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Gordon Duff: “Flintstone” Weapons And “Custer” Tactics Rake In Billions For War Profiteers
How the Dimmest and Dumbest Give us their Worst
Losing Wars and Promoting Chaos for Profit
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
A recent analysis has shown the 40 year old American M-16 rifle to be a failure in Afghanistan. The weapon that caused more American deaths in Vietnam than the enemy is still junk technology today, even with its Star Wars derivitives. The result is still “Palinesque” or as I would call it, “lipstick on a pig.” The wrong design, the wrong cartridge, no range, no stopping power and poor reliability, 40 years of failure in the most important area of the battlefield, our combat rifle. This wasn’t an accident but part of our defense tradition, fighting wars with junk, fighting wars meant to eat money, put fighting men and women under the dirt, fighting wars meant to go on forever, as long as the money flows. A new study, over 40 years late, challenges our basic infantry weapon’s effectiveness:
The U.S. military’s workhorse rifle — used in battle for the last 40 years — is proving less effective in Afghanistan against the Taliban’s more primitive but longer range weapons. As a result, the U.S. is reevaluating the performance of its standard M-4 rifle and considering a switch to weapons that fire a larger round largely discarded in the 1960s.
The M-4 is an updated version of the M-16, which was designed for close quarters combat in Vietnam. It worked well in Iraq, where much of the fighting was in cities such as Baghdad, Ramadi and Fallujah. But a U.S. Army study found that the 5.56 mm bullets fired from M-4s don’t retain enough velocity at distances greater than 1,000 feet (300 meters) to kill an adversary. In hilly regions of Afghanistan, NATO and insurgent forces are often 2,000 to 2,500 feet (600-800 meters) apart.
The recent fiascoes of battlefield corruption began in Iraq in 2003. The website, Soldiers for the Truth, formerly run by Colonel David Hackworth, one of America’s greatest heroes, began reporting that our body armor was ineffective, ill fitting, overpriced and part of a fraud driven by the Pentagon “revolving door,” the tradition of serving officers in acquisitions moving into suppliers they were supposed to have been regulating, upon retirement. Stories of falsified tests came out, still the military tried to prosecute troops whose families spent thousands on quality protective gear such as Dragonskin (TM) armor.
Hundreds died because of this and we eventually got better equipment but only after tens of millions lined the pockets of people who belong in prison. Nothing was done. Surprise, surprise.
America’s most famous failure is the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, something we still use. Newer versions have some armor upgrades and work part of the time, but the Bradley has never been more than a rolling target, the most expensive fiasco in military history. HBO made a film about the selection process for the Bradley called The Pentagon Wars. It was a comedy.
Our new “secret weapon,” the Stryker, a rehashed Swiss designed vehicle from the 70s, has one real value, cheap rubber tires. These “battleships of the highway” lay as burned hulks across Iraq and Afghanistan, another “lipstick on a pig” weapons system.
The problem is much wider, much deeper than simply sending our troops into the field to face rocket propelled grenades in Humvee’s with canvas doors than couldn’t stop arrows. Every aspect of our defense has been hard wired to fail for one reason or another, let’s look at some of these.
BORDER PROTECTION AND THE SECURITY RACKET
The Army Corps of Engineers can build a barrier around Gaza for Israel but each day, thousands of illegal aliens, many drug runners and criminals, some even terrorists, flood into the US. You would think we can’t see or hear them, that they sneak through tunnels and are invisible in the desert. You couldn’t be more wrong. America’s defense companies have received billions to develop technologies that, not only see hundreds of miles into Mexico, using advanced optics and specialized radars but systems on tethered balloons give us warning of anyone approaching from so far away that this information is highly classified, yet we fail to either protect or react.
Even this isn’t the real story, the technologies we have deployed already, the ones we seem to ignore and misuse, the ones that give evidence that filling the country with illegal aliens may not be an accident, aren’t the only scandals tied to this disaster tearing America apart.
WHAT WE CAN DO BUT DON’T
Billions have been spent on technologies that integrate into systems that can protect, not only borders, airports or entire nations, they can be deployed on the battlefield to recognize combatants and terrorists among civilian populations. However, our most advanced technologies are deades old, long superceded by systems suppressed because of, well, the fact they are actually too effective.
These “war changing” technologies have been available for years but have been purposefully suppressed, while we chose to use either nothing or 1960s rehashed junk. The companies developing new technologies, not only receive no help at all, no contracts and no interest, many are subjected to attacks on their stock, their lines of credit and are pushed to destruction. One thing has become clear, if you are developing anything that actually will win a war or solve a problem, your company will suffer the same fate as the mysterious “run your car on water” companies did years ago.
What can we do? One technology alone, called “hyper spectral analysis” can close the US Border overnight at almost no cost at all. These are visual sensors that deploy on vehicles that link together with databases, software and capabilities long ready for deployment, that can recognize any individual, bio-metrically “tag” them for life and either track them for immediate detention or follow their every move through cities, airports or across battlefields.
These units can scan airport passengers from hundreds of yards away for, not only weapons and explosives but for diseases, bio-weapons and false identities. They can find a Taliban fighter, beard shaved and no weapon, on a street corner in Kabul, they can pick out an illegal alien in a Detroit shopping mall or close 50 miles of border, even in rough terrain, in less than a day. This isn’t the only “beyond space age” technology we have, this is just the worst offender as it is deliverable and cheap and insanely effective.
