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http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2005/07/11/83e33146-09af-4421-b2f4-1779a86926f9.lpf
CAMBRIDGE dancer Bruce Lait has spoken of his miraculous escape when a bomb exploded just yards away from him in a Tube train carriage...
Mr Lait ... believes he and his dance partner Crystal Main were the only passengers in the carriage who survived the blast without serious injury - even though they were sitting nearest to where the bomb detonated.
As they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been."The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'.
The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag," he said.
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Commentary/1040.html
Jul 23, 2005Mark Faulk wrote:
In a seemingly innocuous article in the British newspaper Cambridge Evening News, 32 year-old dance instructor Bruce Lait, in an interview from his hospital bed, said:
"The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag."
Let's put this in perspective, piece by piece:
"The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train."
"I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag."
"We were nearest the bomb."
The metal was pushed upwards because THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN.
Lait didn't remember seeing anyone, or a bag that could be holding a bomb, near the point of detonation because there was no bomber sitting there, there was no bag. THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN.
Dance partners Bruce Lait and Crystal Main were nearest the bomb.....again, no Islamic radical, no Mideastern terrorist sitting in that carriage. THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711021.stm
A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was unconnected to the incidents, police have confirmed.
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Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press writes on 22 July 2005:
Senior British, U.S. and Israeli political figures, the key players in the artificial "war on terror" – and the controlled press – blame "Islamic terrorists" for the July 7 terror bombings that killed 56 people in London...
The allegations against the four suspects remain unproven, while evidence suggests the bombing was a synthetic "false flag" terror operation carried out by a state-sponsored intelligence agency...
Since the bombing, the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) and other mass media outlets have accepted as fact the unproven allegations.
The young suspects from the city of Leeds do not fit the terrorist profile for such a random and senseless terror bombing. Well assimilated Moslems and fathers of young children, one with a wife expecting a child, these young men seem to have been used as unwitting "mules" in a sinister "false flag" operation.
Reports in the British press suggest the young men were duped into a scheme in which they thought they were carrying innocent packages of perfume..
One of the suicide bombers, Jermaine Lindsay, 19, spent nearly $2,000 on expensive perfumes from different stores in the days prior to the bombing...
The Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was staying at a hotel above the bombing that occurred on the Piccadilly line near Russell Square.
Netanyahu, an extreme right-wing Israeli politician with the Likud party, is a chief architect of the "war on terror." Since the 1980s, Netanyahu has written books urging the western democracies to wage war against the Arab and Moslem nations.
"The multiple, simultaneous explosions that took place today on the London transportation system were the work of perpetrators who had an operational capacity of considerable scope," Efraim Halevi wrote in The Jerusalem Post on July 7.
How did Halevi know that the explosions were simultaneous? The underground bombings were not known to have been simultaneous until British authorities reported their findings on July 9. Until then it was thought that the three subway bombs had gone off at 7:51, 7:56, and 8:17 a.m.
Like 9/11 and other "false flag" acts of terror, the London bombings occurred during a large-scale terrorist exercise that took place at the same time and locations as the actual explosions.
Peter Power, former high-ranking employee of Scotland Yard and member of its Anti-Terrorist Branch, told BBC 5 and ITV News that his company, Visor Consulting, had carried out "crisis exercises," with an unnamed private company.
The exercise envisioned "almost precisely" the bombings that actually occurred, Power said.
Power described the simulation of "simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station" and "bombs going off precisely at the railway stations" at which the actual bombings occurred.
"There were a few seconds when the audience didn't realize whether it was real or not," he said. On ITV, Power suggested that the unnamed partner in the terror exercise was concerned about Jewish buildings and banks being targeted.
AFP contacted Visor Consultants, the mayor of the City of London, Scotland Yard, and the transportation authority to ask about the identity of the unnamed partner in the terror exercise.
A likely candidate is an Israeli company called International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) International N.V., an aviation and transportation security firm headed by "former [Israeli] military commanding officers and veterans of government intelligence and security agencies."
Menachem Atzmon, convicted in Israel in 1996 for campaign finance fraud, and his business partner Ezra Harel, took over management of security at Boston's Logan Airport in 1999 through Huntleigh USA, a subsidiary of ICTS. Until his 1996 conviction, Atzmon was president of the Israel Development Fund (IDF), a U.S. tax-exempt foundation funneling money illegally to the Likud party of Sharon and Netanyahu, according to author Anton Chaitkin.
Harel shares the name of Isser Harel, the co-founder of Israel's Mossad and first director of the Shin Bet, the internal security agency.
Atzmon and Harel were majority owners of ICTS. The convicted Likud criminal's [Atzmon] firm was in charge of security at Logan Airport, Chaitkin wrote – inspecting the validity of passports and visas, searching cargo, screening passengers – when two airliners were hijacked from there on Sept. 11, 2001, and demolished the World Trade Center towers in New York. ICTS also provided security at Newark airport.
At a trade exhibition in June, ICTS presented its "comprehensive security solution for the railroad and public transportation industry, which can be developed, tailored and implemented in a modular manner."
"Was ICTS International, or one of its affiliates, involved in the July 7 terror exercise in London?" AFP asked ICTS spokesperson Petra Snoek at company headquarters in Amstelveen, Holland.
"Herewith I would like to inform you that ICTS International is not operating in the U.K.," Snoek wrote.
But ICTS International does have a subsidiary in Britain called ICTS U.K. Ltd., located in London's Tavistock House South, precisely where the double-decker bus was bombed on July 7. A receptionist at ICTS U.K. Ltd. said the office was temporarily closed after the bombing due to damage, but that the company was indeed part of ICTS International.
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http://www.libertyforum.org/
From Liberty Forum:
Staging an Attack to Fix the Coverup of Another.
By Impatient.
This latest “attack” is supposed to correct some faults in the first without causing further mayhem.
What has given them the most trouble with the first attack? Their choice of patsies...
Another unforeseen problem was the effusive praise coming from Efraim Halevi that described the London bombings as “near-perfect”...
While the rucksacks in the first bombing have not turned up, this new bombing tells us once again that four young men carried bomb-laden packs aboard the trains and [would have] died when they detonated...
Luton is interesting because an office of ICTS (the Israeli security firm) is about a mile from a Thameslink station. ICTS is actually located in the Luton and Dunstable NHS Hospital. It seems a little odd that this firm that handles security for the Stansted airport would be located at the Hospital. Just like the problem with 9/11 and Madrid - there were no hijackers and no bombers to film. They tried to get around that on 7/7 by getting some patsies to photograph. They did not leave it to chance, for those picked had to be disposed of as though they had been killed in the blasts.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/comment/story/0,16141,1528127,00.html
There are Moslems who want
the withdrawal of US and other western forces Iraq,
an end to support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
"and a halt to support for oil-lubricated despots throughout the region."
Sounds reasonable.
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The events of July 7, 2005 may be similar to the events of November 5, 1605.
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Many historians believe that:
1. England's Protestant spymaster, Robert Cecil, invented the Gunpowder Plot, in order to discredit Catholics.
2. At least one of the plotters was working for Cecil.
2. The Gunpowder plotters were framed.
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http://www.forteantimes.com/review/fenianfire.shtml
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,714087,00.html
In 1887, British police uncovered the ‘Jubilee Plot’, a plan to blow up Westminster Abbey, Queen Victoria and half the British Cabinet.
The bombers were linked, by letters, to Charles Parnell and other Irish MPs who supported Irish independence. The ‘ringleader’ of the plot was Francis Millen of the Clan na Gael. He was allowed to escape to the USA where he died in mysterious circumstances.
The case against Parnell collapsed. The letters were shown to be forgeries, written by Dublin journalist Richard Pigott and sold to The Times.
Millen had been recruited by the British government 'to stir the Fenians into bombing Britain' – a scheme designed to discredit the Home Rule movement.
Millen was hired with the approval of the Conservative leader, Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister.
(Fenian Fire: the British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria by Christy CampbellHarper Collins, 2002)
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http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=HF2314387A&news_headline=spy_conman_faces_life_in_jail
How easy is it to persuade people to join a plot?
Conman robert Hendy-Freegard, who claimed to be an MI5 spy, conned more than £1 million out of his victims. Many of them were persuaded to 'go undercover' to help with his plans and he kept them in his thrall by claiming there cover had been blown and they were on terrorist hit lists.
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Who shorted British pound?
It appears some profited by short selling the British pound in the 10 days leading up to the attacks.
Following 9-11, there were reports of short-selling stocks and millions in profits made overnight. That investigation also implied that the short-selling would track back to Osama, but surprise, surprise, the short-selling trade traced back to Israeli nationals and to the CIA itself. At that point, we never heard about the short-selling again.
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http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/greenspan-fingerprint-found-on-london.html
The Fed has previously supported financial markets by increasing liquidity to boost the stock market -as happened after 9/11.But an analysis of stock transactions by financial M.B.A. "cunningrealist," shows that even though the attacks in London took place on Thursday, 7th July, the Fed had already hugely increased liquidity 48 hours before that - just in time for that liquidity to filter into the market.
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Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=355717&in_page_id=1770
Some of the suspected suicide bombers who attacked London last week had been arrested in 2004 but freed in a bid to catch a wider network, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has claimed.
"It seems that part of this team had been subject to partial arrest... in Spring 2004," Sarkozy told a news conference, reportedly quoting what British Home Secretary Charles Clarke had told an emergency meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article300347.ece
20 July 2005
A man widely reported to have slipped into Britain to 'mastermind' the London bombings was an innocent Pakistani who happened to have a similar name to a suspected al-Qa'ida leader...
A similar mix-up is understood to be behind the claims by US intelligence that Germaine Lindsay, 19, the bomber who carried out the King's Cross attack, was on a British watch list. This was because the "fourth" bomber was wrongly identified in the United States as Lindsay Jermaine - someone with a similar name to a terrorist suspect.
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=85346
Report: Israel Was Warned Ahead of First Blast"Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred. The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit."
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3111121,00.html
The Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast, the paper reports. As a result, it was impossible to take any action to prevent the blasts.“They reached us too late for us to do something about it,” a Mossad source is quoted as saying.
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th. Which is a perfect cover for people pretending to be terrorists to plant real bombs instead of fake ones, isn't it? Just like on 9-11 when an ongoing NORAD exercise tracking 20 simulated hijacked planes provided cover for four real hijacked planes. No working cameras at the airports where the terrorists boarded the 9-11 planes. No working cameras on the double-decked bus.Advance warning to Odigo.Advance warning to Netanyahu.
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http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-on-london-bombs.html
"I prefer the hybrid model for all these attacks, by which I mean the involvement of real Islamic terrorists guided by an intelligence agency. The intelligence agency funds much of the operation, chooses the targets and the time, and provides technical assistance. The Islamic terrorists provide most of the manpower. In some cases the terrorists are completely fooled into participating (probably what happened in Madrid, a Spanish police operation with Muslim men tricked into being in the wrong place at the wrong time), and in some cases they go along with the promptings of the intelligence agency as the operation fits into their own agenda."
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http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=409269&class=news
UK bombers 'tricked' - All four paid for return train ticketsMonday.
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HASIB HUSSAIN
http://team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?9.366.60
http://wagnews.blogspot.com/2005/07/was-bus-bomber-really-hasib-hussain.html
Eyewitness accounts of a bomber aboard the London bus are at variance with each other and with CCTV evidence.
First the question of the description of the man:
BUS blast survivor Richard Jones yesterday revealed how he came face-to-face with one of the London bombers. The Scots IT expert got off the double-decker just seconds before it was torn apart.
