In the years before he died, Andrew Carnegie gave away $350,695,653.
When he died, Carnegie's last $30,000,000 was given away to foundations, charities, and pensioners.
Carnegie said: "Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach."
BILL GATES has given £14.6 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which tackles diseases such as Malaria in the Third World and promotes education.
JOAN KROC, widow of the founder of McDonald’s, left £850m to the Salvation Army
PIERRE OMIDYAR, the founder of eBay last year alone pledged £55m to kickstart businesses in the developing word.
~~
Carnegie was born in 1835 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
In1848 the Carnegie family left Glasgow for New York.
In 1856 he made his first share deal with Adams Express (forerunner to American Express).
At age of 51, Andrew Carnegie married Louise Whitfield (aged 28).
In 1892 the Carnegie Steel Company was formed with Carnegie's share worth $14million.
In 1901 Carnegie sold his share in Carnegie Steel Co. and became the world's richest man.
~~
Monday, April 17, 2006
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Ahmadinejad is a cia agent?
Many world leaders, from Marcos to Suharto, are reputed to have been CIA assets.
The following includes extracts from 'Condi and Iran' by RON JACOBS at Counterpunch, March 2006.
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03112006.html
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10896
Jacobs wrote:
A quick history lesson reminds us that the Shah was installed in 1953 after a coup against the populist government of Mohammed Mossadegh. That coup was organized, funded and directed by Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA.
The impetus for the coup was Mossadegh’s decision to nationalize Iranian oil...
The Shah was put into power by the CIA but eventually he began to worry the Americans. He appeared to be becoming too powerful and too independent-minded.
In 1979 the Shah was toppled in what was probably partly a CIA operation.
The CIA could have replaced the Shah with EITHER an independent minded liberal secular democracy OR the ayatollahs. A secular democratic government might not have been kind to the US oil companies and Israel. A secular democratic government might have become too powerful.
Jacobs wrote:
Out of what seemed to be nowhere to the western observer, the Ayatollah Khomeini appeared in the capital of Tehran, ready to take over the reins of the revolutionary government.
It has been reported that Britain's MI6 had ties to Khomeini and flew with him back to Tehran.
(aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)
In the Iran-Contra scandal it became clear that the CIA had close ties to the ayatollahs. On the other hand, the CIA/Pentagon/Israel did not want Iran to become too powerful.
CIA asset Saddam Hussein was used to keep Iran weak.
(Saddam Worked For The CIA)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president of Iran in 2005.
Some people suspect that Ahmadinejad is a CIA agent or asset.
Jacobs wrote:
The current crisis over Iran’s nuclear energy program is a crisis contrived by Washington...
For whatever reason, Ahmadinejad has played into Washington’s hands nicely by making bellicose statements and by appearing to be hiding the program’s true intentions...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Ahmadinejad-is-a-cia+&btnG=Search&meta=
~~
The following includes extracts from 'Condi and Iran' by RON JACOBS at Counterpunch, March 2006.
http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03112006.html
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10896
Jacobs wrote:
A quick history lesson reminds us that the Shah was installed in 1953 after a coup against the populist government of Mohammed Mossadegh. That coup was organized, funded and directed by Kermit Roosevelt and the CIA.
The impetus for the coup was Mossadegh’s decision to nationalize Iranian oil...
The Shah was put into power by the CIA but eventually he began to worry the Americans. He appeared to be becoming too powerful and too independent-minded.
In 1979 the Shah was toppled in what was probably partly a CIA operation.
The CIA could have replaced the Shah with EITHER an independent minded liberal secular democracy OR the ayatollahs. A secular democratic government might not have been kind to the US oil companies and Israel. A secular democratic government might have become too powerful.
Jacobs wrote:
Out of what seemed to be nowhere to the western observer, the Ayatollah Khomeini appeared in the capital of Tehran, ready to take over the reins of the revolutionary government.
It has been reported that Britain's MI6 had ties to Khomeini and flew with him back to Tehran.
(aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)
In the Iran-Contra scandal it became clear that the CIA had close ties to the ayatollahs. On the other hand, the CIA/Pentagon/Israel did not want Iran to become too powerful.
CIA asset Saddam Hussein was used to keep Iran weak.
(Saddam Worked For The CIA)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president of Iran in 2005.
Some people suspect that Ahmadinejad is a CIA agent or asset.
Jacobs wrote:
The current crisis over Iran’s nuclear energy program is a crisis contrived by Washington...
For whatever reason, Ahmadinejad has played into Washington’s hands nicely by making bellicose statements and by appearing to be hiding the program’s true intentions...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=+Ahmadinejad-is-a-cia+&btnG=Search&meta=
~~
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Where to go on holiday
Cyprus or Sri Lanka, Thailand or Turkey, Spain or Sardinia, France or Florida or where?
When you choose your next holiday/vacation you may be thinking of:
1. safety 2. sunshine 3. friendliness 4. cost 5. excitement
1. SAFETY
"People are more likely to be mugged, burgled, robbed or assaulted in the UK than in America, Germany, Russia, South Africa or any other of the world's 20 largest nations." Telegraph News
Countries which reportedly have low crime rates include: Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Japan, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Denmark.
Accurate statistics are not available for all countries. Crime rates can vary greatly within one country.
Countries with high murder rates include: South Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Mexico, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Thailand, Seychelles, Poland,Bulgaria, United States.
2. SUNSHINE
Some of the sunniest destinations are Cyprus, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Malta and parts of Spain.
There are rainy seasons in countries such as Thailand, India, Malaysia and Singapore. It can be very wet at certain times of year although the rain may only fall for a relatively short part of the day.
3. FRIENDLINESS
Among the countries reputed to be friendly, in parts, are: Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Denmark.
Percentage in 1990s surveys agreeing that people can be trusted.#1 Norway - 65% #2 Sweden - 63%(United Kingdom - 38%)
Proportion of people who answered the survey question: "Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, quite happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?" by stating that they were "Very happy": #1 Venezuela 55% #2 Nigeria 45% #3 Ireland 42% #4 Iceland 42% #5 Netherlands 40% #6 Philippines 40%
Scores based on responses to the following question: "All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life-as-a-whole now?"#1 Switzerland 8 #2 Malta 8 #3 Denmark 8 #4 Ireland 7.8 #5 Iceland 7.8
4. COST
Here is some advice on holidays to Malta, Greece and Cyprus:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g190372-Cyprus-Vacations.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189398-Greece-Vacations.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g190311-Malta-Vacations.html
5. EXCITEMENT
How about Borneo? http://audleytravel.info/index.php/destinations/sea/borneo/borneo-country-guide/borneo-sarawak/kuching/
~~
Here are some suggestions concerning Greece, Malta and Cyprus:
For cultural Malta, Valletta is the best place to be. The best hotel is probably Le Meridien Phoenicia, Valletta, Island of Malta.
Larnaca in Cyprus is less popular than Paphos. But maybe consider the Antonis G Hotel Apartment, in Larnaca.
Kyrenia has been regarded as the most attractive place in Cyprus. One possibility for Northern Cyprus is the Hotel Sempati, Kyrenia.
There is much building work in both parts of Cyprus.
Chania is an attractive Greek town. Palazzo di Pietro, Chania, Crete
Tolon is a small Greek seaside town that is worth considering : http://www.tolo-online.net/
~~
When you choose your next holiday/vacation you may be thinking of:
1. safety 2. sunshine 3. friendliness 4. cost 5. excitement
1. SAFETY
"People are more likely to be mugged, burgled, robbed or assaulted in the UK than in America, Germany, Russia, South Africa or any other of the world's 20 largest nations." Telegraph News
Countries which reportedly have low crime rates include: Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Japan, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Denmark.
Accurate statistics are not available for all countries. Crime rates can vary greatly within one country.
Countries with high murder rates include: South Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Mexico, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Thailand, Seychelles, Poland,Bulgaria, United States.
2. SUNSHINE
Some of the sunniest destinations are Cyprus, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Malta and parts of Spain.
There are rainy seasons in countries such as Thailand, India, Malaysia and Singapore. It can be very wet at certain times of year although the rain may only fall for a relatively short part of the day.
3. FRIENDLINESS
Among the countries reputed to be friendly, in parts, are: Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Denmark.
Percentage in 1990s surveys agreeing that people can be trusted.#1 Norway - 65% #2 Sweden - 63%(United Kingdom - 38%)
Proportion of people who answered the survey question: "Taking all things together, would you say you are: very happy, quite happy, not very happy, or not at all happy?" by stating that they were "Very happy": #1 Venezuela 55% #2 Nigeria 45% #3 Ireland 42% #4 Iceland 42% #5 Netherlands 40% #6 Philippines 40%
Scores based on responses to the following question: "All things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life-as-a-whole now?"#1 Switzerland 8 #2 Malta 8 #3 Denmark 8 #4 Ireland 7.8 #5 Iceland 7.8
4. COST
Here is some advice on holidays to Malta, Greece and Cyprus:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g190372-Cyprus-Vacations.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189398-Greece-Vacations.html
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g190311-Malta-Vacations.html
5. EXCITEMENT
How about Borneo? http://audleytravel.info/index.php/destinations/sea/borneo/borneo-country-guide/borneo-sarawak/kuching/
~~
Here are some suggestions concerning Greece, Malta and Cyprus:
For cultural Malta, Valletta is the best place to be. The best hotel is probably Le Meridien Phoenicia, Valletta, Island of Malta.
Larnaca in Cyprus is less popular than Paphos. But maybe consider the Antonis G Hotel Apartment, in Larnaca.
Kyrenia has been regarded as the most attractive place in Cyprus. One possibility for Northern Cyprus is the Hotel Sempati, Kyrenia.
There is much building work in both parts of Cyprus.
Chania is an attractive Greek town. Palazzo di Pietro, Chania, Crete
Tolon is a small Greek seaside town that is worth considering : http://www.tolo-online.net/
~~
Friday, April 14, 2006
Flight 93
The following extracts come from an article, published on 8 March 2006 by Ted Rall
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0308-26.htm
The Legend of United Flight 93
by Ted Rall
...The legend of Flight 93 had everything a nation caught with its pants down needed to feel better about itself: guts, heroism, self-sacrifice.
Best of all, it was marketable - by Hollywood and by a president willing to surf on a kind of heroism notably absent from his own life. (Theatrical release of the second "United 93" movie is scheduled to open April 28.)
Lisa Beamer, widow of the passenger credited with the call-to-arms "let's roll," wrote a bestselling book by the same name, applied for a trademark on the expression, and is now working the Christianist lecture circuit.
Actually, the 9/11 Commission found, the evidence indicates that what Todd Beamer (or someone else) said was not "let's roll," but "roll it" - possibly referring to an airplane service cart the passengers may have wanted to use to break down the door into the cockpit. Too bad-. "Roll it" sounds less cinematic, and more like a book about cinematography...
Though they studied the cockpit recording, the 9/11 Commission found zero evidence that the passenger revolt succeeded, that they made it into the cockpit and, as Bush claimed, "took the plane into the ground."
Tom Kean & Co. offered only conjecture: "The hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them."
"Must have." At a time when war can be justified by waving around a bottle of fake anthrax on TV, "must have" is judged adequate proof.
Another eyebrow-raising portion of the official account of Flight 93 states that "the passengers and flight crew began a series of calls from GTE airphones and cellular phones" after the hijacking.
Ever forgotten to turn off your cellphone during a flight? I have. Try it yourself: Cellular telephone calls tend to drop when you're driving at 60 miles per hour; passenger jets travel up to ten times that speed. Moreover, there's zero signal, and thus no ability to place a call, above 8,000 feet. Flight 93, en route from Newark to San Francisco at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, dropped 700 feet when it was hijacked at 9:28 am. Cell calls? Not likely.
The Bush Administration has alternately claimed that the White House, then the Capitol, and finally the White House again was the target of the Flight 93 hijackers.
Sure, it's possible that the same terrorists who didn't know that New Yorkers don't start work until nine - the World Trade Center was struck at 8:42 - wouldn't have thought to check Bush's schedule to find out whether he'd be home that morning. But if the White House was the objective, why not hit it first? After all, if Bush had been home when the news from New York first broke, he would have been whisked away to Dick Cheney's secret undisclosed location. If the government doesn't know what the target was, they shouldn't say that they do.
What happened to United 93? There was almost certainly a passenger uprising. Did it succeed? Probably not.
The 9/11 Commission Report says that "at some time between 10:10 and 10:15" Dick Cheney ordered the Air Force to shoot down the plane, which had turned east towards Washington. The plane had already crashed at 10:03. But the regional air traffic control center in Cleveland asked the FAA whether military fighter jets should be dispatched at flight at 9:36, giving the Air Force more than enough time to intercept before the fatal plunge into the field at Shanksville. Was United 93 shot down, despite the official story?
Local media accounts offer some evidence of that possibility. The September 13, 2001 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, for example:
"In a morning briefing, State Police Major Lyle Szupinka confirmed that debris from the plane had turned up in relatively far-flung sites, including the residential area of Indian Lake [two and a half miles from the crash site]."
Flight 93 "headed down...rolled onto its back," and crashed, leaving a smoldering crater.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette again: "[Indian Lake marina employee John] Fleegle said he climbed on the roof of an abandoned cabin and tossed down a burning seat cushion that had landed there. By Wednesday morning, crash debris began washing ashore at the marina. Fleegle said there was something that looked like a rib bone amid pieces of seats, small chunks of melted plastic and checks."
Seats and bones don't fly two and a half miles from a crash. Their location could indicate an initial explosion, such as that from a missile hitting a plane.
~~
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0308-26.htm
The Legend of United Flight 93
by Ted Rall
...The legend of Flight 93 had everything a nation caught with its pants down needed to feel better about itself: guts, heroism, self-sacrifice.
Best of all, it was marketable - by Hollywood and by a president willing to surf on a kind of heroism notably absent from his own life. (Theatrical release of the second "United 93" movie is scheduled to open April 28.)
Lisa Beamer, widow of the passenger credited with the call-to-arms "let's roll," wrote a bestselling book by the same name, applied for a trademark on the expression, and is now working the Christianist lecture circuit.
Actually, the 9/11 Commission found, the evidence indicates that what Todd Beamer (or someone else) said was not "let's roll," but "roll it" - possibly referring to an airplane service cart the passengers may have wanted to use to break down the door into the cockpit. Too bad-. "Roll it" sounds less cinematic, and more like a book about cinematography...
