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Pregnant Mom Of 4 Sentenced To Prison For Refusing To Serve In Iraq

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IntelliHub May 14 2013

Private First Class Kimberly Rivera, mother of four children and pregnant with a fifth, was sentenced on April 29 to 14 months imprisonment, which was lowered to 10 months based on a plea agreement.

Kimberly Rivera

After serving a tour of duty in Iraq in 2006, she found herself unable to return.

She tells Amy Goodman in the Guardian why:

“I had a huge awakening seeing the war as it truly is: people losing their lives for greed of a nation, and the effects on the soldiers who come back with new problems such as nightmares, anxieties, depression, anger, alcohol abuse, missing limbs and scars from burns. Some don’t come back at all.”

Her attorney, James Branum, who defends soldiers who resist deployment, told me:

“She felt that she morally could not do what she was asked to do; at the same time, she realized that she would put other soldiers in danger if she didn’t pull the trigger when the time came. She talked to a chaplain about it. The chaplain largely pushed her aside, did not give her the counsel that she really needed.”

Never Advised Of Her Rights As A Conscientious Objector

This so-called Christian chaplain could have advised her that there was a regulation, AR 600-43, that gave her the right to petition to be classified a conscientious objector. He chose not to do the Christian thing.

Since she was never advised of her rights as a conscientious objector, she believed that she had no options but to return to Iraq or to emigrate to Canada. Rivera and her husband and two children fled to Canada in February, 2007, settling in Toronto.

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Stuart Wilde ~ Official History And True History

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Stuart Wilde March 18 2013

Sometimes, I enjoy writing pieces on true history. I hope they don’t shock my readers too much. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 1941, was not a surprise. Roosevelt knew days in advance the Japanese were coming. He deliberately sacrificed 2402 American sailors to get the USA into World War II. High up people knew of 911 well in advance and that was to get America into wars fighting for Israel in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.

In the sacred books it says in the end all the truth comes out. Eek! “…every hair on their head is counted”.

This is because in a mirror-world that is opposite us, all thoughts and actions and human feelings are recorded, nothing is lost. Your good deeds are there and your heroism and courage, as well as any proclivities (sins) you may have to ask forgiveness for.

The American war against the Moslems is more fake history. There has never been even one Moslem attack in America that the authorities and the FBI didn’t organize themselves. How many American dead do we have so far? I’m not sure….a hundred thousand I reckon, as a guess. It seems so cruel, lives wasted for nothing. The pain of the families left behind is very great.

I wonder how the truth comes out? Whistleblowers tend to get slung in jail, nowadays. The mainstream media is not going to run a TV show saying this Moslem thing is all a con job.

We’ll have to wait and see how the truth unfolds, meanwhile don’t let the lies oppress you. You can serve the cause by cleaning up any of your history that is fake and becoming ever more spiritual and authentic. Spirituality is, in my view, the act of becoming ever more normal.

I saw a vision of Jesus two nights ago, he showed me his hands, they are very slender and elegant, and beside him was a large open book, it looked like a leather bound Bible, and a deep voice said, “He came forth and led the people to a great victory”. Jesus is the way, which we can equate with Christian kindness, generosity, live and let live, and he is the truth, the custodian of the truth that annihilates fake history, and he’s the light, that part is self-evident, he looks like he radiates thirty miles.

Things will be resolved in ways we can’t imagine as yet. The power of the light is very great. Stuart Wilde www.stuartwilde.com

Alcuin Bramerton ~ War For Profit. War For Theft. War For Torture. The Fetid Excrescence Of US Militarism

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Alcuin & Flutterby March 8 2013

A detailed new compilation of evidence by the Guardian newspaper (London) and the BBC Arabic Service (London) has brought up fresh material to support the emerging international view that the US government and its AIPAC/Zionist corporate controllers now form the major engine of state-sponsored terrorism on the planet.

During the Bush Jnr presidency, the US Pentagon sent Colonel James Steele (58), an American veteran of its dirty wars in Central America, to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq which set up covert detention and torture centres to extract information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture reported during the US occupation and deliberately accelerated the country’s downward spiral into civil war. This civil war served the requirements of US business and diplomacy in the region.

