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A WHITE Man from Virginia has been arrested and charged for repeatedly raping a child under 13 years of age in Fairfax County, VA.
Charles Lee Ghent, 52, is an information technology coordinator for the town of Vienna, and he previously worked as the Vienna police's technology systems manager, according to Vienna Police Chief Jim Morris.
He was charged with three counts of rape of a minor younger than 13 and three counts of aggravated sexual battery of a minor younger than 13, Fairfax City police said.
Ghent was being held in the Fairfax County jail without bond.
Ghent lives in Annandale, but police said the alleged crimes occurred in Fairfax City between 2010 and 2012.
He was the subject of a six-month investigation, which began with a search warrant for his home computers, Fairfax City Police Chief Carl Pardiny said.
Pardiny said Ghent served as the child's "part-time caregiver and babysitter." He declined to release more information about the child's age, gender or hometown to avoid identifying the victim.
After the investigation began, Ghent was placed on administrative leave from Vienna without pay, Morris said. He later returned to work with restrictions, then he was suspended without pay again, Morris said.
In 2010, he was honored by the Vienna Rotary Club with a Service Above Self award, which also noted that he had been the police department's information technology coordinator since 2005.
DO NOT ALLOW WHITES NEAR YOUR CHILDREN.
WHITE Man Charles Lee Ghent
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WHITE Man Arrested And Charged With Child Rape
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NATO Backed Jihadists Have An Allah Akbar Session with Dead Russian Pilots Body
According to US media these jihadists that shot the pilot as he descended in a parachute are labeled as 'moderate rebels'. Judge for yourself. There are no moderate rebels. They don't look moderate nor are they rebels of any sort. They are jihadists. They are chanting Allah Akbar same as ISIS, same as Al Qaeda. Russia was bombing them because these assholes were protecting ISIS oil supply routes into Turkey. Hence the reason Turkey really shot down the Russian jet. It seems that the US and NATO have switched sides while the US media has distracted the American people with bullshit. This is what happens when someone named Barack Hussein Obama is appointed President by Neocons and old Sith Lords like Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Soros. Wake up folks. The US is on the wrong side in WW3. These mad events taking place around the world aren't coincidences. They are orchestrated. They are using jihadists in the Middle east and Nazis in Ukraine. Read up on the Grand Chessboard and what their real global domination goals are.
IMI- Analysis - Understanding the Grand Chessboard -German Think Tank http://www.imi-online.de/2009/01/01/imperial-geopolitics/
IMI-Analyse 2009/013, in: IMI/DFG-VK: Kein Frieden mit der NATO
Imperial Geopolitics: Ukraine, Georgia and the New Cold War between NATO and Russia
von: Martin Hantke
Ver"offentlicht am: 1. Januar 2009
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Zbigniew Brzezinski's book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand current and future U.S., EU and NATO policy. Over ten years ago the former National Security Advisor gave a graphic description of the imperatives of imperial geopolitics. He argued that the U.S.A.'s position of supremacy should be preserved under all circumstances. To this end NATO, acting as a "bridgehead" of the U.S.A., should expand into Eurasia and take control of geostrategically important regions so as to prevent Russia's resurgence as a powerful political force.
Brzezinski had in mind two countries or regions in particular: "Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.""However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia."1 Brzezinski argued further that there was an imperative need to gain control of the southern Caucasus, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, on Russia's southern flank. The past master of U.S. geopolitics set out the aim and purpose of NATO policy with impressive clarity: "The United States and the NATO countries - while sparing Russia's self-esteem to the extent possible, but nevertheless firmly and consistently - are destroying the geopolitical foundations which could, at least in theory, allow Russia to hope to acquire the status as the number two power in world politics that belonged to the Soviet Union.
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After 52-year ban, Syrian Kurds now taught Kurdish in schools
DARBASIYAH, Syria - When children enrolled for the 2015-2016 school year in areas of Syrian Kurdistan controlled by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its allies, the new curricula and educational system surprised many residents. The autonomous government in western Syria had in 2014 made the decision to teach the Kurdish language in schools. Thus Kurdish was added to the curricula for grades one through three, and Kurdish was designated a language of instruction in the other grades. It is an unprecedented step, as under Baath Party rule, Kurdish had been banned in Syrian schools since 1963. Teaching Kurdish was forbidden, and anyone caught teaching it faced arrest.
The decision to adopt Kurdish in schools was rejected by some residents, including Kurds. Those opposing it consider the measure a partisan effort that is not beneficial in the educational system and claim it could lead to a drop in attendance.
In 2014, governing authorities in the Kurdish areas secured funding for printing books to teach Kurdish, training teachers and developing a professional staff to oversee children's education. Authorities believe that teaching children their native language is essential to creating a generation that loves its homeland.
Akram Hissou, chairman of the Executive Council of the Democratic Self-Management in al-Jazeera province, told Al-Monitor, "Teaching the mother tongue in schools is a form of practicing cultural rights. These rights are a priority in practicing democracy in any country. When the Democratic Self-Administration decided, via the education committee, to teach the curricula in the mother tongue as well as Syriac and Arabic, it created an opportunity to teach in different languages for the purpose of applying democracy and preserving the heritage of all of Rojava's coexisting components."
Hissou added, "We, as a the general coordination for the Democratic Self-Administration in Rojava, decided to support the decision with all available means. We will not back down because the ability to apply democracy is in line with Rojava's decision. The Democratic Self-Administration has the potential to build a new Syria, a united federal Syria for everyone. Thus, we would be able to apply democracy on all Syrian territories."
Before the outbreak of the revolution in 2011, Syrian minorities, including Kurds, Assyrians and Turkmen, were only taught Arabic in schools, to the exclusion of their mother tongues. Mezkin Ali, a Kurdish student currently learning the Kurdish language, plans to become a teacher so she can instruct others in the language. She told Al-Monitor, "In the past, we were not allowed to speak our mother tongue among each other as students. The current situation is like a dream for many Kurds. I am really happy to learn my mother tongue and teach it to my Arab friends who don't know it. This way we can understand each other when discussing life."
The Democratic Self-Administration is training staff in early childhood education. The Syrian government has yet to approve this decision, and Kurdish political parties disapprove of it, but the autonomous government is nonetheless moving forward.
Sozdar Mohammad al-Mohammad, a member of the Kurdish language movement and a supervisor for the Kurdish education sector who studied at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Tishreen, told Al-Monitor, "Despite the difficulties we are currently experiencing, we are certain that success is ours, because we have enough staff to teach the Arabic and Kurdish languages
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US confirms B-52 bombers fly over Chinese islands in South China Sea
China has repeatedly warned the US not to violate Chinese sovereignty and Chinese army says they will respond if the US continues to ignore warnings and intrude Chinese territories.
http://news.video.sina.com.cn/?opsubject_id=top1#249943486
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US says B-52 bombers didn't enter Chinese claimed airspace
Sounds like the US wants to intimidate China but won't dare to go to far because China has repeatedly warned that it will respond if airspace is violated again.