He said the bomber was around 6ft tall, in his mid-twenties, clean-shaven and smartly dressed. The man was wearing hipster-style fawn checked trousers, with exposed designer underwear, and a matching jersey-style top.
'The pants looked very expensive, they were white with a red band on top... He was standing with his back to me downstairs at the driver's side, which is exactly where the explosion was... The noise was unbelievable. I served an apprenticeship in an explosives factory in Ayrshire so I knew what it was.' [Source]
Does that sound like the blue-jeaned, unshaven, rather drably-dressed Hasib Hussain?
How about this description -again by Jones:
"He described the man as being about 6-feet tall, olive-skinned and clean-shaven, wearing tight, light brown trousers and a light brown top." [Source]
Not really compatible with the CCTV evidence, is it?
As the Scotsman newspaper reported:
"CCTV pictures show him at Luton station at 7:20am. Casually dressed in jeans and a jacket, like any ordinary teenager, he was unlikely to attract attention from busy commuters on the Thameslink train..." [Source]
Then there's the issue of the bag/haversack:
CHARLES GIBSON ABC News: "Could you tell what he was doing with the bag, Mr. Jones?"
RICHARD JONES: "Not really. It was a - obviously, a small bag. It didn't go beyond the width of his ankles." [Source]
A "small bag"? Hussain has a hulking great haversack in the CCTV image.
Finally, the question of exactly where on the bus the bomber was:
Terence Mutasa, 27, a staff nurse at University College hospital, said:
"I treated two girls in their 20s who were involved in the bus bomb. They were saying some guy came and sat down and that he exploded. The girls received minor injuries and were in shock and distressed. They said the guy just sat down and the explosion happened. They thought it was a suicide bomber." [Source]
Which seems at variance with Richard Jones' account above.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4704427.stm
21 July 2005.
UK boy wrongly labelled as bomber.
Evidence showing that all three of the London bombers of Pakistani descent visited Pakistan last year has been thrown into doubt.
A photograph of a passport purporting to show bomber Hasib Hussain was in fact that of a 16-year-old British boy with the same name.
The photo, together with documentation showing two other bombers visited Pakistan, was published on Monday.
The passport details supposedly of the bomber Hasib Hussain are actually those of a teenage boy living in High Wycombe, approximately 30 miles (50km) north-west of London.
On Monday Pakistan's Federal Immigration Authority (FIA) said that Hasib Hussain, carrying a British passport number, arrived in the port city of Karachi from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia on 15 July 2004.
Photographs of the passport were published in Pakistan and then around the world.
However, the 16-year-old at the heart of the confusion has now been interviewed at his High Wycombe home by Pakistani TV station ARY.
"I first saw my photograph on Channel 4 [news] and I was terrified," the boy told ARY.
"I didn't want people looking at me saying, hey, you are supposed to be dead," he told ARY, "or someone saying that there goes the London bomber."
His father told ARY that the family had indeed arrived in Karachi from Saudi Arabia. He appealed for British and Pakistani authorities to clear up the confusion.
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'Mossad spies' jailed over New Zealand passport fraud
http://www.globaltalknetworks.com/f...ead.php?t=13067
Terrorists using fake passports - Israelis caught using fake passports!
http://www.globaltalknetworks.com/f...ead.php?t=13245
THE LAVON AFFAIR - IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?
http://www.globaltalknetworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13637
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/981127/1998112708.html
"...the person who is accused of being behind the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994, Rida Maghribi, was an agent recruited by the Mossad and was assigned by Israeli foreign intelligence for that purpose."
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18298999.htm
JERUSALEM, July 18 (Reuters) - One of the suspected bombers in the London attacks visited Israel in 2003, an Israeli government official has said.
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Guardian, 9 June 2002
Birmingham Six man wins £1m payout
Paddy Hill, who spent 16 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, is set to receive £1 million compensation from the Government after 10 years of negotiations.
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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605:
The story goes that Cecil manufactured the plot in an attempt to discredit the Catholic cause.
In the climate of fear following the Gunpowder Plot, Cecil and his supporters were able to pass more anti-Catholic laws and to make more money from fines on Catholics. Cecil was in a position to destroy Catholic rivals, such as the Earl of Northumberland, and had an opportunity to seize Catholic lands.
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http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/chief_officers.shtml
Commissioner of Transport for London is Robert Kiley.
While in the CIA, he served as Manager of Intelligence Operations and then as Executive Assistant to the Director.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=74847
Rudolf Giuliani was in London, close to where the first bomb exploded, and his office won't say why he was there, except that he was on "business".
In particular, his office won't say whether or not he was a consultant or manager for Visor consultants, who planned the 'exercise' involving simultaneous tube-station bombs in cooperation with an unnamed client.
Giuliani is believed to have links to the CIA. He was once talked of as a possible future CIA director.
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http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/07/07/story210548.html
"Netanyahu was the scheduled keynote speaker at an Israeli corporate investment conference at the Great Eastern hotel near the Liverpool Street subway station..."
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-giu0708,0,612860.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2%20
"...Giuliani was having breakfast at the Great Eastern Hotel a half block from the Liverpool Street Station in Central London, when he heard an explosion..."
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HALLIBURTON: Our Projects include: London Underground Since 1988, KBR has been enhancing the safety and security of the London Underground. The entire network has been reviewed to define at-risk locations in order to quantify the consequences following an adverse event.
http://www.halliburton.com/kbr/govServ/UK/integratedSecuritySolutions.jsp?printMe
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http://canada.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/16727
"Who gains (from the London bombs) is not difficult to guess now. These are the Zionists and neocons who are out to hasten the establishment of greater Israel."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAI538688.htm
"The British regime may have carried out the attack itself ... because it benefits most... They want to justify their presence in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati.
"They tell people 'if we don't fight terrorism, this will happen to you,'" the cleric continued.
http://www.stewwebb.com/London%20Terrorist%20Attack%20Bush%20and%20Blair%20the%20Culprits.htm
"This is all to undermine Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's investigations of Bush and Cheney's leaks of CIA Valerie Plame, Ambassador Joseph Wilson wife's CIA Team investigating Bushes and Cheney's involvements into the orchestrated 9-11 attacks on America."
According to Webb, "intelligence sources" have detected an MI-5 Agent tied to the London Terrorist attack.
"The Signal man walked with a clipboard in his hand down the street, there are enough cameras to identify this terrorist."
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http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/yet-more-on-london-bombs.html
From Xymphora:
1. We are to believe that this was part of a larger operation that intended to make more terrorist attacks. And yet the four alleged terrorists took not the slightest steps to avoid leading police right back to their terrorist base.
They allowed themselves, together with the mysterious fifth man (who now no longer exists, begging the question of who was on the video), to be seen in the same car, took the same commuter train into London (the car could easily have dropped disguised men at separate stations), allowed themselves to be videoed together at King's Cross station, and carried identification with them that made the work of the authorities remarkably easy. With just the slightest effort, they could have made it practically impossible to track their traces back to their base.
The identity documents of at least one terrorist was apparently found at two attack sites, blocks away from each other. Of the three sites that the authorities were able to investigate, they found identities at each one, from terrorists supposedly sitting beside the bombs. No way!
The second problem involves the use of suicide bombers in cases where suicide bombers are unnecessary.
The only reason suicide bombers are used as that it is otherwise impossible to get near the target.
Suicide bombers are hard to come by, and terrorist organizations won't waste them unless they are completely necessary. They weren't necessary here, so why were they wasted?
I note also that the supplied biographies of at least some of the alleged terrorists don't (or here) ring true as the biographies of suicide bombers.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1527359,00.html
Asif Hanif, 21, from London, walked into Mike's Bar, in Tel Aviv, in 2003 "and blew himself up, killing two musicians and a waitress, and injuring more than 40 others."
"He was acting on behalf of the the Palestinian group Hamas, responsible for most of the suicide bomb attacks on Israel."
"His accomplice, Omar Khan Sharif, 27, was also British, a father of two from Derby. He went into the bar but failed to detonate his bomb and, after a scuffle, escaped."
His decomposed body was found a week later floating in the sea near the bar.
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http://www.propagandamatrix.com/palestinians_arrest_al_qaeda_poseurs.htm
December 8 2002
Palestinian security forces have arrested a group of Palestinians for collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, a senior official said yesterday.
The arrests come two days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and in Lebanon.
"The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the Palestinian territories," said the official, on condition of anonymity.
He said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (military) aggression in the Gaza Strip."
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London Bombs 7 7 - Part 2
London Bombs 7 7 - Part 3 - updates
London Bombs 77 - Part 4 - updates
London Bombs 77 - Part 5 - updates
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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Friday, July 15, 2005
Well done Cheadle and Charlie Kennedy
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The anti-war Liberal Democrats, led by Charles Kennedy, have held Cheadle in a parliamentary by-election.
Blair's Labour Party performed badly.
The Labour candidate lost his deposit because he won less than 5% of the vote.
Cheadle used to be held by the pro-war Conservative Party.
CHEADLE VOTE STATISTICS
Mark Hunter (Lib Dem) 19,593 (52.15%, +3.27%)
Stephen Day (Tory) 15,936 (42.42%, +2.01%)
Martin Miller (Labour) 1,739 (4.63%, -4.16%)
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The anti-war Liberal Democrats, led by Charles Kennedy, have held Cheadle in a parliamentary by-election.
Blair's Labour Party performed badly.
The Labour candidate lost his deposit because he won less than 5% of the vote.
Cheadle used to be held by the pro-war Conservative Party.
CHEADLE VOTE STATISTICS
Mark Hunter (Lib Dem) 19,593 (52.15%, +3.27%)
Stephen Day (Tory) 15,936 (42.42%, +2.01%)
Martin Miller (Labour) 1,739 (4.63%, -4.16%)
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The BBC protecting war criminals?
http://www.medialens.org/
Quotes from Media Lens:
There is a palpable uneasiness amongst media professionals at the increasing rise of the 'blogosphere' and internet-based 'alternative' media sites.
Joe and Jo Public are increasingly aware that the news and commentary distributed by the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 news and the liberal broadsheets, are protecting major war criminals in London and Washington.
A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair's crimes in Iraq, and their support for relentless corporate exploitation around the globe.
These war criminals continue to be presented as world-straddling father figures who could "solve" poverty in Africa and so become the beloved figureheads of a "great generation".
Consider that virtually the entire British media ignored the deliberations of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul from June 24-27.
Modelled on Bertrand Russell's tribunal on the US invasion of Vietnam, the tribunal consisted of hearings into numerous aspects of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
A jury of conscience from ten different countries listened to the testimony of 54 advocates.
This jury declared the war one of the most unjust in history:
"The Bush and Blair administrations blatantly ignored the massive opposition to the war expressed by millions of people around the world.
"They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history.
"The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq of the last 27 months has led to the destruction and devastation of the Iraqi state and society.
"Law and order have broken down completely, resulting in a pervasive lack of human security;
"the physical infrastructure is in shambles;
"the health care delivery system is a mess;
"the education system has ceased to function;
"there is massive environmental and ecological devastation;
"and, the cultural and archeological heritage of the Iraqi people has been desecrated."
(World Tribunal on Iraq, 'Press Release about Jury Statement,' June 27, 2005, www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=93 )
The jury presented 13 findings against the US and UK governments that included:
Planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
Targeting the civilian population of Iraq and civilian infrastructure.
Using disproportionate force and indiscriminate weapon systems.
Failing to safeguard the lives of civilians during military activities and during the occupation period thereafter.
Using deadly violence against peaceful protestors.
