Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: The Final Chapter
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Noam Chomsky speaks about democracy, freedom and the possible future of humanity.
Wake the Fuck Up! (Manufacturing Consent in America)
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Some of us have realized that we do live within the Matrix.
Unlike the film we don't live in pods, rather we are wirelessly connected via the airwaves through TV and TalkRadio.
Like all propagandists they lie without conscience and keep you placated. Hannity, Limblow, Beck, Tucker, Savage Weiner, are all more dangerous to our democracy than any army of phantom Osama bin Ladens.
The war on terror is a hoax, its a war on your freedom being played out in your mind. (Pssst, Osama is dead you know.)
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Police State Britain = Cocked-up Conspiracies
So the terrorist killers of Jean-Charles de Menezes are allowed to get away with it and their fascist boss, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, is untouched as well. While, over the the Irish Sea, the chief accused of the Omagh bombings is freed due to the sudden discovery that he had been convicted on dodgy evidence.
We are told, also, that at the time the Omagh Police helpfully steered the crowds directly into the area of the exploding bomb!
And in Scotland Muslims of colour are banged-up for thought-crimes while their lawyers are terrorised by reactionary judges serving a political agenda.
Cock-up or conspiracy? You decide. But taken against the history of the British secret services who have killed their own people over and over again in cold blood, it shouldn't take much to figure out what goes on and is then covered-up in Police State Britain.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
| Britain is losing the war in Afghanistan but needs to ensure Karzai's survival | | |
| Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 | |
| London, UK, December 12 2007 - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in his speech today that Britain is winning the war in Afghanistan. However, unless his measure of success is the deaths of thousands of people over the past six years, the occupation of Afghanistan could only be seen as an unmitigated failure, increasing instability - violent incidents are up by 20% in the past year - worsening poverty and an ever growing drugs problem. Taji Mustafa, media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, "Brown's launch of a new plan for Afghanistan is an admission of failure. It is precisely because the war is being lost that he is proposing a more sustained military operation. It is because Karzai, the client ruler in the region is weak that he has proposed a step increase in economic aid." "Today's speech was an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the British people because the hearts and minds in the Muslim world have already been lost. The worsening security and worsening poverty prove to them that this military venture has not been about ensuring a more peaceful world or about humanitarian intervention, but has been about Britain fighting its corner in a new colonial Great Game. Sadly, the victims of this competition between Russia, Britain and the US, in this most strategically and materially important region, are the people of Afghanistan." "The brutal occupation, worsening security and instability is the price extracted from the Afghan people in order to see the survival of Karzai and western interests in the region. It is the same story across the Muslim world where support for ‘democratic stooges' drives the opinion that only an Islamic Caliphate, which will stand up for the people against colonialism and occupation, can bring stability and a new way forward." |
Friday, December 14, 2007
The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan
RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2007
Human rights violations are widespread across Afghanistan
The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.
In the past few years, for a thousand times the lies of US claims in the so-called “War on terror” were uncovered. By relying on the criminal bands of the Northern Alliance, the US made a game of values like democracy, human rights, women’s rights etc. thus disgracing our mournful nation. The US created a government from those people responsible for massacres in Pul-e-Charkhi, Dasht-e-Chamtala, Kapisa, Karala, Dasht-e-Lieli, 65,000 Kabulis and tens of mass graves across the country. Now the US tries to include infamous killers like Mullah Omer and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar into the government, which will be another big hypocrisy in the “war against terror”.
The reinstatement of the Northern Alliance to power crushed the hopes of our people for freedom and prosperity into desperation and proved that for the Bush administration, defeating terrorism so that our people can be happy, have no significance at all. The US administration plays a funny anti-Taliban game and pretends that a super power is unable to defeat a small, marginalized and medieval-minded gang which is actually her own product. But our people found by experience in the past few years that the US doesn’t want to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, because then they will have no excuse to stay in Afghanistan and work towards the realization of its economical, political and strategic interests in the region.
After about seven years, there is no peace, human rights, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan. On the contrary, the destitution and suffering of our people has doubled everyday. Our people, and even our unfortunate children, fall victim to the Jehadis’ infighting (Baghlan incident), the Taliban’s untargeted blasts and the US/NATO’s non-stop bombardments. The Northern Alliance blood-suckers, who are part of Karzai’s team and have key government posts, continue to be the main and the most serious obstacle towards the establishment of peace and democracy in Afghanistan. The existence of tens of illegal private security companies run by these mafia bands are enough to realize their sinister intentions and the danger they pose.
Human rights violations, crime, and corruption have reached their peak, so much so that Mr. Karzai is forced to make friendly pleas to the ministers and members of the parliament, asking them to “keep some limits”! Accusations about women being raped in prisons were so numerous that even a pro-warlord woman in the parliament had no choice but to acknowledge them.