The allegations, made by US and Iraqi witnesses in the new fifty-minute London documentary, implicate US government advisers for the first time in the human rights abuses committed. David Petraeus has been directly linked through an adviser, Colonel James H Coffman, to this abuse. Coffman described himself as Petraeus’s eyes and ears out on the ground in Iraq. Steele and Coffman worked as a team and knew everything about the US-sanctioned torture programmes.

Each clandestine US detention centre in Iraq had its own interrogation committee. Each one was made up of an intelligence officer and eight interrogators. These committees used various means of torture to make the detainees confess, including electricity, hanging them upside down, pulling out their nails, and beating them on their genitals.

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Spencer Ackerman ~ The Cost Of War Includes At Least 253,330 Brain Injuries And 1,700 Amputations

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Zen-Haven February 10 2013

Here are indications of the lingering costs of 11 years of warfare. Nearly 130,000 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and vastly more have experienced brain injuries.

Over 1,700 have undergone life-changing limb amputations. Over 50,000 have been wounded in action. As of Wednesday, 6,656 U.S. troops and Defense Department civilians have died.

That updated data comes from a new Congressional Research Service report into military casualty statistics that can sometimes be difficult to find – and even more difficult for American society to fully appreciate. It almost certainly understates the extent of the costs of war.

Start with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Counting since 2001 across the U.S. military services, 129,731 U.S. troops have been diagnosed with the disorder since 2001. The vast majority of those, nearly 104,000, have come from deployed personnel.

But that’s the tip of the PTSD iceberg, since not all – and perhaps not even most – PTSD cases are diagnosed. The former vice chief of staff of the Army, retired Gen. Peter Chiarelli, has proposed dropping the “D” from PTSD so as not to stigmatize those who suffer from it – and, perhaps, encourage more veterans to seek diagnosis and treatment for it. (Not all veterans advocates agree with Chiarelli.)

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Jon Rappoport ~ National Life Without Guns Is A Beautiful Thing, Isn’t It?

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Jon Rappoport February 3 2013

Vietnam was all right. No problem. So was the covert war in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Ditto for Iraq I and II and Afghanistan. All necessary and proper and good. Lives destroyed? Who cares?

The US government’s possession of weapons and their use? Well, of course they needed all those weapons. How else could the wars be fought?

Guns in hands of government are a completely different issue than guns in the hands of citizens. You do see that, don’t you? Government knows what to do with guns. Kill people. Lots of people. Citizens with guns are clueless and have to be dealt with..

US-government 24/7 surveillance of every US citizen? Again, no problem. No indication of bad intent at all. It’s just protection against terrorism.

So you see, the whole rationale for the 2nd Amendment—that Americans need to protect themselves against a tyrannical central government—goes right out the window.

That was easy.

And in case you’re wondering why our commander-in-chief doesn’t pinpoint the areas of the country where the major gun violence is taking place, since he wants to reduce that violence, it’s because he doesn’t wish to offend anyone. He’s merely being polite. An admirable quality.

Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.

Now, recently we’ve seen children suspended and expelled from school, and we’ve seen a school lockdown or two, because of the presence of a Nerf gun or a gun made out of fingers or the word “pow.” This makes perfect sense.

We all know imaginary guns are the gateway drug to real guns and real guns are a guarantee of death. So nip the situation in the bud. Eliminate all thoughts of guns. Slap the fingers of the finger guns.

This program of taking away imaginary guns proves our government is mentally acute. Another sign we can trust them and ignore the core purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

This next point is so heinous I hesitate to bring it up. But I must. It’s been suggested that if the federal government mandates all its vaccines for every citizen, and eliminates all exemptions, people will need to defend themselves and their families against government agents showing up at their homes with guns and syringes.

Preposterous, because no one has the right to his own body. You have no right to say what the government should put in your body. The government is allied with science, and science knows best.

So when the government says “take this vaccine,” you say “how many times?”

It’s simple. Fear not.

