U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks

A longer version of this is being sent to the Pentagon

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-10/a-western-crackdown-on-wikileaks/?cid=hp:mainpromo2

U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks
by Philip Sheno access date Tues. 10 Aug. 2010


The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany,
Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges
against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks.
Philip Shenon reports.
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Wikileaks is a source of truth. It shows the reality of what our
war criminals...military and political leaders are doing
in the name of freedom, fighting terror etc.

Obama is just carrying out the war policies of our National
Security State(term from Glenn Greenwald).

Central to war is lying and deceit of the masses of people.
But, the U.S. went into Afghanistan, Iraq, et al not just for
oil, but because the real leaders of America (we don't know them)
have launched a World War...for domination.

To the Pentagon, we will not only protect every source
like wikileaks from harm from government thugs or assassins.
We will encourage many more to speak out, and release
evidence of 'War Crimes','Crimes Against Humanity', plans
for aggressive war and more...and cover-ups of the above.

For if anything, what the release of documents has shown
is the extent of criminal behaviour, and cover-ups by our
leaders...and no new investigation into these events.
What our leaders plan to do is make an example of Bradley
Manning. They aren't investigating the crimes that have
been revealed. To the Pentagon, the only crime is that
Someone LEAKED THE TRUTH.

To the Pentagon: You rely on us...that is the people who
join and are trained by you to handle your secure
communications (Read: evidence of your crimes and
cover-ups) We will develop our own underground railroad
as was done in the U.S.A. in the 19th Century.

To the Pentagon, you are corrupt, war criminals, and
resistance to the last breath is what is needed to stop
the American-Hitler-like war machine.

On September 11th, 2001 a horrible crime was committed
from within. This makes these wars illegal.

To the Pentagon, White House, CIA, NSA et al your
reliance on technology is your weakness.

We will resist.

We will resist,

And we will never, ever give up until every CIA torturer,
the lawyers, mercenaries, generals and admirals, and war
profiteers, bankers oil men, are in the criminal dock.
We have no choice, but to resist, and to remake this world
into a better place. It will be better when the people
rise up and put you in the criminal dock!!

We must fight against what our military is doing without fear.

Paul Meuse
Marine Vietnam grunt

The following is an excerpt from a speech given by
Major-General Smedley D. Butler, USMC (A by Two-Time
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient)


'WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious. It is the only one international
in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned
in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not
what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside"
group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of
the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few
people make huge fortunes.' So said Major General Smedley D. Butler
in the 1930s.

I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.'
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One theme that runs through the writings and speeches
of General Butler is the wars caused by the Bankers and
Oil men.

That's what war is all about-massive profits...$$$ on the
one hand:

'How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

The Burqa Ban in France

This is a letter sent to The Irish Times on Wed.

(To the Editor: I do not expect The Irish Times to print my letter(s),
for as the former Director of the CIA, William Colby
once noted that the CIA has someone [usually on the editorial
board] working for them on any major newspaper of note...so I will
post it in my developing blog:(http://paulmeuse.blogspot.com/)

The Burqa Ban:

The passage of the burqa ban in France
(World News, Tues.13 July 2010) has nothing
to do with 'protecting women’s rights', Mr. Sarkozy.
And, even less to do with ''dignity, equality and transparency,”
Ms. Alliot-Marie.

This is an attack against Muslim people, and their
beliefs everywhere. Since 9/11 the world has witnessed
a steady and concerted effort by Western leaders to demonize
and criminalize a people based upon their religious beliefs or ethnicity.
The last time the results were gas chambers.

But, it starts out with discrimination against those 'others'.

I grew up outside of Boston in the 1950s-60s. My Irish-American
mother was a devout Catholic. She regularly wore a head scarve
to church. The wearing of head covering for women is a part of the
religious traditions of Jews, Christians and Muslims.

I have great respect for Muslim religious practice. Like many in the
West I go to church for funerals and weddings. And, like most Westerners
I pray whenever I buy a lotto ticket...actually, before I buy the ticket.

Will the French authorities be breaking down the doors of Catholic
convents to liberate those poor women from their burqa-like dress.
I doubt it. And, hey, what about the Pope, the Cardinals and
Bishops who daily walk around wearing a burqa-like dress, sans the face
covering.

Like all unjust laws, this one must be vigorously opposed.The author is
a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran.

Paul Meuse
Kloosterstraat 80
2021 VP Haarlem
Netherlands

mobile: 00-31626039363

Murder and Crimes Against Humanity on the high seas

This was sent to the Irish Times on June 3rd, and also the Irish
Independent on June 4, 2010


The Israeli commando attack on the Gaza humanitarian
mission is a clear violation of international law, specifically,
Article 3 (1) (a) (b) (g) and 2 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of
Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
of 1988.

Had this type of raid been carried out by Iran we would be at war now.
But, it is carried out by Israel, so the US will do its best to shield Israel
from accountability at the UN.

The Israeli/Zionist attacked EU and other citizens. NATO is bound to
respond...as ships flying the flag of EU countries were attacked.

