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− | '''John McCain''' was a [[US senator]] from 3 January 1987 until his death on 25 August 2018.<ref>''[http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/08/26/glioblastoma-which-killed-mccain-is-complex-and-aggressive-disease-brain-tumor-group-says.html "Glioblastoma, which killed McCain, is 'complex' and 'aggressive' disease, brain tumor group says"]''</ref> | + | '''John McCain''' was a [[US senator]] from 3 January [[1987]] until his death on 25 August [[2018]].<ref>''[http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/08/26/glioblastoma-which-killed-mccain-is-complex-and-aggressive-disease-brain-tumor-group-says.html "Glioblastoma, which killed McCain, is 'complex' and 'aggressive' disease, brain tumor group says"]''</ref> During the [[2016 United States presidential election]] campaign, [[Donald Trump]] – who did not serve in the military himself and avoided the draft through a series of deferments – attacked John McCain's record of service and said the [[Vietnam war|Vietnam veteran]] and former [[prisoner of war]] is "not a war hero" because he was captured: "I like people that weren't captured," Trump said.<ref>''[https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/26/politics/wapo-trump-mccain-tweet/index.html "White House drafted a statement on John McCain, but never released it"]''</ref> |
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+ | He completed flight school in [[1960]], and became a naval pilot of ground-attack aircraft; he was assigned to A-1 Skyraider squadrons<ref>McCain, ''Faith of My Fathers'', p. 156.</ref> aboard the [[aircraft carrier]]s USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise<ref name="feinberg">Feinberg, Barbara. ''John McCain: Serving His Country'', p. 18 (Millbrook Press 2000). {{ISBN|0-7613-1974-3}}.</ref> in the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]] and [[Mediterranean Sea]]s.<ref name="timberg-bio">Timberg, ''American Odyssey'', pp. 66–68.</ref> McCain began as a sub-par flier<ref name="timberg-bio" /> who was at times careless and reckless;<ref name="lat100608" /> during the early to mid-[[1960s]], two of his flight missions crashed, and a third mission collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries.<ref name="lat100608">Vartabedian, Ralph and Serrano, Richard A. [https://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aviator6-2008oct06,0,876358,full.story "Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021160309/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aviator6-2008oct06,0,876358,full.story |date=October 21, 2008 }}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' (October 6, 2008). Retrieved October 6, 2008.</ref> His aviation skills improved over time,<ref name="timberg-bio" /> and he was seen as a good pilot, albeit one who tended to "push the envelope" in his flying.<ref name="lat100608" /> | ||
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+ | ===USS Forrestal=== | ||
+ | John McCain was involved in the accident which is known as the USS Forrestal fire. On the 29th of July [[1967]], a rocket that was accidentally fired from an aircraft, struck another aircraft which caused a fuel leak that ignited and started to burn on deck. McCain, who sat in his airplane and was going through preflight checks, in his memoir,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_My_Fathers</ref> says that this rocket knocked two bombs from his own airplane whom landed in the burning fuel and exploded some time thereafter. [[Mary Hershberger]] investigated official documentation and his claims and concludes that his account can at times not be united with the facts. She leaves open the possibility that he panicked and released the bomb in error himself; she also notes that: "McCain’s actions after the fire show a determination to exit the ship as quickly as possible. When New York Times reporter Apple finished gathering his notes on the fire, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon."<ref>https://www.truthdig.com/articles/investigating-john-mccains-tragedy-at-sea/</ref> | ||
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===Prisoner of war=== | ===Prisoner of war=== | ||
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His recordings as ''Tokyo Rose'' while he was [[prisoner of war]] for five and a half years in [[Vietnam]] were found and released in 2016.<ref>https://www.unz.com/announcement/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-propaganda-broadcast-now-found-and-released/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161104132301/https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-recordings-from-north-vietnam saved at [http://archive.today/2017.11.07-155454/https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-recordings-from-north-vietnam Archive.is]</ref> | His recordings as ''Tokyo Rose'' while he was [[prisoner of war]] for five and a half years in [[Vietnam]] were found and released in 2016.<ref>https://www.unz.com/announcement/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-propaganda-broadcast-now-found-and-released/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20161104132301/https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-recordings-from-north-vietnam saved at [http://archive.today/2017.11.07-155454/https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-recordings-from-north-vietnam Archive.is]</ref> | ||