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Paul Craig Roberts ~ Agenda Prevails Over Truth

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Paul Craig Roberts | December 28 2012

In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. It its place stands agenda.

Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their planned wars against Muslim countries. For the neoconservatives to go forward with their agenda, it was necessary for Americans to be connected to the agenda.

President George W. Bush’s first Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neil, said that prior to 9/11 the first cabinet meeting was about the need to invade Iraq.

9/11 was initially blamed on Afghanistan, and the blame was later shifted to Iraq. Washington’s mobilization against Afghanistan was in place prior to 9/11. The George W. Bush regime’s invasion of Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) occurred on October 7, 2001, less than a month after 9/11. Every military person knows that it is not possible to have mobilization for invading a country half way around the world ready in three weeks.

The Orwellian “PATRIOT Act” is another example of planning prior to the event. This vast police state measure could not possibly have been written in the short time between 9/11 and its introduction in Congress. The bill was already written, sitting on the shelf waiting its opportunity. Why? Who wrote it? Why has there been no media investigation of the advanced preparation of this police state legislation?

Evidence that responses to an event were planned prior to what the government said was a surprise event does suggest that the event was engineered to drive an agenda that was already on the books.

Many on the left-wing are immune to evidence that is contrary to the official 9/11 story, because for them 9/11 is refreshing blow-back from the oppressed. That the oppressed struck back is more important to the left-wing than the facts.

The right-wing can’t let go of the fantasy either. America in all its purity and wonderfulness was attacked because evil Muslims cannot stand our goodness. “They hate us for our freedom and democracy.” The right-wing vision of a great and good America wronged is essential to the right-wing’s sustaining ideology, an ideology that is prepared to commit violence in order to prove its righteousness.

Implausible stories can be useful to other agendas and thus be sustained by their use in other arguments. For example, the Obama regime’s story of the killing of Osama bin Laden is central to Charles Pierson’s story in the November 16-30, 2012, CounterPunch in which Pierson writes about the growing strains on the US-Pakistan alliance. Pierson writes that bin Laden resided next to Pakistan’s largest military academy and that bin Laden “did go next door every Wednesday to use the pool. If the Pakistani government was unaware of bin Laden’s presence this would mark an intelligence failure of heroic proportions.”

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Jelaila Starr ~ Higher Perspective On Obama Reelection And Our Future

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Nibiruan Council | November 12 2012

The recent presidential election was one of the most hotly contested in US history; not only for what it means to Americans, but for the rest of the world as well.  President Obama was reelected by a narrow margin (you could say he retained his presidency by the skin of his teeth).  Whether you are happy or sad, there is something I want you to remember–all is not what it seems.

As the Nibiruans explained several months ago, good things will come of this though it may not appear to be that way right now.  In the weekly message, Higher Perspective on Global Economy and Obama’s Role , the Nibiruans stated that along with Obama being reelected, there was a very good chance that he would do a flip flop, meaning he has had a major change of heart and therefore is going to reverse many of his decisions and policies.

Note: For those wondering how the Nibiruans would know this, allow me to digress for a moment to explain for those new to my weekly messages.  The Nibiruans are not magicians; they are time travelers/healers.  If you go back and read the yearly perspectives you will find a common phrase, “As we project out along the timelines, we see…”  What they are doing is looking at where the energy is most concentrated on the future timelines.  Considering that they have been correct many times, I’m banking on them.

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Eyder Peralta ~ CIA Director Petraeus Resigns, Citing Extramarital Affair

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NPR | November 9 2012 | Thanks, Minty

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus submitted his resignation today, citing an extramarital affair.

“After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair,” Petraeus said in a message sent to CIA staff. “Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.”

Petraeus retired from the Army as a celebrated four-star general, who had led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He retired in September 2011 to become the CIA chief.

President Obama accepted his resignation saying that “by any measure, he was one of the outstanding General officers of his generation.”

The president added that Petraeus and his wife, Holly, were in his “thoughts and prayers” during “this difficult time.”

The president appointed Petraeus’ deputy, Michael Morell, as acting director.

This is a breaking news story. We’ll update as soon as we have more.