Though they studied the cockpit recording, the 9/11 Commission found zero evidence that the passenger revolt succeeded, that they made it into the cockpit and, as Bush claimed, "took the plane into the ground."
Tom Kean & Co. offered only conjecture: "The hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them."
"Must have." At a time when war can be justified by waving around a bottle of fake anthrax on TV, "must have" is judged adequate proof.
Another eyebrow-raising portion of the official account of Flight 93 states that "the passengers and flight crew began a series of calls from GTE airphones and cellular phones" after the hijacking.
Ever forgotten to turn off your cellphone during a flight? I have. Try it yourself: Cellular telephone calls tend to drop when you're driving at 60 miles per hour; passenger jets travel up to ten times that speed. Moreover, there's zero signal, and thus no ability to place a call, above 8,000 feet. Flight 93, en route from Newark to San Francisco at a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet, dropped 700 feet when it was hijacked at 9:28 am. Cell calls? Not likely.
The Bush Administration has alternately claimed that the White House, then the Capitol, and finally the White House again was the target of the Flight 93 hijackers.
Sure, it's possible that the same terrorists who didn't know that New Yorkers don't start work until nine - the World Trade Center was struck at 8:42 - wouldn't have thought to check Bush's schedule to find out whether he'd be home that morning. But if the White House was the objective, why not hit it first? After all, if Bush had been home when the news from New York first broke, he would have been whisked away to Dick Cheney's secret undisclosed location. If the government doesn't know what the target was, they shouldn't say that they do.
What happened to United 93? There was almost certainly a passenger uprising. Did it succeed? Probably not.
The 9/11 Commission Report says that "at some time between 10:10 and 10:15" Dick Cheney ordered the Air Force to shoot down the plane, which had turned east towards Washington. The plane had already crashed at 10:03. But the regional air traffic control center in Cleveland asked the FAA whether military fighter jets should be dispatched at flight at 9:36, giving the Air Force more than enough time to intercept before the fatal plunge into the field at Shanksville. Was United 93 shot down, despite the official story?
Local media accounts offer some evidence of that possibility. The September 13, 2001 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, for example:
"In a morning briefing, State Police Major Lyle Szupinka confirmed that debris from the plane had turned up in relatively far-flung sites, including the residential area of Indian Lake [two and a half miles from the crash site]."
Flight 93 "headed down...rolled onto its back," and crashed, leaving a smoldering crater.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette again: "[Indian Lake marina employee John] Fleegle said he climbed on the roof of an abandoned cabin and tossed down a burning seat cushion that had landed there. By Wednesday morning, crash debris began washing ashore at the marina. Fleegle said there was something that looked like a rib bone amid pieces of seats, small chunks of melted plastic and checks."
Seats and bones don't fly two and a half miles from a crash. Their location could indicate an initial explosion, such as that from a missile hitting a plane.
~~
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Jailed for refusing to take part in the invasion of Poland
An officer was sentenced to jail for refusing orders to join the force which has invaded Poland.
The officer was convicted by a panel of officers of what the judge called "calculated and deliberate disobedience" of orders to train, prepare and deploy to Poland.
In comments from the witness stand, 'the officer described Germany as the moral equivalent of Japan, and the prosecutors themselves as complicit in crimes.'
British officer jailed for refusing to go to Iraq
~~
The officer was convicted by a panel of officers of what the judge called "calculated and deliberate disobedience" of orders to train, prepare and deploy to Poland.
In comments from the witness stand, 'the officer described Germany as the moral equivalent of Japan, and the prosecutors themselves as complicit in crimes.'
British officer jailed for refusing to go to Iraq
~~
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Official version of 7/7 London bombings does not make sense
The UK’s official version of the 7/7 London bombings does not make sense.
(The leak of the official version is reported on at: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1750264,00.html)
According to the leaked official version of 7/7, "The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men using the internet."
According to The Observer:
Far from being the work of an international terror network, as originally suspected, the attack was carried out by four men who had scoured terror sites on the internet. Their knapsack bombs cost only a few hundred pounds, according to the first completed draft of the government’s definitive report into the blasts.
So, what is wrong with the official version?
Previously, the authorities had tried to show 7/7 links to al-Qaeda (also known as al CIAda).
1. The alleged ring-leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, as well as Shehzad Tanweer, appeared in a video sent to al-Jazeera after the bombing that included praise for the attacks from bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. Did this video come from the usual al-Qaeda (al CIAda) sources.
( a video sent to al-Jazeera after the bombing ) ( this video )
2. Khan has been linked to the mastermind of the Bali bombings, Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali. According to al-Qaeda analyst Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, Khan had ’met senior leaders of Jemaah Islamiah, including the suspected Bali bombings organiser Hambali.’
( linked to the mastermind of the Bali bombings )
3. Mohammed Junaid Babar admitted to helping set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, sending equipment and cash to an al-Qaeda leader there between the summer of 2003 and February 2004. Babar identified Khan from a photo, saying that he met him at an al-Qaeda terror training camp while he was there. Babar also admitted in 2004 to attempting to buy ammonium nitrate for al-Qaeda "with the knowledge that it was going to be used for a plot somewhere in the U.K."
( Mohammed Junaid Babar ) ( identified Khan from a photo )
4. The Finsbury Park mosque links all four 7/7 bombers as well as all four of the failed 7/21 London bombers and Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui.
( Finsbury Park mosque ) ( http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article343843.ece )
5. Haroon Rashid Aswat made phone calls to the 7/7 bombers in the hours before their attacks. Reportedly, Aswat had flown to London to choose the targets and organize the attacks.
(Haroon Rashid Aswat’s phone calls to the 7/7 bombers in the hours before their attacks? )
Aswat was the alleged al-Qaeda terrorist 'who began planning for setting up an al-Qaeda camp in Bly, Oregon in 1999'.
After the 7/7 London bombings, Aswat was taken into custody, but the UK police said he had nothing to do with the London Bombings.
Reportedly Aswat was working for MI6.
(Terror Expert: London Bombings Mastermind is MI6 Asset )
6. A friend of Khan’s, Omar Sharif, reportedly went from Britain to Tel Aviv where he allegedly plotted and participated in a bombing that killed five. Khan was reportedly in Tel Aviv weeks before the attack.
( plotted and participated in a bombing )
7. 22-year old Shehzad Tanweer worked at his father’s fish & chips stand. He had amassed a fortune of $210,000.
( amass a net worth of $210,000? )
How did he know Australians who attended Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist training camps in Pakistan?
How did the "seemingly normal man using the internet" personally know Osama Nazir, a Pakistani who bombed a church in Islamabad that killed five, including two Americans, among other attacks?
( bombed a church in Islamabad )
8. In december 2004, Saudi Arabia reportedly warned MI6 about tube attacks. According to the Saudis, a captured Saudi terrorist had warned of attacks on London transport.
( warned MI6 of intelligence learned about tube attacks in December )
It looks as if there is some sort of cover-up. Some of the alleged 7/7 bombers were known to MI5.
( Two bombers 'known to MI5' - 18 Dec 2005 - London bombings )
Were the alleged bombers working for some element of the security services?
Did the alleged bombers have doubles?
According to The Guardian: (Guardian Unlimited Special reports Mentor to the young and ...)
Born in Leeds, Mohammad Sidique Khan spent his working life with young, vulnerable children.
The 30-year-old, father to a 14-month-old daughter, Maryam, was a mentor in primary schools for children with learning difficulties. He is known to have taught hundreds of children.
Three years ago, while working at Hillside primary school in the city, he railed against the government for not putting enough money into the education of children with learning difficulties. He said of his work with children of five and upwards: "A lot of them have said this is the best school they have been to."
One child who was taught by him at Hillside said: "He seemed a really kind man, he taught the really bad kids and everyone seemed to like him. He was there about three years and then he went on holiday and never came back. We just knew him as Mr Khan."
Did Khan, just like Lee Harvey Oswald and Mohammed Atta, have a double?
According to xymphora and xymphora
One Atta in was Florida in spring 2000, while the original Atta was still in Hamburg.
One Atta attended an US officer's training school in Montgomery.
The Egyptian architecture student Atta had a fear of flying.
Is all the terror the work of some group within the security services?
~~
Main source for names and dates: http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2006/04/british-77-bombing-report-igno/
~~~
(The leak of the official version is reported on at: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1750264,00.html)
According to the leaked official version of 7/7, "The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men using the internet."
According to The Observer:
Far from being the work of an international terror network, as originally suspected, the attack was carried out by four men who had scoured terror sites on the internet. Their knapsack bombs cost only a few hundred pounds, according to the first completed draft of the government’s definitive report into the blasts.
So, what is wrong with the official version?
Previously, the authorities had tried to show 7/7 links to al-Qaeda (also known as al CIAda).
1. The alleged ring-leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, as well as Shehzad Tanweer, appeared in a video sent to al-Jazeera after the bombing that included praise for the attacks from bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri. Did this video come from the usual al-Qaeda (al CIAda) sources.
( a video sent to al-Jazeera after the bombing ) ( this video )
2. Khan has been linked to the mastermind of the Bali bombings, Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali. According to al-Qaeda analyst Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, Khan had ’met senior leaders of Jemaah Islamiah, including the suspected Bali bombings organiser Hambali.’
( linked to the mastermind of the Bali bombings )
3. Mohammed Junaid Babar admitted to helping set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, sending equipment and cash to an al-Qaeda leader there between the summer of 2003 and February 2004. Babar identified Khan from a photo, saying that he met him at an al-Qaeda terror training camp while he was there. Babar also admitted in 2004 to attempting to buy ammonium nitrate for al-Qaeda "with the knowledge that it was going to be used for a plot somewhere in the U.K."
( Mohammed Junaid Babar ) ( identified Khan from a photo )
4. The Finsbury Park mosque links all four 7/7 bombers as well as all four of the failed 7/21 London bombers and Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui.
( Finsbury Park mosque ) ( http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article343843.ece )
5. Haroon Rashid Aswat made phone calls to the 7/7 bombers in the hours before their attacks. Reportedly, Aswat had flown to London to choose the targets and organize the attacks.
(Haroon Rashid Aswat’s phone calls to the 7/7 bombers in the hours before their attacks? )
Aswat was the alleged al-Qaeda terrorist 'who began planning for setting up an al-Qaeda camp in Bly, Oregon in 1999'.
After the 7/7 London bombings, Aswat was taken into custody, but the UK police said he had nothing to do with the London Bombings.
Reportedly Aswat was working for MI6.
(Terror Expert: London Bombings Mastermind is MI6 Asset )
6. A friend of Khan’s, Omar Sharif, reportedly went from Britain to Tel Aviv where he allegedly plotted and participated in a bombing that killed five. Khan was reportedly in Tel Aviv weeks before the attack.
( plotted and participated in a bombing )
7. 22-year old Shehzad Tanweer worked at his father’s fish & chips stand. He had amassed a fortune of $210,000.
( amass a net worth of $210,000? )
How did he know Australians who attended Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist training camps in Pakistan?
How did the "seemingly normal man using the internet" personally know Osama Nazir, a Pakistani who bombed a church in Islamabad that killed five, including two Americans, among other attacks?
( bombed a church in Islamabad )
8. In december 2004, Saudi Arabia reportedly warned MI6 about tube attacks. According to the Saudis, a captured Saudi terrorist had warned of attacks on London transport.
( warned MI6 of intelligence learned about tube attacks in December )
It looks as if there is some sort of cover-up. Some of the alleged 7/7 bombers were known to MI5.
( Two bombers 'known to MI5' - 18 Dec 2005 - London bombings )
Were the alleged bombers working for some element of the security services?
Did the alleged bombers have doubles?
According to The Guardian: (Guardian Unlimited Special reports Mentor to the young and ...)
Born in Leeds, Mohammad Sidique Khan spent his working life with young, vulnerable children.
The 30-year-old, father to a 14-month-old daughter, Maryam, was a mentor in primary schools for children with learning difficulties. He is known to have taught hundreds of children.
Three years ago, while working at Hillside primary school in the city, he railed against the government for not putting enough money into the education of children with learning difficulties. He said of his work with children of five and upwards: "A lot of them have said this is the best school they have been to."
One child who was taught by him at Hillside said: "He seemed a really kind man, he taught the really bad kids and everyone seemed to like him. He was there about three years and then he went on holiday and never came back. We just knew him as Mr Khan."
Did Khan, just like Lee Harvey Oswald and Mohammed Atta, have a double?
According to xymphora and xymphora
One Atta in was Florida in spring 2000, while the original Atta was still in Hamburg.
One Atta attended an US officer's training school in Montgomery.
The Egyptian architecture student Atta had a fear of flying.
Is all the terror the work of some group within the security services?
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Main source for names and dates: http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2006/04/british-77-bombing-report-igno/
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Britain's Power Elites
Britain's Power Elites: The rebirth of the ruling class, by Hywel Williams, published: 31 March 2006, was reviewed by John Campbell in The Independent, 10 April 2006.
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article354649.ece
Mrs Thatcher looked after the super-rich and Tony Blair has continued this policy.
According to Campbell:
Hywel Williams's central claim is that we are ruled by a financial elite.
The financial elite have huge salaries and even bigger bonuses.
The financial elite include consultants, accountants and hedge-fund managers.
The financial elite corrupt the politicians.
Campbell writes:
The cosy relationships between ministers and a succession of dodgy financiers reflect a political culture which has sold out to business, most wickedly in the ongoing scandal of PFI deals by which the public is systematically ripped off.
Even party conferences are now sponsored by companies in pursuit of contracts.
The new post-Thatcherite consensus politics has reverted to an 18th-century struggle for patronage and place.
Williams tells us that "social mobility is now lower in Britain than... in any other advanced country with the exception of the USA."
What neither Williams nor Campbell tell us is who are the brains behind the financial elite.
Are we talking about an Anglo-American-Israeli-Chinese-Arab elite?
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March 15, 2006 http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1730892,00.html
Lord Browne, BP's chief executive, was given pay and shares last year and early this year that could be worth more than £19m, it was revealed yesterday.
