Which is the cleverest nation on earth?
Scholars have traced the rudiments of modern psychology, anthropology, the earth sciences and theories of civil society and liberal education to 18th-century Scotland.
In their more modern history, the Scots have excelled in the arts, science, engineering and medicine.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1411963,00.html
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Monday, February 14, 2005
Blair and the stock market
"A government that has presided over a near halving of the value of the London stock market surely risks the wrath of electors come the General Election.
"People have seen hundreds of millions wiped off the value of their pensions - many will surely struggle to make ends meet when they retire."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1411659,00.html
"People have seen hundreds of millions wiped off the value of their pensions - many will surely struggle to make ends meet when they retire."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1411659,00.html
Michael Howard's cousin and gangsters.
Why did Howard release two dangerous gangsters?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase. Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters. He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1411777,00.html
Police are investigating Michael Howard's role in a royal pardon for two of Liverpool's most dangerous gangsters, John Haase and Paul Bennett, who were granted a royal pardon in July 1996 on Howard's orders.
The decision came 11 months into 18-year sentences.
The Metropolitan police is about to launch an investigation into the 'circumstances leading up to the granting of a royal pardon for these individuals'.
Was the Home Secretary duped into believing Haase and Bennett had provided vital information about arms caches across Liverpool, arms they had arranged to be planted themselves?
Michael Howard's cousin, Simon Bakerman, is an associate of Haase. Bakerman was released from prison on the day Howard became leader of the Conservative Party in November 2003.
Bakerman received a three-year sentence in 2002 for running an illegal factory making amphetamine and ketamine pills.
Haase claims that Bakerman received large sums of money from Haase before the pardon was granted, though even his lawyers admit there is no evidence of where this money ended up - if it was paid in the first place.
The arms caches were a set-up, planted on Haase's instructions from a mobile phone he had smuggled into prison.
Witnesses from within Haase's organisation now claim that bribes totalling £4.5 million were paid by criminals to officials involved with the case.
Haase and his associates have often been held responsible for bringing gun culture to the streets of Liverpool.
One former senior Customs officer said there had been suspicions well before the release of the two men that the arms caches were an elaborate scam.
Haase was rearrested in 1999 and sentenced to 13 years for money-laundering and supplying firearms to fellow gangsters. He is serving his sentence, but continues to wield a powerful influence from his prison cell, not least through his continuing claims that bribes were paid to help obtain his royal pardon.
PREDICTIONS
Predictions are often wrong.
However, here are some predictions made at the end of 2004:
David Miliband will be the next leader of Britain's Labour party.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy will take over from Chirac.
Michael Howard will remain as Britain's Tory leader.
Sir Stephen Lander will remain head of Britain's FBI.
Michael Grade will remain as BBC chairman.
In the Bush government, the following will remain key players:
Dov Zakheim and Paul Wolfowitz.
However, here are some predictions made at the end of 2004:
David Miliband will be the next leader of Britain's Labour party.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy will take over from Chirac.
Michael Howard will remain as Britain's Tory leader.
Sir Stephen Lander will remain head of Britain's FBI.
Michael Grade will remain as BBC chairman.
In the Bush government, the following will remain key players:
Dov Zakheim and Paul Wolfowitz.
TERRORISM - It's not who you think it is?
A. is for the city of ANGELS, Los Angeles.
Who would try to blow up a building in America? A bunch of crazy Moslems?
Irv Rubin, the chairman of the Jewish Defence league, was arrested in December 2001 for conspiring to blow up the main mosque in Los Angeles. Rubin was also charged with plotting against a Republican congressman. That got little publicity.
Remember Mr Blair claiming he had damning evidence against certain Moslems for the 9/11 attacks? Later, Blair admitted that this tenuous circumstantial evidence (CIA handouts) would not stand up in court. That got little publicity.
Then there was the BBC's John Simpson in Kabul discovering a document showing how to make nukes. That got lots of publicity. Then the New York Times pointed out the document was a spoof, available on the internet. That got little or no publicity in the UK.
Then there was Zacarias Moussaoui, charged in connection with 11/9. The French secret service repeatedly tried and failed to get MI6 and the FBI to take an interest in Zacarias. The French file dated back to 1994.
Then there was Newsnight telling us that top people in the Bush administration had told the FBI, prior to 11/9, to lay off bin Laden...
A. is for Allegations that the Omagh bombing was the work of a British double agent within the Real IRA.
Former British double agent Kevin Fulton alleges that the British security forces allowed the bomb to travel in a stolen car from Dundalk to Omagh. Sounds odd? Why was the army confined to barracks on the day of the attack? Why did the RUC have only 3 men on the streets of Omagh?
According to www.wsws.org British soldiers and double-agents ran a 'terror network' called the FRU. "The Force Research Unit (FRU) was an undercover security operation financed and run by the British state for more than two decades....(They) authorised their agents to carry out numerous illegal activities including bomb making, murder and the shooting of RUC officers...Fulton claims he...took part in a series of terrorist bombings...including...Portadown."
