http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/050516p.htm
The following is based on a press release from Christian Aid:
Policies, backed by Tony Blair's government, have led to a crisis in Indian agriculture, spiralling rural debt and an epidemic of suicide among poor farmers.
This is the verdict of the new Christian Aid Week report, 'The damage done: Aid, death and dogma'.
Research reveals that more than 4,000 farmers have killed themselves in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh since the ‘reforms’ of a hard-line liberalising regime. Blair's government helped bankroll the reforms.
Blair's government gave funding to the free market fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute to run a privatising scheme that cost some 45,000 Indian public sector workers their jobs.
The Christian Aid report shows that in Ghana democratic institutions have been subverted by the demands of doctrinaire free market policies, where the International Monetary Fund (IMF), backed by the World Bank, effectively overturned a law to protect poor farmers.
The report shows that in Jamaica, increasing numbers of women have been driven to prostitution and drug smuggling by a continuing round of liberalisation that has wrecked their employment opportunities.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1113107.cms
The Christian Aid report on Andra Pradesh, 16 May 2005, revealed that the privatisation was implemented not by Britain's Department for International Development (DfID), but by the Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think tank.
Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money was used to bankroll the Adam Smith Institute.
One example of how privatisation went wrong was the fate of the Andhra Pradesh State Seed Development Corporation (APSSDC), 'which was allowed to languish to make way for private operators to move in'.
The result 'was sub-standard seeds, higher prices, low productivity and farm debts'.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Galloway accuses the US government
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1486025,00.html
George Galloway made a number of points to a congressional panel investigating the United Nations oil-for-food programme:
1. Galloways said: “I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein at a time when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas”.
Galloway said he had met Saddam on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
“The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war,” he said.
2. He said he has been targeted because of his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war.
3. He urged the Congressmen to turn their investigations on US-led operations in Iraq.
"Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad when $8.8bn of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch," said Galloway.
4. He stated: “You have nothing on me ... other than my name on lists ... many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Baghdad”.
5. He said the biggest sanctions busters were American companies “with the connivance” of the US administration.
6. Galloway said that the stories about 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'Saddam's links to Al-Qaeda and involvement in the 9/11 attacks', were “a pack of lies”.
7. Galloway called Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota a “neo-con, pro-war hawk.”
Galloway got £ 150,000 dollars in damages after winning a libel case against the Daily Telegraph over unverified claims of being on Saddam’s payroll.
Galloway had also received “substantial” damages over an article in the Christian Science Monitor that alleged he accepted money from Saddam.
~~~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1485648,00.html
According to a Senate investigation:
1. The US 'turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil'.
2. US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks.
3. "On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales."
4. The US treasury failed to take action against a Texas oil company, Bayoil, which paid "at least $37m in illegal surcharges to the Hussein regime".
~~~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052105Madsen/052105madsen.html
"Major political contributors and friends of Bush not only paid illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein but personally profited from sanctions-busting with Iraq. Those involved in the scheme included individuals who date back to the Reagan/Bush 41 "cluster bombs and biological and chemical weapons-for-oil" scandal of the 1980s."
George Galloway made a number of points to a congressional panel investigating the United Nations oil-for-food programme:
1. Galloways said: “I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein at a time when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas”.
Galloway said he had met Saddam on two occasions - the same number of times as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
“The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war,” he said.
2. He said he has been targeted because of his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war.
3. He urged the Congressmen to turn their investigations on US-led operations in Iraq.
"Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad when $8.8bn of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch," said Galloway.
4. He stated: “You have nothing on me ... other than my name on lists ... many of which have been drawn up after the installation of your puppet government in Baghdad”.
5. He said the biggest sanctions busters were American companies “with the connivance” of the US administration.
6. Galloway said that the stories about 'weapons of mass destruction' and 'Saddam's links to Al-Qaeda and involvement in the 9/11 attacks', were “a pack of lies”.
7. Galloway called Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota a “neo-con, pro-war hawk.”
Galloway got £ 150,000 dollars in damages after winning a libel case against the Daily Telegraph over unverified claims of being on Saddam’s payroll.
Galloway had also received “substantial” damages over an article in the Christian Science Monitor that alleged he accepted money from Saddam.
~~~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1485648,00.html
According to a Senate investigation:
1. The US 'turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil'.
2. US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks.
3. "On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales."
4. The US treasury failed to take action against a Texas oil company, Bayoil, which paid "at least $37m in illegal surcharges to the Hussein regime".
~~~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/052105Madsen/052105madsen.html
"Major political contributors and friends of Bush not only paid illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein but personally profited from sanctions-busting with Iraq. Those involved in the scheme included individuals who date back to the Reagan/Bush 41 "cluster bombs and biological and chemical weapons-for-oil" scandal of the 1980s."
Mengele, Oswald, the CIA
http://www.mengele.dk/
Dr. Josef Mengele tortured men, women and children and did cruel medical experiments during the Holocaust.
Some victims were put into pressure chambers and some were frozen to death. Children were exposed to experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia. The doctors made injections with lethal germs and removed organs and limbs.
"At Auschwitz Josef Mengele did a number of medical experiments, using twins. These twins as young as five years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of the children in an attempt to change their eye color. He carried out twin-to-twin transfusions, stitched twins together, castrated or sterilized twins. Many twins had limbs and organs removed in macabre surgical procedures, performed without using an anesthetic."
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/green.html
"In May 1982, John Loftus, a former OSI attorney, announced on CBS- TV's 60 Minutes that numerous branches of the government, including the Army, the FBI, the CIA, and the State Department, had employed Nazis and brought them to America after the war."
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/green.html
"MENGELE told my informant THAT HE personally did the training on Oswald... Oswald was trained as a 'patsy' only."
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime&Number=293213627
According to the Times, the torture experts at Guantanamo are able to seek advice from a group called the Behavioral Science Consultation Team, also known as "Biscuit."
The Lancet disclosed that doctors and other health professionals were complicit actors in the torture that took place in Abu Ghraib as well as in Afghanistan and that they were collaborating on the design and practice of psychological and physically coercive interrogation.
~~~~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1471009,00.html
"In power politics it's the big lie that matters - the deceit that's so implausible nobody thinks you could possibly have had the cheek to invent it."
~~~
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1611185,00.html
Horst Kopkow, one of Hitler’s top spies, who ordered the murders of more than 100 British secret agents in concentration camps, was spared execution as a war criminal and went to work for MI6.
Evidence emerged in the 1980s that Britain had become a refuge for suspected war criminals.
~~~
Prince George, MI6 and the Nazis
Prince George, Duke of Kent, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1942, was a top freemason and allegedly was involved in a plot with Rudolf Hess and MI6.
In 1941 there was a large 'peace party' in Britain which allegedly included much of the aristocracy, many MPs, many members of the security services and members of the Royal Family. The 'peace party' wanted to do a deal with Hitler.
~~~
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/05/anglo-american-fascism.html
After World War II, Anglo-American fascism seemed to continue:
1. In 1946, Project Paperclip secretly brought more than 1,000 Nazi scientists to the US.Among them were:Kurt Blome, who had tested nerve gas at Auschwitz,Konrad Schaeffer, who forced salt into victims at Dachau.
2. Experiments in mind control via drugs and surgery became part of the CIA's Project Bluebird.
3. Japan's Dr Shiro Ishii, who had experimented with prisoners in Manchuria, came to Maryland to advise on bio-weapons.
~~~
Dr D. Ewen Cameron
Cameron used technique of “psychic driving,” by which unsuspecting patients were kept in a drug induced coma for several weeks and given electroshocks, while electronic helmets were strapped to their heads and repetitive auditory messages were transmitted at variable speeds.
Many of those exploited were abused children from the Roman Catholic orphanage system.
John Marks, author of The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, tells us: “The frequent screams of patients that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their attempts to ‘depattern’ their subjects completely.
Dr. Josef Mengele tortured men, women and children and did cruel medical experiments during the Holocaust.
Some victims were put into pressure chambers and some were frozen to death. Children were exposed to experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia. The doctors made injections with lethal germs and removed organs and limbs.
"At Auschwitz Josef Mengele did a number of medical experiments, using twins. These twins as young as five years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of the children in an attempt to change their eye color. He carried out twin-to-twin transfusions, stitched twins together, castrated or sterilized twins. Many twins had limbs and organs removed in macabre surgical procedures, performed without using an anesthetic."
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/green.html
"In May 1982, John Loftus, a former OSI attorney, announced on CBS- TV's 60 Minutes that numerous branches of the government, including the Army, the FBI, the CIA, and the State Department, had employed Nazis and brought them to America after the war."
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/branton/green.html
"MENGELE told my informant THAT HE personally did the training on Oswald... Oswald was trained as a 'patsy' only."
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime&Number=293213627
According to the Times, the torture experts at Guantanamo are able to seek advice from a group called the Behavioral Science Consultation Team, also known as "Biscuit."
The Lancet disclosed that doctors and other health professionals were complicit actors in the torture that took place in Abu Ghraib as well as in Afghanistan and that they were collaborating on the design and practice of psychological and physically coercive interrogation.
~~~~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1471009,00.html
"In power politics it's the big lie that matters - the deceit that's so implausible nobody thinks you could possibly have had the cheek to invent it."
~~~
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1611185,00.html
Horst Kopkow, one of Hitler’s top spies, who ordered the murders of more than 100 British secret agents in concentration camps, was spared execution as a war criminal and went to work for MI6.
Evidence emerged in the 1980s that Britain had become a refuge for suspected war criminals.
~~~
Prince George, MI6 and the Nazis
Prince George, Duke of Kent, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1942, was a top freemason and allegedly was involved in a plot with Rudolf Hess and MI6.
In 1941 there was a large 'peace party' in Britain which allegedly included much of the aristocracy, many MPs, many members of the security services and members of the Royal Family. The 'peace party' wanted to do a deal with Hitler.
~~~
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/05/anglo-american-fascism.html
After World War II, Anglo-American fascism seemed to continue:
1. In 1946, Project Paperclip secretly brought more than 1,000 Nazi scientists to the US.Among them were:Kurt Blome, who had tested nerve gas at Auschwitz,Konrad Schaeffer, who forced salt into victims at Dachau.
2. Experiments in mind control via drugs and surgery became part of the CIA's Project Bluebird.
3. Japan's Dr Shiro Ishii, who had experimented with prisoners in Manchuria, came to Maryland to advise on bio-weapons.
~~~
Dr D. Ewen Cameron
Cameron used technique of “psychic driving,” by which unsuspecting patients were kept in a drug induced coma for several weeks and given electroshocks, while electronic helmets were strapped to their heads and repetitive auditory messages were transmitted at variable speeds.
Many of those exploited were abused children from the Roman Catholic orphanage system.
John Marks, author of The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, tells us: “The frequent screams of patients that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their attempts to ‘depattern’ their subjects completely.
