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?
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.
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Assuming the story is true maybe they used some kind of EMP weapon.
“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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+ EMP weapon = microwave oven lying on its back with the door open? Or maybe it just ran out of fuel.
Or maybe the Iranians actually shot it down or disable it (strange as it may seem to some). Given that the stealth technology drone is not supposed to be detectable and all that bullshit. Certainly Iranians have proved they are not fucking kidding around when they state; Iranians will come out fighting like demons, if attacked.
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Perhaps it is time for hasbara merchants to give it rest before they have plunged the world into a seriously fucked up situation.
“Oh dear, that Rehmat doesn’t like Jews very much.”
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Give up the school-yard talk ‘Angry’ –
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Russia seems to have gained a certain leverage in her response to the proposed America missile shield being built in Europe after NATO murdered 24 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan has closed her supply route to Afghanistan which means the northern through Russia is the only remaining passage for non-lethal coalition supplies to Afghanistan.
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http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-transit-pakistan-us-027/
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Washington must now think twice with regard to its plans for a European missile shield.
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By taking advantage of the current bottleneck situation, Russia could effectively thwart the United States from deliberately targeting Russia’s nuclear deterrence capabilities, and therefore destabilizing Europe and sparking a new Cold War.
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In the grand game Russia was screwed in Afghanistan by the American alliance with the Taliban during the 80’s and screwed again when her oil contracts were lost due to the 2003 Iraq invasion by an American coalition of the willing.
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Enough said! – Russia now has strong energy ties with Iran and military ties with Cuba. Her nuclear status stands to protect a changing world away from illegal wars, hegemony and American backed dictatorships once calculated to ensure a pro-American Middle East and guaranteed oil supplies.
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It is time for the Arab League to move into line with the wishes of its people instead of accepting bribes from the rich oil states of the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Algeria in there attempts to appease a disgraceful, war-mongering and deceitful United States that cloisters an illegally nuclear armed Israel and demonizes Syria.
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I hope the emperor of drones reconsiders his use of myopic assassinating hornets because if I get my hands on the technology the anti-drone drone will soon be observed from the Khyber pass engaging over the Hindu Kush plains and the Bābā Mountains.
(O/T – for info, I have given feedback to the web guy about adding timestamps to comments. Thanks to all who made the suggestion, and watch this space.)
Thanks for that improvement Jon, can you ascertain who impersonated me earlier on in this thread?
I would prefer pranksters be given one warning, re occurence should lead to a timed ban, but this is not my blog. Using someone elses name, I do not use the anonymity of a moniker here, distorts debate, whether it is malicious, a heated pranks response or else, and it can easily lead to false arguments, bad blood and more.
Thanks for that link Herbie, a very good summary by a relevant thinker.
Watch out folks, Forex Trading is peering in the window and wants to touch you.
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Meanwhile – Israel as a spurned Facebook friend: the worst propaganda video ever? http://t.co/ONZ8A39M
Mark Golding – Children Of Iraq,
Turkish resistance to MDS aside, Russia has already tested the decoy warheads in their multiple warhead missile systems, to counter the MDS. So far US has been operating on the edge, and through sheer wilful malice, waging wars of destruction on small, weak, and broken down countries. Whilst threatening the Chinese, and Russians with economic collapse; backing the hearse, and letting them smell the flowers with the stories of total collapse of the world economy ad nauseum. However despite the acquiescence of these countries, and the destruction of the smaller countries, as yet US seems to have done precious little to repair or make good the economy or the depression that has been brought on by the lawless conduct of the US, UK bankers.
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Therefore the stirrings in the Pacific, and the Radar stations getting commissioned in Russia in addition to the overhaul of the fighting stock of Russian forces. Further, given that the US economic model is a faith based dogma, US is in no position to solve the problems of her own doing. This fact is gradually sinking into the calculations of the Chinese, and Russians, that further can explain their change of tac.
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Rehmat, Boniface Goncourt,
They are too sacred to be told to; fuck off
Herbie – I agree with Ingo, in fact that link to Prof. Michel opens up the most important geo-political window in a decade. I know this because the reason Robin Cook RIP was so terrified is because he knew that what was discussed when the British high command met the loosely termed al-Qaeda fighters in the same room . Thus when Robin confirmed al-Qaeda was a database of fighters, America hit the ‘kill bill’ button.