Update at 4:05 p.m. ET. ‘Regret The Resignation’:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,said in a statement that she “regret(s) the resignation.”

“I wish President Obama had not accepted this resignation, but I understand and respect the decision,” Feinstein said.

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Gordon Duff ~ US Military Planned Mutiny On The Bounty To Topple Obama –

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PressTV | October 29 2012

His real intent is to occupy Iraq and attack Iran. In the process, America intends on “neutralizing” the nuclear capability of Pakistan.

This is the plan, it is known, not just in the Department of Defense, but by all intelligence agencies, the plotters have all been recognized, are all under surveillance and they have not been very careful.”

The Obama administration has had American military, both on domestic and foreign bases on high alert since October 1. However, there has been no known terrorist enemy threatening the US. The enemy is called “domestic” but its origins are far from American.

Today, Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was “fired” from his command of one of the three carrier battle groups back to Bremerton, Washington to face an investigation.

It is impossible to adequately state how unusual this is and how serious.

The Navy was clear that the charges had nothing to do with his personal conduct, no rape or sexual misconduct, no stolen money, no drug use, the things that usually bring down careers in the Navy, that and crashing ships into each other.

Gaouette was sent back because the Secretary of Defense found him unfit for command, sent him across the world in the middle of one of the largest combat exercises in history, one both timed prior to an election and one at a critical location, near the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

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Dennis Kucinich ~ Weapons Of Mass Destraction [Video]

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 | October 10 2002

Ten years ago, on October 10, 2002, the United States House of Representatives made one of the most calamitous mistakes of a generation. Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that did not attack us and did not pose a threat to the American people.

The war in Iraq will ultimately cost the United States five trillion dollars. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eight Americans were killed. Tens of thousands of Americans were injured. At least one million innocent Iraqis were killed. Iraq has become a home to Al Qaida which it certainly was not before our intervention. Resentment against the United States has made pursuing peace more difficult. And we still have thousands of armed contractors in Iraq — paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

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Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya ~ The British Siege Of The Ecuadorian Embassy: Déjà Vu: Anglo-American Disregard For International Law

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Global Research | August 23 2012

Police stand outside Ecuadorian embassy in London

When Iranian student activists occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 as a result of the Iranian Revolution, the US and Britain condemned the Iranian provisional government of Prime Minister Bazargan even though it was not responsible. The US, UK, and their allies ranted and raved about the sanctity of foreign diplomatic missions, calling the activists “terrorists” and “anarchists.” Today, however, they endorse the storming of embassies and consulates themselves. It is also important to note that Anglo-American disregard for diplomatic sanctity is conducted at the official level while the taking of the US Embassy in Tehran was not an official act executed or sanctioned by the Iranian government.

In regard to British threats to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy to the United Kingdom in London, the focus should not be on Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks. The real focus of the British government’s threats should be on something much bigger and more important than one man. The real issue at hand is the total disregard for international law that has clearly emerged in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War.

The United States and Soviet Union never violated the diplomatic sanctity and extraterritoriality of one another’s diplomatic missions by storming them with their state security forces, even during the tensest periods of the Cold War. Embassies were consistently and securely used to relocate spies, defectors, and dissidents around the world. Many ruthless regimes and dictators during the Cold War even observed the international laws that protected the diplomatic sanctity of the diplomatic missions of other countries, even if their own dissidents sought refuge in the embassies and consulates of other countries.

The world is divided into two: those that are part of a system of empire and those that are not. The warning that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats has issued to the government of Ecuador that it will assault Quito’s diplomatic mission in London if Assange is not turned over to the British government is in total disregard for international law and signifies a feeling of impunity felt within the system of empire that includes the UK. Cameron’s government is making threats to ignore and breach international law at the behest of Washington, DC. The Ecuadorian government, with the support of all Latin America, has responded by telling Britain that it is not a “British colony.” Quito should have re-worded its comments and said it is not an “American colony or dependency like the UK.”

