IRAN'S SECRET NETWORK TO BUILD THE BOMB

NETANYAHU WAS RIGHT!
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS DEAD WRONG TO DEAL WITH IRAN!


By The Associated Press, May 1, 2015
Britain has told a UN panel of experts that it is aware of an "active Iranian nuclear procurement network" linked to two Iranian companies, raising new concerns as world powers began Thursday to work out the details of a possible comprehensive agreement with Iran over its nuclear program.

Two UN sources confirmed Thursday that Britain's warning on April 20 is included in a confidential report by the panel. The sources spoke on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.

The warning names two companies, "Iran's Centrifuge Technology Company and Kalay Electric Company," but it gives no details. Both companies are under U.S. sanctions, and Kalay Electric Company is on the UN sanctions list.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters Thursday, "We remain concerned about their procurement, [that they have] taken steps to designate entities for procurement in the recent past."
She said the U.S. has ongoing discussions with the UN about the issue.

The Treasury Department in 2011 said the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company "plays a crucial role in Iran's uranium enrichment nuclear program. It is involved in the production of IR-1 centrifuges, the type of centrifuge Iran has used to enrich uranium and has used in facilities belonging to ... Kalaye Electric Company.

"The name 'Kalaye Electric' means 'electric goods,' implying that Iran kept the original name to help disguise the true purpose of the facility," the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security has written.
It added that when the International Atomic Energy Agency asked to inspect the site in 2003, Iran responded that it was a watch factory that also made a few centrifuge components."

ALSO REPORTED BY REUTERS <HERE>.

AS I ASKED BEFORE IN A PREVIOUS BLOG, WHY, AFTER THE RECOGNIZED LEADERS OF IRAN HAVE INCESSANTLY CALLED FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF BOTH AMERICA AND ISRAEL, AS RECENTLY AS LAST MONTH, DID THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TURN AGAINST AMERICA'S ONLY REAL ALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ISRAEL, AND GO AHEAD WITH PLANS TO SUBMIT TO IRAN'S DEMANDS FOR ANY DEAL, NUCLEAR OR OTHERWISE? 

WHY NOW? 
WHAT DOES ANYONE GAIN EXCEPT IRAN? 

IT WAS A SHOCK TO MANY WHEN NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OBAMA, IN A SPEECH IN CAIRO IN 2009, ACKNOWLEDGED TO THE WORLD THAT AMERICA HAD INDEED OVERTHROWN A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED 'PRIME MINISTER' OF IRAN, THE ILL-FATED   . 
IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH PUBLIC AND FULL ADMISSION BY A U.S. PRESIDENT.

THE GOP AND ALL IN ITS CORNER WENT TO BAT TO DISPEL THE ADMISSION AND THE CFR DID A VERY LENGTHY PIECE BLAMING IT ALL ON THE BRITISH. 

BUT HERE'S ANOTHER THING I FIND UNTHINKABLE, ANOTHER QUIET MOVE BY OBAMA...PAYMENTS TO IRAN, WHAT IS BEING CALLED A "RELEASE OF FROZEN IRANIAN ASSETS"... BEGINNING IN DECEMBER OF 2014 AND EXTENDING TO JANUARY, 2015 (AS FAR AS WE CAN DETERMINE, THAT IS), THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION AIDED AND ABETTED BY A COMPLICIT SECT ON CAPITOL HILL, SENT IRAN THREE PAYMENTS OF AT LEAST $419 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS EACH TIME, AND WILL HAVE GIVEN IRAN $11.9 BILLION, BILLION WITH A "B", BY THE END OF JUNE, 2015. 

“Iran received $4.2 billion in similar payments under the 2013 interim agreement with the United States and was then given another $2.8 billion by the Obama administration last year in a bid to keep Iran committed to the talks through November, when negotiators parted ways without reaching an agreement. 

Iran will have received a total of $11.9 billion in cash assets by the end of June if current releases continue on pace as scheduled.”
So the economic sanctions are being lifted and the Grand Ayatollah has demanded they end immediately.Our government is fine with that!
WHY?  

ALMOST $12 BILLION BACK IN IRAN'S POCKET?
FOR WHAT?
OUR THANKS FOR CALLING FOR JIHAD AND COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF AMERICA AND ISRAEL AND ENGLAND?

ALL ALONG, RUSSIA HAS BEEN ALL FOR IRAN, AS HAS CHINA TO A LESSER DEGREE.

FORBES TOOK A STAB AT EXPLAINING THE MYSTERY OF THIS INSANE DEAL WITH IRAN (FAIL!)    

"When the preliminary stage of talks concluded positively, Moscow immediately announced an agreement to build 50 more nuclear power stations for Iran. This time around (April, 2015), they announced the sale of S-300 missiles [to Iran].
China never abided by the sanctions,  becoming Teheran’s main trading partner in recent years. In essence, the sanctions gave China exclusive access to cheap Iranian oil. Iran was among the first nations to join the Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. And now as a possible lifting of sanctions looms, the Chinese are piling it on.   
What’s the plan here?
Moscow and Beijing seem determined to foul the nuclear entente with showy gestures of how it will rebound badly against the West. 
What are they afraid of? 
And why isn’t anyone in our media even wondering about these strident spasms of panic coming from the West’s rivals?  
Here in Reuters is about the only place I could find a passing reference, actually by an Israeli op-ed contributor discussing Moscow’s missile sale and quoting a top Israeli diplomat asking “Why is Russia in such a hurry?” Answer, according to the diplomat: “There’s an interim deal and Russia worries that Iran will turn to the West and so for several months already they’re trying to pivot the Iranians toward them instead.” 

That’s it. That’s the only allusion to the deal’s strategic threat for Russia or China.
Why is it such a threat to them? And if it is, surely Obama knows. Perhaps he even intends it. Here’s the thesis: It’s not about Iran’s nukes, or Iran per se, so much as  Iran as a gateway to Central Asia. Look at the map. Iran acts as a geographical plug that bottles up all of Central Asia’s raw materials (Turkmen gas, Kazakh oil). Unplug Iran, turn it into a conduit for the Westward flow of Silk Road trade from the ‘Stans, and suddenly you’ve created a huge new headache for both Russia and China. Suddenly their own private backyard of supine satellite states might get rich and powerful and even, mirabile dictu, start acting all independent.   
Iran under sanctions is just another Central Asian hostage to the Russo-Chinese. 
Iran as a bridge for the great surge of trade reaps a windfall of multiple benefits. " 
REALLY, FORBES?
DO YOU TRULY BUY THAT? 

IRAN WILL TURN TO THE CURSED, HATED, MARKED-FOR-DEATH WEST?
I HAVE TO SAY IT, SMILING...
"WHEN PIGS FLY!"

NOT IF THE U.S. GAVE THEM A BAZILLION DOLLARS EVERY SINGLE DAY AND KISSED THE AYATOLLAH'S SMELLY BUTT ON IRANIAN TV!  

THAT JOKE OF A SENATOR, "LINSEED" GRAHAM IMAGINED, AS ONLY HE COULD, THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNOWS THAT IRAN'S ACQUIRING NUKES WILL MEAN "AMERICA CAN'T BULLY IRAN ANYMORE", SO, OBAMA WANTS TO STOP THEM FROM ACQUIRING NUCLEAR CAPABILITY BY...MAKING SURE THEY CAN???

"Graham added that the second regime goal is "influence", that "people listen to you" when you have a nuclear weapon. In other words, we cannot let Iran acquire nuclear weapons because if they get them, we can no longer attack them when we want to and can no longer bully them in their own region."

GRAHAM OFFERED HIS ASSESSMENT IN 2012 WHILE PRAISING OBAMA'S STANCE!
AS A U.S. SENATOR, DIDN'T HE KNOW WE WERE ALREADY RELEASING MILLIONS TO IRAN BACK THEN? 

NOBODY CAN EVER ACCUSE GRAHAM OF HAVING VIABLE BRAIN CELLS.

HE WAS, HOWEVER, NOT THE ONLY ONE TO TOSS THIS NONSENSE OUT THERE.

"In 2001, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned:

"Several of these [small enemy nations] are intensely hostile to the United States and are arming to deter us from bringing our conventional or nuclear power to bear in a regional crisis."

In 2002, State Department official Philip Zelikow said that if Iraq were permitted to keep its WMDs, "they now can deter us from attacking them, because they really can retaliate against us."

COME ON!
ONE NUKE, OR EVEN HALF A DOZEN NUKES, WOULD KEEP AMERICA FROM TURNING IRAN INTO A SEA OF GLASS? 
LIKE HELL IT WOULD!

IRAN WON'T HAVE A WEAPON CAPABLE OF STRIKING AMERICA FOR MANY MOONS!
IF THEY STRUCK ANYWHERE IN THAT REGION, I MUST BELIEVE WASHINGTON WOULD SEE THAT AS "GRAVY"...A LITTLE NUCLEAR FALLOUT ALL OVER THE BIG SANDLOT OVER THERE?
THAT WOULD BE GREAT FOR AMERICA!
Britain was NOT on board for this American/Iran deal before this latest news broke.
Nobody in their right mind would trust Iran (or the U.S., for that matter), and yet with allies warning them not to go ahead, Kerry is busier than a beaver running to and fro, bowing and scraping to whatever demands Iran comes up with, but our government is NOT forthcoming with what all they have caved-in on and what other insanity might be agreed on before the June 30 deadline.

ONE VOICE OF ALMOST REASON HAS BEEN THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:

" Iran's goal has not been to merely get a nuclear bomb. It wants to acquire the bomb while ensuring the survival of its regime. 

That is why the world needs to wait and give the existing sanctions more time. These sanctions have already caused significant damage to Iran's economy and are the very reason the Iranians came to the table in the first place. If the sanctions remain, Iran's regime will not be able to survive for long.  

