I was told by a member of the Metropolitan Police Operation Lydd team that they believe there are grounds to prosecute Jack Straw, but that the Crown Prosecution Service will bury it. That was over two years ago when I gave my own sworn evidence to the investigation.
That cover-up by the CPS is now underway – and it is extremely unsubtle. The mainstream media barely reported that the first file has been passed to the CPS on Operation Lydd. You would think that a massive police investigation into criminal activity by Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, among others, would merit more of a splash, but not in our corporate controlled media. The timing was auspicious because, in the parallel civil case, the Court of Appeal has rejected the Government’s defence of “National Security” to prevent the case from even being heard. This after Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen arranged the kidnap and deportation to torture in Libya of Mr Belhadj, his pregnant wife and children – only one of hundreds of such crimes in which the British state was deeply involved.
Infamously, the British Embassy in Washington had been lobbying the US authorities relentlessly to prevent the publication of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on extraordinary rendition, specifically on the grounds that this would weaken Jack Straw’s defence. That defence rests on the grounds that details of kidnap and torture would annoy the United States and thus damage Britain’s security interests. As a blanket license for state involvement in torture, it only takes a second’s thought to realise how astonishingly dangerous that doctrine is. The High Court swallowed it. Thank God, the Court of Appeal did not.
So the Courts having ruled against Jack Straw, there are now two lines of defence between Straw and Sir Mark Allen, and a long spell in the pokey. The first is that the Government is appealing to the Supreme Court in London to have the case kicked out once again on “National Security” grounds. The second line of defence is the Crown Prosecution Service.
I can give you very substantial evidence that a cover-up is in progress within the CPS. Astonishingly the Lydd file has been passed within the CPS not to the serious crime division, but to the Counter-Terrorism Division. Yet terrorism is not the alleged crime here. The crimes are Gross Misconduct in Public Office, Conspiracy to Torture, Conspiracy to Kidnap and Abduct. We might relate them rhetorically to terrorism, but they are not that legally.
The incredible truth is that the file has been passed not to the Division which deals with the crimes allegedly committed by the perpetrators, Messrs Straw, Allen et al. It has rather been passed to the Divison which deals with the crime falsely alleged against the VICTIM of the case, Mr Belhadj. That simple fact tells you all you need to know about the attitude of the CPS to Operation Lydd.
In fact, the Counter-Terrorism Division of CPS works on a daily basis with public servants and security service functionaries who are themselves deeply implicated in the crimes being uncovered by Operation Lydd. A cover-up is certain.
The British Establishment really does stink.
Footnote: I phoned the CPS Press Office to give them a chance to respond. I got through to a spokesperson and left details and my number. They have not come back to me.
The very first affirmation that a Freemason makes is that he or she is not entering into membership in order to advance himself or herself financially or for any other improper motive. Freemasonry is one of the few groups in society which requires an explicit affirmation to this effect, out loud, in front of a group of people who may be largely unknown to the candidate.
Freemasons are also specifically required to make an affirmation that they will not protect any fellow Freemason who has transgressed any law of the jurisdiction in which they find themselves.
During their initiation it is made clear to Freemasons that they will be required to do nothing which is incompatible with their conscience or their civic or religious duties.
Freemasons are enjoined to do their utmost to maintain a stable society and to obey its laws. Personal corruption is incompatible with every single affirmation a Freemason is required to make during his or her passage into the membership.
Of course, Freemasons, like any other group of people in society, are subject to human frailty, pressure, avarice and corruption. This is of course a significant risk among any group of people who share common bonds and have regular communication with each other. However, deliberately to use Freemasonry in a corrupt and biased way, for one’s own personal gain or the protection of criminal associates, or criminals one may not even know, must require an exceedingly high degree of cognitive dissonance and moral disintegration, since it is one of the few groups in the world which requires its members to affirm they have a duty to do the precise opposite.
Kind regards,
John
sorry for having taken this o/t, my last blast at secret societies, Ba’al, don’t you think that we are talking about two sides of the same coin?
