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Only In America…

From Greg at The Goon Squad
(Where Brains are Tenderly Washed, Disinfected and Made Usable Again)

Only In America…

Will people get in their gas guzzling tank-like vehicles and drive 1/2 mile to the gym so they can walk 2 miles on a treadmill.

Will Christians go to church on Sunday, pray to the ‘Prince of Peace,’ Jesus Christ, then spend the rest of the week lustily cheering on the USA and Israel genocide against the Muslim world.

Will these same Christians on Sunday, read from the gospel of love, the New Testament, then spend the rest of the week thumping the Old Testament, which is filled with hate; incest; rape; drunkenness; murder; genocide; cannibalism; infanticide and revenge.

Will people set their rather large posteriors down on a couch, surround themselves with mountains of greasy potato chips, then wash all that junk down with a ‘diet’ soda because they’re watching their weight.

Will people spend huge sums of money on weight loss programs, then drive the family to McDonald’s to eat.

Will people spend 50 thousand on some gas guzzling behemoth, then shop for the cheapest, adulterated, toxic chemical laden ‘food’ from Wal Mart to feed their family.

Will people raise all sorts of hell about abortion clinics, saying its murder, then let their government murder millions of innocents, mostly women and children, in the ME, SW Asia and Africa w/o protesting.

Yes, America, these murdered children are human beings, or they were. Where’s the tears for these souls?

These too are children, murdered with your tax dollars. Feel proud to be a ‘Gawd fearin’ Christian’ now, Amerikkka?

Video and narration by BuelahMan

Articles referenced or worth reading

Bible Atrocities

EXCLUSIVE: Cowardice Redefined, The New Face of American Serial Killers

“This Government Does Not Torture” ~ George Waterboard Bush

George “Waterboard” Bush and Crew

Remember when GWB explained to the world that “this government does not torture“? I bet most of you believed him, right? Just like the Fox News slurping jarhead I had a conversation with not long ago. When I said that it embarrasses me that my country has reverted to what we once prosecuted others for, he asked me what I was talking about. I explained that Iraqi prisoners were tortured. He said I didn’t know what I was talking about. You see, he’s “been there” and there was no torture.

I asked, “What about the waterboarding?”

He laughed and said, “I’ve been waterboarded, have you? That isn’t torture, they did it to us in the Marines.”

Of course, what he went through was hardly torture, even though some ex-marines and Seals say it was. Is it torture if you are doused with water for 10-15 seconds? By your friends and fellow Marines that you know damn well don’t have ill intent for you? When you know it is practice training in case you get caught behind enemy lines?

Well, I would think that IF it were a scared Muslim dude who is held down by steroid laden monstrosities, cursing you, slapping your nuts with batons, causing sleep deprivation by chaining your hands to the ceiling, not allowing you to rest for up to 40 hours or more at a time, being threatened with death and mock executions, threats of killing your loved ones if you don’t “confess”… that it might be a tad bit different than the comparable love-fest initiated by your fellow jarheads.

But to people like him its the same, because, you know, he’s so bad ass and all.

Even the wikipedia tells us that its not the same:

The difference was in the manner in which the detainees’ breathing was obstructed. At the SERE school and in the DoJ opinion, the subject’s airflow is disrupted by the firm application of a damp cloth over the air passages; the interrogator applies a small amount of water to the cloth in a controlled manner. By contrast, the Agency interrogator … applied large volumes of water to a cloth that covered the detainee’s mouth and nose. One of the psychiatrist / interrogators acknowledged that the Agency’s use of the technique is different from that used in SERE training because it is ‘for real’ and is more poignant and convincing.

It appears that we did, in fact, torture others (according to the Constitution Project). In a recent 577 page report (that you can read HERE), the bipartisan committee of 11 (led by Asa Hutchison, ex-DHS undersecretary/DEA Head, and James Jones) explains that we did (this is a death knell for those who that we never tortured).

Let’s review what was done to these people in our name:

The OLC issued a second memorandum signed by Bybee in August 2002 (hereinafter Bybee Techniques Memo) that concluded 10 specific “enhanced” techniques were not torture, and could be used lawfully by the CIA. The techniques were: “(1) attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap (insult slap), (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress positions, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a confinement box, and (10) the waterboard.”

In finding that the 10 techniques were not torture, the Bybee Techniques Memo relied not only on a narrow legal definition of torture, but on factual representations about how the techniques would be implemented that later proved inaccurate. To give one example, the OLC memorandum stated the volume of water used to waterboard a suspect would be carefully controlled, and that while enhanced techniques might be used more than once, “repetition will not be substantial.” In fact, one detainee was waterboarded 83 times, and another detainee 183 times, by interrogators who “continuously applied large volumes of water.”

So the report shows that we did torture and that it:

“damaged the standing of our nation, reduced our capacity to convey moral censure when necessary and potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel taken captive.”

Yeah. No shit. And we killed and maimed many that confessed to stuff they never did in the first place.

The New York Times tells us:

The task force found “no firm or persuasive evidence” that these interrogation methods produced valuable information that could not have been obtained by other means. While “a person subjected to torture might well divulge useful information,” much of the information obtained by force was not reliable, the report says.