Rabbani, Khalili, Massoud, Sayyaf, Fahim, Ismael and other criminals for the sake of being “ISI” and “VEVAK” agents could become “leaders” in the early 90’s, invited their god-father General Hamid Gul of ISI to become their army chief. But today they raise anti-Pakistan slogans to hide their corruption and wrong-doings. In this act they even go further and abuse Pakistani people. But they never talk about the dirty act of Pakistan in creating fundamentalist bands and imposing them on our people. More importantly, they keep silent about the wider, more devastating and more active meddling of the brutal Iranian regime in Afghanistan through its cultural and media agents. Pro-Iranian regime politicians and intellectuals are as much traitorous to democracy and human rights as the intellectuals and politicians who, from an ethnocentric and reactionary point of view, call the barbarism and terror of Taliban a “national armed resistance,” and shamelessly defend them.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) has announced a number of times that when the legislative, administrative and judicial bodies are ruled by drug-lords and warlords or their Talibi, Gulbudini, Parchami and Khalqi accomplices, they will never do anything positive for our deprived people. Rather these bodies will act as a mechanism to continue the ongoing crime, drug-trade and looting by these mafia bands to become richer.
If the US government replaces Karzai with a new puppet, even if he is not from among the Jehadi criminals, it will be just a deception of our people and an attempt to put the responsibilities of today’s tragedies on the shoulders of a single person. Such a move will have no positive outcome for our nation. Only a president who rely on people and come to power through a fair election, free from any kind of dependence or dealings with the fundamentalists, would be ideal for Afghan people.
Instead of defeating Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Gulbuddini terrorists and disarming the Northern Alliance, the foreign troops are creating confusion among the people of the world. We believe that if these troops leave Afghanistan, our people will not feel any kind of vacuum but rather will become more free and come out of their current puzzlement and doubts. In such a situation, they will face the Taliban and Northern Alliance without their “national” mask, and rise to fight with these terrorist enemies. Neither the US nor any other power wants to release Afghan people from the fetters of the fundamentalists. Afghanistan’s freedom can be achieved by Afghan people themselves. Relying on one enemy to defeat another is a wrong policy which has just tightened the grip of the Northern Alliance and their masters on the neck of our nation.
By publishing the book “Some Documents of the Bloody and Traitorous Jehadi Years”, RAWA has taken another small step in unmasking and prosecuting the war criminals of the past three decades. But we will not stop here. In the face of continuous threats by the terrorists sitting in the parliament and the government, we will not be intimidated and despite the passivity and compromises of intellectuals in this regard, we are determined that with the help of justice-loving people and organizations of Afghanistan and around the world, will work to push the war criminals into a court of justice and reclaim billions of dollars worth of national assets from them. Only then the eyes of our grief-stricken people may no longer burn endlessly for justice and democracy.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
December 10, 2007
RAWA communiqué on Universal Human Rights Day, Dec.10, 2007
Human rights violations are widespread across Afghanistan
The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.
In the past few years, for a thousand times the lies of US claims in the so-called “War on terror” were uncovered. By relying on the criminal bands of the Northern Alliance, the US made a game of values like democracy, human rights, women’s rights etc. thus disgracing our mournful nation. The US created a government from those people responsible for massacres in Pul-e-Charkhi, Dasht-e-Chamtala, Kapisa, Karala, Dasht-e-Lieli, 65,000 Kabulis and tens of mass graves across the country. Now the US tries to include infamous killers like Mullah Omer and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar into the government, which will be another big hypocrisy in the “war against terror”.
The reinstatement of the Northern Alliance to power crushed the hopes of our people for freedom and prosperity into desperation and proved that for the Bush administration, defeating terrorism so that our people can be happy, have no significance at all. The US administration plays a funny anti-Taliban game and pretends that a super power is unable to defeat a small, marginalized and medieval-minded gang which is actually her own product. But our people found by experience in the past few years that the US doesn’t want to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, because then they will have no excuse to stay in Afghanistan and work towards the realization of its economical, political and strategic interests in the region.
After about seven years, there is no peace, human rights, democracy and reconstruction in Afghanistan. On the contrary, the destitution and suffering of our people has doubled everyday. Our people, and even our unfortunate children, fall victim to the Jehadis’ infighting (Baghlan incident), the Taliban’s untargeted blasts and the US/NATO’s non-stop bombardments. The Northern Alliance blood-suckers, who are part of Karzai’s team and have key government posts, continue to be the main and the most serious obstacle towards the establishment of peace and democracy in Afghanistan. The existence of tens of illegal private security companies run by these mafia bands are enough to realize their sinister intentions and the danger they pose.
Human rights violations, crime, and corruption have reached their peak, so much so that Mr. Karzai is forced to make friendly pleas to the ministers and members of the parliament, asking them to “keep some limits”! Accusations about women being raped in prisons were so numerous that even a pro-warlord woman in the parliament had no choice but to acknowledge them.