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Some History of Ancient Assyria/Babylonia
Babylonia is believed to be the oldest civilized country in Asia and was the center from which civilization spread into Assyria, to Asia Minor and Phoenicia and from those to Greece, Rome and what we know of as modern Europe.
Recorded from 1653 B.C. to 745 B.C., Assyria had over sixty different Kings - indicated in the King List (Khorsabad, Nassouhi, SDAS Lists).
What remains of ancient Assyria is the northern part of Iraq. Some may be confused in thinking that "Syria" is the modern nation of "Assyria". Syria was, infact, a nation in Ancient Mesopotamia, separate from ancient Assyria and while ancient Assyria has evaporated as a nation, Syria still is a nation in the same geographic location as was in ancient times when looking at a modern map.
The Assyrians had many gods and goddesses (many carried over from the times of Ancient Sumeria) which are listed below:
Adramelech
Form of sun god
Anasas
God of medicine
Anshar (Assur, Ashur)
The national god of Assyria (god of farming); consort of Belit
Anu
God of the heavens; originally worshipped at the city of Erech before Ishtar.
Bel (Merodach)(Induru)(Belis by Greeks)(Indara by Hittites***)
God of the visible world; Beltis was the wife of Bel; Zirat-banit his consort.
Ea (Hea)(Oannes by Greeks)
God of humanity and
water; regarded to have come out of what we know is the Persian Gulf
(half man, half fish) and imparted the Babylonians with the arts of
civilized life. Davkina was the consort of Hea.
Gubaba
Associated with Samnuha
Ishtar (Nana, Ninmakh)
The goddess of love. Found portrayed with clawed feet and flanked by owls.
Nabu (Nebo)
God of wisdom and writing; his consort was Tasmit.
Nimrod
Deified king who founded the Babylonian Empire (who was the great-grandson of Noah(Note: Noah**, or Noah's lineage associated to Cush?))
Nina
Goddess of fish
Ninip
God of war (similar to Nergal)
Nisroch
God of agriculture
Samnuha (shapsh)
the god's torch; also associated to Gubaba
Shalla
Goddess of grain
Assyrian Empire established in 2126 B.C. according to Dr. Russell (of additional interest may be the Catalogue of Assyrian Monarchs by Ctesias who concluded the monarchy continued for 520 years).
Ninus, King of Assyria (presumed first monarch) conquered Babylon in 2126 B.C. with the cooperation of the King of Arabia (Nabonnebus who's reign was from 2151 B.C. to 2126 B.C.) and ruled for 52 years.It is worth noting that the King of Arabia (Nabonnebus) (the region of Saudi Arabia today was Arabia in Ancient Mesopotamia; Arabia associated to the sons of Chus (Chus may be Cush)) was deposed and slain by Ninus (who was the son of Nimrod) in 2126 B.C. after Babylon was conquered.
Of interesting note is that Ninus was put to death sometime after Semiramis*, his wife and thus princess of Assyria, was given full power over all of Assyria by him.
Babylon becomes independant later in history and is conquered by Cyrus of Persia in 538 B.C. and came to its own end in 331 B.C. by Alexander the Great.
Sennacherib, one of the Kings of Assyria, after getting tired of frequent uprisings to the south, actually went so far as destroying the city of Babylon and then flooding the entire city.
He also took possession of Phoenicia; restored to his throne Padiya (king of Ekron) who had been deposed and given over to Hezehiah, king of Jerusalem. Sennacherib then marched against Hezekiah and "Hezekiah, king of Judah, who had not submitted to my authority, forty-six of his
principal cities and fortresses and villages depending upon them, of which I took no account, I captured and carried away their spoil. I shut up(?) himself within Jerusalem, his capital city.
The fortified towns, and the rest of his towns, which I spoiled, I severed from his country, and gave to the kings of Ascalon, Ekron, and Gaza, so as to make his country small."
Sardanapalus was the last king of the first empire of the Assyrians and burns himself in his palace after reigning for twenty years. After this event (767 B.C.), Assyria was divided into three sections:
the Assyrians of Babylon
and the Mede
the Assyrians of Nineveh
However, if Sardanapalus is Assurbanipal (as some texts have suggested Assurbanipal (also referred to as Asnapper) was distorted into Sardanapalus by Greek writers), Assurbanipal's death is recorded at 630 B.C.
Nineveh means "Fish Town" although some texts suggest the name "Nineveh" was derived from "Nina", the Babylonian fish goddess. Ninevehwas the capital of Assyria (Asshur) and is near the modern city of Mosul. Nineveh contained two summits (Tel Koyunjuk and Nebbi Yunus which means "the prophet Jonah") although today, after years of cultivation may not be seen as more than
lengthy mounds. It would seem that the city of Babylon (in the land of Shinar) was, at one point, the capital of Assyria as well.
Not much is known about what ancient Assyria produced prior to it conquering virtually ALL of Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.
From what records do exist, it has been found that some of the products of Assyria
include grain, wormwood, liquorice plant, carob, manna (gathered from the Dwarf Oak tree), citrons and silk (from a silkwood not found elsewhere), date-palm, gall-nut, pistachio-nut, filberts, qinces, plums,chestnuts, pears, apples, cherries, apricots and melons.
One of the forms of divination that was highly regarded in Babylonia and Assyria was astronomy and the association of gods to planets:
Atmosphere
Vul (Rimmon) - god of the atmosphere
Earth's Moon
Sin (Suen) - father of wisdom
Jupiter
Marduk - solar deity
Mars
Nergal - fiery god
of destruction and war god of the netherworld and its demons, and
god of pestilence and fevers; Nergal's consort was Laz.
Mercury
Nabu (Nebo) - god of wisdom and writing
Neptune
Hea - Assyrian god of the ocean
Saturn
Ninib (Sakkuth) - god of agriculture hero of heavenly and earthly spirits
Sun
Shamash (Samas) - god of justice
Venus
Ishtar (Nana, Ninmakh) - the goddess of love
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Putin Orders Russian Military: Prepare Syria To Become "Obama's Graveyard"
A truly sobering report issued by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) today
appears to show that President Putin is preparing his military forces
for World War III after he ordered Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and
Head of Russian Aerospace Forces Victor Bondarev to begin preparing
Syria to become an " impenetrable zone of conflict " that would, in fact, become " Obama's graveyard " and spell the ending of the NATO-Western alliance against the Federation.
According to this report, this grave war order was secured after
President Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached an
agreement late yesterday providing that Israel will not interfere with
Federation air or land forces operating in Syria even in the event of an
all-out war with the Obama regime led NATO military alliance who are
attempting to aid their Islamic State allies currently being obliterated
by Russian airstrikes and Syrian Army ground attacks.
