The Independent and Daily Mail have tracked down the five men who appear in photographs taken by a British soldier in Basra, in 2003.
The five Iraqi men told the newspapers they had not been contacted about the case.
None of the victims gave evidence during the trial, which the Royal Military Police said was because officers were unable to trace the men.
However, the newspapers said they found the men living about a mile from the camp within days.
Photographs, including humiliating sexual images of naked Iraqis, were taken by Gary Bartlam, 20, who then took them to be developed at a shop in his hometown of Tamworth, Staffordshire, where an assistant called in police.
The judge in charge of the courts-martial said the men's "brutal," "cruel" and "revolting" behavior had "undoubtedly tarnished the international reputation of the British Army and to some extent the British nation too."
Friday, February 25, 2005
Briton saw Americans kill suspects
I saw Americans kill suspects, says Briton
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=614556
Moazzam Begg, 37, who was released by the Metropolitan Police without charge after three years' imprisonment, accuses his American captors of beating two detainees to death at the Bagram air base near Kabul in Afghanistan.
In his first interview since his release, he told Channel 4 News : "I saw one body actually being carried away."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=614556
Moazzam Begg, 37, who was released by the Metropolitan Police without charge after three years' imprisonment, accuses his American captors of beating two detainees to death at the Bagram air base near Kabul in Afghanistan.
In his first interview since his release, he told Channel 4 News : "I saw one body actually being carried away."
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Politicians - Tessa Jowell, Cathy Jamieson, Michael Howard....
The husband of the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, said last night he faced being put on trial on charges of tax evasion and money laundering.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1424047,00.html
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Scotland's justice minister Cathy Jamieson strongly denied helping a relative evade the law.
While the Labour MSP transferred £100 to the bank account of nephew Derek Hyslop - who was on the run from police at the time - in July 1999, she has stated that she had no idea he was wanted by police.
Hyslop, a drug addict who had just killed a woman in a robbery in Derby, was later jailed for manslaughter. Jamieson said the money was meant for her nephew’s baby.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=207592005
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PAUL FERRIS, MICHAEL HOWARD &THE DRUG BARON'S PARDON
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15216453&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=record-investigation--paul-ferris--michael-howard--the-drug-baron-s-pardon-name_page.html
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A Collection of Links on alleged political corruption
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals/political.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1424047,00.html
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Scotland's justice minister Cathy Jamieson strongly denied helping a relative evade the law.
While the Labour MSP transferred £100 to the bank account of nephew Derek Hyslop - who was on the run from police at the time - in July 1999, she has stated that she had no idea he was wanted by police.
Hyslop, a drug addict who had just killed a woman in a robbery in Derby, was later jailed for manslaughter. Jamieson said the money was meant for her nephew’s baby.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=207592005
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PAUL FERRIS, MICHAEL HOWARD &THE DRUG BARON'S PARDON
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15216453&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=record-investigation--paul-ferris--michael-howard--the-drug-baron-s-pardon-name_page.html
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A Collection of Links on alleged political corruption
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals/political.html
Hunter S Thomson and 9 11
August 2002 interview with Hunter S. Thompson on the subject of 9 11:
Hunter S. Thompson: The Administration was able to use that event... as a springboard for everything they wanted to do. And that might tell you something... Who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and the motive? ...Well I saw that the US government was going to benefit, and the White House people, the republican administration to take the mind of the public off of the crashing economy. Now you want to keep in mind that every time a person named Bush gets into office, the nation goes into a drastic recession...
Hunter S. Thompson: The Administration was able to use that event... as a springboard for everything they wanted to do. And that might tell you something... Who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and the motive? ...Well I saw that the US government was going to benefit, and the White House people, the republican administration to take the mind of the public off of the crashing economy. Now you want to keep in mind that every time a person named Bush gets into office, the nation goes into a drastic recession...
Why are we welcoming this torturer?
Victoria Brittain, in theGuardian 24 Feb 2005:
"In prisons in Egypt, Jordan and Syria... men have been tortured by electric shocks to the genitals, by being kept in water, by being threatened with death - after being flown to those countries by the CIA for that very purpose...
"How can it be that not one mainstream public figure in Europe has denounced these appalling practices and declared that, in view of all we now know of cells, cages, underground bunkers, solitary confinement, sodomy and threatened sodomy, beatings, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, mock executions and kidnapping, President Bush and his officials are not welcome?
"Perhaps it's not surprising given the British army's own dismal record in southern Iraq...
"Why has no public figure had the honesty to admit that the democracy and freedom promised for the Middle East are fake and mask US plans to leave Washington dominant in the area? And why does no one say publicly that what is really happening in the "war on terror" is a war on Muslims that is creating a far more dangerous world for all?
"A s far back as September 2002, a secret CIA study into the Guantánamo detainees suggested that many were innocent..."
"In prisons in Egypt, Jordan and Syria... men have been tortured by electric shocks to the genitals, by being kept in water, by being threatened with death - after being flown to those countries by the CIA for that very purpose...
"How can it be that not one mainstream public figure in Europe has denounced these appalling practices and declared that, in view of all we now know of cells, cages, underground bunkers, solitary confinement, sodomy and threatened sodomy, beatings, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, mock executions and kidnapping, President Bush and his officials are not welcome?
"Perhaps it's not surprising given the British army's own dismal record in southern Iraq...
"Why has no public figure had the honesty to admit that the democracy and freedom promised for the Middle East are fake and mask US plans to leave Washington dominant in the area? And why does no one say publicly that what is really happening in the "war on terror" is a war on Muslims that is creating a far more dangerous world for all?
"A s far back as September 2002, a secret CIA study into the Guantánamo detainees suggested that many were innocent..."
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Indonesian army murdered two Americans?
http://laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=1&news_id=7934
Activists Link Indonesian Military to murder of two Americans
Laksamana.Net reports that human rights advocates are claiming there is new evidence linking the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) to the August 2002 killing of two Americans and an Indonesian near the huge Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua province.
The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights is urging Condoleezza Rice to consider the evidence before resuming aid to the Indonesian military (TNI).
"By murdering these U.S. citizens, the TNI may have been seeking higher payments to protect the Freeport mine" said Eben Kirksey, a regional specialist who is a Fellow at the University of California Washington Center. "
The Indonesian military has set up militias throughout West Papua. Militia violence is reportedly used by the military to extort payments from foreign companies and Indonesia's own civilian administration.
Edmund McWilliams, former Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, said, "It is crucial that the FBI explore well-documented ties between the Indonesian military and the single individual so far indicted as well as a number of unindicted co-conspirators."
BACKGROUND On August 31, 2002, gunmen shot to death two U.S. citizens and one Indonesian citizen while wounding eight other U.S. citizens. This attack occurred on the heavily guarded main road within the mining project area of U.S.-based Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. (NYSE symbol: FCX).
Initial Indonesian police reports identified the Indonesian military as likely being involved in the attack.
In June 2004, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictment of one man in connection with the crime, an Indonesian citizen named Anthonius Wamang. Wamang's whereabouts are believed to be known to Indonesian authorities. He remains at large. Since the indictment, the FBI has not returned to Indonesia to continue the investigation.
The newly documented evidence of Indonesian military involvement in the August 2002 attack includes these elements:
WAMANG LINKS TO THE INDONESIAN MILITARY
Wamang traveled to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in January 2002. Allegedly military agents paid for Wamang's travel and accommodation expenses during this trip. Wamang reportedly claims that the ambush was planned during his January-March 2002 trip to Java.
PROVISION OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION BY THE MILITARY
Wamang has admitted in a videotaped interview, televised in August 2004 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that he purchased bullets from the Indonesian military. Reportedly there is new detailed evidence about the roles of two other presumed co-conspirators who helped procure the weapons used in the attack. These presumed co-conspirators have collaborated with Indonesian military agents since 1996. One of the co-conspirators flew to Jakarta where he stayed at the home of Colonel Sugiono, an active army officer. Once automatic rifles were purchased from Indonesian military agents in Bandung, Col. Sugiono arranged for the payment of the airfare for this presumed co-conspirator to return to West Papua. The rifles were not immediately brought back to West Papua and were stored at the Cikini Police Station (Polsek Cikini) in Jakarta.
POSSIBLE MOTIVE: THE INDONESIAN MILITARY WANTED INCREASED SECURITY PAYMENTS
Around 2/3 of the Indonesian military budget comes from various businesses. These include security contracts with private companies and illegal extortion. 'There is a documented history of TNI extortion of "protection money" from Freeport'.
Freeport reportedly made direct transfers, in amounts ranging from $1,800 to $2,100 per month, into the personal account of the regional military commander for West Papua (Pangdam Trikora). These payments were reportedly discontinued in the months leading up to the August 2002 attack. According to a communication by Freeport with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company paid the TNI $5.6 million in 2002.
Activists Link Indonesian Military to murder of two Americans
Laksamana.Net reports that human rights advocates are claiming there is new evidence linking the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) to the August 2002 killing of two Americans and an Indonesian near the huge Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua province.
The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights is urging Condoleezza Rice to consider the evidence before resuming aid to the Indonesian military (TNI).
"By murdering these U.S. citizens, the TNI may have been seeking higher payments to protect the Freeport mine" said Eben Kirksey, a regional specialist who is a Fellow at the University of California Washington Center. "
The Indonesian military has set up militias throughout West Papua. Militia violence is reportedly used by the military to extort payments from foreign companies and Indonesia's own civilian administration.
Edmund McWilliams, former Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, said, "It is crucial that the FBI explore well-documented ties between the Indonesian military and the single individual so far indicted as well as a number of unindicted co-conspirators."
BACKGROUND On August 31, 2002, gunmen shot to death two U.S. citizens and one Indonesian citizen while wounding eight other U.S. citizens. This attack occurred on the heavily guarded main road within the mining project area of U.S.-based Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. (NYSE symbol: FCX).
Initial Indonesian police reports identified the Indonesian military as likely being involved in the attack.
In June 2004, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictment of one man in connection with the crime, an Indonesian citizen named Anthonius Wamang. Wamang's whereabouts are believed to be known to Indonesian authorities. He remains at large. Since the indictment, the FBI has not returned to Indonesia to continue the investigation.
The newly documented evidence of Indonesian military involvement in the August 2002 attack includes these elements:
WAMANG LINKS TO THE INDONESIAN MILITARY
Wamang traveled to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in January 2002. Allegedly military agents paid for Wamang's travel and accommodation expenses during this trip. Wamang reportedly claims that the ambush was planned during his January-March 2002 trip to Java.
PROVISION OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION BY THE MILITARY
Wamang has admitted in a videotaped interview, televised in August 2004 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that he purchased bullets from the Indonesian military. Reportedly there is new detailed evidence about the roles of two other presumed co-conspirators who helped procure the weapons used in the attack. These presumed co-conspirators have collaborated with Indonesian military agents since 1996. One of the co-conspirators flew to Jakarta where he stayed at the home of Colonel Sugiono, an active army officer. Once automatic rifles were purchased from Indonesian military agents in Bandung, Col. Sugiono arranged for the payment of the airfare for this presumed co-conspirator to return to West Papua. The rifles were not immediately brought back to West Papua and were stored at the Cikini Police Station (Polsek Cikini) in Jakarta.
POSSIBLE MOTIVE: THE INDONESIAN MILITARY WANTED INCREASED SECURITY PAYMENTS
Around 2/3 of the Indonesian military budget comes from various businesses. These include security contracts with private companies and illegal extortion. 'There is a documented history of TNI extortion of "protection money" from Freeport'.
Freeport reportedly made direct transfers, in amounts ranging from $1,800 to $2,100 per month, into the personal account of the regional military commander for West Papua (Pangdam Trikora). These payments were reportedly discontinued in the months leading up to the August 2002 attack. According to a communication by Freeport with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company paid the TNI $5.6 million in 2002.
Lord Goldsmith never wrote a formal legal opinion that the Iraq invasion was legal?
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1423304,00.html
Richard Norton-Taylor, in the February 23, 2005 Guardian, writes that the UK attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be illegal.
A parliamentary answer issued days before the war in the name of Lord Goldsmith was drawn up in Downing Street, not in the attorney general's chambers.
According to the Guardian, "it appears that Lord Goldsmith never wrote an unequivocal formal legal opinion that the invasion was lawful, as demanded by Lord Boyce, chief of defence staff at the time."
The Guardian reveals that in her letter of resignation in protest against the war, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair in a document on March 7 2003 that the use of force against Iraq could be illegal.
Lord Goldsmith made clear he did not draw up the March 17 written parliamentary answer. They "set out my view", he told the Butler inquiry, referring to Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan.
Yet the following day, March 18, that answer was described in the Commons order paper as the attorney general's "opinion". During the debate, influential Labour backbenchers and the Conservative frontbench said it was an important factor behind their decision to vote for war.
Richard Norton-Taylor, in the February 23, 2005 Guardian, writes that the UK attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be illegal.
A parliamentary answer issued days before the war in the name of Lord Goldsmith was drawn up in Downing Street, not in the attorney general's chambers.
According to the Guardian, "it appears that Lord Goldsmith never wrote an unequivocal formal legal opinion that the invasion was lawful, as demanded by Lord Boyce, chief of defence staff at the time."
The Guardian reveals that in her letter of resignation in protest against the war, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, described the planned invasion of Iraq as a "crime of aggression".
Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair in a document on March 7 2003 that the use of force against Iraq could be illegal.
Lord Goldsmith made clear he did not draw up the March 17 written parliamentary answer. They "set out my view", he told the Butler inquiry, referring to Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan.
Yet the following day, March 18, that answer was described in the Commons order paper as the attorney general's "opinion". During the debate, influential Labour backbenchers and the Conservative frontbench said it was an important factor behind their decision to vote for war.
Confidence in religious institutions
Gallup poll in the USA.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_conf.htm
Confidence in religious organisations:
1973 to the mid-1980s - religious institutions obtained many ratings above 60%.
1989 - Televangelist scandals involving embezzlement and sexual improprieties by Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baaker and other Christian leaders.
Confidence sank to only 52%.
2002 confidence sank to 45%
2002 results were:
26% had a "great deal" of confidence;
19% had "quite a lot;"
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http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/Janner_Greville.html
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jim-bakker/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1418094,00.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_conf.htm
Confidence in religious organisations:
1973 to the mid-1980s - religious institutions obtained many ratings above 60%.
1989 - Televangelist scandals involving embezzlement and sexual improprieties by Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baaker and other Christian leaders.
Confidence sank to only 52%.
2002 confidence sank to 45%
2002 results were:
26% had a "great deal" of confidence;
19% had "quite a lot;"
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http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/Janner_Greville.html
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/jim-bakker/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1418094,00.html
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Kenya's crimebuster gives up
Why is there poverty in Kenya?
The UK Observer, 13 February 2005, reported on corruption in Kenya.
John Githongo, appointed Kenya's first-ever permanent secretary for governance and ethics two years ago, has resigned.
Githongo exposed the politicians and government officials who plundered billions of dollars of public funds. 10% of Kenya's GDP was stolen under the corrupt rule of Daniel arap Moi during the Nineties.