Rabbani, Khalili, Massoud, Sayyaf, Fahim, Ismael and other criminals for the sake of being “ISI” and “VEVAK” agents could become “leaders” in the early 90’s, invited their god-father General Hamid Gul of ISI to become their army chief. But today they raise anti-Pakistan slogans to hide their corruption and wrong-doings. In this act they even go further and abuse Pakistani people. But they never talk about the dirty act of Pakistan in creating fundamentalist bands and imposing them on our people. More importantly, they keep silent about the wider, more devastating and more active meddling of the brutal Iranian regime in Afghanistan through its cultural and media agents. Pro-Iranian regime politicians and intellectuals are as much traitorous to democracy and human rights as the intellectuals and politicians who, from an ethnocentric and reactionary point of view, call the barbarism and terror of Taliban a “national armed resistance,” and shamelessly defend them.
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) has announced a number of times that when the legislative, administrative and judicial bodies are ruled by drug-lords and warlords or their Talibi, Gulbudini, Parchami and Khalqi accomplices, they will never do anything positive for our deprived people. Rather these bodies will act as a mechanism to continue the ongoing crime, drug-trade and looting by these mafia bands to become richer.
If the US government replaces Karzai with a new puppet, even if he is not from among the Jehadi criminals, it will be just a deception of our people and an attempt to put the responsibilities of today’s tragedies on the shoulders of a single person. Such a move will have no positive outcome for our nation. Only a president who rely on people and come to power through a fair election, free from any kind of dependence or dealings with the fundamentalists, would be ideal for Afghan people.
Instead of defeating Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Gulbuddini terrorists and disarming the Northern Alliance, the foreign troops are creating confusion among the people of the world. We believe that if these troops leave Afghanistan, our people will not feel any kind of vacuum but rather will become more free and come out of their current puzzlement and doubts. In such a situation, they will face the Taliban and Northern Alliance without their “national” mask, and rise to fight with these terrorist enemies. Neither the US nor any other power wants to release Afghan people from the fetters of the fundamentalists. Afghanistan’s freedom can be achieved by Afghan people themselves. Relying on one enemy to defeat another is a wrong policy which has just tightened the grip of the Northern Alliance and their masters on the neck of our nation.
By publishing the book “Some Documents of the Bloody and Traitorous Jehadi Years”, RAWA has taken another small step in unmasking and prosecuting the war criminals of the past three decades. But we will not stop here. In the face of continuous threats by the terrorists sitting in the parliament and the government, we will not be intimidated and despite the passivity and compromises of intellectuals in this regard, we are determined that with the help of justice-loving people and organizations of Afghanistan and around the world, will work to push the war criminals into a court of justice and reclaim billions of dollars worth of national assets from them. Only then the eyes of our grief-stricken people may no longer burn endlessly for justice and democracy.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
December 10, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Afghanistan: The Dollar Line
The Battle of Musa Kala is supposedly over and the city is once more in the hands of NATO forces. There has been a virtual news blackout about the manner in which the city was taken but, listening to the BBC World Service yesterday, I picked up snippets about a heavy aerial bombardment by the US Air Force, using B1 and Stealth bombers in what appeared to be a Shock & Awe blitzkrieg. Phosphorous bombs may have been used. Thousands of civilians may have been killed. We just don't know.
Nor do we know just what what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is doing in South Central Asia. It is a question that after six years still goes unanswered. If pressed, we are given vague assurances about a continued "War against Terrorism", the catch-all justification the USUK regimes give their public for just about whatever they wish to do, either domestically or abroad.
In fact the much-vaunted "War against Terrorism" is really the ongoing World War of western capitalism that replaced the Cold War, a time during which "hot" wars were exported to places like Korea and Vietnam, with the idea of "Endless War", which is really an unending war based on geostrategic needs to grab as much of the Planet's mineral resources as possible.
And in this scenario, Afghanistan, rich in Gas, Oil and Coal, sits neatly in the middle of the Great Game, currently occupied by the western economic bloc but neighboured by the opposing bloc of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
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Indeed, looking at the history of US involvement in the area since the early days of its use of the Taleban as anti-Russian insurgents, it may be seen how Afghanistan has played the part of a significant chess-piece in the Great Game of geostrategic politics and war. And the entire fake operation of 911 as the window of opportunity which provided, amongst much else, the excuse for the US along with its dogged ally the UK, to occupy in perpetuo this strategic cross-roads, hence ensuring that it would never fall into the hegemony of the opposing powers.
The argument for a pipeline through Afghanistan was made before the US Congress in 1998 by John Maresca of the Unocal Oil Company in testimony to the House Sub-Committee on Asia and the Pacific:
Maresca concluded his Congressional testimony with this peroration. "Developing cost-effective, profitable and efficient export routes for Central Asia resources is a formidable, but not impossible, task. It has been accomplished before. A commercial corridor, a "new" Silk Road, can link the Central Asia supply with the demand -- once again making Central Asia the crossroads between Europe and Asia."
