Rendition

Some years ago, by sheer accident, I became aware that a number of sensitive operations were being conducted out of an international airport, somewhere in the world, on behalf of an unnamed U.S. government agency.

This was at a time when the project was unknown to the general public.

This project was with the full knowledge of the Intelligence Oversight Committee (SSCI) but with only limited 'need to know' availability of information given to senior politicians (including the Prime Minister) of the country through which the flights were routed in transit.

From information now publicly available, key players appear to have been engaged on a 'need to know' basis.

A number of very sensitive operations went through this international airport. I was only aware of 3 but there may have been more.  All were vital to the (then) security interests of the United States and another unnamed country.  Two were rendition stop overs, the third was completely unrelated but a component part of the War On Terrorism and involved yet another interloped country - again with the approval and full knowledge of certain elements the government of that country and the United States.  The government of that country, to this day, denies all knowledge for the latter and, when issues came to light, conducted it's own 'impartial' investigation, which found absolutely nothing of relevance.  For this component operation the full cooperation of trusted individuals was essential for it to succeed.  

 It has not been made public to this day the extent of involvement or knowledge of the U.S. government of this component operation but certainly it's success was/would have been/ extremely beneficial to the global fight against terrorism.
Whilst the operation, sadly, did not bring about peace in a particular part of the world, certainly the operation itself was an effort to ultimately bring about conditions which might have led to peace.   It is because the motives were just and the ideals of world peace is something, in my view, we should all always be striving towards in the democratic world, for these reasons there is little point in giving full details.

In any event, I kept no written record as I was not intending to use it for any particular purpose and had no responsibility to do so for any party nor employer.

Fortunately  the names of many individuals in allied countries involved in assisting the U.S. in the war on terrorism have not been released by Senate Oversight Reports which have examined  activities of government departments following on from 9/11.   To do so would deal a mortal blow to U.S. allies whose future cooperation may, even at this moment, be in doubt should another 9/11 (or crisis of similar or greater proportion) ever happen.    This is because most assumed that the details of the sensitive assistance given to the U.S. by friends (countries) and allies (countries) in the aftermath of 9/11 would never be made public - at least not for thirty or so years – giving everybody a chance to 'work out' their chosen careers and professions before the proverbial s**t hit the fan.
[In certain instances, however, enough details have been released to enable an astute researcher to put the pieces together.]

Some countries (and politicians) have been, to date, unluckier than others in this regard.

I am not sure whether Congressional Representatives really do appreciate (or even care) how much goodwill has been lost by unnecessarily revealing details of countries participating in assisting the United States in the War on Terrorism.

One can argue whether rendition of terrorism suspects was the right program (for my part, as one who has never worked for the U.S. government, I have always thought it was not) but to give location details of detention facilities worldwide and other even more sensitive information with regard to levels of participation and cooperation of governments will, in my opinion, negatively impact on future security cooperation in sensitive matters – especially if such countries are yet again being requested, at very short notice, to participate in another American 'project' at some stage in the future.   If I were a politician and U.S. ally, I would certainly think again before saying 'yes' to a friend who had 'outed' next to everyone involved within a few years of what were supposed to be secret operations.

I would go further and say that even Senior Staff of Government Departments would be reluctant to 'follow orders' if there is even the slightest chance that they will be prosecuted for either 'war crimes', 'revealing sensitive information', or some other spurious grounds to get politicians 'off the hook' for failed programs (failed, because those same politicians failed to provide the necessary levels of logistical support and even failed to provide moral support, leaving their protégé 'swinging in the wind' in order to save their own political careers or indeed to deflect from oversight and scrutiny their very own failures, as politicians, to take advice from those commanding in the field – resulting in debacles, setbacks and humiliation for serving officers.)

[There is also a certain hypocrisy whereas senior politicians reserve certain rights and privileges with regard to the release of classified information for their own personal memoirs and then the same ham-fist subordinates doing likewise in efforts to smother (or snuff out) conflicting opinions (historical viewpoints) as to why certain events did or did not succeed and their impact on the course world history.]

Asking commanders to fight wars, then, subsequently, either because of political infighting resulting in paralysis or in the interests of political expediency, telling them it will have to be accomplished with one or both hands tied behind their backs might not be so easy for U.S. politicians to achieve in the future.  The best candidates for the (future) job may withdraw if they think that 'failure is not an option' policy might not be accompanied by sufficient resources to get the job done – or indeed if they are likely to be 'the patsy' anointed to conceal political incompetence.

While certainly there has to be accountability and public scrutiny of political decisions and their impacts on events and individuals worldwide in any democracy I fail to be persuaded that such should extend to the damaging of allied cooperation by revealing such detail as to render the War on Terrorism ineffectual – and then for those very same politicians [and media]] to say how ineffectual the War on Terrorism actually was (!)

If politicians are going to routinely scapegoat their field commanders (as historically, Empires  always have) then, in an interconnected world such as the one we are in, they should not be surprised if such 'patsies' 'bite back' to defend their reputations from the (metaphorical) ' death of a thousand cuts' regardless of what gagging restrictions the politicians attempt to impose to save their own reputations (sic. their actions) from that same public (sic. electoral) scrutiny as they attempt to conceal their own shortcomings and halfhearted support for tasks they simply do (did) not have the stomach, the (political) courage, the (political) time nor can they stand 'the heat' to see controversial decisions they have 'Okayed' (or nodded) through to completion.

©Patrick Emek, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence

The Roots of Modern Islamic Extremism In Europe:

The Roubaix Gang

Some decade or so ago I attended briefings with (former) colleagues at U.S. Naval Headquarters in a major European city.