Moi's replacement, President Mwai Kibaki, appointed Githongo, a former country head of Transparency International, to lead a clean-up.
However, Githongo 'was the victim of a powerful clique around Kibaki that wanted to edge him out.'
Is corruption in Kenya much different from corruption in the USA and UK?
The UK Observer, 13 February 2005, reported on corruption in Kenya.
John Githongo, appointed Kenya's first-ever permanent secretary for governance and ethics two years ago, has resigned.
Githongo exposed the politicians and government officials who plundered billions of dollars of public funds. 10% of Kenya's GDP was stolen under the corrupt rule of Daniel arap Moi during the Nineties.
Moi's replacement, President Mwai Kibaki, appointed Githongo, a former country head of Transparency International, to lead a clean-up.
However, Githongo 'was the victim of a powerful clique around Kibaki that wanted to edge him out.'
Is corruption in Kenya much different from corruption in the USA and UK?
This war is about money
“This war is about money. The money is only making the rich man richer.”
A soldier in Iraq writes:
"From Vietnam to Iraq the Armed Forces has been a chess piece in a game for money and power by elite Americans...
"Most people believe that dollars are being handed over to Iraq to rebuild their country on the backs of the American tax payers and under the protection of US troops. However, the money never sees Iraq. It leaves your wallet and goes through the system in DC and ends up in a corporation with the sizeable government contract.
"Our leaders use media to force the United States people into anxiety using colored threat levels, video of violence, and worse case scenarios presented as emergency updates."
A soldier in Iraq writes:
"From Vietnam to Iraq the Armed Forces has been a chess piece in a game for money and power by elite Americans...
"Most people believe that dollars are being handed over to Iraq to rebuild their country on the backs of the American tax payers and under the protection of US troops. However, the money never sees Iraq. It leaves your wallet and goes through the system in DC and ends up in a corporation with the sizeable government contract.
"Our leaders use media to force the United States people into anxiety using colored threat levels, video of violence, and worse case scenarios presented as emergency updates."
Ken Livingstone supported by 76% of public
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/competition/page/0,14341,1420116,00.html
Ken Livingstone has been in a war of words with London's Evening Standard newspaper, since he compared one of its Jewish reporters to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
The mayor has said his words were not intended to cause offence to Jewish people and he would stick by his decision not to apologise to the journalist or his employers, the Daily Mail group.
Mr Livingstone says that 76% of public correspondence over the row has been supportive of his stance.
The Guardian's poll asked 'Is Ken Livingstone right not to apologise?'
76% voted YES
Ken Livingstone has been in a war of words with London's Evening Standard newspaper, since he compared one of its Jewish reporters to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
The mayor has said his words were not intended to cause offence to Jewish people and he would stick by his decision not to apologise to the journalist or his employers, the Daily Mail group.
Mr Livingstone says that 76% of public correspondence over the row has been supportive of his stance.
The Guardian's poll asked 'Is Ken Livingstone right not to apologise?'
76% voted YES
Corruption in Iraq - File on 4
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/oil-f22.shtml
On February 1, BBC radio’s “File on 4” programme described the plundering of Iraq’s oil by the US government, its allies and big business.
Money that was supposed to be used to renew the infrastructure of the country and provide the country’s population with the necessities of life was simply stolen.
The programme reported the release last month of an audit of the management of Iraq’s oil revenues by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The survey, conducted by US government officials, found that $8.8 billion of Iraqi money remains unaccounted for. The US media largely buried the findings.
Dr. Reinoud Leenders, of the International Crisis Group, stated bluntly at the beginning of the broadcast, “We can only guess how much disappears in private pockets. I really fear that Iraq reconstruction will turn into one of the biggest corruption scandals in history.”
Dr. Isam al Khafaji, who worked with the US State Department before the war, described how businesses that were awarded contracts would subcontract out the work up to six times—allowing every layer to take their cut. In many cases, none of the firms ever began any of the contracted work.
“File on 4” focused on the case of the private US company Custer Battles. Allegedly the company committed a total of up to $50 million of fraud in Iraq.
The programme spoke to Marie de Young, who had worked as a logistics specialist for Halliburton. De Young turned whistleblower to expose the practices she witnessed in Iraq.
A report issued by a Congressional Committee on Government Reform concluded that Halliburton overcharged for the fuel in Iraq by $167 million, a mark-up of 90 percent.
The BBC pointed out that the most serious charges against Halliburton concern bribery. A State Department document to the US Embassy in Kuwait reported complaints from a leading oil contracting company. It stated, “It is common knowledge in Kuwait that Halliburton officers are on the take; that they solicit bribes openly; that anyone visiting their sea-side villas at the Kuwait Hilton who offers to provide services is asked for a bribe.”
Bribery charges have also been made against CPA officials. Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council, told the programme that some officials within the CPA demanded payment of up to $300,000 before awarding contracts.
When asked on the programme how high in the Coalition the “failings” went, Chief of Staff, Ginger Cruz said it went right to the top, to CPA chief Paul Bremer.
On February 1, BBC radio’s “File on 4” programme described the plundering of Iraq’s oil by the US government, its allies and big business.
Money that was supposed to be used to renew the infrastructure of the country and provide the country’s population with the necessities of life was simply stolen.
The programme reported the release last month of an audit of the management of Iraq’s oil revenues by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). The survey, conducted by US government officials, found that $8.8 billion of Iraqi money remains unaccounted for. The US media largely buried the findings.
Dr. Reinoud Leenders, of the International Crisis Group, stated bluntly at the beginning of the broadcast, “We can only guess how much disappears in private pockets. I really fear that Iraq reconstruction will turn into one of the biggest corruption scandals in history.”
Dr. Isam al Khafaji, who worked with the US State Department before the war, described how businesses that were awarded contracts would subcontract out the work up to six times—allowing every layer to take their cut. In many cases, none of the firms ever began any of the contracted work.
“File on 4” focused on the case of the private US company Custer Battles. Allegedly the company committed a total of up to $50 million of fraud in Iraq.
The programme spoke to Marie de Young, who had worked as a logistics specialist for Halliburton. De Young turned whistleblower to expose the practices she witnessed in Iraq.
A report issued by a Congressional Committee on Government Reform concluded that Halliburton overcharged for the fuel in Iraq by $167 million, a mark-up of 90 percent.
The BBC pointed out that the most serious charges against Halliburton concern bribery. A State Department document to the US Embassy in Kuwait reported complaints from a leading oil contracting company. It stated, “It is common knowledge in Kuwait that Halliburton officers are on the take; that they solicit bribes openly; that anyone visiting their sea-side villas at the Kuwait Hilton who offers to provide services is asked for a bribe.”
Bribery charges have also been made against CPA officials. Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council, told the programme that some officials within the CPA demanded payment of up to $300,000 before awarding contracts.
When asked on the programme how high in the Coalition the “failings” went, Chief of Staff, Ginger Cruz said it went right to the top, to CPA chief Paul Bremer.
The mainstream media cannot be trusted.
I AM BLOGGER, HEAR ME ROAR!
whatreallyhappened.com has a readership bigger than that of most city newspapers.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The Anthrax Letters
It was the blogs that exposed Dr. Philip Zack, the man caught entering the Anthrax storage area.
9-11 The mainstream media said that fire caused the collapse of the twin towers.
The blogs explained that there has never been a case of a steel framed building collapsing from fire. When photos surfaced showing people looking out the holes of the towers and waving at the ground, proving that there could not have been any such raging inferno, the blogs got the word out.
Fox News reported the arrest of Israeli spies after 9 11, but then pulled the story because of public pressure from AIPAC, a Jewish pressure group. AIPAC was named in a more recent Israeli spy scandal. Certain blogs point out the extent of Israeli control of the USA.
The mainstream media
20/20 broadcast a story claiming that lab tests proved that food bought at organic stores contained the same amounts of pesticides as food from major supermarket chains. A follow up investigation revealed that ABC had never even sent the samples to a lab for tests of any kind.
Fox News researched the effects of synthetic bovine growth hormone on cattle and discovered that a great deal of evidence exists that people who consume the meat or dairy products from treated cattle can suffer adverse health effects. Monsanto together with dairy associations pressured Fox News to shut the story down.
Total viewership of the network news is in decline, while readership of the blogs is increasing.
whatreallyhappened.com has a readership bigger than that of most city newspapers.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html
The Anthrax Letters
It was the blogs that exposed Dr. Philip Zack, the man caught entering the Anthrax storage area.
9-11 The mainstream media said that fire caused the collapse of the twin towers.
The blogs explained that there has never been a case of a steel framed building collapsing from fire. When photos surfaced showing people looking out the holes of the towers and waving at the ground, proving that there could not have been any such raging inferno, the blogs got the word out.
Fox News reported the arrest of Israeli spies after 9 11, but then pulled the story because of public pressure from AIPAC, a Jewish pressure group. AIPAC was named in a more recent Israeli spy scandal. Certain blogs point out the extent of Israeli control of the USA.
The mainstream media
20/20 broadcast a story claiming that lab tests proved that food bought at organic stores contained the same amounts of pesticides as food from major supermarket chains. A follow up investigation revealed that ABC had never even sent the samples to a lab for tests of any kind.
Fox News researched the effects of synthetic bovine growth hormone on cattle and discovered that a great deal of evidence exists that people who consume the meat or dairy products from treated cattle can suffer adverse health effects. Monsanto together with dairy associations pressured Fox News to shut the story down.
Total viewership of the network news is in decline, while readership of the blogs is increasing.
Monday, February 21, 2005
The BBC's Clive Myrie and Pentagon propaganda
Extracts from "Remembering The First Siege Of Fallujah: Excerpts From Testimony Submitted To The World Tribunal On Iraq," by Omar Khan and Dahr Jamail (February 14, 2005), available at zmag.org:
Iraqi women and children are being shot by American snipers.
Dr. Abdul Jabbar reported that "Many people were injured and killed by cluster bombs... Not less than 60% of the dead were women and children. You can go see the graves for yourself."
At Yarmouk Hospital, a lead doctor reported that he saw American soldiers killing women and children.
A doctor working in a temporary emergency clinic in Fallujah during April's siege posed a question: "When you see a child five years old with no head what can you say? When you see a child with no brain just an open cavity what can you say? When you see a mother just hold her infant with no head and the shells are all over her body?"
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Source: http://www.medialens.org/
On the BBC's main lunchtime news, Clive Myrie reported on George Bush's State of the Union address. To enhance the propaganda impact Bush arranged for an American woman whose son had been killed in Iraq to embrace an Iraqi woman whose husband had been killed by Saddam Hussein.
Before a massive national TV audience, Myrie commented: "A woman who gave up her son so another could be free." (Myrie, BBC1, 13:00 News, February 23, 2005)
Anybody here remember the WMDs that weren't? The ongoing pre-war genocide that wasn't? The al-Qaeda links that weren't? The Iraqis waving flags at "Coalition" troops that didn't? Does anyone remember the vast oil reserves in Iraq?
Someone tell Clive Myrie!
On the BBC's late news, Matt Frei informed us of American plans to leave Iraq as soon as possible. Why? Because US leaders "don't want to outstay the welcome of their troops." (Frei, BBC1, 22:00 News, January 31, 2005)
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Iraqi women and children are being shot by American snipers.
Dr. Abdul Jabbar reported that "Many people were injured and killed by cluster bombs... Not less than 60% of the dead were women and children. You can go see the graves for yourself."
At Yarmouk Hospital, a lead doctor reported that he saw American soldiers killing women and children.
A doctor working in a temporary emergency clinic in Fallujah during April's siege posed a question: "When you see a child five years old with no head what can you say? When you see a child with no brain just an open cavity what can you say? When you see a mother just hold her infant with no head and the shells are all over her body?"
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Source: http://www.medialens.org/
On the BBC's main lunchtime news, Clive Myrie reported on George Bush's State of the Union address. To enhance the propaganda impact Bush arranged for an American woman whose son had been killed in Iraq to embrace an Iraqi woman whose husband had been killed by Saddam Hussein.
Before a massive national TV audience, Myrie commented: "A woman who gave up her son so another could be free." (Myrie, BBC1, 13:00 News, February 23, 2005)
Anybody here remember the WMDs that weren't? The ongoing pre-war genocide that wasn't? The al-Qaeda links that weren't? The Iraqis waving flags at "Coalition" troops that didn't? Does anyone remember the vast oil reserves in Iraq?
Someone tell Clive Myrie!
On the BBC's late news, Matt Frei informed us of American plans to leave Iraq as soon as possible. Why? Because US leaders "don't want to outstay the welcome of their troops." (Frei, BBC1, 22:00 News, January 31, 2005)
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Iran to be bombed in June?
Scott Ritter says the U.S. plans to bomb Iran in June, and, the U.S. cooked the Iraq election results. This is reported by Mark Jensen, of United for Peace of Pierce County.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293393206
Jensen writes: "Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq."
Ritter said that U.S. authorities in Iraq had manipulated the election results in order to reduce the percentage of the vote received by the United Iraqi Alliance from 56% to 48%.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293393206
Jensen writes: "Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq."
Ritter said that U.S. authorities in Iraq had manipulated the election results in order to reduce the percentage of the vote received by the United Iraqi Alliance from 56% to 48%.
TERRORISM Part 2
B. is for Paul Barril. Barril was one of 4 French secret service agents found guilty in 1985 for telling the truth! Barril had leaked to the French press the plans by the French secret service to sink the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior.
B. is for Bologna Railway Station Bombing 1980. This was Europe's worst single terrorist attack. At least 84 people were killed. At first the left got blamed. But much later it was discovered that it was the fascist Avanguardia Nazionale, who had links to the P2 masonic order. Now that's a long complicated story and the bad guys got away with it.
At the time of the Bologna Bombing, the CIA was anxious to "support right wing parties" in Italy. The CIA spent huge sums of money in Italy in "trying to influence elections."
B. is for Belgium. Ever wonder how the bad guys manage to get away with it? "Why has Kissinger never been brought to trial?" is the question asked by many.
Bullies use 3 techniques -
1 They con us. Yes, you and I get conned. When that bully appears in front of the headmaster, the poor dear headmaster believes his story. And doesn't Mr Clinton look so innocent. "I did not have sex...."
2 Bullies bribe us. Like a nice young girl, a nice young boy, some heroin? Like promotion to the job of chief constable?
3 They intimidate us. We know where you live. We know the route your children take to school.
Belgium? Michel Nihoul is the gentleman who allegedly organised orgies attended by judges, policemen, senior politicians, top chaps from NATO and a former European Commissioner.
Allegedly his accomplice was Marc Dutroux. Marc Dutroux was the guy who kidnapped young girls for use by top people. Some of these girls died.
Regina Louf testified to the authorities about orgies at which she allegedly saw children tortured and murdered. She alleged that at black masses, attended by members of Belgium's elite, children were sacrificed.
Police HAVE dug up human skulls at an institute of Black Magic.
Police officer Guy Poncelet who was in on the Dutroux case was mysteriously shot dead.
Judge Connerotte, in spite of many obstacles being put in his way, arrested Dutroux. Connerotte was taken off the case!
Mr de Baets, who was investigating Regina Louf's evidence, was taken off the case.
