Mentally ill? Media or murderer?

From columnist Tarek Fatah in the Toronto Sun -

No sooner was it revealed that the Toronto mass murderer was a 29-year-old Muslim of Pakistani descent, ‘consultants’ and ‘experts’ lined up on various TV networks twisting themselves into halal pretzels, trying to avoid the elephant in the room staring at them — a Muslim hate crime.

Within hours CBC News obtained an unsigned letter purportedly from the killer’s family, stating the mass shooter Faisal Hussain had a lifelong struggle with “severe mental health challenges,” including “psychosis and depression.”

Thus the subject on the evening news became one of lack of funding of mental health and gun crime, painting the murderer himself as a victim with not even a hint of anger at the man who had declared war on a Toronto street of party goers, killing two girls, 18 and 10. Never once did a single participant have the courage to raise the possibility of the killer being inspired by jihadi teachings that portray partying on streets by women as evil and satanic.

The most apt response to the hours of political correctness came from an Australian Islamic cleric, Imam Mohammed Tawhidi who has been to Canada and is familiar with the Islamist networks in the country. He tweeted: “If you think all these Jihadi terrorists kill because they have a mental illness, then perhaps you are the one with a mental illness. It’s not mental illness, it’s their allegiance.”

Also upset at the endless hours of banality on TV was Ensaf Haider, the Canadian wife of Saudi-held prisoner of conscience, Raif Badawi. She tweeted: “Politically correct reporters keep saying murderer Faisal Hussain suffered ‘mental illness’. Which Islamic terrorist was NOT mentally ill? These jihadis hate women and Faisal aimed at and shot the woman. He’s a jihadi, no doubt about it Shame on CBCNews for covering up the truth.”

If it was not for the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington, much of what we now know would have remained concealed. Warmington reported that his “law-enforcement sources confirm investigators are looking at every avenue — including a potential jihadi-inspired mission.”

This was the first time the word ‘jihad’ appeared in the media, where a Toronto Star investigative reporter went as far as to blame all men for the crime. Kenyon Wallace wrote, “why, many are inevitably asking, would someone do such a thing?” Then answering his own question Wallace determined, “In truth, we may never know.”

He then went on to conclude: “Hussain also shared a characteristic in common with many mass murderers, one that has received particular attention in the wake of a string of explicitly misogynistic attacks: he was male.”

However, another male was digging for the truth as in facts, not a discourse in gender studies that would diminish Bin Laden, ISIS, al-Qaida and the Taliban responsibility for crimes against humanity and share it with all of us males as their partners in crime.

In the meantime, Warmington reports that “files being reviewed by police include concern Hussain expressed “support” for a website that was “pro-ISIL” and his visits to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

There are questions that remain unanswered – like which mosque Hussain attended, who scrubbed his social media presence and how it was that his name was withheld until the family issued their polished statement.

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How can we ever stop these hate killings until we accept the truth of their WHY?

Stanley Park - part of Vancouver Resort

Been there lately?
Used to be you could stop anywhere in Stanley Park and walk trails, sit at the beach and read among the logs, watch the ships and sailboats in English Bay, have a swim, have a picnic. Of course you still can, but as Vancouver becomes a tourist town, and ejects the locals and born-here people, it has become extremely expensive to visit.

You now must pay for everything. The cost is $3.50 per hour to park anywhere in the park! Some say that is reasonable, but really? What family can afford say $14.00 to take the kids to the zoo, or the Aquarium (more money) or just for a picnic at Second Beach. You can get a daily pass for $17.00 except if you're near some concessions selling lousy food or plastic ice cream. Then you pay more.
You can get a seasons pass for $225.00 but that is good only from April 1 to September 30. After that you must buy another for $120. from Oct 1 to March 30. They don't say if you have to pay extra for Feb 29th.
And parking is controlled by a contracted company outside of the Vancouver Parks Board, Easy Park. Maybe what is easy about that is their profits for doing nothing but endlessly circling parking areas. And they simply read the electronic meters to see if you paid yet, and if you are too damned slow about it you're nailed for a $40.00 ticket! Including in the darkness of night. So watching the once famous Nine O'clock gun is out unless you time your drive-by!

