had been murdering Serbian police and civilians to create a micro-State in the heart of ex-Yugoslavia, pandering to the whims of the Albanian Lobby which had gained a foothold on Capitol Hill; everybody knows that the invasion of Iraq was a total and unequivocal disaster, constituting a breach of international law and numerous war crimes. Britain's leaders at the time would have been in a war crimes tribunal in any civilized part of the world. In the event they were covered by their bedmaster, the ex-colony across the Pond, the USA.

Everybody knows that the Georgia conflict was started to provoke Russia and to test its reactions after Georgian forces attacked and murdered Russians in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The British media never informed its readers and viewers that the terms of the Soviet Constitution had very clear rules about any eventual Dissolution of the Union and among these were the obligation to hold referendums in areas where the composition of regions and territories held enclaves of citizens of differing nationalities. Georgia never held these referendums.

Everybody knows that the attack against Libya yet again breached international law, as the terms of UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) were broken, as civilians were murdered and as Britain involved itself once more in one of NATO's wars to perpetuate its own existence as a club whose members collectively spend one point two trillion USD per year, each and every year, on their military budgets.

Libya, a country living in peace within its own borders, the country with the highest Human Development Index in Africa, was dismantled and today has descended into total chaos, each region with its own government, crawling with terrorists and today also with a growing area controlled by Islamic State. Under international law, this is a crime (*)

Everybody knows that the West yet again got it wrong in Syria, where President Assad was fighting against Islamic State and other terrorist groups funded and equipped by the West against him - and now that the West has finally woken up, does it apologize and state that it was supporting the wrong side? No, it continues to give covert assistance to terrorist groups while complaining at the same time about Islamic State. Only today Lies on Sky showed footage of "rebels" attacking Syrian Arab Army servicepeople, calling them "regime soldiers" and claiming the "rebels" won a victory outside Aleppo.

And today everybody knows perfectly well what is happening in Ukraine, where the democratically elected President, Viktor Yanukovich, was ousted in an uprising in which the demonstrators themselves were firing at the police to cause a reaction and also at their own members to incriminate the President (the old 100-souls-sold-for-the-good-of-a-cause ploy), everybody knows that the new Ukrainian Putsch regime started the problems with their anti-Russian rhetoric, threats, aggression and massacres in Odessa, Mariupol, Slaviansk and Donetsk.

Everybody knows that Russia has followed international law, while Britain and its bedmaster have not, everybody knows that NATO has committed numerous war crimes in recent years while Russia has not. NATO stands for intrusion and belligerence, Russia stands for measured and balanced approaches to crisis management using the proper forum of discussion, the UN Security Council, an organism which Britain and its bedmaster have derided and insulted in the recent past.

Isn't it time for a responsible foreign policy by a British Government which looks to a future based upon common interests, rather than following orders from across the seas and feathering the nests of the lobbies which control its members?

This is Britain's problem with Russia. Ladies and Gentlemen, Britain does not have its own foreign policy. It has been assimilated and the Governments of the last few decades have worked hard towards this goal. I have two words for this: High Treason.

(*) http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/06-11-2011/119534-indictment_nato-0/

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

*Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor, editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications, TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International, fighting for animal rights.

 

 

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Park Shin Hye Bruno Magli Fan Signing

Actress Park Shin Hye at a fan signing event for Italian fashion brand Bruno Magli at Shinsegae Centum City, Busan, on January 25.

Update: Apparently the popular star is celebrating her birthday on February 18. Happy 25th birthday!

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Libya Lies - Rape as a Weapon of War - Made in the USA?

"It's really 19th century behavior in the 21st century, you just don't invade another country on phony pretexts in order to assert your interests." (Secretary of State, John Kerry, "Meet the Press", 2nd March 2014.)

Various professional psychology sites  state succinctly: "Projection is a defense mechanism which involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people."

Felicity Arbuthnot

Further: "Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of crisis, personal or political, but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic - in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder", opines Wiki.

With that in mind it is worth returning to the assault on Libya and the allegation by Susan Rice, then US Ambassador to the UN, in April 2011, that the Libyan government was issuing Viagra to its troops, instructing them to use rape as a weapon of terror.

However, reported Antiwar.com (1) MSNBC was told: "by US military and intelligence officials that there is no basis for Rice's claims. While rape has been reported as a 'weapon' in many conflicts, the US officials (said) they've seen no such reports out of Libya."

Several diplomats also questioned Rice's lack of evidence suspecting she was attempting:  "to persuade doubters the conflict in Libya was not just a standard civil war but a much nastier fight in which Gadhafi is not afraid to order his troops to commit heinous acts."

The story was reminiscent of the pack of lies which arguably sealed the 1991 US led Iraq onslaught - of Iraqi troops leaving premature babies to die after stealing their incubators. The story of course, was dreamt up by global public relations company, Hill and Knowlton Strategies, Inc., then described as the word's largest PR company which had been retained by the Kuwait government.

A tearful hospital "volunteer", Nayirah gave "testimony" which reverberated around an appalled world. It transpired she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington and was neither a "volunteer", "witness", nor in Kuwait. Amnesty International obligingly backed up the fictional nonsense suffering lasting credibility damage.  However, as Libya two decades later, Iraq's fate was sealed.

