Mainstream Media Wakes Up 162


A week late, but the mainstream media has finally learnt (not least through my telling them) that it was the Mossad link that was really worrying Whitehall about Fox.

And I have an article in the Mail on Sunday.

The Indie on Sunday story of a Fox-Israel plot against Iran is a great deal more credible than Obama’s announcement of a plot by Iranian used car salesmen to employ the Canadian Mounties to assassinate Justin Timberlake outside the Won-Ton Chinese restaurant in Champaign-Urbana (I may have got some of the details of Obama’s fantasy wrong, but what’s the difference?)

It is now absolutely essential that Matthew Gould. British Ambassador to Israel, answers the questions I have put to him.


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  • mark_golding

    Jon,
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    “You would condemn the use of capital punishment against innocent people based on their sexuality, I trust?”
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    Of course without doubt – in the same way I condemn the murder of innocent Iranian scientists on their way to work. Let’s not cherry-pick a State that lost millions in the Iran-Iraq war whose people were brutally tortured and murdered by a Western puppet in the same way as another Western puppet tortures and imprisons medical workers in Bahrain or protesters in Egypt. This is not a perfect world, nobody is perfect, yet who can turn a blind eye to the Western atrocities of hegemony and greed, the cultivation of puppet states, their false wars, false flags and subversion, the murder of innocent children in Iraq and Afghanistan and the displacement of 4 million families who once lived like you and I toiling in an imperfect world to raise next generations who might have a better future.

  • Komodo

    Get yer lovely influence here. Only ten grand a bag!

    http://www.conservatives.com/Donate/Donor_Clubs.aspx
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    The Renaissance Forum

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    Annual membership: £10,000 Chairman: James Stewart
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    For our closest supporters to enjoy dinners and political debate with eminent speakers from the world of business and politics. Members are invited to all Team 2000 events.

    Treasurers’ Group
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    Annual membership: £25,000
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    The Treasurers’ Group is aimed at substantial financial supporters with a keen interest in politics. Members are invited to join senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, lunches, drinks receptions, election result events and important campaign launches.
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    The Leader’s Group
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    Annual membership: £50,000 Chairman: Howard Leigh
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    The Leader’s Group is the premier supporter Group of the Conservative Party. Members are invited to join David Cameron and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, post-PMQ lunches, drinks receptions, election result events and important campaign launches.

  • Tony

    Our political system, not just the Tory part of it, is in hoc to the international right and Ziocons everywhere, particularly in the US. This backdoor intrigue is a fascinating insight on how murkily they work the poison. But is there anyone who didn’t know about it? The Labour Friends of Israel certainly did.

  • Guest

    I wonder how it will all end for Fox and Werritty, flatmates to cellmates!, sadly, I don`t think so.

  • Jon

    @Mark – all agreed. My question was aimed at anyone who would support Iran unquestionably, or who would not condemn murderous homophobia when they see it. However, I don’t think Iran’s capital punishment should be used to support a call for war against that country.
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    And fwiw, I think that PressTV should be allowed to keep its British license even if there are legitimate questions about its bias (after all, no-one seems to be making an official fuss about Fox News, and that is readily available on Sky packages).

  • Jon

    @Angry – yeah!
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    I did pick it up and have a read, but my local Tesco hasn’t thrown me out yet. I was going to buy, but remembered it is sold at the little newsagent next to my office. So I will get it tomorrow 🙂
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    @Clark, yes – worrying. I don’t know if it is official Tesco policy though – just some silly middle-manager types exercising their megalomania in their tiny fiefdoms!

  • Komodo

    Effective as Craig’s blog may have been, great credit is also due to Stephen Newton, whose persistence forced the partial exposure and closure of Atlantic Bridge.

    Writing in Tribune (before it was known that AB had transferred its assets to Transatlantic Bridge), he says:
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    “By choosing to wind up rather than reform its UK charity, Atlantic Bridge has confirmed it has no desire to operate for the public benefit. Yet since 2003 its activities have been subsidised by British and American taxpayers. Atlantic Bridge was remarkably open about its intentions. A 2007 annual report explained how tax breaks aimed at supporting charities could be exploited so that British and American taxpayers would subsidise its activities. It provided detail on how a tax deductible donation to its UK charity could be used to buy a trip to the US, that would be officially be paid for by the American non-profit organisation.” …..

    “The Atlantic Bridge has always consisted of multiple legal entities, including a US-based non-profit one which has taken charge of the UK charity’s website – and may have inherited other assets. Closure of the UK charity should not be taken as signal that the American Legislative Exchange Council or Atlantic Bridge have gone away.”