Necessitating the timing of this order, this report continues, was
President Putin's refusal yesterday to obey the Obama regime's warning
against the Federation arming its fighter aircraft operating in Syria
with air-to-air missiles-which when this Pentagon demand was ignored,
the US announced it would begin an immediate massive air power
exercise involving F-16 fighter jets, E3 AWACS surveillance and command
jets, KC-135 refueling tankers, RC-135 intelligence-gathering planes,
and B-1 and B-52 bombers with them, also, refusing to disclose the total
number of planes involved.
Equally as provocative against the Federation necessitating this war
order, this report notes, was Germany, this morning, announcing it too
was sending thousands of it military ground and air forces to battle in
Syria, while at the same time stating that they would not share any
intelligence with Russia they had against Islamic State terrorists, and
would in no way cooperate with the current legitimate Syrian
government currently in power.
With the Syrian government, like Lebanon, Iran and now Iraq, being
the only Middle East nations to support the rights of woman and other
religions within their borders, this report says, the joining of the
Germans on this side of the Islamic State and their woman hating Saudi
Arabian backers defies all logic, but becomes understandable when viewed
in the context that the Obama regime led West really does want a global
war.
And as if these provocations by the Obama regime against the
Federation were not by themselves sufficient enough to cause the issuing
of this war order, this report also notes, NATO's announcement today
that they were inviting the Balkan country of Montenegro to join their
military alliance against Russia is cause enough alone for a massive war
to begin.
To the Obama regime's supposed war against Islamic State terrorists
in Syria, this report explains, it is nothing more than a mirage as
yesterday's Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) report proves in their
detailing of their attacks on 29 November that states:
" In Syria, coalition military forces conducted three strikes using bomber and remotely piloted aircraft on Nov. 29. Near Dayr Az Zawr, one strike destroyed an ISIL excavator and three ISIL bulldozers and damaged an additional ISIL bulldozer. Near Al Hawl, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL checkpoint and an wounded an ISIL fighter ."
And while Obama regime forces have left these Islamic State
terrorists short one excavator and 3 bulldozers, this report continues,
Aerospace Forces, at the same time, have been systematically
obliterating these barbarians source of wealth-and described by
President Putin as a " living oil pipeline " stretching between Islamic State territory and Turkey with " vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon " and " day and night they are going into Turkey where these trucks always go there loaded, and back from there - empty ."
As to why the Obama regime has not targeted the Islamic States
illegal oil wealth, having only bombed them 260 times in nearly two
years, this report says, is due to their support of Turkey's Erdogan
regime, and about whom new documents were released this week proving
this criminal organization had so much illegal Islamic State oil flowing
to them they had to actually buy tanker ships to handle it all.
And with Turkey's President Erdogan saying today he would resign if
it's proved his criminal organization is buying illegal Islamic State
oil, this report points out, he should actually step down now as the
evidence for his doing so has not only been fully documented by
Russia with satellite photos, but also by London's Guardian News Service
who in July wrote: "After a US attack on the compound of a Daesh
(ISIL) leader in Syria in May, direct dealings between the terrorist
organization and Turkey became undeniable.", and The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University who in their report wrote:"Turkey
Provides Military Equipment to ISIS (ISIL Daesh), Turkey Provided
Transport and Logistical Assistance to ISIS Fighters, Turkey Provided
Training to ISIS Fighters, Turkey Offers Medical Care to ISIS Fighters,
Turkey Supports ISIS Financially Through Purchase of Oil, Turkish Forces
Are Fighting Alongside ISIS."
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Future members of Russia's joint air defense shield: Syria, Iran, Iraq?
The present club members are pictured. Likely future members imho: Syria, Iran, Iraq.
If Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) finally merge. Then we may very well see China join the club.
To a country like Russia this is there counterbalance to the missile shield. To a country like Syria this is insurance that they don't get democracy delivered by B-52.
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From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried
By John Pilger
Another great in depth analysis of root cause of terrorism by John.
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Francois Hollande promises a "merciless" attack on the rubble of Syria, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery - including the beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields - I am not surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again. A telling example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia.
According to Pol Pot, his movement had consisted of "fewer than 5,000 poorly armed guerrillas uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty and leaders". Once Nixon's and Kissinger's B-52 bombers had gone to work as part of "Operation Menu", the west's ultimate demon could not believe his luck. The Americans dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshimas on rural Cambodia during 1969-73. They leveled village after village, returning to bomb the rubble and corpses. The craters left giant necklaces of carnage, still visible from the air. The terror was unimaginable. A former Khmer Rouge official described how the survivors "froze up and they would wander around mute for three or four days. Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready to believe what they were told... That was what made it so easy for the Khmer Rouge to win the people over." A Finnish Government Commission of Inquiry estimated that 600,000 Cambodians died in the ensuing civil war and described the bombing as the "first stage in a decade of genocide". What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot, their beneficiary, completed. Under their bombs, the Khmer Rouge grew to a formidable army of 200,000.
ISIS has a similar past and present. By most scholarly measure, Bush and Blair's invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to the deaths of at least 700,000 people - in a country that had no history of jihadism. The Kurds had done territorial and political deals; Sunni and Shia had class and sectarian differences, but they were at peace; intermarriage was common. Three years before the invasion, I drove the length of Iraq without fear. On the way I met people proud, above all, to be Iraqis, the heirs of a civilization that seemed, for them, a presence.
Bush and Blair blew all this to bits. Iraq is now a nest of jihadism. Al-Qaeda - like Pol Pot's "jihadists" - seized the opportunity provided by the onslaught of 'Shock and Awe' and the civil war that followed. "Rebel" Syria offered even greater rewards, with CIA and Gulf state ratlines of weapons, logistics and money running through Turkey. The arrival of foreign recruits was inevitable. A former British ambassador, Oliver Miles, wrote, "The government seems to be following the example of Tony Blair, who ignored consistent advice from the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6 that our Middle East policy - and in particular our Middle East wars - had been a principal driver in the recruitment of Muslims in Britain for terrorism here."
ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against humanity. Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS are the mutations of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken at great remove in distance and culture. Their culpability is unmentionable in "our" societies, making accomplices of those who suppress this critical truth.
It is 23 years since a holocaust enveloped Iraq, immediately after the first Gulf War, when the US and Britain hijacked the United Nations Security Council and imposed punitive "sanctions" on the Iraqi population - ironically, reinforcing the domestic authority of Saddam Hussein. It was like a medieval siege. Almost everything that sustained a modern state was, in the jargon, "blocked" - from chlorine for making the water supply safe to school pencils, parts for X-ray machines, common painkillers and drugs to combat previously unknown cancers carried in the dust from the southern battlefields contaminated with Depleted Uranium. Just before Christmas 1999, the Department of Trade and Industry in London restricted the export of vaccines meant to protect Iraqi children against diphtheria and yellow fever. Kim Howells, parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Blair government, explained why. "The children's vaccines", he said, "were capable of being used in weapons of mass destruction". The British Government could get away with such an outrage because media reporting of Iraq - much of it manipulated by the Foreign Office - blamed Saddam Hussein for everything.