It would eliminate billions of dollars of airport scanners and useless technologies, long meant to fail, that enrich people like Michael Chertoff and the companies producing “junk science” in a box, many of them Israeli. The biggest “commercial” for this failed industry was the “Crotch Bomber” incident in Detroit. Follow the money, the fingerprints are all over this one.
AP Photo
EVEN MORE
Few Americans get to see the “war plans” to stop piracy off Somalia. It is almost amusing if it weren’t a dangerous situation. Not only is the piracy itself a result of bad policy decisions by the Bush administration but hundreds of millions are being made banking ransom payments and in the marine insurance industry. Much more is being made in keeping dozens of ships on station or in sending secret “contractors” against the pirates as part of “Rube Goldberg” schemes.
Our plans have involved running up and down hundreds of miles of coast when the pirates themselves come from a very small areas, easily observed, pirates that could be intercepted minutes after they enter international waters. America has tested using LTA platforms, we call them blimps, that carry advanced optics and radar, are low cost and devastatingly effective. These vehicles, designed by Airship Management Company and used by the US Coast Guard and Navy, are so effective they can be a “game changer” in dozens of key areas of the world. Using advanced optics and radars, they are a combination of UAV and AWAC. They just don’t cost enough and are too effective. No pirates, no pirate problem, no pirate problem profits. End of story.
HOW WE STARTED DOWN THIS ROAD
I blame the Air Force during the Eisenhower era. Every pilot wants to retire a general. The Air Force seems to exist for that. A US Senator with no military capabilities at all can get into an Air Force unit and become a colonel in days. Check out Senator Lindsay Graham, Air Force lawyer, openly gay and promoted over dozens of highly qualified combat vets. He isn’t the only one, simply the laughing stock of the Air Force.
The problem, a problem that nearly destroyed the United States grew out of a desire to build bombers when the Russians were developing missiles. It was the old “taking a knife to a gunfight” scenario. We ended up a decade behind in technology with rehashed German WW2 technology while Russians had put satellites in orbit, men in space and could drop nukes on any American city. This wasn’t the Air Force’s first “dance” with the Russians. We went into Korea with propeller fighters and primitive jets against the advanced Mig 17, a plane that could fly rings around anything we every brought into that war including the F 86 Sabre.
OUR “SPECIAL OPS/IRREGULAR WARFARE” ADDICTION
“Whoom,” like a giant vacuum, all of our leaders, our brightest soldiers are sucked into the “black hole” of our endless special operations commands. Speak 5 languages, can shoot a quarter out of the air blindfolded, we are dropping you into a rathole village in the middle of nowhere. What we don’t say, however, is that the intelligence you are given is false, your mission is a joke and you are only being put in harms way, facing death at the hands of a 10 year old child using a Soviet weapon, probably better than yours, that was paid for by American taxpayers. Currently, over 250,000 “state of the art” Russian assault rifles “went missing” in Iraq, all paid for by the United States.
America has become addicted to elitism, forming group after group with overlapping missions. Every service has some type of commando, all basically a rehash of the Marine Corps. Because we have them, we use them, not because there is a need, not because there is a mission, simply because we have them. In the end, we fracture our military, duplicate capabilities, capabilities that we have seen time and time again were never needed in the first place. We have spent billions building forces meant to fight scenarios that exist only in movies and video games.
One thing for certain, drop a small group of people somewhere and some idiot, perhaps more than a few, will show up to kill them. Welcome to the world of “irregular warfare.”
NATION-BUILDING FOR FAILURE AND PROFIT
How can you tell a country has been “saved” by the United States? They have rigged elections, leaders they hate, no electricity, dirty water, massive drug production, corruption everywhere, suicide bombers on every corner and a permanent civil war.
What do you think our Washington “think tanks” teach us? Whenever America “fails” what other country gains? The third largest arms exporter in the world is Israel, a country that controls the organizations responsible for most of Amerias “strategic planning.” We give billions, much of it “under the table,” to ultra-wealthy Israel while millions of American children can’t afford dental care. Israeli children have dental care.
In Afghanistan, every weapon, every bullet, every explosive used against American troops has been paid for by the United States and either supplied by us or one of our “allies.” For years, Pakistan has been pouring evidence of Indo-Israeli support for the Tabiban, reports shelved and shredded by intelligence agencies ordered to “look the other way” even when New York City is attacked.
IRAN, “YOU’LL LOVE THIS ONE”
Iran is one of the wealthiest and, at one time, one of the most westernized states in the Middle East. Their current ruler, another Ayatollah and President Ahmadinejad face massive opposition inside their own country and among the millions of Iranians who fled that country because they couldn’t stand living somewhere run by a extremists belonging to an Islamic sect considered “heretical” by most Muslims. So, how is this unpopular government, a government that has run a massive oil producing country deep into debt, in power?
The United States, with the help of Israel, are propping up Ahmadinejad.
Holding office only due to massive election fraud (perhaps they have electronic voting machines there too, like Florida and Ohio), the current extremely unpopular regime in Iran stays in power only because of continual rhetoric from the US and Israel, rhetoric threatening sneak attacks and invasion. Without this deluge of empty threats, Iran might be asking for NATO membership. The last “semi-credible” enemy, or as the Bush administration loved calling it, “axis of evil” member in the Middle East, preserving Iran as an enemy is vital to the defense industry. With every other country in the region either a US ally, militarily helpless or occupied, only Iran can be used as a justification for the massive US military presence in the region.
