Sunday, January 27, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Cached
John McCain Bows To Jewish Money! # 1
Try clicking on this: Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked - Scotsman.com News
Factfile: teenagers gunned down in UK
"My firm alone is acting in cases apparently involving over 30 deaths in detention including executions.
"It was standard operating procedure to hood, stress and deprive detainees of sleep, water and food. Our clients have been subjected to torture, abuse and humiliation.
"There is the clearest evidence from the court martial into the death of Baha Mousa, and other emerging evidence, that systematic abuse by UK soldiers in Iraq was rife." - In quotes: Army report reaction
Indonesia quashes activist killer's appeal
France's Sarkozy pushes defence deals, better ties with India
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Friday, January 25, 2008
The BBC is run by the military?
Wing Commander Michael Cairns took part in operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. ('BIGGLES' QUITS Sunday Mirror Find Articles at BNET.com)
Cairns has been responsible for political output from the BBC in Norther Ireland.
Cairns was found out.
"A BBC editor has resigned his post within the British military after Sinn Féin raised conflict of interest concerns. RAF wing commander Mike Cairns resigned as OC 7644 VR Squadron after Sinn Féin complained that his work as a public relations officer for the RAF was incompatible with his job as a high-ranking BBC editor.
"Following Sinn Féin's complaint the BBC confirmed Mike Cairns who worked in news-gathering in the BBC had resigned from the RAF reserve." - An Phoblacht: BBC editor resigns from RAF post
Nicola Jones, writing in New Scientist, 19 November 2001, (Taliban nuclear documents mirror spoof article - 19 November 2001 ...) pointed out that 'Taliban nuclear documents' found by BBC reporter John Simpson were identical to a spoof article.
In 2001, John Simpson claimed he had found documents strewn on the floor of a Taliban recruitment centre in Kabul. He claimed these documents apparently described how to build a thermonuclear device.
The documents, according to Simpson showed "how dangerous Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network aspired to be".
According to the New Scientist:
The sentences shown in focus by the camera also come from a famous document called "Weekend Scientist: Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device", which was first published in 1979 as a humour piece by The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
The paper was written in response to US court decisions of the time that restricted popular magazines from detailing how to make a bomb. Since all the information is freely available in public libraries anyway, the author said, he decided to provide a humorous "ten easy steps" proving how easy bomb building can be.
While the gist of these instructions may be accurate, for example giving suggested relative proportions of plutonium and TNT, they are written completely in jest.
The first instruction tells readers to obtain weapons grade plutonium at their "local supplier". It continues: "A nuclear power plant is not recommended, as large quantities of missing plutonium tends to make plant engineers unhappy. We suggest you contact your local terrorist organization."
The US Department of Energy generally refuses to comment on the accuracy of such documents. But they do say that about five kilograms of plutonium is theoretically enough to make a nuclear explosive device, while the recipe in The Journal of Irreproducible Results calls for 110 kilograms of plutonium.
The BBC film only allows a few parts of the documents to be read, but these few phrases are exactly as found in the 1979 paper: "Theory of operation ... the device basically works when ... critical mass then produces a nuclear chain reaction ... Plutonium (PU), atomic number ... and is similar in ...".
"From what I've seen, this is certainly a shortened version of the original article," says Marc Abrahams, former editor of The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Some of the more obviously absurd parts of the original are missing from the document in Kabul, such as a paragraph starting "in next month's column, we will learn how to clone your neighbor's wife in six easy steps." The Kabul document also has paragraph returns in odd places, as if someone had cut and pasted the text.
Even so, says Abrahams, "if you spend half a second scanning any of this you should be able to tell it's a joke." He adds that if the instructions were made more believable by removing the ridiculous parts, there would be practically nothing left.
Reportedly, John Simpson was a university friend of a former head of MI6.
Can you trust the BBC news? How many journalists are working for the security services? The following extracts are from an article at the excellent Medialens
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060303_hacks_and_spooks.php
March 3, 2006
HACKS AND SPOOKS
By Professor Richard Keeble
And so to Nottingham University (on Sunday 26 February) for a well-attended conference...
I focus in my talk on the links between journalists and the intelligence services:
While it might be difficult to identify precisely the impact of the spooks (variously represented in the press as “intelligence”, “security”, “Whitehall” or “Home Office” sources) on mainstream politics and media, from the limited evidence it looks to be enormous.
As Roy Greenslade, media specialist at the Telegraph (formerly the Guardian), commented:
"Most tabloid newspapers - or even newspapers in general - are playthings of MI5."
Bloch and Fitzgerald, in their examination of covert UK warfare, report the editor of “one of Britain’s most distinguished journals” as believing that more than half its foreign correspondents were on the MI6 payroll.
And in 1991, Richard Norton-Taylor revealed in the Guardian that 500 prominent Britons paid by the CIA and the now defunct Bank of Commerce and Credit International, included 90 journalists.
In their analysis of the contemporary secret state, Dorril and Ramsay gave the media a crucial role. The heart of the secret state they identified as the security services, the cabinet office and upper echelons of the Home and Commonwealth Offices, the armed forces and Ministry of Defence, the nuclear power industry and its satellite ministries together a network of senior civil servants.
As “satellites” of the secret state, their list included “agents of influence in the media, ranging from actual agents of the security services, conduits of official leaks, to senior journalists merely lusting after official praise and, perhaps, a knighthood at the end of their career”.
Phillip Knightley, author of a seminal history of the intelligence services, has even claimed that at least one intelligence agent is working on every Fleet Street newspaper.
A brief history
Going as far back as 1945, George Orwell no less became a war correspondent for the Observer - probably as a cover for intelligence work. Significantly most of the men he met in Paris on his assignment, Freddie Ayer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ernest Hemingway were either working for the intelligence services or had close links to them.
Stephen Dorril, in his seminal history of MI6, reports that Orwell attended a meeting in Paris of resistance fighters on behalf of David Astor, his editor at the Observer and leader of the intelligence service’s unit liasing with the French resistance.
The release of Public Record Office documents in 1995 about some of the operations of the MI6-financed propaganda unit, the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office, threw light on this secret body - which even Orwell aided by sending them a list of “crypto-communists”. Set up by the Labour government in 1948, it “ran” dozens of Fleet Street journalists and a vast array of news agencies across the globe until it was closed down by Foreign Secretary David Owen in 1977.
According to John Pilger in the anti-colonial struggles in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus, IRD was so successful that the journalism served up as a record of those episodes was a cocktail of the distorted and false in which the real aims and often atrocious behaviour of the British intelligence agencies was hidden.
And spy novelist John le Carré, who worked for MI6 between 1960 and 1964, has made the amazing statement that the British secret service then controlled large parts of the press – just as they may do today.
In 1975, following Senate hearings on the CIA, the reports of the Senate’s Church Committee and the House of Representatives’ Pike Committee highlighted the extent of agency recruitment of both British and US journalists.
And sources revealed that half the foreign staff of a British daily were on the MI6 payroll.
David Leigh, in The Wilson Plot, his seminal study of the way in which the secret service smeared through the mainstream media and destabilised the Government of Harold Wilson before his sudden resignation in 1976, quotes an MI5 officer: “We have somebody in every office in Fleet Street”
Leaker King
And the most famous whistleblower of all, Peter (Spycatcher) Wright, revealed that MI5 had agents in newspapers and publishing companies whose main role was to warn them of any forthcoming “embarrassing publications”.