Former deputy prime minister Andre Cools, who said he was about to reveal the criminal activities of top people, was shot dead.
But does all this involve lots of top people?
NATO Secretary General Willy Claes, whose name came up in certain enquiries at this time, was forced to resign over corruption involving kickbacks.
Dutroux had a history of evil doings, and yet in 1991 he had been released early from prison by judge Wathelet.
Dutroux then went on to kidnap young girls.
Texas?
http://www.raven1.net/ra1.htm
B. is for BRYCE COMMISSION.
Remember these stories about how horrid Saddam Hussein's people were.?
Babies had been removed from incubators. We now know that this was American propaganda. The film of empty incubators was made by an American advertising agency.
In the First World War, the Bryce Commission produced a report claiming that in Belgium the Germans had "bayoneted a two year old child and sliced off the breast of a peasant girl...."
OK it must have been true because Lord Bryce was a respected figure in Britain? And the Germans are beasts?
Most people believed it and it helped persuade the British public that their sons must go and get themselves killed in Belgium.
But the Bryce Commission's Report was propaganda.
Bryce had not spoken to a single witness.
The report was based on alleged 'written statements' by alleged 'witnesses'.
Did these statements or witnesses ever exist? After the war it was discovered that there was no trace of these statements. They had disappeared.
The Belgian government held an Enquiry and were unable to corroborate a single major atrocity mentioned in the Bryce report.
B. is for BLAIR.
Now, who influences the British Labour Party when it comes to attitudes to terrorism and the Middle East?
Lets start with Harold Wilson.
Who were the people with whom he was most closely associated? Mother Theresa? No.
Who got honours in Wilson's final honours list? The Times wrote, in May 1976, "one reads the roll of honour: Delfont, Grade, Kagan, Rayne, Weidenfeld, Goldsmith, Hanson, Miller, Sternberg....are they his friends?"
Let's take Robert Maxwell, at one time the Labour Party's biggest backer. Maxwell looted pension funds. Yet, not a single person has ever been sent to jail for these crimes. Who were some of the people associated with this scandal? Labour per Lord Donoghue and former minister Geoffrey Robinson were board members of Maxwell companies. Hellen Liddle worked for a Maxwell company and was said to be Maxwell's 'eyes and ears in Scotland.' I am NOT suggesting any impropriety by Donoghue, Robinson or Liddle. Maxwell is widely assumed to have been a spy for Israeli secret service MOSSAD; and Maxwell is buried in a place of honour in Israel.
Who are Tony Blair's paymasters and friends? The vast majority of the big financiers of Tony Blair's Labour Party are Jewish millionaires: Lord Levy, Blair's fundraiser-in-chief and leading friend of Israel; Lord Bernstein; Sir Emmanuel Kaye.... etc.
Blair's accountant is Michael Goldstein of Blick Rothenberg.
Multi-millionaire Lord Levy (who paid £5,000 in tax in 1999, according to the Sunday Times) is Tony Blair's 'personal envoy' to the Middle East.
Levy's friends and associates include Bernie Eccleston and Ehud Barak.
This is NOT a point about the Jewish religion, but, about the fact that the Labour Party appears to have been over-influenced by 'dodgy' millionaires like Maxwell and people who are most certainly on the side of Israel.
B. is for Bologna Railway Station Bombing 1980. This was Europe's worst single terrorist attack. At least 84 people were killed. At first the left got blamed. But much later it was discovered that it was the fascist Avanguardia Nazionale, who had links to the P2 masonic order. Now that's a long complicated story and the bad guys got away with it.
At the time of the Bologna Bombing, the CIA was anxious to "support right wing parties" in Italy. The CIA spent huge sums of money in Italy in "trying to influence elections."
B. is for Belgium. Ever wonder how the bad guys manage to get away with it? "Why has Kissinger never been brought to trial?" is the question asked by many.
Bullies use 3 techniques -
1 They con us. Yes, you and I get conned. When that bully appears in front of the headmaster, the poor dear headmaster believes his story. And doesn't Mr Clinton look so innocent. "I did not have sex...."
2 Bullies bribe us. Like a nice young girl, a nice young boy, some heroin? Like promotion to the job of chief constable?
3 They intimidate us. We know where you live. We know the route your children take to school.
Belgium? Michel Nihoul is the gentleman who allegedly organised orgies attended by judges, policemen, senior politicians, top chaps from NATO and a former European Commissioner.
Allegedly his accomplice was Marc Dutroux. Marc Dutroux was the guy who kidnapped young girls for use by top people. Some of these girls died.
Regina Louf testified to the authorities about orgies at which she allegedly saw children tortured and murdered. She alleged that at black masses, attended by members of Belgium's elite, children were sacrificed.
Police HAVE dug up human skulls at an institute of Black Magic.
Police officer Guy Poncelet who was in on the Dutroux case was mysteriously shot dead.
Judge Connerotte, in spite of many obstacles being put in his way, arrested Dutroux. Connerotte was taken off the case!
Mr de Baets, who was investigating Regina Louf's evidence, was taken off the case.
Former deputy prime minister Andre Cools, who said he was about to reveal the criminal activities of top people, was shot dead.
But does all this involve lots of top people?
NATO Secretary General Willy Claes, whose name came up in certain enquiries at this time, was forced to resign over corruption involving kickbacks.
Dutroux had a history of evil doings, and yet in 1991 he had been released early from prison by judge Wathelet.
Dutroux then went on to kidnap young girls.
Texas?
http://www.raven1.net/ra1.htm
B. is for BRYCE COMMISSION.
Remember these stories about how horrid Saddam Hussein's people were.?
Babies had been removed from incubators. We now know that this was American propaganda. The film of empty incubators was made by an American advertising agency.
In the First World War, the Bryce Commission produced a report claiming that in Belgium the Germans had "bayoneted a two year old child and sliced off the breast of a peasant girl...."
OK it must have been true because Lord Bryce was a respected figure in Britain? And the Germans are beasts?
Most people believed it and it helped persuade the British public that their sons must go and get themselves killed in Belgium.
But the Bryce Commission's Report was propaganda.
Bryce had not spoken to a single witness.
The report was based on alleged 'written statements' by alleged 'witnesses'.
Did these statements or witnesses ever exist? After the war it was discovered that there was no trace of these statements. They had disappeared.
The Belgian government held an Enquiry and were unable to corroborate a single major atrocity mentioned in the Bryce report.
B. is for BLAIR.
Now, who influences the British Labour Party when it comes to attitudes to terrorism and the Middle East?
Lets start with Harold Wilson.
Who were the people with whom he was most closely associated? Mother Theresa? No.
Who got honours in Wilson's final honours list? The Times wrote, in May 1976, "one reads the roll of honour: Delfont, Grade, Kagan, Rayne, Weidenfeld, Goldsmith, Hanson, Miller, Sternberg....are they his friends?"
Let's take Robert Maxwell, at one time the Labour Party's biggest backer. Maxwell looted pension funds. Yet, not a single person has ever been sent to jail for these crimes. Who were some of the people associated with this scandal? Labour per Lord Donoghue and former minister Geoffrey Robinson were board members of Maxwell companies. Hellen Liddle worked for a Maxwell company and was said to be Maxwell's 'eyes and ears in Scotland.' I am NOT suggesting any impropriety by Donoghue, Robinson or Liddle. Maxwell is widely assumed to have been a spy for Israeli secret service MOSSAD; and Maxwell is buried in a place of honour in Israel.
Who are Tony Blair's paymasters and friends? The vast majority of the big financiers of Tony Blair's Labour Party are Jewish millionaires: Lord Levy, Blair's fundraiser-in-chief and leading friend of Israel; Lord Bernstein; Sir Emmanuel Kaye.... etc.
Blair's accountant is Michael Goldstein of Blick Rothenberg.
Multi-millionaire Lord Levy (who paid £5,000 in tax in 1999, according to the Sunday Times) is Tony Blair's 'personal envoy' to the Middle East.
Levy's friends and associates include Bernie Eccleston and Ehud Barak.
This is NOT a point about the Jewish religion, but, about the fact that the Labour Party appears to have been over-influenced by 'dodgy' millionaires like Maxwell and people who are most certainly on the side of Israel.
Europe may try to woo China away from the USA
Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard, writes today in the Guardian that Europe may try to woo China away from the USA.
In recent years, China has been buying dollars and US bonds, but, the returns on these dollars are now miserably low.
According to Ferguson: "American consumption and foreign policy are effectively being paid for with low-interest loans from Asia, allowing the Bush administration to give American voters both butter (tax cuts) and guns (the occupation of Iraq)."
China may want to reduce its dependence on the US export market and its exposure to the dollar.
Ferguson writes: "Step forward Europe -already a bigger market than the US for Chinese goods and proud owner of the euro, a currency looking increasingly like an alternative reserve currency to the dollar."
President Chirac recently went on a little-reported trip to Beijing.
In recent years, China has been buying dollars and US bonds, but, the returns on these dollars are now miserably low.
According to Ferguson: "American consumption and foreign policy are effectively being paid for with low-interest loans from Asia, allowing the Bush administration to give American voters both butter (tax cuts) and guns (the occupation of Iraq)."
China may want to reduce its dependence on the US export market and its exposure to the dollar.
Ferguson writes: "Step forward Europe -already a bigger market than the US for Chinese goods and proud owner of the euro, a currency looking increasingly like an alternative reserve currency to the dollar."
President Chirac recently went on a little-reported trip to Beijing.
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Garuda pilot and Munir murder case
http://laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=1&news_id=7888
laksamana,net wonders if the military is arranging a cover-up in the Munir Murder Case.
Almost five months after the murder of human rights campaigner Munir, police are yet to come up with a single suspect, increasing concerns of a high-level cover-up.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had personally promised Munir’s widow Suciwati that he would fully support the formation of an independent team to investigate the case.
Yudhoyono broke his promise.
Munir, founder of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Indonesian Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial), died of arsenic poisoning while on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7.
Rights groups are certain he was murdered by his powerful enemies, possibly by those who wanted to silence his most recent investigations into corruption cases involving prominent government figures.
Rights activists grouped in the Committee of Solidarity Action for Munir (Komite Aksi Solidaritas Untuk Munir - KASUM) on Wednesday (2/2/05) urged the government fact-finding team to put pressure on police to investigate whether a Garuda pilot seen with Munir on the final day of his life was working covertly for a state intelligence agency.
The pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, allegedly telephoned Munir’s house two or three days before the activist left for the Netherlands and told Suciwati he would be on the same flight as her husband. He has denied calling Munir’s house and insisted he was not involved in his death. But it has been established that Pollycarpus introduced himself to Munir and Suciwati when they arrived at Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta International Airport on the night of September 6. Munir died on the flight.
Dutch authorities conducted an autopsy that revealed 465 milligrams of undigested arsenic in Munir's stomach – more than double the normally lethal dose of 200 milligrams.
On November 20, a decapitated and dismembered chicken was sent to Suciwati, along with a note warning: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect TNI to the death of Munir. Do you want to end up like this?"
Munir’s fellow human rights activists discovered that Pollycarpus had piloted flights – ostensibly for Christian missionaries – in Irian Jaya (now Papua) province over 1985-87 when the military was attacking separatist rebels in the territory. Pollycarpus later flew planes to evacuate Indonesians from East Timor in 1999 after TNI and its militia proxies had unleashed carnage there in response to the territory’s vote to secede from Indonesia. East Timor’s notorious former militia leader Eurico Guterres has admitted to knowing the pilot. KASUM and the rights activists in the fact-finding team suspect Pollycarpus is no ordinary pilot. They have received anonymous tip-offs via mobile phone text messages alleging that he is a member of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) and has an unlicensed gun from the agency.
laksamana,net wonders if the military is arranging a cover-up in the Munir Murder Case.
Almost five months after the murder of human rights campaigner Munir, police are yet to come up with a single suspect, increasing concerns of a high-level cover-up.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had personally promised Munir’s widow Suciwati that he would fully support the formation of an independent team to investigate the case.
Yudhoyono broke his promise.
Munir, founder of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and the Indonesian Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial), died of arsenic poisoning while on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam on September 7.
Rights groups are certain he was murdered by his powerful enemies, possibly by those who wanted to silence his most recent investigations into corruption cases involving prominent government figures.
Rights activists grouped in the Committee of Solidarity Action for Munir (Komite Aksi Solidaritas Untuk Munir - KASUM) on Wednesday (2/2/05) urged the government fact-finding team to put pressure on police to investigate whether a Garuda pilot seen with Munir on the final day of his life was working covertly for a state intelligence agency.
The pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, allegedly telephoned Munir’s house two or three days before the activist left for the Netherlands and told Suciwati he would be on the same flight as her husband. He has denied calling Munir’s house and insisted he was not involved in his death. But it has been established that Pollycarpus introduced himself to Munir and Suciwati when they arrived at Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta International Airport on the night of September 6. Munir died on the flight.
Dutch authorities conducted an autopsy that revealed 465 milligrams of undigested arsenic in Munir's stomach – more than double the normally lethal dose of 200 milligrams.
On November 20, a decapitated and dismembered chicken was sent to Suciwati, along with a note warning: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect TNI to the death of Munir. Do you want to end up like this?"
Munir’s fellow human rights activists discovered that Pollycarpus had piloted flights – ostensibly for Christian missionaries – in Irian Jaya (now Papua) province over 1985-87 when the military was attacking separatist rebels in the territory. Pollycarpus later flew planes to evacuate Indonesians from East Timor in 1999 after TNI and its militia proxies had unleashed carnage there in response to the territory’s vote to secede from Indonesia. East Timor’s notorious former militia leader Eurico Guterres has admitted to knowing the pilot. KASUM and the rights activists in the fact-finding team suspect Pollycarpus is no ordinary pilot. They have received anonymous tip-offs via mobile phone text messages alleging that he is a member of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) and has an unlicensed gun from the agency.
ACEH - military stealing relief aid?
http://laksamana.net/vnews.cfm?ncat=1&news_id=7890
Laksamana.Net reports that an anti-corruption activist was beaten up by the military and then accused of stealing relief aid in Aceh.
Government Watch coordinator Farid Faqih, who was also working for the United Nation’s World Food Program, was savagely beaten before being handed over to police and locked up.
Faqih has been highly critical of the notoriously corrupt military’s handling of relief aid in Aceh. He has also accused government officials of exaggerating the numbers of people living in refugee camps in order to collect and embezzle more aid.
Local media reports have identified Faqih’s main attacker as Army Captain Syuib Mahmud.
Initial reports had said three FPI members (paramilitaries) were caught stealing a truckload of aid and then claimed to be acting on behalf of Faqih, who was subsequently tracked down, attacked and arrested. FPI, notorious for its violent attacks on bars and nightclubs, is widely regarded as an 'Islamic' paramilitary tool of certain military officers seeking to exert political and business influence.
Aid workers say much of the assistance in the province is being misused by crooked officials and squandered by incompetent non-government organizations.
Laksamana.Net reports that an anti-corruption activist was beaten up by the military and then accused of stealing relief aid in Aceh.