The jury also levelled charges against the security council of the United Nations for "failing to stop war crimes amongst other crimes".
It also charged "private corporations for profiting from the war" and accused the corporate media of "disseminating deliberate falsehoods and failing to report atrocities". (ibid.)
Veteran activist Walden Bello, reporting from Istanbul, pointed in particular to the "combination of eyewitness accounts that made clear beyond a shadow of doubt that the siege of Fallujah in November 2004 was a case of collective punishment".
(Bello, 'The Perfect Storm: the World Tribunal,' June 28, 2005; www.focusweb.org/main/html/Article631.html )
Bello noted, too, that the tribunal clearly showed the extent of "the western media's participation in the manipulation of public opinion".
At a press conference after the tribunal, jury chairperson Arundathi Roy said:
"If there is one thing that has come out clearly in the last few days, it is not that the corporate media supports the global corporate project; it is the global corporate project."
This is a perfect summation indicating why corporate crimes rarely surface in the corporate media.
A newspaper database search on July 5 revealed that only one newspaper - the small-circulation Morning Star - had reported on the Tribunal.
There was nothing in the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Financial Times, the Times or any of the other 'watchdogs of democracy'.
There were also zero mentions at BBC news online.
Although Media Lens is unable to monitor all television and radio news bulletins, we are not aware of any broadcast reports of the tribunal.
The level of professional media discipline required to fail to report such an important event is truly remarkable.
But then, as we have frequently noted, this is standard practice when 'our' crimes are under scrutiny, rather than the crimes of official 'enemies'.
Violent And Barbaric US Soldiers:
BBC news director Helen Boaden was pressed by several Media Lens readers - acting of their own volition, an uncomfortable thought for some in the media - just why the BBC had ignored all the evidence of Bush and Blair's war crimes presented at the World Tribunal on Iraq.
She replied:"We've covered the issues discussed many times and will continue do so, though we did not cover this - not least for logistical reasons." (Email to Media Lens reader, June 29, 2005)
Readers may well be scratching their heads, wondering how they managed to miss all of these BBC reports covering the G8 leaders' culpability for war crimes.
You may also be wondering why the BBC, one of the world's most lavishly-funded news corporations, could not manage even one short item from Istanbul on any of its flagship news programmes.
Regular readers may recall that Boaden has already declared publicly that: "you can be certain that if we had proof of [US war crimes], it would be leading every bulletin." (Email to Media Lens, May 19, 2005)
But despite the copious evidence presented at the World Tribunal in Istanbul, the BBC maintains a stoic refusal to report US/UK atrocities and war crimes.
However, the BBC can no longer maintain, for example, that there is no evidence of napalm use by US forces in Iraq.
It is now on the official record that the US has deployed an updated form of napalm - and that US officials even lied about it to Britain.
(See: Colin Brown, 'US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war,' The Independent, June 17, 2005; Andrew Sparrow, 'Parliament misled over firebomb use,' Daily Telegraph, June 20, 2005; Richard Norton-Taylor, 'US misled UK over Iraq fire bombs,' The Guardian, July 1, 2005).
We have seen no BBC bulletin leading with - or even mentioning - the appalling issue of napalm use by "coalition" forces in Iraq.
Nor have we seen any mention of the urgent humanitarian crisis in the western Iraqi cities of Haditha and Al-Qa'im, an area that is home to 300,000 people, where hospitals have been attacked and damaged by US forces.
Eyewitnesses, including medical personnel, claim that US soldiers violated the Geneva Convention and international law by preventing civilians from accessing healthcare.
US forces also prevented food and medication reaching Haditha and Al-Qa'im and targeted the cities' two main hospitals, medical staff and ambulances.
According to Dr. Salam Ismael, general secretary of the Doctors for Iraq Society:
"Eyewitnesses reported at least one patient being shot dead in his bed on a hospital ward."
Doctors were prevented from assisting patients and civilians in need. A number of doctors and medical personnel were killed in the attack and others were arrested by US forces in the hospital. They were later released, along with the hospital manager who was detained for two days."
The huge military operations in the area have caused widespread damage and an unknown number of civilians were killed and injured during the attack."Video footage shot by doctors shows a badly damage medical store in the Haditha hospital and damaged surgical theatres. The medical store contained medicine and equipment for all hospitals and medical centres in the west of Iraq. Staff and patients say the damage was carried out by 'by violent and barbaric US soldiers.'"
(Ismael, 'Iraqi hospitals attacked and damaged by US forces,' July 2, 2005; http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle )
Reports of brutal "coalition" attacks on Iraqi hospitals, however, are deemed unsuitable for British audiences of mainstream media, including the 'impartial' BBC.
~~~
Quotes from Media Lens:
There is a palpable uneasiness amongst media professionals at the increasing rise of the 'blogosphere' and internet-based 'alternative' media sites.
Joe and Jo Public are increasingly aware that the news and commentary distributed by the BBC, ITN, Channel 4 news and the liberal broadsheets, are protecting major war criminals in London and Washington.
A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair's crimes in Iraq, and their support for relentless corporate exploitation around the globe.
These war criminals continue to be presented as world-straddling father figures who could "solve" poverty in Africa and so become the beloved figureheads of a "great generation".
Consider that virtually the entire British media ignored the deliberations of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul from June 24-27.
Modelled on Bertrand Russell's tribunal on the US invasion of Vietnam, the tribunal consisted of hearings into numerous aspects of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
A jury of conscience from ten different countries listened to the testimony of 54 advocates.
This jury declared the war one of the most unjust in history:
"The Bush and Blair administrations blatantly ignored the massive opposition to the war expressed by millions of people around the world.
"They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history.
"The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq of the last 27 months has led to the destruction and devastation of the Iraqi state and society.
"Law and order have broken down completely, resulting in a pervasive lack of human security;
"the physical infrastructure is in shambles;
"the health care delivery system is a mess;
"the education system has ceased to function;
"there is massive environmental and ecological devastation;
"and, the cultural and archeological heritage of the Iraqi people has been desecrated."
(World Tribunal on Iraq, 'Press Release about Jury Statement,' June 27, 2005, www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=93 )
The jury presented 13 findings against the US and UK governments that included:
Planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
Targeting the civilian population of Iraq and civilian infrastructure.
Using disproportionate force and indiscriminate weapon systems.
Failing to safeguard the lives of civilians during military activities and during the occupation period thereafter.
Using deadly violence against peaceful protestors.
The jury also levelled charges against the security council of the United Nations for "failing to stop war crimes amongst other crimes".
It also charged "private corporations for profiting from the war" and accused the corporate media of "disseminating deliberate falsehoods and failing to report atrocities". (ibid.)
Veteran activist Walden Bello, reporting from Istanbul, pointed in particular to the "combination of eyewitness accounts that made clear beyond a shadow of doubt that the siege of Fallujah in November 2004 was a case of collective punishment".
(Bello, 'The Perfect Storm: the World Tribunal,' June 28, 2005; www.focusweb.org/main/html/Article631.html )
Bello noted, too, that the tribunal clearly showed the extent of "the western media's participation in the manipulation of public opinion".
At a press conference after the tribunal, jury chairperson Arundathi Roy said:
"If there is one thing that has come out clearly in the last few days, it is not that the corporate media supports the global corporate project; it is the global corporate project."
This is a perfect summation indicating why corporate crimes rarely surface in the corporate media.
A newspaper database search on July 5 revealed that only one newspaper - the small-circulation Morning Star - had reported on the Tribunal.
There was nothing in the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Financial Times, the Times or any of the other 'watchdogs of democracy'.
There were also zero mentions at BBC news online.
Although Media Lens is unable to monitor all television and radio news bulletins, we are not aware of any broadcast reports of the tribunal.
The level of professional media discipline required to fail to report such an important event is truly remarkable.
But then, as we have frequently noted, this is standard practice when 'our' crimes are under scrutiny, rather than the crimes of official 'enemies'.
Violent And Barbaric US Soldiers:
BBC news director Helen Boaden was pressed by several Media Lens readers - acting of their own volition, an uncomfortable thought for some in the media - just why the BBC had ignored all the evidence of Bush and Blair's war crimes presented at the World Tribunal on Iraq.
She replied:"We've covered the issues discussed many times and will continue do so, though we did not cover this - not least for logistical reasons." (Email to Media Lens reader, June 29, 2005)
Readers may well be scratching their heads, wondering how they managed to miss all of these BBC reports covering the G8 leaders' culpability for war crimes.
You may also be wondering why the BBC, one of the world's most lavishly-funded news corporations, could not manage even one short item from Istanbul on any of its flagship news programmes.
Regular readers may recall that Boaden has already declared publicly that: "you can be certain that if we had proof of [US war crimes], it would be leading every bulletin." (Email to Media Lens, May 19, 2005)
But despite the copious evidence presented at the World Tribunal in Istanbul, the BBC maintains a stoic refusal to report US/UK atrocities and war crimes.
However, the BBC can no longer maintain, for example, that there is no evidence of napalm use by US forces in Iraq.
It is now on the official record that the US has deployed an updated form of napalm - and that US officials even lied about it to Britain.
(See: Colin Brown, 'US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war,' The Independent, June 17, 2005; Andrew Sparrow, 'Parliament misled over firebomb use,' Daily Telegraph, June 20, 2005; Richard Norton-Taylor, 'US misled UK over Iraq fire bombs,' The Guardian, July 1, 2005).
We have seen no BBC bulletin leading with - or even mentioning - the appalling issue of napalm use by "coalition" forces in Iraq.
Nor have we seen any mention of the urgent humanitarian crisis in the western Iraqi cities of Haditha and Al-Qa'im, an area that is home to 300,000 people, where hospitals have been attacked and damaged by US forces.
Eyewitnesses, including medical personnel, claim that US soldiers violated the Geneva Convention and international law by preventing civilians from accessing healthcare.
US forces also prevented food and medication reaching Haditha and Al-Qa'im and targeted the cities' two main hospitals, medical staff and ambulances.
According to Dr. Salam Ismael, general secretary of the Doctors for Iraq Society:
"Eyewitnesses reported at least one patient being shot dead in his bed on a hospital ward."
Doctors were prevented from assisting patients and civilians in need. A number of doctors and medical personnel were killed in the attack and others were arrested by US forces in the hospital. They were later released, along with the hospital manager who was detained for two days."
The huge military operations in the area have caused widespread damage and an unknown number of civilians were killed and injured during the attack."Video footage shot by doctors shows a badly damage medical store in the Haditha hospital and damaged surgical theatres. The medical store contained medicine and equipment for all hospitals and medical centres in the west of Iraq. Staff and patients say the damage was carried out by 'by violent and barbaric US soldiers.'"
(Ismael, 'Iraqi hospitals attacked and damaged by US forces,' July 2, 2005; http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle )
Reports of brutal "coalition" attacks on Iraqi hospitals, however, are deemed unsuitable for British audiences of mainstream media, including the 'impartial' BBC.
~~~
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
7/7 Inside job? Part 2.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=74704
The Mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, Rudolph Giuliani, has spoken of the "eerie" experience of being in London near one of Thursday's blasts.
He told the BBC he was near Liverpool Street station when the first of the four blasts was reported.
~~
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050712/ts_nm/security_britain_bomber_dc
LONDON (Reuters) - The bomber responsible for the attack on a London bus last week was killed in the blast, Sky television reported on Tuesday, quoting police sources.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Without the cameras working on the bus, how do they know this was the bomber? The bombs were set off by timers, so how can they now this man was not just standing in the wrong place at the wrong time?
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/londonarchive.html
Archive
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/london_mossad.html
How long does it take Mossad to pick up a phone?
