8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (1)
#8173398 at 2020-02-18 15:14:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10462: I'd Watch The News That Day Edition
Navy Chaplain Accused of Violating Constitution for Encouraging Personnel to 'Lead Like Jesus'
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) is once again creating a problem where none exists.
Their latest target is Cmdr. Richard Smothers, chaplain of Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island, who is teaching a 12-week, optional seminar called "Lead Like Jesus."
This time, the MRFF decided to stir up unnecessary trouble when an email was sent to base leaders, containing a flyer with information about the faith-based seminar. They're demanding that the base's commander, Ian Johnson, conduct a full investigation of Cmdr. Smothers and anyone else who promoted the event with flyers or emails. They argue that through the email flyers, service members are being "voluntold" to attend a ChristIan event.
Last time we checked, a military chaplain's primary function is to provide religious services and counseling, which inevitably means informing fellow service members of updates regarding faith-related seminars for which attendance is voluntary. However, it seems like the MRFF has invented a "mythical" version of the Constitution where chaplains are in violation of the law for...doing their job.
https://firstliberty.org/news/navy-chaplain-accused/
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (1)
#57998 at 2021-02-15 21:17:28 (UTC+1)
Midnight Riders #268: 2 Aquits, 2 Legit To Quit Edition
The fight against Soviet Communism
The Eisenhower Administration courted influential Muslims (including the Muslim Brotherhood, given their enmity of Soviet Communism), with "the moral and spiritual strength of America". The Administration's reasoning at the time was that "these individuals could exert a profound and far-reaching impact upon Muslim thinking, and their long-term influence may well outweigh that of the political leaders of their countries".
The Administration's effort was part of an anti-Soviet Communism initiative similar to the Nazis enlistment of the Soviet Muslims from the Caucasus, Arabs and BosnIans in forming Waffen SS units (with 'spiritual guidance' from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al Husseini), and national liberation desks engaged in propaganda broadcasts (a model for post WWII CIA-funded efforts at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia).
Ian Johnson notes in his book "A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West" that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was hopeful that the "this psychological approach might make some important contributions to both short and long term US political objectives in the Moslem area."
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President Eisenhower with the Princeton Islam Seminar Delegation at the White House, July 1953. Said Ramadan is the second on the right, and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al Husseini is also on the right with the white turban. [source: How the CIA Helped The Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrate the West]
Hassan al Banna's son-in-law; Said Ramadan shared vehement anti-Soviet Communism with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al Husseini, but he was not 'tainted' by any WWII Nazi baggage like the Mufti. As a result, the CIA provided funding for Said Ramadan, who co-founded the World Muslim League with Haj Amin Al Husseini to spread the political Islamic doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood. The core of their doctrine was the restoration of the Caliphate where the Caliph would enforce strict Islamic Law in the Al-Umma Al-Islamiya (Islamic Nation).
However, the CIA was sceptical of Ramadan, as their assessment of his interlocutions at the 1953 Princeton conference concluded that "he seems to be a fascist, interested in . . . power. He did not display many ideas except for those of the Muslim Brotherhood." Despite the CIA accurate assessment of Ramadan (which is also true of many Brotherhood leadership ever since, notwithstanding the Brotherhood change in rhetoric and framing of their ideology), they had little choice but to bankroll Said Ramadan to advance the Brotherhood cause via the World Muslim League.
https://johnmenadue.com/the-cias-cant-kick-its-old-middle-east-habits/
8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (1)
#16656491 at 2022-07-07 13:58:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #8: We Dig More On Glencore Edition
"STABILISING FRAGILE STATES; The Tswalu Protocol Revisited" - 2011
https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/downloads/2011-01-tswalu-paper-brenthurst-paper-.pdf
Below are excerpts
II. AIM
With this in mind, in mid-January 2011 the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation hosted a three day-long international meeting of leading political and military officials with current first-hand experience of stability operations in fragile states to consider what could be learned from recent successes and failures. This Tswalu Dialogue, entitled 'The Future of Stability Operations', was held in partnership with the Rand Corporation and the British Peace Support Team (South Africa) at the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve in South Africa. (A full list of participants is contained in the Annexure.)