Government Watch coordinator Farid Faqih, who was also working for the United Nation’s World Food Program, was savagely beaten before being handed over to police and locked up.
Faqih has been highly critical of the notoriously corrupt military’s handling of relief aid in Aceh. He has also accused government officials of exaggerating the numbers of people living in refugee camps in order to collect and embezzle more aid.
Local media reports have identified Faqih’s main attacker as Army Captain Syuib Mahmud.
Initial reports had said three FPI members (paramilitaries) were caught stealing a truckload of aid and then claimed to be acting on behalf of Faqih, who was subsequently tracked down, attacked and arrested. FPI, notorious for its violent attacks on bars and nightclubs, is widely regarded as an 'Islamic' paramilitary tool of certain military officers seeking to exert political and business influence.
Aid workers say much of the assistance in the province is being misused by crooked officials and squandered by incompetent non-government organizations.
Debunking Conspiracy Theories
http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/4086.php
Extract from 'Debunking Conspiracy Theories'
by Gerard Holmgren
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.
These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able.
Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours ,crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent even more preposturous stories to distract from its core silliness, and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly gargantuan proportions. It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their (ill)logical conclusions......."
Extract from 'Debunking Conspiracy Theories'
by Gerard Holmgren
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.
These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able.
Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours ,crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent even more preposturous stories to distract from its core silliness, and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly gargantuan proportions. It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article.
However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their (ill)logical conclusions......."
VIETNAM - What actually happened
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php?articleid=4871
John Pilger, in an article entitled 'First, They Attack the Past' writes:
The final declaration of the Geneva conference divided Vietnam "temporarily" until free national elections were held on July 26, 1956. There was little doubt that Ho Chi Minh would win and form Vietnam's first democratically elected government. Certainly, President Eisenhower was in no doubt of this. "I have never talked with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs," he wrote, "who did not agree that ... 80 percent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader."
Not only did the United States refuse to allow the UN to administer the agreed elections two years later, but the "democratic" regime in the south was an invention. One of the inventors, the CIA official Ralph McGhee, describes in his masterly book Deadly Deceits how a brutal expatriate mandarin, Ngo Dinh Diem, was imported from New Jersey to be "president" and a fake government was put in place. "The CIA," he wrote, "was ordered to sustain that illusion through propaganda [placed in the media]."
Phony elections were arranged, hailed in the West as "free and fair," with American officials fabricating "an 83 percent turnout despite Vietcong terror." The guide alludes to none of this, nor that "the terrorists," whom the Americans called the Vietcong, were also southern Vietnamese defending their homeland against the American invasion and whose resistance was popular. For Vietnam, read Iraq.
John Pilger, in an article entitled 'First, They Attack the Past' writes:
The final declaration of the Geneva conference divided Vietnam "temporarily" until free national elections were held on July 26, 1956. There was little doubt that Ho Chi Minh would win and form Vietnam's first democratically elected government. Certainly, President Eisenhower was in no doubt of this. "I have never talked with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs," he wrote, "who did not agree that ... 80 percent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader."
Not only did the United States refuse to allow the UN to administer the agreed elections two years later, but the "democratic" regime in the south was an invention. One of the inventors, the CIA official Ralph McGhee, describes in his masterly book Deadly Deceits how a brutal expatriate mandarin, Ngo Dinh Diem, was imported from New Jersey to be "president" and a fake government was put in place. "The CIA," he wrote, "was ordered to sustain that illusion through propaganda [placed in the media]."
Phony elections were arranged, hailed in the West as "free and fair," with American officials fabricating "an 83 percent turnout despite Vietcong terror." The guide alludes to none of this, nor that "the terrorists," whom the Americans called the Vietcong, were also southern Vietnamese defending their homeland against the American invasion and whose resistance was popular. For Vietnam, read Iraq.
US involved in assassination of Hariri?
http://www.sundayherald.com/47857
US covert operations and dirty tricks? According to the UK's Sunday Herald, the assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions that the USA may have been involved.
Diplomatic editor Trevor Royle writes that with Iran, "there is the option of covert operations aimed at making life impossible for the administration and paving the way for a more sympathetic government."
"Last week’s assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri is a good example of this approach. No serious group has claimed responsibility for the operation, which was well planned and efficiently executed, but the attack has created the kind of uncertainty that can encourage change."
"As a diplomat in Honduras between 1981 and 1985, Negroponte turned a blind eye to atrocities and political assassinations carried out by US-funded Contra fighters during the illegal war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
"Throughout the period, Honduras receive huge funding and military assistance from the US in what CIA director William Casey called 'the ultimate covert operation' which culminated in the discredited 'Irangate' policy of channelling funds and weapons through Israel and Iran.
According to Human Rights Watch, Negroponte and other US officials 'looked the other way when serious atrocities were committed'."
"Backed by the US, albeit secretly, Honduran forces were accused of torture and assassination and Contra fighters were repeatedly discovered perpetrating atrocities on civilians. When the scandal was revealed, it was discovered that CIA teams had instructed the Contras in the art of political assassination as well as taking part in the illegal mining of Nicaraguan ports.
"According to critics, all this would have been known to Negroponte but he kept his silence and the cover was not blown until October 1986, when Sandanista forces shot down a CIA aircraft carrying arms to Contra forces inside Nicaragua."
US covert operations and dirty tricks? According to the UK's Sunday Herald, the assassination of the former Lebanese PM has aroused suspicions that the USA may have been involved.
Diplomatic editor Trevor Royle writes that with Iran, "there is the option of covert operations aimed at making life impossible for the administration and paving the way for a more sympathetic government."
"Last week’s assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri is a good example of this approach. No serious group has claimed responsibility for the operation, which was well planned and efficiently executed, but the attack has created the kind of uncertainty that can encourage change."
"As a diplomat in Honduras between 1981 and 1985, Negroponte turned a blind eye to atrocities and political assassinations carried out by US-funded Contra fighters during the illegal war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
"Throughout the period, Honduras receive huge funding and military assistance from the US in what CIA director William Casey called 'the ultimate covert operation' which culminated in the discredited 'Irangate' policy of channelling funds and weapons through Israel and Iran.
According to Human Rights Watch, Negroponte and other US officials 'looked the other way when serious atrocities were committed'."
"Backed by the US, albeit secretly, Honduran forces were accused of torture and assassination and Contra fighters were repeatedly discovered perpetrating atrocities on civilians. When the scandal was revealed, it was discovered that CIA teams had instructed the Contras in the art of political assassination as well as taking part in the illegal mining of Nicaraguan ports.
"According to critics, all this would have been known to Negroponte but he kept his silence and the cover was not blown until October 1986, when Sandanista forces shot down a CIA aircraft carrying arms to Contra forces inside Nicaragua."
UK involvement in Abu Ghraib torture
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1418624,00.html
"A British official was involved in drafting rules permitting extreme interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, centre of the controversy over the use of torture by US forces against Iraqi prisoners.
"Last night it emerged that the government has been forced to retract claims that no British military officer had seen or been involved with the crucial document allowing guards to subject detainees to interrogation methods including the use of dogs, sleep deprivation and stress positions, in breach of the Geneva Convention."
"A British official was involved in drafting rules permitting extreme interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, centre of the controversy over the use of torture by US forces against Iraqi prisoners.
"Last night it emerged that the government has been forced to retract claims that no British military officer had seen or been involved with the crucial document allowing guards to subject detainees to interrogation methods including the use of dogs, sleep deprivation and stress positions, in breach of the Geneva Convention."
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Jewish Israeli John Negroponte to control United States security services.
"Bush has appointed the Jewish Israeli national John Negroponte to be the head of all 15 of the their intelligence organizations, including the CIA.
"Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel."
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index683.htm
"Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel."
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index683.htm
GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring?
According to Wayne Madsen of Online Journal, 'Gannongate' threatens to expose a huge GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring.
http://onlinejournal.com/Media/021805Madsen/021805madsen.html
Jeff Gannon reports for a news service which is a 'front operation for conservative Republicans'. Gannons real name is reportedly James D. Guckert.
Allegedly James D. Guckert ran gay porn sites, one with a U.S. Marine Corps theme that solicited males for prostitution.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said he did not realize Gannon was using an alias until recently.
In Nebraska in 1989, Lawrence King, a rising star in the GOP, was reportedly discovered to be a kingpin, along with top Republicans, in a child prostitution and pedophilia scandal.
The scandal, investigated by Nebraska State Senator Loran Schmit, his assistant John DeCamp , State Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, and former CIA Director William Colby, 'reached the very top echelons of the George H. W. Bush administration and GOP'.
'Child prostitutes from Boys Town and other orphanages in Nebraska as well as children procured from China were reportedly flown to Washington for sexcapades with Republican politicians.'
Caradori and his young son were killed in a suspicious plane crash in Illinois in 1990.
Colby was found floating dead in the Chesapeake Bay, near his home, in 1996.
Craig Spence, a GOP lobbyist implicated in the scandal, allegedly committed suicide in 1989.
Witnesses, many of whom were abused themselves, 'were intimidated and subsequently jailed in Nebraska' and the investigation of the pedophile scandal eventually collapsed.
'Last year, a senior source on the Washington Times editorial staff (the same paper that broke the GOP pedophile scandal in 1989) linked White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to gay activities involving top Republican political strategists in Washington, DC.'
Gannon (Guckert) has been a major player in GOP and fundamentalist Christian politics in Washington and around the country.
http://onlinejournal.com/Media/021805Madsen/021805madsen.html
Jeff Gannon reports for a news service which is a 'front operation for conservative Republicans'. Gannons real name is reportedly James D. Guckert.
Allegedly James D. Guckert ran gay porn sites, one with a U.S. Marine Corps theme that solicited males for prostitution.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said he did not realize Gannon was using an alias until recently.
In Nebraska in 1989, Lawrence King, a rising star in the GOP, was reportedly discovered to be a kingpin, along with top Republicans, in a child prostitution and pedophilia scandal.
The scandal, investigated by Nebraska State Senator Loran Schmit, his assistant John DeCamp , State Senate Committee investigator Gary Caradori, and former CIA Director William Colby, 'reached the very top echelons of the George H. W. Bush administration and GOP'.
'Child prostitutes from Boys Town and other orphanages in Nebraska as well as children procured from China were reportedly flown to Washington for sexcapades with Republican politicians.'
Caradori and his young son were killed in a suspicious plane crash in Illinois in 1990.
Colby was found floating dead in the Chesapeake Bay, near his home, in 1996.
Craig Spence, a GOP lobbyist implicated in the scandal, allegedly committed suicide in 1989.
Witnesses, many of whom were abused themselves, 'were intimidated and subsequently jailed in Nebraska' and the investigation of the pedophile scandal eventually collapsed.
'Last year, a senior source on the Washington Times editorial staff (the same paper that broke the GOP pedophile scandal in 1989) linked White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to gay activities involving top Republican political strategists in Washington, DC.'
Gannon (Guckert) has been a major player in GOP and fundamentalist Christian politics in Washington and around the country.
ROMANIA
Western “market led” reforms by the likes of the World Bank have left most of the population 8 times poorer than 10 years ago.
44% of Romanians are now reportedly living in poverty
95% of Romanian households in some parts of the north east have no running water, 10% cannot afford to connect to the electricity supply and there are no social services
Romanians still barely get by in grinding poverty and believe the only way out is by being corrupt. It begins with parents having to give teachers gifts to make sure their children are well treated. It continues with having to ay a bribe for a driver's license, decent hospital treatment or a seat on a crowded airliner.
44% of Romanians are now reportedly living in poverty
95% of Romanian households in some parts of the north east have no running water, 10% cannot afford to connect to the electricity supply and there are no social services
Romanians still barely get by in grinding poverty and believe the only way out is by being corrupt. It begins with parents having to give teachers gifts to make sure their children are well treated. It continues with having to ay a bribe for a driver's license, decent hospital treatment or a seat on a crowded airliner.
Friday, February 18, 2005
US FOMENTING DIVISIONS BETWEEN SHIA AND SUNNI
From the first days of the US-British invasion of Iraq, oil workers have resisted foreign occupation.
This is according to Hassan Juma'a Awad, writing in the Guardian, Friday February 18, 2005.
Hassan Juma'a Awad is general secretary of Iraq's Southern Oil Company Union and president of the Basra Oil Workers' Union
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1417222,00.html
Awad writes: "We see it as our duty to defend the country's resources. We reject and will oppose all moves to privatise our oil industry and national resources. We regard this privatisation as a form of neo-colonialism, an attempt to impose a permanent economic occupation to follow the military occupation."
"The occupation has deliberately fomented a sectarian division of Sunni and Shia. We never knew this sort of division before. Our families intermarried, we lived and worked together. And today we are resisting this brutal occupation together, from Falluja to Najaf to Sadr City.
"We as a union call for the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces and their military bases. We don't want a timetable - this is a stalling tactic. We will solve our own problems. We are Iraqis, we know our country and we can take care of ourselves. We have the means, the skills and resources to rebuild and create our own democratic society."
This is according to Hassan Juma'a Awad, writing in the Guardian, Friday February 18, 2005.
Hassan Juma'a Awad is general secretary of Iraq's Southern Oil Company Union and president of the Basra Oil Workers' Union
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1417222,00.html
Awad writes: "We see it as our duty to defend the country's resources. We reject and will oppose all moves to privatise our oil industry and national resources. We regard this privatisation as a form of neo-colonialism, an attempt to impose a permanent economic occupation to follow the military occupation."
"The occupation has deliberately fomented a sectarian division of Sunni and Shia. We never knew this sort of division before. Our families intermarried, we lived and worked together. And today we are resisting this brutal occupation together, from Falluja to Najaf to Sadr City.
"We as a union call for the withdrawal of foreign occupation forces and their military bases. We don't want a timetable - this is a stalling tactic. We will solve our own problems. We are Iraqis, we know our country and we can take care of ourselves. We have the means, the skills and resources to rebuild and create our own democratic society."
People already know!
http://www.warfolly.vzz.net/thesecondwave.html
"It came as a big — and pleasant — surprise to me.
In a chance conversation with a complete stranger at the car wash, I screwed up my courage and dared to say it. 'You know ... our own government was behind 9/11!' I held my breath. My eyebrows scrunched up in anticipation of some mindwashed backlash of preprogrammed patriotic outrage.
The guy turned slowly and looked me squarely in the eye. "I know," he said, his furrowed brow mirroring all the painful pathos that has hogtied all the hearts in America these past three years.
"It came as a big — and pleasant — surprise to me.
In a chance conversation with a complete stranger at the car wash, I screwed up my courage and dared to say it. 'You know ... our own government was behind 9/11!' I held my breath. My eyebrows scrunched up in anticipation of some mindwashed backlash of preprogrammed patriotic outrage.
The guy turned slowly and looked me squarely in the eye. "I know," he said, his furrowed brow mirroring all the painful pathos that has hogtied all the hearts in America these past three years.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
NEGROPONTE
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.
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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.
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Source:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a,0,3704648.story
U.S. collaboration with Battalion 316:
* 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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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.
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Source:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a,0,3704648.story
U.S. collaboration with Battalion 316:
* 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.