Under a bogus "humanitarian" Oil for Food Programme, $100 was allotted for each Iraqi to live on for a year. This figure had to pay for the entire society's infrastructure and essential services, such as power and water. "Imagine," the UN Assistant Secretary General, Hans Von Sponeck, told me, "setting that pittance against the lack of clean water, and the fact that the majority of sick people cannot afford treatment, and the sheer trauma of getting from day to day, and you have a glimpse of the nightmare. And make no mistake, this is deliberate. I have not in the past wanted to use the word genocide, but now it is unavoidable." Disgusted, Von Sponeck resigned as UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq. His predecessor, Denis Halliday, an equally distinguished senior UN official, had also resigned. "I was instructed," Halliday said, "to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults."
A study by the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, found that between 1991 and 1998, the height of the blockade, there were 500,000 "excess" deaths of Iraqi infants under the age of five. An American TV reporter put this to Madeleine Albright, US Ambassador to the United Nations, asking her, "Is the price worth it?" Albright replied, "We think the price is worth it."
In 2007, the senior British official responsible for the sanctions, Carne Ross, known as "Mr. Iraq", told a parliamentary selection committee, " effectively denied the entire population a means to live." When I interviewed Carne Ross three years later, he was consumed by regret and contrition. "I feel ashamed," he said. He is today a rare truth-teller of how governments deceive and how a compliant media plays a critical role in disseminating and maintaining the deception. "We would feed factoids of sanitised intelligence," he said, "or we'd freeze them out." Last year, a not untypical headline in the Guardian read: "Faced with the horror of Isis we must act." The "we must act" is a ghost risen, a warning of the suppression of informed memory, facts, lessons learned and regrets or shame. The author of the article was Peter Hain, the former Foreign Office minister responsible for Iraq under Blair. In 1998, when Denis Halliday revealed the extent of the suffering in Iraq for which the Blair Government shared primary responsibility, Hain abused him on the BBC's Newsnight as an "apologist for Saddam". In 2003, Hain backed Blair's invasion of stricken Iraq on the basis of transparent lies. At a subsequent Labour Party conference, he dismissed the invasion as a "fringe issue".
Here was Hain demanding "air strikes, drones, military equipment and other support" for those "facing genocide" in Iraq and Syria. This will further "the imperative of a political solution". The day Hain's article appeared, Denis Halliday and Hans Von Sponeck happened to be in London and came to visit me. They were not shocked by the lethal hypocrisy of a politician, but lamented the enduring, almost inexplicable absence of intelligent diplomacy in negotiating a semblance of truce. Across the world, from Northern Ireland to Nepal, those regarding each other as terrorists and heretics have faced each other across a table. Why not now in Iraq and Syria? Instead, there is a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Hollande, Obama and their "coalition of the willing" as they prescribe more violence delivered from 30,000 feet on places where the blood of previous adventures never dried. They seem to relish their own violence and stupidityso much they want it to overthrow their one potentially valuable ally, the government in Syria.
This is nothing new, as the following leaked UK-US intelligence file illustrates:
"In order to facilitate the action of liberative forces... a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria. CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals... a necessary degree of fear... frontier and border clashes provide a pretext for intervention... the CIA and SIS should use... capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension."
That was written in 1957, although it could have been written yesterday. In the imperial world, nothing essentially changes. In 2013, the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas revealed that "two years before the Arab spring", he was told in London that a war on Syria was planned. "I am going to tell you something," he said in an interview with the French TV channel LPC, "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria... Britain was organising an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer Minister for Foreign Affairs, if I would like to participate... This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned."
The only effective opponents of ISIS are accredited demons of the west - Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and now Russia. The obstacle is Turkey, an "ally" and a member of Nato, which has conspired with the CIA, MI6 and the Gulf medievalists to channel support to the Syrian "rebels", including those now calling themselves ISIS. Supporting Turkey in its long-held ambition for regional dominance by overthrowing the Assad government beckons a major conventional war and the horrific dismemberment of the most ethnically diverse state in the Middle East.
A truce - however difficult to negotiate and achieve - is the only way out of this maze; otherwise, the atrocities in Paris and Beirut will be repeated. Together with a truce, the leading perpetrators and overseers of violence in the Middle East - the Americans and Europeans - must themselves "de-radicalise" and demonstrate a good faith to alienated Muslim communities everywhere, including those at home. There should be an immediate cessation of all shipments of war materials to Israel and recognition of the State of Palestine. The issue of Palestine is the region's most festering open wound, and the oft-stated justification for the rise of Islamic extremism. Osama bin Laden made that clear. Palestine also offers hope. Give justice to the Palestinians and you begin to change the world around them.
More than 40 years ago, the Nixon-Kissinger bombing of Cambodia unleashed a torrent of suffering from which that country has never recovered. The same is true of the Blair-Bush crime in Iraq, and the Nato and "coalition" crimes in Libya and Syria. With impeccable timing, Henry Kissinger's latest self-serving tome has been released with its satirical title, "World Order". In one fawning review, Kissinger is described as a "key shaper of a world order that remained stable for a quarter of a century". Tell that to the people of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Chile, East Timor and all the other victims of his "statecraft". Only when "we" recognise the war criminals in our midst and stop denying ourselves the truth will the blood begin to dry.
http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-the-blood-never-dried
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SEE Leaked Blueprint Documents show ISIS Structure as a Terror State
SEE Leaked Blueprint Documents show ISIS Structure as a Terror State
A leaked internal ISIS manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic programme for self-sufficiency.
See other DOCUMENT IN at:
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1767097#sthash.RQifJxd9.dpuf
The 24-page document, obtained by the Guardian, sets out a blueprint for establishing foreign relations, a fully-fledged propaganda operation, and centralized control over oil, gas and the other vital parts of the economy.
The manual, written last year and entitled Principles in the administration of the "Islamic State", lays bare ISIS's state-building aspirations and the ways in which it has managed to set itself apart as the richest and most destabilizing terror group of the past 50 years.
Together with other documents, it builds up a picture of a group that, although sworn to a founding principle of brutal violence, is equally set on more mundane matters such as health, education, commerce, communications and jobs. In short, it is building a state.
As western aircraft step up their aerial war on ISIS targets in Syria, the implication is that the military task is not simply one of battlefield arithmetic. ISIS is already far more than the sum of its fighters.