Wright also disclosed that the Daily Mirror tycoon, Cecil King, “was a longstanding agent of ours” who “made it clear he would publish anything MI5 might care to leak in his direction”.
Selective details about Wilson and his secretary, Marcia Falkender, were leaked by the intelligence services to sympathetic Fleet Street journalists. Wright comments: “No wonder Wilson was later to claim that he was the victim of a plot”. King was also closely involved in a scheme in 1968 to oust Prime Minister Harold Wilson and replace him with a coalition headed by Lord Mountbatten.
Hugh Cudlipp, editorial director of the Mirror from 1952 to 1974, was also closely linked to intelligence, according to Chris Horrie, in his recently published history of the newspaper.
David Walker, the Mirror’s foreign correspondent in the 1950s, was named as an MI6 agent following a security scandal while another Mirror journalist, Stanley Bonnet, admitted working for MI5 in the 1980s investigating the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Maxwell and Mossad
According to Stephen Dorril, intelligence gathering during the miners’ strike of 1984-85 was helped by the fact that during the 1970s MI5’s F Branch had made a special effort to recruit industrial correspondents – with great success.
In 1991, just before his mysterious death, Mirror proprietor Robert Maxwell was accused by the US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh of acting for Mossad, the Israeli secret service, though Dorril suggests his links with MI6 were equally as strong.
Following the resignation from the Guardian of Richard Gott, its literary editor in December 1994 in the wake of allegations that he was a paid agent of the KGB, the role of journalists as spies suddenly came under the media spotlight – and many of the leaks were fascinating.
For instance, according to The Times editorial of 16 December 1994: “Many British journalists benefited from CIA or MI6 largesse during the Cold War.”
The intimate links between journalists and the secret services were highlighted in the autobiography of the eminent newscaster Sandy Gall. He reports without any qualms how, after returning from one of his reporting assignments to Afghanistan, he was asked to lunch by the head of MI6. “It was very informal, the cook was off so we had cold meat and salad with plenty of wine. He wanted to hear what I had to say about the war in Afghanistan. I was flattered, of course, and anxious to pass on what I could in terms of first-hand knowledge.”
And in January 2001, the renegade MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson, claimed Dominic Lawson, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph and son of the former Tory chancellor, Nigel Lawson, provided journalistic cover for an MI6 officer on a mission to the Baltic to handle and debrief a young Russian diplomat who was spying for Britain.
Lawson strongly denied the allegations.
Similarly in the reporting of Northern Ireland, there have been longstanding concerns over security service disinformation. Susan McKay, Northern editor of the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, has criticised the reckless reporting of material from “dodgy security services”. She told a conference in Belfast in January 2003 organised by the National Union of Journalists and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission: “We need to be suspicious when people are so ready to provide information and that we are, in fact, not being used.” (www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=635)
Growing power of secret state
Thus from this evidence alone it is clear there has been a long history of links between hacks and spooks in both the UK and US.
But as the secret state grows in power, through massive resourcing, through a whole raft of legislation – such as the Official Secrets Act, the anti-terrorism legislation, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and so on – and as intelligence moves into the heart of Blair’s ruling clique so these links are even more significant.
Since September 11 all of Fleet Street has been awash in warnings by anonymous intelligence sources of terrorist threats.
According to former Labour minister Michael Meacher, much of this disinformation was spread via sympathetic journalists by the Rockingham cell within the MoD.
A parallel exercise, through the office of Special Plans, was set up by Donald Rumsfeld in the US. Thus there have been constant attempts to scare people – and justify still greater powers for the national security apparatus.
Similarly the disinformation about Iraq’s WMD was spread by dodgy intelligence sources via gullible journalists.
Thus, to take just one example, Michael Evans, The Times defence correspondent, reported on 29 November 2002: “Saddam Hussein has ordered hundred of his officials to conceal weapons of mass destruction components in their homes to evade the prying eyes of the United Nations inspectors.” The source of these “revelations” was said to be “intelligence picked up from within Iraq”. Early in 2004, as the battle for control of Iraq continued with mounting casualties on both sides, it was revealed that many of the lies about Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMD had been fed to sympathetic journalists in the US, Britain and Australia by the exile group, the Iraqi National Congress.
Sexed up – and missed out
During the controversy that erupted following the end of the “war” and the death of the arms inspector Dr David Kelly (and the ensuing Hutton inquiry) the spotlight fell on BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan and the claim by one of his sources that the government (in collusion with the intelligence services) had “sexed up” a dossier justifying an attack on Iraq.
The Hutton inquiry, its every twist and turn massively covered in the mainstream media, was the archetypal media spectacle that drew attention from the real issue: why did the Bush and Blair governments invade Iraq in the face of massive global opposition? But those facts will be forever secret.
Significantly, too, the broader and more significant issue of mainstream journalists’ links with the intelligence services was ignored by the inquiry.
Significantly, on 26 May 2004, the New York Times carried a 1,200-word editorial admitting it had been duped in its coverage of WMD in the lead-up to the invasion by dubious Iraqi defectors, informants and exiles (though it failed to lay any blame on the US President: see Greenslade 2004). Chief among The Times’ dodgy informants was Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress and Pentagon favourite before his Baghdad house was raided by US forces on 20 May.
Then, in the Observer of 30 May 2004, David Rose admitted he had been the victim of a “calculated set-up” devised to foster the propaganda case for war. “In the 18 months before the invasion of March 2003, I dealt regularly with Chalabi and the INC and published stories based on interviews with men they said were defectors from Saddam’s regime.” And he concluded: “The information fog is thicker than in any previous war, as I know now from bitter personal experience. To any journalist being offered apparently sensational disclosures, especially from an anonymous intelligence source, I offer two words of advice: caveat emptor.”
Let’s not forget no British newspaper has followed the example of the NYT and apologised for being so easily duped by the intelligence services in the run up to the illegal invasion of Iraq.
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Richard Keeble’s publications include Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare (John Libbey 1997) and The Newspapers Handbook (Routledge, fourth edition, 2005). He is also the editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Richard is also a member of the War and Media Network.
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Cairns has been responsible for political output from the BBC in Norther Ireland.
Cairns was found out.
"A BBC editor has resigned his post within the British military after Sinn Féin raised conflict of interest concerns. RAF wing commander Mike Cairns resigned as OC 7644 VR Squadron after Sinn Féin complained that his work as a public relations officer for the RAF was incompatible with his job as a high-ranking BBC editor.
"Following Sinn Féin's complaint the BBC confirmed Mike Cairns who worked in news-gathering in the BBC had resigned from the RAF reserve." - An Phoblacht: BBC editor resigns from RAF post
Nicola Jones, writing in New Scientist, 19 November 2001, (Taliban nuclear documents mirror spoof article - 19 November 2001 ...) pointed out that 'Taliban nuclear documents' found by BBC reporter John Simpson were identical to a spoof article.
In 2001, John Simpson claimed he had found documents strewn on the floor of a Taliban recruitment centre in Kabul. He claimed these documents apparently described how to build a thermonuclear device.
The documents, according to Simpson showed "how dangerous Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network aspired to be".