Robert Maxwell, Mossad, Pension theft, Pensions
http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Robert_Maxwell
http://www.pensionstheft.org/2230.html
"Robert Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hoch, in the Czech Republic, into a Jewish family.
"By the 1980s Maxwell's various companies owned the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and several other newspapers, Pergamon Press....
"Evidence suggests that Maxwell's business empire was built on debt and deception. He had 'borrowed' millions of pounds of his employees' money from his companies' pension funds to prop up his financial position.
"On November 5, 1991 Maxwell disappeared from his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislane, which was cruising off the Canary Islands.
"Shortly before Maxwell 'died', a self-proclaimed former Mossad officer named Ari Ben-Menashe approached a number of news organizations in Britain and America with the allegation that Maxwell and the Daily Mirror's foreign editor, Nick Davies, were both long-time agents for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell had tipped off the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu had given information about Israel's nuclear capability to the Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror.
"His death triggered a flood of revelations about his controversial business dealings and activities. It emerged that, without adequate prior authorization, he had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to finance his corporate debt, his frantic takeovers and his lavish lifestyle. Thousands of Maxwell employees lost their pensions."
~~~~~
http://www.investorsassociation.org/forums/showthread.php?postid=53371
Courts director's pension scandal.
From The Times
"HOWARD COHEN, a former director of Courts, transferred £3.9m out of the company’s pension fund and into a personal scheme just eight months before the furniture retailer collapsed into administration. The Courts pension fund has a deficit of at least £14m and the company’s pensioners face an uncertain future."
~~~~~
http://www.workersaction.org.uk/23Pension.htm
Today there is a pensions crisis....
http://www.pensionstheft.org/2230.html
"Robert Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hoch, in the Czech Republic, into a Jewish family.
"By the 1980s Maxwell's various companies owned the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail and several other newspapers, Pergamon Press....
"Evidence suggests that Maxwell's business empire was built on debt and deception. He had 'borrowed' millions of pounds of his employees' money from his companies' pension funds to prop up his financial position.
"On November 5, 1991 Maxwell disappeared from his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislane, which was cruising off the Canary Islands.
"Shortly before Maxwell 'died', a self-proclaimed former Mossad officer named Ari Ben-Menashe approached a number of news organizations in Britain and America with the allegation that Maxwell and the Daily Mirror's foreign editor, Nick Davies, were both long-time agents for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell had tipped off the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu had given information about Israel's nuclear capability to the Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror.
"His death triggered a flood of revelations about his controversial business dealings and activities. It emerged that, without adequate prior authorization, he had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to finance his corporate debt, his frantic takeovers and his lavish lifestyle. Thousands of Maxwell employees lost their pensions."
~~~~~
http://www.investorsassociation.org/forums/showthread.php?postid=53371
Courts director's pension scandal.
From The Times
"HOWARD COHEN, a former director of Courts, transferred £3.9m out of the company’s pension fund and into a personal scheme just eight months before the furniture retailer collapsed into administration. The Courts pension fund has a deficit of at least £14m and the company’s pensioners face an uncertain future."
~~~~~
http://www.workersaction.org.uk/23Pension.htm
Today there is a pensions crisis....
Monday, May 16, 2005
Uzbek officers trained at Fort Bragg.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/uzbe-m16.shtml
Uzbekistan is a close ally of the USA. The US has a large military base at Karshi-Khanabad.
Uzbek officers are trained at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The Pentagon trains and supplies the Uzbek army.
President Karimov's regime recently slaughtered several hundred men, women and children in the Uzbekistan city of Andijan.
Washington is regularly “rendering” people detained in the so-called global war on terrorism to the country, "precisely because it knows that they will be tortured there."
~~~
America and Uzbekistan
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/02/americas-struggle-for-world-supremacy.html
Uzbekistan is a close ally of the USA. The US has a large military base at Karshi-Khanabad.
Uzbek officers are trained at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The Pentagon trains and supplies the Uzbek army.
President Karimov's regime recently slaughtered several hundred men, women and children in the Uzbekistan city of Andijan.
Washington is regularly “rendering” people detained in the so-called global war on terrorism to the country, "precisely because it knows that they will be tortured there."
~~~
America and Uzbekistan
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/02/americas-struggle-for-world-supremacy.html
Kosher Conspiracy?
Peter Wilby is no longer editor of the UK New Statesman. Why? Is it because he criticised Israel?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/579/in1.htm
New Statesman Editorial, 18th March, 2002 :
"As for the Jewish claim to biblical lands, it makes no more sense to the Arab mind than an Italian claim to establish a Roman state along the length of the A5 would to the British. Indeed, it never made much sense to European minds either, given that they would happily have settled for a Jewish homeland in Uganda or Siberia, if they had thought it practicable."
One New Staesman cover showed the star of David at the heart of the Union Jack, and had the title, 'Kosher Conspiracy.'
~~~~~
The Spectator magazine had an article suggesting that 9 11 was an inside-job.
The Spectator's editor Boris Johnson found his private life exposed. He was sacked as the Conservative party's vice chairman and arts spokesman.
~~~~~
The Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan criticised the war in Iraq. He was sacked.
~~~~~
The BBC sacked journalist Andrew Gilligan after he suggested that a government document on Iraq had been 'sexed up'.
~~~~
on 29th January 1987, Alasdair Milne, the BBC Director General was removed. He had allowed the BBC to critcise the government. http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm
~~~~
http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm#real
A study by Cardiff University media analysts found that the BBC "displayed the most pro-war agenda of any [British] broadcaster."
The BBC's Andrew Marr proclaimed Tony Blair had "been proved conclusively right" as Baghdad fell to the "coalition" forces. "It would be entirely ungracious", said Marr, "not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result" (BBC 1, News At Ten, April 9, 2003).
~~~~
Who are now the top names at the BBC?
Michael Grade
Jenny Abramsky
Alan Yentob
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/579/in1.htm
New Statesman Editorial, 18th March, 2002 :
"As for the Jewish claim to biblical lands, it makes no more sense to the Arab mind than an Italian claim to establish a Roman state along the length of the A5 would to the British. Indeed, it never made much sense to European minds either, given that they would happily have settled for a Jewish homeland in Uganda or Siberia, if they had thought it practicable."
One New Staesman cover showed the star of David at the heart of the Union Jack, and had the title, 'Kosher Conspiracy.'
~~~~~
The Spectator magazine had an article suggesting that 9 11 was an inside-job.
The Spectator's editor Boris Johnson found his private life exposed. He was sacked as the Conservative party's vice chairman and arts spokesman.
~~~~~
The Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan criticised the war in Iraq. He was sacked.
~~~~~
The BBC sacked journalist Andrew Gilligan after he suggested that a government document on Iraq had been 'sexed up'.
~~~~
on 29th January 1987, Alasdair Milne, the BBC Director General was removed. He had allowed the BBC to critcise the government. http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm
~~~~
http://www.bilderberg.org/milne.htm#real
A study by Cardiff University media analysts found that the BBC "displayed the most pro-war agenda of any [British] broadcaster."
The BBC's Andrew Marr proclaimed Tony Blair had "been proved conclusively right" as Baghdad fell to the "coalition" forces. "It would be entirely ungracious", said Marr, "not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result" (BBC 1, News At Ten, April 9, 2003).
~~~~
Who are now the top names at the BBC?
Michael Grade
Jenny Abramsky
Alan Yentob
Let us run our lives
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1613211,00.html
In the Sunday Times, 15 May 2005, Simon Jenkins wrote: Respect starts with you letting us run our lives, Godfather Blair.
Simon Jenkins wants more power given to LOCAL leadership.
He wants to disband the army of regulators and inspectors.
Simon Jenkins writes: "Britons should ask why communities seem so much stronger in America, France and Germany. The answer is that people in those countries vote for two or three tiers of powerful local authorities and those votes matter. They affect decisions and are not overwhelmed by the centre.
"National presidents and prime ministers do not regard local schools, hospitals, street patrols and teenage clothing as their responsibility. They would laugh at the idea. They regard community and local government as synonyms. So should Blair and Miliband."
~~~
I know a small town which used to have a local council with real power. That town no longer has a local council. Crime has increased. Public transport is a disaster.
I know a school where the headmaster and teachers used to have the power to make things orderly and efficient. The headmaster and the teachers are no longer allowed to make things orderly and efficient. Real power lies with people in faraway offices.
I know a family where the parents and extended family and neighbours used to be in a position to look after children properly. Now all the adults have to work long hours. The adults see much less of their children.
I know a locality which used to have newspapers which were locally owned. Now the newspapers are owned by foreign companies.
Our lives now seem to be controlled by corrupt mafiosi who live in distant cities.
In the Sunday Times, 15 May 2005, Simon Jenkins wrote: Respect starts with you letting us run our lives, Godfather Blair.
Simon Jenkins wants more power given to LOCAL leadership.
He wants to disband the army of regulators and inspectors.
Simon Jenkins writes: "Britons should ask why communities seem so much stronger in America, France and Germany. The answer is that people in those countries vote for two or three tiers of powerful local authorities and those votes matter. They affect decisions and are not overwhelmed by the centre.
"National presidents and prime ministers do not regard local schools, hospitals, street patrols and teenage clothing as their responsibility. They would laugh at the idea. They regard community and local government as synonyms. So should Blair and Miliband."
~~~
I know a small town which used to have a local council with real power. That town no longer has a local council. Crime has increased. Public transport is a disaster.
I know a school where the headmaster and teachers used to have the power to make things orderly and efficient. The headmaster and the teachers are no longer allowed to make things orderly and efficient. Real power lies with people in faraway offices.
I know a family where the parents and extended family and neighbours used to be in a position to look after children properly. Now all the adults have to work long hours. The adults see much less of their children.
I know a locality which used to have newspapers which were locally owned. Now the newspapers are owned by foreign companies.
Our lives now seem to be controlled by corrupt mafiosi who live in distant cities.
Power struggle in Washington?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/pent-m10.shtml
Patrick Martin, in WSWS 10 May 2005, writes about a power struggle in Washington.
The Pentagon's top Iran specialist, Lawrence A. Franklin, has been charged with passing documents to persons linked to Israel.
Franklin worked for Douglas Feith, a key member of the of neo-conservatives who pushed for US military action against Iraq.
According to WSWS there appears to be a big conflict within the Washington political establishment. The cause of the conflict is Iraq.
According to WSWS, top Americans are coming to realise that the invasion of Iraq has been a disaster for America; Iraq now ties down 140,000 troops.
Martin writes: "Washington hoped to achieve a position of unchallengeable dominance in world oil markets and, with control of Iraq and Afghanistan and other military bases obtained after the 9/11 attacks, an impregnable strategic position in the Middle East and Central Asia. Instead, Iraq has become a quagmire..."
At the Pentagon, the two neo-conservatives most closely associated with the campaign for war against Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, have been removed.
Some people in Washington are now cautious about an attack on Iran.
However, WSWS points to leaks to the media which raise tensions:
Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that the US has carried out intelligence reconnaissance raids into Iran from bases in Afghanistan, seeking targeting information for future air attacks.
