And don’t forget the overreaction of turning out a bus load of people :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-18728303

Electronic cigarette terrorism! What a drag!

and read comments on yahoo news thread, what a hatred there, what a nazi-mood we are becoming!

This is the house in Newham whose door was blown off and where three people were arrested. The TV news showed the badly damaged door lying in the garden. One eyewitness described it like a bomb going off. One man was Tazered but did not need medical treatment. That’s a miracle. The witnesses say that there was a ladder up to a first floor window and also someone up on the roof.
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http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/newham-life/organisations/picture_police_blow_front_door_off_house_as_they_make_terror_arrests_in_stratford_1_1434295
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The site of the Berlin Olympics was just visible in the background. You could just see the very ugly metal sculpture called Orbit sponsored by Mittal which cost £19.1m {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcelorMittal_Orbit}
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This is in a country where currently over 1m children are considered fortunate to get 11 meals a week instead of 21 and where thousands of families are on food banks.
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The other house raided was in Ealing. A married couple and a man were arrested there.
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What a stinking country. I am ashamed to be British.
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Presumably this was a planned dummy run/frightener to warn off any attacks after July 27th. Horgan Howe is a toughie and we have probably got that American supercop Bill Bratton over here too. The place is said to be crawling with CIA type operatives in advance of Michelle Obama gracing us with her presence.

Naturally of course, if one were to make a list of potential terrorist targets, the Preston to London coach service would stand out as a really obvious target, wouldn’t it. The passengers should consider themselves lucky that they weren’t in Pakistan, where the presence of a single terrorist suspect would apparently justify destroying the whole coach with hellfire missiles.

Also scary how many don’t believe Team GB is political.

We also had a warning last week, given by a senior Met copper whose name escapes me, that the terror threat is increasing. Given the architecture of repression that now engirds London – for the satety of Olympic ticket holders and athletes, you understand – it would be a shame not to give corporate-managed martial law its dress rehearsal. I’m not a betting man, but if I were I’d say Iran will be fingered for any terrorist attack during the Olympics. Thus will the infernal neocon conspiracy reach its ejaculatory zenith, both at home and abroad. And ordinary people will pay in blood, as is usual.

Mike – not ordinary people – just people – people like you and me; perpetrators of horrors are not people at all because they lack any kind of imagination and so IMO have forfeited the right to be regarded as part of the human family, which as I understand it, means the capacity to put ourselves in another’s shoes. Isn’t that what marks us out from animals?

In the old days it was usually the USSR embassy staff who used to get the brunt of the hatred and any time the gobiment was in any difficulties, it used to expel the USSR embassy staff for spying.
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These days this bunch of showers just use the age old trick of kicking the minority Muslims, and get on with the terrorist under the bed is coming to get you routine.
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The day that carries the “news” of armed forces are getting cut down, so that the next wars can be fought with cheap part timers who have been watching too many Rambo movies and cannot wait to get their itchy trigger fingers soothed, and or mercenaries hired from the respectable firms traded in the exchange. The bankers running amok and then mooning at the nation, and starving children stories abound, the best way to get everything out of the way is: Achtung Achtung alqida is here schnell schnell hide under the beds and don’t forget to leave the lights on (power companies have shareholders too you know), and oh yeah those bad, bad Mooooslums, if only we could have bigger concentration camps, the costs of building the Olympics stadiums would have been halved and the profits doubled.

Positioning antiaircraft missiles in London has to really stupid. These things are very dangerous. If one was ever fired the most likely outcome would be it not hitting anything in the air but exploding when it returned to earth.

This makes as much sense as buying a handgun for home protection. We have real data on this. For every protection incident there will multiple accidental discharge incidents or family members shooting each other in some deranged argument. Recall poor Marvin Gay. He bought his father a handgun for home protection and the old man used to gun down his son.

Mike.
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I agree with you entirely. Iran and/or Syria would be immediately blamed if there was a terrorist attack on the Olympics, and that is despite the fact that there is absolutely nothing that either country could possibly hope to gain. I am beginning to wonder whether it is even remotely possible to insult the intelligence of the British public.

@ Craig,

I will be chided for doing this – but I will.

There is a “game” going on with the Olympics. It is political – we must have enemies to justify the production and sales of arms – and – what better forum to showcase than the Olympics.
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I think that anyone interested in answering the question:-

Why do greedy fools run the world should read this. As I said – I will be chided. I am not posting a link – but the entire article – because I think that this researcher has it spot on – and I want all to read. Yeah – I am at fault.

“Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Options
A Historical Perspective

by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Global Research, July 5, 2012

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George Santayana wisely said: “”Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Oblivious to history and its lessons, America and its Western allies are repeating their actions of the 1950’s — that of imposing an oil embargo on Iran. The American-led alliance has forgotten the past.