Several years ago now, they started charging a fee for the Second Beach pool! They might as well have hung a sign on the new chain link fence saying, 'Rich Kids only please', and Lumberman's Arch pool is gone. I was born and raised in Vancouver and took the Sun Free Swimming lessons many years ago at Lumberman's Arch pool. They had little changing tents and taught you the Deadman's Float first. Cost you nothing else.

So gone are the greenhouses, and the famous rose gardens and a lot of the areas you could sit and dream in are covered with blackberry thorn bushes. The money is certainly not going into maintenance, they had a lawn mower once. Then you could roam the park trails for hours and find quiet reflections at Lost Lagoon or Beaver Lake.  (I wonder if that little drinking fountain is still there at a cross-trail south of Prospect Point in the forest?) You could sit on a bench for hours and watch the freighters coming under Lions Gate Bridge. Free. Or wander a trail and come face to face with a lovely quiet doe, or even watch a little skunk herd her brood while ignoring you. Throughout my childhood I spent many hours exploring the seashore and forest. I met Jimmy Cunningham, the builder of the Seawall when he was working on it by Third Beach. And Birder John Rodgers who told me about a third eagle aerie along the west side. I suppose the once largest tennis tournament in the world, the Stanley Park Open is finished too.
I parked at Brockton for years and ran the 10 K Seawall, then had a shower like thousands of other runners and went back to work. No cost.

But as Vancouver redesigns itself as a Resort Town, open mainly to tourists and wealthy visitors, the good things about Vancouver just disappear into the treasure chests of corporations. Lord Stanley's dedication says 'For the use and enjoyment of people of all colours creeds and customs for all time.' Perhaps they should recut a line in that marble - 'Bring money'.  

Sadly Vancouver people are being excluded from Vancouver very quickly, The powers that be want you to go in on the train or bus, service the rich foreigners who live there, and then get out back to wherever you actually live. The Vancouver Aquarium keeps trying to take more of the park for what they keep saying is helping marine life, then why do they need a convention center in there? Did you realize the entry to the Aquarium for adults is now $38. and a child is $21. So you park, bring wife and 2 kids to see fish and it costs you $135.00! OMFG!

Further decline of the park. Do any teams still play at Brockton fields. I suppose the Vancouver Rowing club still rows, maybe only in the lounge chairs by the bar? And the Vancouver Yacht Club patrons can still afford to visit their barnacled boats once in a while, but they arrive in Limos with drivers told when to come back. No need to park the Bentley with the unwashed masses.
I am talking about folks forced to live in congested neighborhoods or tiny apartments who want to sit on grass and breath a little fresh air at Burrard Inlet or Prospect Point or walk the Seawall for health. Sorry folks, but you are being excluded. Be careful, that Nine O'clock gun may be shooting at you.

I moved out of Vancouver some time ago because of the costs. As an oldster with limited resources, I just cannot go there now, a $1.00 coin only gets you 10 minutes on the metered streets. And I recently tried a private parking lot, the old Bay Parkade, paid for two hours, got back 7 minutes late and they had a ticket on my car for $127.00! (NEVER going to pay that one)

Stanley Park roads used to be filled on a Sunday as many families went there for nature or picnics. Finding a spot was sometimes hard, but the upside was that thousands of people were there, IN the park, of all colours creeds and customs, enjoying it all. For years the Park Board has been no more than a political organization and should be eliminated entirely and the control of parks returned to Vancouver City.

And although some may see this as a bitch, I think of it as a lament for the thousands of Vancouver born or unrich people being driven out of their own town. Taking away the chance of a little recreation or quiet contemplation only makes the evicted a little more angry.

Those parking fees in Stanley Park should be like $1. per hour. Or eliminated entirely. Filling the park with people enjoying it should be the goal, not the anathema. Seeking solitude shouldn't have you seething with irritation over parking fees. And we can only wonder how long we'll be able to drive through it without having to pay a road toll.


Welcome to Resort Vancouver, the Gucci store is over there.

Top 20 oil spills from pipelines since 2010

 In July 2010, a pipeline carrying tar sands oil burst in Marshall, Mich., inundating 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River with heavy crude. Enbridge and the EPA both confirm that it has taken far longer to clean up the oil than expected. (partly because diluted bitumen is heavier than water and sinks) Early on, the EPA gave the company a couple of months. Two years and $800 million later, the cleanup is still going on. The cost eclipses every other onshore oil cleanup in U.S. history!

might have once been a favorite picnic site ...