This is not the first time Israel has committed premeditated murder on the
high seas. On June 8, 1967 the Israeli Air Force deliberately attacked a
US intelligence gathering ship, the USS Liberty about 25 miles of the
Egyptian coast. Then, torpedo boats were sent to finish off the job-I mean
crew. They attack killed 34 US seamen and wounded another 171.

The Israeli's insist they are trying to stop weapons from reaching Hamas.
Hamas is a democratically elected government by the people. Israel receives
it's weapons via ships and planes from the US et al.

Robert Fisk noted that in 1948 the allied powers conducted the 'Berlin
Airlift' to bring in humanitarian supplies to West Berlin. At the same time
one of the greatest ethnic cleansing since WWII occured. The Israeli State,
like America was created by murder, terror and 'ethnic cleansing.'

Israel is an apartheid state, and there is no getting
around that fact. The Zionist government, like the
former apartheid regime must not be given be allowed
to cloak itself with 'respectability.' Apartheid must end.

The Palestinian people have a right under international
law to fight to get their homes, farms, fileds and factories
back. It's called the Right of Self-Determination. They have the
right to use force, but when they do its called terrorism. Cute!
The Palestinians are the resistance.

Their land and homes were stolen from them.
Why is it terrorism to fight back?

Gaza is one big festering concentration camp.
The guards, the jailers- the-IDF- are the descendants of
Holocaust survivors. The Palestinians are paying for the
Holocaust!! And, they had no part in it.

As for casualties, since 2000 less than 200 Israeli children have been killed
by Palestinians. Well over 1,400 Palestinian children have been killed by the
IDF or settlers.

What Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza fits the description
of Article 2 (c) of the Convention on Genocide :'Deliberately inflicting on
the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part.'

Check it out:Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by 9/11?' By David Ray Griffin

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25365.htm


Is the War in Afghanistan Justified by 9/11?

By David Ray Griffin

Posted May 03, 2010

“Whereas it is widely recognized that the US-led war in Afghanistan is illegal under international law, because it was never authorized by the UN Security Council, most Americans have believed that it was morally justified as a response to the 9/11 attacks, and many believe it is still justified as a necessary means to prevent another attack originating from that region. My lecture will present evidence showing that both of these beliefs are untrue, so that the 9/11 Truth Movement and more traditional Peace and Anti-War groups should be able to combine forces to oppose this illegal and immoral war.” - David Ray Griffin

David Ray Griffin speaks to a full house in Chicago, IL on April 27, 2010

Letter sent to Irish Examiner Wed. 28 April 2010

This was a tongue-in-cheek letter sent as a response
to an article stating that Ireland was going to crack
down on people who let their dogs crap in public.

It's about time ('Time to cry foul on dog owners with ‘sting’ operation' April 28, 2010). Let me offer a few suggestions.

Most people successfully train their dogs not to crap in their homes by rubbing their dogs nose in the feces. I believe that this method works just as well on any adult who lets his dog deficate in public. Okay, it make take a few times than it would a dog, but it's sure to work more effectively than a fine. And, the person will learn just like their mutt...it smells and tastes horrible;-)

Finally, this should be done to all politicians, bankers, developers et al responsible for the economic MESS that they have created!
Yours,
Paul Meuse
Haarlem,
Netherlands

A Joke Making the Rounds in Iceland Today...15 April 2010

I saw this whilst scanning Icelandic newspapers today for coverage
of the volcano:-)



http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=360838

15/04/2010 | 14:48

A Joke Making the Rounds in Iceland Today

Britain: Iceland are you crazy?!?
Why did you send us volcanic ash ?
Our airspace has shut down.

Iceland: What ? That's what you asked for isn't it ?

Britain:NO! We said cash! Cash you dyslexic idiot. CASH!

Iceland: Woooops... \

To the British and Dutch Governments: There is no C in
the Icelandic alphabet, so when you ask for Cash, all
you get is ...

Taken from 'Collateral Murder'

"Political language is designed to make lies sound
truthful and murder respectable, and to give the
appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell


The radio director said that there are
seven(?) or several people down there
and one has a rifle.

Me: One rifle among several men doesn't
sound like an armed combat unit!

The first look I saw about a dozen people
in the street and to is side...a normal day.
At about 03:11 the director says that he
estimates that there are about 20 of them.

There was several men around a man on a
motor bike/scooter.

At 03:20 both crews idendified a weapon on
one man. "That's a weapon."

It was a the camera of Namir.

At 03:40 the D said that a second man had a
weapon.

At 03:45 D called into command and said that
there were five-six individuals with AK 47s.

03:48 Request permission to engage.
03:56 'Free to engage.'

04:09 A man (camera man) was low-bent?
on the ground and something was protruding
around the corner: his head and something that
they called an RPG.

04:43 "You're clear.
All right, firing."

04:49 "Light 'em all up. Come on, fire."

04:50 Come on, fire."
04:54 first burst stopped.
04:54-04:57 second burst.
04:58: "Keep shooting." (the man was down)
05:00 stopped burst.
05:00-05:03 keep shooting. pause.
05:10 All right, we just engaged all eight individuals."
ps...what happened to the 20 that they saw?
05:20 God damn it Kyle. All right, hahaha, I hit e'm..."