After one such briefing we were treated to a 'Buffalo Burger' reception. [Yep politically correct folks, Buffalo was on the menu -and it tasted great!]

Between munching on my burger and a beer I had the opportunity to chat with a Navy Commander (that evening soon to return to active duty.)

He asked my opinion of what should happen in Bosnia, now that the conflict was ending.

I said that the first priority must be to get rid of (sic. forcibly repatriate) Jihadi militants from Chechnya and elsewhere who had ensconced themselves with local communities (even inter-marrying and taking local names of missing or presumed dead citizens to attempt to avoid detection – this I had learnt from my own trip to Bosnia.)

To return to the U.S. Naval headquarters chat, we were both in agreement and I was hopeful that the politicians would equally share our sentiments.

This was not to be the case and the Jihadist fighters who had (and have) infiltrated Bosnia now use this as their hidden 'Al Qaeda' (base) for operations into Europe.

One of the problems was that they (Muslim Jihadi extremist fighters from Chechnya) had so well blended into local communities - being assisted by Bosnian Muslim politicians – that they were untraceable.   These same 'tactics' [see above] have been used in other parts of the world to 'blend in' to avoid detection.  Most simply 'disappear' into very 'tight-knit' supportive local communities.

These are individuals who have direct links back to extremists in Chechnya and other regions of the Caucuses.

As with most modern terrorist groups they seed-financed their organization with several major armed robberies - in this particular case along the French-Belgian border. They were already very well armed and seasoned fighters.   As most were European (Caucasian) in appearance there was nothing which would make them 'stand out' in a crowd.  This was to be their ace in evading capture – and almost blowing up the G7 Lille Conference.  Most were eventually either captured or killed but their leader, Lionel Dumont, a Muslim convert, successfully evaded capture and death by fleeing back through Bosnia.   He may have been offered the opportunity of a new life in the Caucuses – a reward for his 'services – but declined (this latter is speculation and should not be taken as actual fact) stayed in Bosnia, later fled to Japan and was eventually extradited back to France.

(Don't confuse the 'foot soldiers' such as those involved in the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher Store Market slaughters with their instigators and 'spiritual' motivators.)

The point I am making here is that modern Islamic terrorism in Europe can be directly traced back to our failure to understand exactly who these 'volunteer' Jihadist fighters in support of their 'Muslim' brothers actually were and what their hidden agendas for Bosnia and eventually the rest of Europe are at present.

Failures to dot the 'i's' and cross the 't's' are responsible for our current dilemmas.

Generations of Muslims who came to Europe (or as I refer to it, Christendom) were not radicalised.

This was a problem for extremists since there was nobody who could be 'trusted' so 'fear' became the key to their success.  Fortunately Imams from Saudi Arabia would provide this key ingredient.

As clerics they were above suspicion and could travel freely the length and breadth of the European continent, identifying potential recruits (initially other clerics) or individuals susceptible to radicalization and setting up 'support' networks (cells).  Part of the strategy involves fear – terrorizing Muslims to have as little as necessary contact with Christians because of their 'polluting' and 'degenerate' values.

Fear of fatwas (excommunication and death) are classic psyop tactics to instil order and obedience of the masses and such extremists have used them with remarkable effectiveness – operating 'below the radar' for decades simply because the traditional law and order forces have other priorities than questioning the motives of clerics and well-dressed bespoke, law-abiding polite individuals – which some of the most (effective) 'sleepers' are.

France's ghettoization of it's Muslim population and the denial of equal rights and opportunities for it's French Muslim youth together with the racism many will tell you they experience in every aspect of French life and society, a denial of their culture and existence in all aspects of French institutions, all adding to this radical 'recruitment drive' both in terms of alienation and being fertile grounds for extremist Islamic preachers - offering as they do an 'explanation' for Muslim 'suffering'  [in rather similar manners to the reasons for 'suffering' of the ordinary Germans which the National Socialist (Nazi) Party successfully exploited through their 'bible', Mein Kampf ; likewise the 'suffering' of all Muslims, worldwide, can be explained [solely] through radical Imams [exclusive and narrow] interpretation of the Hadith of the Koran.  If you have no hope, no future, no work and no perceived value in any society be it Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or Hindu, or indeed Atheist declared countries, such 'call to prayers' and to 'have faith' can be very powerful motivators.

Most of the popular media consists of journalists who have little real 'experience' of war zones, terrorism and counterinsurgency tactics. Many simply 'piggy-back' their Muslim extremist stories with one feeding the other until you get a crescendo of anti-Muslim rhetoric (usually disguising racism and mirroring their own grievances.) The problem here is that the public are misled and deflected away from the source of the issues – a failure of the politicians (our Christian politicians) to solve problems; a failed policy in the Bosnia and a failure to get the Saudis to 'play ball' across a variety of world issues; And, of course, conflicts just on the periphery of Christendom (North Africa and The Levant) all of which are converging in chaos as we appear so hopelessly unable to solve any of these crises only increasing instabilities with every failed policy – and resulting in an exodus of terrified refugees from (mainly) Muslim lands – which only add to the problems.

When you ask yourself 'why?' - why does the West not put pressure on, say, the Saudis – who bear a heavy responsibility for much of the Muslim extremist sentiments in the world, not just in Europe, then you are on the path to understanding the problem. Only then, when you can answer these questions – and if the politicians listen - will it ever be possible to work out solutions to radical Islam.

