Category: Military Matters

Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Wikileaks

Many should know that wikileaks is a 100% kosher undertaking.  The leaks comprise of data that are easily falsified in part.  The leaks embarrass America or Arabs, not Israel.  The leaks are about relatively trivial matters but never serious issues such as central banks being private banks, not government banks.  The “whistleblowers” don’t just maintain official versions of major events such as 9/11 but ridicule dissent as nonsense that detracts from the “serious work” they’re doing with their exposes!  The U.S. ICE (Israeli Content Enforcement) agency of the Department of Homeland Security, which seizes domains willy nilly for copyright infringement, hasn’t bothered with wikileaks.  And so on… 

Some crucial leaks were said to have been provided by Private Bradley Manning to Julian Assange.  Both men look effeminate, and one would think they’re homos, which makes for bad PR.  So they put on a show where Assange was accused of raping two Swedish women, making him appear a macho man, and used the ruckus to attract attention to wiki leaks.  All this would be amusing if it weren’t for the plight of Bradley Manning, who’s been imprisoned in solitary confinement, cut off from friends and family.  Long-term incarceration in such circumstances is designed to break people down and make them confess to anything you want them to.

Manning’s trial is currently under way by Americans even though he is British, and there isn’t much that can be done to prevent him from being convicted of bogus charges, but you can help expose the sham to others and make it embarrassing for those working for the Israelis behind the wikileaks scam to be who they are. 

Useful links:

http://www.freebradley.org/english.html
http://blog.ukfriendsofbradleymanning.org/

Posted by R-news on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:50 PM in Activism,  Journalism,  Links,  Media,  Military Matters,  U.S. Politics,  War on Terror,  World Affairs
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Anti-racism and the Victoria Cross of Johnson Beharry

Simon Darby has posted yesterday’s Sky News interview with Nick Griffin.  The interview was part of the media adoption of the anti-BNP campaign by the Conservative Party’s proxy, Nothing British.  Not that there is anything British about Nothing British:

Nothing British is an anti-racism campaign seeking to promote gentle British values of tolerance, fair-play and respect for one another.

The centrepiece of its campaign has been a set battle between two retired British Army Chiefs of Staff, General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt, and Griffin’s little band of irregulars.  Jackson, we are told, was moved to speak out by “racist insults made by the BNP against Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, the black Victoria Cross holder”:

“I heard complaints that the BNP were being extremely offensive about Johnson Beharry, I looked into it, and found out that was indeed the case.  I thought it was pretty appalling that a brave man like that should be insulted in this way.

Jackson and Dannatt, along with others, put their names to this almost unbelievable nonsense:

“The values of these extremists - many of whom are essentially racist - are fundamentally at odds with the values of the modern British military, such as tolerance and fairness.”

In the same vein, in Nick Griffin’s Channel 4 interview yesterday, “the Fifth Lord Bethell ... a Tory toff” leading the Nothing British campaign delivered himself of the novel opinion that:

Nick Griffin claims to be sharing values with British military armed services. That’s just not true. The armed services stand for courage, fairness and decency …

Once there was a time when the British military cleaved to the function of executing successful operations as ordered, and nothing else.  Now, if we are to take these Tory proxies at their word, it is a willing social engineer in the greater battle for anti-racism.  Are they right?

Well, let’s look at how this truly manic perversion might have translated to the battlefield, in the form of the award of that VC to Johnson Beharry.  Were his actions in the early hours of Mayday in 2004 consonant with the very highest standards of military virtue for which the VC was inaugurated in 1856? Or has the Establishment merely built up Beharry as yet another peerless negro?  Well, you be the judge.  Here’s the rather over-long citation:

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Posted by Guessedworker on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 07:15 PM in Military Matters
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The deeds of our film-makers

“Everything was perfectly quiet at Rorke’s Drift after the column had left, and every officer and man was going about his business as usual. Not a soul suspected that only a dozen miles away the very men that we had said ‘Goodbye’, and ‘Good luck’ to were either dead or standing back-to-back in a last fierce fight with the Zulus. Our garrison consisted of B Company of the 2/24th under Lieutenant Bromhead, and details which brought the total number of us up to 139. Besides these, we had about 300 men of the Natal Native Contingent; but they didn’t count, as they bolted in a body when the fight began. We were all knocking about, and I was making tea for the sick, as I was hospital cook at the time.”