But, we are told, Iran will never forfeit its military nuclear program. 
Wrong. 
What seems impossible today is possible tomorrow if we are just willing to have patience, to wait and keep up the pressure.

Iran must face an either-or decision: either give up its nuclear bomb program or give up its economy. It can't have both."

WOULDN'T THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION KNOW THIS?
OR, IS THERE SOMETHING MORE, SOMETHING 'DEEPER' THAT WASHINGTON KNOWS THAT WE, THE PEOPLE, DON'T KNOW?

IRAN HAS LIED AND BEEN CAUGHT LYING FOR DECADES ABOUT DAMNED NEAR EVERYTHING.
IT'S "SUPREME RULER" IS A PSYCHOPATH WHO HATES EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE THAT HE CANNOT CONTROL.
HIS FREQUENT VENOMOUS SPEECHES SHOW US, OR SHOULD, THAT HE'D STOP AT NOTHING TO ERASE ALL WHO DO NOT SUBMIT TO ISLAM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
THAT "SUPREME RULER" TITLE MAY HAVE WARPED HIS MIND.

WOULD HE SACRIFICE HIS ENTIRE NATION FOR THE CHANCE TO OBLITERATE ISRAEL AND "THE GREAT SATAN" (AMERICA) WITH A NUCLEAR WEAPON?
YES.
IF HE HAD A HIDING HOLE DEEP ENOUGH TO SAVE HIMSELF FROM RETALIATORY NUCLEAR STRIKES, MOST CERTAINLY HE WOULD!
HE DID, AFTER ALL, DECLARE JIHAD AGAINST ALL THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD.

HAS IRAN STOPPED SUPPORTING TERRORISTS?
HAS ANY NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHO PREVIOUSLY DID SO STOPPED?
NO!
WHY DOESN'T KERRY MENTION THAT IN HIS "REPORTS" ON THE 'PROGRESS' OF THIS WACKY DEAL?

IN THE VERY MIDST OF 'WHEELING AND DEALING', IRAN HAS ALREADY UNVEILED IN MARCH THIS YEAR A NEW LONG-RANGE MISSILE, CAPABLE OF REACHING ANY NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND ANY AMERICAN TROOPS IN THOSE NATIONS.

THE 'SOUMAR' MISSILE APPEARS TO BE THE IRANIAN COPY OF A MISSILE IRAN OBTAINED FROM THE UKRAINE IN 2001, A RUSSIAN-MADE Kh-55 CRUISE MISSILE.
IF IT IS SUCH A COPY, THEN ITS RANGE WOULD BE BETWEEN 2,000 AND 3,000 KILOMETERS, 1,242 TO 1,864 MILES.

'JANE'S' ESTIMATED THE RANGE AT ABOUT 2,500 KILOMETERS, 1.553 MILES.

"The Kh-55 was developed as a nuclear-capable, air-launched design and was typically carried by one of the Russian Air Force's strategic delivery platforms, either the Tupolev Tu-95 or the Tu-160. Iran possesses no such large bombers, hence the need to produce the missile in a ground-launched configuration."

AND WHO BUILT THIS?
IRAN'S "AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ORGANISATION", WHICH BRAGGED CONSIDERABLY ABOUT ITS "PINPOINT ACCURACY".
IRAN'S "SPACE PROGRAM" AT WORK! 

NOW WE FIND THAT IRAN HAS CONTINUED BUYING WHAT IT NEEDS TO GO RIGHT ON ITS PATH TO BUILDING ITS FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON.

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO BACK OFF THIS "DEAL"?
IF THE AYATOLLAH KILLS KERRY HIMSELF, I DON'T THINK THE OVAL OFFICE WILL CALL OFF THIS "KISS AND MAKE UP" SCHEME.

BUT, WHY NOT?
I STILL WANT TO KNOW THE REAL REASON FOR REMOVING THE SANCTIONS THAT JUST MIGHT KEEP IRAN FROM GETTING ITS DREAM...NUKES!

ONE OF THE MOST IDIOTIC GUESSES AT WHY OBAMA IS KISSING UP TO IRAN WAS THAT IT'S ALL BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS A SHI'ITE MUSLIM, AS IS OBAMA'S ADVISER, VALERIE JARRETT WHO WAS BORN IN IRAN.

EVEN IF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT WAS AN ADMITTED SHIA CLERIC HE WOULD NOT TRY SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUS!
ONE THING NOBODY CAN HONESTLY ACCUSE BARACK OBAMA OF IS STUPIDITY.

NO, WHATEVER THE REAL REASON, IT IS SIMPLY UNKNOWN TO US FOR NOW.
WE WILL PERHAPS FIND OUT IF, HUGE IF, SOME BILLIONAIRE BUYS THE OVAL OFFICE FOR A REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE NEXT 'PRETEND' ELECTION.

SHOULD THAT EVER HAPPEN, THE GOP WILL, I'M SURE, BE DELIGHTED TO REVEAL THE REAL REASON FOR THIS...UNLESS IT ALSO "OUTS" ONE OF THEIR OWN.

AFTER THIS WARNING FROM GREAT BRITAIN, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.

LOOKS LIKE THE U.S. IS DETERMINED TO GIVE IRAN WHATEVER IRAN WANTS, IN EXCHANGE FOR......WHAT?

NOTHING.

BUY WHY?

TO DO SO IS INSANITY REDEFINED!

FRENCH SOLDIERS SODOMIZED BOYS AT AFRICAN REFUGEE CAMP

THOUGH IT APPEARS THAT THE FRENCH SOLDIERS ACCUSED IN THIS INSTANCE WERE NOT U.N. "BLUE HELMETS", THOUSANDS OF U.N. TROOPS HAVE, FOR DECADES, BEEN ACCUSED OF SUCH VILE ACTS, AND THAT, TOO, HAS BEEN KEPT OUT OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS.

BANGUI, Central African Republic, April 30, 2015
THE "ONGOING INVESTIGATION" INTO MULTIPLE ALLEGATIONS OF SODOMY AGAINST 16 FRENCH SOLDIERS INVOLVING BOYS AS YOUNG AS 9 YEARS OLD BEGAN MONTHS AGO.
THE CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS SAY THE ATTACKS WERE REPORTED IN JULY OF LAST YEAR!

THE SQUALID CONDITIONS OF THE REFUGEE CAMP MEANT MANY CHILDREN WERE GOING HUNGRY AND EVEN WATER WAS HARD TO GET.
THE CHILDREN AS WELL AS OTHER RESIDENTS OF THE CAMP SAY FRENCH SOLDIERS LURED THE BOYS WITH ARMY RATIONS AND POCKET CHANGE, AND MOTHERS OF THE BOYS DEMAND JUSTICE.
THE CHILDREN SAY THE FRENCH TROOPS SOMETIMES GAVE THEM COOKIES AND WATER AFTER THE ASSAULTS.

ALL WHO WERE VICTIMIZED STILL LIVE IN THE CAMP, HAVING NO PLACE ELSE TO GO AMID CONTINUED SECTARIAN CLASHES IN THAT AREA.

MOTHERS FEAR RETRIBUTION FOR EXPOSING THE SOLDIERS EVEN MORE NOW THAT THE U.N. OFFICIAL WHO REPORTED THIS  HAS BEEN  REMOVED FROM HIS DUTIES.

"According to the Guardian, the report is believed to have been originally leaked by Swedish UN aid worker Anders Kompass, who allegedly forwarded the report to French authorities out of frustration with the UN's inaction. Kompass has since been suspended from his post as director of field operations for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for breaching confidentiality protocols, and could be fired."

WHY WOULD THE CURSED U.N. REMOVE ANYONE MERELY BECAUSE  HE REPORTED CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN? 

BRITAIN'S GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER BROKE THIS STORY YESTERDAY WHICH FORCED THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO ADMIT THE ALLEGATIONS OF SODOMY WERE BEING INVESTIGATED.

THE FRENCH PRESIDENT PROMISED "SANCTIONS" AGAINST THE 16 ACCUSED IF THE CHARGES ARE PROVEN.

ONE MIGHT THINK THAT, AFTER A YEAR, OR EVEN MONTHS, MORE PROGRESS WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE INTO THESE "INVESTIGATIONS".
AND "SANCTIONS"?
WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SODOMY INVOLVING CHILDREN IN FRANCE?
A SLAP ON THE WRIST?

“For the moment, we don’t know if the facts have been proven,” military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said Thursday, stressing the importance of the French military operation in limiting the bloodshed in Central African Republic where thousands died amid fighting between Muslims and Christians.

France, the former colonizer of Central African Republic, sent several thousand additional troops to Bangui in late 2013 and in early 2014 amid sectarian violence that prompted tens of thousands to seek refuge on the grounds of the capital’s airport."

The mother of one of the children told AP that her son was just 9 years old when he was assaulted by French soldiers. She spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to identify her son as a victim of sexual abuse.  

“The children were vulnerable because they were hungry and their parents had nothing to give them, so the children were forced to ask the soldiers for food,” she recalled. 

“They took advantage of the children forcing them to perform oral sex and also sodomizing them,” she said. “The moaning of children in the area often started around 10 p.m. or 11 p.m.”

Another resident said other abused children ranged in age from 10 years old to 13." 

FRANCE HAD SENT SEVERAL THOUSAND TROOPS TO ITS FORMER COLONY OF CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (C.A.R.) IN 2013-2014  AFTER VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS.
THE U.N. SAYS THAT IT REPLACED SEVERAL NATIONS' PEACEKEEPING FORCES WITH 12,000 U.N. 'BLUE HELMETS' IN SEPTEMBER, 2014, BUT NEITHER THE U.N. NOR FRANCE WILL SAY IF THOSE CHARGED WITH SODOMY ARE STILL IN C.A.R.