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+ | ==Criticism== | ||
+ | ===YouTube video=== | ||
+ | Following his comments in February [[2017]] that [[Donald Trump]]'s administration was in "disarray", a video entitled [https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/videos/858232330981330/ "The truth about John McCain"] was published on ''[[Facebook]]'' on 1 March. The video, which criticised McCain over his war record in Vietnam, the money he is said to receive from [[George Soros]], the [[McCain Institute]] funded by [[Saudi Arabia]] and his association with the terror group [[ISIS]], had been viewed 1.2 million times and shared by 28,715 users by 17 March 2017.<ref>''[https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/videos/858232330981330/ "The truth about John McCain #ExpelMcCain"]''</ref> | ||
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+ | ==Photo with Simon Elliott== | ||
+ | [[image:John_McCain_and_Simon_Elliot_(aka_Al-Baghdadi).jpg|240px|left|thumbnail|With [[Simon Elliot]] ]] | ||
+ | The ''[[New York Times]]'' has denied the identity of the man pictured left with John McCain, stating that "The [false] rumors are based partly on images of a Syrian fighter who resembles Mr. Baghdadi, seen in photographs with Mr. McCain".<ref>''[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/world/middleeast/try-as-he-may-john-mccain-cant-shake-falsehoods-about-ties-to-isis.html "Try as He May, John McCain Can’t Shake Falsehoods About Ties to ISIS"]''</ref> | ||
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+ | ==Opinions== | ||
+ | During the [[US/2008 Presidential election]] campaign, McCain (completely sober that is) started an eerie prose on [[Iran]] after a question in the audience to send a response to "Iranian hostile actions". in which he planned the idea in donors and voters their heads that Iran would give their [[nuclear weapons]] to "[[terrorist]]" organizations. How these individuals would deploy it for example was not touched. Perhaps a slip of things to come?<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-mccain-idUSN1929196820070419</ref> | ||
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− | + | Also during the 2008 presidential election campaign (on live US [[television]]) he referred to the [[JFK assassination]] as "the intervention". His exact words were: "... the way [[Barry Goldwater]] and [[Jack Kennedy]] agreed to do, before the intervention, [[JFK Assassination|the tragedy at Dallas]]" immediately followed by a hand to nose and look away from the audience gesture.<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gM9cfkPnnA "John McCain describes JFK's assassination as 'The Intervention' with eyes open wide, eyebrows up high and grabs his nose. Quickly says 'err tragedy in Dallas'."]''</ref> | |
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==Death== | ==Death== | ||
In May 2018, [[CNN]] reported McCain did not want [[President Trump]] at his funeral.<ref>''[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/obama-bush-john-mccain-eulogies_us_5b838678e4b034858601cf7e "Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John McCain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away"]''</ref> | In May 2018, [[CNN]] reported McCain did not want [[President Trump]] at his funeral.<ref>''[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/obama-bush-john-mccain-eulogies_us_5b838678e4b034858601cf7e "Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John McCain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away"]''</ref> | ||
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Born | John Sidney McCain III August 29, 1936 Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Panama Canal Zone | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | August 25, 2018 (Age 81) Cornville, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Cause of death | brain tumour | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | U.S. Naval Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Baptist | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Parents | • John S. McCain • Roberta McCain | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Carol Shepp | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of | Banned from Russia 2015, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, International Republican Institute/Board and Staff, The European House - Ambrosetti | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest of | American Continental Corporation, DCLeaks, Jeff Gates, Charles Keating | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Republican | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Vietnam War veteran, sang about bombing Iran to voters, called the JFK assassination "the intervention". appears on a picture with Simon Elliot.
