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These Eight Sketches of Life Inside a North Korean Prison Camp Will Leave You Terrified

February 20, 2014 by Daniel

North Korean 'Pigeon Torture"

These chilling sketches depict life inside a North Korean prison camp. These haunting images show people being forced to stand for hours, people being forced to crawl on their hands and knees, and people being forced to feed off of rats and snakes.

The sketches included in the report, which come by way of Kim Kwang-il, a North Korean who claims he spent six years in a prison camp.

North Korean 'Pigeon Torture"
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean Prison Torture
(Image source: United Nations)
Life in a North Korean prison camp
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prison camp transportation
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prison camp cell
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners eating snakes and rats
(Image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners sleeping with rats
(image source: United Nations)
North Korean prisoners being forced to crawl
(Image source: United Nations)

 

Here is a copy of the UN report which further describes the sketches in detail:

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics, World Tagged With: Korea, North, United Nations

House Committee Concludes No ‘Stand Down’ Order Given in Benghazi

February 11, 2014 by Daniel

The bloody hand print at Benghazi

by Madeleine Morgenstern via TheBlaze.com

A House committee formally concluded for the first time that there was no military “stand down” order given on the night of the deadly terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

It’s a finding that one committee aide acknowledged to TheBlaze, “some people are going to be upset about.” The allegation that the military was told to stand down on aiding the Americans in Benghazi has long been used to accuse the Obama administration of not doing enough to save the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and others during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks.

The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee, however, concluded in its new report that no such order was given; rather, Army Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson, then-head of the site security team at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, was ordered by higher commanders to remain in Tripoli, lest another attack take place there as part of a larger coordinated assault.

“The term ‘stand down’ means different things to different people. To someone in uniform, it means you are to do nothing … that is not the direction that Lt. Col. Gibson was given,” the committee aide told TheBlaze.

The finding is part of the committee’s Benghazi report set to be released Tuesday. Stevens, information technology specialist Sean Smith, and CIA security contractors and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were killed.

“They didn’t know where the next attack was coming from,” the aide said. “They were given alternate orders to stay in Tripoli.”

Read the full story at: The Blaze

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, National, Politics

Benghazi Timeline Shows Obama Was MIA

January 17, 2014 by Daniel

The bloody hand print at Benghazi

The Benghazi timeline shows not only that ‘the attacks were preventable’ but that Obama was MIA.

The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) released a report Wednesday that revealed Obama had failed to attend the daily intelligence briefing for the week leading up to the attack on September 11, 2012.

Benghazi Timeline of MIA Obama

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, National, Politics

Robert Gates is Harsh Critic of Obama’s Leadership in New Memoir

January 8, 2014 by Daniel

The Surprising & Dismaying Things Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates Says Clinton & Obama Admitted to Him
The Surprising & Dismaying Things Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates Says Clinton & Obama Admitted to Him | photo credit: TheBlaze(AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates dishes out a harsh critique of President Obama’s leadership in his new memoir “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”

It just may be on the top of the list of books Obama and his administration doesn’t want you to read. And, for good reason.

This book will give an unseen look into the leadership of Obama, and the differences the two had. One such glimpse is detailed when he writes, “All too early in the [Obama] administration, suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials – including the president and vice president – became a big problem for me as I tried to manage the relationship between the commander in chief and his military leaders.”

Gates also gives another inside look into why Hillary Clinton opposed the Iraq surge writing: “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. … The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was surprising as it was dismaying.”

In short, this memoir is sure to turn a few heads upon being scheduled for release Jan. 14.

To reserve your copy, please show your support and order through our link HERE.

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Military, National, Politics

North Korea Executes Uncle of Kim Jong-Un

December 13, 2013 by Daniel

The uncle of Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea, has been executed as a ‘traitor.’

Jang Song Thaek, uncle of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un
photo credit: AP/XINHUA (File photo from Aug. 14, 2012)

North Korean news is reporting that second in command, Jang Song Thaek has been purged for crimes that included faction-building, corruption, drug use and womanizing.

While all the details of this execution continue to come out, two things are on the minds of those on the Korean Peninsula: 1) it signals a turn in direction for the North, or 2) Kim Jong-Un is growing confident in his rule.

CNN reports:

For Jasper Kim, the founder of the Asia-Pacific Global Research Group, North Korea remains for analysts a “Rubik’s Cube that no one can solve.”