Iran remembers.

When under the leadership of the nationalist Dr. Mossadegh, Iran opted to nationalize its oil industry, the British Royal Navy blocked Iran’s oil exports to forcefully prevent if from nationalizing its oil. In retaliation to Iran’s nationalistic ambitions, and to punish Iran for pursuing its national interests, the British instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil.

In the 1950’s, Iran did not have the military might to retaliate to the oil embargo and the naval blockade was aimed at crushing the economy in order to bring about regime change. The subsequent events is described in The New York Times[i] article as a “lesson in the heavy cost that must be paid” when an oil-rich Third World nation “goes berserk with fanatical nationalism.” Iran learnt that sovereignty and nationalism necessitate tactical/military strength and determination.

Not heeding the aftermath of the 1950’s, the American-led Western allies have once again imposed an oil embargo on Iran. In retaliation, Iran has drafted a bill to stop the flow of oil through its territorial waters – the Strait of Hormuz, to countries which have imposed sanctions against it. This bill is not without merit and contrary to the previous oil embargo, it would appear that Tehran has the upper hand and the heavy cost associated with the embargo will not be borne by Iran alone.

Iran’s Legal Standing

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea stipulates that vessels can exercise the right of innocent passage, and coastal states should not impede their passage. Although Iran has signed the Treaty, the Treaty was not ratified, as such, it has no legal standing. However, even if one overlooks the non-binding signature, under UNCLOS framework of international law, a coastal state can block ships from entering its territorial waters if the passage of the ships harms “peace, good order or security” of said state, as the passage of such ships would no longer be deemed “innocent”2.

Even if Iran simply chooses to merely delay the passage of tankers by exercising its right to inspect every oil-tanker that passes through the Strait of Hormuz, these inspections and subsequent delays would maintain or contribute to higher oil prices. While higher oil prices would benefit Iran and other oil-producing countries, they would further destabilize the European economy which is already in crisis.

The Military Option

Although American-led Western allies are flexing their muscles by sending battle ships to the Persian Gulf, Washington’s own war game exercise, The Millennium Challenge 2002 with a price tag of $250 million, underscored America’s inability to defeat Iran. Oblivious to the lesson of its own making, by sending more warships to the Persian Gulf, the United States is inching towards a full scale conflict. The inherent danger from the naval buildup is that unlike the Cuban Missile Crisis, the forces in the Persian Gulf are not confined to two leaders who would be able to communicate to stop a run-away situation. Nor would the consequences of such a potential conflict be limited to the region.

Given that 17 million barrels of oil a day, or 35% of the world’s seaborne oil exports go through the Strait of Hormuz, incidents in the Strait would be fatal for the world economy. While only 1.1 millions barrels per day goes to the United States, a significant amount of this oil is destined for Europe. Surely, one must ask why the United States demands that its “European allies” act contrary to their own national interest, pay a higher price for oil by boycotting Iranian oil and running the risk of Iran blocking the passage of other oil-tankers destined for them?

Again, history has the straight answer. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the United States and not the oil-producing countries has used oil as a weapon. Some examples include the pressure the United States put on Britain in the 1920s to share its oil concessions in the Middle East with U.S. companies. Post World War II, the United States violated the terms of the 1928 Red Line Agreement freezing the British and the French out of the Agreement.

In 1956, the United States made it clear to Britain and France that no oil would be sent to Western Europe unless the two aforementioned countries agreed to a rapid withdrawal from Egypt. The U.S. was not opposed to the overthrow of Nasser, but as Eisenhower said: “Had they done it quickly, we would have accepted it”3.

Demonstrably, although Europe is a major trade partner of the United States, the U.S. does not concern itself with Europe’s well being when it comes to executing its foreign policy. This should come as no surprise, especially since the United States sacrifices its own national interest to promote the Israeli agenda and that of the military industrial complex. But this does not explain why Europe would shoot itself in the foot at a time when its economical woes have passed the crisis point.

It is possible that the leaders of Western European countries are beholden to special interest groups – the pro-Israel lobbies, as the United States is, or they believe Iran will not call their bluff by ratifying the bill passed by Majlis and their oil will be delivered unhindered; perhaps both. Either way, they are committing financial suicide and their demise may well come before Iran’s resolve is shaken.

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is a Public Diplomacy Scholar, independent researcher and blogger with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and the role of lobby groups.

Notes

1“THE IRANIAN ACCORD”, The New York Times, Aug 6,1954, cited by S. Shalom

2 Martin Wahlisch, The Yale Journal of International Law, March 2012, citing UNCLOS, supra note 12, , art. 19, para1, and art. 25, para1.