The document - written as a foundation text to train "cadres of administrators" in the months after ISIS's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria on 28 June 2014 - sketches out how to organize government departments including education, natural resources, industry, foreign relations, public relations and military camps.
Dated sometime between July and October 2014, it details how ISIS will build separate training camps for regular troops and veterans fighters. Veterans, it says, should go on a fortnight's refresher course each year to receive instruction in the "latest arts of using weapons, military planning and military technologies".
It says they will also be given a "detailed commentary on the technologies" of the enemy and "how the soldiers of the state can take advantage of them".
The statecraft manual recommends a department for administering the military camps, a complex arrangement that, as described, goes well beyond the capabilities of al-Qaida in Afghanistan during the time it plotted the 9/11 attacks.
Document reveals for the first time that ISIS always intended to train children
The document reveals for the first time that ISIS always intended to train children in the arts of war. ISIS propaganda from this year has clearly shown children being drilled, and even made to shoot captives.
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B-52 Bomber: 'Big Ugly Fat F*cker' Likely to Lead US Fleet for Decades
The US Air Force's B-52 Stratofortress bombers, introduced in the 1950s, will likely continue to serve until at least 2040, the New York Times reported.In 1966, the Times reported that within nine years, the B-52 would be too old and would need to be retired. That plan never came to fruition primarily because attempts to build a replacement for the B-52 failed.
Today, there is a B-52 pilot whose father and grandfather flew the plane, the Times reported.
And while some upgrades have been implemented over the generations, much of the mammoth B-52 - often called the "Big Ugly Fat Fellow," or "BUFF," for short - remains noticeably antiquated."It's like stepping back in time," Air Force Captain Lance Adsit, 28, said of the aircraft. "I love the B-52. But the fact that this is still flying is really insane."
Of the planned replacements for the B-52, one was too radioactive; another frequently crashed; yet another released toxic exhaust, the Times reported.
There are plans to eventually replace the B-52 with the yet-to-be-designed Long Range Strike Bomber. However, the Times reported, some question whether such bombers are needed these days to fight "insurgent wars and stateless armies."
More recently, the B-52 has been used mainly for "assurance and deterrence" missions. For example, Washington flew one of the 76 B-52 bombers over artificial islands constructed by Beijing in the South China Sea."We conduct B-52 flights in international air space in that part of the world all the time," Pentagon spokesperson Peter Cook said at the time.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/us/20151207/1031386635/b-52-bomber-air-force.html#ixzz3thHGsmzD
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Probe into more attacks on asylum housing
9 Dec 2015 - Emergency services were called after a fire attack on a building earmarked for temporary refugee accommodation in southern Sweden, the latest in a series of similar incidents at asylum centres.
Police and fire and rescue services arrived at the centre in "Angelholm at around 2.30am on Wednesday after reports a number of unidentified attackers had attempted to start a blaze."Some people broke windows of at least two buildings and threw newspapers that they had set on fire inside," Lennart Linderos, emergency services officer, told the Sydsvenskan regional daily.
No one was injured and damages reported were mainly caused by smoke, said authorities. But the incident is the latest in a string of similar attacks on refugee housing across Sweden which has seen investigations launched into more than two dozen suspected arson attacks in the past year.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, police were called to an asylum centre in Str"angn"as, central Sweden, after a group of demonstrators put up a banner with anti-immigration messages and shouted far-right slogans."They sieg heiled before they disappeared. (...) It was pure white power behaviour. They were chanting and putting up a banner outside the house," Roland Lindkvist at the regional police told the TT newswire.
The demonstrators had left the scene before police arrived. An investigation into incitement of racial hatred was launched.
"The staff made all the residents go inside before they got too agitated themselves. So there wasn't much by way of confrontation," said Lindkvist, who would not say if they had identified a specific threat against the accommodation centre."It's too early to tell. But we have supervision at all our housing all the time. It's been like that for a few months now because of everything that has taken place recently."
Mona Sahlin, the national coordinator for protecting democracy against violent extremism, has been critical of "inflammatory" rhetoric being spread in the public debate and on social networks."I'm certain that it is part of the far-right extremist movement to use the refugee situation to strengthen their arguments... It was the same 20 years ago," Sahlin told the AFP news agency last month.
In 1992, 52 attacks were carried out against centres housing refugees from the Balkans war.
Sweden, which earlier predicted 190,000 asylum claims this year, has seen a nationwide dip in the number of refugees arriving in the country, following tighter border checks and a government announcement that it would cut the number of residency permits made available.
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Renowned American Military Expert Explains How Turkey Ambushed Russia's Su-24
Originally appeared in Harper's Magazine
On November 24, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber near the border of Turkey and Syria. In the immediate aftermath, officials from the two countries offered contradictory versions of what transpired: Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed that the plane was flying over Syrian territory when it was downed; Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan countered that it was inside Turkey's border and had been warned ten times to alter its course. Hours later, President Obama threw his support behind Erdogan. "Turkey," he said, "has a right to defend its territory and its airspace."
I asked Pierre Sprey, a longtime defense analyst and member of the team that developed the F-16, to examine what we know about the downing and determine what actually occurred that morning.
The Russians have claimed the November 24 downing of their bomber was a deliberate pre-planned ambush by the Turks. Is there any merit in that argument?
Looking at the detailed Russian timeline of what happened-as well as the much less detailed Turkish radar maps-I'd say the evidence looks pretty strong that the Turks were setting up an ambush. They certainly weren't doing anything that would point to a routine air patrol along the border. Their actions in no way represented a routine, all day long type of patrol.
How can we tell that?
Well, let's set up the situation and it'll be a little easier to understand. The Russian pilots were assigned a target very close to the Turkish border, about ten miles in from the Mediterranean coast and about five miles south of an important border crossing at a little place called Yayladagi. That's a border crossing that the Turks have used to slip jihadists into Syria, or to allow them to slip in. It's also a place where there's quite a bit of truck traffic, a fair amount of it probably oil tankers. It's the only crossing for many, many miles around. This is a pretty sparsely populated, well forested and hilly area occupied by Turkmen-Turkish speaking Syrian tribesmen who are sympathetic to al-Nusra and the Islamic State, who harbor Chechen terrorists and who we know have been supported by the Turks.
The target area the Russians were interested in was about five miles south, along the road leading to this crossing. That was the target area that they assigned to these two Su-24s on the day of the shoot-down. The crews were assigned the mission at about 9:15 in the morning, Moscow time. They took off about a half hour later, headed for an area about thirty miles inland from the Mediterranean coast-in other words well east of this target area-to loiter until they got further instructions on hitting a target in the target area. At this point they're just cruising and loitering at eighteen thousand, nineteen thousand feet, trying to conserve gas while they're waiting to be assigned a specific target.