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Rich list
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3715205.stm
UK'S RICHEST DRUG BARONS
1. Brian Brendan Wright
Business: Drug trafficking
Worth £100+m
2. Michael Tyrrell
Drug trafficking
£100m
3. Curtis Warren
Drug trafficking
£80+m
4. Mickey Green
Drug trafficking
£75m
5. A Liverpool godfather*
Drug trafficking
£55m
6. A London crime family*
Drug trafficking
£50m
7. David Huck
Drug trafficking
£30m
8. Brian Charrington
Drug trafficking
£20+m
9. Walter Douglas
Drug trafficking
£20m
10. Thomas McGraw
Drug trafficking
£14m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
UK'S RICHEST FRAUDSTERS
1. John Palmer
Business: Timeshare fraud
Worth: £300m
2. Sheridan Leslie Cox
Boiler room fraud
£280m
3. A Scottish-based team*
VAT fraud
£30m
4. A playboy businessman*
VAT fraud
£15+m
5. An entrepreneur*
Pension fund fraud
£15m
6. A swindler now on the run*
Accounting fraud
£11.85m
7. Monmoham Singh Sandhu
VAT fraud
£6+m
8. A criminal hard-liner from Kent*
VAT fraud
£6m
9. David Withers
VAT fraud
£2.5m
10. Azil Nadir
Fraud
£2m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
UK's RICHEST SMUGGLERS
1. Tom 'Slab' Murphy
Business: Cigarette and oil smuggling
Worth: £35-40m
2. The Deo Gang
People smuggling
£37m
3. Martin Potter
Drugs, cigarette and arms smuggling
£25m
4. A London villain*
Alcohol and cigarette smuggling
£17.3m
5. The Daniels family
Cigarette and drug smuggling
£16m
6. Frederick Roberts
Cigarette smuggling
£8+m
7. James Nisbet
Cigarette smuggling
£7m
8. An Essex crook*
Cigarette smuggling
£6m
9. An Irish paramilitary*
Alcohol and fuel smuggling
£4-5m
10. Kashmir Singh Nanan
People smuggling
£4m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
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Sunday Times Rich List:
Lakshmi Mittal - £14.8bn
Roman Abramovich £7.5bn
Duke of Westminster - £5.6bn
Hans Rausing -£4.95bn
Philip and Christina Green - £4.85bn
Oleg Deripaska - £4.37bn
Sir Richard Branson - £3bn
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing - £2.75bn
David and Simon Reuben - £2.5bn
Spiro Latsis family- £2.4bn
Source: Sunday Times
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http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article354649.ece
Mrs Thatcher looked after the super-rich and Tony Blair has continued this policy.
According to Campbell:
Hywel Williams's central claim is that we are ruled by a financial elite.
The financial elite have huge salaries and even bigger bonuses.
The financial elite include consultants, accountants and hedge-fund managers.
The financial elite corrupt the politicians.
Campbell writes:
The cosy relationships between ministers and a succession of dodgy financiers reflect a political culture which has sold out to business, most wickedly in the ongoing scandal of PFI deals by which the public is systematically ripped off.
Even party conferences are now sponsored by companies in pursuit of contracts.
The new post-Thatcherite consensus politics has reverted to an 18th-century struggle for patronage and place.
Williams tells us that "social mobility is now lower in Britain than... in any other advanced country with the exception of the USA."
What neither Williams nor Campbell tell us is who are the brains behind the financial elite.
Are we talking about an Anglo-American-Israeli-Chinese-Arab elite?
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March 15, 2006 http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1730892,00.html
Lord Browne, BP's chief executive, was given pay and shares last year and early this year that could be worth more than £19m, it was revealed yesterday.
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Rich list
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3715205.stm
UK'S RICHEST DRUG BARONS
1. Brian Brendan Wright
Business: Drug trafficking
Worth £100+m
2. Michael Tyrrell
Drug trafficking
£100m
3. Curtis Warren
Drug trafficking
£80+m
4. Mickey Green
Drug trafficking
£75m
5. A Liverpool godfather*
Drug trafficking
£55m
6. A London crime family*
Drug trafficking
£50m
7. David Huck
Drug trafficking
£30m
8. Brian Charrington
Drug trafficking
£20+m
9. Walter Douglas
Drug trafficking
£20m
10. Thomas McGraw
Drug trafficking
£14m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
UK'S RICHEST FRAUDSTERS
1. John Palmer
Business: Timeshare fraud
Worth: £300m
2. Sheridan Leslie Cox
Boiler room fraud
£280m
3. A Scottish-based team*
VAT fraud
£30m
4. A playboy businessman*
VAT fraud
£15+m
5. An entrepreneur*
Pension fund fraud
£15m
6. A swindler now on the run*
Accounting fraud
£11.85m
7. Monmoham Singh Sandhu
VAT fraud
£6+m
8. A criminal hard-liner from Kent*
VAT fraud
£6m
9. David Withers
VAT fraud
£2.5m
10. Azil Nadir
Fraud
£2m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
UK's RICHEST SMUGGLERS
1. Tom 'Slab' Murphy
Business: Cigarette and oil smuggling
Worth: £35-40m
2. The Deo Gang
People smuggling
£37m
3. Martin Potter
Drugs, cigarette and arms smuggling
£25m
4. A London villain*
Alcohol and cigarette smuggling
£17.3m
5. The Daniels family
Cigarette and drug smuggling
£16m
6. Frederick Roberts
Cigarette smuggling
£8+m
7. James Nisbet
Cigarette smuggling
£7m
8. An Essex crook*
Cigarette smuggling
£6m
9. An Irish paramilitary*
Alcohol and fuel smuggling
£4-5m
10. Kashmir Singh Nanan
People smuggling
£4m
* denotes can't be named for legal reasons
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Sunday Times Rich List:
Lakshmi Mittal - £14.8bn
Roman Abramovich £7.5bn
Duke of Westminster - £5.6bn
Hans Rausing -£4.95bn
Philip and Christina Green - £4.85bn
Oleg Deripaska - £4.37bn
Sir Richard Branson - £3bn
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing - £2.75bn
David and Simon Reuben - £2.5bn
Spiro Latsis family- £2.4bn
Source: Sunday Times
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Zimbabwe - Z$1.45 trillion for executive desks.
The following is an extract from: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1744942,00.html
April 2, 2006.
In Zimbabwe, inflation has now bypassed 1,000 per cent - the world's highest - and people have stopped counting bank notes, measuring the pile instead.
Harare City Council is planning to borrow Z$1.45 trillion to buy executive desks and 329 sedans and pick-ups for its managers.
In Bulawayo, 450 homes intended for some of the 700,000 families the government made homeless by bulldozing slums are being built without running water or sewerage.
Just a few weeks ago the long-suffering people were asked to raise Z$10 billion (about £60,000) to pay for Robert Mugabe's 82nd birthday celebrations.
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April 2, 2006.
In Zimbabwe, inflation has now bypassed 1,000 per cent - the world's highest - and people have stopped counting bank notes, measuring the pile instead.
Harare City Council is planning to borrow Z$1.45 trillion to buy executive desks and 329 sedans and pick-ups for its managers.
In Bulawayo, 450 homes intended for some of the 700,000 families the government made homeless by bulldozing slums are being built without running water or sewerage.
Just a few weeks ago the long-suffering people were asked to raise Z$10 billion (about £60,000) to pay for Robert Mugabe's 82nd birthday celebrations.
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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Scottish National Party set to win many more seats in Scottish Parliament
Scottish National Party on target for Holyrood poll
SNP on target for Holyrood poll
Apr 8 2006
The SNP is at least halfway towards its target of winning 20 constituency seats in next year's Holyrood (Scottish Parliament) elections, according to a recent poll.
The YouGov research, commissioned by the party, also saw 46% of the 1,607 Scots surveyed supporting independence, with 39% against, and 82% saying the matter should be decided by referendum.
And it found that of the 69% of respondents who had an opinion on the issue, 43% believed SNP leader Alex Salmond would make the best First Minister, while 27% opted for current incumbent and Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell.
SNP on target for Holyrood poll
Apr 8 2006
The SNP is at least halfway towards its target of winning 20 constituency seats in next year's Holyrood (Scottish Parliament) elections, according to a recent poll.
The YouGov research, commissioned by the party, also saw 46% of the 1,607 Scots surveyed supporting independence, with 39% against, and 82% saying the matter should be decided by referendum.
And it found that of the 69% of respondents who had an opinion on the issue, 43% believed SNP leader Alex Salmond would make the best First Minister, while 27% opted for current incumbent and Scottish Labour leader Jack McConnell.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
A major health problem that we should get rid of.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, what was the main health problem in Italy?
It was malaria.
"It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army."
( http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300108990 Amazon.com: The Conquest of Malaria : Italy, 1900-1962: Books ... )
Should malaria be got rid of? Or, is it useful as a way of keeping down the size of the population?
Malaria was got rid of in Italy. Italy was sprayed with chemicals and malaria was gone by around 1962.
Italy does not have a problem of too many babies. Italy’s Birth Rate is The Second Lowest in the Western World
What about Africa and the rest of the Third World?
Over 1 million die from Malaria each year.
Malaria is a cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunts literacy....
Malaria could be got rid of.
When prosperity rises, families tend to have fewer babies.
With rising world temperatures, perhaps it is time to wipe out malaria.
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It was malaria.
"It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army."
( http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300108990 Amazon.com: The Conquest of Malaria : Italy, 1900-1962: Books ... )
Should malaria be got rid of? Or, is it useful as a way of keeping down the size of the population?
Malaria was got rid of in Italy. Italy was sprayed with chemicals and malaria was gone by around 1962.
Italy does not have a problem of too many babies. Italy’s Birth Rate is The Second Lowest in the Western World
What about Africa and the rest of the Third World?
Over 1 million die from Malaria each year.
Malaria is a cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunts literacy....
Malaria could be got rid of.
When prosperity rises, families tend to have fewer babies.
With rising world temperatures, perhaps it is time to wipe out malaria.
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UK local elections: anti-war Liberal-Democrats set to gain seats
8 April 2006.
In the UK there are to be local elections next month.
There are no Conservative councillors in Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle.
Research by BBC 2’s Newsnight suggests:
1. David Cameron's Conservative Party is likely to lose around 75 council seats.
2. Tony Blair's Labour Party will lose around 130 seats.
3. The anti-war Liberal Democrats will gain around 190 seats.
The research forecasts that the Conservatives will be down 4 per cent on 2004 in terms of vote share. The Liberal Democrats will be up 2 per cent.
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In the UK there are to be local elections next month.
There are no Conservative councillors in Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle.
Research by BBC 2’s Newsnight suggests:
1. David Cameron's Conservative Party is likely to lose around 75 council seats.
2. Tony Blair's Labour Party will lose around 130 seats.
3. The anti-war Liberal Democrats will gain around 190 seats.
The research forecasts that the Conservatives will be down 4 per cent on 2004 in terms of vote share. The Liberal Democrats will be up 2 per cent.
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U.S. CUTS AID TO ISRAEL
U.S. Cuts Aid to Israel
By Washington Post Staff Writer
April 1, 2006
The United States has formally suspended aid to Israel in a bid to pressure Israel to leave Palestinian land and renounce violence.
Hamas leaders, who unexpectedly triumphed in legislative elections earlier this year, welcomed the action. The United States and the European Union have designated Israel, known formally as Palestine, a terrorist state.
The American Secretary of State, Condoleeza Ric, told a press conference that the Israelis had just killed yet another a Palestinian child. She said that the Israelis had killed Rachel Corrie in March 2003 and the British cameraman James Miller in May 2003.
The following is an extract from a statement made by the Secretary of State:
In March 2004, Israel assassinated the 67-year old spiritual head of Hamas, an organization which, as well as resisting Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank, attempts to provide educational and medical services to the Palestinian people, whose social infrastructure has been practically destroyed by Israel.
Israel has been a terrorist state from its beginning, and has its foundations in terrorism. Three Israeli prime ministers were terrorists.
Menachim Begin took part in terrorist acts in the 1940s, including the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people.
Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which organised bombings and assassinations.
Shamir was involved in the murder of Lord Moyne, the British Minister representative in the Middle East, in 1944, and the murder of Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN's special Mediator on Palestine, in 1948.
Terror was used to drive the Palestinians from the land that became Israel.
As commander of Unit 101, Ariel Sharon led attacks on Palestinian villages in which women and children were killed.
In the massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on 14 October 1953, Sharon's troops blew up 45 houses and 69 Palestinian civilians, half of them women and children, were killed.
Ariel Sharon initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people were murdered.
In July 1954 Egypt was hit by a series of bomb outrages directed mainly against American and British property in Cairo and Alexandria. The bombings were carried out by an Israeli espionage and terrorist network.
In June 1967, Israeli forces attacked the U.S. spy ship USS Liberty, and strafed rescue boats, killing 35 and injuring 170 U.S. servicemen.
In May 2004 Israelis in a moving van were twice detained near a U.S. nuclear facility.
Lirpa Loof, Washington Pist Staff Writer, April 4, 2006.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=israel+terrorist+state&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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By Washington Post Staff Writer
April 1, 2006
The United States has formally suspended aid to Israel in a bid to pressure Israel to leave Palestinian land and renounce violence.
Hamas leaders, who unexpectedly triumphed in legislative elections earlier this year, welcomed the action. The United States and the European Union have designated Israel, known formally as Palestine, a terrorist state.
The American Secretary of State, Condoleeza Ric, told a press conference that the Israelis had just killed yet another a Palestinian child. She said that the Israelis had killed Rachel Corrie in March 2003 and the British cameraman James Miller in May 2003.
The following is an extract from a statement made by the Secretary of State:
In March 2004, Israel assassinated the 67-year old spiritual head of Hamas, an organization which, as well as resisting Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank, attempts to provide educational and medical services to the Palestinian people, whose social infrastructure has been practically destroyed by Israel.
Israel has been a terrorist state from its beginning, and has its foundations in terrorism. Three Israeli prime ministers were terrorists.
Menachim Begin took part in terrorist acts in the 1940s, including the attack on the King David Hotel which killed 91 people.
Yitzhak Shamir was the leader of the Stern Gang, a terrorist group which organised bombings and assassinations.
Shamir was involved in the murder of Lord Moyne, the British Minister representative in the Middle East, in 1944, and the murder of Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN's special Mediator on Palestine, in 1948.
