A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been desperately signaling for some days.
“Officials expressed concern that Fox and Werritty might even have been in freelance discussions with Israeli intelligence agencies” write Patrick Wintour and Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian.
As I have been explaining, the real issue here is a British defence secretary who had a parallel advice structure designed expressly to serve the interests of another state and linked to that state’s security services. That is not just a sacking offence, it is treasonable.
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It seems to me the questions now starting to be asked about the connection to Israel and possibly to Mossad might well have had a major effect on Fox’s sudden throwing in of the towel. If he did not believe that resigning would stop some further investigation, he might as well have toughed it out over the weekend; nobody has ever accused Fox of being thin-skinned.
The need for answers to my questions to Matthew Gould is in fact now greater, not less.
More killing by US drones in Yemen yesterday.
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Yemen’s al-Qaeda media chief ‘killed in air strike’
The media chief of militant group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been killed in an air strike in southern Yemen, Yemeni officials say.
The defence ministry said Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian national, and six other militants were killed in the attack in Shabwa province on Friday.
Some reports said the attack involved US drones, others that it was by Yemeni planes.
US drones killed the group’s leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, last month.
Mossad has never been “intelligence” service! Mossad is a worldwide Jewish terrorist organization (let’s be precise)
I find it very strange that Letwin was dumping state documents in park bins!, why, he and his like have/employ underlings in their office to get rid of unwanted paperwork, why was he doing the menial work himself ?.
@Tomazow – bit harsh sweetie and quite hyperbolic. You try living in a region filled with disparate lunatics intent on self destruction and anihilation with only a common unity in wiping Israel off the map and the terrorist vs freedom fighter axiom becomes more relevant, wouldn’t ya say? Ho hum – none of my fucking business anyway, must dash, those Afghans / Libyans / Iraquis etc don’t kill themselves what what?
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You describe the purpose of the Mr Hyde part of government as assisting in raising money. But you omit the obvious, that the only method of raising money used by a non-manufacturing, service industry state, is to accept cash or loans from Zionist-controlled Banks to steer UK foreign policy to the Zionist, anti-Muslim agenda. The billion pound loans for military coups like Libya go on the national slate, to be picked up by you and me in due course.
The entire wealth of this country, since the empowering of the banks by Mrs Thatcher, is under the control of these banks.
As somebody said above, the veneer on the split personality of government is being removed. That is not a sign of weakness but of supreme confidence that nobody can do anything about it.
The moral of the Jekyll and Hyde story is that if you keep a Hyde in your personality, it will rapidly take over the willpower of the respectable doctor.
And lose its shame about being exposed.
I know you are concerned about illegal money flow, but the control over UK foreign policy, resulting in all these wars against Muslim countries is , in my opinion, far worse.
Or it’s all part of the same process of weakening the UK and putting us entirely in the grip of foreign powers. (Nasty ones).
I don’t know why hitherto Craig has been so reluctant to make these points, and why he has decided to fight this cause now.
The evidence has been there all along. The parts = the dog.
Does Craig have to stay quiet about the threat of Zionism to the UK in order to remain inside the club of the good and the great?
If so, what has changed?
Clark
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=18163&pid=235103&st=0&#entry235103
@ Mary – “Daniel Kawczynski is amongst them.”
Google Conservative or Labour Friends of Israel, and you’ll find a hell of a lot more. Including Fox and most of the Cabinet.
Years ago, FOI websites used to list their members. Not any more. And some MP’s suppress the information on the Register of Interests. Probably the ones most worth watching, imo.
CFOI (and its Labour clone) provide freebies for its members, consisting of visits to Israel to admire its commitment to freedom, democracy and Momma’s chicken soup. They are even allowed to pat a tame Palestinian. They do not visit the wild ones, however. Zabludowicz is a prominent donor to this philanthropic organisation.
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http://www2.cfoi.co.uk/Delegations/RecentDelegations/
I liked your convincing Radio 4 impersonation of a reasonable analyst this morning.
Komodo I do know these facts and have done so for several years. The question is how do we shut this lobby down?
Someone here was singing the praises of globalisation reecently. The downside.
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As Daisey told the story this summer, the germ of his doubt was a series of photographs taken at the Chinese factory where the iPhone is manufactured, inadvertently left on a device bound for America, and posted to an Apple discussion forum. The photographs were mundane—a worker on an assembly line, a cavernous factory floor—but they led Daisey to ask a question that he’d never considered before: How and where are these gadgets he adores, these marvels of industrial design and technological innovation, made?