    Typical activities included sponsoring a celebration in New York to promote one of William Hague’s books and a dinner in Los Angeles for Tory MPs to meet the stars of Fox News. “The true purpose of the Atlantic Bridge was to facilitate networking between senior members of the Conservative Party and their American allies”
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    http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2011/10/whether-or-not-he-stays-in-office-fox%E2%80%99s-goose-appears-to-be-cooked/
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    Newton’s blog is worth a visit:

    http://www.stephennewton.com/

  • Vronsky

    Bravo, Craig – it looks as if you can break into the catatonic trance of the media, the sleep of reason. I hope you feel encouraged after your recent low moods – I can’t think of anyone else who could have achieved this. My pessimism has taken a knock, thank goodness.

  • Deco

    There is something very wrong with that story.

    First, if Mossad were using Werritty to manipulate Fox it is highly unlikely that the fact would leak so easily: Mossad is not that bad an intelligence service.

    Secondly, the Israeli source of the story loses all credibility in claiming that Mossad believed Werritty was Fox’s chief of staff: a fact that mere inspection of the relevant public records would have proven wrong. If Mossad were using Werritty then it would have been in full knowledge of the real nature of his relationship with Fox, which clearly had rather more warmth than relationships between heterosexual anglo-saxon men commonly exhibit.

  • MJ

    “I wonder how it will all end for Fox and Werritty”
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    I think Fox may be offered a junior ministerial position in MAFF. Shortly after Werritty will become proprietor of a shadowy, Mossad-sponsored whelk stall.

  • DonnyDarko

    Mossad have been very very blatant , and then also caught red handed in the last few years(Dubai, NZ ).
    I’m beginning to think that their professionalism is merely a myth.
    The fact that we seem to be in their pockets however is new,to me at least.

  • Guest

    MJ
    I was thinking more of what happened to Blair/Levy, and all they got upto, nothing, absolutely nothing!. No, thats not true, Blair is making tens of millions and Levy is now Lord Levy.

  • Komodo

    The obliging silence of the Labour Party is undoubtedly due to exactly the same situation applying to it. If anything, Blair was closer – or more overtly close – to the neocon/AIPAC/US corporate crew than Cameron. And he was richly rewarded for this. I am certain that the mycelia of influence are everywhere. However, the present problem is clearly the government in power, and concentrating on this for the moment is excusable,

  • Canspeccy

    “I have no time for a regime that kills gays.”
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    What do you mean by “I have no time for”?
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    Does it mean you’re onside with the US/Israeli effort to destabilize the regime, or Israel’s impulse to nuke Tehran?
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    I don’t like Britain’s policy of killing unborn children by the tens and hundreds of thousands. Does that mean I should “have no time for” the British “regime”, that I should support undermining the British government by any means necessary to bring about the social change I desire, including, if necessary, nuking London?
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    A bit of clarity on this would be welcome.

  • MJ

    “If anything, Blair was closer – or more overtly close – to the neocon/AIPAC/US corporate crew than Cameron”
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    That may be true but Cameron has been embedded in the project since at least the late 80s when he was involved – along with David Kelly among others – in the disastrous affair of the three missing Israeli/S African nuclear warheads.

  • Guest

    “However, the present problem is clearly the government in power”
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    Try and understand, its the same government as the last one with just different faces, thats the “problem”.

  • mary

    Another US UK organisation that needs the oxygen of exposure is the British American Project. Its chosen members includes Paxman, Alibhai Brown and even Shami Chakrabati the self righteous head of Liberty and ex Home Office. David Willetts too and Lord Robertson and a smattering of some Friends of Israel from our Parliament.
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British-American_Project
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    ‘Although former British Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has been forced to resign because of his relationship with an unofficial adviser, Adam Werrity, the saga reveals another example of the numerous networks – pretty much all of them under the cover of being non-political and/or charitable – that operate to strengthen and consolidate the so-called special relationship between Britain and the United States.
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    The Fox-Werrity Atlantic Bridge organisation was wound up earlier this year after the Charity Commission ruled it had no charitable functions or benefits and seemed largely a vehicle for channeling funds in Werrity’s personal direction. Yet, the political functions of the Atlantic Bridge, which unified elements of Britain’s and America’s aggressively interventionist establishments, should not be overlooked. Its members included William Hague, the current foreign secretary, as well as George Osborn, the chancellor of the exchequer; American members included US Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic hawk who backed the Iraq War. Its neoconservative ethos of aggressive support for military intervention is shared by PM David Cameron – as evidenced by his enthusiasm in backing military force to oust Colonel Gaddafi from office in Libya.
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    Yet, it is not only the extreme right in British and American ‘mainstream’ politics that maintains such ‘charitable’ networks: the British-American Project, funded by major oil and other corporations and by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the subject of little public awareness or enquiry, represents a similar network on the centre-left, along lines Tony Blair and Gordon Brown would have approved. Indeed, it complemented the various schemes under which the future leaders of ‘New’ Labour were primed for high office, under the tutelage of the FCO’s Jonathan Powell, who later went on to become Blair’s chief of staff.’
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    /…
    {http://ij-poli-blog.blogspot.com}