In one sense, Blair benefited from the Omagh bombing. The bombing helped to isolate the opponents of the Northern Ireland Agreement, and, the bombing gave Blair a pretext for bringing in draconian new laws against terrorism.
A. is for Abercorn Restaurant Bombing 1972 in Belfast.
Well, do you really know who did it? Two killed and one hundred and thirty one people injured when a 'Protestant' bomb went off.
Captain Colin Wallace, one time British army information officer, served 7 years in jail after being convicted of a serious crime in 1980. Wallace claimed he was framed because of claims he made about the British secret service's operations in Northern Ireland.
And that leads us to the Kincora Affair - the sexual abuse of young boys in Kincora boys home in Belfast. "Loyalist paramilitary leader William McGrath, who had links to British intelligence, was believed to have organised sex sessions with young boys for SENIOR POLITICIANS, civil servants and MILITARY personal."
And that leads us to who is really behind the continuing terror. Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? Who was being blackmailed? And which former British Prime Minister was smeared... Time.com 16/8/01 describes how leaders of the para-militaries are heavily into organised crime. It's not about Christianity. It's about making money.
Who is making money from the ATTACKS ON AMERICA? "Arms manufacturers, construction firms and gold mining groups...." according to The Guardian 25/9/01. "US defence giant Lockheed Martin is well placed for new orders, while missile maker Raytheon has seen its shares race ahaead 30% since September 11.... "Newmont Mining have seen their shares rise. "Those hedge funds that had already been betting huge sums that the stock market would fall will have cashed in handsomely..."
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote, "Afghanistan is the key to the Western Domination of Asia....Afghanistan is indispensible to the regional control and transport of oil in Central Asia....In 1998 Dick Cheney (then chief executive of a major oil services company)...remarked: 'I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become so strategically important as the Caspian.' ...The only route (for an oil pipeleine from the Caspian) which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan."
A. is for Algeria Ah! This is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections. The USA was not happy; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy. So the army took over.
Then the killings began. More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists doing the killings?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published. It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes: "I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child. "I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians. "I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood. "I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
Moslem extremism? Think of Palestine!
Thousands of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured. A third of the dead were children (and they wern't all throwing stones!) Up to 3,300 Palestinian homes have been damaged by Israeli tank shells. The Israeli army has bulldozed at least 650 Palestinian homes.
A. is for American Foreign Policy.
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote: "American foreign policy is governed by the doctrine...that the US should control military, economic and political development worldwide.
Certain theorists have considered that the aims of top people within the Pentagon/CIA/ State Department are -
1. Serve the interests of the super-rich within the USA.
2. Weaken and divide and confuse all potential rivals.
For evidence of this, look at
www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html
www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/blum1.html
Perhaps present policy is to use bin Laden to weaken and divide the Moslem world?
A. is for Anti-Semitism.
Remember the Dreyfus case? Dreyfus was the French Jew who was framed by anti-semites. Anti semitism is an evil.
My own position is as follows. We must not demonise any group, be it Jews, Blacks, Germans, Scots, Chinese, Whites or Moslems. Not all Italians are members of the Mafia. Not all Israelis want soldiers to kill little Palestinian kids.
A. is for Argentina and the Falklands Invasion.
General Galtieri was the bad guy.
During his time as a fascist leader of Argentina, 30,000 people disappeared or were executed. The father of a friend of mine was tortured by Galtieri's gestapo. Many of those murdered by Galtieri's government were students and teachers.
Who trained Galtieri and his killers?
Galtieri and friends were trained by the US Army School of the Americas. The CIA was heavily involved in Argentina supporting the campaign to squash dissidents (liberals and democrats). The CIA refuses to declassify the documents involved. Galtieri invaded the Falklands.
A. is for America, our friends and allies. I like Americans. But why did their leaders not fight for us in 1939? Why did they only enter the war when attacked by Japan? Is it because many top Americans had (and have) a fascist point of view.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush "had assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act for operating NAZI front companies during World War II."
www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
General Motors, during the 1930's, "owned Opel which made trucks for the Nazi armies." German newspaper Berliner Tagelblatt called on the American ambassador to investigate Henry Ford's funding of Hitler.
Standard Oil "developed and financed Germany's synthetic fuel programme in partnership with IG Farben."
ITT "owned large amounts of stock in German Armaments companies including Focke-Wolf...." www.rat.pogled.net/doc/helphitler.htm
A. is also for American Embassy Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1979-81.
And this is where politics gets mixed up with terrorism.
"Friends of Reagan/Bush managed to DELAY the freeing of the hostages," according to some historians!
Why would they do that? To ensure that in the presidential election President Carter would lose to Reagan/Bush.