©Patrick Emek, 2015

There are so many examples of the 'thinking ' in Saudi Arabia and it's negative
influence on the Muslim world , I will add just one current example of what is 
the normative of thought is amongst most Saudis:
(I have given less frivolous examples elsewhere but I chose this current one to emphasize
how extremist Islam is a world apart from Christendom and no amount of appeasement will ever satisfy such extremists.)

Saudi cleric condemns building of snowmen as the work of 'Satan' and the 'West':

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/saudi-cleric-condemns-snowmen-as-anti-islamic/ar-AA84xyX?ocid=mailsignoutmd

For Whom The Bell Tolls?

No, I'm not talking about my perennial topic of involvement in conflicts in Muslim lands but whether we should be dissuading EU citizens from going to fight abroad.

I am a child following on from the Spanish Civil War where Volunteer Brigades came to aid

the Republican cause from every corner of the planet.

As a child I knew someone who had fought in a Brigade in Spain during the Civil War.

By the time I was seven or eight he was already in his 60s, but still very proud of his involvement.

He certainly did not do it for money – as he was living just on the breadline – but was entirely motivated by his political ideals. It was, as he would say to us kids, his sacred duty to defend Spain from the Fascists.  Those pictures of himself and his comrades are now very vague in my mind and I cannot actually see their faces anymore. One had such black skin it almost shone out against the yellowing photograph as the light from the kerosene lamp in the room illuminated their profiles.  Sometimes when I see a film or read a book with photos from that era it all comes back to me and I am back in that room.

Most were young men, many in their thirties but some much older as I recall.

There were also women – so proud to be equally on the front line of a conflict where the ideals of liberty, justice, democracy and light were confronting a darkness soon to descend across the entire continent.   But at that time, they were oblivious to the greater evil soon to follow.

A civil war is exactly that - brother in arms against brother, sister fighting against sister, father against son and mother against daughter or son.   Nothing can be more terrible than a civil war.

A civil war tears at the very foundations of civil society fracturing it so badly that it can take hundreds of years for the wounds to finally heal. The butchery and carnage are almost incomprehensible.  The ideals – religion and politics – become morphed into something very ugly and very evil.

All wars dehumanize but in civil wars we find our true homes as creatures in the jungle of primitive life on a very primitive planet.

If our societies so sicken individuals that they are motivated to fight in combat against their brother countrymen (sic. as NATO, Coalition or EU deployed forces) then we need to understand why this is so.   Perhaps we already do.

There are no hero welcomes today for Volunteers returning home from wars abroad.  The Spanish Civil War was something quite different. The Brigades were sourced often through Socialist, Marxist, Trotskyist, Anarchist or Communist Party affiliates in many European countries and in The United States. These might be individual sympathizers or actual Party members of such organizations.  Some of those going off to fight were very highly educated men and women.   But all were passionate about what they believed in.

Even as we listened to a retired veteran tell us of his adventures from long ago I could still sense a pride in his voice as he recalled with tears his fallen comrades in arms.

It's difficult to explain to today's generation but at that time Socialism and Communism were regarded as the Nirvana for the downtrodden and impoverished.  Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were Gods sent from on high to break the bondage of servitude of the masses to corporate (Upper Class) exploitation. If only the masses could be educated, they would understand the salvation which Communism could deliver for the whole planet.  At least, that was what the masses were told.  The reality was of course something quite different but Uncle Joe's (Josef Stalin) party political propaganda machine was so captivating you could not but be impressed by the wonderful singing workers harvesting in the fields of the Ukraine, Russia's breadbasket, singing their joyous hearts out to be reaping the harvest for mother Russia.

[It was that same captivation, that same hero worship, those same atavistic fears which would equally mesmerize ordinary Germans to join the Nazi Party and set the course of Europe on a path to total annihilation and slaughter on an industrial scale.]

Those committed individuals felt that it was their destiny to be in Spain.  It was their equivalent of a Jihad - a Holy War against the forces of evil – capitalism and fascism. A Holy War which would usher in a new dawn where the Proletariat would finally take their rightful places at the Masters' Table instead of foraging like animals for the scraps he threw them after feasting.

At least that was what the nomenclatura taught the uneducated masses.   The reality was, of course, equally, something quite different.

Some did indeed come back to their local communities and to heroes welcomes.  Many others just returned with memories.   Some went out again to fight the Nazis domination of the continent of Europe.  Others were so disillusioned (or psychologically scarred or traumatized) by what they had done, seen and experienced during the Spanish Civil War that they had to be actively commandeered by Uncle Sam or by Winston Churchill to 'fight the good fight'. This is what they don't tell you in the history books.

We have thousands of individuals across the continent of Europe who are in despair at our governments policies of military interventions in Muslim lands.

I have always said that we are waging wars in such lands in manners not dissimilar to the Crusaders – playing one local ruler off against another, supporting our client Muslim allies against their enemies – creating (Crusader) fortresses (military bases) where none previously existed – to secure our interests.

If such individuals feel so strongly that they will take up arms against their brother citizens (and many Muslims in Europe would not call Christians their 'brothers') then perhaps we should think again as to whether we are doing the right thing in preventing these committed individuals from fulfilling their perceived destinies in defense of the ideals which they hold so dearly and sacredly to be prepared to die for the cause, even to place in peril their right to return home to Europe.

