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?
Here’s the interview with Diana Nammi, from the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, who obtained the figures from the police by means of an FoI request. She doesn’t mention Iran. She says these attacks occur largely in Muslim communities but they also occur in Sikh and Hindu communities, and she lists “South Asian, East European, and Middle Eastern”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16017110
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IKWRO is calling on the government to develop a national strategy to tackle ‘honour’ based violence across the UK. Here’s their press release:
{http://ikwro.org.uk/2011/12/03/nearly-3000-cases-of-honour-violence-every-year-in-the-uk/}
A US recon. drone has been shot down over Iran.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iBB0H59Ur6NJiZF1ie_XzMJK3etQ?docId=CNG.5b3137d37ca033f82d1946db0c21911c.7e1
and the Iranians claim it’s more or less intact – not badly damaged. This will infuriate the Yanks.
@Nuid..and the Iranians claim it’s more or less intact – not badly damaged. This will infuriate the Yanks.
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It will probably find its way to China sooner or later.
A shorter coverage by the BBC of clone allegedly shot down by Iranan forces.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16024605
Hi Mark Golding – Children Of Iraq,
I will look forward to read more of your comments.
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As I had outlined the sinister, and subliminal linkages designed to play the punters for fools, classic case being
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation(IKWRO) A domain which has been set up by Camden Council since 27-Jan-2004, and its postal address given as: 90 Central Street, London, EC1V 8AQ which is the St. Luke’s Centre, in Central Street (a community centre). Although the site itself claims the “organisation” was: set up in August 2002, aimed to offer help, assistant and support to all Farsi and Kurdish speaking women living in London. [sic]
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Searching the site which carries a single solitary article about “honour crime”, that ends with “Honour killing” is a crime against humanity and must be considered a crime by law inside or outside the West a puerile assertion, because any kind of unlawful killing is considered to be a case of murder, pretty much universally across the globe. However, other than couple of photos and an empty archive folder, the much touted survey, making the news headlines, is locked away behind a passworded login account, and cannot be found, or accessed. Thus in “Media” we ought to trust, and hope that the stenographers to have seen the report contemporaneously, on the other hand there always remains the fact that the said stenographers might have taken the word of the “organisation” ran from a postal address on their report on faith value too.
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Fact that among the list of the countries mentioned in the only article on their site;happening in Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraqi- Kurdistan and other countries as well as some European countries. [Sic] nowhere does the country Iran appear. Whilst distinctly missing are Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan from the list, but then the article mentions other countries .
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The fact that this report happens to be unearthed coincidental with the “rubbish Iran” campaign this week, shows the sinister intent of leaving noxious markers and mims in the punters mind who are in for the long haul, and tied to the “media” that is gradually doing the thinking for these punters, hoping in time they will all know what to think, and realise they have thought it out all by themselves.
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PS if you are not too tired to read, I have a little ditty that can only be appreciated by those whom are way ahead of the curve. Let me know and I will publish
If I remember right the US claims that if their unmanned drones are shot down they have a self-destruct facility but Suhayl’s link suggests that the Iranians have constructed clones from the drones and shown these to Russians with an interest.
It could have been a drone flying over Afghanistan according to Reuters which the US had lost contact with.
Sorry, forgot the link:
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-iran-usa-drone-idUSTRE7B30CQ20111204
@Fedup…
Why not just admit you were wrong? You are claiming something about that news item that does not exist.Also it was not a survey,it was a collection of data from the polices forces around the UK not including Scotland as they do not keep records on it. You are just pushing conspiracy theories.
This is what I think is supposed to happen when drones are shot down.
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http://jafrianews.com/2011/07/20/iran-shoots-down-u-s-spy-drone-over-qom/
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But, of course, if the US had lost control they might not have been able to activate its self-destruct facility. In which case they could have a relatively intact specimen.
@Fedup
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BTW you linked to their old website and that is why there is nothing on it. Try there new website here.
http://ikwro.org.uk/
John Goss
Thanks for the link,
“There is absolutely no indication up to this point that Iranians shot down this drone,” the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
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Spot the official: Mail man, Tea boy, Driver, Janitor, …..
Reuters are taking the piss these days.
“NATO’s U.S.-led mission in neighbouring Afghanistan said the Iranian report could refer to an unarmed U.S. spy drone that went missing there last week …” – Reuters
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The knob fell off the remote control in Langley?
“BTW you linked to their old website and that is why there is nothing on it.”
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tsk tsk, I’d already given him the correct address. 8)
Nuid.
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Yes you did but he ignored it so I posted it up again. 🙂
“But, of course, if the US had lost control they might not have been able to activate its self-destruct facility. In which case they could have a relatively intact specimen.” — John
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Bit of reverse engineering and away they go. Er … but to fly where?
Imagine the reaction in the media if they flew one over US or Israeli-controlled territory.
Let’s hope the Iranians can bag a few more.
RQ-170
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I am interested in the active electronically scanned array radar, synthetic aperture radar and signal intelligence in its belly fairings.
