Trumps neoconservative Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is a man unafraid to admit to being a liar. In fact he seems to revel in his ability to lie to the American people.
Remember just a week ago when Pompeo told us that the US absolutely HAD to send in a drone to assassinate Irans top general, Qassim Soleimani, while he was in Iraq on a peace mission because he was planning imminent attacks on US personnel and interests in the Middle East.
These claims were crafted to blunt any criticism of the blatantly illegal act of killing a top military officer of a country with which you are not at war in a third country (which forbade the attack on its soil) with which you are allied. Americans raising concerns about the murder of Soleimani were to be made to look unpatriotic if they objected: you mean you WANT Americans die??
Thats how propaganda works.
Then when the smoke clears, you laugh it all off and admit it was all a lie. As Pompeo did last night.
Speaking on the Laura Ingraham program, Mike Pompeo admitted that the neocon idea of imminent and the normal idea of imminent are two very different things.
We dont know precisely when and we dont know precisely where (the attacks might take place), but it was real, he told Ingraham.
But if you dont know when and dont know where (and presumably dont know how), on what basis did Pompeo and the Trump Administration sell the idea that he had to be killed immediately lest untold numbers of Americans be killed?
And how can we believe Pompeo that Soleimani was behind the initial rocket attacks on an Iraqi base housing US troops, that a US contractor was killed by Soleimanis forces at that base, and that Soleimani was behind the attacks (vandalism) on the US embassy in Baghdad?
In other words, if the central justification for the murder of Soleimani is an admitted lie, who in his right mind would believe the official version of the antecedents to the murder?
While proudly lying day and night, Pompeo professes to be a great Christian at the same time he pushed Trump to murder the architect of the anti-ISIS counterinsurgency (Soleimani) that saved hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christian lives.
Something smells sulfurous about Pompeo
#1: Darkwing To: Ada (#0)
Darkwing posted on 2020-01-12 09:00:22 Reply Private Reply
#2: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: Ada (#0)
"...Some of the most compelling evidence that Qasem Soleimani was preparing an imminent attack against American forces and American personnel also represents some of the most sensitive intelligence that we have, Pence told NBCs Savannah Guthrie. It could compromise those sources and methods.
Pence added on Fox News that were simply not able to share with every member of the House and Senate the intelligence that supported the presidents decision to take out Qasem Soleimani, but I can assure your viewers that there was there was a threat of an imminent attack...."
The Trump teams increasingly jumbled case for striking Qasem Soleimani
https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=231665&Disp=3#C3
"...on January 4th former UK Ambassador Craig Murray headlined from Britain Lies, the Bethlehem Doctrine, and the Illegal Murder of Soleimani and he exposed lies against Soleimani by Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, and a key neoconservative legal advisor to UKs Government. He was exposing there a bipartisan and international sliming operation, the type of thing that traditionally persuades masses of suckers to vote for politicians who continue the grand imperial enterprise, for the benefit of U.S.-and-allied billionaires. However, that scam might not be so successful this time around. ..."
Trump Assassinated the Leading General Who Fought Against ISIS.
https://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=231615
Lies, the Bethlehem Doctrine, and the Illegal Murder of Soleimani
By Craig Murray
Global Research, January 06, 2020
Craig Murray 4 January 2020
In one of the series of blatant lies the USA has told to justify the assassination of Soleimani, Mike Pompeo said that Soleimani was killed because he was planning Imminent attacks on US citizens. It is a careful choice of word. Pompeo is specifically referring to the Bethlehem Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Self Defence.
Developed by Daniel Bethlehem when Legal Adviser to first Netanyahus government and then Blairs, the Bethlehem Doctrine is that states have a right of pre-emptive self-defence against imminent attack. That is something most people, and most international law experts and judges, would accept. Including me.
What very few people, and almost no international lawyers, accept is the key to the Bethlehem Doctrine that here Imminent the word used so carefully by Pompeo does not need to have its normal meanings of either soon or about to happen. An attack may be deemed imminent, according to the Bethlehem Doctrine, even if you know no details of it or when it might occur. So you may be assassinated by a drone or bomb strike and the doctrine was specifically developed to justify such strikes because of intelligence you are engaged in a plot, when that intelligence neither says what the plot is nor when it might occur. Or even more tenuous, because there is intelligence you have engaged in a plot before, so it is reasonable to kill you in case you do so again.
