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Pentagon Will Pay "Condolence" Blood Money To Afghan Hospital Bombing Victims
Following last weekend's horrific killing of 22 innocent civilians in an Afghanistan hospital, of whom a majority were physicians belonging to the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) group, at first first the Pentagon denied responsibility for the attack calling the dead "collateral damage" and accusing the Taliban of fighting from the hospital; then after the global media refused to quickly turn the other way, the US blamed Afghans for calling in the strike while a desperate for distractions Pentagon was raging about "civilian casualties" in Syria at the hands of Russian warplanes; then, when this too gambit failed and when the MSF screamed bloody murder, literally, and accused Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama of engaging in a war crime, the US finally admitted it did it.
And while Obama did apologize to the MSF, and demanded a deeper investigation to "get to the bottom of things" like any alleged peace prize holding war criminal, it is what he did yesterday that showed just how alleged "war criminals" treat collateral damage aka human casualties: as goods whose ultimate value can be expressed in dollar (or rather loans, since as we noted the US has 3.5x more debt than it has GDP).
According to the WSJ, the Pentagon is offering "condolence payments" to the civilians injured and the families of those killed by a U.S. airstrike that destroyed a hospital near Kunduz, Afghanistan. Because, the thinking probably goes, human lives are like any other commodity and can be measured in reserve notes. However, what is more disturbing is that since the US prints the world's reserve currency, should Obama proceed to exterminate countless other "collaterally damaged" civilians, all that the US will need to do is print a few more million to wash its - and that of the "free and democratic world" - conscience, and all shall be well in all future cases.
We say "millions" loosely: in reality we don't know what the agreed upon payment will be - if any - because the Pentagon didn’t say how much it would pay: it could well be much less. We do wonder, however, just what the actuarial calculation involved is when the US determines the value of a human life, both in Afghanistan and elsewhere, because surely to the Pentagon one Afghanistani life has a vastly different value than the life of civilians in other nations.
Perhaps the Obama administration should disclose the assumptions used in its death-for-pay.xls model?
Less controversial was the Pentagon's announcement on said Saturday that it would also provide funds for repairing the hospital, which has been abandoned, as well as the payments. It is unclear just why it would do this: it is not as if anyone will work in a hospital that the US has declared a bomb zone and which can explode at any given moment for no reason at all aside from some AC-130 gunnery sergeant got an order to shoot it and so he did.
The WSJ adds that the compensation will be handled through the existing Commanders’ Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan, and if necessary additional authority will be sought from Congress, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement issued Saturday.
“The Department of Defense believes it is important to address the consequences of the tragic incident that the Doctors Without Borders hospital,” Mr. Cook said.
By which he now know he meant to spend "blood money" to silence the families of the dead.
Elsewhere, Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent probe of the incident by the Swiss-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, which is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. It was created after the Gulf War in 1991 and has never deployed a fact-finding mission.
It was unclear just how much the Pentagon would have to spend here to, mostly in the form of bribes, to assure the found "facts" are in line with a narrative that is least damaging to the US war machine.
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What? The Pentagon should resurrect them.
Pentagon should also be murdered..eye for an eye, or, in this case 100 pentagram staff per MSF staff member.
When are McCrystal, Petraeus and the rest of the CENTCOM commanders going to approve condolence money to the Afghani child rape victims they willfully ignored and allowed to be raped on thier bases? When is CENTCOM going to stop giving my tax dollars to DynCorp to train 'Afghani Police Leaders' who are the people raping little boys in their compounds? What part of the constitution says I should be enriching DynCorp and KBR for empowering child rapists in Afghan by ensuring all the police ARE child rapists?
I know the CIA depends on the heroin revenue to fund their black ops, but JESUS - U.S. military-sanctioned child rape is a bit over the top, isn't it? I don't want to see CENTCOM commanders court-martialed and sent to prison - that's never going to happen. I just want each of them oiled up and sent naked to a crowded northern Afghani common jail cell for a night. That's it. Is that TOO much to fucking ask for?
It's their culture. Prime Directive at the pentagon since, over 6 years now.
Medics sans Borders refused to accept Obamacare?
Pretty stiff penalty. Doesn't pay to be a doc these days. MIC contracts are besser.
And the guys hitting the target as ordered will all get Certificates of Participation with 3 Gold Stars.
Booyah, motherfuckers!
While not part of the FSA, it might be a nice gesture if they'd offer us some compensation for driving us batshit crazy.
Um, perhaps, uhm, uh, perhaps viewing the, uhm, uh, gunsight videos would assist President Obama uh, uhm, to "get to the bottom of things".
Also,
"Elsewhere, Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent probe of the incident by the Swiss-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, which is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia." Now why would they call for a panel composed of diplomats and former military officials? Follow the FRNs.