Gas, Oil and Afghanistan by Jon Flanders
The area includes a huge field of natural resources, predominantly Gas, Oil and Coal. Since the 'nineties the Texas-based Unocal company was negotiating with the Taleban to build pipelines south to the Arabian Gulf. But these negotiations were brought to a halt by events in a highly destabilized part of the Great Game.
Yet, even were the US oil monopolies temporarily unable to secure the required conditions to pipe the resources, they could still hold a stake in the area's oil-fields for future exploitation, particularly if the area concerned remained under US occupation. After Unocal pulled-out of the Central Asian Gas Pipeline (Centgas) the company's chief shareholder became the Saudi Arabian Delta Oil Company.
Unocal's defection did not end pipeline plans. According to the VOA's Sarah Horner "But the pipeline dreams have surfaced again. In May 2000 there were reports of discussions of the issue involving Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkmenistan. And the Taliban newspaper, the Kabul Times, recently reported that the mine and industries minister, Mullah Mohammed Isa Akhond, met representatives of the Central Asia-based US company, Central Asia Oil and Gas Industry. The newspaper quoted company representative, Rafiq Yadgar as saying: "Central Asia Oil and Gas Industry is ready to invest in Afghanistan in the field of oil and gas extraction and meanwhile is willing to build an gas and oil refinery in Afghanistan." He added that Turkmen authorities are ready to cooperate with his company."
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Now it is the US-puppet Karzai regime which runs Afghanistan, not the Taleban. So if anyone is going to exploit Afghanistan's rich resources they would come from the western bloc, not the SCO. Hence the importance of Afghanistan remaining under the permanent occupation of the USUK and a fragmented NATO reborn as a 'Coalition of the Willing.' And why the UK Government has built in Kabul a huge, new fortified Embassy, signifying plans for a long-term occupation.
The present Bush junta represents nothing less than a coup d'état against the US people by oil interests.
As most of us know, the Bush-Cheney team that took control of the US Government in January, 2001, was heavily influenced by the oil industry. Bush himself is a veteran of a number of mostly failed oil enterprises. Condolezza Rice, Bush's assistant to the president for national security affairs, was on the board of Chevron. Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, a major player in the downstream oil industry.
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The hot spot for where the business is the Caspian.
In a column dated Thursday, August 10, 2000 in the Chicago Tribune , Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego [wrote] ... "Because of the instability in the Persian Gulf, Cheney and his fellow oilmen have zeroed in on the world's other major source of oil --the Caspian Sea. Its rich oil and gas resources are estimated at $4 trillion by US News and World Report. The Washington-based American Petroleum Institute, voice of the major US oil companies, called the Caspian region, "the area of greatest resource potential outside of the Middle East." Cheney told a gaggle of oil industry executives in 1998, "I can't think of a time when we've had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." Halliburton's Caspian investments include Turkmenistan.
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And in this revealing paper, written in 2001, its author goes on to note,
P.V. Vivekanand, chief editor of The Gulf Today in the United Arab Emirates sums up the pipeline picture in the Caspian/Central Asia region in this way..."There are dozens of oil and gas pipeline projects in Central Asia, some estimated to cost billions of dollars and almost all sparking transborder disputes and controversies. Most of the projects have been discussed for decades as the oil giants wait for the right political conditions to move in. Because pipelines are the best method to transport oil and gas over land, the efficiency of such a delivery system is too tempting for energy exporters and importers to let go of plans in a hurry. And for many potential exporters and pipeline hosts, the realization of such projects can mean economic survival."
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and finally concludes,
I think the evidence is overwhelming. The Bush administration plans to use the WTC attack as an opportunity to use the US military as pipeline police, with the current goal of splitting the government of Pakistan and the Taliban from the Islamic militants led by Bin Laden. If they can accomplish this, and this is a big if, the way might be cleared for the Afghanistan pipeline project, and the basis for further penetration into the oil rich former Soviet republics established, as part of a general rollback of Russian influence in the Caspian and Central Asia.
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Six years on we can see how this analysis has been borne out. It underscores the vital role played by the false-flag events of 911 which are now being increasingly exposed as having been a CIA-Mossad operation. And it reveals the skeleton-in-the-cupboard behind a nonsensical war, not so much against terror but of ongoing terror by the USUK-led capitalist West against the people of our Planet.
We have seen how in these wars the deaths of millions are just written-off as "collateral damage", of no significance in contrast to the purposes to be achieved by the constant playing-out of a hell on earth. Hells which are carefully kept out of the view of consumer target audiences and where war crimes are repeated so often that the concept itself begins to seem meaningless.
