The planned scenario for a war with Iran is playing out before our eyes at frightening speed now. Unfortunately. as I have frequently said, Iran has a regime that is not only thuggish but controlled by theocratic nutters: the attack on the British Embassy played perfectly into the hands of the neo-cons. William Hague is smirking like the cat who got the cream.
The importance of the Fox-Gould-Werritty scandal is that it lifts the lid on the fact that the move to war with Iran is not a reaction to any street attack or any nuclear agency report. It is a long nurtured plan, designed to keep feeding the huge military industrial war machine that has become a huge part of the UK and US economies, and whose sucking up of trillions of dollars has contributed massively to the financial crisis, and which forms a keystone in the whole South Sea Bubble corporate finance system for servicing the ultra-rich. They need constant, regenerative war. They feed on the shattered bodies of small children.
Gould, Fox and Werritty were plotting with Israel to further war with Iran over years. The Werritty scandal was hushed up by Gus O’Donnell’s risibly meagre “investigation” – a blatant cover-up – and Fox resigned precisely to put a cap on any further digging into what they had been doing. I discovered – with a lot of determination and a modicum of effort – that Fox, Werritty and British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould had met many times, not the twice that Gus O’Donnell claimed, and had been in direct contact with Mossad over plans to attack Iran. Eventually the Independent published it, a fortnight after it went viral on the blogosphere.
The resignation of the Defence Secretary in a scandal is a huge political event. People still talk of the Profumo scandal 50 years later. But Fox’s resignation was forgotten by the media within a fortnight, even though it is now proven that the Gus O’Donell official investigation into the affair was a tissue of lies.
Take only these undisputed facts:
Fox Gould and Werritty met at least five times more than the twice the official investigation claims
The government refuses to say how often Gould and Werritty met without Fox
The government refuses to release the Gould-Werritty correspondence
The three met with Mossad
How can that not be a news story? I spent the most frustrating fortnight of my life trying to get a newspaper – any newspaper – to publish even these bare facts. I concentrated my efforts on the Guardian.
I sent all my research, and all the evidence for it, in numeorus emails to the Guardian, including to David Leigh, Richard Norton-Taylor, Rupert Neate and Seumas Milne. I spoke to the first three, several times. I found a complete resistance to publishing anything on all those hidden Fox/Werritty/Gould meetings, or what they tell us about neo-con links with Israel.
Why? Guardian Media Group has a relationship with an Israel investment company, Apax, but the Guardian strongly denies that this has any effect on them.
The Guardian to this day has not published the fact that there were more Fox-Gould-Werritty meetings than O’Donnell disclosed. Why?
I contacted the Guardian to tell them I intended to publish this article, and invited them to give a statement. Here it is, From David Leigh, Associate Editor:
I hope your blogpost will carry the following response in full.
1. I know nothing of any Israeli stake in the ownership of the Guardian. As it is owned by the Scott Trust, not any Israelis, your suggestion sems a bit mad.
2. The Guardian has not “refused” to publish any information supplied by you. On the contrary, I personally have been spending my time looking into it, as I told you previously. I have no idea what the attitude of others in “the Guardian” is. I form my own opinions about what is worth publishing, and don’t take dictation from others. That includes you.
3. I can’t imagine what you are hinting at in your reference to Assange. If you’ve got a conspiracy theory, why don’t you spit it out?
I can understand your frustration, Craig, when others don’t join up the dots in the same way as you. But please try not to be offensive, defamatory, or plain daft about it.
As I said, it would be honest of you to publish my response in full if you want to go ahead with these unwarranted attacks on the Guardian’s integrity.
Possible some Guardian readers will get drawn to this post: at least then they will find out that Werritty, Fox and Gould held many more meetings, hushed up by O’Donnell and hushed up by the Guardian.
It should not be forgotten that the Guardian never stopped supporting Blair and New Labour, even when he was presiding over illegal wars and the massive widening of the gap between rich and poor. My point about Assange is that he has done a great deal to undermine the neo-con war agenda – and the Guardian is subjecting him to a campaign of denigration. On the other hand Gould/Fox/Werritty were pushing a neo-con project for war – and the Guardian is actively complicit in the cover-up of their activities.
The Guardian. Whom does it serve?
Azra..
Let’s hope that the Iranian people can change things for the better. I believe they will.
Suzanne Nossel was with McKinsey and has a fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations, the neocon outfit that contains Madeleine ‘the price is worth it’ Albright and Colin Powell. Enough said plus she is fresh out of La Clinton’s nest of vipers.
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http://www.cfr.org/about/people/board_of_directors.html
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Suzanne Nossel was with McKinsey and has a fellowship with the Council on Foreign Relations, the neocon outfit that contains Madeleine ‘the price is worth it’ Albright and Colin Powell. Enough said plus she is fresh out of La Clinton’s nest of vipers.
