Friday, November 30, 2007

Omid Djalili

MI6 - Dearlove

Douglas and Wendy Alexander



Douglas Alexander, a minister in Gordon Brown's UK Labour government, is the brother of Wendy Alexander, leader of the Labour Party in Scotland.

Gordon Brown says Douglas Alexander will be his General Election coordinator.

Both Douglas and Wendy have recently been in trouble.

According to The Telegraph, 24 October 2007, "Douglas Alexander faced calls to resign as Gordon Brown's general election chief after an independent inquiry found that his 'self-interested' moves to change electoral rules in Labour's favour led to the debacle that saw nearly 150,000 votes wasted in the Scottish elections this year.

"An independent investigation of the elections to Holyrood and to Scottish councils found that a series of partisan decisions made by Mr Alexander resulted in widespread voter confusion." - Douglas Alexander in dock over election fiasco - Telegraph

David Abraham's ' multimillion-pound business park development at Bowburn in County Durham, in the UK, was blocked by the Highways Agency. This was because of a ban on further development beside the congested A1 road.

David Abrahams has given money to the UK Labour Party.In October 2006, the Highways Agency lifted the ban on the business park development - and a separate one near Newton Aycliffe further south.The transport secretary at the time was Douglas Alexander. - Profile: David Abrahams

"A Channel Islands businessman Paul Green has made a second illegal donation to the Labour Party. His contribution to Wendy Alexander's Leadership campaign brought a public apology from her after she admitted his cheque broke strict donation rules.

"Meanwhile, First Minister Alex Salmond said the police might have to investigate the affair." Police may have to probe illegal Wendy Alexander donation

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In October 2007, Brown threatens further sanctions against Sudan; In November, Sudan gets revenge.


Photo of Minni Arcua Minnawi, the leader of the largest faction of the Sudanese Liberation Army, a loose association of rebel groups who have fought against the Janjaweed militiamen and Sudanese government forces in the Darfur conflict.

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On 29 October 2007, Gordon Brown threatened further sanctions against Sudan.

This was after the collapse of talks on Darfur. ( Gordon Brown calls for tough stand on Darfur - Telegraph)

An article in The Guardian ( Comment: Soumaya Ghannoushi ) helps to explain the Sudan Teddy Bear situation:

"Last month, Gordon Brown threatened further sanctions against Sudan following a peace conference hosted by Libya with the objective of ending conflict in the Darfur region...

"The teddy bear affair seems to have been the Sudanese government's revenge against London."

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Ahmad Hussein As-shimi wrote:

"Israeli/American interest and plans interlink in Darfur, to establish an independent State in western Sudan, under the leadership of the Az-Ghawi tribe that leads the insurgency in the province, besides establishing a technologically advanced military base under common American-British-Israeli observance, the purpose of which is to control security status, and political interactions in Egypt, Sudan, Libya, African states and the Red Sea.

"It also aims at protecting the oil pipeline that the U.S. is conducting negotiations to build, which shall be extending from Iraq, the Gulf States, to the Red Sea then to the Darfur province through Libya and Morocco to the Atlantic Ocean." -
Israel in Darfur and Arab National Security

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Rory Carroll, in The Guardian, 28 March 2006, wrote about China's move into Africa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1741082,00.html

"After western firms pulled out of Sudan over its human rights abuses and terrorist links, the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation helped build a 1,500km oil pipeline as well as bridges, roads and factories.

"The United Nations security council threatened sanctions against Sudan over massacres in Darfur, only to be vetoed by Beijing. When America balked at supplying Nigeria's trigger-happy military, China offered dozens of patrol boats."


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Making a laughing stock of fundamentalist Islam



Belief in the teachings of some of the Christian churches took a knock as a result of the slaughter by Christians of Christians in World war I. Some saw it as ungodly when certain Christian leaders supported the imperialists and militarists.

Surely fundamentalist Islam cannot survive much longer when its leaders behave in such an un-godly fashion.

Surely it is the leaders of Sudan who have insulted the Moslem religion.

According to the Daily Mirror (Outrage as teacher jailed over teddy row) :

The 'rat-infested' Omdurman prison 'was designed for 50 women but now houses more than 1,000 plus 400 children, most under the age of two.

'Between four and six children die each month from malnutrition.

'The women struggle to sleep crammed 30 to a cell in temperatures which can reach a searing 120F.

'Inmates also regularly go on hunger strike in protest at the disgusting food served by warders.
Brutal warders use techniques including solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, whipping with a hose and branding with an iron.

'There have even been reports of women being shackled and then raped by security officials.'

http://sudan-embassy.co.uk/en/component/option,com_contact/ampItemid,3/

Adel Darwish, the political editor of The Middle East magazine, says that Muslim children - "like children everywhere" - give their pets the names of characters they liked, be it a religious figure, sports hero or pop singer.

"Millions of Muslim children in Muslim nations give their dolls, pets and teddies Muslim names of the Prophet and his mother, daughters and wives."
- What can't be named Muhammad?


From: Sudan Government Makes 'Laughing Stock' of Islam

"One British Muslim who had been abducted and tortured by Sudanese security who threw him into prison without charges nor trial, in order to remove his business by competitors, witnessed the torture of Muslim students who had come to study Islam from other countries, but who had been victimised by corrupt lecturers at the islamist African University in Khartoum."

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Do no evil






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Thursday, November 29, 2007

UK teacher jailed over teddy row; time to denounce the fascist fundamentalists




In the Sudan a UK teacher has been jailed in a silly row over a teddy. (UK teacher jailed over teddy row )

Sudan is not unique in having controversial judges. Scottish judges sent a Libyan to jail for the Lockerbie Bombing. Reportedly the trial was unfair and the Moslem was innocent. (aangirfan: Lockerbie - who were the key players in the trial?)

Quite rightly, Bloggers condemn Sudan , just as they sometimes condemn the Scottish criminal justice system.

The teddy incident may be a turning point.

In the past, many bloggers, including this one, have shown sympathy for Moslems; there has been a belief that Moslems have been unfairly blamed for terrorism.

However, when it comes to cruel, ungodly, fascist behaviour, it seems that fundamentalist 'Moslems' can be just as wicked as fundamentalist 'Christians', 'Jews', 'Hindus' and 'Budhists'.

We should remember that when it comes to Terrorism: Moslems are apparently in it up to their necks

We still believe that the vast majority of Moslems are friendly, moderate people. (Kids getting exercise)
We base this belief on extensive visits to at least five 'Moslem' countries in recent years.
But the fascist fundamentalist Moslems must be denounced and opposed.
As Johann Hari points out, fundamentalist Moslems are as dangerous as the Christian fundamentalists who used to cause misery in Europe (Maryam Namazie: Johann Hari: Why do we ignore the plight of ex ...)
Martin Luther was a fascist. Luther declared that a possessed child should be thrown into the river to be killed or cured. (Robertson, History of Christianity: p208 Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Martin Luther)

Luther encouraged the nobles to suppress the 1525 Peasant's Revolt in Germany by violent means. And in fact the nobles tortured and then killed over 100,000 peasants.
Luther wrote: "Let all who are able, cut them down, slaughter and stab them, openly or in secret, and remember that there is nothing more poisonous, noxious and utterly devilish than a rebel." (Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Martin Luther)
We do not want mad religious extremists in positions of power.

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SUDAN




Triangle of Death - Sudan



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Stirring things up in Malaysia



At the Crossroads - Malaysia

"Faced with furious criticism from around the world over Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's assertion that Jews rule the world, Malaysia apologised today for any misunderstanding and claimed that no offence was intended.

"Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar struggled to contain the damage wrought by his blunt-spoken boss, who told a summit of Islamic leaders yesterday that 'Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.'

"Repeated assertions of Jewish dominance dotted the speech to buttress Mahathir's analysis that Muslims needed to embrace modern knowledge and technology and overcome divisions over religious dogma that have left them weakened on the world stage." - Malaysia apologises for Mahathir's 'Jews rule world' remark - www ...

Photo from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:20071110Bersih2Hafiz.jpg

Malaysia is a successful Moslem democracy.
It is not without its faults but it is a happier country than most.

The ruling coalition won 199 out of 219 parliamentary seats in the 2004 elections.

The USA and its friends may be trying to wreck Malaysia?

According to The Economist, (Not mellow yellow ):

In mid November 2007, "tens of thousands of Malaysians wore canary-yellow shirts to defy a government ban and march in Kuala Lumpur, calling for fairer elections. Riot police blocked routes into the city and fired water cannon to break up the rally...

"Mr Anwar is out of jail and again leading opposition to the entrenched elite he was once part of."

Is Anwar a CIA agent?


September 2000: Malaysian politician Lim Kit Siang called on Prime Minister Mahathir to declare the outcome of three years of police investigations as to whether Anwar is a CIA agent and to state whether the United States is the country he meant in a Merdeka Day message as the country out to "recolonize" Malaysia.

Anwar was alleged to have received RM60 million from a Mr Nallakaruppan.

Former Bank Negara assistant governor Datuk Abdul Murad Khalid accused Anwar of having amassed a fortune of RM3 billion while in government through over 20 "Master Accounts".

Reference was made to the American-based organisation called Asia Pacific Policy Centre (APPC) headed by Douglas H. Paal, who was former Senior Director from Asian Affairs (1989 to 1993) of the National Security Council (NSC) of the United States.

MPs used parliamentary immunity to claim in Parliament that Anwar was a CIA agent on the basis that the APPC was a CIA outfit and Douglas Paal a CIA agent.

Oddly, Anwar had allegedly given money to APPC and Douglas Paal.

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The Straits of Malacca are one of the most important shipping lanes in the world and are used for transporting oil. (http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1033.html)

Admiral Thomas Fargo, head of U.S forces in the Asia-Pacific in his testimony to U.S House Armed Services Committee had suggested that U.S troops might assist in patrolling the straits to deter terrorists who might target shipping in the Malacca Straits. This suggestion has been resented both by Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Remember the fall of Marcos in the Philippines and the fall of Suharto in Indonesia?Remember the fall of pro-Soviet regimes in Eastern Europe? Remember the recent changes in Haiti and Georgia?

There is a CIA connection.

Mark Almond, lecturer in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford, wrote in the Guardian, December 7, 2004: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1367965,00.html

"As an old cold war swagman, who carried tens of thousands of dollars to Soviet-bloc dissidents alongside much better respected academics, perhaps I can cast some light on what a Romanian friend called 'our clandestine period'. Too many higher up the food chain of People Power seem reticent about making full disclosure.

"Nowadays, we can google the names of foundations such as America's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a myriad surrogates funding Ukraine's Pora movement or 'independent' media. But unless you know the NED's James Woolsey was also head of the CIA 10 years ago, are you any wiser?"

People Power is usually about changing regimes to suit the American Military Industrial Complex.

As Almond states, "People Power is, it turns out, more about closing things than creating an open society. It shuts factories but, worse still, minds. Its advocates demand a free market in everything - except opinion."

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Blasphemy


Teddy Bear Blasphemy case in Sudan (From: Grin and bear it)

"Let us not forget that in 1977 the late and unlamented Mary Whitehouse successfully brought a prosecution for blasphemy against Gay News for publishing this poem by James Kirkup. And just last week, the producers of Jerry Springer - The Opera were taken to court by some Christian extremists who accused them of blasphemy.

"I think it's high time in this country that we got rid of our blasphemy laws, which only protect Christian beliefs. All religions ought to be able to stand up for themselves, without relying on some legal crutch whenever they feel their sensibilities have been offended. Whether it's the naming of a teddy bear, cartoons, poems or inspired satire, those with religious beliefs really should just learn to grin and bear it." - Grin and bear it

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In 1656, the Quaker James Naylor suffered flogging, branding and the piercing of his tongue by a red-hot poker.

The last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy was John William Gott on 9 December 1921. He had three previous convictions for blasphemy when he was prosecuted for publishing two pamphlets entitled Rib Ticklers, or Questions for Parsons and God and Gott. In these pamphlets Gott satirised the biblical story of Jesus entering Jerusalem (Matthew 21:2-7) comparing Jesus to a circus clown. He was sentenced to nine months' hard labour despite suffering from an incurable illness, and died shortly after he was released.

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SUDAN, BIN LADEN, the CIA and DRUGS

The death of General Gordon at Khartoum

Sudanese


On 21 August 2005, Wayne Madsen reported (U.S. BUSINESS AND BUSH FAMILY TIES TO OSAMA BIN LADEN REVEALED) :

"European intelligence provided to WMR confirms that Osama bin Laden has been a major kingpin in drug shipments to Europe and North America since 1991, when he established a major drug smuggling network in Sudan and Saudi Arabia.

"WMR can also confirm that the Bush administration's cozying up to the Sudanese government (which once provided Osama Bin Laden safe haven) is another indication that the Bush family continues to engage in joint financial activities with Osama Bin Laden.

"It is likely that Sudan's southern Christian rebel leader John Garang was encouraged to enter into a peace agreement with Khartoum in a ploy for him to let down his guard. Just days after Garang became Sudan's Vice President, he was killed in a suspicious helicopter crash along the Ugandan-Sudanese border, an area where Pentagon Special Operations forces are present. As Vice President, Garang was in a position to discover Bin Laden's past and present activities in Sudan, including those that involve Bush family interests.

