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Video: The Vietnam War and the Phoenix Program: “A Computerized Genocide” | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
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Michael Maclear’s 1975 documentary, Spooks and Cowboys, Gooks and Grunts (Part 1) is more relevant now than ever. Forty-two years after its release, it exposes the suppressed, shameful truths that have corrupted America since the Vietnam War. The documentary makes it perfectly clear that “we” have always known what was going on – and that “we” have perfected the means of denying and obfuscating it.

Maclear’s documentary stands in stark contrast to the current Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War, which is nothing more than historical revisionism, sprinkled with massive doses of cognitive dissonance, served up as healing.

While Burns assiduously avoids connecting the conflicts of the Vietnam War to America’s on-going experiment in technofascism, Maclear’s documentary is straightforward in stating several shameful truths. Foremost, that the CIA has corrupted not only the military, but America’s political and judicial systems; and that, through its secret control of the media, the CIA’s power to create the official version of history has left veterans of the Vietnam War, as well as every subsequent generation of Americans as well, in a state of neurotic delusion.

This is what Guy Debord meant when he said,

“Secrecy dominates this world, and foremost as the secret of domination.”

While Burns falsely characterizes the war as a tragedy engendered by decent men with good intentions, Maclear offers incontrovertible proof that it was a war of imperial aggression in the pursuit of counterrevolution.

Maclear gets to the heart of the matter by focusing on the CIA’s Phoenix program, which Burns spends all of two minutes on. Through interviews with Bart Osborn and Jeff Stein, both veterans of Phoenix, Maclear shows what happens to combat veterans when they are made to function as judge, jury, and executioner of civilians. Mass murder and computerized genocide are the terms used in the documentary.

US threats and actions in Syria are those of a rogue state
▻https://www.rt.com/op-edge/394811-syria-assad-us-war-regime

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“When Trump’s UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, asserts - as she did recently - that the US is sending “not only Assad” but also “Russia and Iran a message,” and that Washington is putting them “on notice,” she does so as the tribune of a rogue state.

Haley issued her ‘warning’ on the back of the recent dubious claim that Washington had intelligence confirming Syrian forces were preparing a chemical weapons attack. The claim and resulting threat revealed that the US continues to arrogate to itself the status of the world’s policeman, with the right to act as judge, jury, and – as the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya have learned to their disastrous cost in recent years – executioner. It describes arrogance beyond measure, conforming to the worldview of an empire whose guiding mantra is “Rome has spoken; the matter is finished."

Haley: ’Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out,’ ▻https://t.co/hVKLBMO8CP
— RT America (@RT_America) June 28, 2017

The “matter” so far as Syria is concerned is regime change, which it becomes increasingly clear is Washington’s primary objective going forward, using its military campaign against ISIS as a stalking horse to justify the build-up of its military presence in the country with this in mind. Seen in this light, the recent spate of US attacks on Syrian forces on the ground and in the air takes on an entirely different connotation – i.e. less to do with protecting US-backed ground troops, as claimed, and more to do with testing Russia’s response and resolve when it comes to supporting its Syrian ally.

In the immediate and short term, the partition of Syria between east and west appears underway – at least if Washington has its way – evidenced by the recent visit to Syria by Brett McGurk of the US State Department. The stated purpose of his visit was to meet the “council planning to run Raqqa” after it is taken from ISIS. Thus here we have a US official visiting a sovereign state without the prior permission of said sovereign state’s legitimate government to discuss the administration of a part of its territory. This is imperialism by any other name, consonant with the actions of a country that is inebriated with that most potent of cocktails, unipolarity and might is right."

Israeli Army Giving Its Soldiers a License to Kill
Shoot to kill. Not to apprehend, not to wound. To kill. This is the ethos of the IDF 2016.

Gideon Levy Apr 14, 2016
Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com
▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.714471

IDF soldiers are called on to kill Palestinian children. Kill, soldiers, kill. Nothing bad will happen to you if you tear the body of a fleeing Palestinian teenager to shreds by firing three bullets at him from short range – your commanders and Yair Lapid will cheer you. Shoot the stone throwers with no fear, shoot anyone suspicious, as long as he’s Palestinian.
Don’t get me wrong – shoot to kill. Not to apprehend, not to wound. To kill. The mythological order “follow me” in its new meaning is ‘follow me to kill children; follow me to murder.’ This is the ethos of the IDF 2016.
The rules of engagement are updated accordingly. What is permitted to the Binyamin Division commander is permitted to any soldier. The division commander sets the example. Therefore, let the executioner from Hebron be released immediately.
After the incredible decision of the Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Sharon Afek to close the case of Col. Yisrael Shomer, there’s no longer any point to continue the farce of investigating the Hebron executioner.
The IDF is shamelessly issuing licenses to kill signed by the Military Advocate General. There’s no longer any need to deceive the public with absurd legal procedures against a minor military paramedic, while the division commander, an executioner like him, has been declared innocent. That which is allowed to Jove (Jupiter) is allowed to an ox (mortals).

The Executioner We Can’t Live Without - Issue 27: Dark Matter
▻http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/the-executioner-we-cant-live-without-rp

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Last summer, as I interviewed Aaron Ciechanover, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, his country was at war. Three Israeli boys had just been murdered in the West Bank by Palestinians, then a Palestinian boy had been burned to death in retribution by Israelis. While we sat in his lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, to the north of the bombs, missiles were flying over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a Gaza invasion loomed. The mounting conflict troubled but didn’t ruffle Ciechanover, one of Israel’s greatest scientists and statesmen, who patiently and colorfully explained to me one of biology’s most remarkable processes, how a molecular Pac-Man races through our bodies and devours damaged proteins. For over 40 years, Ciechanover has worked to understand these (...)