So begins the account by Private Henry Hook VC of the Defence of Rorke’s Drift, 22-23 January, 1879.  It is the greatest single action of British arms, a not inconsiderable place in history to occupy.

This morning, forty-four years after the release of Cy Endfield’s 1964 film Zulu, the Telegraph reported:-

Battle to restore ‘Zulu‘ hero Henry Hook‘s reputation

A campaign is underway to restore the reputation of Henry Hook, the soldier portrayed as a drunken shirker in the film Zulu.

In the 1964 film, Private Hook, played by James Booth, was shown becoming a reluctant hero by saving the lives of eight patients stranded at an Army hospital during the Zulu war in 1879.

That much was true - but far from being a cowardly, drink-soaked malingerer, Private Hook’s posthumous supporters are insisting, he was a teetotal lay preacher and was given a bonus for good conduct shortly before his heroics.

Major Tim Whedon, from the Royal Regiment of Wales, which incorporated Private Hook’s old regiment, said: “Henry Hook is an example of how a character was distorted to attract the film-goers when the story was captivating enough.”

… With Private John Williams, Private Hook, then aged 28, fought off fighters to bring eight patients to safety. However he was described onscreen as “a thief, a coward, and an insubordinate barrack-room lawyer,” only in the hospital because he was shirking duty.

Despite the distortion, Zulu was an honourable enough attempt to make a film in an already cynical, post-colonial age about a brief moment of extraordinary Victorian valour.  The script accorded the 4,000 Zulu attackers sufficient respect that Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi saw fit to appear as the Zulu war-chief Cetehwayo.  The writers were comfortable with that.  But they were obviously not comfortable with the real-life soldierly virtue of all the defenders.  One wonders how they would like to be remembered themselves.  Presumeably not as traducers.

However, that said, restoration of a reputation besmirched by film people may be a hot ticket in the next few months.  Here’s the Telegraph again:-

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Posted by Guessedworker on Friday, August 15, 2008 at 08:02 PM in Military Matters
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When Ordinary Americans Were a Great People

When Ordinary Americans Were a Great People
By
Robert E. Reis

Twentieth Century Fox released the film “Tora, Tora, Tora” on 23 September 1970.

This magnificent film tells the story of the Japanese attack on the American military base at Pearl Harbor sixty-six years ago.

It is unusual for two reasons. 20th Century Fox organized two production crews to make this movie: a Japanese crew in Japan and an American crew in the United States. The film approaches the events like an unbiased documentary. Nothing is dramatized on the screen that the director Richard Fleischer believed was not factual.

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Posted by Robert Reis on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 03:57 AM in Military Matters
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Blackhawking Down into the Dustbin of History

Blackhawking Down into the Dustbin of History
By
Robert E. Reis

I have learned a lot from the movie and the book Black Hawk Down.

The movie omits some facts that make the disaster in Mogadishu even more foolish than it is portrayed.

The Somali militias had already shot down a Blackhawk helicopters weeks before the day portrayed in the film.

The American forces already had unleashed a murderous air attack on a meeting of the clan leadership of our designated villain so thousands of Somalis wanted revenge.

Let’s stick to the movie version.

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Posted by Robert Reis on Friday, October 5, 2007 at 08:05 AM in Military Matters
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Postmodernism and new generation urban warfare

I am indebted to Troy Southgate’s New Right Forum where a member has posted a fascinating commentary on the IDF’s new methods of urban warfare.  The Israelis have applied a postmodernist archetectural analysis to the problem of combatting an urban guerilla force.  The result, complete with all the familiar postmodern linguistics, is the (literally) devastating concept of fighting under and through a dense architectural battlefield.

It is an astounding and disturbing commentary on semitic analysis, and on the - one imagines - extraordinary Ashkenazic capacity to invent new modes of attack.