That Iran has no capability of projecting power and has no offensive weaponry nor any remote capability of operating beyond their own borders is never spoken of. What Iran does have is a very large population of people who want their own government gone, are willing to risk their lives in the process and deeply resent efforts by the US and Israel to promote an oppressive and incompetent government that has made their lives a living hell. Conspiracy theorists have long put forth rumors that Ahmadinejad is an Israeli “asset.” Were this true, it might explain alot.
DRUG POLICY IN AFGHANISTAN, SCHIZOPHRENIA GONE WILD
For years, Americans were told the Taliban and “Al Qaeda” were financed by the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Billions of dollars were spent to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, which grew from “nothing at all” to massive levels, with increases every year. In fact, the more we spent to “eradicate” the more production increased. Colonel Eugene Khrushchev says the following about US policy in Afghanistan:
“The new American drug policy is easy to understand. America is telling the world it can no longer eradicate opium/heroin production because “poor farmers” are going to suffer. In truth, the poppy fields America now protects are run by drug lords with ties to the Karzai regime. America is building a narco-mafia behind the government of Afghanistan tied to an unsound and corrupt policy being peddled by the Special Envoy, Richard Holbrooke.
The US has no plans to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, production they and everyone else claims is funding the Taliban and is certainly pumping 65 billion dollars into somebody’s hands. This is what NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has decided to do:
McChrystal’s solution is to set up a “slush fund” to pay off the Majah opium poppy growers. What this is doing is to dismantle any real counter-narcotics program the DEA and SOF were supposedly implementing. What we are learning is that the US State Department, for reasons unknown and unknowable, wants to manage Afghanistan as a crime ridden “narco-state” for the foreseeable future.
What the Secretary of State called “the best decision in the face of an array of less-than-perfect options” has set in motion the worst-case nightmare scenario – a boon for the drug lords, a bane for the drug busters.
As the story goes, the Marines ought to cash in $12 million from the Commander’s Emergency Response Program – “to disrupt the Afghan opium harvest”. The whole scheme is a total scam, nothing is “disrupted,” far from it. In fact the policy is much closer to “agricultural support and subsidy,” with the product being death dealing narcotics and the goal almost too insidious to imagine.
Here are the main fraudulent premises of the swindle – political & financial – attributed to the US administration as outlined in the Washington Post:
• “Eradication would drive farmers into the hands of the insurgency”
• “Poppy farmers are poor creatures who face economic peril if they cannot harvest or sell their crops”
These disinformation sound bites betray the Holbrooke hallmark and are adroitly exploited by narco-insurgency propaganda. Ambassador Thomas Schweich, a former US top drug buster in Afghanistan, exposed this drug lobby guerilla marketing in his seminal article “Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?” in the NYT way back in July 27, 2008:
“UNODC shattered the myth that poppies are grown by destitute farmers…Eighty percent of the land under poppy cultivation in the south had been planted with it only in the last two years …these farmers didn’t need an alternative livelihood. They had abandoned their previous livelihoods…to take advantage of the security vacuum [which coincides with UK military presence] to grow a more profitable crop: opium…Yet Afghan officials continued to say that poppy cultivation was the only choice for its poor farmers.” (p.4)
How does the world’s largest money laundering scheme and the world’s largest narcotics distribution network totally escape American attention in Afghanistan? This isn’t America’s first “dance” in this arena, with a massive drug war on its border with Mexico and decades of efforts in South America having little or no effect.
We are also ignoring decades of substantive reports of CIA involvement in using narcotic trafficking to fund covert operations. You can’t turn on a TV without seeing this mentioned, the CIA-drug connection is a major part of American culture. Former FBI translator, Sibel Edmond’s testimony of US involvement in shipping drugs from Afghanistan on rendition flights has proven to be widely reliable and has received key support from members of the military and intelligence community.”
MARKETING CHAOS
Warnings about the “military industrial complex” started with Washington, were carried into the 20th century by General Smedley Butler and our sternest warnings came from President Eisenhower. The warnings were clear, given free rein, all power will flow into the hands of racketeers, gangsters given the power to push America into war for profit, profit from weapons, profit from stolen resources and, worst of all, geopolitical manipulation meant to keep the world in continual war and chaos.
With America’s government and those of key allies beholding to defense and oil money, subject to media under the control of “war fed” corporations and manipulative foreign governments, security and peace has become undesirable and thus, unattainable.
With permanent war as a business, global policies leading to cohesion and stability and defense technologies that can make war obsolete are crushed at birth. Illegal aliens can flood into America as though invisible, terrorists move through world airports untouched, airports no legitmate tourist or business traveler survives unscathed, pirates roam the open seas as though we were living in the 16th century, colorful poppies, thousands of acres of them, escape the watchful eye of “drug eradication” forces, everything a sham, everything a scam.
I think back over 40 years ago, my M-16 E1 rifle, issued to Marines though a failed prototype, jamming in combat. I think of the 5.56 mm rounds with their “devastating killing power” hitting Viet Cong with the stopping power of a ping pong ball. I think of the video from Iraq showing our troops welding steel plates onto their vehicles in a desparate attempt to survive the endless rain of RPGs they had been subjected to.