The Canadian pipeline company involved in the Michigan spill (Enbridge) is not the same company building to Vancouver's inner harbor terminal, TransCanada. Representatives say their company is trying to learn as much as it can from the Kalamazoo spill, but they also stress that their Keystone pipelines should not be compared with the 40-year-old one that busted. And have asserted many times that Alberta to Vancouver is completely safe.
"The new pipelines we want to build are going to be the newest and safest pipelines ever built in the U.S.," says Grady Semmens, a spokesman for TransCanada. (refering to their Keystone line)  "They'll be a lot newer than that line that Enbridge operates. And we're quite confident that any incident even approaching that scale will be very quickly identified and responded to by TransCanada."

The problem is, can we trust anything the pipeline companies say? Just think of the revenue they would receive for 20, 30 or 40 years of pumping dilbit. And one thought - where does their responsibility end? At the terminal in Vancouver? What about the tankers coming and going? What insurances do they have?
 
from a Nov 17, 2017 article ...in USA Today - Associated Press -

The spill of an estimated 210,000 gallons of crude oil in South Dakota from TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline is one of the 20 largest onshore oil or petroleum product spills since 2010.

 Here are the top 20 spills during that period as reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The list ranks them by size and includes the date, gallons spilled, commodity, company name, city or county and state of spill and estimated costs including property and environmental damages.

— July 29, 2013: 865,200 gallons, crude oil, Tesoro High Plains Pipeline Co., MountRail County, N.D., $17,755,766

— July 25, 2010: 843,444 gallons, crude oil, Enbridge Energy, Marshall, Mich., $927,270,213

— Dec. 5, 2016: 529,830 gallons, crude oil, Belle Fourche Pipeline Co., Billings County, N.D., $11,334,049

— June 4, 2011: 513,618 gallons, crude oil, Enterprise Crude Pipeline LLC, Chico, Texas, $1,472,079

— Oct. 11, 2010: 428,400 gallons, crude oil, Centurion Pipeline LP, Levelland, Texas, $70,748

— Jan. 19, 2017: 420,378 gallons, crude oil, Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, Logan County, Colo., $345,554

— April 13, 2011: 378,000 gallons, gasoline, Marathon Pipe Line, Dansville, Mich., $38,661,147

— Dec. 8, 2014: 369,600 gallons, gasoline, Plantation Pipe Line Co., Belton, S.C., $3,951,634

— August 29, 2016: 361,200 gallons, crude oil, Sunoco Pipeline LP, Sweetwater, Texas, $4,017,900

— Oct. 23, 2016: 319,326 gallons, crude oil, Enterprise Crude Pipeline LLC, Cushing, Okla., $7,818,638

— Sept. 9, 2010: 316,596 gallons, crude oil, Enbridge Energy, Romeoville, Illi., $52,284,683

— Sept. 9, 2016: 309,540 gallons, gasoline, Colonial Pipeline Co., Helena, Ala., $66,234,072

— Jan. 27, 2011: 290,262 gallons, crude oil, Enterprise Crude Pipeline LLC, Iola, Texas $4,834,962

— Aug. 31, 2017: 240,072 gallons gasoline, Magellan Terminals Holdings LP, Galena Park, Texas, $1,340,026

— March 9, 2013:235,200 gallons, crude oil, Lion Oil Trading and Transportation, Inc., Magnolia, Ark., $3,538,062

— Aug. 31, 2017: 221,424 gallons, gasoline, Magellan Terminals Holding LP, Galena Park, Texas, $1,292,026

— Jan. 30, 2017: 210,000 gallons, crude oil, Enterprise Crude Pipeline, Anna, Texas, $2,346,925

— Nov. 16, 2017: 210,000 gallons, crude oil, TransCanada Corp, Marshall County, S.D., Cost not yet known

— Oct. 13, 2014: 189,378 gallons, crude oil, Mid-Valley Pipeline Co., Mooringsport, La., $12,049,280

— Oct. 31, 2016: 186,669 gallons, gasoline, Colonial Pipeline Co., Helena, Ala., $16,844,292

Of course the facts have no relationship with the job losses, property losses, heartbreak and health risks associated with virtually all of these spills.  