Pro-Israeli media pundits have openly stated that the CIA and FBI are targeting neo-conservatives in the Pentagon with close ties to the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The New York Sun, which has close links to the neo-conservatives, claimed that the FBI investigation of Pentagon leaks was instigated by Rumsfeld himself.
WSWS reminds us of the Jonathan Pollard case, when a Navy analyst was caught spying for Israel in 1986.
WSWS writes that ' Washington regards Iran ... as a desirable ally and potential strategic asset.'
Israel, on the other hand, sees Iran as an enemy.
What is really going on is dificult to determine. As WSWS writes: 'The relationships between Chalabi, the Israelis, Iran and the US military and intelligence apparatus are extremely murky...
'Despite the public accusation that he is an Iranian spy, for example, the Iraqi politician has since resurfaced as deputy prime minister and acting oil minister in the new US-backed stooge government of Prime Minister Ibraham Jaafari.'
Patrick Martin, in WSWS 10 May 2005, writes about a power struggle in Washington.
The Pentagon's top Iran specialist, Lawrence A. Franklin, has been charged with passing documents to persons linked to Israel.
Franklin worked for Douglas Feith, a key member of the of neo-conservatives who pushed for US military action against Iraq.
According to WSWS there appears to be a big conflict within the Washington political establishment. The cause of the conflict is Iraq.
According to WSWS, top Americans are coming to realise that the invasion of Iraq has been a disaster for America; Iraq now ties down 140,000 troops.
Martin writes: "Washington hoped to achieve a position of unchallengeable dominance in world oil markets and, with control of Iraq and Afghanistan and other military bases obtained after the 9/11 attacks, an impregnable strategic position in the Middle East and Central Asia. Instead, Iraq has become a quagmire..."
At the Pentagon, the two neo-conservatives most closely associated with the campaign for war against Iraq, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith, have been removed.
Some people in Washington are now cautious about an attack on Iran.
However, WSWS points to leaks to the media which raise tensions:
Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that the US has carried out intelligence reconnaissance raids into Iran from bases in Afghanistan, seeking targeting information for future air attacks.
Pro-Israeli media pundits have openly stated that the CIA and FBI are targeting neo-conservatives in the Pentagon with close ties to the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The New York Sun, which has close links to the neo-conservatives, claimed that the FBI investigation of Pentagon leaks was instigated by Rumsfeld himself.
WSWS reminds us of the Jonathan Pollard case, when a Navy analyst was caught spying for Israel in 1986.
WSWS writes that ' Washington regards Iran ... as a desirable ally and potential strategic asset.'
Israel, on the other hand, sees Iran as an enemy.
What is really going on is dificult to determine. As WSWS writes: 'The relationships between Chalabi, the Israelis, Iran and the US military and intelligence apparatus are extremely murky...
'Despite the public accusation that he is an Iranian spy, for example, the Iraqi politician has since resurfaced as deputy prime minister and acting oil minister in the new US-backed stooge government of Prime Minister Ibraham Jaafari.'
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Famous Jewish people
http://jewishtribalreview.org/coopt.htm
JTR lists a number of famous Jewish people in key positions, past and present. Here is a sample:
Heritage Foundation President: Edwin Feulner
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Executive Director: Thomas A. Dine
Project for a New American Century Chairman: William Kristol
Council on Foreign Relations President: Leslie Gelb
9-11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) Executive Director: Philip Zelikow
Bush/Cheney 2004,Campaign Manager: Ken Mehlman
Association of American Publishers Chairman of the Board of Directors: Jane Friedman
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada's BBC),President and CEO: Robert Rabinovitch
Communication Workers of America (AFL-CIO),President: Morton Bahr
American Sportscasters Association President: Lou Schwartz
World Bank Presidents: James D. Wolfensohn / Paul Wolfowitz
Federal Reserve System Chairman: Alan Greenspan
Harvard University President: Lawrence Summers
Yale University President: Richard L. Levin
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The chairman of the BBC is Jewish
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http://jewishtribalreview.org/kaminski2.htm
John Kaminski reminds us that
1. the PNAC report, which yearned for a new Pearl Harbour, was written by Dov Zakheim, who is Jewish.
2. the new head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, is reportedly Jewish.
3. the new US intelligence czar, John Negroponte — 'he of the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran death squad fiascos' — is reportedly Jewish.
~~~~~~
"The xxxx people will obtain world dominion"
JEWISH CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS?
http://www.realnews247.com/who_rules_america_updated_2004.htm
Manchester United and Jewish influence in sport
JTR lists a number of famous Jewish people in key positions, past and present. Here is a sample:
Heritage Foundation President: Edwin Feulner
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Executive Director: Thomas A. Dine
Project for a New American Century Chairman: William Kristol
Council on Foreign Relations President: Leslie Gelb
9-11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) Executive Director: Philip Zelikow
Bush/Cheney 2004,Campaign Manager: Ken Mehlman
Association of American Publishers Chairman of the Board of Directors: Jane Friedman
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canada's BBC),President and CEO: Robert Rabinovitch
Communication Workers of America (AFL-CIO),President: Morton Bahr
American Sportscasters Association President: Lou Schwartz
World Bank Presidents: James D. Wolfensohn / Paul Wolfowitz
Federal Reserve System Chairman: Alan Greenspan
Harvard University President: Lawrence Summers
Yale University President: Richard L. Levin
~~~~~~
The chairman of the BBC is Jewish
~~~~~~
http://jewishtribalreview.org/kaminski2.htm
John Kaminski reminds us that
1. the PNAC report, which yearned for a new Pearl Harbour, was written by Dov Zakheim, who is Jewish.
2. the new head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, is reportedly Jewish.
3. the new US intelligence czar, John Negroponte — 'he of the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran death squad fiascos' — is reportedly Jewish.
~~~~~~
"The xxxx people will obtain world dominion"
JEWISH CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARDS?
http://www.realnews247.com/who_rules_america_updated_2004.htm
Manchester United and Jewish influence in sport
Possible UK vote fraud? Some figures.
A Channel 4 TV Dispatches programme, 23 May, revealed how Blair's New Labour faked grassroots support during the General Election. An undercover Channel 4 reporter, Jenny Kleeman, showed how:
1. Fake letters were sent to local newspapers to show support for Labour’s achievements.
2. Labour activists posed as 'local people' to greet Blair on the campaign trail.
~~~
According to The Times: "A QUARTER of the police forces across Britain are investigating last week’s elections in a purge on fraud and malpractice."
According to the Scotsman there are claims that a Labour Party activist in Birmingham kept a ballot box at his home the night before polls opened. The activist's daughter was a presiding officer for one polling station.
In 1974, Labour's Harold Wilson won 39% of the vote and had a majority of only 3 seats.
In 2005, Labour's Tony Blair won 35% of the vote and had a majority of 67 seats.
According to Robin Cook, former UK Foreign Secretary, a party can normally expect to lose an election if it gets only 36% of the vote.
In 2005, Blair lost lots of not very marginal seats, but managed to hold on to some of the most marginal.
Nationally, Labour saw a 6% drop in their share of the vote.
In the 25 most marginal Labour-Lib Dem seats, the Liberal Democrats saw an average 6.7% increase in their share of the vote.
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in Leeds North West, which was not considered particularly marginal, but which was captured by the Liberal Democrats:
Leeds North West
Liberal Democrat 16,612 votes. 37.2% of the vote. +10.3% since the last election..
Labour 14,735 votes. 33.0% of the votes. -8.9% since the last election.
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in:
Solihull - not considered very marginal, but captured by the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat 20,896 votes. 39.9% share of the vote. +13.9% since the last election
Conservative 20,617 votes. 39.4% share of the vote. -6.0%
Labour 8,058 15.4% -10.2%
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in:
Na h-Eileanan an Iar (The Western Isles where people are generally very honest)
SNP 6,213 votes. 44.9% of the votes. +8.0%
Labour 4,772 votes. 34.5% of the votes. -10.5%
In the constituencies which were most marginal, the swing against Labour was smaller than might be expected. This could be due to a variety of factors, including:
(1) Extra effort by the Labour candidate and his party organisation
(2) tactical voting
(3) possible vote fraud.
In the marginal constituency of Aberdeen South, an investigation has begun into postal voting.
Aberdeen South - marginal
Labour 15,272 votes. 36.7% share of the vote. -1.3%
Liberal Democrat 13,924 votes. 33.5% share of the vote. +4.9%
Aberdeen North - not marginal
Labour 15,557 42.5 -6.8
Liberal Democrat 8,762 23.9 +11.7
Why was the Labour vote down only 1.3% in Aberdeen South, while the Labour vote was down 6.8% in Aberdeen North?
Why was the Liberal vote up only 4.9% in Aberdeen South, while the Liberal vote was up 11.7% in Aberdeen North?
~~~
Senior members of the Asian community have been accused of attempting to organise a postal vote racket in Leicester.
Parmjit Singh Gill, the Liberal Democrat MP for Leicester South in the last parliament, believes constituents were put under pressure to register for a postal vote, and then instructed who to vote for.
Leicester South was won by the Liberal Democrats in a previous bi-election.
In the 2005 General Election:
Labour 16,688
Liberal Democrat 12,971
~~~
Dumfries and Galloway - very marginal
Labour 20,924 votes. 41.1% share of the vote. +8.7% since the last election.
Conservative 18,002 35.4 +3.3
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale - thought to be a relatively safe Labour seat
Conservative 16,141 36.2 +11.4
Labour 14,403 32.3 -4.6
~~~~~
According to the BBC, 10 May 2005, Police in Stoke-on-Trent are investigating claims that postal votes may have been tampered with. The returning officer related that 43 papers for Stoke North arrived together and the declaration of identity had been removed from each.
Stoke on Trent North
Labour 16,191 votes -5.4%
Conservative 6,155 votes +1.2%
Liberal Democrat 4,561 votes +2.9%
~~~~~~~
Which of the following show big swings against Labour?
Which result stands out as very different?
Birmingham Ladywood
Labour 17,262 votes -17.0%
Liberal Democrat 10,461 votes +23.3%
Birmingham Hodge Hill
Labour 13,822 votes -15.3%
Liberal Democrat 8,373 +21.4%
Birmingham Perry Barr
Khalid Mahmood Labour 18,269 +0.5%
Liberal Democrat 10,321 +3.6%
~~~~~
Other examples of very marginal seats where Labour performed better than expected:
Sittingbourne & Sheppey
Labour 17,051 41.8 -4.0%
Conservative 16,972 41.6 +5.1%
Gillingham
Labour 18,621 41.2 -3.3
Conservative 18,367 40.7 +1.6
Selby
Labour 22,623 43.1 -2.0
Conservative 22,156 42.2 +1.4
Ochil and South Perthshire
Labour 14,645 31.4 -2.0
SNP 13,957 29.9 -1.7
Dundee East
SNP 14,708 37.2 +1.1
Labour 14,325 36.2 -1.2
Wirral West
Labour 17,543 42.5 -4.7
Conservative 16,446 39.9 +2.7
Calder Valley
Labour 18,426 38.6 -4.1
Conservative 17,059 35.7 -0.5
Colne Valley
Labour 17,536 35.8 -4.6
Conservative 16,035 32.8 +2.3
Dorset South
Labour 20,231 41.6 -0.4
Conservative 18,419 37.9 -3.7
Vale of Glamorgan
Labour 19,481 41.2 -4.2
Conservative 17,673 37.3 +2.3
~~~~~
http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=762
The Respect website gives examples of possible vote fraud in one part of London:
"118 Brick Lane: There are 12 Bengali names registered there. None of whom has ever lived in the building. Polling cards for these names have been removed.