I can also find a thousand multi-millionaires who live in obscene luxury while we stick aluminum limbs on our young people. Every step of every process is owned, corrupted, infected, from “position papers” to “intelligence analyses” to “weapons system evaluations.” Are there Americans who would push our kids into a war for oil profits, no bid contracts or to provide “cover” for the ambitions of our own fanatic extremists, both homegrown and those of our closest ally with whom we have an “unbreakable bond?”
Junk policy, junk weapons, junk thinking leads to a junk world ruled by junk people.
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Gordon, Correct. I know you and I trained with the M-14 or M-1 Garand.The perfect weapon for afghan war is the M-14. After all these years the brass still can,t admit our stuff sucks. I wonder how well the old Flame – throwers or Flame-Tanks would have done in iraq. My bet would be pretty well.
Johnny, Every time i see your name i think of, A flock of seagulls.Keeping Austin Weird.
I was totaly pissed when they took my M-14 away and gave me a mattie matell. Looked and felt like a piece of shit, jammed, needed meticulouse care to be remotly reliable, had no range, and no knock down power. The only reason it was at all usefull was the close range conditions in Viet Nam. As the M-16 it was useless, as the M-4, reduces length, reduced range, reduced knock down power, it belongs in a carnival shooting gallery.
Old Leatherneck. You are so correct. Another old Marine like myself told me once he and other Marines found some AK 47′s in wood boxes buried in a rice paddy. Never used. They put them together and fam fired them. Worked well for being in the mud.
Try this with a m 16.
Every-time I get lost in Hartford Cn or even drive through Hartford and see the Colt company sign my PTSD kicks in.
We threw the M-16s away, and did everything we could to scrounge the beautiful old, M1. At a half mile (2500 feet) away or closer, the enemy was dead. He was in serious danger at one mile, and he had to duck at two miles. It wasn’t volume of fire, it was accuracy and distance that made the M1 effetive. Granted, in short range, heavy cover, or in cities, the M-16 was semi-effective — but let’s face it, a zillion rounds to kill one enemy only made the bullet manufacturers rich.
BTW Gordon, you forgot to mention the Marines new wagon, The Breacher. We must have bought it from Germany because it is 72 ton, 40 foot long, Assault Breacher Vehicle that is fitted with a 15 foot wide plow that is supported by skis and packs 7000 pounds of explosives. They are incredibly effective agains IEDs and roadside bombs. If the bugger is too good, I’m sure it will be put on suspension.
T.
Tom,
The breacher is an Abrahms variation, heavy as hell, high failure rate, utterly impractical in Afghanistan. Bringing this thing out is childishness. If someone wanted to spot IEDs, they could do an disturbed earth check using one of several sensors. We don’t find IEDs because we don’t have available technology in place when we need it. I was easy on these worthless bastards. We could have talked logistics.
g
I don’t know if it was worthless to mention the Breacher, G. Afterall, some Associated Press reporter bragged about it from Afghanistan. It must be real, huh?
The “journalist” even quoted a Marine Gunnery Sergeant bragging about it as a truly life saving weapon!
T.
half the world carries varmit ammo. the other half carries man-killer ammo. crazy part is, there are varmit weapons out there that are far superior to the shit issued to our troops.
Barrie
If you wanted to kill a varmit, where would you look? Think rats?
g
hear on the left edge, we call them california big game.
As an ex-Canadian soldier I have always been at a loss as to why our Military changed from the very efficient and deadly Belgium made FN to the US made plastic Mattel toy M-16. It didn’t then and still doesn’t now make much if any Military sense.
I do love the Fn. I carry a tangent sight hi-power.
g
This range edge has been with us throughout military history. I forget the battle’s name in the Mexican War after the civil war as a lot of out of work Confeds joined up. As usual, disease killed most of them, and winter uniforms were most oncomfortable. But our rifles had range on the Mexicans and we broke their infantry formations once they figured out we were content to remain out of range taking them down. Mind you this was done righ out in the open with no cover.
During the Rev War I think it was Benjamin Franklin who proposed arming our folks with bows and arrows as three could be fired for each musket shot. And of course their was the cost savings. Jim D
Now you know why the Pakistan Army is kicking the Bearded ones Asses- G3(7.62) and old sniper rifles, I believe the ground troupes are also having a party on the worlds most potent Hash from Tirrah(much better than Vietnam).
Weren’t we supposed to hit a couple of pipefulls in Islamabad?
g
sheesha?
It is Pakistan’s national Plant
Armament industry tops American export earning billions of dollars for the US and is the largest national employer. America is No.1 world death merchant followed by Russia and Israel. In order to keep the industry running – wars and conflicts have to be created by false flag operations. In the past it was to keep the Cold War alive and since the 1998s – it’s against Muslims for the benefit of Israel. And how Israel succeed to pin its false flag operations on Muslims – one has just to now Obama’s White House Chief of Staff….
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/emanuel-like-father-like-son/
When in Belgium outside Bastogne go to the Battle of the Bulge museum near town. On one side you have German war gear and on the other side American. See for yourself which is better made, and durable.
Ohh I know the stories about it does not matter because we out produced the Germans in building war fighting equipment. Plus we won the war, so what.
Problem is we are still producing stuff not fit to fight with. The Marines 2010 are buying a flat bottomed Amtrak that is vulnerable to the IED. But they will still buy it.