One key issue that you ObamaBots need to realize is that your favorite murderer in chief wanted to “look forward, not backward” when he had the chance to hold the Bush criminals responsible. (You two party pukes make me sick.) Nevermind that he didn’t want these torture regimens stopped, because sure as hell, he uses the same schemes.

Hutchison didn’t want to believe it and had to be convinced, but finally had to admit that he now has no doubts about what the US has done:

“This has not been an easy inquiry for me, because I know many of the players.”

Mr Jones chimed in:

“I had not recognized the depths of torture in some cases,”

“We lost our compass.”

The Drill Is On Leading To The Dead Dollar

Major computer malfunctions at three of the Dutch too big to fails

 

by Anthony Migchels on April 5, 2013

 

This week three banks, ING, Rabo and SNS, simultaneously suffered major computer malfunctions, leading to a temporary closure of their on-line facilities. Their problems were ‘unrelated’. It is completely unprecedented. The chances of a coincidence are close to zero. For years some in the blogosphere have speculated that ‘computer problems’ might be a good excuse for the Money Power to call a bank holiday and ‘reorganize’ their system. This looks like a drill.

 

By Anthony Migchels for Henry Makow and Real Currencies

Anthony goes on to speculate (as I have many times) that this is how it goes down. Just as it happened in Cyprus, certain laws will be enacted that TAKE your hard earned money and GIVE to the banksters who wouldn’t know what hard work is. This is being done under the guise of saving the Too Big Too Fail, because unlike hard-working folks, somehow they are not held to the same default/bankruptcy standards (funny ain’t it: that a “bank” can’t go “bankrupt”). You see, only the piddly little guy is held to that standard now.

Just two weeks ago, Chase Manhattan Bank had all their accounts roll back to ZERO. People went to check in and voila, NOTHING. But it was just a glitch. Um-Hm.

It was a test and they found that it can be done. So, when these banks pull these stunts and blame it on Iran, or Russia, or China, will you believe them? Will you grab your American flag and wave it as we launch World War LAST?

As Anthony states, something big is happening. All this direct thievery. All these banks having these computer problems simultaneously. Bankers resigning. Do you think that Doug Hagmann of Canada Free Press knows what he is talking about: that a preplanned assault is going on that will “Kill The Dollar”? Because, as you know, the Dollar is the Big Prize.

Some might be surprised to learn that the fate of America’s economy has already been determined, verified and announced by the Obama White House. Yet, it has received scant attention from the corporate media. In 2011, economist Kyle Bass interviewed a senior member of the Obama administration about its planned solutions for fixing the US economy and trade deficit[ia].

Among the questions he asked was about U.S. exports and wages, but the question itself was not nearly as important as the response he received from this senior administration official. In fact, this single, seven word response clarifies everything, explains everything, and leaves little else to discuss: “We’re just going to kill the dollar.”

April Fools!

Your Government Is A Joke

Article by horse237:

https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/april-fools-your-government-is-a-joke/

Graphics by David Dees:

http://www.deesillustration.com/index.asp

Video clip (for illustration and education purposes):

Video and narration by BuelahMan:

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/

If I Were President

Greg at The Goon Squad explains what he’d do if he were President:

http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2013/03/if-i-were-president.html

Referenced reading:
The Video Rebel’s “The Bankers Really, Really Want Us Dead”

http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/the-bankers-really-really-want-us-all-dead-2/

B’Man’s POS Watch: TN Sen Bob Corker

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/bmans-pos-watch-tn-sen-bob-corker/

Video by BuelahMan:

http://buelahman.wordpress.com

We’re The USA!

We’re The USA!
See the pyramid there in the aisle;
See those naked Arabs in a pile.
Just remember, people, all the while,
We’re the USA.

From Indonesia to beyond Algiers,
We’ll show off our Muslim souvenirs.
This reminds me of those Viet Cong ears.
We’re the USA.

Where would you be without us?
Maybe we’ll invade you, too–and you.

We can make the world a better place,
Putting evildoers in their place,
Or just giving Israel living space.
We’re the USA.

Song written by DC Dave

http://www.dcdave.com/poet13/040512.htm

Sung to the tune of Dean Martin’s rendition of ‘You Belong To Me’

Karaoke version used:

Sung by BuelahMan (snicker)

http://buelahman.wordpress.com/

Richard Noggin Saturday: Tennessee Senator “Bailout Bob” Corker

I know a lot of Tennesseans who are barely making it. Many people, even with some money are very close to losing their homes and are becoming unable to feed their families. People are staying at home, instead of their normal forays out into the community. Almost everyone I know has a loved one that is in dire straights and help them whenever they can… financially, with food, taking care of their children, etc.

Food pantries are growing. Many food aid programs for kids, specifically, are seeing rising numbers.

But these same people cannot see the disconnect of the moron, Bailout Bob Corker (the puppet of the Federal Reserve) that they recently elected (AGAIN) in large numbers. How can people be so stupid to support and elect such a lying fool, when it is obvious what the real issues are. Just look where he gets his money and understand that he is protecting the very ones that are causing the problems in this country.

You can see the interview here, but it will make you want to puke, if you understand anything about what this sycophantic numbnuts is saying.