I am not inventing the Bethlehem Doctrine. It has been the formal legal justification for drone strikes and targeted assassinations by the Israeli, US and UK governments for a decade. Here it is in academic paper form, published by Bethlehem after he left government service (the form in which it is adopted by the US, UK and Israeli Governments is classified information).
So when Pompeo says attacks by Soleimani were imminent he is not using the word in the normal sense in the English language. It is no use asking him what, where or when these imminent attacks were planned to be. He is referencing the Bethlehem Doctrine under which you can kill people on the basis of a feeling that they may have been about to do something.
The idea that killing an individual who you have received information is going to attack you, but you do not know when, where or how, can be justified as self- defence, has not gained widespread acceptance or indeed virtually any acceptance in legal circles outside the ranks of the most extreme devoted neo- conservatives and zionists. Daniel Bethlehem became the FCOs Chief Legal Adviser, brought in by Jack Straw, precisely because every single one of the FCOs existing Legal Advisers believed the Iraq War to be illegal. In 2004, when the House of Commons was considering the legality of the war on Iraq, Bethlehem produced a remarkable paper for consideration which said that it was legal because the courts and existing law were wrong, a defence which has seldom succeeded in court.
(b) following this line, I am also of the view that the wider principles of the law on self-defence also require closer scrutiny. I am not persuaded that the approach of doctrinal purity reflected in the Judgments of the International Court of Justice in this area provide a helpful edifice on which a coherent legal regime, able to address the exigencies of contemporary international life and discourage resort to unilateral action, is easily crafted;
The key was that the concept of imminent was to change:
The concept of what constitutes an imminent armed attack will develop to meet new circumstances and new threats
In the absence of a respectable international lawyer willing to argue this kind of tosh, Blair brought in Bethlehem as Chief Legal Adviser, the man who advised Netanyahu on Israels security wall and who was willing to say that attacking Iraq was legal on the basis of Saddams imminent threat to the UK, which proved to be non-existent. It says everything about Bethlehems eagerness for killing that the formulation of the Bethlehem Doctrine on extrajudicial execution by drone came after the Iraq War, and he still gave not one seconds thought to the fact that the intelligence on the imminent threat can be wrong. Assassinating people on the basis of faulty intelligence is not addressed by Bethlehem in setting out his doctrine. The bloodlust is strong in this one.
There are literally scores of academic articles, in every respected journal of international law, taking down the Bethlehem Doctrine for its obvious absurdities and revolting special pleading. ....
Bethlehem provided an opinion on the legality of drone strikes which is, to say the least, controversial. To give one example, Bethlehem accepts that established principles of international law dictate that lethal force may be used only to prevent an attack which is imminent. Bethlehem argues that for an attack to be imminent does not require it to be soon. Indeed you can kill to avert an imminent attack even if you have no information on when and where it will be. You can instead rely on your targets pattern of behaviour; that is, if he has attacked before, it is reasonable to assume he will attack again and that such an attack is imminent.
There is a much deeper problem: that the evidence against the target is often extremely dubious. Yet even allowing the evidence to be perfect, it is beyond me that the state can kill in such circumstances without it being considered a death penalty imposed without trial for past crimes, rather than to frustrate another imminent one.
You would think that background would make an interesting story. Yet the entire serious British media published the government line, without a single journalist, not one, writing about the fact that Bethlehems proposed definition of imminent has been widely rejected by the international law community. The public knows none of this. They just know that drone strikes are keeping us safe from deadly attack by terrorists, because the government says so, and nobody has attempted to give them other information
Remember, this is not just an academic argument, the Bethlehem Doctrine is the formal policy position on assassination of Israel, the US and UK governments. So that is lie one. When Pompeo says Soleimani was planning imminent attacks, he is using the Bethlehem definition under which imminent is a concept which means neither soon nor definitely going to happen. To twist a word that far from its normal English usage is to lie. To do so to justify killing people is obscene. That is why, if I finish up in the bottom-most pit of hell, the worst thing about the experience will be the company of Daniel Bethlehem.