Didn't Carter attempt to rescue the hostages? Charles Beckwith led the US Delta force which attempted to free the hostages. This elite force became involved in a total shambles. Beckwith now runs a security consultancy in Texas. Was the Delta force deli berately sabotaged?
A. is for Morse Allen.
How do you get a Catholic to kill other Catholics? How do you get a fun-loving, drink-loving Lebanese Moslem to crash a plane into a building? How do you kill a president and cover your tracks?
The CIA's first behavioral research czar was Morse Allen who did research into hypnosis and brainwashing in the 1950's.
He asked young CIA secretaries to stay after work and then hypnotised them. A single word could trigger the hypnotic state. Morse managed to get hypnotised secretaries to steal secret documents.
On Feb 19 1954 Allen simulated the ultimate experiment: the creation of the Manchurian Candidate or programmed assassin. He hypnotised a secretary and told her that she would shoot her friend. An UNLOADED pistol was left by her side. The girl picked up the gun and shot her friend. Afterwards, the secretary could remember nothing of the event.
A. is for ATTA. Mohammad ATTA was the supposed hijacker of AA Flight 11. On ITN a woman, who had seen Mohammad Atta at the airport before the fatal flight, described him as looking like a zombie.
news.bbc.co.uk 24/9/01 quoted Anne Greaves, who had spent 6 months alongside Atta learning to fly, as saying that at times he "appeared to be in a trance."
My own hunch is that Atta and friends had been brainwashed by elements of a certain intelligence service. Some reports say that the FBI had been keeping a close eye on the flying schools.
According to the Sunday Times, the hijackers "had girlfriends and drank large amounts of vodka."
In the days before the attack, the hijackers drew attention to themselves by shouting loudly and blaspheming against Allah. Two weeks after the attack, the FBI claim to have found a document in Atta's luggage (and another on the aircraft that crashed into tiny piec es in Pennsylvania) which 'conveniently link Atta to islamic terrorism.' The document states: 'check all knives.'
Does a group, clever enough to carry out this attack, put such things in writing? The document also contains phrases suggesting that the hijackers are highly religious. How does that tie in with the vodka and womanising? The document is written in "Berlitz Arabic", not the language of a native speaker, according to some Arabists. The contents are in no known dialect.
At the time of the Lockerbie trial, similar ODD bits of 'evidence' appeared. The FBI is now run by the same gentleman who 'found' the evidence for the Lockerbie trial.
NOW, here is a clue. The document found in Atta's luggage was obtained and translated by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARD! That name rings a bell. Bob Woodward once worked aboard USS Wright, a National Emergency Command Ship, a place that would be used by Presidents in time of nuclear war. He then moved on to the Pentagon, mixing with all the top people. It was widely assumed that he was CIA. His next move was to the Washinton post, which many allege has strong links to the CIA. Then we have Watergate which some people think was engineered by Kissinger/Bush working with Bob Woodward.
Next, let us take another alleged hijacker, a young Lebanese called ZIAD. Ziad appears to have been training as a pilot; and Ziad appears to have been on one of the planes that crashed.
BUT, the BBC's excellent Matt Frei did some investigating. And what did he find? Ziad was planning to marry his Turkish-German girlfriend later this year. Ziad was living with his girlfriend. Ziad had attended a Christian school. He liked to drink, was fun-loving and sociable, and he never expressed any anti-American feeling. The family produced a video showi ng Ziad dancing and drinking. Does this sound like a Moslem fundamentalist suicide bomber? The BBC must be cursing Frei, because otherwise the BBC has towed the party line.
The Guardian's George Monbiot wrote: "The more evidence US intelligence presents...the less credible the story becomes...
"First there was the car. A man had informed the police, we were told, that he had had a furious argument with some suspicious looking Moslems in the parking lot at Boston airport. He led the investigators to a car, in which they found a copy of the Koran and a flight manual in Arabic...
"Now flying an aeroplane is not one of these things you learn in the back of a car on the way to the airport....
"Leaving the Koran unattended...is considered sinful
"And if you are about to perpetrate one of the biggest (and cleverest) terrorist outrages the world has ever seen, would you draw attention to yourself by arguing in the car park (and leaving behind evidence)? "
Then there is the passport. The security services claim that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was extracted from the rubble of the World Trade Centre...
"We are being asked to believe that a paper document from the cockpit of the first plane - the epicentre of an inferno which vapourised steel - survived the fireball and fell to the ground almost intact."
So, regard all future evidence, no matter how convincing at first glance, as suspect.
Who would try to blow up a building in America? A bunch of crazy Moslems?
Irv Rubin, the chairman of the Jewish Defence league, was arrested in December 2001 for conspiring to blow up the main mosque in Los Angeles. Rubin was also charged with plotting against a Republican congressman. That got little publicity.