Equally sorry for the o/t…no. I think we are in danger of ignoring the obvious in favour of the arcane. Forget the Masons: think Oxbridge (for most of whose alumni the Masons are a quaint and plebeian irrelevance) and Harvard Business School. Think a much more effective networking system: the lobbying industry. Think people whose only interest is making money. They’re not going to shuffle off on lodge night and waste time talking to policemen. The Masons are the Rotary (American: Buffaloes) with funny handshakes, and as entitled to help each other as you and I might be. And as subject to the law of the land. I apologise for going slightly overboard about this, but I am heartily sick of the mason/illuminati/rothschild/lizard men schtick which pollutes this blog with wholly unsubstantiated bollocks. Forget the bloody trees. Look at the forest. It’s branded, covered in neon signs, pops up very 10 minutes on all media, pays its bosses more in a year than most of us see in twenty and banks its profits offshore. It sells you crap which you will get tired of by tomorrow, made from irreplaceable materials using irreplaceable energy. It’s called The Market.
Ends.
@KingOfWelshNoir
It’s funny how many problems governments on both sides of the pond seem to have when it comes to dealing with giving evidence to the public.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/17/draft-two-cases-cited-fbi-dude-dumb-dumb/
Clapper gets caught out exaggerating number of cases where surveillance helps (in reality it’s gone down from about 50 to pretty much 0), now the FBI seem to have made similar mistakes.
At least GCHQ have avoided making the same mistake thus far, but if there really is to be a ‘mature debate’ then there needs to be discussion around why they need the powers that they actively seek to maintain in the first place.
GCHQ have studiously avoided doing so, other than shrieking ‘B.b.b.b.but Terrorism!!!!’ whenever somebody dares challenge them.
I think there are many more dangerous societies operating within the establishment than Freemasonry.Friends of Israel for one which transcends parties and has its tentacles all over the place.It finances trips for impressionable youth as well as the gravy train oriented.There are pro EU groups that aim at the youth,pretty much like the Hitlerjugend without the uniforms.
@John Spencer-Davis
I have trouble believing that oaths are really that useful. Take for example the oath that the police have to take when they join. This is taken from Wikipedia, so accuracy isn’t guaranteed, but in England it apparently goes like this:
‘I, … of … do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality, upholding fundamental human rights and according equal respect to all people; and that I will, to the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and prevent all offences against people and property; and that while I continue to hold the said office I will to the best of my skill and knowledge discharge all the duties thereof faithfully according to law.’
Now consider that and compare with plebgate, Hillsborough, the involvement in passing confidential details, ‘insitutional’ racism, spying on Stephen Lawrence’s family after the murder as well as the general behaviour of undercover officers, The Daniel Morgan murder and the links between the press and police, not to mention the current problems with potential crime within the police itself that has left a number of chief constables and at least two PCCs in trouble.
Oaths are meaningless in that context without something more to give them meaning. Merely having to promise not to break the rules without any fear of them being enforced is an open invitation for them to be broken IMO.
John S-D
He or she? How so?
Any paternalistic hierarchical organisational, whose underlying principle can be summed up as ‘you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours’ has the potential, if its members within the institutions of society reach a certain threshold level, to severely undermine that societies value system.
Now whether this threshold has been reached within certain sectors of society in certain parts of the UK in terms of freemasonry is not possible to know, however its very obviously not as secret as it once was (say 30 years ago).
Patrick
I understand that perfectly. I did say that any group of people are at risk of corruption. It also seems to be true that the higher one rises within an organisation, the more one identifies with that organisation, and the greater the lengths one will go to in order to protect the reputation, power and privileges of that organisation (the Catholic Church being a good current example).
I’m just tired of reading that it is a duty of a Freemason to engage in corrupt practices, show bias towards fellow members, protect them from consequences of criminal behaviour, et cetera. That is a lot of nonsense. It’s just the opposite, just as a corrupt police officer is engaging in the opposite what he or she is supposed to be upholding.
Kind regards,
John
Johnstone
https://www.owf.org.uk/
Kind regards, John
I watched this film, Echelon: The Secret Power, when it was first released in 2002. Now it’s old news but back then it was the first I’d heard of Echelon. Its main message, however, was to alert the public to the coming information war. Military force would become secondary to controlling what people learned about the world. New technologies would make it possible to manipulate people in ways Goebbels could only have dreamt about. The battleground of the 21st century would be information control.
Since then, barely a day has passed when I haven’t been reminded of that message. Today’s reminder is courtesy of Facebook:
“Facebook Conducted Another Secret Experiment On Users
Facebook quietly tweaked the news feeds of 1.9 million users before the 2012 election so they would see more “hard news” shared by friends.