3 Stephen Shalom; The Iran-Iraq War citing Kennett Love, Suez: the Twice-Fought War, New York: McGraw Hill, 1969, p. 651

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is a frequent contributor to Global Research”

Overlooked in the general bollocks earlier this year and worth a repeat – Stratfor assessments on Syria here. This site (good in its own right) will be publishing the latest Wikileaked Syria emails. In French, mostly.
http://owni.fr/2012/03/06/guerre-libye-syrie-gi-files-wikileaks/
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Yes, these arrests are reminiscent of the days when if you were black and had a nice car, you couldn’t get in it without being stopped by the police. Now it is Muslims who are the target. As Fedup says, the old enemy, the USSR, was once the focus of UK and US angst to divert attention from domestic problems. The difference with that ‘old’ enemy was it had the means to defend itself. The Muslim community, at home and abroad, is an easy target for government cowards. Many countries where Islam is the major religion have oil. So the bully-boy tactics of droning out the indigenous population opens the door to global theft and feeds the problem. It is a sick society. Clark believes it will destroy itself – eventually, if we show there is an alternative. It is not going away unless it is removed.
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Even this morning there is division between coalition members about constituency borders. Their whole mindset is geared to territorial acquisitions. Like I say, it is sick. I just wish I had a cure.

Courtenay, you are right – the primary target of “anti-terrorist” activities is the British public. They are used as an instrument of political manipulation and they work brilliantly. I have intelligent & educated friends here in rural Wiltshire who seriously believe they are at risk of a terrorist attack. This is why there are AA misiles sited next to houses in London. As ToivoS says – the given reason makes no sense at all.
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The use of doublethink in the fake cigarette article is quite blatant – describing this a ‘Genuine security alert’ is supposed to make us all think “well you can’t be too careful where security is concerned”.
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Craig’s last sentence is what we should be discussing here. “What scares me so much is that is blindingly obvious what kind of society we are becoming, but so many people refuse to see it.”
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He implies that we are not there already – something which many posters dispute but which I agree with. Central control in not absolute so it is worth trying to overcome it.
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He also implies we are progressing towards a future state – are we? Hasn’t this kind of propaganda been around for decades? I am not sure it’s getting any better or any worse.
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Finally, why is it that people refuse to see it? If we could work out why that is we might be able to help more people to recognise what is happening and that would start to change things for the better.

Yet another senior police officer is under suspicion. Credibility of our ‘guardians’ is near zero especially following the arrests in the phone hacking investigations.
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Sussex Police Chief Constable Martin Richards is being investigated over an allegation of misconduct.
Chief Constable Martin Richards said he would fully co-operate with the IPCC investigation
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Sussex Police Authority said it voluntarily referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in June.
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It concerns an allegation, made anonymously, of undue influence on a criminal case.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-18733279
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The morale of the lower ranks in the police force can only be at a very low ebb as some of their seniors are being put in the frame and the ConDems cut their numbers and have plans to introduce privatization. All part of the destabilization of what remains of ‘society’.

If these arrests turn out to be false alarms, I wonder whether innocent people can sue.

M6: eFags and over-reaction. Pity I didn’t buy a lottery ticket yesterday (“Judge-led bullshit”: my comment at 1:29pm); I wouldn’t have won the jackpot but a few grand would have been nice. (Thanks for the hat-tip, Fedup).

But the whole affair was interesting in a bizarre sort of way. Was it all a set-up, a dry run in case a bigger exercise is needed for real? How much did it cost – directly and indirectly? (As an aside, I remember from many years back, someone did a back-of-envelope sum of how much motorway traffic jams cost after an accident or breakdown. It worked out that it was easily worthwhile to send all the emergency services by bloody big helicopters to the site immediately and just clear the roads asap)

And, crucially, in my view, who reported the matter, how and in what terms? Was it just some eejit with a mobile phone and paranoia about some bloke with a beard and a suntan? What exactly gave justified the OTT response?

According to Marina Hyde writing in the Guardian, all visitors to the Olympic Games will pass through a military checkpoint.
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It’s official: we are a banana republic (without the good weather).

Side splitting. Also ironic in view of the crimes committed against the Palestinians in the little outpost of democracy in the ME.
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‘The police held a counter-terrorism seminar in Golders Green on Monday to teach the Jewish community how to help combat the terror threat.
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The Metropolitan Police hosted the event at Menorah Primary School to give people the opportunity to learn more about how they could work with police to combat crime.’
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http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/9765280.Police_hold_counter_terrorism_seminar_for_Jewish_community/

This is pretty scary.
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“…the risk assessments guiding when to intervene are changing as the Olympic Games draw closer. This “collapsing timescale”, as investigators call it, is likely to result in increasing numbers of arrests and visible disruptive activity in the coming days, the Guardian understands.”
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So as a preemptive measure they went in pre-dawn, blowing the fucking doors off, tazering anything that moved.
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I dont post comments much, but I check in every day. Please dont stop writing this blog.