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money is worthless to them they find trillions of debt in the upholstery, as is human life
Those targeting video tapes and cockpit voice tapes that we can't see/hear must be rather damning.
12 minutes to go full Duker.
How did they make money?
The amount to a family in Viet Nam was $80.
Pretty classy. Did they pay them in fiat?
You know what the Painful Parallel(tm) of the story is? This applies equally inside America whenever a drug task force SWAT team gets the wrong address, and the homeowner fears for his life and of his family, then the gun comes out for proper defense. Of course, the cops always fear for their safety too (even unarmed people are extremely dangerous to our men with the badges) and they have a Union to back their case to an often-clueless Grand Jury. It's also true your canine companion often dies, shot even if it doesn't present an immediate threat.
LOTS of payments are quietly made, especially in Federal cases. "Collateral Damage" while Washington burns to a crisp, with the freedoms we once enjoyed that our kids may never have, short of much-needed societal revolution. I want my America, which I enjoyed as a kid again!
Again, some words from a song I wrote, copyright pending:
Way back when I was a kid,
Awful things we said and did,
Matters settled by the fist,
Not Big Sister's No-Fly List,
Clinton and her email mess <--(changed)
Nation's now in such distress <--(changed)
I want my America again!
Payouts for negligence needs to come out of their pension fund...this goes for payouts by city councils for police misconduct as well.
"Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities
Data show rising payouts for police-misconduct settlements and court judgments"
The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from $168.3 million in 2010
Those cities collectively paid out $1.02 billion over those five years in such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment. When claims related to car collisions, property damage and other police incidents are included, the total rose to more than $1.4 billion.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cost-of-police-misconduct-cases-soars-in-big...
Somebody has to pay for O'bomber's drone-porn addiction.
"Bomb me, no bomb me"
A tip of the hat to the Castle Anthrax girls.
lots of similarity with the 1937 incident in China when the Japanese bombed the US gunboat Panay
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/kunduz-resemblance-to-panay-inciden...
fait accompli!
too little too late...
the ussa has a major war in the offing
issi is migrating to afghanistan...[?]
the taliban has just declared war on america.
all troops an afb close] must vacate country
note: pakistan and india are what afghanistan is all about [brzezinski gave punjab/islamabad nukes for helping stage covert war over the ussr via cia] .
we're fucked!!!
Tell me, what is the going rate for a murdered human being?
america doesn't have a price
we have a penal system designed [repeat offenders] for 15%-17% of pop. that basicallya life sentence.
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How about you agree to dismantle your beloved structure built beginning on SEPTEMEBER 11, 1941, brick by fucking brick!
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/04/americas-sad-terror-confession/
I call that -- restitution ..
In fact, even better, the sentence for these Pentagram perps, at least until the job is complete, is to serve as labor to do the dismantling of their cherished building, brick by fucking brick. And if some die via their exertion .................... I call that -- justice ..
Condolence money? WTF? Our homegrown war criminals have no shame. The last 4 presidential administrations should be on trial at Den Hague in the Netherlands right now. Watched TCM's coverage of the "Five Who Came Back" series last month - the five were film directors John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler, George Stevens and Frank Capra - and it was Stevens who was assigned by the OSS to cover the Nuremburg trials. The text of the script being read to the masses goes on and on about war crimes: what constitutes a war crime, the depths of depravity and self righteousness shown by the war criminals themselves and some of the instances of war crimes. As I was listening to the American narrator, everything he stated as evidence of war crimes could absolutely, without reservation, be applied to the endless "war on terror", which should be changed to the "war for terror". Oh and let's not leave Henry Kissinger or Brzenski out of the Den Hague loop.
Lets go bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLkhRMBOtzk
We should offer up the Obama Administration to a War Crimes Tribunal...
Its all due to TPP & TTIP effect
CabalCock$uckerLiarObama has taken millions of dollars bribe (election fund) from pharma & bio-tech industries and as a payback , Obama is trying to enforce monopoly of US corporations in form of TPP & TTIP.
Recently there was a news , a US pharma firm hiked prices of its medicines 700% (becuz... u know now)
Crony capitalism has defeated democracy
All we have is demoncracy
The demons of Corporations & banksters ruling the world
End result :
Poor , needy , sick & infirm will not be able to afford medicines & medical care.
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Let us revisit the definition of democracy : It is of the people, by the people and for the people(humanity).
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What Obama has done is that he has become against humanity ,
he acts anti-poor,
he acts against needy
he acts against sick & diseased
Obama (actually west ) has become demonic in the love of money with Obama as the Demon-In-Chief
WEST MUST BE DESTROYED