~~~
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&FriendID=11173369&blogMonth=7&blogDate=7&blogYear=2005
"Britain has bombed itself before and blamed it on the IRA, the US planned to attack itself in 1962 with Operation Northwoods. Israel has it's Lavon Affair. Hitler burnt the Reichstag Government building and blamed it on terrorists. Nero burnt Rome, and essentially did the same, blamed terrorists. It's proven that in the 1993 WTC bombing, the FBI planted Emad A. Salem to infiltrate an Arab group in New York. His job was to act as an agent provocateur, inciting violent attacks. It was Salem who convinced the other participants to bomb the World Trade Center. When he was asked to assemble the bomb, he went to the FBI to ask for harmless powder to avoid a catastrophe. The FBI essentially cut him off. To make a long, complicated story short and simple: The FBI spent $3 million of your tax money to blow up the World Trade Center."
~~~
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/110705warningtotheworld.htm
The following is from Prison Planet:
Members of Vladimir Putin's FSB were caught planting bombs in a Russian apartment building in 1999 by the Moscow police.
This is not speculation. Kermit Roosevelt admited on NPR radio that in 1953 the CIA and British intelligence carried out a wave of bombings and shootings in Iran. He then went on to brag about how they subsequently blamed the bombings on Iran's President, Mossadegh. Do you understand, these people brag about what they do 40 years later.
In any crime you look at history and motive, The British government has been caught in multiple examples of carrying out bombings in London which were then blamed on the IRA. They even had one of their own MI5 agents wihin the Omagh bomb squad. Click here for an archive of this evidence.
In what was called 'the strategy of tension,' Operation Gladio, a CIA/MI6 controlled state terror program swept Europe over three decades.
In sworn testimomy, a Gladio agent, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, made the following comment.
"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
And we ask the question, isn't it convenient for the kingpins of the war on terror that none of the terror attacks ever harm the establishment they are supposedly aimed at?
Pentagon document Field Manual FM 30-31B openly discusses launching terrorist attacks in nations that "do not react with sufficient effectiveness" to the geopolitical demands of the Globalists.
How many of the family members of the London subway bombing victims are aware of the fact that in a 2000 investigation the Italian Senate concluded that the 1980 Bologna train bombing that killed 85 people was carried out by "men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence."?
Gladio was continued by way of Central American death squads and that policy is being ressurected today in Iraq.
The right wing extremist groups are still controlled by the state to this day. A 2003 court case embarassed the German government when it was discovered that one in seven Neo Nazis was a secret service agent, and in many cases had been for decades. The Neo-Nazis are controlled by the government and used as a means to restrict any form of alternative political speech.
~~~
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archive_mi5terror.html
Archive
~~
The Mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, Rudolph Giuliani, has spoken of the "eerie" experience of being in London near one of Thursday's blasts.
He told the BBC he was near Liverpool Street station when the first of the four blasts was reported.
~~
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050712/ts_nm/security_britain_bomber_dc
LONDON (Reuters) - The bomber responsible for the attack on a London bus last week was killed in the blast, Sky television reported on Tuesday, quoting police sources.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Without the cameras working on the bus, how do they know this was the bomber? The bombs were set off by timers, so how can they now this man was not just standing in the wrong place at the wrong time?
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/londonarchive.html
Archive
~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/london_mossad.html
How long does it take Mossad to pick up a phone?
~~~
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&FriendID=11173369&blogMonth=7&blogDate=7&blogYear=2005
"Britain has bombed itself before and blamed it on the IRA, the US planned to attack itself in 1962 with Operation Northwoods. Israel has it's Lavon Affair. Hitler burnt the Reichstag Government building and blamed it on terrorists. Nero burnt Rome, and essentially did the same, blamed terrorists. It's proven that in the 1993 WTC bombing, the FBI planted Emad A. Salem to infiltrate an Arab group in New York. His job was to act as an agent provocateur, inciting violent attacks. It was Salem who convinced the other participants to bomb the World Trade Center. When he was asked to assemble the bomb, he went to the FBI to ask for harmless powder to avoid a catastrophe. The FBI essentially cut him off. To make a long, complicated story short and simple: The FBI spent $3 million of your tax money to blow up the World Trade Center."
~~~
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/110705warningtotheworld.htm
The following is from Prison Planet:
Members of Vladimir Putin's FSB were caught planting bombs in a Russian apartment building in 1999 by the Moscow police.
This is not speculation. Kermit Roosevelt admited on NPR radio that in 1953 the CIA and British intelligence carried out a wave of bombings and shootings in Iran. He then went on to brag about how they subsequently blamed the bombings on Iran's President, Mossadegh. Do you understand, these people brag about what they do 40 years later.
In any crime you look at history and motive, The British government has been caught in multiple examples of carrying out bombings in London which were then blamed on the IRA. They even had one of their own MI5 agents wihin the Omagh bomb squad. Click here for an archive of this evidence.
In what was called 'the strategy of tension,' Operation Gladio, a CIA/MI6 controlled state terror program swept Europe over three decades.
In sworn testimomy, a Gladio agent, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, made the following comment.
"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
And we ask the question, isn't it convenient for the kingpins of the war on terror that none of the terror attacks ever harm the establishment they are supposedly aimed at?
Pentagon document Field Manual FM 30-31B openly discusses launching terrorist attacks in nations that "do not react with sufficient effectiveness" to the geopolitical demands of the Globalists.
How many of the family members of the London subway bombing victims are aware of the fact that in a 2000 investigation the Italian Senate concluded that the 1980 Bologna train bombing that killed 85 people was carried out by "men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence."?
Gladio was continued by way of Central American death squads and that policy is being ressurected today in Iraq.
The right wing extremist groups are still controlled by the state to this day. A 2003 court case embarassed the German government when it was discovered that one in seven Neo Nazis was a secret service agent, and in many cases had been for decades. The Neo-Nazis are controlled by the government and used as a means to restrict any form of alternative political speech.
~~~
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archive_mi5terror.html
Archive
~~
Monday, July 11, 2005
7/7 inside job?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298105.ece
Police and intelligence agents are investigating the theory that a gang of white "terrorists" carried out the 7/7 attacks on London.
~~~
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,15885610,00.html
"THOUSANDS of investors joined sharp institutions in making millions of pounds from the short-lived collapse in share prices that followed the terrorist strikes in London last week."
~~
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-11T122706Z_01_N11466902_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BRITAIN-INTELLIGENCE-DC.XML
"The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying," said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after Thursday's attacks.
~~
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=85346
Report: Israel Was Warned Ahead of First Blast
"Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred. The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit."
~~
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3111121,00.html
The Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast, the paper reports. As a result, it was impossible to take any action to prevent the blasts.
“They reached us too late for us to do something about it,” a Mossad source is quoted as saying.
~~
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tonyparsons/
"IN THE aftermath of Thursday's mass murder, it was one of the first pieces of breaking news: the Muslim Council of Great Britain had been sent so many hate emails that its computers had crashed.
"Not true. Or at least, it is not true that so many people felt a sudden loathing for Muslims that they were compelled to bombard the Muslim Council of Great Britain with hate email.
Because it now turns out that 30,000 emails were sent to the Muslim Council from just one source."
~~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.
Which is a perfect cover for people pretending to be terrorists to plant real bombs instead of fake ones, isn't it?
Just like on 9-11 when an ongoing NORAD exercise tracking 20 simulated hijacked planes provided cover for four real hijacked planes.
No working cameras at the airports where the terrorists boarded the 9-11 planes.
No working cameras on the double-decked bus.
Advance warning to Odigo.
Advance warning to Netanyahu.
~~~~
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-on-london-bombs.html
"I prefer the hybrid model for all these attacks, by which I mean the involvement of real Islamic terrorists guided by an intelligence agency. The intelligence agency funds much of the operation, chooses the targets and the time, and provides technical assistance. The Islamic terrorists provide most of the manpower. In some cases the terrorists are completely fooled into participating (probably what happened in Madrid, a Spanish police operation with Muslim men tricked into being in the wrong place at the wrong time), and in some cases they go along with the promptings of the intelligence agency as the operation fits into their own agenda."
~~~
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/07/kick-at-darkness.html
"Over the weekend, the CBC conducted it's own interview with Peter Power, regarding London's amazing - and eerily familiar - coincidence. Power is Managing Director of Visor Consultants, "which on the morning of July 7 was co-incidentally running a security exercise for a private firm, simulating multiple bomb explosions in the London Underground, at the same stations that were subsequently attacked in real life...
"Researcher Paul Thompson (The Terror Timeline) made the following transcription from the broadcast:
"Evan Solomon: We've heard something quite extraordinary - could be a coincidence or not - that your firm, on the very day that the bombs went off in London, were running an exercise simulating three bombs going off, in the very same tube stations that they went off. How did this happen? Coincidence, or were you acting on information that you knew?
"Peter Power: I don't think you could say that we had some special insight into the terrorist network, otherwise I would be under arrest myself. The truth of it is -
"Solomon: But it is a coincidence.
"Power: It's a coincidence, and it's a spooky coincidence... "
Police and intelligence agents are investigating the theory that a gang of white "terrorists" carried out the 7/7 attacks on London.
~~~
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,15885610,00.html
"THOUSANDS of investors joined sharp institutions in making millions of pounds from the short-lived collapse in share prices that followed the terrorist strikes in London last week."
~~
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-11T122706Z_01_N11466902_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BRITAIN-INTELLIGENCE-DC.XML
"The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying," said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after Thursday's attacks.
~~
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=85346
Report: Israel Was Warned Ahead of First Blast
"Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred. The Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit."
~~
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3111121,00.html
The Mossad office in London received advance notice about the attacks, but only six minutes before the first blast, the paper reports. As a result, it was impossible to take any action to prevent the blasts.
“They reached us too late for us to do something about it,” a Mossad source is quoted as saying.
~~
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tonyparsons/
"IN THE aftermath of Thursday's mass murder, it was one of the first pieces of breaking news: the Muslim Council of Great Britain had been sent so many hate emails that its computers had crashed.
"Not true. Or at least, it is not true that so many people felt a sudden loathing for Muslims that they were compelled to bombard the Muslim Council of Great Britain with hate email.
Because it now turns out that 30,000 emails were sent to the Muslim Council from just one source."
~~~
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.
Which is a perfect cover for people pretending to be terrorists to plant real bombs instead of fake ones, isn't it?
Just like on 9-11 when an ongoing NORAD exercise tracking 20 simulated hijacked planes provided cover for four real hijacked planes.
No working cameras at the airports where the terrorists boarded the 9-11 planes.
No working cameras on the double-decked bus.
Advance warning to Odigo.
Advance warning to Netanyahu.
~~~~
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-on-london-bombs.html
"I prefer the hybrid model for all these attacks, by which I mean the involvement of real Islamic terrorists guided by an intelligence agency. The intelligence agency funds much of the operation, chooses the targets and the time, and provides technical assistance. The Islamic terrorists provide most of the manpower. In some cases the terrorists are completely fooled into participating (probably what happened in Madrid, a Spanish police operation with Muslim men tricked into being in the wrong place at the wrong time), and in some cases they go along with the promptings of the intelligence agency as the operation fits into their own agenda."
~~~
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/07/kick-at-darkness.html
"Over the weekend, the CBC conducted it's own interview with Peter Power, regarding London's amazing - and eerily familiar - coincidence. Power is Managing Director of Visor Consultants, "which on the morning of July 7 was co-incidentally running a security exercise for a private firm, simulating multiple bomb explosions in the London Underground, at the same stations that were subsequently attacked in real life...