According to the New Scientist:
The sentences shown in focus by the camera also come from a famous document called "Weekend Scientist: Let's Make a Thermonuclear Device", which was first published in 1979 as a humour piece by The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
The paper was written in response to US court decisions of the time that restricted popular magazines from detailing how to make a bomb. Since all the information is freely available in public libraries anyway, the author said, he decided to provide a humorous "ten easy steps" proving how easy bomb building can be.
While the gist of these instructions may be accurate, for example giving suggested relative proportions of plutonium and TNT, they are written completely in jest.
The first instruction tells readers to obtain weapons grade plutonium at their "local supplier". It continues: "A nuclear power plant is not recommended, as large quantities of missing plutonium tends to make plant engineers unhappy. We suggest you contact your local terrorist organization."
The US Department of Energy generally refuses to comment on the accuracy of such documents. But they do say that about five kilograms of plutonium is theoretically enough to make a nuclear explosive device, while the recipe in The Journal of Irreproducible Results calls for 110 kilograms of plutonium.
The BBC film only allows a few parts of the documents to be read, but these few phrases are exactly as found in the 1979 paper: "Theory of operation ... the device basically works when ... critical mass then produces a nuclear chain reaction ... Plutonium (PU), atomic number ... and is similar in ...".
"From what I've seen, this is certainly a shortened version of the original article," says Marc Abrahams, former editor of The Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Some of the more obviously absurd parts of the original are missing from the document in Kabul, such as a paragraph starting "in next month's column, we will learn how to clone your neighbor's wife in six easy steps." The Kabul document also has paragraph returns in odd places, as if someone had cut and pasted the text.
Even so, says Abrahams, "if you spend half a second scanning any of this you should be able to tell it's a joke." He adds that if the instructions were made more believable by removing the ridiculous parts, there would be practically nothing left.
Reportedly, John Simpson was a university friend of a former head of MI6.
Can you trust the BBC news? How many journalists are working for the security services? The following extracts are from an article at the excellent Medialens
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060303_hacks_and_spooks.php
March 3, 2006
HACKS AND SPOOKS
By Professor Richard Keeble
And so to Nottingham University (on Sunday 26 February) for a well-attended conference...
I focus in my talk on the links between journalists and the intelligence services:
While it might be difficult to identify precisely the impact of the spooks (variously represented in the press as “intelligence”, “security”, “Whitehall” or “Home Office” sources) on mainstream politics and media, from the limited evidence it looks to be enormous.
As Roy Greenslade, media specialist at the Telegraph (formerly the Guardian), commented:
"Most tabloid newspapers - or even newspapers in general - are playthings of MI5."
Bloch and Fitzgerald, in their examination of covert UK warfare, report the editor of “one of Britain’s most distinguished journals” as believing that more than half its foreign correspondents were on the MI6 payroll.
And in 1991, Richard Norton-Taylor revealed in the Guardian that 500 prominent Britons paid by the CIA and the now defunct Bank of Commerce and Credit International, included 90 journalists.
In their analysis of the contemporary secret state, Dorril and Ramsay gave the media a crucial role. The heart of the secret state they identified as the security services, the cabinet office and upper echelons of the Home and Commonwealth Offices, the armed forces and Ministry of Defence, the nuclear power industry and its satellite ministries together a network of senior civil servants.
As “satellites” of the secret state, their list included “agents of influence in the media, ranging from actual agents of the security services, conduits of official leaks, to senior journalists merely lusting after official praise and, perhaps, a knighthood at the end of their career”.
Phillip Knightley, author of a seminal history of the intelligence services, has even claimed that at least one intelligence agent is working on every Fleet Street newspaper.
A brief history
Going as far back as 1945, George Orwell no less became a war correspondent for the Observer - probably as a cover for intelligence work. Significantly most of the men he met in Paris on his assignment, Freddie Ayer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ernest Hemingway were either working for the intelligence services or had close links to them.
Stephen Dorril, in his seminal history of MI6, reports that Orwell attended a meeting in Paris of resistance fighters on behalf of David Astor, his editor at the Observer and leader of the intelligence service’s unit liasing with the French resistance.
The release of Public Record Office documents in 1995 about some of the operations of the MI6-financed propaganda unit, the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office, threw light on this secret body - which even Orwell aided by sending them a list of “crypto-communists”. Set up by the Labour government in 1948, it “ran” dozens of Fleet Street journalists and a vast array of news agencies across the globe until it was closed down by Foreign Secretary David Owen in 1977.
According to John Pilger in the anti-colonial struggles in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus, IRD was so successful that the journalism served up as a record of those episodes was a cocktail of the distorted and false in which the real aims and often atrocious behaviour of the British intelligence agencies was hidden.
And spy novelist John le Carré, who worked for MI6 between 1960 and 1964, has made the amazing statement that the British secret service then controlled large parts of the press – just as they may do today.
In 1975, following Senate hearings on the CIA, the reports of the Senate’s Church Committee and the House of Representatives’ Pike Committee highlighted the extent of agency recruitment of both British and US journalists.
And sources revealed that half the foreign staff of a British daily were on the MI6 payroll.
David Leigh, in The Wilson Plot, his seminal study of the way in which the secret service smeared through the mainstream media and destabilised the Government of Harold Wilson before his sudden resignation in 1976, quotes an MI5 officer: “We have somebody in every office in Fleet Street”
Leaker King
And the most famous whistleblower of all, Peter (Spycatcher) Wright, revealed that MI5 had agents in newspapers and publishing companies whose main role was to warn them of any forthcoming “embarrassing publications”.
Wright also disclosed that the Daily Mirror tycoon, Cecil King, “was a longstanding agent of ours” who “made it clear he would publish anything MI5 might care to leak in his direction”.
Selective details about Wilson and his secretary, Marcia Falkender, were leaked by the intelligence services to sympathetic Fleet Street journalists. Wright comments: “No wonder Wilson was later to claim that he was the victim of a plot”. King was also closely involved in a scheme in 1968 to oust Prime Minister Harold Wilson and replace him with a coalition headed by Lord Mountbatten.
Hugh Cudlipp, editorial director of the Mirror from 1952 to 1974, was also closely linked to intelligence, according to Chris Horrie, in his recently published history of the newspaper.
David Walker, the Mirror’s foreign correspondent in the 1950s, was named as an MI6 agent following a security scandal while another Mirror journalist, Stanley Bonnet, admitted working for MI5 in the 1980s investigating the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Maxwell and Mossad
According to Stephen Dorril, intelligence gathering during the miners’ strike of 1984-85 was helped by the fact that during the 1970s MI5’s F Branch had made a special effort to recruit industrial correspondents – with great success.
In 1991, just before his mysterious death, Mirror proprietor Robert Maxwell was accused by the US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh of acting for Mossad, the Israeli secret service, though Dorril suggests his links with MI6 were equally as strong.
Following the resignation from the Guardian of Richard Gott, its literary editor in December 1994 in the wake of allegations that he was a paid agent of the KGB, the role of journalists as spies suddenly came under the media spotlight – and many of the leaks were fascinating.
For instance, according to The Times editorial of 16 December 1994: “Many British journalists benefited from CIA or MI6 largesse during the Cold War.”
The intimate links between journalists and the secret services were highlighted in the autobiography of the eminent newscaster Sandy Gall. He reports without any qualms how, after returning from one of his reporting assignments to Afghanistan, he was asked to lunch by the head of MI6. “It was very informal, the cook was off so we had cold meat and salad with plenty of wine. He wanted to hear what I had to say about the war in Afghanistan. I was flattered, of course, and anxious to pass on what I could in terms of first-hand knowledge.”