International Law, Diplomatic Immunity Mean Nothing to the US Empire

It should be clear to all by now that international law is only selectively applied and that double-standards are in exercise. There are two standards in the world too. One set of standards is for those that have to follow the law and the other is for those that are above the law. Some countries see international laws as tools to be manipulated in their favour and cited only when it suits them. The governments of these countries pick and choose when to follow international law and when to apply it. These countries include the United Kingdom, France, Israel, and, first and foremost, the United States of America. These nations act as if it is acceptable and natural for them to have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), illegally invade other countries, commit crimes against international peace, kill foreign nationals with impunity, and interfere in the affairs of other countries.

Diplomatic immunity and international law means nothing to the individual’s controlling the American Empire. When Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng sought political asylum in the US Embassy to China, the Chinese government did not threaten to violate Washington’s diplomatic immunity. The behaviour of the Chinese government has been in stark contrast to that of the British government’s threats to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

London’s Threats are a Repeat of Washington’s Actions: A Look Back at 2007

No one should be surprised about the US role in the threats to violate the diplomatic immunity of the Ecuadorian Embassy to the United Kingdom. The UK is merely following in the footsteps of the US in violating the extraterritoriality of diplomatic missions. In fact, the US raided an Iranian Consulate in Iraq on January 11, 2007.

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Jelaila Starr ~ Is it Time For You To Walk In Two Worlds?

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Nibiruan Council | August 20 2012

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It’s interesting how information that the 9D Nibiruans gave me over a decade ago is now being scientifically verified.

As many of you know, I decided to return to the 3D business world recently. As previously explained, my decision was based on fulfilling several purposes the most important being getting out of the house each day–I was too isolated.

It wasn’t until I reflected on my first week back in the working world that I realized how good the decision was. As I sat on my deck enjoying an iced coffee last Friday, I recalled what a struggle it had been to give myself permission to make the move.

It also occurred to me that if I was called, I now fully believe I was, to return to 3D, and then others are experiencing the same. And if that is the case, they are most likely having the same or similar struggles with their calling as I had.

So what are the signs of being recalled to 3D?

The first would be that you are presented with a job opportunity. The second would be that you are very interested in this job meaning that it is something you’d enjoy. The third is that metaphorically speaking; you are experiencing the doors closing on your current work. Opportunities are drying up along with funding and you have lost the passion you once experienced. If you are experiencing all three signs then it just may be time for you to make the move.

What is the higher purpose behind returning to 3D?

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Cost Of War Of Terror ~ 2,486,392,875 Ounces of Gold

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Silver Vigilante | August 17 2012 | Thanks, Thomas

Remember not too long ago, back when the human mind hadn’t begun its forced evolution of understanding really big numbers like trillions and quadrillions? Back before TARP handed out 16 trillion to domestic and offshore banks? Or before the War of Terror cost the US taxpayer $4 trillion?

Seems like just yesterday…

For those who have decided to stay awake for their fleecing, dealing with a trillion of anything is becoming normal in our daily lives. For others, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big numbers, be they millions, billions or quadrillions.

I got to wondering: How many ounces of gold has the War of Terror cost the US taxpayer? Well, the current price of gold is $1,616.80. The New York Times conservatively reported in 2008 that the cost of the Iraq War was approximately $5,000 per second or 3.2 ounces of gold. Basically one of these:

The overall estimated cost of war, according to Brown University’s Cost of War study, is $4 trillion dollars. How many ounces of gold would one need in order to finance a War of Terror?

Based on gold’s current price of $1,616.80, and Brown University’s estimated cost of the war of $4 trillion, the War of Terror has cost the United States taxpayer approximately 2,474,022,761 troy ounces of gold. Include the UK’s costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, as of 2010, of another $20 billion dollars, and that brings the total gold troy ounces needed to fund the Iraq War to 2,486,392,875 troy ounces of gold or more than 12 million troy ounces of gold on the United Kingdom taxpayers’ tab.

Overall, that’s 77,335.5 tonnes of gold in a world where approximately 2500 tonnes of gold is mined each year. Above ground, it is estimated that there is 155,000 tons of gold. And so, the total costs of the War of Terror amount to just under half of the worlds’ gold supply.

That is 2-and-a-half billion ounces of gold that the War of Terror has cost.

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