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and this has what to do with anything? he was not in charge of the report I posted up. You are seriously trying to grasp at straws with your support of the Iranian regimes human rights abuses. First you link to a Holocaust denier and then just post more rubbish,what you have failed to do is condemn Irans human rights abuses and that says everything about you personally. Zero credibility, that is what you have.
Pretty sad to see people on here trying to defend Irans human rights record who also spend their time slagging of Israels human rights record and way they conduct themselves in the world. People who are really interested in protecting others human rights DO NOT pick and choose, they DO NOT go around defending Irans poor human rights record while attacking Israels. Real people with some morals abhor every human rights abuse by any body. You should learn that Mary.
Ken, the thrust of this blog has been to try and find out who, if anybody, pulls the strings at the Guardian, to prevent reference to the Gould, Werritty, Fox, Mossad meetings. How did the Holocaust get drawn into it? It’s not just you, because I’ve been drawn into the diversion too. Any chance of drawing a line under it everybody?
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Where is Werritty? That’s what I’d like to know. A fortnight ago the House of Commons wasted time in asking Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he had had any meetings with Werritty. This was obviously a decoy for journalists
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http://services.parliament.uk/hansard/Commons/bydate/20111115/writtenanswers/part009.html
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Why the Hell don’t they ask Hague, and Osborne, and those who are liekly to know him? And what rich fat-cat is harbouring him. And where’s Fox? No more gone to earth jokes please.
It would seem to be a half blind position to adopt, by referring to the leadership in Iran as thuggish, in the same manner as was Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, Mubarek, Castro et al, when in fact, the Anglo American War Machine, is run by an apparently endless series of psychopaths, whom are far more brutal and bloodthirsty than any of them. The Guardian, in common with the rest of the British media, is simply a tool of this war machine.
To be fair, Jerzy Ulicki-Rek is a holocaust denier. Personally (only) I regard that as an indicator that the writer is liable to be an extremist. He may be right, he may not. But I would feel more comfortable with criticisms not emanating solely from extremist sources. We would all do well to scrutinise our sources before citing them in support of our opinions. This should not affect the hasbara mob: their assertions are so familiar they no longer bother to cite the Israeli sites from which they are obtained.
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Havantaclu reminded me on another blog that the Iranians lost 8-9 million people to starvation under British rule…I am not sure if denying this is a thoughtcrime:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Famine-Genocide-Persia-1917-1919/dp/0761826335
Last night on AlJazeera, a programme called Empire, regarding Iran and the claim of the west that Iran is developing Nuclear weapon. It is very interesting and you can watch it on their website, it is also going to be repeated on Sat and Sun . Marwan Bashira at the end counted since 1981, (1989, 1990,1995, 1998, 2000, 2006,2009,2011) USA, Israel and their friends have claimed that Iran is ( a year, two year, five year, 6 months) away from being able to make a nuclear bomb!that is quite an impressive record for “crying wolf…”
I wonder why they are quite about Israel actually having nuclear bomb, and why doesn’t Iran
pull out of non proliferation treaty?? what is good for goose… Ken Iran does have a bad human rights records, but Israel is worse, the way they treat even their Palestinian citizens (and there are few there) is despicable and many of these citizen they do not have any militant tendencies either. The discrimination is unbelievable but there again there is a hierarchy similar to Cast system of India even amongst Israeli’s Jews. I have been to Israel few times and I was absolutely amazed by it, the last place on earth I expected it, taking account the history of Jewish People.
John…I’m feeling unusually fair tonight…Last month Kevan Jones asked similar and related questions of every department he could think of, and got a bland brushoff from all. He is still following these up. Yesterday he got something that resembled an answer:
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Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2011, Official Report, column 47W, on Heritage Oil, who approached him to make representations on behalf of Heritage Oil in March 2011. [83440]
Mr Lidington [holding answer 29 November 2011]: The information is as follows:
Mr Christian Sweeting, Director of London and Central European Investments Ltd.
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As one of two MP’s actively pursuing the matter, I think he deserves some recognition. And he presumably has some idea of how best to go about it.
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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cmallfiles/mps/commons_hansard_1213_wad.html
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(Heritage Oil is owned by Tony Buckingham, whose links with Stephen Crouch and Werritty are discussed on 25th Oct on this blog, and elsewnere in the press.)
Job vacancies. Anyone?
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http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/02/10/idf-needs-a-few-good-hasbara-hackers/
Azra..
I have seen that timeline before. I was on some forum and a guy was arguing with some rightwing nut about Iran and the guy posted with links all these claims over decades about Iran. It was an eyeopener and of course all true. I agree Israel has a worst human rights record than Iran. The Israeli government kill/abuse/torture etc Palestinian civilians,women and children included on a weekly basis and then claim they are innocent. I have read a lot about the Israeli regimes and they come out looking like a bunch of Nazis most of the time.