Jews make up 0.5% of the population of Britain
Jews are only 0.5% of the population in Britain. Yet if you open any major British newspaper you will almost certainly find numerous references to Jewish personalities and Jewish issues.
What % of the journalists on the Sunday Telegraph or the Guardian or the Mail are Jewish?
What % of the journalists on the Sunday Telegraph or the Guardian or the Mail are Jewish?
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to be partitioned? A Greater Israel to be created?
Source:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2987.htm
April 2004
According to analysts in Indonesia and Malaysia, a greater Israel is in the making. This comes with the fall of Saddam and with the taming of Syria, Iran and other Arab nations.
The UK and U.S. are assisting Israel in a plan to partition Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
“Libya is also a target in what is now to be called the ‘Middle Eastern Axis of evil’ in a bid to secure both oil and strategic regions for the strengthening of the U.S. Empire and the making of a greater Israel in the Middle East,” Abdullai Rauf, a political analyst told IslamOnline.net.
Dr Gatut Priyowidodo Msi, who told Indonesia's Antara news agency Sharon was setting the stage for a “greater Israel” after the fall of Baghdad.
Professor Priyowidodo said on April 14 that the warnings given to Syria by the U.S. were strong enough to indicate that the Middle Eastern nation was the next target in a “cleansing” of the region.
Israel is already considered the mini-super power of the region with its arsenal of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, said other experts in Asia.
“A change in regime in Syria, a greater Israel, will have a huge impact on the entire world and the South East Asian region with Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and other Muslim nations here will not be safe anymore,” said Abdullai.
“To realize the dream of a greater Israel, Sharon will lobby that the U.S. and British forces be used to invade Syria and Iran,” he added.
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The assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al Hariri.
Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=6991
The Syrian media is pointing the finger of suspicion at Israel.
"What happened was an attempt to shatter national unity in Lebanon, to sow anarchy and divisions which lead to a climate of civil war," said government newspaper Tishrin.
Israel "continues to work to sabotage Lebanon's achievements to try to bring anarchy to the country and to be able to continue its occupation of the Shebaa Farms", a disputed strip of land along the Israeli border, the newspaper added.
Several analysts say that Syria is targeted by Hariri's assassination.
"Syria certainly did not need to complicate the situation, just when it is already in the firing line" over UN Resolution 1559, Rauf Ghoneim, a former Egyptian deputy foreign minister, said.
According to several political analysts, Al Hariri’s assassination is aimed at drowning Lebanon in another civil war. Arab commentators called on Lebanon on Tuesday to unite against such threat, with some suggesting that Israel has greatly benefited from the death of Al Hariri.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2987.htm
April 2004
According to analysts in Indonesia and Malaysia, a greater Israel is in the making. This comes with the fall of Saddam and with the taming of Syria, Iran and other Arab nations.
The UK and U.S. are assisting Israel in a plan to partition Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
“Libya is also a target in what is now to be called the ‘Middle Eastern Axis of evil’ in a bid to secure both oil and strategic regions for the strengthening of the U.S. Empire and the making of a greater Israel in the Middle East,” Abdullai Rauf, a political analyst told IslamOnline.net.
Dr Gatut Priyowidodo Msi, who told Indonesia's Antara news agency Sharon was setting the stage for a “greater Israel” after the fall of Baghdad.
Professor Priyowidodo said on April 14 that the warnings given to Syria by the U.S. were strong enough to indicate that the Middle Eastern nation was the next target in a “cleansing” of the region.
Israel is already considered the mini-super power of the region with its arsenal of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, said other experts in Asia.
“A change in regime in Syria, a greater Israel, will have a huge impact on the entire world and the South East Asian region with Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and other Muslim nations here will not be safe anymore,” said Abdullai.
“To realize the dream of a greater Israel, Sharon will lobby that the U.S. and British forces be used to invade Syria and Iran,” he added.
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The assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al Hariri.
Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=6991
The Syrian media is pointing the finger of suspicion at Israel.
"What happened was an attempt to shatter national unity in Lebanon, to sow anarchy and divisions which lead to a climate of civil war," said government newspaper Tishrin.
Israel "continues to work to sabotage Lebanon's achievements to try to bring anarchy to the country and to be able to continue its occupation of the Shebaa Farms", a disputed strip of land along the Israeli border, the newspaper added.
Several analysts say that Syria is targeted by Hariri's assassination.
"Syria certainly did not need to complicate the situation, just when it is already in the firing line" over UN Resolution 1559, Rauf Ghoneim, a former Egyptian deputy foreign minister, said.
According to several political analysts, Al Hariri’s assassination is aimed at drowning Lebanon in another civil war. Arab commentators called on Lebanon on Tuesday to unite against such threat, with some suggesting that Israel has greatly benefited from the death of Al Hariri.
JEWISH CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS?
Winston Churchill: "In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed, the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
"The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.
"...The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with villainies which are now being perpetrated...Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people."
Researcher Wayne McGuire of Harvard University writes: "50% of the communist terrorist vanguard in the south and west of Russia was comprised of Jews." http://www.russians.org/communist.html
The Siberian novelist Valentin Rasputin wrote in 1990: "I think today the Jews here in Russia should feel responsible for the sin of having carried out the revolution and for the shape it took. They should feel responsible for the terror - for the terror that existed during the revolution and especially after the revolution ... their guilt is great. They perpetrated the relentless campaign against the peasant class whose land was brutally expropriated by the state and who themselves were ruthlessly murdered."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's biographer: "By the age of ten he had the cross ripped from his neck by jeering Pioneers and for over a year was held up to ridicule... Solzhenitsyn was, as a boy, exposed to students whose parents had an officially superior status. Most of the members of the Young Pioneers and Komsomol movements, at least in Rostov, were Jewish children..." (Michael Scammell, Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, p. 64).
According to the RNS wire service (reprinted in "The Christian News," Jan. 8, 1996, p. 2), "Some 200,000 (Christian) clergy, many crucified, scalped and otherwise tortured, were killed during the approximately 60 years of communist rule in the former Soviet Union, a Russian commission reported Monday (Nov. 27, 1995)...40,000 churches (were) destroyed in the period from 1922 to 1980..."
Russia's concentration camps and slave labor system were "staffed in its upper echelons by Jewish Communists."
Sixteen million ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from Silesia, Moravia and the Volga at the end of the Second World War. Two million perished. 800,000 mostly Muslim Chechens were deported to Kazakhstan; a quarter of a million died enroute. 12% of the Baltic population was either deported to Siberia or executed. http://www.russians.org/communist.html
In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total population (Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)
Source: http://www.russians.org/communist.html
The following is a list of some top Jewish Communists:
V.I. Lenin, Trotsky, Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret Police.
Solomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister. Litvinov: Soviet foreign minister. Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB, later supreme dictator of the Soviet Union.
Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union.
Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich: chief mass murderer for Stalin, ordered the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave labor, brother of Lazar.
Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin's mistress; sister of Lazar.
Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.
Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife of Kamenev.
Lavrenti Beria: in 1938 he was put in charge of the dreaded NKVD. Beria was responsible for the infamous Katyn massacre of captive Polish soldiers and intellectuals. Beria was also in charge of the Gulag prison system that sent millions to oblivion. Beria was noted for having his bodyguards kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka office, which doubled as a torture chamber.
Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.
Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.
Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of Matvei.
K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.
Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor, supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal.
Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.
M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
Slutsky and Shpiegelglas: commanders, Soviet Secret Police.
Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret Police.
Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army; officer, Soviet Secret Police.
Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.
Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army.
Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general, Soviet Red Army. Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union. Grigori Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army. Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red Army. Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army. Arseni Raskin: deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army. Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk, Soviet Red Army. At least one hundred Soviet generals were Jewish (cf. Canadian Jewish News, April 19, 1989).
Generals who were not themselves Jewish often had Jewish wives. Among these were Marshal Voroshilov, Marshal Bulganin, Marshal Peresypkin and General Pavel Sudoplatov (Sudoplatov assassinated hundreds of Christian leaders including Ukranian Catholic Archbishop Teodor Romzha). This Jewish wife "insurance policy" extended to Politburo members such as Andrei Andreyev and Leonid Brezhnev.
Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks were subsequently massacred.
KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on land seized from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier Julius Rosenwald.
Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, "that blonde hag is in for a bad time." In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: "...the Germans are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses." (Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg, "...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on he turned his old prejudice into an asset." (Ibid., p. 193).
Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist. Samuel Agursky: commissar. Karl Radek: member, Central Committee. Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar. A.A. Yoffe: commissar. David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin. Lev Grigorievich Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies. Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev): member of the Central Committee.
Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer: commissar, Soviet Secret Police. Abraham Sutskever: Soviet terrorist-partisan. Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of three Stalin Prizes. Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.
Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea. Kun's eventual successor was Matyas Rakosi, Jewish Communist mass murderer of Christians in Hungary. According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency of May 14, 1997, Jews "...played key roles in ushering Communist rule into Hungary. In fact, during the brutal oppression of the early 1950s, the regime's top five leaders were Jews. "
Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin. Henrykas Zimanas: leader of Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of Christians.
Moshe Pijade (sometimes spelled Piade): commander, Yugoslav Communist People's Army. Tito's top butcher of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Christians. Pijade later served as president of the Yugoslav Communist Parliament. At least eighteen generals in the Yugoslav Communist People's Army were Jewish. The Yugoslavian communist party sent massive arms shipments to Jewish fighters in Palestine in the 1940s.
In post-war Poland that nation was completely dominated by Jewish communists: the torturer Jacek Rozanski, head of the Secret Police; the Politboro commander Jacob Berman
and commissars Minc, Specht (Olszewski) and Spychalski. These men murdered or deported to Kolyma and the other Arctic death camps, tens of thousands of Catholic Poles.
According to Jewish researcher John Sack, "In 1945 many Poles felt (and not without reason) that Jews ran the Office of State Security...the chief of the Office was Jacob Berman, a Jew, and all or almost all the department heads were Jews." Sack reports that 75% of the officers of the Communist Secret Police in Silesia were Jews. He noted that many Jews in the Communist terror apparatus in Poland changed their names to Polish ones like General Romkowski, Colonel Rozanski, Capt. Studencki and Lt. Jurkowski.
In Poland, "...a disproportionate number of Communists were Jews. In 1930, at its peak, 35% of the members of the party were Jewish. In Communist youth organizations, Jewish membership was even higher, while Communists of Jewish origin occupied most of the seats on the central committee. Communism appealed to some Jews because it opposed anti-Semitism more vigorously than any other Polish party...Jewish Communists reached their apogee in the years immediately after World War Two, when the party leadership was totally in the hands of the prewar Communist leadership that abhorred anti-Semitism." (Sheldon Kirshner, The Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1992, p. 16).
Solomon Morel : commandant of a post-war Communist concentration camp for Germans in Poland. Stalin deliberately put Jews in charge of such camps. Morel tortured and murdered thousands of Germans, sometimes with his bare hands (cf. "The Wrath of Solomon," Village Voice, March 30, 1993 and John Sack, An Eye for an Eye). Morel is comfortably esconsed in Tel Aviv.
Lev Davidovich Landau: Stalinist physicist, co-father of the Soviet atomic bomb. Klaus Fuchs: helped steal atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Ruth Werner: colonel, Red Army GRU intelligence, assisted Fuchs. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: stole American atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Morris Cohen (Peter Kroger): assisted the Rosenbergs. Markus Wolf: chief of German Communist Stasi Secret Police.
Nahum Goldmann: founder, World Jewish Congress, communist propagandist. Rabbi Moses Rosen: agent, Romanian communist party. Victor Rothschild: allegedly top British espionage agent for Stalin.
Mark Zborowski: "...considered by historians of Soviet terror operations to have been the most fearsome...(Soviet) spy of all time" (Stephen Schwartz, Forward, Jan. 26, 1996). Zborowski, a medical researcher, murdered a dissident with a poisoned orange at the Soviet-run hospital in Paris. Zborowski was implicated in several other assassinations in 1936 and 1937. In the 1940s worked for both the American Jewish Committee and the KGB. In the 1960s Zborowski worked as a medical researcher at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He trained numerous psychiatrists and medical specialists in the Bay Area. He died in 1990 (cf. "The Strange Case of Doctor Zborowski and Monsieur Etienne" by Philippe Videlier, in Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec. 1992).
http://www.russians.org/communist.html
"The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.
"...The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with villainies which are now being perpetrated...Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people."
Researcher Wayne McGuire of Harvard University writes: "50% of the communist terrorist vanguard in the south and west of Russia was comprised of Jews." http://www.russians.org/communist.html
The Siberian novelist Valentin Rasputin wrote in 1990: "I think today the Jews here in Russia should feel responsible for the sin of having carried out the revolution and for the shape it took. They should feel responsible for the terror - for the terror that existed during the revolution and especially after the revolution ... their guilt is great. They perpetrated the relentless campaign against the peasant class whose land was brutally expropriated by the state and who themselves were ruthlessly murdered."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's biographer: "By the age of ten he had the cross ripped from his neck by jeering Pioneers and for over a year was held up to ridicule... Solzhenitsyn was, as a boy, exposed to students whose parents had an officially superior status. Most of the members of the Young Pioneers and Komsomol movements, at least in Rostov, were Jewish children..." (Michael Scammell, Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, p. 64).
According to the RNS wire service (reprinted in "The Christian News," Jan. 8, 1996, p. 2), "Some 200,000 (Christian) clergy, many crucified, scalped and otherwise tortured, were killed during the approximately 60 years of communist rule in the former Soviet Union, a Russian commission reported Monday (Nov. 27, 1995)...40,000 churches (were) destroyed in the period from 1922 to 1980..."
Russia's concentration camps and slave labor system were "staffed in its upper echelons by Jewish Communists."
Sixteen million ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from Silesia, Moravia and the Volga at the end of the Second World War. Two million perished. 800,000 mostly Muslim Chechens were deported to Kazakhstan; a quarter of a million died enroute. 12% of the Baltic population was either deported to Siberia or executed. http://www.russians.org/communist.html
In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total population (Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)
Source: http://www.russians.org/communist.html
The following is a list of some top Jewish Communists:
V.I. Lenin, Trotsky, Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret Police.
Solomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister. Litvinov: Soviet foreign minister. Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB, later supreme dictator of the Soviet Union.
Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union.
Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich: chief mass murderer for Stalin, ordered the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave labor, brother of Lazar.
Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin's mistress; sister of Lazar.
Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.
Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife of Kamenev.
Lavrenti Beria: in 1938 he was put in charge of the dreaded NKVD. Beria was responsible for the infamous Katyn massacre of captive Polish soldiers and intellectuals. Beria was also in charge of the Gulag prison system that sent millions to oblivion. Beria was noted for having his bodyguards kidnap young schoolgirls so that he could rape them in his Lubyanka office, which doubled as a torture chamber.
Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.
Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.
Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of Matvei.
K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.
Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor, supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal.
Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.
M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
Slutsky and Shpiegelglas: commanders, Soviet Secret Police.
Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret Police.
Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army; officer, Soviet Secret Police.
Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.
Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army.
Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general, Soviet Red Army. Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union. Grigori Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army. Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red Army. Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army. Arseni Raskin: deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army. Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk, Soviet Red Army. At least one hundred Soviet generals were Jewish (cf. Canadian Jewish News, April 19, 1989).
Generals who were not themselves Jewish often had Jewish wives. Among these were Marshal Voroshilov, Marshal Bulganin, Marshal Peresypkin and General Pavel Sudoplatov (Sudoplatov assassinated hundreds of Christian leaders including Ukranian Catholic Archbishop Teodor Romzha). This Jewish wife "insurance policy" extended to Politburo members such as Andrei Andreyev and Leonid Brezhnev.
Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks were subsequently massacred.
KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on land seized from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier Julius Rosenwald.
Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, "that blonde hag is in for a bad time." In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: "...the Germans are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses." (Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg, "...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on he turned his old prejudice into an asset." (Ibid., p. 193).
Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist. Samuel Agursky: commissar. Karl Radek: member, Central Committee. Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar. A.A. Yoffe: commissar. David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin. Lev Grigorievich Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies. Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev): member of the Central Committee.
Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer: commissar, Soviet Secret Police. Abraham Sutskever: Soviet terrorist-partisan. Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of three Stalin Prizes. Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.
Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea. Kun's eventual successor was Matyas Rakosi, Jewish Communist mass murderer of Christians in Hungary. According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency of May 14, 1997, Jews "...played key roles in ushering Communist rule into Hungary. In fact, during the brutal oppression of the early 1950s, the regime's top five leaders were Jews. "
Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin. Henrykas Zimanas: leader of Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of Christians.
Moshe Pijade (sometimes spelled Piade): commander, Yugoslav Communist People's Army. Tito's top butcher of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Christians. Pijade later served as president of the Yugoslav Communist Parliament. At least eighteen generals in the Yugoslav Communist People's Army were Jewish. The Yugoslavian communist party sent massive arms shipments to Jewish fighters in Palestine in the 1940s.
In post-war Poland that nation was completely dominated by Jewish communists: the torturer Jacek Rozanski, head of the Secret Police; the Politboro commander Jacob Berman
and commissars Minc, Specht (Olszewski) and Spychalski. These men murdered or deported to Kolyma and the other Arctic death camps, tens of thousands of Catholic Poles.
According to Jewish researcher John Sack, "In 1945 many Poles felt (and not without reason) that Jews ran the Office of State Security...the chief of the Office was Jacob Berman, a Jew, and all or almost all the department heads were Jews." Sack reports that 75% of the officers of the Communist Secret Police in Silesia were Jews. He noted that many Jews in the Communist terror apparatus in Poland changed their names to Polish ones like General Romkowski, Colonel Rozanski, Capt. Studencki and Lt. Jurkowski.
In Poland, "...a disproportionate number of Communists were Jews. In 1930, at its peak, 35% of the members of the party were Jewish. In Communist youth organizations, Jewish membership was even higher, while Communists of Jewish origin occupied most of the seats on the central committee. Communism appealed to some Jews because it opposed anti-Semitism more vigorously than any other Polish party...Jewish Communists reached their apogee in the years immediately after World War Two, when the party leadership was totally in the hands of the prewar Communist leadership that abhorred anti-Semitism." (Sheldon Kirshner, The Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1992, p. 16).
Solomon Morel : commandant of a post-war Communist concentration camp for Germans in Poland. Stalin deliberately put Jews in charge of such camps. Morel tortured and murdered thousands of Germans, sometimes with his bare hands (cf. "The Wrath of Solomon," Village Voice, March 30, 1993 and John Sack, An Eye for an Eye). Morel is comfortably esconsed in Tel Aviv.
Lev Davidovich Landau: Stalinist physicist, co-father of the Soviet atomic bomb. Klaus Fuchs: helped steal atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Ruth Werner: colonel, Red Army GRU intelligence, assisted Fuchs. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: stole American atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Morris Cohen (Peter Kroger): assisted the Rosenbergs. Markus Wolf: chief of German Communist Stasi Secret Police.
Nahum Goldmann: founder, World Jewish Congress, communist propagandist. Rabbi Moses Rosen: agent, Romanian communist party. Victor Rothschild: allegedly top British espionage agent for Stalin.
Mark Zborowski: "...considered by historians of Soviet terror operations to have been the most fearsome...(Soviet) spy of all time" (Stephen Schwartz, Forward, Jan. 26, 1996). Zborowski, a medical researcher, murdered a dissident with a poisoned orange at the Soviet-run hospital in Paris. Zborowski was implicated in several other assassinations in 1936 and 1937. In the 1940s worked for both the American Jewish Committee and the KGB. In the 1960s Zborowski worked as a medical researcher at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He trained numerous psychiatrists and medical specialists in the Bay Area. He died in 1990 (cf. "The Strange Case of Doctor Zborowski and Monsieur Etienne" by Philippe Videlier, in Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec. 1992).
http://www.russians.org/communist.html
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
MAFIA & TERROR LINKS TO GOVERMENTS?
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411796,00.html
Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England.
Iqbal Mirchi is wanted by police in India for murder and his part in a terrorist bombing campaign.
He is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia.
Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people. Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings.
According to Mirchi: 'a senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes. I refused and moved to Dubai. '
Mirchi admits having met Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai.
Dawood has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing. It is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry.
Dawood is also known to have met Osama Bin Laden and, in the aftermath of 9/11, allowed his smuggling network to be used to enable senior al-Qaeda operatives to flee Afghanistan.
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"The UAE is regarded as the hub of the Dawood syndicate — its operations in Dubai, for instance, have been well-entrenched for over a decade."
http://www.satribune.com/archives/nov16_22_03/P1_dawood.htm
There are those in Pakistani intelligence who ... point out that not a single member of the D-Company has been nabbed in recent years in connection with any plot against the US... “There are many other big mafia gangs in Thailand, Hong Kong and South Africa. Compared to them, D-Company is nothing. Yet the US deemed it fit to portray Dawood as a terror ringleader under Pakistan’s protection merely to oblige India.”
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http://www.satribune.com/archives/apr4_10_04/P1_arun.htm
"Iqbal Seth alias Amir Sahib is living in style in the Pakistani capital city of Islamabad... Yes! Iqbal Seth alias Amir Sahib is the mythical Dawood Ibrahim, the Indian Osama bin Laden, wanted desperately by New Delhi.
"Ibrahim, now Iqbal Seth, has already established links in Nepal with the help of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, and has appointed one Sartaj Ahmed as his front man. Sartaj was allegedly seen recently with a Pakistani Embassy official near Tundi Khel in Kathmandu...
Dawood Ibrahim 'has also established criminal links in Nepal with the help of the ISI. Hence, the ISI has opened a new front against India.'
"Indian officials say Dawood Ibrahim’s contacts in ISI include Major Khaliq and Major Akbar under whose patronage he had been staying in Karachi carrying a Pakistani passport with the name of Sheikh Dawood Hasan...
"Dawood Ibrahim is a regular visitor to Nepal. He was last seen in Kathmandu in the last week of August 2003. Officials told the South Asia Tribune that during that visit, Dawood met his front man Sartaj Ahmed and leaders of some fundamentalist organizations.
"Though Dawood has restricted his international movements, his front man Sartaj is in constant touch with officials of the Pakistani Embassy. He was recently spotted near Tundi Khel playground in Kathmandu with a Pakistani diplomat...
"Dawood has big financial stakes in Nepal. He has made huge investments in a variety of business ventures, from media, private airlines, hotels, travel agencies to trans-border smuggling including that of gold.
"New Delhi is learnt to have provided documentary evidence to the Nepalese authorities on ISI’s alleged involvement in training and arming the Maoists to continue their rebellious activities against the monarchy in collaboration with the ultra Left outfits of India."
Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England.
Iqbal Mirchi is wanted by police in India for murder and his part in a terrorist bombing campaign.
He is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia.
Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people. Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings.
According to Mirchi: 'a senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes. I refused and moved to Dubai. '
Mirchi admits having met Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai.
Dawood has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world'. As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing. It is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry.
Dawood is also known to have met Osama Bin Laden and, in the aftermath of 9/11, allowed his smuggling network to be used to enable senior al-Qaeda operatives to flee Afghanistan.
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"The UAE is regarded as the hub of the Dawood syndicate — its operations in Dubai, for instance, have been well-entrenched for over a decade."
http://www.satribune.com/archives/nov16_22_03/P1_dawood.htm
There are those in Pakistani intelligence who ... point out that not a single member of the D-Company has been nabbed in recent years in connection with any plot against the US... “There are many other big mafia gangs in Thailand, Hong Kong and South Africa. Compared to them, D-Company is nothing. Yet the US deemed it fit to portray Dawood as a terror ringleader under Pakistan’s protection merely to oblige India.”
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http://www.satribune.com/archives/apr4_10_04/P1_arun.htm
"Iqbal Seth alias Amir Sahib is living in style in the Pakistani capital city of Islamabad... Yes! Iqbal Seth alias Amir Sahib is the mythical Dawood Ibrahim, the Indian Osama bin Laden, wanted desperately by New Delhi.
"Ibrahim, now Iqbal Seth, has already established links in Nepal with the help of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, and has appointed one Sartaj Ahmed as his front man. Sartaj was allegedly seen recently with a Pakistani Embassy official near Tundi Khel in Kathmandu...
Dawood Ibrahim 'has also established criminal links in Nepal with the help of the ISI. Hence, the ISI has opened a new front against India.'
"Indian officials say Dawood Ibrahim’s contacts in ISI include Major Khaliq and Major Akbar under whose patronage he had been staying in Karachi carrying a Pakistani passport with the name of Sheikh Dawood Hasan...
"Dawood Ibrahim is a regular visitor to Nepal. He was last seen in Kathmandu in the last week of August 2003. Officials told the South Asia Tribune that during that visit, Dawood met his front man Sartaj Ahmed and leaders of some fundamentalist organizations.
"Though Dawood has restricted his international movements, his front man Sartaj is in constant touch with officials of the Pakistani Embassy. He was recently spotted near Tundi Khel playground in Kathmandu with a Pakistani diplomat...
"Dawood has big financial stakes in Nepal. He has made huge investments in a variety of business ventures, from media, private airlines, hotels, travel agencies to trans-border smuggling including that of gold.
"New Delhi is learnt to have provided documentary evidence to the Nepalese authorities on ISI’s alleged involvement in training and arming the Maoists to continue their rebellious activities against the monarchy in collaboration with the ultra Left outfits of India."
TOP COUNTRY?
Which is the cleverest nation on earth?
Scholars have traced the rudiments of modern psychology, anthropology, the earth sciences and theories of civil society and liberal education to 18th-century Scotland.
In their more modern history, the Scots have excelled in the arts, science, engineering and medicine.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411963,00.html
Scholars have traced the rudiments of modern psychology, anthropology, the earth sciences and theories of civil society and liberal education to 18th-century Scotland.
In their more modern history, the Scots have excelled in the arts, science, engineering and medicine.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411963,00.html
Monday, February 14, 2005
Blair and the stock market
"A government that has presided over a near halving of the value of the London stock market surely risks the wrath of electors come the General Election.
"People have seen hundreds of millions wiped off the value of their pensions - many will surely struggle to make ends meet when they retire."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1411659,00.html
"People have seen hundreds of millions wiped off the value of their pensions - many will surely struggle to make ends meet when they retire."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1411659,00.html
Michael Howard's cousin and gangsters.
Why did Howard release two dangerous gangsters?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase. Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters. He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase. Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters. He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
PREDICTIONS
Predictions are often wrong.
However, here are some predictions made at the end of 2004:
David Miliband will be the next leader of Britain's Labour party.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy will take over from Chirac.
Michael Howard will remain as Britain's Tory leader.
Sir Stephen Lander will remain head of Britain's FBI.
Michael Grade will remain as BBC chairman.
In the Bush government, the following will remain key players:
Dov Zakheim and Paul Wolfowitz.
However, here are some predictions made at the end of 2004:
David Miliband will be the next leader of Britain's Labour party.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy will take over from Chirac.
Michael Howard will remain as Britain's Tory leader.
Sir Stephen Lander will remain head of Britain's FBI.
Michael Grade will remain as BBC chairman.
In the Bush government, the following will remain key players:
Dov Zakheim and Paul Wolfowitz.
TERRORISM - It's not who you think it is?
A. is for the city of ANGELS, Los Angeles.
Who would try to blow up a building in America? A bunch of crazy Moslems?
Irv Rubin, the chairman of the Jewish Defence league, was arrested in December 2001 for conspiring to blow up the main mosque in Los Angeles. Rubin was also charged with plotting against a Republican congressman. That got little publicity.
Remember Mr Blair claiming he had damning evidence against certain Moslems for the 9/11 attacks? Later, Blair admitted that this tenuous circumstantial evidence (CIA handouts) would not stand up in court. That got little publicity.
Then there was the BBC's John Simpson in Kabul discovering a document showing how to make nukes. That got lots of publicity. Then the New York Times pointed out the document was a spoof, available on the internet. That got little or no publicity in the UK.
Then there was Zacarias Moussaoui, charged in connection with 11/9. The French secret service repeatedly tried and failed to get MI6 and the FBI to take an interest in Zacarias. The French file dated back to 1994.
Then there was Newsnight telling us that top people in the Bush administration had told the FBI, prior to 11/9, to lay off bin Laden...
A. is for Allegations that the Omagh bombing was the work of a British double agent within the Real IRA.
Former British double agent Kevin Fulton alleges that the British security forces allowed the bomb to travel in a stolen car from Dundalk to Omagh. Sounds odd? Why was the army confined to barracks on the day of the attack? Why did the RUC have only 3 men on the streets of Omagh?
According to www.wsws.org British soldiers and double-agents ran a 'terror network' called the FRU. "The Force Research Unit (FRU) was an undercover security operation financed and run by the British state for more than two decades....(They) authorised their agents to carry out numerous illegal activities including bomb making, murder and the shooting of RUC officers...Fulton claims he...took part in a series of terrorist bombings...including...Portadown."
In one sense, Blair benefited from the Omagh bombing. The bombing helped to isolate the opponents of the Northern Ireland Agreement, and, the bombing gave Blair a pretext for bringing in draconian new laws against terrorism.
A. is for Abercorn Restaurant Bombing 1972 in Belfast.
Well, do you really know who did it? Two killed and one hundred and thirty one people injured when a 'Protestant' bomb went off.
Captain Colin Wallace, one time British army information officer, served 7 years in jail after being convicted of a serious crime in 1980. Wallace claimed he was framed because of claims he made about the British secret service's operations in Northern Ireland.
And that leads us to the Kincora Affair - the sexual abuse of young boys in Kincora boys home in Belfast. "Loyalist paramilitary leader William McGrath, who had links to British intelligence, was believed to have organised sex sessions with young boys for SENIOR POLITICIANS, civil servants and MILITARY personal."
And that leads us to who is really behind the continuing terror. Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? Who was being blackmailed? And which former British Prime Minister was smeared... Time.com 16/8/01 describes how leaders of the para-militaries are heavily into organised crime. It's not about Christianity. It's about making money.
