No More War

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War is not the answer!

Let's cut right to the chase: The current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are clearly manufactured wars.

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, nor did Iraq take part in the demolition of the twin towers in New York.

President George W. Bush declared war against Iraq against the wishes of the United Nations. If any other world leader does this he would, at some point and time, be held accountable for "crimes against humanity."

The pilots who commandeered the planes were based out of Pakistan and even they were pawns (of course they share culpability for the catastrophe).

The American government used the pilots' fanatical, Islamic, fundamentalist views to pull off a colossal subterfuge that dwarfs the Kennedy assassination.

Loose Change

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CIA Whistle-Blower

Susan Lindauer

In 2003 Susan Lindauer was accused of conspiring to act as an unregistered lobbyist for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

In 2005, Lindauer was imprisoned without trial on a military base for one year, during which time the US Dept of Justice (DOJ) altered the issue from guilt to competence. During her arbitrary incarceration, Lindauer found herself defending not her innocence, but her mental competence. Twice-judged incompetent, Ms. Lindauer fought and won the right to refuse forced medication and was released in 2006. In 2009, all charges were dropped.
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Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq

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What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war? What would happen to the people who know the truth? EXTREME PREJUDICE delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warning of 9/11 and an insider's look at Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War. It reveals the depths of deception by leaders in Washington and London to promote a questionable image of their successful anti-terrorism policy, and the shocking brutality used to suppress that truth from the American people and the world community.

Wake Up America and Unite

"Doesn't matter who the U.S. President is, he has no control over man-made, manipulated wars! " ..taskeinc

See Illuminati - War for Profit


America, we have to be united against the very small percentage of people that control our world. We're controlled via religion, which divides the masses; through politics - democrat against republican; through corrupt governments officials and world leaders. The so-called 'Leaders' of our world have no other choice but to acquiesce or else they would be destroyed politically or assassinated.

History books that portray Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of John F. Kennedy is one of the biggest lies in American History. That's why Oswald was immediately silenced by Jack Ruby, so he could not talk, so he could not vehemently deny assassinating Kennedy.

The saddest part about the JFK murder, and the events that took place on September 11th 2001, is the fact that, as Americans, we know there is a huge "fly in the ointment." We know the truth but cannot handle it. We simply want to go about our everyday lives, trying to survive as best we can. But as Dr. King stated, "Silence is betrayal."

We need to come together because there is strength in numbers. Unfortunately, as long as we fuss and fight over whose religion is best, who is right and wrong, black against white, or who goes to hell, etc., we will continue to play right into the hands of the Illuminati. We're here to love. This fact you will realize upon your demise.

War is the antithesis of Love. Our sons and daughters are not "protecting our borders," they are protecting the interest of the Warburg's, the Rockefeller's, the Morgan's, the Rothschild's, the Bush's, and a few other elite families. Did George W. Bush not make that crystal clear when he stole the election? Did the Illuminati not make that crystal clear when, after literally hand-picking the U.S. President, put the wheels in motion to create war in Iraq by killing 3000 innocent American civilians, then blaming it on a man in the dessert? Please America, WAKE UP!

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Tell Me Why

Will Smith featuring Mary J. Blige

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Opium production in Afghanistan

The Politics of Poppy

Opium, the sap of the opium poppy. The highly addictive, milky substance drained from the poppy plant is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America.

As of March 2010, Afghanistan is the greatest illicit opium producer in the world, ahead of Burma and the "Golden Triangle" (where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet). Afghanistan is the main producer of opium in "Golden Crescent". The impact of opium extends beyond tales of personal pleasure or misery - it is a story played out on an international stage: major powers, local warlords, insurgent armies and national governments - all have a stake in the continuing story that is illicit opium production.

Leading expert, Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

Chouvy exposes the politics of opium. In particular he explores the world's two major regions for illicit production of opium and heroin - the Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos and Thailand and the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. These remote mountainous regions of Southeast and Southwest Asia produce more than 90 percent of the world's illicit opium.

Based on United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past several growing seasons than in any one year during Taliban rule. Also, more land is now used for opium in Afghanistan than for coca cultivation in Latin America. In 2007, 92% of the opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan.

This amounts to an export value of about $64 billion, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords and drug traffickers. In the seven years (1994-2000) prior to a Taliban opium ban, the Afghan farmers' share of gross income from opium was divided among 200,000 families. In addition to opiates, Afghanistan is also the largest producer of hashish in the world.