Instead of suggesting that the mega-bailouts to bankers and giant corporations are an issue (no, he gushes praise on the thieving bastards), instead of explaining that the Empire can no longer be supported (meaning that the US military, the world’s BIGGEST “entitlement” program, ever, MUST BE CUT… SUBSTANTIALLY), instead of telling us that the bogus “war on drugs” or the continued support for apartheid Israel is draining us, he says that Medicare, Social Security and Foodstamps must be cut… you know, the “entitlements”. It doesn’t matter that he hasn’t helped bring more jobs to the market and that most of the people I know receiving foodstamps WORK, TOO. Its just that their jobs don’t pay a living wage.

I’m telling you people that what I have been warning you about is coming.

You are about to see massive changes to the help that poor people need. This means that you are about to witness people suffer and die, while we continue the Empire for Israel and maintain the the $BILLIONS poured out to Israel and the tax cuts to the richest of the rich (like Corkwhore).

When you see the invalids, the mentally disabled, the poor old Grandmothers and the most innocent children starve and die, will you say something or do anything? What will it take for you to understand that whores like Corker are in this for other reasons than to help or to represent you, as Tennesseans?

It is already happening in Ohio, as HeartofShadows points out.

And before any fool starts breaking out the charts that show entitlement spending being more than military “defense” spending, remember that we aren’t defending anything except the profits of military providers. At the same time we are sending jobs away to foreign lands, which force workers to utilize whatever assistance they can get. Don’t just mumble the bullshit, “Get a job” when there are so very few jobs to get.

Maybe you are one of those heartless bastards that thinks we need a culling of the “entitlement” users. If so, I hope you are one of the first to go.

A Condensation of Military Incompetence

A Condensation of Military Incompetence

What with all the glorification of our “heroes” in uniform, a glorification that seems to grow in inverse proportion to the real need for them, a person could begin to feel afraid to utter aloud the sort of jokes that people used to make.  For instance, you might feel the need to look over your shoulder before you repeat the old George Carlin observation that “military intelligence” is an oxymoron.

The growing military hype and the sort of military intelligence with which I became all too familiar in my two years of service, 1966-1968, came together on this Veterans Day weekend.  The picture of the U.S. Navy’s finest engaged in the Sisyphean task of mopping dew off the basketball court that had been laid on the deck of the USS Yorktown said it all.  That was in coastal South Carolina on Friday night, November 9, in what was to have been a big military advertisement to kick off the weekend.  The same fiasco played itself out on the deck of the USS Bataan in Jacksonville, Florida, except that the college basketball players there put themselves in harm’s way for an entire half, attempting to play on the virtual skating rink that the very predictable condensation had made of the surface.

But it worked before in San Diego, I can imagine the Navy geniuses thinking, and they got a lot of great publicity out of it.  We can do it at a couple of sites on the East Coast, the games won’t have to start so late at night for the Eastern audience, and we can quadruple the viewers.  Apparently they have never paid much attention to the weatherman when he gives out the temperature number associated with the “dew point.”  In the southeastern United States, that number is almost always higher than the evening temperature that is reached quite soon after the sun goes down.  In San Diego, although the temperature tends to fall more rapidly at night, the dew point is seldom reached because there’s not much moisture in the air.  But, hey, these are Navy people, no reason for them to pay much attention to weather, at least to such a minor phenomenon as dew.  Folks play football and baseball outdoors at night, don’t they?

Now think about it a minute.  These are the people to whom we have given the authority to make life and death, godlike, decisions, over thousands of their subordinates and millions of people in less fortunate foreign lands.  As you will see toward the end of this article, their manifest failings have had some rather serious consequences—that could have been much worse—in an episode in Korea in the 1960s that is revealed here for the first time.

Flood Rescue, Eighth Army Style

My big brush with what we might call “the military versus the elements” came a little more than four months into my 13-month tour in Korea.  As a recently promoted first lieutenant, I was second in charge of the security, plans, operations, and training office of a headquarters outfit that oversaw a disparate collection of U.S. Army units in what was known to us as Ascom City.  The Ascom complex abutted the small town of Bupyeong, on the Seoul, or eastern, side of Inchon (now spelled Incheon).

It was late June and I had only been in the country for about three months.  Another lieutenant and I received the assignment to head up one of four flood rescue teams that might be required to rescue and take care of the residents of four islands that are in the Han River, the river that runs through Seoul.  Most of Korea’s annual rainfall occurs during the very muggy days of the late summer.  When that happens, the Han River can rise so much that the islands can become completely submerged and require evacuation.  Each of the teams, which came from Army units around the Seoul area, was to be responsible for the evacuation of one island.

The first question that arose in my mind was why this task was the responsibility of the U.S. Army.  The Han River has been flooding at that time of year throughout recorded history.  One would think that the Koreans, who are not exactly unresourceful people, would have figured out how to cope with it.  It was just fourteen years after the end of the Korean War, though, and the country was still desperately poor.  It might have been necessary for us to pitch in and help the Koreans with boats and helicopters should they need them in an emergency, but for us to assume the responsibility for evacuating Korean civilians struck me as rather misguided, along the lines of Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden.