Let us now move on to the next lie, which is being widely repeated, this time originated by Donald Trump, that Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans. This lie has been parroted by everybody, Republicans and Democrats alike ..."
to read the rest: https://www.globalresearch.ca/lies-bethlehem-doctrine- illegal-murder-soleimani/5699820
Trump Administration had Set a Trap for Soleimani
Soleimani was in Iraq on a diplomatic mission to discuss peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia talks that had been requested by the Trump administration.
As we breathe a sigh of relief that, for the moment, a massive escalation of regional tensions in the Middle East has been averted, it is important to raise some simple (though disturbing) questions about the assassination of Irans Major General Qassem Soleimani.
Pepe Escobar, a widely respected geopolitical writer, has stated (Jan. 6):
The bombshell facts were delivered by caretaker Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, during an extraordinary, historic parliamentary session in Baghdad on Sunday [Jan. 5]. Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani had flown into Baghdad on a normal carrier flight, carrying a diplomatic passport. He had been sent by Tehran to deliver, in person, a reply to a message from Riyadh on de-escalation across the Middle East. Those negotiations had been requested by the Trump administration[my emphasis]. [1]
Escobar further explained,
So Baghdad was officially mediating between Tehran and Riyadh, at the behest of Trump. And Soleimani was a messenger. Adhil Abdul-Mahdi was supposed to meet Soleimani at 8:30 a.m. Baghdad time, last Friday [Jan. 3]. But a few hours before the appointed time, Soleimani died as the object of a targeted assassination at Baghdad airport. Let that sink in for the annals of 21st century diplomacy. [2]
So Soleimani was in Iraq on a diplomatic mission to discuss peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia talks that had been requested by the Trump administration. He was killed by a U.S. pre-dawn air raid on Jan. 3 that also killed Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Escobar emphasized,
Now, the fact is that the United States government on foreign soil, as a guest nation has assassinated a diplomatic envoy who was on an official mission that had been requested by the United States government itself. [3]
According to Andre Damon and David North of World Socialist Web Site [Jan. 7], Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi further told the Iraqi Parliament that
Trump had personally thanked him for his diplomatic efforts, giving the impression that Suleimani was not threatened with harm. And yet, within hours, the Iranian general was dead in what Abdul-Mahdi condemned as a grave violation of Iraqi sovereignty. [4]
Its hard not to arrive at the conclusion that the Trump administration set a trap for Soleimani in order to conduct a targeted assassination of him in Iraq. Indeed, that it is the stark possibility that news outlet South Front published on Jan. 5, stating with regard to the planned de-escalation talks that the US supposedly used this initiative to set a trap for the Iranian military commander and assassinate him. Trumps phone call thanking the Iraqi Prime Minister for the impending de-escalation talks was made on December 31, after demonstrators stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. [5]...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-need-know-much-more-about-soleimani- assassination/5700188
While proudly lying day and night, Pompeo professes to be a great Christian at the same time he pushed Trump to murder the architect of the anti-ISIS counterinsurgency (Soleimani) that saved hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christian lives.
Something smells sulfurous about Pompeo
I've been reading conflicting reports...who can you trust...but I am currently thinking there is a lot more than Pompeo that smells sulfurous.
If all this is true, I want to vomit at the treachery. And for what? Greater Israel.
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 09:18:11 Reply Private Reply
#3: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: Ada (#0)
someone could do a search "imminent pursuer rodef", "pursuer rodef", "Soleimani Israel", etc.
I saw somewhere he and a compatriot who is now dead were under Israeli fire in 2005 or 2006. I also saw somewhere he supposedly said he wanted to see a mushroom cloud over Israel. If that were true, he would be classified as a "pursuer", and he could be killed under Talmudic law under the BELIEF he might try to "kill" Israel/Jews at any point in time, if not "imminent". Do your own research. Maybe you can come up with something definitive.
"...this writer has been studying tractate Sanhedrin of late, where some of the weightiest matters of halacha (rabbinic law) are propounded. The Sanhedrin volumes cover capital punishment and other forms of penal law, including the eerie concept of the rodef(pursuer). It is often bragged that the religion of the Talmud has suspended enforcement of the death penalty. Hence, gentiles dont have to fear that worshippers of Jesus Christ will be executed for avodah zarah (idolatry), under the Noahide laws; thats the cover story. The truth is that while the beth din (rabbinic court) does not formally, and as a matter of public action, issue death penalties, they do permit the preemptive execution of a person designated a rodef.
