{"id":16963,"date":"2013-04-02T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16963"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:06:13","slug":"hollywoods-liberal-charade-angelina-jolie-bimbo-and-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=16963","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood’s “liberal” Charade – Angelina Jolie: Bimbo and the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelina Jolie: Bimbo and the Beast<\/strong>
\nFinian Cunningham – 31 March, 2013 – Strategic Culture Foundation<\/p>\n

Angelina Jolie, the American screen idol and one of the highest paid actors ever, is famous for her sultry looks and a femme fatale presence. She\u2019s a dangerous woman, the embodiment of smoldering, mercurial menace.<\/p>\n

Which, when you think about it, sounds a lot like her real life role as UN Special Envoy on human rights. In her latest \u00abstarring role\u00bb, she is cast alongside British Foreign Minister William Hague. The \u00ablocation\u00bb\u2019 is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Both travelled to the war-ravaged Central African country this week to highlight the harrowing crime of rape against women as a result of conflicts.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that the unlikely pair has teamed up for this purpose. Previously, actress Jolie and Britain\u2019s most senior diplomat have collaborated to \u2018focus public attention\u2019 on violence against women in Libya, Mali and Syria, among other international war zones.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Guardian newspaper while onboard a RAF aircraft courtesy of Mr Hague, the Hollywood star said: “There were hundreds of thousands of women raped during the Rwandan genocide. There are hundreds of thousands of people being raped in the Congo. Tens of thousands of women raped in Bosnia. God knows how many people raped in Syria\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Asked what she wanted to achieve by working with the British government to champion this appeal, the action-movie siren replied: “An end to impunity\u00bb.<\/p>\n

At which point Angelina Jolie, if she really understood the causes of these conflicts and the violence against women, should have reached over to slap handcuffs on the British foreign secretary and make a citizen\u2019s arrest of a top war criminal.<\/p>\n

In every instance of war that the actress cited, the British government has had a hand in either fomenting or fuelling. William Hague, in particular, has personally overseen British-sponsored terrorism in Libya, Mali and Syria.<\/p>\n

It was Hague\u2019s British regime that led the NATO blitzkrieg during 2011 in Libya to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi. For seven months, British Typhoon fighter bombers engaged in over 10,000 sorties along with other NATO forces, to demolish that North African country. As many as 50,000 people were killed during the aerial bombardment. Countless numbers among Libya\u2019s six-million nation were turned into refugees and now live under an anarchic regime of extremists and deprivation that NATO installed.<\/p>\n

The same brand of Al Qaeda bandits and cut-throats that NATO warplanes paved the way for in Libya is being armed, trained, funded and directed in Syria by Britain and its allies.<\/p>\n

As with Libya, Britain has taken a lead role in Syria along with France in arming a terror network \u2013 that the Western media euphemistically call \u00abrebels\u00bb \u2013 to overthrow the sovereign government of Bashar Al Assad. British Special Forces have long-established training camps in Jordan from where graduated death squads can then ply their terror trade across the border in Syria.<\/p>\n

Up to five million people have been displaced in the violence unleashed over the past two years in Syria by Britain and its NATO allies, the US and France, and their proxies, Turkey and the Gulf Arab dictatorships. In fleeing British-sponsored death squads and car bombers, up to a million Syrian civilians now reside in tents along the borders with Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. Rape, of course, has been used as a weapon of terror by the militants in Syria to sow fear and dislodge popular support for the Damascus government. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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