"108 Brick Lane: is tenanted, I understand by Mr (Abdul) Salique, a well-known New Labour supporter. It is clear from our investigation that the 12 people registered on the roll do not live there, while Mr Salique claims that he and his family are resident. This is palpably untrue. We have statements and video evidence from the people who are there. Mr Salique holds a sheaf of polling cards.
"104 Brick Lane: none of the six names registered lives there and the polling cards for these names are missing.
~~~~~
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5955
US ELECTIONS
Election Day Exit Polls showed that Kerry won both the electoral & popular vote with Kerry getting 51% and Bush 48%.
Early on the morning of 11/3 the mass media continued to show Kerry’s national win - and Kerry's win in Ohio & Florida. CNN’s website 11/3 at 12:21AM showed Kerry’s win in Ohio State.
Officially Bush won the election.
Statisticians & mathematicians were alarmed at the 5.5% discrepancy between his exit polls and the vote count, which was outside the "margin of error".
A report released March 31st by a group of university statisticians stated that it was near impossible in statistical terms for the discrepancy to be so large without the election vote count being suspect.
An Ohio Recount was requested. The areas most suspected of vote fraud were never counted.
One primary method for fraud was vote machines on a "default setting" - so despite voting for Kerry or an entire Democratic Ticket, the machine would flip to a Bush Vote. Some voters tried over & over to change this. Some voters reported the screen finally verified a Kerry vote,but when they got to the end page to reconfirm ballot,it showed Bush.
Some Florida local election officials "were seen throwing away the official vote count tapes for election day, replacing them with new tapes with new vote count numbers".
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a group of professors and academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University. Their study does not support claims made by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International that exit poll errors were to blame for the unprecedented 5.5% discrepancy between exit polls and official 2004 election results.
According to this analysis by a group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. “Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored,” said statistician Josh Mitteldorf.
The paper titled "Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report" notes that the Edison/Mitofsky report offers no evidence to support their conclusion that Kerry voters “participated in the exit polls at a higher rate than Bush voters”. In fact, the data provided in the Edison/Mitofsky report suggests that the opposite may have been true: Bush strongholds had slightly higher response rates than Kerry strongholds.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
In one precinct in Ohio, over 4,258 votes were given to Bush where there were only 638 registered voters.
The touch screen machines produce no paper trail.
There is evidence of problems with the "optical scanners" that were used to tabulate the results in many states. When voters fill out paper ballots these ballots were fed into the scanners to total the results. These scanners were manufactured by Diebold & ESS, and have been shown to be easily hacked.
1. Fake letters were sent to local newspapers to show support for Labour’s achievements.
2. Labour activists posed as 'local people' to greet Blair on the campaign trail.
~~~
According to The Times: "A QUARTER of the police forces across Britain are investigating last week’s elections in a purge on fraud and malpractice."
According to the Scotsman there are claims that a Labour Party activist in Birmingham kept a ballot box at his home the night before polls opened. The activist's daughter was a presiding officer for one polling station.
In 1974, Labour's Harold Wilson won 39% of the vote and had a majority of only 3 seats.
In 2005, Labour's Tony Blair won 35% of the vote and had a majority of 67 seats.
According to Robin Cook, former UK Foreign Secretary, a party can normally expect to lose an election if it gets only 36% of the vote.
In 2005, Blair lost lots of not very marginal seats, but managed to hold on to some of the most marginal.
Nationally, Labour saw a 6% drop in their share of the vote.
In the 25 most marginal Labour-Lib Dem seats, the Liberal Democrats saw an average 6.7% increase in their share of the vote.
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in Leeds North West, which was not considered particularly marginal, but which was captured by the Liberal Democrats:
Leeds North West
Liberal Democrat 16,612 votes. 37.2% of the vote. +10.3% since the last election..
Labour 14,735 votes. 33.0% of the votes. -8.9% since the last election.
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in:
Solihull - not considered very marginal, but captured by the Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat 20,896 votes. 39.9% share of the vote. +13.9% since the last election
Conservative 20,617 votes. 39.4% share of the vote. -6.0%
Labour 8,058 15.4% -10.2%
There are no obvious signs of vote fraud in:
Na h-Eileanan an Iar (The Western Isles where people are generally very honest)
SNP 6,213 votes. 44.9% of the votes. +8.0%
Labour 4,772 votes. 34.5% of the votes. -10.5%
In the constituencies which were most marginal, the swing against Labour was smaller than might be expected. This could be due to a variety of factors, including:
(1) Extra effort by the Labour candidate and his party organisation
(2) tactical voting
(3) possible vote fraud.
In the marginal constituency of Aberdeen South, an investigation has begun into postal voting.
Aberdeen South - marginal
Labour 15,272 votes. 36.7% share of the vote. -1.3%
Liberal Democrat 13,924 votes. 33.5% share of the vote. +4.9%
Aberdeen North - not marginal
Labour 15,557 42.5 -6.8
Liberal Democrat 8,762 23.9 +11.7
Why was the Labour vote down only 1.3% in Aberdeen South, while the Labour vote was down 6.8% in Aberdeen North?
Why was the Liberal vote up only 4.9% in Aberdeen South, while the Liberal vote was up 11.7% in Aberdeen North?
~~~
Senior members of the Asian community have been accused of attempting to organise a postal vote racket in Leicester.
Parmjit Singh Gill, the Liberal Democrat MP for Leicester South in the last parliament, believes constituents were put under pressure to register for a postal vote, and then instructed who to vote for.
Leicester South was won by the Liberal Democrats in a previous bi-election.
In the 2005 General Election:
Labour 16,688
Liberal Democrat 12,971
~~~
Dumfries and Galloway - very marginal
Labour 20,924 votes. 41.1% share of the vote. +8.7% since the last election.
Conservative 18,002 35.4 +3.3
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale - thought to be a relatively safe Labour seat
Conservative 16,141 36.2 +11.4
Labour 14,403 32.3 -4.6
~~~~~
According to the BBC, 10 May 2005, Police in Stoke-on-Trent are investigating claims that postal votes may have been tampered with. The returning officer related that 43 papers for Stoke North arrived together and the declaration of identity had been removed from each.
Stoke on Trent North
Labour 16,191 votes -5.4%
Conservative 6,155 votes +1.2%
Liberal Democrat 4,561 votes +2.9%
~~~~~~~
Which of the following show big swings against Labour?
Which result stands out as very different?
Birmingham Ladywood
Labour 17,262 votes -17.0%
Liberal Democrat 10,461 votes +23.3%
Birmingham Hodge Hill
Labour 13,822 votes -15.3%
Liberal Democrat 8,373 +21.4%
Birmingham Perry Barr
Khalid Mahmood Labour 18,269 +0.5%
Liberal Democrat 10,321 +3.6%
~~~~~
Other examples of very marginal seats where Labour performed better than expected:
Sittingbourne & Sheppey
Labour 17,051 41.8 -4.0%
Conservative 16,972 41.6 +5.1%
Gillingham
Labour 18,621 41.2 -3.3
Conservative 18,367 40.7 +1.6
Selby
Labour 22,623 43.1 -2.0
Conservative 22,156 42.2 +1.4
Ochil and South Perthshire
Labour 14,645 31.4 -2.0
SNP 13,957 29.9 -1.7
Dundee East
SNP 14,708 37.2 +1.1
Labour 14,325 36.2 -1.2
Wirral West
Labour 17,543 42.5 -4.7
Conservative 16,446 39.9 +2.7
Calder Valley
Labour 18,426 38.6 -4.1
Conservative 17,059 35.7 -0.5
Colne Valley
Labour 17,536 35.8 -4.6
Conservative 16,035 32.8 +2.3
Dorset South
Labour 20,231 41.6 -0.4
Conservative 18,419 37.9 -3.7
Vale of Glamorgan
Labour 19,481 41.2 -4.2
Conservative 17,673 37.3 +2.3
~~~~~
http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=762
The Respect website gives examples of possible vote fraud in one part of London:
"118 Brick Lane: There are 12 Bengali names registered there. None of whom has ever lived in the building. Polling cards for these names have been removed.
"108 Brick Lane: is tenanted, I understand by Mr (Abdul) Salique, a well-known New Labour supporter. It is clear from our investigation that the 12 people registered on the roll do not live there, while Mr Salique claims that he and his family are resident. This is palpably untrue. We have statements and video evidence from the people who are there. Mr Salique holds a sheaf of polling cards.
"104 Brick Lane: none of the six names registered lives there and the polling cards for these names are missing.
~~~~~
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5955
US ELECTIONS
Election Day Exit Polls showed that Kerry won both the electoral & popular vote with Kerry getting 51% and Bush 48%.
Early on the morning of 11/3 the mass media continued to show Kerry’s national win - and Kerry's win in Ohio & Florida. CNN’s website 11/3 at 12:21AM showed Kerry’s win in Ohio State.
Officially Bush won the election.
Statisticians & mathematicians were alarmed at the 5.5% discrepancy between his exit polls and the vote count, which was outside the "margin of error".
A report released March 31st by a group of university statisticians stated that it was near impossible in statistical terms for the discrepancy to be so large without the election vote count being suspect.
An Ohio Recount was requested. The areas most suspected of vote fraud were never counted.
One primary method for fraud was vote machines on a "default setting" - so despite voting for Kerry or an entire Democratic Ticket, the machine would flip to a Bush Vote. Some voters tried over & over to change this. Some voters reported the screen finally verified a Kerry vote,but when they got to the end page to reconfirm ballot,it showed Bush.
Some Florida local election officials "were seen throwing away the official vote count tapes for election day, replacing them with new tapes with new vote count numbers".
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a group of professors and academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University. Their study does not support claims made by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International that exit poll errors were to blame for the unprecedented 5.5% discrepancy between exit polls and official 2004 election results.
According to this analysis by a group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. “Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored,” said statistician Josh Mitteldorf.
The paper titled "Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report" notes that the Edison/Mitofsky report offers no evidence to support their conclusion that Kerry voters “participated in the exit polls at a higher rate than Bush voters”. In fact, the data provided in the Edison/Mitofsky report suggests that the opposite may have been true: Bush strongholds had slightly higher response rates than Kerry strongholds.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
In one precinct in Ohio, over 4,258 votes were given to Bush where there were only 638 registered voters.