The Executioner We Can’t Live Without - Issue 23: Dominoes
▻http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/the-executioner-we-cant-live-without

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L ast summer, as I interviewed Aaron Ciechanover, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004, his country was at war. Three Israeli boys had just been murdered in the West Bank by Palestinians, then a Palestinian boy had been burned to death in retribution by Israelis. While we sat in his lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, to the north of the bombs, missiles were flying over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and a Gaza invasion loomed. The mounting conflict troubled but didn’t ruffle Ciechanover, one of Israel’s greatest scientists and statesmen, who patiently and colorfully explained to me one of biology’s most remarkable processes, how a molecular Pac-Man races through our bodies and devours damaged proteins. For over 40 years, Ciechanover has worked to understand these (...)

At #Silk_Road Trial, Lawyers Fight to Include Evidence They Call Vital: Emoji | By BENJAMIN WEISER JAN. 28, 2015
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/nyregion/trial-silk-road-online-black-market-debating-emojis.html

In one example, a prosecutor read what the government says was an exchange between Mr. Ulbricht and an employee about what appears to be a computer program to track disputes between buyers and sellers on Silk Road. Mr. Ulbricht asks, “Are you ready to become judge jury and executioner?”

The employee replies: Yep :)

Then the prosecutor said, “And then there’s an #emoticon.”

The issue of how and whether to explain difficult terms to jurors also arose early in the case.

Last month, Judge Forrest suggested that the parties devise a glossary for jurors, with terms like IP address, Bitcoin, Codebase, configuration files and Tor.

“I do think they need to understand this stuff in order to administer justice here,” the judge said at the time.

But Mr. Dratel seemed reluctant. “Obviously, I’m not inclined to help the government explain its case to the jury,” he said.

[DCSS] a few questions regarding this TrDK
▻http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/1k1btw/dcss_a_few_questions_regarding_this_trdk

I’m just playing Locally in 0.12. Here ▻http://pastebin.com/Jg5eK4Nv

I’ve been having a bit of fun with some trolls lately, and I was hoping I could get a little bit of tactical advice on some aspects of this game. So as you can see, the moment I start playing Troll, the game decides it needs to spawn 2 Executioner’s Axes in Lair- one of which is flaming. So far I’ve just been holding onto them, and giving them to any intelligent followers Yred gifts me. Wights so far, (...)

[DCSS] Farthest I’ve ever been. Any advice?
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So after trying a whole bunch of combinations, and learning a lot along the way, I decided to try one of the simpler combos, a MiBe, and see how far I could get. ▻http://pastebin.com/arNnXrGL

The RNG was ultra gracious on this run, giving me a -3, -2 Executioner Axe of Chopping, which I’ve enchanted to -2 +2. I’ve found both Lair and the Orcish mines, and cleared Lair down to level 4. I feel pretty strong at the moment, although I’m starting to take more damage as I descend Lair. (...)

The Burial Brigade of Homs: An Executioner for Syria’s Rebels Tells His Story
►http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,824603,00.html

That first execution was a rite of passage for Hussein. He now became a member of the Homs burial brigade. The men, of which there are only a handful, kill in the name of the Syrian revolution. They leave torture to others; that’s what the so-called interrogation brigade is for. “They do the ugly work,” says Hussein, who is currently being treated in a hospital in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. He was injured when a piece of shrapnel became lodged in his back during the army’s ground invasion of Baba Amr in early March.

He is recovering in relatively safe Lebanon until he can return to Syria and “get back to work.” It’s a job he considers relatively clean. “Most men can torture, but they’re not able to kill from close range,” he explains. “I don’t know why, but it doesn’t bother me. That’s why they gave me the job of executioner. It’s something for a madman like me.”

Before he joined the Farouk Brigade, as the Baba Amr militia is known, last August, the 24-year-old had worked as a salesman. “I can sell everything, from porcelain to yogurt,” he says.

Military sexual assault and rape ’epidemic’ - Features - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/09/2011916112412992221.html

My experience reporting military sexual assault was worse than the actual assault," says Jessica (a pseudonym for her protection), a former marine officer and Iraq veteran who left the military because of her command’s poor handling of her assault charges. “The command has so much power over a victim of sexual assault. They are your judge, jury, executioner and mayor: they own the law. As I saw in my case, they are able to crush you for reporting an assault.”

As the war in Afghanistan passes its ten-year mark, sexual assault runs rampant within the ranks, with an estimated one in three female service members raped during their service, according to at least one peer-reviewed study. This is in a military where women comprise more 11 per cent of active duty service members deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and more than 15 per cent of the total military, with at least 200,000 active duty women currently serving. This epidemic also affects men: 60 per cent of women serving in the National Guard and Reserve, along with 27 per cent of men, are estimated to have experienced Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Perpetrators rely on a chain of command that appears to offer virtual impunity for sexual assaults committed against lower-ranking service members.

#violences_sexuelles #armées

The Great WikiLeaks 3-D Pile-on continues | eats shoots ’n leaves
►http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-great-wikileaks-3-d-pile-on-continues

Transforming WikiLeaks and Assange from journalists to practitioners of espionage invokes the grisly stench of the executioner’s abattoir

Shoot the Messenger | Middle East Online
►http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43325

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