The US Ambassador the UN, Susan Rice and Foreign Affairs advisor, Samantha Power are credited with helping persuade President Obama to intervene in Libya. By the end of April 2011, Rice was also pushing for intervention in Syria, claiming that President Assad was: "seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria's citizens ..." In the light of all, she vowed: "The United States will continue to stand up for democracy and respect for human rights, the universal rights that all human beings deserve in Syria and around the world." (Guardian, 29^th April 2011.)

Looking across the world at the apocalyptic ruins of lives and nations resultant from America's continuance in uninvited "standing up" for "democracy", "human rights" and "universal rights" there are surely few who could not only silently weep.

Amnesty, perhaps "once bitten" not only questioned the Libya Viagra nonsense but denied it in categorical terms. According to Donatella Rovera, their Senior Crisis Response Advisor, who spent three months in Libya from the start of the crisis: "We have not found any evidence or a single victim of rape or a doctor who knew about somebody being raped."(2)

Liesel Gerntholtz, heading Womens Rights at Human Rights Watch which also investigated the mass rape allegations stated: "We have not been able to find evidence."

The then Secretary of State, Hillary "We came, we saw, he died" Clinton, was "deeply concerned" stating that: "Rape, physical intimidation, sexual harassment and even so-called 'virginity tests' " were taking place not only in Libya, but "throughout the region." Presumably leaving the way open for further plundering throughout Africa in the guise of bestowing "democracy", "human rights" etc.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court obediently weighed in telling a Press Conference of:  " ... information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those that were against the government. Apparently (Colonel Gaddafi) used it to punish people." A bit of a blow for the impartiality and meticulous evidence of the ICC it might be thought.

A week after the bombing of Libya started in March 2011, Eman al-Obeidy burst in to a Tripoli hotel telling the international journalists there she had been raped. She was removed by Libyan security. Government spokespeople claimed she had mental health problems, was drunk, a thief a prostitute and would be charged with slander. The world sneered.

By June 2011 Ms al-Obeidy had ended up in Boulder, Colorado, US, granted asylum with remarkable speed, with the help of Hillary Clinton, according to US news outlets.

In November 2014 al-Obeidy, now known as Eman Ali, was arrested  "violating conditions of her bail bond and probation." It was her third arrest. Prosecutors allege that she tested positive for opiates and alcohol. The probation and bail bond relate to an alleged assault case in a Boulder bar with Ms al-Obeidy-Ali accused of pouring drink over a customer and then lobbing a glass at her. (3,4) The trial is scheduled for 17^th February with the possibility of her asylum status being rescinded.

However, back to projection. It transpires that the Pentagon has been supplying Viagra to US troops since 1998. That year it spent $50 million, to keep troops, well, stiffened up: "The cost, roughly, of two Marine Corps Harrier jets or forty five Tomahawk cruise missiles ..."(5)

By 2014 the cost of extra-curricular military forces frolics had risen to an astonishing $504,816 of taxpayers moneys. An additional $17,000-plus was spent on two further erectile enhancing magic potions.

The Washington Free Beacon helpfully estimated: "that the amount of Viagra bought by the Pentagon last year could have supplied 80,770 hours, 33 minutes, and 36 seconds of sexual enhancement, assuming that erections don't last longer than the 4 hour maximum advised by doctors."(6)

Surely coincidentally, on 14^th February, St Valentine's Day, Joachim Hagopian released an article: "Sexual Assault in the US Military - More Rapists Attend the Air Force Academy Than Any Other College in America." (7)

In a survey taken in 2012 "an unprecedented number" of over "26,000 incidents of unwanted sexual contact was reported by service men and women." Further, weekly: "another high profile officer often in charge of reducing assaults was being investigated and charged himself."

The US Air Force at Colorado Springs, writes Hagopian: "has more rapists on Campus than any other college in the country."

But then the US military planners would seem to be sex and bodily function obsessed. In 1994 they contemplated releasing pheromones (a hormonal stimulus) against enemy troops: "to turn enemy soldiers into flaming love puppets whose objects of affection would be each other." (8)

"While enemy troops were preoccupied with making love instead of war ..." America's finest could blow them to bits. This bit of military dementia was dubbed the "gay bomb."

Also dreamed up have been halitosis, flatulence and vomit inducing chemicals to unleash on foes. Body function obsession clearly rules in  the armed forces, officially and unofficially.

Projection: " ... is more commonly found ... in personalities functioning at a primitive level." Indeed. And to think both Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi were labeled mad by such as these.

 

1.        http://antiwar.com/blog/2011/04/30/susan-rices-viagra-hoax-the-new-incubator-babies/

2.        http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html

3.        http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/libyan-political-refugee-living-in-boulder-charged-with-assault-arrested-again

4.        http://www.newsgb.com/local/libyan-refugee-iman-al-obeidi-sentenced-to-work-release-for-violating-probation-h60508.html

5.        http://articles.latimes.com/1998/oct/03/news/mn-28958

6.        http://the-raw-story.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/us-military-moral-bit-flaccid-pentagon.html

7.        http://www.globalresearch.ca/sexual-assault-in-the-u-s-military/5431157

8.        http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2014/12/7-strangest-non-lethal-technologies-explored-dod/

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