Terror was used to drive the Palestinians from the land that became Israel.
As commander of Unit 101, Ariel Sharon led attacks on Palestinian villages in which women and children were killed.
In the massacre in the West Bank village of Qibya, on 14 October 1953, Sharon's troops blew up 45 houses and 69 Palestinian civilians, half of them women and children, were killed.
Ariel Sharon initiated the Sabra-Shatila massacre in which between 1000 and 3000 people were murdered.
In July 1954 Egypt was hit by a series of bomb outrages directed mainly against American and British property in Cairo and Alexandria. The bombings were carried out by an Israeli espionage and terrorist network.
In June 1967, Israeli forces attacked the U.S. spy ship USS Liberty, and strafed rescue boats, killing 35 and injuring 170 U.S. servicemen.
In May 2004 Israelis in a moving van were twice detained near a U.S. nuclear facility.
Lirpa Loof, Washington Pist Staff Writer, April 4, 2006.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=israel+terrorist+state&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Bird flu and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews
"Both the British and US governments have created policies of quarantine and internment procedures which they need to indoctrinate Joe public into going along with.
"In the first stage, limited biological panics will be metered upon the public (in Britain through Porton Down, the same people who brought you Foot and Mouth) in order to train them into producing the desired response...."
Source: Bird Flu And Social Darwinism
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From The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,,1748057,00.html?gusrc=rss
April 6, 2006
A dead swan was found in the coastal Fife village of Cellardyke, about nine miles from St Andrews...
The man who found the swan in Cellardyke, Dan Young, a researcher at St Andrews University, said he had been alerted by a friend, who thought a heron was lying in the harbour...
By coincidence, yesterday Defra was conducting its first national emergency simulation of procedures in the event of a bird flu outbreak... Exercise Hawthorn
Dan Young's work includes aspects of virology... http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=529922006
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Defra was conducting a simulation.
The following is taken from an article entitled: Bird Flu Outbreak Coincided With Drill
Staged-managed manufactured crises are always paralleled by drills of the same nature. This provides culpable deniability if any government agency is caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They can say it was just part of the drill...
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...
Wargames running on the morning of 9/11 simulated planes crashing into high visibility buildings on the US east coast. These drills were enough to confuse air traffic controllers about the real world nature of the actual hijacked planes thereby slowing response times and enabling them to find their targets. In addition the exercises also provided culpable deniability...
Patricia Doyle, PhD also reported that Foot and Mouth exercises were being run by the British government immediately before the outbreak was made public...
For those who doubt the veracity of a British government plot to once again eviscerate the livelihoods of farmers (the biggest power block opposing Blair) in an act of 'Agraterrorism', just consider the fact that a vial of the Foot and Mouth virus was supposedly 'stolen' from Porton Down bio-weapons facility before the 2001 outbreak took place. The Sunday Express reported that it was released deliberately and could have possibly been the source of the outbreak two months later.
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St Andrews University technician Tina Briscoe was the friend of Dan Young who alerted him to the bird in the harbour. Bird flu: the deadly delay
The dead bird was a mute swan.
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http://www.rms.com/Terrorism/Advisors/
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has been the leading academic institute researching terrorism for the past twenty years... Members of CSTPV have been advisors to the U.S. government and leading policymaking groups.
RMS (Rand) is currently sponsoring the RMS Terrorism Research Fellow, at CSTPV, University of St. Andrews.
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Scotland on Sunday, 19 March 2006, has a news story entitled: Scots terror team draws up plans for national disasters
According to Murdo MacLeod of Scotland on Sunday, Scottish civil servants are to have contingency plans in place to deal with various threats.
According to Scotland on Sunday: A team headed by Gregor Lindsay, a civil servant and RAF reservist, is working in Perth...
Scenarios which the unit has plans for include: A lethal bird flu pandemic sweeping across Scotland...
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The following is from: The Secret State - Domestic Surveillance & Control in Britain
The ‘Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence’ at the University of St Andrews:
The Centre possesses a unique database on terrorist incidents going back to 1968, based on collaboration with a US think tank (‘the RAND-St Andrews database on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict’). Bruce Hoffman, the founder of the Centre is now a vice-president of Rand and chief of its Washington office.
The current chair of the Centre’s advisory board is Professor Paul Wilkinson , who began his career as an education officer in the RAF. Professor Wilkinson has obtained funding from the ESRC for research on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. Director of the Centre is Magnus Ranstrop, a specialist on Lebanon’s Hizbollah and a CNN expert on Al-Qaida...
Dr Rohan Gunaratna claims affiliation to a diverse band of think tanks including fellowships at the St Andrews’ Centre, where he completed his PhD, but also the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Pakistan.
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• Wednesday, 29 March, 5pm - a dead swan lying on the harbour slipway in Cellardyke, Fife, is reported to the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The swan had earlier been reported to police, who told the caller to contact an animal welfare charity. The mangled bird is said to have probably been dead for "a few days".
• Thursday, 30 March, 12:30pm - the bird is collected by a vet. Samples are taken and sent to the world reference laboratory for avian flu at Weybridge, Surrey.
• Friday, 31 March - samples are received by scientists.
• Monday, 3 April - testing begins.
• Wednesday, 5 April, 8:30pm - the Scottish Executive issues a statement confirming the swan had bird flu.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=532902006
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Dr Jim Robertson, of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, said: "There is a better chance of a person winning the National Lottery than catching bird flu in the UK today."
Bird flu: the deadly delay
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The following is from: Bird Flu And Social Darwinism
"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country, and how do you then enforce a quarantine? When -- it's one thing to shut down airplanes; it's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu. And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move." President Bush, October 4th 2005.
"The Bush cabinet was on Cipro, the anthrax fighting antibiotic, on the day of September 11, weeks before the first anthrax attack took place.
"The people who will profit financially from a bird flu outbreak are Donald Rumsfeld and top Bilderberg members like Etienne F. Davignon.
"Bird flu is one more tool in the arsenal of Globalist Malthusian social Darwinists who believe it is their destiny to act as guardians to mother earth against the 'plague' of humanity and that brutal methods of population control are the only way to realize a new world order."
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Bird Flu - H5 virus unlikely to cause a pandemic.
The number of people worldwide who have died from bird flu is around 100 according to the World Health Organization (March 2006).
These people were in very close contact with birds.
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In Europe 69,000 people died from TB in 2004.
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.It is estimated that 1.7 million deaths resulted from TB in 2004.
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Two groups of scientists, in Japan and in Holland, have come up with explanations as to why human to human transmission of the H5N1 virus is highly unlikely.
Unlike other known flu viruses which can be easily transmitted between people, the H5N1 virus cannot spread through coughs or sneezes.
Previous pandemics have been caused by H1 type viruses (the 1918 pandemic), H2 (the 1957 Asian) or H3 (the Hong Kong flu of 1968).
The H5 virus has been present in the human population since the late 1950's, but has never had the full set of mutations needed to set off a pandemic.
Peter Palese, a virologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, declared H5 infects people only when they are exposed to very large doses, for example when they sleep with chickens in the same room. "I feel strongly that H5 has been around in humans for a long time and never caused a pandemic," suggesting that this is not the virus which is likely to be the next pandemic.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Human-to-Human-Transmission-of-Bird-Flu-Not-Likely-20144.shtml
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Bird flu has been affecting the world for many years.Bird flus have been troublesome for agriculture at least since 1878, when Italian poultry were hit with a disease labeled fowl plague.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/17/MNGRHF9FID1.DTL
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Each year, for many decades, a relatively small number of people have caught bird flu from birds.
In 1995 Mexico stopped an outbreak of severe H5N2 flu.
In 2002 Italy became the first country to eradicate bird flu using a marker vaccine and regular testing.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4810
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Why is bird flu getting a lot of publicity in the media?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9068-1833185,00.html
Widespread fears of a bird flu pandemic have helped spark a sales surge at Swiss drugs group Roche, which makes Tamiflu.
Roche, which is the world's only manufacturer of Tamiflu, revealed this morning that group sales had surged to more than £11.1 billion in the third quarter, driven by "significant growth" in sales of the drug.
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The UK Government spent 32 million pounds buying smallpox vaccine from a firm whose boss was Paul Drayson.
Paul Drayson, had donated 50,000 pounds to the Labour Party just weeks before the contract was finalised.
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"In the first stage, limited biological panics will be metered upon the public (in Britain through Porton Down, the same people who brought you Foot and Mouth) in order to train them into producing the desired response...."
Source: Bird Flu And Social Darwinism
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From The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,,1748057,00.html?gusrc=rss
April 6, 2006
A dead swan was found in the coastal Fife village of Cellardyke, about nine miles from St Andrews...
The man who found the swan in Cellardyke, Dan Young, a researcher at St Andrews University, said he had been alerted by a friend, who thought a heron was lying in the harbour...
By coincidence, yesterday Defra was conducting its first national emergency simulation of procedures in the event of a bird flu outbreak... Exercise Hawthorn
Dan Young's work includes aspects of virology... http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=529922006
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Defra was conducting a simulation.
The following is taken from an article entitled: Bird Flu Outbreak Coincided With Drill
Staged-managed manufactured crises are always paralleled by drills of the same nature. This provides culpable deniability if any government agency is caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They can say it was just part of the drill...
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...
Wargames running on the morning of 9/11 simulated planes crashing into high visibility buildings on the US east coast. These drills were enough to confuse air traffic controllers about the real world nature of the actual hijacked planes thereby slowing response times and enabling them to find their targets. In addition the exercises also provided culpable deniability...
Patricia Doyle, PhD also reported that Foot and Mouth exercises were being run by the British government immediately before the outbreak was made public...
For those who doubt the veracity of a British government plot to once again eviscerate the livelihoods of farmers (the biggest power block opposing Blair) in an act of 'Agraterrorism', just consider the fact that a vial of the Foot and Mouth virus was supposedly 'stolen' from Porton Down bio-weapons facility before the 2001 outbreak took place. The Sunday Express reported that it was released deliberately and could have possibly been the source of the outbreak two months later.
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St Andrews University technician Tina Briscoe was the friend of Dan Young who alerted him to the bird in the harbour. Bird flu: the deadly delay
The dead bird was a mute swan.
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http://www.rms.com/Terrorism/Advisors/
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has been the leading academic institute researching terrorism for the past twenty years... Members of CSTPV have been advisors to the U.S. government and leading policymaking groups.
RMS (Rand) is currently sponsoring the RMS Terrorism Research Fellow, at CSTPV, University of St. Andrews.
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Scotland on Sunday, 19 March 2006, has a news story entitled: Scots terror team draws up plans for national disasters
According to Murdo MacLeod of Scotland on Sunday, Scottish civil servants are to have contingency plans in place to deal with various threats.
According to Scotland on Sunday: A team headed by Gregor Lindsay, a civil servant and RAF reservist, is working in Perth...
Scenarios which the unit has plans for include: A lethal bird flu pandemic sweeping across Scotland...
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The following is from: The Secret State - Domestic Surveillance & Control in Britain
The ‘Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence’ at the University of St Andrews:
The Centre possesses a unique database on terrorist incidents going back to 1968, based on collaboration with a US think tank (‘the RAND-St Andrews database on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict’). Bruce Hoffman, the founder of the Centre is now a vice-president of Rand and chief of its Washington office.
The current chair of the Centre’s advisory board is Professor Paul Wilkinson , who began his career as an education officer in the RAF. Professor Wilkinson has obtained funding from the ESRC for research on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. Director of the Centre is Magnus Ranstrop, a specialist on Lebanon’s Hizbollah and a CNN expert on Al-Qaida...
Dr Rohan Gunaratna claims affiliation to a diverse band of think tanks including fellowships at the St Andrews’ Centre, where he completed his PhD, but also the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Pakistan.
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• Wednesday, 29 March, 5pm - a dead swan lying on the harbour slipway in Cellardyke, Fife, is reported to the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The swan had earlier been reported to police, who told the caller to contact an animal welfare charity. The mangled bird is said to have probably been dead for "a few days".
• Thursday, 30 March, 12:30pm - the bird is collected by a vet. Samples are taken and sent to the world reference laboratory for avian flu at Weybridge, Surrey.
• Friday, 31 March - samples are received by scientists.
• Monday, 3 April - testing begins.
• Wednesday, 5 April, 8:30pm - the Scottish Executive issues a statement confirming the swan had bird flu.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=532902006
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Dr Jim Robertson, of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, said: "There is a better chance of a person winning the National Lottery than catching bird flu in the UK today."
Bird flu: the deadly delay
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The following is from: Bird Flu And Social Darwinism
"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country, and how do you then enforce a quarantine? When -- it's one thing to shut down airplanes; it's another thing to prevent people from coming in to get exposed to the avian flu. And who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move." President Bush, October 4th 2005.
"The Bush cabinet was on Cipro, the anthrax fighting antibiotic, on the day of September 11, weeks before the first anthrax attack took place.
"The people who will profit financially from a bird flu outbreak are Donald Rumsfeld and top Bilderberg members like Etienne F. Davignon.
"Bird flu is one more tool in the arsenal of Globalist Malthusian social Darwinists who believe it is their destiny to act as guardians to mother earth against the 'plague' of humanity and that brutal methods of population control are the only way to realize a new world order."
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Bird Flu - H5 virus unlikely to cause a pandemic.
The number of people worldwide who have died from bird flu is around 100 according to the World Health Organization (March 2006).
These people were in very close contact with birds.
~
In Europe 69,000 people died from TB in 2004.
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.It is estimated that 1.7 million deaths resulted from TB in 2004.
~
Two groups of scientists, in Japan and in Holland, have come up with explanations as to why human to human transmission of the H5N1 virus is highly unlikely.
Unlike other known flu viruses which can be easily transmitted between people, the H5N1 virus cannot spread through coughs or sneezes.
Previous pandemics have been caused by H1 type viruses (the 1918 pandemic), H2 (the 1957 Asian) or H3 (the Hong Kong flu of 1968).
The H5 virus has been present in the human population since the late 1950's, but has never had the full set of mutations needed to set off a pandemic.