KingofWelshNoir, I think it’s the people who will be operating the checkpoints that is of most concern.

http://truthfall.com/tag/lee-hazeldean/

Did Mary catch this one?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/05/sex-workers-police-rapist-database?newsfeed=true
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Police working for coordination with sex workers nationwide to stop violent crime. Encouraging sex workers to share data!
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Delightful. I can see why various charities/NGO’s might approve of this, but really surprising that they are so ready to overlook the negatives.
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Q: Who will police officers pay for sex now?

In October 1999, Andrew Rennison was a Detective Superintendent in West Yorkshire Police, who was the ‘Director of Intelligence responsible for the management and use of informants in West Yorkshire’
(See paragrapgh #73 here: preview.tinyurl.com/3sf8wf6 )

Under Andrew Rennison’s watch/responsibility at that time, gross misconduct involving crown witnesses occurred, involving West Yorkshire Police who took a Mr Karl Chapman (aka Karl Ryan), a murder trial witness to a brothel and allowed him to use heroin & cannabis to ensure he co-operated, Chapman also had sex with a policewoman and socialised at police officers’ homes, whilst on remand. More here: preview.tinyurl.com/3quu6eu & preview.tinyurl.com/3r7cy7z

The Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal (CDCA) has stated that the convictions secured by the WYP use of Karl Chapman as a prosecution witness were procured by ‘gross prosecutorial/police misconduct on the part of the West Yorkshire police’. See preview.tinyurl.com/3k6mvpx

The same Mr Andrew Rennison is now the present Forensic Science Regulator, CCTV Regulator & who also sits on the National DNA Database Strategy Board.

Shocking…

The numbers of vehicles involved is incredible. Let alone the number of personnel. Megabus. Mega overreaction. Grandstanding.
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‘Even so, the incident sparked a major alert involving 17 police cars and vans, 13 fire engines, four ambulances and even the military at the southbound M6 Toll plaza in Staffordshire.
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Last night one passenger told how she had feared she would be shot after being marched off the coach by police at gunpoint.’

.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2169070/M6-toll-road-terror-alert-traffic-chaos-sparked-FAKE-CIGARETTE-Megabus.html#ixzz1zpwJwJX0

The militarisation of inner London is a bad plan. Any interception of a plane with those missiles would already amount to a last ditch action, the plane would have got through. Incidents and hijacks are most likely occur on domestic flights, from nearby airports, on long haul flights such incidents would leave enough time for reactions, but on short haul flights from Luton Stanstead, Heathrow and Gatwick the reaction time would be minutes, before these flights are over a massively populated area.
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They should have shared the Olympic chaws with France, re-use their already existing stadias, and pay for the security over there, instead of another tub thumping nationalistic flag waving experience and Rambo style machismo. It would have sent a message of sharing and lesser CO2 expenditure, but even the Green Party LAM Darren Johnson talked of the ‘greenest ever Olympics’, a fallacy from day one, so, what chance when Greens talk tosh.
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I shall keep away from this corporate advertising summit without ethics, one ponders whether athletes find the ever increasing control, greed and profiteering from their extraordinary abilities a positive move, whether they hanker for an Olympics were the sport matters more than anything else.
The 2012 terror Olympics are upon us and I hope that Wikileaks is monitoring and securing information for later releases, cause our media and police seem to be part of the whole shebang, partial and engaged in this farce.

There are more terrrrr arrests, this time in W Yorkshire. A car was stopped on the M1 on Tuesday and seven men have been arrested. The car was not insured. It’s another psyop.