Nuid: Meanwhile – Israel as a spurned Facebook friend: the worst propaganda video ever?
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Good music, though. I liked it anyway.
What has happened to Mary?
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[Mod/jon – @passerby, please don’t refer to new visitors to trolls – this is unprovable, and we don’t want another heated exchange!]
This discusses Cook’s mention of The Database.
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http://shaphan.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/robin_cook_the_.html
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Further info on the use of such false flag tactics can be found in Operation Gladio etc, even down to the use of agents provocateur in local demonstrations and protests, undercover police etc. which were routinely used in labour disputes in the 1970s and in political protests today.
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General Sir Frank Kitson retd of the British Army has even helpfully written manuals/books which describe the false flag processes which the British Army have used in Kenya, Malaya and Northern Ireland. You can find them in the bibliog in his wikipedia entry.
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Gangs and Counter-gangs (1960), Barrie and Rockliff
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Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping (1971), Faber and Faber – reprint 1991
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It really shouldn’t come as any surprise. Such tactics are as old as life itself.
Mark G., here is more on the same subject. Looks like NATO could still access Mujaheddin fighters they once fought side by side with in Macedonia, a perfectly reasonable assumption.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
If you translate this to a possible false flagging event and or uprising of sorts, then we know what to look out for over the yuletide.
Mary, where are ya, three deep breath….
The Vienna convention is not being talked about so much over this one, and this piece of news is not so much of a news anyone would want to know, so the deciders have decided thus.
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Russia downgrades relations with Qatar over attack on ambassador by security officials ie the qatari gobamnit agents
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Airport security and customs officials beat up Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko and two other Russian diplomats on November 29 in an attempt to seize the diplomatic dispatch the ambassador was carrying on a return trip from Jordan.
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[Mod/jon – removed broken link tags in this post]
Russia downgrades relations with Qatar over attack on ambassador by security officials ie the qatari gobamnit agents
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Banish the avatars, these are making the site run like a hound with no legs.
Never click those ‘spam’ links – they are an easy way of capturing IP numbers.
Passerby – last week WSJ had reported that an Israeli drone over South Lebanon “vanished” due to “Hizbullah’s electronically disabling device” received from Islamic Republic.
In September 2004, Israel’s most circulated English daily Ha’aretz had reported that an “Iranian-made Hizbullah drone had spent about five minutes in space over Israel”, without being detected by the Israel Air Force.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/hizbullah-drone-over-dimona/
@ingo – I think it was Ken that used your name, but I don’t think it was deliberate. It could just have been a copy-paste error, or maybe a bug in the code. If it happens again, just post shortly afterwards and ask for it to be corrected. (Mods can see IP addresses and email addresses, so can work out which are genuine and which are not.)
Mod/jon,
Thanks there for fixing the posts and getting rid of the broken link.
angrysoba
“just as the Israelis are now castigated as Hitler-collaborating Nazis.”…?
I think you’ll find they are castigated not as Nazi collaborators, but as Nazi imitators.
Israelis who see the writing on the wall already are emigrating to the Jewish Republic of Biro-Bidzan, with its bracing Minnesota-type climate. In any case, your ‘Judenfrage’ will find its own solution. According to the [worried] Jewish Agency, the number of identified Jews in the world declines by 50,000 per year, as it has done from the 1950 peak, due to assimilation, intermarriage, and indifference. Current population 12.9 million. Do the math.
@Angrysoba — Per your quote — “In 1825, France, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti compensate France for its loss of men and slave colony.” — Amazingly I read recently that Haiti was still paying this compensation (for loss of slaves) to France in 1947. Can’t quite recall where I read it, but I think it was this book – Red Heat: Conspiracy, murder and the cold war in the Caribbean (Pub. 2011) by Alex Von Tunzelmann.
John Goss,
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The captured drone will be initially be examined in a Faraday cage to prevent any spurious signal from reaching the drones receivers.
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It may however have broken up and also most secrets are in programmable logic devices which are erasable so they are ‘made safe’ in a crash by sensor outputs, if power is interrupted or if a ‘make safe’ signal is received.