The one exception might have been Yoido (now spelled Yeouido. “Do” means “island” in Korean), where the U.S. military operated an air strip on the site of Seoul’s first airport, built by the Japanese occupiers in 1916.  It had been supplanted as the city’s airport by the one in Kimpo (now spelled Gimpo), some few miles to the west towards Inchon, in 1958.  Yoido is a little ways upstream from the now exclusive section on the south bank known as Gangnam (gang = river, nam = south), recently made world famous by the K-pop rapper, Psy.  Yoido would have been most convenient for us, because it was by far the nearest island to our location; we could see it off to our left from the bridge when we drove into Seoul, and there was a small bridge to it.

Unfortunately for us, every one of the other teams was closer to Yoido than we were, so we were assigned the most distant island much farther upstream.  We were also the most distant team from that site.  The most difficult part of our assignment, as we saw it, would be getting there, because we would have to find our way through the heart of Seoul.  There was no bypass, and there were lots of city twists and turns.  We certainly never could have accomplished it without our Korean KATUSA driver.

Before we were to do our one dry run we had a planning meeting, presided over by the lieutenant colonel from Eighth Army Headquarters in charge of the operation, at which the action plan was handed out.  Right off the bat we noticed a problem.  Each of the teams was identified with a number.  We were team four.  Each of the islands was also assigned a number, one through four, and they were called “sites.”  Our team four was to go to site one, team three was to go to site two, and so on.

We wanted badly to suggest that it might be a better idea to match up the sites and the team designations, so that team one went to site one, etc., but we were told that we would have an opportunity to make suggestions for the final action plan after we had done our dry run, so we held our fire.

There was another small problem with our team that might have presented some difficulties.  Our headquarters company had neither boats nor helicopters for rescuing anyone from an island.  Our contribution to the effort was to be only a couple of large tents for people to keep dry under, the manpower to set them up, and two junior officers to take responsibility if anything went wrong.  The rest of our team was to be made up of some enlisted men from an engineer battalion from Kimpo, which was to supply a couple of trailer-transported boats.  We were to meet them at the site, some twenty miles on the other side of Seoul.

We had our dry run, and, miraculously, things ran relatively smoothly.  Following the times and directions on the action plan, we and the Kimpo crew with the boats arrived at the site within minutes of one another, apparently having taken about the same time to negotiate Seoul’s traffic, which wasn’t very bad in those days before hardly anyone owned his own automobile.  We also made an important discovery in our reconnaissance mission.  Less than a mile down the country road from the site where we were to launch the boats was a large Korean Army compound.  It struck us that it might be a good idea to at least enlist their assistance in the rescue of their countrymen should it become necessary.

I suppose we might have gone down and introduced ourselves, but anyone who has ever been in the military would know that that is not the sort of initiative that is exactly encouraged.  If the higher-ups had meant for us to engage in any sort of liaison with our Korean counterparts it would have been included in our orders, or what is more likely, they would have done it for us.  I did step a little outside the prescribed script by taking the trouble to get the direct office telephone numbers of the guys with the boats from Kimpo.  No phone numbers had been included in the action plan.  The Army is a very top-down organization; lateral communication is not very strongly encouraged, and lateral communication outside the organization, particularly by underlings, such as any get-acquainted meeting with the local Korean Army detachment would have been out of the question.

We did, on our after-action report, make note of the presence of the Korean Army compound near our rescue site, hoping the colonel would get the hint, and we had the absolute temerity to suggest that it might be better to make the team and site numbers the same, so as to avoid confusion.  The final action plan ignored both the hint and the suggestion.  Even worse, our teams were assigned radio call signs.  Our team four’s call sign was to be “Ground Four,” Team Three was “Ground Three,” and so on.  Remember, though, that we were to go to Site One, and all the other teams had sites different from their numbers.  The potential for confusion was actually increased.

The Fateful Day Arrives

Predictably, it began to rain almost every afternoon starting around the middle of July and the Han River eased toward flood stage.  In the meantime, as it happens, the training sergeant in our office had decided that it would be a good idea for the men in our company to get in their annual shooting qualification on the one range that the Eighth Army had in the limited land available in the area.  That happened to be up north of Seoul some distance from us.  Reservations weeks in advance were required, as was an officer to supervise.  I was the officer, who got on the bus early on an August morning just as a slow rain began, unusual for the time of day.

By the time we reached Seoul, the rain was approaching a downpour, and I began to grow concerned about my greater obligation to the flood rescue team.  When the bus reached the Eighth Army headquarters at Yongsan in Seoul, I decided that I’d better get back to Ascom.  The shooters went on without me, and I found transportation back to my office, arriving there around noon with the rain coming down ever harder.  Then, sure enough, the call came down from a lieutenant in Eighth Army, one of the colonel’s assistants.

“We’re implementing the action plan,” said he, or words to that effect.  “Move out immediately.”

Patting myself on the back for the decision I had made, and in a state of rather high excitement, I pulled out the phone number of the contact in the Kimpo engineer battalion to make sure that there would be boats for us when we got to our destination.

It’s a good thing the phone worked—the military phones were something of a hit-or-miss thing at that time in Korea—considering his response.  “We haven’t had any move-out order,” he responded to me.

I immediately got back on the phone to the Eighth Army lieutenant to ask him what was up.

“Hold that first order,” he said.  “We’ve decided to give it a little more time.”