The Dialogue used as one of its starting points the Tswalu Protocol1 (published in 2008), a set of principles, guidelines and choices derived from the experience of heads of state, governments, non-governmental organisations, military professionals, and academics who have been at the epicentre of peace support missions. One of the aims of the 2011 Dialogue was to assess and if necessary refine or devise new recommendations from the Protocol in order to better prepare nations, institutions and people for stabilising fragile states.
V. WAY FORWARD
There is a body of expert opinion that argues that stability operations of the kind currently being conducted in Afghanistan are unlikely to be repeated; that is, states will be much more reticent to take on complex, long-term operations of uncertain duration and cost in the future.
Yet given that no one can safely predict what impact climate change or the youth population explosion in Africa and the developing world - to take just two prominent 'unknowns' - will have on global security, it would be prudent to prepare ourselves for a future where the international community will be called upon to prepare for more rather than less stability operations. To help us think in generational terms and ensure that the lessons from stabilisation are inculcated and applied, requires not only re-examination of the syllabi of existing peace-support institutions but also perhaps the creation of an all-new 'Stabilisation Academy'.
Stabilisation requires, at its heart, understanding local norms, mores and operating systems, how external actions might strengthen or weaken, for example, local solutions and actors. More than that, knowledge and the much cheaper business of prevention go hand-in-hand. And this requires fundamentally a long-term investment in people.
ANNEXURES
Participants and Secretariat, Tswalu, 14-16 January 2011
John Abizaid (General), US
Martin Agwai (General), Nigeria
Anthony Arnott (Major), Army Air Corps, UK
Richard Berthon, former Stability Advisor, ISAF RC(S), Kandahar, UK
Farhan Bokhari, Financial Times, Pakistan
Nicola Brewer (Dr), UK High Commissioner to SA, UK
Luke Bronin, ISAF, US
Raymond Brown (Dr), Foreign Policy Advisor: AFRICOM, US
Tim Butcher, Journalist and Author, UK
Nick Carter (Maj- Genl), former Commander, ISAF RC(S), Kandahar; Head: Land Warfare Centre, UK
Dickie Davis (Brigadier), former Chief of Staff, ISAF RC(S), Kandahar, UK
Luisa Dias Diogo MP, (Dr), former Prime Minister, Mozambique
Alan Doss, former SRSG Liberia and Congo, UK
David Fahrenkrug (Colonel), USAF, US
Jerry Heal (Colonel), UK Defence Attach?: South Africa, UK
Leila Jack, Brenthurst Foundation, SA
AdrIan Johnson, Royal United Services Institute, UK
John A Kufuor (President), Ghana
Themba Matanzima (Lieutenant General), Acting Chief of the SANDF, SA
Ewen McLay (Brigadier), UK
Terence McNamee (Dr), Brenthurst Foundation, Canada
Duma Mdutyana (Major General), SANDF, SA
Greg Mills (Dr), Brenthurst Foundation, SA
Valetin Mubake (Mr), UDPS, Congo
Kenneth Mubu (Mr), Shadow Minister of International Relations, SA
Welile Nhlapo (Amb), National Security Adviser, SA
Ayanda Ntsaluba (Dr), Director-General: Dept. of International Relations and Co-operation, SA
Thomas Nziratimana, former Deputy Governor: South Kivu, Congo
Seth Obeng (Lieutenant General), Ghana
David Orletsky (Dr), Rand Corporation, US
Jonathan Oppenheimer, Brenthurst Foundation, SA
David Richards (General Sir), Chief of the Defence Staff, UK
Joe Siegle (Dr), African Center for Strategic Studies, US
Paula Thornhill (Dr; Brigadier General rtd), Rand Corporation, US
Chris Vernon (Colonel), British Peace Support Team, UK
Edward Wamala (Lieutenant General), Uganda