The touch screen machines produce no paper trail.
There is evidence of problems with the "optical scanners" that were used to tabulate the results in many states. When voters fill out paper ballots these ballots were fed into the scanners to total the results. These scanners were manufactured by Diebold & ESS, and have been shown to be easily hacked.
Blunkett and Heidi Kingstone
According to the Mail-on-Sunday, British Cabinet Minister David Blunkett has now become friends with Heidi Kingstone, a writer who appears to be a close friend of Israel.
Heidi Kingstone has been a Jerusalem Post correspondent.
~~~
In a letter to the Saturday Star, Dr. Firoz Osman wrote:
"Heidi Kingstone's column about her ' fact- finding mission' to Israel, accompanied by Britain’s chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks, exposes her lopsided view on the crisis in the region. [New Chapter in the Middle East 10/02/2001].
"She not surprisingly, blames the Palestinians that ' have not internalised the need to compromise'. It seems irrelevant that they have lost 80% of their original land..."
~~~
Blunkett's previous friend was a Jewish lady called Kimberly Fortier (Kimberly Quinn).
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050307/asp/frontpage/story_4462956.asp
Fortier was the former lover of David Blunkett who had to resign as Britain’s home secretary.
Kimberly has two children, a two-year-old boy, William, and a baby son, Lorcan.
"It is generally accepted because of DNA evidence that William’s father is Blunkett."
The Mail on Sunday named xxxxx as “the mysterious Asian at the centre of the latest speculation in the outlandish Kimberly Quinn affair”.
The Mail on Sunday had an account by Heidi Kingstone, “a close friend of the Quinns, xxxxx and Blunkett”, entitled, “My flirty date with the Asian”.
Simon Hoggart, the Guardian columnist, initially denied that he had been sexually involved with Kimberly. Later, he admitted he had.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sexpionage
Sexpionage - Part 2
Heidi Kingstone has been a Jerusalem Post correspondent.
~~~
In a letter to the Saturday Star, Dr. Firoz Osman wrote:
"Heidi Kingstone's column about her ' fact- finding mission' to Israel, accompanied by Britain’s chief Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Sacks, exposes her lopsided view on the crisis in the region. [New Chapter in the Middle East 10/02/2001].
"She not surprisingly, blames the Palestinians that ' have not internalised the need to compromise'. It seems irrelevant that they have lost 80% of their original land..."
~~~
Blunkett's previous friend was a Jewish lady called Kimberly Fortier (Kimberly Quinn).
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050307/asp/frontpage/story_4462956.asp
Fortier was the former lover of David Blunkett who had to resign as Britain’s home secretary.
Kimberly has two children, a two-year-old boy, William, and a baby son, Lorcan.
"It is generally accepted because of DNA evidence that William’s father is Blunkett."
The Mail on Sunday named xxxxx as “the mysterious Asian at the centre of the latest speculation in the outlandish Kimberly Quinn affair”.
The Mail on Sunday had an account by Heidi Kingstone, “a close friend of the Quinns, xxxxx and Blunkett”, entitled, “My flirty date with the Asian”.
Simon Hoggart, the Guardian columnist, initially denied that he had been sexually involved with Kimberly. Later, he admitted he had.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sexpionage
Sexpionage - Part 2
Drayson
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1613094,00.html
According to the Sunday Times, 15 May 2005, Lord Drayson "has admitted holding part of his personal fortune in an offshore tax haven that experts say could have helped him avoid £3m in tax".
Drayson is Blair's new defence minister.
In 1998, Geoffrey Robinson, then a Labour Treasury minister, was discovered to have benefited from an offshore trust.
In 2002, Drayson won the contract to supply a smallpox vaccine to the government shortly after donating money to the Labour party.
The government has refused to release the minutes of a private meeting held between Drayson and Blair before the contract was awarded.
Last year, Drayson became a lord and donated £500,000 to the Labour party within weeks.
He gave a further £500,000 last December and was appointed minister for defence procurement in last week’s reshuffle.
According to the Sunday Times, 15 May 2005, Lord Drayson "has admitted holding part of his personal fortune in an offshore tax haven that experts say could have helped him avoid £3m in tax".
Drayson is Blair's new defence minister.
In 1998, Geoffrey Robinson, then a Labour Treasury minister, was discovered to have benefited from an offshore trust.
In 2002, Drayson won the contract to supply a smallpox vaccine to the government shortly after donating money to the Labour party.
The government has refused to release the minutes of a private meeting held between Drayson and Blair before the contract was awarded.
Last year, Drayson became a lord and donated £500,000 to the Labour party within weeks.
He gave a further £500,000 last December and was appointed minister for defence procurement in last week’s reshuffle.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
The Media
http://www.medialens.org/weblog/richard_keeble.php
A blog that everyone should read is the one by Richard Keeble.
A quote:
"US/UK militarism is best understood as having three major strands each of them with a significant mediacentric dimension:
"The totally secret activities with no media coverage. This will include the destabilisation by intelligence agencies and covert forces of countries and ruling elites: not just through the CIA but a range of clandestine forces. Other secret activities include the manipulation of elections, assassination of “enemy” military and political leaders, the arms trade, economic sanctions and diplomatic pressures. US covert intervention in Chad during the 1980s (organising two coups in 1982 and 1990 and imposing a series of ruthless dictators on the country) would provide an archetypal case study here.
"Low Intensity Conflicts (LICs in the jargon). These are conflicts that are conducted mainly in secret but with occasional brief media coverage. Pentagon adviser John M Collins, in his seminal analysis of the United States’ LIC strategy, isolated just 60 US examples during the 20th century. These included Iran 1951-53, Bolivia 1980-86; Lebanon 1982-84. For the UK, the Irish Troubles/War (1967-1998) has been an archetypal LIC given only spasmodic coverage in the mainstream media. Currently US/UK operations in Afghanistan and Iraq can be defined as Low Intensity Conflicts. Recent massacres of civilians in Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi in Iraq have gone largely uncovered in the mainstream media.
"Finally, manufactured, media-hyped, quickie attacks against puny third world opposition usually largely celebrated by the mainstream press. These New Militarist attacks provide the spectacular theatres in which the US/UK can gain rapid “victories”. Recent examples include 1982 The Falklands; 1983 Grenada; 1986 Libya; 1989 Panama; 1991, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003 Iraq; 1992-1993 Somalia; 1999 Serbia/Kosovo; 2001 Afghanistan.
"And all of these conflicts resulted in massive civilian casualties – though the media represent them as largely “heroic”, “clean”, “precise” and “humanitarian”. Colin Powell, in his account of the 1991 Gulf conflict, estimated that 250,000 Iraqis perished. Thousands died during the Kosovo attacks; many more were traumatised and military sites, broadcast stations, hospitals, homes were bombed. Hundreds of thousands were left jobless. Up to 10,000 civilians died during the Iraq invasion of 2003 with more than 100,000 Iraqis reported killed since May 2003.
"Thus the essential function of the mainstream media in New Militarist wars, I argue, is no longer to naturalise and humanise the possibility of nuclear holocaust as during the Cold War but to acclimatise the public to the acceptability of mass slaughters of the nameless “enemy”. In place of nukespeak we have the massacrespeak."
A blog that everyone should read is the one by Richard Keeble.
A quote:
"US/UK militarism is best understood as having three major strands each of them with a significant mediacentric dimension:
"The totally secret activities with no media coverage. This will include the destabilisation by intelligence agencies and covert forces of countries and ruling elites: not just through the CIA but a range of clandestine forces. Other secret activities include the manipulation of elections, assassination of “enemy” military and political leaders, the arms trade, economic sanctions and diplomatic pressures. US covert intervention in Chad during the 1980s (organising two coups in 1982 and 1990 and imposing a series of ruthless dictators on the country) would provide an archetypal case study here.
"Low Intensity Conflicts (LICs in the jargon). These are conflicts that are conducted mainly in secret but with occasional brief media coverage. Pentagon adviser John M Collins, in his seminal analysis of the United States’ LIC strategy, isolated just 60 US examples during the 20th century. These included Iran 1951-53, Bolivia 1980-86; Lebanon 1982-84. For the UK, the Irish Troubles/War (1967-1998) has been an archetypal LIC given only spasmodic coverage in the mainstream media. Currently US/UK operations in Afghanistan and Iraq can be defined as Low Intensity Conflicts. Recent massacres of civilians in Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi in Iraq have gone largely uncovered in the mainstream media.
"Finally, manufactured, media-hyped, quickie attacks against puny third world opposition usually largely celebrated by the mainstream press. These New Militarist attacks provide the spectacular theatres in which the US/UK can gain rapid “victories”. Recent examples include 1982 The Falklands; 1983 Grenada; 1986 Libya; 1989 Panama; 1991, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2003 Iraq; 1992-1993 Somalia; 1999 Serbia/Kosovo; 2001 Afghanistan.
"And all of these conflicts resulted in massive civilian casualties – though the media represent them as largely “heroic”, “clean”, “precise” and “humanitarian”. Colin Powell, in his account of the 1991 Gulf conflict, estimated that 250,000 Iraqis perished. Thousands died during the Kosovo attacks; many more were traumatised and military sites, broadcast stations, hospitals, homes were bombed. Hundreds of thousands were left jobless. Up to 10,000 civilians died during the Iraq invasion of 2003 with more than 100,000 Iraqis reported killed since May 2003.
"Thus the essential function of the mainstream media in New Militarist wars, I argue, is no longer to naturalise and humanise the possibility of nuclear holocaust as during the Cold War but to acclimatise the public to the acceptability of mass slaughters of the nameless “enemy”. In place of nukespeak we have the massacrespeak."
Spies and charities and NGOs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1482966,00.html
The Guardian, 13 May 2005, reported that Russia claims spies are at work within British and American NGOs.
Russia's spy chief, Nikolai Patrushev, told parliament that they had discovered British and American spies working for non-governmental organisations. According to Patrushev, these spies had helped foment uprisings in former Soviet republics.
Among those he named was the British medical charity Merlin, which denied the allegation.
Mr Patrushev said: "Our opponents are steadily and persistently trying to weaken Russian influence in the commonwealth of independent states and the international arena as a whole. The latest events in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan unambiguously confirm this."
Mr Patrushev accused an American NGO, the International Republican Institute, of planning to spend £2.6m to finance opposition groups in Belarus.
Mr Patrushev said there were spies in the US Peace Corps.
~~~~~
A quote from www.whale.to:
http://www.whale.to/b/jonestown1.html
"One of the strangest CIA connections to Jonestown was ... World Vision, an evangelical order which often fronts for the CIA. They performed espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia while Operation Phoenix (the murderous project that left 40,000 people dead) was in full effect. In Honduras, they maintained a presence at CIA contra recruiting camps in the war against the Sandinistas. In Lebanon, the fascist Phalange butchered Palestinians at World Vision's camp. In Cuba, their refugee camps hosted numerous members of the anti-Castro terrorist group Alpha 66 of Bay of Pigs fame. After the Guyana massacre, World Vision developed a scheme to repopulate Jonestown with CIA-linked mercenaries from Laos. Laos, of course, was where the CIA was running it's "secret war" during Vietnam, which for the most part was a smokescreen for a widespread opium trafficking operation.
