Who are 'Boko Haram', and what are they up to in Nigeria?Nigeria's premier terror circus conveniently grabbed the headlines away from an embattled White House this week (simmering scandals, Behghazi, and IRS), just in the nick of time, pulling off the terror caper of the year. Without booking any coaches, a relatively small group of
Boko Harem operatives managed to kidnap up to 300 young girls from a secondary school in Chibok in remote northeastern Nigeria...
on April 14th.If this was indeed a real kidnapping even, the response time is pretty pathetic - nearly one month? Barack and Michelle Obama were a bit slow on the uptake of this story, not least of all because Washington has been very busy indeed - ginning-up war with Russia, shipping weapons to Islamic extremists in Syria, various and sundry coups and destablisation plans around the globe, and last but not least, pretending to care about the missing airliner Flight MH370. Not worry, the FBI have been sent to Nigeria to take control of the crime scene - which may, or may not be good news for Nigerians. If the FBI were really there to figure out what happened, then they should dig into this: for some unknown reason up until a few months ago, the White House was trying to keep Boko Haram
off the State Dept's Official Designated Terror List, and there's probably a very good reason for that...
CLUELSSS? First Lady takes a break from shopping to get her #hashtag on, weighing in on what looks like a CIA-linked theatrical production in Africa.
Comment: Torturing other human beings is how psychopaths get their "kicks". There is no better indication of just how pschopathologized the human race has become than when a large number of them support the torture of others in order to "protect their freedoms". It's pure psychopathic paramoralistic thinking: 'I support the brutalization of other human beings and the denial of their basic freedoms so that I can have my 'freedoms'.
The world seemed surprised to learn of the US practice of torture in Iraq.
But in fact, the US has been actively engaged in torture since at least the 1940s.
After the Second World War, the US not only imported hordes of military scientists - beginning with Werner von Braun who designed the US missile and space programs.
The US also imported and protected many condemned German and Japanese war criminals, especially those skilled in torture methods.
When the US overthrew the government in Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, they also designed and installed his dreaded Savak Secret Police - which was especially famous for torture.
According to researchers, not only did the US design this secret police and torture regime, they actually managed it on a daily basis, down to the selection and running of agents.
The CIA in the Philippines and Indonesia developed a massive 1000-page torture manual based on direct experimentation that was subsequently distributed for decades to all their dictator-puppets in Central and South America.
It was until at least well into the 1980s that the US CIA was distributing its euphemistically-titled "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983", teaching its dictators all the fine points of how to torture their own people.
And it was in Central and South America that the CIA participated so actively in the training of torture methods, even bringing many "students" to the US to study and practice, so the US could export the savage brutality to its colonies.
The US actively taught, and supported, torture as a means of civilian control, including the numerous CIA-sponsored "death squads" in Central America. None of this is a secret any longer.