IF THE U.N. HAS TROOPS THERE, YOU CAN BET THERE WILL BE NEW INSTANCES OF CHILD MOLESTATION, MURDER, RAPE, MUTILATIONS, TORTURE,THEFT AND EXTORTION. 

IF FRANCE IS GOING TO CONTINUE ITS FORCES THERE, MAYBE IT SHOULD SEND IN A CARGO PLANE FILLED WITH MALE PROSTITUTES FROM PARIS, SUPPLY ITS FORCES WITH WILLING ADULT SEXUAL PARTNERS?

MAYBE  BOTH THE FRENCH AND U.N. TROOPS WHO ENJOY SEX WITH CHILDREN, SODOMY, ETC, COULD GET TOGETHER AND "ROLE-PLAY", TAKE TURNS PRETENDING TO BE CHILDREN?  

"Sexual exploitation, child abuse, corruption and torture. These are just some of the many [PROVEN] crimes committed by United Nations peacekeepers.

A culture of impunity pervades, largely because of deficiencies in the laws governing peacekeeping operations. 

Peacekeepers have been accused of sexually exploiting women in the Congo, being involved in sex trafficking in Bosnia and Kosovo, child abuse in Côte d'Ivoire and Haiti, as well as corruption, stealing, drink-driving and manslaughter. 

[THAT IS A VERY SHORT LIST! THERE IS ACTUALLY NO NATION INTO WHICH U.N. TROOPS HAVE BEEN SENT THAT HAS NOT FILED COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE "BLUE HELMETS"!]  

UN peacekeeping troops have legal immunity from prosecution in the host state. The country that sent the troops to the host state in the first place is supposed to prosecute its soldiers for any crimes they commit there. But in practice, many don’t have the laws needed to conduct trials for acts committed abroad. Others systematically fail to uphold their obligation to prosecute. UN peacekeepers are essentially free to get away with terrible crimes because they know this jurisdictional gap provides them with impunity." 

YES, MILITARY PERSONNEL CAN BE TRIED FOR THESE CRIMES!
FROM KENT LAW:
PEACEKEEPER ABUSE, IMMUNITY AND IMPUNITY:
THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL
ACCOUNTABILITY ON INTERNATIONAL PEACE OPERATIONS

"In theory, military personnel who commit crimes whilst serving anywhere in the world, are subject to at least four sets of laws: the UN Codes, their military justice systems, the laws of the country in which they are serving (if there is no immunity, or if it is waived) and their home criminal laws. 

In other words, putting aside the problems of evidence, and so forth, military personnel should  be accountable when serving abroad. 

Similarly, and as noted above, in relation to civilian diplomats serving abroad, most countries have also enacted legislation to provide for domestic prosecution of crimes committed abroad by their representatives (again, if immunity is not waived). 
Thus, as with military personnel, it seems clear that despite notional ‘immunity’ for civilian diplomats serving a state, there is a reasonably clear framework for accountability of diplomats who break the law whilst serving abroad."

 U.N. troops in Liberia and Haiti were accused of forcing girls to perform sexual favors in return for food. Two years later, researchers from Save the Children found UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, southern Sudan and Haiti had raped children as young as 13. 

IT ISN'T THAT MILITARY CAN NEVER BE PROSECUTED, IT'S THAT MOST NATIONS AND THE CURSED U.N. SIMPLY REFUSE TO DO SO WHEN THEIR TROOPS ARE ACCUSED OF CRIMES.

HUNGER LED TO BEING SODOMIZED.

WHY THESE CHILDREN TURNED TO THESE TROOPS FOR FOOD IS ANOTHER SAD STORY.

AFRICAN NATIONS ARE USED TO NEVER GETTING PROMISED AID.

THE "HUMANITARIAN CRISIS" IN AFRICA HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE A HUGE MONEY-MAKER FOR THE U.N. WHICH FREQUENTLY CONDUCTS CAMPAIGNS TO RAISE "AID MONEY" FOR NATIONS IN CRISIS THERE.

HOW MUCH OF ITS COLLECTED FUNDS ACTUALLY REACH THOSE IN DESPERATE NEEDS HAS BEEN QUESTIONED TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

WHILE THE UN USES ADS SIMILAR TO THIS CHART TO ASK FOR DONATIONS, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS THE  UNANSWERED QUESTION.

SOMETIMES NO AID REACHES NATIONS, MONETARY OR OTHERWISE!

THIS GRAPH BELOW SHOWS THE SHORTFALL BETWEEN AID NEEDED, COLLECTED AND AID RECEIVED, AND SHOWS A 100% SHORTFALL IN MOST OF THESE COUNTRIES!

CORRUPT OFFICIALS ALSO SOMETIMES INTERCEPT INTENDED AID AND CHANNEL IT INTO THEIR OWN POCKETS, BUT LITTLE TO NOTHING IS DONE TO PROSECUTE THOSE WHO DO THIS.

CNN ASKED: 
WHERE DOES AID MONEY REALLY GO?
"In 2011 -- the last year we have comprehensive data for -- total development aid from rich countries stood at nearly $150 billion, according to the Investments to End Poverty report. Only $59 billion identifiably involves the transfer of actual cash to, for example, recipient governments, NGOs operating on the ground or special project funds.  

Perhaps even more surprising is the fact that large amounts of aid money never actually leave rich countries.

On the recipient side, some countries that appear to receive considerable funds in fact receive a lot less than advertised. Our research found that of the $7.5 billion in aid reported as given to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011, more than $5 billion was not transferred to that country, and consisted instead of debt relief. 

If we want to maximize the impact and reach of international aid, we need to ensure that every dollar is spent as efficiently as possible. We can only do this with better information and a clear understanding. Then policymakers in both donor and recipient countries can make better and more informed decisions, and civil society can better monitor progress and hold them to account."

SCANDALS INVOLVING UN FOOD AID ABOUND!

"The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) claims that allegations of a scandal in Somalia are overblown and isolated. But such problems may be far more widespread than reported, and more transparency is needed.

Somalia is not the WFP’s only controversy, only its most recent and most public. 
Its operation in Ethiopia, which is one of the largest recipients of food aid in the word, is reportedly in disarray. 

Things are little better in Afghanistan, where reports suggest that WFP is paying two to three times more than commercial rates, taking large chunks out of the $1.2 billion, three-year relief effort. 

The WFP has admitted that it inflated its shipping costs in North Korea by funneling business through dictator Kim Jong Il’s government.

In the republic of Georgia, the WFP, in cooperation with four international charities, used donor money to distribute insufficient, inappropriate, and in some case useless food rations to thousands of Georgians traumatized by war and displacement. As appears to be the case in Somalia, there was at best spotty oversight of the relief effort; also, to date, no one has been called to account.

In each case the WFP has denied the magnitude of the problem. 

While the quantity of [WFP] food was clearly insufficient, the quality of the rations at times was even worse. 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has not yet responded to calls to authorize an independent investigation of the WFP operations in Somalia or elsewhere. But everyone, even the beleaguered food agency, acknowledges there is a problem. " 

CAN WE LOGICALLY ACCEPT THAT THE U.N. CAN'T CORRECT THEIR FAILURES?
CAN WE REASONABLY SWALLOW THAT BUSINESS OF "WE'RE DOING ALL WE CAN TO STOP SUCH ABUSES"?
IS THE GIANT 'OCTOPUS' CALLED THE U.N. REALLY INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS EXCEPT DISMISS AND SILENCE WHISTLEBLOWERS?

DID FRANCE LEARN NOTHING OF CONTROLLING ITS TROOPS FROM THE MY TRACH, VIETNAM MASSACRE OR THE MASSACRES AT ANNECY, ANDELOT, TULLE, LE BOURGET, OR FROM THE POW CAMP IN THE SARTHE DISTRICT WHERE DOZENS IN CUSTODY DIED EACH DAY, OR THE MANY BRUTAL RAPES AND ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS AT FREUDENSTADT CARRIED OUT BY ITS TROOPS?

CONTROL THE TROOPS! 
PROTECT THE CHILDREN! 
MAKE SUCH CRIMES A CAPITAL OFFENCE!
PUNISH THE CRIMINALS IN YOUR RANKS! 

THAT GOES FOR ALL NATIONS AND THE ABOMINABLE U.N.! 
FRANCE IS NOT ALONE IN SUCH AS THIS!

TO ALLOW SUCH THINGS TO CONTINUE, YEAR AFTER YEAR, LEAVING THOUSANDS OF TRAUMATIZED YOUNG VICTIMS BEHIND IS CRIMINAL IN ITSELF!

TO KNOW THAT CHILDREN ALL OVER AFRICA ARE HUNGRY, THAT AN ESTIMATED 3 MILLION DIE THERE EACH YEAR FROM STARVATION, MALNUTRITION, LACK OF CLEAN WATER, AND RELATED DISEASES CAUSED BY THOSE AND NOT APPLY THE STRONGEST GLOBAL EFFORTS POSSIBLE TO ALLEVIATE THIS HORROR IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE! 

WE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED THE WORLD, BUT WE MUST DELIVER THAT FOOD!

"The WFP itself once used to claim that a child died of hunger every six seconds, but stopped using this slogan around 2008."

WHY? 

THE STATS WERE PROVEN SOUND!

AFRICA HAS BEEN ABANDONED TO ITS FATE FOR DECADES.

IT SEEMS ALL THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY IS INTERESTED IN ARE AFRICA'S WEALTH OF NATURAL RESOURCES, NOT ITS PEOPLE, NOT ITS CHILDREN.

SEE ALSO: 

~Problems with Humanitarian Aid 

~ International Aid Does Not Reach Communities

~ Fears over Haiti child abuse by UN troops

~ Internal UN research talks of a culture of impunity and underreporting on sexual abuse cases in peacekeeping missions

~ Sex charges haunt UN forces

~ The U.N. Sex Scandal

~ AND DO SEE THE U.N.'s OWN STATS ON WORLD HUNGER

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

EDWARD SNOWDEN'S BIGGEST MISTAKE

HE THOUGHT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD CARE, WOULD WANT TO KNOW HOW CLOSELY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT WAS SPYING ON THEM.