"While Sudan claims it no longer has any relations with Osama Bin Laden, it can now be revealed that Osama Bin Laden continues to operate the Al Shamal Islamic Bank in Sudan that was identified by the State Department in 1996 as being linked to Al Qaeda and Bin Laden.

"The 'Al Qaeda' leader invested $50 million in the bank. The bank was used in 1993 to transfer $210,000 to a bank in Tucson, Arizona to finance the purchase of a plane to fly Stinger missiles from Pakistan to Sudan. The plane was flown to Khartoum. (According to the French intelligence report, Bin Laden was still under U.S. and British intelligence control at the time of the plane purchase and in 1993 Sudan was on the State Department's state sponsors of terrorism list).

"It is significant that Al Shamal's assets were never frozen by the United States nor was it designated a terrorist-related organization. The Sudanese claim that Al Shamal is no longer in operation and the Bush administration has not countered these claims."


"The Bin Laden drug network also intersects with Geneva-based financial entities established by George H. W. Bush while he was CIA director and Vice President and President of the United States.

"Bin Laden and Bush money are held in some of the same financial tranches in Switzerland, the Isle of Man, and the Bahamas."


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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Scotland's CRIMINAL justice system; Hutchesons' Grammar School yobs walk free

Thomas Hutcheson

Hutchesons' Grammar School, in Glasgow, was founded in the 17th century by George and Thomas Hutcheson to teach orphans.

Hutchesons' Grammar School is now a private school. It educated Derry Irvine.

And now it seems to select yobs as some of its pupils.

A gang of five pupils from Hutchesons tried to gatecrash a party and left two men and a boy needing hospital treatment.
The injured 14 year old boy had his face cut with a bottle.

One yob was brandishing a chain during the attack.

What happened to the yobs? Did they go to jail?
Four of them were each ordered to carry out 200 hours' community service.

One was given a 12-month deferred sentence.

So the reputation of Hutchesons' Grammar School may have gone down the plughole.

And the reputation of Scottish justice is again in tatters?






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Mad



Mad Moslems wrecking the image of islam? - Teacher charged over teddy row
"Gibbons ... asked the students to pick names for the bear and in the end, they voted to name it Muhammad, school officials say. So, according to this stupidity, shouldn’t the students also be punished?
"What about all Muslims who have the first name of 'Muhammad'?
"What about the clerics of the mosques the students and their parents attend for not teaching the children that they were insulting Islam?" - More From the Religion of Peace

'Israel wanted to destroy Pak nukes'

"Global warming is partly to blame for flooding in Jakarta that has forced thousands of evacuations and cut off a highway to the international airport, Indonesia's environment minister said Tuesday.

"Authorities pumped out some of the water, which was 23 feet (7 meters) deep in the worst hit areas and washed more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) inland Monday, said Iskandar, an official at Jakarta's flood crisis center. At least 2,200 houses were inundated, some with chest-deep water." - Rising Sea Disrupts Flights in Indonesia

Jon Mendelsohn is one of the UK Prime Minister's right hand men. Mendelsohn is a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel. The Jewish Chronicle listed Mendelsohn as the 28th most influential person in 'British Jewry'. The paper wrote: 'At ease in the corridors of power, Mendelsohn has the contacts and know-how to advance Israel's case in his Labour Friends of Israel role.' 'Ethical lobbyist' caught up in donations row

Reportedly, Mendelsohn has known for weeks about the falsely-declared donations given by David Abrahams. Sleaze scandal: Brown's chief fundraiser knew of illegal donations

Labouring for Israel

David Abrahams(AKA David Martin ), Jon Mendelsohn, Gordon Brown and the "Labour Friends of Israel" - jacta alea est

Pre-history of Jewish control in Washington - permanent link

Deadly bomb attacks in Sri Lanka


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Giuliani and 'terror mastermind' Abdallah; Bush and the bin Ladens

Photo of Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani and Bush.

Allegedly, America's leaders are in bed with the top terrorists.


The emir of gas-rich Qatar is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani.

Reportedly, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, a member of the emir's royal family, harboured 'the mastermind of the 9 11 attack', Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.

Reportedly, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani is 'the terrorist mastermind' who:

1. wired funds from Qatar to his nephew Ramzi Yousef prior to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

2. while on his Qatar farm, sold the idea of a plane attack on the twin towers to Osama bin Laden. (Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh)
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Three weeks after 9 11, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani toured Ground Zero.

Rudy Giuliani appeared on CNN with Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani and 'vouched for the emir' when Larry King asked the mayor: 'You are a friend of his, are you not?'

Reportedly, Giuliani Partners, Giuliani's consulting company, has done business with the ministry run by Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani.

Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani was Qatar's minister of Islamic affairs. In 2001, he became the interior ministry.

Reportedly, Abdallah al-Thani's interior ministry (or the state-owned company it helps oversee, Qatar Petroleum) has worked with Giuliani Security & Safety LLC, a subsidiary of Giuliani Partners, on an undisclosed number of contracts. (Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh)

The Wall Street Journal, September 28-29 2001, reported (Bin Laden and the Carlyle Group) :

"Mr. bin Laden's family... is an investor in a fund established by the Carlyle Group."

Linked to the Carlyle group, according to the Wall St. Journal, are the Bush family and other top Republicans.

"In recent years, former U.S. President George Bush, ex-Secretary of State James Baker and ex-Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci have made the pilgrimage to the bin Laden family's headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...

"A Carlyle executive said the bin Laden family committed $2 million through a London investment arm in Carlyle Partners II Fund...

"But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the family's overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger. He called the $2 million merely an initial contribution. again."


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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Religion and Madness

At least 20% of the population may have a mental disorder during a given year. (Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 2)

Fundamentalists often appear to be particularly mad.

Thinks of the mad Hindus attacking Moslems in Mumbai. Think of the Christian Crusaders roasting children on spits.

Think of certain officials of the Ministry of Education in Sudan.

In the Guardian's Comment is Free site we read:

"The children voted and chose the name Muhammad. All but one of the children in her class are Muslims. Gillian then wrote a letter to the parents of Class 2X explaining that the children had chosen the name Muhammad for their class teddy bear.

"The school was visited by officers of the Ministry of Education... "The government men then asked to see and interview Gillian...

"On arrival at the police barracks, accompanied by the school principal, Gillian was interrogated for five hours. Gillian was then remanded to the cells...


"I was informed that Gillian had been charged under the Sudanese penal code with blasphemously defaming the Prophet."


The Muslim Council of Britain called on the Sudanese government to intervene in the case. (Sudan plays down teddy blasphemy case)

"This is a very unfortunate incident and Ms Gibbons should never have been arrested in the first place. It is obvious that no malice was intended," said Muhammad Abdul Bari, the council's secretary-general.

A spokesman for the Sudanese embassy in London said he believed the teacher would be cleared and the "minute" issue resolved amicably very quickly.

Anton T Boisen wrote "Exploration of the Inner World: A Study of Mental Disorder and Religious Experience". (1936)

Boisen wrote:

"(I proceed) from the hypothesis that there is an important relationship between acute mental illness of the functional type and those sudden transformations of character so prominent in the history of the Christian church since the days of Saul of Tarsus....

"Religious experience as well as mental disorder may involve severe emotional upheaval, and mental disorder as well as religious experience may represent the operation of the healing forces of nature (or of nature's God)...

"Certain types of mental disorder as well as certain types of religious experience are alike attempts at reorganization (of the psyche or soul at its most fundamental, existential level).

"The difference lies in the outcome (by their fruits you will know them, Matt. 7:16).

"Where the attempt is successful and some degree of victory is won, it is commonly recognized as religious experience. Where it is unsuccessful or indeterminate, it is commonly spoken of as insanity....

"I approach the problem not merely as a specialist in both the psychology and sociology of religion but also in psychopathology.

"What is more, I come to it as one who has personally explored the little-known country with which it deals."

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Rachel

Lifted

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LINKS

CIA disinformation from an ex-CIA agent? - Bin Laden Talks of Victory, Not Defeat

"USHOSTAGE.com says from the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by the United States Government, CIA and Israel Mossad Zionist Terrorist backed Mojahedin-e-Khalq Terrorists have been involved in setting up fake check points in Iraq with Iranian Traitors in Iranian Military Uniforms to give the image to Iraqi citizens that Iran is trying to invade Iraq."- Excerpts of USHOSTAGE.com before AIPAC Attorneys and US Judges ...

Indonesia fights for rights to bird flu samples

Bhutan "is the new marketplace for traffickers." - Tea estate trafficking raises concern

David Abraham's ' multimillion-pound business park development at Bowburn in County Durham, in the UK, was blocked by the Highways Agency.

This was because of a ban on further development beside the congested A1 road.

David Abrahams has given money to the UK Labour Party.

In October 2006, the Highways Agency lifted the ban on the business park development - and a separate one near Newton Aycliffe further south.

The transport secretary at the time was Douglas Alexander. - Profile: David Abrahams

Nuclear clean-up costs likely to soar beyond £70bn, MPs warn ...

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Dr. Stephen Soldz

Hitler was Gay






In 1933, Jewish author Ludwig Lewisohn said that "the entire Nazi movement is in fact and by certain aspects of its avowed ideology drenched through and through with homoerotic feeling and practice."

German-Jewish historian Samuel Igra, in his 1945 book Germany's National Vice, suggests that a probable reason for Hitler's anti-Semitism is traditional Judaism's opposition to homosexuality

At the age of 16, Hitler moved to Vienna. A young man called August Kubizek joined him and they lived together for four months. Intensely jealous, Hitler wrote to Kubizek, "I cannot endure it when you consort and converse with other young people."

Hitler spent five months at a men's hostel known as "a hub of homosexual activity."

Hitler's rise largely was due to his close friendship with two homosexuals: Ernst Roehm and Dietrich Eckart.

Lothar Machtan, a professor of history at Germany's University of Bremen,writes in his book "Hitler's Secret - The Double Life of a Dictator" that Hitler had relationships with a number of men in his youth.

"We can say that Hitler had several homoerotic friendships up through the1920s," Machtan told Die Welt newspaper." Many of them would be described by people today as homosexual."

Hans Mend, a stableboy who served with Hitler in World War I, said: “We noticed that he never looked at a woman.... In 1915 we were billeted in the Le Febre brewery at Fournes. We slept in the hay. Hitler was bedded down at night with ‘Schmidl’, his male whore. We heard a rustling in the hay. Then someone switched on his flashlight and growled: ‘Take a look at those two nancy boys’.”

Eugen Dollman, Hitler’s interpreter, said that in 1923 he had heard a general in Munich reading from a police file in which young boys claimed that Hitler had paid them to spend the night with him.

The Night of the Long Knives in 1934.

Rohm, who had been with Hitler at the start of the Nazi movement, was a homosexual. Machtan says Rohm was one of very few people who knew about Hitler’s homosexuality. “It must have been Hitler’s nightmare that he would one day launch a smear campaign.”

Rohm was one of about 150 murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. Machtan says the “principal motive” for the slaughter was Hitler’s fear of blackmail.

Machtan refers to Hitler’s “poses,” “gestures and body language,” “his accessories (moustache, whip, etc.),” his “effeminate cast of feature, his taste for muscular, monumental art,” and “the marked pleasure he derived from contemplating the male physique".

Machtan claims Hitler was never very interested in women. His relationship with Eva Braun was almost certainly platonic.








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Pneumonia


"Cases of pneumonia caused by a novel adenovirus strain called Ad14 started to appear in 2005.
"Now the US Centers for Disease Control reports that, in four unrelated outbreaks across the US in the past 18 months, Ad14 has caused severe pneumonia in at least 140 people, including babies and healthy young adults, and killed 10 of them. There may well have been many more cases, since doctors rarely test for adenovirus." - Cold virus turns nasty





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Monday, November 26, 2007

What we have been reading today











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Blair, Abrahams, Newcastle, Poulson; New Labour - New Sleaze?




David Abrahams, one of the UK Labour Party's major donors, has been in the news.

Mr Abrahams was in the front row when Tony Blair made a speech to local Labour party figures in his former Sedgefield constituency in June announcing his decision to stand down and quit Parliament.

Abrahams served as a Labour councillor in Tyne and Wear and his late father, Bennie Abrahams, was Lord Mayor of Newcastle.

David Abrahams is a director of six property companies. (Profile: reclusive Labour donor David Abrahams - Times Online)

Labour Party sleaze?

There was Labour MP Edward Short 'who had been in the habit of receiving bundles of banknotes from T Dan Smith', the city boss of Newcastle and one time partner of Eric Levine.

Smith formed business links with architect John Poulson which led to his trial for accepting bribes in April 1974.

"Smith's painting and decorating firm received more than half of the contracts for council housing. In 1962 he established a public relations firm to support redevelopment of other urban centres in the north-east, and later nationwide.