I saw it then and 40 years later I see it now. The profiteers do not want a rapid win. Even the company with the toilet paper contract wants these so called wars to continue. You’re correct about that M-16 as many guys we extracted complained bigtime about them be worthless. I felt lucky to be behind my 50 with a M14 I had procured tucked next to my window on my ch-46. I did my best to provide 60′s and ammo to a few squads on hill tops when we did re-supply flights.
It don’t matter no more so yeah, being I was an S-4 guy and expeditor when not flying, I knew where these items were and I got them and passed them out. F the paperwork. You guys in field have always been way up there in my book. Cpl. Lovenguth HMM-262
On the ground or in the air a fire fight is a dangerous thing. Anything I write on VT is the truth Night Flyer. I was up close and personal very near the DMZ when when an old Marine 34 was shot down. That same day I think an f 4 was shot down while giving us ground support.
The M 16 cost many lives. I saw this first hand. They tried to blame grunt Marines for not keeping it clean enough. But if my memory is right if it was not the M 16 it was the ammunition that expanded in the chamber when the round was fired off.
Bill, I think it was the powder in the round (DuPont supplied) which caused the problem.
Bill, I was with the 4th Marines out of Camp Evans in ’67 and close to going home.
One night a convoy of “OTTER” amphib vehicles was ambushed and my crew and snipers and several tanks moved to the ambush site.
It was all over and 43 marines running cover/escort were either dead or wounded and brandy-new Mattel16s lay everywhere, some broken open in attempts to clear the damned thing.
My squad gathered up all the pieces of shit, tied the pile up with comm wire, placed about half a dozen thermite grenades on the shitpile and watched. We later placed the garbage on a truck and hauled it back to Evans.
There was a Congressional investigative group dispatched, asked a lot of questions and no one was ever charged with anything. I think some of it had to do with the fact that every man questioned offered the D.C. clowns a Mattel and an invitation to go on ass-in-the-grass with us.
I kept a piston pin in my pocket to pop off the upper receiver..which would collect double feeds in the gas delivery system. The other problem, under fire, the magazines seemed to big for the weapon…or something like that. wouldn’t go in the hole
g
Me too Echo. I got there and moved north later. If your interested have Gordon give you my email.
Well, about the illegal immigration issue we have to look at the Jewish Zionists role. Yes indeed this cabal that controls our government and the media has a devious reason for encouraging immigration of Hispanics. Yes, they want the huge and growing Hispanic population to support the evil government of Israel. However the Hispanics will be told the Muslims are evil and the Israelis are forced to kill and terrorize them.
Here it is:
The Jewish-Latino alliance on immigration issues builds on the heritage and experience of the Jewish community and on the enthusiasm and urgent needs of the Hispanic community, which has a strong interest in issues of family unification and the status of the some 12 million illegal immigrants, most of them from Latin America.
But Jewish activists also see the joint work as an opening for cooperation with the Hispanic community on other issues, such as Israel.
“If we want to engage with the Latino community on issues that are of concern for us, including Israel, we need to engage on issues that bother their community,” said Gideon Aronoff, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. “We want to create growing bonds with the Latino community, and we cannot create these bonds if we are indifferent to the issues that are of concern to them.”
Jewish groups bring to the table their experience and well-established network of political contacts, a contribution highly appreciated by Hispanic organizers.
“For us, as newcomers to the society, this experience is extraordinary,” said Gutavo Torres, president of Casa Maryland, a Hispanic group active in the metropolitan Washington area. “They know how to work through the system, how to lobby, how to advocate. The Jewish community has a lot of experience and a lot of power.”
Jewish organizations have been increasing their efforts to reach out to the Hispanic community for several years, and most national groups have established joint programs and sponsored Jewish-Hispanic events. With the rapid growth of the Hispanic community and with its rising political clout, Jewish groups see added value in building bridges to the community.
http://www.forward.com/articles/124478/
The Zionists have taken control of Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States. Hmmm, I wonder what lies the Hispanic population is being told about the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Will, the Zionists soon have the support of millions of Hispancis for their deranged Middle East wars on behalf of Israel?
Haim Saban is an Israeli-American television and media proprietor. Univision was acquired on March 29, 2007 by a consortium led by Haim Saban’s Saban Capital Group.
Saban, in a 2004 New York Times interview,[3] ascribed his interest in politics to his concern for Israel: “I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.”[3]
Later, in a 2006 interview for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz,[1] Saban was asked to elaborate on his early statement:
You said once that you are a one-note person, and that note is Israel. Why?
“You can’t explain love.”
It’s really love?
“More than love. Passion. A love that is passion.”
Do you still feel, as you once did, that America’s attitude toward Israel is liable to deteriorate?
“At the moment there is no sign of a crisis. But we must not be complacent. The two pillars of the state are the Israel Defense Forces and the U.S., Dimona [the site of Israel's nuclear reactor] and Washington. [Israel] must do all we can to maintain the alliance with America. A major crisis at the wrong time could be a disaster, a disaster.”
Do you feel that as an Israeli-American of influence your mission is to prevent that crisis?
“You said it.”
From Brian: Well, the poor Palestinians, perhaps the USA Hispanic population is in the process of being brainshwashed to think the Muslims are the enemy just like the vast majority of the Goyim in the United States has been brainwashed by the Zionsist controlled media. Perhaps Saban will have the Univsion watchers supporting an attack on Iran.