Peter Palese, a virologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, declared H5 infects people only when they are exposed to very large doses, for example when they sleep with chickens in the same room. "I feel strongly that H5 has been around in humans for a long time and never caused a pandemic," suggesting that this is not the virus which is likely to be the next pandemic.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Human-to-Human-Transmission-of-Bird-Flu-Not-Likely-20144.shtml
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Bird flu has been affecting the world for many years.Bird flus have been troublesome for agriculture at least since 1878, when Italian poultry were hit with a disease labeled fowl plague.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/17/MNGRHF9FID1.DTL
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Each year, for many decades, a relatively small number of people have caught bird flu from birds.
In 1995 Mexico stopped an outbreak of severe H5N2 flu.
In 2002 Italy became the first country to eradicate bird flu using a marker vaccine and regular testing.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4810
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Why is bird flu getting a lot of publicity in the media?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9068-1833185,00.html
Widespread fears of a bird flu pandemic have helped spark a sales surge at Swiss drugs group Roche, which makes Tamiflu.
Roche, which is the world's only manufacturer of Tamiflu, revealed this morning that group sales had surged to more than £11.1 billion in the third quarter, driven by "significant growth" in sales of the drug.
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The UK Government spent 32 million pounds buying smallpox vaccine from a firm whose boss was Paul Drayson.
Paul Drayson, had donated 50,000 pounds to the Labour Party just weeks before the contract was finalised.
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The biggest bust since Lolo Ferrari
Pop! Britain's Bubble Economy
By AlexYawar
The following is an extract from:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=283498&rel_no=1
Officially, during the last decade, inflation has generally hovered between 1 percent and 3.5 percent...
But in most key areas of the economy, inflation has been off the scale.
A March 2005 report published by Oxford Economic Forecasting and Cluttons Real Estate noted that house prices had risen nationally by an average of 11.4 percent per year every year for the past ten years.
While property prices are controversially not included in the official U.K. inflation figure, similar if not larger rises have been recorded in transportation -- a one-day travel pass in London now costs £6.30 -- utilities, with 2006 seeing a one-year hike of 20 percent for many gas customers, and oil, the price of which skyrocketed following recent instability in the Middle East...
The U.K. economy is built on consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the nation's GDP. But consumer spending is in turn contingent on credit.
The average salary in the U.K. is estimated to be around £22,000 before tax, which in most parts of the country is not enough to comfortably subsist on: for the majority of people, to save anything substantial from that figure would require frugality.
Luxuries such as brand-new home cinema systems and cars should in theory be exactly that -- luxuries.
This is where credit steps in to distort reality.
The UK population now owes £1 trillion in household debt, with 14 percent indebted to the tune of £10,000 or higher.
This debt is more than the total annual GDP of the U.K.
And this figure does not even take into account the gargantuan pile of mortgage-related debt -- £967 billion -- that casts a shadow over the U.K. economy.
Including mortgage payments, the average British household has £83,722 of debt.
What conclusions can one draw?
Firstly, the official inflation figures simply cannot be correct.
Two percent inflation in an economy with rapidly increasing living costs and more credit than real money in circulation does not even begin to make sense.
Secondly, the reason that interest rates have not been pushed up to act as a fiscal cooling mechanism on growth is simple: with the current levels of household indebtedness and mortgage-related arrears, any move towards a realistic interest rate level will result in economic meltdown.
No politician with any electoral ambitions will want to initiate such a move, perhaps least of all Gordon Brown, whose desire to take over the post of Prime Minister from Tony Blair is one of the less well-kept secrets in global politics.
However, the most sobering conclusion of all is that many of the country's economic fundamentals -- and the foundations for future growth -- are rather shaky.
In fact, we could be heading for the biggest bust since that of Lolo Ferrari.
And economic historians may in the future liken the "Brown Boom" to the fate of the late French actress.
Under the malign influence of her husband, Ferrari, a chronic depressive and body dysmorphic disorder sufferer, underwent 25 cosmetic surgery operations to alter her face and enlarge her breasts with silicone in the belief that it would catapult her to stardom.
Like Ms Ferrari, we have flooded our system with plastic in the quest for growth.
The result is likely to be similarly artificial.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lolo-ferrari&btnG=Search
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By AlexYawar
The following is an extract from:
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=283498&rel_no=1
Officially, during the last decade, inflation has generally hovered between 1 percent and 3.5 percent...
But in most key areas of the economy, inflation has been off the scale.
A March 2005 report published by Oxford Economic Forecasting and Cluttons Real Estate noted that house prices had risen nationally by an average of 11.4 percent per year every year for the past ten years.
While property prices are controversially not included in the official U.K. inflation figure, similar if not larger rises have been recorded in transportation -- a one-day travel pass in London now costs £6.30 -- utilities, with 2006 seeing a one-year hike of 20 percent for many gas customers, and oil, the price of which skyrocketed following recent instability in the Middle East...
The U.K. economy is built on consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the nation's GDP. But consumer spending is in turn contingent on credit.
The average salary in the U.K. is estimated to be around £22,000 before tax, which in most parts of the country is not enough to comfortably subsist on: for the majority of people, to save anything substantial from that figure would require frugality.
Luxuries such as brand-new home cinema systems and cars should in theory be exactly that -- luxuries.
This is where credit steps in to distort reality.
The UK population now owes £1 trillion in household debt, with 14 percent indebted to the tune of £10,000 or higher.
This debt is more than the total annual GDP of the U.K.
And this figure does not even take into account the gargantuan pile of mortgage-related debt -- £967 billion -- that casts a shadow over the U.K. economy.
Including mortgage payments, the average British household has £83,722 of debt.
What conclusions can one draw?
Firstly, the official inflation figures simply cannot be correct.
Two percent inflation in an economy with rapidly increasing living costs and more credit than real money in circulation does not even begin to make sense.
Secondly, the reason that interest rates have not been pushed up to act as a fiscal cooling mechanism on growth is simple: with the current levels of household indebtedness and mortgage-related arrears, any move towards a realistic interest rate level will result in economic meltdown.
No politician with any electoral ambitions will want to initiate such a move, perhaps least of all Gordon Brown, whose desire to take over the post of Prime Minister from Tony Blair is one of the less well-kept secrets in global politics.
However, the most sobering conclusion of all is that many of the country's economic fundamentals -- and the foundations for future growth -- are rather shaky.
In fact, we could be heading for the biggest bust since that of Lolo Ferrari.
And economic historians may in the future liken the "Brown Boom" to the fate of the late French actress.
Under the malign influence of her husband, Ferrari, a chronic depressive and body dysmorphic disorder sufferer, underwent 25 cosmetic surgery operations to alter her face and enlarge her breasts with silicone in the belief that it would catapult her to stardom.
Like Ms Ferrari, we have flooded our system with plastic in the quest for growth.
The result is likely to be similarly artificial.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=lolo-ferrari&btnG=Search
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Mossad blackmail of journalists
"Journalists were reportedly lured with tempting offers, including sexual relations with foreign women, bribe money, and promises of support in securing prominent job positions in return for their help in the Israeli endeavor."
Is your local TV news editor being blackmailed because of photos taken in a luxury apartment?
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MAURITANIA : Israeli intelligence blackmails journalists : claim
April 3, 2006.
By Andnetwork .com
A recent report in a Saudi newspaper has claimed that Israel's embassy in Mauritania is operating under directives from the Israeli secret security agency, the Mossad, in an attempt to recruit Mauritanian agents to work for Israel, using blackmail and other threats.
According to the Saudi al Watan newspaper, Israel's ambassador to Mauritania, Boaz Bismut, was instructed to apply pressure on local Mauritanian journalists to provide information and work towards changing Mauritanian public opinion regarding Israel.
Before his diplomatic career, Bismut was a journalist in Israel's Yediot Ahronoth newspaper.
Bismut was quoted as saying, "The Mauritanian nation will not accept normalization with Israel unless Mauritanian journalists do so first."
To do so, the Saudi paper said, Israel had applied pressure to coerce Mauritanian journalists into undertaking the task of changing local public opinion about Israeli-Mauritanian relations.
Journalists were reportedly lured with tempting offers, including sexual relations with foreign women, bribe money, and promises of support in securing prominent job positions in return for their help in the Israeli endeavor.
The newspaper even revealed the whereabouts of three luxury apartments used by Mauritanian journalists for secret rendezvous with the foreign women.
Unbeknownst to the journalists, the sexual encounters were then recorded, later to be used to blackmail them by the Israeli embassy.
The Saudi paper explained that the Israeli ambassador would later approach the journalists, threatening to release the videotapes if they did not cooperate with Israel.
Bismut was also reportedly interested in finding out which Mauritanian politician held the most popularity locally, so that he could be recruited for Israel's undercover public relations effort.
The accusations were reportedly confirmed by several Mauritanian journalists with whom the paper spoke that claimed to have fallen into the Israeli trap.
In the past, the journalists said, Bismut had also offered journalists huge sums of money to gain their favor.
Ever since the opening of the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, many have called for its closure.
Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, had close ties with Israel under former leader, Maaouya Sid'Ahmed Taya, who was overthrown in a 2005 coup.
Taya's warm relations with Israel angered many and alienated Muslim countries worldwide.
Following the 2005 coup, Bismut told reporters, according to Al Jazeera, "This is an Arab league country that was by our side through the Intifada."
"Clearly, there are those who are not interested in this connection," he added, "But the connection with the government, the president and the Mauritanian people is very important."
According to Al Sharq Al Awsat, the United States in 1993 put pressure on Mauritania "to normalize relations with Israel and accept the Middle East peace process."
Mauritanian later became the only Arab state not to withdraw its ambassador from Israel after the eruption.
Source : Al-Bawaba.com
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:zm0jX_SxFd0J:www.andnetwork.com/app%3Fservice%3Ddirect/1/Home/%24StorySummary%240.%24DirectLink%242%26sp%3Dl27581+Israelli+intelligence+blackmails+journalists&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1
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Is your local TV news editor being blackmailed because of photos taken in a luxury apartment?
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MAURITANIA : Israeli intelligence blackmails journalists : claim
April 3, 2006.
By Andnetwork .com
A recent report in a Saudi newspaper has claimed that Israel's embassy in Mauritania is operating under directives from the Israeli secret security agency, the Mossad, in an attempt to recruit Mauritanian agents to work for Israel, using blackmail and other threats.
According to the Saudi al Watan newspaper, Israel's ambassador to Mauritania, Boaz Bismut, was instructed to apply pressure on local Mauritanian journalists to provide information and work towards changing Mauritanian public opinion regarding Israel.
Before his diplomatic career, Bismut was a journalist in Israel's Yediot Ahronoth newspaper.
Bismut was quoted as saying, "The Mauritanian nation will not accept normalization with Israel unless Mauritanian journalists do so first."
To do so, the Saudi paper said, Israel had applied pressure to coerce Mauritanian journalists into undertaking the task of changing local public opinion about Israeli-Mauritanian relations.
Journalists were reportedly lured with tempting offers, including sexual relations with foreign women, bribe money, and promises of support in securing prominent job positions in return for their help in the Israeli endeavor.
The newspaper even revealed the whereabouts of three luxury apartments used by Mauritanian journalists for secret rendezvous with the foreign women.
Unbeknownst to the journalists, the sexual encounters were then recorded, later to be used to blackmail them by the Israeli embassy.
The Saudi paper explained that the Israeli ambassador would later approach the journalists, threatening to release the videotapes if they did not cooperate with Israel.
Bismut was also reportedly interested in finding out which Mauritanian politician held the most popularity locally, so that he could be recruited for Israel's undercover public relations effort.
The accusations were reportedly confirmed by several Mauritanian journalists with whom the paper spoke that claimed to have fallen into the Israeli trap.
In the past, the journalists said, Bismut had also offered journalists huge sums of money to gain their favor.
Ever since the opening of the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, many have called for its closure.
Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, had close ties with Israel under former leader, Maaouya Sid'Ahmed Taya, who was overthrown in a 2005 coup.
Taya's warm relations with Israel angered many and alienated Muslim countries worldwide.
Following the 2005 coup, Bismut told reporters, according to Al Jazeera, "This is an Arab league country that was by our side through the Intifada."
"Clearly, there are those who are not interested in this connection," he added, "But the connection with the government, the president and the Mauritanian people is very important."
According to Al Sharq Al Awsat, the United States in 1993 put pressure on Mauritania "to normalize relations with Israel and accept the Middle East peace process."
Mauritanian later became the only Arab state not to withdraw its ambassador from Israel after the eruption.
Source : Al-Bawaba.com
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:zm0jX_SxFd0J:www.andnetwork.com/app%3Fservice%3Ddirect/1/Home/%24StorySummary%240.%24DirectLink%242%26sp%3Dl27581+Israelli+intelligence+blackmails+journalists&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Bird Flu - H5 virus unlikely to cause a pandemic.
The number of people worldwide who have died from bird flu is around 100 according to the World Health Organization (March 2006). These people were in very close contact with birds.
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In Europe 69,000 people died from TB in 2004.
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.
It is estimated that 1.7 million deaths resulted from TB in 2004.
~
Two groups of scientists, in Japan and in Holland, have come up with explanations as to why human to human transmission of the H5N1 virus is highly unlikely.
Unlike other known flu viruses which can be easily transmitted between people, the H5N1 virus cannot spread through coughs or sneezes.
Previous pandemics have been caused by H1 type viruses (the 1918 pandemic), H2 (the 1957 Asian) or H3 (the Hong Kong flu of 1968).
The H5 virus has been present in the human population since the late 1950's, but has never had the full set of mutations needed to set off a pandemic.
Peter Palese, a virologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, declared H5 infects people only when they are exposed to very large doses, for example when they sleep with chickens in the same room. "I feel strongly that H5 has been around in humans for a long time and never caused a pandemic," suggesting that this is not the virus which is likely to be the next pandemic.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Human-to-Human-Transmission-of-Bird-Flu-Not-Likely-20144.shtml
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Bird flu has been affecting the world for many years.
Bird flus have been troublesome for agriculture at least since 1878, when Italian poultry were hit with a disease labeled fowl plague.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/17/MNGRHF9FID1.DTL
Each year, for many decades, a relatively small number of people have caught bird flu from birds.
In 1995 Mexico stopped an outbreak of severe H5N2 flu. In 2002 Italy became the first country to eradicate bird flu using a marker vaccine and regular testing. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4810
Why is bird flu getting a lot of publicity in the media?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9068-1833185,00.html
Widespread fears of a bird flu pandemic have helped spark a sales surge at Swiss drugs group Roche, which makes Tamiflu.