Now I was thinking that it was an especially good thing that I had not taken the “immediately” part of his move-out order too literally, and I was really glad I had gotten that boatman’s phone number.  Considering the weather conditions, “high and dry” doesn’t precisely describe the position we would have found ourselves in at the evacuation site without the boats and without even a need for them, but it comes close.

Having heard many reports of predicted river flooding on the news where the levels expected are based upon levels already recorded upstream, I inquired of the lieutenant as to the basis on which the final decision would be made.  I remember his response as though it were yesterday:

“Colonel ‘Geronimo’ is down looking at the river.”

As it turned out, no one drowned because some would-be rescue helicopter had landed at Site 3 instead of the correct Site 2 because he had received an emergency radio call from Ground 3, and we never suffered from the lack of manpower that the Korean Army might have provided at our site.  None of the islands flooded that day—or that year—and the “hold” on that first call from the Eighth Army lieutenant continued into perpetuity.

Bad Communications When It Counts

We’ll never know if the Army’s poor communications, particularly of the lateral variety, would have had really bad consequences in the flood business that year, but their luck would almost run out before I left Korea.  I didn’t take my mid-tour leave until January, and I took it in Japan.  A couple of days after my arrival in Tokyo I met an infantryman at the USO in the Ginza who was on leave from the 2^nd Division, up on the line in Korea.  We decided to do our touring around Japan together.  Not in any kind of a boastful manner he told me of some of the excitement he had experienced in his army tour, which was so much different from what those of us further south had to face.

“The most frightened I’ve ever been in my life,” he told me, “was when our gung-ho commanding officer took a squad of us over into North Korea one night to shoot up a propaganda loudspeaker.”

Fortunately, they had all returned unscathed.  It could have been a really embarrassing international incident.  He also told me of the almost constant probing of the line by North Korean infiltrators.  “Just a couple of nights ago,” he told me, “we heard a whole bunch of them come through.  We fired in their direction, but we didn’t hit anybody.”

I think it was the next day when we saw headlines in a Japanese English-language newspaper:  “North Korean assassination team stopped within blocks of the Blue House.”

“That’s them!” he immediately exclaimed upon seeing the newspaper.

“That’s who?” I responded.

“That’s the bunch we heard come through our lines.  I told you there were a lot of them.”

The newspaper reported that there were 31 in all.  All but one had been killed in a gun battle on the streets of Seoul.  But the newspapers also reported that the group had not been detected until they were seen by some Korean civilians gathering wood in the mountains.  That still seems to be the official position as of the date of this writing according to Wikipedia.  On the “Blue House Raid” Wikipedia site we find this passage:

On January 16, 1968, Unit 124 left their garrison at Yonsan. On January 17, at 2300 hours, they infiltrated the DMZ by cutting through the fencing of the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry Division‘s sector and, by 0200 hours the next day, they had set up camp at Morae-dong and Seokpo-ri.

On the page for the Korean DMZ Conflict (1966-1969) we have this:

On the night of 17 January 1968, 31 men of Unit 124 penetrated the 2ID sector of the DMZ by cutting through the chain-link fence and passing undetected within 30m of a manned 2ID position. (Emphasis added)

In fact, they were detected, if my traveling companion—who was likely one of the guys at that position—is to be believed.  I have little doubt that they would have informed their higher ups.  From my own experience, though, I seriously doubt that their superiors bothered to say so much as “watch out” to their Korean counterparts.  As we have said, lateral communication was not their strong suit, especially across cultural lines.  Covering one’s rear end, on the other hand, is one of their strongest suits.  The truth of how we reacted to this known incursion would not have been well received in various important quarters and could have been quite damaging to a military career or two.

The aforementioned Wikipedia site also has this to say about intruder impediments:

The Barrier could not prevent infiltration (it was estimated that the North Koreans could cut through the fence in 30–40 seconds), rather it was intended to slow movement and provide easy observation. Behind the Barrier were the quick-reaction forces of mechanized infantry, tanks and armored cavalry who would hunt down infiltrators.

That all sounds very impressive, like a lot of U. S. Army boilerplate one reads, but, again, if my informant is accurate, and I have no reason to doubt him, they didn’t do much of a job of it in this instance.

Very little of what my companion had told me about the North Korean infiltration surprised me.  A short time before, the Korean major in charge of the KATUSAs in our command and I, in my capacity as chief of training, had sponsored a joint presentation by Korean Military Intelligence for both our Americans and our KATUSAs.  We had a presentation by a North Korean defector and they showed us a film that depicted exactly the sort of rigorous training that the infiltrators were receiving, giving them the ability to move with surprising speed on foot over mountainous terrain.

My recollection is that the initiative for that presentation came entirely from the Korean major, and he worked through me, not my superiors.  I have no recollection of any direction coming from Eighth Army to provide such information to the troops.

Post Script

Early that spring, in 1967, as I traveled into Seoul, I noticed some changes taking place on Yoido.  The Koreans, who apparently lacked the wherewithal to rescue their own people from the river, were bringing in a steady procession of dump trucks full of dirt and were building the island up.  By the time I left, an impressive transformation had begun to take shape.  Yoido, now virtually immune to floods, has become an important part of Seoul.  The National Assembly Building is there, and it is the city’s main business and investment banking district.

David Martin

November 15, 2012

Another excellent Guest Post by DCDave.