Well this tears it, the fugitive ex/current boss of wikileaks is quoted in “Fox news”:
“WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, said he decided to release these emails now because they show that certain European companies were still doing business with the Assad regime as recently as this year.”
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The farticle then goes on: WikiLeaks’ Sarah Harrison told journalists at London’s Frontline Club that the emails reveal interactions between the Syrian government and Western companies, although she declined to go into much further detail.
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With the added bonus of 25 of the two million four hundred thousand emails resealed, with the remaining 2399975 that are yet to be released, just as the case with the last leaks fiasco,
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The leaks are of course about Western Companies dealing with Syrians, as enigmatic as the puzzle of where do bears shit? or is the Pope a Catholic question, but hey it is the fishwives era, and so anything goes so long as sounds terrible, and paints the Assad “Regime” as dark as possible.
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As was the case of the farticle ran in DM, about Syrian torturers pulling nails and making the victims suck the nails, as similar to the Iraqi soldiers bayoneting Kuwaity infants out of their incubators into the streets and loading the empty incubators into the trucks on their way back to Baghdad.
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Evidently the “Western News Consumers”, have a propensity for taking these stories as real, and apparently that is a good enough reason for the “villains of the moment” to get bombed the shit out of!
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{–ttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/05/wikileaks-has-data-from-24-million-syrian-emails/#ixzz1zq1oRecp}
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PS the sight of the lonely bus parked on the roadside did not exactly look as good as an airplane on the apron. from the helicopter, did it? The money they spent , at least they could have treated us to some real exciting edited shots from various bus horror movies.

Moses, thanks for your response.
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Yes, I’ve read reports of false flag attacks planned, and various stuff about the Illuminati. Nick Pope, former MOD UFO guy, even predicted the arrival of flying saucers.
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I’m sceptical about all that, although not totally dismissive of it.
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But I am in no doubt that having soldiers on the streets, wearing combat fatigues and marshalling civilians, is grotesque. In the past the authorities have gone out of their way to avoid such sights. I can still remember a fireman’s strike in which the army operated Green Goddess fire engines and this relatively innocuous episode led to much disquiet. Now, out of nowhere, we have troops on our own streets.
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I find it very disturbing and even more disturbing is the fact that most people can’t see what the problem is.

The cost of creating and exploiting disinformation has been behemothic and monstrous. The United States murdered close to 3000 people to condition it’s people and indoctrinate the long war against terror or al-Qaeda, itself an asset of paid and trained fighters, substitutes for their own legitimate armed forces that could be summoned for covert aggression and even proxy wars.
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Britain sacrificed another 57 innocent, it’s own citizens, to reinforce and somehow justify the terrible losses in the Iraq war in 2005 when al-Qaeda fighters were used aS ‘death squads’ calculated to divide the Muslim population and further the annihilation by faction, sedition and mutiny.
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Exactly the same master plan has been used in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and attempted in Iran during a Presidential election. The evidence is in plain sight and I want every single good British citizen to realise. to comprehend, this deceit and treachery by the corrupt leaders of Britain, America and Israel.
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Are we helpless, weak and prostrate? We are not. Collectively we can petition, we can also gather in a ‘million/man/woman’ Western Spring, yet we can write with a potent pen. We can build pressure with a warning to the leaders, the governments of Britain, America and Israel that we, the people, intend to sue in the International Courts of Justice for failing to engage in reasonable negotiation before war.
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This tactic(it has been used before) must and will slow the momentum towards war, even *World War* as Russia and China are pushed towards more positive reactions in response to increasing subjection, dominion, Blitzkrieg and encroachment.
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Not too much to ask – is it? – slowing momentum is the greatest threat to the Western plan – they have limited time.
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Can’t be bothered? OK! Subject your children, and their children and their children’s children to the sort of society Craig envisages/envisions here.

Passerby:
I share your scepticism re Wikileaks to some extent and Assange to a greater extent. But certainly the point of the earliest releases is that Finmecanica’s subsidiary was installing and servicing a comprehensive communications net for Assad long after its political chums had declared him persona non grata. And it may become clearer why the USUKrael has taken the decision to intervene in the affairs of yet another sovereign state…as if we didn’t know, but evidence is always a good thing to have.
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Not that much of this will be seen in the UK press- Wikileaks are not collaborating with any UK media for reasons best known to themselves (possibly connected with US extradition arrangements). The French link I gave above seems to be serious, though, and al-Ahram is also getting the releases.

Quite right Mark and KoWN.
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Have you ever read They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer, a German Jew, on the rise of the Third Reich? This is an excerpt.
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
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[..]“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.[..]
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PS The chief UK arms salesman, Prince Andrew, is seated at the front of the Royal Box at Wimbledon. The military are there in number acting as stewards as they have done for decades past at this outpost of the British Empire.

WTF moments are now joining in to make up WTF hours;
Read this farticle, in the bbc and ensure that you have your chin supported as you read along in case of secondary injuries as your jaws drop.
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The farticle in trying to praise the bus driver somehow overlooks the use of the bus driver as a human shield by the police in UK.
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“I was instructed to take the passengers off the bus one by one.
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“I had to wait at the front of the bus until the armed police gave me the signal to bring the next passenger off, and I was to tell them not to put their hands in their pockets and just to walk out slowly.”
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This is the kind of values we share with the ziofcukwits, the armed police verily believing in the veracity of the “genuine report”, and taking up positions then instruct the driver to stay with the “terrorists” and then instruct the driver to call the “terrorists” one by one and issue the relevant instructions and send these on their way to the armed police whom are armed to the teeth, and ready to shoot from their safe haven.
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Well that is one heck of hero for you, or one heck of patsy, which?