That change may have boosted voter turnout by as much as 3 percent, according to a little-known study first disclosed Friday by Mother Jones.
For the study, news articles that Facebook users’ friends had posted appeared higher in their feeds — the stream of status updates, photos and articles that show up when you first sign on to the site. The researchers wanted to see whether increasing your exposure to news stories shared by friends before an election would convince you to vote.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/facebook-voter-experiment_n_6094690.html
Craig said that the British establishment stinks. True.
I have just been watching Mandelslime in front of a HoC committee looking into the ‘On The Runs’ letters. He was Sec of State for NI from 1999-2001.
As slippery as ever he could not remember names or events, too long ago etc, and was extremely defensive when confronted with penetrating questions from Lady Harmon.
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My grandfather told my three brothers not to have anything to do with the masons or with any secret society for that matter.
John S-D
Wow thats a shock, well OK
OWL garb reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#mediaviewer/File:Ku_Klux_Klan_Virgina_1922_Parade.jpg
All they need are the pointy hats!
It’s almost like the UK has two levels of government, the one that’s mainly for show to give the electorate a pretend choice when election time rolls around and the real one that does its string pulling mostly out of sight and from behind the green curtain. Like this, for example:
Try to think of the masons as a golf club with extra balls. I guarantee more council contracts are stitched up over a round of golf than a session of whatever masons do. Kipling ( who was one) writes discreetly but interestingly on what they get up to, btw.
Talking of the double government – here’s a honey from GCHQ’s newest boss:
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Privacy-absolute-right-GCHQ-director-Robert/story-24085846-detail/story.html
That’s as in ‘privacy-not-absolute-right. Of course not. Perish the thought.
Thanks Donny for your priory, I agree that the FoI are worse than our age old established and fraternal brothers.
As for pointing to the fraternity of women freemasons, this sadly shows how the male fraternity has sidelined a long standing mistake.
I agree with the emphasis on oath, I gave an oath once but I feel not bound by it anymore as I’m not serving my country any longer, but nowadays such male bastions should be eliminated from decision making that concerns all sectors of society.
re Kipling:“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.”
It speaks volumnes about someone grown up during the Raj. I profess no great knowledge of the man or his servants and fellow colonists, after all it was the done thing to have colonies then.
Any news on the CPS cover up anyone?
re. Kipling: He had a sideways-looking sense of humour, not unlike Twain’s. The quotation was made in jest: he was very well aware that he was fallible, like everyone else. Make due allowance for his times and ethos, then read and enjoy him.
@Ba’al re Privacy & the new boss. Yes, I heard that on the radio. It IS an absolute right, enshrined in International Charter, as a result of the negotiations that set up the United Nations.
Who does he think he is? if this was Eastern Germany, and the Stasi were talking, it would fit. However, this is supposed to be the “free” world, and one o those freedoms is the right to privacy. It would be interesting to see Privacy International’s reaction to this.
“GCHQ is happy to be part of a mature debate on privacy in the digital age. But privacy has never been an absolute right and the debate about this should not become a reason for postponing urgent and difficult decisions.”
This fromrom your link Ba’al. Can’t understand this young man at all, does he mean it? How come we can’t access his private address? Why should his privacy be exempt if he really means this tosh.
Further has he read para 8 of the EU Human rights agreement. Yes we are still in Europe Robert Peter and here is just a reminder as to what this means
1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
Whilst No1 is absolute, No2 specifies exactly if and when No.! is not applicable and it does not mention random acts of snooping anywhere, nor does it mention control over the means of communications per se.
But you are welcome to explain yourself here Robert Peter.
“I’m just tired of reading that it is a duty of a Freemason to engage in corrupt practices, show bias towards fellow members, protect them from consequences of criminal behaviour, et cetera. That is a lot of nonsense. It’s just the opposite, just as a corrupt police officer is engaging in the opposite what he or she is supposed to be upholding.”
Were he still alive Stephen Knight, who wrote The Brotherhood, would not agree with you. Neither would Walton Hannah, who wrote Darkness Visible. The first comes at the problem from a secular point of view. The second from a religious point of view. The higher up the masonic cult one gets the more satanic it becomes. Take the jewel of a Chaplain which once had Holy Bible written inside the triangle but at the same time the Grand Chaplain’s jewel had an open book with nothing written in it. The United Grand Lodge of England has two, let’s call them angels, stood either side of the ark of the covenant which sits on top of a coat of arms. The inside wings of the ‘angels’ point towards the sky and to all intents and purposes their upper bodies are human. But from the thighs down they resemble the cloven legs of goats, like Pan, fauns and satyrs.