... might have once been a dream place to live.

   ... here is an example of sneaky interfering - this URL should lead to a US Department of Transportation page heading Significant Pipeline Incidents - however it deletes itself from your scrutiny in seconds ; hundreds of spills happen each year in the U.S.   Who did this? It shows that pipeline spills are inevitable.

 TransCanada has said in writing that questions about crude oil spills were hypothetical because their pipeline would be designed not to spill. But in a document for the State Department, TransCanada predicted two spills every 10 years over the entire length of its Keystone XL pipeline, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Some scientists argue that the company underestimates that risk. Another pipeline it put into service two years ago has had 14 spills in the United States, although most were small, according to TransCanada.

Stay tuned, don't accept every comment from either side, and keep asking questions, the MSM is NOT doing it's job on this one for whatever reasons.

 

 Super, Natural, British Columbia with the jewel of Canada's West Coast, Vancouver, When is one more tanker just one too many?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -  Margaret Mead

I Love You

Here are some hand signs ...

 

Mickey loves you

But these innocent hand signs are not always about love, or deafness or simple communication.

Sometimes they have sinister meanings. Of evil and devil worship, or an association with secret organizations; The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Bilderberg, The Council on Foreign Relations, New World Order, The Trilateral Commission, Bohemian Grove. Searching out these organizations only leads to hundreds of others, all with nefarious purpose. Yet you may see these hand signs coming from various people in the spotlight of society. Not always discreetly.

                                                     Devils Horns                             666

Mostly they are just rappers and gangsters or starlets looking for a line or pic in the trade papers, but once you start looking deeper, you find the powers that be could be sending signals that have evil connotations, take a look ...

... and ask what these people are really flashing? That they love you? Hardly.

And once you discover these signals, you begin to see them everywhere with many famous or powerful people, the Clintons, the Bushes, heads of state, Presidents and Princes and masters of industry, tycoons, government officials, movers and shakers who work secretly behind the scenes, all sending those esoteric vibes for whatever purposes. And there are thousands of not so famous as well, frequenting the shadows cast by those you may know.
  
These photos are tiny samples and a little searching will show the secret signals are often flashed at whomever watches carefully. Many times in many places. What is in that signal? What is the real message? Many watchers associate it with devil worship or satanism.
Most of these can be researched easily. Check out the endless pictures of certain people and how often the signs are sent.

Anton LaVey founded the Church of Satan but Satanic cults go way back to the seventeenth century. 
Who secretly belongs to these underworld societies? Rumors have been swirling for years, prominent people involved in secret rituals, of child slavery and pedophilia, (check out Pizzagate) of deals made to retain the control of the so called Deep State over the populations of most of the countries on the planet. 

The signs are there, seen by some, afraid to be seen by others, and they are scary.

Here's another pic ...

WHY would Chelsea Clinton wear an inverted cross? An absolute sign of the devil. Why would anyone buy such a thing unless they were involved in a satanist cult themselves? She wears this one a lot. What does she know? Yes, I know about St. Peter, but Chelsea sent a New Year greeting to the Church of Satan! There is pictorial evidence that Hillary has worn a similar inverted cross.

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain. and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him, All these things I will give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. - Mathew 4

Beware of ambition to run the world.

Are these four flashing the sign of the Illuminati?

 

It's easy to ignore these frightful thoughts of secret signals and mysterious messages or laugh at those who submit them, and discredit the ideas as ludicrous, from conspiracy theorists, but the folks who belong to and endorse underground societies and partake in their esoteric rituals count on just that. They are hiding in plain sight.

Be vigilant. 
 

Meanwhile, here are a couple of guys I trust who are sending you a sincere message - 

Peace,

and I love you. 

Hillary's Secret

What was someone up to in that first Trump - Clinton debate?

Watch this - - - 

(Video removed by Clinton Campaign) 

 

(Similar video which shows cheating too)

 
But here the University people are missing the point, that man can take away any notes Hillary might have made, UNLESS, they were notes from Donna Brazile with the questions, which was later admitted by Mz Brazile that she supplied questions ahead of time to Clinton, and not that the podium is lit, (Trump's screen never lit)  but should hers have been? And were there prompts supplied from somewhere else to Secretary Clinton and she may be receiving secret messages via that screen? Is there an electronic device in the podium that must be removed quickly after the debate to avoid discovery? (grey-haired man in glasses?)

