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Senator Vic Snyder, Democrat from Arkansas, on democracy in Iran and the 1953 coup ordered by President Eisenhower. House of Representatives
On the House floor in 2003, Sen. Vic Snyder of Arkansas displayed a photo of Mossadegh with Truman and discussed the hypocrisy of the 1953 coup in Iran. He was responding to Pres. George W. Bush’s speech espousing democratic values in the Middle East.
• United States Congress on Iran | Archive
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A monster America made but can't tame Turn on the BBC and you are certain to hear some voice urging that we 'stay' in Afghanistan or return there. By 'we', of course, they mean the poor bloody infantry, the people who always end up fulfilling the ideals of political blowhards. Look, our Empire collapsed in bankruptcy more than 70 years ago. We have no more business in Afghanistan than do the Austrians or the Poles. Nor would we do any good if we returned. That poor country has done nothing but suffer at the hands of meddling outsiders. It was attacked in 2001 because the USA did not dare name or attack the country that was really the origin of the September 11 attacks, and still doesn't. You'll have to wait, or guess, too – the reports remain sealed, though the CIA and White House know what's in them. I don't much like the Taliban either. But sending young men from de-industrialised cities in Britain and North America to be killed, or have limbs blown off, so Cherie Blair, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the sisterhood can feel good about the treatment of women in Kandahar seems out of proportion. If Afghanistan now falls into the hands of non-feminists, it is largely because the USA, in a piece of cynical mischief unmatched in modern history, colluded there with Saudi Arabia to help Islamist mujahideen against the USSR in the 1980s. They created a monster they couldn't control, destroy or defeat. As for those Afghans we now leave to the mercy of the fanatics, our leaders surely knew this would happen in the end. It's another illustration of the old rule: don't make promises you cannot keep. When you do, don't make other people keep them for you.
Peter Hitchens, writing in the Mail on Sunday, explaining why the Taliban have taken back control of Afghanistan and the folly of this war from the beginning. The Taliban have control, because they have support. Evidently, all of our billions, weaponry, and soldiers mean nothing to them. Women’s rights are not a good reason to continue this unwinnable, pointless war. We should accept defeat and learn our lesson.
“Foreign Nations Land Marines In The Burning City,” Toronto Star. October 13, 1911. Page 5. ---- Hankow Is in the Hands of Rebels, and the City Is in Flames --- JAP ADMIRAL COMMANDS ---- Cable Has Been Cut by the Rebels and Communication Is Cut Off ---- Canadian Press Despatch Peking, Oct. 13. - Consular advices received here to-day state that the rebel artillery has occupied a hill commanding Hankow and the rebels have taken possession of the railway station.
The allied foreign mariners have landed and are protecting the foreign concessions under command of the Japanese Admiral Kawashima, the head of the third squadron of the Japanese navy. The Chinese gunboats are anchoring off the foreign concessions for their own safety/
The Provisional President Special to The Star. San Franscisco, Calif., Oct. 13. - A Hankow cable to the Chinese World to-day said that Lai Yuen Ling, formerly one of the chief commanders of the Chinese army, has deserted to the rebels and has been elected porvisional president of the new Chinese republic.
The American counsel, Roger S. Greene, visited Wu Chang to-day and escorted by a party of forty-four foreigners, Italians, English, and Americans. He was received most courteously by the rebel leader, Col. Li.
Hankow is in Flames. Special to the Star Washington, Oct. 15. - The State Department to-day received the following cablegram from Secretary Williams, in charge of the American Embassy, at Pekin:
‘Hankow, reported in flames. Americans seem to be safe. Fifteen thousand men, composing three army corps, have joined the rebels. Communication with Hankow is cut off.’
A message was received from Consul-General Greene, whose station is Hankow as follows:
‘Wu Chang and Hankang are held by the rebels. Hankow is in great disorder. Two American warships, two Japanese, three British, one German, and six Chinese warships are here. The reels have seized the provincial treasury, and have captured one million taels.’
The Commercial Cable Company at New York notified its patrons to-day that telegraphic communication with Hankow, China, had been interrupted because of a fire that was raging in that City.
Editorial Cartoons from Philippine Newspapers in 1969 Sadly, not much has changed here and abroad.
Rock Solid Proof The DNC Email Leak Was Internal
A new forensic study of the DNC email “hack” has provided strong evidence that the leak came from inside the DNC and was not a product of any Russian interference.
Image Credit: Christoph ScholzCC by SA 2.0
New meta-analysis has emerged from a document published today by an independent researcher known as The Forensicator, which suggests that files eventually published by the Guccifer 2.0 persona were likely initially downloaded by a person with physical access to a computer possibly connected to the internal DNC network. The individual most likely used a USB drive to copy the information. The groundbreaking new analysis irrevocably destroys the Russian hacking narrative, and calls the actions of Crowdstrike and the DNC into question.
The document supplied to Disobedient Media via Adam Carter was authored by an individual known as The Forensicator. The full document referenced here has been published on their blog. Their analysis indicates the data was almost certainly not accessed initially by a remote hacker, much less one in Russia.
The mainstream media and their allies in the Democratic Party have pushed the narrative that the email hack was the work of Russian agents trying to have an impact on the 2016 Presidential election.
This new data basically slams shut the Russian hacking narrative in favor of the one that has been most likely from the beginning . . . that someone at the DNC leaked the emails in retaliation for the DNC’s rigging of the Presidential primary process against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton.
The evidence provided by the Forensicator is very detailed and paints a clear picture of the route this information took before it ended up with Wikileaks.
The document states that the files that eventually published as “NGP-VAN” by Guccifer 2.0 were first copied to a system located in the Eastern Time Zone, with this conclusion supported by the observation that “the .7z file times, after adjustment to East Coast time fall into the range of the file times in the .rar files.” This constitutes the first of a number of points of analysis which suggests that the information eventually published by the Guccifer 2.0 persona was not obtained by a Russian hacker.
Image via The Forensicator
The Forensicator stated in their analysis that a USB drive was most likely used to boot Linux OS onto a computer that either contained the alleged DNC files or had direct access to them. They also explained to us that in this situation one would simply plug a USB drive with the LinuxOS into a computer and reboot it; after restarting, the computer would boot from the USB drive and load Linux instead of its normal OS. A large amount of data would then be copied to this same USB drive.
In this case, additional files would have been copied en masse, to be “pruned” heavily at a later time when the 7zip archive now known as NGP-VAN was built. The Forensicator wrote that if 1.98 GB of data had been copied at a rate of 22.6 MB/s and time gaps t were noticed at the top level of the NGP-VAN 7zip file were attributed to additional file copying, then approximately 19.3 GB in total would have been copied. In this scenario, the 7zip archive (NGP-VAN) would represent only about 10% of the total amount of data that was collected.
The very small proportion of files eventually selected for use in the creation of the “NGP-VAN” files were later published by the creators of the Guccifer 2.0 persona. This point is especially significant, as it suggests the possibility that up to 90% of the information initially copied was never published.
These seemingly small details ferreted out by the Forensicator add to the veracity of their conclusions that it had to be a local invasion not a remote one.
The use of a USB drive would suggest that the person first accessing the data could not have been a Russian hacker. In this case, the person who copied the files must have physically interacted with a computer that had access to what Guccifer 2.0 called the DNC files. A less likely explanation for this data pattern where large time gaps were observed between top level files and directories in the 7zip file, can be explained by the use of ‘think time’ to select and copy 1.9 GB of individual files, copied in small batches with think time interspersed. In either scenario, Linux would have been booted from a USB drive, which fundamentally necessitates physical access to a computer with the alleged DNC files.
The Forensicator believed that using the possible ‘think-time’ explanation to explain the time-gaps was a less likely explanation for the data pattern available, with a large amount of data most likely copied instantaneously, later “pruned” in the production of the Guccifer 2.0’s publication of the NGP-VAN files.
It also calls into question the way the DNC handled this situation including its curious use of Crowdstrike, an IT company with strong leftist ties, to be the only ones to see the initial data and then make a conclusion blaming Russian hackers.
Disobedient Media previously reported that Crowdstrike is the only group that has directly analyzed the DNC servers. Other groups including Threat Connect have used the information provided by Crowdstrike to claim that Russians hacked the DNC. However, their evaluation was based solely on information ultimately provided by Crowdstrike; this places the company in the unique position of being the only direct source of evidence that a hack occurred.
The group’s President Shawn Henry is a retired executive assistant director of the FBI while their co-founder and CTO, Dmitri Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, which as we have reported, is linked to George Soros. Carter has stated on his website that “At present, it looks a LOT like Shawn Henry & Dmitri Alperovitch (CrowdStrike executives), working for either the HRC campaign or DNC leadership were very likely to have been behind the Guccifer 2.0 operation.”
One key leg of the entire Russia conspiracy narrative is now turned completely to dust. It’s not likely to stop the witch hunt against the President but at least this charge is now up in smoke.
Amnesty International urges the US and other countries to stop arms transfers that could fuel atrocities.
Oh no what a coincidence