HE THOUGHT AMERICANS WOULD GIVE A DAMN.

THAT WAS HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE.

SNOWDEN THOUGHT AMERICANS WOULD CARE THAT VERIZON AND PROBABLY ALL OTHER CELL PHONE PROVIDERS ARE SPOON-FEEDING THE "NATIONAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION" (NSA) EVERY POSSIBLE PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT ALL OF US THAT A PHONE COMPANY CAN HAVE.
PRIVATE TEXTS, VOICE, EVEN THE INFORMATION IN OUR BANKING APPS, EVERYTHING WE DO OR SAY ON CELLPHONES NOW BELONGS TO THE DAMNED NSA.
SOME OF US CARE.
MOST DON'T GIVE A HORSE'S ASS.

SNOWDEN THOUGHT AMERICANS JUST MIGHT CARE THAT GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, MICROSOFT, APPLE, ET AL, WERE ALSO NOW BOUND BY LAW TO HAND OVER ANY/ALL INFORMATION THE NSA WANTS ABOUT US FROM THOSE SITES.
WHILE SOME OF US GOT THE HELL OFF FACEBOOK AFTER THAT REVELATION, MOST ARE DELIGHTED TO HAVE EVERYTHING THEY POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL THEIR EMAILS LOOKED OVER DAILY BY THE NSA.
NO, MOST AMERICANS JUST DON'T CARE.

SNOWDEN THOUGHT AMERICANS AND THE REST OF THE WORLD OUGHT TO KNOW AND JUST MIGHT CARE THAT BRITAIN'S 'GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HEADQUARTERS' (GCHQ) TAPPED INTO FIBER OPTIC CABLES ALL OVER THE ENTIRE PLANET TO TAP INTO OUR INTERNET ACTIVITIES, FEEDING THAT TO THE NSA AS IT PLEASES TO BE FED.
HE THOUGHT WE ALSO MIGHT CARE ABOUT THE NSA'S XKEYSCORE PROGRAM THAT TRAPS VIRTUALLY EVERY KEYSTROKE WE MAKE ON THE INTERNET.
THEY WATCH WHERE WE CHOOSE TO 'GO' ON THE WEB.
THEIR PROGRAMS CRACK EVERY KNOWN ENCRYPTION CODE THERE IS BY FORCING "BACK DOORS" TO BE CREATED THAT NSA CAN EASILY HACK..
NO, MOST PEOPLE JUST SHRUG AND GO ON WITH THE DAILY DRAG.
WHO CARES ABOUT THAT?
I DAMN WELL CARED PLENTY!
SOME TECHNOLOGISTS CARED.

"Even as the NSA demands more powers to invade our privacy in the name of cybersecurity, it is making the Internet less secure and exposing us to criminal hacking, foreign espionage, and unlawful surveillance. The NSA's efforts to secretly defeat encryption are recklessly shortsighted and will further erode not only the United States' reputation as a global champion of civil liberties and privacy but the economic competitiveness of its largest companies." 

SNOWDEN THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE NSA IS CURRENTLY SPYING ON, SERIOUSLY, DEEPLY SPYING ON AT LEAST 122 WORLD LEADERS, PRESIDENTS, CHANCELLORS, PRIME MINISTERS.
NO...THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD COULD HARDLY CARE LESS.
WELL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE "PAYBACK" FROM THOSE NATIONS MAY BE...YET.
SOME PEOPLE MAY CARE AFTER ALL, ONCE WE FIND OUT.

SNOWDEN WANTED TO LET AMERICANS KNOW ABOUT THE NSA'S TAO (TAILORED ACCESS OPERATIONS).

"The NSA has at its disposal an elite hacker team codenamed "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO) that hacks into computers worldwide, infects them with malware and does the dirty job when other surveillance tactics fail.

Der Spiegel, which detailed TAO's secrets, labelled it as "a squad of plumbers that can be called in when normal access to a target is blocked." But they can probably be best described as the NSA's black bag operations team."

AMERICANS, MOST, JUST DO NOT CARE ABOUT THAT.
 SOME MAY WONDER WHY THEIR COMPUTERS ARE A LITTLE SLOW, BUT OTHERWISE...NAAAAH, NO WORRIES.

WOULD AMERICANS LIKE TO KNOW THEIR TEXTS ARE DAILY COLLECTED BY A NSA PROGRAM CALLED "DISHFIRE"?
IT 'ONLY' COLLECTS ABOUT 200 MILLION TEXTS A DAY, SO, NO, NO, AMERICANS DIDN'T FRET.

NSA'S PROGRAM "MYSTIC' INTERCEPTS EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL MADE (NOT JUST CELLULAR!) FROM THE BAHAMAS, KENYA, MEXICO,THE PHILIPPINES  AND AFGHANISTAN.
WHO CARES, RIGHT?

"According to Snowden, his “breaking point” was “seeing Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress” with his denial of the existence of a domestic spying programs in March 2013.

Snowden continued, “The public had a right to know about these programs. The public had a right to know that which the government is doing in its name, and that which the government is doing against the public.”

[SEE THE VIDEO THERE] 

THERE'S A JOKE ABOUT A GUY TRAPPED ON A CAR ROOF AFTER A TERRIBLE HURRICANE, FLOODING, NO WAY OFF THAT ROOF.
HE PRAYS, ASKS FOR 'GOD' TO SAVE HIM BEFORE THE CAR AND HIMSELF ARE SWEPT AWAY.
A BOAT COMES BY, THE GUY WAVES IT OFF, WAITING FOR GOD TO APPEAR AND SAVE HIM.
A HELICOPTER TRIES TO DROP HIM A LIFELINE, BUT NO, THE GUY IS WAITING ON HIS 'MIRACULOUS' SAVE.
THE CAR WITH HIM ON IT GETS SWEPT AWAY, HE DROWNS, ARRIVES AT THE 'PEARLY GATES', IMMEDIATELY STARTS RANTING ABOUT NOT BEING SAVED FROM THE FLOOD, ABOUT GOD FAILING HIM.
"SAINT PETER" SAYS, "LOOK, WE SENT A BOAT AND A HELICOPTER, STUPID! YOU SHOULD HAVE USED ONE!"

WELL, WE'VE HAD WIKILEAKS AND SNOWDEN...AMERICA MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED BY WHAT WE LEARNED FROM BOTH ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT.
WE PASSED ON BOTH "SAVES".
HOW DUMB IS THAT?

SO, YEAH, SNOWDEN'S BIGGEST BLUNDER WAS PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE THINKING AMERICANS WOULD WANT TO KNOW THESE THINGS.

HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.

LOOTING FOLLOWS PROTESTS IN BALTIMORE ...AGAIN

UPDATES, 04/30/2015, BELOW IN A FEW PLACES MARKED "UPDATE"] 

Fredericka Gray, the twin sister of Freddie Gray, made a statement after protests turned into riots, looting, destruction of property, physical attacks with injuries against the National Guard and police, and arson.
EVERYONE SHOULD STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS YOUNG WOMAN IS ASKING.
 "My family wants to say, 'Can y'all please, please stop the violence? Freddie Gray would not want this.' Freddie's father and mother do not want any violence. Violence does not get justice."

FIRST, LET US UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED, AS MUCH AS IS POSSIBLE.
THE FOCUS MUST REMAIN ON THE, MOST LIKELY, WRONGFUL DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN IN POLICE "CUSTODY".
THE FOCUS MUST ALSO INCLUDE WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DUTIES OF POLICE OFFICERS IN AMERICA...TO "PROTECT AND SERVE" EACH COMMUNITY THAT HAS A POLICE FORCE.
PROTECT...
PROTECT AND SERVE.

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF A CITIZEN OF A COMMUNITY IS WHITE, BLACK OR INDIGO WITH ORANGE RACING STRIPES, YOUNG OR OLD, STRAIGHT OR GAY, WHETHER THAT CITIZEN HAS PRIOR CONVICTIONS OR IS NOMINATED FOR SAINTHOOD BY THE VATICAN, IS HOMELESS OR HOLDS A MORTGAGE ON HALF THE HOMES IN TOWN, IS RICH OR PENNILESS, A RESIDENT SINCE YESTERDAY OR ONE WHOSE FAMILY HAS LIVED THERE FOR 200 YEARS...ALL ARE TO BE "PROTECTED AND SERVED" IN THE SAME IDENTICAL MANNER, NO EXCEPTIONS!

PROTECT...PROTECT AND SERVE.

WAS FREDDIE GRAY PROTECTED WHILE IN CUSTODY?

THE BOSTON GLOBE HAS DONE, WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE, SOME FINE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN TRYING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

IN SPITE OF THE RECENT CRIMINAL ACTIONS AND ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY OF SOME WHO DECIDED TO TURN FREDDIE GRAY'S DEATH INTO A LOOTING, DESTRUCTIVE FIASCO, THE GLOBE HAS STAYED FOCUSED ON THE ISSUE.

[AS USUAL, EMPHASIS, HIGHLIGHTS, ITALICS AND BRACKETED COMMENTS ARE MINE WITHIN QUOTED TEXT **.]

THEY PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING ON APRIL 12, 2015.

"The 45-minute mystery of Freddie Gray's death."

8:39 a.m: As three officers approached on bicycles along West North Avenue, the 25-year-old Gray was on the east corner of North Mount Street chatting with a friend, according to Shawn Washington, who frequents the block.

"Ay, yo, here comes Time Out," a young man on the opposite corner yelled, using a neighborhood term for police.