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John McCain was a US senator from 3 January 1987 until his death on 25 August 2018.[1] During the 2016 United States presidential election campaign, Donald Trump – who did not serve in the military himself and avoided the draft through a series of deferments – attacked John McCain's record of service and said the Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war is "not a war hero" because he was captured: "I like people that weren't captured," Trump said.[2]
Contents
Career
He completed flight school in 1960, and became a naval pilot of ground-attack aircraft; he was assigned to A-1 Skyraider squadrons[3] aboard the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise[4] in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.[5] McCain began as a sub-par flier[5] who was at times careless and reckless;[6] during the early to mid-1960s, two of his flight missions crashed, and a third mission collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries.[6] His aviation skills improved over time,[5] and he was seen as a good pilot, albeit one who tended to "push the envelope" in his flying.[6]
USS Forrestal
John McCain was involved in the accident which is known as the USS Forrestal fire. On the 29th of July 1967, a rocket that was accidentally fired from an aircraft, struck another aircraft which caused a fuel leak that ignited and started to burn on deck. McCain, who sat in his airplane and was going through preflight checks, in his memoir,[7] says that this rocket knocked two bombs from his own airplane whom landed in the burning fuel and exploded some time thereafter. Mary Hershberger investigated official documentation and his claims and concludes that his account can at times not be united with the facts. She leaves open the possibility that he panicked and released the bomb in error himself; she also notes that: "McCain’s actions after the fire show a determination to exit the ship as quickly as possible. When New York Times reporter Apple finished gathering his notes on the fire, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon."[8]
Prisoner of war
Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk - 2014. |
His recordings as Tokyo Rose while he was prisoner of war for five and a half years in Vietnam were found and released in 2016.[9][10]
Criticism
YouTube video
Following his comments in February 2017 that Donald Trump's administration was in "disarray", a video entitled "The truth about John McCain" was published on Facebook on 1 March. The video, which criticised McCain over his war record in Vietnam, the money he is said to receive from George Soros, the McCain Institute funded by Saudi Arabia and his association with the terror group ISIS, had been viewed 1.2 million times and shared by 28,715 users by 17 March 2017.[11]
Photo with Simon Elliott
![](/w/images/thumb/5/56/John_McCain_and_Simon_Elliot_%28aka_Al-Baghdadi%29.jpg/240px-John_McCain_and_Simon_Elliot_%28aka_Al-Baghdadi%29.jpg)
The New York Times has denied the identity of the man pictured left with John McCain, stating that "The [false] rumors are based partly on images of a Syrian fighter who resembles Mr. Baghdadi, seen in photographs with Mr. McCain".[12]
Opinions
During the US/2008 Presidential election campaign, McCain (completely sober that is) started an eerie prose on Iran after a question in the audience to send a response to "Iranian hostile actions". in which he planned the idea in donors and voters their heads that Iran would give their nuclear weapons to "terrorist" organizations. How these individuals would deploy it for example was not touched. Perhaps a slip of things to come?[13]
Matthew 12:34: "You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." |
“Republican 2008 presidential hopeful John McCain crooned the words “Bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys’ tune in joking response to a question about any possible U.S. attack over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. “That old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran ... bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,” the Vietnam War veteran warbled softly to the band’s “Barbara Ann” when he was asked when the United States would send an “airmail message” to Iran.”
