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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Re: Abolish Memorial Day

They were actually lined up and shot (the
majority) and buried in mass graves; which is what made this specially
heinous.
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it was revenge for a similar attack.

choose sides carefully

On May 29, 12:31 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> At 02:22 PM 5/28/2012, you wrote:<<Who really remembers the Kosovo war that is, the war as it
> unfolded? We were told as many as a hundred-thousand Kosovars were
> being exterminated, and yet at war's end we found a few thousand
> Serbs and Kosovars in equal number had been murdered.>>
> We found a little over 10,000 had been killed... thats slightly more
> than a "few thousand". They were actually lined up and shot (the
> majority) and buried in mass graves; which is what made this specially
> heinous.Kosovo - the site of a genocide that never wasKosovo - the site of a genocide that never was - is now a violent "free market" in drugs and prostitution. What does this tell us about the likely outcome of the Iraq war?John Pilger
> 12/13/04 "New Statesman"-- Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the "humanitarian" war party ought to be called to account for its forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Blair's "onward march of liberation". Just as Iraq is being torn apart by the forces of empire, so was Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic state that uniquely rejected both sides in the cold war.
> Lies as great as those told by Bush and Blair were deployed by Clinton and Blair in their grooming of public opinion for an illegal, unprovoked attack on a European country. Following the same path as the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, the media coverage in the spring of 1999 was a series of fraudulent justifications, beginning with the then US defence secretary William Cohen's claim that "we've now seen about 100,000 military-aged [Albanian] men missing . . . they may have been murdered". David Scheffer, the then US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, announced that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59" may have been killed. Blair invoked the Holocaust and "the spirit of the Second World War". The British press took its cue. "Flight from genocide," wrote the Daily Mail. "Echoes of the Holocaust," chorused the Sun and the Mirror. In parliament, the heroic Clare Short compared to Nazi propagandists those (such as myself) who objected to the bombing of defenceless people.
> By June 1999, with the bombardment over, international forensic teams began subjecting Kosovo to minute examination. The American FBI arrived to investigate what was called "the largest crime scene in the FBI's forensic history". Several weeks later, having not found a single mass grave,the FBI went home. The Spanish forensic team also returned home, its leader complaining angrily that he and his colleagues had become part of "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines, because we did not find one - not one - mass grave".
> In November 1999, the Wall Street Journal published the results of its own investigation, dismissing "the mass grave obsession". Instead of "the huge killing fields some investigators were led to expect . . . the pattern is of scattered killings [mostly] in areas where the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army has been active". The Journal concluded that Nato stepped up its claims about Serbian killing fields when it "saw a fatigued press corps drifting toward the contrary story: civilians killed by Nato's bombs . . . The war in Kosovo was cruel, bitter, savage. Genocide it wasn't."
> One year later, the International War Crimes Tribunal, a body in effect set up by Nato, announced that the final count of bodies found in Kosovo's "mass graves" was 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. Like Iraq's fabled weapons of mass destruction, the figures used by the US and British governments and echoed by journalists were inventions -- along with Serbian "rape camps" and Clinton's and Blair's claims that Nato never deliberately bombed civilians.