Gray swore, taking off on foot as the officers began hot-stepping on their pedals to catch up. One officer jumped off his bike to chase Gray on foot.

"That was the last time I seen that man moving," said [eyewitness] Shawn Washington, 48.

The Baltimore Sun found that police missed the opportunity to examine some evidence that could have shed light on events. For example, by the time police canvassed one neighborhood looking for video from security cameras, a convenience store camera pointed at a key intersection had already taped over its recordings of that morning.

The Sun also found that accounts from residents conflicted with the official version of events, including a police account that Gray's arrest was made "without force or incident."
Officials have declined to provide 911 call recordings related to Gray's arrest or injury, citing the open investigation, and police have declined to provide dispatch recordings that would contain any conversations between officers and dispatchers while Gray was in custody. 

The timeline for when and where the van stopped remains incomplete, and no time has been provided for the van's last stop, back on North Avenue for another pickup before its arrival at the Western District police station.

Insights into the critical minutes between Gray's arrest and the call for paramedics can be gleaned from residents who said they observed several interactions the police had with him.

The reason Gray was chased by police remains unclear. Police have said it came in part because he ran, raising officers' suspicions in an area known for drug dealing.

Neighborhood accounts vary on where Gray ran before reaching Presbury Street and being apprehended by police.

Still, the arrest occurred just one minute after the initial contact, according to the police timeline.

Community outrage over the arrest has been fueled by videos showing Gray — listed on the police report at 5-foot-8 and 145 pounds — on the ground before being dragged to the police van. Neighborhood residents and police agree that the videos don't show the whole story, though.

Kevin Moore [an eyewitness], a 28-year-old friend of Gray's, said one officer had his knee on Gray's neck, and another was bending his legs backward.
"They had him folded up like he was a crab or a piece of origami," Moore said. "He was all bent up."

At 8:42 a.m., police requested a transport van at the scene.

At that point Gray, who had asthma, asked for an inhaler, but Moore said police ignored the request.

Batts [???] has said Gray's trouble breathing was not given the proper attention at "one or two" of the van's subsequent stops.

 Alethea Booze, 71, who has lived along Mount Street just north of Presbury all her life, said [when she got outside after hearing Gray screaming] there was Gray, who used to call her "Mama" and run errands for her to the corner store, lying handcuffed on the ground.

Booze said she winced as police hoisted Gray. His legs appeared broken to her, though police have said Gray suffered no broken bones. Bystanders got more vocal. "Call the ambulance!" Booze remembers saying as police tried to disperse the crowd.

At least three cameras mounted on the Gilmor Homes buildings overlook the location, along a low stone wall on the edge of a courtyard. Police have released some footage, but it showed little of the arrest.

In a bystander's video Gray is shown being pulled to the van, his feet dragging, before standing briefly on his own as he's placed inside the van.

Michael Robertson, 27, said his friend [Gray] — who had a record of drug arrests — ran because he "had a history with that police beating him."

[Gray did have a police record for drug arrests. i have not been able to locate any other mention of prior police beatings he may have suffered. Police 'mugshots' might show evidence of bruises, cuts, etc, if he was beaten prior to arrest mugshots.]

One block south and four minutes later, at 8:46 a.m. at Mount and Baker streets, the van stopped because Gray was acting "irate," police said. Police have also said that paperwork had to be filled out, though they have not provided more detail.

Gray was taken out of the van so officers could place leg shackles on him. Police have said he was not buckled into the van with a seat belt afterward, even though that is required by department policy.

Shouts at the scene brought Tobias Sellers and others running down the street.
Sellers, 59, who is [Ms.] Booze's brother and lives on the same block, said he was among those who started moving toward Gray, and saw police beating him. "They were taking their black batons, whatever they are, and hitting him," Sellers said.

From inside her Gilmor Homes apartment, which overlooks the street north of Baker, Jacqueline Jackson, 53, heard "a big commotion" as she was washing dishes.
She lifted her blinds and window and peered out, looking down on the van. Gray, she said, looked unresponsive.

"They lifted him up by his pants, and he wasn't responding, and they threw him in that paddy wagon," Jackson said. "It wasn't like they took him out to see what was going on with him. … I said, 'Call the paramedics!'" 

Police have said that a preliminary report on Gray's autopsy showed he had no injuries except to his spinal cord. No evidence of kicks, punches or other beatings. No evidence of broken limbs. 

Four cameras mounted on the Gilmor Homes buildings overlook the Mount and Baker intersection, but footage released by police has shown little of the officers' interactions with Gray. Police have promised to release more video as it becomes available.

At 8:59 a.m., as the van headed toward Central Booking, the driver called for an officer to "check on" Gray.

Police said an officer did respond and had "some communication" with Gray at the intersection of Druid Hill Avenue and Dolphin Street, though they have not described that interaction in detail and have said there is no surveillance footage. Batts [???] said officers called to the van had to "pick [Gray] up off the floor and place him on the seat," but he declined to elaborate.

Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said police still need to determine what Gray's condition was at the intersection and whether the police response during the encounter was appropriate.

Nearby, the G&A Food Market sits across the street from the Union Baptist Head Start; both have security cameras trained on the street.

One of the market's cameras points toward the intersection where police said the van stopped. Cindy Wang, 28, who works at the market, said police arrived there on Monday, April 20 — the day after Gray's death but eight days after his arrest — to inquire about the camera's footage.

By then it was gone.

"They were kind of late, because the camera only had a six-day record," Wang said. "If they came the second day or third day, they could have found it."

The camera on the Head Start building faces Druid Hill, not the intersection. Gayle E. Headen, director of the Head Start center, said a detective arrived there on April 20 and asked to review the footage, without giving a reason. "I didn't think anything of it,"

Headen said, noting that police have been interested in the footage for drug investigations in the past.

The detective asked to watch the footage from 8:55 a.m. to 9 a.m., and saw a police cruiser pass by at the 8:57 mark but no van, said Headen, who personally took the officer through the footage.

In fact, the footage shows a white van with a blue stripe down its side — like those on police vans — passing by at the 8:54:32 a.m. mark, according to The Baltimore Sun's review of the footage. The police cruiser, with its lights flashing, drives by about three minutes later.

During the Druid Hill and Dolphin stop, a call came through asking the van driver to return to the 1600 block of W. North Ave. — not far from the spot where Gray and police first made eye contact — to pick up another person. Such vans are divided by a metal barrier, and the second person was loaded into the section of the van not occupied by Gray.

Police have not described any interaction with Gray at this location. They have declined to identify the second person placed in the van, saying they need to "protect the integrity" of the criminal investigation into Gray's death, in which that person is now a witness.

After the pickup, the van headed south again — but this time it was headed for the Western District police station rather than Central Booking.

[UPDATE: TODAY, APRIL 30, POLICE HAVE STATED THAT THE VAN MADE AN UNREPORTED 4th STOP. NO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS STOP WAS GIVEN.,
THE POLICE INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE, BUT WAS SEALED AND HANDED OVER TO THE NEW STATE ATTORNEY, A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN, MARILYN J. MOSBY.

MS. MOSBY STATED THAT HER DEPARTMENT WILL REVIEW THE RESULTS BUT WAS ALSO CONDUCTING ITS OWN INVESTIGATION.
SHE SAID IT COULD BE MONTHS BEFORE HER OFFICE DECIDED IF ANY OF THE SIX POLICE OFFICERS WOULD BE PROSECUTED.

"In a sometimes defensive appearance on Thursday, Baltimore mayor, Ms. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake offered a heated self-defense against criticism that she was not sensitive enough to the city’s poor and had not done enough to rein in police misconduct.

Referring to herself, Ms. Mosby, and the nation’s new attorney general, Loretta Lynch, the mayor said Thursday, “If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can’t get justice and healing for this community, you tell me where we’re going to get it in our country.”

Baltimore's police commissioner, Anthony W. Batts, is also Black.]

When Gray was taken out of the van, Rodriguez said, "he could not talk and he could not breathe."

Beyond damage to his spinal cord, Gray had a crushed voice box.

At 9:24 a.m., officers called a medic to the Western District station, reporting that Gray was in "serious medical distress." The Baltimore Fire Department said the call arrived at 9:26 a.m.

Paramedics responded, spent 21 minutes treating Gray at the station, and arrived at Maryland Shock Trauma Center — where Gray would fall into a coma and die a week later — at 10 a.m. [Arrival at trauma center, 10 a.m., 45 minutes after his arrest]

Of the six suspended officers — Lt. Brian Rice, Sgt. Alicia White, and Officers William Porter, Garrett Miller, Edward Nero and Caesar Goodson Jr. — five have provided statements to police officials. Police have not said which officer has refused. The police union has defended the actions of all those involved.

At recent protests, chants of "We want all six!" have rung out. People in Gilmor Homes are skeptical of any police review of the officers' actions.

Everette Wade, 54, said the "last time Baltimore was in the news" to this extent was more than a decade ago, when coverage broke out over a DVD that highlighted the "Stop Snitching" culture of violence against residents who provide information to police.

Wade said he feels today is not all that different.

"Police have a 'Stop Snitching' policy. The good boys in blue cover for each other," he said. "That's 'Stop Snitching' all over again, isn't it?"
<end Globe article **>

FORMULATE YOUR OWN OPINION.
EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO DO SO.

LET ME JUST 'PREDICT' THAT THE 'INVESTIGATION' WILL MOST LIKELY DETERMINE THAT FREDDIE GRAY'S FATAL INJURIES OCCURRED BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BUCKLED INTO HIS SEAT AND WAS THROWN ABOUT THE VAN.

[UPDATE, APRIL 30,2015: AS I PREDICTED ABOVE:
"On Thursday, a Baltimore television station, WJLA, reported that according to unnamed law enforcement sources, ”the medical examiner found Gray’s catastrophic injury was caused when he slammed into the back of the police transport van, apparently breaking his neck.”]