And in January 2001, the renegade MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson, claimed Dominic Lawson, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph and son of the former Tory chancellor, Nigel Lawson, provided journalistic cover for an MI6 officer on a mission to the Baltic to handle and debrief a young Russian diplomat who was spying for Britain.
Lawson strongly denied the allegations.
Similarly in the reporting of Northern Ireland, there have been longstanding concerns over security service disinformation. Susan McKay, Northern editor of the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, has criticised the reckless reporting of material from “dodgy security services”. She told a conference in Belfast in January 2003 organised by the National Union of Journalists and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission: “We need to be suspicious when people are so ready to provide information and that we are, in fact, not being used.” (www.nuj.org.uk/inner.php?docid=635)
Growing power of secret state
Thus from this evidence alone it is clear there has been a long history of links between hacks and spooks in both the UK and US.
But as the secret state grows in power, through massive resourcing, through a whole raft of legislation – such as the Official Secrets Act, the anti-terrorism legislation, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and so on – and as intelligence moves into the heart of Blair’s ruling clique so these links are even more significant.
Since September 11 all of Fleet Street has been awash in warnings by anonymous intelligence sources of terrorist threats.
According to former Labour minister Michael Meacher, much of this disinformation was spread via sympathetic journalists by the Rockingham cell within the MoD.
A parallel exercise, through the office of Special Plans, was set up by Donald Rumsfeld in the US. Thus there have been constant attempts to scare people – and justify still greater powers for the national security apparatus.
Similarly the disinformation about Iraq’s WMD was spread by dodgy intelligence sources via gullible journalists.
Thus, to take just one example, Michael Evans, The Times defence correspondent, reported on 29 November 2002: “Saddam Hussein has ordered hundred of his officials to conceal weapons of mass destruction components in their homes to evade the prying eyes of the United Nations inspectors.” The source of these “revelations” was said to be “intelligence picked up from within Iraq”. Early in 2004, as the battle for control of Iraq continued with mounting casualties on both sides, it was revealed that many of the lies about Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMD had been fed to sympathetic journalists in the US, Britain and Australia by the exile group, the Iraqi National Congress.
Sexed up – and missed out
During the controversy that erupted following the end of the “war” and the death of the arms inspector Dr David Kelly (and the ensuing Hutton inquiry) the spotlight fell on BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan and the claim by one of his sources that the government (in collusion with the intelligence services) had “sexed up” a dossier justifying an attack on Iraq.
The Hutton inquiry, its every twist and turn massively covered in the mainstream media, was the archetypal media spectacle that drew attention from the real issue: why did the Bush and Blair governments invade Iraq in the face of massive global opposition? But those facts will be forever secret.
Significantly, too, the broader and more significant issue of mainstream journalists’ links with the intelligence services was ignored by the inquiry.
Significantly, on 26 May 2004, the New York Times carried a 1,200-word editorial admitting it had been duped in its coverage of WMD in the lead-up to the invasion by dubious Iraqi defectors, informants and exiles (though it failed to lay any blame on the US President: see Greenslade 2004). Chief among The Times’ dodgy informants was Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress and Pentagon favourite before his Baghdad house was raided by US forces on 20 May.
Then, in the Observer of 30 May 2004, David Rose admitted he had been the victim of a “calculated set-up” devised to foster the propaganda case for war. “In the 18 months before the invasion of March 2003, I dealt regularly with Chalabi and the INC and published stories based on interviews with men they said were defectors from Saddam’s regime.” And he concluded: “The information fog is thicker than in any previous war, as I know now from bitter personal experience. To any journalist being offered apparently sensational disclosures, especially from an anonymous intelligence source, I offer two words of advice: caveat emptor.”
Let’s not forget no British newspaper has followed the example of the NYT and apologised for being so easily duped by the intelligence services in the run up to the illegal invasion of Iraq.
~
Richard Keeble’s publications include Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare (John Libbey 1997) and The Newspapers Handbook (Routledge, fourth edition, 2005). He is also the editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Richard is also a member of the War and Media Network.
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STIMULUS
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Ron Paul Unveils a REAL Economic Stimulus Plan
"Gareth Porter debunks the shoddy case against Iran for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Typical lousy forensics and a list of unbelievable witnesses leading to an unwilling government forced to blame Iran by the Americans and Israelis." - permanent link
Banking history: past frauds
Giuliani faces freefall in Florida
9-11 Truth And The Holocaust
Lebanon: Fatah Al Islam is the Mossad
James Purnell ... one time Chairman of the Labour Friends of Israel
Hain gets his collar felt and Gordy puts youthful and family face on his Cabinet
"Peter Hain caught like Al Capone by fucking up his financial records - is bertie Ahern going down as well ? "
"Gareth Porter debunks the shoddy case against Iran for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Typical lousy forensics and a list of unbelievable witnesses leading to an unwilling government forced to blame Iran by the Americans and Israelis." - permanent link
Banking history: past frauds
Giuliani faces freefall in Florida
9-11 Truth And The Holocaust
Lebanon: Fatah Al Islam is the Mossad
James Purnell ... one time Chairman of the Labour Friends of Israel
Hain gets his collar felt and Gordy puts youthful and family face on his Cabinet
"Peter Hain caught like Al Capone by fucking up his financial records - is bertie Ahern going down as well ? "
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Israel wants to push the Palestinians into the Sinai desert.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Simple
Voting open to 'childishly simple' fraud, says watchdog
"Rep. Paul, it should be noted, has a terrible record on Israel and has called the Israeli government 'evil.' In October, the Republican Jewish Coalition barred him from their policy forum due to his libertarian stance against providing foreign aid to Israel." - • Rep. Ron Paul
Algerian students know the truth about the bombs
Ipswich prostitute captured on CCTV - were the 7/7 bombers ???
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Cowboys are usually gay
"Fifty per cent of the fleet have sinned homosexually at some time in their naval career," declared UK Admiral Sir Frank Roddam Twiss in 1968. (Cached)
We know that sailors are usually gay and lumberjacks are usually gay (YouTube - Monty Python's Lumberjack Song), but what about cowboys?
John Wayne represented the typical cowboy.
Film historian Kevin Brownwing, author of 'The Golden Grope - A History of Hollywood Harassment' writes about John Wayne's use of casting sessions to seduce young males. (The Sleaze Archive - Hollywood Sex Pests!)
"During the 1940s the outwardly conservative and heterosexual Wayne would regularly attend screen tests with director John Ford, in order to size up potential conquests. He'd get Ford to order the young hopefuls to take off their shirts and enact scenes which required them to lift heavy objects or bend over a lot."
Wayne's conquests allegedly included Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea and Montgomery Clift, 'with whom he had a torrid affair during the making of Red River in 1948'.
Eric Patterson (Point of View essay) has explained that: "Memoirs, photographs, and other evidence clearly show that actual cowboys lived on much more intimate terms with each other than many of the fans of the Cowboy today would find acceptable, bunking with each other, grooming each other, dancing together, and posing for photographers in remarkably affectionate ways."
Annie Proulx wrote Brokeback Mountain about gay cowboys. Proulx was partly inspired to write Brokeback Mountain by the comment of "one old sheep rancher, dead now, (who) used to say he always sent up two men to tend the sheep 'so's if they get lonesome they can poke each other." (Eric Patterson on Brokeback Mountain)
People who like cowboy films are usually people who like young male bodies in denim jeans.