“The military” as you put it, at Wimbledon, are invited to volunteer via their unit routine orders every year, Mary. The sole criteria being, are your No.1′s pressed and can your unit spare you. Most if not all are interested in the tennis rather than suppressing the masses. And should the response be poor, then volunteers are volunteered regardless. When I was a lowly airman, I didn’t volunteer because I was a scruffy sod and tennis bores me to tears. But I could have done.
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I wouldn’t mind betting that “the military” are as pissed off with the current state of affairs as anyone else. And the cuts just announced will have particularly pissed off the army. I wouldn’t be looking to demonise them at this moment in history. They might be better friends than corrupt politicians.

I am stuck indoors whilst outside it is pouring down. A propos of nothing I was looking up Federer, (net worth £50m) and saw that he is sponsored by a Berkshire Hathaway company, NetJets. Berkshire Hathaway is a Warren Buffet outfit. I was looking to see if NetJets planes had been used for that most evil practice of rendition. I came across this piece which links to 9/11 -
http://www.abeldanger.net/2010/07/anna-jackal-sexual-entrapment-netjets.html

We can read and weep.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-orders-destruction-entire-west-bank-village/11461#
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See the poor old boy with his walking stick up against the rifles, stun grenades and tear gas canisters.

This Friday is turning out to be the WTFFraidy:
Bus driver used as a human shield story aside, now we find out:
‘Stressed’ Bank of England official stabbed self to death
A Bank of England manager (Christopher Dymond, 52,) stabbed himself to death due to the over-whelming pressure he was under at work, an inquest has heard.
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Police launched a full-scale search and discovered the body early the following morning four miles from the family home in a car park at Herongate Athletic Football Club.
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The father-of-three had been reported missing by his concerned family at around 10.30pm on April 21 this year after they were unable to contact him
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As in the case of J. Clifford Baxter (he sold 30 million dollars of Enron shares) and then suddenly felt depressed and shot himself in the back of the head with a lead bullet that only hit men use.
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Has the Libor scandal started at least since 21st April then?
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Meanwhile who has been cleaning up the shit before it gets out into the main stream?

Mary,
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So you’ve stumbled upon Captain Sherlock (Field McConnell and David Hawkins).
Very interesting bunch – they claim to have a network of military and government insiders.
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Well worth the trouble provided you have a good working knowledge of US exo-politics – Eustace Mullins, Anthony C. Sutton, G. Edward Griffin onwards.
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They tend to mix speculation with public knowledge but nonetheless have a good handle on things IMO.
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Best regards. S.B.

Thanks Scouse Billy. I was outside the realms of my knowledge I have to say with that.
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Komodo Are you implying that one day soon the military will stage a coup and rescue us from the overweening coalition government, or at worst a totally Tory one when the coalition collapses?

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I can’t see that scenario ever happening. I only see the forces as servants of the politicians and the enablers of killing or the actual killers of brown skinned people in the UK’s offensive wars.

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Passerby That is a sad death but strange to me. How does one stab oneself repeatedly in the chest and then carry on to cut one’s arms? I would like to see the PM report. The latter has shades of Dr Kelly.

Mary – they did make a rather intriguing documentary.
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“the real enemy is the one you least expect, the one that hits you on the head with a baseball bat, then hands the bat to a guy standing near by, then when you turn, points at the guy holding the bat….”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS0LQedWGb8
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Not for the squeamish

“Komodo Are you implying that one day soon the military will stage a coup and rescue us from the overweening coalition government, or at worst a totally Tory one when the coalition collapses?”
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Not at all. I am merely saying that I would rather have them on my side than against it, and the potential for that is growing as this government fumbles its way from disaster to catastrophe while propping up fat cats at the expense of everyone else. And, though you may not believe it, many servicemen are just as savvy as you. Do I detect a trace of antiforcesism?

Forgot servicewomen, sorry, feminists. They’re even more savvy, of course.

Except 2 Para, obviously. But they’d be bloody bad enemies.

Face it, anyone who thinks they are going to install an alternative to the conspiracy of the loaded that runs every aspect of this country, and thinks they are going to do it without the agreement, passive or active, of the Army, is deluding themselves completely. Or maybe they think they can manage an armed insurrection which will defeat the Army? Look again. This isn’t a province, like NI, it’s a power base. The guerilla country is not economically important, and can be isolated. The UK is populated very largely by the most inert of complacent suckers, who would take two years to train to work together, at least. No way. If the Army disagrees with the democratic will of the majority (it is entitled to – its loyalty is to the State totem, the Crown), the democratic will of the majority will be completely fucked. First move in any revolution – try and get the Army onside, even slightly.