"This company formed links with John Poulson, an architect keen for the business and known for paying those who could supply it. Smith eventually received £156,000 from Poulson for his work, which typically involved signing up local councillors on to the payroll of his companies and getting them to push their councils to accept Poulson's prepackaged redevelopment schemes. Poulson earned more than £1,000,000 through Smith." - T. Dan Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Poulson scandal in the early Seventies involved bribes, building contracts in London, the Midlands and the North-east and backstairs planning permission. It led to the conviction of Yorkshire architect John Poulson, senior civil servant George Pottinger and a number of local politicians and officials, including two top Labour councillors, T.Dan Smith, ex-leader of Newcastle City Council, and Andrew Cunningham, chairman of Durham County Council." - http://society.guardian.co.uk/councilsincrisis/story/0,8150,400446,00.html

The "Donnygate" Labour Party corruption case, March 2002, (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/donn-m28.shtml) was a particularly bad local government corruption case. Two senior Labour Party councillors in Doncaster, South Yorkshire and a property developer were sentenced to a total of 11 years in jail.

The case has been described as the tip of a vast pyramid of corruption.

Doncaster Labour Party corruption involved:

1. councillors taking expenses for foreign trips

2. councillors buying racehorses

3. embezzlement reportedly running into millions

4. 74 arrests

5. 23 Labour councillors convicted for expenses fraud.

In neighbouring Labour Party-dominated Rotherham council:

1. Rotherham councillors set up an initiative to deal with the town’s poverty

2. Appointed officials received salaries of up to £100,0003.

The organisation failed to draw up a single working policy to combat poverty.






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Sakka / Sakra / Saqa worked for the CIA and trained the 9 11 hijackers?


By his own account, Sakka "is a senior Al-Qaeda operative who was at the forefront of the insurgency in Iraq, took part in the beheading of Briton Kenneth Bigley and helped train the 9/11 bombers. He has been jailed in connection with the bombing of the British consulate in Istanbul." - London Times

Louai al Sakka is also known as Sakra and Saqa

Sakra worked for the CIA?

Ercan Gun, on 15 August 2005 at zaman.com ( http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20050815&hn=22982 ), wonders if Al-Qaeda is a Secret Service operation.

Sakra was interrogated for 4 days at the Istanbul Anti-Terror Department Headquarters.

Reportedly this provided some important information.

According to Ercan Gun, Turkish intelligence specialists now believe:

1. Al-Qaeda is the name of a secret service operation.

2. Al Qaeda is linked to a strategy of tension. (See also Operation Gladio ; Turkey, terror bombs, the CIA and Mossad)

3. Sakra, the fifth most senior man in al-Qaeda, was offered employment by the CIA.

The CIA gave him a large sum of money.

The CIA claimed it eventually lost contact with him.

Reportedly, in 2000, the CIA asked the Turkish security service MIT to capture Sakra.

MIT caught Sakra in Turkey and interrogated him.

At a different period of time, Sakra was sought and caught by Syria's al-Mukhabarat.

Syria too offered him employment. Reportedly, Sakra eventually became a triple agent for the secret services.

And, what of Ali Mohamed who seems to have been a terrorist and an agent of the US security services?

Xymphora wrote: "it becomes impossible not to see Ali Mohamed as a U. S. Army intelligence agent. If he was a U. S. Army intelligence agent, and was protected by the U. S. government even after his participation in terrorist activities, he proves that it is possible to simultaneously be a U. S. agent and a member of al-Qaeda." http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2003/02/ive-written-about-ali-mohamed-islamic.html

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Absolutely




"Experts estimate Indonesia could earn more than $US13 billion ($14.6 billion) by preserving its forests if the carbon trading plan gets support in Bali." - Bali spotlight on Indonesian forests

"Israeli/American interest and plans interlink in Darfur, to establish an independent State in western Sudan, under the leadership of the Az-Ghawi tribe that leads the insurgency in the province, besides establishing a technologically advanced military base under common American-British-Israeli observance, the purpose of which is to control security status, and political interactions in Egypt, Sudan, Libya, African states and the Red Sea. It also aims at protecting the oil pipeline that the U.S. is conducting negotiations to build, which shall be extending from Iraq, the Gulf States, to the Red Sea then to the Darfur province through Libya and Morocco to the Atlantic Ocean." - Israel in Darfur and Arab National Security

SCOTTISH LABOUR'S new spin-doctor said the SNP government had a "long and impressive" list of achievements. He described first minister Alex Salmond as "a great example of a politician on top of his game". - Pressure piles on Alexander

Swing to SNP in Dundee Council by-election win

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Inordinate Amounts



Andy Hayman is Britain's anti-terrorism chief. He was criticised for misleading the public over the de Menezes shooting.

"Hayman has been asked to explain at least £15,000 expenses that included claims for 'inordinate amounts' of drinking with colleagues.
"'Apart from the money, what happens if they are all out drinking when a bomb goes off?' said one Met official.
"The married father of two has been quizzed about his relationship with Sergeant Heidi Tubby, his former staff officer. Tubby is said to have accompanied him on foreign business trips at public expense." - Terror chief grilled over trips with woman sergeant



"Mr Ruddick's total contributions to Labour are listed as £196,000. But standing outside the semi he bought for just £12,000 and wearing a paint-splattered fleece top, the 55-year-old initially told The Mail on Sunday he had no recollection of ever giving to the party.
"Mr Ruddick works closely with David Abrahams, a wealthy property developer who is a prominent figure in the North East Labour Party." - How big Labour backer is a jobbing builder who knows NOTHING about his £200,000 donation


"A MAN who looks like Robert Murat tried to climb into the apartment where Madeleine McCann went missing at a time when another child was alone inside, it was claimed last night.
A new witness, who worked as a nanny at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, has given a sworn statement about the incident to detectives in the UK and Spain."-
BABYSITTER SAW WINDOW MAN
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"A NUCLEAR attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned." - Top police officer warns that nuclear attack is inevitable



Comments from readers of the Sunday Herald:

"All the more reason to vote for the SNP and get Trident out of the Clyde." - Jimbo


"From 1945 on...there were more than 528 atmospheric tests and more underground tests. Man-made radiation is still floating around up there and continues to pollute our DNA." - Dennis F. Nester, Phoenix, Arizona USA


"You **** across the pond better wake up and smell the the absolute bullshit your government is shoveling. Our 9-11 attack was completely orchestrated by Mossad/CIA and possibly elements within MI6. If any nuclear device is detonated in the West you can be 100% certain your own govt. did it to declare martial Law!" - Raoul Duke

"Sir Clive Whitmore, the Ministry of Defence's top civil servant at the time of the monster and totally corrupt al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia, shares his Directorship of NM Rothschild with the Old Harrovian Charles Guthrie." - Lord Guthrie supporting the Military Industrial complex ... and Israel





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Michaela Walczuch and Madeleine McCann

Michaela Walczuch (above)

Photo from: http://www.caelus.talktalk.net/McCann.htm /Mirror.co.uk :: View topic - Michaela Walczuch

Michaela Walczuch reportedly claims she was at a Jehovah's Witness meeting four miles away when Madeleine McCann was snatched.

Friends of Michaela said Walczuch was at the Jehovah’s Witness meeting on May 3 and that police had confirmed this.

But church elder Brother Teofilo Castela has said: "She was thrown out of the church more than a year ago and doesn't attend."

He added: “I haven’t been interviewed by the police. They haven’t been here.”

Another witness said, "I haven’t seen Michaela all year. She’s been thrown out."

Reportedly, Portuguese detectives have not bothered to test Walczuch's alibi by talking to any of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Lagos, near Praia da Luz.

Madeleine: Now Murat's girlfriend's alibi falls apart
NOW MURAT LOVER'S ALIBI IS TRASHED BY CHURCH
Murat Lover's Alibi Doubts
Maddie woman's alibi is 'false'

The Daily mirror, 20 November 2007, (MADDY: THREE ACCUSED ) refers to:

Robert Murat, who was spotted near Madeleine McCann's holiday apartment the night she vanished, despite him insisting he was at home nearby.

Murat's girlfriend Michaela Walczuch, named by the Mirror as the woman spotted bundling a child into a car two days after Maddy vanished. (Witness 'saw Murat's girlfriend with Madeleine')

Michaela's estranged husband Luis Antonio, a pool cleaner who worked at the resort where Madeleine McCann vanished.

A witness has told detectives from the Spanish Metodo 3 agency that Michaela Walczuch, 34, handed over a girl looking like Madeleine to a man in a car just two days after Madeleine vanished.

The witness said Walczuch took the child from her car and bundled her into the other car in central Portugal, 90 miles away from the resort of Praia da Luz.

Independent forensic tests of the McCann's hire car have found none of Madeleine's DNA, it emerged on 19 November 2007. (MADDY: THREE ACCUSED)

Home Office-approved pathologists carried out the tests.

Portuguese police have claimed Maddy's DNA was found in the boot of the Renault Scenic and insist her body was there.

"According to sources quoted in the newspaper 24 Horas, DNA samples found in Robert Murat's house were Madeleine's." - Madeleine's DNA was found in Murat's house, police claim the ...

"Detectives say they can prove Madeleine McCann was at the home of official suspect Robert Murat. They claim traces of hair and body fluids found during one of three searches at his villa came from the missing four-year-old." - MADDIE DNA FOUND IN MURAT HOUSE

Inconsistencies in Sergey Malinka's account of his relationship with Robert Murat emerged: 'he had said he had not contacted Murat in a year but Murat’s mobile phone records allegedly show he called Mr Malinka at 23:40 on the night Madeleine went missing.' [36][37]

Friends of the McCanns stated 'that they saw Murat outside the holiday complex on the night of the disappearance when he had stated that he was at home with his mother.' [41] Disappearance of Madeleine McCann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The hire car that was supplied to the McCanns was given to them by Mark Warner it is stated in one of Gerry's blogs." - MADDIE DNA FOUND IN MURAT HOUSE

CASA PIA

Paulo Rebelo is leading the Madeleine inquiry. He also led the Casa Pia inquiry.

The former director of Casa Pia, a Portuguese children's home at the centre of a sex scandal, says abuse is still taking place there. Abuse continues at Casa Pia says former director

"José António Saraiva, in an article that he wrote, was the first person to say that many cases linked to Casa Pia were the fallout from wars between freemasons." - SIC Online - Casa Pia abusers favoured by new law

The Daily Mail, 20 October 2007, paints in some of the background to the Madeleine mcCann case: (Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case)

"The existence of this so-called 'magic circle' of the Portuguese establishment, allegedly involved in an international paedophile ring using boys and girls from Casa Pia, was last week likened to an earthquake waiting to shake Portugal to its foundations.
"New allegations about the scale of the network will be put before the country's highest court within the next few weeks...
"Pedro Namora, a former Casa Pia orphan who witnessed 11 rapes on fellow orphans, during which they were tied to their beds, sympathises with the McCanns. He believes elements in the force have conspired to suppress both scandals, fearing damage to the country's reputation.
"'Portugal is a paedophiles' paradise,' said Mr Namora, now a lawyer campaigning on behalf of the Casa Pia victims. 'If all the names come out, this will be an earthquake in Portugal. There is a massive, sophisticated network at play here - stretching from the government to the judiciary and the police.
"'The network is enormous and extremely powerful. There are magistrates, ambassadors, police, politicians - all have procured children from Casa Pia. It is extremely difficult to break this down. These people cover for each other, because if one is arrested, they all are arrested. They don't want anyone to know.'" - Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case
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Australian elections - exit poll shows Howard loses seat

Photo of Kevin Rudd Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.

A major exit poll "has predicted Kevin Rudd will be the next prime minister of Australia and that John Howard will lose his seat of Bennelong. The Sky News exit poll taken in 31 key seats predicts a two-party preferred result of 53 per cent to Labor to 47 per cent to the Coalition. The poll predicts Mr Howard's seat of Bennelong will fall to Labor." - Exit poll: Labor wins, Howard loses seat

Electors choose candidates for all 150 seats in the lower House of Representatives and 40 of the 76 seats in the upper house, the Senate.

John Howard leads the conservative Liberal-National party coalition. He came to power in 1996.

Kevin Rudd leads the Australian Labour Party. He served as a diplomat in Sweden and China. He is a committed Christian but was caught in a lap dance scandal (Labor leader caught in lap-dance club scandal - but does Australia ...)

Mr Rudd has promised a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq

Rudd says he is an "economic conservative" like Mr Howard.

Rudd and Howard both oppose same-sex marriage.

Howard refused to sign the Kyoto agreement. Some parts of Australia are already experiencing record drought conditions.

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Stoop


"The flyers, purporting to be from a fake organisation called the Islamic Australia Federation, were posted through letterboxes in the marginal seat of Lindsay in suburban Sydney. They suggested that the Labor party approved of forgiving the men involved in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed more than 200 people, 88 of them Australian. There was a forged Labor logo on the leaflet and the phrase Allahu Akbar, God is Great, had been misspelled as Ala Akba." - Red faces for Howard's party over fake leaflets

"More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them." - Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq Iraq Guardian ...

Chris Huhne: "Abroad, there is a crying need for a new internationalism, not a servile stoop before the Bush White House. We should long ago have set a date to withdraw from Iraq, and it is outrageous that we have signed up for "son of Star Wars" in a statement smuggled out on the last day of the summer session. Ministers have even failed to reassure me, in parliamentary questions, that we will get information from Menwith Hill (the US National Security Agency site in Yorkshire) at the same time as our US sponsors.

