(Continued). The Pentagon lied to the public about the attack on the Liberty from the very beginning. In a decision personally approved by the loathsome McNamara, the Pentagon denied to the press that the Liberty was an intelligence ship, referring to it instead as a Technical Research ship, as if it were little more than a military version of Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso. The military press corps on the USS America, where most of the wounded sailors had been taken, were placed under extreme restrictions. All of the stories filed from the carrier were first routed through the Pentagon for security clearance, objectionable material was removed with barely a bleat of protest from the reporters or their publications. Predictably, Israel’s first response was to blame the victim, a tactic that has served them so well in the Palestinian situation. First, the IDF alleged that it had asked the State Department and the Pentagon to identify any US ships in the area and was told that there were none. Then the Israeli government charged that the Liberty failed to fly its flag and didn’t respond to calls for it to identify itself. The Israelis contended that they assumed the Liberty was an Egyptian supply ship called El Quseir, which, even though it was a rusting transport ship then docked in Alexandria, the IDF said it suspected of shelling Israeli troops from the sea. Under these circumstances, the Israeli’s said they were justified in opening fire on the Liberty. The Israelis said that they halted the attack almost immediately, when they realized their mistake. “The Liberty contributed decisively toward its identification as an enemy ship,” the IDF report concluded. This was a blatant falsehood, since the Israelis had identified the Liberty at least six hours prior to the attack on the ship. Even though the Pentagon knew better, it gave credence to the Israeli account by saying that perhaps the Liberty’s flag had lain limp on the flagpole in a windless sea. The Pentagon also suggested that the attack might have lasted less than 20 minutes. After the initial battery of misinformation, the Pentagon imposed a news blackout on the Liberty disaster until after the completion of a Court of Inquiry investigation. The inquiry was headed by Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd. Kidd didn’t have a free hand. He’d been instructed by Vice-Admiral McCain to limit the damage to the Pentagon and to protect the reputation of Israel. The Kidd interviewed the crew on June 14 and 15. The questioning was extremely circumscribed. According to Ennes, the investigators “asked nothing that might be embarrassing to Israeland testimony that tended to embarrass Israel was covered with a ‘Top Secret’ label, if it was accepted at all.” Ennes notes that even testimony by the Liberty’s communications officers about the jamming of the ship’s radios was classified as “Top Secret.” The reason? It proved that Israel knew it was attacking an American ship. “Here was strong evidence that the attack was planned in advance and that our ship’s identity was known to the attackers (for it its practically impossible to jam the radio of a stranger), but this information was hushed up and no conclusions were drawn from it,” Ennes writes. Similarly, the Court of Inquiry deep-sixed testimony and affidavits regarding the flag-Ennes had ordered a crisp new one deployed early on the morning of the attack. The investigators buried intercepts of conversations between IDF pilots identifying the ship as flying an American flag. It also refused to accept evidence about the IDF’s use of napalm during the attacks and choose not to hear testimony regarding the duration of the attacks and the fact that the US Navy failed to send planes to defend the ship. “No one came to help us,” said Dr. Richard F. Kiepfer, the Liberty’s physician. “We were promised help, but no help came. The Russians arrived before our own ships did. We asked for an escort before we ever came to the war zone and we were turned down.” None of this made its way into the 700-page Court of Inquiry report, which was completed within a couple of weeks and sent to Admiral McCain in London for review. McCain approved the report over the objections of Captain Merlin Staring, the Navy legal officer assigned to the inquiry, who found the report to be flawed, incomplete and contrary to the evidence. Staring sent a letter to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy disavowing himself from the report. The JAG seemed to take Staring’s objections to heart. It prepared a summary for the Chief of Naval Operations that almost completely ignored the Kidd/McCain report. Instead, it concluded: that the Liberty was easily recognizable as an American naval vessel; that it’s flag was fully deployed and flying in a moderate breeze; that Israeli planes made at least eight reconnaissance flights at close range; the ship came under a prolonged attack from Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats This succinct and largely accurate report was stamped Top Secret by Navy brass and stayed locked up for many years. But it was seen by many in the Pentagon and some in the Oval Office. But here was enough grumbling about the way the Liberty incident had been handled that LBJ summoned that old Washington fixer Clark Clifford to do damage control. It didn’t take Clifford long to come up with the official line: the Israelis simply had made a tragic mistake. It turns out that the Admiral Kidd and Captain Ward Boston, the two investigating officers who prepared the original report for Admiral McCain, both believed that the Israeli attack was intentional and sustained. In other words, the IDF knew that they were striking an American spy ship and they wanted to sink it and kill as many sailors as possible. Why then did the Navy investigators produce a sham report that concluded it was an accident? ...(cont.)
