Adam Werritty has given an interview to the Spectator. I cannot find the original online, but there is a BBC report of it here.
It appears an exercise in misdirection. Sri Lanka is mentioned but never Israel. He denies having ever claimed to have any expertise in defence, despite the fact that “a certain expertise” was precisely Gus O’Donnell’s justification for his presence at the Ministry of Defence briefing meeting for Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel.
Werritty asks “What had this ‘villainous’ Adam Werritty actually done?”, while being interviewed by a friendly neo-con rag. It is of course the journalist that should be asking that question, and Werritty has shunned everyone who might seriously ask about it. Meanwhile the parliamentary Table Office refuses to accept MPs’ questions about Werritty’s meetings with Gould, and the FCO refuses Freedom of Information requests for the correspondence between them.
I have not seen anybody deny that Gus O’Donnell’s report omitted a minimum of five Fox-Gould-Werritty meetings. The government refuses to answer questions and refuse to release the correspondence. But they have at no stage denied the allegations published here, around the web, and in the Independent on Sunday.
At the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, extreme zionist Conservative MP Robert Halfon attempted to defend Gus O’Donnell from accusations that he covered up a secret government policy with Israel over Iran, in which Werritty was involved. Halfon is the former paid Political Director of the Conservative Friends of Israel. His defence of O’Donnell – and Fox-Werritty – is extremely revealing.
Q381 Robert Halfon: Is it not for the Prime Minister to decide whether a Minister has broken collective responsibility, rather than yourself?
Sir Gus O’Donnell: Yes, absolutely. On this whole issue of violations of the code, I was just providing advice for the Prime Minister. It is the Prime Minister who decides.
Q382 Robert Halfon: So whether or not there was a separate policy is nothing to do with you; it is to do with the Prime Minister making a decision on whether or not a Minister broke the ministerial code.
Sir Gus O’Donnell: Yes.
I have no doubt that there is a “separate policy” on Israel and Iran, different to that acknowledged in public. I have no doubt that the Fox/Gould/Werritty meetings – and the blanket cover-up of them from scrutiny in parliament, documents or the media – afford a key way into it.
Iran Conducting Anti-U.S. Operations from Latin America.
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http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/09/univision-confirms-iranian-threat-in-latin-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
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This sounds like the classic entrapment techniques being used by the Americans these days. It is a very funny read in that it proves nothing at all and is very much like that other story of the failed Iranian/American business man supposedly planning to knock out the Saudi ambassador. Looks like a shed load of propaganda to me.
There are elements that still don’t add up in all of this story.It feels,for want of a better word,weird.On one hand you have the deftly controlled closing of ranks-from O’Donnell,the media and other bodies yet Fox still had to resign.I fail to understand how the story can be so effectively spiked yet,if the powers that be had so much clout i’m sure they could’ve saved Fox from the chop.I do get a sense the real story being,despite the apparent shoulder to shoulder stance of the Establishment,one of serious policy splits higher up; i.e. some quarters want to smooth over this issue and others want it out in the open.Is this really a deep Whitehall turf/policy war? I don’t know,just a thought.
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Thanks for the library suggestion John G. btw.
The BBC have assisted The Spectator in a sales op. Thought there was no advertising on ZBC.
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Werritty is sandwiched between Joan Collins and Taki. The mind boggles.
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Order your copy for just £4.95 – plus FREE p&p (UK only).
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In this issue:
The Spectator: 17th / 24th December Christmas Double Issue 2011
ANDREW MARR
JOAN COLLINS
ADAM WERRITTY
TAKI
MARTIN REES
NEIL TENNANT
SUSAN HILL
QUENTIN LETTS
TOM HOLLANDER
NIALL FERGUSON
EMILY MAITLIS
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/buy-this-issue/5324661/buy-the-current-issue.thtml
More lies from the BBC.
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14 December 2011 Last updated at 16:57
Obama speech at Fort Bragg to mark end of Iraq war
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US President Barack Obama is about to mark the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
His address will pay tribute to the soldiers who served in the war – both those who died and veterans who returned home after long tours of duty.
More than 200 soldiers based at Fort Bragg died over the course of the nearly nine-year war.
Mr Obama announced in October that all US troops would leave Iraq by 31 December.
On Tuesday, Mr Obama was joined by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Washington as he said the US would still support Iraq as the two countries moved towards a more normal relationship.