The Art of War

The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools by Eyal Weizman
The attack conducted by units of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on the city of Nablus in April 2002 was described by its commander, Brigadier-General Aviv Kokhavi, as ‘inverse geometry’, which he explained as ‘the reorganization of the urban syntax by means of a series of micro-tactical actions’.1 During the battle soldiers moved within the city across hundreds of metres of ‘overground tunnels’ carved out through a dense and contiguous urban structure. Although several thousand soldiers and Palestinian guerrillas were manoeuvring simultaneously in the city, they were so ‘saturated’ into the urban fabric that very few would have been visible from the air. Furthermore, they used none of the city’s streets, roads, alleys or courtyards, or any of the external doors, internal stairwells and windows, but moved horizontally through walls and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors. This form of movement, described by the military as ‘infestation’, seeks to redefine inside as outside, and domestic interiors as thoroughfares. The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux.

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Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 06:27 AM in Military Matters
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The sons of Martha

Imagine a group of young men, many still in their teens. They are far, far from home. They are fighting a war the purpose of which they -and indeed their betters- cannot understand. Their old friends, safe back home, are only too likely to regard them with distaste, just as American soldiers in Vietnam were once regarded. What they obviously need is to be told how wonderful their alleged enemies are:

Iraq troops to get ethics training. US soldiers in Iraq to undergo ‘values’ training in wake of massacre claims.

A MEMBER of the US Marines unit accused of murdering 24 unarmed Iraqis said yesterday that his colleagues “were blinded by hate” and lost control before the massacre.

Interesting. I wonder when and if the leaders of the Iraqi Muslim communities will conduct an investigation into the atrocities perpetrated on Coalition soldiers -or indeed the torture inflicted on Western Aid workers. I’m not holding my breath.

I agree that the Coalition’s conduct in invading and destabilising a non-aggressing country is appalling. But surely, it’s the politicians who ordered this who should be reviled as haters and racists, not the ordinary soldiers on the ground, many of whom only joined because other career were denied to them by the flight of American jobs. After all, we blame the filthy rich pimp, not the impoverished prostitute.

Truly, it’s a thankless task to be a son of Martha -as Kipling once wrote.

In entirely unrelated news, one soldier claims that his service in the American army has made him unable to bear legal responsibility for rape. In other words, he has regressed to the level of a child. Poor lad.

Posted by Alex Zeka on Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 01:44 PM in Military Matters,  War on Terror,  World Affairs
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Performance IQ

Steve Sailer has a post up linking to a very interesting Slate piece about IQ and its correlation with performance:

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2006/01/slate-almost-mentions-dread-letters-iq.html

What’s interesting to me is that it shows - in no uncertain terms - the link between the two, in mission-critical terms.

Update:

Kevin Drum sallied forth:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_01/007973.php

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 02:22 PM in IQ and Heredity,  Military Matters
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Brits won’t fight

The [British]  Army has stopped actively recruiting Commonwealth and foreign soldiers because the numbers joining up have risen by nearly 3,000 per cent in seven years. Imposing a cap on the number of Commonwealth and foreign soldiers allowed to serve in each infantry regiment has been discussed by army chiefs.  “It is after all supposed to be the British Army, not the Commonwealth Army,” one defence source said.

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Posted by jonjayray on Monday, November 14, 2005 at 03:04 AM in Military Matters
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Three Questions to Ask Yourself

Question 1: What tier of the multiethnic American Empire do you think you’ve been assigned to?

Question 2: Do you personally think your assigned tier is rising or sinking in legal rights and economic opportunity?

Question 3: When being an American no longer means anything at all, what will you then consider your nationality to be?

From

Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America

Download here.

Posted by leslie on Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 02:54 PM in Military Matters
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Ruin is the Price of Indiscipline: A Study of Violence

If by conditioning we are reduced to savages then our fate is sealed. It is true we too can loot, rape, and club, though observation and data suggest the Negro and Mestizo are uniquely selected by nature for such savagery and by comparison we seem lacking. Incredibly many of our kind see the mayhem in New Orleans or witness Mestizo gang violence and are simply unable to register the threat, most can hardly comprehend such naked brutality.

As America sinks into the mud we, our kind, can expect more anarchic violence, and if we fail to organize as a people or if we conform to the enlarging paradigm of savagery we shall be erased from this continent. Though it is not the Brown mass we ought to fear the most.