As a human being with a conscience and as someone who has experienced war first hand, I would attempt by all means possible to dissuade them from going as many are no different from those proud and idealistic (mainly, at least the ones in my community) young Republicans who went to Spain to fight the good fight (and many to die in a foreign land, in unmarked graves or just soil cover, far far from home) not possibly knowing (and how could they?) the true horrors of war – close up and personal, where you have to live with the nightmares of fallen comrades, the tortured, the butchered, the dismembered, the crippled, the disfigured, the grieving and those left alive but in eternal pain and anguish, wishing they too had been taken as death would have been a kinder gift than their living in an eternal hell.

Even if they were to tell me that this (the Middle East) is 'spiritually' where they want to die as they would feel more at home dying for a cause they believe in I would still attempt to dissuade.

I would not wish this nightmare of war on anyone hence I would attempt to dissuade 'Volunteers' to armed conflicts where the glory, the fighting and the dying are more to be linked with the duties of professional conscripted armies and professional mercenaries (or, in today's language, 'contractors') than causes for idealistic young volunteers.   But youth is often about idealism.

I would attempt to dissuade them – but at the end of the argument, I must respect their wishes.

What is to become of their future citizenship should they wish to return home is a matter for their individual countries.

Should they be injured in battle against Coalition or NATO or EU Allied Forces I would be as reluctant to see their health care or other needs met in European hospitals and institutions as I would to see Nazi, Gestapo and SS troops health care needs met in the United States or Britain either during or after the Second World War.   This view of the majority they should be in no doubt about.  (I do of course preclude those individuals who could have a potential intelligence value - and indeed, there are historical precedents such as 'Operation Paperclip' providing as it did an exit for former Nazis after World War II.)

Likewise should they destroy their passports and later recant, then it's at the discretion of individual countries as to how to deal with such matters.

Rather than locking these highly motivated idealistic and spiritually committed individuals away from society (to be out of sight and hence out of mind) and assuming we have no intention of negating responsibilities to our Muslim allies in the Middle East in the foreseeable future, we need to find an answer other than one of alienation and ghettoization for our Muslim brothers and sisters in Europe.

I would strongly disagree with their ideals but would be prepared to defend their right to express dissent from the status quo - using whatever means they can – and within the laws of Christendom.
We need to make extremists aware that we too are equally prepared to stand up and be counted to defend the ideals of free speech and democracy to the same extent as they are prepared to die in order to bring about their own intolerant tyrannies.

© Patrick Emek, 2015

Operation Paperclip and Stalin's 'Trophy' Brigades:
We live in a dysfunctionally hypocritical world where the so-called socialists and neo-liberals
will condemn the U.S. for offering sanctuary to former Nazi scientists and intelligence personnel
whilst approving or turning a blind eye to the Soviet Union's pillage of the looted treasures of the Third Reich.  Be under no doubt, the Soviet Union was just as eager to get it's hands on German rocket scientists as were the Americans - but 'slave' labor in Russia would have been very different from the freedom, the wealth and personal anonymity offered by the United States to former (and recanting) Nazi party members.
In the absence of the likes of 'visionary' politicians (such as J.F.K) and efficient technocrats to carry out their unreal expectations - such as Wernher von Braun - the U.S. Government's  Space Program has virtually collapsed - or at the very least, in my opinion, has absolutely no idea where it is going beyond the Moon and Earth's orbit.
We may get to Mars (and beyond) someday, but probably after China and India - and good luck to them if they have the clarity of vision and the political will to succeed.

*idea for the title of this blog is taken from the book of the same name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls

'For Whom the Bell Tolls'

Novel by Ernest Hemingway
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/10/hemingways-for-whom-bell-tolls-makes.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclatura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

http://www.artnews.com/2007/11/01/top-ten-artnews-stories-tracking-the-trophy-brigade/

http://www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/science_1/scientists/2574974/von_braun_wernher/
 reference removed but Google cached at:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zSKnNEgsO84J:anninhhaiphong.net/tinmang/www.redorbit.com/education/reference_library/science_1/scientists/2574974/von_braun_wernher/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

9/11

 at 

Charlie Hebdo

Ritual Slaughter-Buffet Style

In brief, how the major U.S. and UK media reacted to the Butchers of Paris this evening:

7.16 PM EST

Voice of America

Voice of America probably gave the most comprehensive coverage reflecting the views of the majority of Parisiens, secular and non-secular French citizens and civic democratic society across Christendom this evening.

http://www.voanews.com/content/shooting-at-paris-based-weekly-paper/2588648.html

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Gives decent and fair coverage to the sentiments of most people across the continent of Europe this evening.

http://www.rferl.org/content/jesuischarlie-charlie-/26781632.html

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

For PBS, as usual, it was a 'non-event'.

As with CNN, after several years, when everything is politically correct, they will do a hard-hitting expose about radical Islam it's links to Saudi Arabia and ties to CAIR (already declared a terrorist organization) within the United States.

PBS is such a tame network these days, quite frankly, I really don't know anyone watching it.

As the caption says at it's Press Site, PBS exists 'to make your life easier' (sic. by not including anything currently controversial.)

If PBS continues on this path I can't see it with any audience in the future.

http://www.pbsamerica.co.uk/press-site

Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor seemed more keen to turn the Butchers of Paris into Quiz celebrities than might have been expected for a serious publication:

In my opinion, this has lost them considerable credibility as anything other than an out-of-touch publication offering nothing more to it's readers than  'vestige d'une gloire disparue'.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2012/0719/How-much-do-you-know-about-terrorism-Take-the-quiz/Question-1

CNBC (at 7.16 PM EST)

CNBC fared just above Al Jazeera, Fox,the BBC and CNN Fox in it's coverage giving voice to the sentiment of Parisiens and the general populace, ranking as number five in their newsworthy items for coverage.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100003114

Al Jazeera ( or Salafism With a Human Face)

Salafist-Wahhabist apologists and supporter Al Jazeera took the opportunity to showcase the known  Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which in it's turn spent more time discussing why Christians should not react (or, to be more precise, how the actions of the Butchers of Paris will play into the hands of anti-Muslim groups across Europe) instead of condemning outright this act of slaughter by one of it's fellow-Salafist-Wahhabist Muslim terrorist traveler supporter groups, the Butchers of Paris.   CAIR has already been cited  by the FBI as a 'terrorist-linked organization' and, for these reasons, they have ceased all cooperation with this group.  The FBI conducted it's own investigation of CAIR so this is not my view but one coming direct from the Bureau.