"One particularly important World Vision official was John Hinckley, Sr., an oil man, reputed CIA officer, and friend of George Bush. You may have heard of his son. Less than four months before Hinckley Jr. became known as Jodie Foster's biggest fan, another member of the World Vision order, Mark Chapman, gunned down John Lennon..."
~~~~
Christian evangelicals and the CIA
~~~~
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2568.asp
CIA director Porter Goss wants to develop new techniques for undercover operations, including establishing front companies and closer ties with prominent international firms...
The new intelligence tactics and new techniques for undercover operations may include recruiting prominent politicians.
The Guardian, 13 May 2005, reported that Russia claims spies are at work within British and American NGOs.
Russia's spy chief, Nikolai Patrushev, told parliament that they had discovered British and American spies working for non-governmental organisations. According to Patrushev, these spies had helped foment uprisings in former Soviet republics.
Among those he named was the British medical charity Merlin, which denied the allegation.
Mr Patrushev said: "Our opponents are steadily and persistently trying to weaken Russian influence in the commonwealth of independent states and the international arena as a whole. The latest events in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan unambiguously confirm this."
Mr Patrushev accused an American NGO, the International Republican Institute, of planning to spend £2.6m to finance opposition groups in Belarus.
Mr Patrushev said there were spies in the US Peace Corps.
~~~~~
A quote from www.whale.to:
http://www.whale.to/b/jonestown1.html
"One of the strangest CIA connections to Jonestown was ... World Vision, an evangelical order which often fronts for the CIA. They performed espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia while Operation Phoenix (the murderous project that left 40,000 people dead) was in full effect. In Honduras, they maintained a presence at CIA contra recruiting camps in the war against the Sandinistas. In Lebanon, the fascist Phalange butchered Palestinians at World Vision's camp. In Cuba, their refugee camps hosted numerous members of the anti-Castro terrorist group Alpha 66 of Bay of Pigs fame. After the Guyana massacre, World Vision developed a scheme to repopulate Jonestown with CIA-linked mercenaries from Laos. Laos, of course, was where the CIA was running it's "secret war" during Vietnam, which for the most part was a smokescreen for a widespread opium trafficking operation.
"One particularly important World Vision official was John Hinckley, Sr., an oil man, reputed CIA officer, and friend of George Bush. You may have heard of his son. Less than four months before Hinckley Jr. became known as Jodie Foster's biggest fan, another member of the World Vision order, Mark Chapman, gunned down John Lennon..."
~~~~
Christian evangelicals and the CIA
~~~~
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2568.asp
CIA director Porter Goss wants to develop new techniques for undercover operations, including establishing front companies and closer ties with prominent international firms...
The new intelligence tactics and new techniques for undercover operations may include recruiting prominent politicians.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Norm Coleman
Norm Coleman, who is Jewish, has taken $34,000 from pro-Israel lobbies.
http://www.assassinationscience.com/
http://www.alternet.org/story/14399
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/well-o29.shtml
The death of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone not only deprived the Democrats of a majority during the lame-duck session after the 2002 election but the subsequent loss of Walter Mondale to Norm Coleman, whom Wellstone was defeating, cost them control of the Senate.
There has been speculation that Wellstone was murdered.
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/02/28.html
A Buzzflash editorial, 28 February 2003, was headed:
"Minnesota Should Hang Its Head in Shame for Electing Norm Coleman, A True Grand Hypocrisy Party Creep"
Buzzflash refers to Coleman as:
'an opportunistic low-life who adopts the right wing extremist party line whenever he's called upon to do so.'
' an opportunist ... an unctuous creep.'
' this dirt bag.'
~~~~~
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=592306
Acording to Scott Ritter, in the Independent 12 December 2004, "The oil-for-food 'scandal' is a cynical smokescreen."
Norm Coleman leads the US senators investigating the oil-for-food programme.
Ritter sees the investigation as a charade, designed to shift attention away from the Iraq debacle.
According to Ritter:
1. The oil-for-food programme was designed to help topple Saddam.
2. The US and UK allowed a billion-dollar illegal oil smuggling trade over the Turkish border.
3. The US turned a blind eye to a Russian oil company buying oil from Iraq at a heavy discount.
4. 80 per cent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under "oil for food" ended up in the United States.
5. The United States blocked billions of dollars of humanitarian aid.
6. There was economic strangulation of Iraq.
7. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died as a result of these sanctions.
8. Under Saddam there was an element of prosperity; 'on the eve of the US-led invasion, Baghdad was full of booming businesses, restaurants were full, and families walked freely along well-lit parks.'
~~~
According to an investigation by the Financial Times, Iraqi Kurds are now trying to launder 14 tons of cash they received through the oil-for-food program.
~~~
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/526/526_05_OilForFood.shtml
According to Socialist Worker: "Coleman’s claims don’t match with the findings of former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, who headed up a UN-appointed commission to investigate the oil-for-food program."
The commission reportedly discovered that Lloyds Register - a British customs service that monitored sales of food and other basics in Iraq - billed the Office for Iraq Program for 1,800 days when Lloyds agents weren’t even in Iraq.
DENIS HALLIDAY is a former head of the UN’s humanitarian program in Iraq who administered the oil-for-food program - and who resigned in protest against the U.S.-led sanctions on Iraq.
He spoke to Socialist Worker about the recent oil-for-food controversy.
"THE REAL scandal in my mind is the fact that the UN sustained sanctions on the people of Iraq for 13 years, and by so doing - and neglecting the reality of the consequences that were well reported to them in the Security Council - they killed well over a million Iraqis. Two-thirds of those were probably very young children. That is a scandal...
"Clearly, American oil companies were buying oil from Saddam Hussein, and they were indirectly paying surcharges."
~~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/051305Madsen/051305madsen.html
Galloway hounded.
http://www.assassinationscience.com/
http://www.alternet.org/story/14399
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/well-o29.shtml
The death of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone not only deprived the Democrats of a majority during the lame-duck session after the 2002 election but the subsequent loss of Walter Mondale to Norm Coleman, whom Wellstone was defeating, cost them control of the Senate.
There has been speculation that Wellstone was murdered.
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/02/28.html
A Buzzflash editorial, 28 February 2003, was headed:
"Minnesota Should Hang Its Head in Shame for Electing Norm Coleman, A True Grand Hypocrisy Party Creep"
Buzzflash refers to Coleman as:
'an opportunistic low-life who adopts the right wing extremist party line whenever he's called upon to do so.'
' an opportunist ... an unctuous creep.'
' this dirt bag.'
~~~~~
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=592306
Acording to Scott Ritter, in the Independent 12 December 2004, "The oil-for-food 'scandal' is a cynical smokescreen."
Norm Coleman leads the US senators investigating the oil-for-food programme.
Ritter sees the investigation as a charade, designed to shift attention away from the Iraq debacle.
According to Ritter:
1. The oil-for-food programme was designed to help topple Saddam.
2. The US and UK allowed a billion-dollar illegal oil smuggling trade over the Turkish border.
3. The US turned a blind eye to a Russian oil company buying oil from Iraq at a heavy discount.
4. 80 per cent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under "oil for food" ended up in the United States.
5. The United States blocked billions of dollars of humanitarian aid.
6. There was economic strangulation of Iraq.
7. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died as a result of these sanctions.
8. Under Saddam there was an element of prosperity; 'on the eve of the US-led invasion, Baghdad was full of booming businesses, restaurants were full, and families walked freely along well-lit parks.'
~~~
According to an investigation by the Financial Times, Iraqi Kurds are now trying to launder 14 tons of cash they received through the oil-for-food program.
~~~
http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/526/526_05_OilForFood.shtml
According to Socialist Worker: "Coleman’s claims don’t match with the findings of former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, who headed up a UN-appointed commission to investigate the oil-for-food program."
The commission reportedly discovered that Lloyds Register - a British customs service that monitored sales of food and other basics in Iraq - billed the Office for Iraq Program for 1,800 days when Lloyds agents weren’t even in Iraq.
DENIS HALLIDAY is a former head of the UN’s humanitarian program in Iraq who administered the oil-for-food program - and who resigned in protest against the U.S.-led sanctions on Iraq.
He spoke to Socialist Worker about the recent oil-for-food controversy.
"THE REAL scandal in my mind is the fact that the UN sustained sanctions on the people of Iraq for 13 years, and by so doing - and neglecting the reality of the consequences that were well reported to them in the Security Council - they killed well over a million Iraqis. Two-thirds of those were probably very young children. That is a scandal...
"Clearly, American oil companies were buying oil from Saddam Hussein, and they were indirectly paying surcharges."
~~~
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/051305Madsen/051305madsen.html
Galloway hounded.
Guardian writer considers possibility that 9 11 was an inside-job
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1480940,00.html
AL Kennedy, in the Guardian, 11 May 2005, suggests that 9 11 may have been an inside-job.
Kennedy examines the theory that on 9 11, "covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta."
Kennedy points out:
1. The FBI blocked investigations into the plot prior to 9 11.
2. The nearest military aircraft weren't scrambled to intercept the hijacked flights when this is standard procedure.
3. When more distant jets were eventually brought in, they flew at less than half speed.
It would seem, they shot down Flight 93 'when its passengers may already have overcome its hijackers'.
4. With Flight 93, three minutes of the cockpit recording appear to be missing.
The black boxes from the other crashes disappeared. 'Firefighters at Ground Zero have repeatedly stated that three of the four possible black boxes there were found and taken away by government agents'.
5. There are worries about the clear links between the Pakistani ISI, the CIA and the men named as the 9/11 hijackers.
6. There are worries about 'the mysterious inability of anyone to capture Osama bin Laden'.
Kennedy relates that the UK and USA continue to:
1. terrorise countries unconnected with the attacks
2. place permanent military bases near oil reserves and pipeline routes
3. harass and murder Muslims
4. foment terrorist resistance at every opportunity.
Kennedy reminds us that the UK
1. unmasks non-existent ricin plots
2. threatens us with ID cards
3. can't supply its troops in Iraq with working radios or a legal causus belli.
AL Kennedy, in the Guardian, 11 May 2005, suggests that 9 11 may have been an inside-job.
Kennedy examines the theory that on 9 11, "covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta."
Kennedy points out:
1. The FBI blocked investigations into the plot prior to 9 11.
2. The nearest military aircraft weren't scrambled to intercept the hijacked flights when this is standard procedure.
3. When more distant jets were eventually brought in, they flew at less than half speed.
It would seem, they shot down Flight 93 'when its passengers may already have overcome its hijackers'.