Wall Street’s Greatest Wet Dream: The Grand Bargain Betrayal

I told you long ago that Obama was W II (the third and now fourth term of George W Bush policies). Very little has changed, except that Americans (especially black ones) think that his color makes him some sort of Messiah. I have said many times that he is whiter than I am, meaning that he is acting black, but serving the interests of whitesJews. And only the uninformed can really argue that point, as Luke points out in one of his latest videos:

Luke Rudkowski hits the streets of NYC to find out where Obama supporters really stand on his policies. Now he did this in an underhanded way where the policies where presented to be Romney’s, but this was only done to get an honest opinion. The reactions when the truth was uncovered varied but they were very telling to say the least.

Of course Luke won’t tell you about the Jewish connection, but the point is that every one of those he interviewed show their total ignorance when it comes to Obama’s policies. The Obama Brand has done a great job of lying people into believing a load of bullshit that simply perpetuates the Empire and direction towards American financial serfdom.

After his “win” in this past sElection, he now work to implement the final austerity goals that Steve Lendman (quoting Bill Black) lays out as “forced-fed austerity“:

Force-fed austerity assures the worst of hard times. It’s responsible for what Black calls “the four horsemen of the economic apocalypse:”

• economic decline;
• job cuts and greater unemployment;
• increased deficits and debt; and
• destruction of safety net protections.

Wall Street Wants It ALL, Folks

They want your retirement. They want your healthcare. They want your Social Security. They want your property. They want your savings.

They want to control it all.

And when I say “Wall Street”, I mean what Lendman, nor Black will say out loud… Jews and their parasitic lackeys.

The goal is to take this country down to third world status, where the very rich prosper and the poor barely sustain a miserable existence the best we can. Enough pain felt, for long enough, and us poor ole rednecks will beg them to bring the work back, at slave wage levels, just to feed out kids and care for our sickly old folks, since SSI is going to be privatized (continuing W’s wet dream).

Bill Black explains it very well in his Real News interview:

Bill Black: A group of Democrats called “The Third Way” are working with President Obama towards the “grand betrayal” on social security

The Sheople’s Church Of The Immaculate Voting Booth: The Gospel According To Government

Why Are Jews Persecuted?

Adapted from Jayne Gardner’s article at rense.com, entitled “Why Are Jews Persecuted?“

http://rense.com/general80/whj.htm

Most images sourced from Brother Nathanael’s Real Jew News:

http://www.realjewnews.com/

Narrated by B’Man

The Grand Bargain IS Paulsterity

Image found at http://geniusofinsanityworld.blogspot.com/2012/05/spending-vs-austerity.html

I have warned you multiple times about Paulsterity. I told you that it didn’t matter whether or not it was Ron Paul or Paul Ryan’s plan, or whether or not the liar-in-chief, Obama, wins another term, Austerity is coming. I have warned you that it doesn’t matter which of the two complicit duopolistic parties win, the end result will be hurting poor folks at the expense of the rich getting richer (why do you think they give all this money to the elections in the first place: because they “love America”?).

Morons.

Image found at http://contemporarycondition.blogspot.com/2012/03/science-and-ethics-of-austerity-lessons.html

They give all that money because they want something in return. They want to control the money (and control it right into their own pockets). They will do so by attacking the social network while NOW is the time to keep their greedy fingers off of it. Now, the worst financial situation this country has ever found herself in is a result of privatization which simply makes those who can afford to buy even richer at your expense.

I mentioned a friend’s unwavering dedication to Romney and the Republicans, mainly because he thinks Obama is a communist and Romney is a Capitalist (indicating that he would be better than Obama). I insisted that on the issues that matter, disregarding the propaganda of Rush Limbaugh (he did use him as an example), they are the same, and that they are both bad for this country.

In a passing comment about Romney vs Obama, I wrote:

As for preferring Romney over Obama… one is just as evil as the other. Both are corrupt, as are both parties. Both serve Israel’s interests (Romney will probably be much worse than Obama, as a matter of fact).

To me, my concern isn’t about which person or party wins, for we all lose with either one.

He countered:

Sorry B’Man, can’t agree with much of what you say below. Your belief that Romney and Obama are the same is simply wrong, and I’m very sad that you think this way. Obama is a communist, plain and simple, and his communist roots and education are plain for all to see. Romney is a successful capitalist and a decent man. Are saying communism is morally equal to capitalism? If so, you couldn’t be more wrong and I would hardly know where to start in convincing you otherwise. How about this: Do you want this country to look like Cuba, Russia, or China?

You see, he immediately went for at least one of the Seventeen Techniques For Truth Suppression.

I had to explain, again, that the system is corrupt (I used the word “evil”) and had to bring out my tired old motto:

My motto is “Ne’er an R or D Again”.

The two party paradigm has grabbed you. I am sorry that you don’t understand what I’m saying. You have lived much longer than I and surely have experienced the ping pong effect. One election year is the lesser of two evils. The next election year, it is the other lesser of two evils. I assume you understand evil. Evil is evil. Period.

The debates are controlled by those two parties. Big Money controls both parties. It is obvious simply by following where they put their money in each election cycle (Opensecrets.org).

Obama is evil. Romney is evil. The system is evil.