SKY News

Sky hauls in it's Muslim Salafist 'expert' apologist to say that Charlie Hebdo was regarded as a 'highly racist' magazine - and that's a direct quote from Nabila Hamdani on Sky television this evening.

So, from the general public's interpretation of Ms Hamdani's viewpoint: 'they had it coming'.

Fox News

Even the fearless Fox News sits on the fence not wanting to offend Muslim sentiments.

It's easier for  Fox  to just continue to snipe from the sidelines about their 'bash Obama' obsession than tackle any real issues in the world where their own scrawny (cowardly) necks would be on the line and in the firing line.
addendum:
Fox eventually came out with an 'analysis' which was so outrageous and insulting to Parisiens that it beggars belief.

The BBC

The BBC likewise brings on Salafist apologists  to explain to  a justification for censorship on cartoons about Mohammed.

CNN

Last but not least.

As mentioned earlier, CNN spends a lot of time explaining why individuals should not publish cartoons about Mohammed because, as usual with this politically correct channel, anything less will offend corporate opportunities for business - especially in the Muslim world . Don't hold your hopes out folks for anything other than continued banality from this channel.

Islam has never had a Martin Luther so it's not possible to find any Muslim to support the concept of free speech as we understand it in the United States and Europe - this includes freedom to criticize and caricature anyone and anything regardless of race, religion, color, ethnicity or tribe.

It is for this reason that I have not included any individual Muslim opinions supporting Charlie Hebdo's right to criticize as it see's fit under and within the laws of Europe and Christendom - as such would most certainly place them in conflict with an intolerant faith - which expressly forbids them individual freedom of expression and civil rights as we understand them.

If you can recall the power of the Catholic Church before Martin Luther and The (Protestant) Reformation, then you can understand Islam today.   This is due, in no small part, to our  faithful and loyal friends, those stalwart bearers of women's rights, democracy, freedom of expression, of religion and of one person one vote,  the Saudis.  And with friends like these folks, who needs Al Qaeda or ISIL as enemies?

Patrick Emek

Update
United Kingdom Press Report:

One of the  Police Officers murdered  after being wounded on the Street by the Butchers of Paris, without mercy, was Muslim.  The two murdered  Officers at the scene of the carnage have been named as Cycle Patrol Officer Ahmed Merabet and Protection Officer Franck Brinsolaro.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901681/Hero-police-officer-executed-street-married-42-year-old-Muslim-assigned-patrol-Paris-neighbourhood-Charlie-Hebdo-offices-located.html

The Officer gunned down at 8 a.m. the next day whilst attending a routine traffic accident  was a rookie whose name was Clarissa Jean-Philippe.
You can read about her at:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901670/Gunman-arrested-Paris-police-officers-seriously-wounded.html

and just in case you view or read Mr Rupert Murdoch's world empire of media resources, you may well have also missed this further detail: 

''Heroic Muslim man saved Jewish hostages during Paris siege by hiding them in freezer'' 

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/heroic-muslim-man-saved-jewish-hostages-during-paris-siege-by-hiding-them-in-chiller-9970051.html

 

Epilog [20th January, 2014]
PBS has come in for a lot of criticism for it's very weak coverage of this incident.
There is some hope that it will revise it's policies so as to be more reflective of it's stated philosophy
of freedom of expression and factual representation rather than being a cloned version of CNN: 
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/blogs/ombudsman/2015/01/14/those-cartoons-to-publish-is-one-issue-to-explain-is-another/ 

 

 

        http://www.charliehebdo.fr/

 

website details updated at 5th February, 2015

JE SUIS CHARLIE

 

http://www.charliehebdo.fr/

 

Website details updated at 5th February, 2015

'No Sex Please! - We're Anglo-Saxon!'

You can't help but notice in the Anglo-Saxon media world the number of 'sex claims' against prominent individuals.

I am not talking about under-age sex but claims by adults who were adults at the time that the alleged offences took place and should, by all accounts, have known better.

(The normal response in my time was a severe slap across the face or even worse, kick in the groin, by the offended adult which usually removed any (unwanted!) hand from any female private area – and at the speed of light!)

I am now talking about ditched girlfriends, former wives, embittered semi-geriatric ex-lovers, 'privately maintained women' or acquaintances or ex-employees now accusing prominent individuals of 'molesting' them when they were 18+ years old – or bottom pinching them as adults (when they were above the age of consent) thirty or forty or even fifty years ago.

I have to invoke my own (lapsed) profession now and say that, from a psychiatric and psychological viewpoint, it would appear that the availability of mass media instant personal communications have produced a new type of sociopath which my (latent ) profession has not yet been prepared (or simply is not courageous enough) to acknowledge.