"Researcher Paul Thompson (The Terror Timeline) made the following transcription from the broadcast:
"Evan Solomon: We've heard something quite extraordinary - could be a coincidence or not - that your firm, on the very day that the bombs went off in London, were running an exercise simulating three bombs going off, in the very same tube stations that they went off. How did this happen? Coincidence, or were you acting on information that you knew?
"Peter Power: I don't think you could say that we had some special insight into the terrorist network, otherwise I would be under arrest myself. The truth of it is -
"Solomon: But it is a coincidence.
"Power: It's a coincidence, and it's a spooky coincidence... "
Sunday, July 10, 2005
False Flag; CCTV cameras 7 7 2005 ; London 1994
~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/070805Leonard/070805leonard.html
False Flag
~~~~
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/981127/1998112708.html
"...the person who is accused of being behind the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994, Rida Maghribi, was an agent recruited by the Mossad and was assigned by Israeli foreign intelligence for that purpose."
~~~
7 7 2005 London Bombs:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15717499&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--58--
"....the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber.
"One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.
"We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images."
"The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle."
~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/070805Leonard/070805leonard.html
False Flag
~~~~
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/981127/1998112708.html
"...the person who is accused of being behind the bombing of the Israeli embassy in London in 1994, Rida Maghribi, was an agent recruited by the Mossad and was assigned by Israeli foreign intelligence for that purpose."
~~~
7 7 2005 London Bombs:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15717499&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--58--
"....the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber.
"One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.
"We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images."
"The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle."
~~
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Friday, July 08, 2005
Thursday, July 07, 2005
LEO STRAUSS
LEO STRAUSS
German-Jewish political philosopher Leo Strauss, who died in 1973, believed that in order to control the ignorant masses, the elite should use:
DECEPTION
RELIGIOUS FERVOUR
PERPETUAL WAR
http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/
Paul Wolfowitz and other neoconservatives are fans of Strauss.
Working for Wolfowitz is Abram Shulsky, director of the Office of Special Plans, set up to find evidence of WMDs and make the case for the invasion of Iraq.
Like Wolfowitz, Shulsky is a student of Leo StraussStrauss taught at several major universities, including that attended by Wolfowitz and Shulsky's, the University of Chicago, before his death in 1973.
Fans of Strauss include William Kristol, godfather of the neoconservatives, Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defence for Intelligence, and Gary Schmitt, director of the Project for the New American Century.
Strauss' philosophy:
First Principle: Deception
Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior."
Rulers need to go in for "perpetual deception."
"The people are told what they need to know and no more."
Second Principle: Power of Religion
Strauss had a "huge contempt" for secular democracy.
Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control.
He stressed that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it, since the truths proclaimed by religion were "a pious fraud".
Secular Jews like Kristol in 'Commentary' magazine and other neoconservative journals have allied themselves with the Christian Right and even taken on Darwin's theory of evolution.
Third Principle: Aggressive Nationalism
Like Thomas Hobbes, Strauss believed that "because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed."
"Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat."
Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured.
"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in."
"They really have no use for liberalism and democracy, but they're conquering the world in the name of liberalism and democracy."
~~~
9 11
This was an example of an immoral deception. Elements of various security services carried out the attacks so that the USA could engage in perpetual war.
BUSH and RELIGION
The Bush people pretend to be good Christians in order to win votes. The US government has secretly promoted fundamentalism in countries such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA.
IRAQ
The aim of the neoconservatives is to wreck Iraq; if Iraq splits into three parts, so much the better for Israel; the aim is not to produce a prosperous liberal democracy. The aim is perpetual war.
~~~
The idea of using of fake terror, in order to control people, did not begin with Strauss. Nor did it begin with Machiavelli. It dates back to ancient times.
However, Strauss is important because he explained in great detail the thinking that lies behind the policies of the Bush government.
~~~
German-Jewish political philosopher Leo Strauss, who died in 1973, believed that in order to control the ignorant masses, the elite should use:
DECEPTION
RELIGIOUS FERVOUR
PERPETUAL WAR
http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/
Paul Wolfowitz and other neoconservatives are fans of Strauss.
Working for Wolfowitz is Abram Shulsky, director of the Office of Special Plans, set up to find evidence of WMDs and make the case for the invasion of Iraq.
Like Wolfowitz, Shulsky is a student of Leo StraussStrauss taught at several major universities, including that attended by Wolfowitz and Shulsky's, the University of Chicago, before his death in 1973.
Fans of Strauss include William Kristol, godfather of the neoconservatives, Stephen Cambone, Undersecretary of Defence for Intelligence, and Gary Schmitt, director of the Project for the New American Century.
Strauss' philosophy:
First Principle: Deception
Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior."
Rulers need to go in for "perpetual deception."
"The people are told what they need to know and no more."
Second Principle: Power of Religion
Strauss had a "huge contempt" for secular democracy.
Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control.
He stressed that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it, since the truths proclaimed by religion were "a pious fraud".
Secular Jews like Kristol in 'Commentary' magazine and other neoconservative journals have allied themselves with the Christian Right and even taken on Darwin's theory of evolution.
Third Principle: Aggressive Nationalism
Like Thomas Hobbes, Strauss believed that "because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed."
"Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat."
Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured.
"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in."
"They really have no use for liberalism and democracy, but they're conquering the world in the name of liberalism and democracy."
~~~
9 11
This was an example of an immoral deception. Elements of various security services carried out the attacks so that the USA could engage in perpetual war.
BUSH and RELIGION
The Bush people pretend to be good Christians in order to win votes. The US government has secretly promoted fundamentalism in countries such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA.
IRAQ
The aim of the neoconservatives is to wreck Iraq; if Iraq splits into three parts, so much the better for Israel; the aim is not to produce a prosperous liberal democracy. The aim is perpetual war.
~~~
The idea of using of fake terror, in order to control people, did not begin with Strauss. Nor did it begin with Machiavelli. It dates back to ancient times.
However, Strauss is important because he explained in great detail the thinking that lies behind the policies of the Bush government.
~~~
George Washington
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Brief Summary of Evidence Demonstrating that the Administration Orchestrated 9-11 .
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Brief Summary of Evidence Demonstrating that the Administration Orchestrated 9-11 .
Monday, July 04, 2005
Complicity between the West and corrupt African leaders
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1520547,00.html
A letter to the Guardian, 4 July 2005, deals with the root of Africa's problems:
The first problem mentioned is:
complicity between the west and corrupt leaders.
The writers state: In instances where Africans have democratically elected promising leaders, western governments have undermined or conspired in their political elimination and replaced them with puppet regimes.
The letter is signed by -
Patricia Daley Jesus College, Oxford; Firoze Manji Pambazuka News; Paul OkojieManchester Metropolitan University; Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Global Pan African Movement; And four others
~~
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
NIGERIA
General Sani Abacha was the reportedly corrupt dictator of oil-rich Nigeria. He 'rigged' elections. More than 100 government executions occurred in 1994, and numerous pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by police.
"Shell Oil provides most of the country's wealth by extracting oil from the Ogoniland region, while in the process causing severe environmental destruction and devastating the local economy."
"More than 700 Ogoni environmentalists protesting the destruction of their way of life, were executed."
In November 1995, environmental leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 associates, were hanged despite an international outcry.
"Shell supported Abacha's policies by its silence."
"Despite an outcry that Nigerian oil be boycotted, the US government refused to do so."
~~
UGANDA
General Amin once ruled Uganda.
When Amin had been a non-commissioned officer in the British Army he had helped to manage Britain's concentration camps in Kenya.
"Amin was picked by the British to replace the elected Ugandan government in a 1971 coup."
"Amin brutalized his people with British and US military aid and with Israeli and CIA training of his troops."
He murdered friends, clergy, soldiers, and ordinary Ugandans.
~~
LIBERIA
Pro-American Samuel Doe came to power in a bloody 1980 coup.
He received 'US aid and corporate kickbacks'.
Under his regime, the gross domestic product decreased by 13%.
Those who protested were jailed or killed.
Doe purchased over sixty $60,000 Mercedes Benz cars for his government ministers.
~~~
MOROCCO
King Hassan ll ruled Morocco.
'95% of the population lives in abject poverty.'
In 1975, Hassan took his nation into a war in the Western Sahara that was costing the country over $l million a day.
The US backed Hassan 'diplomatically and financially in his war to annex the area'.
The US also took an active role in stopping coup attempts against the King.
Opposition figures were 'arrested and tortured'.
~~~
ZAIRE/CONGO
"When Zaire's first elected President, Patrice Lumumba, appeared to be getting too close to socialism, US companies feared they might lose control of Zaire's precious cobalt, copper, and diamonds.
"So the CIA stepped in, assassinated Lumumba, and replaced him with Mobutu Sese Seko.
After 1965, Mobutu was "the US's main man in Central Africa."
Mobutu amassed an estimated $5 billion personal fortune at his nation's expense.
In 1974, when the US sent $1.4 million to assist troops fighting a civil war, "Mobutu pocketed the entire sum."
Malnutrition takes the lives of one-third of Zaire's children, and one child out of two dies before age five.
Mobutu's regime imprisoned and tortured its opponents.
~~
A letter to the Guardian, 4 July 2005, deals with the root of Africa's problems:
The first problem mentioned is:
complicity between the west and corrupt leaders.
The writers state: In instances where Africans have democratically elected promising leaders, western governments have undermined or conspired in their political elimination and replaced them with puppet regimes.
The letter is signed by -
Patricia Daley Jesus College, Oxford; Firoze Manji Pambazuka News; Paul OkojieManchester Metropolitan University; Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Global Pan African Movement; And four others
~~
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
NIGERIA
General Sani Abacha was the reportedly corrupt dictator of oil-rich Nigeria. He 'rigged' elections. More than 100 government executions occurred in 1994, and numerous pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by police.
"Shell Oil provides most of the country's wealth by extracting oil from the Ogoniland region, while in the process causing severe environmental destruction and devastating the local economy."
"More than 700 Ogoni environmentalists protesting the destruction of their way of life, were executed."
In November 1995, environmental leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 associates, were hanged despite an international outcry.
"Shell supported Abacha's policies by its silence."
"Despite an outcry that Nigerian oil be boycotted, the US government refused to do so."
~~
UGANDA
General Amin once ruled Uganda.
When Amin had been a non-commissioned officer in the British Army he had helped to manage Britain's concentration camps in Kenya.
"Amin was picked by the British to replace the elected Ugandan government in a 1971 coup."
"Amin brutalized his people with British and US military aid and with Israeli and CIA training of his troops."
He murdered friends, clergy, soldiers, and ordinary Ugandans.
~~
LIBERIA
Pro-American Samuel Doe came to power in a bloody 1980 coup.
He received 'US aid and corporate kickbacks'.
Under his regime, the gross domestic product decreased by 13%.
Those who protested were jailed or killed.
Doe purchased over sixty $60,000 Mercedes Benz cars for his government ministers.
~~~
MOROCCO
King Hassan ll ruled Morocco.
'95% of the population lives in abject poverty.'
In 1975, Hassan took his nation into a war in the Western Sahara that was costing the country over $l million a day.
The US backed Hassan 'diplomatically and financially in his war to annex the area'.
The US also took an active role in stopping coup attempts against the King.
Opposition figures were 'arrested and tortured'.
~~~
ZAIRE/CONGO
"When Zaire's first elected President, Patrice Lumumba, appeared to be getting too close to socialism, US companies feared they might lose control of Zaire's precious cobalt, copper, and diamonds.
"So the CIA stepped in, assassinated Lumumba, and replaced him with Mobutu Sese Seko.