Who is making money from the ATTACKS ON AMERICA? "Arms manufacturers, construction firms and gold mining groups...." according to The Guardian 25/9/01. "US defence giant Lockheed Martin is well placed for new orders, while missile maker Raytheon has seen its shares race ahaead 30% since September 11.... "Newmont Mining have seen their shares rise. "Those hedge funds that had already been betting huge sums that the stock market would fall will have cashed in handsomely..."
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote, "Afghanistan is the key to the Western Domination of Asia....Afghanistan is indispensible to the regional control and transport of oil in Central Asia....In 1998 Dick Cheney (then chief executive of a major oil services company)...remarked: 'I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become so strategically important as the Caspian.' ...The only route (for an oil pipeleine from the Caspian) which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan."
A. is for Algeria Ah! This is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections. The USA was not happy; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy. So the army took over.
Then the killings began. More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists doing the killings?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published. It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes: "I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child. "I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians. "I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood. "I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
Moslem extremism? Think of Palestine!
Thousands of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured. A third of the dead were children (and they wern't all throwing stones!) Up to 3,300 Palestinian homes have been damaged by Israeli tank shells. The Israeli army has bulldozed at least 650 Palestinian homes.
A. is for American Foreign Policy.
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote: "American foreign policy is governed by the doctrine...that the US should control military, economic and political development worldwide.
Certain theorists have considered that the aims of top people within the Pentagon/CIA/ State Department are -
1. Serve the interests of the super-rich within the USA.
2. Weaken and divide and confuse all potential rivals.
For evidence of this, look at
www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html
www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/blum1.html
Perhaps present policy is to use bin Laden to weaken and divide the Moslem world?
A. is for Anti-Semitism.
Remember the Dreyfus case? Dreyfus was the French Jew who was framed by anti-semites. Anti semitism is an evil.
My own position is as follows. We must not demonise any group, be it Jews, Blacks, Germans, Scots, Chinese, Whites or Moslems. Not all Italians are members of the Mafia. Not all Israelis want soldiers to kill little Palestinian kids.
A. is for Argentina and the Falklands Invasion.
General Galtieri was the bad guy.
During his time as a fascist leader of Argentina, 30,000 people disappeared or were executed. The father of a friend of mine was tortured by Galtieri's gestapo. Many of those murdered by Galtieri's government were students and teachers.
Who trained Galtieri and his killers?
Galtieri and friends were trained by the US Army School of the Americas. The CIA was heavily involved in Argentina supporting the campaign to squash dissidents (liberals and democrats). The CIA refuses to declassify the documents involved. Galtieri invaded the Falklands.
A. is for America, our friends and allies. I like Americans. But why did their leaders not fight for us in 1939? Why did they only enter the war when attacked by Japan? Is it because many top Americans had (and have) a fascist point of view.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush "had assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act for operating NAZI front companies during World War II."
www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
General Motors, during the 1930's, "owned Opel which made trucks for the Nazi armies." German newspaper Berliner Tagelblatt called on the American ambassador to investigate Henry Ford's funding of Hitler.
Standard Oil "developed and financed Germany's synthetic fuel programme in partnership with IG Farben."
ITT "owned large amounts of stock in German Armaments companies including Focke-Wolf...." www.rat.pogled.net/doc/helphitler.htm
A. is also for American Embassy Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1979-81.
And this is where politics gets mixed up with terrorism.
"Friends of Reagan/Bush managed to DELAY the freeing of the hostages," according to some historians!
Why would they do that? To ensure that in the presidential election President Carter would lose to Reagan/Bush.
Didn't Carter attempt to rescue the hostages? Charles Beckwith led the US Delta force which attempted to free the hostages. This elite force became involved in a total shambles. Beckwith now runs a security consultancy in Texas. Was the Delta force deli berately sabotaged?
A. is for Morse Allen.
How do you get a Catholic to kill other Catholics? How do you get a fun-loving, drink-loving Lebanese Moslem to crash a plane into a building? How do you kill a president and cover your tracks?
The CIA's first behavioral research czar was Morse Allen who did research into hypnosis and brainwashing in the 1950's.
He asked young CIA secretaries to stay after work and then hypnotised them. A single word could trigger the hypnotic state. Morse managed to get hypnotised secretaries to steal secret documents.
On Feb 19 1954 Allen simulated the ultimate experiment: the creation of the Manchurian Candidate or programmed assassin. He hypnotised a secretary and told her that she would shoot her friend. An UNLOADED pistol was left by her side. The girl picked up the gun and shot her friend. Afterwards, the secretary could remember nothing of the event.
A. is for ATTA. Mohammad ATTA was the supposed hijacker of AA Flight 11. On ITN a woman, who had seen Mohammad Atta at the airport before the fatal flight, described him as looking like a zombie.
news.bbc.co.uk 24/9/01 quoted Anne Greaves, who had spent 6 months alongside Atta learning to fly, as saying that at times he "appeared to be in a trance."
My own hunch is that Atta and friends had been brainwashed by elements of a certain intelligence service. Some reports say that the FBI had been keeping a close eye on the flying schools.
According to the Sunday Times, the hijackers "had girlfriends and drank large amounts of vodka."
In the days before the attack, the hijackers drew attention to themselves by shouting loudly and blaspheming against Allah. Two weeks after the attack, the FBI claim to have found a document in Atta's luggage (and another on the aircraft that crashed into tiny piec es in Pennsylvania) which 'conveniently link Atta to islamic terrorism.' The document states: 'check all knives.'
Does a group, clever enough to carry out this attack, put such things in writing? The document also contains phrases suggesting that the hijackers are highly religious. How does that tie in with the vodka and womanising? The document is written in "Berlitz Arabic", not the language of a native speaker, according to some Arabists. The contents are in no known dialect.
At the time of the Lockerbie trial, similar ODD bits of 'evidence' appeared. The FBI is now run by the same gentleman who 'found' the evidence for the Lockerbie trial.
NOW, here is a clue. The document found in Atta's luggage was obtained and translated by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARD! That name rings a bell. Bob Woodward once worked aboard USS Wright, a National Emergency Command Ship, a place that would be used by Presidents in time of nuclear war. He then moved on to the Pentagon, mixing with all the top people. It was widely assumed that he was CIA. His next move was to the Washinton post, which many allege has strong links to the CIA. Then we have Watergate which some people think was engineered by Kissinger/Bush working with Bob Woodward.
Next, let us take another alleged hijacker, a young Lebanese called ZIAD. Ziad appears to have been training as a pilot; and Ziad appears to have been on one of the planes that crashed.
BUT, the BBC's excellent Matt Frei did some investigating. And what did he find? Ziad was planning to marry his Turkish-German girlfriend later this year. Ziad was living with his girlfriend. Ziad had attended a Christian school. He liked to drink, was fun-loving and sociable, and he never expressed any anti-American feeling. The family produced a video showi ng Ziad dancing and drinking. Does this sound like a Moslem fundamentalist suicide bomber? The BBC must be cursing Frei, because otherwise the BBC has towed the party line.
The Guardian's George Monbiot wrote: "The more evidence US intelligence presents...the less credible the story becomes...
"First there was the car. A man had informed the police, we were told, that he had had a furious argument with some suspicious looking Moslems in the parking lot at Boston airport. He led the investigators to a car, in which they found a copy of the Koran and a flight manual in Arabic...
"Now flying an aeroplane is not one of these things you learn in the back of a car on the way to the airport....
"Leaving the Koran unattended...is considered sinful
"And if you are about to perpetrate one of the biggest (and cleverest) terrorist outrages the world has ever seen, would you draw attention to yourself by arguing in the car park (and leaving behind evidence)? "
Then there is the passport. The security services claim that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was extracted from the rubble of the World Trade Centre...
"We are being asked to believe that a paper document from the cockpit of the first plane - the epicentre of an inferno which vapourised steel - survived the fireball and fell to the ground almost intact."
So, regard all future evidence, no matter how convincing at first glance, as suspect.
Who would try to blow up a building in America? A bunch of crazy Moslems?
Irv Rubin, the chairman of the Jewish Defence league, was arrested in December 2001 for conspiring to blow up the main mosque in Los Angeles. Rubin was also charged with plotting against a Republican congressman. That got little publicity.
Remember Mr Blair claiming he had damning evidence against certain Moslems for the 9/11 attacks? Later, Blair admitted that this tenuous circumstantial evidence (CIA handouts) would not stand up in court. That got little publicity.
Then there was the BBC's John Simpson in Kabul discovering a document showing how to make nukes. That got lots of publicity. Then the New York Times pointed out the document was a spoof, available on the internet. That got little or no publicity in the UK.
Then there was Zacarias Moussaoui, charged in connection with 11/9. The French secret service repeatedly tried and failed to get MI6 and the FBI to take an interest in Zacarias. The French file dated back to 1994.
Then there was Newsnight telling us that top people in the Bush administration had told the FBI, prior to 11/9, to lay off bin Laden...
A. is for Allegations that the Omagh bombing was the work of a British double agent within the Real IRA.
Former British double agent Kevin Fulton alleges that the British security forces allowed the bomb to travel in a stolen car from Dundalk to Omagh. Sounds odd? Why was the army confined to barracks on the day of the attack? Why did the RUC have only 3 men on the streets of Omagh?
According to www.wsws.org British soldiers and double-agents ran a 'terror network' called the FRU. "The Force Research Unit (FRU) was an undercover security operation financed and run by the British state for more than two decades....(They) authorised their agents to carry out numerous illegal activities including bomb making, murder and the shooting of RUC officers...Fulton claims he...took part in a series of terrorist bombings...including...Portadown."
In one sense, Blair benefited from the Omagh bombing. The bombing helped to isolate the opponents of the Northern Ireland Agreement, and, the bombing gave Blair a pretext for bringing in draconian new laws against terrorism.
A. is for Abercorn Restaurant Bombing 1972 in Belfast.
Well, do you really know who did it? Two killed and one hundred and thirty one people injured when a 'Protestant' bomb went off.
Captain Colin Wallace, one time British army information officer, served 7 years in jail after being convicted of a serious crime in 1980. Wallace claimed he was framed because of claims he made about the British secret service's operations in Northern Ireland.
And that leads us to the Kincora Affair - the sexual abuse of young boys in Kincora boys home in Belfast. "Loyalist paramilitary leader William McGrath, who had links to British intelligence, was believed to have organised sex sessions with young boys for SENIOR POLITICIANS, civil servants and MILITARY personal."
And that leads us to who is really behind the continuing terror. Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? Who was being blackmailed? And which former British Prime Minister was smeared... Time.com 16/8/01 describes how leaders of the para-militaries are heavily into organised crime. It's not about Christianity. It's about making money.
Who is making money from the ATTACKS ON AMERICA? "Arms manufacturers, construction firms and gold mining groups...." according to The Guardian 25/9/01. "US defence giant Lockheed Martin is well placed for new orders, while missile maker Raytheon has seen its shares race ahaead 30% since September 11.... "Newmont Mining have seen their shares rise. "Those hedge funds that had already been betting huge sums that the stock market would fall will have cashed in handsomely..."
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote, "Afghanistan is the key to the Western Domination of Asia....Afghanistan is indispensible to the regional control and transport of oil in Central Asia....In 1998 Dick Cheney (then chief executive of a major oil services company)...remarked: 'I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become so strategically important as the Caspian.' ...The only route (for an oil pipeleine from the Caspian) which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan."
A. is for Algeria Ah! This is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections. The USA was not happy; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy. So the army took over.
Then the killings began. More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists doing the killings?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published. It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes: "I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child. "I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians. "I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood. "I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
Moslem extremism? Think of Palestine!
Thousands of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured. A third of the dead were children (and they wern't all throwing stones!) Up to 3,300 Palestinian homes have been damaged by Israeli tank shells. The Israeli army has bulldozed at least 650 Palestinian homes.
A. is for American Foreign Policy.
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote: "American foreign policy is governed by the doctrine...that the US should control military, economic and political development worldwide.
Certain theorists have considered that the aims of top people within the Pentagon/CIA/ State Department are -
1. Serve the interests of the super-rich within the USA.
2. Weaken and divide and confuse all potential rivals.
For evidence of this, look at
www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html
www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/blum1.html
Perhaps present policy is to use bin Laden to weaken and divide the Moslem world?
A. is for Anti-Semitism.
Remember the Dreyfus case? Dreyfus was the French Jew who was framed by anti-semites. Anti semitism is an evil.
My own position is as follows. We must not demonise any group, be it Jews, Blacks, Germans, Scots, Chinese, Whites or Moslems. Not all Italians are members of the Mafia. Not all Israelis want soldiers to kill little Palestinian kids.
A. is for Argentina and the Falklands Invasion.
General Galtieri was the bad guy.
During his time as a fascist leader of Argentina, 30,000 people disappeared or were executed. The father of a friend of mine was tortured by Galtieri's gestapo. Many of those murdered by Galtieri's government were students and teachers.
Who trained Galtieri and his killers?
Galtieri and friends were trained by the US Army School of the Americas. The CIA was heavily involved in Argentina supporting the campaign to squash dissidents (liberals and democrats). The CIA refuses to declassify the documents involved. Galtieri invaded the Falklands.
A. is for America, our friends and allies. I like Americans. But why did their leaders not fight for us in 1939? Why did they only enter the war when attacked by Japan? Is it because many top Americans had (and have) a fascist point of view.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush "had assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act for operating NAZI front companies during World War II."
www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
General Motors, during the 1930's, "owned Opel which made trucks for the Nazi armies." German newspaper Berliner Tagelblatt called on the American ambassador to investigate Henry Ford's funding of Hitler.
Standard Oil "developed and financed Germany's synthetic fuel programme in partnership with IG Farben."
ITT "owned large amounts of stock in German Armaments companies including Focke-Wolf...." www.rat.pogled.net/doc/helphitler.htm
A. is also for American Embassy Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1979-81.
And this is where politics gets mixed up with terrorism.
"Friends of Reagan/Bush managed to DELAY the freeing of the hostages," according to some historians!
Why would they do that? To ensure that in the presidential election President Carter would lose to Reagan/Bush.
Didn't Carter attempt to rescue the hostages? Charles Beckwith led the US Delta force which attempted to free the hostages. This elite force became involved in a total shambles. Beckwith now runs a security consultancy in Texas. Was the Delta force deli berately sabotaged?
A. is for Morse Allen.
How do you get a Catholic to kill other Catholics? How do you get a fun-loving, drink-loving Lebanese Moslem to crash a plane into a building? How do you kill a president and cover your tracks?
The CIA's first behavioral research czar was Morse Allen who did research into hypnosis and brainwashing in the 1950's.
He asked young CIA secretaries to stay after work and then hypnotised them. A single word could trigger the hypnotic state. Morse managed to get hypnotised secretaries to steal secret documents.
On Feb 19 1954 Allen simulated the ultimate experiment: the creation of the Manchurian Candidate or programmed assassin. He hypnotised a secretary and told her that she would shoot her friend. An UNLOADED pistol was left by her side. The girl picked up the gun and shot her friend. Afterwards, the secretary could remember nothing of the event.