Roche, which is the world's only manufacturer of Tamiflu, revealed this morning that group sales had surged to more than £11.1 billion in the third quarter, driven by "significant growth" in sales of the drug.
~~
The UK Government spent 32 million pounds buying smallpox vaccine from a firm whose boss was Paul Drayson.Paul Drayson, had donated 50,000 pounds to the Labour Party just weeks before the contract was finalised.
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In Europe 69,000 people died from TB in 2004.
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacilli every second.
Overall, one-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus.
It is estimated that 1.7 million deaths resulted from TB in 2004.
~
Two groups of scientists, in Japan and in Holland, have come up with explanations as to why human to human transmission of the H5N1 virus is highly unlikely.
Unlike other known flu viruses which can be easily transmitted between people, the H5N1 virus cannot spread through coughs or sneezes.
Previous pandemics have been caused by H1 type viruses (the 1918 pandemic), H2 (the 1957 Asian) or H3 (the Hong Kong flu of 1968).
The H5 virus has been present in the human population since the late 1950's, but has never had the full set of mutations needed to set off a pandemic.
Peter Palese, a virologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, declared H5 infects people only when they are exposed to very large doses, for example when they sleep with chickens in the same room. "I feel strongly that H5 has been around in humans for a long time and never caused a pandemic," suggesting that this is not the virus which is likely to be the next pandemic.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Human-to-Human-Transmission-of-Bird-Flu-Not-Likely-20144.shtml
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Bird flu has been affecting the world for many years.
Bird flus have been troublesome for agriculture at least since 1878, when Italian poultry were hit with a disease labeled fowl plague.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/17/MNGRHF9FID1.DTL
Each year, for many decades, a relatively small number of people have caught bird flu from birds.
In 1995 Mexico stopped an outbreak of severe H5N2 flu. In 2002 Italy became the first country to eradicate bird flu using a marker vaccine and regular testing. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4810
Why is bird flu getting a lot of publicity in the media?
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9068-1833185,00.html
Widespread fears of a bird flu pandemic have helped spark a sales surge at Swiss drugs group Roche, which makes Tamiflu.
Roche, which is the world's only manufacturer of Tamiflu, revealed this morning that group sales had surged to more than £11.1 billion in the third quarter, driven by "significant growth" in sales of the drug.
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The UK Government spent 32 million pounds buying smallpox vaccine from a firm whose boss was Paul Drayson.Paul Drayson, had donated 50,000 pounds to the Labour Party just weeks before the contract was finalised.
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Bangbang, terror and massive poverty
Bangbang rules the world's fourth largest country in terms of population.
Bangbang is a former Suharto general and he was involved in East Timor.
Bangbang was trained by the US military and came to power partly because of the Bali bomb.
Bush and Blair like Bangbang.
Bangbang's country has oil and Exxon.
Bangbang's country has massive poverty due partly to policies introduced by the IMF and World Bank.
John Aglionby, in The Guardian 5 April 2006, wrote about Bangbang:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1747400,00.html
If the number of prominent statespeople beating a path to his door is anything to go by, Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, can arguably claim to be the pin-up of the developing world: the person global leaders want to be seen with.
First there was the American president, George W. Bush, who asked to sit next to Mr Yudhoyono (or SBY as he is usually referred to) at a United Nations lunch in New York last year.
More recently there have been Jakarta visits by - in addition to Indonesia's neighbours - the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, the American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and last week, Tony Blair (the first by a British leader since 1985).
Aglionby admits that:
"The visitors are also conspicuously turning a blind eye to many issues which remain uncomfortable to discuss. These include escalating tensions in the easternmost Papua province, rampant illegal logging and environmental destruction, the oppression of religious minorities, a half-hearted approach to bird flu (more deadly for humans in the last four months in Indonesia than anywhere else in the world), the slow pace of military reform, the paucity of resources allocated to healthcare and education, and endemic corruption. Mr Blair... decided to 'normalise' defence ties with Jakarta, without explaining what that means, despite Indonesia's senior military commanders remaining largely above the law and the armed forces still not fully under civilian control."
Some points that Aglionby did not find space for:
By 1997, the UK was the largest exporter of arms to Indonesia in the world. Among their exports were the Hawk jets used for bombing East Timor, and the Scorpion tanks, armoured cars and water cannon used by Suharto to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in Indonesia.
Is Indonesia doing well? Over 32 million children are living below the poverty line.
In the early 1980s, 'the IMF and the World Bank pushed through a highly risky banking deregulation that opened up the banking system without any protection or control. This policy left the Indonesian economy vulnerable to the financial catastrophe that eventually ensued.'
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/databank/profiles/indonesia.htm
Soros denies being behind the 1998 Asian economic crisis.
By late January 1998, the rupiah had lost 85% of its value against the US dollar.
Debt service now consumes roughly half of the state's revenues. Social spending has fallen by 40% in real terms since 1995/96.
As a result of the crisis, the number of people living below the poverty line has risen from 11% of the population in 1997 to approximately 50% in 2001. This means that over 100 million Indonesians have been reduced to poverty.
Since 1997, it is estimated that 39 million Indonesians have lost their jobs.
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Murder of Americans: 'Three men in Indonesian military uniforms were firing at the vehicles.' Indonesian police detain eight Papuans over Freeport murders
The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of 11 villagers who said Exxon‘s Indonesian subsidiary allowed its facilities to be used by soldiers to torture locals and to commit other human rights abuses. Exxon: Torture Suit May Set Bad Precedent
US mining giant faces nationwide protests in Indonesia
What happened since the CIA toppled Suharto and the military consolidated its grip on power. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1714658,00.html
Suharto's Fall
Who owns the leading household brands?
'Mr President, I just want you to know that over here I've got a couple of hundred million dollars for you and your family if you cooperate with your Uncle Sam and our oil companies. And over here I have a man with a gun in his hand and a bullet with your name on it.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1695280,00.html
Freeport-McMoran, BP, West Papua, the Indonesian military
Indonesia deploys British arms against protesters
Sally Neighbour and the CIA's alleged lies about the Bali Bomb
Bali bomb 'mastermind' al-Farouq allowed to escape?
Military 'had role in' Bali blasts
Murder of human rights activist by the security services? Munir and Hendropriyono; the Bali Bomb and illegal logging.
THE BALI BOMB AND THE MILITARY
TERROR IN INDONESIA : THE CIA CONNECTION
Christian gangsters, the American-trained military and terror
Western journalists murdered by Indonesian military; key Balibo witness dies; UK and Australian cover-up
Display of body parts
KOPASSUS terror in Indonesia
In Indonesia, US companies subcontract terror to the military.
Bush, a gold swindle in Indonesia, and a 'dead' geologist who may still be alive.
BAE and Suharto
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Bangbang is a former Suharto general and he was involved in East Timor.
Bangbang was trained by the US military and came to power partly because of the Bali bomb.
Bush and Blair like Bangbang.
Bangbang's country has oil and Exxon.
Bangbang's country has massive poverty due partly to policies introduced by the IMF and World Bank.
John Aglionby, in The Guardian 5 April 2006, wrote about Bangbang:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1747400,00.html
If the number of prominent statespeople beating a path to his door is anything to go by, Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, can arguably claim to be the pin-up of the developing world: the person global leaders want to be seen with.
First there was the American president, George W. Bush, who asked to sit next to Mr Yudhoyono (or SBY as he is usually referred to) at a United Nations lunch in New York last year.
More recently there have been Jakarta visits by - in addition to Indonesia's neighbours - the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, the American secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and last week, Tony Blair (the first by a British leader since 1985).
Aglionby admits that:
"The visitors are also conspicuously turning a blind eye to many issues which remain uncomfortable to discuss. These include escalating tensions in the easternmost Papua province, rampant illegal logging and environmental destruction, the oppression of religious minorities, a half-hearted approach to bird flu (more deadly for humans in the last four months in Indonesia than anywhere else in the world), the slow pace of military reform, the paucity of resources allocated to healthcare and education, and endemic corruption. Mr Blair... decided to 'normalise' defence ties with Jakarta, without explaining what that means, despite Indonesia's senior military commanders remaining largely above the law and the armed forces still not fully under civilian control."
Some points that Aglionby did not find space for:
By 1997, the UK was the largest exporter of arms to Indonesia in the world. Among their exports were the Hawk jets used for bombing East Timor, and the Scorpion tanks, armoured cars and water cannon used by Suharto to suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in Indonesia.
Is Indonesia doing well? Over 32 million children are living below the poverty line.
In the early 1980s, 'the IMF and the World Bank pushed through a highly risky banking deregulation that opened up the banking system without any protection or control. This policy left the Indonesian economy vulnerable to the financial catastrophe that eventually ensued.'
http://www.jubileeresearch.org/databank/profiles/indonesia.htm
Soros denies being behind the 1998 Asian economic crisis.
By late January 1998, the rupiah had lost 85% of its value against the US dollar.
Debt service now consumes roughly half of the state's revenues. Social spending has fallen by 40% in real terms since 1995/96.
As a result of the crisis, the number of people living below the poverty line has risen from 11% of the population in 1997 to approximately 50% in 2001. This means that over 100 million Indonesians have been reduced to poverty.
Since 1997, it is estimated that 39 million Indonesians have lost their jobs.
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Murder of Americans: 'Three men in Indonesian military uniforms were firing at the vehicles.' Indonesian police detain eight Papuans over Freeport murders
The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in 2001 on behalf of 11 villagers who said Exxon‘s Indonesian subsidiary allowed its facilities to be used by soldiers to torture locals and to commit other human rights abuses. Exxon: Torture Suit May Set Bad Precedent
US mining giant faces nationwide protests in Indonesia
What happened since the CIA toppled Suharto and the military consolidated its grip on power. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1714658,00.html
Suharto's Fall
Who owns the leading household brands?
'Mr President, I just want you to know that over here I've got a couple of hundred million dollars for you and your family if you cooperate with your Uncle Sam and our oil companies. And over here I have a man with a gun in his hand and a bullet with your name on it.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1695280,00.html
Freeport-McMoran, BP, West Papua, the Indonesian military
Indonesia deploys British arms against protesters
Sally Neighbour and the CIA's alleged lies about the Bali Bomb
Bali bomb 'mastermind' al-Farouq allowed to escape?
Military 'had role in' Bali blasts
Murder of human rights activist by the security services? Munir and Hendropriyono; the Bali Bomb and illegal logging.
THE BALI BOMB AND THE MILITARY
TERROR IN INDONESIA : THE CIA CONNECTION
Christian gangsters, the American-trained military and terror
Western journalists murdered by Indonesian military; key Balibo witness dies; UK and Australian cover-up
Display of body parts
KOPASSUS terror in Indonesia
In Indonesia, US companies subcontract terror to the military.
Bush, a gold swindle in Indonesia, and a 'dead' geologist who may still be alive.
BAE and Suharto
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Susan Polk; Mossad; foreknowledge of 9 11
"Susan Polk referred to an entry in her computer diary in which she called her husband a traitor because he had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She asked Detective Michael Costa if he'd heard of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service."
Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/BAGD9I0E101.DTL
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Susan Polk's husband was Frank (Felix) Polk, a Berkeley psychologist.
"Some of his patients were agents with the Central Intelligence Agency...
"She once saw him give information to an Israeli spy, and believed that he might have worked for the Mossad."
Source http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14207224.htm
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Susan Polk, 47, has been charged with the murder of her 70-year-old husband, Frank (Felix) Polk, a prominent Berkeley psychologist, who was found dead in the pool house at his San Francisco home in 2002.
Defense lawyers claim Susan Polk had long been controlled, abused and battered by her husband and she acted in self-defense when he flew into a rage and attacked her.
Susan Polk said she first met Felix Polk as a teenager, when she was seeing him as a therapist.
She claims they first had sex when he drugged and raped her at age 15.
At age 25, Susan and Felix were married and eventually had three sons: Gabriel, 18, Eli, 20 and Adam, 22.
The following is from the San Francisco Chronicle, 30 March 2006:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/BAGD9I0E101.DTL
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Fireworks erupted again Wednesday in the murder trial of Susan Polk as the prosecutor denounced her for trying to skirt legal procedures and asked the judge to revoke the defendant's right to serve as her own attorney.
Prosecutor Paul Sequeira expressed his exasperation with Polk's repeated attempts to introduce evidence in the guise of questions posed to witnesses, and he called on Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady to put a stop to it.
"I really don't know what else to do," Sequeira told the judge once the jury had been cleared from the courtroom. "I'm at my wits' end. At this point, it's becoming absurd."
Sequeira, who has grown increasingly frustrated by Polk's tactics as she defends herself against charges that she killed her husband, said the defendant has shown a blatant disregard for legal procedures and for Brady's authority.
Polk objected and asked permission to reply. Brady cut her off, saying "You have done a lot of speaking, Ms. Polk, at appropriate times and inappropriate times."
Polk objected and called the trial "one-sided," a reference to her belief that Brady is in cahoots with Sequeira.
"This prosecutor has gotten in everything that he has asked to introduce as evidence," Polk said.
Polk, 48, stands accused of killing her 70-year-old husband during an acrimonious divorce; she at first denied killing him but later said she acted in self-defense after years of abuse.
Brady did not revoke Polk's right to act in pro per -- the legal term for defending oneself -- but made it clear that Polk would have to act appropriately.
"It is not in your best interest to have me admonish you in front of the jury repeatedly," Brady said. "This is not a forum for debate."
At issue was Polk's cross-examination of former Contra Costa sheriff's Detective Michael Costa, who questioned Polk after her husband was killed at the couple's Orinda home in October 2002.
Polk read from police reports that the judge has barred from the trial because they contain hearsay evidence, and she asked questions based on information contained within the documents.
During the morning's testimony, Polk asked Costa if he had investigated her claims that Felix Polk had been abusive. Costa replied that the only allegation he knew of had been filed years before Felix Polk's death.
Later, Polk referred to an entry in her computer diary, which was seized by investigators, in which she called her husband a traitor because he had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She asked Costa if he'd heard of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Costa said yes.
"Is it your understanding that Mossad agents operate in the U.S. with impunity?" she asked.
Costa said he did not know.