Of course it would depend on whether you held religious beliefs or not as to whether you would be offended by this, but the whole masonic cult is anti-Christian and sets up, Hiram Abiff, a stonemason at the Temple of Solomon, as its Christ figure.
A friend, dead now, once told me how as a boy he had gone along to a lodge, not when there was a meeting, with someone from his family and wanted to go into the lodge. “Mind the goat doesn’t get you” was the sentence used to put him off.
Wise man your grandfather Mary.
Your
Wish I could get down to this tonight.
Britain’s Historic Guilt for the Palestinian Situation Today
Posted by The Medialens Editors on November 4, 2014, 10:24 am
Date
04/11/2014
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location
Brigthelm Centre
North Road
Brighton
A talk by Prof John Newsinger
Come and hear how Britain’s commitment to creating a Zionist colony in Palestine, its brutal putting down of the Palestinian Revolt and encouragement of Jewish immigration, helped cause the Nakba and today’s injustice.
No charge for admission.
– See more at: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events/britains-historic-guilt-palestinian-situation-today/
Recommend John Newsinger’s book ‘The Blood Never Dried’.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Blood-Never-Dried-Peoples/dp/1905192126Media
Synopsis
George Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ has inspired a forest of books about the new American Empire. But what about Britain’s role in the world? “A People’s History of the British Empire” challenges the claim that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler empire and suggests that the description of ‘Rogue State’ is more fitting. How many people today know about Britain’s deep involvement in the opium drug trade in China, or that Tony Blair’s hero Gladstone devoted his maiden parliamentary speech to defending his family’s slave plantation in Jamaica? John Newsinger has written a wonderful popular history of key episodes in British imperial history. He pays particular attention to the battles of the colonised to free themselves of its baleful rule, including Rebellion in Jamaica; The Irish Famine; The Opium Wars; The Great Indian Rebellion; The Conquest of Egypt; Palestine in Revolt; ‘Quit India’ and the struggle for Independence; Suez; Malaya; Kenya and Rhodesia; and, Britain and American Imperialism.
Craig and subscribers.
You all seem to have a good handle on what is wrong and who is doing wrong.
I suggest you read “The Present” on line, if you have not already. It is 101 pages long, but then again life is short.
Maybe, just maybe, you will find another handle to hang on to.
Good luck.
Robert.
Wonder what Hannigan’s private sector experience was and where.
Born 1965. At Oxford until say 1986. NI office in 2000. So where from 1986-2000?
‘After studying classics at Wadham College, Oxford and an early career in the private sector, Hannigan became Deputy Director of Communications for the Northern Ireland Office in 2000.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hannigan
Just to clarify:
In a mature debate on privacy in the digital age
‘mature debate’ = ‘I talk, you listen’
‘privacy’ = ‘My privacy: if you bother me with Freedom of Information requests you’re wasting your time’
‘the digital age’ = ‘see the previous age, but now you have a better chance of finding out what we’re up to via digital technology’
Hope that helps.
whatever your opinion of the Assads, there’s some truth in this:
Robert Fisk: Why is there such an explosion of violence across the Middle East? Here’s an alternative view…
Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s close advisers and former translator to his father, Hafez: “Right from the beginning of this crisis, I never truly felt that the issue was about President Assad,” she says. “It was about the weakening and destruction of Syria. There has been so much destruction – of hospitals, schools, factories, government institutions, you name it. I think the Americans take their battles against leaders and presidents – but only as a pretext to destroy countries. Saddam was not the real target –it was Iraq. And it’s the same for Libya now – America told everyone it was about Gaddafi. The real issue is about weakening the Arab armies, whoever they are. When the Americans invaded Iraq, what was the first thing they did? They dissolved the Iraqi army.”…
“Now all Arab armies are targeted – and the purpose is to change the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arab-Israeli conflict is the crux of all that is going on in the Middle East. I am not saying these tactics will work. I am saying ‘they’ are targeting the Arab armies. The Egyptian army is very strong. It is a logical army that is defending its country. And then it received this huge attack in Sinai. It’s my opinion that the target is to eliminate the threat that Arab armies represent for the liberation of Gaza and the West Bank and Golan and to make Israel’s occupation easier and less costly. This is a major dimension of the cause of the ‘Arab Spring’. In fact I call it an ‘Israeli Spring’.”…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/so-why-is-there-such-an-explosion-of-violence-across-the-middle-east-9831970.html
until very recently, i only had a passing knowledge of British-Israelism, or Anglo-Israelism, but it’s a fascinating subject to explore online for those interested.