(Continued) Twenty-five years later we finally found out. In June of 2002, Captain Boston told the Navy Times: “Officers follow orders.” It gets worse. There’s plenty of evidence that US intelligence agencies learned on June 7 that Israel intended to attack the Liberty on the following day and that the strike had been personally ordered by Moshe Dayan. As the attacks were going on, conversations between Israeli pilots were overheard by US Air Force officers in an EC121 surveillance plane overhead. The spy plane was spotted by Israeli jets, which were given orders to shoot it down. The American plane narrowly avoided the IDF missiles. Initial reports on the incident prepared by the CIA, Office of Naval Intelligence and the National Security Agency all reached similar conclusions. A particularly damning report compiled by a CIA informant suggests that Israeli Defense minister Moshe Dayan personally ordered the attack and wanted it to proceed until the Liberty was sunk and all on board killed. A heavily redacted version of the report was released in 1977. It reads in part: “[The source] said that Dayan personally ordered the attack on the ship and that one of his generals adamantly opposed the action and said, ‘This is pure murder.’ One of the admirals who was present also disapproved of the action, and it was he who ordered it stopped and not Dayan.” This amazing document generated little attention from the press and Dayan was never publicly questioned about his role in the attack. The analyses by the intelligence agencies are collected in a 1967 investigation by the Defense Subcommittee on Appropriations. Two and half decades later that report remains classified. Why? A former committee staffer said: “So as not to embarrass Israel.” More proof came to light from the Israeli side. A few years after Attack on the Liberty was originally published, Ennes got a call from Evan Toni, an Israeli pilot. Toni told Ennes that he had just read his book and wanted to tell him his story. Toni said that he was the pilot in the first Israeli Mirage fighter to reach the Liberty. He immediately recognized the ship to be a US Navy vessel. He radioed Israeli air command with this information and asked for instructions. Toni said he was ordered to “attack.” He refused and flew back to the air base at Ashdod. When he arrived he was summarily arrested for disobeying orders. So why then did the Israelis attack the Liberty? A few days before the Six Days War, Israel’s Foreign Minister Abba Eban visited Washington to inform LBJ about the forthcoming invasion. Johnson cautioned Eban that the US could not support such an attack. It’s possible, then, that the IDF assumed that the Liberty was spying on the Israeli war plans. Possible, but not likely. Despite the official denials, as Andrew and Leslie Cockburn demonstrate in Dangerous Liaison, at the time of the Six Days War the US and Israel had developed a warm covert relationship. So closely were the two sides working that US intelligence aid certainly helped secure Israel’s devastating and swift victory. In fact, it’s possible that the Liberty had been sent to the region to spy for the IDF. A somewhat more likely scenario holds that Moshe Dayan wanted to keep the lid on Israel’s plan to breach the new cease-fire and invade into Syria to seize the Golan. It has also been suggested that Dayan ordered the attack on the Liberty with the intent of pinning the blame on the Egyptians and thus swinging public and political opinion in the United States solidly behind the Israelis. Of course, for this plan to work, the Liberty had to be destroyed and its crew killed. There’s another factor. The Liberty was positioned just off the coast from the town of El Arish. In fact, Ennes and others had used town’s mosque tower to fix the location of the ship along the otherwise featureless desert shoreline. The IDF had seized El Arish and had used the airport there as a prisoner of war camp. On the very day the Liberty was attacked, the IDF was in the process of executing as many as 1,000 Palestinian and Egyptian POWs, a war crime that they surely wanted to conceal from prying eyes. According to Gabriel Bron, now an Israeli reporter, who witnessed part of the massacre as a soldier: “The Egyptian prisoners of war were ordered to dig pits and then army police shot them to death.” The bigger question is why the US government would participate so enthusiastically in the cover-up of a war crime against its own sailors. Well, the Pentagon has never been slow to hide its own incompetence. And there’s plenty of that in the Liberty affair: bungled communications, refusal to provide an escort, situating the defenseless Liberty too close to a raging battle, the inability to intervene in the attack and the inexcusably long time it took to reach the battered ship and its wounded. That’s but par for the course. But something else was going on that would only come to light later. Through most of the 1960s, the US congress had imposed a ban on the sale of arms to both Israel and Jordan. But at the time of the Liberty attack, the Pentagon (and its allies in the White House and on the Hill) was seeking to have this proscription overturned. The top brass certainly knew that any evidence of a deliberate attack on a US Navy ship by the IDF would scuttle their plans. So they hushed it up. In January 1968, the arms embargo on Israel was lifted and the sale of American weapons began to flow. By 1971, Israel was buying $600 million of American-made weapons a year. Two years later the purchases topped $3 billion. Almost overnight, Israel had become the largest buyer of US-made arms and aircraft. Perversely, then, the IDF’s strike on the Liberty served to weld the US and Israel together, in a kind of political and military embrace. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/0...iberty-a-half-century-later-still-no-justice/
Forgot where this has been discussed.....But prayers are really needed at this moment. What was his crime to begin with?? He was another one simply letting the public know just how corrupt their govt. is! Now this: UPDATE: Tommy Robinson Receiving Death Threats in New UK Prison – Imam Orders Hit on Tommy Robinson (VIDEO) As TGP’s Cassandra Fairbanks previously reported, UK activist Tommy Robinson was arrested on May 25th for suspicion of breaching the peace while livestreaming to report on the trial of a child grooming gang and will now have to serve a prior 13 month suspended sentence. Friends and supporters of Robinson, 35, are asserting that his notoriety and stance on Islam places his life in great danger in prison. Articles about the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Tommy Robinson were rapidly scrubbed from the internet after the British government put restrictions in place banning any reporting on the matter. Now this… Paul Joseph Watson reported earlier today that Tommy Robinson has been moved to a maximum security prison with a 71% Muslim population. Inmates were banging on the cell walls shouting death threats! BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has reportedly been moved to a prison with a 71% Muslim population. Inmates were banging on cell walls last night shouting death threats. Protests were ignored. Tommy now fears for his safety, And now this… Coalan Rob, Tommy’s spokesperson, went on with Alex Jones on Wednesday to discuss the latest updates. An imam has placed a hit on Tommy Robinson. Coalan Rob: As soon as he arrived he was told there are people here who don’t like him. He was put on the main wing which is central main heart of the prison. It’s not solitary it’s the main open season(?) part of the prison… And that was where he was put. We found specifics of the prison. It is around 71% Muslim. This is really, really, really disastrous. The last one was close to 2%. As soon as he arrived he looked around. He could see people shouting. It’s really, really quite terrifying. He went to his cell. He said all night people were shouting and banging on his door, screaming death threats… We also have there’s been a hit by an imam on him directly. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ison-imam-places-hit-on-tommy-robinson-video/
etoa, I'm still praying for Tommy Robinson. Thank you for posting this to help keep us up to date. **** I just looked at this past month's earthquake activity on the Island of Hawaii and there was been an earthquake of magnitude 5.x everyday this month accept for 3 days; June 3rd, 6th and 9th. It's scary that the volcanic/earthquake activity has kept up for so long now and in many respects it has continued to increase and everyday in June there have been swarms of lower magnitude earthquakes. Since June 8th, there have been more than 100 earthquakes per day everyday greater than a magnitude of 2.7. References: https://earthquake-report.com/category/daily-important-quakes/ https://earthquake-report.com/category/daily-minor-quakes/ https://twitter.com/USGS https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/kilauea-earthquakes.html I continue to pray for the people on the Island of Hawaii and imo this story is being somewhat downplayed in the MSM. I found the following non-MSM story which backs up the information above reported from the USGS directly, **** USGS: Quakes at Kilauea summit following 'fairly reliable pattern' Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 By HNN Staff Seismic activity and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been happening on an almost regular basis, and scientists say this is no coincidence (Image: USGS) HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Large earthquakes and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been occurring on an almost daily basis in the past few days, with one happening approximately 24 hours after the next, and scientists say the activity is in fact following a "fairly reliable pattern." The latest large earthquake to strike the summit happened early Wednesday and measured at a magnitude of 5.3, but it was not powerful enough to generate a tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Experts say the quake, which happened around 3:40 a.m., was caused by a small explosion at the summit, but it's not clear how big of an ash plume was generated. This is the latest in a string of large quakes to rock the region in the past few days. Another large tremor at the summit shook parts of the Big Island just a day before, also measuring at a magnitude of 5.3. And a day before that, another 5.3-magnitude struck the region. Both were triggered by explosive eruptions. Seismic activity in the region has ramped up over the past month as eruptions continue at Kilauea. And the U.S. Geological Survey said it's no coincidence that the uptick in large quakes and steam explosions are happening almost routinely. Over a 24- to 36-hour period, small earthquakes are building up until an ash explosion occurs at the summit, experts say. "Following the explosion at the summit, the seismicity will sharply drop off, and then gradually begin to build up as we approach the next summit explosion," said Alex Demas, of the USGS. Demas said these are not traditional earthquakes, like where rock breaks along a fault line, but it's what he calls a pressure wave from the explosion. "So as long as the summit explosions continue, there likely will be earthquakes and ground shaking associated with the explosion," he said. Most are centered at the summit of Kilauea volcano, and the vast majority are small (under magnitude 2.5). But there have also been a number of bigger quakes. But the biggest quake so far associated with ongoing eruptions of Kilauea was on May 4, when a 6.9-magnitude tremor shook the island. The temblor was felt as far away as Oahu, and caused some minor damage. Chip McCreery, director of PTWC, said the quake was the largest to strike the Big Island since November 1975, when a tremor centered two miles off Kalapana Beach was measured at a magnitude 7.2. This story will be updated. http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/...summit-continue-to-rattle-parts-of-big-island PHOTOS: Eruptions damage Halemaumau Crater overlook area Friday, June 8th 2018 http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38383223/photos-eruptions-damage-halemaumau-crater-overlook-area Edited to add two other related stories: Hawaii volcano: Kilauea lava boiled away Big Island's largest freshwater lake http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018...away-big-islands-largest-freshwater-lake.html By James Rogers On 6/12/18 Green "Olivine" Gems Fall from the Sky During Hawaii's Mount Kilauea Eruption http://www.newsweek.com/green-olivine-gems-fall-sky-mount-kilauea-volcano-eruption-hawaii-977336 By Kristin Hugo On 6/14/18
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...war-ii-demands-humane-population-control.html The Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night declared what it called a "climate emergency" with more global significance than World War II, and demanded an immediate effort to "humanely stabilize population" and "reverse ecological overshoot." The resolution, which invokes the global conflict between the Axis and Allies, charges that Americans bear an "extraordinary responsibility to solve the crises" facing the environment. "[D]uring World War II, the Bay Area came together across race, age, class, gender and other differences in an extraordinary regional mobilization, building and repairing Liberty ships, converting car assembly plants into tank manufacturing facilities," the resolution reads. A similar effort is necessary today to confront an even greater threat, according to the document. "[W]e can rise to the challenge of the greatest crisis in history by organizing politically to catalyze a national and global climate emergency effort, employing local workers in a mobilization effort building and installing renewable energy infrastructure," the resolution says. More than 60 million people died during World War II, according to most estimates -- a huge portion of the global population. But according to the Berkeley City Council, another thinning of the herd might be needed. The resolution notes that "reversing ecological overshoot and halting the sixth mass extinction requires an effort to preserve and restore half Earth’s biodiversity in interconnected wildlife corridors and to humanely stabilize population." The resolution, introduced in the ultra-progressive city by councilwoman Cheryl Davila, then invokes Pope Francis' comment that humanity is on the verge of global "suicide" and that "God's creation" is at stake. Davila's resolution also calls for a global climate summit in San Francisco in September and a push to "educat[e] our citizens about the climate emergency." The document's most substantial promise is for Berkeley to become a "carbon sink" by 2030 -- a term that means the city's greenhouse gas emissions will be in the negative. In addition to population control and a national mobilization effort, according to the Berkeley City Council, residents should avoid "consumerism" and "narcissism."