Reuters (April 2007) [14]
Also during the 2008 presidential election campaign (on live US television) he referred to the JFK assassination as "the intervention". His exact words were: "... the way Barry Goldwater and Jack Kennedy agreed to do, before the intervention, the tragedy at Dallas" immediately followed by a hand to nose and look away from the audience gesture.[15]
Death
In May 2018, CNN reported McCain did not want President Trump at his funeral.[16]
Legal Case
Name | Plaintiff(s) | Defendant(s) | Start | End | Description |
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Hedges v. Obama | Daniel Ellsberg Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky Jenifer Bolen Kai Wargalla Birgitta Jónsdóttir Alexa O'Brien | Barack Obama Leon Panetta John McCain John Boehner Harry Reid Eric Cantor Nancy Pelosi US Department of Defense Mitch McConnell United States of America | 13 January 2012 | 28 April 2014 | The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it. |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Brussels Forum/2006 | 2006 | 2006 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
Brussels Forum/2009 | 20 March 2009 | 22 March 2009 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund. |
Brussels Forum/2017 | 23 March 2017 | 25 March 2017 | Belgium Brussels | Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The overarching theme was "‘End of Complacency – Era of Action?" |
Halifax International Security Forum/2010 | 20 November 2010 | 22 November 2010 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010 |
Halifax International Security Forum/2011 | 18 November 2011 | 20 November 2011 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010 |
Halifax International Security Forum/2012 | 21 November 2012 | 23 November 2012 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden". |
Halifax International Security Forum/2013 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
Halifax International Security Forum/2014 | 21 November 2014 | 23 November 2014 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2014 |
Halifax International Security Forum/2016 | 18 November 2016 | 21 November 2016 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
Herzliya Conference/2007 | 21 January 2007 | 24 January 2007 | Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University | "The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action." |
Munich Security Conference/2010 | 5 February 2010 | 7 February 2010 | Germany Munich Bavaria | An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability." |
Munich Security Conference/2011 | 4 February 2011 | 6 February 2011 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 47th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2012 | 3 February 2012 | 5 February 2012 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 48th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2013 | 1 February 2013 | 3 February 2013 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 49th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2014 | 31 January 2014 | 2 February 2014 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 50th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2015 | 6 February 2015 | 8 February 2015 | Germany Munich Bavaria | "400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts." |
Munich Security Conference/2016 | 12 February 2016 | 14 February 2016 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 52nd Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2017 | 17 February 2017 | 19 February 2017 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 53rd Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006 | 25 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | Switzerland | Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:From Glory Boy to PoW Songbird | article | 13 June 2008 | Douglas Valentine | A reality based counterbalance to the de-rigeur 'war-hero' treatment that John McCain is routinely accorded by the US commercially-controlled media and his Wikipedia entry |
Document:Manchester Alleged Suicide Bomber Linked to Libya Islamic Fighting Group | Article | 24 May 2017 | 'Tony Cartalucci' | The British government is directly responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing. It had foreknowledge of LIFG’s existence and likely its activities within British territory and not only failed to act, but appears to have actively harboured this community of extremists for its own geopolitical and domestic agenda. |
References
- ↑ "Glioblastoma, which killed McCain, is 'complex' and 'aggressive' disease, brain tumor group says"
- ↑ "White House drafted a statement on John McCain, but never released it"
- ↑ McCain, Faith of My Fathers, p. 156.
- ↑ Feinberg, Barbara. John McCain: Serving His Country, p. 18 (Millbrook Press 2000). ISBN 0-7613-1974-3.
- ↑ a b c Timberg, American Odyssey, pp. 66–68.
- ↑ a b c Vartabedian, Ralph and Serrano, Richard A. "Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator" Archived October 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Los Angeles Times (October 6, 2008). Retrieved October 6, 2008.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_My_Fathers
- ↑ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/investigating-john-mccains-tragedy-at-sea/
- ↑ https://www.unz.com/announcement/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-propaganda-broadcast-now-found-and-released/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161104132301/https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/john-mccains-tokyo-rose-recordings-from-north-vietnam saved at Archive.is
- ↑ "The truth about John McCain #ExpelMcCain"
- ↑ "Try as He May, John McCain Can’t Shake Falsehoods About Ties to ISIS"
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-mccain-idUSN1929196820070419
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycuw9Cvh6W4 YouTube
- ↑ "John McCain describes JFK's assassination as 'The Intervention' with eyes open wide, eyebrows up high and grabs his nose. Quickly says 'err tragedy in Dallas'."
- ↑ "Obama, Bush Asked To Speak At John McCain's Funeral; Trump Told To Stay Away"