We are dealing here with lawyers. Therefore, it is necessary to be cognizant of the myriad escape clauses that are native to the Talmudic gestalt. Nowadays no rabbinic court sentences anyone to death? Thats true. Hence, people are murdered without trial. The most notorious recent case is that of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995 by Yigal Amir, a Talmud student, because Rabin was earnestly endeavoring to make peace with the Palestinians. Amir invoked the halachot of the rodef, i.e the rabbinic law governing a pursuer. Rabin was considered by the Israeli-colonialist settler movement to be a rodef, and hence he was summarily murdered as a preventive act. This is a feature of the Talmudic law governing the pursuer. It was conveyed to George W. Bush that the nation of Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a pursuer, and a first strike aggressive war was launched, in accordance with the Talmud, while Protestant fundamentalists and papalist neocons ran about screeching, Beware, Sharia law is nearly here!
Pursuers come in all shapes and sizes. They can even be Judaic children. In 1973 Americans were shocked and deeply disturbed when the Supreme Court not only legalized abortion at 12 or 16 weeks gestation the Court, in conformity with the Talmud, legalized abortion on demand at any time during the pregnancy, including a few minutes before the baby is born. This abominable crime against the innocent is permissible in those lands where the Talmud exerts dominion.
The relevant halacha is found in the uncensored text of the Talmud Bavli (Bavli denotes Babylon), in Sanhedrin 72b, where a mother believes her unborn baby is endangering her life by pursuing her. According to the Talmud, this unborn infant rodef can be eliminated at any time during the pregnancy, except when the mother is actually giving birth and the head of the child becomes visible.
Before the baby is born, it is not considered a living soul, and it is therefore not subject to the halakhot (law) of murder. Koren Talmud Bavli: Sanhedrin Part Two (Jerusalem, 2017), p. 155.
Right wing campaigners against the alleged imminent imposition of Sharia law announce that they are defending the Constitution against Islam. We have never seen a case where Islamic law profoundly influenced members of the Supreme Court. We have, however, observed repeated Talmudic influence over how the court interprets the Constitution in the modern era. Roe v. Wade is one example. ...
In the religion that is directed by the Talmud, there is no legislature. All laws are made by judicial decision. It just so happens that this is how much of the supreme law of the land is made in America. Another name for activist judge is Talmudic judge.
Our nation is under Talmudic law, not Sharia, though immense troops of Protestant and Catholic ignoramuses display their cluelessness as they crusade with intense fervor against a non-existent menace, while oblivious to the cancer eating at the bowels of our nation...."
Michael Hoffman - America is Under Talmudic Law, Not Sharia Law
I apologize if this has already been said. I started this last night, went to bed after midnight, and my computer froze. It took three hours to get it and all my windows back. It is still dragging. Anyway, my two cents worth.
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 09:25:43 Reply Private Reply
#4: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: Ada (#2)
amen.
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 09:38:31 Reply Private Reply
#5: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: Darkwing (#1)
yup, another war based on lies and Talmudic law...
"... It was conveyed to George W. Bush that the nation of Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a pursuer, and a first strike aggressive war was launched, in accordance with the Talmud,..."
All for "Greater Israel"/MIGA; forget MAGA.
Historian Predicted Current Run-Up to Nuclear War
March 30, 2018
Lubavitcher tzaddik Menachem Schneerson (1902-1994) said Cabalists (Illuminati) will implement Biblical prophecy of an Armageddon to hasten the return of the Messiah and establish Jewish supremacy. Fifteen years ago German historian Wolfgang Eggert warned us that the Rothschilds belong to this fanatical doomsday cult. Recent moves by Trump and Theresa May suggest that this horrifying prophecy is coming true.
Updated from 2003
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
A Munich-based historian Wolfgang Eggert, 54, believes orthodox Jews called Chasidim want to instigate a nuclear holocaust to fulfill Biblical prophesy.