Many are not aware that the history of eugenics and population control began in the US and not Europe prior to WWI but gained a lot of momentum with the Rockefeller family and their concerted efforts both socially and through government lobbyists both here and abroad. The Rockefeller family also led the charge paving the way to Europe, and we all know what happened as a result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States These days, in the US we have people attacking the Catholic Bishops for their stance on not breaking up families of illegals seeking refuge in the US illegally. The Catholic Bishops conference I hope will begin proposing alternatives rather than simply condemning the government for enforcing the law. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/06/14/catholic-leader-immigration-immoral/amp/
The more I think about it, the more I REALLY hope that the California initiative to break into 3 states passes.
Catholic hospitals in Ireland will be required to perform abortions, says Leo Varadkar The Irish prime minister said doctors and nurses would be able to opt out but not publicly funded institutions Ireland’s Taoiseach has said that hospitals with a Catholic ethos will be required to perform abortions after new legislation comes into effect. Leo Varadkar told the Dáil that individual medics and healthcare workers will be able to opt out but that this opt-out will not extend to publicly funded hospitals. Two of Dublin’s biggest hospitals are owned by religious orders. The St Vincent’s Healthcare Group, which includes St Vincent’s University Hospital, is owned by the Sisters of Charity, while the Sisters of Mary own the Mater Hospital. The government is drafting legislation that will allow abortion on demand for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and in certain cases up to 24 weeks. Varadkar was responding to a question from the socialist Solidarity politician Mick Barry, who lamented that Ireland had “church-controlled schools, church-controlled hospitals … Ireland lags behind and the Government lags behind.” Varadkar said: “It will not … be possible for publicly funded hospitals, no matter who their patron or owner is, to opt out of providing these necessary services which will be legal in this state once this legislation is passed by the Dáil and Seanad [senate]. “I’m happy to give you that assurance.” He added: “That legislation will allow individuals to opt out based on their consciences or their religious convictions but will not allow institutions to do so. http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/new...uired-to-perform-abortions-says-leo-varadkar/
This will a real test to see how many true "doctors" and "nurses" there are out there. It's up to them to revolt against the deliberate taking of life. Everything today seems to fall back on what individuals have done and continue to do with their God given free wills. And those decisions will be what they are judged on....be it when the Warning confrontation of each person or after death. Meanwhile the world becomes even colder....if that is still possible. Once this killing at the beginning of life is rationalized the killing at the end of life (and in between which is already being seen) gets included. Don't doubt the "progressive liberals" will set up test cases.....their diabolical end being that of obliterating any semblance of the spiritual, moral, true God, supernatural influence in this world.
This is a real line in the sand. How terrifying when the Emperor demands incense at his altar. May the medical community stand up courageously and what is left of faithful priests and bishops earn their shepherd's staff. Poor Ireland! You are in the belly of the beast now along with all the rest of the West that once knew Christ. We have been given a brief respite here after BHO's reign of terror but only God knows for how long.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RaymondArroyo The late Bishop Sheen's body will now be moved to Peoria, IL to facilitate his cause for sainthood. Very good sign!
Catholic hospitals in Ireland will be required to perform abortions, says Leo Varadkar The Irish prime minister said doctors and nurses would be able to opt out but not publicly funded institutions And how long will it be before the 'institutions' will let it be known in the 'unspoken' that staff in training have no option but to cover all the disciplines in medical procedures during the training courses. Those who can not agree to partake in the ending of life disciplines will find themselves choosing to join in the killing or leave the medical profession. The offer of opting out for now is just dropping the frogs in the warn water, they won't even see the boiling coming until it is too late. Ireland you are down the pan, it is just a matter of time.
This is how they do the dance. Lies and soft coercion and then the steel fist. We saw this under Obama.
My back-of-the-envelope calculations (worth the paper they're scribbled on) suggest the first wave would hit Los Angeles about 5 hours after the slump slips; hitting the coast of Oregon and Puget Sound about an hour and a half after that. I don't know enough about hydrology to say for sure, but I think the Sound would act as a funnel, so the tsunami waves hitting Seattle might be at least 2 times as large as the waves hitting the ocean shore.
My back-of-the-envelope was wrong. I just found an animation that says the first waves would hit the California coast in 4.5 hours. Most of the waves would be around 100 meters (300 ft), but some local conditions might force the waves to be almost 2 times that high. If the waves are as high and strong as the ones portrayed in the animation, it's possible that some of the waves might overcome a number of the Aleutian Islands. Honestly, I know a couple of surfers who would love to try to tackle that hella wave.