US troops in Iraq peaked at around 170,000 during the height of the so-called surge strategy in 2007. The last combat troops left the country in August 2010. The final US soldiers are expected to leave Iraq within days
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The reality –
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‘This is pretty ambiguous. “American presence” can be as simple as the diplomatic throng that will remain in Iraq, backed by a private military army. But a couple weeks ago, Gen. Martin Dempsey let slip that military trainers would remain at ten bases in Iraq beyond the December deadline. The top-line statement has always been that all troops will leave, and with the US down to 14,000 troops left, that is nearing reality. But there’s this residual force lurking in the back of everyone’s mind. Nobody will come out and say it, at least until Dempsey did. But in violation of the status of forces agreement, some trainers will stay behind. And now the Vice President enters the country to ensure that will happen.’
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http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/11/29/biden-enters-iraq-to-negotiate-continued-american-presence/
Jives,
The elements do add up. When the hidden government/policies face exposure, resignations usually follow. The most important aspect of all this is that the public remains ignorant of the hidden agenda.
In illegal activities which fund our shadow government such as excise or VAT fraud, participating informants are sometimes charged and convicted and then very often let out the back door of prison. Sometimes defendants are segregated into different trials to prevent exposure or the participating informants just disappear abroad.
There are elements that still don’t add up in all of this story.It feels,for want of a better word,weird.On one hand you have the deftly controlled closing of ranks-from O’Donnell,the media and other bodies yet Fox still had to resign.I fail to understand how the story can be so effectively spiked yet,if the powers that be had so much clout i’m sure they could’ve saved Fox from the chop.I do get a sense the real story being,despite the apparent shoulder to shoulder stance of the Establishment,one of serious policy splits higher up; i.e. some quarters want to smooth over this issue and others want it out in the open.Is this really a deep Whitehall turf/policy war? I don’t know,just a thought.
Sorry Jives,
I didn’t mean to include the whole of your comment. This is what my comment should have read:
Jives,
The elements do add up. When the hidden government/policies face exposure, resignations usually follow. The most important aspect of all this is that the public remains ignorant of the hidden agenda.
In illegal activities which fund our shadow government such as excise or VAT fraud, participating informants are sometimes charged and convicted and then very often let out the back door of prison. Sometimes defendants are segregated into different trials to prevent exposure or the participating informants just disappear abroad.
Going back to David Steel who withdrew his involvement with UK mercenary activity in mining in war-torn countries, this story has a similar unrealness. Like a grotto belonging to the National Trust. The name Werrity, a Zionist UK ambassador, mossad meetings.
We are witnessing a transfer of public assets to individual pockets on a scale not seen since the enclosure of land for the benefit of agriculture and the establishmentising of new wealth from black slavery colonialism. It is a collaboration of wealthy individuals and state terrorism.
The fact is that things like this happen from time to time in our culture. We are trained to turn the other cheek and see no evil. If we still had a law to burn witches, I would stick Maggie on the fire with my own hands. But the reality is that in two centuries time the actions of these bastards will be being uncritically glorified, just as neo-classical crap is today.
Craig have you seen that David Martin MEP is presenting a report on trade with Uzbekhistan tomorrow morning in Strasbourg Hugh
“Going back to David Steel who withdrew his involvement with UK mercenary activity in mining in war-torn countries, this story has a similar unrealness.” anno.
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Are you suggesting, anno, that Ceraig may have to repeat the apology, etc. wrt Werrity? I think the key difference b/w Steel’s case and the allegations in Werrity’s case is that it is clear now that Steel withdrew from any investments as soon as he found out they had questionable linkages, whereas it is alleged that Werrity was an example of just such a questionable linkage.
You don’t have to waste £4.95 to read the Werritty article. It says very little more than reported by the BBC and finishes:
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“During all this I found myself revisiting the same question over again: what had I done that was so wrong? A good friend put it well: the whole thing was ‘a storm in a Sri Lankan tea cup’. For me, it’s time to move on to a new chapter of my life. I’ll always be a staunch Conservative, but other than casting my vote on polling day and delivering the occasional political leaflet, I’m planning a future well away from politics. For now, I’m looking forward to spending Christmas with family — and Hogmanay with Liam, Jesme and other close friends to toast the beginning of a new year. There are some things that even storms in a Sri Lankan tea cup don’t change.
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At the request of Mr Werritty, the fee for this article was donated to the Help for Heroes charity. ”
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There is a link (in red) just under the wedding photo entitled ‘continue reading’.
Thanks John. They have put it up this afternoon. It wasn’t there earlier.