"After the disaster of Iraq, there is surely a premium on independence, yet the government has also agreed to replace Trident with one of equivalent power that will make us dependent on the US for another 50 years."- Radicalism will serve us

"Up to 300 members attended the event and of those who spoke to the Guardian, 85 backed Huhne, 42 backed Clegg and 83 did not express a preference." - All still to play for in Liberal Democrats' leadership race

"David Miliband feels obliged to argue that Europe can aspire only to be a regional power, not a great power." - We fret over Europe, but the real threat to sovereignty has long ...


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Massive child abuse in care homes


An independent report for the Scottish government has found that there has been massive child abuse in Scottish care homes. (Scotland’s shame )

The Herald, 23 November 2007, provides the details (‘These are the voices that need to be heard’) :

"When she was nine - or thereabouts - she (Elizabeth McWilliams) was raped by the man Quarriers called her house father. 'He took his chance,' she said matter-of-factly.

"Some children complained of abuse. That had consequences. 'Boys,' she said. 'Well, they were hung up on door hangers and their penises tied to doorhandles.'"

Quarriers Homes is a Christian community.

Helen Holland was sent to Nazareth House in Kilmarnock, a children's home run by nuns.

At Nazareth House Helen was raped by a priest.

"When she was eight, a nun pulled a hood over her head to help a priest rape her. The sexual abuse went on for three years until, aged 11, she fell pregnant. The same nun kicked her in the stomach until she miscarried."

She was 'beaten to a pulp' by a nun.

There was abuse at many other homes (The landmark cases: abuse in children's homes )

At St Ninians: "In 2003 Michael Murphy, 69, formerly known as Brother Benedict, a monk with the de la Salle order, was jailed for two years on ten charges of physical abuse during the 1960s, including torturing pupils with an electric shock device, force-feeding them vomit and whipping them with knotted boot laces."



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Some blogs we have been reading








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Britain's lunatic military leaders?



"Five former chiefs of the defence staff warned of 'blood on the floor' at the Ministry of Defence because of inadequate funding.

"Admiral Lord Boyce said the prime minister had treated the armed services with 'contempt' and 'disinterest'.

"Defence Minister Derek Twigg said there had been the longest period of growth in defence spending since the 1980s." - Ministers hit back in troops row

American wars and UK job opportunities?

According to Private Eye (UK), August 2005:Sir Robert Walmsley, former head of UK defence procurement, procured himself a job as director of US arms firm the EDO Corporation.

Admiral Lord Boyce, the chief of the UK defence staff who retired in 2003, became an adviser to the American Computer Sciences Corporation in 2004. Boyce told Private Eye that he advised CSC on its bid for a £6 billion defence contract.

Qinetiq

qinetiq sale made £107m for 10 top civil servants

aangirfan: David Cameron, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones and QinetiQ.

aangirfan: Qinetiq and bin Laden and Bush and Blair

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Explosions in India



"Contrary to popular perception that Ibrahim has been marginalised he is still active and with the help of the ISI coordinates with the jehadi groups. The D-company has carried out several joint-operations with the JeM in vulnerable Mumbai." -Dawood, terrorist groups target India's oil assets


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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Two suspected suicide bombers successfully searched - hours before de Menezes was shot.


From the Daily Mail, 22 November 2007, page 17 :


Two suspected suicide bombers were pinned to the wall by unarmed police just hours before Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead, it emerged last night.

Both were held after members of the public became concerned that the two were about to let off bombs at London railway stations...

The suspects were simply searched, found to be carrying no explosives and, after questioning, allowed to leave.

In both incidents, firearms teams were sent to the scene...


Details of the these incidents come from court documents, according to the Daily Mail.


Why was Jean Charles de Menezes treated differently? Why was this innocent man shot dead on an underground train?

Did elements of the security services want to have an innocent man killed on the train as part of 'strategy of tension'?

1. The police failed to stop and question de Menezes as he emerged from the Scotia Road premises where he lived. (Brown backs police chief despite Old Bailey ruling)

2. The police failed to have a firearms team at the block of flats when Mr de Menezes emerged from the communal doorway.

3. The police failed to identify a "safe and appropriate" area where those leaving the Scotia Road premises could be stopped and questioned.

4. The police failed to deploy firearms officers at relevant locations in time to stop Mr de Menezes getting on to the bus and into the Tube station.

5. There was a failure to take effective steps to stop Tube trains or buses or take other "travel management steps" to minimise the risk to the travelling public.

6. De Menezes was allowed twice to get on to a bus and to go into the Tube station.

7. Reportedly, there was a failure to give accurate information to Commander Dick about where specialist SO19 officers were when she was deciding whether they or Special Branch (SO12) officers should stop de menezes.

8. There was a failure to minimise the risk in arresting Mr de Menezes by armed officers "whether in relation to the location, timing or manner of his arrest".


Reportedly, among the surveillance team in Scotia Road was a soldier from a new "special forces" regiment -the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).

"According to security sources, SRR personnel were involved in the tailing operation that saw de Menezes leave the block of flats, board a bus, and then enter the tube station at Stockwell. SRR personnel are also believed to have been on the tube train when he was shot.

"The SRR soldier at Scotia Road (given the codename Tango 10) used equipment which sent realtime pictures of all who came and went from the flats. Those receiving the pictures could check them against footage of who they were looking for. One security source said: 'In this kind of operation you never leave. You need to pee: you use a bottle; if there’s no bottle, tough. You never leave.'

"The police account says there is no footage of de Menezes leaving because the SRR soldier had to relieve himself. The police account says he sent out a message calling the man who left [de Menezes] an 'ICI' – a white northern European..."


According to The telegraph, while de Menezes was being followed by surveillance officers, Commander Cressida Dick was aware that de Menezes was NOT a terrorist. (London Telegraph)


Commander Dick gave the final command: “Do not let surveillance intervene.” (CCTV proves police lied: de Menezes behaved normally before being ...)

Surveillance officers had been following the bus on which de Menezes was travelling. These officers were preparing to stop the bus and apprehend de Menezes in order to interview him. Then Commander Dick gave the order that the surveillance officers were to stand down and not intervene.

De Menezes was allowed to enter the London Underground and board a crowded tube train. At this point, a shadowy government force shot and killed de Menezes. The police then claimed to have shot a dangerous terrorist and they began to tell what looked like a series of lies.





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Mayhem




BEWARE: Priests Are Singing Love, Again!

"Amrozi opened a business with other prisoners selling vouchers for mobile phones, and had easy access to phones, along with a laptop provided by a guard." - Sydney Morning Herald:

Bali bombers attend party with Indonesian general

It was reported in the Jakarta Post that convicted Bali bomber Ali Imron had been seen, in 2004, having a Starbucks coffee in a plush Jakarta shopping mall in the company of top police official Brig. Gen. Gorries Mere. Imron apparently also visited the Hard Rock Cafe. After Amrozi had been arrested for his part in the Bali Bomb, National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar had a face to face meeting with him. Bachtiar laughed, shook hands and posed for photographs with Amrozi. - aangirfan: THE BALI BOMB AND THE MILITARY

aangirfan: Bali Bomb - inside job.

Israelis behind Danish cartoons

Law chiefs see no case for longer detention of terrorist suspects

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB APPOINTS 'WAR CRIMINAL' AS ITS CHAIRMAN


"Big Jock Knew" is a saying that is popular among football fans in Glasgow.

This saying refers to Jock Stein, the former manager of Celtic Football Club.

In the early 1970s, young boys were sexually abused by certain people at the club.

Stein is reputeded to have known about this and not reported the matter to the authorities, and also been part of a cover up within Celtic Football Club.

"Celtic's former board were part of an astonishing cover-up over abuse allegations."
( Cached ) (THIS EVIL PERVERT WRECKED MY DREAM OF PLAYING FOR CELTIC ... )

It looks like Celtic Football Club could be in trouble.

"John Reid suffered a baptism of fire at his inauguration as Celtic chairman yesterday when he was barracked as a 'war criminal' from the floor at the Glasgow club's AGM...

"Jeanette Findlay of the Celtic Supporters' Trust... claimed Reid would be 'forever identified with a political and human disaster' and that he was a 'hate figure at home and abroad'. Amid similar comments - one supporter said he had been visiting Celtic Park for 60 years but would not renew his season ticket on account of Reid's new role." - Attacks and accusations greet incoming Reid at Celtic

Celtic's Sponsors

Reid and Karadzic

During the 1990s Bosnian War, John Reid became friends with Serb rebel leader and indicted war-criminal Radovan Karadzic. Reid has admitted that he spent three days at a luxury Geneva lakeside hotel as a guest of Karadzic in 1993.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,659705,00.html

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Reid and Lobbygate.

Kevin reid is the son of John Reid.

On 31 August 1999, in the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh, Ben Laurance of the Observer newspaper posed as a businessman during talks with Kevin Reid, a lobbyist with the public relations firm Beattie Media.

Laurance told Kevin Reid he was interested in PFI ( private investment in services such as education and hospitals).

Kevin Reid boasted of his contacts: "I worked for Jack [McConnell] and for Wendy [Alexander—minister for communities] and for Henry [McCleish—Enterprise Minister] and for Donald [Dewar—First Minister] on a one-to-one basis. I worked with the Labour Party media monitoring in the press team and I briefed them every night."

Kevin Reid was filmed saying he knew the Scottish secretary "very, very well .... he is my father."

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/oct1999/scot-o06.shtml

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Reid and National Health Service deficits

When he was Health secretary, John Reid was responsible for the new national consultants’ contract.

The cost of the new pay deal is said to be the cause of the large deficits now being run up by health boards.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2168976_2,00.html

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Reid censured by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

While he was Secretary of State for Scotland, John Reid became the first senior cabinet member ever to be severely censured by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Elizabeth Filkin.

Reid was accused of using parliamentary allowances, taxpayer's money, to pay the salaries of his son and other staff working for Labour's electoral campaign. In the course of the inquiry, it emerged that Reid had held "discussions" with witnesses, 'which in plain unparliamentary language sounded a lot like threats'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,659705,00.html

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Reid, Ronnie Campbell, drugs

Police have found cannabis resin in the home of the British Defence Secretary, John Reid, but the minister says he has no idea where it came from.

Cops' sniffer dogs find cannabis in house of Defence Secretary

Dr John Reid, aged 58, is married to Brazilian Carine Adler.

He has a son called Mark.

Mark is married to the daughter of Ronnie Campbell who reportedly has links to crime.

According to the Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) 9/4/2005:

Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland): Fugitive and the minister ...

GRIM-FACED Defence Secretary John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding yesterday - with a villain wanted by police. Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral. The Sunday Mail can reveal a warrant was issued for the arrest of Campbell, 47, on Monday after a violent incident involving a woman. Campbell, who sported a gold cravat and kilt, was the target of a recent gangland hit.

30 April 2006:

The Sunday Mail - NEWS - JOHN WEED

Last September, he shared centre stage at his son Mark's wedding with a villain on the run from police.

Reid and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side-by-side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.

Yesterday Campbell claimed he knew "all about" the cannabis found at Reid's home but declined to comment further.

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Reid

"If we had a Politburo instead of a cabinet, Reid would probably be running the State Security Division." - Kevin Toolis, Guardian 2 March 2002.

Reid "is part of the Lanarkshire West Coast Labour mafia. It's not about... making life better for the working class. It's about looking after yourself and your mates and not being accountable to anyone." - Dean Nelson, editor Scottish edition of the Sunday Times.

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Security

http://artxchangenetwork.com/Category.aspx?idImg=10


"Three years ago, shortly after he was nominated for the Homeland Security job, Mr Kerik withdrew his name because of tax difficulties involving his former nanny. This turned out to be the least of his problems. He had abandoned a Korean daughter; he had accepted gifts from firms doing business with New York City, and failed to report them; and he had commissioned busts of his moustachioed self. Not to mention tales of a secret wife, mistresses and Mafia ties..." -The Bernard Kerik case Too close for comfort Economist.com

Britain is a US client state and should not forget it

Ragpickers

"Congo's last war, which officially ran from 1998 to 2003 but is still simmering in North Kivu, was the world's deadliest since 1945: some 4m people died... The current crisis in North Kivu is now adding daily to the death toll." - Congo A humanitarian disaster unfolds Economist.com





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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Power Positions



All six of CNN's "undecided voters" were Democratic operatives
Doug Ross @ Journal

CNN at Las Vegas - the Fix is in for Shrill Hill

Republican Senator Gives the party, a tiny, tiny problem

"Cabinet ministers in Zimbabwe were involved with a spirit medium who claimed there was diesel gushing out of Chinhoyi rural rocks... '(Mugabe) said the Government was forced to send a taskforce comprising Cabinet ministers and senior Government officials to verify claims that diesel was oozing out of rocks at Maningwa Hills in Chinhoyi.'" - With witchcraft all is darkness

"A crack unit of Israeli intelligence officers is in the country to beef up President Robert Mugabe's security and intelligence system in the wake of controversial revelations by a British general that London at one point discussed the invasion of the crisis-torn country to topple the veteran ruler." - Invasion threat prompts Bob to beef up security

'The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.' - Sex Scandal Rocks Atlanta-Area Megachurch

UK drugs trade tops £7bn - study

Juval Aviv knows what goes on. But - is he now telling us only what Mossad would like us to believe? - Juval Aviv knows His Stuff: Are We Listening?