All wars are ruthless. But when the very survival of the New World Order lies at stake, as it now does, we can be sure that their horror and intensity will only grow, foreshadowing a great, planetary showdown in the interests of the Dollar Line.
BREAKING NEWS: NATO Meets in Scotland, 14-12-2007, to Discuss Afghanistan - More News Here
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Edward Said Lecture: The Myth of 'The Clash of Civilizations'
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In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded it into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. Edward Said, late Columbia professor, rips Huntington's thesis to shreds.
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In 1993 Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington wrote an essay titled "The Clash of Civilizations?" and later he expanded it into a book with the same title, but without the question mark. Edward Said, late Columbia professor, rips Huntington's thesis to shreds.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Fool Me Twice (Bali Bombings/East Timor Documentary)
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www.myspace.com/foolmetwicethemovie
Exposing the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali bombings (including 93'WTC attack) and subsequent anti-terror legislation forced through parliament.
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www.myspace.com/foolmetwicethemovie
Exposing the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali bombings (including 93'WTC attack) and subsequent anti-terror legislation forced through parliament.
The Ripple Effect: the July 7 Bombings
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'The Ripple Effect' is the best video yet produced in respect of what really happened in London on 7th July 2005. Whereas Alex 'I Am a Zionist Disinformationalist' Jones' 'Terrorstorm' acknowledges that Israel had foreknowledge of the event, his documentary does not, however, go anywhere near the issue of Mossad involvement. On the contrary, Jones heads in the opposite direction as per usual and tries to convince us that MI5 did it.
Indeed, Alex Jones is on the record as saying that his research offers "conclusive evidence" that British intelligence were the perpetrators. While MI5 were most definitely involved in the atrocities - in a faciltating role at the very least - all the evidence points towards the Israeli Mossad being responsible for executing the bombings. Unlike 'Terrorstorm', 'Ludicrous Diversions' and 'Mind The Gap', 'The Ripple Effect' acknowledges this fact.
'The Ripple Effect' is THE definitive video on the 7/7 bombings. The producer has done a wonderful job in putting together a comprehensive list of verifiable, documented facts which offer conclusive proof that the official account of the events of 7th July is a lie. Spread this video far, spread it wide.
http://jforjustice.co.uk/77
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'The Ripple Effect' is the best video yet produced in respect of what really happened in London on 7th July 2005. Whereas Alex 'I Am a Zionist Disinformationalist' Jones' 'Terrorstorm' acknowledges that Israel had foreknowledge of the event, his documentary does not, however, go anywhere near the issue of Mossad involvement. On the contrary, Jones heads in the opposite direction as per usual and tries to convince us that MI5 did it.
Indeed, Alex Jones is on the record as saying that his research offers "conclusive evidence" that British intelligence were the perpetrators. While MI5 were most definitely involved in the atrocities - in a faciltating role at the very least - all the evidence points towards the Israeli Mossad being responsible for executing the bombings. Unlike 'Terrorstorm', 'Ludicrous Diversions' and 'Mind The Gap', 'The Ripple Effect' acknowledges this fact.
'The Ripple Effect' is THE definitive video on the 7/7 bombings. The producer has done a wonderful job in putting together a comprehensive list of verifiable, documented facts which offer conclusive proof that the official account of the events of 7th July is a lie. Spread this video far, spread it wide.
http://jforjustice.co.uk/77
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Former Italian President Cossiga exposes CIA & Mossad as 9/11 culprits
Posted on MEDIALENS by Dr Gideon Polya on December 5, 2007
Former President of Italy Francesco Cossiga was a law professor, president of Italy (an important and sophisticated country with a population of about 60 million) and a life Senator of Italy – and accordingly a person whose expert and insider opinions about 9/11 on November 2007 to top Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera should be taken very seriously (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Cossiga ; the link includes a link to the original Italian ), QUOTE:
"[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda September [attack] to the two towers in New York [claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11, while all the [intelligence services] of America and Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the CIA American and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part ... in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."
Of course this startling testimony from a distinguished, intellligence expert and intelligence "insider" is consistent with the huge BENEFIT to the Racist Zionists and Racist Bush-ites from the dishonest and war criminal exploitation of 9/11 by the Bush Administration to launch the Bush Wars (post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 1.5-2 million and 3-6 million, respectively) (see: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya081107.htm ).
This November 2007 interview has been reported in the Alternative media but not as far as I know by the lying, corporate, Bush-ite Mainstream media of the Western Murdochracies.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
The BBC, David Miliband and Arsehole Politics
It never fails to amaze me that even when faced with the devastating truth, as it was today, the pathetic BBC and its talking heads, in a desperate face-saving operation, have to turn reality on its head in an attempt to prove that the opposite is true.
In a remarkable statement today by US Intelligence we were told something which bloggers like me have been saying for well over a year now: Iran is not, I repeat not, developing a nuclear weapon.