From Wikipedia:
“The Iranians are serious. They mean business. [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is not a madman. [....] When I see Ahmadinejad, I see Hitler. They speak the same language. His motivation is also clear: the return of the Mahdi is a supreme goal. And for a religious person of deep self-persuasion, that supreme goal is worth the liquidation of five and a half million Jews. We cannot allow ourselves that. Nuclear weapons in the hands of a religious leadership that is convinced that the annihilation of Israel will bring about the emergence of a new Muslim caliphate? Israel cannot allow that. This is no game. It’s truly an existential danger.”[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Saban
Brian,
jeff tells me our iranian friend is a jew.
g
Well, perhaps Ahmadinejad is Jewish. The first link strongly suggests he is and the second suggests he isn’t.
Americans need to know he doesn’t like the murdering Zionists. He constantly uses term Zionist and not Jewish. He also never made the ridiculous statement about wiping Israeli off the map. I have never heard him say anything about moving the 25,000 Iranian Jews out of Iran. I have also heard he’s an Amish. Nah.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-jewish-family
I believe Jeff is close to being right. The info I saw said he is 1/2 Jew. Not all bad. I had a Jewish girlfriend once. Hot! Petite with big boobies… oh yes, I’m sorry. Wrong subject.
T.
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If there is an alliance between the Latinos and zionism it will come through the evangelical christian connection. Latinos have nothing in-common with zionism.
The Zionists are the grand manipulators. The Hispanic leaders want the help of the powerful American Jewish Zionists to achieve their objectives. It’s the leverage on the Hispanic leadership that is vital.
From my earlier post:
“For us, as newcomers to the society, this experience is extraordinary,” said Gutavo Torres, president of Casa Maryland, a Hispanic group active in the metropolitan Washington area. “They know how to work through the system, how to lobby, how to advocate. The Jewish community has a lot of experience and a lot of power.”
Revolution Muslim was started by one Joseph COHEN, a radical Israeli Jew who lived for awhile on stolen land in Palestine while he studied with that country’s radical Orthodox cult.
Cohen has been photographed in front of NYC synagogues holding a sign saying Israel and the USA should be nuked.
If Mr. COHEN was for real, either the FBI or Homeland Security or NYC’s anti-terrorism squad would of rounded his sorry ass up and tossed him in jail.
I’m wondering how this excerpt appears to those with greater knowledge of military equipment procurement policies, procedures, and history. It comes from Douglas Reed’s book The Controversy of Zion, which fetches a very high price. An amazing text you can find at http://iamthewitness.com/books/Douglas.Reed/The.Controversy.of.Zion/index.htm
“This stream of wealth was directed by one man, described by his official biographer (Mr. Robert E. Sherwood) as “the second most important man in the United States”. Mr. Harry Hopkins thus played the potentate’s part, in the distribution of war materials, first filled by Mr. Bernard Baruch in 1917. The original idea was Mr. Baruch’s, who in 1916 insistently demanded that “one man” be appointed as the “administrator” of the all-powerful War Industries Board which, when America entered that war, grew out of an earlier “Advisory Commission” attached to the president’s Cabinet “Defence Council”.
This pre-history of Mr. Hopkins’s appointment is significant, because it shows the continuing power and method of the group around the American presidents of both world wars. A Congressional Investigating Committee of 1919, headed by Mr. William J. Graham, said of the “Advisory Commission” which produced the 1918 War Industries Board, that it “served as the secret government of the United States. . . A commission of seven men chosen by the president seems to have devised the entire system of purchasing war supplies, planned a press censorship, designed a system of food control. . . and in a word designed practically every war measure which the Congress subsequently enacted, and did all this behind closed doors weeks and even months before the Congress of the United States declared war against Germany . . . There was not an act of the so-called war legislation afterwards enacted that had not before the actual declaration of war been discussed and settled upon by this Advisory Commission”.
Mr. Baruch himself, testifying before a Select Committee of Congress on the wartime activities of the “one-man” authority which he himself had caused to be set up, said, “The final determination rested with me . . . whether the Army or Navy would have it. . . the railroad administration. . . or the Allies, or whether General Allenby should have locomotives, or whether they should be used in Russia or in France. . . I probably had more power than perhaps any other man did. . .” (This was the First War background to Mr. Churchill’s words to Mr. Baruch in 1939, “War is coming. . . you will be running the show over there”. The extent of Mr. Baruch’s power in the First War is further illustrated by an incident in 1919, when President Wilson was brought back to America a completely incapacitated man. Mr. Baruch then “became one of the group that made decisions during the President’s illness” (Mr. Rosenbloom). This group came to be known as “the Regency Council”, and when the ailing president’s senior Cabinet officer, Mr. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, called Cabinet meetings on his own authority the president, from his sickbed, dismissed him; though he broke also with other associates, including Mr. House, “Wilson clung to his trust in Baruch”).
In the Second War President Roosevelt revived President Wilson’s power to establish a “Defence Council” with an “Advisory Commission” (1940), and in 1942 this was enlarged into a “War Production Board”, the counterpart of the 1918 “War Industries Board”. Mr. Baruch again advised that “one man” be put in charge of this all-powerful body, but in the event he was not the one man appointed. His biographer says that he was disappointed, but the reader may keep an open mind about that.