Two of the following three growing seasons saw record levels of opium poppy cultivation. Corrupt officials may have undermined the government's enforcement efforts. Afghan farmers suggested that "government officials take bribes for turning a blind eye to the drug trade while punishing poor opium growers".

Former U.S. State Department Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Thomas Schweich, in a New York Times article dated July 27, 2007, asserts that opium production is protected by the government of Hamid Karzai as well as by the Taliban, as all parties to political conflict in Afghanistan as well as criminals benefit from opium production, and, in Schweich's opinion, the U.S. military turns a blind eye to opium production as not being central to its anti-terrorism mission. In March 2010, NATO rejected Russian proposals for Afghan poppy spraying, citing concerns over income of Afghani people. There have also been allegations of American and European involvement in Afghanistan's drug trafficking with links to Taliban.
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"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." ..Benjamin Franklin

America in Afghanistan

With 70 billion dollars at stake and the control of this highly profitable drug, does it surprise any clear-thinking American that the U.S. government has a military presence in Afghanistan? It should come as no surprise at all. Throughout the history of the world, when there is money to be made, illegal or not, America has been and will always be slap, dab, in the middle. The U.S. will get its hands dirty no matter what the price. If it means manufacturing a war, so be it. If it means sacrificing American lives (as in 09/11), so be it.

This sounds harsh, even anti-American, but the truth sometimes hurts. And the truth of the matter is that, as great a country the U.S. is, it has a dark side. The seedy side of America, at first glance, makes you think you're watching an episode of Rod Serling's Twlight Zone. Unfortunately, as bizarre, and unfathomable as it all seems, the United States of America, with no peer, is the most corrupt nation in the history of humankind.

The author of this Lens, as the reader has gathered by now, is anti-war. The author wholeheartedly supports the American troops abroad. What's really sad about their engagement is the fact that these young men and women are being used as pawns in the war games of the super-rich, the Illuminati; the billionaires who profit from human suffering. Take a look at the video below.

War Veterans Powerful Speech

Iraq Veteran: Darrell Anderson Claiming "9/11 was a lie"
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The Quest for Peace and Justice

Excerpt from Dr. King's Nobel Peace Prize Speech

A third great evil confronting our world is that of war. Recent events have vividly reminded us that nations are not reducing but rather increasing their arsenals of weapons of mass destruction. The best brains in the highly developed nations of the world are devoted to military technology.

The proliferation of nuclear weapons has not been halted, in spite of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. On the contrary, the detonation of an atomic device by the first nonwhite, non-Western, and so-called underdeveloped power, namely the Chinese People's Republic, opens new vistas of exposure of vast multitudes, the whole of humanity, to insidious terrorization by the ever-present threat of annihilation. The fact that most of the time human beings put the truth about the nature and risks of the nuclear war out of their minds because it is too painful and therefore not "acceptable", does not alter the nature and risks of such war. The device of "rejection" may temporarily cover up anxiety, but it does not bestow peace of mind and emotional security.

So man's proneness to engage in war is still a fact. But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminated even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. If we assume that life is worth living and that man has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. In a day when vehicles hurtle through outer space and guided ballistic missiles carve highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can claim victory in war. A so-called limited war will leave little more than a calamitous legacy of human suffering, political turmoil, and spiritual disillusionment. A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death. So if modern man continues to flirt unhesitatingly with war, he will transform his earthly habitat into an inferno such as even the mind of Dante could not imagine.

Therefore, I venture to suggest to all of you and all who hear and may eventually read these words, that the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence become immediately a subject for study and for serious experimentation in every field of human conflict, by no means excluding the relations between nations. It is, after all, nation-states which make war, which have produced the weapons which threaten the survival of mankind, and which are both genocidal and suicidal in character.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 .. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Girl in the Picture

Kim Phuc Phan Thai

Kim Phuc Phan Thai is the young girl in the center of this iconic photograph from the Vietnam War. Taken by the photographer Nick Ut after a napalm strike it shows Kim Phuc (as she is less formally known) running naked having suffered horrendous burns to her back and arms. She has sometimes been called "napalm girl" as a result of this picture.

Even today few would be expected to survive such napalm burns but Kim Phuc PhanThai is alive and well and with us now. 65% of her body was burned and she had 14 months of treatment in the burns unit in Saigon and 17 operations to graft skin from the undamaged areas of her legs to her back and arms.