There are homophobes who make fun of the idea of gay cowboys. Such homophobes are usually gay.
Eric Patterson writes that '"Personalities' like Don Imus and 'Michael Savage' (Michael Weiner) excoriated the movie as 'Fudgepack Mountain' and 'Bareback Mounting.' Though they claim to be horrified or disgusted by anal sex, their insistence on it in their reactions to Brokeback Mountain and indeed to man-loving men in general indicates that they seem to be unable to stop thinking about it, which suggests that it may be considerably more interesting to them than they want to admit."
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In Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger performed as Ennis Del Mar, "a tortured loner who falls in love with fellow cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) despite his belief that homosexuality is wrong." ( 'Mountain' Man Ledger's Steady Climb to the Top)
Brokeback Mountain wasn't the first time Heath Ledger played a gay man. In 1996, he played the part of a gay cyclist in the Australian TV show Sweat.
On January 22, 2008, Heath Ledger was found dead in his fourth-floor apartment at 421 Broome Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City.
Brad Renfro and gay child stars
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BBC mostly scripted by Mossad or MI6?
Photo of Gaza City http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gaza-City.jpg Al Ameer sonIsrael controls Gaza's airspace, seacoast, main borders, and trade. In this sense, Gaza remains occupied by Israel. The Palestinians do not have an independent state.
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0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 4,170 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since September 29, 2000. (View Source)
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Israel currently has 223 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land.
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Recent rocket attacks on Israel have killed no Israelis. Recent Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed 32 Palestinians. (Israel jets target Hamas after rocket attacks - Times Online)
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971 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.
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The BBC appears to side with the Israeli Zionists.
The BBC lists 17 comments on the Gaza situation on its website here: Gaza blockade: Your reaction
These comments may be genuine and a representative sample.
But, how many of the comments look like pro-Israel propaganda, possibly scripted by Mossad or its friends?
Comment
1 Assad uses the term 'extremists' to describe certain Palestinians.
2 Sara defends Israel
3. Abdal criticises the Arab world
3. Abdal criticises the Arab world
4. Said hopes to go to the USA
5. Ami defends Israel
6. Amy defends Israel
7. Benjamin is a supporter of Israel
8. Adorna supports the Palestinians but writes in poor English
9. G is pro-Israel and attacks Hamas
8. Adorna supports the Palestinians but writes in poor English
9. G is pro-Israel and attacks Hamas
10. Amir attacks extremist Moslems
11. Mustafa attacks Palestinian 'terrorists'
11. Mustafa attacks Palestinian 'terrorists'
12. Lev suggests Israel is forced to take firm measures
13. Hardy suggests the Palestinians must be prepared to accept the consequences of the actions of their leaders.
13. Hardy suggests the Palestinians must be prepared to accept the consequences of the actions of their leaders.
14. Rachel defends Israel
15. Ahmed does not make clear whose side he is on; makes no attempt to explain any of the history of the conflict.
15. Ahmed does not make clear whose side he is on; makes no attempt to explain any of the history of the conflict.
16. JP defends Israel
17. Marc defends Israel
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Mostly vague
On the federal deficit, candidates stay mostly vague (Ron Paul wants to eliminate entire departments of the federal government.)
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
THE US ECONOMY NEEDS RESTRUCTURING
1914 - 1929, the Dow 30 climbed.
1929 - 1949, it fell.
1949 - 1966, it climbed.
1966 - 1982, it fell.
1982 - 2000, it climbed.
BBC NEWS Business Bear markets: Wall Street's worst
1929 - 1949, it fell.
1949 - 1966, it climbed.
1966 - 1982, it fell.
1982 - 2000, it climbed.
BBC NEWS Business Bear markets: Wall Street's worst
1929-32 Fall in the Dow: 89%
Losses recovered by: November 1954
Losses recovered by: November 1954
1973-74 Fall in the Dow: 45%
Losses recovered by: December 1982
"This is a structural crisis that's been spawned by decades of shifting our economy from making things to buying things, from production to consumption.
"We need white-collar predators in jail. We need restructuring, not repossessions. We need mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth from the greedy to the needy."
According to an article entitled The Coming Economic Depression:
Some or most of the following will occur if the US cannot obtain foreign capital to finance its debt and budget:
1. The dollar will tumble to at least 40% of its present value.
2. Massive (20-50%) spending cuts in federal outlays will ensue.
3. America's march towards war will be in jeopardy.
4. Gold's price in dollars will rise sharply and permanently.
5. Interest rates will have to rise in order to attract foreign investment.
6. Oil will soar in price to (guesstimate) 40-60 dollars a barrel
7. Social and economic disruptions will occur in the US as (real) unemployment rises above 30%
8. Banking Holidays may become commonplace and the new US currency may entail exchanging old dollars for new (devalued) ones.
1. The dollar will tumble to at least 40% of its present value.
2. Massive (20-50%) spending cuts in federal outlays will ensue.
3. America's march towards war will be in jeopardy.
4. Gold's price in dollars will rise sharply and permanently.
5. Interest rates will have to rise in order to attract foreign investment.
6. Oil will soar in price to (guesstimate) 40-60 dollars a barrel
7. Social and economic disruptions will occur in the US as (real) unemployment rises above 30%
8. Banking Holidays may become commonplace and the new US currency may entail exchanging old dollars for new (devalued) ones.
The economic policies of the US presidential candidates...
What is wrong with the US economy?
1. Too much money is spent on the military.
And it is supected that the military help to rig elections.
The USA has borrowed large sums of money in order to fund the military.
The military failed to win the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and is now failing to win in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And it is suspected that the military carries out acts of false flag acts terrorism in order to boost its funds.
2. The average American has had money taken away from him in order to help the super-rich get even richer.
The average American is no longer able to spend lots of money in shopping malls.
3. Big American corporations have moved some factories out of the USA and into areas with cheap 'slave' labour.
The USA now has a huge balance of payments deficit.
4. There has been a neglect of basic infrastructure; and education standards are often low.
Hillary Clinton appears to have no plans to curb the power of the military. She appears to have no answer to the debt problem. Her health-care plan would require all Americans to get health insurance.
Barack Obama appears little different from Clinton, although he did oppose the Iraq War and seems to have more sympathy for the poor.
John Edwards is not much different from Obama, although he appears to be critical of big corporations.
Dennis Kucinich favours a program of federal job-creation, like the New Deal. He has been praised by some academics for his understanding of America's problems.
Mike Huckabee favours a 30 % sales tax to replace most other taxes. Sales taxes take a larger proportion of income from the poor and middle class than from the wealthy.
Rudolph Giuliani appears to favour the usual Republican economic policies. He has called for a 20 % reduction in the federal civilian work force in the next decade. He is not planning to reduce the size of the military.
John McCain appears to favour the usual Republican economic policies.
Mitt Romney appears little different from McCain and Giuliani.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the Federal Reserve because it is an inflation-causing tool of the rich elite.
Ron Paul wants to cut the size and power of government, including the military.
This raises the question of how quickly people can be moved out of government jobs and into private sector jobs.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the federal income tax
This raises the problem of how to pay for Social Security and Medicare.