Vanity Fair's latest 'Top 100′ list - persons known to be Jewish occupy 53% of the power positions. - Vanity Fair's latest 'Top 100′ list illustrates why we cover the ...

CIA trying to wreck Malaysia?

Madeleine McCann : THREE ACCUSED

Using Islamists to frustrate democracy



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CIA trying to wreck Malaysia?

Photo from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:20071110Bersih2Hafiz.jpg

Malaysia is a successful Moslem democracy.
It is not without its faults but it is a happier country than most.

The ruling coalition won 199 out of 219 parliamentary seats in the 2004 elections.

The USA and its friends may be trying to wreck Malaysia?

According to The Economist, (Not mellow yellow ):

In mid November 2007, "tens of thousands of Malaysians wore canary-yellow shirts to defy a government ban and march in Kuala Lumpur, calling for fairer elections. Riot police blocked routes into the city and fired water cannon to break up the rally...

"Mr Anwar is out of jail and again leading opposition to the entrenched elite he was once part of."

Is Anwar a CIA agent?


September 2000: Malaysian politician Lim Kit Siang called on Prime Minister Mahathir to declare the outcome of three years of police investigations as to whether Anwar is a CIA agent and to state whether the United States is the country he meant in a Merdeka Day message as the country out to "recolonize" Malaysia.

Anwar was alleged to have received RM60 million from a Mr Nallakaruppan.

Former Bank Negara assistant governor Datuk Abdul Murad Khalid accused Anwar of having amassed a fortune of RM3 billion while in government through over 20 "Master Accounts".

Reference was made to the American-based organisation called Asia Pacific Policy Centre (APPC) headed by Douglas H. Paal, who was former Senior Director from Asian Affairs (1989 to 1993) of the National Security Council (NSC) of the United States.

MPs used parliamentary immunity to claim in Parliament that Anwar was a CIA agent on the basis that the APPC was a CIA outfit and Douglas Paal a CIA agent.

Oddly, Anwar had allegedly given money to APPC and Douglas Paal.

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The Straits of Malacca are one of the most important shipping lanes in the world and are used for transporting oil. (http://www.saag.org/papers11/paper1033.html)

Admiral Thomas Fargo, head of U.S forces in the Asia-Pacific in his testimony to U.S House Armed Services Committee had suggested that U.S troops might assist in patrolling the straits to deter terrorists who might target shipping in the Malacca Straits. This suggestion has been resented both by Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Remember the fall of Marcos in the Philippines and the fall of Suharto in Indonesia?Remember the fall of pro-Soviet regimes in Eastern Europe? Remember the recent changes in Haiti and Georgia?

There is a CIA connection.

Mark Almond, lecturer in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford, wrote in the Guardian, December 7, 2004: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1367965,00.html

"As an old cold war swagman, who carried tens of thousands of dollars to Soviet-bloc dissidents alongside much better respected academics, perhaps I can cast some light on what a Romanian friend called 'our clandestine period'. Too many higher up the food chain of People Power seem reticent about making full disclosure.

"Nowadays, we can google the names of foundations such as America's National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a myriad surrogates funding Ukraine's Pora movement or 'independent' media. But unless you know the NED's James Woolsey was also head of the CIA 10 years ago, are you any wiser?"

People Power is usually about changing regimes to suit the American Military Industrial Complex.

As Almond states, "People Power is, it turns out, more about closing things than creating an open society. It shuts factories but, worse still, minds. Its advocates demand a free market in everything - except opinion."

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Madeleine McCann : THREE ACCUSED


MADDY: THREE ACCUSED

The Daily mirror, 20 November 2007, refers to:

Robert Murat, who was spotted near Madeleine McCann's holiday apartment the night she vanished, despite him insisting he was at home nearby.

Murat's girlfriend Michaela Walczuch, named by the Mirror as the woman spotted bundling a child into a car two days after Maddy vanished. (Witness 'saw Murat's girlfriend with Madeleine')

Michaela's estranged husband Luis Antonio, a pool cleaner who worked at the resort where Madeleine McCann vanished.

A woman has told detectives from the Spanish Metodo 3 agency that Michaela Walczuch, 34, handed over a girl looking like Madeleine to a man in a car just two days after Madeleine vanished.

The witness said Walczuch took the child from her car and bundled her into the other car in central Portugal, 90 miles away from the resort of Praia da Luz.

Independent forensic tests of the McCann's hire car have found none of Madeleine's DNA, it emerged on 19 November 2007. (MADDY: THREE ACCUSED)

Home Office-approved pathologists carried out the tests.

Portuguese police have claimed Maddy's DNA was found in the boot of the Renault Scenic and insist her body was there.

"According to sources quoted in the newspaper 24 Horas, DNA samples found in Robert Murat's house were Madeleine's." - Madeleine's DNA was found in Murat's house, police claim the ...

"Detectives say they can prove Madeleine McCann was at the home of official suspect Robert Murat. They claim traces of hair and body fluids found during one of three searches at his villa came from the missing four-year-old." - MADDIE DNA FOUND IN MURAT HOUSE

Inconsistencies in Sergey Malinka's account of his relationship with Robert Murat emerged: 'he had said he had not contacted Murat in a year but Murat’s mobile phone records allegedly show he called Mr Malinka at 23:40 on the night Madeleine went missing.' [36][37]

Friends of the McCanns stated 'that they saw Murat outside the holiday complex on the night of the disappearance when he had stated that he was at home with his mother.' [41] Disappearance of Madeleine McCann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The hire car that was supplied to the McCanns was given to them by Mark Warner it is stated in one of Gerry's blogs." - MADDIE DNA FOUND IN MURAT HOUSE

CASA PIA

Paulo Rebelo is leading the Madeleine inquiry. He also led the Casa Pia inquiry.

The former director of Casa Pia, a Portuguese children's home at the centre of a sex scandal, says abuse is still taking place there. Abuse continues at Casa Pia says former director

"José António Saraiva, in an article that he wrote, was the first person to say that many cases linked to Casa Pia were the fallout from wars between freemasons." - SIC Online - Casa Pia abusers favoured by new law

The Daily Mail, 20 October 2007, paints in some of the background to the Madeleine mcCann case: (Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case)

"The existence of this so-called 'magic circle' of the Portuguese establishment, allegedly involved in an international paedophile ring using boys and girls from Casa Pia, was last week likened to an earthquake waiting to shake Portugal to its foundations.

"New allegations about the scale of the network will be put before the country's highest court within the next few weeks...

"Pedro Namora, a former Casa Pia orphan who witnessed 11 rapes on fellow orphans, during which they were tied to their beds, sympathises with the McCanns. He believes elements in the force have conspired to suppress both scandals, fearing damage to the country's reputation.

"'Portugal is a paedophiles' paradise,' said Mr Namora, now a lawyer campaigning on behalf of the Casa Pia victims. 'If all the names come out, this will be an earthquake in Portugal. There is a massive, sophisticated network at play here - stretching from the government to the judiciary and the police.

"'The network is enormous and extremely powerful. There are magistrates, ambassadors, police, politicians - all have procured children from Casa Pia. It is extremely difficult to break this down. These people cover for each other, because if one is arrested, they all are arrested. They don't want anyone to know.'" - Why Portugal is a haven for paedophiles - the disturbing backcloth to the Madeleine case

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Organ trafficking by French?


A top official in Sudan’s main ruling National Congress Party has said that a French charity’s attempt to fly out more than 100 African children was perhaps a cover for organ trafficking. - Sudan fears organ trafficking plot

"The question is why these children were being taken to the West? Perhaps to provide organs such as hearts and kidneys to elderly patients," Nafie Ali Nafie, number two in the NCP, told a news conference.

"Other than that, the affair underscores a decline in moral values of those who falsely pretend to defend human rights," added the vice president of the NCP.

"I cannot believe France did not know," said Nafie.

Six French members of charity Zoe’s Ark and four Sudanese officials are being held in Chad, pending an investigation into alleged child abduction that has been vigorously denounced by Sudan.

Zoe’s Ark says the children were orphans from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur who it planned to place in foster care with families in Europe.

Chad says the group did not have permission to take the children out of the country, and aid agencies have since said most are Chadian with at least one living parent.

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Using Islamists to frustrate democracy


There are lots of palatial new mosques being built in Indonesia, the world's biggest Moslem country.

Meanwhile state hospitals and state schools are as neglected as any in the Congo; the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.

Indonesia is a democracy and its government opposes Islamic extremism?

No.

Indonesia's President, Susilo Bangbang Yudhoyono, was one of Suharto's generals. Yudhoyono was trained in America.

Suharto married a Catholic and some of his key generals were Christian.

Suharto used the Islamists to do his dirty work, frustrate democracy and help keep the elite in power.

Suharto sided with the orthodox Moslems against the pro-democracy moderate Moslems.

President Yudhoyono, friend of America, may be little different from Suharto.

"In 2004-06, there was a spate of attacks by hardline Islamist militias, such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI)... The FPI’s 2005 march on the Liberal Islam Network headquarters and verbal threats to their leadership was not prosecuted by the state...

"Jemaah Islamiyah, the regional terrorist group, is not a proscribed entity in Indonesia. Mere membership in JI is not a crime and many JI leaders, such as Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Muhammad Iqbal Rahman (Abu Jibril), freely proselytize..." - Islamist Thuggery and Official Complacency Challenge Secular ...

The British military, the American military and the Indonesian military have long used the Moslem extremists to promote their right-wing agenda.

"Cabinet papers show that British spies, including MI6, supported Islamic guerrillas in order to destabilise Sukarno." (Revealed: Healey admits role in British dirty tricks campaign to overthrow Indonesia's President Sukarno, By Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, The Independent - 16 April 2000) The Secret State: MI5 (Home Office/MoD), The Security Service and ...

Indonesian special forces regiment Kopassus is trained by the Americans.

Kopassus 'set up a Moslem terror group called Komando Jihad.'

According to Dr Damien Kingsbury, head of philosophical, political and international studies at Deakin University: "Kopassus... has engaged in... hostage rescue missions. The first was in 1981, when a Garuda aircraft was hijacked.... Kopassus... set up the Islamic organisation Komando Jihad that hijacked the plane in 1981 and which has since emerged as Jemaah Islamiah." We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au

Jakarta human-rights activist Bonar Naipospos told Asia Times Online: "General Suparman is one of the generals who was behind the extremist Jihad groups. He set up militias composed of gangsters and religious fanatics to counter student demonstrations in 1998. One of these militias, Pram Swarkasa, became the embryo of Laskar Jihad." Asia Times We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au

According to a news story in the Sydney Morning Herald, November 2, 2002:

"Some time around the 30 October 2002, senior officers in the Indonesian military HQ gave a piece of information to a military attache from a Western embassy in Indonesia -the source of explosive used in the October 12 bombing in Bali was the head of the counter-terrorism unit with the army's special forces."

The father-in-law of the officer concerned is Hendropriyono, Indonesia's spy chief.

Allegedly, Kuwaiti citizen Omar Al Faruq played a part in the Bali bomb plot. Al Faruq was arrested in Bogor on June 5, 2002 and handed over to US authorities. Al Faruq was able to escape from custody.

Former Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang was quoted by Tempo as saying that Al-Faruq was a CIA-recruited agent.

The airline manifest of Garuda airlines shows that at least two generals from Jakarta visited Bali three days before the bombings and that they returned to Jakarta one day before the Sari Club was blown up. This was confirmed by armed forces chief General Sutarto, who claimed that General Djaja Suparman was on vacation, while General Ryamizard Riyacudu, chief of staff, was said to have gone to Bali for health reasons.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Strange Events

Balboa's dogs killing Panamanian indians because of their homosexuality

Nexus



LINKS

"High ups in Pakistan's military still believe that Benazir Bhutto has connections with RAW-Mossad nexus." - Indian Raw + Israeli Mossad Vs. Pakistan And Islam.

NZ anti-terrorism laws branded incoherent after raid fiasco

Obama on Rezko deal: It was a mistake :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics

Internship also links Obama, Rezko :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics

MoD sued over '36 hours of hell' in Basra

Edward Westermarck

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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Iconic

Photo Palestine Chronicle / http://fisan.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/


Israel does not hurt Palestinians?











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'Jewish' John Negroponte in Pakistan; 'Jewish' David Miliband in Israel; 'Jewish' Michael Chertoff in the USA


Britain's 'Jewish' Foreign secretary David Miliband has been in Israel to meet Israeli leaders. (British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to ...).

Miliband may want to understand exactly what Israel wants him to do, in order to create a Greater Israel.

David Miliband is the elder son of Marion Kozak and the late Marxist theoretician Ralph Miliband, a Belgian-Jewish refugee during the Second World War. Adolphe (Ralph) Miliband was born in Brussels on 7th January, 1924 to Polish Jewish parents.
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'Jewish Israeli national' John Negroponte (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index683.htm) has been in Pakistan to lecture it about democracy; or to arrange for a more pro-Israel leader to take over; and/or to arrange the break up of Moslem Pakistan.
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It is believed that recent disturbances in pakistan are the work of the CIA. aangirfan: CIA TO TOPPLE MUSHARRAF OF PAKISTAN?
"Musharraf's deputy in the army, the US-trained General Ashfaq Kiyani whom Negroponte met, could succeed him as head of the army..." (US tilts away from Musharraf to save ally--analysts)
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John Negroponte was US ambassador in Honduras from 1981 to 1985. There he reportedly worked closely with Honduran army to impose a police state based on extra-judicial murder.