This, of course, has been a huge embarrassment for the BBC which for so long now has been enthusiastically beating the Neocon war drums and giving so much air-time to the utterly discredited John 'Bonkers' Bolton when no one else would touch him with a bargepole. We now have even the genteel Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from THE INDEPENDENT accusing the BBC of having been taken over by the Right.
The BBC is not simply in denial. It is a national institution which having so discredited itself in the eyes of the world is now like an oligarchic dictatorship under siege by the forces of truth and democracy.
Instead of simply admitting to 'having been mistaken' (it would never admit to having lied) about Iran's nuclear energy programme, it then tried to prove that it was right all along by making the ludicrous suggestion that even were there no evidence at present that Iran was producing a bomb it might have the capability to do so in five years time and thus remains a threat!
And, in doing so, it was aping the equally pathetic weasel words emanating from UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who made a similar suggestion in a hastily-organised Press Conference. Politicians, of course, never admit to having lied or making a mistake. So again we have this amazing contortion of logic which is able to pull non-existent threats out of thin air on the basis of something which might happen tomorrow, sometime or never!
Miliband is a bare-faced liar and I have the evidence. For it just so happened that on the very day this amazing revelation hit the world media I received a reply from my MP, Alex Salmond, enclosing a statement from Mr Miliband regarding 'UK policy' on Iran were it to be suddenly attacked by the USA:
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I use inverted commas around 'UK Policy' because anyone who bothers to read this garbage will see that it comes directly from the same song-sheet being presently sung by the warmongering chorus of the Bush cabal. UK Foreign Policy, these days, is written for its politicians in Washington, DC and Langley, Virginia.
Sock-puppet Miliband simply ignores all the considerable evidence that exists that the US Military is preparing air-strikes against Iran in which so-called tactical nuclear weapons are being held as an option.
He suggests that the Iranian government has not "fulfilled its international obligations to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities." This flies in the face of repeated assurances from the International Atomic Energy Authority (IKEA) that there is absolutely no evidence that Iran is processing uranium at the high level of refinement necessary to make a nuclear warhead.
Mr Miliband selectively refers to a UN Security Council resolution brought about in the most dubious of circumstances and which, therefore, lies discredited in the eyes of the world. And his innuendos are now exposed as a pack of lies by recent US intelligence reports.
His patronizing comments, "Iran must also accept that it has responsibilities to its neighbours, to the region and to the wider international community," (the last, read USUK interests), simply ignore all the hard work Iran has done in the region to create a security zone.
Finally, more lies: Iran has not, as Mr Miliband states, violated the NPT nor undermined regional stability.
Thanks but no thanks, Mr Miliband. Your letter is a perfect example of the kind of arsehole politics* the British public have become so accustomed to have shoved at them by a corrupt and incompetent bunch of wankers who presume to legally run this country on a 20% vote by a bored and pissed-off electorate.
And the same goes for the cowering BBC who, these days, receive their autocue texts directly from the Ministry of Propaganda.
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*The phrase, 'Arsehole politics' (US: Asshole Politics), though it might be taken to mean a peculiar bonding ritual which takes place, from time to time, between UK and US politicians to cement the famous 'Special Relationship', is actually coined from an anecdote by the erstwhile UK Ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, who on asking what British foreign policy was was told that it was "getting up as far up the arse of the Americans and staying there," a definition that gave new significance to the concept of an embedded relationship.
Guardian: US spies give shock verdict on Iran threat
US intelligence agencies undercut the White House yesterday by disclosing for the first time that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapons development programme for the past four years. The secret report, which was declassified yesterday and published, marked a significant shift from previous estimates. "Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons programme suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005," it said.
US intelligence agencies undercut the White House yesterday by disclosing for the first time that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapons development programme for the past four years. The secret report, which was declassified yesterday and published, marked a significant shift from previous estimates. "Tehran's decision to halt its nuclear weapons programme suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005," it said.
The disclosure makes it harder for President George Bush, to justify a military strike against Iran before he leaves office next year. It also makes it more difficult to persuade Russia and China to join the US, Britain and France in imposing a new round of sanctions on Tehran.
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HEATHFIELD ARREST DEFENCE CAMPAIGN
PROTEST! DEFEND FREE SPEECH!
SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER 1.00PM
CENTRAL MURRAYGATE, DUNDEE
Campaign News
Legal Aid not available to defend Michael on the grounds of his salary of £21,000. How does anyone defend themselves from criminal charges if Legal Aid is not available? Equal before the eyes of the law? We don't think so!...Craig Murray, Rector of Dundee University has contacted the campaign to express his concern...has been asked to contact the University to see if CCTV tapes are secured. We wouldn't want them to go missing, get lost or taped over eh! See you all Saturday!
VENCEREMOS! WE SHALL WIN!