Ron Paul should note that when the Soviet Empire came to an end, and Libertarianism came to the Eastern Bloc, there was massive and extreme poverty. Many areas such as Belarus and Georgia have still not recovered.
Ron Paul needs to reassure people that his economic policies will work.
The economy will probably be the key issue (unless you count vote rigging as the key issue)
UPDATE: Ron Paul 2008 › Comprehensive Economic Revitalization Plan
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Social and economic disruptions
Robert Murat 'seen talking to man matching artist's impression of Madeleine suspect '
Confusion over driver's blood tests, Diana inquest told - Daily Mail
DIANA DEATH TESTS WERE BOGUS - The Sunday Mail
aangirfan: DIANA and LOCKERBIE and 9 11
Confusion over driver's blood tests, Diana inquest told - Daily Mail
DIANA DEATH TESTS WERE BOGUS - The Sunday Mail
aangirfan: DIANA and LOCKERBIE and 9 11
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Michel Chossudovsky has an excellent article entitled Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
Extract: "Washington continues to support — through CIA covert operations — the development of Islamic fundamentalism, throughout the Middle East, in the former Soviet Union as well in China and India.
"Throughout the developing world, the growth of sectarian, fundamentalist and other such organizations tends to serve U.S. interests. These various organizations and armed insurgents have been developed, particularly in countries where state institutions have collapsed under the brunt of the IMF-sponsored economic reforms.
"These fundamentalist organizations contribute by destroying and displacing secular institutions.
"Islamic fundamentalism creates social and ethnic divisions. It undermines the capacity of people to organize against the American Empire. These organizations or movements, such as the Taliban, often foment "opposition to Uncle Sam" in a way which does not constitute any real threat to America’s broader geopolitical and economic interests."
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Michel Chossudovsky has an excellent article entitled Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
Extract: "Washington continues to support — through CIA covert operations — the development of Islamic fundamentalism, throughout the Middle East, in the former Soviet Union as well in China and India.
"Throughout the developing world, the growth of sectarian, fundamentalist and other such organizations tends to serve U.S. interests. These various organizations and armed insurgents have been developed, particularly in countries where state institutions have collapsed under the brunt of the IMF-sponsored economic reforms.
"These fundamentalist organizations contribute by destroying and displacing secular institutions.
"Islamic fundamentalism creates social and ethnic divisions. It undermines the capacity of people to organize against the American Empire. These organizations or movements, such as the Taliban, often foment "opposition to Uncle Sam" in a way which does not constitute any real threat to America’s broader geopolitical and economic interests."
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Stirring things up in Indonesia. - Persecuted Church
Monday, January 21, 2008
The UK Media and a 'Kosher Conspiracy'.
Osama Saeed of Rolled-up Trousers (Cached) pointed out in 2006 that the Guardian comment pages had, over twelve months, included pieces by:
Charles Krauthammer (leading US neo-conservative),
Max Hastings (conservative),
Peregrine Worsthorne (conservative),
Paddy Ashdown (reportedly of MI6),
Tony Blair (friend of Israel)
and Sir Malcolm Rifkind (conservative).
Does this mean that The Guardian has become a conservative newspaper?
When you look at the British media, you may find that a sursprisingly large number of journalists could be described as 'friends of Israel'.
There is the BBC's John Ware, the New Statesman's Martin Bright who has been attacking Ken Livingstone (Salaam Blogs - Martin Bright's mythical dragons), the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips ....
Is there a Kosher conspiracy?
Peter Wilby is no longer editor of the UK New Statesman. Why? Is it because he criticised Israel?
This is the New Statesman Editorial, 18th March, 2002: (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/579/in1.htm)
"As for the Jewish claim to biblical lands, it makes no more sense to the Arab mind than an Italian claim to establish a Roman state along the length of the A5 would to the British. Indeed, it never made much sense to European minds either, given that they would happily have settled for a Jewish homeland in Uganda or Siberia, if they had thought it practicable."
One New Statesman cover showed the star of David at the heart of the Union Jack, and had the title, 'Kosher Conspiracy.'
The Spectator magazine had an article suggesting that 9 11 was an inside-job.
The Spectator's editor Boris Johnson found his private life exposed. He was sacked as the Conservative party's vice chairman and arts spokesman.
The Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan criticised the war in Iraq. He was sacked.
The BBC sacked journalist Andrew Gilligan after he suggested that a government document on Iraq had been 'sexed up'.
On 29th January 1987, Alasdair Milne, the BBC Director General was removed. He had allowed the BBC to critcise the government. (http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm)
A study by Cardiff University media analysts (http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm#real) found that the BBC "displayed the most pro-war agenda of any [British] broadcaster."
The BBC's Andrew Marr proclaimed Tony Blair had 'been proved conclusively right' as Baghdad fell to the 'coalition' forces.
'It would be entirely ungracious', said Marr, 'not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result' (BBC 1, News At Ten, April 9, 2003)."
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Charles Krauthammer (leading US neo-conservative),
Max Hastings (conservative),
Peregrine Worsthorne (conservative),
Paddy Ashdown (reportedly of MI6),
Tony Blair (friend of Israel)
and Sir Malcolm Rifkind (conservative).
Does this mean that The Guardian has become a conservative newspaper?
When you look at the British media, you may find that a sursprisingly large number of journalists could be described as 'friends of Israel'.
There is the BBC's John Ware, the New Statesman's Martin Bright who has been attacking Ken Livingstone (Salaam Blogs - Martin Bright's mythical dragons), the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips ....
Is there a Kosher conspiracy?
Peter Wilby is no longer editor of the UK New Statesman. Why? Is it because he criticised Israel?
This is the New Statesman Editorial, 18th March, 2002: (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/579/in1.htm)
"As for the Jewish claim to biblical lands, it makes no more sense to the Arab mind than an Italian claim to establish a Roman state along the length of the A5 would to the British. Indeed, it never made much sense to European minds either, given that they would happily have settled for a Jewish homeland in Uganda or Siberia, if they had thought it practicable."
One New Statesman cover showed the star of David at the heart of the Union Jack, and had the title, 'Kosher Conspiracy.'
The Spectator magazine had an article suggesting that 9 11 was an inside-job.
The Spectator's editor Boris Johnson found his private life exposed. He was sacked as the Conservative party's vice chairman and arts spokesman.
The Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan criticised the war in Iraq. He was sacked.
The BBC sacked journalist Andrew Gilligan after he suggested that a government document on Iraq had been 'sexed up'.
On 29th January 1987, Alasdair Milne, the BBC Director General was removed. He had allowed the BBC to critcise the government. (http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm)
A study by Cardiff University media analysts (http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm#real) found that the BBC "displayed the most pro-war agenda of any [British] broadcaster."
The BBC's Andrew Marr proclaimed Tony Blair had 'been proved conclusively right' as Baghdad fell to the 'coalition' forces.
'It would be entirely ungracious', said Marr, 'not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result' (BBC 1, News At Ten, April 9, 2003)."
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Mass female genital mutilation events held in Indonesia
New York Times has an article about female “circumcisers” who cut off a piece of a girls genitalia, in Indonesia.
"Studies have shown that in some parts of Indonesia, female circumcision is ... ritualistic — a rite of passage meant to purify the genitals and bestow gender identity on a female child — with a practitioner rubbing turmeric on the genitals or pricking the clitoris once with a needle to draw a symbolic drop of blood.