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I am not expecting the information I require will be available because Lockheed has the best British engineers. If intact the dimensions, shape, curves, the front end sensor and radar, rotating antennas in the fairings and whether there is a high power microwave source in its belly and/or jammers and the power unit are useful.
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The stealth technology is widely known so no good secrets there.
DAVID LEIGH GIVES EVIDENCE TO LEVESON INQUIRY ON 6 DEC (Richard Thomas on 9 Dec)
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The Leveson Inquiry continues to be good value. Look out for the David Leigh session today (whether morning or afternoon is still to be decided) and, especially, on Friday – when a former Information Commissioner will have a lot of explaining to do; and might possibly pass the reeking buck to New Labour politicians – one can always hope!
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The evidence sessions on 5 Dec featured Alex Owens – the ex-CID Detective Inspector who worked for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and uncovered detailed evidence of how intermediaries were tasked and paid by UK print media to obtain information illegally – and a senior ICO officer, Francis Aldhouse, who seems to have played an unhelpful/ timid role (though protected by a poor memory for matters in which he was not in the lead).
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Judge Leveson’s approach is partly revealed in his rulings – see http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/rulings/ . Points made to him are treated with consideration; and his rulings are set out clearly, with supporting arguments. His temperate language and courtesy contrasts with the violently partisan ad hominem contributions from some to this website. That said, Craig continues to articulate for many of us values we wish were more cherished by our politicians and journalists – concern for the public good, openness, truthfullness.
Boiniface:
I think you’ll find they are castigated not as Nazi collaborators, but as Nazi imitators.
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No, they are definitely castigated in some quarters as Nazi Collaborators. The imitator jibe is admittedly more common which is why I said that any large-scale Jewish immigration to Russia will be followed by jibes of Tsarist imitation and Stalinist collaboration. Such memes are popular.
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Israelis who see the writing on the wall already are emigrating to the Jewish Republic of Biro-Bidzan, with its bracing Minnesota-type climate.
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Do you have any figures to back up this bare assertion?
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In any case, your ‘Judenfrage’ will find its own solution. According to the [worried] Jewish Agency, the number of identified Jews in the world declines by 50,000 per year, as it has done from the 1950 peak, due to assimilation, intermarriage, and indifference. Current population 12.9 million. Do the math.
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Is that so? I don’t think population is projected on anything like as simplistic a basis as simply subtracting 50,000 from 12.9 million until it reaches zero. Given that demographics is far more complex than that just how exactly do you suggest I “do the math”? Also I think your statistics are wrong. Some cursory Googling suggested that during the first decade of the 21st Century the Jewish population was actually growing so there’s no need to put the champagne on ice just yet, Boniface.
The Zionists indeed collaborated with the Hitlerite government, since they both wanted German Jews to relocate to Palestine. But Israelis today, in their mistreatment of the Palestinian ‘cockroaches’, show themselves as the disciples of the Nazis.
The demographic is actually quite simple. there are fewer identified ‘Jews’ each year, as more and more individuals reject the barbarous myth of the ‘chosen race’ in favour of simple humanity, and are branded ‘self-hating Jews’ as a result. Check the wonderland of Jewish organizations, all obsessed with tribal shrinkage.
Zionists, and their nightmare gangster experiment called ‘Israel’ will soon join thuggees, witchfinders, and the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, down the memory hole of history.
You continue to offer no supporting evidence for your nonsense claims but instead make more of them.
@ Stephen Are you presenting a quotation from Tolstoy as an excuse for ignoring the wishes of the families involved while proceeding to blast them to kingdom come? I’m sorry but I could not see the relevance in your comment. There was no democracy involved in any of the attacks against Muslim countries during the past two decades or more. If you are condoning the behaviour of NATO please be a little bit more explicit
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Is that the longest spambot name ever seen on the web?
Used to be a great newspaper. But its biased approach over the last decade has made me realize that it is just not to be trusted.
A highly informative blog – many thanks.
Ken : this might be of specific interest to you. It is a very interesting article in foreign Policy Journal,
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/12/06/u-k-diplomacy-strengthens-iran-weakens-britain/