SOMEONE WILL GET SLAPPED ON THE WRIST OR MAYBE SUSPENDED AND THAT WILL BE THAT.

I WOULD ONLY POINT OUT THAT THE YOUNG MAN COULD NOT HAVE CRUSHED HIS OWN LARYNX AND SO SEVERELY INJURED HIS OWN SPINE WHILE HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED.
HYPOTHETICALLY, HE COULD HAVE FALLEN HARD ONTO SOMETHING OR WAS THROWN INTO SOMETHING ON HIS RIDE TO THE POLICE STATION.
THAT SCENARIO HAS BEEN SET UP BY THE SEVERAL POLICE STATEMENTS SAYING HE WAS NOT 'BUCKLED UP'.

JUST AS HYPOTHETICALLY A POLICE OFFICER OR OFFICERS COULD HAVE DONE THIS DAMAGE.

ONE MAJOR THING THAT SEEMS UNEXPLAINED, TO ME, IS WHY FREDDIE GRAY WAS CHASED AND APPREHENDED, BUT NONE OF THOSE WITH HIM WERE ARRESTED.
IN OTHER WORDS, WAS IT ONLY BECAUSE HE ALONE RAN?

THE OFFICERS APPROACHING THOSE STANDING THERE DID NOT SEEM INTERESTED IN ANYONE IN THAT GROUP...UNTIL GRAY BEGAN TO RUN.
IF GRAY HAD NOT RUN, WOULD THE POLICEMEN HAVE SIMPLY PEDALED ON BY?

WE HAVE WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON BEFORE US NOW.
THIS IS WHAT AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW.

WHAT AMERICA DOES NOT NEED IS ANOTHER 'PROTEST MARCH' THAT ENDS IN LOOTING AND RIOTING.
THAT KIND OF IDIOCY TAKES THE FOCUS OFF FREDDIE GRAY'S DEATH.
THERE HAS BEEN WAY TOO MUCH OF THIS RECENTLY...
WE ALL REMEMBER THE FLAME-LIT NIGHTS IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI, AFTER "PROTEST MARCHES" TURNED INTO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR!

BEING DEDICATED TO POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS, I'M JUST GOING TO ASK AND THEN HOPE SOMEONE HAS A BIG ENOUGH SET TO ANSWER HONESTLY...
BUT, IF YOU ANSWER, KEEP IN MIND I AM ALSO ONE OF THE "MINORITY" IN AMERICA!
MY ANCESTORS WERE STANDING ON SHORE WATCHING THE MAYFLOWER SAIL IN!
WE'RE A REALLY SMALL MINORITY! 

WHY THE HELL DOES LOOTING SEEM TO ALMOST ALWAYS FOLLOW PROTESTS OF POLICE BRUTALITY, OR COME AFTER POLICE KILL A BLACK MAN, COME AFTER THAT VICTIM'S FUNERAL, OR BEFORE A FUNERAL?

IS THERE AN UNWRITTEN NEW RULE WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THAT SAYS, "AFTER WE MARCH IN PROTEST, THEN WE ALLOW SOME TO GO LOOT STORES"?

OH, AND BURN THINGS...LOOT AND BURN.

THOSE WHO START SUCH SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY STOPPED BY THOSE DEDICATED TO SEEING AN INVESTIGATION, STOPPED SO THIS ISN'T ADDED TO THE FAMILY'S GRIEF!

LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS!

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING YOU, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY SAW!
THEY COULD HAVE SEEN SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE MADE THEM WANT TO JOIN YOU, HELP YOU, DEMAND CHANGE, BUT THEY SAW THIS!

HOW MANY DO YOU THINK, OF ALL WHO SAW THIS, ARE NOW SAYING,
"DAMN! NO WONDER THE COPS ARE USING EXCESSIVE FORCE! THAT'S JUST A BUNCH OF LAWLESS CRIMINALS!" ?

WHO SHOWED THE WORLD ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL THAT WOULD MAKE EVERYONE WANT TO SEE JUSTICE DONE IN THE FREDDIE GRAY CASE, FOR THE MAN WHO DIED IN POLICE CUSTODY THERE?
WHAT WILL AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD SEE ON TV, PLEAS FOR JUSTICE, FACTS THAT QUESTION WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
NO!
THEY'LL SEE HOURS OF LOOTING AND RIOTING.
THE MAJORITY OF PROTESTERS ALLOWED THE OTHERS TO GET OUT OF HAND. CROWD CONTROL JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN!
[A VIDEO BELOW SHOWS HOW ONE MOTHER "CONTROLLED" HER SON!]

HOW COULD ANY OF THIS BRING ABOUT CHANGE...EXCEPT MAYBE MAKE SOME EXPECT THIS FROM FUTURE PROTESTERS?

WHAT GOOD DID THIS DO FOR FREDDIE GRAY OR HIS FAMILY?
HOW DOES ANY OF THIS CALL ATTENTION TO "POLICE BRUTALITY" OR RACIAL PROFILING, OR ANYTHING WE NEED ATTENTION FOCUSED ON?

LET ME JUST SAY THAT I WAS BARELY A "LEGAL ADULT" DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND FREEDOM RIDES OF THE 1960s, AND I KNOW MARCHES AND PROTESTS CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT LOOTING AND BURNING.

DR. KING NEVER SMASHED OUT A WINDOW OF A SINGLE STORE NOR TOOK ANYTHING OUT OF A STORE THAT HE DIDN'T PAY FOR!
HE NEVER SET FIRE TO ANYTHING NOR THREW ROCKS OR SHOT AT ONE POLICEMAN, AND NEITHER DID THOSE I MARCHED WITH!

SOME GOT SOME DAMNED BAD BEATINGS IN THOSE DAYS, BUT FROM WHERE I STOOD, I SAW NO ONE BREAK INTO A STORE OR SET ANYTHING ON FIRE!

IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TOLERATED BY OTHER MARCHERS!

NOWADAYS, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S THE GRAND FINALE OF ALMOST ALL PROTESTS WHEN A BLACK VICTIM IS INVOLVED.
THE RAW TRUTH IS, THAT IS WHAT THE WHOLE WORLD SEES!
IT SEES ONLY THOSE WHO ARE COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTS!
THAT HAS TO CHANGE!

WHY?
WHAT THE HELL GOOD DOES DESTROYING A STORE WHILE YOU STRIP IT BARE AND THEN SETTING IT AFIRE  DO?
WHAT "STATEMENT" DOES THAT MAKE?
"HEY, LOOK, I'M A FREAKING THIEF AND AN ARSONIST"?

DOES ANYONE WONDER WHY THE "PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY" DON'T BRING THE WHOLE NATION OUT TO JOIN YOU?

THEY DON'T WANT TO GET SWEPT INTO A STORE BY A MOB OF LOOTERS, GET TRAMPLED BY THOSE GOING FOR THE "BIG TICKET ITEMS", NOR DO THEY WANT TO RISK GOING UP IN FLAMES IF SOMETHING YOU SET AFIRE EXPLODES NEAR THEM!

LIKE THIS MINISTER (JOHNATHAN GENTRY) TRIES TO TELL ALL OF US, CHANGE STARTS WITH EACH OF US.
IF WE WANT CHANGE, WE CHANGE!
THIS GENTLEMAN SAYS THINGS I DO NOT AGREE WITH, BUT HE IS "INTENSE".
THIS VIDEO CAME AFTER THE FERGUSON RIOTS.
HE WAS LATER INTERVIEWED BY FOX AND OTHER MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

AND THIS MOTHER WHO PULLED HER SON OUT OF THE RIOTS AFTER SHE SAW HIM ON LOCAL BALTIMORE TV, THROWING ROCKS AT POLICE, HAS BEEN CALLED "MOTHER OF THE YEAR".
I DISAGREE, BUT SHE JUST MAY HAVE SAVED HER SON FROM BEING THE NEXT FUNERAL!

THE MOTHER SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THAT SHE DID THIS TO KEEP HER SON FROM BEING KILLED FOR HIS ACTIONS.
A SCARED MOTHER WILL DO SOME VERY ODD THINGS.

WILL VIOLENCE ATTRACT HELP TO RIGHT THINGS?
NO!
VIOLENCE TURNS THE WORLD AGAINST YOU AND ANYTHING YOU STAND FOR!

I CAN GUARANTEE YOU, NEITHER I NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAD KINFOLKS ON AMERICA'S "INDIAN RESERVATIONS" WOULD HAVE STEPPED OUT IN SOLIDARITY DURING THOSE VERY DANGEROUS TIMES IN THE SIXTIES IF THE MARCHERS HAD ONCE TURNED INTO LOOTERS, OR ARSONISTS!

HELL NO, WE WOULDN'T GO INTO THAT KIND OF MESS!
THAT WAS NOT WHAT THE PROTESTS WERE ABOUT!

THOSE MARCHERS WE STOOD SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER WITH IN SOUTHERN TOWNS CONDUCTED THEMSELVES IN A PEACEFUL, DIGNIFIED MANNER!

IF YOU WANT TO SEE POLICE BRUTALITY, GO LOOK AT SOME VIDEOS OF THOSE PROTESTS SOMETIMES, SEE WHAT A LOT OF THOSE MARCHERS GOT FOR STANDING UP AND WALKING QUIETLY DOWN A STREET OR ROAD!

WE WERE URINATED ON, SPIT ON, AND HAD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES SCREAMING IN OUR FACES, THROWING THINGS, CURSING US, THREATENING TO BEAT US, EVEN KILL US!

BUT I SAW NO ONE GET UP FROM BEING KNOCKED DOWN AND GO ROB A STORE, OR BURN A CAR, OR THROW A BRICK...NOT ONE!