"In other instances, the procedure is more invasive, involving what WHO classifies as 'Type I' female genital mutilation, defined as excision of the clitoral hood, called the prepuce, with or without incision of the clitoris itself.
"The Population Council’s 2003 study said that 82 percent of Indonesian mothers who witnessed their daughters’ circumcision reported that it involved 'cutting.'
"The women most often identified the clitoris as the affected body part. The amount of flesh removed, if any, was alternately described by circumcisers as being the size of a quarter-grain of rice, a guava seed, a bean, the tip of a leaf, the head of a needle...
"Any distinction between injuring the clitoris or the clitoral hood is irrelevant, says Laura Guarenti, an obstetrician and WHO’s medical officer for child and maternal health in Jakarta. 'The fact is there is absolutely no medical value in circumcising girls,' she says. 'It is 100 percent the wrong thing to be doing.' The circumcision of boys, she adds, has demonstrated health benefits, namely reduced risk of infection and some protection against H.I.V."
Mass female genital mutilation events held in Indonesia
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Who can Saudi Arabia trust?
London Sunday Times, February 1975 1. The USA?
Saudi Arabia must have a fear that the USA and its allies are planning to take over Saudi's oil.
"In February of 1975 the London Sunday Times revealed information from a leaked and classified US Department of Defense plan.
"The plan, drawn up by the Pentagon, was code named 'Dhahran Option Four' and provided for an invasion of the world's largest oil reserves, namely Saudi Arabia." - Who Really Wants to Invade Saudi Arabia, and Why?
2. Israel or Iran?
Saudi Arabia must fear both Iran and Israel.
And it must try to keep in with both Iran and Israel.
"Seeking regional allies to make a stand against Iran and the growing Shi'ite Muslim radicalization, Saudi Arabia sees Israel as a likely ally, experts here said...
"Israeli press reports suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met recently with a senior official in the Saudi government, maybe even with the Saudi king. - Fear of Iran Pushing Saudi Arabia Toward Israel, Experts Say -- 09 ...
Goldman Sachs has received a license to offer brokerage services in Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's largest equity market. - Goldman Sachs gets brokerage license in Saudi Arabia
"Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former ambassador to the United States and Britain and adviser to King Abdullah, said Israel and the Arabs could cooperate in many areas including water, agriculture, science and education." - Senior Saudi prince offers Israel peace vision
3. Keeping in with Iran
In 2006, Israel suffered a defeat in Lebanon.
Saudi Arabia will no doubt have taken note of the Israeli weakness.
There seems to be growing friendship between Shia Iran and its Sunni-dominated neighbours.
Traditionally, the Gulf states are seen as being on the side of the USA.
Martin Walker reminds us that "There are... long-standing border disputes over islands (and this means over oil and gas rights) in the Gulf. And Iran's revolutionary regime has long scorned the pro-Western sheiks as pampered heirs of outdated feudalism, their regimes ripe for revolution." Iran's new Gulf friends
But, things seem to be changing.
1. The dollar is falling and this worries the Arabs.
2. The USA has created havoc in Iraq and this worries the Arabs.
3. Palestine continues to suffer.
4. There are even those who fear that the eventual aim of the USA and Israel is to break up Saudi Arabia and other Moslem states.
During 2007, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Egypt seem to have decided to become much more friendly with Iran.
1. In early 2007, "the parliament of Bahrain, an island state that hosts America's Fifth Fleet, passed a non-binding motion banning the use of its territory for any attack on Iran." - Friendlier hands across the Gulf
2. "Gulf states are willing to set up a body to provide enriched uranium to Iran, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister is reported to have said." - BBC NEWS World Middle East Gulf states 'offer Iran uranium'
3. "Bahrain itself recently signed a deal to import Iranian natural gas." - Friendlier hands across the Gulf
4. "Dubai has become a vital lifeline for its vast neighbour (Iran). As many as 400,000 Iranian expatriates now live in the UAE, with nearly 9,000 part-Iranian-owned firms registered with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Iran is the main destination for exports from Dubai." - Friendlier hands across the Gulf
5. "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Gulf Arab leaders that Iran wants economic and security pacts with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC). Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking in Qatar, where he is attending a GCC summit - the first Iranian president to do so." - BBC NEWS World Middle East Iran proposes Gulf security pact
6. "Egypt... has sent a high-level delegation to Tehran for the first time since that country's Islamic revolution in 1979." - Egypt and Saudi Arabia make new overtures to Iran
7. "Saudi Arabia ... invited Mr. Ahmedinejad to participate in the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a first for an Iranian leader since the 1979 revolution." - Egypt and Saudi Arabia make new overtures to Iran
Some people believe that elements of the US government approve of closer ties between the Arabs and Iran.
According to Emad Gad, an expert on regional politics at the Al Ahram Center, a government-linked think tank in Cairo: "Qatar could not have invited Ahmedinejad to the GCC without an understanding with the Americans. I don't think Egypt would be sending a diplomat without some sort of green light either. All of this is part of a strategy, and I think it's an American strategy as well, to keep the freeze on the nuclear program while creating a friendlier climate." - Egypt and Saudi Arabia make new overtures to Iran
This is possible.
But, it is also possible that, secretly, many Arab leaders have given up on the Americans.
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Mossad increases its control of India
PIB Photo of Israel's Barak meeting Singh in 2007 from Siliconeer: August 2006Mossad increases its control of India
Here in Mumbai (Bombay, India) it is hot and there are lots of young Israeli tourists around.
Gordon Brown has been in Mumbai talking about the need for a New World Order and praising the Neo Cons. (BBC NEWS Politics Brown wants a 'new world order')
And here in India, Israel is increasing its control.
India has just launched an Israeli sattelite. (India launches Israeli satellite- Hindustan Times)
Gordon Brown has been in Mumbai talking about the need for a New World Order and praising the Neo Cons. (BBC NEWS Politics Brown wants a 'new world order')
And here in India, Israel is increasing its control.
India has just launched an Israeli sattelite. (India launches Israeli satellite- Hindustan Times)
And Israel seems to have lots of Mossad spies in India, some of them pretending to be Moslems.
According to an article once at aljazeera.com (Stranger Than Fiction: An Independent Investigation of the True ... - Google Books Result)
In February of 2000, Indian intelligence officials detained 11 members of what they thought was an Al Qaeda hijacking conspiracy. It was then discovered that these 11 'Muslim preachers' were all Israeli nationals!
... India's leading weekly magazine, The Week, reported ( Aborted Mission Investigation: Did Mossad attempt to infiltrate ... ):
"On January 12 Indian intelligence officials in Calcutta detained 11 foreign nationals for interrogation before they were to board a Dhaka-bound Bangladesh Biman flight...
The eleven had Israeli passports... 'They are Israeli nationals,' said a Central Intelligence official. He claimed that Tel Aviv 'exerted considerable pressure' on Delhi to secure their release...
It was Indian Intelligence that helped the U.S. to so quickly identify the '19 hijackers'! On April 3, 2002, Express India, quoting the Press Trust of India, revealed:
"Washington, April 3: Indian intelligence agencies helped the U.S. to identify the hijackers who carried out the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, a media report said here on Wednesday."
... Indian intelligence has an extremely close working relationship with Israel's Mossad because both governments hate the Muslim nation of Pakistan. (RAW & Mossad: The Secret Link)
How might Mossad have managed to increase racial tensions in India?