The flight to their holding area was very short, because they were flying out of a Russian base south of Latakia. It was like a ten-minute flight. They were only about thirty miles away or so. After they reached their loiter area-at roughly a quarter to ten-they were well in view of Turkish radar coverage because they were up high and not far from the border, roughly sixteen miles south.
They got assigned their target, which was the road south of this important border crossing, and executed a first strike, each of them attacking separate targets at about a quarter after ten. They then made a U-turn, so to speak, to follow a racetrack pattern back toward where they had been loitering to get ready for a second attack. They in fact executed the second attack about seven or eight minutes later. One of the two Su-24s hit its target right at about ten twenty-four and was almost immediately shot down as he was pulling off the target.
What about the Turkish air force, what were they doing meanwhile?
The Turks had launched two F-16s quite a bit earlier than the time we're talking about, from Diyarbakir, a major base for the Turkish Air Force about two hundred and fifty miles away, to loiter just in from the Mediterranean over a mountainous area that was about twenty-five miles north of this border crossing. Interestingly, they arrived in that area to loiter just about the time that the Russian pilots were being assigned their targets, and the F-16s loitered over that mountainous area for about an hour and fifteen minutes.
Here's the crucial thing. They were not loitering up at high altitude-say twenty to thirty thousand feet-to conserve fuel, which is where you would normally be loitering if you were simply doing a routine border patrol. They were loitering quite low, at about seven thousand five hundred to eight thousand feet, which, first of all, is below the coverage of the Syrian and Russian radars that were down around Latakia, and which is a very fuel-inefficient altitude to loiter. You suck up a lot of gas down at those low altitudes.
That tells you right away, if they hung out there for seventy-five minutes, they must've been tanked on the way in to that mission, because they were quite far from their home base-two hundred and fifty miles-so they must've topped up on fuel to have enough to even last for an hour and a quarter at this inefficient low altitude. The Turkish Air Force does have a number of American tankers that they own, so they certainly could've and almost beyond a shadow of a doubt did tank these F-16s before this whole engagement.
They're hanging out at low altitude over this mountainous area north of the border, and it's now about 10:15. The Russian fighters, the Su-24s, are just finishing their racetrack pattern after their first strike and are about to re-attack from this holding position well east of the target. At that point, the two F-16s break out of their loiter patterns to fly in a straight line south, quite certainly under Turkish ground control because they clearly are not hunting for the Su-24s and following a curved path, they're heading straight for an intercept point that apparently ground control has provided them-a point that's very close to the target that the Su-24s have just bombed. That's clearly the point they're coming back to bomb again.
The F-16s arrive quite nicely and precisely timed to a missile-shooting position very near the border and three to four miles from the second Su-24-who has just finished bombing his second target-at about 10:24. One of the F-16s locks onto him, launches a missile-an infrared missile according to the Russians-and immediately dives down to get back under the Syrian radar coverage. The F-16 makes a hard diving right turn and is back down under eight thousand feet in no time at all and heading north away from the scene of the engagement. In that turn he actually is penetrating Syrian airspace before he heads north to go home to Diyarbakir, probably at that point out of fuel and hooking up with a tanker again in order to make it home.
Would he have been in Syrian airspace when they fired the missile?
Not necessarily. It's hard to tell at this point. All this action is pretty close to the border, and there's no reason to believe either the Turks or the Russians about distances of half a mile or a mile north or south of the border, but there's no question that the Turkish F-16 penetrated Syrian airspace in executing his diving turn to get out of the area. He was heading due south to attack the east-west track of the Su-24 that had just finished bombing the target. That Su-24 augured in almost immediately, about a mile and a half south of the border.
The bone of contention here is not the target area. The target area is roughly four or five miles south of that famous border crossing we were just talking about. The bone of contention is a narrow finger of Turkish land about five miles long, sticking straight down into Syria, about a mile and a half at its widest at the northern end and tapering down to a half mile at the southern tip. That finger is a good six miles east of the target area. So when heading west on their way to attack their targets, the Su-24s necessarily had to pass very close to the southern tip of the finger. In other words, the whole controversy about whether this shoot-down was legitimate or not is whether the Su-24s on the way to the target happened to cross that finger for a few seconds.
Remember again the setup. You've got a target that's like ten miles in from the Mediterranean to the east. Another six miles or so east of there is this finger of land. It's well east of the target area. The loiter area that the Su-24s were coming from is another sixteen miles to the east of that. They're flying from their loiter area, which is well south of the border. They're flying past the finger, maybe they crossed it, maybe they were just below it, and heading for the target.
But if the Russians were in Turkish airspace, as the Turks claim, wouldn't it be reasonable for the Turks to intercept them?
There's a little detail that's very telling. The alleged border-crossing took place on the first bombing run from the loiter area to the target, and according to the Turks the Russians were roughly half a mile north of the tip of the finger and so they were in Turkish airspace for about seventeen seconds-a tiny, short, brief time-on their way to hitting the first target. The Russians, of course, say they were south of the finger by about a mile. God knows who's right. I'm sure if we had access to the radar records we could tell very promptly who's lying and who's not, but nobody is going to give us access to the exact radar plot.
Here's the very interesting thing. This border-violating incursion was on the first run to the target at around 10:15. On the second run to the target the Russian planes were clearly further to the south. This is according to the plots and maps released in the Russian briefing, which are very, very detailed with exact time marks every minute. The seventeen-second crossing of the border alleged by the Turks happened at about 10:15, but the Turks waited. They didn't come in and attack the airplane that had crossed the border at that point. They simply sat and waited until the plane flew a long re-attack pattern and came back on a second run seven or eight minutes later, and that's when they attacked and shot him down.
Between the fuel-guzzling low altitude of the holding pattern of the F-16s, which miraculously coincided with the flight times of the Russian airplanes, and the fact that they didn't even chase the airplane immediately upon its alleged border incursion, all that smells very much like a pretty pre-planned operation. The Turks allowed the Russian plane to hit a target and make a long seven or eight minute re-attack pass and then came in from their hidden low altitude position. They came up a little higher to gain a good firing altitude, came whistling south, hit the Su-24, dove under the radar coverage at the same time that they entered Syrian airspace and headed north out of radar coverage to head back to Diyarbakir.
Such an ambush wouldn't have been hard to pull off, because the Russians, in their detailed account of this, state very clearly that they had coordinated with NATO, with the Americans, announcing this attack well in advance, and had followed the protocol of listening on the NATO-agreed frequency for any warnings or alerts from NATO or from the Turks. There was plenty of time for the Americans to inform the Turks that this mission was taking place. They might've even been informed by the Russians the day before it was going to take place. All the prerequisites for a setup were there.
The Turks made a big deal about the ten warnings they said they issued to the Russian planes. What do we make of that?