Remember Mr Blair claiming he had damning evidence against certain Moslems for the 9/11 attacks? Later, Blair admitted that this tenuous circumstantial evidence (CIA handouts) would not stand up in court. That got little publicity.
Then there was the BBC's John Simpson in Kabul discovering a document showing how to make nukes. That got lots of publicity. Then the New York Times pointed out the document was a spoof, available on the internet. That got little or no publicity in the UK.
Then there was Zacarias Moussaoui, charged in connection with 11/9. The French secret service repeatedly tried and failed to get MI6 and the FBI to take an interest in Zacarias. The French file dated back to 1994.
Then there was Newsnight telling us that top people in the Bush administration had told the FBI, prior to 11/9, to lay off bin Laden...
A. is for Allegations that the Omagh bombing was the work of a British double agent within the Real IRA.
Former British double agent Kevin Fulton alleges that the British security forces allowed the bomb to travel in a stolen car from Dundalk to Omagh. Sounds odd? Why was the army confined to barracks on the day of the attack? Why did the RUC have only 3 men on the streets of Omagh?
According to www.wsws.org British soldiers and double-agents ran a 'terror network' called the FRU. "The Force Research Unit (FRU) was an undercover security operation financed and run by the British state for more than two decades....(They) authorised their agents to carry out numerous illegal activities including bomb making, murder and the shooting of RUC officers...Fulton claims he...took part in a series of terrorist bombings...including...Portadown."
In one sense, Blair benefited from the Omagh bombing. The bombing helped to isolate the opponents of the Northern Ireland Agreement, and, the bombing gave Blair a pretext for bringing in draconian new laws against terrorism.
A. is for Abercorn Restaurant Bombing 1972 in Belfast.
Well, do you really know who did it? Two killed and one hundred and thirty one people injured when a 'Protestant' bomb went off.
Captain Colin Wallace, one time British army information officer, served 7 years in jail after being convicted of a serious crime in 1980. Wallace claimed he was framed because of claims he made about the British secret service's operations in Northern Ireland.
And that leads us to the Kincora Affair - the sexual abuse of young boys in Kincora boys home in Belfast. "Loyalist paramilitary leader William McGrath, who had links to British intelligence, was believed to have organised sex sessions with young boys for SENIOR POLITICIANS, civil servants and MILITARY personal."
And that leads us to who is really behind the continuing terror. Could it be the drugs barons and weapons manufacturers and organisers of protection rackets? Who was being blackmailed? And which former British Prime Minister was smeared... Time.com 16/8/01 describes how leaders of the para-militaries are heavily into organised crime. It's not about Christianity. It's about making money.
Who is making money from the ATTACKS ON AMERICA? "Arms manufacturers, construction firms and gold mining groups...." according to The Guardian 25/9/01. "US defence giant Lockheed Martin is well placed for new orders, while missile maker Raytheon has seen its shares race ahaead 30% since September 11.... "Newmont Mining have seen their shares rise. "Those hedge funds that had already been betting huge sums that the stock market would fall will have cashed in handsomely..."
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote, "Afghanistan is the key to the Western Domination of Asia....Afghanistan is indispensible to the regional control and transport of oil in Central Asia....In 1998 Dick Cheney (then chief executive of a major oil services company)...remarked: 'I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become so strategically important as the Caspian.' ...The only route (for an oil pipeleine from the Caspian) which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan."
A. is for Algeria Ah! This is where wicked Moslem extremists kill people and oppose democracy, isn't it?
Well no, not exactly!
In 1991 the Islamic Party known as FIS won a landslide in the country's first FREE multiparty elections. The USA was not happy; and the corrupt Algerian elite were not happy. So the army took over.
Then the killings began. More than 100,000 people have died.
But is it the Moslem extremists doing the killings?
In February 2001, 'The Dirty War', by Habib Souaidia, a former Algerian army officer, was published. It tells of the part played by the Algerian army in the killing of tens of thousands of Algerians.
Habib writes: "I have seen colleagues burn alive a 15-year-old child. "I have seen soldiers disguising themselves as terrorists and massacring civilians. "I have seen colonels kill mere suspects in cold blood. "I have seen officers torture fundamentalists to death...."
Moslem extremism? Think of Palestine!
Thousands of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured. A third of the dead were children (and they wern't all throwing stones!) Up to 3,300 Palestinian homes have been damaged by Israeli tank shells. The Israeli army has bulldozed at least 650 Palestinian homes.
A. is for American Foreign Policy.
George Monbiot, in the Guardian 23/10/01, wrote: "American foreign policy is governed by the doctrine...that the US should control military, economic and political development worldwide.
Certain theorists have considered that the aims of top people within the Pentagon/CIA/ State Department are -
1. Serve the interests of the super-rich within the USA.
2. Weaken and divide and confuse all potential rivals.
For evidence of this, look at
www.korpios.org/resurgent/CIAtimeline.html
www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/blum1.html
Perhaps present policy is to use bin Laden to weaken and divide the Moslem world?