The rare references to Mr. Baruch in this narrative do not denote the extent of his influence. The best observers known to me all believed that he was the most powerful of the men around American presidents over a period of more than forty years, up to now. His biographer states that he continued to act as adviser to every American president (including the three Republican ones of 1920, 1924 and 1928) from President Wilson on, and, writing in 1952, predicted that he would also “advise” President Eisenhower and even gave an outline of what this advice would be. Mr. Baruch’s true place in this story, or the present writer’s estimate of it, will be shown at a later stage, when he made his most significant open appearance.
Even though Mr. Baruch, with evident accuracy, described himself as the most powerful man in the world in 1917-1918, his power actually to shape the events and map of the world was much less than that of any man who occupied the same place in the Second War, for the obvious reason that “the determination of what anybody could have” now extended to the revolutionary state established as a great military power with obvious and vast territorial aims. Even the War Production Board became of secondary importance when the “Lend-Lease Administration” was set up, and Mr. Harry Hopkins was appointed “Administrator” and also chairman of President Roosevelt’s “Soviet Protocol Committee” with power “to determine supply quotas to be dispatched to Russia”. From that moment the fate and future of the West were in the hands of a man known to a wide circle as “Harry the Hop”.
GORDON DUFF: “FLINTSTONE” WEAPONS AND “CUSTER” TACTICS RAKE IN BILLIONS FOR WAR PROFITEERS: Veterans Today…
A recent analysis has shown the 40 year old American M-16 rifle to be a failure in Afghanistan. The weapon that caused more American deaths in Vietnam than the enemy is still junk technology today, even with its Star Wars derivitives. The result is sti…
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There is a story out there let’s follow the bouncing ball.
G, I look at all of this and your publications other articles as of late (among other things in our world today)and figure something must have dawned upon ya’s by now. All of this competitive fascism that has become our country and the world now (again) is just one more element in our differing belief systems, ideologies, social classes and status, differing ethnicitie pride causing the increasing segregate in our country and world, differing religious and nonreligious pride, hell…the family system itself; is all designed to divide (and conquer) us in order to keep us weak, to manipulate us, and to control us for the sake of the wealthiest few families in our world today. They are succeeding masterfully. How are we going to Unite(d) (States) with all of that arrayed against us G?
Shan
We will Shan. With one caveat. I hope we don’t all die of old age first.
Tom Texas Vet
It is hard to add much to what has been written except to confirm that the M16, Car 15, the “new” M16, and M4,are ALL shit. Also, who could forget the 9mm Beretta to replace the 1911…more shit.
“War is a Racket” for certain! Old men talk and young men die and the generals suffer from the bravery of being out of range. Yeah, it always was and always will be.
Say it like it is vet613! garyowen, man.
One thing is overlooked here with all the failures. Is the ugly glory of the B 52 with it’s conventional bombs.
With all the bad weapons and leadership the Marines supplied us with along along the DMZ’s McNamara’s line, and with bad politics in DC from LBJ to Nixon the B 52 saved many Marines sorry ass.
I was just one very happy sorry Marine ass having had the experienced the B52′s bombs concussion.
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So what about defective weapons? So what about Katrina? So what about a catastrophic oil spill, the result of criminal negligence, in the Gulf? So what about a crumbling economy? Who the hell cares?
The bottom line is, we’re ruled by a bunch of mass-murdering psychopaths. The worst possible sub-human scum imaginable rise to the top in our society. They don’t give a damn about anything but themselves. Why should they? It’s all about THEM, remember?
Personally, I’d prefer that “the troops” have the most ineffective weapons possible, seeing as how they’re being used to murder people who never did anything to “us”; seeing as how it’s only a matter of time before “the troops” turn their weapons on the Homeland peasantry; i.e., us.
BTW, is there anyone here who really can’t see where this madness is leading? Just in case there is, let’s review where we’ve been:
On 9/11/2001, Israel, with help from what was supposed to be “our” “own” “government”, murdered 3000 of us on our own soil. This means that Israel, and its Zionist whore puppet “government” on the Potomac, are mass murderers. Period.
Yes, that’s right, the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration, are not only helping Israel and its agents get away with the original crime, but are helping to set up the next war of aggression as I type this. (And I wonder, how many thousands or hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions will have to die in the next phase)?
Bush and Obama helped to murder those 3000 people. Think about that. There’s no moral difference between what Bush and Obama (and essentially the whole U.S. Congress) did than if they had personally walked up to each one of those 3000 people and shot them in the head.
So basically what we have is 535+ Jeffrey Dahmers, Ted Bundys etc., dressed up in expensive suits, kissing babies in front of a camera and then plotting the ruination of whole countries (including their own) and the deaths of potentially millions of people, from the safety and security of their bright cheery offices.
And we should expect these bloodthirsty, mass-murdering, malignantly narcissistic scum to “do something about health care” or to “act responsibly in protecting our environment” or to “provide for our veterans”?
Let’s get real here. Would we expect Jack-the-Ripper (or a room full of Jack-the-Rippers for that matter) to “do something about affordable health care”?
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There is a way to stop a global conflagration.The Bansker cockroaches have a number of nuke shelters for a safe haven,if they do precipitate a war.This is their last line of survival.