> Code-named "Stage Three", Nato's civilian targets included public transport, hospitals, schools, museums, churches. "It was common knowledge that Nato went to Stage Three [after a couple of weeks]," said James Bissett, the Canadian ambassador in Belgrade during the attack. "Otherwise, they would not have been bombing bridges on Sunday afternoons, and market places."
> Nato's clients were the Kosovo Liberation Army. Seven years earlier, the State Department had designated the KLA as a terrorist organisation in league with al-Qaeda. In 1999, KLA thugs were feted; Robin Cook, then foreign secretary, allowed them to call him on his mobile phone. "The Kosovar Albanians played us like a Stradivarius violin," wrote the former UN commander in Bosnia, Major General Lewis MacKenzie, last April. "We have subsidised and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early 1990s, and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today, in spite of evidence to the contrary."
> The trigger for the bombing of Yugoslavia was, according to Nato, the failure of the Serbian delegation to sign up to the Rambouillet peace conference. What went mostly unreported was that the Rambouillet accord had a secret Annex B, which Madeleine Albright's delegation had inserted on the last day. This demanded the military occupation of the whole of Yugoslavia, a country with bitter memories of the Nazi occupation. As the Foreign Office minister Lord Gilbert later conceded to a Commons defence select committee, Annex B was planted deliberately to provoke rejection.
> Equally revealing was a chapter dealing exclusively with the Kosovan economy. This called for a "free-market economy" and the privatisation of all government assets. As the Balkans writer Neil Clark has pointed out: "The rump Yugoslavia . . . was the last economy in central-southern Europe to be uncolonised by western capital. 'Socially owned enterprises', the form of worker self-management pioneered under Tito, still predominated. Yugoslavia had publicly owned petroleum, mining, car and tobacco industries . . ."
> At the Davos summit of neoliberal chieftains in 1999, Blair berated Belgrade, not for its handling of Kosovo, but for its failure to embrace "economic reform" fully. In the bombing campaign that followed, it was state-owned companies, rather than military sites, that were targeted. Nato's destruction of only 14 Yugoslav army tanks compares with its bombing of 372 centres of industry, including the Zastava car factory. "Not one foreign or privately owned factory was bombed," wrote Clark.
> Erected on the foundation of this huge lie, Kosovo today is a violent, criminalised, UN-administered "free market" in drugs and prostitution; unemployment is 65 per cent. More than 200,000 Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, Turks, Croats and Jews have been ethnically cleansed by the KLA, with Nato forces standing by. KLA hit squads have burned, looted or demolished 85 Orthodox churches and monasteries, according to the UN. The courts are venal. "You shot an 89-year-old Serb grandmother?" mocked a UN narcotics officer. "Good for you. Get out of jail."
> Although Security Council Resolution 1244 recognises Kosovo as an integral part of Yugoslavia, multinational companies are being offered ten- and 15-year leases of the province's local industries and resources, including the vast Trepca mines, some of the richest mineral deposits in the world. Overseeing this plundered, now almost ethnically pure "future democracy" (Blair), are 4,000 American troops at Camp Bondsteel, a 775-acre permanent-base imperial presence.
> Meanwhile, the show trial of Slobodan Milosevic proceeds as farce. Milosevic was a brute; he was also a banker once regarded as the west's man who was prepared to implement "economic reforms" in keeping with IMF, World Bank and European Union demands; to his cost, he refused to surrender sovereignty. The empire expects nothing less.https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1ObvBTTqDeUJ:www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7439.htm+%22the+FBI+went+home%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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Re: U.S. Special Forces are in North Korea