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This question in turn led Daisey on a gutsy adventure. With few leads and no journalistic credentials, he traveled to Shenzhen, in southern China, and, posing as a businessman, he infiltrated the heavily restricted, heavily guarded “special economic zone” where nearly all of the world’s electronics are produced. More than half of our electronics, including Apple’s, are made by a single company, Foxconn, at a single facility that employs 420,000 workers—a factory as populated as the city of Atlanta.
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Despite dire risk (an AP photographer caught taking pictures outside Foxconn had recently been detained and beaten for two days before being released to his embassy), Daisey managed to interview dozens of these workers. He interviewed girls as young as 12 who worked crushing hours; he interviewed a man whose hand had been twisted into a claw from overuse; he interviewed a woman who had been blacklisted merely for requesting overtime pay.
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In his show, Daisey is hardly shy in apportioning blame for these iniquities. He wants to implicate everyone: not just Beijing but the American companies that had requested and helped engineer the Shenzhen manufacturing hub; technology journalists who either ignored the labor question or, worse, allowed themselves to be duped by propaganda (Daisey is especially scornful about the author of a feckless Wired cover story from earlier this year: he calls him a “useful idiot,” Lenin’s term for the easily manipulable); and American consumers, himself included, who mindlessly salivate over the newest device yet remain in willful ignorance about the supply chain that delivers it to their doorstep.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/10/the_agony_and_the_ecstasy_of_steve_jobs_reviewed_.html
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I watched youngsters entering the Apple store in London the other day when some new phone was being released. A double row of cheerleaders greeted them, whooping and screaming at their arrival. Obscene marketing.
Who’s this “we”, Mary? About all “we” can do is publicise the extent to which lobbyists determine the government of the poor bloody uninfluential infantry, and hope said infantry will eventually cotton on, resulting either in major changes to the law or a bloody revolution. Sorry, crystal ball’s crashed again.
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Just keep the issue on display. With supporting evidence from credible sources. All “we” can do.
@themanfromporlock
Do tell. what programme and when?
peeps, is the world afflicted with Alzheimer? Is this Fox not the same Dr. Fox embroiled up in possession and supply of cocaine back in 80s?
Those with the dosh (oligarchs/plutocrats) take great care in appointing these hand-picked A moral serial criminals to the available slots in the political theatre, that is to keep the great unwashed (that is you and I) appeased by the same tools in our childhood; Santa Clause.
We wrongly expect these Bastards to represent our interests, and further we have the temerity of expecting fair-play and justice. These concepts are alien notions to the masters, and appointees alike, as can be seen in the putrid daily spasms of the so called “media”.
Whilst Fox is being advised by the prefect boy set up to keep an eye on him, Oly Letwin is busy dead letter dropping the latest goings on in the cabinet. All in good taste of course.
Oligarchs, and Plutocrats know they can screw us the people, and get away without even offering a reach around, and or cigarette for our troubles. The question is are we easy to shaft? Or have we been bred to be shafted? Because what we have here is nothing new, a corrupt politician taking advantage of his office to serve his funders, whom stood by their man, when he was a nobody.
Journalists aren’t evil, by and large, But they’re bloody lazy. The story that is easy to research is the one that gets written, So, “we” do their research for them, and leave it prominently in places they will be sure to read it. “We” (if you choose to accept the challenge) can use blog and media comment columns to do this. It’s a start, anyway.
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Vaguely relevant thought: When the Taliban convert an old artillery shell into an IED, they achieve a much higher body count than the shell would probably have done, fired from a gun.
Think guerilla. And do not organise.
The UK government like most governments around the world was privatised a long, long, time ago. We the people are not governed, we the people are owned. In the eyes of the far right Fox is only guilty of just one heinous crime…He got found out.
Guest and Fedup, yes. But what are your proposals for changing this state of affairs? The government’s not going to do it for you, is it?
A Komodo dragon gets its dinner thus:
It bites its prey. The prey is faster and bigger than the dragon, but it only needs one bite, because its saliva contains lethal bacteria. It is quite cheerful about its prey escaping after being bitten. Then the dragon sets off in a leisurely manner, following the victim by its scent trail. Maybe a couple of days later, the dragon finds its dinner, now incapacitated by the local equivalent of MRSA, and eats it without any hassle.
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MORAL: The game is not always to the swiftest.
The important thing is the follow-up. A story concerning undue influence (say) needs to be kept on the boil. Otherwise the prey will be humanely dispatched by its political friends, and will never be heard of again.
Thank you, Craig!
Mary
Oliy majilis is an uzbek parliament, well it is parliament but do not have choices to elect them. Once to the question of pro uzbeki regime journalist why american senators didnt’ trust uzbek parliamentaries John Mccain famously said: we would if they were elected.