People forget that the entity’s Jews deny the lot… The 47/48 shoah, the Dreidel/Vilnai shoah Cast Lead and much more. They would deny their involvement in the war on Islam whereas they and their leadership are central in its many theatres.
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I resent the way that one link about an appointment to Amnesty International USA has been diverted successfully to retorts about holocaust denial and ad hominems. I also resent the patronizing tone of the Hasbara troll. Goodnight all and keep chatting. Off tomorrow to hear from a Palestinian speaking of life with the heels of the Occupiers’ boots on his and his family’s throats.
Aha. Not a useless answer, either. Here’s Mr. Sweeting in action:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10277852
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He’s a chartered surveyor, his company is based in Riverside House, Southwark (alternatively Bond Street-accounts differ), and it’s not funding but facilitating:
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Under cross-examination by Nicholas Johnson, for Mr Lee, Mr Sweeting said he was not in a position to offer a contract but could have “opened a door”.
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I don’t think that merely means he has mastered the use of a doorknob.
@Mary..
More personal insults. Tut tut. Hasbara trolls do not go around critcising Israel,that is the one thing they do not do. You are just unhappy that you got caught posting up a link to an Holocaust denier as evidence that Amnesty is somehow run by the Jewish mafia and thus not trust worthy. What you have failed to do is condemn Irans humans rights abuses at all and that says all there is need to know about you.
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The dappa organisational hair style is enough to attract many weirdos, some of whom have been showing off their cut and paste skills, along with the usual methodologies of trolling.,
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Apparently “Truth” needs a lot of keyboard warriors disturbing the peace of billions of electrons, and thousands of blogs to keep true.
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Komodo,
You old lizard, your cold heart cannot feel, and your reptilian brain cannot understand; the “chosen ones” suffering is extra special sort of suffering (albeit most of them survived judging by the huge numbers of survivors that you cannot shake a stick at). Everyone else cannot suffer as badly as them, ten millions Iranians dead, there is plenty more where they came from, no need to pass a law to criminalise the deniers.
Sorry, three MP’s are interested in Werritty, not two. Jim Murphy, Kevan Jones and Paul Flynn.
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Are the other two getting the old anti semite slagging that poor Flynn is getting today?
Ken
You are of course absolutely correct about the nature of the regime in Iran and do not be put off by those here who operate purely on an UK/US/Israel/Nato/MIC evil, all opponents thereof good dichotomy – and fail to recognise that there are wrongs on both sides of the argument that need to be dealt with. You will also note that the same crew are silent, or worse, with regard to the behaviour of the Assad regime. To be called a troll on this site is something of a compliment.
I don’t think you have ever posted against me making claims for democracy and free press in Israel, because to the best of my knowledge I have never made such claims for Israel as a whole, and I certainly recognise that there has been bad and unacceptable behaviour on the part of Israel – I just don’t believe that is sufficient to deny them a right to a state, just as I don’t believe that bad behaviour has invalidated the same right for the Palestinians. I just think that wrong is wrong whoever it is committed by.
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Your link to former Mossad chief Meir Dagan warning against an Israeli attack on Iran is interesting since Dagan was of course the head of Mossad at the time of the meeting when they met Gould and Werrity – and we already know from the Daily Telegraph that MI6 have been cautioning against military action against Iran. Which of course might lead to alternative explanation for these meetings that rather than planning for war against Iran they were trying to convince Fox that such an action might not be sensible.
Don’t interrupt me, I’m digging.
Tullow Oil
Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what date the hon. Member for North West Norfolk met Tullow Oil in July 2010. [83721]
Mr Bellingham: I met representatives of Tullow Oil on 15 July 2010 in London and on 22 July 2010 in Kampala.
Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who was present at the meeting between the hon. Member for North West Norfolk and Tullow Oil in July 2010. [83738]
Mr Bellingham: I was accompanied by Mr Andrew Pocock, then Africa director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. We met Mr Tim O’Hanlon, vice-president, Africa Business and Ms Rosalind Kainyah, vice-president, external affairs and CSR.
Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was discussed at the meeting between the hon. Member for North West Norfolk and Tullow Oil in July 2010. [83739]
Mr Bellingham: I discussed Tullow’s exploration and production activities throughout Africa.
Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries in Africa were discussed at the meeting between the hon. Member for North West Norfolk and Tullow Oil in July 2010. [83740]
Mr Bellingham: I discussed Uganda, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether minutes were taken at the meeting between the hon. Member for North West Norfolk and Tullow Oil in July 2010. [83741]
Mr Bellingham: Minutes were not taken.
(See URL above: Tullow Oil entry)
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“I discussed Uganda…” lol.