But what is intriguing to me is that RED light in the darkness that flashes as she reaches the podium at the start, (at 0:43) exactly when her podium screen lights and then flicks again at the end of the debate (3:00) when the teleprompter screen goes off. Is it a wireless impulse turning ON a connection just like your TV remote? Is someone out there in the dark transmitting electronic signals?

Is the prompter screen telling Hillary information during the debate? Could it be help from several people tucked away in a separate room somewhere with answers and advice? Even with Donna Brazil's cheating did they have even more help for Hillary?
Was part of her cadre tucked away in a room off site? Perhaps in an electronic van from her motorcade? Incredible? Maybe. But did you know that US drone missions in Afghanistan are flown by pilots in a room in Minnesota? Reality.

So it is proven by multi-videos that Hillary's podium had an active screen when Trump's didn't. So in a debate, it is supposed to be one on one, questions and answers and zingers. But you are supposed to be on your own out there, thinking on your feet, showing voters how quick you are in the mental department. Having a secret room full of stealthy participants using spy technology to give you a head start is not allowed.

Hillary Clinton's podium appears to have been outfitted with a special light that Donald Trump's didn't have. The light could have been functioning as a teleprompter to feed Hillary answers. There were multiple people paying attention to her podium after the debate and they were clearly tampering with something. Especially a man with grey hair and glasses dubbed the cleaner man who approached her podium and was either picking up items or putting something in or possibly doing a swap from a tampered device to the original legit device? The Hillary device being one that could accept info over a wireless channel?

There are many videos which show that little grey-haired man in glasses doing something at her podium. Tampering? Removing evidence of cheating? He takes away some papers, but what item does he pocket discreetly? No one seems to know who he was. Did he give something to Lester Holt?

Look for yourself, who is this furtive suspicious little guy?


And this election is for the President of the United States. Anything goes. Even cheating.


But those earrings.
Can earrings be made into wireless transmitters or more important, wireless receivers? Of course they can, that technology is not even new, and miniaturization has made it possible to hide it anywhere! Cameras are buttons on your coat now, and receivers are simple ear pieces fitted to the inner ear, or easily built into a nice pair of gold earrings!

Like these.
Here is the technology -

All are receivers, spyware. Bond has nothing on Hillary.  She has her very own 'Q'.
The three debates. Same earrings?

But anything goes? Was it all 'rigged' as The Donald protested so often? Donna Brazil even said so later, after she got caught.
Hillary cheating? And who else is cheating. The MSM is constantly under attack of late because the public are beginning to believe they cheat too. Fake News has entered our lexicon with a flash. Who knows where it is headed? Stay awake folks.

We haven't even got to the square bulky thingy under her jacket, which her cast of characters said was an anti coughing device! lol. And the picture was part of the after debate handshakes which clearly shows even the wires running up her jacket inside. But odd yet again that NBC shortened the video from 2 plus hours to 1:39. Nicely cutting out the footage that contains this incriminating shot.

So you cannot see this part anymore. So thanks to all the watchers who are smart enough to record things like this the first time. It shows a serious threat to truth by people with a treacherous agenda.

The deception never ends, does it?

Stay awake folks.

JFK Revelations?

The first release of (some) details of the Kennedy assassination that have been held back for 55 years is out. These items were deemed so explosive that they here held secreted in the National Archives for a further 25 years after their first scheduled release.

There are about 3,100 unseen files, a deadline that was set by Congress in 1992 under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. The documents have been held in the National Archives, and the majority are already public.

American royalty

Here are what some commentators call  'interesting things'. As we know now, the CIA has over-ruled President Trump and held back further information for 180 days.


- Former CIA director Richard Helms: LBJ thought Kennedy assassination was payback for assassination of Vietnam president. From a 1975 deposition at Langley, CIA HQ,  "President Johnson used to go around saying that the reason President Kennedy was assassinated was that he had assassinated President Diem."
     Over many years investigators have concluded that not only did LBJ hate all Kennedys, but that he was aware of the event before it happened. Was this his attempt to deflect suspicions from American plots?