Here's the background to the photograph:

Kim PhĂșc and her family were residents of the village of Trang Bang, South Vietnam. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes, in coordination with the American military, dropped a napalm bomb on Trang Bang, which had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. PhĂșc joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers who were fleeing from the Cao Dai Temple to the safety of South Vietnamese held positions. A South Vietnamese Air Force pilot mistook the group for enemy soldiers and diverted to attack. The bombing killed two of PhĂșc's cousins and two other villagers. Associated Press photographer Nick Út earned a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the aftermath. It also was chosen the World Press Photo of the Year for 1972. The image of PhĂșc running naked amidst the chaos became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War. In an interview many years later, she recalled she was yelling "Nong qua, nong qua" ("too hot, too hot") in the picture.

A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier


Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York.

In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, and many other NGO panels on children affected by the war.

His work has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City.

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A Long Way Gone - Review

by Lauraloo Mattox "tumble3"

While I did find this book painful to read, I am very glad I stayed with it. Ishmael tells his story in casual language, almost as if he were sitting next to you, sharing his experiences over (many cups of) tea.

He relays his life to us chronologically, beginning in his home village. He and some friends took a several day trip to a neighboring village to show off their hip-hop skills at a talent show. Little did they know, that little trip probably saved their lives. For while they were away, the rebel army attacked their home village.

From there, we follow Ishmael and his friends as they try to find their families (all had had to flee the village, literally running for their lives) struggling to meet the barest of necessities. It is a long, dangerous road they walk, and they suffer countless difficulties as they try to find somewhere safe to stay. A tunnel with no light. You really feel the desperation, the loneliness and despair that descended upon this poor little boy. Much of the book is about this time of wandering, going hungry, being ill-met by other villages who suspect these young, homeless friends of being a wandering squad of rebel child-soldiers. They are met with suspicion at best, hostility at worst.

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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A Long Way Gone was a remarkable book. The narration is divided into three parts--before the war, being a soldier, and learning to become human again. The LL Cool J and Run DMC references surprised me because it showed just how far-reaching music (and media) can be. Sadly, the opposite is not true: little media attention was (is) given to the plight of child soldiers around the world. I hope this book will start the conversation.

I was struck, and almost disturbed, by the matter-of-fact tone Beah used to describe the atrocities he committed, but his overall linguistic elegance made the descriptions of his travels and the reflections on his life uplifting by the end. How he was able to "rehabilitate" himself after living that surreal life demonstrates his strong sense of self. The book ends somewhat suddenly, but then, Beah's life story is still unfolding at age 26. This is a stark, but beautiful, narrative.

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War No More

My heart goes out to those myriad young men and women because if they didn't volunteer, then the U.S. would institute the draft; they would force others to go.

Unfortunately War is portrayed and promoted as "protecting our borders," "defending our freedom," or "combating terrorism," when nothing could be further from the truth. If you objectively look at the history of the United States (at the risk of sounding unpatriotic) you clearly see who the real terrorist are, and always have been.

Here are some of my favorite anti-war quotes:

Ernest Hemingway, "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

George McGovern, "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

Herbert Hoover, "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

Herodotus, "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

Hiram Johnson, "The first casualty when war comes is truth."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

John F. Kennedy, "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

John F. Kennedy, "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

Sun Tzu, "There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare."

Again, I have the utmost respect and admiration for those who put their lives on the line, it's just unfortunate they are being duped into doing so.

Jeannette Rankin

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Images of War

Five Reasons to Oppose War

This list is not intended to offend the myriad men and women who have served and continue to serve this country. Prayers go out to those who are currently participating in war across the globe.

War For Profit

Most wars, past and present, were initiated and fought because war is the most profitable enterprise known to man. Unfortunately, there are a few elite families that participate in this global scam. They have no conscious, and could care less about human casualties associated with war.

Young Men and Women Used As Pawns

Picture war as a game of chess and our brothers, sisters, moms, dads, sons, and daughters are the pieces. Global leaders of three to four nations, (the U.S. is almost always one of the participants), play war games with the lives of our loved ones.

After Effects

Many people who have been participants in an extended war, if they are fortunate to return home alive, suffer from myriad physical and mental health problems for the rest of their lives.

VA Benefits

The Veterans Administration benefits associated with soldiers are the carrots that are used to entice young men and women to go to war. Are home discounts and a paid education worth your life, or the life of someone you might have to take? What about the impact war has on the soul? What about karmic consequences?