The Embittered Sociopath with Obsessive-Compulsive Neurotic Dysfunctionalities

Without revealing my own background and training, I have, by accident, met and listened in public forums to some of the stories of these individuals and am of the opinion (I cannot say 'professional' because I am not a practicing psychologist nor practicing psychiatrist) drawing on my studies and training, that such individuals have indeed suffered.  Their 'suffering' however clearly appears to be the results of failed relationships, unfulfilled ambitions, and broken or embittered dreams rather than any culpability on the part of the individual being accused of 'molesting' or 'assaulting' them whilst they were clearly in a consensual (and sometimes clearly and evidentially, financially beneficial) relationship 30 or 40 years ago.

It also appears to be the result of resentments - 'Die Hard' and 'Death Wish' - revenge checklists bubbling underground, like dormant volcanoes, for decades.

So if you want to call this psychological trauma, then clearly they have suffered.

Perhaps they have been quietly 'stalking' their former partner for decades, watched him (it's usually him) raise a happy loving family and have waited in time, in the darkness, for their revenge, before expiry.

False Claim Syndromes The Role of The Internet and Social Media

The internet, social media and perceived changes in societal values have now provided the mediums for such grievances to be exploited.

The fascinating thing about Witch Hunts is that every opportunistic character can 'get in on the act' - from charities seeking a new funding frontier, to politicians seeking a new 'fear' with which to swing votes in their favor, to those with more sinister objectives – such as the dismantlement of credibility in the institutions of the State (part of insurgency strategy which political and religious extremists use to undermine society) all jump on board for the ride. The rest of the horrified general public just cower back in terror.   And it can be a very lucrative ride – the charity gets enormous publicity 'taking down' prominent individuals (and, as an intended consequence, it's coffers swell), the politicians are overwhelmingly re-elected with the promise to keep civil society 'safe and secure', extremists are very happy because credibility in institutions of the State have been grievously undermined.

Under Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. the embittered individuals have had their former lovers or acquaintances or 'sugar daddy' publicly humiliated -and have even been rewarded financially 'for psychological damage'.  So it's a win-win situation for everyone – no proof required just enough individuals to jump on the band waggon to ensure the public can 'see' that, there can't be smoke without fire.   Right?   Right?   Right?

It does not matter that no proof of alleged offences taking place 30 or 40 or 50 years ago has been produced.  When you have Witch hunts no proof is required - only public confessions, and recantations of sorrow (such recantations used to be elicited by the Inquisition Friars with last-minute pleas to the condemned that, at the very least, they should attempt to save their immortal souls from eternal damnation with a public acknowledgement of heresy, witchcraft and wrongdoing.)   Today such are elicited by lawyers acting for the 'victims'.    That this all take place in a public arena before the public 'burning at the stake' – which today is the feeding of the accused as 'dinner' to the 'starving' mass media wolves, bereft as they are of anything worthwhile to gossip about since the departure of Rupert Murdoch.

[Some even (privately) suggest a relationship between the ignominious departure of Mr Murdoch from the United Kingdom, the conviction and jailing of his close associates, and the mass and velocity of the availability of material about sex scandal revelations implicating prominent individuals, to long-enquiring bodies.   Remember folks, you read it here first!]

 Prince Andrew - Britain's (One time) Most Eligible Bachelor

The embittered already, triumphantly, have Prince Andrew's 'head' 'in a bag', so to speak.

(Again allegations - but of a different nature than those being addressed above - and again strenuously denied by the Prince - with the usual 'no evidence required' by his accuser to fulfill today's criteria for 'guilt by association'.)

 I expect the next ones on their 'hit list' to be The Queen or The Duke of Edinburgh.

Already the demented and retarded claim that She is a lizard, has webbed feet and a tail and that both of Them are aliens - and I don't mean the ones coming in via Lampedusa (!)   You think that I'm joking?   Not in the least!    As Will Smith said in the film 'Independence Day' when the alien spacecraft hatch opened:   ''Welcome to [Planet] Earth!''

© Patrick Emek, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Hopkins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchfinder_General_%28film%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/were-witches-burned-at-the-stake-during-the-salem-witch-trials

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

http://www.gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894480/Prince-Andrew-repeatedly-slept-sex-slave-controlled-underage-prostitution-ring-U-S-court-papers-claim.html

'The Queen Is An Alien' – the 'evidence' so far:

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+queen+is+an+alien&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=--qnVIWdN8WC7gb2s4CIDw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=893

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46701

He once claimed he's the Son of God and the world is run by alien lizards, but the story of David Icke's marriage breakdown is almost as weird By Natalie Clarke for MailOnline
Updated: 08:11, 9 January 2012 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2083287/David-Ickes-marriage-breakdown-He-claimed-hes-Son-God-world-run-alien-lizards-story-marriage-breakdown-weird.html#ixzz3NlS5Lh9p

and now back to the sane world(!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%281996_film%29


and by request:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPWpEKhgfk




..........and just to end on a more serious note:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXCX3dhz8Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfkNvOOiZ_8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD516OENN7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEwAvlJOcI

End of The Year 2014....and just in case you missed it.....

Libyan Politician Says He Will Open Peace Talks With Israel

Subheading: [One Can Short Of A Six Pack]

I recently read about a wannabe Libyan politician saying that if he gets into power he will open peace talks with Israel.

From my experience of dealing with Libyans (at least the ones I encountered) many were one can short of a six pack (Hell!, even their Arab 'brotherly' neighbors would agree with this statement!);so to dismiss such declarations as wishful thinking would be, sort of like me being kind to idiots or, as we might otherwise say, to motley fools.

I don't know whether it's the climate or the country or it's somewhere near a Mediterranean Bermuda Triangle but a few screws just are not wired properly within the psyche of some major proportion of  individuals in the population of this particular region.