Re Propaganda from Craig’s mate Julian”

“Questions surround Assange’s connections to the CIA and his ability to expose “leaked” information. As a psy-op, the manifestation of Assange and WikiLeaks has effectively used engineered operations of secret document exposure to give the appearance of forced political responsibility for intelligence and policy failures. This is detailed in the CIA document entitled, The Secret Team.

The CIA connection to Assange creates an avenue where fake leaks of documents can be made to give the illusion to the public that they are privy to secret information.

Meanwhile, the CIA “people-power coup” has been integral in many fake revolutions both in the streets of foreign nations and on the Internet.

WikiLeaks assisted the US government’s overthrow of the Tunisian government. Assange’s portrayal as a lone wolf just trying to expose corruption has aided the US government as the perfect psy-op cover that convinces individuals to rally in favor of their hero, Julian Assange, and keep his crusade alive.”

Do I detect a trace of antiforcesism? Not at all. Just anti- offensive war and anti-killing. I never said anything about savviness or unsavviness. I think that some are very brave.
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RAF blue was always my favourite colour

O/T Sky news are advertising 24 BBC HD Olympic channels on Sky. Do the BBC normally sell their coverage like this?

Komodo, an armed insurrection is NOT an option, at all. You are correct when you say that the support of at least some of the army would be required, and you are wrong if you think that it is at all likely that that support would be forthcoming.

G4S HQ raided. Protesters on roof. G4S’s activities in Occupied Palestine and in this country were the subject of the action.
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creeping in crawley
activists evade G4S security to occupy crawley hq’s roof
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In what must have been an embarrassing security breach for the world’s biggest security company two activists scaled the roof of their UK HQ in Crawley on Monday the 2nd July.
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The two used ladders to access a fire escape and scaled the roof at 6am, hanging banners, as a group of around a dozen supported them on the ground. They swiftly secured themselves in position with D-locks. One banner read “G4S – Profiting from: Israeli Apartheid, Prison Slavery, Deadly Deportations”. They were arrested as they voluntarily descended and held in Crawley police station.
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http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/creeping-in-crawley/

Getting this place closed down would help enormously.
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http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/puffballs-on-hill.html

Paribahan Bangladesh,
No offence, but what an ugly design of your website. And this blog is for political, economic and soial talk. Do not mess it with yr travel ads.

MarkU-
I’m a Komodo. I’m patient.
More seriously, I’m getting a lot of bitching about the dire state of the country, its financial system, its obviously thoroughly corrupt government and its slavish devotion to the unstated interests of American oil companies, but I’m getting very little about any credible means of altering this bad, and declining, state of affairs. Happy to explore any avenue, and very keen, personally, to avoid an armed insurrection. Which, I am glad you agree, is effectively ruled out on practical grounds at the moment, but when did that ever stop stupid young men fighting?
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At the moment, I stress. Steve Keen ( http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/ for background) reckons this crisis has only run for about a third of its likely duration, and I’m not seeing much to contradict that view.
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Wonder what morale will be like in the Army when the NAAFI is sold as a PFI deal to Capita, the shinies (ditto) are on contract to a secretarial agency, and the government has realised the bleeding obvious, that reservists cost just as much to train and equip (even badly) as regulars, and their wives make much more fuss when Papa succumbs to an IED in some godforsaken hole where we really have no business?

I’d been thinking this too….
“All intelligence led, with less troops! Now where have I heard that before. I’ll leave with this thought. 1914 just over a hundred years ago, the army was the smallest it had been. 1939 once again Army had been cut. And here we are again on another one of those economic down turns that suggests that another War is imminent somewhere in the not too distant future. Short termist cant. I the Government is having a rethink about our role in the world then fair enough, but somehow I doubt it. They haven’t that many grey cells.”
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ARmy Rumour SErvice poster: the rest of the thread is well worth a read, too. (The RAF equivalent is crap, sorry to say)
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http://www.arrse.co.uk/strategic-defence-spending-review-2010/183555-army-split-into-two-factions-3.html