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7485558/breaking-the-silence.thtml
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I like the bit about Liam and Jesme at the end.
Mary, “I like the bit about Liam and Jesme at the end”, do you think he only included Jesme out of politeness?
From the same organ and by the political editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Martin Bright.
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Tuesday, 13th December 2011
Nazis, Aidan Burley and memories of the bad old days
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News of the antics of Aiden Burley and his friends at a Nazi-themed stag party in France made me think about the strange ways some Tories like to have fun.
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When I was at university in the mid-1980s the Tories were in their pomp. My time at Cambridge was sandwiched between the two Thatcher-era landslides of 1983 and 1987 and those of us on the left felt pretty embattled. Through a mixture of ignorance and accident I ended up at a particularly ‘traditional’ college, Magdalene, which was then all-male and…
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Continue reading…
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http://www.spectator.co.uk/martinbright/7480873/nazis-aidan-burley-and-memories-of-the-bad-old-days.thtml
The Medialens editors on that slimeball Mardell’s latest offering.
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BBC’s Mark Mardell on the US and Iraq
Posted by The Editors on December 14, 2011, 5:32 pm
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‘I put it to him that it is ironic that neo cons, who believe American power can be used to change the world for the better, made that less likely because of their enthusiasm for the Iraq war.’
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16173117
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I feel like I could write reams and reams on the sheer awfulness of this tiny piece from Mardell: the basic framing of the issue, the absence of any sense of what was done to Iraq through sanctions and war, the choice of a blood-drenched neocon for opinion, and just everything that’s missing.
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And then you have to ask: what kind of journalism is it we’re faced with now that it’s just so conformist, anaemic, corporatised and empty? This is such an organisation piece by an organisation man. Was it worse under any totalitarian system? Surely it was – you’d have to think so. But how could it be? What could be more vacuuous and awful than this from Mardell?
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I read the Martin Bright article. As soon as it got away from the bit about him not eating meat (I was starting to warm to him) and wanting to start a poetry magazine, both worthwhile causes, his politics became evident and the inevitable slagging off of Paul Flynn M.P. (with multiple links) left me without any sympathy. To set up the poetry magazine he asked for a donation from under the foreskins of the Cambridge Boat Club the result of which one of them threatened to break his legs. Or did I not understand the paragraph properly?
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The fate of the Tamil(and the LTTE) in Sri-Lanka is a heart-breaking and distressing story of torture and war-crimes committed by government forces on the Tamil population in the North.
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I learned first-hand from a close friend, colleague and COIA researcher who I sponsored for political asylum in the 80’s.
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Many Tamil fled to Canada and Britain and my friend and his parents, who had a beautiful house near Elephant Pass, evaded a certain death by escaping to Britain.
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I hope to disclose the full story in some way when appropriate in the near future.
He would do that though, wouldn’t he John.
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I was struck by the adolescent style of the writing by both Werrity and Bright. The comments on Bright’s piece are repellent in that they support both the Zionism within and the Nazi carry-on. Just boys having fun. And as for the allusion to the placing ten pence pieces, well.
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PS. Bright doesn’t even get Burley’s first name correct nor can the QC in the comments spell ‘extravagant’.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bright
‘Elite Issue’, indeed! Everyone who objects to this failure to show respect to ordinary citizens is right to make their displeasure known.
I don’t by any means agree with all of Maggie Thatcher’s policies, but when she spoke of “not-so-grand Grandees”, was she not also objecting this sort of “elitism”?
Actually the heart of it may be that the “elite” are not better than other people. If they were people of superior virtue, it might be another matter, but then they wouldn’t make foolish remarks about “elite issues”.
I’ve said it before, but the mainstream media’s job is to critique the MANAGEMENT of the state by whichever party happens to be in power. That’s all. The workings of the “deep state” – and the various strategic decisions that it makes – are strictly off limits. Iran/Israel (Gould/Fox/Werrity) fall into the latter category, as does the ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima, which is actually threatening to contaminate a fair slice of the northern hemisphere. Just don’t tell the nuclear industry that.
Mark_Golding, I have a Tamil friend too on whose behalf I petitioned for citizenship when he was an asylum-seeker, and for the last twelve months he has been able to work here. Only last Sunday he was telling me that there had been a death-threat on the Finance Minister – who I presume is a Tamil – causing him to seek asylum. (I can’t find anything on this on the web). So I was aware. I also have a Tamil friend and a Singalese friend, who work with me, who found out they were related last year. I wasn’t trying to deny the seriousness of Werritty’s affairs in Sri Lanka, or underplay the injustices of a war that lasted 26 years.