And this is the mindset that keeps us in bondage to Big Money. An undying allegiance to one of the two dominating evil parties. A lack of discernment, both politically and spiritually. A trust in one’s favorite “lesser of two evils” and the total abandonment of sanity and/or clear thinking. A purposeful dedication to an evil, corrupt system that is blatantly obvious to any open-minded, sane person.

DCDave sent me a link this morning to The Activist Post (I have been a long time subscriber to their site and must have forgotten this comparison of the two evil, lying characters running for POTUS. They write that there are “40 Points That Prove That Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate‘:

1. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported TARP.

2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama’s “economic stimulus” packages.

3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama’s bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.

4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.

5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.

6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.

7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the “independence” of the Federal Reserve.

8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.

9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.

10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.

11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.

12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.

13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.

14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.

15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.

16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.

17. Both candidates are “open” to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.

18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.

19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.

20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act.

21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.

22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists can be killed by the president without a trial.

23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay like he promised to do, and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.

24. Both candidates support the practice of “extraordinary rendition”.

25. They both support the job-killing “free trade” agenda of the global elite.

26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.

27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.

28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election since 1944.

29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.

30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.

31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants) as long as the entire globe goes along with it.

32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.

33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney’s “conversion” to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital’s investment in a company called “Stericycle” that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.

34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.

35. They both believe that a “two state solution” will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.

36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.

37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add “signing statements” to bills when he signs them into law.

38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.

39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.

40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.

I am not saying that I agree with every point (for instance, I don’t see number 12 being correct… neither want “universal healthcare”, what they want is to privatize the system and continue feeding the beast that is draining the system, Health Insurance… NOT the same thing. Nor is ObamaCare “universal healthcare”… #13). But, by and large, most are an accurate comparison.

It truly boils down to Big Money and austerity measures to keep afloat the very ones that have wrecked our economy, at YOUR and my (and our children for generations to come) expense. They truly desire to create a third world country where the few ultra-rich dominate the millions of us poor folk.

A vote for Romney is a vote for Paulsterity (Paul Ryan’s Plan).

A vote for Obama is also Paulsterity (or the Great Bargain).

The insanity (or stupid allegiance, whatever) to continuing the support of either “Party” or the bought and paid for candidates that the bogus media has brainwashed you with, is not only horrific for me and my family, but it is equally bad for your family. Its time you get your heads out of your butts and see what’s going on.

One could simply not vote (and if enough were to stay away, in protest, perhaps it would send a message). But there is another way, if enough people got on board, and that is to vote for ANYONE else that is unassociated with an R or D (reTHUGlican or demoRAT).

A poster promoting the virtues of austerity. But who really benefits? Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

There are some third party or independent candidates running, personally, I am voting for Merlin Miller (will write him in, if he is not on the ballot). At least he is not afraid to call out the best reason we are falling apart as a country.

At least then, we would easily be able to see the obvious election manipulation that will permeate the corrupt voting machines as Dr Paul Craig Roberts highlights in today’s post at his site.

You will finally recognize that next year, when they cut your Social Security, Food Stamps, Medicare/Medicaid… when you see the poor people begin to starve and/or get sick and die because you didn’t have the sense or discernment to see what is obviously coming… when you will be the one that suffers burdens to take care of your elderly mother, because they are taking away the safety net that all of us poor rednecks have piad for all of our lives… when they complete the cycle of theft, by taking your savings because there is no interest paid on the meager money you do have left… when the final condition will be them taking your home because you cannot afford the taxes…

THEN and only then will the brain-dead, political sycophantic fools FINALLY realize that dumb ole redneck, B’Man, warned you to the best of his ability.

But then it will be too late.

Morons.

h/t DCDave, The Real News, Paul Craig Roberts, and Activist Post

So Close, But Never Seem To Get To The Finish Line

I subscribe to several bloggers, videographers, news sources, etc (some I agree with and some I don’t) and my Reader gets about 500 entries or more per day. I generally scan through them and when one catches my attention, I sometimes make note and/or it instigates a thought process or reconstitutes my current thinking, giving me clarity. This is how I come to my ways of thinking and therefore gives me ideas for new posts. Many times, I will draft my thoughts, and that draft will stay in the draft folder for months at a time before I post on it.

I have said a few times that many of these people I follow seem to get close to naming the problem, but always fall a bit short. They use innocuous names and ideas, when the truth is blatant and obvious. Too many feel the need to stay politically correct and not call out the real perpetrators, so they use terminology that is watered down. Many others, who are thinkers and provide excellent information in certain correct realms, seem to stop short at getting to the real issue. I try to figure out if they are truthful and just ignorant or are disinformation specialists. This is a difficult differentiation.

I have seen a couple of videos recently where these types get close, but miss the cigar.

Now think about who he names and their affiliation to a certain group. But he won’t quite say it, will he? Why is that?

Here is another. This man has put out an extensive amount of work and in most cases, I find little I disagree with. But, the closer he gets to naming the evil, he ALWAYS falls short (why, I don’t know for sure):

The art of debunking only goes so far, apparently. I’ve addressed this before, but how can someone spend so much time explaining how history is generally a lie with a purpose to mislead us, use sources from the History Channel, then ignore one of that channel’s biggest draws, all the Nazi Germany stuff? How is it possible that virtually everything about the official American history is fraught with lies and distortions, yet they cannot look into the biggest hoax (and reason behind it) that we have ever been brainwashed into believing? Why cannot these smart people make the obvious leap in logic on this ONE subject, when they can on every other?