A. is for Anti-Semitism.
Remember the Dreyfus case? Dreyfus was the French Jew who was framed by anti-semites. Anti semitism is an evil.
My own position is as follows. We must not demonise any group, be it Jews, Blacks, Germans, Scots, Chinese, Whites or Moslems. Not all Italians are members of the Mafia. Not all Israelis want soldiers to kill little Palestinian kids.
A. is for Argentina and the Falklands Invasion.
General Galtieri was the bad guy.
During his time as a fascist leader of Argentina, 30,000 people disappeared or were executed. The father of a friend of mine was tortured by Galtieri's gestapo. Many of those murdered by Galtieri's government were students and teachers.
Who trained Galtieri and his killers?
Galtieri and friends were trained by the US Army School of the Americas. The CIA was heavily involved in Argentina supporting the campaign to squash dissidents (liberals and democrats). The CIA refuses to declassify the documents involved. Galtieri invaded the Falklands.
A. is for America, our friends and allies. I like Americans. But why did their leaders not fight for us in 1939? Why did they only enter the war when attacked by Japan? Is it because many top Americans had (and have) a fascist point of view.
George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush "had assets seized by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act for operating NAZI front companies during World War II."
www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
General Motors, during the 1930's, "owned Opel which made trucks for the Nazi armies." German newspaper Berliner Tagelblatt called on the American ambassador to investigate Henry Ford's funding of Hitler.
Standard Oil "developed and financed Germany's synthetic fuel programme in partnership with IG Farben."
ITT "owned large amounts of stock in German Armaments companies including Focke-Wolf...." www.rat.pogled.net/doc/helphitler.htm
A. is also for American Embassy Hostage Crisis, Tehran, 1979-81.
And this is where politics gets mixed up with terrorism.
"Friends of Reagan/Bush managed to DELAY the freeing of the hostages," according to some historians!
Why would they do that? To ensure that in the presidential election President Carter would lose to Reagan/Bush.
Didn't Carter attempt to rescue the hostages? Charles Beckwith led the US Delta force which attempted to free the hostages. This elite force became involved in a total shambles. Beckwith now runs a security consultancy in Texas. Was the Delta force deli berately sabotaged?
A. is for Morse Allen.
How do you get a Catholic to kill other Catholics? How do you get a fun-loving, drink-loving Lebanese Moslem to crash a plane into a building? How do you kill a president and cover your tracks?
The CIA's first behavioral research czar was Morse Allen who did research into hypnosis and brainwashing in the 1950's.
He asked young CIA secretaries to stay after work and then hypnotised them. A single word could trigger the hypnotic state. Morse managed to get hypnotised secretaries to steal secret documents.
On Feb 19 1954 Allen simulated the ultimate experiment: the creation of the Manchurian Candidate or programmed assassin. He hypnotised a secretary and told her that she would shoot her friend. An UNLOADED pistol was left by her side. The girl picked up the gun and shot her friend. Afterwards, the secretary could remember nothing of the event.
A. is for ATTA. Mohammad ATTA was the supposed hijacker of AA Flight 11. On ITN a woman, who had seen Mohammad Atta at the airport before the fatal flight, described him as looking like a zombie.
news.bbc.co.uk 24/9/01 quoted Anne Greaves, who had spent 6 months alongside Atta learning to fly, as saying that at times he "appeared to be in a trance."
My own hunch is that Atta and friends had been brainwashed by elements of a certain intelligence service. Some reports say that the FBI had been keeping a close eye on the flying schools.
According to the Sunday Times, the hijackers "had girlfriends and drank large amounts of vodka."
In the days before the attack, the hijackers drew attention to themselves by shouting loudly and blaspheming against Allah. Two weeks after the attack, the FBI claim to have found a document in Atta's luggage (and another on the aircraft that crashed into tiny piec es in Pennsylvania) which 'conveniently link Atta to islamic terrorism.' The document states: 'check all knives.'
Does a group, clever enough to carry out this attack, put such things in writing? The document also contains phrases suggesting that the hijackers are highly religious. How does that tie in with the vodka and womanising? The document is written in "Berlitz Arabic", not the language of a native speaker, according to some Arabists. The contents are in no known dialect.
At the time of the Lockerbie trial, similar ODD bits of 'evidence' appeared. The FBI is now run by the same gentleman who 'found' the evidence for the Lockerbie trial.
NOW, here is a clue. The document found in Atta's luggage was obtained and translated by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
BOB WOODWARD! That name rings a bell. Bob Woodward once worked aboard USS Wright, a National Emergency Command Ship, a place that would be used by Presidents in time of nuclear war. He then moved on to the Pentagon, mixing with all the top people. It was widely assumed that he was CIA. His next move was to the Washinton post, which many allege has strong links to the CIA. Then we have Watergate which some people think was engineered by Kissinger/Bush working with Bob Woodward.