The reason for the question was not clear, but Polk's youngest son, Gabriel Polk - who believes his mother is guilty and testified against her - has testified that his mother is delusional and believed Felix Polk was a Mossad agent.
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Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/BAGD9I0E101.DTL
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Susan Polk's husband was Frank (Felix) Polk, a Berkeley psychologist.
"Some of his patients were agents with the Central Intelligence Agency...
"She once saw him give information to an Israeli spy, and believed that he might have worked for the Mossad."
Source http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14207224.htm
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Susan Polk, 47, has been charged with the murder of her 70-year-old husband, Frank (Felix) Polk, a prominent Berkeley psychologist, who was found dead in the pool house at his San Francisco home in 2002.
Defense lawyers claim Susan Polk had long been controlled, abused and battered by her husband and she acted in self-defense when he flew into a rage and attacked her.
Susan Polk said she first met Felix Polk as a teenager, when she was seeing him as a therapist.
She claims they first had sex when he drugged and raped her at age 15.
At age 25, Susan and Felix were married and eventually had three sons: Gabriel, 18, Eli, 20 and Adam, 22.
The following is from the San Francisco Chronicle, 30 March 2006:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/BAGD9I0E101.DTL
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Fireworks erupted again Wednesday in the murder trial of Susan Polk as the prosecutor denounced her for trying to skirt legal procedures and asked the judge to revoke the defendant's right to serve as her own attorney.
Prosecutor Paul Sequeira expressed his exasperation with Polk's repeated attempts to introduce evidence in the guise of questions posed to witnesses, and he called on Superior Court Judge Laurel Brady to put a stop to it.
"I really don't know what else to do," Sequeira told the judge once the jury had been cleared from the courtroom. "I'm at my wits' end. At this point, it's becoming absurd."
Sequeira, who has grown increasingly frustrated by Polk's tactics as she defends herself against charges that she killed her husband, said the defendant has shown a blatant disregard for legal procedures and for Brady's authority.
Polk objected and asked permission to reply. Brady cut her off, saying "You have done a lot of speaking, Ms. Polk, at appropriate times and inappropriate times."
Polk objected and called the trial "one-sided," a reference to her belief that Brady is in cahoots with Sequeira.
"This prosecutor has gotten in everything that he has asked to introduce as evidence," Polk said.
Polk, 48, stands accused of killing her 70-year-old husband during an acrimonious divorce; she at first denied killing him but later said she acted in self-defense after years of abuse.
Brady did not revoke Polk's right to act in pro per -- the legal term for defending oneself -- but made it clear that Polk would have to act appropriately.
"It is not in your best interest to have me admonish you in front of the jury repeatedly," Brady said. "This is not a forum for debate."
At issue was Polk's cross-examination of former Contra Costa sheriff's Detective Michael Costa, who questioned Polk after her husband was killed at the couple's Orinda home in October 2002.
Polk read from police reports that the judge has barred from the trial because they contain hearsay evidence, and she asked questions based on information contained within the documents.
During the morning's testimony, Polk asked Costa if he had investigated her claims that Felix Polk had been abusive. Costa replied that the only allegation he knew of had been filed years before Felix Polk's death.
Later, Polk referred to an entry in her computer diary, which was seized by investigators, in which she called her husband a traitor because he had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She asked Costa if he'd heard of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Costa said yes.
"Is it your understanding that Mossad agents operate in the U.S. with impunity?" she asked.
Costa said he did not know.
The reason for the question was not clear, but Polk's youngest son, Gabriel Polk - who believes his mother is guilty and testified against her - has testified that his mother is delusional and believed Felix Polk was a Mossad agent.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Damilola
The government scientist could not see the blood.
Some years later, a private testing company could see the blood.
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Damilola Taylor, aged 10, bled to death on a stairwell on a rundown housing estate in Peckham, south London, in November 2000.
A forensic scientist, Sian Hedges, told the court she did not know how she missed a spot of Damilola Taylor's blood during the murder inquiry in 2000.
The blood was 'on the heel of a trainer''.
That blood was found in 2004, when an inquiry into the 10-year-old's death reopened.
Two brothers aged 17 and 18 deny murdering Damilola in November 2000.
The trainer is alleged to have belonged to one of the brothers whose blood was also on the shoe.
Ros Hammond, of private testing company Forensic Alliance, said she saw the bloodspot with her naked eye, and had found it on a photograph taken by Ms Hedges, once it was enlarged.
"It seems they had not identified the blood staining," Ms Hammond told the Old Bailey.
The spot of blood, which appears to have fallen from above, was less than a centimetre wide.
Ms Hedges, who worked for Home Office agency the Forensic Science Service, told the trial she had found two blood spots and tested the rest of the trainer, but found no other blood.
She said: "I performed the tests as they are in my notes. I do not have any other explanation."
Shown the trainer in court, she agreed she could see the blood stain on the heel.
The prosecution said the new evidence points "with certainty" to the participation of the three accused in the attack on Damilola. Reportedly, spots of blood and fibres link three youths to the killing of schoolboy Damilola Taylor.
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The two teenage brothers were found not guilty of the murder of Damilola Taylor at the Old Bailey on 4 April 2006 but the jury could not reach agreement on the lesser charge of manslaughter. On 3 April 2006, Hassan Jihad was found not guilty.
The jury was discharged, meaning the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide if it wants another trial on manslaughter. The brothers were also cleared of assault.
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The police have been accused of racism and of not carrying out an effective enquiry.
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In 2002, four youths went on trial for the murder of Damilola.
The trial led to all four suspects being acquitted.
The judge ruled that the prosecution's key witness, a 12-year-old girl, was unreliable.
The following is taken from the site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/1921475.stm
The comments on a BBC programme are dated April 2002 and refer to the 2002 trial.
* I cannot understand how vital evidence was not told to the jury, for instance a fragment of glass, from the bottle that killed Damilola, was found in the trainer of one of the boys. But the judge ruled that the jury should not hear it. Another example was how one of the boys admitted to the killing of Damilola, but this was not heard.
* Having watched the excellent Panorama programme on the trial I'm amazed that no one (or agency) has been able to stop the activities of this seemingly well known gang "The Untouchables".
* Clever educated manipulation of a working class jury has, I suspect, allowed guilty parties to go free. I have no love for the police service as I consider it sadly inept.
* At the end of the programme we heard how one of the accused confessed, then the judge decided not to let the jury hear this confession because the boy was upset.
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Telegraph News Crime and capitulation
Top heroin gang; UK politicians; UK customs.
Fake fingerprint claim in McKie case
The Oscar Slater case reminds us of the Lockerbie bomb case and many others.
The cover-up of the biggest act of terrorism in the UK
UK policemen telling lies? A senior policeman committing rape?
Glasgow police The UK police and drugs and kidnappings.
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Some years later, a private testing company could see the blood.
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Damilola Taylor, aged 10, bled to death on a stairwell on a rundown housing estate in Peckham, south London, in November 2000.
A forensic scientist, Sian Hedges, told the court she did not know how she missed a spot of Damilola Taylor's blood during the murder inquiry in 2000.
The blood was 'on the heel of a trainer''.
That blood was found in 2004, when an inquiry into the 10-year-old's death reopened.
Two brothers aged 17 and 18 deny murdering Damilola in November 2000.
The trainer is alleged to have belonged to one of the brothers whose blood was also on the shoe.
Ros Hammond, of private testing company Forensic Alliance, said she saw the bloodspot with her naked eye, and had found it on a photograph taken by Ms Hedges, once it was enlarged.
"It seems they had not identified the blood staining," Ms Hammond told the Old Bailey.
The spot of blood, which appears to have fallen from above, was less than a centimetre wide.
Ms Hedges, who worked for Home Office agency the Forensic Science Service, told the trial she had found two blood spots and tested the rest of the trainer, but found no other blood.
She said: "I performed the tests as they are in my notes. I do not have any other explanation."
Shown the trainer in court, she agreed she could see the blood stain on the heel.
The prosecution said the new evidence points "with certainty" to the participation of the three accused in the attack on Damilola. Reportedly, spots of blood and fibres link three youths to the killing of schoolboy Damilola Taylor.
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The two teenage brothers were found not guilty of the murder of Damilola Taylor at the Old Bailey on 4 April 2006 but the jury could not reach agreement on the lesser charge of manslaughter. On 3 April 2006, Hassan Jihad was found not guilty.
The jury was discharged, meaning the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide if it wants another trial on manslaughter. The brothers were also cleared of assault.
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The police have been accused of racism and of not carrying out an effective enquiry.
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In 2002, four youths went on trial for the murder of Damilola.
The trial led to all four suspects being acquitted.
The judge ruled that the prosecution's key witness, a 12-year-old girl, was unreliable.
The following is taken from the site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/1921475.stm
The comments on a BBC programme are dated April 2002 and refer to the 2002 trial.
* I cannot understand how vital evidence was not told to the jury, for instance a fragment of glass, from the bottle that killed Damilola, was found in the trainer of one of the boys. But the judge ruled that the jury should not hear it. Another example was how one of the boys admitted to the killing of Damilola, but this was not heard.
* Having watched the excellent Panorama programme on the trial I'm amazed that no one (or agency) has been able to stop the activities of this seemingly well known gang "The Untouchables".
* Clever educated manipulation of a working class jury has, I suspect, allowed guilty parties to go free. I have no love for the police service as I consider it sadly inept.
* At the end of the programme we heard how one of the accused confessed, then the judge decided not to let the jury hear this confession because the boy was upset.
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Telegraph News Crime and capitulation
Top heroin gang; UK politicians; UK customs.
Fake fingerprint claim in McKie case
The Oscar Slater case reminds us of the Lockerbie bomb case and many others.
The cover-up of the biggest act of terrorism in the UK
UK policemen telling lies? A senior policeman committing rape?
Glasgow police The UK police and drugs and kidnappings.
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Monday, April 03, 2006
Some tourists boycott UK
The number of visitors coming to the UK has fallen.
1997 - 17.1 million people visited Britain.
2003 - 14.4 million people visited Britain.
Has Blair's Britain become less popular?
Figures from the OECD.
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1997 - 17.1 million people visited Britain.
2003 - 14.4 million people visited Britain.
Has Blair's Britain become less popular?
Figures from the OECD.
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YouGov poll on Iraq; brainwashing
Time to pull out of Iraq, Tony
According to a YouGov poll for The Telegraph, 3 April 2006:
A substantial majority in the UK wants troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, either immediately or within 12 months, regardless of conditions on the ground.
The YouGov survey for The Daily Telegraph shows opposition to the war at its highest level since the US-led coalition invaded the country in March 2003.
Fifty-seven per cent of respondents believe that George W Bush and Tony Blair were wrong to take military action.
Only a third still believes they were right.
The YouGov poll shows that 55 per cent of people want Britain to withdraw either immediately (24 per cent) or "within the next 12 months regardless of conditions" (31 per cent).
A minority, 39 per cent, agrees with the Government that Britain should continue to deploy troops until Iraq's police and troops are ready to take over.
The survey shows that opinion is gradually tilting against the argument that any allied withdrawal will constitute a major victory for international terrorism.
Support for the war is strongest among Labour supporters: 54 per cent of them either genuinely believe that the war was justified or feel bound to back the Government.
Among Conservative voters, only 30 per cent still believe in the war.
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54% of Labour supporters believe the war was justified. These are the people who are poorly educated and easily brainwashed. These are the sort of people who would have supported Stalin or Hitler back in the 1930s.
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BBC television put out a documentary called The Insurgency, on 2 April 2006.
The documentary appeared to be pure propaganda from the Pentagon.
The documentary made lots of references to al Qaeda and allowed various US military people to put forward the argument that the US troops cannot be withdrawn from Iraq because they are needed to keep the peace.
Iraqis seemed to be portrayed as violent.
There was no attempt to put forward the argument that the US is the cause of the violence in Iraq and that the withdrawal of the US would please the majority of Iraqis.
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According to a YouGov poll for The Telegraph, 3 April 2006:
A substantial majority in the UK wants troops to be withdrawn from Iraq, either immediately or within 12 months, regardless of conditions on the ground.
The YouGov survey for The Daily Telegraph shows opposition to the war at its highest level since the US-led coalition invaded the country in March 2003.
Fifty-seven per cent of respondents believe that George W Bush and Tony Blair were wrong to take military action.
Only a third still believes they were right.
The YouGov poll shows that 55 per cent of people want Britain to withdraw either immediately (24 per cent) or "within the next 12 months regardless of conditions" (31 per cent).
A minority, 39 per cent, agrees with the Government that Britain should continue to deploy troops until Iraq's police and troops are ready to take over.
The survey shows that opinion is gradually tilting against the argument that any allied withdrawal will constitute a major victory for international terrorism.
Support for the war is strongest among Labour supporters: 54 per cent of them either genuinely believe that the war was justified or feel bound to back the Government.
Among Conservative voters, only 30 per cent still believe in the war.
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54% of Labour supporters believe the war was justified. These are the people who are poorly educated and easily brainwashed. These are the sort of people who would have supported Stalin or Hitler back in the 1930s.
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BBC television put out a documentary called The Insurgency, on 2 April 2006.
The documentary appeared to be pure propaganda from the Pentagon.
The documentary made lots of references to al Qaeda and allowed various US military people to put forward the argument that the US troops cannot be withdrawn from Iraq because they are needed to keep the peace.
Iraqis seemed to be portrayed as violent.
There was no attempt to put forward the argument that the US is the cause of the violence in Iraq and that the withdrawal of the US would please the majority of Iraqis.
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Serious Organised Crime
This post refers to Sir Stephen lander, Lord Cecil, John Negroponte, Meyer Lansky, Osama bin Laden and several others.
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Dr John Coleman wrote:
"Robert Cecil of the Jewish Cecil family that had controlled the British monarchy since a Cecil became the private secretary and lover of Queen Elizabeth I ..." (The Conspirators' Hierarchy, p. 201).
Reportedly, Robert Cecil was the brains behind the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot, which may have been a model for later false-flag operations.
Sources: A Jewish conspiracy lurking within the British one?
aangirfan: Fake terror, including the Gunpowder Plot
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J. Edgar Hoover, former boss of the FBI, ignored the rise of the Mafia and persecuted civil rights campaigners. Reportedly, Hoover was fond of boys.
Reportedly, Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was blackmailing J Edgar Hoover.