After 1965, Mobutu was "the US's main man in Central Africa."
Mobutu amassed an estimated $5 billion personal fortune at his nation's expense.
In 1974, when the US sent $1.4 million to assist troops fighting a civil war, "Mobutu pocketed the entire sum."
Malnutrition takes the lives of one-third of Zaire's children, and one child out of two dies before age five.
Mobutu's regime imprisoned and tortured its opponents.
~~
Playing God broke my heart
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1678326,00.html
In the Sunday Times, 3 July 2005, Deirdre Fernand interviewed Claire Bertschinger.
Claire has written her autobiography entitled Moving Mountains.
More than 20 years ago, Ethiopia was troubled by civil war and famine. Claire was in Ethiopia, working at a Red Cross feeding station. Inside the feeding station were those who were to be fed. Outside were those for whom there was no food. Rations were limited.
“I felt like a Nazi commandant, deciding who would live and who would die,” Bertschinger said.
Claire has worked in war zones from Lebanon to Afghanistan.
In the summer of 1984 Claire was a field nurse in Mekele, the capital of Tigray province of Ethiopia.
Claire could feed only those with the best chance of survival.
Hopeless cases were turned away. She would feel children's thin arms for any sign of muscle.
'I also looked into their eyes for a spark of life.'
'My feelings of guilt about my own role in the famine were so strong that I couldn’t face them . . .
'I forgot those who I had helped and remembered only those who had died because of the cruel selection process.'
...Geldof came to her emotional rescue. He said: “In her was vested the power of life and death. She had become God-like, and that is unbearable for anyone.”
“At last,” thought Claire, “they do comprehend. That’s what made me think I could move forward.”
Recently Claire had treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Her recovery has led to her book, a percentage of which will benefit the African Children’s Educational Trust, which pays for boys and girls to attend school.
In Uganda in the late 1980s, Claire was setting up feeding centres in prisons.
"One day she was approached by two inmates who led her down dank corridors to a cell. There they offered her tea in a china cup made with condensed milk. Then, removing a brick from the wall, they presented her with their most precious possession. 'It was a piece of a Mars bar, wrapped in cloth.'"
* African Children’s Educational Trust http://www.a-cet.org/
~~~
In the Sunday Times, 3 July 2005, Deirdre Fernand interviewed Claire Bertschinger.
Claire has written her autobiography entitled Moving Mountains.
More than 20 years ago, Ethiopia was troubled by civil war and famine. Claire was in Ethiopia, working at a Red Cross feeding station. Inside the feeding station were those who were to be fed. Outside were those for whom there was no food. Rations were limited.
“I felt like a Nazi commandant, deciding who would live and who would die,” Bertschinger said.
Claire has worked in war zones from Lebanon to Afghanistan.
In the summer of 1984 Claire was a field nurse in Mekele, the capital of Tigray province of Ethiopia.
Claire could feed only those with the best chance of survival.
Hopeless cases were turned away. She would feel children's thin arms for any sign of muscle.
'I also looked into their eyes for a spark of life.'
'My feelings of guilt about my own role in the famine were so strong that I couldn’t face them . . .
'I forgot those who I had helped and remembered only those who had died because of the cruel selection process.'
...Geldof came to her emotional rescue. He said: “In her was vested the power of life and death. She had become God-like, and that is unbearable for anyone.”
“At last,” thought Claire, “they do comprehend. That’s what made me think I could move forward.”
Recently Claire had treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Her recovery has led to her book, a percentage of which will benefit the African Children’s Educational Trust, which pays for boys and girls to attend school.
In Uganda in the late 1980s, Claire was setting up feeding centres in prisons.
"One day she was approached by two inmates who led her down dank corridors to a cell. There they offered her tea in a china cup made with condensed milk. Then, removing a brick from the wall, they presented her with their most precious possession. 'It was a piece of a Mars bar, wrapped in cloth.'"
* African Children’s Educational Trust http://www.a-cet.org/
~~~
Oil price
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1519745,00.html
Heather Stewart, in the 3 July 2005 Observer, writes that Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons believes 'oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months'.
Simmons has produced a book in which he argues that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil, and further price rises are inevitable as supplies decline. He warns that the scramble for resources could lead to war.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, oil prices will peak by the end of this year, and decline by 10 per cent in 2006 as the Chinese economy slows.
Heather Stewart, in the 3 July 2005 Observer, writes that Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons believes 'oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months'.
Simmons has produced a book in which he argues that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil, and further price rises are inevitable as supplies decline. He warns that the scramble for resources could lead to war.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, oil prices will peak by the end of this year, and decline by 10 per cent in 2006 as the Chinese economy slows.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
Saya, Sindoca, P2, Gladio, Imam Abu Omar, Nicola Calipari, alleged US connections to Iraq terror groups
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/03/turkey-terror-bombs-cia-and-mossad.html
Operation Gladio involved 'the strategy of tension'. The strategy involved getting right-wing terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe and in Turkey. Operation Gladio was reportedly organised by Nato and the CIA.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/03/operation-gladio.html
Gladio was about keeping the right-wing elite in power. Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.'
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti revealed the existence of Gladio in 1991. Parliamentary investigations in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have given us a little of the truth.
85 people were killed on Aug. 2, 1980 in the bombing of the Bologna train station. According to the Italian Senate, after its investigation in 2000, the bombers were later discovered to be 'men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence.'
The Bologna bomb was part of Gladio's ' strategy of tension' - fomenting fear to keep populations in thrall to 'strong leaders' who will protect the nation from the ever-present terrorist threat.
The strategy of tension was also used by the CIA and its allies outside Europe. During the 1980s, right-wing death squads, trained and supplied by the United States, murdered tens of thousands of people in Central America. Indonesia's gestapo regiments were trained by the Pentagon... Now in Iraq, the Pentagon seems to using terror tactics. Massive terror means that U.S. forces have to remain indefinitely.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm
Wayne Madsen reports, on 2 July 2005:
1. Genoa police have arrested the two leaders of a neo-Fascist intelligence network in Italy.
2. The group employed police and intelligence agents.
3. The two leaders, Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca, reportedly have close ties to P-2 and Gladio.
(The P-2 Masonic Lodge, headed by fascist leader Licio Gelli, reportedly maintained close links to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his one-time foreign affairs adviser Michael Ledeen.)
4. In 2004, Saya and Sindoca established the Department of Strategic Anti-Terrorism Studies, which reportedly had links to both the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.
Saya and Sindoca were leaders of the Destra Nazionale - Nuovo MSI (an off shoot of the neo-Fascist MSI party represented in the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi).
5. There is a suspicion by prosecutors that the neo-Fascist intelligence group may have been involved with American covert operators in the kidnaping of Imam Abu Omar (Moustapha Hassan Nasr) from a street in Milan in 2003.
6. "It is believed that the late Deputy SISMI (Italian intelligence) chief Nicola Calipari became aware of information in Iraq that linked the control of terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere to a 'third level' in 'an anti-terrorism country.' Calipari was shot to death by U.S. troops while transporting freed Italian hostage and journalist Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad International Airport."
"Abu Omar may have become a hot potato for the Americans after Calipari discovered links between the Americans and terrorist groups in Iraq and elsewhere - and a decision was made to conduct a 'rendition' of the imam to Egypt to get him out of circulation. Abu Omar, also said to have been a credible intelligence source, may have also become aware of U.S. connections to terrorist groups."
~~~
Operation Gladio involved 'the strategy of tension'. The strategy involved getting right-wing terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe and in Turkey. Operation Gladio was reportedly organised by Nato and the CIA.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/03/operation-gladio.html
Gladio was about keeping the right-wing elite in power. Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.'
Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti revealed the existence of Gladio in 1991. Parliamentary investigations in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have given us a little of the truth.
85 people were killed on Aug. 2, 1980 in the bombing of the Bologna train station. According to the Italian Senate, after its investigation in 2000, the bombers were later discovered to be 'men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence.'
The Bologna bomb was part of Gladio's ' strategy of tension' - fomenting fear to keep populations in thrall to 'strong leaders' who will protect the nation from the ever-present terrorist threat.
The strategy of tension was also used by the CIA and its allies outside Europe. During the 1980s, right-wing death squads, trained and supplied by the United States, murdered tens of thousands of people in Central America. Indonesia's gestapo regiments were trained by the Pentagon... Now in Iraq, the Pentagon seems to using terror tactics. Massive terror means that U.S. forces have to remain indefinitely.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm
Wayne Madsen reports, on 2 July 2005:
1. Genoa police have arrested the two leaders of a neo-Fascist intelligence network in Italy.
2. The group employed police and intelligence agents.
3. The two leaders, Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca, reportedly have close ties to P-2 and Gladio.
(The P-2 Masonic Lodge, headed by fascist leader Licio Gelli, reportedly maintained close links to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his one-time foreign affairs adviser Michael Ledeen.)
4. In 2004, Saya and Sindoca established the Department of Strategic Anti-Terrorism Studies, which reportedly had links to both the Bush administration and Ariel Sharon's Likud government in Israel.
Saya and Sindoca were leaders of the Destra Nazionale - Nuovo MSI (an off shoot of the neo-Fascist MSI party represented in the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi).
5. There is a suspicion by prosecutors that the neo-Fascist intelligence group may have been involved with American covert operators in the kidnaping of Imam Abu Omar (Moustapha Hassan Nasr) from a street in Milan in 2003.
6. "It is believed that the late Deputy SISMI (Italian intelligence) chief Nicola Calipari became aware of information in Iraq that linked the control of terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere to a 'third level' in 'an anti-terrorism country.' Calipari was shot to death by U.S. troops while transporting freed Italian hostage and journalist Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad International Airport."
"Abu Omar may have become a hot potato for the Americans after Calipari discovered links between the Americans and terrorist groups in Iraq and elsewhere - and a decision was made to conduct a 'rendition' of the imam to Egypt to get him out of circulation. Abu Omar, also said to have been a credible intelligence source, may have also become aware of U.S. connections to terrorist groups."
~~~
Drought in Spain and Portugal
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article296443.ece
Elizabeth Nash, in The Independent on Sunday 3rd July 2005, wrote about drought and desert in Spain and Portugal.
1. The growth of golf courses, swimming pools and luxury homes for Brits is contributing to the water shortage problem in Spain and Portugal.
2. Scientists fear up to a third of Spain may become desert in 50 years.
3. Spain and Portugal are experiencing the worst drought for more than half a century. The region's reservoirs are down to 20 per cent of capacity in many cases.
4. Global warming seems to be increasing.
(Murcia is technically desert. Rain comes twice or three times a year.)
Julia Martinez, a specialist in water resources at Murcia University:
"In a situation of chronic scarcity like that of Murcia, where water is more important than petroleum, the proliferation of golf courses is unsustainable....
"Ancient springs are drying up, and water is becoming contaminated with salts and nitrates. Wells plunge 600 metres, the water table is falling and aquifers are saying basta - enough."
In Portugal, serious drought afflicts some 70 per cent of the country.
"The reality is that we are consuming twice as much water as our rivers and aquifers can provide," says Julia Martinez.
Elizabeth Nash, in The Independent on Sunday 3rd July 2005, wrote about drought and desert in Spain and Portugal.
1. The growth of golf courses, swimming pools and luxury homes for Brits is contributing to the water shortage problem in Spain and Portugal.
2. Scientists fear up to a third of Spain may become desert in 50 years.
3. Spain and Portugal are experiencing the worst drought for more than half a century. The region's reservoirs are down to 20 per cent of capacity in many cases.