*What if one of our Special Ops is captured by the lunatic North
Koreans?*
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it will reinforce the USA's reputation as an interventionist
nation ... sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong

On May 29, 10:40 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> New post on *Fellowship of the Minds*
> <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> U.S. Special
> Forces are in North
> Korea<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/u-s-special-forces-...>by
> Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
>
> As the war drums beat ever louder against Syria, in the name of "human
> rights," the startling news this morning is that U.S. special forces have
> been parachuting into North Korea to, in the words of "a senior US
> officer," "gather intelligence about underground military installations."
>
> Ask yourself this question:
>
> *What if one of our Special Ops is captured by the lunatic North Koreans?*
>
> [image: Soldiers from the US Marine Corps take part in a US-South Korea
> joint landing operation drill along the shore in Pohang, about 370 km (230
> miles) southeast of Seoul, March 29, 2012. North Korea remains technically
> at war with South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953. In a sign
> North Korea is moving forward with its announced plan to launch a rocket in
> mid-April, a U.S. official confirmed the United States had detected
> activity that looked like launch preparations at a facility near the
> country's northwestern border with China]
> The UK's *Telegraph*
> reports<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9296587/US-...>,
> May 29, 2012, that at a conference held in Florida last week, Army
> Brigadier General Neil Tolley, commander of US special forces in South
> Korea<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/southkorea/>,
> said that North Korea had built thousands of tunnels since the Korean war,
> which are hidden from our satellites. And so, Tolley revealed:
>
> "*So we send (South Korean) soldiers and US soldiers to the North to do
> special reconnaissance. *After 50 years, we still don't know much about the
> capability and full extent of the underground facilities. We don't know how
> many we don't know about."
>
> Tolley's comments were reported on the website of *The Diplomat*, the
> National Defense Industrial Association's magazine.
>
> Gen Tolley said the commandos were sent in with minimal equipment to
> facilitate their movements and minimize the risk of detection by North
> Korean forces.
>
> At least four of the tunnels built by Pyongyang go under the Demilitarized
> Zone separating North and South Korea. Among the facilities identified are
> 20 air fields that are partially underground, and thousands of artillery
> positions. In February, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that
> Pyongyang had built at least two new tunnels at a nuclear testing site,
> likely in preparation for a new test.
>
> +++
>
> Here are some statistics<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/saying-enough-to-th...>to
> remember:
>
> - U.S. national debt is now $16 trillion.
>
> - But U.S. "defense" military budget keeps going up: from $370 in 2001,
> to $620 billion in 2006, to $900 billion in 2012.
>
> - Since 1990 when America's most formidable enemy the Soviet Union fell
> apart, ending the Cold War, U.S. military expenses depleted the U.S.
> Treasury of $11.5 trillion.
>
> - U.S. national debt in 1990 was $3.2 trillion. Today, it is $15.7
> trillion -- a 500% increase in 22 years.
>
> - In 2001, spending on "defense" was 17% of total governmental spending.
> In 2012, Defense, Homeland Security, and war spending account for 25% of
> government spending.
>
> - We have thrown over $1.3 trillion down Middle East rat holes over the
> last 11 years with no discernible benefit to the citizens of the United
> States. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost America the lives of
> 6,470 soldiers and 47,545 wounded -- thus far.
>
> - America's perpetual wars are stressing and pushing our soldiers beyond
> their limits. Suicides by soldiers increased by 80% between 2004 and 2008.
> There are almost as many deaths by suicide as deaths in combat. Half of our
> returning Iraq and Afghan wars soldiers will go on disability.
>
> - Our military veterans, who make up 13% of the population, account for
> 23% of the homeless.
>
> Still on the fence about the U.S. Perpetual War Machine?
>
> *~Eowyn*
> *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | May
> 29, 2012 at 6:33 am | Tags: Afghan
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Stealth Islamic Propaganda Shown to Six Million American Students

New post on Creeping Sharia

Stealth Islamic Propaganda Shown to Six Million American Students

by creeping

via Larissa Scott at American Thinker: Stealth Islamic Propaganda Shown to Six Million American Students. On May 16 and 17 of 2012, Channel One Network, a national distributor of educational videos and newscasts viewed daily by over 8,000 middle and high schools, aired a two-part video series, titled "Young and Muslim in America" and "Islam [...]

Drones Shot Down Over Texas

New post on ACGR's "News with Attitude"

Drones Shot Down Over Texas

by Harold

Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com 5/29/2012 Surveillance drones blasted out of the sky in protest against 4th amendment intrusion Following columnist Charles Krauthammer's observation that the first person to shoot down a surveillance drone on U.S. soil will be a "folk hero," gun enthusiasts in Texas have done precisely that as a protest against the use [...]

Context of the Korea Special Forces Story

Context of the Korea Special Forces Story

28.05.12

http://www.warisboring.com/2012/05/28/context-of-the-korea-special-forces-story/

Categorie: David Axe, North Korea, Special Forces |

Tags: North Korea, Special Forces

by DAVID AXE

Some folks have accused me of "fabricating" quotations I attributed to Army

Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley regarding U.S. surveillance operations in North

Korea. See the original story here . and skepticism here and here.