Legal Aid not available to defend Michael on the grounds of his salary of £21,000. How does anyone defend themselves from criminal charges if Legal Aid is not available? Equal before the eyes of the law? We don't think so!...Craig Murray, Rector of Dundee University has contacted the campaign to express his concern...has been asked to contact the University to see if CCTV tapes are secured. We wouldn't want them to go missing, get lost or taped over eh! See you all Saturday!
VENCEREMOS! WE SHALL WIN!
Background
On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/ Revolutionary Communist Group. Michael was distributing his organisations newspaper and handing out leaflets about the forthcoming Speaking Tour of Cuban comrades. The police arrived at the instigation of the janitors at the new Heathfield Building in Dundee's Hawkhill. Michael was there because this building was the venue for that evening's "Allah Made Me Funny" show. He was receiving a friendly response from the overwhelmingly Muslim crowds and no complaints were made. The police aggressively demanded that he move on and arrested Michael very violently when he asked what the legal basis for that request was. He was charged at by the female officer, turned round and held by the arms by both officers. It was demanded by the officers that he lie face down on the concrete and present his arms behind him for cuffing. Michael verbally protested at this treatment and shouted to the crowd that he was not resisting arrest or being violent. He was cuffed very painfully and charged at the local police station with Disorderly Conduct, namely "lashing out with arms and legs". He was released just before midnight. Michael is very confident that CCTV and the videoing of the arrest by people will back this account and clear him completely.
Michael's Defence Campaign is being formed to challenge the arrest and charge and to vigorously and publicly demand that the officers themselves be charged. This is a vital moment for all campaigners and political activists as the Labour government plans to bring in even more repressive legislation and the targetting of communities such as the Muslim community is stepped up. Defence of our rights to protest, to free speech, to distribute and associate is under attack. All these rights are guaranteed in law but they must be asserted and defended to be meaningful. It cannot be the case that a crime can be made of making socialist and anti-racist material publicly available and that police officers can behave in this arbitrary and dangerous way.
Please support the campaign. Contact the campaign (see below) to add your organisations or individual name to the Statement of Protest. Leave contact details and consider a donation to help fund the costs of campaigning. The campaign can be contacted on 07904057790 and at frfiscotland@yahoo.co.uk."
BULLETIN 1.MONDAY 3 DECEMBER
Comrades and Friends, thank you for all the solidarity, support and assistance you have given. Much more of this and much more organisation is necessary in order to send out a clear message that attacks on democratic rights will be fought and resisted by all! PUBLICISE AND JOIN THE CAMPAIGN. CIRCULATE THIS CALL! SEND MESSAGES OF SUPPORT!
Michael's Defence Campaign is being formed to challenge the arrest and charge and to vigorously and publicly demand that the officers themselves be charged. This is a vital moment for all campaigners and political activists as the Labour government plans to bring in even more repressive legislation and the targetting of communities such as the Muslim community is stepped up. Defence of our rights to protest, to free speech, to distribute and associate is under attack. All these rights are guaranteed in law but they must be asserted and defended to be meaningful. It cannot be the case that a crime can be made of making socialist and anti-racist material publicly available and that police officers can behave in this arbitrary and dangerous way.
Please support the campaign. Contact the campaign (see below) to add your organisations or individual name to the Statement of Protest. Leave contact details and consider a donation to help fund the costs of campaigning. The campaign can be contacted on 07904057790 and at frfiscotland@yahoo.co.uk."
BULLETIN 1.MONDAY 3 DECEMBER
Comrades and Friends, thank you for all the solidarity, support and assistance you have given. Much more of this and much more organisation is necessary in order to send out a clear message that attacks on democratic rights will be fought and resisted by all! PUBLICISE AND JOIN THE CAMPAIGN. CIRCULATE THIS CALL! SEND MESSAGES OF SUPPORT!
Monday, December 03, 2007
Ha, Ha, Ha, America
Link
What in the hell is this? Apparently, it's some sort of hybrid music video/documentary/comedy/Chinese propaganda thing featuring electro beats and an arrogant text narrator who taunts our weak American work ethic. Equal parts mesmerizing, hysterical and humiliating, this video is a sure sign that our American empire is on the ropes.
The British Police State Marches On
Since the highly dubious circumstances surrounding the Glasgow Airport incident some months ago, the jailing for eight years of Mohammed Siddique for nothing more than a thought-crime, the persecution of his lawyer, Aamer Anwar, by a politically-biased judge, Colin Sutherland, and the threatening tones being made by the Scots Police of the danger of a dirty-bomb attack it seems that the Brown junta (c'mon, it's not a government, it's a four-man junta) has given special instructions to the Scots Plods to come down heavy on Muslims and pro-Muslims alike.