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The article, to my mind, is no more than a red-herring because of the photographic evidence of him with Fox and the Sri Lankan prime minister, something he cannot possibly deny. The purpose of using a neo-con rag to express his views rather than meet with responsible journalists lets him say what he wants to say and ignore disclosures he should be making about meetings with Gould, Fox and MOSSAD in Israel, and possibly elsewhere. The article is further laughable because of Werritty’s revelation that he is planning a future well away from politics. He may even be planning a future well away from the UK. That wouldn’t surprise me. But the police hierarchy rarely hounds one of those it feels is paid to protect. And Werritty is one of them (and one of them) with friends at the very top of the a**e-licking ladder.
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You said: The workings of the “deep state” – and the various strategic decisions that it makes – are strictly off limits.
From this it follows that a good way to tell what things are the doing of the deep state is just to observe the subjects where dissenting views are off limits. Like the JFK assassination, or 9/11.
@lysias – I am not sure that is entirely true. A mainstream consensus *can* form against one theory or another simply because it *is* ludicrous (and statistically, some of them must be). Or, alternatively, mainstream opinion doesn’t like radical alternative views, and so dismisses all of them.
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Hence, growth of opposition to a particular theory does not prove that it is true.
Mike,
You are aware that Fukushima was in the process of manufacturing the Japanese nukes, after the years of Bu$h administration’s push for Japan to become the member of the nuke club.
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Also fact that the containment/pressure vessel was defective, from the word go, but the news of this too was hushed up.
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Not forgetting the weird behaviour of the cooling pumps which could have been the direct result of the stuxnet genomic strain of the new industrial viruses.
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Finally “deep state” affairs, as you have mentioned, without any references to the oligarchs, does that mean you approve of the needs for secrets? If so, would you point out who is qualifies to keep an eye on those whom are busy operating in secret?
Speaking after a mass murder in Belgium,
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“Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was “saddened” by the attack.
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“There can be absolutely no place for appalling acts of violence such as this in any society, and I condemn this attack in the strongest terms,” he said.
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“I send my deepest sympathy to the victims of this attack, their families and loved ones.
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“The Belgian authorities have our full support as they investigate this incident.”
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I wonder if this applies to the Middle East as well ?
Way to go guys, now our next generation “professionals” are already “professionals”. The austerity for the poor and destitute to keep the too fat to slim, too big to fail, and too sacred to be told to fuck off principles have brought about our young students taking up prostitution as a route for attaining higher education.
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Desperate British students “turning to prostitution” A sad and dreadful story that needs not to be spined but the degenerate DOMINIQUE JACKSON in DM So students are turning to prostitution? has just done that;
Eleven per cent? Is that all? I am pretty sure that working as an escort, ostensibly all above board, for apparently easy money, has crossed plenty more bright young female minds. Escort work would seem to be the most palatable end of a spectrum which presumably includes pole or lap dancing, stripping and goes through to full-blown intercourse in exchange for money.
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Hopefully she will not be so mindful when her daughter (if she has any) start opting for payments in kind for their education.
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Sick bastards have turned UK into a variation of the old Czech republic (scanty clad women looking for business along route 66), but are still plotting to go and spend more money on more fucking wars.
I hate the inept spam filter, ate my comment again
Challenging people’s beliefs. You really shouldn’t do that with your friends, particularly when they are highly intelligent and think they can out argue you.
I got – “everyone knows that is true.” “You don’t really believe that. You are just arguing to be contrary.” I got on my high horse and stormed out. “You must have a very low opinion of me, if you think I would argue just to be contrary. Have you looked at the evidence? Have you spent weeks researching the evidence? Do you think I would argue with you just for the sake of having an arguement?”
I gave her a kiss and a cuddle as she was leaving.
Last year she asked me one of the most intelligent questions ever.
My wife doesn’t give me this grief, cos I do what she tells me to do. Most of the time.
Tony
Cheyney’s at it again. With a bit too on his support for Newt Gingrich.
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http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/cheney_urges_a_quick_air_strike_against_iran/
She agreed with me on nearly everything else. The sticking point was about photography. I simply said, well I don’t know about that, but I am 100% convinced that at least some of the photography was done on a studio on Earth.
Of course, she immediately realised the implications run very much deeper, and she couldn’t handle it. Her brain is so fast.
Tony
Sell your arse, because there are too many; too big to fail, and too sacred to be told to fuck off, around