Next, let us take another alleged hijacker, a young Lebanese called ZIAD. Ziad appears to have been training as a pilot; and Ziad appears to have been on one of the planes that crashed.
BUT, the BBC's excellent Matt Frei did some investigating. And what did he find? Ziad was planning to marry his Turkish-German girlfriend later this year. Ziad was living with his girlfriend. Ziad had attended a Christian school. He liked to drink, was fun-loving and sociable, and he never expressed any anti-American feeling. The family produced a video showi ng Ziad dancing and drinking. Does this sound like a Moslem fundamentalist suicide bomber? The BBC must be cursing Frei, because otherwise the BBC has towed the party line.
The Guardian's George Monbiot wrote: "The more evidence US intelligence presents...the less credible the story becomes...
"First there was the car. A man had informed the police, we were told, that he had had a furious argument with some suspicious looking Moslems in the parking lot at Boston airport. He led the investigators to a car, in which they found a copy of the Koran and a flight manual in Arabic...
"Now flying an aeroplane is not one of these things you learn in the back of a car on the way to the airport....
"Leaving the Koran unattended...is considered sinful
"And if you are about to perpetrate one of the biggest (and cleverest) terrorist outrages the world has ever seen, would you draw attention to yourself by arguing in the car park (and leaving behind evidence)? "
Then there is the passport. The security services claim that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was extracted from the rubble of the World Trade Centre...
"We are being asked to believe that a paper document from the cockpit of the first plane - the epicentre of an inferno which vapourised steel - survived the fireball and fell to the ground almost intact."
So, regard all future evidence, no matter how convincing at first glance, as suspect.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Friday, February 11, 2005
Iraq election
Why is it taking as much as two weeks to come up with a result in Iraq?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1410432,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1410432,00.html
Thursday, February 10, 2005
The most difficult boy he ever had to deal with
Bob Roberts, Tony Blair's housemaster at Fettes College in Edinburgh, once described Blair as "the most difficult boy I have ever had to deal with"
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"As a boarder the young Blair would argue repeatedly with staff about school procedures. He also came quite close to being expelled after he finished his A-levels.
"Blair had a great gift for being able to push the rules to the limit without actually crossing the line, and he could always talk his way out of most tight spots. He had a great deal of charm and confidence, but certainly did his fair bit of rebelling against authority."
John Rentoul, author of the book Tony Blair: Prime Minister, published in 2001, agrees that the young PM was not the most popular boy at Fettes with figures of authority. "All the teachers I spoke to when researching the book said he was a complete pain in the backside, and they were very glad to see the back of him. "Unusually, he also sat his Oxbridge exams before A-levels so that he would not have to be around for a seventh term for whatever reason."
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"As a boarder the young Blair would argue repeatedly with staff about school procedures. He also came quite close to being expelled after he finished his A-levels.
"Blair had a great gift for being able to push the rules to the limit without actually crossing the line, and he could always talk his way out of most tight spots. He had a great deal of charm and confidence, but certainly did his fair bit of rebelling against authority."
John Rentoul, author of the book Tony Blair: Prime Minister, published in 2001, agrees that the young PM was not the most popular boy at Fettes with figures of authority. "All the teachers I spoke to when researching the book said he was a complete pain in the backside, and they were very glad to see the back of him. "Unusually, he also sat his Oxbridge exams before A-levels so that he would not have to be around for a seventh term for whatever reason."
Montrealer suggests ultra-conservatives behind 9 11
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1107816610228&call_pageid=970599119419
A Montrealer, detained for nearly two years on suspicion of being a terrorist, has suggested that ultra-conservative Americans may have been responsible for the 9 11 attacks on the United States.
"I'm not an expert but from what I read, some guy living in a cave doesn't have the means to plan an attack against the most powerful nation in the world," Adil Charkaoui said when Federal Court Justice Simon Noël asked who was responsible for the attacks.
"Maybe it was done by ultra-conservatives in the United States for economic gain," Charkaoui said.
"It was the world's biggest conspiracy."
A Montrealer, detained for nearly two years on suspicion of being a terrorist, has suggested that ultra-conservative Americans may have been responsible for the 9 11 attacks on the United States.
"I'm not an expert but from what I read, some guy living in a cave doesn't have the means to plan an attack against the most powerful nation in the world," Adil Charkaoui said when Federal Court Justice Simon Noël asked who was responsible for the attacks.
"Maybe it was done by ultra-conservatives in the United States for economic gain," Charkaoui said.
"It was the world's biggest conspiracy."
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
MEGA
Israel Shamir, in Israeli online publication, Media Monitors Network:
"In my opinion, Megabucks, rather than forces of Caballa, move the events in the Middle East. It is not magic, just money—but a lot of money. They do not rule America or Israel, but they exercise a lot of influence. Fifty multibillionaires united in one framework present a very real force in the world."