Again, that's one of those things where it's hard to tell and hard to know which side to believe. The Russians in their briefing, in their detailed briefing, are very clear and very adamant that the F-16s themselves, the attacking F-16s never transmitted any warning. Nor are the Turks or the Americans claiming that the F-16s warned the Russian fighters. But of course the international protocols for defending against incursions of your airspace require the attacking fighters themselves to inform the target-visually or by radio-whether it's an airliner or a fighter or whatever, that they are now violating airspace and need to turn away.
The Turks do say they transmitted their warnings from a ground-control station. They also claim they transmitted those radio calls on both the civilian international emergency "guard" UHF-band frequency and on the military VHF-band frequency previously agreed to by NATO and the Russians. The Americans were quick to confirm that their monitoring equipment picked up the Turkish ground-station radio warning calls, but they've been careful not to say what frequency they heard. Now it so happens that Su-24s have no radios onboard for receiving UHF-frequency signals, a fact which is well known to American, NATO, and Turkish intelligence.
There's a lot of outs to this that could be the fault of either side. It's quite likely true that the Turks radioed warnings, but those warnings may have been deliberately transmitted only on the international civilian frequency so that the Su-24s would never hear them. Or it may be that the Su-24's military frequency radios were on the fritz, which is easy to believe given the well-known unreliability of Russian electronics.
I do believe that the F-16s never issued any warnings, because it would be astonishing if they did. Here they went to all the trouble of tanking up and flying at a very low altitude, stretching their fuel endurance just to stay out of radar coverage of the Russians and the Syrians, and then why would they suddenly announce that they were there by warning the fighters when they had so obviously set up a situation where they were hiding? The ground-control station in Turkey probably did issue warnings, but they may have been warnings that were intended not to be received.
Would the United States have had radar coverage from its Airborne Warning and Control System or from their facilities at Incirlik? Would they be able to watch what was going on?
It's very likely that they had a good track on that area, probably just as good as the Turks had. The Turks of course have a fairly extensive border network of radars, and the Russians and the Syrians have well mapped those radars and know exactly where the coverage is, which is why the Russians can be so precise as to say that the Su-24s entered Turkish radar coverage at 9:52, because they know pretty exactly where that radar coverage is.
The Americans could very possibly have access to those radar results. I have no idea whether they had an AWACS in the air at the time, but if they did it would've been easy to cover that area, too. For sure the Americans had complete radio monitoring coverage of the area, certainly heard all the radio transmission involved.
Now the Russians say that they activated air defense missiles, the famous S-400 I guess, to make sure this doesn't happen again. Does that indeed preclude the Turks interfering with the Russians carrying out strikes in that area?
The answer is no, but it's a hell of a threat. The longest range version of the S-400 is good for two hundred and fifty miles. The Russians are installing it at their base just south of Latakia, within fifty miles of the border. So conceivably they could shoot two hundred miles into Turkey. They may or may not be able to prevent a hidden Turkish fighter from firing at another Russian attack in the border area, but they certainly have the possibility of catching him or his friends on the way home. This is a real sword poised over the heads of the Turks now that the Russians have the capability to shoot deep into Turkey and can do so any time they want.
http://russia-insider.com/en/renowned-american-military-expert-explains-how-turkey-ambushed-russias-su-24/ri11755
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5 reasons George W. Bush is still one of the worst presidents ever
New poll data suggest a majority of Americans now hold a favorable opinion of W. Here's what they're forgetting
MATTHEW ROZSA , THE DAILY DOT George W. Bush is trending on the Internet for a surprising reason. A CNN/ORC Poll that recently hit the Web yielded some good news for the embattled former president: For the first time since the months after his reelection in 2004, more Americans have a favorable opinion of him (52 percent) than an unfavorable one (43 percent).
Before Republican Twitter starts popping its proverbial champagne corks, however, it would be wise of Republicans to remember that most former presidents become more popular in the years after their administrations have ended. Both Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush were widely disliked when their presidencies ended but are held in much higher regard today.
George W. Bush is trending on the Internet for a surprising reason. A CNN/ORC Poll that recently hit the Web yielded some good news for the embattled former president: For the first time since the months after his reelection in 2004, more Americans have a favorable opinion of him (52 percent) than an unfavorable one (43 percent).
Before Republican Twitter starts popping its proverbial champagne corks, however, it would be wise of Republicans to remember that most former presidents become more popular in the years after their administrations have ended. Both Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush were widely disliked when their presidencies ended but are held in much higher regard today.
1) He failed on September 11
Few would disagree that the September 11 terrorist attacks were a defining moment of Bush's presidency. As president, his foremost responsibility was bringing the mastermind behind those attacks-al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden -to justice.
Bush failed in this mission. Instead of prioritizing hunting bin Laden down in Pakistan , where he was suspected of hiding (and where Obama promised to get him during the 2008 presidential election), Bush waged two costly and ineffective wars. The first was against Afghanistan , a nation that harbored bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorists but was not formally governed by them, and the second against Iraq , a nation that had absolutely nothing to do with September 11.
In the process, he significantly damaged America's reputation overseas (which didn't begin to improve until the beginning of Obama's presidency ) and destabilized the Middle East in ways that we're still seeing today . Remember that time Jeb Bush was asked about his brother's role in creating ISIS ? That's because his brother helped create ISIS.
2) His policies caused the Great Recession
When Bush took office, he inherited a strong economy built by President Bill Clinton: unemployment had fallen from 7.3% to 4.2% , creating more than 22 million jobs in the process, and the median family income had increased by more than $6,000 .
By comparison, Bush's presidency only managed to oversee the creation of fewer than 1.1 million jobs , by far the lowest of any president since Harry Truman, while income inequality expanded at staggering levels . The top 10 percent of American earners pulled in almost half of total wages, the most lopsided wealth distribution since 1917.Although the economic stagnation became apparent very early in his first term, it didn't turn into a full-fledged recession until the collapse of America's financial industry in 2008, after which unemployment shot up from 6.2 percent in September (the month of the crash) to 7.7 percent in January (the end of Bush's presidency). This was an average increase of 0.3% per month.
Considering that Bush's policy of Wall Street deregulation was largely responsible for the reckless practices of the "too big to fail" banks that brought the economy to its knees, it's fair to say that this was one of the two most significant fiscal failures of his administration.
The other, of course, was his squandering of the Clinton budget surplus. When Clinton left office in January 2001, he bequeathed America with a projected $1.9 trillion surplus . By the time Bush handed the economy off to Obama in 2009, the Congressional Budget Office projected $1.2 trillion in debt , due largely to Bush's $1.5 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy, as well as the additional trillions spent on the aforementioned wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
3) He eroded American civil liberties to an unprecedented degree
When Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) cast his vote against the USA PATRIOT Act -the only member of the Senate to do so-he explained his reasoning as follows:
In the play, A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More questions the bounder Roper whether he would level the forest of English laws to punish the Devil. "What would you do?" More asks, "Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?" Roper affirms, "I'd cut down every law in England to do that."