AND THE MISTAKES MADE ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT IS ALWAYS PICKED UP BY "NEWS" SERVICES TO KEEP THE POT STIRRED ARE OFTEN JUST INSANELY WRONG!

HERE, LOOK AT SOME TWEETS DURING A PREVIOUS "LOOT AND BURN" FOLLOWING ANOTHER "PROTEST" NOT SO LONG AGO IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI:
[ YOU CAN SEE THESE TWEETS COLLECTED IN ONE PLACE <HERE>]

~ Grizzwald Cobblepot @ItsMeGrizz

Loot in the white neighborhoods guys!!!

9:59 PM - 10 Aug 2014

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~ JP IZZZ YA DADDY @JP_Izzzz_Me

@Salute_DeezNutz gonna have to loot the white neighborhoods then

10:23 PM - 10 Aug 2014

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~ If you gon @ least loot, go to the white people neighborhood

— #Struggle (@illmatic_kid) August 11, 2014

~ Words from mentor. If you're going to riot and loot, at least take it to the rich white folk neighborhood. 😂

— Kesus ⚡ (@KesusWalks) August 11, 2014

~ Tearing up ya own hoods ain't helping the cause

— Groovy (@Hii__PoWeR) August 11, 2014

THIS ONE JUST MAY TOP THEM ALL?

~ If you're gonna riot and kill people at least kill WHITE people. Why attack your own people?

— H. Don Datta (@HollowDaGatMan) August 11, 2014

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE ABOVE...YOU GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ANYTHING BUT CONCERNED CITIZENS LOOKING FOR JUSTICE! 

A YOUNG MAN IS DEAD.

HOW HE DIED, IF ANYONE WAS AT FAULT IN HIS DEATH, AND IF SO, WHY, HOW, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING TO ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING, ALL THESE THINGS SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THE BALTIMORE PROTESTS...NOT LOOTING, NOT BURNING, NOT DOING PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO A POLICEMAN OR A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL GUARD. 

SURE, WE CAN GO ON FOREVER LETTING VIOLENCE BEGET VIOLENCE, MAKING EXCUSES FOR VIOLENCE, KEEP THE HATRED AND MISUNDERSTANDING AND DIVISION ALIVE, OR, WE CAN LISTEN TO PEOPLE LIKE THE MINISTER AND THE MOM (WHO REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TO SLAP THE KID AROUND, DID SHE?) AND BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE, OR WE CAN CONTINUE TO JUST BLAME, JUST MAKE EXCUSES WHY WE DON'T DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY, TRY SOMETHING NEW, SEE IF THE PHILOSOPHY THAT DR. KING AND MEN LIKE GANDHI PREACHED WORKS. 

ONE DEFINITION OF INSANITY IS TO KEEP DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER, HOPING FOR A DIFFERENT OUTCOME. 

CHANGE! 

THOSE WHO SAY THEY WANT CHANGE MUST BECOME THAT CHANGE! 

WHAT WE SEE BY THE LIGHT OF FLAMES IN BALTIMORE, ANYWHERE, WILL NEVER BRING ABOUT THE CHANGE PEOPLE  SAY THEY WANT! 

LEARN...OR CONTINUE TO PERISH! 

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SAUDI PRINCE PROMISES BENTLEYS TO BOMBERS

                          AS THE TWEET INITIALLY APPEARED ON TWITTER
              http://twitter.com/Othmanbay/status/590844910661697536/photo/1

THIS WILL BE BRIEF...
SOCIAL MEDIA HAS BEEN BUSY BASHING SAUDI PRINCE AL-WALEED bin TALAL FOR  PROMISING 100 LUXURY AUTOMOBILES, BENTLEYS, TO ALL 100 SAUDI PILOTS WHO ARE STILL BOMBING YEMEN.  

The Prince, who has three million followers on Twitter, tweeted: "In appreciation of their role in this operation, I'm honoured to offer 100 Bentley cars to the 100 Saudi [fighter] pilots".

One man in Yemen posted pictures of his destroyed house, with the caption: “Glad I'm alive. But whose paying for all this mess? I get blown up, pilots get the Bentley's. Unfair world.” 

Another responded: #Yemen which does not have food, water, medicines, fuel or electricity was not offered even one ambulance by Prince Talal bin Al Waleed.

Still another replied: @Alwaleed_Talal Muslim children died at the hands of your pilots and you reward them with Bentleys. You should be ashamed of yourself.

WHILE HARDLY ANY MAINSTREAM AMERICAN MEDIA REPORTED THIS, THE HEADLINES FROM OTHER NATIONS CAUSED A STORM OF PROTESTS ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA SITES.

FINALLY, THE WASHINGTON POST WROTE: 

"Alwaleed's message was popular: It was retweeted at least 28,000 times. But perhaps it was a little too popular. The account has now deleted the tweet, offering no explanation of whether the deal was still on, or why it was tweeted in the first place. Screenshots of the tweet are all that remain.

The decision to delete the tweet may be a reflection of some of the responses to Alwaleed's message, many of which mocked the opulence of the gesture."

WHILE THE MULTI-BILLIONAIRE PRINCE CAN CERTAINLY AFFORD SUCH A GENEROUS OFFER, WHY WOULD HE DO SO?

HE OFFERS REWARDS TO THOSE WHO ARE BOMBING SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, KILLING CHILDREN EVERY  DAY?

SURELY WE CAN SEE THAT LUXURY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO AL-WALEED THAN HUMAN LIVES.
HE WOULD RATHER BRIBE SAUDI PILOTS TO CONTINUE KILLING THAN OFFER ANY REWARD FOR A SOLUTION AND END TO THIS SENSELESS ATTACK ON YEMEN.

WAS HE CONCERNED THE PILOTS NEEDED A LITTLE BRIBE TO KEEP THEM FLYING THEIR BOMBING RUNS?

THE 'PRINCE' LATER REMOVED HIS TWEET, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE...NEWS AGENCIES AND FOLLOWERS ON TWITTER HAD ALREADY CAPTURED THE IMAGE OF THE TWEET AND SENT IT AROUND THE WORLD.

WILL HE STILL BUY THOSE 100 BENTLEYS FOR THE 100 SAUDI BOMBERS?
WHO CAN SAY?

DOES THIS MAN HAVE A SOUL OR A HUMAN HEART?
WHO CAN SAY?

SAUDI ARABIA KILLS CHILDREN IN YEMEN , HUNDREDS OF THEM

                              Dead children, killed by Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.
Photo from a Pakistani news source, https://lubpak.com/archives/334709

From the Fars New Service, Yemini children killed by Saudi 'poison gas'. 
April 19, 2015
"Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for 25 days now to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 2,645 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children. 

Yemeni officials had already warned that the bombs that the Saudi regime has used in Sana'a were different from those used in other parts of Yemen.

They said that the bombs were of the very rare and dangerous type that resulted in the suffocation of the residents of the affected regions.

On Friday, eyewitnesses said that Saudi Arabia has used internationally banned weapons in its aerial bombardment on an area near Sana'a."

FARS NEWS WAS QUOTING YEMENI OFFICIALS, SO WHY IS THE U.N. REPORTING SO MANY FEWER DEAD? 

PHOTO FROM 'AL ALAM', APRIL 1, 2015, WHICH SHOWS A VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO FROM YEMEN, <HERE> 

WHY ISN'T THE U.N. REPORTING CORRECTLY?

JUST SINCE MARCH 26, 2015 UP UNTIL APRIL 22, SAUDI BOMBS HAVE KILLED OVER 500 YEMENI CITIZENS, INCLUDING 115 CHILDREN AND 31 WOMEN.
THESE WERE ALL CIVILIANS.
IN LESS THAN ONE MONTH!

THE UNITED NATIONS HAS BEEN KEEPING COUNT OF THIS, SO PERHAPS THAT IS WHY THE NUMBERS THEY GIVE ARE SO LOW? 
THE U.N. COUNTS ONLY WHAT IT CHOOSES TO COUNT!

MAYBE THE U.N. IS LYING TO HELP COVER THE CRIMES OF SAUDI ARABIA?

ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE U.N. STATS: 
SAUDI BOMBS HIT 23 HOSPITALS AND PERHAPS 30 SCHOOLS.
ALMOST 1,200 YEMENI CIVILIANS HAVE BEEN WOUNDED BY SAUDI BOMBS. 

ON APRIL 24, THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED ALMOST 1,000 KILLED AND OVER 3,500 INJURED.    

"According to figures from the U.N.'s World Health Organization, at least 944 Yemenis have been killed and nearly 3,500 injured since the Saudi-led campaign began.

Health facilities are struggling to function as they face increasing shortages of life-saving medicines and vital health supplies, frequent disruptions in power supply and lack of fuel for generators. Lack of fuel has also disrupted functionality of ambulances and the delivery of health supplies across the country.


Shortages of safe water have resulted in increased risk of diarrhea, and other diseases. “Over the past 4 weeks, national disease surveillance reports show a doubling in the number of cases of bloody diarrhea in children below the age of 5, as well as an increase in the number of cases of measles and suspected malaria. 

High rates of malnutrition among women and children below the age of 5 have also been reported,” says Dr. Ahmed Shadoul, WHO Representative for Yemen. " 

WHAT NATION IS SCREAMING "WAR CRIMES!" AGAINST THE SAUDIS?  

WHAT SANCTIONS HAS THE U.N. EVEN MENTIONED AGAINST SAUDI ARABIA?  

THE ANSWER TO BOTH THOSE QUESTIONS APPEARS TO BE NONE!
NOT ONE!  

"U.N. officials said that while there was no formal complaint to the Saudis concerning the airstrikes, they have brought the matter up to the Saudi government informally."

WHY IS THAT?  

WHY ISN'T THE ENTIRE WORLD OUTRAGED AT THE SAUDI BOMBINGS? 

YEMEN HAS NOT ATTACKED SAUDI ARABIA!  