A Honduran army death squad, Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA, kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including US missionaries. Reportedly Negroponte knew about these human rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with the Honduran military 'while lying to Congress.'


* The CIA trained Battalion 316 in the United States.

* Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who directed Battalion 316, received strong U.S. support - even after he told a U.S. ambassador that he intended to use the Argentine method of eliminating subversives.

* By 1983, when Alvarez's oppressive methods were well known to the U.S. Embassy, the Reagan administration awarded him the Legion of Merit for "encouraging the success of democratic processes in Honduras."

* A CIA officer went frequently to a secret jail known as INDUMIL, where torture was conducted.

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"Michael Chertoff is a Bolshevik Jew who has taken over the police apparatus of our country...

"Bolshevik Jews deal in mass murder, murder in the millions. Remember the Soviet Union, 'Uncle Joe' Stalin and his slaughter of up to 50 million? Big time gulags. Famine. A bullet in the neck with your hands wired behind you. Mass graves.

"And don't forget what our own wonderful boys, executing the Morgenthau Plan, did to over a million German PoWs in the months after the 1945 surrender: They starved them to death. Then they starved many millions of German civilians to death over the next several years until Jim Forrestal stopped it. For that and other offenses to Zion, he was thrown from a high window in 1949." - Force And Fraud

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Art



Picasso and boys

Agnolo Bronzino

Andre Gide

Isfahan



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Friday, November 16, 2007

Secret



Why The Truth About 9/11 Is Censored By The Media

An Introduction to False Flag Terror


Jane Tanner has told the BBC she saw a man carrying a child through the Portuguese holiday resort where they were staying. - mccann friend tells of abduction / mccanns: Two friends identify Robert Murat as Madeleine kidnapper

Fundamental failings in e-voting, says Open Rights group

SNP criticise European Parliament president over independence comments

Malcolm Rennie....

Photo of Malcolm Rennie, murdered journalist, from: http://www.mmiets.org.au/archive_news.html


"There is the $2,500 item on a trip to a hotel in Casablanca that reads: 'Girls: party night 5'". - The £3m spree that landed a Saudi prince in a London court


"Last week's news of the extraordinary collapse in public knowledge of geography:

"According to the British Council, British schoolchildren now come bottom in the international awareness of 10 countries surveyed, beaten by America, India and Nigeria. English children do even worse than Scottish and Welsh ones.

"A separate National Geographic report found a third of UK respondents thought Mount Everest was in Europe." - The assault on geography breeds ignorance and erodes nationhood




"It's widely believed that Bush's defence secretary, Robert Gates, would quit rather than attack Iran." - Jonathan Freedland: In Iran lies the big test of Brown's political agility

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Another Day at the Convent School



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZkUGSlT-0

Posts that are difficult to find on Google - the Shah, UK military, Lockerbie, USS Liberty.


1. aangirfan: 'The overthrow of the Shah of Iran by the CIA and MI6'


2. aangirfan: UK killed up to 13 million people? Media stayed silent?


3. aangirfan: Lockerbie, Drugs and the CIA


4. Did the USA plan to sink the USS Liberty and blame...



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Bolsheviks


"Anyone wanting to reach foreign readers can simply download a piece of software from translate.google.com and add it to their blog or website." - Bloggers can reach the world

"Michael Chertoff is a Bolshevik Jew who has taken over the police apparatus of our country... Bolshevik Jews deal in mass murder, murder in the millions. Remember the Soviet Union, 'Uncle Joe' Stalin and his slaughter of up to 50 million? Big time gulags. Famine. A bullet in the neck with your hands wired behind you. Mass graves. And don't forget what our own wonderful boys, executing the Morgenthau Plan, did to over a million German PoWs in the months after the 1945 surrender: They starved them to death. Then they starved many millions of German civilians to death over the next several years until Jim Forrestal stopped it. For that and other offenses to Zion, he was thrown from a high window in 1949." - Force And Fraud



Scottish Budget: A freeze on council tax, and an agreed concordat which will see councils given more freedom to spend their money as they wish.
A cut in business rates for 150,000 small firms, with some seeing their rates scrapped altogether over time. - SNP’s Budget balancing act



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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

War for Oil?

How should people behave in matters sexual?


How should people behave in matters sexual?

As convent school girls, and former convent school girls, we have to think about these things quite a lot.

Are we to take the Bible seriously when it comes to rules about sex or rules in general?

God's Commandments, according to the Old Testament, include ( Ebon Musings: The Big Ten) :
The firstborn offspring of every cow and sheep is to be sacrificed to God.

The blood of a sacrifice shall not be offered together with yeast, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover feast be left until the next morning.

Do not boil a baby goat in its mother's milk.

Not much help there?

In Judges 11:29-40 ( ritual human sacrifice ), we read:

Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter, his only child, ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy.

Jephthah said: "What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back."

Jephthah kept his vow, and she died.

In Judges 21, God reportedly "orders the murder of all the people of Jabesh-gilead, except for the virgin girls who were taken to be forcibly raped and married. When they wanted more virgins, God told them to hide alongside the road and when they saw a girl they liked, kidnap her and forcibly rape her and make her your wife!" ( Evil Bible Home Page )

"The God of the Bible also allows slavery, including selling your own daughter as a sex slave (Exodus 21:1-11), child abuse (Judges 11:29-40 and Isaiah 13:16), and bashing babies against rocks (Hosea 13:16 & Psalms 137:9)." ( Evil Bible Home Page )

God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children. (Top Ten List)

We conclude that some of the stuff in the Bible should be ignored.

SO, how should people behave in matters sexual?

In the days of Moses, the politicians and priests wanted the tribe to triumph; they wanted people to marry and have lots of children; they did not want people to simply hug and stroke each other; they wanted babies and more babies.

Times change.

SO, our advice is:
1. In most circumstances it is good to give someone a hug or even to hold their hand; this is good for your health, so long as the beloved does not have a cold, and so long as the beloved is not someone else's carefully guarded property. Love everyone; and don't forget to hug the old, the ugly and the handicapped.

2. Stroking someone can be harmless and fun in most circumstances; but best avoid stroking someone else's girlfriend or boyfriend or wife or whatever if their is a risk of jealousy being created.

3. Married couples may indulge in deep intimacy, if they so wish, but in an over-crowded world, it is best if families only produce one or two children at most.

4. Outside marriage, penetration is usually best avoided, especially if there is a risk of spreading disease or producing unwanted babies.

5. Always try to be moderate and compassionate in your behaviour.
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"Among bonobo apes, which are reputed to be jolly and sociable creatures, sex takes place between males and males, between females and females, between males and females, and between adults and children. Bonobos, according to recent research, may be closer to us than chimps; bonobos share 98% of our genetic profile. Among female couples, genito-genital rubbing takes place. Male bonobos stand back to back, one male rubbing his scrotum against the buttocks of another. Sexual activity among bonobos is casual and relaxed and seems to be the bonobos' way of avoiding conflict....
"For the Buddhists, all visual attraction is the reaction of the lower self. Fleshly charm does not last and is in a sense unreal. In other words, you don't need a girl/boyfriend; and the girl/boyfriend's sexiness is a bit of an illusion. However, according to the Buddhists, avoiding sex, while continuing to think foul thoughts, is not good. Better to obtain physical outlet, while thinking wholesome thoughts."

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Dictatorship




CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July

"Israel is a military dictatorship. The IDF (Isareli army) dictates Israeli policies, and tells the Israeli politicians what to do. IDF policies are formulated by, and for the narrow interests of, the Israeli settler movement, which itself is largely American (NYC, Miami, Los Angeles), and has strong and direct connections to the ZPC (Zionists) in the United States (a good example is settler Mark Zell’s relationship to Feith). The Israeli politicians instruct the Jewish elites in the United States on what the United States is to do, and the ZPC, funded by the Jewish Billionaires, sets the wheels in motion to follow the instructions. Thus does the most powerful nation in the world set out on a path to destroy itself based on the racist whims of a tiny group of religious zealots." - permanent link

"This feverish Ethiopian preparation for aggression on Eritrea has a crucial international dimension, supplied by none other than the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Jendayi Frazer. She has actively been on a personal crusade to orchestrate an international demonization of the Eritrean leader and his regime as part of a coordinated effort to facilitate aggression." - War clouds in the Horn of Africa

Pakistan Warns Against US Bid to Grab Bomb

The Beginning of the End of Giuliani

"We have a history and present reality of innovation, examples of educational excellence and individuals and companies succeeding in a competitive global market," said Scotland's first minister. - Plans to tackle economic growth
"Another thing I notice here is that the Scottish are more open and friendly." -

India links emerge in Maldives terror probe


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Property price increase per year since 1890


Can you make money from investing in property?

The US Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight reckons that, over a 30 year period:

The typical buyer of a $300,000 house will spend more than $1,000,000 on that house on
1. interest payments,
2. tax
3. and maintenance.
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House prices?
Florida house prices crashed in the 1920s and did not recover until the late 1940s.

House prices in Dallas Texas crashed in 1986 and did not recover until 1998.

Robert Shiller is the Yale economist behind the S&P/Case-Shiller index which measures house price changes in the USA.

Shiller has studied US house prices between 1890 and the present day.

Shiller's data shows that US house prices rose rapidly in only two periods (A) 1945 - the early 1950s (B) 1998 - until fairly recently.

During the rest of the period(1890 - the present), the average price increase was 0.4% per year (with inflation taken into account)
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Sources include: http://www.time.com/time

Economics Blog : Home Prices Tumble, Case-Shiller Index Reports

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Music

Racist Fascist Australia?



"Australian authorities dropped terrorism charges against a Sydney medical student on Monday, with a judge condemning police and intelligence agents for 'grossly improper' behaviour in the case.

"New South Wales Supreme Court judge Michael Adams said officers from the secretive Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) had kidnapped and falsely imprisoned Ul-Haque during their investigations...

"'From the beginning, this was no more than a show trial designed to justify the billions of dollars spent on counter-terrorism,' lawyer Adam Houda told reporters. 'It has been one bungled prosecution after another.'" - Australian judge slams handling of terrorism case

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"According to the authorities, 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal boy 'Johnno' Warramarrba was found in his cell, hanged by a bed sheet on February 9, 2001. He had been taken from his remote community in the Northern Territory and imprisoned 800 kilometres away in Darwin-for stealing property worth less than $90.

"By the official account, he killed himself just five days before he was due to be released from the Don Dale Correctional Centre. An officer had sent him to his room for refusing to wash up, and he was found unconscious five minutes later. Attempts to revive him failed and he died nine hours later at Darwin Hospital." - Mandatory Sentencing - Law & Justice - Aboriginal Culture

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Hamish McDonald in the Sydney Morning Herald 14 March 2002 revealed Australia's bloody East Timor secret:

Spy intercepts confirmed the Government knew of Jakarta's hand in the massacres. The Australian Government sat on explosive intelligence material which showed the direct involvement of senior Indonesian army generals in the violence which swept East Timor in 1999. - http://www.etan.org/et2002a/march/10-16/14spy.htm)

According to an article at WSWS, former high-ranking Army intelligence expert, Lieutenant Colonel Lance Collins was told by Australian Defence Force Chief General John Baker in 1998 not to worry about the looming events in Timor “because we have a plan with the Indonesians to keep everybody else out of East Timor”. ( http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/spy-a28.shtml)

Under the 1989 Timor Gap Treaty, Australia had acquired the lion’s share of the vast offshore Timor Sea oil and gas fields, as a reward for being the only country in the world to formally recognise the Indonesian annexation of East Timor.

Australia had supported Suharto. But when Suharto had falled from power, Howard and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer decided East Timor should have a UN autonomy ballot.

Despite feigning concern for the plight of the population, "Howard and Downer calculated that post-poll atrocities would provide the pretext to dispatch troops to Timor with the overriding purpose of retaining control over the Timor Sea oil and gas projects against Australia’s rivals." (Australian government faces new charges of manipulating intelligence)

Collins has received support from the mother of Mervyn Jenkins.

Jenkins was an Australian military intelligence attaché in Washington, who died 'in mysterious circumstances' in June 1999. Reportedly Jenkins knew too much about what was going on in East Timor.

The 2001 election campaign:

"Facing almost certain defeat at that election, because of popular opposition to his free-market agenda, Howard resorted to lies and dirty tricks to crawl back into office. Leading government figures prevailed upon the army, navy, air force and SAS, as well as the military and civilian intelligence agencies and senior public servants, to line up behind a campaign of slanders against asylum seekers and whip up fears of terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the United States. (Australian government faces new charges of manipulating intelligence)

"The Chief of the Defence Forces, Admiral Barrie and other senior naval commanders were required to back the government’s false claims that refugees had thrown their children overboard in an attempt to force authorities to allow them into Australia. Only after the election was it revealed that navy photographs were doctored and misleadingly labelled and that so-called intelligence material on the incident compiled by the Office of National Assessments (ONA) was based on nothing but media reports, which had been generated by the government’s own lies.