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Sooo…who’s Tullow Oil? Heritage’s fellow prospector for money in Uganda. Buckingham stiffed them fine style. I wonder where our two Fox terriers are going with this one?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/alistair-osborne/7968827/Tullow-trapped-between-a-hippo-and-a-Heritage-hard-man.html
Holding a dialogue betwixt tow ultra egos, wonder which one is the glove, and which the hand? So original, so convincing!
Enochered – I like your blog.
Why not honor those world leaders who are not morally corrupt, have grass-root support and are brave enough to stand up to the ‘Empire’ for its agenda of the One World Government under Zionist domination?
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/worlds-top-independent-leaders/
John Goss:
I did visit the “Ann Frank Huis” while in Holland a couple of years back. It was terrible, I left in tears.
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It was lowest point in the tourist season, and the final tour for the day had already finished. We could go in, but would have to guide ourselves.
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A mere half dozen of us split up and visited rooms in which the Franks and the Van Pels had been hidden. Surrounded by the original decor and memorabilia, reading Ann’s words about silence being so necessary (in the now utterly silent surroundings), the poor illumination, the uncirculated air, one could scent fear and hiding and terrible reprisal for failing to keep one’s very existence utterly secret – not just for a few minutes, but years.
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A sign (translated) on the WC and sink said : “No water whatsoever to run after 8:00pm!”
The sadness at not being able to go outside, ever. The entertainment they managed to find. The desperate pressure of their food supply, the miserable sparsity of life all round. Yet this girl wrote with optimism.
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Finally, to the end of this desperately sad tale – testimony and photographs of the concentration camp in which she died. One tape loop of several short films taken of the camp in operation had me transfixed to the spot with horror. A fellow visitor gasped a foreign oath while looking at the same, shaking me out of it.
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The sheer, utter brutality, depravity and inhumanity of all this is beyond words. My wife would have had the same treatment, had she been around at the time, for exactly the same reason.
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Anyway, I can’t claim credit for the term “Holocaust Industry”, it was coined by Norman Finkelstein some time back:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/category/the-holocaust-industry/
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What makes one have even less faith in humanity than usual is that the same people who fervently run around the world advertising this horror, are enthusiastically visiting it themselves on another undefended set of people.
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On an early Sunday morning show a little while back, a Jewish concentration camp survivor was asked to consider, if Hitler had
incorporated the Jews into his master-race ideology, whether would the Jews have gone along with it?
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After lengthy consideration, the old survivor said, “That is a question I have long dreaded to consider”.
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Perhaps it is unworthy to say, but seeing the enthusiasm with which the Israelis are visiting their own “Shoah” on the Palestinians, we might be closer to answering that question.
Q. How many sockpuppets does it take to change a lightbulb?
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A. We can’t answer that until our supervisor comes back from lunch and tells us.
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Collective nouns for sockpuppets?
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Stephen..
I think it was Julian not you that I was having a discussion on Israel about. My mistake. It is hard to search posts here but just come across one of mine about it.
Wondered why the shills were running interference tonight.
Christian Sweeting, former Tory candidate for Torbay and Heritage Oil recruit…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/13/oil-commodities
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…could this possibly be the Christian Sweeting who claimed to be able to open doors for Tullow Oil?
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*Lightly touches Mr Sweeting with handsome reptilian tongue*
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Mmmm. Smells the same.
Not a completely different Christian Sweeting. Good at doors, he is:
http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5538559/trouble-with-british-ties-to-libyan-oil
Mary, assuming you are not an antisemite, it was playing into Ken’s hands to post a link to an article which talks of the “Jewish mafia”.
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As I’ve said before, Zionism is a geopolitical front for the Western industrial-military-corporate complex, and although Jews figure prominently in its senior membership, I doubt very much that they form a majority.
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The Powers that Be are quite happy to have right-minded people labouring under the delusion that this is all about Zionism, because that diverts them from the real issue. The real issue is that the West is mounting an all-out attack on the Middle East for its oil, because it is bankrupt and has no means other than force to get its hands on that oil now that the worthlessness of its currencies is clear for all to see.
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For a long while it was worth oil producing countries’ while to go along with the charade of the dollar as the global reserve currency, but as it becomes clear that the dollar is soon to become toilet paper, they are casting around for client countries that are actually solvent and whose currencies have real value. America and its allies will fight to the death to stop this happening.
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Or do people think it’s coincidence that every single country the West has been attacking recently is sitting on a heap of oil?
Komodo, thanks. I’m still digging myself. Good luck with yours.
rofllmo,rofllmo,rofllmo,
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Jives,
Your pub quiz made my day, as I was rolling on the floor, about in-depth questions; “was it you?”
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Collective nouns for sockpuppets?
Is sublime.
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I go along with Pepe Escobar that a long with oil and pipelines the Americans are basically surrounding China as they will be the target in the future.