YEMEN HAS NOT ATTACKED AMERICA, BUT AMERICAN FORCES ARE REFUELING AND "SUPPORTING" SAUDI BOMBERS!   

"In Washington, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the United States continues to refuel Saudi aircraft. “We are still flying a tanker a day to be available if needed,” he said. “It's like having a gas station in the sky.”

WHY?

SAUDI ARABIA CLAIMED IT WAS HALTING ITS BOMBING RUNS AGAINST YEMEN LAST TUESDAY, BUT THE U.N. SAID FRIDAY THAT SAUDI BOMBING CONTINUES AND CONTINUES KILLING CIVILIANS! 

“We have recorded a number of airstrikes that have hit military and civilian positions in Sanaa, Ibb, Hajja and Taiz,” Rupert Coleville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters. He said one incident on Wednesday in Ibb governorate killed 40 civilians, including seven children, when Saudi planes bombed a bridge then returned and bombed the bridge a second time.

“Civilians gathering to help those injured by the first airstrikes were reportedly hit by the second,” Colville said.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/04/24/264398/saudi-bombing-in-yemen-still-claiming.html#storylink=cpy

Similarly, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that airstrikes on Thursday hit areas in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, as well as Taiz, Aden, Sadaa and Al Dhale governorates. The airport in Aden was also bombed, the agency said."

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/04/24/264398/saudi-bombing-in-yemen-still-claiming.html#storylink=cpy

"...a Saudi-led naval blockade of Yemen’s ports continues to hinder the distribution of life-saving drugs and medical supplies as well as food, fuel and other essentials." 

SAUDI ARABIA IS BLOCKING FOOD AND LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL SUPPLIES FROM AN ENTIRE COUNTRY WHILE CHILDREN ARE DYING AND GOING HUNGRY?   
WHY?

THE SAUDIS KNEW A PEACE DEAL AMONG WARRING FACTIONS INSIDE YEMEN WAS CLOSE, AND THAT IS WHEN IT STRUCK!  
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL:

"UNITED NATIONS—"Yemen’s warring political factions were on the verge of a power-sharing deal when Saudi-led airstrikes began a month ago, derailing the negotiations, the United Nations envoy who mediated the talks said.  

A senior diplomat familiar with the negotiations said the Saudis also intervened to prevent a power-sharing deal that would include the Houthis and that would give 30 % of the cabinet and parliament to women."

SAUDI'S RULERS DO NOT WANT EVEN ONE MEMBER OF THE HOUTHI FACTION TO BE PART OF A UNITED YEMENI GOVERNMENT.

THE HOUSE OF SAUD EQUATES THE HOUTHI WITH IRAN!  
AND SAUDI'S RULERS ARE SCARED OUT OF THEIR MINDS OF IRAN!

IT IS A CASE OF THE SUNNI (FAILURES AT WAHHABISM ?) SAUDIS AGAINST WHAT THEY SEE AS THE SHI'ITE HOUTHIS. 

IT IS MUSLIM-AGAINST-MUSLIM KILLING...YET AGAIN! 
IT IS WAR WITHIN THE RANKS OF ISLAM...YET AGAIN! 

ONCE DEDICATED TO WAHHABISM, SAUDI ARABIA NOW DEDICATED TO MONEY

While Saudi Arabia has only existed since 1932, an earlier Al Saud state (Emirate of Diriyah) clashed with the Shia. 

Ibn Abdul-Wahhab, who swayed the Saudi monarchs at the time,  believed that Shia "imported into Islam" the practice of building mosques on graves, a practice he considered un-Islamic. 

He referred to Shia as Rafida (rejecters), a name his followers have continued to use.
In 1802, the Saud-Wahhabi alliance waged jihad on the Shia holy city of Karbala. 

You may not know that ISIS (the Islamic State) adheres to the doctrine of Ibn Abdul-Wahhab, and sees the House of Saud as reprobates and heretics for allowing worship of the "Black Stone" at Mecca, has vowed to destroy Mecca AND every member of the House of Saud ruling family.  

ISIS sees the Saudis as betrayers of the PURE faith,
They say the House of Saud has become "westernized", corrupt "satanic" and must be destroyed.  


[See my blog entitled "ISIS VOWS TO DESTROY MECCA AND KILL JORDAN'S KING"] 

IRISH TIMES REPORTS WHAT MAY BE THE REAL REASON THE BOMBINGS CONTINUE

"SUNNI Saudis and their partners contend the air offensive in Yemen is meant to halt SHIA Iran’s drive to expand its regional influence by backing Yemen’s rebel Houthi tribesmen in their battle against Saudi-supported president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.  

However, Iran’s connection with the Houthis is marginal at best and Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman bin Abdel Aziz, has powerful domestic reasons for waging a war. He is seeking to unify subjects split between ultra-conservatives and reformers, solidify his hold on power with a military victory, and prepare the way for a favourite younger son, Mohamed to ascend to the top rungs of the succession ladder.

Salman, 79 and a stroke survivor, fears he may not have a long reign and is seeking to promote Mohamed while he can."

CNN HAS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TAKE ON WHY

"Analysts say that Shiite-majority Iran and Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia are locked in a strategic contest for influence across the Middle East.

"What they do not want is an Iranian-run state on their southern border, because they already feel they've got enough problems on their northern border," said military analyst Lt. Col. Rick Francona, a retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer."

TIMELINE OF YEMEN’S CURRENT TROUBLES

~ 1994: Believing Youth, a theological movement of the Shiite-linked Zaidi sect, forms in northern Saada province. 

~ June 2004: Autocratic President Ali Abdullah Saleh sends the military, led by Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, to arrest Hussein al-Houthi, Believing Youth’s leader, amid protests over Mr. Saleh’s alliance with the U.S. The group begins an uprising against the government. 

~ September 2004: Mr. Houthi is killed by Gen. Ahmar’s forces. The Believing Youth change their name to the Houthis. 

~ November 2009: President Saleh declares fresh military operations against the Houthis. Saudi Arabia, which borders northern Yemen, joins after rebels overrun a Saudi military base and kill dozens of troops. The Saudis launch airstrikes on the Houthis. 

~ April 2011: Arab Spring protests hit Yemen, but President Saleh refuses to step down. The United Nations sends Moroccan diplomat Jamal Benomar to the country as a special envoy.  

~ June 2011: A bomb at the presidential palace mosque nearly kills Mr. Saleh.
November 2011: Mr. Saleh steps down after nearly 40 years and his vice president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, is picked by the international community to lead during a political transition. 

~March 2013: : The National Dialogue Conference begins discussions on new constitution with decentralized federal powers. Later, President Hadi and allies unilaterally propose a six-region federal system outside the National Dialogue discussions. The Houthis oppose his map, saying it would dilute Zaidi representation. 

~ September 2014: The Houthis overrun the capital San’a, withdrawing a month later. The Houthis, Mr. Hadi and other parties sign a power-sharing agreement on the day Houthis entered capital, but the deal quickly falls apart. 

~ January 2015: Mr. Hadi pushes through the constitution and the federal system the Houthis oppose. The rebels overrun San’a again, forcing the government to resign and placing Mr. Hadi under house arrest. U.N.-mediated talks continue despite the turmoil. 

~ February 2015: Mr. Hadi flees to the southern port of Aden. Mr. Benomar announces a breakthrough in talks, saying parties agreed to form a new transitional council, but the deal is not final. 

~ March 25, 2015: Houthi rebels, aided by Yemeni military factions that broke off in support of Mr. Saleh, overtake Aden. Mr. Hadi flees, ending up in Saudi Arabia. 


~ March 26, 2015: Saudi Arabia announces an anti-Houthi coalition of 10 Sunni countries and begins airstrikes in Yemen. Mr. Benomar says talks collapse.

AND STILL NO "FORMAL COMPLAINTS" AGAINST THE SAUDIS? 
AND THE U.S. IS STILL HELPING OUT WITH THE BOMB RUNS? 


AND MUSLIM CONTINUES TO KILL OTHER MUSLIMS. 

AND CHILDREN, ALWAYS CHILDREN, CONTINUE TO DIE.  

ANY WAR ON CHILDREN IS WRONG!  
KILLING INNOCENT CHILDREN IS WRONG!  

WHAT PERPLEXES ME IS WHY, WHEN IT IS MUSLIM-ON-MUSLIM KILLINGS, MURDERS, INDISCRIMINATE BOMBINGS, MANY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ELSEWHERE FIND WAYS TO TURN THE OTHER WAY, NOT PROTEST, NOT USE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO CONDEMN IT, NOT SEE ANY U.N. SANCTIONS, ETC...
BUT IF ISRAEL TAKES DEFENSIVE ACTION AND SEND JUST ONE PLANE AGAINST ANY MUSLIMS, THE WHOLE WORLD CRIES OUT FOR ISRAEL TO BE ERASED AS A NATION!  

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? 

WHY NO SANCTIONS NOR GLOBAL OUTRAGE OVER THE SAUDI RULERS KILLING HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN, STARVING AN ENTIRE NATION AND CUTTING OFF MEDICAL AID, OBLITERATING HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS, INJURING THOUSANDS, USING BANNED "POISON GAS BOMBS" AGAINST CIVILIANS...? 

THE U.S. KILLED SADDAM HUSSEIN FOR THIS...

AND NOW SAUDI ARABIA AND AMERICA ARE DOING THE SAME TO ONE OF THE POOREST NATIONS ON EARTH AND IT'S OKAY? 

IT'S NEVER OKAY TO BOMB A NATION WHO HAS SENT NOT ONE BOMB AGAINST YOU! 

NO, NO, IT'S NEVER OKAY TO KILL CHILDREN! 

THE HOUSE OF SAUD AND THE USA MUST STOP KILLING CHILDREN!
THE WHOLE WORLD MUST STOP KILLING CHILDREN!