-  The CIA considered using mafia to kill Castro. Robert Kennedy told the FBI in 1975 that an "intermediary had been hired by CIA" to consult mobster Sam Giancana about hiring a gunman for $150,000 to kill Castro in Cuba.
The account is detailed in an FBI memorandum from 1975. The memo is part of an 83-page report that also said the CIA considered delivering a poison pill to kill Castro. Attorney General Robert Kennedy vetoed the idea of using a Mafia gangster.
     Again in 1975 this supposedly happened. And we all know by now that J. Edgar Hoover hated the Kennedy's with a vengeance. Other attempts to kill Castro were poison pills etc. RFK had stated long before that he was going to break the Mafia in America into splinters.

-  A memo from Hoover quotes a source within the USSR saying Soviets were shocked by the news of Kennedy's death, with church bells tolled in his memory. The source said the news sparked "great shock and consternation and church bells were tolled in the memory of President Kennedy."
"According to our source, officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union believed there was some well-organized conspiracy on the part of the 'ultra-right' in the United States to effect a 'coup,'" the memo said.
     Some people believe the coup might have been started then, and continued over the years until the placement and surreptitious effects were instigated, perhaps when George HW Bush became Director of the CIA? And that the coup of America needn't be armed men on every corner, but only the total manipulation and control of American lives. 

There are many other items, including someone who called the FBI with info that he was part of a group going to kill the President. And another anonymous caller to a British Newspaper the day of.



But one has to wonder why any of these so called revelations were considered secrets? There is nothing (so far) in the least explosive, and most of this info seems to come from FBI 'memos'.
Yes, the conspiracy theorists are already saying the CIA has had fifty years to manufacture any documents they wish. Which leads to the suggestion that at one time, way back in recent history, there WAS something incriminating in those National Archive documents.
Administration officials said there was no cover-up, just an effort to avoid compromising national security, law enforcement or intelligence gathering methods. Whatever methods might be suspect today, are long past blame on present day agencies. If this was just an attempt to convince America that all is well, it is too late, many have already turned to WikiLeaks for truth.

And most of the spin on this event, seems to point to a plot being Castro and Cuba. Perhaps so the America public will no longer think of CIA dark state cells, or FBI obfuscation, the Federal Reserve controlling all the money, or the MSM potentates squeezing your news down to what they want you to see and hear, or the Middle East oil cartels sponsoring election spending, or the so called Drug War designed to fail - or agents put in place, oblivious to their own supervisors, to implement the continuing coup of America.
No one needs a poll to conclude that Castro did not kill the President of America, something else has been going on, perhaps that is the reason the Establishment is so wired up with angst about Donald Trump?

These 'revelations' are for all those people who long ago, read the Warren Report Summery, without reading the basis of it and the facts that it was supposedly drawn from. Those who looked further, (Mark Lane - Rush to Judgement) quickly learned that the summery had no relation whatsoever to events on November 22 in Dallas.

The release of harmless information as revelations will only throw gasoline on the fires of conspiracy.
Business as usual. Keep your tin hat on, it's not over yet ....



Check out ideas about Officer JD Tippit -
50th-anniversary-of-warren-commission report

Mark Lane's book -  
Rush to Judgment 

Who was she?
The Babushka Lady 

And: You can read my ideas of the death of Officer Tippet here and the following film will explain WHY he was killed and by who -  50th-anniversary-of-warren-commission.html



New:
Don't expect this next film to stay on any website anywhere for much longer - but if you are interested in JFK and how his death relates to the so called Deep State now emerging into public awareness in 2017, and how you are being manipulated you need to understand why. - you should watch this before it is gone. It is hypnotic and revolutionary and will definitely change how you view your present world. 

(for the present it is also view-able on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM )

USA - A Warring Nation

 From the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Afghanistan - - -

 

  An American Army helicopter flying over Helmand Province, Afghanistan.   

                       Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images

The United States has been at war continuously since the attacks of 9/11 and now has just over 240,000 active-duty and reserve troops in at least 172 countries and territories. While the number of men and women deployed overseas has shrunk considerably over the past 60 years, the military’s reach has not. American forces are actively engaged not only in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen that have dominated the news, but also in Niger and Somalia, both recently the scene of deadly attacks, as well as Jordan, Thailand and elsewhere.