05:28-clear..just trying to find targets again.
05:39 "Got a bunch of bodies layin' there."
05:45 "Yeah, we got one guy crawling around
down there."

05:51 "We're shooting some more."

06:06 Roger. Currently engaging approximately
eight individuals, uh KIA, uh RPGs, and AK-47s.

06:29 Hotel Two-six; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
Oh, yeah, look at those dead bastards.

06:33 Nice.
06:42 Nice.
06:43 Good shoot'n
Thank You.

07:14 Hey, good on the uh...
Five-four-five-eight eight-six-one-seven. Over

07:30 There's one guy moving down there but
he's uh wounded.

09:07 Yeah Bushmaster, we have a van that's approaching
and picking up the bodies.

09:19 Bushmaster, Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the
scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
(ME:this is an assumption)

09:23 Let me engage.
09:28 Can I shoot?
Roger. Break.

09:31 Uh Crazyhorse One-Eight request permission to uh engage.
09:34 Picking up the wounded?
09:36 Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage.
09:38 Come on, let us shoot!
09:41 Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
09:46 They're taking him. (two men lifting a dead/wounded man).
09:50 Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
09:53 This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead.
09:56 Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck...
09:59 picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
Fuck.
10:01 Request permission to engage.

10:05 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger.
This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage.

10:09 One-Eight, engage.
Clear.
10:11 Come on! (Firing begins)
10:14 Clear.
10:16 Clear.
We're engaging.
10:17 Clear. we're engaging.
10:23 Coming around. Clear.
Roger. Trying to uh...
10:29 Clear
10:32 I hear 'em co..I lost 'em in the dust.
I got 'em.
10:38 I'm firing.
This is Bushmaster Forty got any BDA on that truck? Over.

10:42 You're clear.
This is ah Crazyhorse. Stand by.

10:45 I can't shoot for some reason.
10:47 I think the van's disabled.
Go ahead and shoot it.

10:51 I got an azimuth limit for some reason.
10:54 (Shooting begins again-mine)
10:56 Go left.

11:00 Clear left.
11:13 All right, Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
11:17 A vehicle appears to be disabled.
11:20 There were approximately four to five individuals
in vehicle moving bodies.

11:31 No more shooting.
12:07 Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield!
(the copter had just returned and came close to the van-mine)

12:11 Ha ha!

12:29 Eight minutes after the attack, ground troops
arrive on the scene.

"We pulled up and stopped and I could hear
them over the intercom say they couldn't drive
the Bradley's [tanks] in because there were too
many bodies and didn't want to drive over them."
--Captain James Hall, Army chaplain.
Washington Post

12:53 I think they just drove over a body.
12:54 Really(laughing).
12:55 Yeah!


The soldiers find two wounded children in the minivan.

The treating soldier eventually decides to evacuate the
children to the medical center at the nearby U. S. base
of Rustamiyah. However, higher command orders that the
children are instead to be handed to Iraqi Police and be
taken to an Iraqi hospital.

This could mean poorer standards of medical treatment
and additional delay.

13:40 Hey, uh I need to get the Brads to drop rads
I got a wounded girl we need to take to Rustamiyah.
13:45 Bushmaster Seven; Hotel Two-Six.
Do you want us to move to your location over?

14:11 see troops running with child #1

14:15 Bushmaster Six; Hotel Two-Six over.
14:19 Hotel Two-Six; This is Bushmaster Seven.
Roger, come to our location.
14:27 Okay, roger, we're coming up north on Gadins
and then we will push east to your location.

14:41 (Soldier running with wounded child #2 --mine).

15:06 Roger, that's a negative on the evac of the two, ah civilian,
ah, kids to, ah rusty they're going to have the IPs link up.
15:14 They can put us over here. Break.
IPs will take them up to a local hospital over.
15:19 Copy over.
15:22 Roger that. One six oh.
15:28 W'll it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.
That's right.

"No innocent civilians were killed on our part deliberately.
We took great pains to prevent that. I know that two children
were hurt, and we did everything we could to help them. I
don't know how the children were hurt."

--Major Brent Cummings, executive officer 2-16, US Army

(Washington Post)



When we reached the spot where Namir was
killed, the people told us that two journalists
had been killed in an air attack an hour earlier,'
said Ahmad Sahib, the Agence France-Presse
photographer, who had been traveling in a car
several blocks behind Mr. Noor-Eldeen but was
delayed by the chaos in the area. He said he
was in touch with Mr. Noor-Eldeen by cellphone
until his colleague was killed...

"They had arrived, got out of the car and started
taking pictures, and people gathered,'
Mr. Sahib said. "It looked like the American
helicopters were firing against any gathering in the
area, because when I got out of my car and started
taking pictures, people gathered and an American
helicopter fired a few rounds, but they hit houses nearby
and we ran fro cover."

-Ahmad Sahib, AFP war photographer.
(New York Times)