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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Why ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> E. Wayne Johnson [mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 15, 2015 8:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net; David Johnson<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] US to Provide $70 Million Additional Funding to Syrian Rebels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I suppose Chicago should suffer the same fate as Detroit, Susa, and Nineveh. Probably neither Kirk nor Chuy will change that much.<br><br>Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone<br><br>---- David Johnson wrote ----<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Actually Wayne,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The people in Detroit have been fighting back for the last two years now.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The residents of Detroit have been totally disenfranchised in which they can no longer elect their Mayor or City Council, instead the Mayor and City Council are appointed by the Governor. The city since has privatized Detroit’s city owned water company and afterwards the cost increased 10 fold.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>People are having their water shut off for being a few days late, meanwhile large corporate entities in Detroit owe hundreds of thousands of dollars on their unpaid water bills for over 6-months now with no turn-off of their water service.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Large Venture ( Vulture ) funds are buying up houses and entire blocks while at the same time the Detroit city appointed dictatorship has passed a law that a person who is in home forclosure cannot bid on their home at the foreclosure auction and that in order to be a bidder one has to have a million dollar plus bond of some sort.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Get the picture ?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Corporate State shock doctrine with the purpose to gentrify and impose corporate controlled local government that is unaccountable to the people.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Recently Illinois U.S. Senator Mark Kirk made a public statement ( that was ignored by the corporate media ) that if the voters of Chicago defeat Rahm Emmanuele and elect Chuy Garcia and a majority pro-community city council, that Chicago will suffer the same fate as Detroit.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Welcome to the corporate New World Order </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Johnson</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> E. Wayne Johnson [mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 15, 2015 2:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Johnson<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Peace-discuss] US to Provide $70 Million Additional Funding to Syrian Rebels</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I am very proud to contribute not one single solitary red lincoln cent to the syrian rebels or any of your amerikan monarch's illegal wars. <br><br>I am also sure that Detroit and similar degenerate rust belt cess pools has exactly the leadership that it wants, otherwise the people would rise up eventually, so I ain't about to offer them money or much sympathy for being so pathetically stupid and just plain sorry.<br><br>It seems to me that this complaint against govt spending is a bit like the victims of highway robbery giving instructions regarding how to disperse the loot.<br><br>Kathy Kelly had the best strategy against the war that I have found ... what you feed grows... What you starve dies.<br><br>Just like those human duracells in the Matrix, you who dutifully pay tribute to moloch insure its continued health .<br><br>Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone<br><br>---- David Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote ----<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Millions and billions of OUR money being spent on wars and support of so called “ moderate “ terrorist groups, while Detroit and other cities are allowed to degrade to third world standards and they keep saying that there is no money for ; Schools, social security, Medicare / Medicaid and other needed services.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>US to Provide $70 Million Additional Funding to Syrian Rebels</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Published 13 March 2015 (22 hours 55 minutes ago) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><img width=27 height=23 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D05FBE.F2EA9830" alt="Description: Coments"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The State Department reiterated once again that its aim is to oust President Bashar Al-Assad.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The United States government announced Friday it will provide the Syrian opposition with US$70 million in “non-lethal” assistance. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>According to the U.S. Department of State, the assistance will only be delivered to certified rebel groups. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>“Today, I can announce a modest step forward that the Administration is working with Congress to provide nearly $70 million in new foreign assistance to continue our full range of support to the moderate Syrian opposition,” said Antony J. Blinken, deputy secretary of state, in a statement. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>However, with the rapidly evolving events in the Syrian frontlines, the task of certifying rebel groups as moderate has proven <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Turkey-and-US-Reach-Preliminary-Pact-to-Aid-Syrian-Rebels-20150217-0023.html">highly difficult</a>. Many so-called moderate rebels have subsequently joined the Islamic State group or the al-Qaida allied al-Nusrah Front. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The U.S government clarified once again that their support for the rebels is consistent with the U.S. long-term objectives. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>"As we have long said, Assad must go and be replaced through a negotiated political transition that is representative of the Syrian people," said a White House spokesperson, referring to Washington's commitment to oust the Syrian president. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>As media investigations have revealed, classified U.S. documents and independent investigations show aid supplied to the rebel groups has <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/bloggers/Washington-and-ISIS-The-Evidence-20150308-0001.html">helped strengthen</a> the Islamic State group and Al-Nusrah, which are now dominating the Syrian battlefield. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>So far, U.S. support to the Syrian opposition accounts for nearly US$400 million since 2011. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>