The fabricated terror bollocks by the Ruling Elite was predictably going to increase in the lead up to the Olympics.
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The sad news is that still too many people believe the bollocks, however ….
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The positive news is that an ever increasing number of people are just laughing at them now. The theatre on the M6 with the ciggie was just a comedy show and I know of no one who thinks these spate or recent terror arrests are pure propaganda.
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Trouble is the more we laugh at them the more likely they are going to step up the heat and create a real false flag where real people die, like 911, 7-7 and so on.
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But back to to my opinion that more and more people are waking up to the bollocks this has to be transformed into somethign tangible. Marching and protesting is pointless. they’ll just both ignore it and invoke agent provocateurs to make you look thugs ( Look at the poor student fee protesters and the millions who marched against the Zionist IRaw invasion in 2003 )
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The biggest problem is that every general election millions of ordinary people still go out and vote for something that thinks of them as cattle. People need to stop voting for them until the turnout is so low that a political mandate has no value any more. the next step is more difficult… is what to replace it with that won’t be taken over by the usual babylon Zionist masonic cabal that have taken over pretty much everything else. the last thing Britain wants is a repeat of the Zionist-Bolshevik terror that the poor Russians had to suffer in 1917

@smeggy
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We’ve been through this before.
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Response to mass non-participation in elections will be a manufactured debate on making voting compulsory followed by legislation.
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Along similar self-serving lines, New Labour mooted plans for public financing of political parties.

Legislation is already in place for fines for failure to register on the electoral roll.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/fine-for-not-registering-to-vote-7782186.html
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‘The fines were unveiled as part of the IER system the Government hopes will crack down on incidences of voter fraud.
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Ministers abandoned criminalising failing to register to vote, but will give local authorities’ registration officers powers to levy fines.
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Mr Harper said: “The Bill provides that after the registration officer has followed any specified steps and the individual hasn’t made an application, then he can require them to make an application, and if at that stage they fail to do so he can impose a civil penalty.
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“The intention is that only those who refuse repeatedly can be fined. We don’t think it’s particularly helpful to democracy if we start fining hundreds of thousands of people.”‘
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The usual grey area/omnishambles then.

the British sheeple will wake up only when the jackboot of tyranny is upon their neck, and its not far of now … this will be you next -http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/roger-hayes-arrested-tried-secret-court-imprisoned…
Roger Hayes for Prime Minister PLEASE.. and if you don’t know= http://inquiringminds.cc/declaration-by-the-british-constitution-group-roger-hayes-video

i had one of these trials 3 months ago, a 13 year old legal battle with the csa…for my son that live with me”" i can prove as fact….fraud-perjury-malicious intent-deception-false statements,ect i can go on…
i turned up – magistrate asked if i was the person summoned i said yes…thank you,he said here is a liability order..no evidence produced/no argument /no due process…

these people who were lifted,as “TERROR SUSPECTS”" if they get charged.. this will be them =no evidence produced/no argument /no due process…….
i don’t care what law you break- you have the right to DUE PROCESS….

if some thing does go of on the Olympics,forget a police state- think military state…

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Slipped into the UK page unlike the original story, breaking news, top billing etc.
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Met terror police holding six after woman’s release
The operation is said not to be in connection with this month’s London Olympic Games
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Six arrested in anti-terror raids
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18758584

With the military hardware and intelligence assets deployed for the event – i’d be seriously questioning any event that could penetrate it and cause loss of life. They came for them, they will come for us. Propagate? to sow the seed and let it grow. Propaganda? to sow the thought and let it grow.

Wrt to the Olympics, I am worried about false flags, to be honest. On Monday, I was in Covent Garden and overheard two shop assistants debating over whether to keep a list on contact deatils in case of emergencies on the top of the shop counter, in case of terorist attack. One guy was saying, “Look, this is completely OTT, we already have these details in the drawer for any emergencies like medical emergencies, etc. Why would we need to have it under our noses?”. The other guy clearly was fearful and so on. This is the effect of the politics of fear. Obviously, London is a target, as it was in 2005, but you know, it was a target for decades during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and no-one really batted an eyelid.
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Wrt “sheeple”, I know the feeling, of course, and it’s easy to get despondent. Also, I am stunned (in a bad way) by what’s happening in England wrt health, education, etc. However, actually there is evidence of solidarity developing again, it’s just that we tend not to hear of it (surprise, suprise). For example, some electricains and others (both recent immigrants and pre-existing workers) got toegther and comprehensively defeated five multinational construction companies who were trying to divide-and-rule as a means to degrade wages and conditions. So, when we get together and organise, we can win! Now, when the students demonstrate again later this year, they will be joined by workers – so unlike in 2010, this time, the students will not left alone to be crushed by police. People watched Tahrir Square, Greece, now Spain, Bahrain, Syria and so on and the Occupy Movement that developed as a consequence of the ‘Arab Spring’. I think one of the antidotes to despondency is to become actively involved – and not just post on the internet, though of course social media networks can play a role, they are insufficient on their own.