The US military have bunker busting technology that can be put on guided missiles.Even if these nuclear bunkers are seriously deep, one missile upon another can be shot into the same cavity to compromise their defences.
In other words,when the cockroaches scamper for cover,there will be none.
Bring back DDT and spray them while they are in their open hives.
Why wait for a war?
HaHa these “illuminati” are nothing but rat-roaches that can’t bear a light shone upon them. I’m sure that DDT will work well on them.
ThyssenKrupp (a German corporation) has been selling Israel submarines with ‘nuclear capabilities’ for years. Israel has spent over a billion dollars on these submarines to “counter a future Iranian nuclear threat”. Nothing strange about that, right? But when you consider that the Iranian government owns a 4.5% share of ThyssenKrupp things start to get very weird.
Also consider Daimler Chrysler who has Mercedes Benz assembly plants in Iran, partly owned by the Iranian government. Check out photo’s of Iranian parades where they display their ballistic missiles and then take a look at the trucks that carry these missles and serve as mobile launching platforms. They are Mercedes Benz trucks. Nothing strange about this, right? But when you consider that EADS a German Aerospace company that is 50% owned by Daimler Chrysler has worked with an Israeli Armourment company to produce special UAVs to help detect a future missile attack from Iran, things get a little strange.
This information is documented and easy to discover for anyone with 10mins to spare. So end your ignorance now and check it out.
Salute to Mr. Duff for speaking truth to power.
1.) The AK is an old pick up truck from the late 1940′s.
2.) The CAR-15/ M-16 > derivative is a modern vehicle that requires constant maintenance to keep it going.
3.) The “one shot = one kill” Marine approach to combat is timeless.
4.) 7.62mm vs. 5.56mm / “stand off range” at 250 meters +.
5.) TaliQueda “spray and pray” versus one lethal round of US return fire.
6.) “The more bullets downrange the better” will never work in COIN ops.
7.) The new Echo-1 variant of the M-14 makes too much sense for the DoD to adopt it
unilaterally with say two or three in a rifle squad in AFGN.
8.) The WEIGHT of the 7.62 round for the average ground pounder according to the 1960′s
Pentagon “Conventional Wisdom” was TOO much. They didn’t ask the guys actually using
the M-14 firing on semi who loved it.
9.) With a good optic sighting system, the 7.62 is an ideal round for engaging enemy RPG teams.
10.) The DoD procurement system is a 19th Century anachronism and needs a complete overhaul.
Lem,
Prettymuch as I know it. The AK is a rehash of the MP44/German. Do not underestimate the ability of the taliban to put 500 meter plus rounds on target or the quality of some of the weapons our friends supply them with.
g
This is a great article Gordon Duff. I have to come back to it to look deeper at the facts you presented and also to read the various posts.
There is so much false propaganda against Muslims not just blaming them for 9/11, Detroit Crotch bomber, Time Square Fizzler–but according to a post here at VT [Jeff Gates article] on 5/24–they are being blamed for destroying Christians in the Middle East. Israel and Zionist Jews want the Christian church to go after Muslims so that selling wars become very easy–as well as taking away more of our liberties–and sell and install useless and harmful devices like body scanners–expand the police state etc.
Please go to the website of Daryl-Bradford Smith “I Am the Witness”. Jeff Gates’ website “Criminal State” has a link to this website. Both these websites give a wealth of truthful information. It is Zionist Israel–that is the culprit for destroying Christians and Christianity–Not Muslims. It is Israel that did 9/11. It is Israel that has done suicide bombing operations and other crimes and murders and set up all other false flag operations in all countries while using Christian Zionists and other crooks and criminals to cover up their crimes.
I wish to draw the reader’s attention to the following:
(1) The Changing Tides in the Jewish Diaspora in Desertpeace.
(2) The Byzantine Solution
(3) Synagogue of Satan by Andrew Carrigton Hitchcock
(4) Genetic Mutations, Pecular Injuries: More evidence emerges that Israel used Gaza as Testing Grounds for experimental weapons by Alex Kane Uruknet.com. In this article a medical doctor from Norway Dr Mads Gilbert who was in Gaza talks about how Israel’s DIME weapons and flechette bombs brutally injured Gaza victims.
(5) Who brought the Slaves to America by Walter White Jr 1968
All this information is available at “I am the Witness” and much more.
And finally don’t please believe “how good Elena Kegan going to be”. This person is a disaster to America if elected.
Various articles of Gordon Duff and Jeff Gates and the article of Jeff Gates: Is the “Time Sq terrorist” an asset of organized crime?–which has many links–is well written. We are being deceived again and again and we need to wake up. Articles such as this and the aforementioned websites give the truth unlike MSM that includes Fox news and conservative radio and most Christian channels–which the Zionist Israel and its various arms use to continue to deceive us in order to sell us the illegal wars–despite wastful loss of lives of our soldiers and innocent civilians abroad and despite America being bankrupt.
There are Zionist shills every where and some of them will target this audience too. The last thing these criminals want is for our soldiers and veterans to know the truth. That is why we need to spread the word about articles by Gordon Duff and Jeff Gates–because the seeds of truth in their writings–will awaken our soldiers, veterans and other Americans–and we will then know who our real enemy is–before we can protect America and Americans.
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Coakroaches, vermin in suits, it is refreshing to read veterans posts. May the sewage move away to let the slime find its rightful place at the bottom of the pond.