Big Bully

Plain and simple, the Super nations generally pick fights with smaller, weaker nations. What happened between Russia and America? They engaged in a "Cold War," a war of words, a "proxy war," but would not dare engage in physical combat. Not because one nation might win or lose, but because the major nations are all about profit. It's like a billionaire who owns two opposing teams and both are playing in the Superbowl. It's a win-win for the owner, regardless of who wins on the field. That's how it is with war, a win-win for the elite, no matter who is on the battle field.

Five More Reasons to Protest War

This list is not meant to offend anyone or make light of the tremendous sacrifices that our troops put forth to defend the borders of the U.S.A. But here are five more reasons to protest war:

JFK Assassination

History books show Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Take a look at the Zapruder film and you can clearly see that JFK was shot from at least 3 different angles. That is why Oswald was immediately murdered: to silence him.

World War 1

The most lucrative thing that can happen for the International Bankers is War because it forces the country to borrow even more money from the Federal Reserve bank, at interest.

What created World War I: May 7th 1915 on the suggestion of Sir Edward Grey, a ship called the "Lusitania" was deliberately sent into German waters. The Ocean Liner, with American passengers aboard, was bombed by German u-boats, exploding the stored ammunition and killing 1200 Americans.

The Lusitania was sent into hostile territory to create a "Flame of Indignation" that would get America, as planned, into World War 1.

"Large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits." - William Jennings Bryan

World War 2

Attack on Pearl Harbor was known about months in advance but was outright "wanted" and "provoked."

November 25, 1941: Journal Entry by Roosevelt's Secretary of War, in a conversation with Pres Roosevelt ..

"The question was how should we maneuver them into firing the first shot. It was desirable to make sure the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt as to who were the aggressors."

Months leading up to attack on Pearl Harbor:

  • Halted trade, all of Japan's imports of American Petroleum
  • Froze all Japanese assets in the U.S.
  • Made public loans to Nationalist China and supplied military aid to the British, both enemies to Japan in the War (totally in violation of International War rules).
December 4th, 3 days before the attack, Australian intelligence informed Roosevelt about a Japanese task force moving towards Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt ignored the warning. On December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, killing 2100 American soldiers.

Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin incident was the "Flame of Indignation." The headline read, "North Vietnamese PTs Attack U.S. Destroyer" in the Gulf of Tonkin. It was a farce; it never happened. A completely staged event to provide an excuse to enter the Vietnam War. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated years later that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a mistake. Many other insiders and officers came forward to relay the fact that it was a contrived farce. "A complete lie."

09/11/2001

As much as I hate to state this obvious fact, but 09/11 was an inside job. Without going into detail just research the fact that former VP Dick Cheney took over command of NORAD before 09/11, something that had never been done before or since.

NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is the defense shield that normally protects the United States against all forms of airborne attack, including by hijacked aircraft. Any time an aircraft deviates from its course, air traffic controllers request a military intercept according to military response code 7610-4J. Intercept times are especially short in the east-coast corridor where there are numerous bases with combat-ready aircraft on continuous alert.

On September 11th, 2001, the standard operating procedures were apparently suspended.
Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
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Rwanda Genocide

by Anup Shah

During the horrific genocide in Rwanda, 1994, the Rwandan media played a major part in supporting, or creating an atmosphere to sanction the terrible human suffering that ensued.

A detailed report from Human Rights Watch in 1999, looked into how the killing campaign was executed, using oral testimony and documentation from a wide variety of sources.

It explained how this was planned for a long time and how the international community was aware of what was going on yet ignored it, and were even present during the systematic killings.

"At least half a million people perished in the Rwandan genocide," the report notes. "Perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At the same time, thousands of Hutu were slain because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it."

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Albert Einstein

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.

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Herbert Hoover

Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!

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  • Goodhairsaloncards Feb 27, 2012 @ 7:19 pm | delete
    I'm against the next war.
  • poutine Jul 19, 2011 @ 7:44 pm | delete
    NO MORE War!
  • Perry48317 Mar 27, 2011 @ 12:28 am | delete
    Nicely done.
  • vallain Mar 20, 2011 @ 7:52 am | delete
    I'm worried about what is starting in Libya right now. Sure wish there were no more wars!
  • yourgoldenfuture Mar 18, 2011 @ 9:57 am | delete
    good lens..
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