  • Komodo

    “Try and understand, its the same government as the last one with just different faces, thats the “problem”.”

    Oh, I do understand. But you can’t attack it all at once. Come to that, I’m not seeing very much in the way of constructive input from you at all. You’ll find it easier if you focus a little.

  • Vronsky

    “Oh, I do understand. But you can’t attack it all at once.”
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    That’s an interesting comment because I wonder if it’s true. The Scottish approach is to attack it in toto by withdrawal. It might appear on the face of it that that is not an option available to all – or if it is, it is not obviously so. But I think there are many potential ‘separatisms’ in England that could be built upon, and other ‘attacks all at once’ could be put in train. It may be that a practical understanding of local injustice is a better engine of political change than intellectual disapproval of a corrupt status quo – which tends to be the province of a small liberal elite (pointing no elbows). Think how often people who you had thought incapable of certain associations excuse themselves by saying that of course they agree with you, but they believe in ‘change from within’. Just like you they don’t approve of the body but they ‘must’ remain, because withdrawal would disempower them and deprive them of the opportunity to change things for the better. I never believe that story.
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    Anyway, if you’re right and it can’t be attacked all at once, where and how (and for God’s sake, when) do we attack? What is the alternative strategy? Not change from within, I hope.

  • ingo

    Well done Craigs informant, you should get the highest honour for your principled stance and well done Craig for showing the world how much influence can be gained by lobbyists at the centre of British policy making.

    William Hague addrssed your oints all day long, almost as if he was talking to your directly and his denials just make the whole story more plausible. Israel’s media lock down on this treasonous scandalous story further strenghtens the substantial allegations.

    Listening to Hague todaqy was like listening to a desperate man trying to make out that UK foreign policy is not undermined, infiltrated and re directed by the friends of Israel.

    If Clegg has got any nous and guts left, he will take this outside influence in british foreign policy making as his nadir for his forelorn adhesion to this coalition. Call it a day ffs, get some spine back.

    If he can not see that the FoI have vastly superior access to our ministries, their policy makers and instigators than any other civil or public lobby groups, then he is a collaborator to this treasonous behaviour. Once again he is provided with the historic chance to change british politics, regain the lost trust and stop the fascists tghat are re directing our taxes for their aims.

    Ban Friends of Israel from becoming MP’s.
    As for nolabour Mr. Murphy’s chit chat over this affair, he does not fill me with confidence whatsoever, his wafflin’ just indicates that he is in Israels pocket as much as this Condem cabal.

    Auf die Barricaden!

  • Komodo

    Vronsky, thanks for your considered response. The strategy of every arny in history has been to attack the weakest point of the opposition, and to work round strongly defended positions. The Fox affair is a definite breach in the system’s defences. The question is, will polarising the “separatisms” give the unintended consequence of creating a more united enemy, as the reactionaries coalesce on the other side?

    There’s no harm that I can see in giving the other parties a seeing-to. You can perform this service for Labour, for instance, here:
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    http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/03/donations-from-non-doms-labours.html
    Some Tories are as pissed off about external funding as I am, seemingly. Though we should note that Cohen, slammed by Dale, is now something of a Cameroon, and has donated to the Tories since Brown evaporated.

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    What (I think) I was saying was that ending undue influence was central to any reform of our government, and undue influence is the subject of this blog.

    What to do? Make sure that as many people as possible are accurately informed on the extent of government’s corruption by special interests.

    Also, I think the purpose of this blog.

  • John Goss

    Let me add my congratulations to all the glowing tributes. Late I know but I’ve been working in Wales where nobody can get a signal, not even on their phones. Well done Craig. It’s a pleasure to get the news when it’s first available, and also comforting to know that the mainstream media catches up in the end.

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