Perhaps it's a fatal epidemic of sunstroke which just takes hold across the entire region? That would explain all the problems of the Middle East in a nutshell (!)

Any Israelis thinking of re-settling or investing or even promoting investment in Libya should first learn about the enforced exodus and reign of terror against all Jews after the State of Israel was created across North Africa, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.

You don't know about this? You'd better put your thinking hat on before you too fall victim to the viral regional sunstroke affecting your North Africa Arab neighbors (!)

The CIA and Torture

My only comment is that I would have preferred that they had used the 'Old School' methods of wine, women and song (or something similar!)  They (such methods that is to say) appear to have yielded remarkably effective results for the greatest Spymaster of the 20^th Century (and some say one of the greatest in human history) – Markus Wolf – during the days of the Cold War.   Oh yes, I forgot, the politically correct cretins and many of their entourage overseeing today's intelligence communities in the Western democratic world have never heard of Wolf (!)

Rendition and The CIA

I have never approved of torture but, from what I could gather, those in the intelligence communities and armed forces were rabidly drooling and foaming saliva at the mouth and all wanted to get those f*****g a****les of b******s responsible for 9/11, by hook or by crook.  And, by the way, when you get these *****ng *r**s, roast them like Thanksgiving turkeys, no pardons, were the instructions.  At that time, from what I now read, 'use all means necessary' was the buzz word coming down from the politicians.  Of course politics is politics and business is business and what they (the politicians) are now playing is, well, a slightly different tune from 'the word on the street' in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

The ISIL 'Caliphate' and It's Propaganda Machine

No doubt ISIL's beheading of U.S. citizens will have influenced the nature of the war against this so-called-Caliphate. I have always seen ISIL as a fanatical sect rather than a genuine political or spiritual movement. I am 100% confident that the ISIL, as a Caliphate, will be totally dismantled within the next five years. It's defeat was a foregone conclusion when both Shia and Sunni politicians equally saw the dangers this fanatical sect posed to the security of the region and to the Gulf kingdoms.

Those citizens, Christian and Muslim Arab, who who have been butchered, tortured, maimed or committed suicide rather than face rape or enslavement by their ISIL captors, are out of sight – but not forgotten.  The reach of the hand of justice is long.   It might take some time to bring the main perpetrators to justice but some have already been identified and, assuming, when apprehended, Dianne Feinstein and the rest of the politicians do not give them day  or weekend and holiday release passes from jail, the rest will follow.

Refugees

This is always a sensitive political issue for discussion.

The number of political and economic refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Far East continues to be a major headache for countries in Christendom on the front line - Greece, Italy and Malta.

It's always difficult for me when dealing with this issue as I have sympathies with anyone, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or sexuality being forced through military, religious, ethnic and tribal conflict or other persecutions  to be fleeing for their lives with what little possessions they can carry. Whom amongst us cannot be genuinely moved with the image of a child clutching the one personal possession – a precious toy – it is able in weight to carry not knowing what is happening or why everything around it is so unfamiliar - or in ruins or indeed where it's friends or even parents are (all having been perhaps murdered.)  What's even worse is that our military campaigns in Muslim lands have, in some instances, created these very instabilities for which we now refuse to take responsibilities – turn our backs on and turn back these terrified victims to an almost certain death at the hands of their 'brother' (co-religionist) Muslim butchers.

The issue for Christendom appears to be that many Muslims have not integrated into any aspect of life in their adopted home countries – other than their own Mosques and social settings.   [I am not talking about the business communities but the average Joe Smith - or Jo Mohammed as the case may be.]

I am very familiar with the history of refugees almost since mediaeval times and the roles which the Netherlands, Britain and the United States have all historically played in welcoming those fleeing persecution and seeking a new beginning in, what at first, must seem, very strange and alien lands.

I don't have an issue with Little Havana (West Village, N.Y.), or Little Jerusalem (Brooklyn) or Little Italy (Manhattan) nor Little Dominican Republic (North of 155^th Street.)

Indeed it's only natural for immigrant communities to want to live together in a new and very strange land where the 'culture shock' can be quite awesome or overwhelming.   It often takes decades (even generations) to adjust.

But none of these new immigrants nor their families have entered the U.S. intending to change it from a Christian nation to one reflecting the tyrannies of pogroms, no economic opportunities, widespread religious, ethnic and racial discrimination and no economic future, back into the  a mirror-image of the lands  from whence they once fled.

Some Muslim immigrants have taken a different attitude – more in Europe than in the United States.  Few have attempted to build any bridges (other than for public relations purposes) with Christian communities.  Social integration with Christians (or 'kafirs' with souls of darkness, as their Salafist and Wahhabist Imams declare) is haram (sinful or forbidden) or declared evil by their Imams.   Beyond this childish and mediaeval name-calling by ignorant Muslim religious leaders however are more serious issues.  Many want (or are being encouraged by Salafist and Wahhabist Imams, imported from Saudi Arabia) to change the fundamental nature of Christendom as a liberal, open, racially, religiously and sexually tolerant (gay, lesbian, transgender) society into the very repressive intolerant regimes from whence they once fled.   Some also are virulently anti-Semitic – bringing this as 'baggage' into their adopted Christian societies.  To go further, into our society such refugees wish to introduce dress codes (abolish short skirts and dresses in favor of pants for women and girls, total covering of the female body) as is existing practice in Muslim lands, a ban on the consumption of alcohol and alcohol-free 'coffee shop' zones throughout Europe and even calling for a ban on the display of Christian symbols – such as the wearing of Christian crosses and the Cross of St. George.) 
Muslim extremists and their Imams have even called openly and publicly for the murder of gay, lesbian and transgender members of our communities in Christendom.