An additional 37,813 troops serve on presumably secret assignment in places listed simply as “unknown.” The Pentagon provided no further explanation.

There are traditional deployments in Japan (39,980 troops) and South Korea (23,591) to defend against North Korea and China, if needed, along with 36,034 troops in Germany, 8,286 in Britain and 1,364 in Turkey — all NATO allies. There are 6,524 troops in Bahrain and 3,055 in Qatar, where the United States has naval bases.

Active and reserve service members stationed overseas ;
Japan - 39,980, more troop reside here than in any other foreign country.
Afghanistan - 11,965 The US is engaged in training and counter terrorism operations.
Ieaq - 7,602 The US combat missions here ended in 2010, so remaining troops are officially advising and training Iraqi forces.

Note: as of June 30, 2017. Source: Defense Manpower Data Center (NY Times)


      The U.S. Has Troops in Nearly Every Country  - - -

America’s operations in conflict zones like Africa are expanding: 400 American Special Forces personnel in Somalia train local troops fighting the Shabab Islamist group, providing intelligence and sometimes going into battle with them. 

One member of the Navy SEALs was killed there in  a mission in May.  On Oct. 14, a massive attack widely attributed to the Shabab on a Mogadishu street killed more than 270 people, which would show the group’s increased reach. 

About 800 troops are based in Niger, where four Green Berets died on Oct. 4.

Many of these forces are engaged in counterterrorism operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan, for instance; against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria; against an affiliate of Al Qaeda in Yemen. 

Total military personnel worldwide - 1,302,941.  The figures reported here include personnel serving in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps. and Air Force. However they do not include military contractors or private army personnel.

So far, Americans seem to accept that these missions and the deployments they require will continue indefinitely. Still, it’s a very real question whether, in addition to endorsing these commitments, which have cost trillions of dollars and many lives over 16 years, they will embrace new entanglements of the sort President Trump has seemed to portend with his rash threats and questionable decisions on North Korea and Iran.

For that reason alone, it’s time to take stock of how broadly American forces are already committed to far-flung regions and to begin thinking hard about how much of that investment is necessary, how long it should continue and whether there is a strategy beyond just killing terrorists. 

During earlier wars, including Vietnam, the draft put most families at risk of having a loved one go to war, but now America has all-volunteer armed forces. Less than 1 percent of the population now serves in the military, compared with more than 12 percent in World War II. Most people simply do not have a family member in harm’s way.

Since 9/11, American leaders have defined the fight against terrorism as a permanent struggle against a permanent threat. But the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan led to renewed engagement, though at lower troop levels. Terror attacks here and in Europe, have reinforced the public’s sense of siege.

The military is essential to national security, but it is not the only thing keeping America safe. So do robust diplomacy and America’s engagement in multilateral institutions. The Pentagon, by contrast, thrives. After some belt-tightening during the financial crisis, it has a receptive audience in Congress and the White House as it pushes for more money to improve readiness and modernize weapons. Senators who balk at paying for health care and the basic diplomatic missions of the State Department approved a $700 billion defense budget for 2017-18.

Whether this largess will continue is unclear. But the larger question involves the American public and how many new military adventures, if any, it is prepared to tolerate.

 A version of this editorial appears in print on October 23, 2017, on Page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: America’s Forever Wars.

And people are beginning to question - Where is the Threat?

The 2000 Global Report published in 1980 had outlined “the State of the World” by focusing on so-called  “level of threats” which might negatively influence or undermine US interests.
Twenty years later, US strategists, in an attempt to justify their military interventions in different parts of the World, have conceptualized the greatest fraud in US history, namely “the Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT). The latter, using a fabricated pretext  constitutes a global war against all those who oppose US hegemony. A modern form of slavery, instrumented through militarization and the “free market” has unfolded.

Major elements of the conquest and world domination strategy by the US refer to:
1) the control of the world economy and its financial markets,
2) the taking over of all natural resources (primary resources and nonrenewable sources of energy). The latter constitute the cornerstone of US power through the activities of its multinational corporations.

Secret drone bases are proliferating on foreign soil, flying devices like armed MQ-9 Reapers and a myriad of others. The progress of the covert agenda seems to be going as planned.