something else i found interesting today:
Will Seif al Islam Lead the Expulsion of the ISIS
Affiliate, Al Fajr Libya?
by Franklin Lamb with the Abu Baker al-Siddiq Brigade, Zintan, Libya
A second interview by this observer with Seif al Islam Gadhafi, formerly the
heir apparent to his father Moammar, was sought and finally arranged as a
follow up to an earlier one focusing of my interest in the Imam Musa Sadr
case.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2014/11/03/will-seif-al-islam-lead-the-expulsion-of
The Irish outsider set to lead British intelligence agency GCHQ
By Katy Harrington on April 24, 2014
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/news/the-irish-outsider-set-to-lead-british-intelligence-agency-gchq
A little more but not much.
WikiLeaksVerified account
@wikileaks Note that the new GCHQ head, Robert Hannigan, was previously in charge of the #Assange standoff at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
11:53 am – 3 Nov 2014
Kevin @RedStorm22 · 17h ago
@wikileaks definitely qualified. He spent near 8 million pounds and got nothing done. Guess silver lining is they hire idiots.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/statuses/529360675249070082
It seems that, for our own protection of course, we are required to ignore the mountain of unpallatable and contradictory facts contained in the System’s own data banks.
Are we are witnessing the drawn-out death-throes of a global Corparate/ Consumer Cult whose congregation are, in increasing numbers, unable to really believe in the realities that is being presented and interpreted for them.
Inquiries must be either stalled or rigged. Relevant data is unavailable, damaged by water, eaten by the dog or some other lame excuse for wilful destruction. All in aid of state security.
Critical questions must be denounced. The questioners must be sidelined or discredited.
And, for that matter, who was Snowden’s source anyway?
Only the vast hidden info repository of system’s own horse’s mouth.
Before we can think about these reliable facts our guardians seek to shift the focus or change the subject altogether.
Our media tries so hard in it’s quasi religious role, intoning litanys of increasingly far-fetched narratives for the faithful to make their own or entertainment/sport spectaculars to channel people’s attention and passions elsewhere.
Snowden is yesterdays news.
Don’t you know about the shocking atrocities that the latest flavour of bogeyperson has done?
Snowden has made it easier for Terrorists and Putin, so you are in Even More Threatened!!! Time to move on. There’s nothing to see in all those silly folders stolen by a man we are expected to regard as a traitor.
Torture? By Our Chaps?
Granted, mistakes were made, but nobody was really responsible.
…Bah…
Blather…
…Yawn!
And by the way.
Don’t watch RT!
this totally off topic link for anyone who ever sat on a motorbike, the Milano Eicma bike show. Get a hanky ready for the drooling…;)
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/motorradmesse-eicma-neuheiten-von-ducati-bmw-honda-und-triumph-fotostrecke-120729.html
In September 2013, in his farewell interview with Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post, former Israeli ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, a very close friend of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, admitted that Israel wanted the removal of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power from day one.
“Tehran-Damascus- Beirut arc is the greatest danger to Israel. The initial message about the Syrian issue was that we always wanted Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who are not supported by Iran than the bad guys supported by Iran,” Oren said.
Earlier, Jewish The Washington Post reported that war on Assad has become an issue of great importance for the American organized Jewry and Israel.
Last month, the Washington-based Holocaust Memorial Museum, an Israeli propaganda shrine run by Muslim haters like Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, ran an exhibition of 55,000 photos of victims of the western-sponsored bloodshed carried out since 2011. The Museum claimed that the photos were smuggled out of Syria by someone codenamed “Caesar”. One wonders why a more appropriate codename “Hitler” was not chosen to justify Museum’s claim against Assad.
As expected, no photos of Arab journalists and civilians beheaded by pro-Israel ISIS thugs were displayed at the exhibition.
The so-called Holocaust Memorial Museum, built and funded by American taxpayers has refused to acknowledge Israeli’s genocide of Palestinians committed during the last 66 years.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/11/04/israel-pulls-us-tail-on-war-on-assad/