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A major feature is the Line of Sight SATCOM data link which may well be Link 16. Link 16 is a TDMA-based secure, jam-resistant high-speed digital data link which operates in the radio frequency band 960–1,215 MHz, allocated in line with the ITU Radio Regulations to the aeronautical radionavigation service and to the radionavigation satellite service. This frequency range limits the exchange of information to users within line-of-sight of one another, although emerging technologies provide the means to pass Link 16 data over long-haul protocols such as TCP/IP and UHF SATCOM.
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Information is typically passed at one of three data rates: 31.6, 57.6 or 115.2 kilobits per second, although the radios and waveform itself can support throughputs upwards of 238 kbit/s.
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The link represents the command and control features of many systems and is the NATO standard data link – a very valuable asset and I am interested in its anti-jamming features.
Apparently the Russian elections weren’t entirely free and fair. In that case Putin took a bit of a hammering.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3PjxW-uwWc&feature=player_embedded
You cannot cross line with British Jewish Lobby.
In August 2011 – Dean of the Royal Air Force College, Dr. Joel Hayward was demonized by pro-Israel media for criticizing British and NATO’s invasion of Libya…..
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/dean-of-raf-lobby-under-lobbys-knife/
Mon 5 Dec 2011 04:41:45 GMT
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Fedup wrote: “PS if you are not too tired to read, I have a little ditty that can only be appreciated by those whom are way ahead of the curve. Let me know and I will publish”
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I thought “ditty” referred to unnamed pieces by musicians (only time I’ve heard the word used in these parts), but sure, I’m always up for a bit of a read – where are the words?
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Presumably it is also a word used by supercilious people inviting others to flatter themselves. “can only be appreciated by those whom are way ahead of the curve” is the equivalent of the emperor’s new clothes which could only be seen by smart people.
Oh dear, that Rehmat doesn’t like Jews very much.
I too have given up on Guardian ‘Censorship Is Forever’ or ‘Choose Israel First…’
The unpaid intern girls censor without reason, to remind us that it is not a debate, but a Guardian tribute act. I posted a comment which was simply a paragraph lifted verbatim from the published [Israel/Palestine] article, with my addition ‘I agree’ – and they deleted it!
Anything wittier or more perceptive than an average Guardian
column – which means practically everything – gets deleted in a hissy fit.
The quality of cif deteriorates steadily, with interesting debaters giving up in disgust, leaving a remnant of lonely [usually zionist] obsessives. any insult about Arabs or Muslims is permitted, but the merest hint that the zionist entity might lack legitimacy is axed, as is anything they can smear as ‘anti-semitic’. Israel can only commit tactical errors, not strategic crimes – and as for suggesting that its very existence is a mistake…why, that is almost ‘holocaust denial’. Likewise, you must not suggest that Israel might last less than eternity. Totally verboten is the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Biro-Bidzhan, the agreeable homeland begging for Jewish migration since 1928, to which those fed up with the desert might profitably transfer. Google it.
It’s funny how many things left to their own devices end up talking about Israyhell. Actually it’s funny, pleasing and worrying – and all at the same time.
The rumour rumor in Iran was (nearly a year ago) that Iranian in fact had shot down other drones intact and were keeping quiet about it. I would not be surprised that both camps (US and Iran), keep these kind of things quiet, each for their own reason. Iran wants to copy the technology, and USA of course do not want to lose face..
Mark Golding, you seem to know a lot about these drones. I am not an electronics engineer but do you know how they would reverse engineer it without re-activating its signal, and if they did reactivate its signal would it then be back in US control? Would the Iranians be able to change the frequency? Would it be out of range of US control? Or would they just copy the components without trying to get the captured drone working again?
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My suspicion is, if they have a relativelly intact drone in their possession that they did not shoot it down, rather it glided to a halt. What do you think?
Boniface: Totally verboten is the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Biro-Bidzhan, the agreeable homeland begging for Jewish migration since 1928, to which those fed up with the desert might profitably transfer. Google it.
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Oh Good God, are we back to the days of thinking up solutions to Der Judenfrage?
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How many Jews that you’ve spoken to have been receptive to your kind suggestion of migrating from “the desert” to Siberia? I just wonder if you realize that it was the post-Alexander II Russian pogroms which initiated the first aliyah to Palestine and the thought of packing up and moving to a place where, according to Wikipedia, there is a population of some 2000 Jewish Yiddish speakers among 170,000 ethnic Russians.
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I’m sure you can’t wait to be infuriated at the influx of Hebrew-speaking Israelis displacing the native Russian population and denouncing them as collaborators with Joseph Stalin just as the Israelis are now castigated as Hitler-collaborating Nazis.
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“To think”, fumes the comfortable LRB-reading professor, “that these Hebrews turn up in a land and behave just as the Tsarist pogrom implementers did and this was all the brainchild of Joseph Stalin blah, blah, blah…”
Good summary, from Prof. Chossudovsky, of the state we’re in.
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Covers the geopolitical wars from 911 to the present:
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https://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalResearchTV