US Strategic Command biedt excuus aan voor hoogst onbeschofte maar wel eerlijke Tweet

US Strategic Command (Stratcom) heeft haar excuses aangeboden voor een hoogst onhandige, zelfs onbeschofte, maar eerlijke Tweet, die het deed uitgaan n.a.v. het nieuwe jaar.

Caitlin Johnstone schreef gisteren een artikel waarin ze o.a. commentaar heeft over de grote ophef die het bewuste Twitterbericht in de VS veroorzaakte. Ze stelt dat men blij moet zijn met de openhartigheid van Stratcom (die naam ziet Johnstone als een 'cool' alternatief voor de volledige benaming van dit legeronderdeel dat over de inzet van atoomwapens gaat)

De 42 seconden van de video die Stratcom meestuurde geeft volgens Johnstone in die korte tijd perfect aan waar de VS voor staat: het zaaien van dood en verderf......

Sterker nog: vooral het excuus van Stratcom, na de ophef die het Twitterbericht veroorzaakte in de VS, is een dikke vette leugen!! Vooral de zin: "We apologize. We are dedicated to the security of America & allies." steekt Johnstone, daar het brengen van terreur over de wereld niets te maken heeft met de veiligheid van de VS, noch die van haar hielenlikkende westerse partners (als Nederland)...... Integendeel de militaire acties van de VS en haar oorlogshond, ofwel terreurorganisatie NAVO, creëren terreur op de straten in het westen, terreur veroorzaakt door veel grootschaliger westerse terreur, waar wij onze privacy voor in moeten leveren, zaken die niets met onze veiligheid te maken hebben......

Voorafgaand aan het excuus durfde Stratcom op te merken dat: "Our previous NYE tweet was in poor taste & does not reflect our values........." ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De eerdere Tweet met reclame voor de kernbomen, raketten en oorlogsvoering in het algemeen 'reflecteert' nu juist precies de waarden van Stratcom en daarmee van de uiterst agressieve en terroristische VS oorlogsmachine!! Het is dan ook juist het militair-industriële complex dat enorme sommen geld spendeert om de bevolking een rad voor ogen te draaien en hen te laten geloven dat de VS juist handelt met haar grootschalige terreur....... Je begrijpt dat e.e.a. te danken is aan de reguliere massamedia, die als het grootste deel van de politici, die leugens (anders gezegd: propaganda) bij de bevolking door de strot duwen...... 

     

Om even wat militaire terreuracties van de VS (en de NAVO) te noemen:

• De illegale oorlogen die de VS keer op keer begint (zoals gezegd in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft) met hulp van de NAVO.
• Standrechtelijke executies middels drones van intussen vele duizenden verdachte mensen in het buitenland (waarbij meer dan 90% van de vermoorde mensen niet eens werd verdacht van terreur of wat dan ook). 
• Andere illegale, geheime militaire acties in het buitenland. 
• De opstanden die de VS organiseert in meerdere buitenlanden en de staatsgrepen die daar meestal op volgen, of staatsgrepen die de CIA in het buitenland organiseert samen met het daar bestaande militaire apparaat en geheime diensten.
• De steun van de VS voor dictators, zoals die voor de reli-fascistische terreurstaat Saoedi-Arabië.

Ach, Johnstone brengt het veel beter onder woorden, lees het artikel van Johnstone en geeft het door: als we echt vrede willen, zal de VS als eerste terug moeten in haar hok en daar moet blijven, ofwel: YANKEE GO HOME! (AND NEVER RETURN!!)

US Military Apologizes For Posting Uncomfortably Honest Tweet

ARTICLE, NEWS JANUARY 1, 2019 AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

US Strategic Command (or "Stratcom" if you're trying to make a nuclear-capable arm of the US Defense Department sound cool) has issued an apology for a poorly received New Year's Eve tweet which has since been deleted.

"#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball...if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger," the offending tweet read, with an attached video featuring B-2 stealth bombers flying all stealth bombery and causing gigantic explosions with bunker buster bombs while words like "STEALTH", "READY", and "LETHAL" flashed across the screen. The tweet concluded with the ostensibly unironic hashtag "#PeaceIsOurProfession".

"Our previous NYE tweet was in poor taste & does not reflect our values," Strategic Command tweeted.

"We apologize. We are dedicated to the security of America & allies."

US Strategic Command

✔@US_Stratcom

Our previous NYE tweet was in poor taste & does not reflect our values. We apologize. We are dedicated to the security of America & allies.

7,514

12:26 AM - Jan 1, 2019

This statement is, obviously, a lie. The part about "security" of course, because dominating the globe with nonstop military violence and aggression has nothing to do with security, but also the "does not reflect our values" part. The US military deleted the post and apologized for it because it received an angry backlash from hundreds of commenters and was circulated virally on Twitter for its jarringly creepy message, not because it did not reflect their values. It reflected their values perfectly. The only way you could possibly encapsulate the US military's values in a 42-second video clip more perfectly than cramming it full of footage of $2,000,000,000 war planes cruising around dropping $3,500,000 GBU-57 bombs would be to also show the human bodies they land on being ripped to pieces. Inflicting death and destruction using unfathomably expensive machinery is the US military's whole job. Of course it reflects their values.

The real issue here was not values but perception. The US war machine pours an immense amount of energy into perception management, making sure that ordinary Americans either (A) ignore the horrific things that are being done in their name or (B) think that those things are awesome and patriotic. The offending post was clearly attempting to accomplish (B). A team of paid social media propagandists simply did not understand that ordinary human beings wouldn't resonate with a message that amounts to "Hey I see you're all preparing to bring in the new year, so watch how good we are at killing large numbers of people!", and some damage control became necessary when everyone got freaked out. Can't have people opening their eyes to how insane America's relentless military expansionism has gotten, after all.

Watching the propaganda arm of the US-centralized war machine is a lot like watching a manipulative sociopath learning how to function in normal society. Sometimes they'll slip up and fail to react the way someone with a healthy sense of empathy would respond to the death of a pet or someone's emotions or whatever, and they risk alienating whoever's around them and losing access to the resources they could exploit them for if they can't manipulate them out of the creeped-out feeling people get when they're around someone who doesn't empathize like a normal human being. I suspect many of the commenters who flooded in telling Stratcom to delete its tweet were not so much interested in eliminating a violent social media post from the internet, but in eliminating that creeped-out feeling you get when the sociopath's mask slips a bit.

(de volgende video is dezelfde als die in het originele Twitterbericht)

Deven_Intel@Deven_Intel

I'm so glad I had decided to download this video from the #UnitedStates StratCom Tweet earlier.
Here's the video the StratCom had released earlier today. They took down the tweet.
Here's the video for any of you looking for it.#HappyNewYear2019 #StealthBomber

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12:32 AM - Jan 1, 2019

And that's understandable. One of the biggest obstacles in getting people to realize how deeply propagandized they are is the cognitive dissonance which comes rushing in when one considers the implications of viewing the world free from the lens of military psychological manipulations. Without the lies about how beneficent and necessary and awesome the military is, all you've got is trillions of dollars worth of instruments of death circling the globe to facilitate the daily slaughter of men, women and children to advance agendas of power and profit while ordinary people struggle just to get by in your own country. It can be deeply psychologically uncomfortable to grapple with the reality of what that means for your beliefs about your nation, your society and your very identity, in much the same way realizing you married a manipulative sociopath can be an uncomfortable truth one might feel tempted to compartmentalize away from.

A lot of people got upset about that tweet, but they really shouldn't have. The tweet was not the problem; it was just a few perception managers for the US military being more honest and straightforward than usual. The problem is that money is being stolen from ordinary Americans to murder strangers on the other side of the planet to advance agendas of power and profit, and everyone's being propagandized into accepting that as normal. The sociopathic propaganda engine slipping up and stirring the populace from their slumber a bit is nothing to complain about, the actual reality of our actual situation is.

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Hier nog wat links naar berichten over de grootscheepse terreur van de VS na WOII, waarbij nog opgemerkt moet worden dat de VS alleen deze eeuw al goed is voor meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden door illegale oorlogsvoering enz.:
'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........'

'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

'List of wars involving the United States'

'CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi's beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz.........'

De VS op nucleair oorlogspad: B52 nucleaire bommenwerpers, voor 't eerst in 26 jaar, klok rond inzetbaar..........

Om de wereld nog eens te laten zien, dat de VS schijt heeft aan vrede en alle ontwapeningsverdragen, vooral die voor nucleaire wapens*, heeft het Pentagon na 26 jaar, met instemming van het 666 beest Trump, besloten met atoomwapens geladen B52 bommenwerpers weer de klokrond 'gemobiliseerd' te houden........

Als reden geeft het Pentagon onder meer aan dat het nu eenmaal een gevaarlijke wereld is...... ha! ha! ha! ha!ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Inderdaad het is een gevaarlijke wereld en daar is maar een 'land' verantwoordelijk voor, de grootste terreurentiteit die de aarde ooit zag: de VS!!!

De wapenindustrie en de aandeelhouders kunnen feestvieren met deze beslissing van het Pentagon en Trumps junta (gedomineerd door militairen...)..................