4. Global warming seems to be increasing.
(Murcia is technically desert. Rain comes twice or three times a year.)
Julia Martinez, a specialist in water resources at Murcia University:
"In a situation of chronic scarcity like that of Murcia, where water is more important than petroleum, the proliferation of golf courses is unsustainable....
"Ancient springs are drying up, and water is becoming contaminated with salts and nitrates. Wells plunge 600 metres, the water table is falling and aquifers are saying basta - enough."
In Portugal, serious drought afflicts some 70 per cent of the country.
"The reality is that we are consuming twice as much water as our rivers and aquifers can provide," says Julia Martinez.
Live 8 and goody bags worth nearly £7,000
LIVE 8
Mail on Sunday 3 July 2005:
"Scores of workers employed as security guards were paid just £5.50 for a 17 hour shift..."
"Performers in Philadelphia... Went home with goody bags worth nearly £7,000.. Gifts included Hugo Boss suits, watches, jewellery..."
"Peter Mandelson led a clutch of leading Labour figures who joined the Live 8 party."
The Live 8 promoter is Harvey Goldsmith.
"According to Live 8 insiders... Goldsmith gave his support to a £500-a-ticket all-night after-show party...Brands including Bacardi, Murphy’s and Smirnoff were credited on flyers for the party..."
~~
Mail on Sunday 3 July 2005:
"Scores of workers employed as security guards were paid just £5.50 for a 17 hour shift..."
"Performers in Philadelphia... Went home with goody bags worth nearly £7,000.. Gifts included Hugo Boss suits, watches, jewellery..."
"Peter Mandelson led a clutch of leading Labour figures who joined the Live 8 party."
The Live 8 promoter is Harvey Goldsmith.
"According to Live 8 insiders... Goldsmith gave his support to a £500-a-ticket all-night after-show party...Brands including Bacardi, Murphy’s and Smirnoff were credited on flyers for the party..."
~~
Secret reports on UK crime, hospitals and transport
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,1519687,00.html
Secret reports by Lord Birt, Blair's strategy chief, have been released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The health report, dated June 2002, paints a bleak picture of the NHS. Lord Birt warns that Britain "performs poorly in international comparisons of mortality, particularly for women and for life expectancy at 65... and it performs badly on the few specific measures of medical intervention quality which are available, such as survival rates for cancers."
Lord Birt said: "Britain's key problem is a shortage of medical system capacity, which drives poorer medical outcomes but also, crucially, waiting times, the most important drivers of patient dissatisfaction".
The report on crime, in December 2000, estimates that the number of crimes committed each year is 130m — about 10 times more than official data indicates.
Birt blames the rise in crime on “the decline of institutions and experiences that brought discipline and order to lives: the family, the churches, apprenticeships, National Service”.
A summary of his report on transport in 2001 says: "The British travel much the same as other Europeans, yet our road and rail network is the least developed of any major country - the result of decades of below-average investment."
Lord Birt has been criticised because he is also on the payroll of McKinseys, the management consultants.
Enron, McKinsey, Tony Blair, Cabinet Secretary
Blair, McKinsey, Enron, CIA continued
~~
Secret reports by Lord Birt, Blair's strategy chief, have been released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The health report, dated June 2002, paints a bleak picture of the NHS. Lord Birt warns that Britain "performs poorly in international comparisons of mortality, particularly for women and for life expectancy at 65... and it performs badly on the few specific measures of medical intervention quality which are available, such as survival rates for cancers."
Lord Birt said: "Britain's key problem is a shortage of medical system capacity, which drives poorer medical outcomes but also, crucially, waiting times, the most important drivers of patient dissatisfaction".
The report on crime, in December 2000, estimates that the number of crimes committed each year is 130m — about 10 times more than official data indicates.
Birt blames the rise in crime on “the decline of institutions and experiences that brought discipline and order to lives: the family, the churches, apprenticeships, National Service”.
A summary of his report on transport in 2001 says: "The British travel much the same as other Europeans, yet our road and rail network is the least developed of any major country - the result of decades of below-average investment."
Lord Birt has been criticised because he is also on the payroll of McKinseys, the management consultants.
Enron, McKinsey, Tony Blair, Cabinet Secretary
Blair, McKinsey, Enron, CIA continued
~~
Is Geldoff going to mention the ID computer?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1678543,00.html
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6937
In the Sunday Times, 3 July 2005, Simon Jenkins wrote an article entitled: 'With a song in their heart and not much at all in their heads.'
Jenkins reminds us that Live Aid, according to David Rieff in Prospect Magazine, meant:
1. giving money, trucks and food to dictator Mengistu’s Ethiopia
2. entrenching a vicious regime
3. aiding one of the most cruel forced migrations in history.
Jenkins wants us to be charitable, but also to be subtle.
Jenkins writes: "At a rough estimate some $500 billion was tipped into Africa over the past 40 years. Most observers maintain this contributed to political instability and a negative growth rate."
Jenkins wants Geldoff and friends to 'join in the democratic debate and engage with a complex argument.'
Jenkins wants Geldoff to mention the following:
1. "Over the next three years some £15 billion is needed for anti-retroviral drugs in Africa. While Geldof bills and coos with Blair on television this week, will he mention that this gigantic sum is exactly what Blair intends to blow on a single, useless ID computer?
2. "The quickest salve to poverty in Africa is entirely within reach of Britain’s exchequer. For the cost of an equally useless NHS computer, Blair could conquer malaria as well.
3. Subsidies for farmers? "There is no Live 8 concert in Brussels or on the sugar beet prairies of East Anglia.
4. "Nor will Live 8 plead with the NHS to stop its most vicious sanction, the poaching of a third of Africa’s qualified doctors and nurses."
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6937
In the Sunday Times, 3 July 2005, Simon Jenkins wrote an article entitled: 'With a song in their heart and not much at all in their heads.'
Jenkins reminds us that Live Aid, according to David Rieff in Prospect Magazine, meant:
1. giving money, trucks and food to dictator Mengistu’s Ethiopia
2. entrenching a vicious regime
3. aiding one of the most cruel forced migrations in history.
Jenkins wants us to be charitable, but also to be subtle.
Jenkins writes: "At a rough estimate some $500 billion was tipped into Africa over the past 40 years. Most observers maintain this contributed to political instability and a negative growth rate."
Jenkins wants Geldoff and friends to 'join in the democratic debate and engage with a complex argument.'
Jenkins wants Geldoff to mention the following:
1. "Over the next three years some £15 billion is needed for anti-retroviral drugs in Africa. While Geldof bills and coos with Blair on television this week, will he mention that this gigantic sum is exactly what Blair intends to blow on a single, useless ID computer?
2. "The quickest salve to poverty in Africa is entirely within reach of Britain’s exchequer. For the cost of an equally useless NHS computer, Blair could conquer malaria as well.
3. Subsidies for farmers? "There is no Live 8 concert in Brussels or on the sugar beet prairies of East Anglia.
4. "Nor will Live 8 plead with the NHS to stop its most vicious sanction, the poaching of a third of Africa’s qualified doctors and nurses."
US and UK indicted over Iraq
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B5CAF6D0-7F6F-4585-B002-1B6631FEC3B1.htm
28 June 2005:
An independent tribunal has found the United States and United Kingdom guilty of a variety of crimes in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The World Tribunal on Iraq met over three days in Istanbul, Turkey.
The independent panel of academics, writers and activists in its concluding verdict found the US and UK governments guilty of "planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles".
It also found the US-led forces had been "intentionally directing attacks upon civilians and hospitals, medical centres, residential neighbourhoods, electricity stations, and water purification facilities" in violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights.
Speakers at the Tribunal included:
former UN assistant general secretary Denis Halliday,
former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, Hans von Sponec,
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Chairman, and former Euro MP Ken Coates
and UNESCO Peace Prize winner Richard Falk.
By collecting the testimony of soldiers, civilians and other witnesses to the conflict, the tribunal also aims to act as a resource for legal cases connected with the war.
"We are here to make concrete records, documents and analysis," says organiser Ayca Cubukcu. "The findings of the WTI are then being taken to the International Criminal Court."
Richard Falk: "The real importance, for example, of the Nuremburg trials at the end of second world war was that they established a record of the Nazi regime and its crimes. When governments and the United Nations are essentially silent over aggression in Iraq, this tribunal is trying to fill that vacuum."
28 June 2005:
An independent tribunal has found the United States and United Kingdom guilty of a variety of crimes in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The World Tribunal on Iraq met over three days in Istanbul, Turkey.
The independent panel of academics, writers and activists in its concluding verdict found the US and UK governments guilty of "planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles".
It also found the US-led forces had been "intentionally directing attacks upon civilians and hospitals, medical centres, residential neighbourhoods, electricity stations, and water purification facilities" in violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights.
Speakers at the Tribunal included:
former UN assistant general secretary Denis Halliday,
former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, Hans von Sponec,
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Chairman, and former Euro MP Ken Coates
and UNESCO Peace Prize winner Richard Falk.
By collecting the testimony of soldiers, civilians and other witnesses to the conflict, the tribunal also aims to act as a resource for legal cases connected with the war.
"We are here to make concrete records, documents and analysis," says organiser Ayca Cubukcu. "The findings of the WTI are then being taken to the International Criminal Court."
Richard Falk: "The real importance, for example, of the Nuremburg trials at the end of second world war was that they established a record of the Nazi regime and its crimes. When governments and the United Nations are essentially silent over aggression in Iraq, this tribunal is trying to fill that vacuum."
Saturday, July 02, 2005
We must all sneer and scoff at the corrupt, cruel jackasses
~
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1677350,00.html
"We must all sneer and scoff at the corrupt, cruel jackasses ..."
- Matthew Parris
"As leaders of the G8 gather to discuss aid, they should be pitiless in their resolve to make pariahs of ... cruel and rotten governments. A ruling class of greedy men, sheltered by a popular culture of gawping passivity in the face of political swagger, is suffocating the people ... and neither tears nor money nor rock music should be our first response. Rage, not rock, is called for...
"Swaggering ... tyrants stay in power because the small people ... passively tolerate, even in some cases sneakingly admire, their leader’s greed and rascality. The cult of the Big Man is the tap-root of ... suffering. That culture has to change. We can help it to change.
"... leaders should be the laughing stock of the world... Where is the satire, where the anger, where the mockery and derision, that these brutal boobies deserve? How many f***s has Bob Geldof directed at their heads rather than ours?
"... These criminals and crackpots ... should be exposed to universal hatred, contempt and ridicule. We should sneer, rail and scoff... The populaces before whom these jackasses puff themselves up should know... that they are led by outcasts."
~~~
Kevin Phillips, in The Los Angeles Times, 8 February 2004, wrote about "Bush Family Values: War, Wealth, Oil."
The Bushes and the military-industrial complex:
"George H. Walker and Samuel Prescott Bush were the dynasty's founding fathers...
"Walker ... made his mark in corporate reorganizations and war contracts.
"Sam Bush, the current president's other great-grandfather, ran an Ohio company, Buckeye Steel Castings, that produced armaments...
"Both men were present at the emergence of what became the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president, had some German corporate ties at the outbreak of World War II.
He had directorships of companies involved in U.S. war production. "Dresser Industries, for example, produced the incendiary bombs dropped on Tokyo and made gaseous diffusion pumps for the atomic bomb project."
George H.W. Bush was linked to secret arms deals with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the moujahedeen in Afghanistan.
Under George W. Bush there has been the post-9/11 expansion of the military.
Enron is another family connection. George H.W. Bush gave Lay the task of planning for a G-7 summit in Houston....