In Christian lands as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia I have seen communities proudly witnessing their majority Christian faith with such icons and relics without fear – and most are equally accepting of their minority Muslim community brethren likewise dressing according as to how they wish. You do not, however, find Muslim gangs roaming the streets of such societies and calling for the adoption of Shariah Law, the closure of pubs and ban on alcohol, entertainment and other social venues in order to subjugate their Christian host societies and communities in these countries.  
You would equally be hard pressed to find a Muslim country in the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa where a female tourist can wear a skirt or short pants without being spat upon or heckled because of her perceived 'immodest' dress.  The point I am making here is that dress codes are strictly enforced in  Muslim Arab lands as opposed to Christendom where women enjoy the freedom, without fear, protected by the law, to dress as it pleases them.

It's an unacceptable situation and part of the response can be seen in a hardening of attitudes towards refugees in exodus from Muslim lands. Indeed sadly (in my opinion) a hardening of attitudes towards all refugees and immigrants is taking place across Christendom.   I believe that this is misguided.  [From a purely economic viewpoint, it makes no sense to be excluding refugees between the ages of 16-30.  Those countries in Europe and Asia - such as Bulgaria and Japan – which have the lowest immigration populations also have the lowest growth rates.  Japan has an ageing population but because it was always an ethnocentric country, finds it impossible to welcome immigrants nor migrants in numbers preferring instead to rely on advanced technology to maintain it's 'purity' of culture. You can also see unintended consequences of such policies: Other than under subjugation, who in their right mind (except for reasons of doing business) would want to adopt the Japanese language, culture, music, art, customs, traditions, or any of their ways of life except perhaps an occasional Sushi?;likewise which countries in their right minds would ever wish to join the Russian Federation - other than under enforced military subservience or imperial subjugation?]

Whether this is the right solution or whether we give the wrong invitation or confusing messages – that our societies are 'Godless' and yearning for spiritual awakening (sic. by Allah) or we have just not put up a bold enough sign for our prospective Muslim citizens fleeing to Christendom which reads 'Welcome To Christendom – And We Insist You Keep It Christian (!)'

There are no easy solutions but in this particular instance I believe that more needs to be done by the Muslim communities to accept fundamental core values within their adopted Christian lands rather than attempt to change them to become mirror-images of the intolerant brutal and racist-ethnic cleansing-tyrannies from whence they once fled in terror into Christendom – some with little more than the clothes they and their children were wearing on their backs or indeed (more so) as economic migrants.

The Vatican:Speaking Out

The Pontiff, Pope Francis, unlike his predecessor, has finally spoken out against persecution of Christians worldwide and asked that (those who are religious of course) we pray especially for persecuted and suffering Christians in Muslim lands.  He has also urged his Muslim Leadership counterparts and Muslims in general worldwide to speak up to defend their Christian neighbors, where Christians are minorities in Muslim lands. Sadly his words of peace and reconciliation and encouragement to speak up all appear to have fallen on deaf ears in the Muslim world of North Africa and The Middle East.   The exception here being the country of Syria where President Assad, from the inception of the civil war in his country, ordered his forces to protect Christians and Christian property as best they were able given the terrible conditions and chaos.  My contacts suggest that Syrian government forces went out of their way, sometimes at great personal risk, to protect Christian lives and property from the Syrian Opposition/ISIL and Al Qaeda forces, a fact not reported (or to be more precise, ignored) in the Western media.

Project SETI

I want to end on an out-of-this world note:

In about 50 years time Project SETI, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence in this galaxy and in the universe, may be wound up if the search of the skies continues to prove negative.

By another 50 years it's listening telescopes and antennas in California (and Associates worldwide) will have scanned every inch of the visible night skies for sounds or echoes of intelligent life. To date there is no sign that anything other than ourselves exist in this galaxy – The Milky Way.  If we are the only (and highest) example of intelligent life in this galaxy, then it will all be very saddening.   Even worse, if this is all a whole universe can produce, as the highest fountain of creation and wisdom, other universes must equally be truly and verily f****d up.

What an epitaph for the concept of intelligent creationism (!)

[addendum:yes I have heard of the 'Wow' signal but believe it to be a 'false flag' in the night sky]

© Patrick Emek, 2014

http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ahmed-shebani-libyans-want-secular-democracy

http://forward.com/articles/210098/israel-recalls-expulsion-of-jews-from-arab-lands/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-report-on-cia-program-details-brutality-dishonesty/2014/12/09/1075c726-7f0e-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

http://richardedmondson.net/2014/09/12/obama-admits-assad-protected-christians-in-syria/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia_patrols

http://archbishopcranmer.com/sophie-wessex-and-the-fashionable-burqa/

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/video-muslims-enforcing-sharia-law-on-the-streets-of-london/

http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/british-muslims-anti-jewish-frenzy-woman-london-atacked-jewish-muslim-demonstrators.html/

http://searchlight-germany.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/germanys-sharia-police.html

even RT agrees with me on this issue (!)

http://rt.com/uk/181660-liveable-london-study-cities/comments/page-3/

http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/12/23/pope_writes_christmas_letter_to_middle_east%E2%80%99s_christians/1115787

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/christian-persecution/

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/vatican/vatican.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36786914/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/seti-searching-et-through-decades/

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1004/SETI/


addendum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/the-wow-signal-130524.htm