What was Sting doing in Uzbekistan?

Ex-ambassador for the UK and whistleblower, Craig Murray, recently wrote a piece on his blog exposing the musician Sting for having played a 'charity concert' in Tashkent alongside the Uzbek dictator's daughter, Gulnara Karimova, "for some of the 'Charities' which have been set up in the past three years as the regime seeks to burnish her image to take over from her dissident massacring father."

Sting (Gordon Sumner) is known for having founded The Rainforest Foundation in 1989 along with his wife, Trudie Styler.

So "the greatest irony of the arch tosser Sumner's involvement is that the Uzbek government not only tortures thousands every year, has ten thousand political prisoners and massacres demonstrators. It is also responsible for one of the world's greatest environmental disasters - the disappearance of the Aral Sea, and the huge toxicity of the remnant and of the blown seabed dust."

Murray goes onto ask the question, "[d]id it not occur to Sting to wonder just where his glamorous hostess gets her billions from? Karimov and his daughter have for decades resisted every attempt to liberalise and diversify Uzbekistan's agriculture. The slaves pick [cotton] for them. And for Sting, apparently."

How is it possible that Sting would have accepted playing a gig in a country known throughout the world for being run by a barbaric dictator such as Karimov? It is inconceivable that he would not have known.

"The arsehole Sumner may not have noticed, but in the last three years even Wal-Mart, Marks and Spencers and Tesco have put a total ban on Uzbek cotton in all the clothing they sell."

Was he that short of cash to stoop so low or did something else take him to Tashkent? Back in the 'seventies, Sumner helped to co-found a rock group called The Police with Stewart Copeland who became the drummer. They called the group The Police because Copeland's father worked for the CIA and his mother for British intelligence.

Personality clashes led to the break-up of The Police. But maybe the old, spooky associations never died out after all?

Al-Qaeda are pawns of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex
Sunni terrorist groups armed, funded, and moved around the global chessboard to suit geopolitical agenda of Anglo-American establishment

All over the Middle East and the Balkans, from Afghanistan, to Bosnia, to Serbia, to Pakistan, to Iraq and to Iran, the United States, through black budget programs, has funded and armed Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist groups to destabilize and topple regimes targeted by the Anglo-American establishment.

This documented fact debunks the "war on terror" as a cruel hoax and exposes how current events in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran are being carefully orchestrated while the media sells the public on the belief that manufactured sock-puppet enemies, and not geopolitical domination and control of resources and the global drug trade, are why these wars are being fought, when in reality groups like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are firmly in the pocket of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

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Former FBI Chief says 911 was an Inside Job



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Lockerbie: Megrahi was framed

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the suppression of facts behind the furore over the "compassionate" release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. He writes that Megrahi was "in effect blackmailed by the governments of Scotland and England" so that it would not be revealed in his appeal that he had been framed for a crime he did not commit.

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Obama and the CIA

Of all the outside-the mainstream notions I've posited on this blog, the one that annoys the most people is my suggestion that the CIA recruited young Barack Obama during his days at Occidental College. I would further suggest that the Agency link runs in the family. I believe that, at an earlier time, the Agency (or some other branch of the intelligence community) may have recruited his mother, Ann Dunham.

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Right-wing rampage by Obama administration
Balance sheet of a week of reaction

The past week has provided a definitive demonstration of the subservience of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to the military-intelligence apparatus of American imperialism. Day by day, the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress delivered decisions along the lines demanded by the Pentagon and CIA, in many instances directly repudiating the campaign promises made to win popular support during the 2008 election.

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Osama bin Laden was US Operator

This allegation by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari confirms what many of us have always said about both Bin Laden and the phoney terrorist organisation, 'Al Qaeda'. Both were and are US-sponsored hoaxes.

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May 11, 2009 "New Karala" -- Washington, May 11 : Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto's government back in 1989.

In fact, as premier Bhutto had "warned America about Osama bin Laden in 1989 with a call to then US president George H. Bush", Zardari said on NBC's Meet the Press programme Sunday.

"She rang senior Bush and asked of him: 'Are you destabilizing my government?' because he (apparently referring to bin Laden) paid the then opposition $10 million to overthrow the first woman elected (prime minister) in an Islamic country," Zardari added.

"So, we knew that he was your operator," said Zardari responding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts.

"You'll have been there (in Afghanistan) for eight years. (So) you tell me. You lost him in Tora Bora, I didn't, I was in prison," he countered when asked where bin Laden was before hurling the allegation at Washington.