Here is a written example at the Economic Collapse Blog where they skirt all around the issue, but fail to connect dots?

One of the fundamental problems with our current financial system is that it is based on debt.  Just take a look at the United States.  The way our system works today, the vast majority of all money is “created” either when we borrow money or the government borrows money.  Therefore, the creation of more money creates more debt.  Under such a system, it should not be surprising that the total amount of debt in the United States is more than 30 times larger than it was just 40 years ago…

…

Why should banks be allowed to create money?

That is a very good question.

Why should sovereign governments ever have to borrow money from anyone?

That is another very good question.

Our current system is designed to enrich the bankers and get everyone else into debt.

And is that not exactly what has happened?

…

So why don’t we go to such a system immediately?

Well, the transition to such a system would undoubtedly be a major shock to the global financial system, and most people try to avoid significant short-term pain even if there are tremendous long-term benefits.

More importantly, however, is that the bankers have a tremendous amount of power in our society today, and they would move heaven and earth to keep a debt-free monetary system from ever being implemented.

Who runs those banks? Who invented debt based money (Usury)? Who controls every aspect of the monetary system? Who controls almost every aspect of corporation control and manipulation? Who controls every bit of print and video media, besides the alternative media (and obviously, a good bit of that is controlled by the same people, as well… Alex Jones being an example)?

Do you think that these monsters will ever give up their control? Why doesn’t that blog ask the obvious question or at least elude to the ones who invented the system, perpetuate it, and now have such a stronghold that they will NEVER give it up?

The Video Rebel doesn’t mind saying it (or is very close and his previous posts never held back).

On 9-11-2012 the Israelis working in conjunction with their Saudi allies attacked the American consulate in Benghazi killing the US ambassador Chris Stevens and others. As I have said before, the Saudi royal family were installed by His Majesty’s Jewish government. They are descendants of Sabbatean Jews which is to say they were Satanists as are most of Israel’s leaders.

Louis Farrakhan will say it (or something close). He keeps talking about Israel, but we know what that means. We know that it is a “Jewish State”.

But here is one that is not afraid to name it out right (and I appreciate it very much):

h/t BrassCheckTV, JohnFriendsBlog, The Economic Collapse Blog, and The Activist Post

Dahlia Wasfi: America Under Israeli Occupation

Dahlia Wasfi explains in very clear, easy to understand terms, who controls the US’s Middle East policy, how, and for what reason. Of course, the depth of corruption and control are much deeper, but understanding these basic issues should be enough to anger and invigorate those just coming to the realization that they lie to us brazenly and without end.

Ariel Sharon: “We, the Jewish People, Control America, and The Americans Know it“!

Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)dvisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith were all on JINSA’s Board of Advisors before they entered the Bush administration

Jason Vest, writing in The Nation,alleges that JINSA, along with Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, are “underwritten by far-right American Zionists” and both believe strongly that “‘regime change’ by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative.”

Thousands of Bombs Dumped in Gulf of Mexico Pose Huge Threat to Oil Rigs

Thousands of Bombs Dumped in Gulf of Mexico Pose Huge Threat to Oil Rigs

After World War II the US government dumped millions of kilograms of unexploded bombs into the Gulf of Mexico. This is no secret; many governments dumped their unexploded ordnance into oceans and lakes from 1946 up until the 1970s when it was made illegal under international treaty.

Now that technology has advanced enough for oil companies to drill deep sea wells in the Gulf of Mexico, those forgotten payloads have become a real hazard.

The US designated certain areas around its coast for the safe dumping of explosives, nerve gas, and mustard gas. The problem is that the records of where these munitions were dumped are incomplete, and many experts believe that a lot of cargo was dumped outside of the designated areas. Now, decades later, no one has any idea of where the bombs are, exactly how many were dumped, or if they still pose a threat to humans or marine life.

William Bryant, a Texas A&M University professor of oceanography, summarised the situation by saying that the “bombs are a threat today and no one knows how to deal with the situation. If chemical agents are leaking from some of them, that’s a real problem. If many of them are still capable of exploding, that’s another big problem.”

In 2011 BP had to close down its Forties crude oil pipe in the North Sea, which carries 40% of the UK’s oil production, after they found a four metre unexploded German mine laying [sic] just next to it. The giant mine was found during a routine inspection of the pipeline, and forced its closure for five days whilst engineers attempted to safely remove it and transport a safe distance away to be detonated.

Professor Bryant remarked that he has come across 227 kg bombs off the coast of Texas and well outside the designated dumping grounds. He also said that at least one pipeline from the Gulf of Mexico had been laid across a chemical weapons dump site.

Terrance Long, the founder of the underwater munitions conference, said “it makes more sense to start dealing with the munitions from a risk-mitigation standpoint to be able to conduct operations in those areas rather than trying to avoid that they are there.”

Source: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Thousands-of-Bombs-Dumped-in-Gulf-of-Mexico-Pose-Huge-Threat-to-Oil-Rigs.html

By. Joao Peixe of Oilprice.com