Jeffrey Steinberg:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
"The Bronfman-centered Mega Group is but one component of an insane and desperate element within the transatlantic financial establishment that is now pressing for a "Clash of Civilizations," as a means of responding to the collapse of their global financial empire, and the threat of a new set of Eurasia-centered cooperative arrangements among nations supplanting their power."
"In my opinion, Megabucks, rather than forces of Caballa, move the events in the Middle East. It is not magic, just money—but a lot of money. They do not rule America or Israel, but they exercise a lot of influence. Fifty multibillionaires united in one framework present a very real force in the world."
Jeffrey Steinberg:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2833mega_spy.html
"The Bronfman-centered Mega Group is but one component of an insane and desperate element within the transatlantic financial establishment that is now pressing for a "Clash of Civilizations," as a means of responding to the collapse of their global financial empire, and the threat of a new set of Eurasia-centered cooperative arrangements among nations supplanting their power."
Monday, February 07, 2005
'Deep Throat' was George H W Bush?
Author, Adrian Havill, suspects 'Deep Throat' was George H.W. Bush.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789447
“It was Richard Nixon who urged Bush to leave a safe seat in Congress, hinting there would be a position as assistant Secretary of the Treasury waiting for him if he failed to win a Senate seat held by Ralph Yarborough. When Bush lost, Nixon reneged and asked him to take the U.N. slot instead but teased him by hinting he would be the replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. Instead, he was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973. The elder Bush got his revenge in the end, by standing up at a cabinet meeting in August of 1974 and becoming the first person in Nixon's inner circle to ask the President to resign."
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000789447
“It was Richard Nixon who urged Bush to leave a safe seat in Congress, hinting there would be a position as assistant Secretary of the Treasury waiting for him if he failed to win a Senate seat held by Ralph Yarborough. When Bush lost, Nixon reneged and asked him to take the U.N. slot instead but teased him by hinting he would be the replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. Instead, he was given the thankless task of heading the Republican National Committee in 1973. The elder Bush got his revenge in the end, by standing up at a cabinet meeting in August of 1974 and becoming the first person in Nixon's inner circle to ask the President to resign."
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Washinton's designs on the Strait of Malacca
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/aceh-j26.shtml
"Sections of the Indonesian military... are distinctly nervous about the presence of foreign troops...
"Washington has long had designs on the Strait of Malacca adjacent to Sumatra—one of the world’s key strategic shipping lanes. Aceh itself has significant gas and oil reserves."
"Sections of the Indonesian military... are distinctly nervous about the presence of foreign troops...
"Washington has long had designs on the Strait of Malacca adjacent to Sumatra—one of the world’s key strategic shipping lanes. Aceh itself has significant gas and oil reserves."
PAKISTAN
Pakistan's President Musharraf
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/paki-j31.shtml
"There are credible media reports of growing dissension within the officer corps over Musharraf’s readiness to cooperate with Washington in preparing a military strike against neighbouring Iran, as well as his peace overtures toward India, which have included ratcheting down the military’s support for the anti-Indian insurgency in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir..."
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/paki-j31.shtml
"There are credible media reports of growing dissension within the officer corps over Musharraf’s readiness to cooperate with Washington in preparing a military strike against neighbouring Iran, as well as his peace overtures toward India, which have included ratcheting down the military’s support for the anti-Indian insurgency in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir..."
Chechnya and Iraq
The American media and the Iraq election
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/medi-f02.shtml
"Russia held a referendum at gunpoint in Chechnya in the spring of 2003, organized to rubber-stamp a constitution written by Moscow. The Russian military maintained its massive military presence throughout the process. The New York Times published an editorial in anticipation of the vote on January 14, 2003, entitled 'A Sham Referendum.'
"'The idea that a fair test of Chechen opinion can be carried out in the present climate of intimidation is ludicrous,' the newspaper declared. 'Any government emerging from this flawed process is likely to be seen by Chechens as a band of Russian collaborators, not their own independently chosen representatives.... [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s aim seems not to offer a real political opening, but a stage-managed show aimed at convincing the outside world that the Chechen war is over and no longer warrants international concern.'
"How true such words ring, with the appropriate name changes, to describe the grotesque farce
in Iraq!"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/medi-f02.shtml
"Russia held a referendum at gunpoint in Chechnya in the spring of 2003, organized to rubber-stamp a constitution written by Moscow. The Russian military maintained its massive military presence throughout the process. The New York Times published an editorial in anticipation of the vote on January 14, 2003, entitled 'A Sham Referendum.'