Asked if Pakistan was actively looking for bin Laden, Zardari replied: "The world is looking for him and we are part of the world look-out brigade."

Zardari also reiterated his belief that bin Laden is dead. "I have a strong feeling and I have reason to believe that because I've asked my counterparts in the American intelligence agencies and they have not heard of him since seven years."

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The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism

In a 'manual' which is officially to be released only to 'students from foreign countries on a case-by-case basis only', the US Army outlines a program of what it now calls 'irregular warfare', in fact US state sponsored terrorism, insurgency, and PSYOPS.

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Al Qaeda or Al-CIA-duh?

Rory's Note: Whenever I hear an atrocity blamed on Al Qaeda my internal crap-detector invariably changes the phrase to Al-CIA-duh. Seems so again. I found this and thought to send it on in its original form. The English may not be perfect but it seems Pakistanis are far more alert to this kind of thing:

What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines?

Pakistan Daily, Sunday, 21 September 2008

12:18 www.daily.pk

Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.

After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.

Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.

It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.

And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.

Fake Terrorism

Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists”
by Silvia Cattori

In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself on diverse sources, mainly Yugoslavian, Dutch, and German, he reconstructed the development of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants at the side of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovinia.

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The Liquid Bomb Hoax: The Larger Implications

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Ex CIA Spook alleges Kennedy's Assassin was the US Government

"LBJ took the IRT down to Fourth Street USA,
When he got there what did he see? The youth of America on LSD!
LBJ ... USA ... FBI ... CIA ..."
(Lyrics from original HAIR Musical)

For a moment, forty years ago, it looked like the radicalising political effect of the Vietnam War together with the US Civil Rights movement would synthesise with the upcoming 'drop out', psychedelic culture that swept the youth of North America.

John and Yoko Lennon, part of that drop-out anti-war culture clearly became a threat to the US establishment. Their phones were tapped, death threats were made, deportation orders prepared. Conveniently, John Lennon was finally murdered. A big question-mark hangs over his death as does over JFK's.



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VIETNAM & IRAQ: WARS BY AND FOR THE US MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

If Nixon is remembered for his country's final, humiliating withdrawal from the debacle in Vietnam, Johnson will be remembered for having drawn the USA ever deeper into that bloody morass. What the mainstream media (MSM) conveniently forget --how could they otherwise?-- is the huge arms production profits nexus that both presidents served in perpetuating that genocidal spree.

The lives of innocent Asians and US servicemen were, after all, incidental. The important thing was to keep the US corporations in business. Now we have a nightmarish repeat-performance of the same criminality taking place in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The actors may be different but it's the same gangsters in the USUK corporate states that are responsible for making a hell on earth.

Those who, through a cognitive dissonance, still refuse to accept that our governments are actually our worst enemy, that they commit mass murder not only through war but through staged "terror" attacks like 911, Madrid and 7/7 on their own people, will be shocked to hear that American governments sometimes kill their own presidents.

For that is what an ex-CIA agent, E. Howard Hunt, revealed just before his death.

The architect of Kennedy's assassination, he alleged, was no other than Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the USA. Johnson instructed the CIA to organise the event in which Mafioso were employed as the hit-men. The Hunt story was reported in a recent edition of ROLLING STONE summarized in 'The Last Confession of E. Howard Hunt: US Government/CIA Team Murdered JFK' by Larry Chin in the Online Journal.

"This piece is significant not only for its exploration of Hunt," writes Chin, "but for breakthrough information that appears to thoroughly corroborate the work of key John F. Kennedy assassination researchers and historians."

"Beyond any reasonable doubt," he continues, "the US government murdered John F. Kennedy. There are people still alive today who were involved directly and indirectly implicated. Some are probably even serving in positions of high influence. Some still have never been identified or touched."

According to the allegations, not only Johnson, the CIA and the Mafia were involved. So were cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI boss and Johnson's backer as well as Richard Nixon and George Bush Senior. "[T]he Hunt confession, if accurate, leads directly to them, to their lifelong associates, and all the way to the present George W. Bush administration."

"All of these individuals still need to be pursued, exposed, and brought to justice," concludes Chin.

Despite the enormity of such a task it must, sooner or later, be done. Similarly, war criminals like Bush Junior and his minions, Blair and Aznar, must be brought to justice. Until that day comes the collective mind of the West will sink ever deeper into a black pit, a prison gulag of its own creation in which countless more millions will suffer and disappear at the hands of such gangster politicians.