Close Encounters of the Third World Kind

Discipline, training, organization, and intelligence can easily overcome the advantages the savage holds. We can learn from 500 years of history, for example Spain’s Cortez conquered all of Montezuma’s Mexico, with only 13 horses, fighting dogs, unwieldy harquebusiers and 500 men; similarly we could review the frontier wars on the American continent. But the most illustrative example is of the British Army in the South of Africa.

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Posted by leslie on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 02:05 PM in Military Matters
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A Million Mutinees Now!

The real war is being fought in hearts and minds; it is a war of printed ambuscades and verbal counter punches, and searing images. We have a sling and stone and they have an empire of media and government schools. Still the objective is always: what mind can be reached and what heart can I persuaded:  can a video be lent to a neighbor? Can someone be registered at FAIR or NumbersUSA - it sure helps when if you mention 3 million illegals invade each year, and many bring drugs and tuberculosis.

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Posted by leslie on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at 09:10 PM in Military Matters
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I ask you - dear Gentile reader - to fight with me!

I fight for something greater than the flag, for she now belongs in a museum and not a battlefield. Instead I war for my history, ancestors, and people. And I confess to all: if the flag doesn’t stand for a people, well, burn it; if the army isn’t defending the soil, why have it?; and if my taxes pay to school Somalis, then close the schools.

Even though I’m 40 years of age, fat, with two kids, and stifled by a career I want to live, to fight, to defeat the foe, don’t you too?  So, I filled out the form and petitioned for membership in the Minuteman Project.

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Posted by leslie on Thursday, July 28, 2005 at 02:30 PM in Military Matters
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3 ½ Generation Warfare

4th Generation Warfare (4GW) is a horrifying prospect; it means having your daughters strap on explosives to kill the enemy, the enemy often being a civilian population.  4GW is more than just suicide bombings; immigration is the supreme weapon for achieving total victory – a truly final solution.  For a more comprehensive introduction to 4GW Scott Horton has a fine interview with William S. Lind (MP3, 50 Min), others may be interested in reading Martin Van Creveld’s

The Transformation of War

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Perhaps some European populations may resort to 4GW as their governments are democratically usurped by Mexican and Muslim demagogues. Though, we might simply surrender, resigning ourselves to depredation and extinction, perhaps this is what T.S. Eliot meant when he wrote: This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.

I’ve yet to reach 4GW, but I’ve arrived at 3.5GW: a constant needling of the status-quo, upsetting the apple cart, fraying nerves, and attacking the complacent. Let me share a few of my war stories, timid though they may be.

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Posted by leslie on Sunday, July 24, 2005 at 01:42 PM in Military Matters
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Military training popular in schools

The writer of the article below is frantically anti-military (probably a misfit) but cannot evade the simple fact that kids like a military environment in many ways

Tarsha Moore stands as tall as her 4-foot 8-inch frame will allow. Staring straight ahead, she yells out an order to a squad of peers lined up in three perfect columns next to her. Having been in the military program for six years, Tarsha has earned the rank of captain and is in charge of the 28 boys and girls in her squad. This is Lavizzo Elementary School. Tarsha is 14.

The Middle School Cadet Corps (MSCC) program at the K-8 school is part of a growing trend to militarize middle schools. Students at Lavizzo are among the more than 850 Chicago students who have enlisted in one of the city’s 26 MSCC programs. At Madero Middle School, the MSCC has evolved into a full-time military academy for kids 11 to 14 years old.

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Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 05:50 PM in Military Matters
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Army addresses spate of recruiting misconduct

It appears that they cannot find enough people to fight for democracy. Is conscription next in America?

Posted by Phil Peterson on Friday, May 20, 2005 at 07:40 PM in Military Matters
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Oh bloody hell!

I’m only doing a copy & paste job on this one.  No thinking employed.  Can’t bear to think about those poor lads who love the Navy and the sea and our country, and who have watched the shit-hearted PeeCee people fuck with it all for their sick ends.

The Royal Navy is to place advertisements for recruits in the Pink Paper as part of a new campaign to recruit homosexual sailors.

“Commanding officers have a key role to play in creating a culture in which gay and lesbian personnel feel confident that they work without being harassed or bullied because of their orientation,” Commander Kingsbury said.

More here.

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, February 21, 2005 at 08:50 AM in Military Matters
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