"At a later parliamentary inquiry, Admiral Barrie was forced to retract his initial testimony after being humiliatingly contradicted by subordinates. It turned out that dozens of government and military personnel knew, within days of the incident, that children were not thrown off the boat. A former Admiral accused the government of a Goebbels-style Big Lie campaign, while other senior military figures accused Howard of misusing the navy for political purposes, destroying its credibility and creating profound mistrust within its ranks."

See Also:

aangirfan: Mervyn Jenkins

Australian defence adviser sacked for refusing to write WMD lies

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz2.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz3.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz4.htm

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz5.htm

http://www.sumeria.net/politics/whitlam.html


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Monday, November 12, 2007

Success



"Several senior active and retired miltary officers told the FT that the Pentagon believes striking Iran at this point would be a strategic mistake, as even a limited air strike could spark a broader conflict." - US strike on Iran ‘not being prepared’



"Too many new media companies are chasing too few advertising dollars, one of the advertising industry’s most senior executives has warned, as fresh questions were raised about the fast-rising valuations of prominent online groups." Publicis chief warns on internet ad revenues

BIRTH ORDER: "A group of Norwegian researchers released a study showing that firstborns are generally smarter than any siblings who come along later, enjoying on average a three-point IQ advantage over the next eldest—probably a result of the intellectual boost that comes from mentoring younger siblings and helping them in day-to-day tasks.

"Younger siblings, by contrast, are looser cannons, less educated and less strapping, perhaps, but statistically likelier to live the exhilarating life of an artist or a comedian, an adventurer, entrepreneur, GI or firefighter.

"middle children get shortchanged even on family resources. - The Power of Birth Order

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Moslem Success Story: "Much as Singapore has done in Southeast Asia, Tunisia has succeeded by galvanizing the raw potential of its people... On Oct. 31, in a Global Competitiveness Report that compares 125 countries, the World Bank and the World Economic Forum ranked Tunisia as having by far the best prospects for growth in Africa, and it ranked third in the Arab world after energy-rich Kuwait and Qatar... about 80% of Tunisians own their homes — ahead of much of Europe. While African countries struggle to educate their children, school is compulsory — and free — in Tunisia up to age 16. About 34% of Tunisian high school graduates go to university." - Tunisia: The Price of Prosperity

"Chimps happily help out unrelated chimps and unfamiliar humans, even if it means exerting themselves for no reward, a new study shows." - 'Altruistic' chimps act for the benefit of others - life - 25 June ...

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Fight Between Neocons and Big Oil?

After the Reich


DOUG SAUNDERS, in the Globe and Mail, 10 November 2007, has written an excellent article about Giles MacDonogh's book After the Reich. ( Germany then, Iraq now: On the interpretation of nightmares)

Saunders writes:
"This is a Second World War that we have not heard much about, but one that still sounds very familiar.

"In Germany, the Americans operated prisons on the sites of former Nazi concentration camps that often adopted the torture techniques of their previous masters.

"Tens of thousands of suspected insurgents were left to starve or freeze to death, or were subjected to beatings, mock executions and humiliating abuses while hooded. There was summary justice, thousands of executions carried out with no trial, atrocities committed by soldiers.
"Profit-seeking contractors and private-sector opportunists abused their security contracts and made profits from political connections on a scale greater than in Iraq. There was leadership chaos, with plans invented after the fact and money arriving years too late. There was widespread civilian starvation and misery.

"At one point, when it became evident that thousands of German military prisoners were starving to death, which was against the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners of war, the U.S. leadership simply changed the statutes so that the prisoners would no longer be classified as prisoners of war – exactly what happened six decades later in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."


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Michael Mukasey - America's Attorney General


Reportedly, some people see Michael Mukasey as being a Jewish supremacist, an advocate of torture and someone who has helped to cover-up the truth about 9 11.

Mukasey has become America's Attorney General.

What allowed Mukasey to become Attorney General was the support of two Jewish Democratic senators Charles Schumer and Diane Feinstein.


"Mukasey refused to denounce torture as a means of persuading enemy combatants to comply, which means that it may well become a means of persuading American citizens to comply some day.

"Mukasey has been one of Bush's terror judges, helping the administration to prop up its policy against Islamofascism.

"Mukasey has loyally supported the undermining of civil liberties and constitutional restraints on the unitary executive.

"In short, Mukasey is a neocon thug.

"Schumer and Feinstein represent New York and California Jewish Zionist power brokers, and Mukasey is a Jewish Zionist of the same sort as Joe Lieberman and Michael Chertoff.

"The Global War and the Homeland State are two sides of the same Anglo-Judeo Global Cabal, waged against Arabs and Persians for the greater glory of oil and Israel. Not to see this reality is to call blindness a virtue."



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Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Actual Terrorists

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Screened Out



"In seven televised Republican debates, Paul has won the online and text message vote six times...His YouTube channel has more subscribers than leading Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...The chances are that despite his growing campaign budget, Paul will be outmanoeuvred by Giuliani, Romney or McCain in the early primaries, much like Howard Dean in 2004." - Conservative wildcard a hit with young voters

"Listening to Ron Paul gives me renewed hope for our country. He is the only one that doesn't pander to the Zionist lobby." - Conservative wildcard a hit with young voters



Strathclyde Police is being investigated over claims its officers assaulted a 14-year-old boy who had previously been held in custody for 59 hours. - Officers 'assaulted child' claim

Ex-NY police chief denies charges







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State Sponsored Terror

The following is taken from 911truthbristol

Operation Gladio

Part 1: (The Ringmasters)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4900756773650110959

Part 2: (The Puppeteers)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=430206682910394510

Part 3: (The Foot Soldiers)
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3409375633223151728

Operation Gladio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladio

Sword Play: Attacking Civilians to Justify "Greater Security"

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2005/290205swordplay.htm

OPERATION GLADIO http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/gladio.htm

Operation Gladio: Template for the War on Terror http://www.gnn.tv/B05233

Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_gladio.htm

OPERATION GLADIO http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/operation_gladio.htm

NATO's secret armies linked to terrorism? http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html

Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

US GOVERNMENT PLANNED SNIPER ATTACKS http://www.infowars.com/northwoods.htm
Northwoods declassified document
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/northwoods.pdf

OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html

Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/

A History of the USA's Attempt to Engage in War to Further its own Corrupt Policies http://www.propagandamatrix.com/americas_phoney_wars_2.html

Northwoods: A Plan For Terror To Justify War http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-int.htm

Operation Northwoods In The Moscow Times http://www.rense.com/general18/mocs.htm

OPERATION NORTHWOODS http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/11_20_01_op_nwoods.html

Operation Northwoods Information Center

http://www.wanttoknow.info/010501abc

British State Terrorism in Ireland

Thatcher 'gave go-ahead for IRA assassinations' http://www.sundayherald.com/25739

British Military Intelligence - The double edged sword

http://www.relativesforjustice.com/publications/monaghan.htm

UDA collusion' masterspy in top Iraq role http://www.sundayherald.com/31708

Collusion 1990 - 1994

http://www.relativesforjustice.com/publications/Collusion%201990-1994.doc

UK State Sponsored Terrorism

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/ireland/nireland.htm

Submission: By Relatives for Justice To the Patten Commission on Policing, December 1998

http://www.relativesforjustice.com/publications/Submission%20to%20Patton%20Part%201.doc

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Friday, November 09, 2007

Civilians



Hillary Clinton faces sensational claims from another woman in Bill's past - UK Daily Mail


Diana inquest hears of plot to 'assassinate' the princess - UK Daily Mail


In Korea, nearly 3 million civilians were murdered by the USA and its allies. Civilians were murdered at No Gun Ri and many other places. The USA supported the fascist puppet regime in South Korea. The South Korean government carried out genocide against both North and South Korean people. - aangirfan: American Holocaust - the USA is probably responsible ...






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Thursday, November 08, 2007

War Crime - children slaughtered by US troops sent to protect them

De Menezes - IPCC report


The Independent Police Complaints Commission report says members of the surveillance team believed Mr de Menezes was not the suspected suicide bomber they were supposed to be tailing. - Met Commissioner pressure rises

This report has 'testimony from 20 people on the tube train, who describe seeing a man shot at point blank range but no warning shouts from the police.' The report advises: "The CPS may wish to consider whether any of the eight officers on the train who state they shouted or heard the words 'armed police' have conspired to pervert the course of justice" - Met Commissioner pressure rises

None of the members of the public on board the Stockwell Underground train recalled hearing officers shout "armed police" but all eight police in the carriage said they had. - This is London



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Containment




Manchester, England

"In Greater Manchester there are seven gun-related incidents every day - the number of firearms deaths is only higher in London

"One in 14 girls aged between 15 and 17 becomes pregnant in Manchester - almost double the rate across England

"In 2004/5 Greater Manchester had the highest number of children under 15 (238) admitted to hospital for alcohol-related problems

"In 2005/6 809 per 100,000 of Manchester's male population were admitted to hospital because of alcohol-specific conditions - more than double the national rate of 340 per 100,000

"In 2006, 22% of Manchester's working-age population were out of work and on benefits, higher than the national rate of 14.6%" -

Manchester people 'left behind'

Fascist New Zealand? "A Wellington woman arrested in last month's police raids and potentially facing charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act...Valerie Morse, 36, is a well-known figure in Wellington activist and peace movement circles... Morse published a book entitled Against Freedom: The war on terrorism in everyday New Zealand life. The book's publisher, Rebel Press, said the book looks at anti-terror legislation passed in New Zealand since 2001, and of the implications for activists – particularly those involved in anti-war, environmental and Tino Rangatiratanga movements – as well as migrants and refugees. The book also examines the rise of State surveillance by the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the media's role in reporting on the "war on terror" in the Pacific and further abroad." Terror suspect published terrorism book

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Crustaceans


GM's worst quarterly loss







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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

State sponsored terrorism revealed in sting operation

Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ahmedabad_riots1.jpg

In October 2007, the investigative newsmagazine Tehelka reported on the Tehelka Gujarat riots sting :

1. Several Hindu nationalist (Sangh) leaders explain on camera how they planned a massive massacre of Moslems.


2. The involvement of the Chief minister of Gujarat (Modi) is revealed.

3. The complicity of the police is revealed.

4. The connivance of the judiciary is revealed.

Frontline India ( Action replay) commented:

"Yet, no action has followed one of the most explosive news investigations in India.

"None of those caught on tape boasting about raping, burning and hacking Muslims have been arrested or even interrogated.

"Modi’s authority has not been questioned.

"Instead, there is an eerie silence. Far more eerie than the cold-blooded murders of more than 1,000 innocent people during the communal massacres of March 2002.

"The role of the Modi government in the State-sponsored terrorism of 2002 is well documented. Even the Supreme Court had censured Modi for being 'a modern day Nero who watched while Gujarat burned'.

"Now, the Tehelka tapes offer irrefutable proof of how the Sangh (Hindu nationalists) organised a 'Hindu jihad' across Gujarat and protected the murderers."

(Tehelka comment -Does Anything)

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

New World Order

US military links to al Qaeda?

What links al Qaeda, the US military and West Papua in Indonesia?

"Reportedly, Laskar Jihad was set up by the American-trained Indonesian military; and reportedly Laskar Jihad has links to al Qaeda. From 1986-89 the US ambassador to Indonesia was Paul Wolfowitz."

"Henry Kissinger is a Director Emeritus and consultant to Freeport/Rio Tinto which operates the largest copper and gold mining enterprise in the world in West Papua. British Petroleum (BP) has begun to operate in West Papua where it plans to extract and export gas."

"The mainstream media should expose the genocide in West Papua. But they won't, because the USA wants to keep in with the Indonesian military. We hear about Burma and Darfur but not about West Papua. The worst genocides are usually carried out by friends of the Pentagon (eg. East Timor). Laskar Jihad (linked to al Qaeda) was set up by the American-trained Indonesian military to do its dirty work."


The Last Frontier - China


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revealed



Video - Pakistan

Kenyan police implicated in 500 execution-style deaths

VIPS' SICK SEX AT ROYAL PAL ORGY

"The (Asia Pacific Wealth Report 2007) ... estimated that in 2006 approximately 19,000 HNWIs of Indonesian origin resided in Singapore and held approximately US$93 billion in financial wealth.' In other words, close to 30% of the high net worth wealth here belongs to Indonesians." - Typical Millionaire (in Singapore)

"Business as usual - Viscount Linley, who celebrates his 46th birthday this weekend, had the capital's social lionesses worried. The Queen's nephew is usually the first member of the Royal Family to hold a Christmas party, but this year his chums have been telling me that they haven't received their invitations. They need not fret. I am happy to report that the gregarious son of the late Princess Margaret hasn't decided to cut costs by cancelling his party this year. David will be hosting the soiree at his furniture shop in Belgravia on November 20. Good for him." - Channel 4 is in the dock for wining and dining a conman

"Ken (Livingston) , like me (George Galloway), was expelled by New Labour, and, like me, went on to give them a bloody good hiding at the polls. But he went back and became Blair's Mayor. First Tony's, now Sir Ian's. That's why I am now giving serious consideration to the many calls for me to enter the race against him in May, to be Mayor of the greatest city in the world." - Fire Brigade Heroes Deserve Our Support

News from Erewhon: THE head of the security service has revealed a dramatic rise in the number of young Moslems ready to be recruited as patsies in government plots.