"'The idea that a fair test of Chechen opinion can be carried out in the present climate of intimidation is ludicrous,' the newspaper declared. 'Any government emerging from this flawed process is likely to be seen by Chechens as a band of Russian collaborators, not their own independently chosen representatives.... [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s aim seems not to offer a real political opening, but a stage-managed show aimed at convincing the outside world that the Chechen war is over and no longer warrants international concern.'
"How true such words ring, with the appropriate name changes, to describe the grotesque farce
in Iraq!"
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
UK LIKE APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA?
"Banning, house arrests - it all sounds eerily familiar. Clarke's plans take me back to the days of the South African underground" - Gillian Slovo, February 2, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1403576,00.html
Slovo writes, in the Guardian:
"Here we play witness to a Guantánamo where a man like Begg is not, on the grounds of a possible breach of security, allowed access even to his own statement; or a Belmarsh where detainees are not allowed to hear of what it is they are accused...
"We are told that the Belmarsh detainees cannot be charged because making phone-tap evidence available is to put us in danger. Yet, in the light of WMDs that turned out not to exist, and the arrest of Rawi before he left for the Gambia, on the heinous crime of possessing a battery charger, one could be forgiven for questioning not only the veracity but also the existence of this secret intelligence. Just because the government says that the intelligence community has told it something, are we supposed to take this on trust?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1403576,00.html
Slovo writes, in the Guardian:
"Here we play witness to a Guantánamo where a man like Begg is not, on the grounds of a possible breach of security, allowed access even to his own statement; or a Belmarsh where detainees are not allowed to hear of what it is they are accused...
"We are told that the Belmarsh detainees cannot be charged because making phone-tap evidence available is to put us in danger. Yet, in the light of WMDs that turned out not to exist, and the arrest of Rawi before he left for the Gambia, on the heinous crime of possessing a battery charger, one could be forgiven for questioning not only the veracity but also the existence of this secret intelligence. Just because the government says that the intelligence community has told it something, are we supposed to take this on trust?"
VOTE FRAUD UK AND USA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1403545,00.html
Michael Meacher, former UK Environment Minister, writes today in the Guardian:
"The UK government is aiming at 'an e-enabled election some time after 2006'...
"Computer investigators claim that the machines are extremely insecure and vulnerable to hacking via the internet, particularly via remote modems...
"In November 2003, in a governorship election in Alabama, 6,300 votes changed overnight - which gave victory to the Republican candidate. In Texas that same month, three Republican candidates won, each with exactly 18,181 votes. In King County, Washington, in a September 2004 primary, it was discovered that three hours were missing from the audit log...
"Jeffrey Dean, the senior programmer of the Diebold Gems central tabulator system counting a third of the votes in the Bush-Kerry election in 37 states, has a police record. He pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement involving sophisticated manipulation of computer accounting records."
Michael Meacher, former UK Environment Minister, writes today in the Guardian:
"The UK government is aiming at 'an e-enabled election some time after 2006'...
"Computer investigators claim that the machines are extremely insecure and vulnerable to hacking via the internet, particularly via remote modems...
"In November 2003, in a governorship election in Alabama, 6,300 votes changed overnight - which gave victory to the Republican candidate. In Texas that same month, three Republican candidates won, each with exactly 18,181 votes. In King County, Washington, in a September 2004 primary, it was discovered that three hours were missing from the audit log...
"Jeffrey Dean, the senior programmer of the Diebold Gems central tabulator system counting a third of the votes in the Bush-Kerry election in 37 states, has a police record. He pleaded guilty to 23 counts of embezzlement involving sophisticated manipulation of computer accounting records."
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
VOTE FRAUD USA
Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
January 31, 2005
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a diverse group of academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University.
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/1/emw203331.htm
President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?
January 31, 2005
The study, “Response to Edison/Mitofsky Election System 2004 Report”, was co-authored by a diverse group of academicians specializing in statistics and mathematics affiliated with University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, Southern Methodist University, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University.
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously.
The statisticians note that precincts with hand-counted paper ballots showed no statistical discrepancy between the exit polls and the official results, but for other voting technologies, the overall discrepancy was far larger than the polls’ margin of error.
The Vietnam turnout was good as well
Sami Ramadani, in The Guardian, 1 February 2005:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402922,00.html
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war...
The paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam"....
The facts on the ground, including the construction of massive military bases in Iraq, indicate that the US is digging in to install and back a long-term puppet regime. For this reason, the US-led presence will continue, with all that entails in terms of bloodshed and destruction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402922,00.html
On September 4 1967 the New York Times published an upbeat story on presidential elections held by the South Vietnamese puppet regime at the height of the Vietnam war...
The paper reported that the Americans had been "surprised and heartened" by the size of the turnout "despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting". A successful election, it went on, "has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam"....
The facts on the ground, including the construction of massive military bases in Iraq, indicate that the US is digging in to install and back a long-term puppet regime. For this reason, the US-led presence will continue, with all that entails in terms of bloodshed and destruction.
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