He thinks these religious fanatics must be exposed. The largest Chasidim group, the Chabad Lubavitcher sect want to hasten Armageddon which they believe is a prerequisite for the Messiah's return. Eggert quotes a Lubavitcher rabbi who says:"the world is waiting for us to fulfill our role in preparing the world to greet Moshiach" (i.e. Messiah.)
"All human history is about Messianic-satanic Judaism ("Chassidim"); they´re "making" it. History and politics are a big movie, and they are the directors, bringing old-testament-prophecy into reality. They captured Freemasonry by building up the Illuminati (through Rothschild/Jacob Frank/Weishaupt); they made a pact with the British monarchy when they financed William III to become king; they placed the British royals at the head of the Freemasons; they made the modern banking system and the Fed (through Rothschild); they made Zionism, the world wars, the European Union and so on. They reign through their puppets Rothschild (whose ancestors had been part of the Chassidic cult) and Rockefeller, who were the guiding force behind Bilderberg, the trilateral etc. We are now in the "End Times"; they are trying to foment a "prophesied" Third World War.
Eggert believes both Germany and Israel are in the Chasid cross- hairs. "Germany, because the Hassidim are reading from the Bible/Talmud, that this country is an enemy of the Jews and must be killed. Israel has to burn for bringing the prophecy of Armageddon into reality. In addition, they are repeating a Machiavellian, strategic "trick": the sacrifice of the European Jews in the Second World War ("shoah") which brought them their own country- Israel. The sacrifice of the Israeli Jews shall bring them the international approval to be masters of a united world "republic", that will be governed from Jerusalem, which, again, is being "prophesied," by Jahwe."..."
https://www.henrymakow.com/historian_demands_action_on_do.html
The Jewish Cult Behind Illuminati/NWO
https://www.henrymakow.com/Kushner-Belongs-to-Fanatical-Jewish-Doomsday- Cult.html
Insider: Trump Family Cult is Planning WW3
January 5, 2020
Michael Berg, 32, a member of Chabad for four years, believes that this cult's demented vision of world hegemony is behind the rush to war with Iran. With Trump and Chabad-members Jered & Ivanka Kushner in the White House, Chabad is in position to bring about the prophesied cataclysm that will usher in their Messianic rule.
The West has been hijacked by a fanatical satanic cult whose tentacles include Freemasons, who are also Cabalists. Certainly, satanic possession best explains the irrational behavior of the West. We are in real danger. A crazed religious cult wants to sink the ship and set humanity back 100 years....
https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/01/chabad-trump-family-cult.html
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 10:05:09 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: Darkwing (#1)
Also remember that Dubya was in Florida reading a story to school children on 9- 11-2001.
When the planes hit the Twin Towers, an aide told him what had happened.
He should have excused himself but he kept reading to the children.
Was this action proof of foreknowledge of the events of the day?
We may never know for certain. But someone made untold $Millions by short selling the airline stocks of the companies involved in the events that fateful day.
The stock brokers, Salomon Smith Barney, had offices in WTC 7. When that building fell in its own footprint (a sure sign of a demolition), all of the computer hard drives were pulverized, thus hiding the identity of who sold short the airline stocks.
It will all come out in the wash. The events of 9-11-2001 were an administrative coup d'état and George W. Bush was handed his head on a platter. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-01-12 10:05:55 Reply Private Reply
#7: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: BTP Holdings (#6)
"...An historic event occurred in Jerusalem this January, an event chronicled widely in Israel's newspapers but omitted entirely by America's Zionist controlled and owned press. President George W. Bush, visiting the nation of Israel, was presented with a rabbinical decree, the Scroll of Bush. The Scroll declared that he, Bush, is none other than the prophesied Gog, of the land of Magog; that is, Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal..."
www.texemarr s.com/042008/gog_magog_scroll_of_bush.htm
If G.W.Bush was Gog of the Land of Magog, so would be Trump in their blind eyes.
Let's also remember UN troops are in and surrounding America, awaiting their order to pounce.
Well, hopefully what Christ told the first Christians still applies, "When you see JerUSAlem surrounded by armies, look up for your redemption draws nigh."
WHAT DOES EZEKIEL 38-39 REALLY SAY?
israelect.com/referen ce/JackMohr/jm021a.htm
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 10:48:16 Reply Private Reply
#8: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: Ada (#0)
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-01-12 17:33:57 Reply Private Reply