4. With Flight 93, three minutes of the cockpit recording appear to be missing.
The black boxes from the other crashes disappeared. 'Firefighters at Ground Zero have repeatedly stated that three of the four possible black boxes there were found and taken away by government agents'.
5. There are worries about the clear links between the Pakistani ISI, the CIA and the men named as the 9/11 hijackers.
6. There are worries about 'the mysterious inability of anyone to capture Osama bin Laden'.
Kennedy relates that the UK and USA continue to:
1. terrorise countries unconnected with the attacks
2. place permanent military bases near oil reserves and pipeline routes
3. harass and murder Muslims
4. foment terrorist resistance at every opportunity.
Kennedy reminds us that the UK
1. unmasks non-existent ricin plots
2. threatens us with ID cards
3. can't supply its troops in Iraq with working radios or a legal causus belli.
British Police Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering?
http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=00393
"The Insider", 30 July 2003, wrote about "Illegal drugs trafficking and money laundering by the British police force."
London's Metropolitan Police was criticised by a Judge for running an undercover multi-million pound drugs operation, without permission.
According to the Guardian 29 July 2003:
"A total of £15m was brought to London hidden in suitcases, laundered by undercover police officers and then returned to alleged drug dealers over a three year period, the court heard.
"A prosecution based on the sting was thrown out at Southwark crown court ... after a judge described the police actions as 'massively illegal'.
"Judge George Bathurst-Norman allowed 10 defendants to walk free after saying that the police had 'overstepped the line between legitimate crime detection and unacceptable crime creation'.
"He added: 'They offered a wholly exceptional opportunity to others to commit crime...
I have come to the conclusion that what the police did amounted to state-created crime.'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1007820,00.html
According to "The Insider":
"Undercover operations provide a superb cover for the highly profitable government-controlled drug trade.
"Individual petty drug dealers are arrested so that operations in which police mingle with criminals can be called a success.
"Any drugs cartel that dares to compete with the state-sponsored operation is dealt with swiftly and effectively..."
"The Insider", 30 July 2003, wrote about "Illegal drugs trafficking and money laundering by the British police force."
London's Metropolitan Police was criticised by a Judge for running an undercover multi-million pound drugs operation, without permission.
According to the Guardian 29 July 2003:
"A total of £15m was brought to London hidden in suitcases, laundered by undercover police officers and then returned to alleged drug dealers over a three year period, the court heard.
"A prosecution based on the sting was thrown out at Southwark crown court ... after a judge described the police actions as 'massively illegal'.
"Judge George Bathurst-Norman allowed 10 defendants to walk free after saying that the police had 'overstepped the line between legitimate crime detection and unacceptable crime creation'.
"He added: 'They offered a wholly exceptional opportunity to others to commit crime...
I have come to the conclusion that what the police did amounted to state-created crime.'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1007820,00.html
According to "The Insider":
"Undercover operations provide a superb cover for the highly profitable government-controlled drug trade.
"Individual petty drug dealers are arrested so that operations in which police mingle with criminals can be called a success.
"Any drugs cartel that dares to compete with the state-sponsored operation is dealt with swiftly and effectively..."
'Plane bomber' was CIA agent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm
Luis Posada Carriles is suspected of being involved in the bombing of a passenger plane.
Declassified US government documents show that Luis Posada Carriles worked for the CIA.
The documents reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that Luis Posada Carriles was one of those behind the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane that killed 73 people.
The documents were released by George Washington University's National Security Archive
One FBI report quoted a confidential source as saying that Mr Luis Posada Carriles was one of several people who met at least twice at a hotel in Caracas, allegedly to discuss bombing a Cubana airlines plane.
Mr Posada was arrested after the bombing, but escaped from prison.
The US documents show that he later joined the covert US operation, led by Oliver North, to rearm the Contra guerrillas.
Mr Posada once boasted of being responsible for a series of bomb attacks on Havana tourist spots in the 1990s.
The US would have to reconcile its traditional sympathy for the politically influential Cuban exiles in Miami and its firm stand against suspected terrorists in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, our correspondent says.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/04/lockerbie-bomb-and-ecuador-and-new.html
Former CIA agent Philip Agee wrote 'Inside the Company: CIA Diary' (New York, 1975).
Agee wrote that, in Ecuador, almost all political organizations were infiltrated by the CIA, often at the highest levels.
Agee explained that in Ecuador Various CIA front organisations were set up.
These spewed out propaganda. A well-known personality would deliver a speech prepared by the CIA, and then a newspaper editor, or a well-known columnist, would praise it, both gentlemen being on the CIA payroll.
Union leaders were taken over by the CIA.
In virtually every department of the Ecuadorean government there were people working for the CIA.
At one point, the Agency could count amongst this number the men who were second and third in power in the country.
CIA agents would bomb churches or right-wing organizations and make it appear to be the work of leftists.
They would march in left-wing parades displaying signs and shouting slogans of a very provocative anti-military nature.What happens in Ecuador seemingly happens in Scotland and England?
~~~
Remember the Lockerbie Bomb?
An internal investigation by Pan Am is believed to have found that the bomb planted on Flight 103 was NOT put on the plane in Malta.
The Pan Am report is believed to have concluded that the bomb was not aimed at the killing of Americans in general, but was targeted specifically to kill a small band of DIA operatives that had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon.
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
~~~~~
Why do some Scots believe that justice was done at the Lockerbie bomb trial? Because they have been deceived by the CIA.
LOCKERBIE - There were many advance warnings that a bomb was going to be placed on a US aircraft at Frankfurt airport.For example, on 5 December 1988, the US Embassy in Helsinki had a telephone warning that "within the next two weeks" an attempt would be made to place a bomb aboard a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to New York. On 18 december 1988 the German BKA was tipped off about a bomb plot against Pan Am 103 in the next two or three days.
Pan Am Flight 103 hit Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.
On that flight "were at least 2 US Intelligence agents and a Mr Khalid Nazir Jafaar."
The Dumfries and Galloway police began to investigate.
But for two days it was "difficult" for them to collect evidence as "CIA agents combed the countryside for the luggage of the dead American intelligence agents and a suitcase full of heroin.... 59 bodies were left lying around Lockerbie until 24 December... but by then there were only 58 bodies..." according to former DIA agent Lester Coleman
~~~~
The Lockerbie judges considered the evidence of Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gauci, who provided the only visual identification of al-Megrahi as having been the person who allegedly bought clothes that were found, or planted , at the crash site, and were thought to be in the same suitcase as the bomb.
Gauci’s evidence was upheld despite numerous discrepancies over the date, time, weather, which football matches were on the television and even whether or not Christmas decorations were up.
Gauci had previously identified a member of a Palestinian group, Abu Talb, as being the person who 'bought the clothes'. Abu Talb does not look like al-Megrahi.
~~~~
The Lockerbie Bomb trial suggested that something is going badly wrong in Scotland.
The Sunday Herald 08/04/2001 : "THE United Nations has savaged the Crown Office's handling of the Lockerbie trial claiming the outcome was rigged through the unfair suppression of evidence; it was politically influenced by the USA; and the court had no grounds to return a guilty verdict. Dr Hans Kochler, who was handpicked by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to act as the international observer during the trial in Holland, hinted that the trial was rigged, claimed the guilty verdict handed down in February to Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi was 'arbitrary' and 'irrational' and gave his tacit support for an acquittal at the planned appeal."
23 May, 2000: It was revealed by sections of the Scottish press that the deputy director of the Lockerbie trial briefing unit at Glasgow University, Professor Andrew Fulton, was an MI6 intelligence officer.
The unit was supposed to provide "impartial and objective" legal information about the trial and was much used by the TV news programmes.
24/05/00 THE SCOTSMAN: "Prof Fulton has been 'on holiday' since it was revealed that during his 30 year diplomatic career he was a key memberof the MI6 secret service in Europe, Asia and America."
~~~
Speaking after the Lockerbie Bomb trial, Dr Jim Swires, whose daughter, Flora, was killed in the explosion said, “We think there has been miscarriage of justice."
Professor Robert Black, the lawyer who has worked closely with the relatives for many years and the architect of the trial process itself, also described the trial as a miscarriage of justice.
He told the Scotsman, “We have not seen the end of this case... There is a hell of lot of more evidence that appeared neither at the trial or the appeal.”
Luis Posada Carriles is suspected of being involved in the bombing of a passenger plane.
Declassified US government documents show that Luis Posada Carriles worked for the CIA.
The documents reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that Luis Posada Carriles was one of those behind the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane that killed 73 people.
The documents were released by George Washington University's National Security Archive
One FBI report quoted a confidential source as saying that Mr Luis Posada Carriles was one of several people who met at least twice at a hotel in Caracas, allegedly to discuss bombing a Cubana airlines plane.
Mr Posada was arrested after the bombing, but escaped from prison.
The US documents show that he later joined the covert US operation, led by Oliver North, to rearm the Contra guerrillas.
Mr Posada once boasted of being responsible for a series of bomb attacks on Havana tourist spots in the 1990s.
The US would have to reconcile its traditional sympathy for the politically influential Cuban exiles in Miami and its firm stand against suspected terrorists in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, our correspondent says.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2005/04/lockerbie-bomb-and-ecuador-and-new.html
Former CIA agent Philip Agee wrote 'Inside the Company: CIA Diary' (New York, 1975).
Agee wrote that, in Ecuador, almost all political organizations were infiltrated by the CIA, often at the highest levels.
Agee explained that in Ecuador Various CIA front organisations were set up.
These spewed out propaganda. A well-known personality would deliver a speech prepared by the CIA, and then a newspaper editor, or a well-known columnist, would praise it, both gentlemen being on the CIA payroll.
Union leaders were taken over by the CIA.
In virtually every department of the Ecuadorean government there were people working for the CIA.
At one point, the Agency could count amongst this number the men who were second and third in power in the country.
CIA agents would bomb churches or right-wing organizations and make it appear to be the work of leftists.
They would march in left-wing parades displaying signs and shouting slogans of a very provocative anti-military nature.What happens in Ecuador seemingly happens in Scotland and England?
~~~
Remember the Lockerbie Bomb?
An internal investigation by Pan Am is believed to have found that the bomb planted on Flight 103 was NOT put on the plane in Malta.
The Pan Am report is believed to have concluded that the bomb was not aimed at the killing of Americans in general, but was targeted specifically to kill a small band of DIA operatives that had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon.
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
~~~~~
Why do some Scots believe that justice was done at the Lockerbie bomb trial? Because they have been deceived by the CIA.
LOCKERBIE - There were many advance warnings that a bomb was going to be placed on a US aircraft at Frankfurt airport.For example, on 5 December 1988, the US Embassy in Helsinki had a telephone warning that "within the next two weeks" an attempt would be made to place a bomb aboard a Pan Am flight from Frankfurt to New York. On 18 december 1988 the German BKA was tipped off about a bomb plot against Pan Am 103 in the next two or three days.
Pan Am Flight 103 hit Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.