Fresh DNA hope in Madeleine McCann case

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Monday, November 05, 2007

Losses



"We can assume that the chaos of recent months has been caused by defaults on dodgy loans sold two years ago – in the summer of 2005.

"But the sale of sub-prime loans didn't end in the summer of 2005. It continued, at more than £100bn a quarter, for the rest of 2005, for the whole of 2006, and only fell significantly in the second quarter of 2007 – when the problems became so obvious they could no longer be ignored.

"What does that mean? It means that even if the banks are being honest about their sub-prime losses to date – itself a big assumption – there are still much bigger losses to come." - Liam Halligan - Fed will have to cut rates again





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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Aamer Anwar, Mohammed Siddique and Scotland's 'discredited' criminal justice system.


Is the reputation of Scottish justice in tatters?

A Scottish court found Mohammed Atif Siddique guilty of (1) providing training material on bomb-making and (2) spreading terrorist propaganda on websites. Siddique was jailed for 8 years.

"After his arrest, Atif Siddique asked his lawyer 'to state that he is not a terrorist and he completely and utterly condemns the atrocities of 11 September and 7 July.'" - Indymedia Scotland: Imprisoned without trial in Scotland

"Eldest son Mohammed Jnr, 27, a law student, added: 'Atif is a 20-year- old boy and he's an inquisitive boy. He was curious to find out more about the war in Iraq. I think he visited a few websites, maybe like the Al-Jeezera website, but there's nothing wrong with that. He is totally against terrorism.'" - The Sunday Mail - NEWS - HUMILIATED //aangirfan: Mohammed Atif Siddique

After the trial, Siddiques's lawyer, Aamer Anwar read a statement which said that Siddique, was merely doing "what millions of young people do every day, looking for answers on the internet". - Legal luminaries defend Aamer

Anwar stated that the "verdict was a tragedy for justice and for freedom of speech", and added: "Young Muslims live in a climate of fear no different to that experienced by the Irish community in the last century."

Anwar said that Siddique "did not receive a fair trial".

Lord Carloway, the Siddique trial judge, has told Anwar that he faces a possible contempt of court charge. If convicted, Anwar could go to prison and be banned from practising law.

Imran Khan, the London solicitor who acted for the family of Stephen Lawrence, said about the Anwar case: "There should be no attempt to silence lawyers. If lawyers can't speak out then one of the bedrocks of justice - the right to highlight a miscarriage of justice - just goes."

Michael Mansfield, one of the top five QCs in England, said: "We need independent strong lawyers who will speak out."

According to the BBC (Terror accused 'had Osama video' ) computer expert Michael Dickson has given evidence about Siddique's laptop computer.

"The reason Dickson was upset has been erased from this version of the story, but his testimony pointed out that the incriminating videos found on the laptop all had creation dates LATER than the time the laptop was confiscated from the suspect!

"He told the court: 'An initial examination of this system revealed it was last activated between approximately 2219 BST and 2330 BST on 5 April 2006. This immediately struck us as being unusual as we were informed that the computer had been seized from the accused's possession at about 2000 BST the same date.'

"Mr Dickson said further examination revealed that the times and dates associated with more than 200 files on the system had been updated between these times."

Are the Scottish police capable of faking evidence? Consider Lockerbie : Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked .

What are we to make of Scottish judges? (aangirfan: Lockerbie - who were the key players in the trial?)

Lord Fraser was the lord advocate (1989-92) who initiated the case against Megrahi (the Libyan convicted in the Lockerbie trial). On 20 December 2006 Lord Fraser was detained by police after they were called to Dundee Airport following reports of a disturbance on board an aircraft. Lord Fraser was charged with disorderly conduct. It was announced on 2 February 2007 that the Crown Office had dropped these charges due to insufficient evidence that an offence had been committed.

Lord Hardie, as Lord Advocate 1997-2000, was due to lead the prosecution team in the Lockerbie trial. Lord Hardie resigned just before the Lockerbie trial began. There were rumours that there was a lack of evidence to convict the Libyans.

Dr Hans Kochler, the United Nations observer appointed to oversee the Lockerbie trial, said the Lockerbie trial was "not fair and was not conducted in an objective manner". ( UN Lockerbie trial observer urges independent inquiry into the case )

The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) examined the Lockerbie case. Kochler said about the SCCRC: "In giving exoneration to the police, prosecutors, and forensic staff, I think they show their lack of independence. No officials to be blamed, simply a Maltese shopkeeper. They also exonerate the original trial and appeal defence team and this also surprises me. I have doubts that the Scottish judicial system has learned anything from the Lockerbie trial." Http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1506988.0.0.php

Tam Dalyell, former MP, said: "SO WHERE does the report of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission leave the reputation of Scottish justice? As the son-in-law of former Lord Justice Clerk, John Wheatley, and as one who helped to persuade Libya to surrender Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah and Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi to the Scottish legal process it pains me to say: 'In proverbial tatters.'..." Http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=1014702007



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Influence




"THE aide at the centre of an alleged blackmail plot against a member of the royal family has claimed he also had a homosexual liaison with the royal’s father and a Tory MP. The claims are made on recordings seized by police." - Aide claims tryst with royal’s father

"With Murdoch's reputation for backing winners part of his longstanding newspaper strategy, sources close to the News Corporation boss say that he is considering a shift of allegiance in Scotland... Murdoch is said to have liked Salmond and seen him as a winner." -Murdoch considers changing sides in Scotland






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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Republicans are secretly gay?


The Economist has teamed up with the pollsters at YouGov/Polimetrix to track opinion across America. The Economist/YouGov poll

According to The Economist, Democrats think it was a mistake to have invaded Iraq.

Republicans apparently support the invasion of Iraq.

In other words, the Republicans support an essentially militaristic policy.

Hitler was a militarist and rather gay. (Hitler was bisexual?)

The Republicans would support military gentlemen such as Mountbatten, Oldfield, Kitchener, Haig..., all of whom were, reportedly, a bit gay.

Republicans appear to be mainly conservative Christians.

They would be fans of C S Lewis (C S Lewis) who was a conservative Christian and reportedly keen on boys.

They would be fans of conservative Christian Cardinal Spellman, who "was known as 'Franny' to assorted Broadway chorus boys and others." Cardinal Spellman

They would be fans of Martin Luther, who was a bit of a fascist, and who struggled with his sexuality (Martin Luther was a fascist) (Martin Luther and sex)

Republicans appear to be publicly anti-Gay. They would have been fans of Frederick the Great. In Frederick's Prussia, the death sentence was mandatory for sodomy.


They would be fans of Roy Cohn ( Roy Cohn) who persecuted gay people and who frequented gay bars.

They would be fans of Kaiser Wilhelm II ( Nona: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Prince Eulenberg and Friedrich Krupp) who was apparently a bit gay.

They might be in two minds about Ronald Reagan and his gay friends.
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Gay Republicans

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Friday, November 02, 2007

Scotland pays its own way



The Herald, 2 November 2007, has demonstrated that Scotland pays its own way, unlike many parts of England.

Scotching the myth // Why the figures being peddled by Scotland’s critics just don’t add up

Public Spending in Scotland - £9631 per head
Public Spending in London - £9748 per head

The tax take from Scotland - £49 billion
Total public spending in Scotland - £49 billion

Scotland brings in £9593 per head in tax - more than anywhere in the UK outside London.

London's Crossrail project is to cost £16 billion - seven and a half times the annual Scottish transport budget. The 2012 Olympics is to be in London.

Tax per head and public spending per head in thousands of pounds (figures rounded down):

Scotland
Tax 9
Spending 9

North East of England
Tax 6
Spending 10

North West of England
Tax 6
Spending 8

Yorkshire and Humberside
Tax 6
Spending 8

East Midlands
Tax 7
Spending 7

West Midlands
Tax 6
Spending 7

East
Tax 7
Spending 7

South West
Tax 7
Spending 8

London
Tax 10
Spending 9

South East
Tax 9
Spending 7

Alex Salmond says that if Scotland is given direct control of North Sea oil and gas it could be the third-wealthiest country in Europe and the sixth-richest in the world. ‘Challenge to the party is to inspire a generation’

Salmond has pointed out that England, particularly London, benefits heavily from spending on UK departments such as defence and the Treasury. Let us control North Sea oil - Salmond



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De menezes murder - accident or design?


Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead on a London underground train.

Was this an accident,

or,

did elements of the security services want to have an innocent man killed on the train as part of 'strategy of tension'?

In the recent trial of the Metropolitan Police, the court heard how a "catastrophic" series of key failures in police procedure led to Mr de Menezes, 27, being shot seven times by armed police officers at Stockwell Underground station:

1. The police failed to stop and question de Menezes as he emerged from the Scotia Road premises where he lived. (Brown backs police chief despite Old Bailey ruling)

2. The police failed to have a firearms team at the block of flats when Mr de Menezes emerged from the communal doorway.

3. The police failed to identify a "safe and appropriate" area where those leaving the Scotia Road premises could be stopped and questioned.

4. The police failed to deploy firearms officers at relevant locations in time to stop Mr de Menezes getting on to the bus and into the Tube station.

5. There was a failure to take effective steps to stop Tube trains or buses or take other "travel management steps" to minimise the risk to the travelling public.

6. De Menezes was allowed twice to get on to a bus and to go into the Tube station.

7. Reportedly, there was a failure to give accurate information to Commander Dick about where specialist SO19 officers were when she was deciding whether they or Special Branch (SO12) officers should stop de menezes.

8. There was a failure to minimise the risk in arresting Mr de Menezes by armed officers "whether in relation to the location, timing or manner of his arrest".

Reportedly, among the surveillance team in Scotia Road was a soldier from a new "special forces" regiment -the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).


"According to security sources, SRR personnel were involved in the tailing operation that saw de Menezes leave the block of flats, board a bus, and then enter the tube station at Stockwell. SRR personnel are also believed to have been on the tube train when he was shot.

"The SRR soldier at Scotia Road (given the codename Tango 10) used equipment which sent realtime pictures of all who came and went from the flats. Those receiving the pictures could check them against footage of who they were looking for. One security source said: 'In this kind of operation you never leave. You need to pee: you use a bottle; if there’s no bottle, tough. You never leave.'

"The police account says there is no footage of de Menezes leaving because the SRR soldier had to relieve himself. The police account says he sent out a message calling the man who left [de Menezes] an 'ICI' – a white northern European..."

According to The telegraph, while de Menezes was being followed by surveillance officers, Commander Cressida Dick was aware that de Menezes was NOT a terrorist. (London Telegraph)

Commander Dick gave the final command: “Do not let surveillance intervene.” (CCTV proves police lied: de Menezes behaved normally before being ...)

Surveillance officers had been following the bus on which de Menezes was travelling. These officers were preparing to stop the bus and apprehend de Menezes in order to interview him. Then Commander Dick gave the order that the surveillance officers were to stand down and not intervene.

De Menezes was allowed to enter the London Underground and board a crowded tube train. At this point, a shadowy government force shot and killed de Menezes.The police then claimed to have shot a dangerous terrorist and they began to tell what looked like a series of lies.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Strategy of Tension



There has been speculation that all the recent terror incidents in Britain are part of a 'strategy of tension' similar to that which brought terror to Greece, Italy and Turkey in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

If elements of the security services could catch and kill someone on the London Underground and then claim that this was a Moslem terrorist, this would advance the fascist agenda.

It would support the idea that 9 11, the Bali Bombs, the Madrid Bombs and the London Bombs were the work of Moslem terrorists, rather than the work of the security services, using double agents and patsies.

When agents of the UK government shot dead the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, the police claimed that they had shot a dangerous terrorist.

Did elements of the security services hope to fool the public into thinking that the person who was shot was one of the London 'bombers' such as Hussain Osman?

aangirfan: A plot by a secretive section of the military to kill ...


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Brian Coleman is deputy chairman of the Tory group on the London Assembly. "Mr Coleman had written in a blog: 'The Met commissioner has appeared somewhat the worse for wear at a number of official functions, most notably the London Mayors' Association Annual Dinner.'" - 'After the de Menezes verdict, how can Ian Blair stay in charge of the Met?'

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"Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a Saudi-American, was sentenced in a US federal court in Virginia to 30 years' imprisonment on 19 March 2006, but the jury was not allowed to hear evidence supporting his claim that he was tortured into confessing while he was held for one and a half years without charge or trial in Saudi Arabia." - A tale of three show-trials

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Railway News


'North Sea oil is pumping tens of billions into the UK treasury and equivalent billions are being spent on London projects such as Crossrail and the Olympics.' (The Herald : Features: COMMENT)

In the UK, Network Rail is to spend nearly £10bn on expanding the rail network over the next five years. (£10bn five-year plan to deliver a bigger, better railway )

Very little of this money will go to Scotland, which has one third of the UK land mass and which is desperately short of railway links.

The largest chunk of the money will go, as usual, to the South East.

The Borders rail link in Scotland will get £3 million.

The London area will get several BILLIONS.

This is yet another reason why the Scots should vote SNP.

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