Why else would a perfectly innocent campaigner against Islamophobia be treated so aggressively for doing nothing more than leafleting in a lobby? Michael in Dundee (see Press Release below) was not only violently assaulted by the Police, he was thrown to the ground and cuffed painfully before being banged-up in a filthy cell before being charged. The only thing they didn't do was to taser him! That's coming, no doubt.
It seems that the Scottish Police, having nothing better to do than persecute innocent citizens, have been watching too many videos of police violence in the US such as the one below. Besides which, it is highly likely that these new tactics of violent arrest for nothing more than leafleting are being deliberately used by the Police in order to test the legal waters to see if the Scottish judiciary is still brave enough (after the Anwar incident) to defend the civil rights of our people.
Are these plods sniffing confiscated coke which is making them so violent? Or are they natural-born, authoritarian bullies? Or both?
Whatever the case, the Police in both Scotland and south of the Border are now becoming too big for their size-ten boots. It is high time that they should be knocked down to size for it is their job to protect the citizenry, not to attack them.
Ever since 911, this blogger has been warning his readers that the fake 'War on Terror' was merely a justification for taking away whatever freedoms we had and to turn our countries into police states. And that the Muslims were, like the Jews in Nazi Germany, the canary-in-the-cage. First it would be the Muslims, then it would be all dissenters.
That time has come.
The reputation of the Police is now at an all-time low. Far from trusting them to tell you the time or to help old ladies across the road, the Police are now feared by the average citizen. A fear that is deliberately promoted by a Police force whose supposedly blue uniforms get darker as their peaks become more reminiscent of the Gestapo.
Britain is now very close to being a Police State. It is already very late in the day to stop what seems like a horrific inevitability. But of course, it's never too late, for even Police States cannot last forever. However, if they are not prevented, contained and reversed by the few powers that the people still have then it will no longer be possible to change things through the electoral process.
And when the electoral process can no longer provide a means for change only one other means remains available. And that is Revolution. I put it to my readers, which option do you prefer? Ignoring both, by the way, is no option at all.
For as long as human beings, not cyborgs, walk the face of this Earth they will treasure their freedoms which, when taken away from them, they will fight to retrieve in one form or another. Where political reform does not come only revolution will. Our politicians know that only too well. And yet they cynically refuse us political reform and bully us into accepting a rapidly-deteriorating status quo, hoping perhaps that it's a problem they can simply ignore and leave for another day, another government.
Meantime, the Police State marches on. Is that what our rogue politicians think will save them when the crunch comes? No prizes for sending me the right answer to that question.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
What the BBC News won't Cover: CIA Sponsors another Coup in Venezuela
One thing you will not hear on the BBC reports on the Venezuelan Referendum is about the CIA's attempts to conduct yet another coup against President Hugo Chávez.
Another CIA-sponsored Coup d'Etat? Venezuela's D-Day: Democratic Socialism or Imperial Counter-Revolution?
Read it here
CIA 'Operation Pliers' Uncovered in Venezuela
Read it here
Racist Scots Police arrest Campaigner for leafleting in Dundee
Message from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group.
"We are circulating this email round all the socialist, solidarity, campaigning and progressive organisations.
On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November, the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group. Michael was distributing his organisation's newspaper and handing out leaflets about the forthcoming Speaking Tour of Cuban comrades. The police arrived at the instigation of the janitors at the new Heathfield Building in Dundee's Hawkhill. Michael was there because this building was the venue for that evening's "Allah Made Me Funny" show.
He was receiving a friendly response from the overwhelmingly Muslim crowds and no complaints were made. The police aggressively demanded that he move on and arrested Michael very violently when he asked what the legal basis for that request was. He was charged at by the female officer, turned round and held by the arms by both officers. It was demanded by the officers that he lie face down on the concrete and present his arms behind him for cuffing. Michael verbally protested at this treatment and shouted to the crowd that he was not resisting arrest or being violent. He was cuffed very painfully and charged at the local police station with disorderly conduct, namely "lashing out with arms and legs". He was released just before midnight. Michael is very confident that CCTV and the videoing of the arrest by people will back this account and clear him completely.
Michael's defence campaign is being formed to challenge the arrest and charge and to vigorously and publicly demand that the officers themselves be charged. This is a vital moment for all campaigners and political activists as the Labour government plans to bring in even more repressive legislation and the targeting of communities such as the Muslim community is stepped up.
Defence of our rights to protest, to free speech, to distribute and associate is under attack.
All these rights are guaranteed in law but they must be asserted and defended to be meaningful. It cannot be the case that a crime can be made of making socialist and anti-racist material publicly available and that police officers can behave in this arbitrary and dangerous way.
Please support the campaign. Contact the campaign (see below) to add your organisations or individual name to the Statement of Protest. Leave contact details and consider a donation to help fund the costs of campaigning. The campaign can be contacted on 07904057790 and at frfiscotland@yahoo.co.uk
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