Meyer Lansky was Jewish.
J. Edgar Hoover - Blackmailed by the Mafia
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The UK is to get its own FBI. It will be called SOCA, the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Soca will be headed by Sir Stephen Lander.
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Sir Stephen Lander is Jewish, according to an article at: http://www.rense.com/general38/brits.htm
He was the boss of MI5 from 1996 to 2002.
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Jews make up 0.5% of the population of Britain.
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'Jewish Israeli' John Negroponte controls the United States security services.
"Bush has appointed the Jewish Israeli national John Negroponte to be the head of all 15 of the their intelligence organizations, including the CIA.
"Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel."
Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index683.htm
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THE son of Sir Stephen Lander was found dead in bed, it was revealed on 12 October 2002.
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Extract from a letter by David Shayler:
Sunday August 27, 2000
And what has Sir Stephen Lander, now head of MI5, done to protect the reputation of the organisation he runs?
When I joined MI5, I was told it obeyed the law and always had the utmost respect for civil liberties. So inevitably I am left wondering why Sir Stephen did not perform his clear public duty and call in Special Branch to investigate the Gadaffi plot as soon as he realised that MI6 did not have Ministerial authorisation to plot to assassinate a foreign head of state. In August 1998, I also pointed out publicly that MI5 had evidence of the plot on its file SF754-0168.
Sir Stephen is, sadly, a man who keeps quiet about crimes committed by MI6 but stands by while a properly-motivated whistleblower is persecuted. I fear he has already connived in misleading the Government over MI5's failure to prevent an IRA attack on the British mainland in 1993, a matter I will seek to have disclosed at my forthcoming trial.
Source: http://www.unclenicks.net/bilderberg/www.bilderberg.org/sis.htm
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Winston Churchill:
"In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed, the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
"The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.
"...The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with villainies which are now being perpetrated...Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people."
Russia's concentration camps and slave labor system were "staffed in its upper echelons by Jewish Communists."
Source: http://www.russians.org/communist.html
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Michael Howard is Jewish. He is a former UK Home Secretary and former leader of the Conservative Party.
Why did Howard release two dangerous gangsters?
The following is from: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase.
Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters.
He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
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MAFIA & TERROR LINKS TO GOVERMENTS?
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411796,00.html
Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England.
Iqbal Mirchi is wanted by police in India for murder and his part in a terrorist bombing campaign.
He is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia.
Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people.
Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings.
According to Mirchi: 'a senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes. I refused and moved to Dubai. '
Mirchi admits having met Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai.Dawood has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world'.
As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing.
It is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry.
Dawood is also known to have met Osama Bin Laden and, in the aftermath of 9/11, allowed his smuggling network to be used to enable senior al-Qaeda operatives to flee Afghanistan.
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Top heroin gang; UK politicians; UK customs.
Zionist Jews Control Right, Marxian Jews The Left
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
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Dr John Coleman wrote:
"Robert Cecil of the Jewish Cecil family that had controlled the British monarchy since a Cecil became the private secretary and lover of Queen Elizabeth I ..." (The Conspirators' Hierarchy, p. 201).
Reportedly, Robert Cecil was the brains behind the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot, which may have been a model for later false-flag operations.
Sources: A Jewish conspiracy lurking within the British one?
aangirfan: Fake terror, including the Gunpowder Plot
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J. Edgar Hoover, former boss of the FBI, ignored the rise of the Mafia and persecuted civil rights campaigners. Reportedly, Hoover was fond of boys.
Reportedly, Mafia boss Meyer Lansky was blackmailing J Edgar Hoover.
Meyer Lansky was Jewish.
J. Edgar Hoover - Blackmailed by the Mafia
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The UK is to get its own FBI. It will be called SOCA, the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
Soca will be headed by Sir Stephen Lander.
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Sir Stephen Lander is Jewish, according to an article at: http://www.rense.com/general38/brits.htm
He was the boss of MI5 from 1996 to 2002.
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Jews make up 0.5% of the population of Britain.
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'Jewish Israeli' John Negroponte controls the United States security services.
"Bush has appointed the Jewish Israeli national John Negroponte to be the head of all 15 of the their intelligence organizations, including the CIA.
"Not known to many Americans is the fact that all Jewish citizens in the United States are also citizens of Israel."
Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index683.htm
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THE son of Sir Stephen Lander was found dead in bed, it was revealed on 12 October 2002.
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Extract from a letter by David Shayler:
Sunday August 27, 2000
And what has Sir Stephen Lander, now head of MI5, done to protect the reputation of the organisation he runs?
When I joined MI5, I was told it obeyed the law and always had the utmost respect for civil liberties. So inevitably I am left wondering why Sir Stephen did not perform his clear public duty and call in Special Branch to investigate the Gadaffi plot as soon as he realised that MI6 did not have Ministerial authorisation to plot to assassinate a foreign head of state. In August 1998, I also pointed out publicly that MI5 had evidence of the plot on its file SF754-0168.
Sir Stephen is, sadly, a man who keeps quiet about crimes committed by MI6 but stands by while a properly-motivated whistleblower is persecuted. I fear he has already connived in misleading the Government over MI5's failure to prevent an IRA attack on the British mainland in 1993, a matter I will seek to have disclosed at my forthcoming trial.
Source: http://www.unclenicks.net/bilderberg/www.bilderberg.org/sis.htm
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Winston Churchill:
"In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed, the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses.
"The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people.
"...The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with villainies which are now being perpetrated...Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been excited in the breasts of the Russian people."
Russia's concentration camps and slave labor system were "staffed in its upper echelons by Jewish Communists."
Source: http://www.russians.org/communist.html
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Michael Howard is Jewish. He is a former UK Home Secretary and former leader of the Conservative Party.
Why did Howard release two dangerous gangsters?
The following is from: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase.
Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters.
He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
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MAFIA & TERROR LINKS TO GOVERMENTS?
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411796,00.html
Iqbal Mirchi lives in Hornchurch, in England.
Iqbal Mirchi is wanted by police in India for murder and his part in a terrorist bombing campaign.
He is allegedly among the top 50 global drug barons; according to the US authorities he is the right-hand man of Dawood Ibrahim, head of the 'D' company, a worldwide mafia.
Bombs in Mumbai in 1993 killed over 300 people.
Mirchi's name was linked to the bombings.
According to Mirchi: 'a senior police officer told me that my name would be attached to false charges unless I paid millions of rupees in bribes. I refused and moved to Dubai. '
Mirchi admits having met Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai.Dawood has been described as 'the most dangerous man in the world'.
As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing.
It is said to have a 60 per cent stake in the Bollywood film industry.
Dawood is also known to have met Osama Bin Laden and, in the aftermath of 9/11, allowed his smuggling network to be used to enable senior al-Qaeda operatives to flee Afghanistan.
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Top heroin gang; UK politicians; UK customs.
Zionist Jews Control Right, Marxian Jews The Left
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
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Saturday, April 01, 2006
In the UK wealth is being transferred from the poor to the rich.
Stewart Lansley, in The Guardian, 1 April 2006, relates that:
1. In the UK wealth is being transferred from the poor to the rich.
2. The UK has low innovation and productivity rates.
3. The rich are getting richer due to 'fast buck' deals and tax avoidance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1744534,00.html
Some quotes from Lansley:
Twenty years ago Britain was one of the most equal countries in the developed world.
Today it is one of the most unequal.
We are not living through an entrepreneurial and economic renaissance in which the new rich are making society wealthier, dragging up the rest of us.
In fact, Britain has internationally low innovation and productivity rates.
What is happening is a complex transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers, shareholders and customers.
Twenty years ago the typical chief executive of a FTSE 100 company earned some 25 times the pay of the average worker; today it is close to 120 times.
The City in effect operates as a giant, informal cartel, charging excessive fees for activity that, for the most part, involves the transfer (or sometimes destruction) of wealth, rather than its creation.
Increasingly, the emphasis is on short-term, "fast-buck" deals that are at odds with the patient organisation-building on which enduring companies and long-term wealth creation are founded and many large and successful companies were originally built.
Mergers and acquisitions are often driven by the prospect of fat bonuses and fees for directors and their City advisers rather than the long-term interests of the companies.
What has happened is that the richest 1% have been taking an increasingly disproportionate share of the nation's wealth: 23% today compared with 17% at the end of the 1980s.
In contrast, the share going to the bottom half of the population has fallen from 10% to 6%. This is more "trickle-up" than "trickle-down".
· Stewart Lansley is the author of Rich Britain, The Rise and Rise of the New Super-Wealthy.
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1. In the UK wealth is being transferred from the poor to the rich.
2. The UK has low innovation and productivity rates.
3. The rich are getting richer due to 'fast buck' deals and tax avoidance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1744534,00.html
Some quotes from Lansley:
Twenty years ago Britain was one of the most equal countries in the developed world.
Today it is one of the most unequal.
We are not living through an entrepreneurial and economic renaissance in which the new rich are making society wealthier, dragging up the rest of us.
In fact, Britain has internationally low innovation and productivity rates.
What is happening is a complex transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers, shareholders and customers.
Twenty years ago the typical chief executive of a FTSE 100 company earned some 25 times the pay of the average worker; today it is close to 120 times.
The City in effect operates as a giant, informal cartel, charging excessive fees for activity that, for the most part, involves the transfer (or sometimes destruction) of wealth, rather than its creation.
Increasingly, the emphasis is on short-term, "fast-buck" deals that are at odds with the patient organisation-building on which enduring companies and long-term wealth creation are founded and many large and successful companies were originally built.
Mergers and acquisitions are often driven by the prospect of fat bonuses and fees for directors and their City advisers rather than the long-term interests of the companies.
What has happened is that the richest 1% have been taking an increasingly disproportionate share of the nation's wealth: 23% today compared with 17% at the end of the 1980s.
In contrast, the share going to the bottom half of the population has fallen from 10% to 6%. This is more "trickle-up" than "trickle-down".
· Stewart Lansley is the author of Rich Britain, The Rise and Rise of the New Super-Wealthy.
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Mossad control of Israel?
On 31 March 2006, Haaretz reported that, back in 1997, Hamas offered a 30 year cease-fire.
Apparently Mossad did not want a cease fire and decided to kill the head of Hamas?
The source of the following is : http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/701033.html
In 1997, Hamas offered a 30 year cease-fire.
Jordan's King Hussein sent the offer, via a Mossad agent, to Israel's Netanyahu.
Allegedly, it took a few days for the offer to get to Netanyahu.
Before the message arrived, Mossad tried to murder the leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, in Jordan.
This is one of the details that former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy reveals in his book, "Man in the Shadows," out in Britain on 4 April 2006.
Mossad squad tried to assassinate Meshal by drizzling poison in his ear.
The attempt failed and two of the agents were captured.
Halevy reveals that Shamir met with Hussein three times and that they ultimately developed a great deal of mutual appreciation.
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Ex-spy boss wields unexpected clout
From the Sydney Morning Herald
March 31, 2006
JERUSALEM: Israel's next government is likely to include a colourful former spy boss who may still be wanted in the US for espionage.
Rafi Eitan, 79, led the previously unknown pensioners' party, Gil, to win a remarkable seven seats in the 120-seat Knesset, making him a prime target for the acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, as he tries to build a centre-left coalition.
The party capitalised on widespread dissatisfaction with mainstream parties and sympathy for the plight of the elderly, who have suffered big welfare cuts in the past three years.
But some voters said they were supporting Mr Eitan's group of elderly political debutants because of his leading role in the campaign to free Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy intelligence analyst jailed for life in 1986 for selling secrets to Israel.
Mr Eitan had been Pollard's handler and was sought by the FBI. He subsequently accepted responsibility for the operation and resigned as head of the Bureau of Scientific Relations, an Israeli espionage agency. He has not visited the US since for fear of arrest.
At the time of the Pollard affair, Mr Eitan was already celebrated in Israeli security circles for his leading role in the capture of fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, whom Mossad had tracked down to Argentina in 1960.
Despite his nominal status as a pensioner, Mr Eitan is a wealthy businessman, having been appointed head of Israel's state chemicals corporation after retiring from intelligence work.
He has since built up big interests in Cuba, where he is said to be close to Fidel Castro.
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Apparently Mossad did not want a cease fire and decided to kill the head of Hamas?
The source of the following is : http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/701033.html
In 1997, Hamas offered a 30 year cease-fire.
Jordan's King Hussein sent the offer, via a Mossad agent, to Israel's Netanyahu.
Allegedly, it took a few days for the offer to get to Netanyahu.
Before the message arrived, Mossad tried to murder the leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, in Jordan.
This is one of the details that former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy reveals in his book, "Man in the Shadows," out in Britain on 4 April 2006.
Mossad squad tried to assassinate Meshal by drizzling poison in his ear.
The attempt failed and two of the agents were captured.
Halevy reveals that Shamir met with Hussein three times and that they ultimately developed a great deal of mutual appreciation.
~~~
Ex-spy boss wields unexpected clout
From the Sydney Morning Herald
March 31, 2006
JERUSALEM: Israel's next government is likely to include a colourful former spy boss who may still be wanted in the US for espionage.
Rafi Eitan, 79, led the previously unknown pensioners' party, Gil, to win a remarkable seven seats in the 120-seat Knesset, making him a prime target for the acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, as he tries to build a centre-left coalition.
The party capitalised on widespread dissatisfaction with mainstream parties and sympathy for the plight of the elderly, who have suffered big welfare cuts in the past three years.
But some voters said they were supporting Mr Eitan's group of elderly political debutants because of his leading role in the campaign to free Jonathan Pollard, a US Navy intelligence analyst jailed for life in 1986 for selling secrets to Israel.
Mr Eitan had been Pollard's handler and was sought by the FBI. He subsequently accepted responsibility for the operation and resigned as head of the Bureau of Scientific Relations, an Israeli espionage agency. He has not visited the US since for fear of arrest.
At the time of the Pollard affair, Mr Eitan was already celebrated in Israeli security circles for his leading role in the capture of fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, whom Mossad had tracked down to Argentina in 1960.
Despite his nominal status as a pensioner, Mr Eitan is a wealthy businessman, having been appointed head of Israel's state chemicals corporation after retiring from intelligence work.
He has since built up big interests in Cuba, where he is said to be close to Fidel Castro.
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