A. is for ATTA. Mohammad ATTA was the supposed hijacker of AA Flight 11. On ITN a woman, who had seen Mohammad Atta at the airport before the fatal flight, described him as looking like a zombie.
news.bbc.co.uk 24/9/01 quoted Anne Greaves, who had spent 6 months alongside Atta learning to fly, as saying that at times he "appeared to be in a trance."
My own hunch is that Atta and friends had been brainwashed by elements of a certain intelligence service. Some reports say that the FBI had been keeping a close eye on the flying schools.
According to the Sunday Times, the hijackers "had girlfriends and drank large amounts of vodka."
In the days before the attack, the hijackers drew attention to themselves by shouting loudly and blaspheming against Allah. Two weeks after the attack, the FBI claim to have found a document in Atta's luggage (and another on the aircraft that crashed into tiny piec es in Pennsylvania) which 'conveniently link Atta to islamic terrorism.' The document states: 'check all knives.'
Does a group, clever enough to carry out this attack, put such things in writing? The document also contains phrases suggesting that the hijackers are highly religious. How does that tie in with the vodka and womanising? The document is written in "Berlitz Arabic", not the language of a native speaker, according to some Arabists. The contents are in no known dialect.
At the time of the Lockerbie trial, similar ODD bits of 'evidence' appeared. The FBI is now run by the same gentleman who 'found' the evidence for the Lockerbie trial.
NOW, here is a clue. The document found in Atta's luggage was obtained and translated by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARD! That name rings a bell. Bob Woodward once worked aboard USS Wright, a National Emergency Command Ship, a place that would be used by Presidents in time of nuclear war. He then moved on to the Pentagon, mixing with all the top people. It was widely assumed that he was CIA. His next move was to the Washinton post, which many allege has strong links to the CIA. Then we have Watergate which some people think was engineered by Kissinger/Bush working with Bob Woodward.
Next, let us take another alleged hijacker, a young Lebanese called ZIAD. Ziad appears to have been training as a pilot; and Ziad appears to have been on one of the planes that crashed.
BUT, the BBC's excellent Matt Frei did some investigating. And what did he find? Ziad was planning to marry his Turkish-German girlfriend later this year. Ziad was living with his girlfriend. Ziad had attended a Christian school. He liked to drink, was fun-loving and sociable, and he never expressed any anti-American feeling. The family produced a video showi ng Ziad dancing and drinking. Does this sound like a Moslem fundamentalist suicide bomber? The BBC must be cursing Frei, because otherwise the BBC has towed the party line.
The Guardian's George Monbiot wrote: "The more evidence US intelligence presents...the less credible the story becomes...
"First there was the car. A man had informed the police, we were told, that he had had a furious argument with some suspicious looking Moslems in the parking lot at Boston airport. He led the investigators to a car, in which they found a copy of the Koran and a flight manual in Arabic...
"Now flying an aeroplane is not one of these things you learn in the back of a car on the way to the airport....
"Leaving the Koran unattended...is considered sinful
"And if you are about to perpetrate one of the biggest (and cleverest) terrorist outrages the world has ever seen, would you draw attention to yourself by arguing in the car park (and leaving behind evidence)? "
Then there is the passport. The security services claim that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was extracted from the rubble of the World Trade Centre...
"We are being asked to believe that a paper document from the cockpit of the first plane - the epicentre of an inferno which vapourised steel - survived the fireball and fell to the ground almost intact."
So, regard all future evidence, no matter how convincing at first glance, as suspect.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Friday, February 11, 2005
Iraq election
Why is it taking as much as two weeks to come up with a result in Iraq?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1410432,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1410432,00.html
Thursday, February 10, 2005
The most difficult boy he ever had to deal with
Bob Roberts, Tony Blair's housemaster at Fettes College in Edinburgh, once described Blair as "the most difficult boy I have ever had to deal with"
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"As a boarder the young Blair would argue repeatedly with staff about school procedures. He also came quite close to being expelled after he finished his A-levels.
"Blair had a great gift for being able to push the rules to the limit without actually crossing the line, and he could always talk his way out of most tight spots. He had a great deal of charm and confidence, but certainly did his fair bit of rebelling against authority."
John Rentoul, author of the book Tony Blair: Prime Minister, published in 2001, agrees that the young PM was not the most popular boy at Fettes with figures of authority. "All the teachers I spoke to when researching the book said he was a complete pain in the backside, and they were very glad to see the back of him. "Unusually, he also sat his Oxbridge exams before A-levels so that he would not have to be around for a seventh term for whatever reason."
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"As a boarder the young Blair would argue repeatedly with staff about school procedures. He also came quite close to being expelled after he finished his A-levels.
"Blair had a great gift for being able to push the rules to the limit without actually crossing the line, and he could always talk his way out of most tight spots. He had a great deal of charm and confidence, but certainly did his fair bit of rebelling against authority."
John Rentoul, author of the book Tony Blair: Prime Minister, published in 2001, agrees that the young PM was not the most popular boy at Fettes with figures of authority. "All the teachers I spoke to when researching the book said he was a complete pain in the backside, and they were very glad to see the back of him. "Unusually, he also sat his Oxbridge exams before A-levels so that he would not have to be around for a seventh term for whatever reason."
Montrealer suggests ultra-conservatives behind 9 11
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1107816610228&call_pageid=970599119419
A Montrealer, detained for nearly two years on suspicion of being a terrorist, has suggested that ultra-conservative Americans may have been responsible for the 9 11 attacks on the United States.
"I'm not an expert but from what I read, some guy living in a cave doesn't have the means to plan an attack against the most powerful nation in the world," Adil Charkaoui said when Federal Court Justice Simon Noël asked who was responsible for the attacks.
"Maybe it was done by ultra-conservatives in the United States for economic gain," Charkaoui said.
"It was the world's biggest conspiracy."
A Montrealer, detained for nearly two years on suspicion of being a terrorist, has suggested that ultra-conservative Americans may have been responsible for the 9 11 attacks on the United States.
"I'm not an expert but from what I read, some guy living in a cave doesn't have the means to plan an attack against the most powerful nation in the world," Adil Charkaoui said when Federal Court Justice Simon Noël asked who was responsible for the attacks.
"Maybe it was done by ultra-conservatives in the United States for economic gain," Charkaoui said.
"It was the world's biggest conspiracy."
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
MEGA
Israel Shamir, in Israeli online publication, Media Monitors Network:
"In my opinion, Megabucks, rather than forces of Caballa, move the events in the Middle East. It is not magic, just money—but a lot of money. They do not rule America or Israel, but they exercise a lot of influence. Fifty multibillionaires united in one framework present a very real force in the world."
Jeffrey Steinberg:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
"The Bronfman-centered Mega Group is but one component of an insane and desperate element within the transatlantic financial establishment that is now pressing for a "Clash of Civilizations," as a means of responding to the collapse of their global financial empire, and the threat of a new set of Eurasia-centered cooperative arrangements among nations supplanting their power."
"In my opinion, Megabucks, rather than forces of Caballa, move the events in the Middle East. It is not magic, just money—but a lot of money. They do not rule America or Israel, but they exercise a lot of influence. Fifty multibillionaires united in one framework present a very real force in the world."
Jeffrey Steinberg:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
"The Bronfman-centered Mega Group is but one component of an insane and desperate element within the transatlantic financial establishment that is now pressing for a "Clash of Civilizations," as a means of responding to the collapse of their global financial empire, and the threat of a new set of Eurasia-centered cooperative arrangements among nations supplanting their power."
Monday, February 07, 2005
'Deep Throat' was George H W Bush?
Author, Adrian Havill, suspects 'Deep Throat' was George H.W. Bush.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789447
“It was Richard Nixon who urged Bush to leave a safe seat in Congress, hinting there would be a position as assistant Secretary of the Treasury waiting for him if he failed to win a Senate seat held by Ralph Yarborough. When Bush lost, Nixon reneged and asked him to take the U.N. slot instead but teased him by hinting he would be the replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. Instead, he was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973. The elder Bush got his revenge in the end, by standing up at a cabinet meeting in August of 1974 and becoming the first person in Nixon's inner circle to ask the President to resign."
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789447
“It was Richard Nixon who urged Bush to leave a safe seat in Congress, hinting there would be a position as assistant Secretary of the Treasury waiting for him if he failed to win a Senate seat held by Ralph Yarborough. When Bush lost, Nixon reneged and asked him to take the U.N. slot instead but teased him by hinting he would be the replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. Instead, he was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973. The elder Bush got his revenge in the end, by standing up at a cabinet meeting in August of 1974 and becoming the first person in Nixon's inner circle to ask the President to resign."
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Washinton's designs on the Strait of Malacca
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/aceh-j26.shtml
"Sections of the Indonesian military... are distinctly nervous about the presence of foreign troops...
"Washington has long had designs on the Strait of Malacca adjacent to Sumatra—one of the world’s key strategic shipping lanes. Aceh itself has significant gas and oil reserves."
"Sections of the Indonesian military... are distinctly nervous about the presence of foreign troops...
"Washington has long had designs on the Strait of Malacca adjacent to Sumatra—one of the world’s key strategic shipping lanes. Aceh itself has significant gas and oil reserves."
PAKISTAN
Pakistan's President Musharraf
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/paki-j31.shtml
"There are credible media reports of growing dissension within the officer corps over Musharraf’s readiness to cooperate with Washington in preparing a military strike against neighbouring Iran, as well as his peace overtures toward India, which have included ratcheting down the military’s support for the anti-Indian insurgency in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir..."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/paki-j31.shtml
"There are credible media reports of growing dissension within the officer corps over Musharraf’s readiness to cooperate with Washington in preparing a military strike against neighbouring Iran, as well as his peace overtures toward India, which have included ratcheting down the military’s support for the anti-Indian insurgency in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir..."
Chechnya and Iraq
The American media and the Iraq election
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/medi-f02.shtml
"Russia held a referendum at gunpoint in Chechnya in the spring of 2003, organized to rubber-stamp a constitution written by Moscow. The Russian military maintained its massive military presence throughout the process. The New York Times published an editorial in anticipation of the vote on January 14, 2003, entitled 'A Sham Referendum.'
"'The idea that a fair test of Chechen opinion can be carried out in the present climate of intimidation is ludicrous,' the newspaper declared. 'Any government emerging from this flawed process is likely to be seen by Chechens as a band of Russian collaborators, not their own independently chosen representatives.... [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s aim seems not to offer a real political opening, but a stage-managed show aimed at convincing the outside world that the Chechen war is over and no longer warrants international concern.'
"How true such words ring, with the appropriate name changes, to describe the grotesque farce
in Iraq!"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/medi-f02.shtml
"Russia held a referendum at gunpoint in Chechnya in the spring of 2003, organized to rubber-stamp a constitution written by Moscow. The Russian military maintained its massive military presence throughout the process. The New York Times published an editorial in anticipation of the vote on January 14, 2003, entitled 'A Sham Referendum.'
"'The idea that a fair test of Chechen opinion can be carried out in the present climate of intimidation is ludicrous,' the newspaper declared. 'Any government emerging from this flawed process is likely to be seen by Chechens as a band of Russian collaborators, not their own independently chosen representatives.... [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s aim seems not to offer a real political opening, but a stage-managed show aimed at convincing the outside world that the Chechen war is over and no longer warrants international concern.'
"How true such words ring, with the appropriate name changes, to describe the grotesque farce
in Iraq!"
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
UK LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA?
"Banning, house arrests - it all sounds eerily familiar. Clarke's plans take me back to the days of the South African underground" - Gillian Slovo, February 2, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1403576,00.html
Slovo writes, in the Guardian:
"Here we play witness to a Guantánamo where a man like Begg is not, on the grounds of a possible breach of security, allowed access even to his own statement; or a Belmarsh where detainees are not allowed to hear of what it is they are accused...
"We are told that the Belmarsh detainees cannot be charged because making phone-tap evidence available is to put us in danger. Yet, in the light of WMDs that turned out not to exist, and the arrest of Rawi before he left for the Gambia, on the heinous crime of possessing a battery charger, one could be forgiven for questioning not only the veracity but also the existence of this secret intelligence. Just because the government says that the intelligence community has told it something, are we supposed to take this on trust?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1403576,00.html
Slovo writes, in the Guardian:
"Here we play witness to a Guantánamo where a man like Begg is not, on the grounds of a possible breach of security, allowed access even to his own statement; or a Belmarsh where detainees are not allowed to hear of what it is they are accused...
"We are told that the Belmarsh detainees cannot be charged because making phone-tap evidence available is to put us in danger. Yet, in the light of WMDs that turned out not to exist, and the arrest of Rawi before he left for the Gambia, on the heinous crime of possessing a battery charger, one could be forgiven for questioning not only the veracity but also the existence of this secret intelligence. Just because the government says that the intelligence community has told it something, are we supposed to take this on trust?"
VOTE FRAUD UK AND USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1403545,00.html
Michael Meacher, former UK Environment Minister, writes today in the Guardian:
"The UK government is aiming at 'an e-enabled election some time after 2006'...
"Computer investigators claim that the machines are extremely insecure and vulnerable to hacking via the internet, particularly via remote modems...
"In November 2003, in a governorship election in Alabama, 6,300 votes changed overnight - which gave victory to the Republican candidate. In Texas that same month, three Republican candidates won, each with exactly 18,181 votes. In King County, Washington, in a September 2004 primary, it was discovered that three hours were missing from the audit log...
"Jeffrey Dean, the senior programmer of the Diebold Gems central tabulator system counting a third of the votes in the Bush-Kerry election in 37 states, has a police record. He pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement involving sophisticated manipulation of computer accounting records."
Michael Meacher, former UK Environment Minister, writes today in the Guardian:
"The UK government is aiming at 'an e-enabled election some time after 2006'...
"Computer investigators claim that the machines are extremely insecure and vulnerable to hacking via the internet, particularly via remote modems...
"In November 2003, in a governorship election in Alabama, 6,300 votes changed overnight - which gave victory to the Republican candidate. In Texas that same month, three Republican candidates won, each with exactly 18,181 votes. In King County, Washington, in a September 2004 primary, it was discovered that three hours were missing from the audit log...
"Jeffrey Dean, the senior programmer of the Diebold Gems central tabulator system counting a third of the votes in the Bush-Kerry election in 37 states, has a police record. He pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement involving sophisticated manipulation of computer accounting records."
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
VOTE FRAUD USA
Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
January 31, 2005
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a diverse group of academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University.
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
January 31, 2005
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a diverse group of academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University.
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
The Vietnam turnout was good as well
Sami Ramadani, in The Guardian, 1 February 2005:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402922,00.html
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war...
The paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam"....
The facts on the ground, including the construction of massive military bases in Iraq, indicate that the US is digging in to install and back a long-term puppet regime. For this reason, the US-led presence will continue, with all that entails in terms of bloodshed and destruction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402922,00.html
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war...
The paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam"....
The facts on the ground, including the construction of massive military bases in Iraq, indicate that the US is digging in to install and back a long-term puppet regime. For this reason, the US-led presence will continue, with all that entails in terms of bloodshed and destruction.
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