The intelligence community: A number of published sources suggest that Zapata Offshore was a CIA front...
With the Bush family, "investors and their inheritors are favored — a good explanation of why George W. Bush has cut taxes on both dividends and estates, where most of the benefit goes to the top 1%."
Debt and deficits: "Whenever a Bush is president, private debt and government deficits seem to grow..."
George W. Bush means "oil, crony capitalism, top 1% economics and military-industrial-establishment loyalties."
~~
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1677350_1,00.html
Matthew Parris, in The Times 2 July 2005, wrote: "We must all sneer and scoff at the corrupt, cruel jackasses of Africa."
Some quotes from Parris:
"God send Africa a little less of our charity and understanding, and a little more of our anger and disdain...
"As leaders of the G8 gather to discuss aid, they should be pitiless in their resolve to make pariahs of black Africa’s cruel and rotten governments. A ruling class of greedy men, sheltered by a popular culture of gawping passivity in the face of political swagger, is suffocating the people of Africa and neither tears nor money nor rock music should be our first response. Rage, not rock, is called for...
"Most of Africa is not anarchy; it is tyranny...
"The invading army of spanking new, top-of-the-range, white, air-conditioned Toyota Land Cruisers and their palefaced, safari-suited occupants sent in by aid agencies and non-governmental organisations, are not on the reformers’ side. NGOs and relief workers’ instructions are to keep out of politics and engage constructively with the political elite...
"I was in the Afar region of Ethiopia this New Year. It was seldom below 40C. At a godforsaken, wind-whipped, rubble-strewn village with no water but a dirty uncovered well where women walked with buckets and rope, I said to my Ethiopian guide: 'Why not cover the well, get a windmill and lay a pipe?'
"... Everybody wanted access to clean water. But someone would have to come forward and borrow money; rights of ownership and access would have to be settled; and a framework giving the investor confidence in a return from customers or (more likely) the regional authority was needed too. The windmill itself was secondary to all that: the easiest part.
"I am afraid the regional authority was more than a hundred miles away, building itself (with aid money) a huge multistorey office in the middle of a trackless desert."
"Peasants must become freehold owners of their land...
"Swaggering African tyrants stay in power because the small people in Africa passively tolerate, even in some cases sneakingly admire, their leader’s greed and rascality. The cult of the Big Man is the tap-root of Africa’s suffering. That culture has to change. We can help it to change.
"Africa’s leaders should be the laughing stock of the world, and ordinary Africans should know it. Where is the satire, where the anger, where the mockery and derision, that these brutal boobies deserve? How many f***s has Bob Geldof directed at their heads rather than ours?
"...But it is patronising to think these criminals and crackpots can’t help it because they are black. They should be exposed to universal hatred, contempt and ridicule. We should sneer, rail and scoff, as we did at the leaders of apartheid South Africa. The populaces before whom these jackasses puff themselves up should know — as every South African used to know — that they are led by outcasts."
~~~
UK Labour Party corruption
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/05/uk-labour-party-corruption.html
The Prime Minister made Paul Drayson a lord, six weeks before he gave the party £505,000, Electoral Commission accounts reveal.
Lord Drayson donated £100,000 while his firm Powderject made £20million as the Government's only supplier of the smallpox vaccine.
Powderject received a £32m contract for smallpox vaccine without normal competitive tendering, shortly after donating to Labour.
In the Steelgate affair it was revealed that billionaire Lakshmi Mittal had donated £125,000 to Labour party funds prior to receiving Mr Blair's backing for his takeover of the Romanian Sidex steel plant.
The Indian Hinduja brothers were allegedly involved in bribery in connection with defence contracts and applied for British passports in order to try and avoid extradition to India....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1677350,00.html
"We must all sneer and scoff at the corrupt, cruel jackasses ..."
- Matthew Parris
"As leaders of the G8 gather to discuss aid, they should be pitiless in their resolve to make pariahs of ... cruel and rotten governments. A ruling class of greedy men, sheltered by a popular culture of gawping passivity in the face of political swagger, is suffocating the people ... and neither tears nor money nor rock music should be our first response. Rage, not rock, is called for...
"Swaggering ... tyrants stay in power because the small people ... passively tolerate, even in some cases sneakingly admire, their leader’s greed and rascality. The cult of the Big Man is the tap-root of ... suffering. That culture has to change. We can help it to change.
"... leaders should be the laughing stock of the world... Where is the satire, where the anger, where the mockery and derision, that these brutal boobies deserve? How many f***s has Bob Geldof directed at their heads rather than ours?
"... These criminals and crackpots ... should be exposed to universal hatred, contempt and ridicule. We should sneer, rail and scoff... The populaces before whom these jackasses puff themselves up should know... that they are led by outcasts."
~~~
Kevin Phillips, in The Los Angeles Times, 8 February 2004, wrote about "Bush Family Values: War, Wealth, Oil."
The Bushes and the military-industrial complex:
"George H. Walker and Samuel Prescott Bush were the dynasty's founding fathers...
"Walker ... made his mark in corporate reorganizations and war contracts.
"Sam Bush, the current president's other great-grandfather, ran an Ohio company, Buckeye Steel Castings, that produced armaments...
"Both men were present at the emergence of what became the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president, had some German corporate ties at the outbreak of World War II.
He had directorships of companies involved in U.S. war production. "Dresser Industries, for example, produced the incendiary bombs dropped on Tokyo and made gaseous diffusion pumps for the atomic bomb project."
George H.W. Bush was linked to secret arms deals with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the moujahedeen in Afghanistan.
Under George W. Bush there has been the post-9/11 expansion of the military.
Enron is another family connection. George H.W. Bush gave Lay the task of planning for a G-7 summit in Houston....
The intelligence community: A number of published sources suggest that Zapata Offshore was a CIA front...
With the Bush family, "investors and their inheritors are favored — a good explanation of why George W. Bush has cut taxes on both dividends and estates, where most of the benefit goes to the top 1%."
Debt and deficits: "Whenever a Bush is president, private debt and government deficits seem to grow..."
George W. Bush means "oil, crony capitalism, top 1% economics and military-industrial-establishment loyalties."
~~
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1065-1677350_1,00.html
Matthew Parris, in The Times 2 July 2005, wrote: "We must all sneer and scoff at the corrupt, cruel jackasses of Africa."
Some quotes from Parris:
"God send Africa a little less of our charity and understanding, and a little more of our anger and disdain...
"As leaders of the G8 gather to discuss aid, they should be pitiless in their resolve to make pariahs of black Africa’s cruel and rotten governments. A ruling class of greedy men, sheltered by a popular culture of gawping passivity in the face of political swagger, is suffocating the people of Africa and neither tears nor money nor rock music should be our first response. Rage, not rock, is called for...
"Most of Africa is not anarchy; it is tyranny...
"The invading army of spanking new, top-of-the-range, white, air-conditioned Toyota Land Cruisers and their palefaced, safari-suited occupants sent in by aid agencies and non-governmental organisations, are not on the reformers’ side. NGOs and relief workers’ instructions are to keep out of politics and engage constructively with the political elite...
"I was in the Afar region of Ethiopia this New Year. It was seldom below 40C. At a godforsaken, wind-whipped, rubble-strewn village with no water but a dirty uncovered well where women walked with buckets and rope, I said to my Ethiopian guide: 'Why not cover the well, get a windmill and lay a pipe?'
"... Everybody wanted access to clean water. But someone would have to come forward and borrow money; rights of ownership and access would have to be settled; and a framework giving the investor confidence in a return from customers or (more likely) the regional authority was needed too. The windmill itself was secondary to all that: the easiest part.
"I am afraid the regional authority was more than a hundred miles away, building itself (with aid money) a huge multistorey office in the middle of a trackless desert."
"Peasants must become freehold owners of their land...
"Swaggering African tyrants stay in power because the small people in Africa passively tolerate, even in some cases sneakingly admire, their leader’s greed and rascality. The cult of the Big Man is the tap-root of Africa’s suffering. That culture has to change. We can help it to change.
"Africa’s leaders should be the laughing stock of the world, and ordinary Africans should know it. Where is the satire, where the anger, where the mockery and derision, that these brutal boobies deserve? How many f***s has Bob Geldof directed at their heads rather than ours?
"...But it is patronising to think these criminals and crackpots can’t help it because they are black. They should be exposed to universal hatred, contempt and ridicule. We should sneer, rail and scoff, as we did at the leaders of apartheid South Africa. The populaces before whom these jackasses puff themselves up should know — as every South African used to know — that they are led by outcasts."
~~~
UK Labour Party corruption
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/05/uk-labour-party-corruption.html
The Prime Minister made Paul Drayson a lord, six weeks before he gave the party £505,000, Electoral Commission accounts reveal.
Lord Drayson donated £100,000 while his firm Powderject made £20million as the Government's only supplier of the smallpox vaccine.
Powderject received a £32m contract for smallpox vaccine without normal competitive tendering, shortly after donating to Labour.
In the Steelgate affair it was revealed that billionaire Lakshmi Mittal had donated £125,000 to Labour party funds prior to receiving Mr Blair's backing for his takeover of the Romanian Sidex steel plant.
The Indian Hinduja brothers were allegedly involved in bribery in connection with defence contracts and applied for British passports in order to try and avoid extradition to India....
Friday, July 01, 2005
"Zimbabwe is being hypocritically vilified"
~
Monster of the moment :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1518747,00.html
John Vidal, in the Guardian 1 July 2005:
"The EU, Britain and the US, as well as the World Bank ... have been responsible for millions of evictions in Africa and elsewhere...
"Every year millions of poor people are evicted to make way for tourism, dams, roads and airports, for events like the Olympics, and for the gentrification and beautification of cities, national parks and urban redevelopments...
"In the past five years, slum clearance programmes have forced more than 150,000 people out of their homes in Delhi;
"300,000 people were evicted to make way for Olympic sites in Beijing;
"100,000 were moved on in Jakarta;
"250,000 were forced out of dam sites in India;
"and as many as a million in Lagos and Port Harcourt in Nigeria. There are many more.
"The world's press has been mostly silent...
"The World Bank ... has funded projects that have required the eviction of at least 10 million people...
"According to the UN's 2003 study of urbanisation and slums, the driving force behind the slums of Africa and Asia is...
laissez-faire globalisation,
the tearing down of trade barriers,
the privatisation of national economies,
structural adjustment programmes imposed on indebted countries by the IMF,
and the lowering of tariffs promoted by the World Trade Organisation."
Monster of the moment :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1518747,00.html
John Vidal, in the Guardian 1 July 2005:
"The EU, Britain and the US, as well as the World Bank ... have been responsible for millions of evictions in Africa and elsewhere...
"Every year millions of poor people are evicted to make way for tourism, dams, roads and airports, for events like the Olympics, and for the gentrification and beautification of cities, national parks and urban redevelopments...
"In the past five years, slum clearance programmes have forced more than 150,000 people out of their homes in Delhi;
"300,000 people were evicted to make way for Olympic sites in Beijing;
"100,000 were moved on in Jakarta;
"250,000 were forced out of dam sites in India;
"and as many as a million in Lagos and Port Harcourt in Nigeria. There are many more.
"The world's press has been mostly silent...
"The World Bank ... has funded projects that have required the eviction of at least 10 million people...
"According to the UN's 2003 study of urbanisation and slums, the driving force behind the slums of Africa and Asia is...
laissez-faire globalisation,
the tearing down of trade barriers,
the privatisation of national economies,
structural adjustment programmes imposed on indebted countries by the IMF,
and the lowering of tariffs promoted by the World Trade Organisation."
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