To which More replies:
"And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast... and if you cut them down... d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."
Feingold's words proved quite prophetic. From torturing suspected terrorists in clear violation of the Geneva Convention to laying the groundwork for the NSA's unprecedented domestic spying program , Bush's post-9/11 legislative initiatives ultimately threatened American freedom more than Osama bin Laden's schemes ever managed to do.
America's surveillance age hasn't made the world any safer from terrorism, sacrificing your privacy for what's proving to be nothing more an endless war on America's own people.
4) He bungled his response to Hurricane KatrinaBelieve it or not, it isn't that difficult for a president to effectively manage disaster relief after a hurricane: Lyndon Johnson famously mastered the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy in 1965, while Barack Obama's response to Hurricane Sandy was so effective that it was erroneously credited for his reelection in 2012.
By contrast, Bush utterly failed when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast in 2005-a subsequent report by the House of Representatives found that his administration disregarded numerous warnings of the threat to New Orleans , did not execute emergency plans, and neglected to share information between different departments that could have saved lives.
More from The Daily Dot: "U.S. destroys ISIS headquarters after militant posts photo online"
5) When it came to one of the biggest civil rights issue of his time, he placed himself on the wrong side of history
When future historians look back at the early 21st century, there is little question that they will view the campaign for LGBT equality as one of the major civil rights movements of the era. Yet not only did Bush fail to advocate on behalf of the LGBT community (despite his vice president having a lesbian daughter and his party being chaired by a closeted gay man, Ken Mehlman, during his second term), but he actively exploited anti-gay bigotry during his reelection campaign in 2004. This was particularly the case in states like Ohio, where its pull among so-called "value voters" played a considerable role (alongside racially based voter suppression ) in Bush's winning that state-and with it, the general election.
None of this means that George W. Bush is a bad human being, or even that he set out to cause harm to the nation he professes to love. At the same time, no bounce in his approval rating can eclipse the damage that he did while in office. More Americans may like Bush than dislike him right now, but when his legacy is ultimately appraised, the final verdict will not be a kind one.
Matthew Rozsa is a Ph.D. student in history at Lehigh University and a political columnist.
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WHITE Man Arrested And Charged With Child Rape
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A WHITE Man from Virginia has been arrested and charged for repeatedly raping a child under 13 years of age in Fairfax County, VA.
Charles Lee Ghent, 52, is an information technology coordinator for the town of Vienna, and he previously worked as the Vienna police's technology systems manager, according to Vienna Police Chief Jim Morris.
He was charged with three counts of rape of a minor younger than 13 and three counts of aggravated sexual battery of a minor younger than 13, Fairfax City police said.
Ghent was being held in the Fairfax County jail without bond.
Ghent lives in Annandale, but police said the alleged crimes occurred in Fairfax City between 2010 and 2012.
He was the subject of a six-month investigation, which began with a search warrant for his home computers, Fairfax City Police Chief Carl Pardiny said.
Pardiny said Ghent served as the child's "part-time caregiver and babysitter." He declined to release more information about the child's age, gender or hometown to avoid identifying the victim.
After the investigation began, Ghent was placed on administrative leave from Vienna without pay, Morris said. He later returned to work with restrictions, then he was suspended without pay again, Morris said.
In 2010, he was honored by the Vienna Rotary Club with a Service Above Self award, which also noted that he had been the police department's information technology coordinator since 2005.
DO NOT ALLOW WHITES NEAR YOUR CHILDREN.
WHITE Man Charles Lee Ghent
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NATO Backed Jihadists Have An Allah Akbar Session with Dead Russian Pilots Body
According to US media these jihadists that shot the pilot as he descended in a parachute are labeled as 'moderate rebels'. Judge for yourself. There are no moderate rebels. They don't look moderate nor are they rebels of any sort. They are jihadists. They are chanting Allah Akbar same as ISIS, same as Al Qaeda. Russia was bombing them because these assholes were protecting ISIS oil supply routes into Turkey. Hence the reason Turkey really shot down the Russian jet. It seems that the US and NATO have switched sides while the US media has distracted the American people with bullshit. This is what happens when someone named Barack Hussein Obama is appointed President by Neocons and old Sith Lords like Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Soros. Wake up folks. The US is on the wrong side in WW3. These mad events taking place around the world aren't coincidences. They are orchestrated. They are using jihadists in the Middle east and Nazis in Ukraine. Read up on the Grand Chessboard and what their real global domination goals are.
IMI- Analysis - Understanding the Grand Chessboard -German Think Tank http://www.imi-online.de/2009/01/01/imperial-geopolitics/
IMI-Analyse 2009/013, in: IMI/DFG-VK: Kein Frieden mit der NATO
Imperial Geopolitics: Ukraine, Georgia and the New Cold War between NATO and Russia
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Zbigniew Brzezinski's book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand current and future U.S., EU and NATO policy. Over ten years ago the former National Security Advisor gave a graphic description of the imperatives of imperial geopolitics. He argued that the U.S.A.'s position of supremacy should be preserved under all circumstances. To this end NATO, acting as a "bridgehead" of the U.S.A., should expand into Eurasia and take control of geostrategically important regions so as to prevent Russia's resurgence as a powerful political force.
Brzezinski had in mind two countries or regions in particular: "Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.""However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia."1 Brzezinski argued further that there was an imperative need to gain control of the southern Caucasus, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, on Russia's southern flank. The past master of U.S. geopolitics set out the aim and purpose of NATO policy with impressive clarity: "The United States and the NATO countries - while sparing Russia's self-esteem to the extent possible, but nevertheless firmly and consistently - are destroying the geopolitical foundations which could, at least in theory, allow Russia to hope to acquire the status as the number two power in world politics that belonged to the Soviet Union.
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China demands US not to repeat mistake of violating Chinese airspace
Two US B-52 bombers intruded Chinese airspace, which the US says was a mistake due to bad weather.
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China accuses US of military provocation by flying B-52 bombers over Chinese airspace
The US says the incident is not intentional but accidental due to poor weather condition.
China didn't respond to US intrusion like Turkey did to Russian jet.
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China warns US to reflect and correct its mistake of B-52 bomber intrusion
The US says the intrusion of Chinese airspace is an accident due to poor weather.
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US B-52 intrudes Chinese airspace in South China Sea
US Defense Ministry said the two US B-52 bomber in flight last week to perform routine tasks, including an "unintentional" flew over the Huayang reef within Chinese territory in the South China Sea two nautical miles, the Pentagon is currently investigating military reasons so close to the reefs of opportunity.
US media said, after the incident, Chinese Foreign Ministry has protested the US Embassy.
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