He said North Korea is a master at carefully choreographing the way it releases news events to cloak its real intentions. Nevertheless, he said a careful reading between the lines of North Korean new agency KCNA sometimes reveals glimpses of the state of the regime.

He said that far from asserting the leadership of Kim, recent events suggest that his position has been seriously eroded by the execution of his uncle.

“My guess is that these events happened some time ago and they are only now being released,” Kim told CNN. “The fact is that we don’t know what’s going on in North Korea but what we are seeing coming through on KCNA is very concerning.

“When you look at the language used in these KCNA reports it is particularly hawkish and it’s much more reflective of the military than it is of Kim Jong Un.

“Basically we are seeing the hardline faction reassert itself. For Kim Jong Un, Jang Song Thaek was the bridge between him and his father, and now he will have very little protection.”

 

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics, World Tagged With: foreign policy, Korea, North

’60 Minutes’ Report: Benghazi Attack was Planned from the Beginning

October 28, 2013 by Daniel

The ’60 Minutes’ report on the Benghazi report offered a look into the events which was planned by Al Qaeda from the beginning.

Eyewitness account gives detail for their story, and lays out the utter failure by the White House to provide proper security.

Did you miss the segment? Watch below:

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics

World Leaders look to U.N. to Restrain NSA

October 25, 2013 by Daniel

A recent document provided by famed whistleblower Edward Snowden, shows the National Security Agency had monitored phone conversations of 35 world leaders.

NSA Spy Document SID_800
photo credit: Guardian

This document is adding to the tensions between the US and its allies.

German chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as other world leaders, have turned to the United Nations to aid in restraining the spy agency.

The memo, which dates back to October 2006, acknowledges that eavesdropping on the 200 phone numbers sited produced “little reportable intelligence.”

For more on this visit:

  • Exclusive: Germany, Brazil Turn to U.N. to Restrain American Spies

  • NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics

Israel and Hamas Break Silence Via Twitter

October 24, 2013 by Daniel

The power of social media has broken the silence between Israel and Hamas by way of Twitter.

It’s true. Social media has a power all its own.

Here is the exchange they shared:

The #IDF will continue to seek out those that attempt to undermine and defy our way of life. #TerrorDoesntPay

— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) October 22, 2013

@AlqassamBrigade #Israel is here to stay. The #IDF will continue to pursue the perpetrators of terror. #TerrorDoesntPay

— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) October 22, 2013

 

@LTCPeterLerner We are in mission that aims at restoring our occupied land whatever the cost is. #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Hamas

— Alqassam Brigades (@AlqassamBrigade) October 22, 2013

@LTCPeterLerner Your mission is to bury the #Palestinian children under the rubble of their houses. #Palestine #Gaza pic.twitter.com/Ie55ztSHop

— Alqassam Brigades (@AlqassamBrigade) October 22, 2013

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics

Assad on the shape of Syria

September 19, 2013 by Daniel

Bashar Assad, President of Syria sat down in an exclusive interview with Dennis Kusinich and Greg Palkot that aired on Fox News.

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview
Syrian President Bashar Assad gesturing during an interview with Fox News in Damascus | SANA via AFP – Getty Images

The interview was interesting to say the least. And, there was a lot that was covered.

Everything from the allegations of him using chemical weapons on his own people, to the future of Syria.

Other news outlets are painting him as defiant in saying he didn’t use them. But, you be the judge. Watch the interview for yourself!

Here are some of the takeaways:

  • Admits Syria has chemical weapons and that they want to ‘fully’ cooperate with the weapons agreement
  • Says that he didn’t use chemical weapons on his own people
  • The act of using chemical weapons is ‘deplorable’
  • While many view this as a civil war, Assad points to outside interests
  • People want to come to Syria to wage their Jihad
  • Assad says that casualties happen when fighting terrorists who have infiltrated villages
  • Advises Obama to ‘Listen to the common sense of your people’
  • Reform in Syria is a social process and that the president and government can only lead it
  • While trying to reform the country they are in a fight with terrorists
  • Too many other countries are trying to influence Syria; only the voice of the people matters
  • Syria cannot be a safe-haven for terrorists

If you wish to watch the interview, please do! Share your thoughts also.

Watch here:
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics Tagged With: Syria

Syrian President Assad: The future of Syria [VIDEO]

September 19, 2013 by Daniel

Assad discussed the future of Syria and how it is in the hands of the people.

Part 5 of 5 Video Exclusive:

Filed Under: Foreign Policy, Politics Tagged With: Syria

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