Narendra Modi is the chief minister of Gujarat (Bombay area). Reportedly he has used acts of terror against Moslems in order to increase his power.
Modi hopes his Bharatiya Janata Party will increase its power throughout India. (‘Gujarat showed India the way’)
Modi is a fan of Israel.
According to Zee News, 7 June 2006, "Gujarat and Israel can cooperate with each other in solving their water scarcity... says Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Both Gujarat and Israel are 'divided by land but united by water', says Modi who was recently in the Jewish nation as part of the Indian delegation attending Agritech-2006." (Sunday, January 6 2008 GujaratFiles.net)
Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ahmedabad_riots1.jpgThe methods of Narendra Modi might appear to be similar to the methods of Israel's Mossad.
Modi appears to have been involved in acts of terror.
In October 2007, the investigative newsmagazine Tehelka reported on the Tehelka Gujarat riots sting :
1. Several Hindu nationalist (Sangh) leaders explain on camera how they planned a massive massacre of Moslems. (http://www.tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107spycam_videos.asp)
2. The involvement of the Chief minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, is revealed.
3. The complicity of the police is revealed.
4. The connivance of the judiciary is revealed.
Frontline India ( Action replay) commented:
"Yet, no action has followed one of the most explosive news investigations in India.
"None of those caught on tape boasting about raping, burning and hacking Muslims have been arrested or even interrogated.
"Modi’s authority has not been questioned.
"Instead, there is an eerie silence. Far more eerie than the cold-blooded murders of more than 1,000 innocent people during the communal massacres of March 2002.
"The role of the Modi government in the State-sponsored terrorism of 2002 is well documented. Even the Supreme Court had censured Modi for being 'a modern day Nero who watched while Gujarat burned'.
"Now, the Tehelka tapes offer irrefutable proof of how the Sangh (Hindu nationalists) organised a 'Hindu jihad' across Gujarat and protected the murderers."
(Tehelka comment -Does Anything)
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Chocolate
"The only Democrat the Jewish Billionaires really trust is, of course, Hillary Clinton. The only Republican they don’t trust is Ron Paul." - permanent link
PILOT: Crew girls licked chocolate off naked hero
BA038's Ace pilot's action packed, fun filled life - Amazing pictures
Why is France building a base in the Gulf?
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The economic policies of the US presidential candidates
The economic policies of the US presidential candidates...
What is wrong with the US economy?
1. Too much money is spent on the military.
And it is supected that the military help to rig elections.
The USA has borrowed large sums of money in order to fund the military.
The military failed to win the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and is now failing to win in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And it is suspected that the military carries out acts of false flag acts terrorism in order to boost its funds.
2. The average American has had money taken away from him in order to help the super-rich get even richer.
The average American is no longer able to spend lots of money in shopping malls.
3. Big American corporations have moved some factories out of the USA and into areas with cheap 'slave' labour.
The USA now has a huge balance of payments deficit.
4. There has been a neglect of basic infrastructure; and education standards are often low.
Hillary Clinton appears to have no plans to curb the power of the military. She appears to have no answer to the debt problem. Her health-care plan would require all Americans to get health insurance.
Barack Obama appears little different from Clinton, although he did oppose the Iraq War and seems to have more sympathy for the poor.
John Edwards is not much different from Obama, although he appears to be critical of big corporations.
Dennis Kucinich favours a program of federal job-creation, like the New Deal. He has been praised by some academics for his understanding of America's problems.
Mike Huckabee favours a 30 % sales tax to replace most other taxes. Sales taxes take a larger proportion of income from the poor and middle class than from the wealthy.
Rudolph Giuliani appears to favour the usual Republican economic policies. He has called for a 20 % reduction in the federal civilian work force in the next decade. He is not planning to reduce the size of the military.
John McCain appears to favour the usual Republican economic policies.
Mitt Romney appears little different from McCain and Giuliani.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the Federal Reserve because it is an inflation-causing tool of the rich elite.
Ron Paul wants to cut the size and power of government, including the military.
This raises the question of how quickly people can be moved out of government jobs and into private sector jobs.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the federal income tax
This raises the problem of how to pay for Social Security and Medicare.
Ron Paul should note that when the Soviet Empire came to an end, and Libertarianism came to the Eastern Bloc, there was massive and extreme poverty. Many areas such as Belarus and Georgia have still not recovered.
Ron Paul needs to reassure people that his economic policies will work.
The economy will probably be the key issue (unless you count vote rigging as the key issue)
UPDATE: Ron Paul 2008 › Comprehensive Economic Revitalization Plan
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AFFLUENZA
The real wage of the average American has gone down since the 1970s.
But the rich in the USA have got much richer.
Mental illness has greatly increased in the USA.
In the US, UK and Australia, the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults almost doubled between the early 1980s and 2000. (Guardian Unlimited Comment is free Oliver James; Selfish ...)
Oliver James, in his book 'The Selfish Capitalist: The Origins of Affluenza' claims that selfish capitalism is a major cause of the decline in our mental health. (The big question By genre Guardian Unlimited Books)
Oliver James states that the people of the selfish capitalist, English-speaking nations (US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) are twice as likely to suffer mental illness as those from mainland western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain., Holland, Belgium).
With selfish capitalism, the rich get richer as they force the poor to stay poor.
Politicians like Bush and Blair like to reduce the taxes on the rich. So, the poor have to pay more.
The top 1% of British earners doubled their share of the national income between 1982 and the present day.
Poverty does not necessarily cause mental illness. There have been low levels of mental illness in many poor countries down through the ages.
What causes mental illness, according to Oliver James, is the combination of lack of money with a selfish culture of consumerism that places a high value on possessions, money, appearances and fame.
According to James, selfish capitalism encourages people to be greedy consumers and workaholics.
And when people fail to become as rich as Bush or Blair, they may become mentally ill.
James suggests that we need leaders who will help the poor and reduce consumerism. This will reduce mental illness and help save the planet from ecological disaster.
It sounds like we need an improved version of Castro or Chavez.
The World Health Organisation predicts that depression may well become the second most widespread disease, after heart disease, in the developed world by 2020.
If we don't get better political leaders, the prediction could come true.
James refers to an "invisible hand" which attempts to control our minds. Is he thinking of the CIA or Mossad working on behalf of the rich elite?
Is he suggesting that we are being brainwashed and that elections are rigged?
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A man's a man for all that
Blair accused of 'stabbing Hillary Clinton in the back' after supporting Republicans
"Two major demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur last November, and a series of smaller protests in the last couple of months, have clearly unnerved the ruling establishment... The main Chinese party in the ruling coalition, the Malaysian Chinese Association, is still reeling from a video sex scandal" - Abdullah's finger on election trigger
Sex film used for destabilisation?
CIA trying to wreck Malaysia?
Stirring things up in Malaysia
‘It’s widely assumed that the British Council is a wing of our secret services’
"Notorious for fornication and exploiting women, Burns had a fantasy to emigrate to Jamaica and become a slave driver... making his fortune..."
Forget ‘a man’s a man for a’ that’ – Burns planned to make fortune from slave trade
Suharto & the People
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Cancer drugs at risk as plant species die off
Channel 4 film attacks Ken Livingstone's 'astonishing and shocking drinking habits'
UK Violent youth crime goes up by a third
Inflationary dangers loom and should not be ignored
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