The context was a panel featuring theater Special Operations Forces

commanders at the SOFIC conference in Florida the week of May 21. Tolley

spoke on the record to an audience of hundreds of industry, government and

media representatives.

If he was speaking hypothetically, he did not say so. He spoke in the

present tense . and at length. (Probably five minutes or so.)

Update #1: Oops. Actually, don't take Paul McLeary at Defense News as

corroboration. He has a different spin on the story. And besides, I forgot

that he and I used some of the same notes - my notes. But my notes have

Tolley saying what I attribute to him in the story.

Look people, Korea's not my usual beat. Far from it. I don't always know

what's news and what isn't in Korea. But I was in the room at the

conference. I took notes. There were many hundreds of witnesses - and

cameras, too.

Update #2: People are telling me that surely Tolley was speaking

hypothetically. If so, he did not specify. Or if he did, I did not hear him.

I heard him describing the technical challenges of conducting human

surveillance in North Korea. He described the problem, and his solution to

the problem, and the challenges incumbent in the solution. Sounded pretty

concrete to me.

Update #3: Comment from U.S. Forces Korea:

Brig. Gen. Tolley recently participated in a theater special operations

command commander panel discussion at a Special Operations Forces industry

conference. Some reporting has taken great liberal license with his

comments and taken him completely out of context. Quotes have been made up

and attributed to him. No U.S. or ROK forces have parachuted into North

Korea. Though special reconnaissance is a core special operations force

mission, at no time have SOF forces been sent to the north to conduct

special reconnaissance. The use of tunnels in North Korea is well

documented. Several of the known tunnels along the DMZ are visited by

tourists every day.

Update #4: Frankly, I'm relieved to hear the military say we're NOT sending

troops into North Korea. Some observers wonder how I could ever believe that

we HAD - after all, that would be an act of war. Yes, but we routinely

strike military and terror targets in foreign countries in ways that could

be construed as acts of war. Pakistan, anyone? Korea watchers are SHOCKED at

Tolley's comments, whatever the general's true meaning was. I guess I wasn't

as shocked because I'm accustomed to creeping American warfare.

By the way, I'm beginning to realize what a big deal this all is. Wish I'd

realized that earlier. But all that doesn't change what Tolley said,

according to my notes.

Update #5: I got to say, I'm hating this. I honestly had no idea this tiny

little story would be such a big deal. Yes, the news was "surprising" to me.

But a lot of news is a surprise to me . that's why it's news.

Update #6: I really hope someone has a transcript of this panel. Are my

handwritten notes inaccurate? Was the general vague in his comments? A

third-party written record will help clear this up. Anyone?

Update #7: So I'm attaching photos of my notes. Hard to read, I know. And

yes, I could FAKE notes. So I realize these won't necessarily convince

anyone who thinks I'm a North Korean agent trying to incite a war. For what

it's worth .

Update #8: Any other reporters who want clarity on this chain of reporting,

contact me at david_axe-at-hotmail.com. I'm in U.S. eastern time.

Update #9: Can I reiterate please how much I'm hating this? I've been shot

at and blown up and even kidnapped without feeling as crappy as I do about

this. I'm in this weird vortex where so many people are telling me I could

not possibly have heard what I said I heard that part of me is beginning to

believe them. I keep re-reading my notes, as though looking for something

new. I'm a reliable note-taker and a fairly seasoned reporter (I think) but

I can only write down what I hear and what I understand. Did I really screw

something up here? Am I being snowed by a general who said something he

shouldn't have and now fears for his career? Is it all a misunderstanding? I

have no idea any more. I just have these two sheets of paper in my hand .

and a lot of people telling me I'm about to start a war.

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