Mary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b015yf3d/Week_in_Westminster_15_10_2011/
“But what are your proposals for changing this state of affairs”
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Many have asked that question throughout the many years that have gone before, the answer is, there are none, if there were we would have found them by now, we would not. Governments are merely a reflection of what the human race is. Change may come in evolution not revolution, sadly, mankind has a long, long, wait ahead of him.
Angrysoba, why have your comments been linking to YouTube videos for a while now?
Komodo We,a small group of like minded people, attempted to make a legal challenge to have the Friends of Israel lobbies in Parliament outlawed. We wrote to the Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life which was set up by Major following misdemenours by some MPs. You will not be surprised to hear that there were even Zionist stooges within that Committee. We were answered by a jobsworth in the negative. We persisted and obtained a legal opinion. A brick wall was encountered.
MPs of course should not need to be told where their loyalities lie by a set of rules but as most of them seem to lack morals or principles, they are:
The Seven Principles of Public Life
The Committee believes that ‘Seven Principles of Public Life’ should apply to all in the public service. These are:
Selflessness
Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest. They should not do so in order to gain financial or other benefits for themselves, their family or their friends.
Integrity
Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their official duties.
Objectivity
In carrying out public business, including making public appointments, awarding contracts, or recommending individuals for rewards and benefits, holders of public office should make choices on merit.
Accountability
Holders of public office are accountable for their decisions and actions to the public and must submit themselves to whatever scrutiny is appropriate to their office.
Openness
Holders of public office should be as open as possible about all the decisions and actions that they take. They should give reasons for their decisions and restrict information only when the wider public interest clearly demands.
Honesty
Holders of public office have a duty to declare any private interests relating to their public duties and to take steps to resolve any conflicts arising in a way that protects the public interest.
Leadership
Holders of public office should promote and support these principles by leadership and example.
http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/About/The_7_Principles.html
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Joe Bloggs in a parish council declares his interest. The lot occupying the green benches in the Augean stables do not. A sham.
“US drones killed the group’s leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, last month.”
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and they killed his son yesterday.
Notice that in US and pro-US media: Anwar al-Awlaki apparently wasn’t an American citizen, he was “US-born”.
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/15/official-drone-attack-kills-al-awlakis-son-in-yemen/
By the way, even CNN are casting aspersions on this “very scary” Iranian “terror plot”.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/12/us/analysis-iran-saudi-plot
Today in Yemen.
Deadly protests erupt in Yemen capital Sanaa
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Yemen uprising
Q&A: Country in turmoil
Deadly game of elite brinkmanship
Key players
Goodbye Yemen?
Violent protests against Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh have again erupted in the capital Sanaa, with at least nine demonstrators killed and dozens hurt, doctors and officials say.
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Tens of thousands marching to the city centre were met with live rounds, tear gas and water canon.
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President Saleh has been battling eight months of street protests
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15319980
Save Press TV
Calling out to all activists and occupiers…… Press TV, on sky channel 515 is being removed from our screens, OFCOM have decided to give in to government and royal pressure to remove the channel from the air. Press TV gives you the real news as it happens and because it fails to adhere with governments views they want it removed from UK TV. PressTV have just started covering the USA Occupy with Live reports and interviews.
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They have their hands around the throat of PressTV – the light and the voice of truth.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Complain to:
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[email protected]
Yes indeed Mark. Some news that you will not see on the corporate media. Police kettling in the City/Bahrain deaths/etc
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http://www.presstv.ir/
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Do you know for sure ‘royal’ pressure or is that shorthand for ‘the establishment’?
The Mail can reveal that Mr Moulton, a longstanding donor to Dr Fox, paid £60million for defence firm Gardner UK in February 2010. Eight months later he gave money to Mr Werritty.
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Clearly disgusted with the way his affairs were dragged into the public sphere, Mr Moulton said: ‘I will not be doing this again.’
He insisted that neither he nor his associates had ‘sought or received a benefit of any form from Pargav’.
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But his donation occurred during the Government’s Strategic Defence Review which meant £5billion of cuts. The RAF aircraft which used Gardner’s components escaped unscathed.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049222/Liam-Fox-resigns-Defence-Secretary-finally-quits-Adam-Werritty-scandal.html
In my view, that is good news about Press TV. There is no way that that tv station is not propaganda for the regime in Tehran. I do not want that stuff being pumped into living rooms across the land.
“In my view, that is good news about Press TV. There is no way that that tv station is not propaganda for the regime in Tehran. I do not want that stuff being pumped into living rooms across the land.”
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but porn and fox news is just fine ..