On that flight "were at least 2 US Intelligence agents and a Mr Khalid Nazir Jafaar."
The Dumfries and Galloway police began to investigate.
But for two days it was "difficult" for them to collect evidence as "CIA agents combed the countryside for the luggage of the dead American intelligence agents and a suitcase full of heroin.... 59 bodies were left lying around Lockerbie until 24 December... but by then there were only 58 bodies..." according to former DIA agent Lester Coleman
~~~~
The Lockerbie judges considered the evidence of Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gauci, who provided the only visual identification of al-Megrahi as having been the person who allegedly bought clothes that were found, or planted , at the crash site, and were thought to be in the same suitcase as the bomb.
Gauci’s evidence was upheld despite numerous discrepancies over the date, time, weather, which football matches were on the television and even whether or not Christmas decorations were up.
Gauci had previously identified a member of a Palestinian group, Abu Talb, as being the person who 'bought the clothes'. Abu Talb does not look like al-Megrahi.
~~~~
The Lockerbie Bomb trial suggested that something is going badly wrong in Scotland.
The Sunday Herald 08/04/2001 : "THE United Nations has savaged the Crown Office's handling of the Lockerbie trial claiming the outcome was rigged through the unfair suppression of evidence; it was politically influenced by the USA; and the court had no grounds to return a guilty verdict. Dr Hans Kochler, who was handpicked by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to act as the international observer during the trial in Holland, hinted that the trial was rigged, claimed the guilty verdict handed down in February to Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi was 'arbitrary' and 'irrational' and gave his tacit support for an acquittal at the planned appeal."
23 May, 2000: It was revealed by sections of the Scottish press that the deputy director of the Lockerbie trial briefing unit at Glasgow University, Professor Andrew Fulton, was an MI6 intelligence officer.
The unit was supposed to provide "impartial and objective" legal information about the trial and was much used by the TV news programmes.
24/05/00 THE SCOTSMAN: "Prof Fulton has been 'on holiday' since it was revealed that during his 30 year diplomatic career he was a key memberof the MI6 secret service in Europe, Asia and America."
~~~
Speaking after the Lockerbie Bomb trial, Dr Jim Swires, whose daughter, Flora, was killed in the explosion said, “We think there has been miscarriage of justice."
Professor Robert Black, the lawyer who has worked closely with the relatives for many years and the architect of the trial process itself, also described the trial as a miscarriage of justice.
He told the Scotsman, “We have not seen the end of this case... There is a hell of lot of more evidence that appeared neither at the trial or the appeal.”
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Anglo-American fascism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1480178,00.html
In the Guardian, 10 May 2005, Richard Drayton, the senior lecturer in history at Cambridge University, wrote about:
the myths surrounding the British and American military.
~~~
Drayton tells us about Robert Lilly's book 'Taken by Force'.
Lilly, a distinguished American sociologist, studied the military archives and then wrote about the rapes committed by American soldiers in Europe between 1942 and 1945. Lilly's US publisher suppressed the book.
Drayton states that we prefer not to know about the mass rape committed by American and British troops. Lilly suggests a minimum of 10,000 American rapes.
Time Magazine reported in September 1945: "Our own army and the British army along with ours have done their share of looting and raping ... we too are considered an army of rapists."
~~~
Drayton argues that some British and Americans think they had a good war against Hitler, and that this gives then an ethical blank cheque.
Some of the British and Americans think that they now have the right to:
1. bomb
2. maim
3. imprison without trial.
~~~
According to Drayton:
Fascism had important Anglo-American roots.
1. In the British Empire there was ethnic cleansing and slave labour.
America's empire in Latin America had similarities with Japan's empire in Asia.
2. The British and Americans were key theorists of eugenics
(Sir Francis Galton wrote about selective breeding).
3. Racial segregation was normal in parts of the USA.
(The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed certain forms of discrimination)
3. The concentration camp was a British invention.
(Britain killed many thousands of Boer women and children in concentration camps in South Africa, between 1899 and 1902)
4. The British were the first to bomb civilians from the air.
For example, Bomber Harris bombed the Kurds in the 1920s.
5. British and US elites gave aid to the fascists.
President Bush's grandfather, prosecuted for "trading with the enemy" in 1942, was one of many powerful Anglo-Americans who helped Hitler.
6. The bombing of Dresden, filled with women and children, was one of many atrocities.
The allies tortured and murdered of captured soldiers.
Edgar Jones, an "embedded" Pacific war correspondent, wrote in 1946: "'We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments."
~~~
After World War II, Anglo-American fascism seemed to continue:
1. In 1946, Project Paperclip secretly brought more than 1,000 Nazi scientists to the US.
Among them were:
Kurt Blome, who had tested nerve gas at Auschwitz,
Konrad Schaeffer, who forced salt into victims at Dachau.
2. Experiments in mind control via drugs and surgery became part of the CIA's Project Bluebird.
3. Japan's Dr Shiro Ishii, who had experimented with prisoners in Manchuria, came to Maryland to advise on bio-weapons.
4. Britain ran concentration camps in Kenya to crush the Mau Mau.
5. The Gestapo's torture techniques were given by the Americans to Latin American dictatorships in the 60s and 70s.
Richard Drayton is senior lecturer in history at Cambridge University.
In the Guardian, 10 May 2005, Richard Drayton, the senior lecturer in history at Cambridge University, wrote about:
the myths surrounding the British and American military.
~~~
Drayton tells us about Robert Lilly's book 'Taken by Force'.
Lilly, a distinguished American sociologist, studied the military archives and then wrote about the rapes committed by American soldiers in Europe between 1942 and 1945. Lilly's US publisher suppressed the book.
Drayton states that we prefer not to know about the mass rape committed by American and British troops. Lilly suggests a minimum of 10,000 American rapes.
Time Magazine reported in September 1945: "Our own army and the British army along with ours have done their share of looting and raping ... we too are considered an army of rapists."
~~~
Drayton argues that some British and Americans think they had a good war against Hitler, and that this gives then an ethical blank cheque.
Some of the British and Americans think that they now have the right to:
1. bomb
2. maim
3. imprison without trial.
~~~
According to Drayton:
Fascism had important Anglo-American roots.
1. In the British Empire there was ethnic cleansing and slave labour.
America's empire in Latin America had similarities with Japan's empire in Asia.
2. The British and Americans were key theorists of eugenics
(Sir Francis Galton wrote about selective breeding).
3. Racial segregation was normal in parts of the USA.
(The 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed certain forms of discrimination)
3. The concentration camp was a British invention.
(Britain killed many thousands of Boer women and children in concentration camps in South Africa, between 1899 and 1902)
4. The British were the first to bomb civilians from the air.
For example, Bomber Harris bombed the Kurds in the 1920s.
5. British and US elites gave aid to the fascists.
President Bush's grandfather, prosecuted for "trading with the enemy" in 1942, was one of many powerful Anglo-Americans who helped Hitler.
6. The bombing of Dresden, filled with women and children, was one of many atrocities.
The allies tortured and murdered of captured soldiers.
Edgar Jones, an "embedded" Pacific war correspondent, wrote in 1946: "'We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying into a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments."
~~~
After World War II, Anglo-American fascism seemed to continue:
1. In 1946, Project Paperclip secretly brought more than 1,000 Nazi scientists to the US.
Among them were:
Kurt Blome, who had tested nerve gas at Auschwitz,
Konrad Schaeffer, who forced salt into victims at Dachau.
2. Experiments in mind control via drugs and surgery became part of the CIA's Project Bluebird.
3. Japan's Dr Shiro Ishii, who had experimented with prisoners in Manchuria, came to Maryland to advise on bio-weapons.
4. Britain ran concentration camps in Kenya to crush the Mau Mau.
5. The Gestapo's torture techniques were given by the Americans to Latin American dictatorships in the 60s and 70s.
Richard Drayton is senior lecturer in history at Cambridge University.
UK - more odd election results?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/4532931.stm
According to the BBC, 10 May 2005, Police in Stoke-on-Trent are investigating claims that postal votes may have been tampered with.
The returning officer related that 43 papers for Stoke North arrived together and the declaration of identity had been removed from each.
Joan Walley held the constituency for Labour with a majority of more than 10,000 over the Conservatives.
Labour 16,191 votes -5.4%
Conservative 6,155 votes +1.2%
Liberal Democrat 4,561 votes +2.9%
~~~~~~~
Which of the following show big swings against Labour?
Which result stands out as very different?
Birmingham Ladywood
Labour 17,262 votes -17.0%
Liberal Democrat 10,461 votes +23.3%
Birmingham Hodge Hill
Labour 13,822 votes -15.3%
Liberal Democrat 8,373 +21.4%
Birmingham Perry Barr
Khalid Mahmood Labour 18,269 +0.5%
Jon Hunt Liberal Democrat 10,321 +3.6%
Birmingham Sparkbrook & Small Heath
Labour 13,787 -21.4%
Respect-Unity Coalition 10,498 +27.5%
Liberal Democrat 7,727 +7.0%
Birmingham Yardley (Lib gain)
Liberal Democrat 13,648 +8.1%
Labour 10,976 -9.6%
In 1974, Labour's Harold Wilson won 39% of the vote and had a majority of only 3 seats.
In 2005, Labour's Tony Blair won 35% of the vote and had a majority of 67 seats.
In 2005, Blair lost lots of not very marginal seats, but managed to hold on to some of the most marginal.
More at:
Possible UK vote fraud? Some figures.
According to the BBC, 10 May 2005, Police in Stoke-on-Trent are investigating claims that postal votes may have been tampered with.
The returning officer related that 43 papers for Stoke North arrived together and the declaration of identity had been removed from each.
Joan Walley held the constituency for Labour with a majority of more than 10,000 over the Conservatives.
Labour 16,191 votes -5.4%
Conservative 6,155 votes +1.2%
Liberal Democrat 4,561 votes +2.9%
~~~~~~~
Which of the following show big swings against Labour?
Which result stands out as very different?
Birmingham Ladywood
Labour 17,262 votes -17.0%
Liberal Democrat 10,461 votes +23.3%
Birmingham Hodge Hill
Labour 13,822 votes -15.3%
Liberal Democrat 8,373 +21.4%
Birmingham Perry Barr
Khalid Mahmood Labour 18,269 +0.5%
Jon Hunt Liberal Democrat 10,321 +3.6%
Birmingham Sparkbrook & Small Heath
Labour 13,787 -21.4%
Respect-Unity Coalition 10,498 +27.5%
Liberal Democrat 7,727 +7.0%
Birmingham Yardley (Lib gain)
Liberal Democrat 13,648 +8.1%
Labour 10,976 -9.6%
In 1974, Labour's Harold Wilson won 39% of the vote and had a majority of only 3 seats.
In 2005, Labour's Tony Blair won 35% of the vote and had a majority of 67 seats.
In 2005, Blair lost lots of not very marginal seats, but managed to hold on to some of the most marginal.
More at:
Possible UK vote fraud? Some figures.
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