Lees het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, geplaatst op Zero Hedge (o.a. verspreid via Anti-Media):

For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert

by Tyler Durden

Oct 23, 2017 6:39 AM

The unexpected decision by President Trump to amend an emergency Sept 11 order signed by George W Bush, allowing the Air Force to recall up to 1,000 retired air force pilots to address what the Pentagon has decribed as "an acute shortage of pilots" caught us by surprise. After all, this was the first time we have heard of this particular labor shortage - perhaps there was more to this executive order than meets the eye. Indeed, a just released report may help explain the reasoning behind this presidential decision.

According to Defense One, the US Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991.

That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of Barksdale Air Force Base's 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree” for their angular markings — could once again find several B-52s parked on them, laden with nuclear weapons and set to take off at a moment’s notice.

“This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, told the publication in an interview during his six-day tour of Barksdale and other U.S. Air Force bases that support the nuclear mission. “I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we’re prepared going forward.”

Quoted by Defense One, Goldfein and other senior defense officials stressed that the alert order had not been given, but that preparations were under way in anticipation that it might come. That decision would be made by Gen. John Hyten, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or Gen. Lori Robinson, the head of U.S. Northern Command. STRATCOM is in charge of the military’s nuclear forces and NORTHCOM is in charge of defending North America.

Putting the B-52s back on alert is just one of many decisions facing the Air Force as the U.S. military responds to a changing geopolitical environment that includes North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear arsenal, President Trump’s confrontational approach to Pyongyang, and Russia’s increasingly potent and active armed forces.

Goldfein, who is the Air Force’s top officer and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is asking his force to think about new ways that nuclear weapons could be used for deterrence, or even combat.

Quoted by Def One, he said that “the world is a dangerous place and we’ve got folks that are talking openly about use of nuclear weapons. It’s no longer a bipolar world where it’s just us and the Soviet Union. We’ve got other players out there who have nuclear capability. It’s never been more important to make sure that we get this mission right.” During his trip across the country last week, Goldfein encouraged airmen to think beyond Cold War uses for ICBMs, bombers and nuclear cruise missiles.

“I’ve challenged…Air Force Global Strike Command to help lead the dialog, help with this discussion about ‘What does conventional conflict look like with a nuclear element?’ and ‘Do we respond as a global force if that were to occur?’ and ‘What are the options?’” he said. “How do we think about it — how do we think about deterrence in that environment?”

Asked if placing B-52s back on alert — as they were for decades — would help with deterrence, Goldfein said it’s hard to say.

“Really it depends on who, what kind of behavior are we talking about, and whether they’re paying attention to our readiness status,” he said.

Meanwhile, various improvements have already been made to prepare Barksdale — home to the 2d Bomb Wing and Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s nuclear forces — to return B-52s to an alert posture. Near the alert pads, an old concrete building — where B-52 crews during the Cold War would sleep, ready to run to their aircraft and take off at a moment’s notice — is being renovated.

Inside, beds are being installed for more than 100 crew members, more than enough room for the crews that would man bombers positioned on the nine alert pads outside. There’s a recreation room, with a pool table, TVs and a shuffleboard table. Large paintings of the patches for each squadron at Barksdale adorn the walls of a large stairway.

One painting — a symbol of the Cold War — depicts a silhouette of a B-52 with the words “Peace The Old Fashioned Way,” written underneath. At the bottom of the stairwell, there is a Strategic Air Command logo, yet another reminder of the Cold War days when American B-52s sat at the ready on the runway outside.

Those long-empty B-52 parking spaces will soon get visits by two nuclear command planes, the E-4B Nightwatch and E-6B Mercury, both which will occasionally sit alert there. During a nuclear war, the planes would become the flying command posts of the defense secretary and STRATCOM commander, respectively. If a strike order is given by the president, the planes would be used to transmit launch codes to bombers, ICBMs and submarines. At least one of the four nuclear-hardened E-4Bs — formally called the National Airborne Operations Center, but commonly known as the Doomsday Plane — is always on 24-hour alert.

Barksdale and other bases with nuclear bombers are preparing to build storage facilities for a new nuclear cruise missile that is under development. During his trip, Goldfein received updates on the preliminary work for a proposed replacement for the 400-plus Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the new long-range cruise missile.

“Our job is options,” Goldfein told Defense One's Marcus Weisgerber. “We provide best military advice and options for the commander and chief and the secretary of defense. Should the STRATCOM commander require or the NORTHCOM commander require us to [be on] a higher state of readiness to defend the homeland, then we have to have a place to put those forces."

And now that the US is preparing for immediate nuclear war readiness, all it needs is a provocation, one which a world which has never been more on edge over a stray tweet, may have little difficulty in finding...

Tags: Minuteman III Reality
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* Al onder Obama is de VS begonnen haar nucleaire wapens te vernieuwen, nu uiteraard met grote instemming van Trump.......

Zie ook: 'VS generaal steunt een preventieve aanval met kernwapens' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)